Listening to King Lu's words, he completely regarded Wang Yan as Cao Mengde who was named Han Xiangshi as a Han thief, in short, if Wang Yan continued to be in power, the Wang family would sooner or later usurp his Zhu family's country.

Wang Shixiu heard King Lu say this, and the other party completely regarded himself as Liu Xuande of the Ming Dynasty, and his bloodline was much purer than Uncle Liu Huang, who sold straw shoes, and he also valued the Zhu family's country a lot, and said that "Han and thief are not mutually exclusive" is undoubtedly more weighty.

Wang Shixiu is Wang Yan's confidant, but he was born as a literati, although he supports Wang Yan, he doesn't want internal friction, and he doesn't want the vitality of the Ming Dynasty to be lost in the internal political struggle.

Tens of thousands of Zhejiang soldiers, as well as the Wuwei Army, these are all the army of the Ming Dynasty, among which Jin Shenghuan, Wang Yi, and Ruan Jun are all capable of fighting, and they can play a great role in dealing with the Manchu Qing and the Jin State.

Now there is internal friction, with the current temperament of King Chu, most of them will be killed, Wang Shixiu didn't want to see it, so he came out and persuaded King Lu, but he didn't expect King Lu to open his mouth to "Han and thief are not separate", a posture of incompatibility, so that Wang Shixiu couldn't talk about it anymore.

In the view of King Lu, he represents the Han Dynasty, the traditional loyal monarch force, the imperial family, and Wang Yan is a thief of the Han Dynasty, if King Lu is soft, it means that he accepts Wang Yan's legal status and recognizes that he is the Han Minister, then the Ming Dynasty is really completely in the hands of Wang Yan.

It is impossible for Liu Xuande to admit Cao Mengde, and it is impossible for King Lu to admit Wang Yan at the moment.

"If His Royal Highness has any dissatisfaction with His Royal Highness the King of Chu, you can resolve it in the court and impeach the King of Chu! Although Shi Xiu is a military attaché, he also knows that now the imperial court can't help but speak, and it is not that he can't tolerate different political opinions! Your Highness raises troops like this and rebels against the court, won't it make your relatives and enemies happy! King Lu's words were no longer negotiable, but Wang Shixiu still persuaded him, "Now that the situation is clear, Your Highness will admit defeat for the sake of tens of thousands of soldiers and millions of people in Jiangnan!" ”

"Settle it at the court?" King Lu grabbed the reins of the horse, the war horse was restless, and his body fluctuated and snorted coldly: "The court has long been controlled by the traitorous party, how to solve it in the court!" ”

The development of history always has a general direction and general trend, if it can be solved in the imperial court, King Lu will not take the risk of raising troops, he seems to feel that this general trend is not on his side, the wheel of change is rolling, he can not stop it in the court, so he embarked on the route of solving by force.

Wang Shixiu frowned, "Your Highness, if you don't obey the King of Chu, you will raise an army to rebel, if others don't obey Your Highness, can you also raise an army?" That's all for Shi Xiu! I give His Highness half a pillar of incense, if His Highness is still unwilling to stop, I can only lock His Highness and hand it over to the imperial court! ”

Wang Shixiu didn't want to see internal friction, he was close to the responsibility of an upright minister, and he was worthy of his heart.

He saw the rights and wrongs of this matter very clearly, although the king of Chu deliberately lured him this time, but it was not right to raise troops, this was no different from saying that he would do it, as an establishment faction within the Chu faction, he was very disgusted with anyone breaking the rules.

Wang Yan trusted him and asked him to lead the troops to pursue, and it was also because of this that he knew that Wang Shixiu was different from Gao Yigong and Liu Shun, he had political ideals and had the world and the nation in mind.

What he could say, Wang Shixiu had already finished speaking, and after finishing speaking, he pulled the reins of his horse and led the cavalry to gallop back to the battle.

King Lu looked at his back, snorted coldly, and also hit the horse back into battle.

The 60,000 rebels lined up a simple formation in the wilderness, dug trenches, and set up horses to resist horses, but the carts were pushed in front of the infantry formation.

King Lu rode back into the formation, Xiao Qihui and others immediately greeted him, King Lu had a cold face and waved his whip, "Set up the formation, prepare to fight!" Hold out until dark, and then we will take advantage of the night to retreat eastward! ”

Everyone acted the same at night, as did the cavalry, and it was much easier to retreat than it was now.

In the middle of the Chinese army, a dragon flag was suddenly erected, which was the king flag of King Lu and the battle flag.

Wang Shixiu rushed back to his own position, and saw the rebels in the formation, the flag was waving, the horn was extended, the pikemen in heavy armor were in the front, the gunners were behind, and the cavalry was covered on both wings, obviously ready to resist, and sighed in his heart.

The Zhejiang Army and the Wuwei Army are both troops that have been tough and rigid with the Qing Army, and they can be called elite soldiers in the Ming army sequence.

Although their morale was weakened, their long-term training had been engraved in their bones, and as long as the military order was given, the army of more than 60,000 people gradually set up a dense formation in the wilderness in accordance with the orders issued by the Chinese army.

Every soldier in the formation knew where he was, ran forward, and when he stood still, he began to check his weapons.

Wang Shixiu felt a little pity when he saw it, but he still waved his hand, "Artillery team, prepare!" ”

The knight behind him immediately took out his horn, raised his head and blew it, and saw a group of artillery troops dragged by war horses at the tail of the horse, immediately rushing forward.

The guns were drawn by two horses, the long barrels of which were attached to the two-wheeled carts, which were pulled up and ran fast.

From the long barrel of the gun, it can be predicted that the firing range will naturally far exceed that of the Franc aircraft. Because it was cast in bronze, it was much lighter than an iron cannon, so the cannon body was large but easy to maneuver.

Brass or bronze, although expensive, but the texture is tough, not easy to burst, this kind of bronze rapid-fire cannon, the firing of shells is close to six catties, the effective range of two miles, but it is said that in the current field war, the farthest weapon.

Nearly 100 rapid-fire guns, dragged by war horses, quickly rushed to a dirt slope in the distance, and the gunners of the guns they operated were also riding on horses or sitting in carriages, and the speed of the entire artillery team was not much slower than that of cavalry.

The wheels were rolling, rolling up a cloud of dust, and when King Lu saw this army in the array, his face immediately sank.

Jin Shenghuan and many generals in Zhejiang may not know it, because they did not have the opportunity to participate in the autumn exercises of the imperial court, but King Lu had seen last year's autumn exercises in Nanjing and had seen this kind of artillery team.

"Your Highness, what's going on?" Jin Shenghuan saw King Lu's face sank, and couldn't help asking.

King Lu pointed with a horsewhip to a dirt slope about two miles away from the infantry array, the firing rate artillery team of the official army, quickly pulled the artillery to the high ground, the gunners immediately turned over and dismounted, pulled off the horse bolt, several people worked together to straighten the cannon, and in a moment, the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at them.

Jin Shenghuan's face changed when he saw it, and he was surprised: "Did they fight so far?" ”

The Ming army has a lot of artillery in the field, but most of them are placed on the gun carriage on the Franc machine, the firing range is only three or four hundred steps, although the red-coated cannon can fight three or four miles, but this kind of heavy artillery, inconvenient to transport, can basically only be used to siege the city, basically not used in field battles, Jin Shenghuan is the first time to see this kind of two-wheeled, by the horse to run artillery.

King Lu had a serious face, "We have to find a way to end their artillery array!" ”

At this time, before the rampage of the horse army, half of the incense in the hand of a knight had already been burned, Wang Shixiu's face sank, and there was no nonsense, "The herald artillery team bombarded, and the rebels were in chaos, and they were immediately crushed!" ”

If the cavalry wants to deal with the infantry in formation, unless there is a heavy cavalry impact, relying on the attack alone, it is very easy to defeat the infantry in a short time, so they can only surround it, grind slowly, and wait for the opportunity.

After all, the infantry army could not always remain in a state of formation, as long as they relaxed, the opportunity of the cavalry came.

Wang Shixiu's order was simple and rude, that is, to use artillery to bombard the formation of the infantry formation, and then attack directly.

This tactic has never appeared before, this is because the infantry army has more advantages in the range of weapons than the cavalry in the past, the Song Dynasty's stepping crossbow, the divine arm bow, the Ming Dynasty's Franc machine, the range of the fire gun are more than the cavalry's cavalry bow, the cavalry can only besiege, slowly attack and disturb the formation, wait for the infantry to appear flawed, and then suddenly surprise to win the war.

However, at this time, the Rampage Ma army had a range far beyond any of the rebels' weapons, and these artillery shelled the rebels where the rebels' weapons could not reach, and the Ma army only had to wait for the rebels to be confused.

The appearance of artillery undoubtedly accelerated the speed at which the cavalry disrupted the infantry formation and shortened the course of the war.

Although the Ministry of Industry has been improving the flowering shells, the technology is still very immature, so the main shells of rapid-fire guns are still solid shells.

On the dirt slope, the gunner pushed the projectile into the chamber with a wooden pole, and then compacted it, and the gunner standing aside had already lit the torch and waited for the general's order.

Just as King Lu was talking to Jin Shenghuan, the Portuguese teacher on the dirt slope suddenly waved a red flag and yelled in broken Chinese, "Open fire!" ”

On the entire artillery front, the artillery erupted one after another, and each gun spit out a cloud of white smoke, and the entire earthen slope was immediately filled with gunpowder smoke in the rumbling cannon.

The bronze cannons retreated one after another, but the soldiers dug a shallow pit in the ground, and the tail of the gun carriage was placed in the pit, and the recoil when fired did not shake the gun carriage away.

As soon as the cannon passed, the two gunners turned the wheels to reset the gun, and the other man poked the barrel with a wooden pole wrapped in cotton cloth and watered into the bore, and began to clean the barrel in preparation for the next round.

After cleaning the barrel and wiping it with dry steps, the gunner would push the rationed waist bag into the gun chamber, then puncture the bag through the primer mouth with a spike, insert the lead, and then push the shell into the gun chamber for the next round of shooting.

This kind of artillery is close to Napoleon's six-pounder bronze gun, and its performance is very advanced.

Hundreds of artillery pieces opened fire one after another, and shells weighing nearly six pounds flew rapidly, and the non-commissioned officers with spears in front of the rebel formation were still running and standing, and the shells had already broken through the air.

The rebel soldiers put their carts in front of the formation, used to guard against the charge of the cavalry, and the soldiers armed with spears and swords and shields were waiting for the battle, when suddenly a burst of artillery rang out, and black iron balls rushed out of white smoke and smashed towards the front of the formation.

Before the soldiers in front of them had time to react, they heard a "bang", and the vehicles in front of the formation suddenly exploded, the vehicles were beaten to shreds, and the iron bullets were wrapped in countless wood chips, rushing out of the broken wood, hitting a spearman behind the vehicle, with a muffled sound, the soldier was instantly torn to pieces by the iron bullet, and the stumps flew around, and a burst of blood mist sprayed, splashing on the bodies of the surrounding soldiers, and the iron bullet was undiminished, and several soldiers on the back line were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, making a straight line of death.

In front of the battle, suddenly a lot of screams sounded, many soldiers were injured by the broken wood of the cart, and they rolled to the ground and wailed, one of the pikemen was sprayed by the blood mist, and was immediately hit by more than ten pieces of broken wood, and immediately the blood flowed like an infusion, and the whole person seemed to swim in a pool of blood.

A salvo of 100 artillery pieces smashed the fortifications in front of the rebels, creating nearly 100 gaps at once, and the rebels, whose morale was not high, immediately rioted again.

When many rebel generals saw this scene, they were immediately dumbfounded, if they were bombarded by the official artillery for a few rounds, the infantry army would not be able to form a formation at all.

In order to escape, most of the rebels' heavy artillery was thrown under the city of Nanjing, but even if they were not lost, those bulky guys were not the opponents of these mobile and flexible bronze cannons.

At this time, everyone realized the threat, and the key was that they did not have the means to restrain the artillery of the officers and soldiers, and sent the infantry to attack the artillery array, and the horses ran away, and there were cavalry eyeing each other, as long as the infantry army broke away from the big formation, Wang Shixiu would inevitably divide the cavalry to raid.

If you don't react, and get shelled by the artillery for a few more rounds, the whole infantry will also fall into chaos, and when the cavalry rushes, it will still collapse.

Everyone originally thought that they could form a formation and hold out until the evening, or wait for Wang Shixiu to rush into battle, and then rely on a strict formation to defeat the rampaging horse army, but they found that they were all wrong.

The infantry formed a tight formation, the cavalry impact will definitely not be pleased, now people do not rush, just bombard you with artillery, no matter how tight your formation is, there is no artillery countermeasure, you can't hurt them, and you are always passively beaten, and there is no way.

With the improvement of weapons, the tactics of ramming the horse army have changed dramatically, in fact, not only the horse army, but also the infantry army's tactics have changed.

King Lu frowned, and at this time he could only say to Jin Shenghuan: "Let the cavalry of the Wuwei Army attack immediately and eliminate the enemy's artillery array!" ”

To deal with such flexible artillery, it was possible to rely only on a quick surprise attack by cavalry.

Although the cavalry of the Wuwei Army rushed for a while before, and the casualties were somewhat heavy, Jin Shenghuan did not say anything, this battle was related to his fate, and he immediately issued an order to let more than 700 horsemen who were hidden on the flanks of the infantry array surprise attack the artillery array.

As soon as the cavalry of the Wuwei Army moved, Wang Shixiu immediately waved his hand, and the cavalry of the two thousand-strong teams behind him immediately intercepted and killed.

These two teams of cavalry, one to meet and one to drive, took turns to intercept and escort the artillery team.

In this battle, for Wang Shixiu, there are not many challenges, and the rebels are bound to lose.

The cavalry of the armed guards, who rushed out, quickly collided with the first thousand-man team, and when they broke through the formation, they immediately met the second thousand-man team, and they were not able to approach the artillery array at all.

At this time, the artillery team on the dirt slope began the second round of firing, and a hundred shells bombarded the rebel formation, and there was already a huge commotion in the army, and at this moment, the right flank of the rebel formation suddenly broke out into a greater commotion than the front formation.

"Reformed! King Lu and Jin Shenghuan are treasonous, and the sons and daughters have been reformed! ”

A part of the Wuwei Army, under the leadership of Li Yuanyin, suddenly launched a rebellion, and the entire large array immediately broke out in chaos.

King Lu, Jin Shenghuan and the others watched in astonishment as the right wing collapsed, like a stone falling into a pond, and the chaos spread instantly.

In the distance, Wang Shixiu suddenly raised his knife, then pointed forward, and a roar erupted from his mouth, "Kill!" ”

Nearly 30,000 iron horsemen immediately slowly raised their speed, the horses' hooves rolled, and the cavalry clinged to each other, holding up their spears, and marching like a wall.

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