That night, more than 10,000 Ming troops from the south camped near Lion Rock in the south of Hengzhou City. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 A series of unfamiliar guest generals such as "Guangxi Town Chief Military Officer Jiao", "Guangdong Town Deputy General Ding", and "Huguang Town Nanyang Fleet Guerrilla Qian" appeared in the continuous camp.

In the tent of the Chinese army, looking around is a bright mountain armor, reflecting the candlelight dazzling. Jiao Lian, the chief military officer of Guangxi Town, Ding Shilong, the deputy general of Guangdong Town, and Qian Dayou, a guerrilla of the Marine Battalion of the Nanyang Fleet in Huguang Town, gathered together to defend the capital. The conditions were simple, and everyone was also a military general, so they didn't pay so much attention to it, so they discussed tomorrow's combat deployment around a large map spread on the ground.

More than 6,000 people from Guangdong Town led by Ding Shilong and more than 2,000 people from the Nanyang Fleet Marine Battalion led by Qian Dayou all set out from Guangzhou to the north. After entering the territory of Huguang to meet more than 4,000 soldiers and horses led by Jiao Lian, the total strength has reached more than 13,000, and the generals unanimously elected Jiao Lian as the commander of the soldiers and horses of this road according to the level of their official positions. Jiao Lian, who is a person in temperament, is not pretentious at all, and readily takes over this burden.

"In tomorrow's battle, the primary purpose of our army is to break through the obstruction of the Tartar cavalry and send the Qian guerrilla headquarters to the capital." Jiao Lian half-squatted on the ground, pressed his hand on the map and said, "The Qian Guerrilla Station has excellent firearms, and it is also equipped with Hongyi cannons, especially when used to defend the city. As long as they enter Xingdu, the advantage of firearms that Kong Youde relied on to kill the dog will be offset a lot, and the safety of Xingdu will be more guaranteed. ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Qian Dayou again: "However, Qian Guerrilla, our army has many infantry soldiers and few cavalry, and the cavalry of all parts of the army together is less than 1,500, less than half of the Tartar cavalry. At that time, on the way to Xingdu, I am afraid that you will have to bear a lot of pressure yourself, but there are difficulties? ”

"Jiao Junmen, please rest assured, even if our battalion is not escorted by cavalry, we are not afraid to face three thousand captives in the field alone. What's more, there are so many brothers as the backing of our camp this time, if we still have difficulties, then we can simply go home and farm. "Qian Da is full of confidence.

Although the Marine Battalion is part of the Nanyang Fleet, it has always been built according to the standard of the main infantry battalion, which is even higher than the standard of the main infantry battalion. At present, the battalion has two thousand corps, which can play the role of a melee soldier of the mandarin duck array and shoulder the task of the infantry of the phalanx in actual combat. When he was in Guangdong, he often cooperated with Guangdong Town and conducted a lot of training against cavalry. Therefore, Qian Dayou still has a bottom in his heart in the face of the more than 3,000 Qing cavalry at present.

"That's good! Now that Your Majesty is still sticking to the capital with a body of ten thousand gold, we, as courtiers, should sacrifice our lives and forget our lives to repay the grace of God! Seeing that Qian Da was full of confidence, Jiao Lian was relieved. Later, several other arrangements were discussed with the group, and finally the battle plan was refined and the tasks were assigned one by one. The generals from the three ministries received orders one by one.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, the army began to advance towards Hengzhou City. The vanguard was the Nanyang Fleet Marine Battalion of Qian Dayou, and a total of more than 1,000 cavalry from Guangdong Town and Guangxi Town were guarding it.

Soon after the army crossed the Lion Rock, the black cavalry of the Qing army pounced on them from a distance across the wilderness. The cavalry of Guangdong and Guangxi towns met up and pinned down part of the Qing cavalry, but more than half of them pounced on the marine battalion of the Nanyang Fleet. Obviously, the Hongyi artillery in the Marine battalion queue caught the attention of the Qing army, who knew which one was the most valuable target for attack.

When the cavalry of the Qing army was approaching, the marine battalion had completed the formation conversion, and formed two hollow phalanxes with two thousand corps as a unit. On each of the four sides of each phalanx, two rounds were deployed, and light artillery for close firing was placed in the middle of the two rounds, and heavy red artillery and ambulances were protected in a hollow phalanx.

Accompanied by the sound of horns, there was a neat shout of tigers in the two hollow phalanxes of the Marine Battalion like a tsunami. The dense spears pointed diagonally upward, as if two hedgehogs had opened their spikes all over their bodies.

Horses are spiritual creatures, so naturally they will not be pierced to the spikes and sent to death. The surging Qing cavalry poured on both sides in front of the phalanx, like a rushing river divided into two streams by rocks.

The sound of fried beans shook the ground all day, and the phalanx of the Marine battalion completed the first salvo. The galloping Qing cavalry was knocked over, and the rest of them threw a rain of arrows into the phalanx in the gallop, screaming miserably where the sharp light arrows fell.

After two volleys, the musketeers in the phalanx began to fire freely. After the phalanx, the infantry of Guangdong Town and Guangxi Town have also been lined up......

The battle was fierce but not long, when the Ming cavalry in Hengzhou City went out of the city to attack from behind, the Qing cavalry, which had not been able to take advantage for a long time, began to retreat.

Although the number of cavalry of the Ming army on both sides was not as large as that of his own side, the line Guoan saw the resoluteness of the Ming army's will to fight, and did not want to fill it with human lives. Moreover, his task was not to prevent the Ming reinforcements outside the city from joining up with the defenders inside the city, but to drag Emperor Longwu in Hengzhou. Now that reinforcements are coming, it seems that Emperor Longwu does not want to escape. Since this is the case, the rest of the matter will be left to Kong Youde to solve, anyway, Kong Youde is almost there.

Breaking through the obstruction of the Ministry of State Security, under the response of the defenders of Hengzhou, the marine battalion of the Nanyang Fleet entered Hengzhou with Hongyi artillery. The Hongyi cannon carried included two twelve-pounder cannons and two eighteen-pounder cannons, which were used to attack or defend the city, which was equivalent to adding another guarantee to the safety of the capital.

After the land battalion entered the city, Guangdong Town and Guangxi Town were still camped outside the city, one in the southwest of the city and the other in the east of the city. This arrangement is not only to deal with the upcoming main force of the Qing army, but also has its own deep meaning......

In the evening of the same day, two more armies arrived near Hengzhou City, one from the southwest and the other from the east, but they were respectively blocked by Guangdong Town and Guangxi Town, and it was useless to send people to negotiate, so they could only camp on the spot opposite the camp of Guangdong Town and Guangxi Town.

These two armies and horses, the one in the southwest is wearing the "Liu" character handsome flag, and the east one is branding the "yellow" character handsome flag.

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At night, in the camp with the handsome flag of "Liu", in the tent of the Chinese army, a sturdy military general was furious. This is none other than Uncle Dingman, the chief military officer of Wugang Town, and Liu Chengyin, who was nicknamed "Liu Tieba".

"What kind of thing is he Ding Shilong! The deputy general of a Guangdong town dared to block Lao Tzu's capital! Fuck it! Even if Wang Dongri comes, he is not qualified to talk to Lao Tzu like this! Liu Chengyin scolded while walking back and forth. Adjutant General Zhao Cunjin and a group of generals and guerrillas stood aside frowning and bowing their heads in thought. On the ground, broken teapots, tea bowls and other fragments were in a mess.

Zhao Cunjin listened to Liu Chengyin's scolding for a long time, and finally coughed dryly and persuaded him: "The handsome man is angry." Now the soldiers and horses in Guangdong Town have taken the first step and seized the favorable terrain, and our army has come from afar, and it has long been sleepy and lacking horses, so they will not let it go, and our army has no strength to move with them for the time being. It's better to rest for a while, and then send someone to negotiate with them tomorrow, if they are willing to give way, it will be better. If they still don't let us, let's reason with knives and guns again. Anyway, everyone is here to join the guard, and they have no reason to block us here, and they are at their fault if they want to do it. ”

Liu Chengyin scolded until now, and the anger has gone somewhat, and when he heard Zhao Cunjin say it, he exhaled heavily: "Okay, let's do it first." Prepare well when you go down. If those bastards don't give way tomorrow, I'll have to give them something awesome! ”

After the generals retired, Liu Chengyin was still sulking alone in the tent.

This time, he led the army to Hengzhou from afar, naturally not because of the enthusiasm of serving the country and loyalty. As early as a few months ago, an envoy from the north arrived in Wugang for a secret meeting with him, and he could not help but be impressed by a series of favorable conditions, such as "Marquis of the First Rank" and "Admiral Huguang Military Officer". finally waited for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he also made up his mind to come to Hengzhou with soldiers and horses, but unexpectedly he was blocked from afar.

In this way, how can you fish in troubled waters to accomplish that big thing? Could it be that the matter was leaked in advance? If so, who leaked the secret? If there was no leak, how could the soldiers and horses of Guangdong Town be so coincidentally in front of the front, and also blocked the main road to the capital? Liu Chengyin was both annoyed and suspicious.

Although the mood was complicated, after all, he had just gone through a long march, and he was already very tired physically and mentally, Liu Chengyin thought about it for a long time, and finally fell asleep in a daze.

I don't know how long I slept, Liu Chengyin was woken up by a fierce noise. When I stared at it, there was actually the sonorous sound of weapons colliding mixed with bursts of screams and screams. An icy chill swept through his body in an instant, making his sleepiness disappear without a trace. As soon as he sat up, the head of the pro-soldier team crashed into the tent: "Dashuai, Vice General Zhao...... Vice General Zhao and General Liu are all reversed! ”

Liu Chengyin was furious, and was just about to grab the iron rod on the weapon rack, when two groups of people rushed into the tent.

The dozen or so pro-soldiers who retreated into the tent were all bloody, holding weapons to protect Liu Chengyin behind him. In front of them were the deputy general Zhao Cunjin and several other generals, as well as a group of murderous armor soldiers. Zhao Cunjin looked at Liu Chengyin expressionlessly, his eyes made people's hearts cold.

"Zhao Laosan! What do you want! Liu Chengyin didn't expect that Zhao Cunjin, who had always behaved deferentially in front of him, would dare to make trouble, and he was both afraid and angry in his heart, and shouted loudly.