The military operation of the Tuanshan Army advanced very quickly, and in just three days, the troops pointed directly at Gaomi County, the capital of Laizhou. Here, Zhang Xianzhong gathered an "army of 400,000" and set up a formation along the plain east of Gaomi, vowing to eat the Tuanshan army in one bite.

It is said that there are 400,000 troops, but in fact, more than 300,000 are peasants with hoes, sickles, and hunting forks, and there are only more than 20,000 real bandits and old thieves.

There were a total of 8,000 people in the Tuanshan Army, after all, there were hundreds of people left in several strategic places in Dengzhou Prefecture to garrison the city, and there were only so many troops that could fight at the moment.

This kind of battle has never been fought by the mountain army, and the whole army is quite confused, how to fight 8,000 against "400,000"?

After studying with Lu Xiangsheng, of course he knows how to fight, the so-called "shoot people first shoot horses, capture thieves first capture kings", to deal with thieves, you must catch the old thieves and beat them to death, those farmers with hoes, they don't need to pay attention to it at all.

On the third day of the second month of the seventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the Gaomi battle between the Tuanshan Army and the thief Zhang Xianzhong's department slowly kicked off when the sky was light.

As he knows, Zhang Xianzhong is not mentally retarded, and he knows the combat effectiveness of the Tuanshan Army in the field of renovation. At present, what he relies on is the so-called "ants bite elephants to death", using a large number of peasant cannon fodder to fill people's lives, and when the firearms of the Tuanshan army are unusable, or the army is exhausted, his "old battalion" cavalry will be killed in one fell swoop, and it will definitely be able to achieve miraculous results.

This tactic is precisely the "only magic weapon" for the peasant army to fight against the official army, and the tactics are not complicated, but many times the officers and soldiers always suffer losses.

The Tuanshan Army did not do what Zhang Xianzhong had guessed. The main force of the old battalion of the thieves was divided, but 8,000 people marched in groups. Like a chariot, it walks at a slow pace. Slowly crushed towards the thief......

Far beyond the range of the arquebus, the thieves were surprised to hear a dense burst of gunfire, and then a large number of people, who did not know whether to call "soldiers" or "peasants", fell to the ground.

However, all this is not over, and the Tuan Shan Army is still unhurried and slowly moving forward at a uniform pace.

Zhang Li still looked for a small mound, climbed high and looked into the distance, and had a full view of the situation on the battlefield. Lu Xiangsheng commanded the soldiers on the front line. Beside Zhang Zhang is an old acquaintance and a new person.

These two people are very young, and if you look closely, it turns out that the old acquaintance is Kang Xing'an, who has not appeared for a long time. And the half-sized boy next to him is the object he has spent more than a year trying to woo - Li Dingguo.

When Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered the city of Jinan for ten days and killed the people in the city, Li Dingguo finally couldn't bear it, and under the persuasion of Kang Xing'an, he came to Dengzhou Mansion to join the Tuanshan army.

Zhang Zhang knew that Li Dingguo was talented. But after all, he is still very immature, so he took him with him to cultivate. Tension will not be like King Zhao using Zhao Kuo and Zhuge Liang using Ma Jian - young people must have a lot of experience to be useful.

Li Dingguo's tactics for the Tuanshan Army. It felt a little incredible, after all, if the whole team of musketeers advanced slowly, after the fire was fired several times. There was no stamina, and the cavalry of the thieves once stormed. I am afraid that the tide of the war will change significantly.

However, Zhang Li was not in a hurry at all. It seems that the firearms of the Tuanshan Army did not have a heat at all. Li Dingguo finally couldn't help it, and he asked: "Lord Zhang, the sharpness of the Tuanshan Army is already known from far and near, but the fire gun needs to be cooled after all, and if it continues to be fired like this, it will ...... Once the thieves' old battalion is killed, I'm afraid—"

After all, Li Dingguo previously called Zhang Xianzhong his "father-in-law", and was later pulled by Anzi to join the Tuanshan Army, and he was still slightly embarrassed by Zhang Xianzhong's title of "thief".

Zhang Zhang didn't care at all, and said with a smile: "Dingguo, you haven't carefully observed the infantry of my regiment's mountain army. Anyway, let me tell you, the Tuanshan army is now a man with two guns, and when one gun is heated, it is immediately loaded into a cowhide holster, and the other is used. In such a cycle, the firepower of the Tuanshan Army will not stop at all-"

Li Dingguo looked shocked, in fact, he had also seen the self-generated firearms of the Tuanshan Army before, which were indeed well-made, and there was no need to use the fire rope to ignite, but he didn't know that with such a sophisticated firearm, the Tuanshan Army turned out to be one person with two guns.

This Nima is too extravagant!

Zhang Zhang took in Li Dingguo's expression, only smiled slightly, but did not continue. What Li Dingguo knew, just as the enemy knew, was nothing more than a self-made firebolt -- a flintlock pistol. In the team of 8,000 people, there are also 1,000 rifled gunners, which are the real weapons of destruction. Li Dingguo had just arrived, and before he was fully integrated into the Tuanshan Army system, Zhang Li did not intend to let him know about such highly confidential matters.

Soon Zhang Zhang and the others' attention shifted to the battlefield again, and now there have been some changes on the battlefield compared to before.

In the era of cold weapons, the average army lost more than 20% of the battle, of which more than 10% died in battle, and the basic morale was about to collapse. The so-called strong army throughout the ages has also been able to achieve 30% of the battle losses and still persist in fighting, which is already remarkable. The combat effectiveness of the Ming border army is the "five scum of war", and the battle loss is more than one achievement to run away. However, compared with the peasant army, this is still much stronger. When the thieves fight, the battle losses exceed half of the battle, and the position cannot be suppressed - for example, now, the peasant army that has encountered the Tuanshan army head-on has already begun to run away......

Zhang Xianzhong on the other side of the battlefield jumped like thunder, and the Tuanshan Army "lowered ten meetings with one force", and there was no so-called surprise attack strategy at all, just "Dao Zhijian" formed a dense formation and crushed it. Zhang Xianzhong's "400,000" army was driven like a duck, and no one even had the courage to fight head-on with the Tuanshan army.

Ai Nengqi, the number one general beside Zhang Xianzhong, is Ah, no, his name on the face is Zhang Nengqi, his brows are tightly locked, his teeth bite his lip stubbornly, and he doesn't say a word. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the thief Zhang Xianzhong's department had a characteristic, perhaps the "Eight Kings" no one could believe it, so if they wanted to mix under Zhang Xianzhong's hands, they had to change their surname to "Zhang" and become Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son......

Looking at Zhang Xianzhong, whose green tendons were exposed, Ai Nengqi finally spoke: "Father-in-law, the firearms of the Minggou Tuanshan Military Department are known for their firearms, and it is not uncommon for our sons to be enemies but they are originally. At the moment, the Tuanshan Musket has been fired for five or six rounds, and the child estimates that in the next period of time, their Musket needs to cool the Gun Pipe, and it will not be able to fire ten thousand guns at once. ”

Zhang Xianzhong also fought an old battle with the Ming army's firearms troops, and when he heard Ai Nengqi's words, he gradually calmed down. After pondering for a while, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said coldly: "What do you mean, the old camp can fight?" (To be continued.) )