Zheng Qi has also been working hard in life and death for many years, so he naturally understands the truth that the water gate is not closed, and the water city is useless, and the top priority is to quickly arrange defenses under the water city.

Not long after, Zheng Qi took more than 3,000 Dingkou of the Zheng family to a place a few hundred meters away from the shore of the dock to form a formation.

However, the cavalry of the Shandong army only transported by ship is at least thousand, which is also the difference between Jiangnan and Jiangbei, in Jiangnan, the horses lose weight seriously, the Zheng family mostly uses horses to transport and drag goods, and the foot soldiers are basically mercenaries and Dingkou from all over the country.

The Shandong army was different, with cavalry, infantry and firearms all very perfect, and even established two naval divisions.

The combat horses are all purchased from the horse markets in the Jiubian and Beizhili areas, and the light cavalry, pacesetters, and the transfer horses used in peacetime are not the same as the cavalry battalions used in battle.

The light cavalry is dominated by Mongolian horses, and the heavy cavalry is very complete because they want to destroy the strong formation, and may even fight head-on with the Tartars, so the armor and soldiers are very complete, and the Mongolian horses cannot support it, so they can only use stronger Jurchen horses.

However, whether it is a Mongolian horse or a Jurchen horse, it is much stronger than the Zheng family's mules and horses, so Zheng Qi was very greedy when he saw the horses on the other party's ship, and knew that even if the Zheng family formed a cavalry, it would not do anything at this time.

The folk customs in the south of the Yangtze River are different from those in the north of the Yangtze River, the Zheng family is already the overlord of the sea, and they are quite arrogant in the south of the Yangtze River, but this ruthlessness is compared with the Shandong army fighting everywhere, but it seems very weak, and it is not enough to see at all.

After all, the Zheng family is not as good as the regular army, as a private army, although the armor and equipment are relatively complete, but Zheng Zhilong is obviously more concerned about the development of the water division, except for some archers and musketeers among the more than 3,000 people, most of the others are sword and shield men and spearmen.

The Zheng family's foot soldier Ding Kou was equipped with leather armor and iron cloth face armor, which was quite good compared to those mercenaries who were sent to death.

In fact, in the eyes of most outsiders, there is no need to do this kind of stubborn resistance for the sake of such a house, but Zheng Qi and his subordinates of the Zheng family know that Zheng Zhilong feeds and dresses himself, and has equipment that even local officers and soldiers can't match, which is already very rare.

In the cellar of the Zheng Mansion in Anping City, there are tens of millions of gold and silver, in addition, there are a large number of Zheng family's unique ships, ** paper, and a large number of rare treasures.

These things are the crystallization of the Zheng family's many years of rampant sea, and they are also the key to whether the Zheng family can organize a huge naval division to take revenge on the Shandong army.

For the Zheng family's Dingkou, sailors, and many generals and retainers, only the existence of the Zheng family can guarantee their status, and if the Zheng family is strong, they can only follow the strength, so they can only fight.

The Shandong naval division encroached on the remaining ships at the dock at great speed, and soon, they began to assemble on the shore of the pier.

But as soon as they came ashore, the cavalry turned on their horses, and the foot soldiers had just stepped on solid ground, and before they could react from the long voyage, they suddenly heard a fierce shout of killing.

Looking back, it turned out that it was the Zheng family soldiers who were guarding the water city and began to charge when the Shandong army had not all disembarked.

For him, he is actually quite good at land warfare, so the errand of landing on the shore to attack Water City naturally falls to him.

Liu Si stabilized his body slightly, looked at the Zheng family Dingkou who was directly in the face, and immediately snorted coldly, understanding that the other party was poor in donkey skills, and wanted to take this opportunity to fight to the death.

At this time, the distance between the two sides is only a few hundred meters, and the breath is about to reach 3, even if the Shandong army is fast, it is impossible to line up the military formation between Zhengjiadingkou rushing over.

Liu Si hesitated slightly, then waved his knife and loudly ordered to attack.

The cavalry of the Shandong army who had just landed on the shore did not have time to adjust their horses, so they directly used the horse needles on their boots to urge the mounts to give way to the sides, and followed closely, and the soldiers who had just landed on the shore waved their swords and followed Liu Si to collide with the other party.

They made way for the Shandong soldiers who kept running off the boat behind to make precious adjustment space, so as to avoid most of the soldiers from huddled together and lose their combat ability.

At the same time, outside the city of Anping, artillery rang out, and the Shandong army had already started a bloody white-knives battle with the Zheng family Dingkou who was defending the city.

"Boom! Bang-"

There was a sea of fire in the city, the banner of the Shandong army fluttering high on the hillside in the distance, and a circle of heavy artillery was mounted outside the city of Anping, and the bombardment continued to be carried out.

Although there was an endless stream of soldiers from the Shandong army besieging the city, there were countless regular troops in the distance, who were waiting under the banner and watched the battle in front of them coldly.

Not long after, a group of Shandong soldiers who were attacking the city retreated like a tide, and Dong Youyin, who was riding a horse in front, waved his saber, pointed to the head of the city, and shouted:

"Qin Liangshi, take your people, on!"

"Honorable military order!"

A general came out of the queue in response, and made a military force towards Dong Youbank, and the two thousand soldiers of the Sharp Knife Battalion let out a battle cry and rushed forward with neat steps.

The 2,000 Sharp Knife Battalion led tens of thousands of regular sergeants to start the next round of attacks without stopping.

At the head of the city, Zheng Li, the general in charge of the garrison, felt incredible, although this official army was dressed in clothes similar to the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, but the momentum was completely different.

If the officers and soldiers of the imperial court went to the battlefield with fear and resentment, then the soldiers and horses in front of them were the ones who brought fear to the other party, and everyone held their heads high, like a red wave.

Especially the two thousand crimson soldiers at the front, even the steps of rushing forward were neatly and consistently, the tiger spears held high in their hands glowed with a little cold light, and a momentum of defiance of all opponents rushed towards them.

Fierce rival, this is definitely the strongest rival their Zheng family has ever encountered!

In desperation, Zheng Li could only order some of the mercenaries who remained in the city to guard the city gates, and let the archers and gunners start shooting as soon as the opponent entered the firing range.

But no one expected that when the distance between the two sides was still about two hundred paces, some people stopped in the array of the opposing party's forward rush, and they picked up the black hole hole bird gun in their hands, followed closely, and a volley like a storm followed.

Before Zheng Jiadingkou, who had survived the previous rounds of siege on the city wall, had time to take a few breaths, he suddenly heard several miserable howls around him, and people he knew were hit on the city wall in every direction.

These people either immediately lost their combat effectiveness and collapsed inside the wall with their wounds covered and howling miserably, or they lost consciousness and fell down the wall with their heads up, becoming one of the many corpses.

Zheng Li once asked people to prepare more than a dozen small cannons in the city, all of which were more advanced flowering shells, and the flowering shells of the Zheng family were still improved by Western craftsmen, and even the general imperial court guards were inferior.

He kept these small cannons as killing weapons, and wanted to wait for the Shandong army to come to the city and strike another hard blow to break the formation, but the opponent actually started to fire a salvo when he was two hundred steps away from the city wall.

At such a distance, the power has increased instead of decreasing, and what they are holding in their hands is still a bird gun.

"How is this possible!?"