Zhang Qiang looked at Emperor Longwu, who had stabilized his emotions, Emperor Longwu was looking at him, at this moment, Zhang Qiang was like Emperor Longwu's savior, Emperor Longwu felt that he couldn't leave Zhang Qiang for a moment, he had never been so desperate to rely on someone as he was at this moment.

He was fed up with hardships, and he always wanted to not rely on others and work hard to make a career.

But the reality made him feel that without Zhang Qiang, he would not be able to survive for a moment.

Zhang Qiang turned his head, no longer looked at him, and looked firmly at the Qing army general on a horse in the distance, "Go down, line up." We fight with them. ”

Dragged the chapphire who reported the message, "Prepare a signal, once I send a signal, you will send a signal to Yang Yangyang and let him come to support us." ”

He turned to the chassars beside him and said, "Each of you has a man to protect on his horse, and when he sees the signal, he rushes out with them. ”

"Governor, Commander-in-Chief." The chasers looked at Zhang Qiang one after another, they were Zhang Qiang's personal soldiers, and let them protect others, which made them unacceptable.

"Take orders, follow orders, and carry them out!"

At this time, Gu Yuesheng took the 2,500 soldiers handed over to him by Tang Dianfeng, drove out of Pingnan County, and before the Qing army was encircled, he followed fifty cavalry to the place where Zhang Qiang was.

"A thousand musketeers, a thousand infantry, five hundred captives. Fifty cavalry. Of course, it also includes Gu Yuesheng's dozens of infantry and personal cavalry who survived the Battle of Dongshan Pass, thirty-two people. ”

The soldiers who retreated from Nanshan and the ferry were defeated by the enemy's army in less than half an hour after they had finished intercepting the enemy and covering their battle, and fled all over the mountains.

Tang Dianfeng lost 6,000 captive soldiers, 4,000 young and strong rebel soldiers who had just joined them, and more than 3,000 trained Jinhua rebel soldiers who were transferred from Taizhou Prefecture, as well as the original Ming army in Pingnan County.

A total of more than 15,000 troops.

The total number of troops in his hands fell from more than 48,000 to more than 33,000.

Zhang Cunzhe's army of 20,000 defeated and defeated his rebel army, the regular soldiers of the Jinhua rebel army, but lost more than 5,000 people, but captured more than 3,000 prisoners, killed more than 3,000 rebels, and routed several times the prisoners and rebel soldiers.

At noon, the county seat of Pingnan was surrounded from all sides.

and sent 5,000 troops to pursue Gu Yuesheng's more than 2,500 troops out of the city.

The scorching sun was shining, and Frey wiped a handful of sweat with his sleeve and said to the officer beside him, "Captain, go and ask how long it will take to arrive?" ”

A Portuguese lancer captain saluted, then said, "It's a major." ”

Fan Shaozu was not walking, nor was he riding a horse, he was sitting on a sliding pole, carried by four palanquin drivers, and when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, he turned his head and looked at the cavalry captain wearing a reddish-brown military uniform and a cavalry cuirass, and asked, "What is the matter?" ”

An interpreter translated his words, and the cavalry captain said, "Your Excellency, the major, let me ask you, when can we reach our destination?" ”

Fan Shaozu turned his head to look at a local official on the side, and the official said: "My lord, this is Gantang, if you are in a hurry, you can go to the periphery of Pingnan County in half a day, but if the army goes like this, it will take a day, and it will take a day and a half to go to Pingnan County." ”

Fan Shaozu said to the interpreter: "Tell him that there is still a day to go." ”

Frey heard the words of the cavalry captain, cursed, and then did not speak again, and continued to follow the army.

Fan Shaozu summoned a scout in front, "Go and send someone to contact General Ruan, see what is going on there, and ask him to send someone to report to me." ”

Dozens of miles away, in Pingnan County, Tang Dianfeng heard the report of the sentry, "My lord, the enemy is rushing to make some siege equipment, it is estimated that it will be either at night or tomorrow morning to start attacking the city." ”

Tang Dianfeng said to the sentinel: "Continue to investigate and report the situation of the enemy army in time." ”

Having received that the enemy was not ready to attack the city immediately, he walked to the back hall and prepared to rest. For a day and a night, he didn't close his eyes.

Zhang Qiang, who was far away in Daqiao Town, was slowly walking down the hill behind the lined up firecrackers.

The infantry surrounded Emperor Longwu and his party in the middle, and Zhang Qiang and his party, and thirty firecrackers were a small team, advancing towards the cavalry in a horizontal formation.

Ruan Jie watched Zhang Qiang and them come down from the mountain, and said to the people around him with a smile: "That's right, order a thousand cavalry to assault the enemy's front, and you two cavalrymen who have lost manpower will go around and assault the enemy's back." ”

"I'm going to crush the enemy in one fell swoop."

A thousand cavalry ran, and the sound was very terrifying.

Zhang Qiang and the others had just descended to the bottom of the hillside, and the enemy had already rushed to a distance of 100 meters.

Without Zhang Qiang's command, the general flags had already ordered the squad to open fire.

The enemy's cavalry fell from their horses like dumplings.

After firing the gun, the soldier ran behind desperately, ran to a distance of ten meters, and immediately stopped to reload the bullet.

There were one hundred and twenty people shooting at the entire front.

After the first round, the second row continued to shoot, and after they fired their guns, they ran to the back again, this time not ten meters, twenty-two meters.

The cavalry on the front of the enemy had already lost more than seventy people.

But this is just a drop in the bucket for their army of more than 1,000 people.

By the time the third platoon fired, the enemy had already rushed to a distance of thirty meters.

After firing the guns, the more than 50 musketeers ran desperately, and the first row was almost loaded.

The second row has just begun to be loaded.

This time, the enemy was killed more than a dozen people, and a dozen people were knocked down by their own people.

That is to say, basically the enemy attacked in this wave, and they lost more than a hundred cavalry.

Thirty meters.

The first platoon opened fire.

At such a close distance, the enemy's cavalry was stunned, and a hundred cavalry fell, and thirty cavalrymen could not contain their horses, and they were knocked down and trampled to death by their own people.

The soldiers in the first row began to run for their lives, and some even threw away their muskets.

This time they were going to run thirty meters.

The second row had just been loaded, and they had only run a distance of fifteen meters, just over the second row.

After the second platoon fired, the enemy's formation was already diluted.

When the second platoon ran to the back, the enemy's bows and arrows arrived, and the slow runners of the second and first platoons were inevitably shot and killed.

Fifty or sixty men in the third platoon fired.

The enemy's cavalry was pierced, and on the entire offensive route, more than 300 cavalry of the earthlings were killed and wounded, and more than 100 horses were killed.

"Infantry sortie." Zhang Qiang saw that the musketeers in the first row had just run into place, and there was no time to reload, the remaining cavalry of the enemy had already rushed over with their sabers, and immediately ordered the infantry to rush up and fight the enemy, and then led the horses and retreated to the hillside with the remaining men.

In this wave of attacks, the enemy killed and wounded 400 cavalry, he killed and wounded more than 20 infantrymen, more than 60 musketeers, the enemy's frontal attack of the cavalry has dispersed, and the cavalry attacking from both sides was suddenly withdrawn by them, and cut over, but it was only cut to the position of the third row of soldiers.

"Free fire." A loud shout told the musketeers that they did not have to wait for the officer's order when they saw the enemy firing freely.

So the quick-handed musketeers were already loaded, and immediately opened fire, and the enemy's cavalry was hit and not, and they were lucky enough to dodge.

The entire battlefield unfolded at the very bottom of the hillside.

Some of the musketeers had already run to the first line of trenches, a dozen musketeers began to reload, and the enemy cavalry rushed around the place of battle and rushed towards them, some of the cavalry in the middle were stopped by the chasseurs who had no task, some were lowered by the scattered infantry columns, but a few cavalry still rushed to the front.

The two musketeers jumped out of the trench and drew their swords to meet them.

But without exception, they all died in battle.

But they bought time for everyone else.

Between firing, reloading, running, fighting, and fighting, some people lose their lives, while others succeed in killing the enemy and then being killed by the enemy.

More than a dozen musketeers in the first trench finally fired the first shot.

A small group of enemy cavalry was shot, and they successfully rescued a dozen musketeers from the second platoon, and a dozen musketeers ran towards them frantically, stumbling into the trenches and joining their ranks.

After a while, the first row of musketeers who had bypassed the flank ran into the second layer of trenches, and some of the musketeers continued to reload and fire, while others drew their swords and fought the enemy hand-to-hand.

By the time the two platoons of musketeers opened fire again, more musketeers and some of the surviving infantry retreated into the first line of trenches.

Zhang Qiang and the others had already retreated to the third trench, and there was no one else around him except for the two chasers, who could not fight, and the few chasers who could not fight.

Some of the cavalry tried to get around from the flank, rush to the high ground, and then raid them from behind, but the terrain did not allow them to do so, and they embarked on a difficult trek before being killed by name by free-firing musketeers.

More firecrackers scattered on the battlefield returned and established positions on both sides of the second trench, perhaps not much, thirty or forty men on each side, but successfully covered the dozens of men in the first trench.

They began to retreat upwards.

The enemy's cavalry crossed the first line of trenches, but left their bodies in front of and behind the first line of trenches.

This is not a place where war horses can run.

The only place they could pass through was a narrow passage.

Zhang Qiang was silently counting, "One hundred and thirty casualties of the firecrackers were exchanged for five hundred casualties of the enemy, which is good." ”

There were still a few chasseurs and a few infantry on the battlefield, fifty or sixty musketeers were fighting the enemy hand-to-hand, and more than thirty musketeers were running in a thrilling way in the sea of enemy cavalry.

Fight with the enemy from time to time on the way.

In the end, only seven or eight musketeers ran through the first trench with wounds, and were picked up by the musketeers of the second trench, who were brought to their side by Zhang Stress, and continued to fight on the edge of the third trench to cover themselves.