Shi Lang and his uncle Shi Fu, the two armies advanced by land and water, preparing to capture Zhenjiang in one fell swoop.

When Shi Lang's 30,000 sailors and Lin Yi's Yangwei battle formation were fighting fiercely in the Yangtze River, Shi Fu rushed to Zhenjiang City with 50,000 troops.

Shi Fu is ready to attack the city this time, he must contain part of the Ming army in Zhenjiang City this time, so as to win the opportunity for Shi Lang's sailors, if the Ming army in the city still insists on not fighting, he will go all out to attack the city.

Because for more than a year, the Ming army in Zhenjiang has basically fought defensive battles with them. Yan Yingyuan, the defender of Zhenjiang, built a protective network below the river surface, and there were many pillars standing below the river surface, and there were interlocking chains between the columns, and their sailor ships could not pass through at all.

And the city of Zhenjiang on the shore was so well defended that they couldn't take it down even after several attacks, and their uncle and nephew had an army of 80,000, but they were blocked here for a year without any progress, because the Ming army fought a protracted war with them in this way.

Now that the reinforcements of the Ming army are coming, Lin Yi, the Ming Prison State, personally recruited and ordered the underwater barrage to be dismantled, which clearly shows that a decisive battle will be waged with them. But even so, Shi Fu had to be prepared to capture Jiancheng River.

Therefore, he took 50,000 troops with ladders, siege vehicles, red-clothed cannons and other siege weapons out of the company camp and came to Zhenjiang City.

However, when their team was still a few miles away from the city, they encountered the Ming army lined up outside the city. It seems that Ming Jun is already waiting for him here, and there is a sense of impatience.

Shi Fu looked at the scale, this Ming army was not much, at best only about 20,000 horses. But the army was well-groomed and equipped with muskets. There are many cavalry, and there are also soldiers. He didn't know that this was not Zhenjiang Yan Yingyuan's troops, but the 20,000 horses brought by Lin Yi. They are the standard battalion, the invincible battalion, the guard battalion, etc.

The Southern Army (the army of the Great Southern Emperor) advanced by land and water, and Lin Yi thought with them, and they also advanced by land and water. The main force of the land advance was Lin Yi's 20,000 soldiers and horses, and cooperated with the defenders of Zhenjiang to attack the southern army on the shore, eliminate the threat, and remove obstacles for the formation of the Yangwei Sailor Division in the river. Otherwise, the Yangtze River is long and narrow, and no matter how strong the Yangwei battle formation is, it will inevitably be attacked by artillery fire on the riverbank.

The 20,000 soldiers and horses and guards battalion brought by Lin Yi are a total of six battalions, which are all troops cultivated by Lin Yi, or called his descendants, which are different from the old Ming army.

These six battalions, under the command of Wang Jian, Dongsheng, Zhang Hua and other generals, cooperated with the defenders of Yan Yingyuan's Zhenjiang City, and they were stationed outside the city, intending to destroy the southern army on the riverbank.

Therefore, the six battalions lined up outside the city, and Yan Yingyuan still held the city and waited for an opportunity to attack.

The Ming army and the southern army set up a battlefield outside Zhenjiang City, 20,000 against 50,000.

I don't know the depth of Shifu, and of course I didn't put the 20,000 Ming troops in front of me in my eyes. Because now they are very strong, from the southeast coast all the way to the Yangtze River valley, their tens of thousands of troops are almost invincible and invincible.

It was only when Jiangyin County came out of Jiangyin that the two sides won and lost each other, but on the whole, the Ming army still lost more and won less, and retreated to Zhenjiang.

Now Yan Yingyuan is defending Zhenjiang and does not dare to fight. Therefore, this blessing is also disdainful of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

In this way, he was wrong from the beginning, and the mistake was that he only knew himself and did not know the other, and regarded the 20,000 troops on the opposite side as the old Ming army. If he wanted to know that this was the elite division of the 20,000 accompanying escorts brought by Lin Yi, who had overturned the elite of the Eight Banners of the Tartars several times, he would at least have to think about this battle.

As a result, the two sides started a battle, and nearly 10,000 men and horses of the standard battalion and invincible battalion of the Ming army took the lead in launching a fierce attack. The horses are in front, and the foot soldiers are behind. Ten thousand horses galloped, more fierce than the Eight Banners of the Tartars, which came and went like the wind.

First muskets, then bows and arrows, as a result of which the two sides did not come into contact at all, and there was no hand-to-hand skirmish. Shi Fu's 50,000 horses could not withstand it, the corpses were all over the field, the blood flowed like a river, and the rest fled in all directions, and the army could not be formed.

This battle once again proved the saying that the soldiers are good but not more generals, but not brave.

The combat effectiveness of these two armies is not at all of the same level. On the equipment of the Ming army was equipped with the world's most advanced musket at that time, no need to light the fire rope and then aim, after aiming, directly pull the trigger, greatly improving the speed and accuracy of shooting, on the combat effectiveness of these 20,000 horses is the world's first-class, this is the upgraded version of the three major armies in the late Ming Dynasty, even the elite of the Manchu Eight Banners have to retreat.

But this army led by Shi Fu is different, this is Zheng Zhilong's pirate army, mixed with some old Ming troops who surrendered, this is a mixture.

Such an army of 50,000 is simply a rabble in front of such an elite division, and it is vulnerable.

Shi Fu was stunned, he never dreamed that the Ming army on the opposite side was so powerful, but with 2 to 5, they couldn't do it, and they were defeated so quickly, what kind of thing is this, at least he had to hold on for a while to cover Shi Lang's sailors. Otherwise, even if Shi Lang wins in Jiangzhong, at most he will be defeated even if he wins.

But his subordinates couldn't stop yelling, and the wolves rushed to the front, so he had to lead the guards to charge into battle in person, intending to turn the situation around.

This year's 50-year-old Shi Fubao knife is not old, cross-horse sword, and is still the champion of the three armies. To say that he is a veteran of Zheng Zhilong's group, when Zheng Zhilong broke into the world, he went to Nanyang to the East to do business first, and then engaged in arms dealership, and became a businessman, thief and army, he is one of Zheng Zhilong's followers.

When Eighteen Zhi was glorious, he fought from the East to the South Sea, and the big fish ate the small fish, eliminating the various sea tyrant forces mixed with the fish and dragons, including the Liu Xiang gang that broke with Zheng Zhilong, and since then Zheng Zhilong has set up his own door and become the real sea overlord in this area. Shi Fu was loyal, and followed the Zheng family in big and small battles, and he fought a lot against China's foreign opponents. This is also a big pirate, he has amphibious skills, he is brave, has the talent of a general, and is one of the tiger generals of the Zheng family's army.

Now although he has reached the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, the old man is still very awesome, and he defeated the Ming army all the way.

Now that he personally charged was really effective, he actually broke through the muskets and bows of the Ming army, led the guards to fight with the Ming army, and slashed several Ming soldiers one after another.

In the melee, I happened to meet Dongsheng, the commander of the invincible battalion, now Dongsheng is no longer an ignorant teenager, and has grown into a young man in his 20s, who is good at hand-to-hand combat with a spear, and the two of them fought several times Zhang Hua rushed over with the soldiers of the guard battalion.

Zhang Hua's small narrow face is not very good-looking, but he is not ambiguous in terms of martial arts, he used to be the border army of the Ming Dynasty, and his skills can kill Tartars, and then he has followed Lin Yi to practice his skills hard over the years, and he has made a major breakthrough in martial arts, and he has always been the commander of Lin Yi's guard battalion.

Therefore, these two people fought one, Shi Fu couldn't parry, he was in a hurry, and after a few times, he was stabbed by Zhang Hua, and almost took off his shoulder.

A large hole was cut in his left shoulder, and the flesh was rolled up, thanks to the armor to protect him, otherwise, his arm would be gone.

Blood splashed, Shi Fu ran away with a painful horse, his run was like a mountain of defeat, and his soldiers and generals fled with the main general, and they all hated their father and mother for having a few legs.

The soldiers of the Ming army were in hot pursuit, Shi Fu fled with the remnants of the defeated generals, and before he ran far, a cannon rang out, and a Ming army intercepted their way back, it was Yan Yingyuan, the main general of Zhenjiang.

Covered in armor and carrying a big knife, this red-faced general seems to be Guan Yu's rebirth, majestic. In a life-and-death fight, the injured Shi Fu was not Yan Yingyuan's opponent at all, and was captured alive by Yan Yingyuan.

The rest of the generals, seeing that the momentum was not right, hurriedly threw their guns and surrendered, because Lin Yi had an order, those who surrendered would not die, and these soldiers picked up a life.

But there are still some dead-eyed generals who don't know the time and run away. Tens of thousands of Ming soldiers united and continued to pursue and destroy the remnants of the enemy, and they slaughtered the southern army along the river bank like a mountain and a sea......

Shi Lang learned these details, he felt a lot of pressure, his uncle was defeated and captured, and undoubtedly cut off one of his arms, and now the Ming army in the river and the Ming army on the shore are chasing and killing them, which can be described as embattled.

But he forced himself to calm down, the defeat of this battle was decided, whether it was the sailor or the men and horses on the road, it was difficult to save the defeat, but it must not be completely annihilated.

Therefore, he didn't care about the bombardment of the Yang Wei giant ship, but with such a delay, even if he fired now, it would not be possible. Because the Yangwei battle group had already sailed out of the range of their redcoat cannons.

You have to save your strength and fight again in the future, and if you continue to hold on in front of you, you will be worse than your uncle's fate, whether it is the army on the shore or the naval division, all the troops will be wiped out, so under the protection of the guards, Shi Lang immediately retreated, and this time he didn't wait for someone to persuade him.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops pursued and killed behind, from the Yangtze River to the shore of the Ming army all the way forward, Shi Lang cleaned up the remnants of the defeated generals, all the way to retreat, this time defeated more than 200 miles to Jiangyin before collecting soldiers and horses.

Counting the number of people, more than half of the 80,000 horses and horses were lost through this battle, and the army on the shore was less than 40,000 people in front of him, there were only more than 100 large and small warships left, and the sailor division was less than 20,000, and his uncle Shi Fu was still in Lin Yi's hands, so it was estimated that he was dead, and the losses were too heavy.

But he persuaded himself to pick himself up again, what is it to suffer a defeat, there has never been a great commander who does not defeat a battle, and where he falls, he gets up!

Thinking about it this way, Shi Lang was in good spirits again, he inspected the terrain here, and found that the river was narrow here, he immediately ordered the army to learn Yan Yingyuan's method to build an underwater barrage protection net, and Lin Yi's sailors must be blocked here first, on the shore he sent the general Zheng Cai to replace Shi Fu, leading more than 20,000 soldiers to build fortifications, and set up several batteries on the shore to block the river.