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The battle of the Sand River continued, because the banks of the river were too crowded, and Li Dingguo's 150,000 troops could not be deployed, and now it was completely a tactic of adding fuel. Li Dingguo saw that his army was wiped out by the Ming army in Guangdong little by little, and he was very anxious. He came to call his henchman Ye Biao and said: "You take 20,000 old battalions to cross the river in the shallow upper water and attack the enemy from the flank!" ”

Ye Biao clenched his fists and led the people of the headquarters to leave far away.

Zhu Hongsan, who was in the rear team, saw through the telescope that Li Dingguo had about 20,000 people to bypass far away, and he knew that they wanted to attack his flank.

Zhu Hongsan said to Han Sanqiang beside him: "Han Sanqiang, you take a regiment and two regiments and go upstream to meet that partial division!" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he continued to look at the main battlefield, where more than 1,000 people who landed on his side were pressed by tens of thousands of people from Li Dingguo on the riverbank and struggling.

Zhu Hongsan scolded: "This gang of waste, this small river is only sixty or seventy meters wide, why don't you use artillery to suppress the opposite bank?" Zhang Huangyan went to give Li Chengdong an order, asking him to suppress the enemy troops on the opposite bank with artillery, and strive to erect twenty pontoon bridges! ”

The herald passed the emperor's order to Li Chengdong on the front line, Li Chengdong had never fought a war with hot weapons, he didn't know how to use artillery, so he could only ask Zhu Bao next to him: "Boy, the emperor is angry, how do you say to use those artillery!" ”

Zhu Bao was also very embarrassed when he saw the battle situation on the other side: "Lord Wang, now we are entangled with the enemy on the other side, and we are afraid of hitting our own people with artillery!" ”

Li Chengdong asked: "Can you find a way to transport the artillery to the other side!" ”

"The pontoon bridge is not good, each gun is enough for 800 catties, and the pontoon bridge can't hold on!"

Zhu Bao hesitated for a moment and said, "But there is another way!" ”

"What's the solution? Say it! ”

"Lord, have you seen those cowhides that make the pontoon? They are all impermeable, and can be tied into a temporary bamboo raft with more than a dozen cowhides, which can be transported over an artillery. ”

Li Chengdong was born in Shaanxi, and when he heard Zhu Bao say this, he immediately remembered the pigskin raft used to cross the Yellow River, and Li Chengdong smiled: "Okay, you kid has brains!" ”

After Li Chengdong finished speaking, he said to Gao Daqiang beside him: "Gao Daqiang, you go to build a raft, the more the better, and then transport your artillery* over!" ”

Gao Daqiang led the order to go down, this kind of solid cowhide airbag logistics department has, it is easy to tie ten rafts, Gao Daqiang with ten cannons, left the river bank and rowed to the opposite bank.

At this time, there were more than 3,000 sword and shield soldiers crossing the river through the pontoon bridge, but they were crushed to the river bank, and the musketeers behind were blocked on the pontoon bridge and could not cross, and there was no way to use muskets to support the sword and shield soldiers on the shore.

Gao Daqiang on the raft saw that the opposite bank was full of enemy troops, and at this time the raft was only more than ten meters away from the opposite bank, Gao Daqiang asked the gunner to load the cannonballs on the raft and fire at the enemy troops on the shore. However, Gao Daqiang was afraid of hurting the sword and shield soldiers next to him, so he did not load shotguns, but used solid bullets.

The commander of the guns gave the order, and the artillery fired, but now on the raft, the huge recoil immediately shook the raft over, and the artillery on the raft fell into the river together with the gunner.

Although it was only a shot, because the distance was too close, only more than ten meters, and the enemy soldiers on the shore were crowded and crowded, this solid bullet caused hundreds of casualties, and the first dozen or so were completely reduced to body parts.

When the enemy troops here saw that the other side had artillery, they shouted in fright and retreated. Gao Daqiang took advantage of this opportunity to dock with nine other artillery pieces.

After landing on the shore, Gao Daqiang immediately called the hundreds of sword and shield men next to him and asked them to help push the artillery to the front, this time because there were not enough rafts, only three shells were transported from each gun, one live ammunition and two shotguns.

But these are enough, although Li Chengdong's army is very capable of fighting and has a strong will to fight, but seeing his comrades-in-arms around him being beaten into a pile of rotten meat by the enemy's artillery, the soldiers with a firm will can't hold on. The hundred households led by him shouted and retreated with his subordinates.

The enemy troops blocking the shore retreated, and the pressure immediately became less, and at this time, coupled with the use of ten more pontoon bridges, the new Guangdong army on the opposite bank rushed over like a tide.

Gao Daqiang saw that there were already more than 1,000 musketeers who came over, and hurriedly asked these people to line up. The power of musketeers lies in numbers, and the lethality of a single musketeer is not as great as that of a sword and shield soldier, but thousands of musketeers gather together and skillfully shoot and reload under the orders of their commanders, and this kind of killing speed is not comparable to that of sword and shield soldiers.

Li Dingguo saw that there were more and more musketeers crossing the river, and the number of artillery pieces had also increased exponentially, and he knew that today's battle could not be fought. He looked in the distance, and Ye Biao, who was sent out to attack the flank, was just about to cross the river: "Someone, send an order to Ye Biao, let him not cross the river, let him come back to cover the rear team, and all of them will retreat to Baiyun Mountain!" ”

In ancient times, the war was not afraid of fighting before the battle, nor was it afraid of marching and arranging, and the most feared thing was to withdraw the troops. Because there is no information on the battlefield, if the flag is withdrawn at this time, it will be misread by the soldiers, is it that we are defeated? It is easy to form a large collapse. There is no good way to solve this situation, and of course it is not without a solution, that is, to improve the quality of soldiers and the number of junior officers.

At this time, Li Dingguo made a fatal mistake, if the battlefield was all his old battalion troops, it would be better to say, although there were not enough grassroots officers, but the quality of the soldiers in the old battalion was very high, and they knew what to do. Li Dingguo forgot at this time that he still had more than 100,000 guards under his command, these guys had been frightened by the artillery of the Ming army in Guangdong, and now they can insist on not escaping is completely the last bit of courage to insist, and now they hear that they can withdraw, so why not spread the ducks and run for their lives?

In this way, more than 100,000 guards immediately scattered the rearguard troops led by Ye Biao, and Ye Biao's old battalion was also infected by the rout and joined the ranks of fleeing for their lives.

Ye Biao ran to Li Dingguo and shouted: "Dashuai, no! My brother was scattered by the guards, and I can't stop it! ”

Seeing that it was already like this, Li Dingguo sighed: "Hey! The destiny is like this, how can I think that the firearms of these Guangdong Ming Army are so sharp, I want to know that I can't choose such a place for a decisive battle! ”

Li Dingguo looked at the chaotic soldiers all around, and it seemed that he had no choice but to flee for his life!

Li Dingguo pulled a few henchmen and generals around him and shouted: "You go and gather your subordinates, don't go back to the camp outside Guangzhou, go directly to Baiyun Mountain, don't cross the river, take a small road to Qingyuan!" If I hadn't arrived, you would have entered Huaiji directly from Quang Ninh and returned to Guangxi! ”

Several of his generals nodded one after another, they were originally rogues, and it was common for them to fail in battles in the Central Plains and escape, so they naturally knew how to escape the fastest.

After arranging to accept it, Li Dingguo took 2,000 personal soldiers, and regardless of the civilian officials such as Lu Daqi who was behind, he directly left the troops and entered Baiyun Mountain.

Lu Daqi was watching the excitement in the back team, at the beginning, he was fighting with Chu Wei's army on his side, but he didn't think that in the blink of an eye, how could his side be defeated?

At this time, a general ran over to find Lu Daqi: "Lord Chengtai, Chu Regent's army has attacked, what should we do?" ”

How can Lu Daqi, a literati, know what to do? I had no choice but to ask, "What about Hou Ye Li?" ”

"Lord Taiwan, someone saw that Hou Ye Li withdrew first with his own soldiers!"

When Lu Daqi heard that Li Dingguo threw him away, he ran away first, this is angry!

"Shaft, these gangsters are really untrustworthy and unrighteous!"

The general saw that Lu Daqi was scolding Li Dingguo here, and quickly interrupted him and asked, "My lord, what should I do now?" Where should we retreat? ”

Lu Daqi thought about it, there are still 30,000 horses outside Guangzhou, where to retreat!

"Hurry up and give the order, retreat to the camp outside Guangzhou, and defend the camp according to it!"

If Lu Daqi watched the movie made by Uncle Ge in the later generations, he should know a famous saying, people's hearts are scattered, and the team is not easy to bring!

The current situation also confirms Uncle Ge's words, now that the army's spirit has been lost, the more than 100,000 defeated troops retreated to the camp outside Guangzhou like a tide, and immediately dispersed the defenders in the camp, and even the remaining 30,000 defenders were infected with the atmosphere of defeat and ran away with the chaotic army.

Feng Ziyong in Guangzhou City was overjoyed when he saw that the defeated army had retreated like a tide, and it seemed that his side had won.

Feng Ziyong hurriedly asked Zhou Yu to call the city gate, and with 20,000 horses in the city, he went out of the city to cooperate with the reinforcements to encircle and suppress the defeated army.

Lu Daqi originally thought well, retreated to the big camp, and relied on the big camp to organize a counterattack, but he didn't expect it to be like this in the end.

Lu Daqi sighed at the sky: "Your Majesty, the old minister is sorry for Your Majesty!" "After saying that, he will kill himself with his sword.

How do you know that before the sword was pulled out, it was snatched by the general next to him, and the general said: "Lord Zhangtai, there is the Pearl River in front, we can find a small boat to cross the river, and the end will protect you and return to Guangxi!" ”

Lu Daqi sighed, it seems that this is the only way.

More than 100,000 defeated troops retreated to the Pearl River, and they forgot that there were no small boats on the side of the Pearl River now, and Zhu Hongsan's navy was cruising in the Pearl River.

When the navy's five second-class warships saw the Ming troops in Guangxi crowding into the river, they immediately opened their guns and attacked the enemy troops on the shore with shotguns.

Now the banks of the Pearl River are full of people, a naval shotgun can kill hundreds of people, now the Pearl River is like Shura Hell, full of human limbs, directly dead is luck, those who have broken hands and feet are lying on the shore, hoarse shouting for help.

At this time, Feng Ziyong had rushed to the Pearl River with 20,000 people, many of these friends and comrades-in-arms died in the hands of the Ming army in Guangxi on the opposite side in the defense of Guangzhou.

Lu Daqi saw that his soldiers were killed and wounded by the two sides, and he regretted in his heart, no matter what he did, he must not let his subordinates die again.

Lu Daqi separated the crowd, came to the opposite side of the Ming army in Guangdong, and shouted: "Feng Ziyong, the old man is Lu Daqi, you come out for me!" ”