In Pingnan County, on the city wall, the captive soldiers were guarded by the righteous army and the young strong, and the city wall was strengthened on the city wall, and the 10,000 captive soldiers were guarded by the troops of the 4,000 righteous army and the Jinhua righteous army, ready to meet the enemy's attack at any time.

On a steep peak in Dongshan, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian and a group of Ming army generals were observing the county town of Pingnan and the head of the city.

In his hand was a bronze monocular for use on a Dutch warship given to him by the Dutch governor.

There are more than a dozen Ming Dynasty generals standing beside him, these people are all picked up by Bolo, after Bolo's defeat and retreat to Hangzhou, the remaining officials and generals were accepted by him, but only partly, and some of them are some of his officials and generals, they are all the original generals of the Ming Dynasty, officials, but at the moment they are doing their best to encircle and suppress the rebel troops of the Ming Dynasty.

These people include, Cao Cunxing, the commander of the Vocational Association, Li Yingzong, Yu Yongshou, Zhang Yingmeng, He Yinchang, Fan Shaozu, Wang Zhigang, Su Jianle, Feng Yong, etc., as well as Zhang Tianlu, the commander of Ningchi Tai in the Qing Dynasty, led by Hu Maozhen, the general soldier of Chizhou, Yu Yongshou, the general soldier of Chizhou, Li Zhongxing, the general soldier of Huizhou, and Bu Congshan, the general soldier of Wucai, etc., which can be described as full of talents.

Among them, Hu Maozhen, the general soldier of Ningguo, was also the culprit of Huang Daozhou, a cabinet scholar who captured the Longwu court, and Huang Daozhou was killed in Nanjing in 1646 by Hong Chengchou, who persuaded him to surrender.

Huang Daozhou is an old man of Donglin, one of the elders and founders of the Donglin Party, but everyone in literature and philosophy, he led the rebel army to attack and rescue Jin Sheng's rebel army, but was captured by Zhang Tianlu's Qing soldiers, and was sent to Nanjing and finally killed.

"Lord Zhang, do you see how Pingnan County is broken?" He put down the binoculars and turned his head to ask Zhang Tianlu.

Zhang Tianlu said: "Your Excellency the Governor, you can send troops to attack the city day and night, the enemy's strength is too small, according to the confession of the captured enemy, most of the soldiers in the city are captured by the enemy, in fact, the total strength is not more than 10,000, thousands, as long as we can put too much pressure on the enemy, they can not suppress those captured soldiers of our army, we can open the city gate, rush in, with the superior strength of our army, drown the enemy." ”

Zhang Cunren touched his beard and looked into the distance, "It's just that in this way, I'm afraid the loss of troops will be more serious, and losing too many troops will not be good for us." ”

On the side, Hu Maozhen said: "My lord, why don't you wait, I heard that Fan Shaozu, the general soldier of the Ming army recruited by Lord Tong, has led more than 10,000 troops from Wenzhou overnight, and Liu Liangzuo from Yanping Mansion, Lord Liu led an army of 7,000 from Yanping Mansion. ”

Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Cunren glanced at each other, and at the same time raised their heads and laughed, the surrounding commanders and general soldiers also laughed together, everyone understood that the truth of the dead Dao friends do not die in the poor Dao, the Ming army has always been like this, even if they work hard for the Tartars, they can't change this habit.

"Then wait a little longer." After laughing, Zhang Cunren touched his beard and set the guidelines and policies for the battle.

However, Zhang Qiang will not wait with them.

"Cavalry assault," Zhang Qiang shouted at the three thousand Qing soldiers gathered outside Daxi Town.

Yang Yangyang led five hundred and fifty cavalry to rush out of the woods, like a storm and clouds, and before the enemy could react, he rushed into the enemy position and rushed into Daxi Town.

The 3,000 Qing soldiers who were unprepared, or unprepared, suddenly became chaotic, crying for their father and mother, and they couldn't resist at all.

Later, Gu Yuesheng led more than 800 firecrackers to attack all the way.

Zhang Qiang led the rest of the people to cover the supplies and baggage, war horses, and prisoners, and slowly advance.

And five miles away, Fan Shaozu's army was still advancing rapidly.

"Attacked."

"The enemy was routed."

"Fast through the town of Big Creek."

The army did not stop, and followed behind the firecrackers.

It took less than an hour to pass through Daxi Town, and at this time, the infantry from Fan Shaozu arrived at Daxi Town.

The distance between the two sides had narrowed to less than two miles.

A Qing soldier brandished a long sword, "Pursue, don't let the enemy into the city." ”

The cavalry spared the enemy's rout and came to the back of the ranks to cover the advance of the group.

Fan Shaozu rode on his war horse, snatched the whip, and pointed to the cavalry of Zhang Qiang's rear army and said: "The cavalry go up to intercept them, entangle them, and the infantry will catch up as soon as possible, and outflank the two wings." ”

As a result, in addition to the 200 cavalry opening the road, the 300 cavalry engaged the remaining cavalry of the enemy, blocking the enemy's attack layer by layer.

In half an hour, the enemy had already formed an attack formation, with two thousand infantry on each flank, and the enemy's cavalry engaged the cavalry less than a mile behind.

The enemy's infantry ran forward and pursued Zhang Qiang's rebel troops at a rapid pace.

The two sides chased after me, and exchanged fire from time to time.

The enemy was already approaching, less than three hundred meters, and the fire of the musketeers was in a row, blocking the attack of more than six thousand enemy infantry.

Two miles, Zhang Qiang and they are only two miles away from the city gate.

The city gate was wide open, and a hundred cavalry rushed out, and a thousand muskeoners opened their formation, opened the city gate, and lined up on the side of the moat outside the city gate.

"South of the city, enemy cavalry, north of the city, enemy cavalry, west of the city, enemy infantry."

"There's a mile to go."

"The enemy infantry in the north of the city has come around, and there is still a distance of three miles."

Tang Dianfeng stood on the city gate tower, listening to the scout's return, watching Zhang Qiang's troops in the distance cover the baggage troops and prisoners, supplies, war horses, and resisting and retreating.

"A mile of land. Hurry," he clenched his fists hard, and crouched at the battlements, looking nervously out.

"My lord, my lord, the enemy is attacking from the east of the city, there are about 5,000 infantry, 3,000 people, and the enemy is adding a moat and destroying obstacles."

"My lord, the enemy has attacked from the south of the city, 1,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry, and 2,000 people. The enemy is engaged with our musketeers. ”

Here, at the west gate of the city, Zhang Qiang's Chinese army and baggage troops have reached the moat and are entering the city through the moat.

A mile away, the musketeers were blocking the enemy, the enemy's 5,000 infantry went forward one after another, and from time to time cavalry rushed into the musketeers' troops to slash and kill, and then were pursued by the cavalry led by Yang Yangyang, and the two sides fought on the battlefield in two miles.

"The horses have passed." Jin Qi said to Zhang Qiang.

"Well, speed up and let the baggage and captives pass." Zhang Qiang said.

The cavalry coming out of the county town of Pingnan met the enemy cavalry that came around from the south and north of the city.

The infantry on both sides of Fan Shaozu pressed to the edge of the moat, and engaged the firecrackers on both sides of the city, one side used bows and arrows, and the other side used firearms, and the fight was inseparable.

"My lord, His Majesty the Emperor has also crossed the river." Jin Qi ran back again.

Zhang Qiang looked at the firecrackers, "Let the firecrackers retreat two hundred meters." ”

He looked back at Tang Dianfeng on the city wall and nodded to him slightly.

Tang Dianfeng turned back to the generals beside him and said, "The artillery fires." ”

"Knock, knock, knock." The artillery on this side began to bombard Fan Shaozu's infantry and cavalry.

Zhang Qiang said to a chasper: "Go and call Yang Yangyang's cavalry back and let them retreat." ”

Artillery, coupled with firearms, Fan Shaozu's infantry suffered heavy losses, and in less than an hour of fighting, more than a thousand people were lost.

Fan Shaozu was a little distressed, but in the face of the low-hanging fruit, he still didn't want to give up, and said to the herald beside him: "Let Lord Frey's musketeers attack the enemy's musketeers." ”

On this side, Zhang Cunren's infantry and archers pressed up from both sides and inflicted great damage on the Jinhua rebels' firecrackers on the other side of the moat, and the firecrackers had to shrink their defensive lines and move closer to the city gate.

"My lord, the captives have all passed, and the infantry have begun to cross the river. Are we starting to cross the river too? Jin Qi ran back.

"No, let the cavalry cross the river, go and call back the cavalry on both sides, and let the musketeers support for a while."

Zhang Qiang calmly observed the battlefield.

The situation on the battlefield was not in his favor.

Suddenly, he saw something even more unfavorable to him.