"Breached,"

"The gates are open, boys, come with me."

Zheng Liang shouted loudly, clamped the horse's belly with his feet, shook the reins with both hands, and the war horse shot out like an arrow off the string.

"The third child is careful." Zheng Lian roared in the back.

Zheng Cai happily sat on his war horse and looked at Zheng Liang who was far away, "Let him go, if 30,000 Erlang can't break through a broken county town guarded by his 3,000 defenders, it is better to find a piece of tofu and kill him." ”

Zheng Lian laughed, and then said to Zheng Cai: "Big brother, this time to break through their county, I think that Zhang Qiang'er knows that we are powerful, and he will definitely surrender to us obediently, and he will not make trouble with us." ”

Zheng Cai shook his head, "We can all see that the Jinhua Righteous Army is incompatible with the Longwu Imperial Court, just like when we were Eighteen Zhi facing the Longwu Imperial Court, he will not be willing to live under the people,"

"However, this time we beat him, he can't help us, so he has to bow his head, but remember that Xiaoxiong may have a time to bow his head, but you have to make him completely submit, it is impossible, once there is a chance, you and I will die without a place to be buried."

Zheng Lian squinted at him, "Then what should I do, kill him?" We can't do it, we can't beat his powerful army, I heard that he uses musketeers like the Portuguese and Dutch, and the combat effectiveness is quite high, we don't know how many times we have suffered at the hands of these foreigners. ”

Zheng Cai said with a smile: "Wait, he will always have infighting with the Longwu court, what we have to do is to blackmail him with our sea advantage, and then sell him to the Manchu court again, let the Manchu beat him again, weaken his strength, beat the tiger into fear, pull out the tiger's teeth, and we can accept this great territory he created for us in the future." ”

Zheng Fu was the first to laugh, and the others laughed too.

"Hahaha"

"Second child, take your soldiers and horses to help the third child." Zheng Cai raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed to Sanmen County Road.

Zheng Lian's feet were strong, the spurs pierced the horse's abdomen, the war horse was in pain, screamed, and galloped out with his hooves raised, followed by the swinging sailors in iron armor, and the shrimp soldiers and crab generals in leather armor, and then the pirate infantry composed of two thousand pirates and fishermen.

Some of these pirate infantry were armed with axes, some with harpoons, some with wooden oars, butcher knives and ox ear knives, and some wore the gray robes of the Ming Army Inspection Department, roared angrily, and ran out after them.

"Boom, boom,"

"Bang bang."

Suddenly the sound of artillery and the sound of muskets were heard in the city.

Zheng Cai frowned, "What's the matter?" ”

Zheng Fu looked left and right, "Adult, go and take a look." ”

A scout ran over, "Report to your lordship, the Ming army from Tiantai County has come to help, two thousand Ming troops have entered Sanmen County, and two hundred cavalry are chasing our scouts outside the city." ”

"What's the matter, didn't you send someone to intercept the Ming army?" Zheng Cai roared angrily.

The scout cried and said: "My lord, it's not that the villain is incompetent, it's that the enemy is too powerful, and the small force we sent to intercept and harass the enemy was defeated as soon as it took a look, and the enemy's cavalry opened the way, and it was unstoppable. ”

In Sanmen County, Lin Yangcheng has killed pirates covered in blood and like locusts, although he is not very powerful, and even hand-to-hand combat is not as good as the old battalion of the peasant rebel army in his past, but he can't stand the number of people.

1,000 Jinhua Righteous Army soldiers, regular army soldiers have a basis for advancing and retreating, and cooperate properly, but there are too many people's families, they are divided and surrounded, and they can only fight hard, and the two hundred firecrackers guarding the county government have broken sixty or seventy firecrackers, these firecrackers are captured by Zhang Qiang Ming Army, and the Qing army has used them many times, and the muskets with their own quality assurance are withdrawn, and they are given to the firecrackers in the subordinate teams.

Hu Kui arrived in time, 1,000 soldiers, 500 cavalry, and 500 musketeers, as soon as they entered the city, they suppressed the enemy's arrogance.

The whole city, the core area was not breached, the west gate backed by the territory of the Jinhua rebels was not occupied by the enemy, Hu Kui took the reinforcements to control the city wall and the city gate of the west gate, and then advanced along the root of the city wall from west to east and south, and controlled the north gate, the two city gates, the Jinhua rebels regained the initiative on the battlefield, seized less than half of the territory, and fought with the enemy.

Zheng Cai began to worry, the strength of the Jinhua Rebels is not something he can challenge, he gathered so many pirates not to be able to use the advantage of the crowd to quickly take and loot some of the territory of the Jinhua Rebels, in addition to capturing the enemy's wealth and weapons and equipment, the most important thing is that he wants to show his sincerity to the Manchu Tartars, everyone can see that the Southern Ming Dynasty is unbearable, and everyone wants to take refuge in the new court, the new master of the Chinese land.

But now that he is playing like this, he feels that this is no longer showing his sincerity to the Manchus, but squandering his old book.

"Zheng Fu, order to retreat." Zheng Cai gritted his teeth, his face turned blue, and in a trembling voice he gave orders that he didn't want to give at all.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good," a scout stumbled over.

Zheng Fu ran over and slapped a horsewhip on the scout's face, "What's the panic, your family is dead?" ”

The scout cried and covered his bloodied face, "My lord, we're behind us...... We're surrounded. ”

"What?" Zheng Fu was stunned.

Zheng Cai was also taken aback.

"Make it clear." Zheng Cai shouted, glaring angrily.

The scout panicked, "My lord, behind us, there are six or seven thousand Jinhua rebels, and our back road has been cut off by the Jinhua rebels." ”

"What?" Zheng Cai was stunned.

Once high-spirited, once arrogant, this moment was blown by the wind to Java Island, only scared, only panicked, he is not Zheng Zhilong, nor Zheng Chenggong, he is not so bold and arrogant, otherwise he would not play a sneak attack, but provoke the Jinhua Righteous Army in a dignified manner.

"Quick, quick, give the order, let them get out, let's stop fighting, withdraw to the ship." Zheng Cai panicked and gave an order incoherently.

On the mountain ridge five miles away, Zhang Qiang rode a war horse and looked at Sanmen County.

Zheng Cai and his men desperately gathered their subordinates, but as soon as these pirates heard that the back road was cut off and the enemy was coming, they immediately scattered, and at least seven or eight thousand people fled all over the mountains.

Putting down the binoculars, Zhang Qiang sneered, "A group of rabble, maybe you can still play majestic at sea, but on land, you are not even as good as my militia troops." ”

He looked back at his neatly spread out Jinhua Rebel Army troops on the plain below the mountains.

Teal blue is the main character, and the red and turquoise gray military costumes of the Ming army are the foil, and the cavalry wearing a style similar to Napoleon's French uniform is like a blue-blue broadsword swinging towards the enemy's artillery position.

Why choose blue, because now the cloth of the Ming Dynasty is homespun cloth and silk products, silk is not needed, with Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Righteous Army's financial resources, can not make the soldiers' clothes into silk manufacturing, that is too luxurious, and the civilian people's homespun cloth is a lot, the homespun cloth is only roughly dyed, the color is monotonous, a large number of uniforms, Zhang Qiang can not make the process complicated, color homespun cloth to get it, manufacturing uniforms, can only use civilian homespun cloth, so only these monotonous colors.

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