In the southwest of the chicken coop, more than 20 miles north of the Tamsui River, in a wide river valley, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming Army stood there neatly like sculptures, silently.

These were the elite of the elite of the Nanzhili Tunwei, most of them participated in the battle against the pirate Li Guangtou, and they were not afraid of pirates and pirates, even if they knew that there were three times as many pirates and pirates gathered in front of them, and all of them had a look of indifference on their faces.

Although their location is not very secretive, the surrounding hills are already full of scouts, and if there are pirates or pirates who come from the north without recklessness, they will definitely disappear in an instant, so they don't have to worry about their whereabouts being exposed.

Of course, pirates and pirates will not be so boring to run around, this place is not safe for them, because Chen Sipan robbed the land of the nearby people, and the people hated them so much, once someone is alone, they will definitely be beaten to death by the people.

This time, Yang Cong's infantry commander will be Tang Kekuan, although he does not have the high martial arts of Yu Dayou, nor does he have the qualifications of Qi Jingtong, but he is calm, and he also has rich experience in commanding such a large battle of tens of thousands of people.

At this moment, he was carrying a war horse, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he stood calmly in front of the team, as if he was recuperating and recuperating, as if he was waiting for something.

Finally, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the direction of the Tamsui River in the south, and a herald with a command flag on his back galloped on his horse, and before he reached Tang Kekuan, he grabbed the war horse, flew down, and then took out the order arrow in his arms, knelt on one knee, and said loudly: "General Tang, the governor has an order, ordering the general to launch an attack before noon today, and end the battle before the unitary hour." ”

Tang Kekuan bent down to take the arrow, examined it carefully, and then looked at the sky again, and then ordered: "Order the scout battalion to move forward and clear the five miles where the army passes." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a herald guard sprang out behind him, and the guard hurriedly said "Order" and spread his legs, and ran straight towards a hill not far away.

Soon, the scouts around them began to move forward slowly.

Tang Kekuan waited for about a quarter of an hour before raising his hand and ordering: "Let's go, move forward slowly, and pay attention to maintaining physical strength." ”

It was still early, and there was still more than an hour before noon, and they were only more than ten miles away from the pirate's lair, and even if they walked slowly, it wouldn't take an hour, so there was no need for him to lead his army to rush over.

They are so careful on their side, but the pirates are unaware, this pirate is a rabble, and this time dozens of pirates are gathered together, and there is no subordinate relationship between them, who will stand guard for whom.

The army marched for about an hour, and finally came to a mile or so south of the chicken coop, and by this time the pirates gathered by the river and the sea were still unaware of the approaching army, and many of them were still asleep.

Of course, there may have been some daredevils who left the camp to hunt or play here, but these people have been eliminated by the scouts that are all around.

Tang Kekuan had already abandoned his war horse at this time and quietly climbed up a hill by the river.

He climbed on the ridge of the mountain and carefully investigated the situation of the pirate camp, and then quietly ran down the mountain, summoned a group of thousands of generals, and carefully explained the general and guerrilla generals and staff generals.

It was nearly noon before a puff of smoke rose from the chaotic pirate camp, and a huge roar suddenly sounded behind the hill to the south of the camp.

"Boom, boom", the pirates who were preparing to cook before they understood what was going on, hundreds of shells suddenly smashed into the camp, and the unlucky ghost who was hit suddenly let out a scream like a ghost crying wolf, of course, most of them hiccuped after screaming.

Immediately afterwards, there was a thunderous shout behind the mountain bag, and countless Ming soldiers rushed out from behind the mountain bag with a bunch of outrageous weapons, and the power was simply scared to death.

Although the number of pirates is three times that of the Ming army, they are scattered everywhere, where can they resist the wolf-like Ming soldiers, coupled with the disadvantage of weapons, they are almost at the touch of a button, Lu Qi, who is responsible for staying behind, found that almost everyone is like a ghost, all the way crazy to the north.

To the north is the sea, and now almost all the ships are carrying people, so what is the use of them escaping?

It didn't take long for nearly 30,000 pirates to be forced by more than 10,000 Ming troops to the beach north of the chicken coop, and when there was no escape, these pirates finally showed their bloody side, they drew their blades one after another, and stared viciously at the Ming soldiers not far away.

Tang Kekuan did not rush to attack, after driving all the pirates here to the beach, they ordered their soldiers to form a mandarin duck formation to block the front, and then ordered people to pull all the hundreds of tiger squatting cannons left in the rear, and hit the pirates on the beach.

After less than five rounds, most of the pirates collapsed, at this time they really have no way to go to the sky, no way to enter the ground, the north is the sea, and it is death to jump in, and the mandarin duck array of the Ming army in the south is simply like an iron wall, no matter how many people rush up to it, they can only be squeezed together to be shelled.

This guy, watching the people around him fly upside down like paper shells smashed by cannonballs, who could bear it.

Soon, almost all the pirates threw away their weapons and fell on the ground crying: "Don't bomb, don't bomb, we surrender, we surrender." ”

Of course, Tang Kekuan couldn't have killed them all, the reason why he transferred all the tiger squat cannons was to bombard these pirates to collapse, otherwise, more than 30,000 pirates and would-be pirates would resist desperately, and there would definitely be a lot of casualties on their side.

The battle on this side went very smoothly, in front of the artillery, the pirates and pirates with short blades were almost powerless to fight back, coupled with Tang Kekuan's calm and experienced command, the Ming soldiers took down more than 30,000 pirates in one fell swoop with almost no casualties.

At this time, the naval battle in the waters near Penghu was also going very smoothly, and although Chen Sipan, who had a little sense of resistance, intended to have a broadside battle with the Ming army, his pirate ship had just approached the Ming warship, and he was greeted by raindrops of musket bullets and hail thunder.

He was desperate to find that his men could not even stand up, let alone take the broadside, and once they stood up, before they could shake the hook lock or build the gangplank, they would be beaten into a sieve by a dense stream of musket bullets.

He tried to organize a few times, and almost all the courage of his subordinates was dried up by the Ming army, and he saw that the other subordinates were cowering and hiding in the corner and didn't even dare to take their heads, so he could only helplessly lead his cronies to rush out, and as a result, he was naturally also beaten into a sieve.

A hero who had been crisscrossing the sea for more than ten years ended like this, and in front of the elite of the powerful Ming army, he disappeared quietly without even stirring up any waves.

This may be a bit exaggerated, is the Ming army so fierce, tens of thousands of pirates can't hurt them at all!

Of course, the previous Ming army was not so fierce, but the Ming army, which was equipped with muskets and artillery and trained the mandarin duck array, was indeed so fierce.

Historically, after Qi Jiguang trained the Qi family's army, his record was even more exaggerated than this.

He led less than 4,000 Qi generals and soldiers to eliminate about 150,000 pirates, pirates and Tartars, and in every battle, the casualties of the Qi family army almost did not exceed ten figures!