"Dinglubo, you see, there is the coast of Annam ahead."

In the early morning sunshine, a personal soldier next to him pointed to the foggy coast in the distance with a happy face, and said loudly to Zheng Hongkui.

Zheng Hongkui stood proudly on the bow of a big ship, dressed in bright armor, and hummed casually, which was a response, he put his hand on the clairvoyant mirror, and looked at it for a long time, before slowly putting it down, the satisfaction on his face was overflowing.

"Pass my order, the whole army sailed straight to Taiping Port, and after the ship docked, all the soldiers went ashore together." Zheng Hongkui did not hesitate to give the order.

"Order!"

Soon, the Zheng family's fleet sailed all the way west to the shore. Looking at the banners of the Annan Zheng clan that flashed from time to time in the mist on the shore, Zheng Hongkui was full of ambition and joy.

He thought that when his 50,000 elite soldiers went ashore together, he wanted to show off his military appearance and military prestige to those Zheng soldiers and horses who were like miscellaneous soldiers.

As soon as the ship docked, Zheng Hongkui did not immediately let the soldiers go ashore, but immediately sent an envoy to go ashore to contact the local officials in Taiping Port.

The envoy hurriedly went ashore and came to Taiping Harbor, where he suddenly found that the Zheng soldiers around him seemed to be spying on him from time to time, and there seemed to be inexplicable hostility in the depths of his expression.

This feeling made the envoy's back hairy, and he hurried to the Taiping Port Office, where he happened to meet Mo Yuanqing, who was pretending to be an official of Taiping Port.

It turned out that after the Tang army captured this coastal border, it asked the Mo army to pretend to be Zheng Jun and garrison in these places. In order to be able to hide from the world and cross the sea in this way, Zheng Zhilong's soldiers and horses were unknowingly deceived, so that they were unconsciously planted into the trap of the Tang army.

When the messenger saw Mo Yuanqing, he immediately reported to him that Zheng Hongkui had led 50,000 elite soldiers to the outside of Taiping Harbor, had docked on the shore, and was about to let the soldiers and horses go ashore together.

When Mo Yuanqing heard this, he was overjoyed, but on the surface, he still looked very calm and businesslike.

He pretended to give him the road and credentials, and asked the messenger to bring him back to the ship to report to Zheng Hongkui, saying that Zheng Jun had allowed his actions and that Zheng Hongkui could lead the whole army ashore.

After the envoy left quickly, Mo Yuanqing immediately reported the news that Zheng Hongkui and his troops had come to Taiping Port in Annan as quickly as possible to Huang Degong, the mayor of the Ninth Town of the Tang Army stationed outside Taiping Port.

Hearing this report, Huang Degong was also surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Yuan Qing, then you go back quickly, observe its dynamics, and report it immediately as soon as there is a situation." Ben will send troops quickly, giving these 50,000 enemy soldiers who have come ashore a surprise that they would never have imagined. ”

Mo Yuanqing promised loudly, as soon as he left, he immediately began to deploy troops, and the whole army began to act quickly.

At the port of Taiping, after Zheng Hongkui received the letter and road strip brought by the envoy, he no longer had any doubts in his heart, and immediately ordered all the ships to line up along the shore and lower the gangway, and a large number of soldiers rushed down from the gangway like a flood that opened the gate.

On the beach of the entire port, people shouted and neighed, and there was a lot of noise, and Zheng Jun, who had just landed, was full of curiosity and excitement, and there was a chaotic scene.

No one noticed that from the north and south sides of Taiping Harbor, two groups of about 2,000 Tang cavalry had appeared faintly on the horizon like magic, and were roaring towards each other.

Directly west of Taiping Port, a large number of Tang Army infantry were marching on foot, heading straight for Taiping Port Beach to the east.

That is to say, at the current Taiping Port, there are Tang army soldiers and horses on the west, south, and north sides of the army, ready to give Zheng Hongkui's troops, who had just landed and were completely defenseless, to give them a fierce blow that caught them off guard.

Zheng Hongkui, accompanied by a group of guards, Shi Shiran came ashore, looked left and right for a while, and couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart.

He summoned the messenger and asked him in a low voice: "Why is it really strange that you have passed the chief officer of Taiping Harbor, and now that our army has come ashore, and no Annam official has come to greet you on this beach, is it not that you have not explained well to them?" ”

The messenger shook his head like a drum: "Impossible! Uncle Ding, I personally went to the Taiping Port Government Office this time to negotiate with the officials there face-to-face. He also said to his subordinates, when our army comes ashore, he will reward our army. As for why he welcomes our army now and in the future, I am thinking, could it be that he has other things to do and can't leave? If you don't believe him, I can lead you to the Taiping Port Office to meet him and ask him again. ”

Zheng Hongkui groaned slightly, and then asked the messenger to lead the way, all the way to the official office.

At this moment, they suddenly heard in their ears the chirping of a faint swarm of bees, mixed with a shrill and piercing sound in the dullness. It made him suddenly feel that the beach under his feet began to tremble slightly.

Zheng Hongkui had been in battle for a long time, and he was suddenly shocked by this situation, and he subconsciously stopped. He knew in his heart that when such a situation appeared, there must be a huge change.

"Ahh Oh no! Cavalry is coming! ”

On the wide beach, a large number of Zheng soldiers screamed at the north and south ends.

Zheng Hongkui turned his head to look, and a terrifying scene appeared in front of him in an instant.

He was horrified to see from the north and south ends of the city, as if by magic, large clusters of black clouds poured out. These surging black clouds turned into a distorting mass of cavalry almost instantly, and the combined number of cavalry of the two Tang armies was nearly four thousand, and they roared all the way, rushing towards the defenseless Zheng army on the beach.

When he saw this terrible situation from the clairvoyant mirror, and saw the flying Tang character military flags clearly, Zheng Hongkui only felt that his breathing suddenly began to become difficult.

"The whole army obeys the order, quickly organizes defense on the spot, and must block the Tang Army's attack!" Zheng Hongkui shouted hoarsely.

With horses' hooves rumbling, guns pointing at swords, and flags flying, these two assault Tang cavalry were like two black whirlwinds that suddenly appeared, and they were rushing to the beach to organize a defense on the spot, but there were like headless ants in a mess, rushing to kill them.

The two Tang cavalry, with the acceleration of the horses, quickly and skillfully turned into the usual wedge-shaped assault array, the Xuanhu heavy cavalry at the tip of the formation, these horses and horses are heavily armored, weighing more than 500 kilograms of steel monsters, are accelerating to the extreme of the terrible momentum, towards the Zheng army soldiers and horses that are in chaos, rambling.

Such transients have only happened in a very short period of time.

As if in the blink of an eye, a total of more than a thousand Xuanhu heavy horsemen at the tips of the two wedges, like steel tanks, mercilessly rushed in from both sides, and they were in the chaotic Zheng army's array.

Heavily armoured, the Xuanhu Heavy Rider, weighing as much as half a ton, was like a terrifying steel beast, rushing into the unsuspecting Zheng army with a fierce and high-speed attitude, and its impact reached an almost terrifying level.

Countless soldiers of the Zheng army were shocked by the iron horse and flew all over the sky like pieces of paper, and after crossing a long or short arc in the air, they fell to the ground with a snap, either dead or disabled.

And more Zheng Jun was knocked to the ground by this iron-armored heavy horseman, and then his head or stomach was trampled alive by the thick iron hooves that came one after another, and a terrible popping sound sounded on the ground.

The incomparable Tang Army's Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry, in the screams of the Zheng Army, from the chaotic Zheng Army's array, with violence and death, ploughed out a bloody road with blurred flesh and blood, covered with broken limbs and wreckage.

The Tang cavalry succeeded in one blow, and the Tang infantry attacking from the west, after being unwilling, accelerated the speed of the attack.

If you look down from the sky, you can clearly see that the infantry line of the Tang army, like a long thick black line, like a wriggling worm, is rapidly advancing towards the Tang army.

Seeing the Tang army rushing towards the sky with overwhelming momentum, Zheng Hongkui, who was already frightened by the impact of the Tang cavalry, was full of fear, and he roared hoarsely to make the whole army prepare for it, but in such a chaotic season, his words were quickly swallowed up by a noise.

Soon, as the Tang infantry approached, as if by magic, above each of the large shields of the covered iron, next to each of the spearmen who were ready to attack, another musketeer with a flint and a rifle-haired muskete appeared.

They quickly prepared, and the black hole spearmen in everyone's hands immediately aimed at the Zheng army who was running in chaos on the opposite side.

The command flag in the hands of Huang Degong, the commander of the Tang Army, waved down violently.

"Ready, fire!"

With the angry shout of the commander of the Tang army, 3,000 guns fired in unison, and a total of more than 2,500 shots were fired.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

Rows of bright red embers flew together, like a long bright red ribbon, as beautiful as hellfire, with a unique beauty like a death ritual. A large mass of choking white gunpowder smoke poured up, and more than 2,500 small three-coin heavy lead bullets, like a swarm of death bees flying away together, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and swooped towards Zheng Jun on the opposite side.

The flintlock rifle used by the Tang army has a maximum accurate range of 150 paces, compared to the current distance of 200 steps, of course, the accuracy is impossible, but in the case of such a dense charge of the Zheng army, as long as it is within the maximum range, even if there is no accurate intensive shooting, it can still create a terrible killing effect.

The roaring death bee swarm, chirping and smiling, quickly burrowed into the body of Zheng Jun on the opposite side.

The tiny lead bullets weighing three coins burrowed into the human body, breaking bones, tearing muscles, and the surging bullets churned the internal organs into a pulp, forming a terrible cavity effect.

Zheng Jun in the front row, many people immediately bloomed like a trick, and the people who were hit fell on their backs as if they had been slammed with a heavy hammer.

The impact of this lead bullet was so great that Zheng Jun, who happened to block the lead bullet with a card in his hand, could not resist the huge impact force, and staggered backwards and fell. It's just that as soon as they fell, they were immediately trampled to death and injured by the Zheng soldiers who were scurrying around behind, and the scene was a mess.

The first round of shooting, although it was completely impossible to aim, also caused at least 700 Zheng soldiers to be killed and injured on the spot, making Zheng Jun's formation suddenly appear chaotic.

When the Zheng army's formation was scattered and the speed was slightly sluggish, the second round of fire salvos began again.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

The gunfire was loud, the embers were flying, and more than 2,500 guns were fired, and more than 2,500 lead bullets roared out, causing more than 800 Zheng soldiers to be killed and wounded as the Zheng army got closer and closer.

The formation of the Qing army suddenly became more and more chaotic, and the speed of the impact became less and less, and the original fanatical and bloodthirsty expressions on the faces of those Zheng soldiers who rushed to the front began to recede, and many people showed extremely frightened expressions, because they didn't know when such bad luck would befall them.

Zheng Hongkui, who was monitoring behind the battle, saw that his own soldiers were in the dense shooting of the Tang army, and before they could reach the firing range, they began to appear chaotic and wavering, and the speed and strength of the impact were also greatly reduced, and he couldn't help but be angry and full of sorrow.

Damn, damn it, how can this battle be fought!

"Withdraw! Evacuate! All withdrawn to the ship! Don't get entangled with the Tang Army anymore! Zheng Hongkui's eyes were blood-red, and he roared with his sword.

With that, he took the lead in pulling his steps, striding backwards, and striding in the direction of the gangway.

The main general can try his best to escape under the protection of the guards, but the remaining 40,000-strong Zheng army infantry wants to escape, but it is not so easy.

Under the onslaught of the frontal Tang infantry and the fierce flanking of the Tang cavalry on both sides, they quickly all collapsed.

The retreat, which was barely a bit orderly, instantly turned into a goalless escape. They abandoned their weapons and fled loudly in the direction of the gangway, wailing. What's more, he took off his armor while running, in order to be able to die as much as possible in this escape competition, so that he could escape.

Seeing that Zheng Jun was like a retracting tide, and retreated back to the ship in a turbulent manner, the sailors and soldiers on the ship were also in a hurry, and there was chaos.

They were horrified to see that just as these Zheng troops were desperately fleeing, the Tang army behind them had already been killed, and a large number of Tang army spearmen, like tigers out of the mountains, were desperately pursuing the retreating Zheng army.

A sharp spear stabbed at Zheng Jun, who was retreating desperately, and one after another Zheng Jun, who had fled, fell to the ground and died.

"Quick! Remove the portholes! Don't let the Tang army attack the ship! Zheng Hongkui, who had fled to the ship, stomped his feet and yelled at the stunned sailors.

The sailors were suddenly awakened from their confusion by his roar, and they hurriedly cut off the gangway, or simply threw the entire gangway into the sea, and the surging Zheng soldiers on the gangway fell into the sea screaming like a mass of scattered ants.

Immediately, a large number of sharks came smelling blood, and the soldiers of Zheng who fell from the sea were writhing and biting, and the entire sea was covered with terrible red blood waves, which made people palpitate.

Less than 5,000 Zheng soldiers and horses fled to the gunwales in a hurry, and escaped back to the ship with great luck.

When the Zheng Jun's ships hurriedly lifted anchor and fled, the entire blood-soaked beach resounded with the thunderous cheers of the Tang army.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

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