Su Zhengqing was very embarrassed and fled into Zhang Qiang's camp with hundreds of Ming soldiers.

At this time, the camp in front was accepted by the Portuguese troops, who were pouring in, and began to be repaired, and were actually intended to be used as a fortress for their outer defense.

They dug another trench a hundred meters in front of the fortress.

Zhang Qiang couldn't help but wonder, this trench was the defensive method he used in the battle with the Qing army, and the enemy actually learned so fast and so well, which was much faster than the Ming army.

The Ming army is like the German army, worship the attack, in addition to liking to use the camp to push the enemy forward, they do not like to use these trenches to bind themselves, although the trenches are good, but they can guard against the enemy at the same time weaken their own strength advantage, they have to climb over the rugged trenches, the troops are scattered, so that the enemy can take the opportunity to kill and wound those soldiers, and the Portuguese and all the Westerners have a soft spot for the tactics of this trench, and they actually learn and use it, gradually advance, expand their defensive range, and resolve the strength advantage of the Ming army.

Su Zhengqing's regular army and new army soldiers of the Ming army, who fled in, increased the defensive strength of the camp.

For a time, the enemy's stragglers were helpless against this camp and the surrounding two camps not far apart.

The rain of bows and arrows and crossbow arrows on the walls of the wall made it impossible for the Portuguese to get close, and even if you were brave, if the armor was not enough to defend against the enemy, you still couldn't get close to the camp.

The three camps were horns of each other, dividing the vanguard of the Portuguese attack and blocking this side, and the Portuguese had to bypass the camp from a distance of three miles around the camp to continue attacking the other camps and the Ming army company camp.

The large army of the Portuguese finally advanced to a mile away from the camp, and at this time the artillery on the camp was taken over by the Huaxia army, and the Huaxia army's artillery skills were much stronger than their Ming army, and the Ming army could only fight.

The artillery on the camp fired in unison, and the three camps inflicted heavy losses on the large force of the Portuguese who had just stopped.

With Zhang Qiang's order, the artillery of the camp was specially designed to hit the Portuguese in the enemy's ranks, where the Taisi were located, which could not only inflict great damage on them, but also inflict great damage on those mercenaries next to them, Indian musketeers, and artillerymen.

"The Metropolitan Governor, Li Guangxiong and Lord Huang Binqing are holding on in the company camp behind, they have sent messengers for help, asking for help from Jiuxing County, asking for help from the Ming Dynasty, and we have also sent soldiers to ask for help from the troops in the rear, which is expected to arrive in three days."

Zhang Qiang said: "Master Su, you can go to the next camp and take full command, of course, the main defense task is handed over to my soldiers and generals, and you are responsible for coordination,"

Then he turned to Li Guangdi and said: "Lord Li can go to the next camp, the three of us each sit in a camp, you take my camp as the main, defend together, attack together, and obey my orders here, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Li Guang said: "Okay, good, Zhang Qiangqiang has experienced a hundred battles, and the Huaxia army is so strong, we are willing to obey the command of the adults, and the officials will go here, and ask the adults to send troops to escort them." ”

Su Zhengqing also arched his hand and said: "Then there will be the governor of Lao, and the last general will lead the troops to the next camp to defend, and follow the instructions of the adults." ”

A dozen cannons, but the power of the six-pounder cannon of the Chinese army, but the power of the twelve-pounder cannon, the Portuguese army panicked, suffered heavy casualties, had to throw away their armor, withdraw two miles away, and spread out to surround these three camps.

At this time, the Ming troops who were being pursued in the rear fled into these three camps, and the three camps actually had seven or eight thousand troops at once.

The artillery was still roaring, and the enemy discarded some of the cannons, and pulled cannons from other places to bombard the Ming army, and there were casualties in the camp.

There were more and more enemy artillery, and the cannons of the camp were suppressed, Zhang Qiang asked the soldiers to go down to the bottom and rush up to the camp when they needed to fight, leaving only artillery and dozens of observing soldiers above.

The fighting in the rear continued, where was the company camp, five or six miles away, the fighting was in full swing, the enemy's forces continued to pour in, the Ming army was defeated, except for some Ming troops who desperately resisted, everyone else was fleeing.

The strength of both sides on the battlefield had reached 100,000 at this time.

The number of dead and wounded has reached 20,000 per family.

After all, although the Portuguese did not die much, they had many mercenaries, and there were many Ming people in several counties, all of whom were familiar with the Portuguese, or they did not have this Ming in their hearts, but they felt that they were managed by the Portuguese, which was much better than being managed by the Ming, so they regarded the Portuguese as their ancestors and emperors.

Just like the treasure island of later generations, people who have been there for a few years think that they are natives of treasure island, forget the Chinese nation of the big 6, think that they are foreigners, and especially hate the Chinese people, call them foreigners, people from other provinces, and regard those Han people who care about the motherland and have not forgotten their ancestors as enemies, and try their best to exclude foreigners.

This is the case with Baodao and Xiangshan, not to mention those who think they are indigenous people when they go to Nanyang, where they are, and who especially hate China and their Han ancestors.

Therefore, Zhang Qiang feels that education should start from the baby, and it must start from the identity of the Han people, even if they have the nationality of other countries, they must let their descendants maintain the pure blood of the Han people, and they can't let you intermarry with the locals, so as not to be assimilated by others.

After all, the Ming army was more brave than other mercenaries hastily organized by the Portuguese, and they still died a lot, so the battlefield gradually calmed down, and the Ming army that should have fled has fled, and those who should have fought are still fighting, and those who should have hid in the camp also hid in it, and continued to fight with the enemy.

In the center of the company camp, there was a large camp, which was relatively solid and huge, and there were still about six or seven thousand Ming troops still relying on the geographical advantage to resist the attacks of those Portuguese mercenaries.

When the enemy had not completely surrounded Zhang Qiang's three camps, Zhang Qiang had people wave the command flag and recruit back the chassars and dragoons who were chasing the enemy's cavalry in the field, and faced the enemy's muskets and artillery on the one hand, and suffered heavy losses.

When more than 1,000 cavalry came back, they didn't lose much, only more than 100 people, but they brought back hundreds of Ming cavalry and some Ming soldiers.

In this way, the strength of the three camps was strengthened again, almost reaching more than 8,000 troops.

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, and then ordered his own heralds, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy had not yet been encircled, he dispatched troops to concentrate his Huaxia army in this largest camp, and transported the Ming soldiers to other camps, leaving only some people and remnants of the defeated soldiers to assist the Huaxia army in the battle.

In this way, braving the enemy's artillery fire, Zhang Qiang and his team spent about half an hour, and under the escort of the cavalry of the Huaxia Army, the soldiers of the three camps continued to flow, and the materials and troops were continuously mobilized, and the materials and troops were reasonably distributed.

The other two camps were garrisoned by Zhang Qiang's herald scouts, as well as some cavalry and artillery, and most of the soldiers of the Huaxia Army were concentrated in Zhang Qiang's camp.

In this way, Zhang Qiang has 3,000 soldiers of the Huaxia Army, 1,000 people, 1,000 remnants of the Ming Army, a total of 5,000 soldiers and horses, and two other camps.

Su Zhengqing was in a camp parallel to this camp facing the enemy, and his hundreds of remnants, plus his new army soldiers who fled into the camp in 6, were about 2,000 troops. More than 200 people and more than 100 remnants of the other part, a total of 2,500 people.

Li Guangdi's camp was more than a mile behind, with 1,000 remnants of defeated generals, 200 soldiers of the New Army, 200 soldiers of the Huaxia Army, 50 cavalry of the Huaxia Army, plus 200 cavalry of the Ming Army, and 2,000 people, with a total strength of 3,700 Bin.

At this moment, the deserters of the Ming army on the battlefield that should enter the various camps also came in, because it was too far away from the company camp, Zhang Qiang could not manage the company camp behind, so he could only manage these three camps and use the remaining Ming army to resist the enemy.

And the enemy finally knew their strength, and finally adjusted, and the forces of all the troops were gathered, and the forces of both sides on the battlefield were gathered everywhere, and there were no longer deserters and soldiers being pursued and killed all over the mountains.

"This will be followed by a stormy attack, right?" Zhang Qiang said with a smile.

Sure enough, the ranks of the Portuguese quickly separated, one by one captured cannons, one by one their cannons, from three-pounder cannons to eighteen-pounder cannons, almost all the imitation Portuguese cannons that could be seen in this era, as well as the cannons cast by the Portuguese have been cast by other Tessian countries.

"Let the people go down there and dig holes, and dig all the places that can be dug into caves, and everyone who can hide in them." Zhang Qiang ordered.

Although this camp is strong, it cannot withstand so many artillery attacks, and the wall of the wall is not to be thought about, it will definitely collapse if it cannot withstand a few bombardments.

Then it's up to you to fight the enemy with firearms.

Flags of various colors were moved frequently outside the camp, and soon the Portuguese troops were allocated for each stockade.

Facing Zhang Qiang's side of the stockade was about seven or eight thousand troops, Su Zhengqing's side was about five or six thousand troops, and the number of troops who ran to surround Li Guangdi's stockade was about three or four thousand troops, these forces were all with a considerable number of muskets and the strength of the Taixi people, and the rest of the troops were some mercenaries.

They are all elites, and I don't know what the Portuguese think, to surround Huang Binqing's camp is a group of miscellaneous recruits, mercenaries, a small number of Portuguese troops, and the strength of the three small villages around this side has actually reached 20,000 people, not only the regular army strength of various countries, but also the subordinate soldiers of various countries, as well as the mercenaries of various countries, as well as the team of villagers and vagabonds organized by the Portuguese locally.

Although he didn't know what the enemy thought, Zhang Qiang still knew that no matter what, he would deal with the enemy's first round of shelling first, and then find a way.

At the top of the camp, the highest place, the flag was waved, and Zhang Qiang's order was conveyed to each camp, and then each camp gave back the news.

During this time, everyone had a tacit understanding, and no one fired a single shot at anyone's territory, nor did they send a single soldier.

While preparing for defense, on the other hand preparing for encirclement.

(End of chapter)