"Second master! Win again! Looking at his cheering subordinates, Zheng Zhihu couldn't help but nod secretly. Oriental Reading Network, a large number of chaotic corpses in the distance are all over the field, more chaotic people just throw away their armor and hug their heads and run around, and in front of the fleeing chaotic people is a large group of "peasant army" who are only concerned about fleeing. On January 28, the Shaanxi Righteous Army crossed the frozen river from Shenmu and entered Shanxi, attacking many cities and towns at the same time, causing urgent letters to be issued everywhere in Shanxi, and the troops were exhausted and acted as a firefighting team in the chaotic Shanxi battlefield.

However, unlike the history of the old world, the counter-insurgency force in the new world has one more traverser, a small ripple with butterfly wings flapping - Zheng Jiajun, Zheng Zhilong has been shrinking in Nan'an since Zhao'an, although the team on land has also developed, but the development of the surface fleet is simply not worth mentioning, the Zheng family has doubled the size of the fleet since 1628 to 1629 after making a lot of money from the transaction with the Senate, and even pioneered the construction of several three-masted warships imitating the battleship of Maidno, Needless to say, its intention is to compete with the Medeno for sea supremacy.

However, the development of the army was also considerable, first of all, they imported nearly 2,000 senate rifles from the port of Orient in 1629, and 300,000 rounds of ammunition were matched with these two thousand rifles. In addition to a small part of the rifles that were given to the navy, there were between nine hundred and one thousand and one thousand that were equipped to his private regiment; From 1629 to 1630, they conducted a great deal of target shooting and shooting training, so much so that when they remembered to count them, they found that only 150,000 rounds of ammunition remained, and because the guns were not maintained for a long time, more than 100 rifles broke down and could not be fired, or even exploded.

The lack of bullets made Zheng Zhilong feel a little bad, the rifle relies on bullets to kill and injure the enemy, if there are no bullets, then this rifle is not much different from the burning stick, even if each rifle is equipped with a bayonet, the rifle equipped with the bayonet is only slightly taller than a person, and the threat of such a length of bayonet rifle to the enemy is not as good as a bamboo gun. However, since the Medenor people completed the blockade of the port of the East in late 1629, his trade fleet could not enter the port of the East, and because Liu Xiang pretended to be his fleet to attack the port of the East, he did not want to explain this, so he terminated the trade with the port of the East, since the two sides terminated the trade, it also means that there is no way to source the rifle bullets, so he can only find a way to solve it himself.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong is rich in the first side, and the problem that can be solved with money is not a problem, the only thing he does not lack is money. After examining the bullets from the Senate rifles, several craftsmen found that the cartridge casings were nothing more than oil-paper shells, which were filled with propellants, which were basically the same as the gunpowder they could make homemade. The warhead is a round buckshot, which can be made by some means, and the only thing that can't be made is a fire cap. This small, round and flat piece of copper looks like nothing is rare, but it can make a detonation and spark when hit by a hammer, and is used to deactivate the propellant in the fuel paper cartridge casing to complete the launch. The three components of the bullet and two things can be made by themselves, and now the only step that the Senate rifle lacks is only ignition, after such a general analysis, the matter is much simpler "the mountain does not come in front of Shakyamuni, Shakyamuni goes to the front of the mountain", and soon these craftsmen found a solution, they processed the hammer, added a fire rope to the surface, and the position of the ignition hole was enlarged, and the propellant could be directly ignited by pulling the trigger when the propellant was visible after drilling through the cartridge case, In this way, the import of ammunition from the port of Vostochny is completely unnecessary.

After solving the problem of ammunition, Zheng Zhilong's army was like a tiger with wings, and in several crackdowns on bandits in Nan'an, Fujian, these riflemen made many meritorious contributions, and won great victories in battles with bandits and bandits who were several times their size, which attracted the attention of Xiong Can, the governor of Fujian. Now the court of the Wu Dynasty is full of wolf smoke, although the Houjin army in the north has not made much move, but it has already captured Korea, obtained a large amount of food and population, and it is estimated that the southward will also be within this year; The White Lotus Sect is widely rumored in many places in Shandong and Henan in the north, and the "big thieves" obtained recently are all coerced by the "Demon Book", called the king's name, vertical and horizontal, across the state and even the city, covering three or four hundred miles, claiming that Ziweixing has lost his way and is planning to do a big thing, and it seems that it is also within this year; The rebellious army swept through Shaanxi, looting for hundreds of miles along the way, causing hundreds of miles of no-man's land, villages burned down, fields were destroyed, and bones were everywhere. According to Di Bao, it can be seen that this group of rebel army is wandering in the nearby prefectures and counties of Shanxi, must be looking for a way to cross the river, and it is close to winter, and the Yellow River will freeze in winter, so the rebel army will inevitably take advantage of the winter to cross the river and continue to spread to Shanxi, blocking the route of the rebel army.

At the end of 1629, Xiong Can received a holy decree to send an army to Beishanxi to prepare for a battle with the rebel army, and strive to completely exterminate this rebel army.

After the ghost of the enemy department, the ghost of the earth department picked up the cold and distant lord

Zheng Zhilong was still in the promotion period of his career at this time, and if he wanted to continue to climb, he naturally couldn't just be a Haikou business, he had to make a huge contribution to let the emperor see the value of his existence, so that he could have more room for improvement, so he sent his younger brother Zheng Zhihu at the first time to lead five hundred riflemen and a thousand infantry troops to go with the North and West to quell the chaos.

Before the Zheng family took refuge in the imperial court, they still had a huge naval army, and their 1,500 army troops were transported to Tianjin through the naval army, and then reached Taiyuan through the northern Zhili. Originally, it was logical to bypass a few provinces, but reinforcements from other places came even faster. This move was naturally rewarded by the emperor, but at the same time, it also caused dissatisfaction among the various armies, so it was put in a position of soy sauce in the subsequent battle deployment.

At this moment, Zheng Zhihu was wandering with his 1,500 men near Taiping County, which bordered Xiangling County, and was economically rich and located by the Yellow River, so it naturally became a possible target for the rebel army, so Zheng Zhihu's troops were arranged in Taiping County. Because most of the generals in the Shanxi camp did not want to see Zheng Zhihu, the camp only arranged Zheng Zhihu in Taiping County, but did not allocate enough food and garrison to them. When they first arrived in a foreign place, Zheng Jiajun was blinded, they did not know the local terrain, there was no place to station, and they were not familiar with the local language, and the officials in Taiping County only cared about closing the city gate and did not allow Zheng Jiajun to enter the city and station. At this time, it was winter again, and the Zheng Jiajun in the north were basically southerners, and they rarely encountered such a cold winter, and they couldn't adapt to it for a while, which led to the serious consequences of more than ten people freezing to death and more than 100 people suffering from frostbite. Zheng Zhihu wanted to attack Taiping County in a fit of anger, but he was stopped by Xu Wei, so it didn't make a big mistake.

Xu Wei played a very big role in the handling of the next matter, first using the silver he brought to buy a large number of winter clothes, mobilizing soldiers to go to the mountains and forests to cut wood for heating, and then buying grain as military rations, which finally ensured that Zheng Jiajun's frostbite and hunger did not continue to worsen.

Since the arrival of the Zheng Jiajun in Taiping, they have not seen much movement from the rebel army on the opposite side, but as the weather continued to deteriorate, the Yellow River was completely frozen on December 30, and at this time Xu Wei and Zheng Zhihu understood that the day of fighting the rebel army was getting closer and closer. Sure enough, on 28 January, a large number of rebel troops crossed the river from the frozen surface of Shenmu and entered Shanxi, and a rebel army of about 3,000 men rushed straight to Taiping.

The city gate of Taiping County was still closed when Zheng Jiajun arrived, and now it is nothing more than closed more tightly, but for Zheng Jiajun, they must face the chaos of these 3,000 people, because they don't even have a place to hide. But for Zheng Zhihu, he didn't want to hide at all, he came here to fight, so he directly led the army to meet him. As a dragon who has been wreaking havoc in the sea for many years, he has always personally led his troops to charge, often swinging with a sharp blade in his mouth, but there are really few opportunities to face the enemy face-to-face on land, so he himself is also very nervous. But the situation of the battle in the past few days has opened his eyes, more than 200 riflemen lined up, using the rapid fire of the Senate rifle to directly disintegrate the first round of the offensive of the chaotic army, the other party did not even enter the first two hundred steps of his own side, and at the same time, Zheng Jiajun himself only injured two people, and they were all infantry soldiers who were too close to the excitement and were smashed in the face by the residue of the projectile. After the defeat of the rebels, they fled for several miles, and after collecting the rout, they launched a second attack the next day, on the afternoon of January 31, 1630.

The chaotic army of this attack was no longer the usual chaos and rushing and killing in the previous time, they obviously received reinforcements from friendly troops in nearby prefectures and counties, and the army formation not only had a lot of banners, but also a lot of firecrackers, and even a cavalry of about 200 people, obviously treating the Zheng family army as a hard bone to fight.

At the beginning of the battle, Zheng Jiajun still followed the old method, first lined up in a double row of 200 people in front of him, and used rotational firing to shoot at the chaotic army that had entered 200 meters. Although the rebels have firecrackers, they are not numerous, and the effective killing distance of firecrackers must enter thirty meters to be effective. However, these rebels who had captured the guns did not know this fact, and when they saw that Zheng Jiajun was firing at a distance of 200 meters and causing damage to their own people, they also raised their guns and slammed them towards the Wu army. Although the situation seemed to be very lively, the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere on the side of the chaotic army, and the shouts of killing shook the sky, but it did not hurt the Zheng family army in the slightest. At this time, the senate rifle used by the Zheng family army just included the other party in the effective range, not to mention aiming and fighting, even if it was not aiming, the chaotic crowd on the opposite side could not run away at all, after a noon shooting, the two hundred Zheng family riflemen were unscathed, and the musketeers of the opposite chaotic army and the infantry who swept the formation next to them were killed and wounded more than 100 people.

The commander of the rebel army also knew that the two sides could not continue to fight like this, the other side obviously wanted their own side of the firearms to be sharp, and if they wanted to threaten the armed army, they had to rush to shorten the distance between the two sides, and force the armed army to fight with their own knives and guns. So in the afternoon the way of fighting changed, first of all, about a thousand infantry rushed out of the front of the rebel army, and these infantry were not actually fighting soldiers, but a group of old and weak women and children who were almost unarmed. In fact, there is not much difference between the combat concept of the rebel army and the Nanban, it is nothing more than looting materials, property and population everywhere, and then indiscriminately mixing the old and weak women and children with the young and strong, driving them to rush to consume the enemy's ammunition when fighting, and waiting until the old and weak women and children are almost dead, so that the main force of the young and strong people on their side can rush to fight, so that the other party can always be in the fear of being pressed and beaten, and these old and weak women and children are completely the burden of the rebel army, it is useless to raise them, and they have to take care of food, Dying more can also reduce the number of mouths you eat on your side. Even if there are some who are not dead after the battle, they will have combat experience, and at that time they can be incorporated into the war group and used as a combat stronghold. As for the next battle to fill the trenches and consume ammunition, and to capture a group of old and weak women and children, this group of rebels does not have the slightest sense of guilt in their hearts.

However, this trick is not easy to use in front of Zheng Jiajun, they used to be Haikou Kou, although it is said that it is not like killing people, but they can accurately distinguish the difference between enemies and friends, although the group of people rushing over in front of them are all old and weak women and children, but this rush is definitely not to hug themselves. Zheng Zhihu immediately made a decision, ordered the reserve of the riflemen to replenish, lined up in four horizontal columns, and began to fire at full speed at the enemy who rushed over.

Sun Qiuke is far away from the enemy ball and catches the sun

Zheng Jiajun's four-column shooting came from the earliest three-stage attack of the Senate Army, but because Zheng Jiajun's riflemen were not as trained as the Senate infantry due to the shortage of ammunition, they could only line up in four horizontal columns, kneel down to reload after shooting, and then stand up and shoot under the command of their own platoon officers. Although this rate of fire is similar to that of a three-stage shot, the reloading speed is faster than that of the Senate infantry. In the face of continuous shooting, the old and weak women and children of the rebel army were hit in the process of charging, falling down in rows, two hundred meters in front of the rebel army became a long time, the snow along the way has been stained red with blood, and finally these old and weak women and children completely collapsed at a distance of 100 meters, fled backwards, the fear of escaping made them directly break through the elite of the chaotic army, and even fled backwards with these elites.

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