"The thieves are about to attack the city, notify the outside of the city to prepare for battle!"

Zheng Sen, who was standing on the city wall, reminded the heralds beside him the moment the army of thieves just moved.

Although the binoculars used by Zheng Chenggong are local goods in Dalian, they cannot compare with the level of later generations, but they are definitely top-level goods in this era, and they can see the situation five or six miles away.

While ordering the defensive troops outside the city to be ready, he also ordered the artillery at the head of the city to be ready. From the time he received the order to enter Zhending, he knew that the Liukou would definitely attack Zhending in order to open up a retreat, so he had been making preparations, and he set up a position defense inside and outside Zhending City, preparing to drag the thieves here.

He did not use the city wall as the first line of defense, but relied on the city wall to build a defense line on the periphery, after all, the city wall is not easy to bombard, and the thieves also have cannons.

However, due to the strength of the army, he only dug one trench outside the city, and only a few key areas had two trenches, and the front of the trench was deployed with a tree deer bar, and the musketeers were lying on the back of the trench. If all goes well, the musketeers can shoot behind the trenches.

Although Zheng Sen did not study in the military academy in Dalian, he came into contact with the military very early in the Zheng family, and was no stranger to firearms, and after entering the shogunate, he also studied the combat materials in the army day and night.

The artillery was deployed by him on the city wall, and although the Hushan battalion was reorganized by the surrendered thieves, the battalion was still equipped with the Pingyu army's favorite nine-pound mountain grenade and eighteen-pound mortar cannons.

Staring at the movement of the Liukou, Zheng Sen's brows furrowed, he didn't expect that his first scene would be such a big scene - there were people all over the mountains and fields, and there were tens of thousands of people.

"General Zheng, you see, this is the most common method used by thieves, and when attacking the city, tens of thousands of people are used, and the people who take the lead are ......all homeless ants."

Even if he is also a thief, but now when Tao Fengyang mentions "thief", there is no psychological barrier, and now he is an official and a deputy battalion commander of the dignified court. What's outside the city?

It's a thief!

"There are so many thieves!"

Zheng Sen couldn't help but be taken aback.

Although the thieves knew that the firearms of the Pinglu army were powerful, because they had never fought each other, they did not know how powerful the firearms of the Pinglu army were, so Guo Sheng, who led tens of thousands of horses, stopped two miles away from the Hushan camp, obviously they had long been on guard against the firearms of the Ming army.

Trenches and deer barricades are no strangers to these Guo Sheng, in fact, most of the generals who are thieves are familiar with military affairs, and even this is deliberately "cultivated" by the imperial court.

During the Ming Dynasty, in the face of sporadic raids and robberies from the south and the north, it was sometimes too late to rely on the army to encircle and block. Therefore, the imperial court relaxed the restrictions on civilian armaments, not only allowing the people to manufacture and possess all kinds of weapons, from three-eyed guns to bird guns, and even Franc machines. In addition to these basics, the Ming Dynasty even printed the art of military training and the art of war into a booklet, which was distributed to the township level by the county organization layer by layer.

For example, in April of the 25th year of Wanli, Guo Guangfu, the prefect of Yangzhou, personally produced two military pamphlets, "The Essentials of Military Training" and "A Study of the Japanese Situation", and ordered that they should be printed and distributed on paper, and that every family should have a copy of it, up to Fucheng County Guo, down to the township covenant Baojia, all of whom should be thoroughly studied, and those who are illiterate should be explained by the literate ones.

This is also why there were so many hillbillies in the rebel army of the Ming Dynasty who were proficient in cavalry and archery and knew a little about using soldiers, all of which were intentional by the imperial court.

Now staring at Lu Qi, Guo Sheng didn't rush hard, after all, there was this thing in the military books he had read in the past, and he was experienced in a hundred battles, of course he also knew how to break things.

"One eyebrow, you lead the car battalion to take the lead, pass the hall, you lead the infantry behind, open the deer barrage, and then attack it......" Guo Sheng didn't put the deer barricade and the trench in his eyes at all, after all, he didn't know how many had been broken in the past.

"Okay, Guo Ye will take a look, let's take down Zhending City!"

Shaking his head, Guo Sheng said:

"I heard that the firearms of the Pinglu Army are very powerful, and the Tumen Pass was forced to collapse with artillery, although this Hushan Battalion is the old department of the Eight Kings, not the authentic Pinglu Army, but the brothers should not underestimate them!"

Bold is bold, but Guo Sheng is also a careful master.

The madman laughed and said:

"Guo Ye, let's be afraid of him, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side are more than 3,000, and we have more than 10,000 horses, and one person can drown them with a soak of urine! Guo Ye, you always look at how the little ones clean up this group of thieves! ”

Several others coaxed:

"Yes, what kind of official army, we are the official army of the Great Shun Dynasty, he is a thief, a thief! Pack up their congratulatory gifts for the emperor's enthronement! ”

Guo Sheng nodded and said:

"There is nothing wrong with being cautious, let's fight them for the first time, it's better to be cautious!"

Fighting this kind of thing depends not only on playing with life, but also on death, not only to play with life, but also to use your brain!

Dare to play with your life, and use your brains, so that you can fight a war. Coming, Guo Sheng said again.

"Don't forget to pack a few bags of dirt in the car! Wooden planks alone will not make it! ”

……

A moment later, as the Liukou changed formations, Zheng Sen on the city wall couldn't help but widen his eyes - it could actually be like this!

Hundreds, thousands!

I saw that two miles away, the thieves pushed hundreds of chariots and pressed towards the defensive position.

"The battalion pushes the chariot forward, and the horse infantry ......"

Muttering to himself, Zheng Sen said.

"These tanks ......"

"Battalion commander, not a chariot, there are wheelbarrows, there are carts, that is, nail a few door panels on the front, and put a few cages of soil in the back, so that the arrows do not penetrate, in the past, when we attacked the city, we also used this trick, the door panel can block the guns, bows and arrows, and the soil on the car can fill the moat, unless it is ......"

Tao Fengyang's brows furrowed. In the past, when he was a rogue, he didn't do less work like this. Where are the rogues, they are all big chariots stolen from the homes of ordinary people. Attach a few layers of door panels and it becomes a chariot. Don't look at this thing as shabby, but it can really come in handy when you start a war.

"Unless the chariot is hit by a cannon, it will be really hard to break!"

Zheng Sen's brows were also tightly locked.

Compared with many Ming troops, the artillery of the Hushan battalion is a lot - 12 9-kilogram mountain howitzers, 12 18-kilogram mortars, but only 12 9-kilogram mountain howitzers can shoot directly, and compared with the hundreds of various "chariots" of the thieves, it is simply not worth mentioning.

Sometimes absolute quantity superiority can trump qualitative superiority. This is especially true when there is a huge disparity in numbers.