Chapter 574: Fujian Soldiers and Horses Fight Zhangzhou

Fujian itself has nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, but these people will not cause too heavy a burden on Fujian, as we have already said, most of Fujian's barracks and garrisons are in the eastern coastal area, and the transfer from various places to the Zhangzhou area is not too far away.

Many armies can even transport food back and forth on the same day, which is extremely easy in the local area, and the army has a lot less consideration for logistics.

According to the provisions of the governor's yamen, the 5,000 soldiers who had been trained rushed to the vicinity of Zhangzhou in two days, and the rest were also assembled quickly, and everyone did not understand why the thousands of foreigners in Zhangzhou City easily defeated the 6,000 officers and soldiers that day. But he did not continue to expand his territory, but only held a city in Zhangzhou, speaking of Fujian's various health offices, most of them are done by some trade, which is also a helpless thing, the profits of sea trade are so high, everyone is not tempted.

These people also know what is the situation in Zhangzhou City and several nearby ports, make a lot of money, and the residents are happy, in other words, there must be a lot of gold and silver treasures in this city, at present, Zhangzhou City has almost no rebellion or anything like that, the rule of the Spaniards is very stable, which can characterize the Han people in Zhangzhou City as rebellious thieves, and they can burn and loot and make a fortune after entering the city.

Undisciplined burning, killing, and looting have always been able to stimulate the beastly nature in the hearts of soldiers, make them bloodthirsty, and make them more combative.

Fujian General Deng Minyue personally led the team, he is Fujian's generation of military generals, this generation has achieved the position of Fuzhou General Army, and it can be regarded as a glorious ancestor, but it has always been disgraced, first of all, the Japanese are rampant, Fujian's army is not as good as the people, and the defeat is not stopped, followed by the local pirates are rampant, and there is no way, and now there is Zhangzhou Mansion occupied by foreigners, which is also a shame.

However, unlike the nine-sided Nanzhili, Fujian's strategic location is relatively much worse, and others are reluctant to come to Fujian, so despite repeated defeats, Deng Minyue's position is solid, and every time he gives an order to reprimand, he can't escape from being embarrassed.

This time, the Beijing division has changed greatly, and the officials in every place are trembling, for fear that they will be affected by the storm blowing from the center, the loss of Zhangzhou is a major event, it is too easy to be made a fuss, Deng Minyue also changed his previous lazy temperament, and desperately trained a new army, the army of the Ming Dynasty was corrupted, not because of the system, but because there was a system, no one was willing to implement it, and the officers would rather drive the soldiers to farm, than to train hard, so naturally they were so decadent, Deng Minyue's training this time was nothing fancy, that is, he strictly followed the original drill rules and did not let the soldiers do anything else, except for training and fighting.

The results of the training made the officers from all levels in Fujian secretly ashamed, because it turned out that the weak soldiers did not train, and there was no other reason.

After training this team, Fujian's confidence skyrocketed, thinking that with the cooperation of this army and other guards and soldiers, there would be no problem in taking a small Zhangzhou city, this time because I heard that the firearms of the Western devils in Zhangzhou City were powerful, the whole province did its best, and transferred and borrowed them in Zhejiang and Guangdong, and also made up dozens of cannons, ready to do a good job.

Since the Ming army is a siege of superior forces, there is no strategy to talk about, it is directly that the army has set up a formation outside the city, preparing to attack the city, incidentally, many merchants in Fujian, before the war, are to send all kinds of benefits to the officers, in order to enter the city to bring out their goods and arrears, and are ready to go in to do the last business, but this kind of behavior, both sides of the war are still allowed.

So there is a rather ridiculous phenomenon, on the one hand, the confrontation between the troops of the two sides, on the other hand, on the road between the two armies, the merchants are busy, this situation lasted for three days, the Ming army finally couldn't help but send their own soldiers to pretend to be merchants to try to touch the city, this is the martial law of both sides to prepare for a big fight.

According to the convention, the vanguard was sent to carry out a tentative attack, and the three thousand men of the Ming army cautiously broke through, but the fortifications of Zhangzhou City were too much of a headache, first of all, all kinds of small fortresses and trenches, the terrain to the west of Zhangzhou City was fragmented, and the queue of the large army could not be arranged, but could only be divided into small teams, or a narrow and long formation, so that the advantage of a large number of people could not be shown at all.

And if you don't care about those fortresses, the bows and arrows inside, and the firecrackers come without any scruples, don't look at the most 100 people in them, but dozens of people dare to try to harass and attack, and then quickly retract, which is a headache.

So at the beginning, it can only be a nail pulling, in the case of pulling nails, but it is even more troublesome, the fortress is often a dozen trips a group, relying on each other, although the Ming army is attacking a point, but in fact it is attacking a side, but there is some siege meaning, this is too exhausting.

During the attack this morning, more than 3,000 people did not take a single step forward in the fortress complex, but lost four or five hundred people there, and their morale was in a mess, and they were unwilling to fight again, no matter what they asked.

Deng Minyue was also helpless, he was bored near Fuzhou to train his troops, but the other party was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he built a lot of fortifications here, and he couldn't attack it with a hard attack.

Fortunately, this time the artillery was brought, dozens of large and small artillery pieces were put out, and it was really a bit majestic, the big battalion outside, all the soldiers and officers who had combat missions today, were squeezed to the front as much as possible to see the excitement, the guards of these southeastern provinces have always used no firearms, first, the eunuchs and officials in charge of the arsenal, no bribes generally will not give you good weapons, second, the humidity of the southern climate, gunpowder is not easy to preserve, those broken gunpowder is used on firearms, The effect is the opposite.

Over time, the soldiers in the southeastern provinces have always been the first to fight with cold weapons, and even bows and arrows are not commonly used, because there is a problem with bowstrings and gunpowder, if it is not properly maintained, it will not be able to exert its power at all, and the slightest carelessness on the battlefield will be a loss of the head, how can there be a little mistake, so everyone would rather believe in the swords, guns, swords and halberds in their own books, rather than use more powerful firearms bows and arrows.

In this way, if these soldiers in the southeast are younger, they have never even seen firearms, and this time they saw many people pushing the cannons with great momentum, and they were all curious to come forward to watch.

This time, the gunpowder is all the best materials, and it is very well preserved, speaking of which, Fujian has also invested enough money this time, since there is money, those eunuchs and officials still took out some good things.

The soldiers, who had been standing on the top of the city wall and watching, saw that the Ming army had pulled out the cannons, and immediately began to shout at the city.

In fact, the locals of Zhangzhou in the city also know that the so-called Spaniards are actually Han Chinese, and they are the soldiers of Yizhou, and the white foreign devils they see are all subordinates of the Yizhou army, although these Han people in Yizhou claim to be the southern army of Huazhou.

Speaking of which, there are still people in Zhangzhou City who drink for this matter, saying that it is to promote the prestige of China, but in fact, there is no reason for the moral guilt of being obedient to the people under the so-called foreign devils, so I want to celebrate.

However, the Ming army in the battle always thought that they would fight with the Spaniards again, for no other reason, in the fortress outside the city, there were all Spaniards in Luzon, and there were Spanish prisoners of war escorted in Malacca, and they told them very simply, if they wanted to live, they stayed in the fortress outside the city, and if they survived after the battle, they were free.

Seeing the Ming army's artillery pulled out, these people were panicked, more than a dozen of the most front-line forts, the Spaniards inside all rushed out, ready to seize the artillery, this level of defense The Ming army still did it easily, without much effort, the Spaniards were repulsed.

The artillery of the Ming army roared, dozens of cannons, and there were still more than a dozen or so guns fired that did not fire, but the momentum was loud enough, and the whistling sound in mid-air was crying wolves, and many Ming troops were frightened to take a few steps back, and the effect after landing was really unsatisfactory.

Because of the work of crosshair and correction, no one has experience at all, and the accuracy of landing can be predicted, only two fortresses are really unlucky, they were smashed by a few buckshots, and suddenly there were earth and rocks, and of course none of the people inside survived.

But this scene in Deng Minyue's eyes was already very effective, and he hurriedly arranged for the artillerymen to continue to load ammunition and prepare for the second shot.

At this time, the gate of Zhangzhou City facing the battlefield suddenly opened slowly, and several eight-drawn carriages rushed out, stopping in the open space in front of the city wall, and the carriage jumped off the hands and began to load and unload something.

Deng Minyue, who heard the news, was stunned for a moment, and then said with a laugh:

"What's the use of just seven or eight cannons!!"