There is a small county town named Huaiyuan County in the west of Qingzhou, which belongs to the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Prefecture, it is the only way from Jinan to Qingzhou, Huaiyuan County is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and it is a horse Pingchuan to the east, as long as it passes through Qingzhou in Huaiyuan County, it will be completely exposed to the people, and now Pang Gang is stationed here with eight thousand soldiers and horses.

Pang Gang sat in the big tent, and all the officers were also arranged in front of him according to the size of their official positions, Pang Gang in the handsome position closed his eyes and did not say a word, but he had the style of a general, but his right hand in front of the desk was gently tapping on the table, showing that he was not as calm as he appeared.

This time, Pang Gang sent troops, in the eyes of outsiders, it is to break with the Ming Dynasty and embark on a road of self-reliance, although he has long been prepared to take this road, and most of the officers have expressed their loyalty to him, but he also understands that there are still some officers who are forced to follow him under pressure, but it doesn't matter, Pang Gang believes that as long as they fight a few battles with the army from the imperial court, they will not be able to follow themselves.

A shout of "report" rang out outside the tent, and then a man in cotton armor trotted in from outside.

"Report to the general, the enemy is ten miles away from arriving at our camp."

Pang Gang nodded and said, "Got it, explore again!" ”

"Yes!" The night did not close, and he turned away.

Jin Fatgang slowly looked around at everyone and said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, the army sent by the imperial court is only ten miles away from us, and now this official orders"

"Whoa!" All the officers in the tent stood up.

"I order, everyone immediately gather their troops and horses, and go out of the camp to meet the enemy!"

"Yes!"

Everyone clasped their fists and saluted, and Yuguan walked out.

"Knock Knock Knock"

Soon, the drums of the army were beaten, and countless sergeants poured out of their tents like a tide, and soon gathered under the leadership of their respective generals, and they came to the open field two miles away from the camp and began to form a formation, ready to meet the enemy.

At this time, ten miles away, Chen Xinjia, who didn't know anything about it, was urging Liu Zeqing to speed up.

Although the weather had become cold, Chen Xinjia, who was sweating on horseback, still pulled the collar on his neck open and half pulled it to let the cold air blow in, he turned his head to Liu Zeqing beside him and said: "General Liu, we are only less than ten miles away from Huaiyuan County, hurry up and order the army to speed up and enter the city, this official has not had a good rest for several days." ”

Liu Zeqing was secretly angry in his heart, but his face was still Nuonuo's promise.

This Chen Xinjia relied on his identity as a squire and a messenger in the military department, and pointed fingers at himself along the way, and even the time and route of the march had to be approved by him. Although he was unwilling, but he had to reluctantly accept the result of the layman's leadership of the insider, who let the Ming Dynasty pursue the system of using literature to control the military, although people don't know anything about the art of war, but after all, they are a list of jinshi, the military department squire and Qincha, no matter how disobedient he is, he has to listen obediently, otherwise when he returns to the capital, he will crooked his mouth in front of the emperor, and he will never have good fruit to eat.

Thinking of this, Liu Zeqing couldn't help but secretly envy that bold Pang Gang came, this guy heard that he was thriving in Qingzhou, but unfortunately he acted too radically, offended the official gentry in Hangzhou, and was sued in front of the emperor, seeing that the glory and wealth of the past were about to disappear.

Liu Zeqing and Pang Gang have fought side by side, knowing the amazing combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses under his command, and he does not underestimate Pang Gang, but in his heart he does not think that Pang Gang has the strength to fight against him, in his opinion, the person Pang Gang relies on is just the Rumi gun in his hand, but now he has this thing himself, if he really fights, he is by no means his opponent.

It's a pity that he, like Chen Xinjia, has forgotten an old saying, that is, Shi Beisan should be impressed, and the current Pang Gang is not the little Qianhu he used to be.

When the team marched to three miles away from Huaiyuan County, the night in front did not receive a report, and found that a large group of Ming troops was already waiting in front.

Liu Zeqing, who received the news, was shocked, could it be that this Pang Gang was really determined to confront the imperial army?

And Chen Xinjia was so angry that his beard trembled: "Bold, really bold, is this lowly martial artist really going to rebel?" ”

Liu Zeqing is worthy of being a military general, although it was very surprising that Qingzhou dared to send troops to meet him, but the vigilance of the soldiers was not lost at all, and he immediately ordered the troops to also start arraying to prepare to meet the enemy.

Under Liu Zeqing's order, the 8,000 Ming army began to slowly form a formation, and the soldiers began to change their formations in a hurry under the orders of their respective officers, but because the team was too long, it still took them nearly half an hour to set up the battle formation, so that Liu Zeqing was fortunate that the Qingzhou army on the opposite side did not take advantage of their formation to attack, but just stood in place and watched them coldly.

After setting up the formation, the distance between the two sides was only one mile, and Chen Xinjia began to point fingers again: "General Liu, you quickly order the soldiers to advance and annihilate the rebels in front." ”

"If you don't work hard Chen, you will do it yourself." Liu Zeqing replied impatiently: "That Pang Gangshi didn't rush over when our army was in formation, it is already merciful to his subordinates, Lord Chen is still watching the battle from behind, as for the battle, it is better to do it from the end." ”

"Hmph, watching the battle? Do you think the emperor asked this official to come here to watch the battle? Chen Xinjia was stunned, and then became furious: "General Liu, if you can't put down these rebels for the emperor, this official will send someone else to the emperor, and I have generals who are willing to share the emperor's worries." ”

"You" Liu Zeqing was about to have a seizure, but there was movement on the other side.

"Knock Knock"

At this time, there were bursts of drums in the Qingzhou army on the opposite side, and a group of cavalry came out of the formation, and they slowly came to Liu Zeqing's front of the formation two hundred steps away and stopped, the cavalry separated, and a general wearing chain mail walked out from inside, only to hear him say loudly: "This official is the commander of Qingzhou, the general of Dingyuan, Pang Gang, who is the robe Ze on the opposite side, Pang Gang is far away!" ”

Hearing that familiar voice, Chen Xinjia, who was originally hiding in the battle array, was angry, and he shouted loudly: "Pang Gang, you damn traitor, you still have the face to call yourself General Dingyuan, but you don't know that the emperor has deprived you of all your positions, and now that the imperial court counterinsurgency army has arrived, you don't quickly dismount and tie your hands and arrest you, otherwise the army will definitely wipe you out." ”

Listening to Chen Xinjia's shouting, Liu Zeqing beside him hated his teeth, could this Chen Xinjia be reincarnated as a pig? Everyone is waiting for you, and you are still here to threaten others, for fear that people will not fight you to the death?

Although Liu Zeqing was very angry with Chen Xinjia, he also knew that he had nothing to do with him, so he had to turn his head and say a few words to the herald beside him, and soon hundreds of bird guns came to the front of the battle formation with bird guns in their hands, and the bird guns in their hands were aimed at Pang Gang and his party. Ironically, the bird guns in their hands are the batch of Rumi guns that Pang Gang sold to Liu Zeqing at the beginning of this year.

Pang Gang saw that the opposite side had already sent a bird to stop him, and knew that Liu Zeqing didn't want to meet him now in order to avoid suspicion, he sighed secretly, and said in his heart: "Brother Liu, Brother Liu, I gave you the opportunity, you don't cherish it yourself, then don't blame me for being polite." ”

Pang Gang turned to the dock, returned to the main formation with his own soldiers, and saw the officers who were looking at him take a deep breath and said: "Order the artillery battalion, target the enemy in front of the formation, and test fire three times!" ”

After receiving the order, the artillery battalion at the rear of the battle array quickly ignited the medicine cartridge with fifty Napoleonic guns that had been adjusted to fire their targets.

"Boom Boom"

After the battle formation, a rumbling cannon sound quickly sounded, and soon dozens of black projectiles quickly flew forward with green smoke.

"Not good! They turned out to have artillery! ”

As soon as Liu Zeqing, who was experienced in the battle formation, heard the rumbling cannon sound in front of him, he didn't care about nonsense, stretched out his hand and grabbed Chen Xinjia, who was still looking at the sky in a daze, and pulled the two of them off the horse together.

"Bastard, Liu Zeqing, what are you doing?" Chen Xinjia, who was torn off the horse, hadn't figured out the situation yet, and he was dizzy, and he π scolded himself.

"Boom Boom"

As soon as Chen Xinjia's words fell, there was a sound around them that seemed to be the sky falling apart, dozens of flowering bullets exploded almost simultaneously in their formation, and dozens of projectiles would splash out when each projectile exploded, accompanied by the shock wave of the explosion, almost no one within a radius of more than ten steps was spared, which was extremely lethal for the Ming army that was lined up in a dense formation.

Chen Xinjia, who was pulled off the horse by Liu Zeqing, sat on the ground, at this time he only felt a roar in his ears, his legs trembled, and the whole person seemed to lose the ability to think in an instant, and his body immediately became stiff.

The continuous explosions shattered the morale of all the Ming troops, and the originally well-organized formation collapsed in a short instant, and the soldiers rushed around like headless flies, and the officers' orders were no longer heeded at this time.

The time of the artillery bombardment of the Qingzhou army was very short, they only fired three salleys and stopped, but the damage caused by more than 100 shells to the Ming army was huge, in just three rounds of artillery bombardment, there were six or seven hundred people killed or wounded, and the rest of the Ming army was running in all directions, they consciously turned back without anyone to command, and ran desperately with the strength of feeding.

"Is this a defeat?"

Looking at the embarrassed fleeing appearance of the Ming army on the opposite side, the officers of Qingzhou who were watching the results of the battle in front of the battle, except for chatting with a few people, were all dumbfounded, and the effect of the artillery bombardment was greatly unexpected to them. It is said that they have not seen artillery shooting, but at this time, most of the world's artillery uses solid bullets, and the lethality of solid bullets to personnel is only large, but at best it is only a bird gun that has been magnified countless times.

But now the flowering bomb is a large explode, it is within a distance of more than ten steps after the explosion is its killing range, this kind of lethality not to mention the Ming army that was bombed, that is, the Qingzhou army who was watching the battle in front of them gasped, such a killing is too amazing, who else can withstand it.

Pang Gang ignored the thoughts of his subordinates, he waved his hand, and the cavalry on both wings quickly rushed forward, and the two thousand iron horsemen began to charge with rumbling and dust.

"Oh no, they charged."

Liu Zeqing, who had just pulled Chen Xinjia up, heard the exclamations of the soldiers around him, and looked at the dark clouds rolling up in front of him, only to feel that his mouth was bitter for a while, and his heart was full of despair.

"My men and horses are all finished!"

Two thousand cavalry rushed into the Ming army's formation like a whirlwind, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and they shouted loudly while rushing to kill: "Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not be killed!" ”

"The general has an order, and those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not be killed!"

The battle was filled with the sound of horses' hooves and shouts, and the cavalry would use their horsepower and speed to disperse any foot soldiers who dared to gather them, and if they met resistance, they would unceremoniously wield their sabers to kill the recalcitrant ones.

More and more Ming troops saw that resistance was hopeless, so they had to throw down their weapons and raise their hands in surrender.

Chen Xinjia, who was trembling, grabbed Liu Zeqing's hand almost instinctively, and said in a pleading tone: "Chief soldier Liu, Chief soldier Liu, you rush out with the official quickly, the official must not be the prisoner of the traitor!" ”

Liu Zeqing laughed miserably, looked at the Qingzhou cavalry who were chasing his foot soldiers around, and he slowly shook his head: "It's late, I can't escape." ”

Another group of Ming cavalry drove from a distance, they surrounded Liu Zeqing, Chen Xinjia and more than a dozen Jinyi guards and dozens of pro-regimental regiments, and the first officer who led the team shouted: "Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not be killed, if they do not surrender to kill!" ”

Chen Xinjia ordered everyone in a trembling voice: "Everyone quickly put down their weapons, don't let people misunderstand!" ”

"Jingle bell." With Chen Xinjia's order, everyone who had no intention of resisting threw down their weapons one after another.

Chen Xinjia saw that his subordinates had thrown down their weapons before he said to the officer: "I am Chen Xinjia, the imperial court envoy and the squire of the military department, you can take me to meet your commander." ”

"Oh?" The officer glanced at Chen Xinjia with a playful gaze, "Didn't you say that the emperor had removed the huge man from all his official positions?" Why are you now called us commanders again? Could it be that what you say is a lie? ”

"I" Chen Xinjia was dumbfounded for a while, and hung his head helplessly.

The officer glanced at Chen Xinjia with disgust, waved his hand, "Take it all away!" ”

As the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain, and the remaining nearly 7,000 defeated troops were surrounded by 2,000 cavalry from the left and right flanks, like beasts in an iron cage, unable to move anymore, and finally obediently became prisoners.

Ordered by Chongzhen, Liu Zeqing and Chen Xinjia were responsible for the execution of a vigorous rebellion.

When Liu Zeqing and Chen Xinjia were escorted to Pang Gang, the two saw Pang Gang's smiling face.

"Mr. Liu, the younger brother called you out to meet but you refused to show your head, but now you meet in this way, this is really providential!"

Liu Zeqing looked ashamed, "Brother Pang, are you using this method to humiliate me?" ”

"I don't dare." Pang Gang smiled and shook his head: "The younger brother is staying well in Qingzhou, but the elder brother is coming to the door with soldiers to shout and kill, the little brother can't be restrained." ”

Liu Zeqing smiled bitterly: "Brother, as a Ming courtier, I have to come where the emperor's order is." Since it has fallen into the hands of my brother, you want to kill or kill as you like, brother, I only ask you not to embarrass my soldiers, and they are just following orders. ”

"Hehe, brother, where do you want to go, why do you want to kill and chop at every turn." Pang Gang smiled and shook his head, "Brother Liu, don't worry, you and I have both served under Inspector Lu, and we have also fought against the Tartars together, how can the younger brother kill you, the right thing is just a last resort, don't be surprised." ”

"You, you don't kill me." Now Liu Zeqing was a little puzzled, "If you want me to lead my troops to join you, this is absolutely impossible, if this is the case, you should kill me." ”

"Hahaha" Hearing Liu Zeqing's words, Pang Gang leaned back and smiled back, "Brother Liu, what am I going to do with your remnants of the defeated army, to waste my food?" ”

Liu Zeqing's face was flushed with laughter from Pang Gang's laughter, yes, his people were defeated by others in less than a meal, and it seems that people really don't look down on their people.

Turning to Chen Xinjia, Pang Gang's smiling face gradually turned cold, and a cold voice came out of Pang Gang's mouth, "Lord Chen, we meet again." Didn't you say you were going to make me go up in the dust? Now that Pang is standing here, you should come and try it. ”

Chen Xinjia's body began to swing again, "I, I cluck" With the sound of chattering teeth, a fishy smell drifted around with the cold wind.

Pang Gang frowned and saw that Chen Xinjia's crotch was wet a lot, and a foul smell emanated from him, it turned out that this guy was so frightened that he was incontinent.

"Why are all the guys now so virtuous, and that dead ghost Yan Zheng is just like this, but this Chen Xinjia is a member of the third rank of the imperial court, how can he be so timid."

Pang Gang felt a burst of disgust, these court ministers were more angry than the other, and they all became soft eggs when they really encountered something. As soon as he waved his hand, a personal soldier immediately stepped forward and dragged Chen Xinjia down. He then began to order his soldiers to clean up the battlefield. Those soldiers from Shandong who had already died in battle dug pits and buried them on the spot, and those who did not die were ordered to take their baggage and rush to the direction of Qingzhou. A vigorous and vigorous battle of rebellion ended in this way, Liu Zeqing brought 8,000 Shandong soldiers, in addition to the nearly 1,000 soldiers who were killed, the remaining 7,000 people were all captured, and the news soon spread like a whirlwind in all directions, and the government and the opposition were shaken for a while.

(To be continued)