Chapter 523 has its own heart

Behind them, there were more than 2,000 "elite soldiers" who had not yet boarded the ship, and Cui Duyan personally supervised them as the rear team.

The city gate hole is too small, and the river is not open enough, so it is impossible for more than 3,000 people to pour out at one time, according to Ma Jinbao's instructions, Cui Duyan allocated 800 people to strengthen the firearms battalion, and handed them over to Jiao Eryong, the head of Qian.

And his brigade is the main force, and after the front team has opened the bloody road, he will take the enemy formation in one go......

These 800 people were handed over to Jiao Eryong for command, which was Meng Tietou's idea.

In his opinion, this would avoid confusion in command.

Nominally, Meng Tietou is the supreme commander of the firearms battalion, but in fact, Wang Jijun is the actual commander, after all, the entire team is trained according to his ideas.

However, since Jiao Eryong came, the situation has been a little delicate, and in many things, Wang Jijun no longer has the final say, but has to obey Jiao Eryong.

This kind of double-headed command naturally has hidden dangers, but it is Meng Tietou's helpless move.

Because, this Jiao Qian was directly sent by Admiral Ma, Meng Tietou naturally couldn't turn a blind eye, and this person did have some ability, which just made up for Wang Jijun's shortcomings.

Although Wang Jijun is well versed in the affairs of thieves, he is just a "soldier" over there, and he does not have the experience and ability to command a large army to fight, so he rashly handed over the whole team to him to command, let alone fighting, even scheduling the movement is very difficult.

And this Jiao Eryong, although he is not very old, can be regarded as a "veteran", with actual experience in leading troops.

In the Battle of Fuzhou, because the main general died in battle, he became a "waste general", and he was idle in Zhejiang for a long time, until he was reinstated under the command of Ma Jinbao.

However, after all, he can not only lead troops, but also have experience in fighting with Ming thieves, and has also received the grace of Ma Jinbao.

Therefore, Meng Tietou is just happy to see it, and the two people share power, which is convenient for themselves to control and avoid the danger of being overhead.

Now, since Admiral Ma has temporarily sent him an additional 800 men, it is just right to let these two guys each command a team, so as to save chaos in the battle.

If it was someone else, Meng Tietou would not be at ease.

Because Jiao Eryong has suffered from the thieves and knows their strength, if he and Wang Jijun cooperate with each other, they will have a much more tacit understanding - after all, how the thieves will arrange their troops, Wang Jijun, a guy who has been a soldier over there, knows better than Jiao Eryong, the defeated general of the thief, and Jiao Eryong is convinced.

If it is replaced by someone else, it will be arrogant and look down on this thief's pawn, and when the time comes, Wang Jijun will go east, and he will go west, so there will be no need to fight this battle.

With such an arrangement, Meng Tietou's longing for victory has increased a little more.

Although this battle is dangerous, as long as there is a small victory, the three of them will be promoted together, which must be just around the corner......

However, Wang Jijun is far less optimistic than Meng Tietou, and what he is thinking about is not to be promoted and make a fortune at all.

At this moment, what he was thinking about was the outcome of this duel and his more than 500 brothers.

His firearms battalion consisted of only 200 flintlock rifles, and the rest were spearmen, and he knew very well that such a configuration was actually the most suitable for defense rather than offense.

Now, the Admiral has arranged them in the first group, which is clearly regarded as cannon fodder, and after a wave of offensive, there will definitely be heavy casualties, and more than half of the casualties are relatively light.

And the elite of the green battalion in the back is the one who is likely to have the last laugh.

"He still cherishes his cronies more in the Chinese army......"

Wang Jijun sighed secretly.

He knew that even in terms of armament, in fact, the Green Battalion was not much worse than the Firearms Battalion.

Among them were swordmen, spearmen, archers, and even a team of gunmen.

This kind of lifting gun, is a kind of heavy arquebus imitating Westerners, although the gun is not accurate but the range is not close, often used in the position defense of concentrated shooting, as long as the twist is not damp, this gun is still powerful.

The disadvantage of this gun is that it fires too slowly, and in addition, the weight of this gun is too bulky and requires two soldiers to operate.

In addition, they also carried a variety of "cannons" to each ship, most of which were light Franc cannons, although the firepower could not be compared with the kind of anti-heaven artillery of the captive army, but it was superior in number, as long as it was cast within the firing range, the lethality was not small.

Now, they relied on the advantage of numbers to make up for the lack of range and power of the weapons in their hands, and Wang Jijun estimated that the victory or defeat was roughly between three or seven kai.

He knew very well that in the eyes of the Admiral, even if there was a thirty percent chance of victory, this battle would be worth it.

In fact, Wang Jijun doesn't care very much about winning or not, even if he dies on the spot, he doesn't care.

For him, this battle is just to put an end to the grudge between himself and the thief, and it doesn't matter who wins or loses......

Early this morning, Jiao Eryong saw that Wang Jijun was absent-minded, and according to Meng Tietou's arrangement, he followed closely behind the firearms battalion with eight hundred green battalion soldiers, so he had the intention of guarding against this guy losing his mind.

However, Jiao Eryong was secretly glad to have a chance to avoid rushing in the first set......

After Fuzhou was defeated and escaped, he learned from the pain, and from time to time reflected on why so many armies could not defeat the Ming thieves, and the sharp firearms that the Ming thieves who had repeatedly failed miserably had lingered in his mind for a long time.

About a year ago, Governor Chen Jin quietly recruited a few red hairs to teach artillery skills in the army, and one of them, in addition to teaching, also presented a picture to Chen Du, which was a sample of their Westerners building a castle.

People who have seen this picture, after listening to the red hair's explanation in half-baked Cantonese, think that the red hair's idea of building the city is very exquisite.

It is said that the governor who saw the sample plan originally planned to build a maple leaf-shaped urn city outside the city gates of Hangzhou in the style of the red-haired people's pictures, but after quietly calculating an account, he suddenly felt that the cost was huge, so he had to give up.

Master Meng, who used to fight outside the customs all the year round, and Wang Jijun, who had seen the methods of thieves, should have been fortunate enough to see this kind of fortress of the red-haired people?

This time to defend Yangzhou, Jiao Eryong is very regretful, if he can build a fortress outside the city according to the method of red hair, then this fortress can be locked to the mouth of the river outside the city, and it is impossible for the thieves to block the West Gate, why not take the lives of so many brothers to snatch it desperately like now.

Unfortunately, there was no time left, let alone the huge amount of money that would have to be spent to build the city.

Besides, what they are exposed to now is just a little bit of the skin of the thief, and no one knows how many powerful killing moves this group of people have.

Thinking of this, Jiao Eryong couldn't help but secretly take a breath of cold air.

At this moment, the head of the city shook and a deafening loud noise was heard......

Wang Jijun and Jiao Eryong, who were each thinking about their own hearts and minds, coincidentally beat a spirit.

The cannons began to roar, and then, their heads were pinned to the waistbands of their trousers!

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At this moment, in a clearing among the trees outside the city, He Shouxin was squatting behind a big tree, holding binoculars, leaning out and looking at the city......

(End of chapter)