Chapter 31: First Victory

Zhu Youlang couldn't look down on the soldiers in the city who were scared to flee everywhere when a Tartar came, so Zhu Youlang ordered that only the artillery was left in office, and the rest were used as logistics soldiers.

Zhu Youlang was in the government secretary's mansion in Guangzhou, but there was a big surprise, he found the Ming Dynasty version of the world map Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, especially about Western firearms, there are a few books, which made Zhu Youlang surprised.

Just when Zhu Youlang was looking at the whole map of the universal country and thinking about how to rectify foreign trade such as the city and the city, Li Chengdong led most of the people to go straight to Guangzhou, and Li Chengdong didn't pay attention to the prefectures and counties at all.

When Li Chengdong passed Zengchenger, Zhu Youlang ordered to open the gate of Guangzhou and go out of the city to meet the enemy.

The next day, early in the morning, Li Chengdong went to dozens of miles outside the city of Guangzhou, at this time Li Chengdong had already received a large group of people outside the city to greet him, Li Chengdong was furious, he didn't believe that Daming still had such a brave general.

Just when Li Chengdong was angry and led his troops to attack, a group of Ming troops who had surrendered Li Chengdong's soldiers before held white flags and sent more than 300 people, all of whom were elite horsemen ordered by Li Chengdong to sneak in.

"Lie to me a lot." Li Chengdong glared angrily at the heads of hundreds of people in front of him: "Cut off these bastards." ”

"General, it's wrong, it's all Yongli Xiao'er who asked us to do this."

"Yes, we're in the dark."

"Yes, General, let's take the lead."

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As soon as Li Chengdong's words came out, those military leaders knelt on the ground and shouted that they wanted to attack Zhu Youlang with Li Chengdong, but Li Chengdong looked at the old Ming army in front of him with gloomy eyes, and at this time he was terrified and shocked in his heart.

He knows this Zhu Youlang very well, there are rumors that he looks like a god, but he is as timid as a mouse, and in Zhaoqing, how can this be in Guangzhou, he will not doubt the news from his three hundred elite horsemen, which shows that Zhu Youlang captured Guangzhou after the fact.

Thinking of this, Li Chengdong was ruthless in his heart, no matter if you are the emperor, you will become Lao Tzu's merit.

"Come, cut down their sacrificial flags, and then we will go to pick up the head of this kid."

A moment later, in the midst of a wail, a scream sounded, and there were hundreds of more heads on the ground, and after Li Chengdong made up his mind, he asked Xin Tong to raise a thousand elite horses as the first peak, and he advanced behind.

"Your Majesty, the Li thief is coming, Your Majesty should go back to the city and wait for the news of the general."

Jiao Lian sincerely asked Zhu Youlang to stay away from this important place, in Jiao Lian's heart, the king is not the one who leads the troops, and there is no need to risk artillery fire, bows and arrows here.

"The national disaster is like this, then there is still a place of peace, Jiao Aiqing, you should command with peace of mind, you don't have to worry about me." Zhu Youlang raised his head and said softly, in fact, Zhu Youlang was nervous at this time.

"Report, the enemy has reached a mile."

Listening to the sentry's words, Jiao Lian gave a military salute to Zhu Youlang with a calm face: "I haven't go." ”

"Go ahead."

Jiao Lian rode out of the horse and went to the front of the formation, at this time the car battalion and the firearms battalion were accompanied by the formation in front, as long as the barracks were behind, when Tong raised the armor soldiers to 200 steps, the Hongyi artillery took the lead in shelling, Tong Yangjia soldiers were slightly surprised, but did not slow down.

When Tong Yangjia soldiers reached 100 steps, the large and small cannons hit together, and Tong Yangjia soldiers fell to the ground more than half in an instant, Tong Yangjia saw this, and when he was shocked and retreated, the firearms battalion turtledove opened fire as an exception, and in the end, more than 1,000 elite cavalry of Tong Yangjia only returned more than 200 remains.

Seeing this, Li Chengdong looked at Zhu Youlang's camp with an indifferent face, he had never seen such a fierce artillery fire, at this time Li Chengdong sighed in his heart, there were a large number of cannons behind him and did not come far, only a small number of cannons were brought, but compared with the other party, it was equivalent to nothing, but at this time, the arrow Yu Xuan had to must.

After thinking about it, Li Chengdong gritted his teeth and ordered: "Attack, you must tear the opening, as long as you break through to the enemy, as soon as you pass through, you will be chasing ducks." ”

Stimulated by Li Chengdong's words, Li Chengdong's generals instantly recovered their morale, and this time Li Chengdong used Tong Yangjia's elite cavalry as an arrow to go around the attack.

This typical cavalry archery technique, Tong Yangjia was terrifyingly familiar, but just after they went through a few rounds of artillery, the firearms battalion turtledoves came out to shoot at each other.

Li Chengdong was dumbfounded, all because the turtledove was too fierce, one shot four, the power of one hundred and fifty steps of people and horses, more than a thousand turtledove soldiers formed a series of firepower, and the artillery fire, Li Chengdong rode with heavy casualties, but as soon as Li Chengdong saw that the Ming army was approaching, he gritted his teeth and urged the troops to continue to attack.

Just in front of Li Chengdong's melee combat vehicle, the infantry battalion and the chariot killer group located in the back came out of the mandarin duck formation, Li Chengdong rode to the front, that is, to meet the enemy to rush and kill, behind the formation, muskets and rockets were fired, and there were infantry in front of the formation to tear and kill.

Under the flank attack of the turtledove and the death battle of the infantry battalion and the killer group, Li Chengdong gradually lost his support, and Li Chengdong's face was full of grief and anger, but he had no choice but to retreat.

At this time, Li Chengdong thought, Lao Tzu went around behind him, but when he walked around the chariots, he found that these chariots were a castle, impermeable, and Li Chengdong attacked again and again, but did not hurt the Ming army at all, but lost thousands of elite soldiers.

And just after Li Chengdong and Zhu Youlang started the battle, Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu began to lead their troops to Zengcheng at full speed, attacking Li Chengdong in the back.

Li Chengdong tried more than ten times in the hall before confirming that he could not break this formation, even if he wanted to make a detour to attack Guangzhou City, the other party was unmoved, because Zhu Youlang knew that as long as there was no traitor to open the city gate and there was artillery in the city, then Li Chengdong, a group of cavalry without offensive equipment, could only look at the city and sigh.

When three days later, when Li Chengdong ran out of food, and saw that the Ming army was as good as usual with firearms and advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, Li Chengdong finally sighed and led his troops to scatter.

After Li Chengdong was about to give the army, he looked at the Ming army with hatred, and he decided that he would go back and write that he would bring a large number of artillery pieces and kill the opponent without leaving a piece of armor.

"Father-in-law, the Ming army has such elite soldiers and strong generals, it is better to go anyway." Li Yuanyin secretly persuaded when he saw Li Chengdong retreating, in fact, Li Yuanyin has always disliked the Qing army, he is a Confucian son, but he was plundered by Li Chengdong and taken as an adopted son.

"The general can increase the defeat, this is a strategy to retreat, when Lao Tzu brings all the guys, he will kill the other party without leaving a piece of armor." Li Chengdong shouted loudly: "Don't mention this again, go." ”

Li Chengdong didn't go back, and Li Yuanyin had no choice but to follow.

As soon as Jiao Lian confirmed that Li Chengdong's soldiers had retreated, he hurriedly came to report the good news: "Your Majesty, Li Chengdong retreated in defeat." ”

Zhu Youlang's face moved slightly when he heard this, but he calmed down in an instant: "Chen Zizhuang, Zhang Jiayu and others came with the order." ”

"According to the report from the spies, Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu came as scheduled, but they didn't hear about it, and the court and China were a little angry about His Majesty's personal conquest." Jiao Lian said in the end, his voice was suppressed and softened a lot.

Zhu Youlang has no good impression of those fearless Confucian ministers, those people talk about nothing when they have nothing to do, but they only talk about serving the country with their bodies, thinking of this, Zhu Youlang couldn't help but scold in his heart, Lao Tzu is going to die in the country, and you have to die a fart, it is better to take out your blood and fight with the enemy to the death.

"Check the armaments, order the men to cook, and then rest on the spot and stand by."