"Two princes!" Even if he looked down on Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming in his heart, Li Shutai had to rely on etiquette to greet the two. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Nephew, what's the situation?" Kong Youde stroked his beard and pretended to ask, in fact, he had already seen the embarrassed appearance of Li Shuotai's subordinates returning in vain.

Seeing Kong Youde's appearance of relying on the old and selling the old, Li Shutai's hateful teeth itched but he was helpless, when Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were under the tent of Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of the Dongjiang River, they had fought many battles with Li Shuitai's father Li Yongfang, who had already surrendered to Houjin, and they could be regarded as mortal enemies.

However, when Kong Youde joined the Dongjiang Army, Li Yongfang had already taken refuge in Houjin, and before Kong Youde surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Li Yongfang had already died, and the two were not colleagues, but they were of the same generation. And Kong Youde's age is more than ten years older than Li Shuitai, and his title is much higher than Li Shuitai, so it is not an exaggeration to call Li Shuitai a virtuous nephew.

"The Ming army is all on ships, guarded by shields, and the firearms are extremely sharp, and the last general has no way to take them!" Li Shutai made a wooden face and briefly introduced the situation with an expressionless face.

"Virtuous nephew, you are still young! It's just a few dozen boats, so there's something hard to deal with. Geng Zhongming accosted on the side, and looked at Li Shutai with an expression of hatred for iron and steel.

Li Shutai was furious in his heart, but he couldn't send out the fire, so he could only smile coldly, "The two princes have been in battle for a long time, and they have just returned to my Qing Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty, so they must know the combat power of the Ming army very well, so it is better to hand over this Ming army to the two princes to deal with." ”

"Hahahaha, it's easy to say, the virtuous nephew will take his subordinates to rest on the side and see how this king deals with them!" Kong Youde laughed, turned his head and stopped looking at Li Shutai.

What do you know how to lead a soldier to fight without any hair? When Lao Tzu was crisscrossing the Qilu Peninsula, you were still drinking milk in your mother's arms!

In fact, Li Shutai is also in his twenties, but he is tender and white, so he has always been looked down upon by Kong Youde and others.

Kong Youde immediately ordered Song Fuguo to take the cavalry to make a detour to the front of the Ming fleet, cut down trees and pile them in the river, and block the way of the Ming fleet. The river is only ten feet wide and can be easily blocked.

Then he ordered his infantry who were familiar with water to wade across the river to the other side of the river, and then began to flank the Ming fleet from both sides.

Kong Youde Geng Zhongming's subordinates were mostly the former Dongjiang Army and the old Dengzhou Army, and most of them were familiar with water. The river is more than ten zhang wide, less than one zhang deep, and can be crossed easily.

After half of the infantry crossed the river, Kong Youde ordered the whole army to chase after the Ming fleet and start attacking from both sides.

The boat that was paddling close to the manpower was not moving fast in the river, and Ren Siqi frowned as he looked at the Qing soldiers who were chasing from both sides of the river. There are still at least three miles away from the canal, and this section will be the most dangerous journey of the Daishan army!

More than 10,000 Qing soldiers had already pursued them, firing arrows from the shore at the boats in the river, and the Daishan musketeers were also returning fire from the boats. From time to time, soldiers on both sides screamed and were hit by each other.

Different from the Manchurian Eight Banners, Kong Youde's subordinates were all Ming troops before, and if the ability to shoot volleys is far worse than that of the Manchu Eight Banners, it is estimated that even Li Shutai's subordinates are inferior, because Li Shuitai's subordinates are all Han Chinese or their descendants who followed Li Yongfang to surrender first, and after more than 20 years of assimilation, they have long been no different from the Manchus!

Therefore, the number of archers in the two troops is not very large, but there are a lot of musketeers, and among the more than 10,000 Han and Eight Banner soldiers, they are fully equipped with 1,500 musketeers, which is more than the musketeers of the Daishan Army on the ship.

Also under the escort of shields, the Qing army's archers and musketeers began to shoot at the Daishan army in the river. The density of projectiles and bows and arrows far exceeded that of the Daishan muskets.

The Daishan soldiers on the ship felt that the crackling sound kept ringing, which was the sound of the shield being hit by the Qing soldiers. The shields of the Daishan army are made of pine or rattan wood, covered with a layer of iron sheet, which can be said to be superior in terms of quality, part of which is produced by Daishan's workshops, and the other part is purchased from the weapons workshops in Hangzhou and other places at a large price.

The Daishan army holding the shield felt that the hand holding the shield was shocked and painful, and had to hold it with both hands.

In fact, as far as the distance between the two sides is concerned, the Qing soldiers fired at the Ming army on the shore on the boat, and the distance was only seven or eight zhang away, and it did not take twenty steps. It is within the best range of the musket, but the problem is that the quality of the musket under Kong Youde's men is too low!

Most of the firearms of the Qing army were captured from the hands of the Ming army, and the quality of the Ming army's firearms was simply not complimentary, they were all made by hand, not to mention the size, and the quality was extremely poor. In order to save money, the blacksmith in the army was reluctant to use materials when making the gun, resulting in the extremely thin pipe and easy to blow up. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, firearms in the army were already very popular, but as far as firearms are concerned, it is good that three out of ten in the arsenal can be fired.

Therefore, although the Qing soldiers had a lot of firearms, the damage caused to the Daishan army was not very large, but occasionally the projectiles through the gaps in the shield could cause a few casualties.

It was the archers of the Qing army who really caused more casualties to the Daishan army, worthy of being a veteran of the army for 20 years, and the archers commanded by Kong Youde shot at an extremely tricky angle, they did not shoot at the Daishan army in the river, but hid far behind and threw them.

Countless arrows crossed the Qing army gunners in front, crossed the river bank, flew over the fleet, and then flew from top to bottom, the shields of the Daishan army were held flat to prevent shots from the river bank, who thought that there would be bows and arrows falling from the top of their heads. Many of the soldiers were hit by the arrows and fell into the river screaming.

Some of the shieldmen hurriedly raised their shields to protect the top of their heads, but the protection in front of them leaked through the gap, and projectiles shot in, and many soldiers snorted.

After more than half a year of training, especially last year under the auspices of Li Yanzhi, the General Staff Department formulated a new training program and a soldier hierarchy system, the ability of the musketeers has improved a lot, and in terms of the speed of loading gunpowder bullets, the slowest third-class soldier in the Daishan musketeers is also much faster than the Qing soldiers on the opposite side, and the average time for the gunners to fire one shot, the Daishan musketeers can fire two shots.

Moreover, the accuracy of the Daishan musketeers is much higher than that of the Qing soldiers, and there are 27 first-class soldiers among the 1,000 musketeers, what is the concept of the first-class soldiers, that is the soldiers who can hit the humanoid target from 20 paces away, and the second-class soldiers are 116 people, which can be more than 9 in 3. In this era when muskets did not have rifled bullets and were round projectiles, basically musket shots had to be fired in platoons, and it was rare to shoot accurately. And a small number of Daishan musketeers can do it!

Therefore, in the confrontation with the Qing soldiers, the casualties they inflicted on the Qing soldiers were much greater than their own casualties. Didn't you use a shield to protect your chest, and instead of hitting your shield, you hit the head of the soldier's gunner.

Kong Youde was horrified to see that within a short time of the fleet, his firecrackers had fallen sixty or seventy people. And with the shooting of the Ming army, people are still falling.

However, he did not dare to order his subordinates to retreat, if he let this group of Ming soldiers escape safely, Duoduo would have to peel his skin after returning.

At this moment, Ren Siqi on the ship was quite annoyed, and he was annoyed that the number of flying dragons he carried this time was too small. If there is another Flying Divine Dragon on each boat now, and after it is ignited, ten thousand arrows will be fired at once, and the density of the Qing army on the shore will cause them a lot of damage!

Kong Youde didn't have time to regret it, he let the soldiers stick to the boat that the Daishan Army was gliding, and then sent someone to the camp to transport the big guns. In this attack on the Southern Ming, due to the long march, the army did not carry too much artillery, but in Sizhou, thirty or forty red-coated cannons and hundreds of small artillery guns were captured from the surrendered Ming army.

The cannon was too heavy and the march fell behind unquickly, but those more than 20 pounds of big guns were brought by Kong Youde's army. It's just that this time I came out to pursue too quickly, and I didn't have time to go to the warehouse to get it.

As long as the big guns arrive, seventy or eighty big guns will be bombarded at the same time, which can easily smash the shields of the Ming army on the ship, and the Ming army at that time can only be slaughtered by themselves!

Escape before the big guns are shipped back? Kong Youde has already calculated, and now the 2,000 cavalry sent has gone around to the front of the Ming army fleet and is cutting down trees to block the river!

The casualties of the musketeers in front were too large, and in order to increase the density of the attack, Kong Youde had to call Li Shutai and discuss with him to transfer the archers under his command to cover the Ming army.

Originally, he was watching from the side with the attitude of watching jokes, but since Kong Youde had an order, Li Shutai also had to obey, otherwise if he let the Ming army escape, he would not be able to escape.

After the 1,000-8 Banner Han Army under Li Shuotai joined in, the density of the Qing army's firing became more and more large, resulting in more and more casualties among the Daishan army. There were seven or eight dead and wounded on each ship, and the entire fleet had already suffered almost a thousand casualties! Although the casualties of the Qing soldiers were greater, two or three times that of the Daishan army, they were so numerous that the Daishan army could not afford to consume them at all.

Ren Siqi, who was in command on the front ship, had a very ugly face, he didn't expect that the way to escape back to Yangzhou would be so difficult!

Kong Youde's traitor troops under Geng Zhongming are already so difficult to deal with, what if the real Manchu Eight Banner soldiers come to pursue?

But now I can't take care of it, so I can only hold on until I enter the canal, and on the canal that is dozens of zhang wide, I can completely turn the fleet on the other side to avoid the attack of the Qing army.

Fortunately, the Qing army's attack was much weaker, and that was because the Qing army's musketeers had already lost seventy-seven eighty-eight, and under the accurate shooting of the Daishan army, few Qing gunners could dodge. And the archers of the Qing army were clever in throwing from a distance, and since the Qing soldiers had not many firecrackers, the pressure on the shieldmen on the ship to protect them was much less.

In this way, the two-mile journey slowly rowed, and in the confrontation with the Qing soldiers on the shore, the fleet gradually came to the junction of the canal and the river fork, but to the shock of all the Daishan soldiers, a large number of Qing soldiers appeared not far ahead, and they were throwing many trees and branches into the river.

You must know that the speed of the river is very slow, and it takes too much time for the trees thrown into the river to flow down the river to the wider canal, and the trees thrown in block the way of the Daishan army fleet.

What should I do? (To be continued.) )