Nguyen Phuche was originally ready to retreat.

He could now see that the Ming people who controlled Hoi An were definitely not a rabble, they were not only well-equipped, but also highly morale and well-trained.

If it weren't for the wrong clothes they were wearing, Ruan Fuxi would even think that this was the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty.

Even so, he still doubted that he was facing the family of a border army general in the Ming Dynasty. If it was an ordinary pirate, he still hoped to take Hoi An after paying a lot of casualties, but if it was the family of the fierce generals of the Ming border army, he felt that he had to retreat and wait for the future.

Anyway, the climate here in Annan, the Ming soldiers will get sick if they stay for a long time, and they will come to pick up the cheap when the time comes. Now the key is to grab a piece of territory in order to stabilize the position.

But at this time, the city guards came out to line up, which put Ruan Phuche in a dilemma.

Fleeing without a fight will not only have a great impact on morale, his men are likely to flee, and judging from the fact that the Ming people dare to go out of the city to fight, they will not give up the opportunity to pursue!

"We must fight, but not under Hoi An City, the artillery at the head of the city is too dangerous!"

Thinking of this, Ruan Fuxi ordered the formation to retreat slightly, and in order to maintain the formation, he even gave up the artillery carriage that he was originally going to use to attack the city, and instead slowly retreated behind the hall with musketeers.

Two rounds of artillery were fired in succession at the head of the city, and the first round caused many casualties to Nguyen Phuc Khu, but the second round was all lost. At this time, the guards who had left the city also began to press forward, and all the artillery in the city stopped.

"This Ruan Fuxi is not a stupid person." In the city, Yu Guozhen saw this scene and said with a smile.

Luo Jiuhe nodded, his expression slightly nervous. In this battle, Yu Guozhen did not say a word about the command, and almost all of it was handed over to him.

And he was actually far away from the front line, relying on various banners and heralds at the head of the city, commanding thousands of people to fight.

Yu Guozhen sat still, but Hu Jingshui, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but probe his brain, with a slight sadness: "Since our army has won, don't chase after the poor." ”

"It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to be a famous academic overlord." Yu Guozhen heard him say "the poor man is not chasing", and he couldn't help but groan.

Luo Jiuhe didn't react, Hu Jingshui read the book more or less, and after listening to it, his face changed, and he gave a thumbs up and patted his ass fiercely. Yu Guozhen listened to him praise a few words, and laughed out loud: "This is not my original, but I heard someone else's writing...... Ah, the war began. ”

Everyone's attention suddenly shifted to the battlefield again, and as Yu Guozhen said, the two sides began to fight again.

Under his supervision, the 1,200 guards who went out with him were lined up in four rows, the first row was 300 musketeers, and they lined up to advance, with resolute faces, and approached Nguyen Phuc Khe's main formation.

Ruan Fuxi watched the four rows of enemy troops approaching in unison, although the number was not as large as his, but the momentum seemed to be ten times that of him, and his heart was shaken again.

Not only him, but the entire Ruan army was not at ease, you must know that just under the city of Hoi An, the Ruan army also suffered heavy losses, with hundreds of dead and wounded, nearly one-tenth of the manpower and all the war elephants were damaged, and at this time it was still able to maintain the dispersal, and it was already Ruan Fuxi who managed the army well. But after the new setback, they faced the imposing enemy army, and marched in such a very imposing way, they couldn't help but think about the defeat of Fangcai, and their morale was greatly depressed.

The distance between the two sides was still fifty zhang, and some people in the Ruan army could not hold their breath and began to fire with a bang, and the projectiles fired from the muskets naturally flew somewhere.

On the guard's side, although some people couldn't help but raise their muskets, they still came to their senses under the scolding of the nearby gang leader and Pengzheng.

The two sides were thirty zhang apart, and at this time, even Ruan Fuxi couldn't help it, and shouted and signaled his subordinates to prepare.

In the seaside battle, the bow and arrow are often not far away and less powerful because of the moisture of the sea, so the main long-range weapon in the Nguyen army is also a musket. With Nguyen Phuc Khi's order, hundreds of muskets were also raised. It's just that Ruan Jun's musket is somewhat similar to Yu Guozhen's musket in the Anlu War before, and there are all kinds of them, unlike Yu Guozhen's musket today, which is completely the same Sur arquebus.

In the face of the opponent's musket, Zhang Zheng did not hesitate and still gave the order to advance. At the sound of the whistle, the guards walked forward evenly, and at this time, they saw a cloud of white smoke suddenly rising from the array of the Ruan army, and then they heard the sound of gunshots.

With a distance of less than thirty zhang, it was already within the range of the firecracker, Ruan Fuxi's face was slightly relieved, his side shot first, but it took the lead. This row of guns bombarded the other side, and at least dozens of people fell on the other side.

But after the smoke cleared in his own formation, he looked at the guards on the opposite side, and only a few of them fell to the ground, and the rest of them still continued to move forward, but carefully avoided their companions on the ground!

"How is this possible?" Ruan Fuxi was surprised, and then noticed that the musketeers in the front column of the enemy army were all wearing strange helmets on their heads, and under their clothes they were also bulging, and they looked like they were wearing heavy armor!

"The Ming people all have good armor on their bodies!" Ruan Fuxi thought about it for a while and finally understood this. He hesitated, and now it was twenty feet away, and if he got any closer, the musket might even penetrate the armor.

With this hesitation, he heard a sharp whistle from the guards opposite, and then the other musketeer took his musket, took another five steps or so, and put the musket on the stand.

As the whistle sounded again, white smoke rose above the opponent's battle formation.

However, unlike the Ruan army's firing, the distance between the two sides is now less than 20 zhang, and there is almost no armor in the Ruan army, so this dense rain of bullets has been poured down, and a large platoon has fallen in the Ruan army, which is enough to have hundreds!

"Rush, rush!" Ruan Fuxi shouted the order, but at this time, Ruan Jun was already in chaos.

Your own shot can not cause much damage to the opponent, but the opponent can easily kill and injure a large number of your own side, this kind of desperate battle, people with a little brains, should know how to choose. What's more, the Annan people have always been greedy and selfish, and they like to play with some cleverness, at this time, who else is willing to rush out and die?

Even a few fools, after a few breaths, were blasted into a sieve by the second round of shooting from the guards, and among the Ruan army, nearly a hundred corpses were left!

If you look at the shooting rate, the guards only have a one-third of the shooting rate, but in this era, such a high hit rate is already extremely amazing. The second round of shooting was only a few breaths away from the first round, and the advantage of the faster firing frequency of the Sur arquebus was also noticed by the Ruan army, who found that between his two shots, the opponent could complete three shots, which became the last straw that destroyed the fighting spirit of the Ruan army.

Zhang Zheng was keenly aware of this, the enemy's flag hung upside down, the soldiers shrank, and everyone moved stiffly. He knew that the other party had no fighting spirit, so he only needed to push it lightly at this time.

Therefore, he ordered the trumpet beside him: "Blow the trumpet!" ”

The horn lifted the lock on his chest, puffed out his cheeks, and blew hard. The sharp and poignant sound of the lock suddenly resounded in the sky!

Luo Jiuhe, who was at the head of the city, heard this voice, leaned forward slightly with his support for the battlements, and Yu Guozhen also stood up in surprise.

I saw that the guards behind the musketeers suddenly rushed forward and intervened between the musketeers. In the midst of a shout, they struck with their spears, like a row of waves, and pounced on the Ruan army.

Ruan Fuxi also had no fighting spirit at this time, he should turn the horse's head first, regardless of the rest, and drove the horse away.

Behind him, about half of the Ruan army reacted immediately, dropped their weapons and fled, and the remaining half quickly understood their situation, some of them simply knelt down and surrendered, and the few who tried to resist were immediately stabbed into meat skewers by the guards who rushed up.

More followed, the first to go, and began to flee.

In any part of the area, the guards formed a situation of fighting more and less, and those who dared to resist would not hesitate to be killed, and then they swept over the kneeling Annamite like the wind, and pursued the fleeing enemy.

"Won." Yu Guozhen muttered at the head of the city, and then said to Hu Jingshui with a smile: "Mr. Hu, congratulations, this position of mayor of Hui'an can be regarded as sitting firmly." ”

Hu Jingshui arched his hands: "I still want to congratulate Gongzi on his foundation, the sky will be high and the sea will be wide in the future!" ”

Yu Guozhen took a deep breath and nodded vigorously. Indeed, in the future, at least within the scope of the South China Sea, he is high and wide, and even the Ming Dynasty can no longer be helpless. With Hoi An as a grain production base and trade center, he could expand the grain fields here, immigrate to the settlement, and provide him with both food and soldiers; He can trade the industrial products produced in Xinxiang here to his heart's content, which can not only make profits, but also collect commercial taxes.

"Petty official, I will send someone out to clean up the battlefield again?" Luo Jiuhe asked Yu Guozhen for instructions again, interrupting Yu Guozhen's thoughts.

Yu Guozhen nodded, although he contacted the Zheng family and secretly transported 5,000 laborers to Hoi An, but he would not be too little laborer, especially these captive Annamite people, although they were stupid and lazy, Yu Guozhen believed that the whip and hunger combined with the appropriate reward would teach them to be more behaved.

Luo Jiuhe took another 500 people out of the city to clean up the battlefield, while there were still 500 guards left in the city to control the situation. Even after the big victory, Yu Guozhen still did not let his guard down.

About an hour later, Zhang Zheng led the pursuing troops back to Hoi An, and with them came hundreds of prisoners, plus the total number of prisoners captured by Luo Jiuhe when he cleaned up the battlefield, the total number of prisoners exceeded 1,000, and the number of killed and wounded Nguyen troops was almost nearly 1,000. Half of the 5,000 soldiers that Ruan Phuche had pieced together went, and the rest of the people also tried their best to flee south, not daring to look back.

As the prisoners of war were escorted into the city, they passed a house in which a pair of eyes kept looking through the crack in the door, and counted the number of people in a whisper. When it came to a thousand, the man could no longer count, but turned around and said to the group of people behind him in frustration: "Gentlemen, it seems that ...... The Ming people are really going to rule Hoi An, I suggest that you should prepare early, the Ming people are not Annamite, they are not so easy to fool! ”

"Yajiro Guard, what do you mean, let's just watch the Ming people control Hoi An from now on?"

"What else can be done?" The former Japanese man sighed: "Didn't you see the soldiers of this Ming general? ”

"So what

(To be continued)