Zhou Lang got the news of Zhao Wen, and when Donggangxi arrived, the battle was already over. He could only let the only one recruited by the army, Lang Zhong, treat the wounded, there were more than 50 wounded, it was very shocking, just an encounter, there were so many casualties, and it was the first time Zhou Lang encountered it.

Zhou Lang was shocked by Zhao Wen's loss.

He thought that the Western-trained army would be crushing the Shangqing army, but he did not expect that there were more than 80 casualties, of which 30 were burned, 30 were killed in battle, and 8 were directly executed by Zhao Wen for trying to escape.

It's not that Zhou Lang looked down on the Qing army, compared with the European armies of the same era, the rest of the world lagged behind. In fact, it is not weaponry and equipment that lags behind, but a whole system from training to command. Before the Thirty Years' War, Europe's weaponry and combat concepts were actually similar to China's, and they were all equipped with a certain degree of firearms, but the combat methods were still dominated by cold weapons.

During the Thirty Years' War, King Gustav of Sweden made extensive use of smoothbore guns and mobile artillery, and achieved miraculous victories on the battlefield. After that, various countries carried out military reforms one after another, and began to adopt new tactics with firearms as the core. Among them, the Maurice Reform of the Netherlands is the most famous.

After the Thirty Years' War, the European heavy cavalry disappeared, and the infantry phalanx was gradually replaced by line formations, and the Europeans became the firearms age army equipped with cold weapons. And China is still a cold-armed army equipped with firearms. The gap between the two sides is cross-generational.

But the battle was like this, so that Zhou Lang couldn't help but be a little impressed by the Qing army generals. He didn't know that this Li Nanxin was indeed a bit of a real person, and he had participated in the suppression of Lin Shuangwen's uprising. It is an officer with actual combat experience, not the idle defenders of the flood land. Moreover, Li Nanxin is relatively strict in governing the army, and has the evaluation of "revitalizing discipline, training diligently, giving strict orders, and clearly rewarding and punishing".

Such a person, if he instigates the soldier's mortal heart, can temporarily stimulate the combat effectiveness of the army.

But that's all, the generation gap is not so easy to make up, Li Nanxin still failed to break through Zhao Wen's block, and paid more sacrifices, nearly a hundred people were lost on the position, most of them died in the last bamboo wall, and most of them were fighting for the gap in the official road.

With the arrival of Zhou Lang, now that the defense has been stabilized, the Qing army wants to launch another breakthrough, and there is little hope.

Zhou Lang didn't dare to be careless, and ordered Chen Xiaoshou to immediately take matters into defense and rebuild the barracks, this time instead of erecting a bamboo wall, but digging a deep ditch and building an earthen wall, completely establishing an insurmountable barrier. Only then can we use fewer troops to block the enemy. And Zhou Lang is going to surround the other party this time, and he doesn't have to take the official road to escape, and the farmland can be trampled on if he is in a hurry. Even if the paddy field can't run fast, it can't be chased fast for the pursuers.

Therefore, Zhou Lang also asked to build a few more barriers according to the topography. Do your best to block the retreat of the Qing army and force them into barracks and batteries.

At the same time, send people to the top of the mountain to pass the message, if Ma Dalei captured the top of the mountain, then let him stay in the garrison, the main force to transfer to the East Port, if not down, and can not be attacked in a short time, temporarily leave part of the troops to confront the other side, block the other side, the main force still has to come to the East Port.

The efficiency of formal training is reflected at this time, and perhaps there is no crushing advantage in combat, but the efficiency in execution has been formed.

After repelling a wave of counteroffensive by the Qing army, Zhou Lang immediately divided his troops, stepped up the work, and soon built three earthen walls to block the other two country roads, so that if the Qing army retreated, there would not even be a decent road, and the blockade line was completely formed.

As for the main road, it is already impregnable, and Zhou Lang can't wait for the Qing army to attack at this time, because the artillery has also crossed Donggang Creek and is deployed here. If the Qing army came as before, Zhou Lang was confident that he would defeat them with zero casualties.

The Qing army came the next day, and it worked hard until late yesterday, Zhou Lang didn't want to continue the war today, but if the other party wanted to fight, he would also accompany him, but the Qing army did not come to fight, but sent a messenger, and they actually came to negotiate.

Zhou Lang thought that the Qing army would not negotiate, which was a bit unexpected to him.

However, the content of the negotiations was completely different from the negotiations in the Western sense, and they threw off the large group of horsemen and rode into the battle alone, asking to talk to the master.

The purpose of the Qing army was very simple, that is, to leave.

The person who came said: "Ladies and gentlemen, you and I have no grievances in the past and no enemies in the near future, and we are just waiting to be soldiers for a bite to eat, and we can't do our best." Get out of the way, let's go, we'll give you the fort, and everyone will take what they need. ”

This is really a peculiar negotiation, they are not on behalf of the Qing army, not on behalf of the Manchus, but only on their own behalf.

There is no sense of responsibility for a soldier at all, and he doesn't even have the traditional morality of eating the king and sharing the worries of the king, but he just sees being a soldier as a way to make a living, and thinks it's not worth working hard for the sake of stuttering. If the Qing army has this mentality, it is no wonder that they will be abused by foreigners in the future, and the two armies are completely different in thinking.

Zhou Lang doesn't have to want these Qing troops to die, he was originally a businessman, and now he is learning to be a hero, he is not a murderer, the reason why he wants to completely annihilate this Qing army is that he is worried that they will go north into the hinterland of the plains and unite with the local forces, so let them go, it's okay, but let them go north, it's not okay.

Zhou Lang gave another way: "It's impossible to get out of the way." But I can let you go by sea, in your boat, and leave Fengshan, and never come back. ”

The creeps went back.

Zhou Lang thought that the Qing army would accept it, after all, for them, the result was the same, they were all fleeing for their lives, which met Zhou Lang's purpose of blocking the connection between the Qing army and the landlord Tuanlian, and it didn't matter whether he killed or not.

But the other party has no reply, obviously they don't plan to accept it, this is a bit interesting, it seems that the purpose of the Qing army is not to escape, at least not just to escape, their purpose is to go to the Pingtung Plain.

What to do there? The United Landlord Armed Forces will fight back again?

did not wait for the reply of the Qing army, what was waiting for their attack came.

The strength of the Qing army was about 1,000 people, with more than 100 horsemen and most of the others infantry.

It was not the cavalry that charged, and the light cavalry of the Qing army was never a type of charge, and even when attacking the enemy, it was often dismounted and fought on foot, and after the enemy was repulsed, they would get on the horse and pursue. Therefore, the first to attack were the infantry, who lined up outside the Donggang barracks, and then slowly approached with shields that had only psychological comfort.

But Zhou Lang was only more than a mile away from their barracks and batteries, and was already within the range of artillery, of course, the range of Western artillery.

Therefore, in fact, from the moment they left the barracks, Zhou Lang could shell them, but it was still a matter of efficiency that he gave the order to open fire when they walked into the 800 meters.

This army is indeed different, even under the bombardment of artillery, they can still move forward, of course, the lack of linear damage caused by solid shells is also the reason. When they reached 400 meters, Chen Zhizhi's artillery was replaced with grape sheets, and a cannon fired dozens or even hundreds of iron pellets, which instantly knocked down a faction of Qing troops.

The grape bomb itself is a shell used by Western naval naval guns, but Zhou Lang doesn't have so many rules, so it's good to use it. The artillery under Chen Zhizhi was also trained with naval guns earlier, and now they are also equipped with five 18-pounder naval guns as heavy guns, although they are inconvenient to transport, but they are indeed very powerful.

The five cannons fired grapeshot shells, which instantly peeled off the Qing army, and the formation of them directly stopped.

After the second round of shelling, the Qing army was immediately defeated, leaving behind more than a hundred corpses.

This is actually the first time Zhou Lang has seen the scene of modern artillery abusing infantry, which can only be said to be miserable, and Wang Fuqian next to him is already about to vomit.

Zhou Lang had a lot of cannons, this time he went to Guangzhou, when he left, he removed all the cannons on the Qing army forts, not to mention those cannons outside Guangzhou, just the Humen Fort, that is, a battery group, captured as many as 1,000 large and small caliber cannons, selected the best of them, built Western-style artillery trucks, converted into infantry guns, and there were more than 200 suitable ones.

This time I came to Donggang, and only brought a hundred, not because there were not enough guns, but because there were not enough gunners.

But most of the artillery had not yet fired, because the range of the Qing army's artillery was not enough, only five naval guns were firing before, and they only fired less than five rounds, and they actually routed the Qing army.

The rifle phalanx waiting behind had not yet had time to fire.

This made Zhou Lang once again improve the combat effectiveness of his army and the Qing army.

After the Qing army retreated, Zhao Wen and Wang Fuqian suggested at the same time that they should take the opportunity to attack, take advantage of the collapse of the Qing army's morale, and capture the fort in one go.

But Zhou Lang refused.

"Wait for our reinforcements to converge."

Strategically despise the other side, and tactically we must pay attention to it.

"But you can fire!"

Five naval guns can attack the battery, and it has not been fired before, and now it fires, although it does not cause substantial damage, but it can put huge psychological pressure on the enemy.

The cannon sounded again, but it didn't fight a few rounds, just in the afternoon, as soon as the soldiers had eaten, the Qing army envoy came again.

This time they agreed to go by sea.

"Why didn't you agree before?"

Zhou Lang asked directly.

The person who came was very frank: "It has nothing to do with the villain, it is Lord Li's idea." ”

"Why do you agree now?"

"Master Li killed himself!"

Li Nanxin, the deputy general who defended the city, committed suicide.

Was this martyrdom for the Manchus?

Zhou Lang sighed: "Don't commit suicide." Can you try to break through? ”

"There's no way back. Your men are blocked by the sea, and they are coming from the east, and there is no road to the north, and there is a river to the west. ”

Zhou Lang suddenly realized, no wonder the Qing army was so urgent, it turned out that Fischer had landed.

Fischer took the mercenaries to follow the fleet to attack at sea, the south of Donggang is the sea, and the west is Donggang Creek, Zhou Lang blocked the north from the land, but he didn't expect the mercenaries to choose to land and besiege from the east.

Since the Qing army is in such a bad situation, it seems that they have little leverage to negotiate.

But Zhou Lang still decided to let them go.

Because it doesn't seem to be useful to keep these people, let them go, let them spread the news, and when they meet in the future, they won't be so dead.

But Zhou Lang still had to squeeze them clean: "People can go, swords and guns have to be left, and the boat can let you drive half away." ”

The other party did not hesitate, gritted his teeth and responded.