Chapter 574: The Zheng Family Bujun is a bit scum
More than 2,000 soldiers of the Broken Army began to line up on the Anping Wharf, they were from more than 20 Galen merchant ships, because the merchant ships were very surplus, so each Galen merchant ship was carrying two hundreds. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
There were also nearly ten warships carrying more than 100 war horses and 20 marching cannons to go out together, which were all sharp weapons to assist the attack, and of course they could not be missing.
It is also a long time for these soldiers and horses to disembark, especially the war horses and marching guns, and the landing of these objects is extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming.
At this time, the formation of the broken army was not completed, and it was said that it was the time when the Zheng family's soldiers were besieging, and the attack on the enemy was not stable.
The reason is this truth, the Zheng family also rushed out of the bloody killing, of course they understand that this is a good time to attack, but the giant cannon of the Broken Army is very good at sanitating the left side of the dock, if you want to break through the bombardment of hundreds of giant cannons and attack the dock, it is simply an impossible task, and the Zheng family brothers are not sure of this.
So the Zheng family's more than 3,000 soldiers formed a team five or six miles away from the wharf, and the Zheng family had no cavalry except for a hundred cavalry, and it was mainly based on foot combat, which was very common in the south.
Most of the war horses in the south are short and unbearable, and the Mongolian horses introduced are often sick and lose weight due to the climate, so there are really not too many soldiers and cavalry in the south.
However, these Zheng family soldiers are guarding the Zheng family's lair, so many of them are the sons and nephews of the old people of the Zheng family, and there is no problem with loyalty.
The Zheng family also spent a lot of effort on these soldiers, all the soldiers were wearing iron armor, not to mention fish scale armor, piercing armor, chain mail, anyway, they were all iron armor protectors, even this armor was the first in the Southern Army.
Zheng Qiu is in charge of commanding this army of more than 3,000 people, and they have also completed the whole team.
Among the more than 3,000 people, there are hundreds of musketeers and foot archers, and the others are spearmen, sword and shield bearers, all of whom are extremely strong and strong.
But this is not the most powerful person around Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Zhilong has more than 800 ronin warriors recruited from the Wa Kingdom around him, all of whom are from samurai families, or because the main family has perished or the Xia Ke has not succeeded and lost their fiefs and wanders, they are quite large in the Wa Kingdom, but there are not so many main families to serve.
For example, the Choshu Domain has already reduced its 3,000 retainers to less than 1,000 due to difficulties, and it is conceivable that if the other vassals continue to raise a large number of samurai, it will arouse the suspicion of the shogunate, and no matter how many feudal domains have no financial support.
So this kind of samurai ronin wandered around the Wa country, looking for an opportunity, waiting for the day when the family name Miao was re-established.
And it is not uncommon for Zheng Zhilong to recruit a large number of warriors with the help of his cheap father-in-law, and because these people are in the Ming Dynasty, only Zheng Zhilong can shelter them, and the other Ming officials and people hate the Japanese Kou, so they are quite loyal.
Then there was a group of more than 300 Kunlun slaves purchased from the Spaniards, that is, the blacks, they were tall, extremely flexible, and at the same time did not know how to be afraid and retreated, which can be described as very brave.
Here Zheng Zhilong gave them enough money, eating and drinking without worry, it was really a heavenly day for them, of course, there was no pressure on Zheng Zhilong's life, and he was even quite brave.
In order to defend the mansion here, Zheng Zhilong also gave everything he had, and only the five hundred guards around him were not sent out.
In fact, there is really no need to protect a mansion that has destroyed half of Tai, but there are more than one million silver taels placed in the cellar of the mansion, which is the key to whether the Zheng family can rise again.
Although the house was on fire, the cellar was safe, so Zheng Zhilong had to fight for more than one million taels of silver.
Of course, Zheng Zhilong also made preparations with both hands, while sending troops to resist, he ordered the servants at home to brave the fire to collect the fine soft from the house, and now even one or two pieces of silver are also important.
After the soldiers of the Breaker Army assembled at the dock, they began to march northeast, where the Zheng family's mansion was located.
There were no people along the way, and all the people were at home to take refuge from the war.
There is also a large open space at the west gate of the Zheng family's compound, where the Zheng family's military array is listed, and it is necessary to pass through here to reach the Zheng family from the dock.
Zheng Qiu led more than 3,000 people waiting here, and the Zheng family army sent several large arrays, which were composed of soldiers, Japanese people, and Kunlun slaves.
The reason why Zheng Qiu dared to line up here was because the enemy's infantry had approached, and the warships of Zhao Lieshui's division would never dare to open fire rashly, otherwise if they didn't get it right, they would hurt their own people.
Boom, boom, there was the sound of neat footsteps from a distance, not fast, but extremely neat.
Then a pole of battle flags fluttered and fell into view, and a group of soldiers with black and red armor and battle robes marched towards the Zheng family's army formation.
Zheng Qiu squinted his eyes and looked at all the soldiers on the opposite side, this army was dressed in the standard of the Ming army, but the spirit was completely different.
If the ordinary Ming army encountered the battle formation, it was a step forward, and this Ming army simply stepped into the battlefield fearlessly.
A high head, a powerful step, and an aura that defies all opponents rushed to the face.
The fierce rival is definitely the biggest rival that Zheng Qiu has encountered, and there is no one.
When the two armies were two hundred paces apart, the Breakers stopped and began to line up.
Then ten nine-pounder guns and six-pounder marching guns were pushed forward, and as soon as these ten cannons were launched, Zheng Qiu's heart was cold.
Five small bronze cannons were also placed in front of the Zheng family's military formation, which were used to destroy the enemy's formation by firing scattered bombs when the enemy was in battle.
However, the firing range of this small cannon is less than 100 paces, to be exact, more than 60 paces.
And the range of the opponent's artillery is also a mile away, and the distance between the two sides is only 200 paces.
The current situation is that the artillery of the Broken Army can easily hit Zheng Zhilong's infantry army, and the range of the artillery under Zheng Zhilong's command is too far.
Seeing that the gunners of Zhao Lie's department on the opposite side began to clean up the artillery, they were about to launch an artillery bombardment, Zheng Qiu could only reluctantly order the Zheng family's soldiers to march towards the Broken Army, otherwise the formation would be scattered by the artillery of the Broken Army.
The soldiers of the Zheng family quickly marched towards the military formation of the Broken Army.
When the Zheng family's soldiers approached to a hundred steps away from the formation of the Broken Army, they ushered in a stick, and the firecrackers in the front row of the Broken Army actually fired a volley.
After the sound of thumping fire, the soldiers in front of the Zheng family's army formation fell to death.
The Zheng family's military formation was also based on the Portuguese and Spaniards, and they were also three-row musketeers, but they bought arquebuses from the Portuguese with a maximum range of 70 paces, which was still a lot worse than 100 paces.
Zheng Qiu couldn't figure out how the opponent's firearm range could be so far, at this time, without the urging of the general, the soldiers of the Zheng family also began to move forward quickly, so as to reach their own range, this kind of day when they were only beaten and couldn't fight back was really sad.
But when they had reached seventy paces, they had just stopped to open fire, and with a bang, ten guns and the second platoon of musketeers of the Breakers fired.
Thousands of projectiles rushed into the first row of the Zheng family's formation, almost sweeping away the first and second rows of firecrackers, and many of the Zheng family's soldiers were beaten into a sieve, lying on the ground and howling, and the terrible shouts were terrifying.
In this way, only the third row of firecrackers of the Zheng family entered the firing range, but unfortunately only most of them remained.
In the third row of fire, the two sides suffered casualties on each other, but the absolute superiority of the number of the gunners of the Broken Army also determined that the casualties of the gunners in the front row of the Broken Army were not large, even if the archers of the Zheng family continued to attack, there were not many soldiers in the full armor of the Broken Army to protect the casualties.
However, the repeated blows of the third and fourth rows of the Breaker Army almost slaughtered the Zheng family's firecrackers and foot archers.
The Zheng family's army had already lost six or seven hundred people before it collided with the army formation of the Broken Army, which was a huge casualty.
And the broken army on the opposite side only suffered dozens of casualties.
Zheng Qiu can only count on the melee combat between the two sides, and the Zheng family soldiers can break the enemy in one fell swoop, of course, he still has something to rely on, at least in the past, the Kunlun Nu and the Japanese are indeed fierce in close combat, and they often quickly let the opponent disperse.
After the two sides engaged, the Zheng family's formation was relatively loose and the lack of cooperation was reflected, the Zheng family's single soldier was more brave and dared to fight, but the formation was relatively loose, and this landing point was immediately seized by the soldiers of the Broken Army, and now the soldiers of the Broken Army can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, and the enemy's weakness is used as soon as it appears.
The soldiers of the Broken Army closely relied on the formation to fight together, and soon made the Zheng family soldiers pay the price, plus the soldiers of the Broken Army were relatively tall, and the spears were also more than those of the Zheng family, these weaknesses accumulated together, and the Zheng family soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the front began to retreat back.
At this time, Kunlun Nu and the Japanese people joined in, and their brave fighting methods resisted the offensive of the Broken Army for a while.
But the new force behind the Broken Army also replaced the pikemen who were already a little exhausted in the front row, and then the Kunlun Nu and the Japanese gradually couldn't resist, their bravery could not resist a rigorously operated killing machine, and the strict cooperation between the soldiers of the Broken Army smashed their offensive, and began to crush them, and the Zheng family soldiers kept shouting and falling to the ground and casualties.
Zheng Qiu had already seen that the situation was extremely bad in the back, and he immediately sent people to communicate with Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao to evacuate Anping immediately.
The information he sent out was very crucial, it was just a cup of tea, and the soldiers in front of the Zheng family's army could no longer resist the cold-blooded attack of the Broken Army, which collapsed like an avalanche.
The Breaker Army began to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Li Lu issued an order from behind to leave no one alive.
Yes, the sailors and infantry of the Broken Army compete with each other, causing some contradictions, and they look down on each other, but that is an internal matter of the Broken Army, in Li Lu's words, the Broken Army Sailor is a little arrogant, but it can only be taught by the Broken Army Infantry Team, what kind of thing are you, the Zheng family, and you dare to stretch out your claws to the Broken Army Sailor, that is, there is no second word, chop it off. (To be continued.) )