"This benevolent brother, this benevolent brother, the younger brother Honglu Temple Right Shaoqing, was killed today, and I hope that the benevolent brother will give a hand and save the younger brother, and the younger brother will never forget."

In the dripping drizzle, a wet Wupin official stood by the ditch, and in the ditch, which had long been dry and dripping, a carriage full of boxes was lying in the ditch, and the two manned carriages next to him were broken and the wheels were crooked, and one was still intact.

Inside the carriage sat the officials' family members and several personal servants, all of them with panicked faces. The officer, on the other hand, was still calm and shouted for help to an oncoming carriage and horse.

"Hurry up, hurry up."

From one of the carriages at the head of the convoy came the voice of the owner lowering his voice.

What else is there not to understand about the driver of the car? The master is reluctant to help.

Also, when is it? The army of Li thieves is coming, and he can't take care of his life, how can he still have the leisure to save people?

"Drive, drive......"

The coachman shouted loudly, the whip snapped, and the speed of the carriage and horses not only did not decrease, but increased.

"This brother, this brother, you can't go!" The officials shouted loudly, full of emotion, but they could not call back the convoy that was gradually moving away.

"Master, what can I do about this?" The anxious voice asked, and the faces of the people above and below became even more ugly. This is not the first person to refuse to rescue them, and again and again they have summoned up hope and ushered in disappointment again and again, not only the dependents, but also the officials themselves have lost their energy.

"Don't be afraid, not afraid. Let's go back to the capital. The official said fiercely with a pair of red eyes. Since the old Zhu family is ruthless and unjust, and his colleagues are selfish, Lao Tzu will take refuge in the new dynasty.

But not everyone made that choice, or not everyone was so unlucky with what they were looking for.

It is not uncommon for chariots and horses to break down on the road, but the horses are frightened, and not only pull the carriage themselves into the ditch, but also crash other carriages, and this kind of bad luck is not much.

Those chariots and horses are damaged, and the most common choice is to throw them away, pick up some precious things and bring them, even the extra slaves are also abandoned.

"Sir, sir, take me with you. What do we do when you're gone? ”

"Master, please take me with me......"

Along the canal road, crying all the way, the scene is called a miserable and miserable relative.

"Marshal, these officials?" Zheng Jun quickly found out some situations, some slippery middle and low-level officials, or some unlucky officials, as if there was a momentum of 'returning' to the Beijing Division.

"Regardless of them, just keep an eye on those big fish." Zheng Zhilong doesn't care about those petty officials, there are thousands of large and small officials in Yanjing City, he just wants to keep an eye on them all, so there are not enough people, right?

Just send those big fish to the south, and the rest of the officials will go with them. Zheng Zhilong believes that there will be a small number of people who will return to Beijing.

Because they know very well that as long as they step out of Yanjing City and return to the capital to surrender to the new dynasty, it will feel different.

Bai Liangzhu galloped back to the Chinese army, and his uncle Bai Guangen, Ma Ke, and Tang Tongzheng were all sitting on the flattened tree stump waiting for the report.

"Where is Zheng Zhilong's troops?"

"Zheng Zhilong's banner stood on the Pingtong Bridge, and the whole army lined up in a straight line, reaching Xianghe County in the east and Anping Town in the west."

Pingtong Bridge is a stone bridge on both sides of the communication canal, the east end can go to Xianghe County, and the west end can reach Anping Town.

"That's not a short distance. Zheng Zhilong has only a few heads in his hands? Dare to arrange troops like this? Tang Tong shouted first.

From Anping Town to Xianghe County, there are more than ten miles along the way, and Zheng Zhilong's soldiers and horses are scattered enough.

"You can't underestimate Zheng Zhilong's soldiers......"

Bai Guangen and Ma Ke, who had participated in the battle of Zhang Qiuzhen, looked solemn, but Tang Tong's face was still relaxed. Seeing the two of them talking like this, they immediately said: "In this case, if this Pingtong Bridge is not fought by me, the two of them are outflanked from the east and west sides respectively, and there is no need to storm Xianghe County and Anping Town, just send troops and horses to watch people." Then the two of them just led the army to chase after Wuqing. ”

"But ......"

As soon as the words turned, a playful smile appeared on Tang Tong's face.

The capture of Emperor Chongzhen, the three of them didn't think about it, but it was certain that they captured some ministers who accompanied them, seized some soft money, and even some beautiful little ladies.

Bai Guangen and Ma Ke were overjoyed when they saw that Tang Tong took the initiative to pick up this hot potato. They who have seen Zheng Jun's guns and artillery are powerful, but they don't want to fight Zheng Zhilong to the death. At the moment, they all promised: "Don't worry, brother, we understand the rules." "Not only should the profits be shared to Tang Tong in terms of capture, but also in terms of military exploits.

Tang Tong invisibly had a feeling that he was the head of the three, and the latter pursued this, because his strength was the weakest among the three general soldiers.

Smiled with satisfaction at the moment.

The horn sounded, the Dashun army separated the military columns, and as soon as the soldiers moved, the momentum was not small, and they were immediately discovered by Zhou Yi and reported to Zheng Zhilong.

"Tang Tong?"

This person is also a veteran, his name is not small, and his status is also very high. He has served as the chief soldier of Xuanhua, the general soldier of Miyun, and the chief soldier of Jizhen. are all around Gyeonggi, and their status is far more important than that of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, who holds military power and plays a pivotal role.

But when it comes to his meritorious achievements, it's not that Zheng Zhilong looks down on him, among the three general soldiers who chased him this time, he looks down on Tang Tong the most.

Tang Tong's soldiers and horses are also a team that has suffered several traumatic injuries, although there are only 8,000 people, but they are not all veterans.

He had taken some young men and slaves on the march, and since he had kept the women behind, the male servants were like the captured young men, and now they were at the forefront of the army in addition to their labor.

After these people are Tang Tong's soldiers, first recruits, then backbone veterans, and finally family members.

This is the way many generals fight in the current period, following Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to fight for more than ten years, and the Ming army is fighting, and it seems that they have become rogues.

Holding the cyan banner of Dashun, the Tang Tong army came from the east bank to Pingtong Bridge, and there were only 1,800 people on the west bank of the river.

"Sure enough, there are no cannons!" Zheng Zhilong had a smile on his face, it's good if there is no cannon, Tang Tong doesn't have a cannon, then it's time for his cannon to speak.

As Tang Tong's army gradually approached, the distance between the two armies changed from two miles to one mile, and then to one hundred and ten zhang.

Zheng's artillery fired.

In the rumbling cannon, white smoke rose from the position of Zheng Zhilong's army on the Pingtong Bridge, and one by one, dead shells like adults clenched fists whistled out and flew towards the opposite Tang Tongjun.

Before the forefront-line substitutes could see Zheng Jun's face clearly, they were shelled, and they let out an exclamation.

Many people subconsciously wanted to run away, but the current two Tang Tongjun soldiers who were kept under surveillance in the crowd stabbed their guns together, one with his head rolling to the ground, and the other was skewered with a cold heart, which frightened everyone.

Solid shells can't explode, but they roll and bounce on the ground, and these shells cannonballs can't see their tracks in the air, but when they fall into the crowd, they roll and roll, and immediately plow blood-colored grooves in the crowd.

In the face of the huge momentum brought about by the explosion of the medicinal powder, the human body is as fragile as tofu, and no matter how thick the heavy armor is, it is useless, let alone a person without armor?

It basically doesn't produce an injured person - either it hasn't been touched and it's fine. Either you get touched, and you're dead.

But if a shell is touched by a little edge, even if it is not killed on the spot, it is still a broken bone and limb wound with missing arms and legs, and it is certain to die in this era. The Tang Tong Army supervisors in the crowd would not tolerate their screams one after another, and they immediately stepped forward to mend their swords, which was very cruel.

Six artillery pieces, six spherical rounds, caused about thirty or fifty casualties in the rebel formation at once—some of them were pushed and trampled in a panic.

But even so, it disrupted the march of the front of Tang Tong's army.

It is not for nothing that artillery is called the god of war, and for the traditional dense array combat method, even the lethality caused by solid shells can be far greater than imagined.

The shelling meant the official start of the battle. It is clear that the army of thousands of people on the other side will not admit defeat just because it has been shelled once, not to mention that it is not their own people who have died. The enemy attack array, which was originally in a dense formation and was slowly advancing, stopped in place for a moment, and then, in a burst of noisy war drums and bugle guns, the huge battle array suddenly accelerated, and quickly approached Zheng Zhilong's army with the sound of golden drums.

It's just a quick step, not a run, and Tang Tongjun still has some combat experience.

Don't look at the short distance of less than a mile, you wear armor, run away with knives and guns? It's time to gasp for air.

They just walked a little faster, and the distance between them gradually widened.

The big turtledove footed guns also began to shoot, as well as snipers, and their targets were the supervisors in the crowd at the front of the Tang Tong army. Don't try to kill them all, but kill one, and the loosening of the front will be a little bigger, right?

"Huh......" On the Pingtong Bridge, Zhu Chunchen put down the monocular in his hand and exhaled, with cold sweat on his forehead. But I was finally able to take a breath and wipe my sweat for a while.

Don't look at Pingtong Bridge is where Zheng Zhilong's banner is located, there are only 3,000 cavalry here, Zhu Chunchen has been disturbed before, he is afraid that he will be defeated, and he can't run, but now he can relax a little.

Although there are many soldiers under Tang Tong, there are no shield carts, and there are flesh and blood up and down, which should be difficult to carry the guns of Zheng Zhilong's army.

"Tang Tong, this thief is in vain to lose his grace, sacrifice the thief, I hate not to get his flesh and eat it. If Annanbo can inflict heavy damage on the thief army today and send the good news to the emperor, he will definitely be able to make His Majesty overjoyed and sweep away the decadence of leaving Beijing. ”

Zheng Zhilong laughed when he heard this, "I borrowed the words of the Duke of the Kingdom." The Tang thief relied on many soldiers to attack, and today he will definitely know that it is powerful. ”

As he spoke, the six guns erupted again, this time not solid, but scattered.