As soon as the sky was bright, the county seat of Dehua, the seat of Jiujiang Prefecture, was shrouded in a cloud and mist, and the head of the city stretched his hands and feet tiredly, and there were stains of blood on his armor. If it weren't for the fog that started at night, it would be a rebel army with almost no end in sight.

Few of the generals in the city could tell how many rebels there were outside the White City, some said that it was in the number of 100,000, others said that 100,000 was too little, at least 200,000, and as for the newly returned ranger generals, they estimated a staggering number, how many rebels were more than 300,000?

For a while, the hearts of the people in Dehua City were like the current weather, the fog was heavy, and there was no light and hope in sight. After stretching his legs, he looked up at the sky and said to himself: "Today, the thief has finally opened his eyes, and the fog will not disperse for a few more days, so it is better to wait for the reinforcements of the imperial court to relieve the siege." ”

The generals in the city swore one by one that the reinforcements from the imperial court would arrive in Jiujiang Mansion within a month. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can't see through, the Central Plains war has been defeated in successive battles, Yang Sichang has lost his armor, Luoyang City has been lost, and even Emperor Jiajing's favorite son King Fu has been cooked and killed. Some people also say that the imperial court has no soldiers to send, and there is also King Shen who suppressed thieves in the Huguang area of Shaanxi, King Shen and Zuo Liangyu have been tossing and turning in the area of Huguang in Shaanxi for nearly half a year, and I heard that after a few big victories, Zhang Xianzhong suffered a big loss and was driven to Sichuan.

But there are rumors in the city, and some people say that King Shen can definitely die and not be saved, and the most likely to send troops to help is the soldiers who stayed in Nanjing. Speaking of the soldiers of Nanjing, some people disdain, Nanzhili is still difficult to protect himself, I heard that Wei Guogong has been besieged by thieves in Taiping Mansion, where can he have the ability to save him?

The pawn yawned, and when it was time to change shifts, since someone would come to change shifts, he could also go back to sleep peacefully, and the rebels would not come to attack the city in the ghost weather. The soldiers who changed shifts were listless, and thousands of Ming troops were killed and wounded in yesterday's battle, and they could defend today, but they didn't know what the situation would be tomorrow.

As a result, people pinned their hopes on reinforcements that were impossible at all.

"After a few days, the reinforcements are coming, let's go out of the city and kill seven in and seven out!"

Attempts were made to ease the cold atmosphere on the city walls, but the dozens of soldiers around them were still lifeless, and only one of them spat out thick phlegm and forced a response.

"In the past, our officers and soldiers chased and beat thieves, but now it is the other way around, the officers and soldiers are chased and beaten by rogues, and they are chased and beaten by rebels! What makes sense of this? If you want to say that this officer and army are not very important......"

The more he spoke, the more depressed he became, and he was not even in the mood to swallow the breakfast brought up by the men in the army.

It's not that the soldiers are not in the mood, but the so-called breakfast is just a gruel full of several large clay pots, only when there is war on a sunny day, it will come up with dry food, and sometimes it will even be accompanied by stewed pork, although the world thinks that pigs are dirty meat, but ordinary people rarely see meat on weekdays, and call him dirty meat and clean meat? I'm so hungry that I can eat even rat meat!

Thinking of dry food and stewed meat, the clear soup in front of me can only make people's stomachs pantothenic acid, and after a few bubbles of urine, the stomach is empty again, and it growls.

"Listen! Listen! Is it the sound of a cannon! ”

The rising sun did not dispel the thick fog, and when you looked down from Dehua City, you couldn't see anything clearly as far as the eye could see. Therefore, the soldiers in the city could only desperately cage their ears and try to hear a meridian.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The rebels are going to attack the city! All cheered up and ready to face ......"

A staff member who was more than a dozen paces away from them shouted loudly at the top of his voice. The soldiers who were supposed to go back to rest and sleep were also left in the city, ready to meet the rebels besieging the city.

Sure enough, the rumbling of cannons came faintly.

"It's the sound of cannons! It's the sound of cannons! ”

The faces of the people in the city have changed, the rebels did not see the use of artillery in the siege of the city a few days ago, and now they don't know where to get such siege weapons, the hope of the defenders of the city is like a small steamed bun, and it has been bitten down again.

"Huh? No, no! You see, the sound of artillery seems to come from the river, and if the rebels get artillery and don't come to shell the city wall, what will they hit into the river? Fishing? ”

Could it be? Realizing this anomaly, everyone's hearts were excited, could it be that reinforcements were coming?

"The rebels are coming from the middle of the river?"

"Phew! I know the morale of the rebels, and there is such a dense artillery, it is none other than my Ming officers and soldiers! ”

Since it is not the rebels who fight in the river, it is from the river to the shore, and the fight must be a thief! An irrepressible heat stream of excitement is surging and fermenting in the crowd!

I don't know who took the lead in shouting, "The Ming army is mighty!" Long live the Ming Army! ”

A moment later, on the wall of Dehua, there were thousands of voices in unison, and thousands of voices in unison.

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Zheng Laiyong, as the first grenadier officer to land on the shore, almost rushed to the front, and behind him were dozens of grenadiers of his own team. Before this, Zheng Laiyong also had a name that he didn't want to mention, Zheng Sijiu.

As early as Datong, his wife hooked up with the spy Jin Dayou, which made him a laughing stock in the army, and even almost gave up his confidence to survive in the great plague. But he finally survived, not only that, but after that, he made many meritorious contributions in the first battle of Mobei and the first battle of Liaoxi, and only then did he leap from an auxiliary soldier who was bullied to an elite grenadier officer in the elite of the Three Guards.

Later, when he came to the Beijing Division, many officers in the army who were named after platoons changed their names, and several meritorious battalion officers were even given names by Emperor Chrysostom. Zheng Sijiu was envious, so he begged the general to change his name for him.

Although Li Xin was also a college student in his previous life, the ink under the undergraduate diploma was almost no different from being illiterate in the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago, and it was not something that could be found casually when he thought of a mighty and domineering name. It can't be like the chaos of the country, the army, and the patriotism of later generations, right? So, under Li Xin's painstaking meditation, Zheng Laiyong, a name with a very strong local flavor, was freshly and hot.

And Zheng Sijiu really deserves the word brave, since he changed his name to Zheng Laiyong, Zheng Sijiu, the coward who was once cuckolded and could still watch the adulterer and adulteress leave safely, gradually faded out of people's field of vision. Instead, Zheng Laiyong, who is not willing to die in a battle, will inevitably rush to the front every time he fights!

The reason why the grenadiers of the Three Guards Army are called grenadiers is that each of them, from a soldier to an officer, undertakes the mission of throwing grenades, and each of them has five seven or eight pounds of iron lumps tied to their waists.

The combat efficiency of the army in this era was extremely low, and only the soldiers at the forefront of the battle line could determine the combat effectiveness of an army of tens of thousands of people. As for the soldiers after the depth, most of them only watched the excitement. As long as the morale of the soldiers on the front line is knocked out, the formation is in disarray, and there is a chance that the people behind will be eight out of ten. Nine will also be in chaos. Therefore, this pass is no less effective than an artillery battalion.

However, the blossom thunder was extremely heavy, and those who were slightly inferior in physique could not throw a few steps away, so they could not get out of their hands and fall into their own ranks, and the enemy soldiers did not blow up, but they blew up their own people. Therefore, the selection of grenadiers is also extremely strict, and it is not possible for anyone who wants to be a grenadier. First of all, the hard condition is that you must be tall and strong, and your strength must be beyond ordinary people.

Zheng Laiyong's stature can only be regarded as medium, and he almost missed the grenadier battalion and went to the first battalion of infantry combat, but his brawn strength is different from ordinary people, and it is precisely by virtue of this that he was pulled into the grenadier battalion. Zheng Laiyong, who entered the camp, even more than his life, regarded himself as a hard-won honor, and he would be in front of people every time he was in battle.

"Prepare to drop the bomb!"

Zheng Laiyong's team is already far ahead of the other teams, standing out from the entire front, like a sharp knife piercing into the enemy formation.

Originally, Zhang Shi planned to take advantage of the fog to carry out a sneak attack, but the rebels on the shore somehow discovered their whereabouts, so the sneak attack turned into a strong attack. Due to the fog, it was impossible to argue how many rebels there were, Zheng Laiyong rushed in only to realize his recklessness, and as far as his eyes could see, there was no end in sight, and his eyes were full of rebels.

But if you don't turn back when you open the bow, how can you be discouraged at a critical moment? So he resolutely followed the battle regulations of the Three Guards and ordered his soldiers to drop bombs and attack! All the Blossom Mines must be thrown into the rebels' men and horses before engaging the enemy, blowing them up on their backs to demoralize the rebels for the infantry that arrives next.

Soon, the blossoming thunder crackled and exploded among the rebels, most of these rebels were farmers with hoes half a year ago, how could they have ever seen such a terrifying firearm? Some people thought that the official army had invited Lei Gong and rained down thunderbolts.

"The officers and soldiers are light on Lei Gong to help fight, brothers are running for their lives, if it's too late, they will be ....... by fire."

Poor mountains and bad waters come out of Diao people, but this Diao people are not afraid of bullies, not afraid of the government, and afraid of Lei Gong Immortals. I heard that the official army invited Lei Gong, and immediately it spread violently, and the riot surged like a plague, and the thick fog obscured the time limit, and many people didn't even figure out what was happening in front of them, only to hear that the officials and soldiers had Lei Gong to help them fight, and saw the people at the front roll back, shouting for their lives, who still had the heart to get to the bottom of it, so they also followed the swarm of escaping.

As a result, the rebels burst like a levee, and gradually collapsed.

Zheng Laiyong didn't expect that the rebels would be defeated and fled with just one charge, and at this time, the brothers of the other teams also caught up, not afraid that the left and right wings would fall into the hands of the rebels, so he ordered the impact again, and the rebels must not be given a chance to breathe!