Chapter 31: Acting Skills (5)

"Big Lan thief Chen Wen, how is this possible, shouldn't he be in Taizhou?!"

According to Ma Jinbao's previous Tang report, he claimed that after arriving in Taizhou's capital, he encountered many Ming troops such as Yu Guowang, Chen Wen, and Jintang of the Ming army. In order to ensure the safety of the back road, Ma Jinbao said that he was ready to encircle and suppress it together with Ma Xin, the general soldier of Taizhou, and would send troops to Zhoushan in the near future.

When the prefect of Jinhua and Ma San Province received this report, Ma Jinbao did not defeat Yu Guowang and Jintang as expected, but was crushed by the pirated Spanish phalanx of Yu Guowang's troops in the battle that was provoked by Ma Xin and did not use artillery.

In this way, when he was contained in Taizhou by Yu Guowang's subordinates, Chen Wen's name also evolved from water mixed to exaggerate his exploits to an excuse for his defeat, and when he and Ma Xin cooperated to defeat Yu Guowang, Chen Wen's name evolved from an excuse for defeat to a mixture of water for exaggerated merits, and a reason for not meeting the deadline in the Battle of Zhoushan.

Competing for merit is a common phenomenon in the military, and even the modern army cannot put an end to it. In the battle of Zhoushan in history, the Qing army on the northern front was repelled by the Ming army under Zhang Huangyan, but after that, it still followed and participated in the pursuit of the Zhoushan Ming fleet after the destruction of Zhoushan City.

Relying on the support of someone above, the arrogant Ma Jinbao habitually added Chen Wen, a Ming army general who defeated the left battalion last year and captured Tiantai County, to the list of Ming army generals who harassed Taizhou's capital city.

Everything seems to be similar to the way Ma Jinbao has been an official over the years, nothing more than exploiting and plundering the people in the local area, mixing water in the war exploits when there is a war, and then bribing the officials to seek a higher official position, and finally continuing to mix water in the war exploits while exploiting the people, and so on.

It's just that in this world, those who come out to mix will have to pay it back sooner or later!

Ma Jinbao had a way to persuade Ma Xin, and he was also able to rely on bribes to persuade Chen Jin, Jin Li, Xiao Qiyuan and other high-ranking Manchu officials in Zhejiang. However, his Tang newspaper completely evolved the civil and military officials of Jinhua Mansion, so that after his old subordinate Ma San Province saw the three flags, he immediately had the idea of a plan.

As the most valued military general under Ma Jinbao, Ma San Province, who has been an officer in Ma Jinbao's army since the Chongzhen period, is by no means the kind of waste that the guards of Dongyang County rely on nepotism to climb up. After discovering that he had fallen into Chen Wen's calculations, Ma San Province did not throw down the flag and fled back to the county seat, but tried to take the lead in attacking with the absolute superiority of several times in terms of troops, so as to defeat this Ming army.

After the defeat of the left battalion of Tibiao last year, Tian Xiong claimed in the Tang newspaper that Li Rong sent Wang Sheng, who led the way, to capture Feng Jingdi on the way to pursue, and was thus led by the superior Ming army led by Chen Wen into a valley with no exit in the south of Siming Mountain, so that it was defeated by the Ming army blocking the road in the midst of hunger and cold, and only a small number of Qing troops broke through.

This kind of nonsense is just used to deceive the common people and those civilian officials who don't know the soldiers, whether it is Ma Jinbao or Ma Sanxing, they will not be stupid enough to believe it.

After taking into account the strong combat effectiveness of the Raising Battalion, Ma Jinbao and Ma San Province felt that it was Li Rong who was defeated by the enemy in the state of victory in the first battle, which caused him to be ambushed by a large-scale Ming army. As for Li Rong's death, it should have been just an accident, otherwise with Li Rong's experience, wouldn't he have known to abandon the army and abscond when he found out that the battle situation was unfavorable?

It is estimated that since the Ming army has chosen to spend so much time, it is obviously impossible to organize a large-scale army to sneak here, and the Ming army in front of him must be the vast majority of people, if not all. As long as it can be successfully defeated, then the three provinces of Tama will inevitably be rewarded for being promoted and rich; Even if it can't be defeated, it should be possible to retreat to Dongyang County and wait for Ma Jinbao to return.

Between the lightning and flint, the three provinces of Malaysia have completed the trade-off between the pros and cons. As if he were ruthless, he immediately gave the order and signaled the whole army to attack. It's just that the Ming army he is facing reacts faster!

When the Qing army beat the drum and prepared to attack, the soldiers of the first bureau of the Nantang Battalion immediately took off the clothes of the people who were put on the outside after Chen Wen's order, revealing their military uniforms. At the same time, at a distance from the battle array, three flags two feet high were also erected by the standard-bearers not far from the gate of the camp, and they were stretched out under the scorching summer sun.

I saw that on the big flag on the left, a winged tiger was about to pounce on the red background, and the three characters of Nantang Camp were written on the side, which was the camp flag of Nantang Battalion; On the big flag on the right, the side of the red background is written with the words "Qin ordered to capture the general, guard Dalan and Jinhua chief military officer", and in the middle is written a big Chen character, which is particularly obvious, this is Chen Wen's general flag.

In contrast, the middle side is more concise, only on the top of the white cloth are written four large ink characters from top to bottom - return my rivers and mountains!

The four big characters of "return my rivers and mountains" were once rumored to be Yue Fei's handwriting, and later after research, this is not the tone of the Song people's writing, but the literati Zhou Chengzhong in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period collected the "Hanging Ancient Battlefield Text" and "Teacher Table" ink that is rumored to be Yue Fei's handwriting.

It's just that these four words played a role in inspiring and inspiring the morale and patriotism of the Chinese people during the Japanese invasion of China, and the Nantang Battalion went out this time to regain the lost territory. Therefore, Chen Wen wrote these four characters on the banner to inspire the soldiers to fight bravely.

Under the flag, Chen Wen, who was riding on a war horse, had already thrown the cloak that covered his body on the ground, revealing the set of Shanwen armor on his body that had already repaired the heart guard. Putting on his helmet, Chen Wen immediately ordered to change the formation.

In addition to the 392 people in the first game, the cavalry team of the Chinese army sent less than 100 troops, and the rest were members of other departments of the Chinese army in the Nantang battalion, except for dozens of officials from the old battalion. In the first game, they lined up in front of the formation like the Qing army in front of them, and it was not until Chen Wen gave an order that these soldiers immediately dispersed in teams, and the junior formation extended the entire battle formation.

The Qing army's general flag pressed forward, which should mean the order to continue the attack. Seeing this, Chen Wen also immediately gave the order to attack.

"The recovery of Jinhua, the recovery of Zhejiang, and even the recovery of the two capitals all start from this moment! Nantang battalion, attack! ”

The military order has been issued, and the killer team of the Mandarin Duck Array in the first game immediately changed into a vertical formation, and marched towards the battle formation of the Qing army at a suitable distance from each other. At this moment, the gunners of the firearms team and the artillery team of the Chinese army in the first game also carried the three small tiger squat guns and followed closely behind Lou Jiye, who was in charge of commanding the battle, and marched together.

At that moment just now, it was clear that the Qing army was the first to give the order to attack, but the Ming army completed the last-mover first-come, and when the Qing army officers issued orders layer by layer, they completed the change of formation and began to attack the Qing army, which was more than four times its size.

The speed of the Ming army's change of formation really frightened Ma San Province, the army that can reach such a realm has obviously worked countless times on the formation, if you add that state of attacking the superior enemy army without hesitation, it must be a strong army.

After scolding in his heart, "Tian Xiong, this dog thief is not kind", Ma Sanxing knew that he was ready to shoot at this moment, so he had to send it. Seeing the Ming army advancing at a speed equal to that of the Qing army, he gritted his teeth, but he had to continue. Moreover, at this moment, he still has a real killer weapon in hand, even if the dignified array cannot open the situation, the real victory or defeat is still unknown.

On the battlefield, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties marched towards each other in formation, but before the real collision began, the two sides would inevitably try to rely on other means to mess up the opponent's formation in order to obtain the key to victory.

Seeing that he was about to enter the range of the bird's gun, Lou Jiye, who had always been in control of the speed of travel, immediately ordered the mandarin duck killer team in the front row to stop advancing, and instead the bird's gunner and artilleryman who had followed behind before came to the front.

With the first result of shooting the Qing army in the battle behind the Siming Mountain Palace, Feng Biao got the well-made bird gun that Huang Zhongdao gave to Chen Wen as he wished. At the same time, Feng Biao's witty performance on the battlefield was also recognized by the officer corps of the Nantang battalion. As a result, after the expansion of the Nantang Battalion, Feng Biao won the position of deputy captain of the fourth squad of the firearms team with his military merits, and with the establishment of the first bureau, he joined the advance force that Chen Wen had high hopes for.

Promotion, getting rich, and even sealing a wife and son in the future, glorifying the ancestors, can really be completed step by step in this army. On the night he was promoted to vice captain, Feng Biao hugged the bird, recalled the record about him in the merit book, and couldn't sleep for a long time with tears of joy.

Since then, he has been training every day, mastering the shooting skills of the bird, and with the daily mechanical training, the shooting speed has steadily improved. Even after sending out the army, as long as the camp is camped, he will continue to train with this personal item in order to improve his skills, and this has gradually made him an excellent talent worth cultivating in the eyes of superior officers.

In this way, until today, a dignified battle was finally ushered in, and Feng Biao, who had been impatient for a long time, was already in front of the formation, only shouting in his heart: "Come on, you two Tartars who don't want ancestors, grandpa has been waiting for you to come and die for too long!" ”

With the issuance of the military order, the firearms team and the artillery team quickly crossed the Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team and began to line up in front of its formation, and then carried out the loading work.

Pour the medicine, charge, press the fire, reload, load the door medicine, cover the fire door cover, and load the fire rope into the faucet. After doing all this, the Ming army's bird gunners lit the fire rope one after another, waiting for the order to shoot.

While the Ming army stopped in battle, the Qing army continued to advance. The standard battalion of Jinhua Town has artillery, but it is still more inclined to bow and arrow, javelin, throwing axe and other throwing weapons in individual long-range support. At this moment, there is still a distance between the two sides, and it seems that they have entered the shooting range of the Ming army's birds, but there is still a certain distance between the bows and arrows.

A moment later, the Qing army had already entered the firing range, and after Lou Jiye silently counted a certain number of steps of the Qing army, he immediately ordered to open fire.