Gaomin Temple is located at the mouth of the Sanfan River at the intersection of the Canal and Yiyang River in the southern suburbs of Yangzhou. It is collectively known as the four major Zen jungles, along with Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, Tianning Temple in Changzhou, and Tiantong Temple in Ningbo. According to legend, this temple was founded in the Sui Dynasty and was repeatedly abolished and abandoned, and it changed its name several times. When Prince Duoduo of Qingrui led his troops south to cross the river in the first year of Hongguang, he once regarded this temple as the place where the king's tent was located. In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Wu Weihua, the governor of the two rivers, planned to build a seven-level pagoda on the bank of the Sanfan River to relieve floods, and was called the "Tianzhong Tower". This Tianzhong Tower is also the highest building in a radius of dozens of miles. Standing on the top of the tower, the land of Huaiyang is fully visible, and the scenery of the canal is also clear.

Two days ago, Zhou Shixiang moved to Gaomin Temple. He had long taken a fancy to the high tower in the temple. All the monks in the temple were driven away. All the wings in the temple were occupied by the staff of the military headquarters. Observatory soldiers holding a thousand-mile mirror were deployed on the top of the tower early. Once they found any movements of the Qing army, the military headquarters could immediately summarize the information and make an effective analysis. Of course, no matter how far the tower looked, there were always limitations, so the horse probe was sent out in groups as before, otherwise there would be a place to catch blindly.

"Where is the Grand Marshal!"

“On the tower!”

Military officer Guo Xiong hurried to the top of the tower with the urgent report just sent by the right wing Xinyi Town. Xinyi Town is the King of Ma Yaozi. The troops of the Fuchen ministers, although the word "new" is the combat power of the old four towns. The most important thing is that Xinyi Town also has an 800-person cavalry. After the Battle of Guazhou, the cavalry of the original towns were all transferred to the command of the military headquarters, and they were also the reserve team left by Zhou Shixiang for the decisive battle. However, the cavalry of the Xinyi Town was not transferred out. The reason for this is naturally Wang. The Fuchen's superb cavalry skills, so leaving him with hundreds of cavalry will definitely make the new town stronger and the right wing stronger.

The new town of Wang Fuchen is now gathered in Wuzhuang, 12 miles southeast of Gaomin Temple, and the Chentao area. The task of the new town is to ensure that the waterways of the canal are not cut off, and to use Yu Shizhong's fifth town as two sharp knives to firmly press on both wings to ensure and relieve the pressure on the central army.

Wang Fuchen reported that his vanguard had already contacted the Qing army's horse exploration, and the two sides had several battles, each with their own victory or defeat. Compared with the previous two days, the Qing army's horse exploration activities are frequent and the number is also large. Wang Fuchen estimated that the Qing army in Sanwan today is likely to launch a large-scale move today and ask the military headquarters to respond.

Zhou Shixiang walked down the tower with his hands behind his back, and said to Guo Xiong: "Kongjianse and Wuerte also said that Fulin urged Obai to fight as soon as possible. Now the storm has stopped, and more than 30,000 Mongolian soldiers have also arrived in Sanwan. I am afraid that today is the time for a decisive battle. If you wait any longer, Fulin may not be able to sit still. I guess he is still anxious to go back to Beijing to see his beloved concubine Dong E."

"Master, can those Manchu people trust?"

Guo Xiong was confused or reserved as he was moved by Zhou Shixiang's manzhou people who had bribed him with a large sum of money, because he always felt that the Manzhou people like Suna were the Taiping Army who surrendered after being captured and had no way out, but the Manzhou officers who were the ones who were bribed and agreed to surrender as soon as they were bribed, which gave people the feeling that it was unreliable.

"Whether it is true or false, you will know if the fight is done." Zhou Shixiang smiled, "The iron must be strong himself. Don't put all your hopes on those Manzhou people who are rebelling. They agreed, but after the war starts, they will always wait and see. All we have to do is to kill a group of people first, so that they will know that it is very wise to vote for us."

"The coach is right, he must be strong himself..."

Guo Xiong briefly explained the information sent by the fifth town. Zhou Shixiang listened and gave instructions, and soon walked out of the tower. At this moment, the banner of King Qi was planted above the top of the tower, and the Qing army in the distance could see it very clearly. The wind stopped and the rain stopped, but the air seemed to be filled with a commotion.

In the camp of the Qing army in Sanwan, teams of military horses were led by generals at all levels to run out of the camp. In the Taiping Army of Gaomin Temple, teams of military horses were also galloping back and forth. Within a radius of dozens of miles, there were probing horses sent by the two armies everywhere, and from time to time, they saw smoke rising from cooking.

Qianhu Namutu brought its cavalry as the eyes and ears of the entire army and had fought with the Qing army's whistle cavalry several times. The Qing army sent more horses than the Taiping army. In several major locations, the Taiping army's horses were not close at all, so they could only observe from a distance and then return. In some places, the Qing army made the Taiping army look at each other from a distance. Once they found that the Taiping army's horses came, the Qing army would send cavalry to chase them. Now behind Mutu, there was a team of Qing cavalry with less than a hundred people biting him tightly. At the same time, another team of Qing cavalry was running towards here in the northeast direction. Looking at the banner, it seemed that the Mongolian Eight Banners explored horses with blue flags, with about thirty or forty people.

After being chased by the Qing cavalry for a while, the Mutu suddenly stopped fighting. The Qing army chasing them were all shocked and looked around. Sure enough, in their sight, there was a team of Taiping cavalry coming towards the horse. The Taiping cavalry had hundreds of cavalry, and the leader was a general with a yellow horse and white robe.

As soon as Ma Yaozi led his troops to arrive, he pulled his horse and accelerated and wanted to go forward to fight with the Qing cavalry. The cavalry behind him were Manzhou people, Mongols, and Han people, and they were all full of fighting spirit. It is said that one soldier was a beating, and the general was a nest of bellows. The chief general of Ma Yaozi. The assistant minister was so capable that the soldiers following him looked up at the sky and looked down on him. Even though many of them were the Qing army in the past, now they were the eldest, the second, and the third.

The Qing army already knew that the Taiping Army had cavalry, and that there were many Mongolian soldiers in the Taiping Army, and even Manchu soldiers. But because they didn't know the specific names of these people, Shunzhi wanted to punish those Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who surrendered the thieves after hearing about this incident, but he couldn't arrest all the family members of the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who went south as slaves.

The one who pursued the Mutu was a team of Manzhou Zhenghuang Banner cavalry, and the one who led the team was Zuolinggekun. The one who came from the northeast was the Mongolian Lan Banner, and the one who led the team was Zuolinghai Sandai. After they found that a large number of cavalry in the Taiping Army appeared, they did not retreat in fear, but joined forces and formed a battle formation.

When he saw that the Qing army did not run away, he wanted to fight. Wang Fuchen was happy. He was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that these Qing soldiers would run away. If there were thousands of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, Ma Yaozi would always be weak, but there were less than two hundred people. If he didn't come forward and swallow them, he would be called Ma Yaozi in vain.

Wang Fuchen led his troops to rush forward, Ge Kun and Hai Sandai could not stop it, and two hundred Manchu Mongolian cavalry were killed and dispersed. Hai Sandai was also killed by a sword and was struck by the Taiping Army's war horses. Ge Kun led the remaining soldiers to escape from contact with the Taiping Army, but he still did not run away. Wang Fuchen felt strange and leaned over from the horse and found that several teams of Qing cavalry were coming here to drive horses. There were many flags, including two yellows and two reds. The number of people was roughly estimated to be thousands.

When the reinforcements arrived, Ge Kun finally breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the Taiping Army was only a few hundred people, a few generals shouted at the command headquarters and rushed up to surround the Taiping cavalry.

Wang Fuchen frowned slightly. He thought about it and quickly put the soldiers together. No matter whether there were more cavalry in the Qing army arrived, he would lead his troops to rush to them for a few formations first, which would hit their morale. More than 700 Taiping cavalry lined up into a front arrow to attack the formation. Under the leadership of Wang Fuchen, he waved his sword and shouted forward again, and drilled through the Qing army like a sharp arrow, and then swept to the two wings. In a short period of time, the Qing army had more than a hundred riders and horses dropped, and the Taiping army suffered only more than twenty casualties. Wang Fuchen had few enemies under his spear, and his soldiers were also fighting with him. The Inner Mongolia soldiers who participated in the battle for the first time could not help but curse. It was either that the Southern Barbarians had no cavalry, or that they were weak, so why were they so powerful!

"Back, back!"

When Eqier, the King of Duoluo County, Korqin's right wing front banner, saw that the Ming general was too powerful and the Ming soldiers were fierce, he ordered his retreat to retreat. When the brigade of soldiers arrived, he gathered and annihilated the difficult Ming army. Seeing that the Qing army retreated, the king and the assistant minister were not willing to let go of this rare opportunity, so he hurriedly beat the horse and led his troops to rush forward.

If both sides are fighting infantry, even if one side has lower combat power than the other, as long as the commanding general has enough courage and strict military discipline, the soldiers can be restrained, they can always fight with the enemy for a while, and in the end they cannot be restrained, the soldiers will be defeated. The casualties that are pursued and killed by the enemy during the defeat are the biggest casualties in a battle. Cavalry duels are different. It depends not only on the ability at the right time, but also on the cooperation of the queue. Once the enemy soldiers are dispersed, it will be difficult to get together again. The dispersed cavalry, no matter how brave they are, they are just fighting on their own, and they are destined to be killed by the enemy who are killed by the group.

When the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers retreated, they were intercepted hundreds of people by Wang Fuchen, and after slashing and killing, hundreds of corpses appeared on the muddy ground. Wang Fuchen was proud and wanted to chase again and expand the results of the battle, but the sound of trumpets came from his ears. He stood up and watched from a distance, and found that a large group of Qing cavalry was rushing towards this moment. Behind them, there were still infantry soldiers who could see the end of their sight.

"It's the Tartars brigade, withdraw!"

When Wang and the assistant minister saw that the main force of the Qing army was coming, they turned around and ran away without saying a word. It is true that he is brave and brave, but he is not so brave that he led hundreds of people to attack the Qing army brigade with tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry. If he really did that, it was not brave, but stupid.

"Report, Xinyi Town was attacked by the Qing army!"

"Report, the fifth town was attacked by the Qing army!"

"Report, the first town was attacked by the Qing army!"

“….”

In less than half an hour, Zhou Shixiang's case was reported everywhere. He led his men to the Tower of Tianzhong, took the Thousand Mile Mile Mile to look at the defense line of the first town directly north, and found that thousands of Qing army infantry were rushing into the defense line of the second town like a tide.
Chapter completed!