Chapter 128: The Musketeers

The first news that Zhang Xuan got was good news.

"Report, the two counties of Dongyang in Yiwu have been captured by General Xu." The scout said.

Zhang Xuan nodded slightly, he didn't care much about this.

Dongyang and Yiwu are still some distance away from Jinhua Mansion. However, Xu is a native of Dongyang, and Dongyang and Yiwu are neighbors, and Xu can't take it down, which is the problem.

This expected victory did not make Zhang Xuan happy, he was still struggling with the road under his feet.

He also didn't expect that there are so many mountain roads in Zhejiang Province, Yiwu and Dongyang are in the remnants of the mountains, after this section of the road, into Shaoxing Mansion, the ground is much flatter.

After that, victory after victory came.

Zhang Xuan's ears were calloused.

From Jinhua to Shanyin, Xu Du, as the forward, barely let the main force behind fight with the official army, and he went all the way to the Xiaoshan area, when he met the enemy.

Zhang Xuan pondered the achievements along the way, and had to sigh that Xu Du did have the style of the Qi family's army.

The opponent often uses the mandarin duck array to face the enemy, and the main force of the official army is mainly the family soldiers of the gentry from all over the country, these armies, all of which have not undergone much training, are bullying people with the strength of the number of people, but General Qi's mandarin duck formation has never been afraid of the strength of the people.

Therefore, he won several great victories and broke several armies in a row.

Zhang Xuan said secretly: "Xu has not lived up to his reputation as a Jiangnan general. ”

Just when Zhang Xuan was rejoicing for his vision, he didn't want the news to suddenly come from the front line, Xu Du's department was frustrated on the bank of the Puyang River, and the casualties were not light, so he didn't dare to enter again, so he had to be stationed on the spot and wait for reinforcements.

Zhang Xuan was taken aback and asked, "What the hell is going on, who is the enemy?" ”

The person sent by Xu Du was his cronies, Ding Ruzhang. Ding Ruzhang is a capable officer under Xu Du, under normal circumstances, he would not be a messenger, Xu Du sent him over just to explain the situation to Zhang Xuan.

"I don't know who the other party is?" Ding Ruzhang said: "During this period of time, the gentry from all over the country have raised troops, I really don't know who it is? ”

Zhang Xuan is very clear about this. Jiangnan was very chaotic during this period of time, and many of the previous Ming Dynasty officials surrendered, and even if they did not surrender, they were not leaders among the gentry.

And among the soldiers of the gentry, many of the characters who came out had never heard of it before.

The information is far from being clear.

"Are there a lot of opponents?" Zhang Xuan said.

"Not much." Ding Ruzhang said: "There are only about 1,000 people. ”

Zhang Xuan was taken aback, he thought that this setback was caused by the enemy's heavy strength, but he didn't want the enemy's men and horses to fight, and they were not as good as the men and horses under Xu Du's command.

Immediately yes

Du's ability is doubtful, but in the previous battles, Zhang Xuan has also inspected the battlefield one by one, and there is no lack of Zhang Xuan's eyeliner in Xu Du's army, and many things cannot be faked.

"Was it an ambush?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"It's not." Ding Ruzhang said with some shame: "It was an upright battle, and there was no ambush." ”

"What's going on?" Zhang Xuan was almost angry.

"It's the guns of the officers and soldiers." Ding Ruzhang said: "The officers and soldiers fought in formation, and the firearms were fired in unison, mixed with rockets and artillery arrows. Our army's mandarin duck formation could not be forced, so it was defeated. There is a great shortage of firearms in the army, so we are not opponents, so we are defeated and retreated, as long as the adults replenish us with firearms, this officer and army will definitely be able to take down. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, he felt a little relieved. However, Zhang Xuan couldn't solve this problem for him.

Without him, firearms in the army are never enough, not to mention that now is the year of great expansion of the army, people are easy to recruit, but a large number of firearms are built, but it is not easy to get. I can't add it for a while, but there are some of them.

Don't talk about Xu Du, even Zhang Xuan, he also thinks that his current firearm ration rate is not as good as when he was in Runing.

And even if Zhang Xuan had some firearms in his hand, he couldn't give them to Xu Du.

It's not that it's stingy, but everyone wants this firearm, Zhang Xuan is only ready to equip two key battalions, namely the Linying Battalion and the Nanyang Battalion, as for the Yiwu Battalion in Xudu, it is not in the plan.

It's not that Zhang Xuan discriminates against Xu Du, but in any organization, the word seniority will be spoken, which may be a bit clichéd, but it can't be less.

couldn't solve this problem, but Zhang Xuan was very interested in the small setback in Yiwu, and asked carefully.

The more I listened to Zhang Xuan, the more curious and frightened I felt.

"Musketeers." Zhang Xuan almost shouted these three words.

The more Zhang Xuan listened to what Ding Ruzhang said, the more he felt that this was the queuing and shooting tactic that he later said.

"Who's the other party?" Zhang Xuan said: "Don't you know? ”

"I don't know." Ding Ruzhang said: "I saw a red flag on the opposite side, but the specifics are not clear. ”

"Pass the order." Zhang Xuan said: "Send out all the scouts, I only need a piece of news, and I will find out the details of the person who defeated the Yiwu battalion, and give me as much detail as possible." At any cost. ”

"Yes." Everyone didn't know why Zhang Xuan valued this person so much, but they all agreed.

The tactic of lining up to shoot is a tactic that Zhang Xuan expects in the future. It's just limited to the current lack of material resources, and the most important thing is that the qualified firecracker is not easy to build, so it was temporarily shelved, and when Zhang Xuan wanted to come, when the army settled down in Jiangnan and the manpower and material resources in Jiangnan could be used by Luo Rucai, it was not too late to build a musket unit at that time.

It's just that at this time, someone built such an army in front of Zhang Xuan, which made Zhang Xuan think about it for a while.

Secretly said: "Is there another traverser?" ”

This thought came out of his life, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but think of many, many things, and then Zhang Xuan stopped his thoughts.

It's useless to think too much until you have exact news.

He left Ding Ruzhang to review the battle again.

Ding Ruzhang explained carefully.

Time early in the morning. The location is on the east bank of the Puyang River, the terrain is flat, there are no obstacles, and both sides can see each other from a distance.

The Xu Du Brigade advanced in a vertical formation, and then separated into a mandarin duck formation at a distance of fifty or sixty steps in front of the official and military formation.

And the officers and soldiers also began to release their guns at this time.

The soldiers were divided into several columns, which could not be seen clearly in the army, and could only be seen that they were released in turn, moving forward step by step.

The guns are dense and hit hard. Before the two sides engaged, the losses were not small. The big shieldmen were also hit several by the artillery.

Three killer teams were defeated, and Xu Du was killed, and then ordered to retreat.

The battle between the two sides lasted only a short time, but in a short period of time, Xu Du's troops lost 300 people.

This is also the total number of casualties suffered by Xu Du from Jinhua to Xiaoshan, and before that, the casualties were only in single digits.

Xu knew that he was invincible, retreated more than ten miles, and set up camp. With the protection of the wall, the officers and soldiers pressed the formation with musketeers, attacked two or three times with other official troops, and finally camped dozens of miles away from the Xudu camp.

Now the two sides are facing off.

Before Ding Ruzhang came, the number of officers and soldiers was gradually increasing.

Zhang Xuan didn't care about this, the only thing he was worried about was the more than a thousand musketeers. The more he thought about it, the more doubts he had in his heart.

It is not that the officers and soldiers do not have musketeers, on the contrary, there are quite a few, but none of these musketeers can fight, and even the Dongyu side also has Korean musketeers.

However, due to the quality of the guns, the number of people who died in the chambers of the guns exceeded the number of people who died in battle.

When every fireman fires, he is worried about whether he will blow himself up.

At this moment, among the officers and soldiers, there is an almost pure firearms unit, and it is powerful, which makes Zhang Xuan more and more unable to understand where this army came from.

"Could it be a Portuguese mercenary?" Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart. He still had this rare impression in his heart, as if the Portuguese mercenaries had participated in the wars of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"There is one thing, but I don't know whether to talk about it or not." Ding Ruzhang said a little hesitantly.

"Say." Zhang Xuan said.

Ding Ruzhang said: "I think this firecracker is very similar to the style of Linyingying. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, his heart suddenly moved, how could he not understand how the Linying Camp was trained, and said secretly: "Could it be that this musketeer is really trained by the traverser?" ”

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