Chapter 150: Retreat in a hurry

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry of Fangyuan and Chigutai circumnavigated Siming Mountain and arrived at Ningbo Mansion seven days later.

The soldiers were very fast, Fang Yuan did not make any stop in Ningbo Mansion, and immediately waved his army north, directly attacking Guanhaiwei, where the Zheng family's sailor was located. According to the horseman's horse, two days later

After traveling for half a day, the spies in front reported that on the official road leading to Guanhaiwei, a military camp of 2,000 people was set up, under the banner of the word 'Shi'.

Fang Yuan groaned secretly, he didn't expect Shi Fu and Shi Lang to guess their possible combat intentions, and they were even worried that the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry would quickly advance and set up camp on the official road.

Since we meet on a narrow road, there is no way to avoid it.

Zheng Jun has a total of 8,000 people, Shi Lang has 5,000 people in Linshanwei, this military camp has 2,000 people, and there are only 1,000 people guarding Guanhaiwei.

As long as you can break through this fortified camp, you can break through the weak defense of Guanhaiwei in a short time.

Fang Yuan and his entourage came to Zheng Jun's camp with Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, but saw that the camp had already prepared three layers of horses to reject horses, and the artillery and muskets in the camp were neat, and they were ready for battle.

This is the tactics of Oda Nobunaga that year to defeat Takeda Shingen's cavalry in three stages.

Whether the Zheng army had Oda Nobunaga's will to fight, Fang Yuan didn't know, but the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry was by no means comparable to the Takeda Shingen Cavalry.

Just three rejections of horses can stop the Xuanjia Iron Horse, that is Zheng Jun's whimsy!

Fang Yuan immediately offered a bounty of 100 taels and summoned a hundred-strong death squad as the vanguard of the first wave of charging to clear the rejected horses. In the face of Zheng's artillery, more than half of these 100 people will definitely be killed, but this is the price that must be paid for victory.

"Woooooo

The military horn sounded, and the charge of the Xuanjia Army death squad officially began.

One hundred Xuanjia iron horsemen wearing explosion-proof equipment began to attack the rejection horses laid by Zheng Jun, and under the rumbling artillery fire, fighting for more than 30 casualties, they finally attacked the rejection of the horses and began to clear the rejection horses in front of the camp.

The explosion-proof equipment of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry is not afraid of Zheng Jun's bow and arrows, and the shooting of muskets, even if it is hit, it is a little wounded, and it is not fatal.

The only thing that can inflict fatal damage on the Darkarmor Iron Rider is the artillery bombardment. However, as they approached the camp, Zheng's artillery became less and less powerful, and the pressure on the death squads plummeted.

Land warfare is not Zheng Jun's specialty, and this garrison is not the elite of Zheng Jun, let alone Shi Lang, a general who is full of courage and dares to charge, so Zheng Jun has no courage to go out of the village to fight in the field, so he can only hide behind the camp and watch the death squads of the Xuanjia Army clear the rejection horses one by one.

Two quarters of an hour later, after the death squad desperately sacrificed more than 50 people, the three-layer rejection horse was completely cleared.

The remaining more than 40 Xuanjia army death squads did not wait for the support of the cavalry behind them, and directly held firearms, using the rejection of horses as a cover, and began to shoot at the Zheng army in the camp. The target chosen was the gunner of the artillery array.

After several rounds of firefighting, the 500 Zheng soldiers who were holding the gate of the village not only failed to repel the attack of the death squads, but instead killed and wounded dozens of people, and many artillery gunners were also killed.

The 1,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry led by Chigutai rushed straight to the gate of the village, and the Zheng army in the camp could no longer resist the impact and scattered one after another.

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry broke through the gate of the fortress and confronted the Zheng army without the protection of the camp, followed by a one-sided massacre.

In 2000, only a small army dared to stay in the camp and fought endlessly with the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and most of the Zheng army had fled in a hurry and retreated in the direction of Guanhaiwei.

Chigutai had already held his breath fiercely, and would never let go of a Zheng army sergeant to flee for his life, and the Zheng army in the camp was handed over to Fang Yuan to clean up the battlefield, and he led 1,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry to immediately pursue the retreating Zheng army.

The deserters of the Zheng army were killed by the fire and trampled to death.

Chigutai didn't know how to fight these deserters at all, and chased them straight out for thirty miles, until the remnants of the Zheng army could no longer be seen in front of them, so they gathered the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and returned to the horse to gather and annihilate the Zheng army sergeants who had long been left behind.

This trick closed the door and beat the dog, Zheng Jun had no way to escape, he could only wait to be annihilated by the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry one by one, except for a very small number of people who fled into the mountains and jumped into the river to escape, the vast majority of Zheng Jun was annihilated and ambushed for thirty miles.

This battle of annihilation took less than two hours, and the camp guarded by 2,000 Zheng troops was completely destroyed. In addition to the more than 30 gunners who could use artillery that Fang Yuan specially ordered to stay, the remaining 300 Zheng Army sergeants who were captured were all slaughtered, and none were left.

Leaving these gunners who could use artillery, Fang Yuan was used to attack the Acropolis of Guanhaiwei. This Guanhaiwei was built by Qi Jiguang back then, and the defensive strength can be imagined, if there is no artillery support, it will inevitably suffer great losses if it is to capture Guanhaiwei.

Fang Yuan found a few surrendered gunners and asked the commander stationed at Guanhaiwei and the number of troops stationed there.

Where did the gunner dare to hide the slightest, and immediately revealed it all, and now the commander of the Chinese army Shi Fu is stationed in Guanhaiwei, and there are only 1,000 Zheng troops.

As Fang Yuan expected, Shi Fu, the commander of the Chinese army of the Zheng army, obviously underestimated the combat power of the Xuanjia army, and dared to send 2,000 soldiers from the land battle to set up a fortress and play some tricks to keep the enemy out of the country, resulting in the current garrison of Guanhaiwei is very weak.

Fang Yuan took a short rest in the camp of the Zheng army, and then led the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, with the thirty gunners surrendered by the Zheng army, as well as the five captured artillery, to march to Guanhaiwei.

A day later, at night, the Xuanjia army arrived outside the Guanhaiwei Acropolis, and the remaining Zheng army had all retreated into the Guanhaiwei Acropolis.

Fang Yuan's Xuanjia army easily occupied the commanding heights on the hillside outside the Acropolis, and the scene in the Acropolis was unobstructed.

He ordered the gunners of Zheng Jun to take out the only five remaining guns, as well as countless gunpowder and lead bullets, and immediately shelled Guanhaiwei.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The sound of artillery resounded in the sky, breaking the calm of Guanhaiwei.

After a few rounds of shelling, there were already fires and shouts in Guanhaiwei.

The gunners of the Zheng army who surrendered told Fang Yuan that the artillery was already hot, and that he should suspend the shelling and wait for the heat to dissipate before firing the artillery.

Fang Yuan had his own considerations, Guanhaiwei's defense was extremely strong, he did not bring an artillery battalion with him, and he attacked Guanhaiwei strongly, and the losses were bound to be heavy. If Shi Lang, who is brave and good at fighting, returns to help, the battle situation will be difficult to control.

Only the stormy artillery bombardment at night may make Shi Fu misjudge the situation, thinking that the artillery fire of the Xuanjia Army is fierce, and there is only one way to die if he holds on to Guanhaiwei, and he may lead the Zheng family fleet to escape.

Fang Yuan immediately rejected the proposal of Zheng Jun's gunners, and only gave one order, that is, to bombard fiercely until the last artillery was reimbursed.

The shelling continued for two hours, until it was dawn when all the captured guns were blown up.

Fang Yuan raised his binoculars and looked at Guanhaiwei, where there were only dozens of Zheng Jun sergeants scattered at the head of the acropolis. Nearly 1,000 Zheng Jun sergeants had indeed gathered at the Acropolis Military Port and began to carry the materials for Guanhaiwei onto the battleship, seeing that they were preparing to evacuate.

Fang Yuan counted, and there were fifteen warships of various sizes moored in the military port.

Without further ado, Fang Yuan immediately ordered the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to go down the mountain and begin to attack the Guanhai Acropolis Gate.

Shi Fudu was ready to evacuate, but the Zheng army at the head of the city only resisted slightly, and immediately fled, and went to the military port to prepare to board the battleship and flee for his life.

A few miscellaneous servants of Guanhaiwei couldn't get on the battleship at all, so in order to save their lives, they immediately opened the city gate and surrendered to the Xuanjia army.

Fang Yuan's Xuanjia soldiers entered Guanhaiwei without bloodshed, and the streets in the acropolis were indeed nowhere to be seen.

Fang Yuan ordered Chigutai to lead the army directly to the military port, intercepting as many Zheng family's warships as possible, as well as supplies.

When Chigutai led the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to attack the military port, the Zheng family sergeants were in a panic, threw down the materials they were carrying, and rushed to the battleship, and there were countless people who fell into the water.

Shi Fu could only take ten warships to anchor and set sail, leaving behind countless supplies, and sailed away from Guanhaiwei. When they reached the sea, they opened fire on the five warships that were staying in the military port, and after sinking three of them, they withdrew south.

Fang Yuan rescued the Zheng family sergeant who fell into the water, there were 104 people, and 56 people who were familiar with driving the battleship were selected, and under the custody of the 200 Xuanjia Army, the only two remaining battleships were driven to Jinshanwei and incorporated into the naval division of the Xuanjia Army.

These two battleships are only about 300 materials, and each one only has 24 guns, but they are always larger than the largest 200 materials battleship of Jinshanwei.

For the remaining 50 people, Fang Yuan stripped them of their clothes, carried them in an ox cart, and sent them to Shi Lang of Linshanwei, which could be regarded as a for a tooth for a provocation by Shi Lang.

Fang Yuan and Chigutai counted the war spoils, and Guanhaiwei was a military port operated by the Zheng family for three years, and there were countless materials in it. Shi Fu fled in a hurry, leaving at least half of Fang Yuan's left.

There were 8 small guns, 12 cannons used in the battleship, food, gunpowder, and lead bullets were piled up, weapons and armor were all over the ground, and the collection was enough to equip 3,000 sailors.

Fang Yuan was full of food this time, and it was estimated that he would have to hire thousands of farmers to bring these loot materials back to Suzhou Mansion.

Zheng Zhilong thought that he had come to Suzhou Mansion to reap benefits this time, but unexpectedly became the captain of the transportation team and specially sent supplies to Fang Yuan.

Chigutai complained to himself, "Fang Junmen, if you hurry up, Shi Fu won't be able to escape." ”

Fang Yuan's eyes stared coldly at the turbulent sea, secretly thinking, to conquer this vast sea, it would not be possible without the best sailor commander of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, he already knew the candidate for the commander of the water division, and said lightly, "What is a blessing?" Run away! My goal is to ......"

"Capture Shi Lang alive!"