Chapter Eighty-Three: The Bloody War

The blue flag Niu Lu Shu Muda condescendingly looked at the sailors on the sea, he was a little annoyed in his heart, these incoming fleets looked imposing, in fact, there were not many counts, the artillery fire seemed to be fierce, but there was no flag man on the shore who was killed by artillery, this discovery made Shu Muda, who had calmed down in panic just now, ashamed.

"Master, the camp is only enough for eight days, what if these ships besiege the island?" Divide the Shku asked in a whisper

Shu Muda shook his head and said stupidly: "There are many trees on the island, you can return to Fuzhou by setting up a raft, but these Han dogs are cunning, wandering on the sea and not fighting us, we can't beat them at sea."

"As for the grain?" Shu Muda looked at Chen Derong of the Han Banner Army in the distance and said: "Take their food first, to ensure that our warriors with blue flags are fed first, Prince Rui of Fuzhou will not sit idly by and watch us be trapped, and the surname Kong has left more than a dozen warships, and the plan now is to stick to it." ”

The one who was divided just wanted to speak, but when he saw Chen Derong, the capital of the Han Banner Army, running over, he stopped talking.

"Your Excellency?" Chen Derong ran out of breath, "My lord, it's not good, the Ming army has begun to land!" ”

"What?" Shu Muda and Fen were shocked, straightened their necks and looked at the beach, and sure enough, a big fortune boat squeezed through other small boats and anchored on the dock, and a team of Ming troops wearing heavy armor and carrying a ghost-headed broadsword on their backs walked down from the gangplank in turn, and as soon as they stepped on the beach, they drew their broadswords and held their shields to form a defensive formation.

"Where is this Ming army flag? How is it different from the ordinary Ming army? Shu Muda suddenly turned his head and asked Chen Derong

Chen Derong shook his head a little ashamedly: "Shunxiang General Wang? The little lonely and unheard, I haven't heard of the generals of the Ming Dynasty"

Shu Muda's face was hesitant, and he gave a suggestion: "My lord, as the saying goes, a soldier can be attacked in half a crossing, why don't you gather the warriors and drive them into the sea with a charge?" ”

Chen Derong said with some hesitation: "My lord, we don't have enough manpower."

Shu Muda suddenly stood up and said to Fen De and Chen Derong: "Go and inform the warriors of all departments, it will mean that the army has landed under the cover of artillery, let them get ready, and cut them down in a while." ”

Chen Derong and Fen knew that this Ming army was coming to encircle and annihilate them, and they didn't dare to hesitate, and even went to give the order, and after a while, the gong sounded loudly, and the camp was full of busy figures.

The old artillery began to arrange a cordon with the sin military camp, Zhao Long also got off the boat with a company of special forces, and cooperated with the old artillery to defend them, and in the Tartar camp on the mountain, there were many people who ran out and ran towards the back of the mountain......

All the naval warships stretched out long gangplanks, and groups of Ming troops began to stream down from their respective warships, forming a formation on the beach one by one, and the Liaodong battalion took the lead, and the ironclad sergeants of five companies all held spears in their hands, and erected a dense forest of spears in front.

Mao Wenlong had stationed troops on Changsheng Island, and also repaired the wharf for ships to berth, but later Yuan Chonghuan cut it off, and it became a desert island, four years after Chongzhen, the coastal islands began to have Tatar slaves stationed one after another, and after Kong Youde returned to Shun, Huang Taiji began to assign some Han flag troops to these islands to also station, hoping that under the leadership of the Han people who are familiar with the surname of Shui, the Houjin warriors can overcome the disadvantages of being dizzy on the boat, and lay the foundation for the surprise attack and landing in the future.

When the two groups of sergeants lifted the mortars on the ship, the Tartar slaves on the hillside had already lined up the formation, of which more than 100 people were placed in front of the formation as the main force of the attack, and the others were the Yu Ding in the banner, and the Han Banner Army lined up a separate formation on the left wing, after these Tartars lined up the formation, they began to wave their weapons and make a loud noise, seeing that there were not many Ming troops who landed, they were even louder ** their anger, just waiting for the master to wave his hand, and he rushed up to cut these Ming troops into meat sauce.

Crash!

A rooster cart loaded with iron-shelled bullets flipped directly from the two gangplanks in the screams of everyone, and the iron-shelled bullets fell into the sea and splashed countless waves, and a few rolled along the gangplanks to the feet of the iron bull standing on the beach to observe the military situation, the iron bull put down the clairvoyant mirror and glared at Lu Ruohan without making a sound.

"My lord, there are more than 400 Jiannu Zhenyi, of which more than half are armored soldiers, and the Han Banner Army and auxiliary soldiers are about 500 people, and there are more than 200 coats, our intelligence is wrong, I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight!" Zhao Long ran over in a hurry to report.

Tie Niu glanced at Zhao Long, but said to Han Qiaoshan: "You go and ask them to quickly unload the ammunition, and then pull the anchor and wait on the sea ten miles away, unless the Tatar slaves on the island are dead, you don't have to come back!" ”

Everyone around Tie Niu was shocked in their hearts, this battle seemed to be born after death, but these Ming troops had only been trained for less than a month, and even the newly established Liaodong Battalion was the same, in the face of more than a thousand enemies on the island, could the three thousand Ming troops gathered in a hurry be defeated?

"Go and tell the instructors of each battalion that this battle is either you die or I die, and we have no way out" Tie Niu looked at everyone and said: "Everyone knows that the Thunder Brigade is insufficient, in order to gather these three thousand soldiers and horses, my brother has already worked hard, I Tie Niu is not very good at talking, everyone knows it in their hearts, go back to their own teams to prepare, the Tartars are coming." ”

Everyone agreed loudly and dispersed, Xiucai also wanted to turn around, but Tie Niu stopped him: "Xiucai, there is nothing for you here, you follow Qiaoshan to the boat"

Xiucai's face was red and white, and he saw the disdainful eyes of everyone, and knew that if he turned around and got on the boat now, he would never be able to raise his head in front of these people again.

"This is not what Tie Niu meant, it was specially ordered by my brother before leaving" Tie Niu finished putting on his drape, and walked straight towards the Chinese army with a few personal guards, ignoring Xiucai.

Xiucai was short of breath and saw the figures of everyone gradually moving away, and suddenly shouted: "**His grandmother's, give me armor!" ”

"Hu Mazi's Liaodong Battalion and the main barracks are in the front, the left wing of the strange barracks, on the right is the main barracks led by Li Daniu and one of the special forces Zhao Long, and the two companies of the old artillery of the Sin Barracks are responsible for supervising the battle and the reserves, in addition to the two companies of the Lu Daren artillery team, there are also 50 Chinese army guards" Zhang Shixiong reported to Tie Niu in a low voice

"How's the morale of the Odd Battalion? Will it ......" Tie Niu was a little worried

"Most of the teaching team is placed in the Qi Barracks, and Wang Tiezhu personally leads the team, so it shouldn't be a big problem" Zhang Shixiong was also uneasy, according to his standards, none of the Ming troops in the Qi Barracks were qualified,

"Alas, it would be nice if the adults assigned a team of flintlock pistols to come over" Xiucai rushed to the Chinese army and happened to pick up the topic.

Tie Niu snorted: "You can't fight without firearms?" ”

On the beach, the formation of the Ming army has been roughly formed, the Liaodong battalion in front of the ironclad Sensen, there are only a small number of spears on the left and right wings, most of them are holding sharp knives, wearing leather armor of the Ming army, if you look down from a height, you can see that the Ming army is placed in a rectangular team, wrapping Lu Ruohan's artillery team in the middle, there is no cavalry on both sides, this landing operation is completely hand-to-hand combat between the two sides, whoever can hold on to the end without collapsing, who can win.

Yang Bo's plan is to use the battle array to defeat the Tarslaves in one fell swoop, they have no ships, and they will not be able to reorganize after the collapse, and they will definitely be surrounded and annihilated by the superior Ming army one by one, if the Ming army can block the bloody battle of these trapped beasts of these Tartars.

The iron bull stepped on a large rock and looked ahead, the Ming troops stood motionless in the scorching sun, and some instructors were agitating their morale before and after running.

"Almost!"

Tie Niu jumped down, clapped his hands and said, "Order, the whole army will attack!" ”

The Chinese army suddenly heard a long suona sound, and then the drums of each battalion began to beat, and the soldiers of the Liaodong battalion of the former army were arrows, catering to the drums, and slowly moved with neat steps.

At this moment, on the hillside, the neat ranks of the Tarslaves also turned out of the camp, and the armies of the two sides began to face each other half of the mountain, they beat the big drums, the flags of various colors flew, and the white armor in front of them dazzled the people under the mountain.

Hu Mazi pointed at the spear, the drum beat began to be intense, the small broken steps before the Liaodong battalion became a normal big walk, and with the desolate military song sounding, the Ming army array greeted the Tartar slaves on the mountain.

Shu Muda moved slowly with the Chinese army surrounded by everyone, he was wearing two layers of iron armor, he was exposed to the scorching sun, and his whole body was ** spicy, but looking at the neat Ming army formation under the mountain, his heart was also hot.

"Master, these Ming troops are a little strange?" Fen De clenched his blade and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the Ming troops under the mountain were well-equipped, and the Ming troops in the front were not only wearing iron armor, but also carrying sharp knives and heavy shields, and the sides were gray and misty, and it looked like they should be equipped with leather armor.

"Yes, the villain has really never seen this kind of morale of the Ming army" Chen Derong was also a little uneasy, he saw that the Ming army was still pushing a few small cannons of the Furlong machine, and there were many auxiliaries pushing rooster carts.

Shu Muda suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, attracting everyone's attention.

"How many people are there in the Ming army?" Shu Muda snapped

When everyone heard their master's rebuke, they all bowed their heads

"The Ming army is not good for attacking on the back, even if they are a little more numerous, but as long as we rush down and disrupt their formation, the remaining Ming army is a pig and sheep to be slaughtered, what are you afraid of?" Shu Muda saw that everyone had a look of shame on their faces, so he changed his morale-boosting statement.

Shu Muda's words caused everyone to howl, and many white tooth lamas waved the heavy weapons in their hands and screamed, but Chen Derong's expression was cloudy, and he had a bad feeling in his heart, he couldn't recognize the banner of the Ming army under the mountain, but he also vaguely heard the rumors that Jiannu lost troops in Lushun and Jinzhou a few months ago.

"Isn't it the Ming army from Lushun who is here?" Chen Derong secretly guessed in his heart that he had seen all the soldiers of the Dongjiang River, and without such sophisticated equipment, except for the surprise attack, the Dongjiang troops did not dare to line up to confront Jiannu.

"What's the distance?" Iron Bull asked

"The distance between the two armies is about a mile apart" An observer immediately reported the visual distance, this is a young man who has just grown up, some fluff has just emerged from the corners of his mouth, and his immature face is covered with sweat.

"Stop advancing, line up the formation, prepare the artillery team, wait for the Tarnus to charge the formation," Iron Bull ordered.

The horns of the Chinese army suddenly sounded, and the various units of the Ming army that were walking heard the horns, slowly stopped, and the dense formation began to disperse to the left and right......

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Lu Ruohan ignored the sweating profuse, and assigned an artillery team to start fixing the mortars, observing hands, ** gunners, and auxiliary soldiers running back and forth, and the Chinese army was suddenly in chaos like a pot of porridge.

Ten small guns of the Furlong machine were pushed to the right, and several ** gunners were busy fixing wheel mounts, loading ammunition and installing fuses, and the swarthy muzzles faced the Tarsor formation on the mountain!

Shu Muda looked down with his hand blocking the sun, as the horn rose, the Ming army under the mountain immediately stopped advancing, and set up a formation waiting for them, Shu Muda was surprised, he really had never seen such an order forbidden Ming army, generally the Ming army was forced down from a high place by the Jianzhou warriors like this, it would definitely become panicked, and the formation would be loose, but he only saw the countless busy auxiliary soldiers of the opponent's Chinese army, they were hammering something on the ground, although there was some confusion, but there was no panic.

Just when Shu Muda was in doubt, the left flank of the Ming army under the mountain suddenly threw their spears and rushed towards the foot of the mountain without looking back.

"Haha!" Shu Muda looked up to the sky and smiled, and the Ming army finally became timid.

A group of armor detachment brigade, running towards the right flank, each flag more or less, there are also many people who have broken away from the brigade to join, their target is the Ming army's chaotic left flank, although there are no horses on the island, but the Tars' offensive formation is the same, first use the armor soldiers who are good at shooting outside, shoot at the Ming army formation, when the opponent's formation is loosened, the heavy armor soldiers then attack.

When Shumuda was about to drink the order to speed up his pace, there were suddenly several sounds of popping beans at the bottom of the mountain, and after the smoke passed, the deserters fell crookedly to the side, and several people ran over to cut off their heads, picked up their spears and placed them on the left flank.

"How can the Ming army's firearms hit so far?" Chen Derong said in shock, seeing that the deserters had already run nearly a hundred steps away, they were still ** on the ground one by one!

At this time, a white swing tooth on a horse ran to the front of the Ming army, and there were two sounds of popping beans, and two white mist surged in front of the Ming army, and the horse neighed and fell to the ground, pressing the white swing tooth whistle under him, and his limbs were still twitching, and the sentry under the horse's corpse was motionless, obviously dead.

Shu Muda didn't hear his words, Chen Derong's eyes opened suddenly, but as the drumbeat became more and more intense, he could only follow the army firmly forward......

The shooters of several special forces battalions squinted their eyes and aimed at the dozen or so Tartar sentry horses wandering in front of the formation, these sentry horses galloped back and forth in front of the formation with a bow on their backs, and after breaking through to fifty steps, they would shoot an arrow in front of the Ming army.

"There are three horsemen on the left flank" Zhao Long dispatched the musketeers of the special forces battalion, they were responsible for the task of shooting and killing the sentry cavalry in front of the formation, and the company sent out this time was the elite selected by the whole battalion, and they were also responsible for harassing Fuzhou.

"How many steps?" Two short-handed men ran in the middle of the formation, followed by two others.

"One hundred and fifteen, it's still early," said a burden-bearing observer as he ran.

The four people ran to the side of the sentry horse, separated the Ming army in front and squatted down, two people began to aim with short guns, one hit the horse, one hit the sentry, and the two people behind were responsible for loading.

The Ming troops with spears around them all looked at them nervously, and even forgot about the Tarnu sentry horses that were galloping forward.

"No armor, put it in sixty steps," the observer said in a deep voice.

The two short-handed hands were either squatting or standing, and they both nodded slightly, indicating that they had heard.

A hundred paces away, the sentry horse urged the horse to start accelerating, he swiped it, the bow was already in his hand, he would gallop fifty paces away to shoot, and then run back in a circle in front of the Ming army.

"Eighty Steps"

"Seventy Steps"

The observer kept counting, and the Ming troops in the surrounding large array were nervously watching the Tarnu sentry rider who was getting closer and closer, and the sound of heavy horses' hooves hit their hearts, and the nervous sound of the number of reports pressed them to the point that they were almost out of breath.

"Three, two, put!" With a loud shout from the observer

Two puffs of gunpowder smoke rose violently into the air, and the sentry rider sixty paces away suddenly slammed into his body, and the horse rolled over and fell heavily to the ground, splashing a large piece of dust, and the sharp-eyed Ming army even saw a small hole in the horse's chest constantly **.

At this moment, the strong crossbow fired by the sentry before dying swiped and trembled and nailed to the feet of a Ming soldier in the front row!

"Wow!"

There was a cheer in front of the battle, but their voices were quickly suppressed by the Overseer, but everyone looked at the four heavily armed Arthur soldiers with excited faces.

The two people behind didn't care about the results of the battle, they took out the short gun on their waist and handed it to the two shooters, and took the short gun they let go, and began to refill it nervously, the surrounding Ming army looked at them busy, they took out the tong bar and pulled it in the short gun for a while, and then took out a paper bag from their arms and bit it open with their teeth, poured some powder into it, and then took out a swarthy iron and put it on the mouth of the gun for a while, and then pressed the iron into it with the spherical surface in front of the tong, Finally, he put the short hammer in his pocket and got up.

"There's another rider on the right," several people waved their hands and quickly rushed to the right......

"See? What are you afraid of following Lord Yang to fight Tartar slaves? A Lushun veteran bit a grassroots root, looked at a few ** sentry horses with a nonchalant face, and said loudly to the surrounding Ming army

"Fellow, we haven't fought before?" A Ming soldier from the strange battalion who had just been recruited from Dengzhou was crying with a sad face

"Lao Tzu was still begging for food in Dengzhou half a year ago" The veteran was angry: "Now Lao Tzu has fought two battles with Lord Yang, and Lao Tzu has killed three Tartars with his own hands, and the Tartars will also die, what are you afraid of?" Lord Yang said that the more afraid you are, the faster you die, look at them? ”

The Ming soldiers looked at the few bloody human heads that the pikemen were carrying, and shrunk their necks.

"Fellow, why aren't you afraid of Tartars at all? I heard that the Tartars will eat people," a Ming soldier whispered

"Our Lord Yang is a martial artist, and he has never lost a battle, so you can rest assured if you follow your lordship!" The veteran said triumphantly: "Cannibalism? I'll chop the tartars into meat sauce for a while, and see if they will eat people."

"After a while, you will listen to my commands, and you will do whatever I say" The veteran glared fiercely at a fellow who looked like chaff and said: "There are so many Tartars on the island, we can go back as soon as possible, if anyone wants to escape, there is no boat on the island, where can you run?" ”

At this moment, a voice roared: "Shut up, **Your grandmother's Zhong Hanming, you can't control your mouth anymore, Lao Tzu chopped you!" ”

The veteran named Zhong Hanming glanced at Zhang Shixiong indignantly, but he didn't dare to speak anymore.

At this moment, a long swan sound suddenly came from the Chinese army, and Zhong Hanming's face changed greatly: "Squat, squat, all squat"

At this moment, the orders of the commanders of the battalions also began to sound everywhere: "Squat in the front row, crouch down on the right flank, artillery ready to fire!" ”

After a quarter of an hour or so, a huge explosion sounded on the positions of the Chinese army and the right flank, and clouds of white gunpowder smoke rose into the air, and countless red iron balls roared towards the mountain...... (To be continued.) )