In the face of such a situation, Zhang Qiang can't harden his heart like a politician and only talk about interests and money with those Taixi people, Zhang Qiang looked at the flags in the distance one by one, wearing gray military uniforms, blue military uniforms, everyone was like a gentleman, looking at their Taixi troops in this war with a contempt, and the blood in his heart gradually became cold.

The battalion commander of the scout ran over and said to Zhang Qiang: "Governor, the military intelligence department has sent intelligence, the fleet of the Taixi people has blocked the river, our fleet cannot transport troops over, and cannot support us, only the action team of the military intelligence department has gathered some people nearby, about a few hundred people to support us."

In addition, the Ming army retreated from Jiuxing County, they took away the people and supplies, and even competed with our troops for supplies, the troops had to stop where to negotiate with them, only a part of the cavalry with about 2,000 troops to support us. ”

Zhang Qiang secretly hated, these guys were not successful enough to defeat more than anything, the enemy had not yet beaten it, so he took the initiative to retreat, this virtue, it is a ghost to be able to beat the Qing army.

"When will it arrive?" Zhang Qiang knew that blaming anyone now would not save his own army, and he would not be able to conjure up more troops by making any moves.

The battalion commander said, "Governor, the action team will arrive in about two hours, and the two thousand reinforcements from Jiuxing will arrive in the second half of the night. ”

"I know, in this case, let's fight once, let all the people prepare to fight, withstand this wave of attacks, even if we don't win, we can win some time, at least one night, on the third day, our artillery brigade soldiers and field brigade soldiers can come, maybe the Guangzhou government will also send troops to support us, we must resist tonight."

Zhang Qiang didn't know whether to say it to the scout battalion commander, or to the soldiers around him, or to comfort himself.

As he spoke, the enemy's troops had already crossed the distance of two hundred meters and came towards the camp, still divided into two parts, one part went to Su Zhengqing's camp, and the most came to attack the big camp where the Huaxia army was located.

"Fire, don't keep, give me a hard shot." Zhang Qiang shouted to the herald.

At this distance, of course, the artillery was ordered to fire.

Although the enemy's artillery has many guns, good quality, long range, and large enough, the Ming artillery left in the stockade still stubbornly completed its mission, firing at the enemy's artillery positions and firing at the enemy's charging team.

After several battles, two days of fighting, the camp was almost in ruins, and there were not many cannons left, but the enemy still paid the price of blood.

The bloody roads are the most feared places for the charging enemy mercenary team; Destroy the enemy's trenches and breastwalks, bunkers, and camps two hundred meters away again and again, killing the enemy's soldiers; And then after the ringing, in less than a moment, it was destroyed by the bombardment of the enemy's artillery.

When the enemy reached more than 50 meters in front of the camp, the remaining small cannons also opened fire, and after a row of sprays, the enemy's corpses were again piled up in front of the wall, and the remaining enemies panicked, unable to advance or retreat.

This time, it was the Japanese ronin and Gurkha soldiers who pressed the formation, as well as the soldiers of the Qing army and the Han army.

In the distance, the Taixi people's own cavalry and the cavalry of the Qing army slowly followed the advance of the large army, hanging a hundred meters behind them.

"Let the men go up to the wall, and give each man a sword, or a spear, or a shield, or a bow and arrow, and tell them in short, that if they do not exert their strength, they will die; Let the remaining Ming troops, even if they are wounded soldiers, have to fight, they can't hide in the rear, they can't hide in the anti-artillery holes, they must go to battle; The soldiers of the Chinese army in melee combat wear good armor, good weapons, good bows and arrows, shields, and stand behind me and sweep the formation, whoever retreats, who dies. ”

Zhang Qiang was ruthless, said cruel things, did the same thing as the Taixi people and the Qing army, and treated those Ming troops as cannon fodder, as a wall, and blocked in front of his own people.

But what can be done about it?

For the sake of themselves, for the Chinese army, and for the Ming Han people not to be enslaved by the Qing army and the Taixi people, sacrifice is a must.

"Let our wounded soldiers, those who can shoot must stay in the second line of defense inside the wall, behind the chest wall, and if they can't move more, load the brothers with ammunition, and shoot if they can."

Zhang Qiang played with his layers of defense again, and used this ruthlessness on his own people, who were still wounded.

The war drums rumbled, and the soldiers in front, the minfu and the remnants of the Ming army, had already fought with the enemy.

Those who stand on the wall of the wall strike the enemy with bows and arrows and stones, block the gaps, resist the enemy with swords, guns, and spears, and bite them with their teeth and hit them with their heads, or they will strangle the enemy to death, in short, they will exchange their own sacrifices for the sacrifice of the enemy.

Why are you so desperate, because Zhang Qiang added a paragraph after his ruthless words, "After they die, they will burn paper every year, and after they die, their children, wives and old people, and the Huaxia Army will provide for them, as long as the Huaxia Army is still there, they will definitely not be treated badly." ”

Anyway, if they die, in a desperate situation, even if it is a vain promise, they will believe it.

The enemy continued to pour up, on the wall, within a radius of nearly four or five meters to the left of the wall, with the remnants of the Ming army defending the city, the people were fighting.

And behind the breastwork, about thirty meters away, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army's melee combat jumped out of the breastwork and rushed up, all the enemies who rushed in were blocked in the gap, and all attempts to occupy the walled wall were knocked down.

After they rushed out, the wounded soldiers of the Chinese army, who used bows and muskets as cover, guarded the second line of defense behind the wall.

The enemy poured in more and more, and the crackling arquebus gunfire could not stop the enemy's impact, so the Huaxia army finally sent the last wave of soldiers to recuperate.

Arquebusiers in six rows, flintlock gunners.

Arquebuses were supplies to support the Ming army, but the Ming army had already been killed and wounded, so they could only be used by those lancers to defend the third line of defense, a boxy, irregular square barracks, and fight the enemy.

And the other chasers and dragoons, even the cavalry of the scout battalion, the cavalry battalion, were in line in the open space of the camp, and they were in formation.

Zhang Qiang stood on the newly built watchtower and calmly watched the battle around him.

The enemy is like locusts, wave after wave, like zombies, and the tide is pouring in from all sides to attack the Huaxia army.

The strength of the two companies of 100 households of engineers and 100 households of baggage has been put into the battle to deal with the enemy's attack, they are melee combat units, don't look at them as auxiliary troops, but their predecessors are the regular army units of the Jinhua Righteous Army, which are all-cold weapons fighting troops, these people just deal with such a battle, and they must be no worse than the elite troops of the Qing army.

Although the number is small, in the face of these mercenary cannon fodder troops bought by the Portuguese, they are still fighting well, and now the enemy still can't occupy the second line of defense, and nearly 1,000 people of the Huaxia Army are guarding the second line of defense.

Battles are fought on the second line of defense, and the musketeers on the third line of defense, who can hit the enemy from a distance, are shooting.

The enemy was like a wave of spray, and he was shot to death when he entered the second line of defense.

What can be calculated is how many troops of the Huaxia Army can be consumed in the end by so many enemies.

The time has come to test the Huaxia army, whether it can hold it, and finally wait until the decisive battle with the Taixi people.

(End of chapter)