"Quick, quick, ask Cixi for help!"

Guan Yuanzhong, the chief soldier of Nanchang Town, lay on the chest wall of the Zhangting camp of the Ming army before, looked at the bank of the Yao River in the distance with a clairvoyant mirror, and then said to the soldiers beside him tremblingly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He is the banner man of the Han army, one of the general soldiers who survived the defeat of Zhenhai, the fear of the Ming army is lingering, as for the fear of Yang Feng, it is unforgettable, and at this time, the terrifying demon is riding on the iconic big white horse, even if the clarity of the clairvoyant mirror is not enough, he can also see the meteor hammer dragged in the hand of the demon, as soon as he remembered the tragic situation of the deputy general of Huzhou who was hammered into a piece of rotten meat, he couldn't help but have a feeling of urine at this time.

As if sensing his gaze, the demon raised his head with a wicked smile on his face.

Guan Zongbing's heart immediately beat violently.

And on the riverside behind this demon, hundreds of warships and transport ships of all kinds docked, and the heavily armed soldiers of the Ming Army were constantly stepping on the shore, and then quickly lined up into a small phalanx, the armor was dazzling, the spears were like a forest, and the cannon under the hunting flag raised the muzzle, and what was even more terrifying was the thick pipes like those buckets, at this time the general soldier Guan already knew that it was a rocket launcher, and a rocket under Zhenhai City had blown up more than 100 of his soldiers.

Anyway, he is also the chief soldier, who doesn't know that they set up a game at the beginning, and deliberately let Zhangting lure them to attack Cixi.

Now that the whole army is wiped out, there are only those regimental exercises left, and the poor ones are still with big swords and spears, basically the Ming army can line up to Xiao County to receive the vast and rich land on the south bank of the Qiantang River.

Now it can be said that the only hope for saving the Qing army lies in him.

"Brothers, the time has come to serve the court."

Guan Yuanzhong, a good servant of the Han army with a yellow flag, suppressed the fear in his heart and raised his waist knife, and said very heroically to the more than 6,000 soldiers behind him who were as weak as him.

Perhaps infected by the courage of the chief soldier, or perhaps because he felt the eager gaze of the Holy Lord Emperor, all the soldiers waved their swords and guns and shouted with a face-saving attitude, with a momentum of fighting to the end for our great Qing Dynasty, which made even the fear in the heart of the general soldier much lighter.

He didn't know that at this moment, four Ming soldiers were quietly approaching from behind their line of defense, covered in camouflage such as tree branches, until they were more than a hundred steps away from the remaining barbed wire array, and then stopped next to a very conspicuous big rock. Then he began to carefully pick up the soil with his hands, and soon pulled out a piece of bamboo pipe that had been hidden for more than ten days, and after opening the oil paper and paraffin wrapped in the outer seal, a fuse wrapped in oil paper was revealed, and a soldier took out a match and wiped it, and quickly lit the fuse......

Well, under the pi strand of the general soldier Guan and his subordinate soldiers, there is actually a pile of powder kegs buried, which was done by the retreating Ming army, and the guys who are full of bad stomachs, although they chose to retreat under the strict order from above, it does not mean that they did not deliberately leave a small gift. More than 1,000 pounds of gunpowder in 26 powder barrels were buried in the earth eight feet deep below the center of the position, and the tops were piled with gravel and iron nails and other lethal things.

And the fuse of these powder kegs is in this bamboo pipe plugged up along the mountain from top to bottom, buried under a three-foot-deep layer of soil, and the interface is wrapped with paraffin wax and oil paper layer by layer to seal the moisture, and the Qing army did not carefully inspect it after the occupation, and this trap has been quietly waiting for the earth-shattering moment to come for half a month.

And now that day has finally arrived.

The fuse wrapped in oil paper was so under the protection of the bamboo pipe, it burned happily and quickly, and soon the smoke erupted from the mouth of the pipe, and the four soldiers ran back without pretending to get up, but the Qing soldiers behind them were staring at the front, and no one noticed them, until a Du Si inadvertently turned around......

Then the Qing army immediately blew up the nest.

"Fire!"

At the same time, Yang Feng also saw the four soldiers running down from the binoculars, and immediately issued an order to attack.

He is still the commander of the first brigade, the rapid expansion of the Ming army has made the number of officers extremely scarce, especially senior generals are more scarce, although it should traditionally be solved by a military academy, but the problem is that he has no place to find an instructor, unless he looks for it from abroad these years, who understands the tactics of the era of hot weapons?

So now I have to pay more for myself.

With the order of the commander, the eighteen cannons lined up beside him sprayed flames almost simultaneously, and then one after another flowering shells whistled out, exploding a ball of flames on the Qing army's position, and then those artillerymen who had been waiting for a long time cleared the barrels of the guns as quickly as possible, installed the medicine packs, put in the shells, and the main gunner ignited, and dumped the shells at a rate of fire close to two shots per minute, only less than two minutes later......

I saw the top of the hill in front of me jump up fiercely, and the entire Qing army position disappeared into the dirt stirred up by the explosion.

In the violent trembling of the ground beneath his feet, an explosion like the sky and the earth cracked followed.

"Write it down, promote the guy who came up with this trick by one level, reward 10,000 yuan for the dragon, and reward 100 yuan for each of the participating craftsmen and soldiers!"

Yang Dashuai looked at this scene with great satisfaction and said to the guard beside him, the effect of this explosion made him very satisfied, and he was also very pleased that his subordinates could come up with someone who came up with this kind of poisonous plan, and the guard quickly took out a paper and wrote it down, and at the same time, Yang Dashuai waved his hand with a pretending indifference and said: "Attack!" ”

Immediately after the herald beside him waved the command flag in his hand, and at the same time a huge war drum sounded, and in front of the phalanx on standby, a famous sentry commander waved his saber, and the thousands of soldiers who were waiting for the battle began to charge with the sound of drums and shouts of killing that resounded through the earth, and began to charge with their bayonet rifles.

As for the results of their charge, it goes without saying.

The terrifying power of the explosion of more than 1,000 catties of gunpowder directly blew out a large pit nearly two zhang deep in the center of the Qing army's position, and everything within 20 zhang around the pit was shattered, and within a range of nearly 100 zhang, they were beaten to death by those blasted gravel and iron nails, and countless people were shocked to the point that their mouths, noses, and ears were deaf, and they were all unconscious in the chaos at this time, and they couldn't think of resisting at all. Of course, even if they came to their senses, it was useless, the explosion destroyed most of their artillery, only bows and arquebuses were used to block the unknown army, but the remaining barbed wire in front of the position gave them some help, but this was useless, the Ming army with wire cutters quickly cut the passage and climbed over the chest wall, and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the remnants of the Qing army.

Uh, their wish did not come true. “

"Master, the little one is saying hello to you!

When the first Ming officer jumped into the breastwork, raised his short gun and aimed it at a Qing soldier to pull the trigger, the Qing soldier nodded and said.

At the same time, he threw away his spear casually, and behind him there was a large group of Qing soldiers who were also throwing away their weapons, like the last time they were captured, they squatted there with their heads in their hands and smiled at the Ming soldiers who rushed in, and they were bold and raised their hands to greet the Ming soldiers they knew.

"It's you, why are you following the Tartar again?"

The officer of the Ming Army put down his short gun and said speechlessly.

"Master, the little one also wants to go home, but on the way he was caught back, either go to the battlefield or be a deserter and beheaded, the little one has to continue to follow the mess, but the little one always remembers the grace of the big handsome, and has long sworn not to be the enemy of the big handsome, this is not as soon as you come to the small one."

The Qing army continued to nod and said.

"Okay, I know you have a conscience, and you don't tell the brothers behind you about the rules!"

The Ming army officer said.

There's a bunch of newcomers over there who are at a loss for what to do!

"Brothers, don't fight, the uncle of the Ming army doesn't kill the prisoners of the green camp, not only eats and drinks, but also pays the money to go home."

The Qing army quickly turned his head and said.

The practice of the Ming army not killing the prisoners of the green battalion, but also giving money as travel expenses to go home, has actually spread a long time ago, and now there are these veterans who teach by word and deed, and those green battalion soldiers are still fart, and they are just eating as soldiers. Even if you die on the battlefield, there is not much left of the fifty taels of silver that are deducted, and even the soldiers on the front line are killed in battle, and the wives and children at home are not new, and the military salary of one or two and a half dollars of silver and three buckets of rice per month is not worth risking your life! If the Ming army kills the prisoners, they will fight hard to save their lives, but not only do they not kill and give money, but they also beat a fart, anyway, everyone is not bad for themselves.

So immediately after that, the soldiers threw down their weapons.

"You guys, you bastards!"

Looking at this scene, Guan Zongbing, who was seriously injured in the explosion just now, lay on the ground with his hands stretched out and scolded angrily, it seemed that he wanted to continue to scold these guys who forgot the emperor's grace a few more words, and it happened that a soldier who put down his weapon next to him walked by, and he didn't know whether he did it on purpose or didn't see it, and he stepped on his chest, and poor Guan Zongbing immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood, so he held his trembling hand and swallowed his last breath with his dead eyes.

In this way, Zhangting returned to the Ming army in a ridiculous way.

During the whole process, only Qing officers and a very small number of soldiers resisted, resulting in a total of five Ming soldiers killed and 14 wounded, as for the 6,000 Qing soldiers, 4,000 were captured, and 1,000 were killed and 1,500 were killed in battle. Even Yang Feng was speechless for such a result, what he didn't know was that in the subsequent war, the same thing would happen again and again.

After capturing Zhangting, the Ming army quickly repaired the camp, re-installed the cannon and arranged the defenders, and at the same time used those small boats to set up a pontoon bridge over the Cijiang River as quickly as possible, and the accompanying cavalry brigade drove through the Cijiang River in a steady stream, sharpened the saber, loaded the bullets, and was ready to crush the Qing army in the net with iron hooves.

At this time, the Qing army that reported the news had just arrived in Cixi.

"Panic what! Aren't we just thieves going out to fight? There is no city wall, no barbed wire, no shelter in this rainy field, and firearms cannot be used, at this time, are we still afraid of the guns of those thieves? ”

Looking at the flustered subordinate generals, Zhang Yunyi said with pride.

His words immediately calmed down his subordinate generals.

yes, what else do we have to fear? The Ming army relied on nothing more than firearms, but it was raining outside, and firearms could be used in the wild! Who is afraid of anyone who simply plays with cold weapons? Can't a big sword and a spear fight a spear? Besides, even if you can't fight, the 40,000 army rushed up, and the pile also piled up that little Ming army to death.

So those frightened Qing army generals suddenly jumped to the other extreme, just like they were suddenly released after being suppressed for too long, one by one yelling and asking for battle, hoping to kill the Ming army immediately and fight to the death, so that those guys who can only rely on firearms to bully people know what a real Qing warrior is, what is the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, and what is ......

"Everyone, go with Ben Shuai to kill the thief!"

Looking at the scene of morale like a rainbow, Zhang Houye stood up and waved his hand and shouted loudly.

Of course, you can't go like this right away, you have to make some deployments, at this time, Zhang Yunyi still has a total of 40,000 troops, all of them are green battalions, there are no Eight Banners elite soldiers, not to say that they will not be given to him, but at this time, the Eight Banners elite soldiers who can be used nearby are all dead. They have always been the main target of Yang Feng's attack, the general of Hangzhou and the general of Fuzhou were almost wiped out, and most of the subordinates of the generals of Jingkou and Jiangning were also killed and wounded.

Zhang Yunyi left 7,000 people under the command of Xiong Jingshuai, the general soldier of Huangyan, to stay in Cixi and keep an eye on the Ming army in the city, while he personally led a total of 33,000 men and horses, including 3,000 cavalry, to kill Zhangting and Yang Feng in a decisive battle.

At this time, Yang Feng also transported the Fourth Infantry Brigade over, he left two battalions of the Fourth Infantry Brigade to defend the back of Zhangting, and he led the two infantry battalions of the First Infantry Brigade and the Fourth Brigade plus an artillery battalion, in addition to the First Cavalry Brigade, a total of 11,000 people to the east, on the bank of a river, ready to play a real battle with the Qing army.

Well, in fact, this is his main purpose, until now the Ming army still lacks experience in large-scale field battles, the previous battles were all defensive counterattacks, the real field battles have only been fought in Zhoushan, but that is only a battalion-level operation, as for the battle in Yangzhou, it does not count, and the Ming army has never had a large-scale field battle. This is definitely not possible, he must let his subordinate generals really learn this way of fighting, now is his best chance, although he can lock up Zhangting, and then trap the Qing army in it, but that will not achieve the effect of training.

This time, he simply set up a position on flat ground, and had a real field battle with the Qing army, eliminating Zhang Yunyi's troops in one fell swoop, and then pushing south of the Qiantang River.

(There's something at home, today's chapter, sorry)