"Knock, knock, knock......"

Chongwenmen as the location of the Nine Gates' Admiral's Mansion, the defense force is naturally not bad, there are twelve cannons in front of the city, of course, but they are all old-style artillery, not that Long Keduo does not want to change, in fact, in the past ten years as the Admiral of the Nine Gates, but there is no less on this matter, asking to replace the old artillery on the Chongwen Gate, but it is always opposed by the officials of the Ministry of Industry headed by Hongqing, and the military department of the old fourteenth is also quite complaining about this, Long Keduo's proposal always can't pass the court meeting, This artillery naturally can't be replaced, of course, the artillery is old, and the maintenance is actually good, no, Long Keduo only gave an order, and a group of gunners who had been on call for a long time immediately ignited the lead on the gun, and it didn't take long, but listening to the rumbling of the cannon, the twelve round shells were already throwing a parabola towards Tashan and others who were rushing towards their own position.

"General, be careful!"

The rate of fire of the old artillery is slow, the range is not too far, and it can only hit a distance of about two hundred steps, the power can only be said to be average, it can be used to kill, but it is definitely a sharp weapon, such twelve artillery pieces attack a few people, in the eyes of irrelevant people, it seems that there is a suspicion of making a fuss, but for Tashan and others, it is definitely a mortal threat, because of this, the sound of the cannon just rang out, and several guards who followed Tashan immediately became anxious, and they couldn't care about much, Qi Qi pounced on it, and pressed Tashan to the ground.

"Phew, damn it, Long Keduo, you old dog, you dare to plot against Lao Tzu, let's see!"

The old artillery used are submunitions, used to deal with the dense charge of cold weapons troops, that is definitely a big killer, but it is not without shortcomings, this disadvantage is that there is almost no lethality to low targets, unless it is a direct hit, otherwise, to the target lying on the ground, there is no threat at all, because of this, the salvo of twelve artillery seems to be very lively, but even Tashan's hair has not been injured, but it makes Tashan angry from the heart, the smoke has not dissipated, Tashan is already a push away on the body of the guards, jumped up, and pointed at Long Keduo, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, and scolded wildly.

"Don't stop, and then bang for Lao Tzu!"

Now that Tashan has exposed the fact of rebellion, Long Keduo has completely let it go, no matter what the consequences will be, at this time, he wants to kill people to vent his anger, and he doesn't pay attention to the anxiety and anxiety of his soldiers, let alone Tashan's scolding, Tie Qing roared loudly with a blue face.

"The artillery obeyed the order, bombarded Lao Tzu, and killed all the cannons in the city!"

The old artillery was extremely troublesome to reload, and although Long Keduo roared loudly, and the defenders' gunners were already frantically loading, they were categorically unable to fire a second round before Tashan returned to his main position, and at this time, it was Tashan's turn to vent, but seeing that he rushed to his artillery position with a blushing face, he gritted his teeth and drank his throat.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillerymen of the new army have long been angered by the arrogance of the defenders of the city, but they have not received the general's order, and they dare not easily launch a counterattack.

"Fight back, fire fire, fight back!"

On the occasion of the two public military exercises of the new army, Long Keduo had been to the scene to watch, but watching and watching, and personally experiencing the power of the new artillery is obviously two different things, just such a round of artillery down, the defenders on the head of the city have been killed and wounded more than 100 people, which immediately made Long Keduo, who had escaped the catastrophe, angry and angry, regardless of the ground and roared wildly.

"Hahaha...... well done, go on, I don't want to see a cannon in the city!"

Long Kedo is the main general, he is the order to counterattack, the defenders of the city gunners did not dare to disobey, the first round of artillery of the new army survived the eight cannons immediately launched a counterattack, the fight is very lively, but unfortunately the range is limited, can not reach the position of the new army at all, immediately provoked Tashan laughing, of course, laughing and laughing, Tashan did not intend to spare the defenders, waved his hand, has been a blatant death order.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Seventeen artillery guns bombarded the city one after another, but it was only three rounds, so they had to stop, and the artillery on the city was either destroyed by the new army, or the gunners all fled, in fact, not only the gunners fled, but even Long Keduo himself was bombarded so that he did not dare to go to the city, and in the absence of a target, the new artillerymen could only stop the shelling helplessly, and the city fell into a dead stalemate......

This Tower Hill is really unbearable!

Although the shelling in the direction of Chongwenmen lasted not very long, it was fierce, and the people of the city could not help but be frightened, and the pedestrians on the streets and alleys were almost frightened, and no one dared to stay outside anymore, and all of them hid in hidden places, so that it was convenient for Hongqing to lead the cavalry to run at high speed, and it only took more than a quarter of an hour, Hongqing's department had rushed to the vicinity of Changyu Street on South Street, and it had already cut off the road in the direction of Dongzhimen through the road in the city to reinforce Chongwenmen, but Hongqing was not satisfied, there was nothing else, the artillery battle of Chongwenmen was fought too early, at this time, the main infantry of Zhang Miao's department, which should have cooperated with the Tashan Department to launch an attack from South Street, was still six miles away, in case Ma Dapeng of Dongzhimen led the army to reinforce Chongwenmen, and the Longkeduo Department desperately broke through, Hongqing's cavalry army would be in a bitter battle.

"Report, Lord Wang, Ma Dapeng has led his troops to leave Dongzhimen, and is rushing here along Changyu Street, and it is only less than two miles away from our army!"

The so-called good spirits are not bad spirits, Hongqing's premonition is really right, no, the cavalry has not had time to arrange the relevant defensive formation, and I saw a sentry scouting horse galloping from the direction of Changyu Street, but seeing that one of its saddles dismounted, it was already kneeling in front of Hongqing's horse, and said loudly.

Sure enough, it came!

Hearing what the newspaper horse said, Hongqing's eyes immediately turned pale, but he did not panic, but waved his hand and shouted loudly: "The first and second battalions of the cavalry are all here, dismount, facing the east and south, in a five-line formation!" The 3rd and 4th battalions are in the center and ready to meet the enemy! ”

"Wow!"

The cavalry of the new army are all well-trained elites, and the foundation is the iron cavalry of the Eastern Expedition of that year, and the tactical movements are very skillful, and they quickly follow the drill code, using the terrain to set up two large phalanxes, one east and one south, and each phalanx has left a two-person wide passage on both sides of the formation, in case of adjusting the formation, the front of each side of the formation is four machine guns to press the position, the first row of officers and soldiers lie on the ground, the second row of officers and soldiers are kneeling, the third, fourth, and fifth rows are standing, and the muzzles of rows of black holes are pointed straight aheadAs for the cavalry of the 3rd and 4th battalions in the center, they all rode their horses and stood on the cross street at a distance of 50 paces behind the two phalanxes, ready to respond at any time, and more than 2,000 people moved in unison, moving quickly and without any disorder, showing extremely excellent tactical qualities.

"All stopped!"

As soon as the officers and men of the new army lined up their defensive formation, they saw a large army rushing out of the corner of the street in front of them, led by a square-faced general with a face like the bottom of a pot, riding his horse and hurrying.

"Lord Wang, the black-faced general who is riding a horse under his banner is Ma Dapeng."

The new officers and soldiers are basically the bannermen of the Beijing Division, the Manchurian and Han Mengs, and there are people who are clear to the heads of the Jingshi people, no, the black-faced general on the opposite side has just appeared, and someone recognized his origin, and hurriedly reported to Hongqing.

Hongqing is in a high position, and the people who can deal with it are all members of the imperial court, and he really doesn't know a few generals at the level of generals and deputy generals, but this time, he has done enough homework on the generals of the Nine Gate Admirals Yamen, although he doesn't know the face, but the information has been kept in mind, and when he heard his subordinates report the name of the black-faced general, Hongqing's mind immediately appeared with the specific information of Ma Dapeng, the Han Army is a Red Banner person, born in the twenty-ninth year of Kangxi, and Chinese New Year's Eve now there is one, Kangxi was born in the 48th year of Wujinshi, even if he worshiped under the Eighth Master, first served as a thousand generals in the Fengtai Battalion, Kangxi was promoted to a guerrilla general in 52 years, and was transferred to the Yamen of the Nine Gates in 56 years, and his official position was also promoted to a general, and in June this year, he was promoted to a deputy general, good at making a big sword, and he was known as a brave name in the army, and he was one of the few fierce generals under the Eighth Master.

"This king Hongqing is here, shocked to hear that Long Keduo commanded the army to rebel, His Majesty was furious, and sent this king to quell the chaos, and you waited for the crowd to come, but do you want to rebel?"

At this time, the defensive position of the new army has been formed, with the narrow terrain of the street, it is not difficult to resist the impact of Ma Dapeng's department, but Hongqing does not want to make more killings, even if Ma Dapeng's department is actually within the range of the new army's firepower, Hongqing did not rush to order the attack, but led Li Minxing and several other guards along the gap specially left by the phalanx in front of the horse to the front of the formation.