Chapter 82: The Battle of Nanpu Creek

Northwest of Jianning Province, north of Nanpu Creek.

Ye Liuzong looked at the officials and soldiers who suddenly appeared in front of him, almost dumbfounded, and said, "Why are they here?" ”

After the rainy season passed, Ye Liuzong began his own actions.

Although it has already set the general strategy of turning all the land of Fujian and taking Fujian, separating one side, fighting against the imperial court, advancing into the world, and retreating into exile.

But in terms of action, he is still very cautious.

If you want to return to Fujian, go west first. It seems that it is going to hit the southern Gan region.

Wei Guogong is still chasing after him, but no matter how he chases, he will be half a beat slower. And the Beijing camp sent by the imperial court seems to be nothing more than that. Not much stronger than Wei Guogong's people.

As if everything was under control, he attacked Fuzhou Mansion in vain, and then divided his troops into Wuyi Mountain.

He couldn't be more familiar with Wuyi Mountain, and he crossed Wuyi Mountain and returned to Jianning Mansion again. It also divided troops to occupy Chong'an and other counties, which were briefly occupied by Ye Liuzong. He's got people here.

Here, people and land are familiar, like rain and water.

For a while, Jianning Mansion was shaken, and it seemed that in addition to Jianning Mansion City, it fell into the situation at the beginning of the year again.

And the imperial army is north of Wuyi Mountain at the moment, and it will take a while to cross Wuyi Mountain with the ability of the official army. This period of time was enough for him to defeat the Fujian Ming army and drive straight in.

After all, Ye Liuzong is not what it used to be.

He has an army of 30,000 in his hands, and he has repeatedly clashed with the official army, and he has sharpened it out, and he is not much stronger than the previous rabble.

He's got everything in order.

But he never expected it. Just when he was preparing to attack Jianning Mansion again. He secretly hid the artillery gunpowder in Wuyi Mountain, preparing to use it in the Battle of Jianning Mansion.

More than 10,000 officers and soldiers suddenly appeared.

In terms of preparation, this officer and army is not more than 10,000, but more than 13,000.

More than 10,000 of them were Guo Deng's subordinates brought over from Beijing, and they strictly followed the principle of three steps and seven steps. There are 3,000 horses, 7,000 foot soldiers, and 3,000 horses are Yang Xin's department.

He received reinforcements from Jiao Hong one after another. Jianning Mansion gathered seven or eight thousand soldiers, but how many of them could fight? Yang Xin didn't believe it either.

So in this war, Yang Xin only brought out 3,000 soldiers, first, many of these horses had fought with Yang Xin in the last battle of Jianning Mansion, and they had more or less experience in fighting. Second, Guo Deng's subordinates are all soldiers, and in many things, they also need auxiliary soldiers.

And Guo Deng has been preparing for this battle for two months.

Guo Deng expected that Ye Liuzong would definitely return to Fujian, and he would not be too far away from his old nest, so he secretly went around in a circle and hid in Jianning Mansion.

More than 10,000

Centaurs can't hide. Guo Deng pretended to be reinforcements sent by Jiao Hong. And there is also an army under the command of Wei Guogong who pretends to be Guo Deng's department.

Only then did it hide from Ye Liuzong's ears and eyes.

In fact, when he saw the people in Ye Liuzong's headquarters, Guo Deng breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, it is not difficult to make a judgment, it is rare to insist on his own judgment, when he was hiding in Jianning Mansion, there was always news of Ye Liuzong.

He kept asking himself what would happen if he misjudged?

Ye Liuzong did not return to Fujian as he expected, but went to southern Gansu. Then what he did was an out-and-out delay of the fighter. Military law is indispensable.

Maybe he won't be executed, but it's probably Shi Heng's fate.

Therefore, in Guo Deng's view, the most difficult moment of this battle has passed.

It's just the final battle in front of him, although there are a lot of people on the other side, but Guo Deng regards it as a local chicken and a dog. Guo Deng's order, 3,000 Fujian soldiers left behind, 7,000 foot soldiers spread out the formation, the fire soldiers were in the first column, followed by sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, forming an infantry phalanx, and 3,000 elite cavalry were placed under Guo Deng's handsome banner as a decisive reserve army.

Ye Liuzong's palms were slightly sweaty at this moment.

In the past six months, Ye Liuzong has made rapid progress in military affairs, and he can see from the Ming army's tight infantry phalanx.

He didn't have to face the sloppy Southern Guards.

It's the real Ming elite.

"Can you escape?" Ye Liuzong's eyes condensed among the thousands of horses, and he knew that he couldn't escape.

Daming as a whole lacks war horses.

Therefore, Ye Liuzong fought for most of the year, and he did not face thousands of cavalry. Among all the horse teams, only Yang Xin's horse team impressed him the most.

Although there are few plains in western Fujian, in this river valley in the west of Jianning Fu, it is possible to run horses.

There is no escape.

Ye Liuzong's heart was crossed, and he said secretly: "I want to meet with the border army for a while." Let's see how the elite of the imperial court is today? He immediately gave the order to go down, and the troops lined up.

Ye Xiba, as Ye Liuzong's number one general and number one henchman, naturally led his headquarters to line up.

In fact, if you just look at the equipment, there is not much difference between the two sides.

For no other reason, most of the best weapons in Ye Liuzong's army were captured from the official army or the government, and Ye Liuzong's army was not without blacksmiths.

It's just that the number of weapons equipped with the army is too large, and it is not at all possible that dozens of hundreds of blacksmiths can create in a month or two.

Therefore, the blacksmiths of Ye Liuzong's department are more about repairing weapons.

When the formations of both sides were lined up, the atmosphere was extremely solemn for a while.

Guo Deng's Guo's general flag, and Ye Liuzong's two vertical flags, were swinging at almost the same frequency. I don't know

Whoever gave the order first, the foot soldiers on both sides began to move forward slowly.

The footsteps of one person were not loud, but thousands of people acted together, and the sound of the footsteps was even covered by the sound of drums.

The distance between the two sides slowly approached, and when it reached nearly 100 steps, there was a bang, and Ye Liuzong's subordinates shot arrows one after another, and Daming's fire hammers also began to release their guns.

Although the firecrackers were able to dominate the battlefield in later generations, at this time, the appearance of firecrackers was only as a substitute for bows and arrows.

The range of the firebolt is only a few dozen steps, and the ignition and reloading are very inhumane. From the time of Taizong, the fire gun could equip a large number of Ming troops, but it was mainly used to defend the city and fight, and also to replace the archers.

Even so, a significant part of the army still retains the archer formation.

It can be seen that the fire of this era is poor.

After all the Great Ming Gunners let go of a gun, they turned their heads without hesitation and drilled into the military formation behind, while the spearman, sword and shield hand, took the place of the Firegunner, and rushed towards Ye Liuzong's headquarters.

And the rain of arrows in Ye Liuzong's department didn't last long.

The reason is very simple, one is physical strength, and the other is an arrow.

In this era, firecrackers have such and such defects, but why in the army, the trend of firearms replacing bows and arrows is still irreversible, that is, bows and arrows consume physical strength, and firecrackers consume gunpowder.

An archer can shoot thirty arrows in a certain period of time, which is already commendable. And as long as the gunpowder is endless, the firecracker can keep fighting.

Of course, the reality is that hundreds of shots are intensive, and the guns will definitely explode. I don't even know if it's more than a hundred times, or more than five hundred times. In general, no one would use a fire gun like this.

But this also proves the advantages of the fire system.

Therefore, the archers of Ye Liuzong's department, after shooting a round of arrows, also retreated.

Neither the fire guns nor the bows and arrows killed many people. There were only a few soldiers in the queue who fell to the ground once in a while. Most of the soldiers were still in a daze, and they rushed forward in great strides.

"Kill." Countless shouts and killings collided together, and the two fronts bit each other to the death, and for a while, long knives and spears rang out in unison, and blood and screams covered the entire battlefield.

The two sides were at loggerheads for a while. At the place where the two sides were fighting, the corpses were quickly covered with corpses, and the soldiers on both sides stepped on the corpses to fight, and no one could force anyone to take a step back.

In a short period of time, more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded on both sides, because in such a tragic battle, there was no way to treat the wounded, and it was impossible to treat them.

As long as you fall to the ground, countless feet will step on it, and in a moment, you will be trampled into a ball of flesh.

This level of tragedy made Ye Liuzong's brows furrow, it can be said that compared with today's war, Ye Liuzong's previous battles with the official army have become pediatrics.

But this battle can be won? Ye Liuzong was worried in his heart.