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Feng Ziyong, who was commanding the battle at the head of Beicheng City, was naturally happy when he heard that reinforcements were coming, but the next moment he was angry. Why didn't this bastard general go into the city, but went directly to Xiguan where. Didn't he know that there were 240,000 troops outside the city? He dared to take a mere 6,000 people to fight in the wilderness, who did he think he was? Xiang Yu?

Feng Ziyong didn't know Wang Kun, but Zhou Yu knew him too well. This Wang Kun was a rogue captured by Zhu Hongsan in Henan, and later joined Zhu Hongsan's team and made a lot of contributions in Xinyang City. It is precisely because he was born in a rogue that he is very close to Wang Jinbao, who is also a rogue. This Wang Kun fights a lot, but he is not a reckless man, and he must have something to rely on when he does this outside Xiguan.

"Master Taiwan, I know this Wang Kun very well, this guy is not a brainless guy, he must have something to rely on for this! Why don't we take advantage of the fact that he is attracting King Gui's army and organize a counterattack to defeat the enemy army at the head of the city? ”

Feng Ziyong thought about it for a while, Beicheng is still more than ten miles away from Xiguan, and they are outside the city, and they are no longer in a hurry to rush with reinforcements, so it is better to fight a counterattack here.

Feng Ziyong, who decided to come down, immediately organized the strong men in the city to directly wrap all the gunpowder into gunpowder bags, and now it is too late to make grenades* bombs, so he can only use this local method.

The city organized a counterattack, and Li Dingguo outside the city was overjoyed, and he received news from the defeated army in Xiguan that a Guangdong Ming army dared to line up outside the city and wanted to fight with him in the field.

Li Dingguo was born in northern Shaanxi, and cavalry is his old business, although he is now in Guangdong, where the water network is dense, but he still brought 5,000 cavalry from Yunnan and Guizhou, which is his Li Dingguo's old book. Now the Ming army on the opposite side who don't know how to die wants to fight in the field, so let these southern barbarians see the cavalry in the north.

Li Dingguo called his cavalry general Wang Han and said to him: "Wang Han, you take 5,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry to Xiguan where to defeat the Ming army in Guangdong ashore, and try to capture their artillery!" ”

Li Dingguo has suffered from the artillery at the head of the city in the past half a month, and most of the casualties were caused by those artillery, so he was very greedy for the artillery of the Ming army in Guangdong.

Wang Han is Li Dingguo's descendant, and when he heard the boss say this, he nodded and went down with the cavalry.

At this time, Wang Kun had already led two regiments to form a formation outside Xiguan, which was exactly five or six miles away from the Pearl River, which was just right for the army to deploy. Wang Kun asked the army to line up along the Pearl River, and at the same time, the navy's warships went forward one mile, just five miles in front of the army into the range of naval artillery.

Wang Kun's troops disembarked in a hurry, and the army's field guns were all on the boat behind, and the ground shook when they were about to unload. Wang Kun, who was born in a rogue, was all too familiar with this kind of shock, which was the vibration of a large number of cavalry marching.

Wang Kun scolded in his heart: I didn't expect these Guangxi Yankees to get cavalry, there are seven or eight thousand people listening to this voice, and the artillery can't be unloaded, so I can only ask the navy's water rats.

Wang Han led people around the city of Guangzhou, and at a glance, he saw the five huge sea ships on the riverside. Wang Han was born in Shaanxi and has never seen such a big sea ship, but he is not stupid, he knows that these sea ships are not easy to mess with, but he doesn't pay attention to it. The five ships can be loaded with a few cannons, and their own cavalry horses are fast, taking advantage of the opportunity of the other party's loading, they have already rushed forward to get mixed up with those Guangdong Ming troops, and the Ming army's artillery is naturally invalid.

Although Wang Han knew that these Ming troops in red clothes were strong in combat, the number of people on the opposite side was too small, and in addition to the 5,000 cavalry, he was followed by 20,000 infantry, as long as he could rush forward, he would definitely be able to win against this group of Ming troops.

But when Wang Han charged with the cavalry, he found that there were dozens of artillery pieces on the side of those big ships, but now he couldn't care about it, so he could only charge hard.

The second-class battleships of the Ming army in Guangdong had 64 guns on one side and 32 guns on one side, a total of five, and 160 guns fired together. There is only five or six miles of open space outside the city of Xiguan in Guangzhou, and five or six thousand infantry can put it down, but five thousand cavalry can't let go, let alone 20,000 infantry behind these cavalry.

The 160 naval guns all had a range of more than three miles, and they opened fire as soon as Wang Han's cavalry began to charge, and 160 solid shells opened 160 blood alleys in the dense cavalry formation.

In this way, Wang Han led the cavalry to charge under artillery fire, and finally approached the Ming infantry with the lives of seven or eight hundred people.

Seeing the Ming army formation a few hundred meters away, Wang Han was happy in his heart, the infantry against the cavalry was simply sent to death, as long as his cavalry rushed up, the artillery on those big ships could not fire to avoid hurting their own people, and then he would be able to turn defeat into victory.

However, the tactics of the Ming army in Guangdong surpassed those of Wang Han in several eras, and the Ming army in Guangdong used the hollow phalanx used by the European army to deal with cavalry in later generations.

In the Battle of Waterloo 200 years later, Marshal Ney of the French Army led 30,000 French cuirassiers to the hedgehog hollow phalanx carefully arranged by the Duke of Wellington of England.

And now Wang Kun formed this kind of hollow phalanx that specializes in dealing with cavalry, the phalanx of the Ming army in Guangdong is based on infantry regiments, each phalanx is divided into several layers inside and outside, the outermost warriors use a kneeling posture to build the outermost defense line with bayonets, and the inner layers of soldiers shoot the formation with smoothbore guns in a cross-standing posture, and there are soldiers and reserves responsible for loading behind, and the middle of the hollow array is the command system.

You must know that the horse is a very timid animal, and if it is not carefully trained, it will not dare to rush towards the bright sword, so Wang Han's cavalry slowed down in front of the phalanx. At this time, the musketeers of the Praetorian Guard Division began to shoot, and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Division were all veterans. These veterans were able to shoot five shots a minute with muskets, and for a time the cavalry in front of the phalanx suffered heavy casualties.

In this era, no army could withstand one-third of the casualties and continue to fight, and Wang Han's cavalry could no longer hold on after more than half of the casualties, and turned their horses and fled. They fled, but the 20,000 infantry behind them were miserable, these guys were directly exposed to the naval artillery, but they were not Li Chengdong's old battalion men, they used to be the guards of Guangxi, and they surrendered on their knees after the first salvo of naval artillery.

Wang Kun laughed when he saw his victory, left a battalion to guard these surrendered guys, and took all the troops to the north of Guangzhou.

Wang Han led people back to Li Dingguo's camp, Li Dingguo didn't expect his cavalry to be defeated so quickly, and at the same time received the news that the Ming army that had landed had gone to his flank. Li Dingguo didn't know that the Ming army was bluffing at all, and Wang Kun and their defeat of the cavalry was completely using the naval artillery fire to take the lead. If Li Dingguo was organizing tens of thousands of horses to fight Wang Kun again at this time, he would basically be able to eliminate Wang Kun. Although the combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guard Division is outstanding, after all, there is too much difference in numbers, and there is no heavy weapon support such as artillery, so there is basically no chance of victory against tens of thousands of people.

However, Li Dingguo didn't dare to take this risk, and after thinking about it, he quickly ordered the army that had already attacked the city to withdraw, after all, there were 20,000 old battalions of his own in front, which was his own old capital, and he was all lost in Guangzhou, what could he do to fight with Sun Kewang.

Feng Ziyong and Zhou Yu breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the enemy retreating, they didn't expect that Li Dingguo would be able to retreat when the city was about to be broken, it seems that Xiguan should have won.

After a while, it was reported that the Praetorian Guard had come to the north gate, and asked the Governor to open the gate and let them into the city.

Zhou Yu lay on the city wall and saw that it was the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Division, and hurriedly organized people to clean up the north gate and let his own people into the city.

Wang Kun was happy after a big victory, and when he saw Feng Ziyong and Zhou Yu, he hurriedly saluted and handed over the emperor's holy decree to the two.

Feng Ziyong didn't care whether he was promoted or not, he cared about where the emperor's reinforcements went.

"General Wang, are the reinforcements your two regiments?"

Wang Kun bowed down and said: "Lord Huitai, we are just the vanguard, His Majesty the Emperor has already set off from Beijing with 60,000 horses, and it is estimated that he will be able to arrive in Guangzhou in half a month!" ”

"The Emperor came in person? Fooling around, how can the emperor's golden body be in danger? Can't a few cabinet elders dissuade them? ”

Wang Kun is a martial artist, how can he know what the cabinet said, but when the master asked him, he had to say: "The last general doesn't know, but when the last general left Beijing, I heard that Ma Ge Lao made some mistakes and was sent home by the emperor to retire!" ”

Feng Zi used the news for more than half a month to isolate himself, because the news of the war in Nanjing was not delivered, so he did not know that Ma Mingyuan was dismissed.

"What? Ma Ge old dismissed? Who's the first assistant now? Feng Ziyong was overjoyed when he heard that Ma Mingyuan was unlucky, so that there was a vacant position in the cabinet, so did he have any hope of returning to the cabinet?

"I heard that Ma Ge Lao recommended his eldest brother to the emperor, who is the Governor of Liangjiang, Master Ma Zhitaima!"

It turned out that Ma Jiyuan was the first assistant, and Feng Ziyong was inevitably disappointed when he heard that he had no drama.

Zhou Yu doesn't care about Feng's own loss, he only cares about whether he can hold on to Guangzhou.

"Wang Kun, how much supplies did you bring?"

"Please rest assured, Lord Admiral, when the last general left the capital division, he brought a division's supplies, which is enough for us to hold out for a month!"

Zhou Yu was overjoyed when he heard Wang Kun say this, he persisted in Guangzhou for half a month, the gunpowder was basically consumed, and his morale was almost exhausted. Now with Wang Kun's new force joining, coupled with the logistics supplies that have just arrived, Zhou Yu is confident that he will hold on until the emperor arrives.