In Pingnan County, Tang Dianfeng also suffered a defeat.

"The Beishan Pass was routed, and two thousand soldiers were killed in battle."

"The Higashiyama Pass is crumbling and almost surrounded, asking for reinforcements,"

"The enemy was defeated at the Nanshan Pass, but there were not many troops, and the captives fled."

"The enemy crossed the ferry, flanked the ferry, and the ferry's forces retreated to a hillside southeast of the county to hold on."

This is the news that came back in the early hours of this morning.

What worries him even more is that from the other side of the mountain, dozens of miles away, Zhang Qiang's troops were intercepted by the enemy's cavalry, and the enemy was more than 3,000 people, and he hoped that he would send troops to meet him as soon as possible.

Tang Dianfeng sat in the county office, looked at the county government beam, gritted his teeth for a while, and instructed his subordinates: "Send someone to pass the order, let Gu Qianhu withdraw and break through." ”

"Send someone to lead Gu Qianhu to break through,"

"Send someone to pick up the troops at the ferry and withdraw them."

"Let Nanshan's troops retreat to the south of the county and hold on."

"Wait, after you receive the troops at the ferry, go and join the troops in the south, hold the junction southwest of the county, and don't allow the enemy to cross the minepool."

He stood up and said to all the generals present: "Order the whole city to go up to the city walls to prevent the enemy from attacking the city and prepare for battle." ”

Then turn your gaze back to Zhang Qiang.

The enemy is adjusting his forces and preparing to attack him, and he is also adjusting his troops and preparing to prepare for the enemy's attack.

"Infantry, assemble twenty musketeers to guard the back of the hill from the enemy from above."

"The cavalry protects the emperor."

"Sixty musketeers were sent to the west side, sixty musketeers were sent to the east side, and the remaining two hundred and ten musketeers were to fire in turn according to the terrain of the hillside and the arrangement of the steps, and obey my orders to fight."

After the arrangement was completed, he secretly found a chasper, "You go and tell Yang Yangyang Qianhu that without my order, you are not allowed to expose yourself, and wait for my order before attacking." ”

"Yes, sir." The chasers ran over the mountains and mountains from the side to convey Zhang Qiang's order to Yang Yangyang.

Zhang Qiang thought about it and said again: "Go and send thirty musketeers to arrange them in the first-line trenches, and the remaining one hundred and eighty musketeers will be divided into two rows and arranged in the second-line hillside trenches. ”

Emperor Longwu sat under a boulder on the hillside, his heart palpitating, it was too thrilling.

He was almost killed by the enemy's cavalry, or hit by a salvo of stray bullets from musketeers, and he almost peed his pants in fright when he heard a stray bullet pass by his ears with a sharp whistling sound.

The prince on one side was already crying without tears, howling, maybe his life was not good, from birth to now, just a few days of enjoyment, he fled all day.

As soon as it was arranged, Ruan Jie had already led a large group of cavalry to a place three hundred meters below the hillside where Zhang Qiang was, and two thousand cavalry, black and pressing, gave people a visual impact.

Ruan Jie tentatively sent fifty or sixty cavalry to attack the front.

But they were knocked down by two volleys of thirty musketeers, and more than twenty people were repulsed.

Ruan Jie didn't believe in that evil, and roared angrily, "One hundred cavalry in the west, one hundred cavalry in the east, and one hundred cavalry in the front, attack me, come here, lead two hundred people around the ravine, abandon their horses from behind and climb the hillside, we must surround and annihilate them here." ”

Not to mention the two hundred cavalry behind them, the three hundred cavalry in front of them, attacking at the same time, crossing ridges, jumping over small ditches, wading through a muddy paddy field, rushing up the meadow, climbing up the hillside, these could not stop much of their speed, but in the blink of an eye, the distance of two hundred meters had already slipped under the horse's hooves, but when it was close to a distance of thirty meters, bad luck came.

The sound of gunfire like fried beans shattered their formation, and the cavalry fell off their horses one after another, although there was a team of warlords behind them, they did not dare to retreat before Ruan Jie gave an order and Ming Jin withdrew his troops, but they couldn't help but run to the side to avoid the flying bullets.

However, nothing could change their fate, and when the smoke cleared, the nearest three hundred cavalry were only about seven meters away from the firecrackers in the front-line trenches, and none of them were alive.

It took half an hour, and all three hundred cavalry lay on the hillside.

The entire battlefield suddenly became silent, and neither side made a sound.

Maybe a few minutes, maybe just a dozen seconds, different shouts erupted on both sides.

Here, Zhang Qiang's musketeers raised their arquebuses one after another, shaking, cheering loudly, celebrating, and over there, there were mournful voices, exclamations, and some people were frightened and fell off their horses.

"How powerful are these firecrackers?" Ruan Jie said to himself with some puzzlement.

A cavalryman beside him, Qianhu, said: "My lord, you have not participated in the battle of Taizhou Mansion, and Lord Fan's 60,000 army was defeated by 4,000 firecrackers." ”

"Is there such a thing?" Ruan Jie asked.

Cavalry Qianhu said: "Yes, my lord, this matter is more embarrassing, so Lord Fan strictly ordered the army not to talk about it, only said that the righteous army is strong, and our army is not good at food and grass, so it was defeated, and lost Taizhou Mansion, of course, this matter can not be reported to the imperial court Some details, Lord Fan is ready to accumulate strength, and then find the Jinhua Righteous Army to take revenge, for this he also contacted the Portuguese who also used firearms, you also saw that the Portuguese sent 900 troops this time, just to help the adults defeat the fire soldiers of the Jinhua Righteous Army." ”

Ruan Jie sighed deeply, and also remembered Fan Shaozu's words, "You must block them there and wait for the army to come." ”

Perhaps at that time he had anticipated the situation today, the enemy's firecrackers were too powerful.

But Zhang Qiang touched the sweat on his forehead, he knew that with the current Ming Dynasty-made arquebus, or even if it was a Portuguese arquebus, its fire density, rate of fire, and range were not enough to resist the cavalry, and the speed of the cavalry was too fast.

The charge of a hundred cavalry on three sides, the nearest is only six or seven meters away from the thirty firecrackers on the first line, as long as there is one more force, even if only one cavalry rushes up, the thirty firecrackers may suffer heavy losses, and the most important thing is that they lose the time to reload, and the advantage of firepower, even if they eliminate that cavalry, their time to fight with the enemy in close combat is enough for five or six cavalrymen to rush to the position.

Five or six cavalrymen, they can cause more than chaos to the thirty musketeers, not only the time gap, if the white armor soldiers of the Qing army Tartars, only one person is needed, the thirty musketeers who can be killed can lose their armor and abandon their armor, and two people can kill all the firefighters, not to mention that there are not just two people, taking advantage of this time, they can rush a dozen, or even more infantrymen.

How to improve the performance of firearms, replace them with better muskets, or add armor to these soldiers, add some melee weapons, or add some infantry to cover them, this is something Zhang Qiang has to think about.

"My lord, the enemy has retreated."

The pro-soldiers around him said to Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang looked up at his opponent, the opponent seemed to be very smart, not to fight with him in positional battles, not to fight to the death with him on the terrain he chose, the cavalry ran away from afar, but did not give up on them, this is the rhythm of besieging them here.

But what can this person do?

Relying on the terrain to fight, maybe you can hold out a little longer, and go down to fight the cavalry in the field?

It's about the same as sending them to death.