Haiphong City, more than 200 miles away from Thang Long, if the road conditions are good, it will take an hour or two to drive. Not far to the north are Guang'an, Haining, and Haining, which make Li Shouhan salivate. There is an island on the surface of the sea, called White Dragon Tail.

Zuo Tianpeng's sailor anchorage is located on this island.

Not long ago, when Shouhan ordered the start of an offensive against the enemy in the north, Zuo Tianpeng, who had long been embarrassed by others showing off his exploits in front of his eyes from time to time, led the sailor to capture Bailongwei Island as the anchorage of the sailor and the reserve and transfer station of materials.

When the soldiers and horses of the two battalions of the Xuanwu Right Battalion and the Xuanwu Middle Battalion were transported here by the Fu ship, Zuo Tianpeng couldn't hold it back. After a little regrouping and resting of the two battalions of soldiers and horses, they landed in what would later be called Haiphong, and quickly occupied Hai'an County and Yangjing County. Then, on the ground within a radius of 100 miles, half recruited and half forced to gather people, first, to centralize the young and middle-aged people in the occupied area to prevent anyone from making trouble, and second, to expand the wharf that could only be used for fishing boats to moor, so that it could become a berth for the wind ships and fortune ships, so that soldiers, artillery, and supplies could reach Thang Long City directly from here.

"Brothers, in the past few days, there have been teams from Ha Jing to take over the defense, and we have almost rested, do you want to go to Thang Long City for a walk?"

In Hai'an County, Zuo Tianpeng, the commander of the right wing of the Navy Division, faced the two battalion officers of the Xuanwu Battalion, Liang Manchu and Ah Jin, with a smile.

After a few years, Zuo Tianpeng is no longer the little follower who was by Shouhan's side back then, and with the many trips back and forth to the mainland to traffic illicit salt, his horizons have been greatly broadened, and his knowledge is naturally different. In a sentence learned from the school, it is not the former Wuxia Ameng.

The old companions Xu Huanshan, Chen Tianhua, Ye Qi, his subordinates Wang Bao, and Zhang Xiaohu, who joined in the middle of the road, all of them were all beheading generals to capture the flag, attacking the city and seizing the land, destroying the country and capturing the king, only he was very aggrieved to act as a guard for the Han Yuan firm, although he had a lot of money, he could be regarded as a rich man among the generals, but the results were relatively poor.

This time he went north to fight against the rebellion, and his heart of meritorious service was more eager than anyone else.

The two battalion officers were also bold guys, and when they heard this, they immediately applauded, and the three of them left three sentinels to guard in Hai'an County, and made a defense handover with the follow-up troops, and hurriedly led the troops to march west along the Jingtai River.

A great war began.

Both teams hurriedly marched along the Jingtai River in the opposite direction, advancing from east to west, naturally holding high the red flag, wearing an eight-petal hat and steel helmet, and wearing a steel cuirass. From west to east, it is holding a knife in his hand, carrying a mourning gun on his shoulder, and two huge Chinese characters on the banner, "Su Wei". This is the elite of the Zheng family, all from the Thanh Hoa area, the Zheng family's hometown.

This army, on the territory of the Zheng family, has a high salary and good equipment, and it is armed with knives and guns imported from Ha Jing, coupled with its own arrogance, it is called an arrogant soldier.

The 37,800-strong Su Guard Army was from near Taiyuan, defeated a remnant of the Mo family, and after making a fortune, the general Zheng Mingwu who led the team received a holy decree from Zheng Wangye, no, it was Emperor Zheng, and ordered him to go to Hai'an County to set up a defensive line to block the westward harassment of the Nanzhong Army naval division that landed there.

After receiving this holy decree, Zheng Mingwu, who had just won a big victory, shouted at his subordinates and fellow villagers in front of the queue: "Sons, there is another chance to make a fortune!" Would you like to go?! ”

The Zheng Jiasu guards, who had just fought a big war and made a fortune ruthlessly, were full of desire for wealth in their eyes, and shouted loudly with red eyes: "Yes!" ”

"Lao Tzu came to be a soldier and eat food just to make a fortune!"

"My lord! Whose fortune is it going to make!? ”

"Not far from Hai'an County, there is a small group of water thieves of the Nanzhong Army, they built a grain platform there, a large number of grain and grass, knives and guns, and property are piled up there, and those who have eggs will go on a trip with Lao Tzu, and those who don't have the courage to take these things back and hug their mother-in-law and steal fun! Lao Tzu doesn't have too many things! ”

There was a burst of laughter in the ranks, and the morale of the Su Guards was unprecedentedly high, yes! If you want to rob the grain station established by the naval division of the Nanzhong Army, it is very easy to make a fortune. Many soldiers touched the nine-turn steel knife captured from the Mo family soldiers at their waists, the beautiful flower cloth wrapped around their waists, and the corners of their mouths showed greedy and bloodthirsty smiles.

Although the purpose of making a fortune is to make a fortune, the marching team of the Su Guard Army is still very regular, and the outpost is released far away, and the left flank of the marching route is the Jingtai River, so naturally there is no need to worry, and the rangers on the right flank are also going forward for several miles to prevent the surprise attack of the enemy.

Coincidentally, the Xuanwu battalion, which was basically moving in the same direction as them, also adopted such a marching column, with Liang Manchu's right battalion in front, and in front of the marching procession was a musket team of 50 people, and before these 50 people, there was a soldier in the front as a spearhead. After the right battalion, there is the middle army of Zuo Tianpeng, two sentinel guards and a sentry sailor, and more than 20 artillery pieces of different sizes.

The same ranger sentry horse was released several miles away, but the slight difference was that the Xuanwu battalion was equipped with clairvoyance produced by the glass workshop, while the guard Zheng Mingwu could only rely on the naked eye to observe the enemy's situation.

Both armies were sneakily trying to reach the suddenness of the battle, and they met unexpectedly.

"Enemy situation!"

The top soldiers of the Xuanwu Battalion, who were equipped with clairvoyance, relied on their own equipment advantages to take the lead in discovering the banner of the Zheng family army a few miles away.

"Stop!" After receiving the report of the enemy situation in front, Liang Man hoarded his troops and entered a state of readiness, and Zuo Tianpeng rode to the front of the battle with him to observe the army through the lens of the telescope.

"Good boy! There are a lot of people, and the guys we take are all sold to them! It's a shame that I didn't sell muskets to them back then! ”

While observing Zheng Jun's marching procession, Zuo Tianpeng and Liang Manchu were amazed.

"Two, how do you fight?" A Jin, a simple Miao man, just came out with such a sentence in a sullen voice.

"How to fight," Zuo Tianpeng, who looked at the opposite team in the way of a carpenter's hanging line, squinted, grinned, and replied vaguely, "Our troops are not as many as them, in addition to their own nearly 4,000 men and horses, they also have nearly 2,000 people, and these people alone are twice our strength!" In addition, it seems that there were quite a few prisoners, all of whom were potential enemies. So, we have to take the lead! ”

"You mean, shooting at close range? Gathering fire salvo? Liang Manchu groaned slightly.

"Not bad! On the same day, the lord sent a message to all battalions and departments to change the military discipline of shooting, and he will use them to try it today! See how there is a difference between hitting a pig and beating a man! Speaking of this, Zuo Tianpeng showed a cruel smile on his face, he has done a lot of things on the sea all these years, galloping across the sea, and wantonly shelling and killing, but it is the first time for him to fight on such a scale on land.

Soon, in the sharp sound of the military horn, the troops of the Xuanwu battalion began to change their formation.

Eight eight-pounder guns were pushed to the front of the formation, ready to act as suppressive fire.

Fourteen large Franc planes were placed on the left side of the team, slowly drawing a huge arc, extending from the flank of the queue to the riverbank, and the range of Franc planes, shotguns, and solid bullets built a good line of defense. Prevent enemy troops from attacking the flanks of your own army. The baggage vehicles responsible for transporting food, gunpowder, lead pellets, shells, medicines, tents, and clothing were concentrated on the left flank together with the Big Franc machine, serving as a bunker for the artillery. More than a dozen cooking carts, which were equipped according to the standard configuration of each outpost, were gathered together and spread along the river bank, and the firemen began to fetch water in the river, and sent it to the carts to boil and prepare food and boiling water for the army.

In the Chinese army, Zuo Tianpeng looked around, and had a lot of complaints about such an arrangement, "Alas! The artillery is still a little less, and it looks a little thin! If Lao Tzu's gunboat can enter the Jingtai River, the guns on the ship can provide flank fire cover, "At the end of the team, Liang Manchu reluctantly led the two sentinels to act as the escort of the army.

When the line was formed, all the soldiers were given an order, "All of you, sit down!" "Before the Great War, there is no need to stand there prematurely for the proper preservation of the body of the soldiers.

However, it was a very strange thing that after a period of chaos, the Zheng Jiajun on the opposite side lined up two miles away and did not move.

It seems that they are also waiting for the attack of the Xuanwu battalion.

"Okay!"

Zuo Tianpeng snapped and closed his clairvoyance, "They don't dare to come, so we'll meet them!" ”

Soon, under the sharp and loud sound of military trumpets, the troops began to move forward slowly, and three columns of musketeers, two columns of sword and shield men, and pikemen, opened a long platoon from the bank of the Jingtai River to the south, moving slowly but firmly forward.

"For the first time in history, the tactics of intensive use of muskets were put into actual combat, and the results were brutal. We have to say that although the tactics advocated by the young and ruthless Li have raised the requirements for soldiers, the intensity of training in peacetime, and the consumption of materials to an unprecedented height, such tactics have been fruitful. ”

Vladimir. Ilyich. This is how Ulyanov's magnum opus describes this small battle.

Holding a unique clairvoyant, the long line in the lens slowly but neatly moved towards his formation, Zheng Mingwu was a little strange, "What do these Nanzhong thieves want to do?" ”

The soldiers of the Su Guard looked east, the autumn morning sun was still a little dazzling, under the sun, the team on the opposite side was like a wall cast of steel, more than 100 large and small flags fluttered in the team, behind the team, dozens of mules and horses struggled to pull and drag the artillery, trying to catch up with the speed of the troops' advance. The steps of the soldiers and officers, neat and firm, crossed the ridge, over the bushes, over the puddles, and went forward!

That kind of momentum of contempt for a qiē opponent, although distant, has already made Zheng Mingwu feel it clearly!

"My lord, what should we do?" A Guan Qi asked Zheng Mingwu for instructions.

"Take advantage of the fact that the enemy has not approached, first bombard with artillery, and wait for the enemy's formation to disperse, and then our army will make a surprise attack!"

"Boom!" A six-pounder cannon ejected and fired at the marching column of the Nanzhong Army!

In the blink of an eye, five or six shells were fired one after another, and although one or two missed, four shells still broke into the ranks of the South Central Army.

The first cannonball swept over a soldier's head, taking his Celestial Spirit cover and helmet away, and the white and red juice splashed on the armor of the comrade next to him, and then the cannonball fell backwards and hit the shoulder of a captain in the back row, who fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, his body writhed painfully on the dirt, and the huge kinetic energy of the cannonball shattered his shoulder blades and collarbone, and his right arm was useless. The castration of the cannonball weakened slightly, and it ran straight to the calf of a soldier, who saw the cannonball smashing towards him, and was about to dodge, only to find that one of his calves was no longer there, and the fracture revealed white bone stubble and red muscle tissue.

"Keep going!"

Zuo Tianpeng ordered people to hold up his own recognition flag, and captured a personal soldier, "You go and sue Lord Sù Ajin!" If Lao Tzu is finished, this army will be handed over to him for command, and he will be finished, and this army will be handed over to Lord Liang for command! ”

He took the lead, and immediately swept away the decline caused by the shell bombardment, and the sentry officer instructed the subordinate officer, the team officer instructed the first commander, and the officers at all levels appointed their own agents.

"Brothers! Six-pounder cannon trivial! We were so far away that they opened fire! This group of rammed goods, cowardly bags! I don't know if we'll fight when we're closer?! While mocking the opponent's ignorance and timidity, while snatching the banner held high by the guards on the side, Zuo Tianpeng raised the banner with one hand and pulled out the iron and steel sword at his waist with the other, "Follow me!" ”

"Follow me!"

"Follow me!"

The various sentinels and team officers raised their respective flags one after another, and the team obviously accelerated its marching speed!

"Watch to stay in formation! Hold on to the row! ”

Because the officers at all levels took the lead in the assault, the neat platoon became more and more uneven on top of the bending and deformation due to the influence of the terrain, and the officers and officers who pressed the formation behind their respective units had to shout loudly to suppress the formation of their own troops.

After walking forward more than a hundred steps, Zuo Tianpeng also found that the line of the team was winding like a giant python, so he had to slow down and order the trumpeter to blow the trumpet to form the formation.

At this moment, the archers of the Su Guard began to release their arrows.

The reason is that because of the premature release of artillery, after a few rounds of artillery firing, Zheng Mingwu was very helpless to find that his six six-pounder guns, after using gunpowder purchased from Nanzhong, although the range has increased, but the problem of overheating of the artillery barrel has become more and more obvious.

Archers had to be sent to block the attack, buying time for the artillery to dissipate heat.

"Vultures! That's it! There are at least more than 150 steps to Lao Tzu before he starts to release arrows?! Looking at the arrows fired crookedly from the opposite side, the soldiers all had mockery on their faces.

The bows and arrows tested by the Shouhan on that day were much stronger than these bows and arrows except that there were no arrow clusters, and the bows used by the guards in front of them were about less than one stone, while the bows used by the Shouhan on that day were more than one stone.

"It's good! The departments straighten out the formation and check the weapons! Zuo Tianpeng looked left and right, the musketeers in the first column had quickly adjusted the platoon under the order, and about 400 musketeers had become concentrated from the evacuated formation, and after a while, their formation would become more and more dense.

The second and third columns behind Zuo Tianpeng were also taking the same action, the sound of hurried footsteps and short passwords, and the crisp sound of the helmet colliding with the barrel of the gun, one after another in the ranks.

The arrows that came at the slanted angle made a clanging sound on the helmets and armor of the people, and occasionally there was a low, painful sound or two, from the soldiers who had been struck by the stray arrows.

It's less than one hundred and twenty steps!

The arrows on the opposite side also shot more and more rapidly, due to the shortening of the distance, the lethality of the bow and arrow has also become a lot greater, Zuo Tianpeng saw several soldiers and two armor commanders in the first row or face the door, or the neck, and some people were shot in the thigh, falling to the ground and twisting their bodies. Several of the commanders who were pressing the formation behind them quickly ran over and dragged the soldiers to the side to be treated by the military doctors.

How is the army of pig's foot better than the army of the Yingyi? Welcome to discuss!

Let's see if we can make up a chapter in the evening!

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