Chapter 311 The defeat is like a mountain

Yan Liang's order was three solid rounds, followed by shotguns. The artillery company naturally carried out the orders of the commander.

The first wave of ninety buckshot bullets was fired at the ranks of the Ming army in Guangxi, and immediately opened ninety bloody alleys in the dense crowd. Along the way of the shells, countless unlucky Ming soldiers either broke their hands or feet, lying on the ground and howling loudly, and were lucky enough to be hit by the shells in the fatal place, and died directly, without suffering this heart-rending pain.

Lin Jiading in the back looked stupid, where had he seen the power of hot * weapons, in his impression the artillery was placed at the head of the city, a big guy who shook the sky and the earth, but he didn't expect the Cantonese guy on the opposite side to carry the Hongyi cannon, and there were quite a few of them.

The overseer Xia Sifu was also frightened enough, and said: "Commander, the Cantonese guy actually brought the Hongyi cannon, let's withdraw the troops!" ”

"No! It is difficult to reload the Hongyi cannon, we must take advantage of this time to rush forward, pass the order, and charge the whole army! ”

The quality of the Guangxi wolf soldiers was much stronger than that of the Ming army, and after the first round of shelling, they were just panicked for a while, and immediately adjusted their formation, spread their ducks and rushed towards the new army in Guangdong.

The rate of fire of the artillery company was one round per minute, and the three solid bullets were quickly fired, and then all of them were replaced with shotguns, and at this time the Guangxi wolf soldiers also rushed to 500 meters in front.

If solid bullets look tragic, then shotguns are slaughter. The shotgun consisted of sixty-eight buckshot bullets the size of quail eggs, and was flanked by a thin sheet of tin sheet. After the barrel is discharged, because the speed of the lead bullets inside is different, the iron barrel will be torn, and the 68 lead bullets will form a death zone nine meters wide and three meters high at a distance of 300 meters.

Ninety shotguns were launched, and immediately formed a no-man's land three hundred meters away, and if they were hit by solid bullets, they could leave a whole corpse if they were not hit by a shotgun, and if they were hit by a shotgun, they would become a puddle of rotten meat.

The charging Guangxi army was like being pushed by an invisible giant hand, and they were knocked down one after another three hundred meters in front of the Guangdong army.

After the fourth round of shotguns fired by the Guangdong New Army, the Guangxi Ming Army finally couldn't hold on anymore and turned around and fled in all directions.

Most of the new army in Guangdong joined the army in Dongguan, and they had seen shotgun fires in their daily training, but it was the first time in actual combat, and they saw that their firepower was so strong, and the corpses of the enemy on the opposite side were all over the ground, and the musketeers had not fired a single lead bullet before the enemy collapsed.

Yan Liang and other officers have still seen the world, at least when they went south with Zhu Hongsan, they had beaten Zhang Xianzhong's rogues, and when they saw the defeat and retreat of the Ming army in Guangxi, they quickly ordered the whole team to attack and chase the Guangxi army.

"Deputy Song Tuan, you take a company to clean up the battlefield, save the energy that can save it, and I'll take someone to chase these bastards. You're done catching up with me! ”

"Commander, where are we going to fight?"

"Occupy his mother's Wuzhou Mansion, how many times have these guys crossed the border in the past few years, that time it was not the peasants who robbed our tuntian, this time give them some color to see!"

The lively magistrate on the wall of Fengchuan County didn't expect it to end so quickly, the Guangxi Ming army was defeated before it arrived, and these new troops with eyes on the top of their heads were really powerful. At this time, seeing that the new army was all pulled out and followed by the Ming army in Guangxi, this county order was scared to death, what if the Guangxi people made a detour.

So the county commander hurried out of the city, grabbed Song Kai, who was cleaning the battlefield, and said with tears in his eyes: "General, where are you going?" What should you do if you leave Guangxi and come back? ”

"Don't worry, the head of the regiment has led people into Guangxi, and I will follow after a while, here you need the magistrate to find someone to clean up, so many people died here, there will be a plague if you don't bury it."

At this time, the magistrate took a closer look at the battlefield where he had just been killed, and this time he saw that there were dead people all over the ground, broken hands and feet, some of them were not human by shotguns, and their intestines and stomachs were scattered all over the place, red, white, green, and black, colorful.

When the county magistrate saw this, he felt his stomach tumbling for a while, and he vomited out, and the young servants who followed behind him also vomited wildly on the side.

After several battles, Song Kai was accustomed to the cruelty of the battlefield, and when he saw the virtue of the county order, he couldn't help but despise it in his heart.

"Lord Zhixian, I'll leave it to you here, save it with the vigor to live, after all, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and I will take someone to chase the head of the regiment." After finishing speaking, he ignored Zhixian and led people to chase Yan Liang.

The magistrate did not dare to stop it, so he only went back to the city to organize people to bury the body, and wrote a report document and sent it to Zhaoqing Mansion.

The document was sent to Chen Zilong in Zhaoqing, and Chen Zilong opened it and looked at it. Emperor Hu Tian and Hu Di were blown inside, what cannon burned for dozens of miles, the soldiers of the new army fought bravely to kill the enemy under the leadership of the magistrate, and the magistrate personally slashed several people and so on. Chen Zilong knows exactly what virtues the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have, but with such a document sent to the front line, it should be a victory. Chen Zilong had seen the combat effectiveness of the new army in Nanzhili, and he was relatively relieved about whether he could win the war, but the document went on to say that the new army had entered Guangxi under the leadership of the regiment commander Yan Liang in order to avenge the revenge of the Ming army in Guangxi for crossing the border.

Chen Zilong frowned, the emperor had not yet decided whether to fight with Zhu Youlang, Yan Liang was a little reckless in doing so. Chen Zilong didn't dare to call the shots for this kind of major event, so he hurriedly sent the report documents of Fengchuan County plus his own suggestions to Guangzhou and asked His Majesty the Emperor to decide.

The letter was sent out at an expedited rate of 800 miles, and Guangzhou was less than 100 miles away from Zhaoqing, and the document appeared on Zhu Hongsan's desk on the third day.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the documents and asked the ministers below: "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you say?" ”

Chen Zizhuang, as the prime minister, stood up and spoke first.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that it is good to give the Gui King of Guangxi a proper punishment, since the soldiers have entered Guangxi, it is better to occupy one or two prefectures, I Guangdong from Zhaoqing Fengchuan to a plain, to Guangdong has no danger to defend, occupy the high terrain of Wuzhou, it is very beneficial to defend our west gate."

Zhu Hongsan nodded, he thought the same way, and at the same time scored a nail in Guangxi, and he could enter Yungui through Guangxi in the future.

Zhu Hongsan picked up the Zhu pen, wrote his opinions on Chen Zilong's report, and ordered Yan Liang, who had already entered Guangxi, to occupy Wuzhou Mansion and stabilize the battle line between Tengxian and Pingnan. At the same time, one of the three regiments in Guangzhou was drawn out, starting from Guangning in Zhaoqing and entering Guangxi, hitting Pingle Mansion in Guangxi, threatening Zhu Youlang's Guilin Mansion, you must know that Pingle is less than 200 miles away from Guilin, and the coward Zhu Youlang can be scared half to death.

After Zhu Hongsan finished writing, he handed it over to Qian Qianyi of the Military Aircraft Department, and asked him to form an order and issue it to the troops.

Qian Qianyi took a look and said: "Your Majesty, there were three regiments in Guangzhou, and one regiment has been taken away by Qian Yong, is this not conducive to the defense of the base camp by transferring a regiment here!" ”

"Don't worry, Lord Qian, where is there a group in Dongguan, Dongguan and Guangzhou are less than fifty miles apart, and it is completely possible to arrive at dawn and evening, no problem."

Qian Qianyi didn't dare to speak, and hurriedly took Zhu Hongsan's order to go down to handle the transfer of troops.

Now Zhu Hongsan is completely unpretentious when he first ascended the throne, and now there is unfavorable news from Nanxiong and Chaozhou in the north. On the side of Chaozhou Mansion is the younger brother of Tang King Zhu Yujian, Zhu Yulu, under the support of Su Guansheng and He Wuju, scholars of the Longwu Dynasty, on the fifth day of the first month of the first year of Shenwu, he was proclaimed emperor in Chaozhou Mansion, and the year name was Shaowu.

When the news reached Guangdong, Zhu Hongsan scolded Zhu Yulu for not being a thing, and he only thought about his own benefits when the country was in danger. In fact, Zhu Hongsan forgot that he himself was not the same, according to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the most legitimate of these emperors in the south was Zhu Youlang.

Although Emperor Shaowu was in a hurry, he still had some strength, and all the officials of Chaozhou Mansion were loyal to the new emperor at the first time, and Zheng Chenggong, who fled to Kinmen with the Zheng family's fleet, also expressed his allegiance to the new emperor.

Zhu Hongsan was ready to make a move on the Chaozhou Mansion of the Tang Dynasty before he was proclaimed emperor, and now he has an excellent reason, after receiving the news of Shao Wu's proclamation as emperor, he immediately sent his first thug Qian Yong, with two regiments of new troops, to rush to Chaozhou Mansion, ready to subdue this lost land.

Qian Yonggang set off with the army, and news came from Chaozhou Mansion that on the 20th day of the first month of the first year of Shenwu, the Qing army in Fujian, under the leadership of Li Chengdong, crossed the Baisong Ridge from Fujian Pinghe and entered the Chaozhou Mansion in Guangdong. On the eighth day of January, the Qing army infiltrated the periphery of Chaozhou Mansion and made a surprise attack. The officials and soldiers guarding the city of Chaozhou Mansion saw the Qing army with pigtails suddenly appear under the city, and they were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled, Chaozhou Mansion was occupied by Li Chengdong, and the emperor of Emperor Shao Wu had just sat for exactly a month before he was destroyed by the Qing army. When Emperor Shaowu himself was in the city, he hanged himself with the university scholar Su Guansheng and others, which can be regarded as preserving his reputation.

Zhu Hongsan, who received the occupation of Chaozhou, immediately sent an order to Qian Yong, asking him to wipe out all the Qing troops entering Guangdong.

On the side of Nanxiong Mansion, in October last year, he received an order from Emperor Zhu Yujian of Longwu to send troops and horses out of Ganzhou to cooperate with the military department Shangshu Wanji to guard Ganzhou.

Of course, Zhang Jiayu couldn't listen to Zhu Yujian's orders, but Zhang Jiayu still knew the importance of Ganzhou, and after receiving the order of Emperor Longwu, he hurriedly wrote an urgent document to Zhu Hongsan, which explained the current situation in Jiangxi and asked Zhu Hongsan what to do.

After Zhu Hongsan received the letter, it was already November, due to the backward transportation of the Ming Dynasty, a lot of time was wasted on the road, after receiving the news of Zhang Jiayu, Zhu Hongsan immediately replied, ordering Zhang Jiayu to lead the team to Ganzhou to defend the city, and defend the southern gate of Guangdong. Zhu Hongsan knew about the traffic problems of this era, and also gave Zhang Jiayu the right to make a decision on the spot, and ordered Zhang Jiayu to concurrently serve as the prefect of Nanxiong, and must guard Nanxiong well, and at the same time hand over the last regiment in charge of his own security in Guangzhou to Zhang Jiayu, so that in addition to Zhu Hong's guard company of three or four hundred people, there was not a single new army in Guangzhou.

While writing this order, Zhu Hongsan was also confused in his heart, he wouldn't memorize it like this! Now that Guangzhou is empty, don't let the Qing army copy the back road. However, looking at the intelligence, the closest Qing army to Guangzhou is still in Chaozhou Mansion, 500 miles away, and there are two regiments of Qian Yong with 7,000 people in the middle, so there should be no problem. Zhu Hongsan thought about it for a while, and signed the word "agree" on the troop transfer document.