Outside Ziyang City, Zheng Jun's team met the Tartar sentinels at night.

Zheng Zhilong naturally attached importance to the movements of the Qing army, and immediately released his hand to monitor the Qing army's every move.

Dai Jiaji is a strong 'fortress', and after Zheng Zhilong built this solid turtle shell, it was in order to take the initiative to attack so as to contain the Qing army under Ziyang City. Otherwise, what is the use of him stopping troops in Daijiaji?

Zhou Yi looked at the Eight Banners in front of him, his eyes flashing with a fearless divine light. It's not like they've fought with the sentry riders of the Eight Banners for a while, everyone has a head around their necks, and no one can have one more life than anyone else......

"Big brother, let's rush at them." A middle-aged man beside him shouted instigatingly. There were a dozen Tartars on the opposite side, and they also had ten horsemen, and half of them were equipped with handcuffs. Don't be afraid of them!

This middle-aged man, who was not afraid of tartars, had a rough black face, was about thirty years old, wore chain mail on the inside, a coarse felt-style coat on the outside, and a long-maned horse on his crotch, eating hay boringly.

The middle-aged man was talking as he rubbed the handcuff in his pocket with his palm. He's been getting this thing for five or six days, and he's been skilled at fiddling with it for a long time, but he hasn't made a profit yet. This tickled his heart, and now he felt a sense of impatience when he saw Tartar.

Zheng Zhilong made people build a lot of handguns, which is the certificate of Zheng Jun's officers above the platoon level. But for the night guards led by Zhou Yi, the handcuffs are a proof of their glory and a medal of their glory.

If a person who doesn't collect it at night and can get the handcuff, the only proof is that he has the head of the tartar in his hand. If you don't have a head, you are a big official, and you won't be given a handcuff. Zheng Zhilong: This is to prevent the fall of the fighting spirit at night and contract handcuff dependence.

Because compared with large-scale battles and fights between sentinel rangers, the meaning and role of handcuffs will be perfectly released.

"Rush once?" Zhou Yi glanced at him, "Just with the chain mail on our bodies?" ”

They are not closed at night. Although a few people in the team had obtained handcuffs, looking at the other side, the dozen or so horsemen were not ordinary sentries of the Tartars, and all of them were wearing heavy armor. Isn't it to use them to attack these individuals at night with their own shortcomings?

"This battle hasn't started yet. When we change into iron armor, there is a chance for you to charge into battle. ”

But just as Zhou Yi was about to take the people behind him to turn his horse's head back to the camp, the middle-aged man suddenly shouted, and indeed the Qing army sentry on the opposite side had divided five horsemen to kill them.

Zhou Yi's face was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately showed joy, the enemy has more than a dozen horses, so he can't afford to provoke it. But now there are only five enemies left, and if they want to flee again, they are afraid of death and avoid battle.

"Brothers, follow me—" At the sound of the order, the cavalry behind him rushed out.

"Kill the Tartars—"

"Kill the Tartars—"

Ten to five, Zhou Yi and they are full of confidence. The Qing soldiers on the opposite side were just as confident.

Both sides used bows and arrows, and it was not possible for ordinary soldiers to shoot arrows on the back of a galloping horse. The combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners is not weak, and it is not good either.

The Tartar cavalry is never aimed at a single person, it is aimed at a large area of the enemy, and it is OK to shoot the arrow in the general direction.

This is true of both the Jurchens and the Mongols.

If you want to compete with the green-faced beast school, the small soldier sentry can shoot arrows on horseback, that can only be imagined.

The two groups of people came out opposite each other, Zhou Yi held the knife in his right hand, and secretly took out the handcuff with his hand. He stared at the person in front of him opposite, who was lying on the back of the horse, his eyes were cold, even if he was dozens of steps away, Zhou Yi could feel the viciousness.

Taking a breath and making a little estimate, Zhou Yi suddenly raised the flintlock handcuff, and with a gunshot, the gun flew away with a swish, and it seemed that it hit the opposite target...... 's horse, the buckshot seemed to shoot the horse's head through, but without saying a word, the horse fell to the ground, and the man was instantly thrown down.

It wasn't just one gunshot, but several shots, and most of them hit the horses. The bullet of the handcuff is not in the right place, and if it kills the war horse on the spot, it can also be severely damaged. Flipped to the ground on the spot.

The Qing soldiers on horseback were caught off guard, and only two of the five people broke away from their horses in time, rolled over and rolled to the ground.

But before they could stand firm, Zhou Yi and the others had already killed.

A knife slashed through the neck of the person, and the blood splashed easily took away a small life, and the swarthy middle-aged man who was not afraid of the Tartar smiled too happily.

One of the Eight Banners was directly thrown on his back, and there was a dead soldier who couldn't die anymore. The rest of the man was the luckiest, and he was already awake, but before he could see the situation, a short knife plunged into his neck.

Zheng Zhilong did not go to Ziyang City, and the Qing army did not come to attack Dai Jiaji, where he stopped stationing, but the fighting between the rangers did not stop for a moment. There were casualties on both sides. Zhou Yi's subordinates originally had 145 people under him, but now there are only 100 people left.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom......" The sound of rolling horses' hooves suddenly reached the ears of Zhou Yi and others. This noise was not something that could be made by a few Tartars rushing at the horse on the opposite side.

It is a large army of Tartars, no wonder the Tartars in front of them are heavily armoured. So, before the Qing army's preparations, the goal was Dai Jiaji? Zhou Yi was anxious in his heart, and shouted: "Hurry up—"

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Daijiaji, a small town, is located twenty miles east of the north of Ziyang City, on the banks of the Surabaya River.

There were nearly 300 families here, and it was a prosperous town with one or two thousand men, women and children, but with the arrival of the Qing army, the houses were already empty. When Zheng Zhilong led the army to arrive here, there was no figure in sight.

Taking advantage of the fact that both sides were safe, Zheng Zhilong urged the soldiers and Ding Zhuang to repair and strengthen the defense of the town market every day.

First, they cut down trees, cut down trees and demolished houses, and built the camp wall all the way to the Surabaya embankment, and then took the original town wall of the town as the boundary line, and divided the Daijia Ji along the Surabaya embankment into two sections, with a small camp in the south and the main camp in the north.

Not all Dai Jiaji people live in the town market wrapped in the town wall, which is easy to understand, like the four levels of many cities. Outside the city gate, there was no empty white land, but a gathering of many people and merchants.

When a dynasty enters a stable stage, the multiplication of the population and the development of market commerce will promote the birth of this phenomenon. Some important prosperous cities will even set up their own customs gates.

Daijiaji is just a small town market, so naturally there is no way to close the city, but there are many people's houses outside the town wall that extend along the river embankment. Zheng Zhilong only used this piece as the protection of the main camp. Just like he chose Daijiaji as a place to stay, what he looked at was the Surabaya embankment on which Daijiaji relied on on the east side, and at this time, although the latter could not be turned into an absolute defense, it could also be regarded as an obstacle line that could be relied on.

War horses can't gallop, they are foot soldiers, trekking on the slippery ice of Surabaya, and their mobility is greatly hindered.

Zheng Zhilong even asked people to set up a new village in the right hand of Dai Jiaji, that is, on the west side, in the direction of the north - a small area, surrounded by only Lixu, but it is a four-edged protruding form of artillery fortress.

Even if the earth is as hard as white iron in winter, as long as you are willing to work hard - burning the hot ground, you can still break the ground.

This small new village does not have an unusually thick earthen wall, nor does it have a trench dug around the earthen wall. Seasons don't allow, and time doesn't allow. So it's not a bastion at all.

Except for the four-sided protruding form, it is exactly the same as the traditional Ming army barracks.

If the Qing army had Hongyi cannons, it would be easy to break through the walls of Xinzhai. Because the walled wall here is the same as the walled wall in Nanying, as well as the walled wall repair in the main camp of the center, they all use the same method. The walled wall made of two rows of logs sandwiched between the rammed earth in the middle, the height can reach five zhang, and the thickness can be close to three feet.

This new village can protect the main camp from both the west and the north, and can also support the southern camp, because the only four Hongyi cannons in Zheng Zhilong's hands are all arranged here.

After the main fortifications were over, Zheng Zhilong began to decorate the outer fortifications, which were classical and novel, very otherworldly.

The classical ones are to set up layers of horses to resist horses, set up sheep and horse walls outside the village, and sprinkle iron thistles and so on.

The novelty is that he asked people to break through the solid ice of Surabaya, take water and pour water on the ground to freeze it. This is watered and frozen on the city walls, which has existed since ancient times, but it is very fresh when watered and frozen on the ground. But the effect is obvious, you can't walk steadily, how can you talk about the threat to the defenders?

When a large number of Qing troops appeared outside Dai's house, the defenders and people inside were all confident that I was very calm. Because all the arrangements of the Dai family set make them feel very safe!

However, Zheng Zhilong was a little flustered, he didn't understand why this tartar suddenly pointed his knife at him.

Isn't it true that the Tartars have not suffered under Ziyang City, how could they come to find their own trouble? Is it a disadvantage to feel your own guns? And the number of these tartars, why do you look so much?

Zheng Zhilong was a little flustered.

I didn't know at all that the battle situation in Yanzhou, from the moment Abatai decided to go south, the strength of the two sides was completely unbalanced, and all Zheng Zhilong's wishful thinking was destined to be broken.

Earlier, Zheng Zhiguan pulled Kong Meng and others into the water, disrupting Zheng Zhilong's plan and making Qufu and Zou County two big burdens. But he still felt that he still had a great chance of winning, and that was because he had already kicked the Abatai army out of the game when he was planning to play. thought that Hong Chengchou could always contain Abatai.

The cruel reality is to teach him a good word now - on the battlefield, don't trust your allies too much.

Especially these pig teammates of the Ming Army.

Zheng Zhilong was very calm!

When encountering unexpected situations that you don't expect, you will panic, which is the performance of a novice on the battlefield. This is very Zheng Zhilong.

But in order to calm the morale of the army, on the surface, he has to put on a posture of being a bamboo in his chest.