All the troublemakers at the gate of the General Military Mansion were expelled, and the bodies of the scoundrels and Xiucai who were killed were also cleaned aside, and the main gate of the General Military Mansion was considered to be passable again. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Zhi left 300 soldiers to protect the General Soldier's Mansion, and he led 200 soldiers out of Tianjin City and went to Fanjiazhuang.

The day-to-day defense of the Tianjin Acropolis was the responsibility of the Tianjin garrison, which was originally ordered by the governor not to let Li Zhi's soldiers and horses enter the city. But he really didn't dare to confront Li Zhi's soldiers - Li Zhi's soldiers and horses could defeat the Tartars who outnumbered him, and his hundreds of defenders were not just a joke in front of Li Zhi's 500 men?

Speaking of which, this garrison should have a thousand soldiers, but he asked for silver to honor his superiors, so the actual recruitment was only 600 people. Where are these 600 people the opponent of the 500 Fanjiazhuang soldiers?

No matter how great the governor's order is, it is not great. This garrison knew that he would definitely die if he blocked Li Zhi's soldiers and horses from entering and leaving Tianjin, but let Li Zhi's men pass at will. Therefore, Li Zhi's 500 soldiers and horses can swagger into the Tianjin Acropolis, and at this time, Li Zhi can also take 200 soldiers directly out of the city.

Li Zhi walked halfway and received a report from the scout: the 12,000 Tianjin soldiers and horses assembled by Cha Dengbei had already walked thirty miles northeast of Fanjiazhuang, and all the soldiers and horses that Tianjin could fight had gathered together and were advancing towards Fanjiazhuang.

Li Zhi snorted coldly: "The mantis arm is a car!" ”

Li Zhi arrived at Fanjiazhuang with his escort, and before he entered the city, he saw that four thousand soldiers of the Tiger Division had gathered in the northeast of the city. This time, the selection regiment sent 2,000 cavalry to various prefectures and counties to inform the merchants to pay taxes, and the other regiments all sent soldiers to protect the tax collection accountants and guard the general military palace, and each regiment had exactly 1,000 people left in Fanjiazhuang, a total of just 4,000 people.

Seeing Li Zhi coming, Li Xing, Zheng Kaida and others rode up to greet him.

"Big brother, the scout just reported that Cha Dengbei's men and horses are walking very slowly, and it is estimated that it will not be until tomorrow when they reach Fanjiazhuang."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "It's okay if they walk slowly, let's go up to meet them." ”

Li Zhi left 200 soldiers and auxiliaries to guard Fanjiazhuang, and he led 4,000 tiger divisions to the northeast to meet Cha Dengbei's 12,000 army.

After walking for an hour and a half, Li Zhi's soldiers and horses found the enemy.

The 12,000 Ming troops walked on the dry grass of Fanjiazhuang under various banners, and many scouts were also sent around. Knowing that Li Zhi's 4,000 soldiers and horses were coming, the soldiers and horses of each battalion in Tianjin Town listed their formations: with Chadeng's Beibiao Army and Zhenhai Battalion as the central army, with Tianjin's deputy general, Xiadong Road generals as the left wing, and Xiaxi Road generals and Shangdong Road generals as the right wing, and Li Zhi was in a duel.

Unlike the border army, which was well paid and well-armoured, the soldiers and horses in Tianjin, as an inland army town, received very limited military pay and equipment. On weekdays, these soldiers and horses don't come out for training, and they nest in the camp, so Li Zhi doesn't know about their situation. At this time, Li Zhi looked over with a telescope and found that the equipment of these soldiers was very poor, far inferior to the Beijing camp and the border army that Li Zhi had seen before.

Only about one-third of the soldiers wore cotton armor, one-tenth wore scale armor, and the rest were unarmoured, with the only weapon being a broadsword. Even the poor Qin army was better equipped than these Tianjin battalion soldiers.

Li Zhi shook his head, and secretly said that Cha Dengbei came with a large army to send him to death.

He lined up his three thousand infantry in three rows. One hundred and forty light guns were scattered among the infantry in groups of two to serve as infantry support fire.

In the Chinese army of the Ming army, a group of Ming military attachés looked at the armor and Li Zhi's soldiers and horses with cannons, and their faces turned a little pale. Although the 12,000 Tianjin battalion soldiers seemed to be a lot of people, they were not Li Zhi's opponent of 4,000 soldiers and horses at all.

Cha Dengbei looked at Li Zhi's soldiers and horses on his horse, and snorted coldly: "This Li Zhi really put on a posture to scare me, could it be that he really dares to fight back against me?" Can he dare to rebel? ”

Lu Da, the general of the Lower East Road, arched his hand to Cha Dengbei and said: "My lord, let's not fight with Li Zhi, he can even fight the Tartars, where can we defeat him?" ”

Tianjin Deputy General Luo Shibin was even more warless, and said: "Lord Governor, it is not easy for us to train a little soldiers and horses, and all we spend is white silver, if it is defeated by Li Zhi's guns and cannons, it will really outweigh the losses!" ”

The general of the Zhenhai battalion gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, most of our soldiers and horses have no armor, and we are sending them to death when we rush up." ”

Cha Dengbei waved his hand and said: "Don't say more, this battle has advanced and retreated, press up!" Li Zhi dares to fight back, it is a rebellion! I don't believe that Li Zhi dares to attack us! ”

Liang Yishou, the governor of Jingzhou, was also in the Chinese army, and he said in a casual tone: "What are you afraid of? Don't look at Li Zhi's bluff, he will not dare to hit us! If he really fights us, what awaits him is the encirclement and suppression of the strong army of the Nine Sides. ”

Cha Dengbei made up his mind this time, and he came to persecute Li Zhi. If Li Zhi dares to fight back against his army, he is a thief, and Chaden expects that Li Zhi will not dare! If Li Zhi didn't fight back against him, he would lead his troops into Fanjiazhuang to search and threaten Li Zhi to find out all the secret recipes of Fanjiazhuang's industry. Presumably, under such a threat, Li Zhi must have no choice but to give up business taxes.

Cha Dengbei thinks that this strategy is very feasible, where will the generals be allowed to retreat in a cowardly battle?

Hearing the words of Cha Dengbei and Liang Yishou, the generals glanced at each other, and their faces were like ashes. They don't know what will happen to Li Zhi in the future, but now it is inevitable that their battalion soldiers will be used as cannon fodder.

Li Zhi observed in the telescope for a while, and when he saw Cha Dengbei's soldiers and horses grinding and chirping, he suddenly dragged out thirty-three Furlong light guns from behind.

Li Zhi was taken aback when he saw those light rear-loading guns, and he couldn't imagine that although the soldiers and horses in Tianjin were weak, they also had so many artillery. It is said that the Ming army was good at using firearms, and it seems that this is true.

The Furlong cannon was an early rear-loading rapid-fire cannon that was prone to air leakage, so it had a short range. However, because of the use of loaded guns, the rate of fire is extremely fast, and it is quite lethal to fire shotguns in close combat.

However, although the successive governors and the generals of various battalions left so many Franc cannons for Cha Dengbei, Cha Dengbei and others did not understand military affairs and did not know how to use artillery reasonably. Chadenbei put the artillery in the middle of the army, but at this time it became the best target for the artillery of the Tiger Division.

Little by little, the two armies approached.

When the distance was one mile, Li Zhi shouted: "The artillery is fired, first all the artillery prepared by Cha Dengbei!" ”

One hundred and forty cannons had already been loaded with shells, and at this time, the gunners saw the banner waving and immediately aimed their cannons at the Chinese army prepared by Cha Dengbei.

After aiming for a while, the field guns opened fire in unison.

The granular black powder was suddenly ignited, turning into black smoke and flames, and the five-pound shell was spewed out of the barrel and smashed towards the Chadenbei artillery a mile away. One hundred and forty shells smashed the artillery position composed of more than 30 furlong machine guns like a storm, killing more than 100 artillery pieces and smashing more than a dozen cannons at once.

Seeing Li Zhi's cannon fire, the more than 10,000 people on Cha Dengbei's side were all stunned at once. They didn't come to fight in the first place, they came to force Li Zhi to back down. Their idea was that Li Zhi would force him to back down step by step, and eventually give up collecting business taxes. But they didn't expect Li Zhi to be so bold that he really dared to fire at the governor's soldiers and horses.

really fight with Li Zhi, more than 10,000 people on his side are not enough to watch!

The Tianjin military attachés lowered their heads one by one, as if they couldn't bear to look at the next tragic battle.

Cha Dengbei's originally collapsed face suddenly collapsed and became a miserable white. He bent his waist suddenly, as if he was a thief discovered by his master, and said in a trembling voice: "Li Zhi really dares to beat us? What's going on? ”

That Liang Yishou opened his mouth wide and looked at the fleeing artilleryman, and it took a long time to say: "How could Li Zhi dare to hit us?" (To be continued.) )