Chapter 431: The Iron Man Army

At the same time, the fighting on land was over.

The red-haired soldiers who reinforced the Red Embedded City along the south bank encountered the forward battalion commanded by Shi Lang, and were defeated earlier than the sea route.

This reinforcement of two hundred musketeers, led by Captain Aldorp.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Ming fleet was attracted by the main force of the fleet in the direction of the Luermen estuary, when the two sides started a fierce battle, they took two small reconnaissance ships and secretly sailed to Chichicheng along the south bank of the Taijiang River, in an attempt to relieve the siege.

However, they were soon discovered by Shi Lang's people.

Shi Lang received the report and immediately ordered all the departments to be on standby, keeping an eye on the movements of the Red Embedded City, and preventing the red hair from joining the inside and outside.

Immediately, he personally led the most elite 500 of his men to set up an ambush on the beachside of the river and give them a head-on attack.

At present, the sea thunderbolt Shi Lang can be described as strong and strong, and there are many people.

After the official was reinstated, not only did he have a newly recruited small 2,000 men under his command, but Zheng Chenggong also returned to him more than 1,500 elite soldiers from his original Left Pioneer Battalion.

In this way, he suddenly had more than 3,000 soldiers and became the most powerful part of the Zheng army's battalions and towns.

The important thing is that the soldiers of the pioneer battalion who have been reassigned to his command are almost all veterans of a hundred battles who have followed him for many years, and who are good at both land and naval battles.

This unit is fully armed, not only 300 musketeers, but also crossbowmen, spearmen, artillerymen, artillery guards, scouts, engineers, and auxiliaries.

However, what Shi Lang is most proud of is that there is a special unit that he personally trained - the "Iron Man Army"!

This "Iron Man Army" is composed of more than 500 people, which is the ace army that Shi Lang relies on to become famous, and comes from the traditional rattan army.

The ordinary rattan army, which is also available in other battalions and towns, is actually a sword and shield soldier, but it is only a lighter rattan brand as a shield, holding a knife in one hand to fight, which is very suitable for fighting in the thinly dressed southern coast.

It's just that Shi Lang's rattan army is different, this is a death squad of the three armies.

These soldiers are all dressed in black clothes and trousers, they are all strong, and all of them are not afraid of death, they are extremely brave, and their usual food treatment is also the best in the whole army.

In normal times, they all have a big knife on their backs, and when fighting, they discard the rattan cards they are guarding, and all of them hold knives in both hands, and charge forward desperately, and the whole team is like a black whirlwind.

They went forward one after another, wielding broadswords and slashing at all those who stood in the way, whether it was bows and arrows or spears, they could not block their desperate impact, and when fighting against the Fujian Tartars, they could often kill back and forth in the enemy formation of tens of thousands of people.

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As soon as he ran to the shore with the "Iron Man Army", Shi Lang found that the two red-haired boats had sailed two miles away.

As far as the eye could see from the gaps in the long artemisia grass, the enemy ship was lowering its sails and slowing down, moving slowly, clearly looking for a suitable landing site.

Shi Lang immediately made a decision, divided the whole army into three teams, and ordered them to sneak quietly to three flat terrain places, looking for artemisia grass and sand dune piles to ambush......

The boat stopped, and the landing ground of the red hairs was chosen on a beach with less artemisia grass.

Seeing this, Shi Lang's eyes flashed with a cold light.

Here, it was less than a hundred steps away from the ambush of his second team, and less than five hundred steps away from the team he personally led.

As soon as the ship came to shore, Captain Aldorp shouted an order to get ashore quickly.

Here, it was still five miles away from Chiji City, a little farther away, but he couldn't go any further.

The most dangerous time to land, the musketeers, only in the whole formation, using three shots to fight and charge at the same time, not far ahead, is the Chinese Yankee's newly set up battalion, he does not want to brave the artillery fire to land.

Unexpectedly, not long after the landing, only about 60 of the 200 red-haired soldiers came ashore, and the rest were still crowded on the deck and cabin, and Shi Lang's "Iron Man Army" jumped up from behind the dunes and in the grass, and more than 100 people rushed forward with a scream......

The soldiers who had just come ashore were shocked, some raised their guns and fired, and others, knowing that something was wrong, hurriedly installed bayonets and prepared for hand-to-hand combat.

However, the distance was so close that there was a chaotic "crackling" sound, and only thirty of the sixty muskets were fired, and the enemy's sword light was already shining in front of him......

As a result, more than a hundred people swept through like a black whirlwind, leaving not a single blade of grass.

The glittering blade met the red-haired body, as refreshing as slicing tofu, and in the blink of an eye, the head and stump of the human head rolled to the ground, and the sound of angry shouts, wails, and cries resounded through the beach.

Under the chaos, many people had just finished putting their guns out, and some of them had not even had time to release their guns, and they became ghosts under the knife one by one......

Aldorp was so shocked that he hurriedly ordered the shooting.

Seeing that there were few of their own people on the shore, the soldiers on the deck hurriedly raised their guns to shoot, and if they didn't shoot again, these fierce gods were about to kill the ship.

However, the group of men in black on the shore were extremely fierce, and they went forward one after another, and performed a stunt against the guns—only to see them run one by one, and throw their broadswords as javelins at the boat.

"Crackling ......"

"Puff puff ......"

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire rang out at the same time as the sound of knives cutting into flesh.

Aldorp was terrified, the cabin and deck were filled with large blades, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of soldiers on the deck were killed and wounded, and blood was sprayed everywhere......

What's even more frightening is that hundreds of people are rushing at a fast speed not far away......

"Sail! Sail! Evacuate! ”

He screamed as he crawled into the cabin.

The flying blades were finally scarce, and before the second group of enemies arrived, the sailors stiffened their heads and trembled to hold on to the shore, and if they did not sail again, they would die.

Shi Lang's other two teams were one step slower after all, and by the time they arrived, the two boats were already offshore and were turning around and fleeing.

Leaving behind dozens of corpses, Aldorp fled with the remnants of his army all the way back to the city of Geranza.

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Soon, Zheng Chenggong led the fleet and came triumphantly from the direction of Luermen.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, they destroyed two large Hongmao warships, captured one, severely damaged one, killed one major, captured alive one captain, one lieutenant, one flag guard Cao, and 128 soldiers.

The losses on their side were not small, and there were three warships that were sunk or destroyed; Including the flagship "Chenggong", as many as 11 warships suffered heavy damage, and nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed and wounded......

However, a pyrrhic victory is also a victory!

Although such a price made Zheng Chenggong's heart ache, he was relieved that the situation had finally opened.

The Dutch people continued to inquire about Zheng Jun's movements, and Zheng Chenggong knew the truth of the red hair very well.

He knew that in the Battle of Penghu, the Dutch fleet had lost nearly half, and after today's battle, they were no longer able to fight back, and there were no more than three cannon ships in Dayuan Harbor.

At this point, the connection between the city of Chichia and the city of Geranza has been completely severed, and the purpose of the battle of dividing and encircling and breaking each one has been achieved.

Zheng Chenggong decided that the whole army would take advantage of the victory to land and completely encircle the Red Embedded City.

It was still early, and there was still time to launch an attack to test the enemy's reality.

At the same time, he asked Liao Jing to lead ten warships to stay, and while monitoring Dayuan Port, he received the second echelon into Taijiang.

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(End of chapter)