Fengchuan is the later generation of Fengkai County, before the Yuan Dynasty Fengchuan and Cangwu County has always been under the jurisdiction of Wuzhou in Guangxi, after the Ming Dynasty Fengchuan was assigned to Guangdong. The mountains here in Fengchuan are undulating and undulating, and it is a typical hilly area. The terrain is generally high on the east and west sides, with many high mountains in the east and rolling hills in the west. Out of Fengchuan is the Xijiang Plain of Pingchuan, and now there are more than 200,000 displaced people living in Tuntian, so Chen Zilong decided to defend against the enemy outside Fengchuan County.

Director Lin of Wuzhou led an army of 13,000 to advance by land and water, preparing to take the west gate of Guangdong and Fengchuan in one fell swoop.

However, Director Lin thought very well, but his team was really not strong, Wuzhou Lifengchuan was only more than 20 miles, these Ming army masters walked for three days, set off in Wuzhou on February 15, and did not reach Fengchuan County until February 18.

At this time, Yan Liang had been waiting here in Fengchuan for five days. In the past five days, Yan Liang was not idle, and with the help of the local magistrate, he blocked five iron cables on the Xijiang River, waiting for the Guangxi soldiers to come.

Yan Liang saw the Guangxi soldiers coming from the telescope, and ordered the deputy regiment commander behind him: "Pass the order, the whole army will go out of the city and fight the enemy in the open space outside the city!" ”

Yan Liang's words almost scared the Fengchuan County Order to death. Originally, he was not optimistic about Yan Liang's team, this army was dressed beautifully, red, red, blue and blue, but it was all muskets, what is the power of the Ming army's muskets, this county is very clear, I thought that relying on the barrier of the city wall, coupled with Yan Liang's more than 3,000 people, he was organizing thousands of people to fight the countryside bravely, and it was no problem to resist the Guangxi soldiers for half a month, and the reinforcements from the state came after half a month. I didn't expect this young officer to go out of the city for a decisive battle, isn't this a death?

"Lord Yan, you must not be born, the city wall of Fengchuan is strong, you can use the city wall to resist the Guangxi soldiers, insist on half a month and wait until the reinforcements arrive, we will win!"

Yan Liang glared at the county order: "What reinforcements, without reinforcements, we are all!" I'll go out and fight them now, if the magistrate is afraid of death, he can't go out! After speaking, Yan Liang led people down the city wall.

Fengchuan Zhixian was scolded by Yan Liang for two sentences, he was so angry that he was a lifter, when was he hit by this gang of Qiu Bading. But seeing that Yan Liang had many soldiers, he didn't dare to squeak, he just made up his mind, and when Yan Liang failed, he would open the city and surrender, anyway, they were all officials of the Ming Dynasty, and it was the same when they went there.

Yan Liang didn't know the sloppy thoughts of the county, took 3,500 people out of the city, and stood in a queue on the side of the Xijiang River, a very simple five-layer queue, because the Guangxi soldiers on the opposite side did not have cavalry, so they did not put a hollow square.

Lin Jiading, a Guangxi scholar on the opposite side, saw the Cantonese Yankees going out of the city and preparing to fight with him, and couldn't help laughing: "Xia Jianjun, have you seen it, these Cantonese Yankees actually want to fight with my army in the field?" Don't they know that the most fearful thing for my Guangxi wolf soldiers is field battles? ”

The overseer Xia Sifu said: "Marshal, it's better to be careful, these strange troops on the other side are probably the subordinates of the King of Chu, since they dare to come out to fight, there must be something outstanding!" ”

Lin Jiading nodded: "What Xia Jianjun said is right! Let Wu Jingbo take two thousand people up to test the strength of the other party! ”

Li Mingzhong, the Wu Jingbo in front, scolded in his heart when he received Lin Jiading's general order, "These stinky old nines know to let themselves die!" "But there's no way, who calls someone Shi handsome!

Li Mingzhong's ancestor still has some ability, and after he and Zhu Di raised troops to settle Annan, he followed Zhang Fu to pacify Annan, and then was named the hereditary commander of Wuzhou, which can be regarded as a veteran. However, the tradition of Li Mingzhong's ancestors to be martial is completely gone, and now Li Mingzhong is no different from ordinary landlords and old wealth, occupying thousands of acres of land outside Wuzhou City, and letting some poor military households work for themselves and live a life of spending days and drinking.

This time, Zhu Youlang was proclaimed emperor in Wuzhou, and Li Mingzhong did not expect the time to come and was named Wu Jingbo. Most of the seven or eight thousand people he brought with him this time were his own tenants, and some peasants who had been captured in the surrounding counties temporarily made cameos as officers and soldiers.

After Li Mingzhong received the general's order, he took his army of 2,000 people and rushed to kill the Guangdong army in a chaotic manner.

On the opposite side, Yan Liang saw that the Guangxi soldiers stopped three miles away from him, and after a while, he saw a man and horse on the opposite side rushing towards him, knowing that the enemy had begun to attack.

Song Kai, the deputy head of the regiment on the side, asked: "Regiment commander, are these Ming troops on the other side stupid?" There is still a chance of winning together, isn't this refueling tactic a head-off for us? "Zhu Hongsan is now called the emperor, and his army has also become the Ming army, but these new army eyes are on the top of their heads, and they can afford these Ming troops called Huazi, so they call themselves the new army in private.

"These guys are going to test it!" Yan Liang looked at these called Huazi army in the telescope, there were all of them, from the elderly in their forties and fifties, to children under the age of twelve. Less than half of them wore the red mandarin duck robes of the Ming army, and they held various weapons in their hands, such as shuttle darts, spears, big knives, and a few wielding kitchen knives, probably brought by their own families.

Yan Liang sighed and said, "After all, they are all children of my Han family." Pay attention to the more than 3,000 native soldiers in the back, they are the main force! ”

Li Mingzhong drove the forward 2,000 men and soon came to the front of the new army in Guangdong. Yan Liang didn't let the cannon go either, but just let the Ming army in and prepared to solve it with muskets.

Entering 200 meters, the 100 archers behind the Ming army in Guangxi began to release arrows, but most of the bows and arrows used were the armaments produced in Wanli year, coupled with the humid weather in Guangxi, the bowstring lost its elasticity, and the range was less than 50 meters, and the bows and arrows shot out were still 100 meters away from the new army.

Song Kai saw the Ming army entering the firing range and shouted: "Ready, shoot three times per platoon, fire!" ”

Each regiment of the Guangdong New Army had 2,850 musketeers, and each of them fired six or seven thousand lead bullets in three shots. The Ming army running wildly on the opposite side only saw a puff of white smoke coming out of the opposing military formation, and the comrades around him fell to the ground one after another. These Ming soldiers were all peasants half a month ago, where had they seen such a battle, and when they saw that the life and death of the people around them were unknown, they shouted and fled backwards.

Li Mingzhong of the rear team also knew the combat effectiveness of his subordinates, but he didn't expect to retreat before he took over the battle, Li Mingzhong scolded angrily, and ordered his own soldiers to cut down the rout, but these rout soldiers have been scared by the new army, where it can be stopped by killing a few deserters, after killing a few people, Li Mingzhong has no choice, and retreats with the rout.

Li Mingzhong came to see Lin Jiading, the handsome man in the back. Director Lin didn't expect to be defeated so quickly, and he could see clearly from behind, and he was still more than a hundred meters away from the opposite side.

Lin Jiading had a calm face and asked, "Uncle Wu Jing, what is my order?" ”

Li Mingzhong said cautiously: "Order your subordinates to attack the opponent's camp." ”

"So what do you do? There are still more than 30 zhang from the opposite side and they retreated, how did you bring the soldiers! Come and behead Li Mingzhong to set an example! ”

When Li Mingzhong heard that he was going to kill himself, he quickly knelt down and shouted: "Dashuai, it's not that his subordinates don't work hard, it's really that the other party's fire is too powerful, and most of us were defeated before we arrived, please spare your life!" ”

At this time, the supervising army Xia Sifu stood up and said: "Marshal, Wu Jingbo is just underestimating the enemy, why don't you let him make meritorious service and kill the general as soon as he engages the enemy, which is not good for the army!" Xia Sifu received five hundred taels of silver from Li Mingzhong in Wuzhou, so he naturally wanted to say good things for him at this time.

In fact, the handsome Lin Jiading also accepted Li Mingzhong's silver, and he didn't want to kill him in his heart, but he lost the first battle, and his face was really not good-looking. Now that there is a prison army to intercede with Li Mingzhong, Lin Jiading is also happy to do this favor, waved his hand, and asked the soldiers to bring Li Mingzhong back.

Li Mingzhong, who was alive from the dead, hurriedly kowtowed and thanked the handsome man for sparing him.

"Wu Jingbo, now give you a chance to make meritorious service for your crimes, how do you say to fight?"

Li Mingzhong scolded in his heart, isn't this nonsense, if you hand over those wolf soldiers to me, you will definitely be able to win.

"Dashuai, his subordinates have a plan, let the Han soldiers take the lead, and the Guangxi wolf soldiers will follow in the rear formation, as long as they survive the first few waves of fire guns from those Cantonese Yankees on the opposite side, those wolf soldiers will rush into the formation, and those Cantonese Yankees are the opponents of the wolf soldiers!"

Li Mingzhong's strategy was really bad, so that the miscellaneous cards blocked the bullets in front and covered the charge of those Guangxi wolf soldiers.

The literati of this era did not treat these ordinary people as human beings at all, and now the best warlord for the common people in the world is Zhu Hongsan, although Zhu Hongsan is also to exploit the common people, but at least he can protect the safety of the common people.

Lin Jiading heard Li Mingzhong say this, and nodded again and again, the common people have it, there are still a large number of homeless people outside Wuzhou City, and they will be arrested when they are all dead.

"Okay, Uncle Wu Jing, I'll give you another 5,000 men and horses, plus 3,000 wolf soldiers, this time you have to retreat and don't complain about the ruthlessness of the official!"

Hearing Lin Jiading say this, Li Mingzhong hurriedly replied: "Please rest assured, your subordinates will definitely be able to kill all these Cantonese Yankees this time!" ”

In the Guangdong New Army on the opposite side, Yan Liang saw that the Ming army in Guangxi had retreated, and after a while, it was divided into half and was about to rush into battle again, but the native soldiers in white clothes behind him also began to follow.

"It seems that the other side is ready to move seriously, these Guangxi native soldiers can have strong combat effectiveness, deputy regiment commander, order to go down, enter the range of the artillery can be fired, three solid bullets after the change of shotguns!"

Song Kai then ordered to inform the artillery company behind.

Zhu Hongsan has always attached importance to the artillery building of the troops, and each regiment has five artillery companies and 90 field artillery pieces. You must know that even in Beijing, there are only 22 Hongyi cannons, and because Zhu Hongsan's field artillery uses advanced steel, although each one is only 800 catties, the firing range is the same as that of 5,000 catties of Hongyi cannons, which is two miles.

Seeing that the Ming army in Guangxi on the opposite side entered the firing range, the field artillery of the new army began to fire.