Chapter 261: Vietnam Tianjiao
The sky-high firelight, the terrible scream, Ye Kai stood silently on the hillside, Li Wenyun's rear army is absolutely finished, and the heavy grain and grass are also finished!
Ye Kai, who was still immersed in the spirit of easily capturing Jiading City just now, was undoubtedly beaten in the face, and when he thought of Ruan Hui's prestige in history, he was even more uneasy.
In later forums and post bars, if you can see some posts such as what Japanese rank East Asian celebrities, or what foreigners row East Asian celebrities, you can easily find Ruan Hui's name, and if not the top three, at least the top five.
This mainstay of the Xishan Dynasty is indeed a talent, born in a family of small officials, sensitive and studious, able to write and martial arts, especially very talented in being a general.
If you put him in Chinese history, at least he is a famous general like Ge Shuhan and Gao Xianzhi!
But in fact, Ye Kai felt that he was more like another famous figure, the founding emperor of Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty, Liu Yu and Liu Jinu!
is also not from a high background, can also be good at fighting, and has gone through the same hardships, and has made a name for himself on the battlefield.
It can be seen from the morale of the Tay Son army on the opposite side that Nguyen Hue is a god in their minds, the embodiment of victory.
Both of them are equally ambitious figures.
Liu Yu wanted to go north to the Central Plains, expel foreign races, revitalize the Han family, make the golden ou flawless, and leave a good name for the ages!
Nguyen Hue is the same, he wants to unify Annam, and seek to obtain the land of the two Guangzhous, completely solve the threat of the Northern Dynasty to Annam, and establish a great South Vietnam country that the Vietnamese dream of!
Now this army under Nguyen Hue is the elite army that he has trained with all his might for this goal.
It can be said that in East and Southeast Asia, apart from the regular army of the white colonizers, Nguyen Hue's army is the strongest.
Among the old armies, one is the Eight Banners Jianrui Battalion established by Qianlong in order to fight the Great and Small Jinchuan, and the other is to form an army of samurai elites from all over Japan.
The former is too small in number, there are more than 2,000 people at its peak, and the latter is simply impossible, the samurai are masters, the Tokugawa shogunate has no financial resources, and there is no will to form them into an army, if there is one, it must be a modern army that has succeeded in the fall of the curtain decades later!
It can be said that the elite army of about 30,000 people in Ruan Hui's hands is the most elite old-style army in East Asia and Southeast Asia at present.
The screams continued intermittently for a night, and the firelight was not extinguished, and in the early morning, the green-robed military general who led the team to attack the rear army of Nguyen Phuc Anh yesterday carried a head with a spear, and his guards carried a set of gorgeous armor, and walked all the way over.
That head belonged to Le Van Yunh, the commander of the rear army left by Nguyen Phuc Anh, with 3,000 troops and tens of thousands of people, who couldn't even hold it for a day and a half and a night.
And Ye Kai knew that Ruan Fuying must have been in a lot of trouble, otherwise he would have gone back to his division to save him!
However, it is a good thing among the bad things, and I haven't seen the rout under Ruan Fuying come over yet, which shows that although Ruan Xiaoqiang is in trouble, he can still hold it now.
There was another scene of long live and red flags waving, and the Xishan army, which had already finished breakfast, saw its own general carrying Li Wenyun's head, and their morale was even higher!
In fact, Ye Kai also thought about going to rescue Li Wenyun, but as soon as he moved, Ruan Hui's cavalry of more than 1,000 people on the opposite side immediately followed, so that on the mountain road, which is not wide, the infantry who have to guard against the impact of the opponent's cavalry at any time can't move at all, and the formation is chaotic and waiting for the whole army to be wiped out!
And Ruan Hui on the opposite side is in his early 20,000s, he has 6,000 people, he is still a rare elite in this era, Ruan Hui is a famous general in the world, Ye Kai may still have the strength to fight when he guards the hillside, if he leaves here, or walks down the hill to take the initiative to fight, the consequences are unpredictable!
And he also has another problem, although he has already ordered the troops to gather to him, but it belongs to Henry. The 2nd Regiment under Elber's command still allowed the Xishan Army to separate them from the main army.
They were blocked by the right army of Ruan Hue Sandao on a flat ground not far from the gentle slope, separated from Ye Kai's side by a small mountain beam.
It was impossible for Ye Kai to leave the second regiment of the French mercenaries of 1,500 or 600 people alone, so the vicinity of this mountain beam was likely to become the main battlefield.
Ye Kai needs to block Ruan Hui's main force and prevent him from passing through the mountain beam to cooperate with the right army over there to attack the second regiment!
Nguyen Hue needed to control the hill, and on the gentle slope of the front, Ye Kai's army numbered more than 4,000 people, all Western-style flintlock pistols, equipped with dozens of cannons, and a European-style light cavalry of fifty or sixty men.
Although Nguyen Hue had more than 20,000 people, if he went to attack 4,000 flintlock pistols, I am afraid he would not know that he would die like this.
Therefore, he must make a gesture of bypassing the mountain beam and attacking the second regiment, so as to attract Ye Kai to leave the gentle slope where the geographical advantage is obvious, and come to the mountain beam where the advantage is not so obvious.
The morning sun was rising, both sides had breakfast, and the battle around the mountain beam was about to begin.
Dense gunshots rang out, and the two sides first shot at each other across the river, which may not be better than other Ye Kai, but who has more guns, Ruan Hui is far behind.
Ye Kai's army almost had one brown bass in every hand, and one-third of the brown bass was also equipped with bayonets, this firepower was absolutely unique in the entire Far East, and the Dutch army in Batavia could not compare.
And Ruan Hui's army, although it is already his elite, only has more than 2,000 flintlock pistols of all kinds, and the rest are basically arquebuses, including the classic Qing Dynasty made bird guns and carrying guns.
In fact, if you want to say, there is not much generation difference between the arquebus and the flintlock pistol, and the speed of shooting is not so fast, but the arquebus has a fatal shortcoming, that is, he can't line up to shoot!
Because shotgunners often have long arquebuses wrapped around their bodies, they also need to be very careful when loading, if they are too close, you will ignite the gunpowder jars of your comrades, or the arquebuses wrapped around you, and the fun will be great!
So it's okay for arquebuses to fight with flintlock pistols, but it's far from shooting across a river like the one now!
The guns of the Xishan Army were like firecrackers, and they kept ringing, and Ye Kai was a relatively neat row of guns.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Every time there was a roar, the Xishan Army musketeers on the opposite side would fall dozens or hundreds of people, and at the beginning, the Xishan Army could still knock down more than ten or twenty people on Ye Kai's side.
But after two rounds of guns were fired, the Xishan army was completely chaotic, two rounds of shooting, in two or three minutes, they fell one hundred and sixty or seventy people, and the gods couldn't bear this damage!
Since muskets can't shoot at each other, let's fight hand-to-hand, anyway, it's only sixty or seventy meters away, and a rush will rush over.
But when the Xishan Army was still adjusting its ranks and giving orders, the Ye Kai Artillery Company, which was condescending to stand on the gentle slope, opened fire!
Originally, he had thirty-five cannons of 3, 6, and 9 pounders, and in the battle of Ganmasi he captured six 3-pounder cannons from the Bugis, and then extorted a small team of six 3-pounder cannons from the Dutch in the sugar business.
Although he later supported three Nanyang Police Corps and two Luo Fangbai, the current Ye Kai also has forty-two bronze cannons, including six powerful 9-pounder guns, which are condescending and operate elite European artillery, and the power can be imagined.
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