Chapter Thirty-Eight: Weiyuan City Four

"How's it going in Weiyuan City?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"There are less than 1,000 people who can fight, but all the soldiers are willing to swear to die to serve the lord when they think of the grace of the lord bestowed on the field." Ruan Jin said: "As long as the adult gives an order, the sergeant of Weiyuan City is willing to die for the adult." ”

"No need, just take a break." Zhang Xuan said: "The rest of the people will be handed over to the Linying Camp and the Xiping Camp." ”

"Military merit awards." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "It is really the best system." ”

Zhang Xuan felt more and more that Shang Ying was a great talent. He grasped the crux of China's thousands of years of history, which was the land.

As long as the military function brings land to ordinary soldiers, then the combat effectiveness of the army must exceed the standard. Even when the dynasty was founded, there was a sentence repeated in countless old movies, the family divided the land.

Countless fighters may not understand the great principles of communism, all for those few acres of land, and they have fought for their lives.

This attitude is almost the same throughout the ages.

It's just that land was the core of the problem of the ancient Chinese dynasties, and any problem, military, financial, population, and culture, can eventually be extended to the land. Zhang Xuan didn't dare and couldn't act rashly. It's just a matter of knocking out a few guards. Zhang Xuan has already made Nanjing boiling.

If he did more, maybe the Jiangnan gentry would unite and rebel.

So recently, if you want to give the soldiers a field again, you don't even think about it.

However, Zhang Xuan also took advantage of this opportunity to grant land to all the soldiers who did not grant land in the various armies of Runing and Xuzhou near Ningbo, and for a long time, as long as the army was not expanded, Zhang Xuan's demand for land would not be too great.

"My lord, there is movement among the officers and soldiers." Zhang Yuanchu said.

Zhang Xuan immediately took out a clairvoyant mirror to look over, but saw that the officers and soldiers had already boarded the ship one after another. One by one, the ships went down the Yao River to the sea.

"It's slippery." Zhang Xuan said.

Zheng Zhilong's retreat was unexpected by Zhang Xuan, but when he thought about it, it was also reasonable. The greatest ability of the coastal naval division is its super maneuverability. can be on the coastline, out of nowhere, fighting with Zhang Xuan's troops, but not his strengths.

As soon as he saw that the wind was falling, he smeared oil on the soles of his feet. This decisiveness also made Zhang Xuan admire. Authentic pirate style.

"My lord, shall we chase?" Deng He said: "The soldiers still have the strength, and when he retreats, bite his tail." ”

Zhang Xuan's heart moved slightly, and then he shook his head and said, "No need. ”

The hemp rod beats the wolf and is afraid at both ends.

What is Zhang Xuan afraid of? Afraid of naval guns, Zhang Xuan looked at Zheng Zhilong's ship, his back sweated slightly, without him, he saw rows of artillery, each of which was bigger than the Linying cannon cast by Zhang Xuan

Know how much,. It is even more than double the artillery cast by Zhang Xuan under Kaifeng City.

"This is probably the pinnacle of firearms in this era, the red-coat cannon." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "I actually ignored this. ”

Attacking the Zheng clan's camp on the shore at this moment immediately reminded Zhang Xuan of an ancient formation, that is, the Glaive Formation, but it was replaced by a bed crossbow for artillery.

If he attacked like this, whether he could catch Zheng's tail, Zhang Xuan didn't know, but he knew that there must be heavy casualties. And Zhang Xuan himself has to take care of Ningbo, not only the coastline of Wentai, but also the coastline of Wentai.

This arrangement of troops is already quite insufficient.

Let Zhang Xuan have to put Wenzhou Taizhou on the point of semi-abandonment, as long as a few points are placed, Cao Zongyu's back road can be taken care of, as for other places, it is the countryside, all with an attitude of acquiescing to the status quo.

With a little more loss, Zhang Xuan didn't know what to do at all?

He couldn't afford to lose.

This big battle is quite anticlimactic.

In the early morning sun, the two sides collected their troops from a distance from each other, except for Weiyuan City, which was half-crippled by artillery fire, and Dinghai County, which was half burned, as if this major battle had never happened.

Zhang Xuan stationed in Dinghai City, and saw that the fire was still not extinguished, and countless strong men were struggling to extinguish the fire, while many people looked at Zhang Xuan with hatred. When Zhang Xuan looked over, he lowered his head energetically.

Others, like walking corpses, sat or stood on the corner of the street, staring at the ruined houses.

It seems that it is impossible to accept that the accumulation of decades and even the accumulation of parents and grandparents will be ruined in one fell swoop.

Still, they're not the worst.

At least their lives are still on their own, and there are still some people, no, who should already be charred corpses. They were piled up on the side of the road, there were no coffins, no stretchers, not even white cloths to cover their heads, and the strange charred corpses remained the same as they did when they were dying, but most of them could no longer see their true faces, and they exuded a scorching smell.

Zhang Xuan had never seen such a tragic scene. For a while, I even ignored the unpleasant smell of burning.

He walked in front of the two charred corpses, it seemed that two charred corpses, one big and one small, hugged each other, they were father and son, mother and daughter, mother and son? It's hard to tell.

"If only I had immediately ordered the fire to be put out." Zhang Xuan secretly blamed himself in his heart. But no matter how much he blamed himself, he also knew that he would never have been able to do so at that time. Otherwise, I don't know if he can stand here alive.

"I'm sorry." Zhang Xuan thought silently in his heart, stretched out his hand to untie the cloak behind him, covered the two charred corpses, and said, "Take out two whistles to put out the fire, and the others will rest." ”

Even if Zhang Xuan can't bear it in his heart, he must rely on the logic of reality

Matter, although Zheng Zhilong is retreating, after all, he has not withdrawn, Zhang Xuan must leave enough troops to be on guard, and the army has been running all night, and it is another battle in the early morning, and he is already tired, so it is imperative to let more soldiers rest and restore combat effectiveness.

And not firefighting.

Two sentinels and 1,000 people are the limit that Zhang Xuan can draw.

I don't know if the discipline of the army is above that of ordinary people, or the gunpowder that burned for most of the hour, and burned most of the burning, and the fire slowly subsided after the soldiers of the two outposts joined the firefighting.

When all the flames in Dinghai City were extinguished, Zheng Zhilong's fleet also withdrew from the Yao River and came to the sea.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong was relieved.

After all, the Yao River is not a big river, and for nearly a thousand ships, it is even more embarrassing, if Zhang Xuan dares to make a big deal and the fireboats covering the entire Yao River rush down, it will really be a threat to Zheng Zhilong.

When Zheng Zhilong thought of this, he also secretly regretted it.

He didn't use fireships to deal with Westerners, if he was planted on this fireship today, wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth?

"Report, my lord, Fujian urgent." Zheng Zhilong had just come to the sea when he collided head-on with a clipper.

One person changed to a small boat and boarded Zheng Zhilong's big boat from the rope ladder.

Zheng Zhilong took it and looked at it, and was immediately taken aback and said, "What is Wu Zhiping eating?" ”

Zheng Zhilong held the news of Funing's loss in his hand. It is estimated that in the next day or two, it will reach the city of Fuzhou.

Going south from Zhoushan to Fujian is a headwind, but going north from Fujian to Zhejiang is a tailwind, so the tailwind is almost a thousand miles a day, but it was yesterday, and today the news reached Zheng Zhilong's hands.

After Zheng Sen heard this, he couldn't help but be taken aback and said, "In this way, isn't the father-in-law's family dangerous?" ”

Although Zheng Sen's wife, the Dong family, is from Jinjiang, they travel back and forth between Fuzhou and Quanzhou all the year round, singing poems and singing harmony with each other. Zheng Sen calculated the time, his father-in-law was estimated to be in Fuzhou City, and Zheng's business in Fuzhou was never small.

Zheng Zhilong pondered for a while, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said, "Turn south, this time go to Wenzhou." Didn't he want to go to Fujian? Don't think about coming out when you get in. ”

Zheng Zhilong is also out of reach at the moment, and he can't exert his strength against the war in Fujian, even if the army arrives in Fujian, maybe the dust will settle.

In the battle of Weiyuan City, Zheng Zhilong saw Zhang Xuan's strength and decided to avoid Zhang Xuan's main force and fight the empty place of Cao Ying, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Despite this, Zheng Zhilong still told Zheng Cai to start negotiations with Zhang Xuan again.

Fighting is fighting, talking is talking, Zheng Zhilong is very clear in his heart. At least once Fuzhou falls, the Zheng family's people can be fished out from Zhang Xuan's side.

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