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"Did your lord ask you to bring a letter?"

"None? The thieves have already known from the beacon tower that you are coming, and the guards are very tight, and the lord asked me to bring a message, otherwise it will be troublesome if I am caught! “”

"Hmm!" Zheng Cai nodded, what the Wang family's father and son did was also what he expected, and he asked a few more words about the common incisions in the pirate group, and the man answered them fluently. Zheng Cai was completely relieved and asked, "What did your master tell you to say?" ”

"My lord asked me to tell you that the two waterways into Dayuan Bay are guarded by forts, and they cannot be entered by water, and there are two Spaniard plywood boats in that gang of thieves, each with dozens of cannons, and there are twenty or thirty other lucky ships equipped with cannons, which must not come from the waterway!"

This information was exactly what Zheng Cai reported from the sentinel he had sent, and he nodded: "Hmm! What about those Dutchmen? ”

"The Dutch were surrounded in two castles in the pineapple orchard, and the fleet was burned by the thieves on the first night, and they were only passively beaten, but their castle artillery was very powerful, and the thieves had no choice but to besiege them for a while!"

"How many people are there in that thief? How many guns, how many archers, how many cannons? ”

"There were about two thousand thieves, about half of the gunners and archers, and more than twenty cannons, almost all of whom attacked the Dutchman's castle on the sandbar and blocked the waterways into the harbor."

"What about the thieves' granaries and powder magazines?"

"In the old camp of the thieves, where the Dutch used to be, the thieves used to transport food and gunpowder to their comrades on the sandbar every two or three days! Its elite are all on the sandbank, and only some old and weak people remain in the old camp. ”

Zheng Cai listened to the man's advice, while marking the map one by one, because there are many immigrants from southern Fujian in Dayuan, Zheng Cai is very familiar with the situation of Dayuan Port, and even has a rather detailed map of Dayuan Port. He looked at the map for a while, and suddenly asked, "What is the relationship between your master and the thief?" ”

"Tell my lord, after the thieves attacked Dayuangang, my lord gave food and people, and responded to the thieves' needs, so the thieves valued my lord a lot, and the thieves went to my lord every four or five days to eat and drink, and the thief chief also said that after taking this master, he would have to rely on my lord more!"

"Good, good, good!" Zheng Cai's face flashed a smile for the first time, and he even deigned to reach out and pull the man up from the ground: "When you go back, tell your master, saying that I will ask him to go to the thief camp the night after tomorrow, so that those thieves can have a good drink!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The man showed a smile of understanding: "My lord, don't worry, the night after tomorrow, my master will definitely make those thieves drink hotly!" ”

"What a hot one!" Zheng Cai, who understood the pun in his words, laughed, and he patted the other party's shoulder: "Do a good job, after winning the big job, I will definitely reward you heavily!" ”

The night wind swept through the treetops, making a hula and hula sound, which woke Du Gu from his sleep, he subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife, and then realized that it was not the shouting and killing sound on the battlefield, and the whole person relaxed.

"General Du, are you awake?"

The sound of Lin Heshui came from the darkness, Du Gu nodded, and then realized that he couldn't see it in the darkness at all, so he whispered: "Yes, when I was asleep, I heard the wind blowing through the treetops, I thought it was on the battlefield, so I woke up!" ”

"Dreaming of being on the battlefield? Have you fought a lot of battles? ”

"Hmmm! Many times! Dugu sighed: "Fight with the captives, fight with the thieves, fight with the Chahars, fight with the Tumuts, fight with the Spaniards!" Now I'm going to fight the pirates again! ”

"You've fought so many times, what do you think will happen this time?"

"This time? Hehe! ”

Even though his eyes were completely shrouded in darkness, Lin Heshui seemed to be able to see a disdainful smile on Du Gu's face: "Zheng Cai has 3,000 people, and you only have 200 cavalry, 200 guns, two cannons, and 400 people on the other side of the road, so the difference is huge!" ”

"Huh!" Du Gu's laughter was full of the insider's tolerance when he told the layman's jokes: "Mr. Lin, let two hundred wolves and three thousand sheep fight, what will be the result?" ”

"There may be a few goats in this group of sheep that are difficult to deal with, Zheng Zhilong has defeated so many pirates, and he has also defeated the official army, I'm afraid it's not so easy to deal with, right?"

"Mr. Lin, that's at sea!" Du Gu laughed: "On land they are nothing, my cavalry will rush into their ranks, cut off their heads, trample them into mud, and drive them into the sea!" ”

"But why don't you bring more people? Obviously you have more soldiers. ”

"Mr. Lin, fighting a war is not always better with more people!" Maybe it was because he couldn't sleep and had nothing to do when he was idle, Du Gu patiently explained: "You should remember the terrain here, right?" On one side is the sea, and on the other side is the mountain, between the mountain and the sea is a long and narrow flat land, and the road is on this narrow flat land, when the thieves pass by, I let the front block the enemy, and then let the artillery and gunners shoot from the heights, and the cavalry flanks them, so that they cannot care for each other, although they are numerous, there is no room to exert themselves in such a small place, only to trample on each other. ”

"Then it's always better to bring more, right?"

"Mr. Lin, you don't understand, when you are fighting, don't use two hundred people to do what a hundred people can do, you have to keep a backhand. Although this is the only way to go, who can guarantee that thieves will not follow a path we don't know about? If something goes wrong in the old camp, even if we win all here, we will lose, and you must know that the nearest stronghold is hundreds of miles away from here! ”

Lin Heshui was finally persuaded by Du Gu, and he sighed: "General Du smiled, I don't know much about this art of war. ”

"Do you have a specialization in the art industry, to be honest, if you can win the big job this time, Mr. Lin, your credit is the first. As long as Zheng Caiyu can be brought here, nine out of ten achievements have been won! “

At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and the morning light began to appear on the ridgeline, and Lin Heshui saw Du Gu standing up and looking at the flat land under the hillside, the sea breeze was blowing the shrubs and blades of grass, forming waves, if the intelligence was not wrong, in a few hours, a battle would break out here, and the blood of thousands of people would soak the land to decide where she belonged.

"Let's have breakfast first!" Du Gu turned around: "If you die, you have to be a full ghost!" ”

In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, everyone only had cold food, Lin Heshui gritted his teeth, and only tore a piece from the jerky until his cheeks were sore, he now regretted that he had to participate in this ambush, he was completely fed up with the taste of dried meat, salted fish, and light cakes.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

The sound stayed on the edge of hearing, and Lin Heshui almost thought that he had heard it wrong for a while, but when he saw Du Gu throw the dried meat in his hand to the ground and stand up suddenly, he also hurriedly dropped the piece of dried meat that was no different from a wooden block, and felt a kind of joy in his heart. He saw a spy on horseback galloping towards him, and in a blink of an eye he fell to the foot of the mountain, jumped off his horse and ran towards the area as fast as he could.

"Tell your lord, the thief is coming!"

"How many are there?" Du Gu's voice also revealed irrepressible excitement.

"I can't count, the line is at least two miles long!"

Du Gu glanced at Lin Heshui, such a long line, even if there are two ranks of thieves, there are two thousand people, and those who stayed in the old camp can be said to have poured out. He turned his head and said in a deep voice: "All the soldiers of the army, put on armor!" ”

The soldiers rolled up their blankets, picked up their guns and spears, and stood in silence as a horse neighed and was immediately pacified, as if the whole forest was holding its breath in an instant. In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, each of them covered themselves with leafy branches, and they all held their breath and waited for the arrival of the enemy.

The unbearable silence lasted for a long time, and Lin Heshui almost thought that his plan had been discovered by the enemy. He was about to say something when a flag appeared on the horizon, and for a moment he felt himself almost suffocate.

"These idiots, the scouts are so close to the brigade, wait to feed the crows!" Du Gu muttered in a low voice, and Lin Heshui nodded silently. The enemy's commander is obviously inexperienced, and the distance between the scout and the striker, and between the striker and the center, is too short, and once the scout encounters the enemy, the striker and the center do not have enough time to react, and it is easy to be caught off guard.

A trumpet sounded, and Zheng Caijun's scouts finally discovered the ramparts and trenches that crossed the road. Seeing that the enemy's forward team had stopped, the river lined up in a horizontal line under the command of the officer, but the middle army and the rear team behind did not stop, and soon they hit the end of the front team, and the formation was chaotic. On the high ground where Lin Heshui and Dugu were located, one could even hear the officers scolding the soldiers in the southern Fujian dialect, which made most of the soldiers even more confused and confused.

"What a great cannonball target!" Du Gu grinned: "I bet that the one named Zheng Cai has never fought seriously at all, Zheng Zhilong sent such a fool to lead the army, it is really our blessing!" ”

"Do you want to blow the trumpet and open fire?" Lin Heshui looked back at the two three-pounder cannons behind him, Du Gu had no shortage of cannons in his hands, but the poor road conditions made him only bring these two light cannons, compared to the crowd of black pressure like ants over there, these two small cannons that could be pulled by two horses looked less worthy of reliance.

"Wait!" Du Gu watched with great interest as the enemy on the road was sorting out the formation: "I guess that Zheng Cai may not have much patience, let him rush the barrier twice first, and then rush behind him when the sharp energy is gone!" ”

"Will he withdraw his troops? After all, it means that we have already found out! Lin Heshui asked.

"Hehehe!" Du Gu seemed to have heard something particularly funny: "A rookie who can't even grasp the interval between the teams during the march is still playing such a high-level trick of changing the rear team into the front team and the front team into the rear team in such a narrow place, and he will be driven away by a duck if he is not careful, that Zheng Cai should not be so self-aware!" ”

Zheng Cai rode his horse in a circle, looking at his still crowded Chinese army and rear team, his brows furrowed, and it seemed that it would take a while to reorganize them. He turned around and began to examine the battlefield, the surrounding land was rugged; The seashore is slippery and muddy, gently ascending to a raised flat land, and on this flat land, on the other side of the road gradually changes to a rocky and broken terrain, and finally into a series of hills. And the enemy's ramparts were located right between the muddy beaches and the broken terrain, blocking the only way to the Dayuan. He could see the flags and spears on the ramparts, the drums of war coming from behind the ramparts, his heart thumping, and cold sweat was pouring out under the leather armor.

"I have to do something, I can't let the sons and daughters stand still!" Zheng Cai said to himself in his heart that he had heard Zheng Zhilong say that the most taboo thing about leading soldiers to fight is to calm down the soldiers, especially on the battlefield, because the soldiers are also people, and they will be afraid and think, and it is okay when there is something to do. Therefore, unless there is a ready-made camp to defend on the battlefield, it is always necessary to let the soldiers move, so that they do not have time to think nonsense.

"Trumpet, drum! Let the front team attack first! Zheng Cai drew his saber and gave the order.

"But the Chinese army and the rear team have not yet lined up, so they have to wait no longer!" The adjutant replied that he knew that Zheng Cai's plan was to surprise the commander and kill the enemy by surprise, and while the enemy army was waiting for him to repair the barrier here, it was obvious that his plan had been revealed, and he couldn't help but be a little frightened.

"Wait, wait!" Zheng Cai swung his knife and slashed, and his face became hideous: "Do you want to disobey?" ”

Seeing Zheng Cai's appearance, the deputy general didn't dare to say more, turned his head and gave an order to the drummer. Knock knock knock, the drum sounded, burrowing into Zheng Cai's ears, he felt his hands twitch slightly, the whole person seemed to be inflated by a balloon that had been filled with air, and his forwards lined up in a horizontal line, hiding behind the barrier formed by shields and spears, and marched forward with the rhythmic sound of drums.

Woo woo woo, the brass horn behind the barrier sounded, as if in response to Zheng Caijun's drum, the trumpet sound was low and long, and it was like the wind in the north, which made people shudder. This made Zheng Cai feel a little uneasy, his stomach twitched, as if he was about to vomit immediately, and he secretly hoped that he would not lose face in front of everyone.

The sound of the trumpet gradually subsided, the sound of birds and the hiss of bows and arrows filled the gaps, and from time to time someone in the forward team fell, but the people behind immediately made up, and the people on both sides of the team also used firearms and bows to shoot at the enemy behind the barrier, Zheng Cai could see that someone had fallen, and then he was dragged down, and the discomfort in his stomach was much better, which made him feel quite relieved, at least he didn't have to worry about being ridiculed by everyone for vomiting in front of the battle, and those old guys would never let go of any opportunity to laugh at themselves. He turned back to his soldiers and shouted, "Beat the drums, blow the trumpets!" (To be continued.) )