The ambush soldiers of the mixed brigade continuously cast a platoon, and a large puff of white smoke filled the slopes of Meiren Mountain, although it was night, but under the light of the fire on the official road, it was very clear. The Zheng family's men and horses were constantly knocked to the ground by the platoon, and the screams of the dying people and the neighing of the wounded and frightened war horses were intertwined and mixed together. In the firelight, the frightened and wounded horses ran and jumped and trampled through the crowd, making the already narrow and chaotic road even more chaotic.

The sudden attack in the middle of the night made the Zheng family, who were eager to retreat, suddenly blinded! The formation was beaten to pieces, the officers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know where they had run. Someone shuddered and took off the musket and prepared to return fire, but he didn't know where to fire. After firing a shot, he was groping left and right to find Ziyao and projectiles, but he was hit by several projectiles at the same time, and he was killed on the spot.

"Ignition!"

Wu Liuqi saw that the heat was almost over, and ordered in a low voice.

With his command, the two pro-soldiers each waved their torches. One person waved towards a bamboo with the thickness of the mouth of the bowl, and the bamboo was opened, and a lead tied in one place was exposed at the mouth of the cylinder.

During the day, when Zheng Zhilong's command post and the troops of the Nanyue Army that landed and attacked Xiamen started a bloody battle, Wu Liuqi, who was far away in Chaozhou, marched hundreds of miles in a row and quietly went around to Tong'an County, the base camp and old camp of the Zheng army.

In history, it was Wu Liuqi, who was known for being good at long-distance roundabouts, who once again showed his tactical expertise. But. In history, his skills were used on Zheng Sen, but this time, they were used on Zheng Zhilong in advance.

With the combat effectiveness of Wu Liuqi's mixed brigade, it is not a problem at all to conquer a county town with extremely fleshy combat effectiveness and no preparation at all. The question is how to quickly take the county seat and not let the news leak out.

This problem, our red flag incense master has done it!

Just after conquering Tong'an County, before it was too late to count the results, news came from the direction of Xiamen that the Nanyue Army had conquered Gulangyu Island. Capture the Huli Hill Fort. The fleet entered the inner harbor of Xiamen.

Wu Liuqi keenly felt that the opportunity for his meritorious service had come, and the opportunity to completely wash away the shame brought to him by Wu Biao's backlash in front of Shouhan and raise his head in front of everyone had arrived!

"Our army conquered Xiamen. Not a problem. But Zheng Zhilong. He will definitely not be willing to be captured in the city of Xiamen. He will definitely go north to Tong'an County. Here are his family members in the army, and the belongings he has stored here. We are waiting for him right here! ”

Wu Liuqi pointed to the beauty mountain in the distance.

"Brother Zou Rui, you have a battalion of people. Bring out the gunpowder and vegetable oil seized in Tong'an, pull the fuse, and bury more on the official road! Let's use these gunpowder and vegetable oil to illuminate Zheng Yiguan! ”

Barrels of gunpowder and vegetable oil were urgently transported to the official road at the foot of Mt. Beauty. The gunpowder was divided into small jars and buried in the pit to draw the lead. Each gunpowder jar was surrounded by at least one porcelain jar filled with vegetable oil.

What caused great confusion in the ranks of the Zheng army was these excellent examples of gunpowder and vegetable oil taken from the treasury of the Tong'an Mansion. (You can imagine for yourself the effect of the explosion in various dramas.) ）

As the pro-soldier lit more fuses, a series of explosions and flames immediately burst out in the ranks of Zheng Jun, just like during the Welcoming God Tournament.

I have to say that Zou Rui, who was the first to follow Wu Liuqi to raise troops in his hometown, was born to be a good hand at digging pits and burying mines! The locations where he led the people to dig the pits were so staggered that you avoided one place, but you couldn't escape the other. Dodged the powder keg, but couldn't dodge the vegetable oil jar.

In the constant sound of explosions and burning fires, although the officers of Zheng's army at all levels tried their best to retract, under the strong interference of the constant projectiles shooting down on the hillside, almost no formation of more than 100 people could be formed.

In the midst of this chaos, the hillside suddenly lit up. It was as if the magma in the ground had suddenly burst open, and the torches, lanterns, and fires on the slopes of the beautiful mountain were connected.

By the light of the fire, Zheng Zhilong saw very clearly, halfway up the mountainside of Beauty Mountain, I don't know how many soldiers of the Nanyue Army stood up, and on the mouth of the black hole, the dense firewood-like thorns flickered with the beating of the flames.

"Is it Zheng Zongbing under the mountain? A certain Wu Liuqi, who is the commander of the First Mixed Brigade of the Southern Guangdong Army, has been waiting here for a long time! ”

Wu Liuqi was obviously poisoned by Luo Guanzhong, and he was still in the mood to tease and greet Zheng Zhilong at this juncture. This move made Zheng Zhilong and the others laugh secretly in their hearts, this famous general in the Nanyue Army turned out to be so pedantic. Let's see if we can spend money on a road to walk after a while.

However, what happened next made Zheng Zhilong unable to laugh.

Zheng Zhilong was about to talk, but was stopped by Zheng Zhibao beside him and motioned for Zheng Zhiguan to step forward to answer.

"My family's chief soldier is still behind, and we are waiting to go to Tong'an to receive arms!"

"Tong'an? You don't have to go! I've been taking it for a long time! Look, guys, do you know these people?! ”

With the order of Wang Jin, the commander of the guard battalion beside Wu Liuqi, the troops on the hillside dodged a gap.

From the gap, hundreds of people from behind Yang Zhen, who were under the custody of Yang Zhen, the left standard commander of the mixed brigade, walked out from behind.

These people are men, women, and children, and their clothes are also divided into silk, satin, cotton and linen, and it can be seen that their identities are quite complicated. Some people have smooth heads, while others have wrinkled piles.

These people are all Zheng Jun's family members in Tong'an County. Wu Liuqi succeeded in a surprise attack with lightning speed, immediately closed the city gate, and ordered his powerful generals Chen Qilong, Guo Hong and others to lead their subordinates to set up three blockade lines on the city wall, the city gate, and various places outside the city, so that no one could escape through the net. Before these family members in Tong'an County could react, the soldiers of the mixed brigade had already smashed open the gate and broke in.

In the city, the troops of Cai Feng and Yang Meng of the brigade headquarters were in the middle of the brigade, although they were facing the dependents of the enemy, but in the face of the harsh military discipline of the Nanyue army. As long as these people do not resist with weapons in hand, there is nothing to be unreasonable about the soldiers of the mixed brigade. After all, Chaozhou is adjacent to Zhangzhou, Xiamen and other places, and everyone may still be Hakka or relatives.

"Ladies and gentlemen, these people must be known to everyone, and they are all relatives of your soldiers. A certain family was ordered to capture Tong'an, and had invited all the families of the noble soldiers in the city to the camp as guests. Don't worry about it. ”

Although Wu Liuqi's words were polite, when he spoke to others after thousands of people had carried out a blow with firearms and gunpowder, he said it politely, and others listened to it with a strong back. It's like hearing an owl on a winter night.

"Son!"

"Daddy, kid!"

"Sir!"

"Big brother!"

Wu Liuqi's words were finished. Turning around and retreating to the side, let the hundreds of people walk to the bright place, so that the soldiers and officers of the Zheng family army under the hillside can see more clearly. Beauty Mountain is said to be a mountain, but it is actually not very high. The two armies looked at each other halfway up the mountainside toward the official road. Time. More than 100 steps apart. Calling for wives and children, looking for brothers and calling for brothers, the voices are higher and higher.

In an instant, Zheng Jun's will to resist was completely shattered.

"Brother. Sisters-in-law and nephews are all right! After the southern army entered the city, they distributed grain and rice, and Lord Wu said that he would not embarrass the brothers! ”

"Son! It's time to pay for your mother's medicine! The military master of the Southern Army said that he could start the military salary immediately after coming over! ”

"Alright, enough heat!" Wu Liuqi looked at it coldly for a while, and ordered his officers, "All bayonets and prepare to attack!" ”

With this command, the two standard men and horses who had just been waiting behind the hillside were silent, and rushed to the front of the formation like two black dragons.

"Ou Liang, Wu Han, Li Qing, Dong Tong, Liu Sheng, Zhu Liang, Zhang You, Li Kun, Zeng Lan, Wang Chip, a few of you follow Zou Rui and rush down from the left," Wu Liuqi pointed with a whip, signaling several of his sentries to the small group of people on the left who were about to move and preparing to break through. "Chen Li, Zhang Kui, Cai Feng, Chen Long, Lin Fu, Chen Zhong, Lin En, several of your battalions of men and horses, follow Wang Jin's guard battalion to Zheng Zhilong's brigade to attack, just like we eat snakes, divide me into sections!"

"Yang Zhen's troops remain on the mountain, ready to accept prisoners!"

"Do you understand?"

"Brigade commander, we all have our own tasks, and Zheng Zhilong let him go like this?"

Wu Han and Wu Liuqi are of the same family, and they questioned Wu Liuqi by virtue of this blood relationship.

"Of course it won't be so cheap for him! If he leaves, how will we be a mixed brigade? The official dealt with him personally! A cruel smile appeared on Wu Liuqi's face, and he waved the thick iron rod.

"The lord is kind and kind, he gave us a team of cavalry, plus the original riders of the brigade headquarters, we can make up more than 150 horses, these people are led by this official personally, and Zheng Zhilong is directly taken!"

Turning over his horse and looking behind him, Wu Liuqi expressed his satisfaction with the troops of the mixed brigade.

Ou Liang, Wu Han and others, who were named by him, were all capable people who had followed him since he was in the army, and they were the best at charging into battle. These people have now changed from peasant children wearing bamboo hats and straw sandals to officers of the Southern Guangdong Army with one battalion and one sentry.

Behind these people, with sentinels as a unit, phalanxes were neatly arranged on the mountainside. The phalanx was lined up along the hillside, and it seemed to cover the entire beauty mountain, but the chaos on the official road under the mountain made these people ignore it, and the array was always neat, and people just stared at Wu Liuqi who was at the front. Only the occasional sound of pine joints popping when torches burned in the ranks could be heard, but no one moved for a moment.

"Brothers, tonight is the time for us to show our face as a mixed brigade! We finally don't have to look at other teams! can finally raise his eyebrows and say that Lao Tzu is worthy of the military salary given by the lord! ”

After shouting these words, Wu Liuqi ordered the commander beside him, "Fire!" Get on the bayonet and strike! ”

With a cannon shot, the two dozen phalanxes poured down silently from the hillside like a torrent. Kankan rushed to the foot of the mountain, and in the midst of the various arrays, a sharp whistle sounded, followed by the dense sound of firecrackers like popping beans, and the firelight bursting from the mouth of the guns inlaid a beautiful lace of orange and red in the chaotic night.

However, this beauty is life-threatening.

Projectiles flew everywhere in all directions, beating the Zheng army's team, which was already like a hive that had exploded, even more chaotic. On the official road, in the grass, in the ditch, and under the stone bridge, there were Zheng soldiers scurrying around, and wounded soldiers who were hit by stray bullets. As soon as he fell to the ground screaming, he was immediately trampled by countless pairs of big feet, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a puddle of flesh.

After a round of firearms, the soldiers of the mixed brigade began to charge with bayonets.

Wu Liuqi has always been known for his ability to fight and run, otherwise there would not have been many successive long-distance raids and successful outflanking battles. These soldiers recuperated on the Beauty Mountain for a while, and they had already recovered their bodies, and pounced on the Zheng family's team like a pack of wolves entering a flock of sheep!

However, before the bayonet was red, Wu Liuqi instructed them to chant a few slogans!

"Those who abandon their weapons and kneel on the ground will not die!"

"Those who are willing to join the military are hired according to their talents!"

"My family is waiting for you to go back and be reunited!"

Mouthed shouting. There is no stagnation in the feet and hands. A few Zheng family soldiers who were a little slow to react were immediately added a few transparent holes to their bodies with bayonets by Ou Liang's soldiers!

The soldier with a bright brain immediately threw away the weapon in his hand, ignoring the blood, mud and water on the ground, and fell to his knees, waiting for his fate to fall.

The terrain here in Beauty Mountain is the most suitable for ambushes. The official road is built close to the side of the mountain. A river flows out of the mountains. On the surface of the river is another stone arch bridge that is not particularly wide. In this way, the remnants of the Zheng family's defeated army were compressed into a small space by this terrain. Let Wu Liuqi command the troops to come and go to conflict.

More than a dozen sentinels who rushed to the front led their respective troops to kill the military flag of the Nanyue Army from the ranks of the Zheng Army, and they were still unsatisfied, "Brothers. Kill me again! ”

After the two conflicts, this battlefield was full of people who were busy catching prisoners, inspecting seized materials and property, collecting the wounded soldiers of the Zheng army, preparing to send them for treatment, and inspecting the dead bodies to see if there were any hiding in the corpses and preparing to fish in troubled waters and escape.

Not to mention, in the pile of corpses, several soldiers really found a big fish.

In the pile of dead men, an officer lay face down on the corpse covered in blood, allowing the blood flowing from the corpse to stain his clothes dirty. This person's clothes are very strange, the upper body is a Zheng family soldier's uniform, but the lower body is a big red middle coat, the soldiers look through the light of the torch, but they can't recognize what kind of material the clothing is, but from the glittering luster on the pants, the soldiers know that this person is definitely not an ordinary soldier.

"Don't play dead!" A soldier struck the officer on the thigh with a crest. "If you play dead again, we'll kill you!"

"Don't!" The man scrambled to his feet.

"Say! Who are you? ”

The man fixed his eyes and saw that four or five soldiers of the Nanyue Army were surrounding him with firearms and spears, and the thorns and spears were pointed at him, and the thorns of the firearms in the hands of the soldiers in front of him were almost next to the tip of his nose.

"Contemptible, I, below, is the commander of the Fujian General Army, and Zheng Zhiguan's is it!"

As he spoke, Zheng Zhiguan took out a few small gold ingots from his sleeve and put them in the hands of several soldiers. "Even if everyone meets fate, it is a little meaning, not a tribute. A few brothers took it to tea! ”

The first leader squinted at Zheng Zhiguan, "You have collected your money yourself." We have military regulations, and we can't loot the pockets of our Fujian brothers! As long as you want, you can serve under my father-in-law! ”

"I do! Of course I do! ”

"Less nonsense! Assemble over there! ”

In the chaos, Wu Liuqi led more than 100 cavalry, shuttling back and forth among the defeated soldiers of the Zheng family, and from time to time waved the iron rod in his hand to beat the defeated soldiers of the Zheng army who blocked the way of the horse's head to the point that their brains were broken and their flesh and blood were blurred. His purpose was to capture Zheng Zhilong alive or behead Zheng Zhilong under his horse, otherwise, no matter how many Zheng troops were captured, it would not be a complete victory for him!

Suddenly, in the noisy battlefield, a group of men and horses crashed into his eyes. I didn't play too many lanterns and torches, but I just took the road and walked away. Most obviously, in the crowd, a few on horseback! One of the horseback riders is a teenager!

This should be Zheng Zhilong! That young man is his eldest son, Zheng Sen!

Wu Liuqi judged in his heart, and immediately rushed with his army! The cavalry urged the horses, and the horses caught up with the hundreds of men in a few crossings.

approached and watched, proving Wu Liuqi's judgment more and more.

Among the team of five or six hundred people, there are dozens of obvious Kunlun slaves, and more than two hundred people, judging from their physical appearance and demeanor, they should be Fusang ronin warriors under Zheng Zhilong!

"Zheng Zongbing! Now that you're here, why go! My father-in-law would like to have a face-to-face interview with an adult! ”

With a bit of banter, Wu Liuqi shouted at Zheng Zhilong's personal soldiers, expressing that he didn't mean anything else, he just wanted to arrest you and go back to see my lord!

"Baga!" The pro-soldiers composed of a team of Fusang ronins in charge of the back of the hall broke out in the team, turned their heads, and waved the spear blade in their hands to Wu Liuqi.

"Death!"

Without waiting for Wu Liuqi to give the order, the cavalry officer behind him roared, rode out, and led more than 20 horsemen to attack the dozens of Fusang ronin.

Most of these ronins were collected by Zheng Zhilong in Nagasaki and other places, and over the years, they were gradually selected and selected to serve as personal guards, and they were also a force that was thrown into the battlefield to turn the tide of the battle at a critical moment. This group of guys usually offers wine and meat, and the rewards are rich. Every once in a while, some money cloth and the like will be mailed home by the Shunfeng Xinke Bureau and given to the family to enjoy.

Therefore, in the hearts of this generation, Zheng Zhilong, the lord, is even more sacrosanct than the previous lord in Japan!

However, it is one thing to be brave, and it is another thing to be able to treat it correctly.

The sound of hooves, the flashes of swords, and dozens of corpses silently explained to people the superiority of cavalry over infantry in the plains.

"Get on the bayonet! Rush! ”

At this time, Wu Liuqi was too lazy to talk nonsense, and ordered the two sentinels who chased here to lead the army to attack.

At dawn, Li Shouhan, who had just taken a nap in the city of Xiamen, was woken up by cheers inside and outside the city.

"What's the matter?"

He asked Mo Yu, who was on duty outside the door, with some dissatisfaction.

"My lord! Brigade Commander Wu of the mixed brigade set up an ambush near Tong'an, annihilated the remnants of Zheng Zhilong's troops in one fell swoop, and captured nearly 100 members of the Zheng family including Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, and Zheng Sen under Zheng Zhilong. The captives were soon escorted to Xiamen. And the city rejoiced over it! Lord! Fujian's affairs are settled! ”

called in unison, and caught Zheng Yiguan in front.

Shouhan had this poem in his heart. (To be continued......)

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