On the thirteenth day of November in the ninth year of the Holy Dao, under the city of Guangchang, thousands of soldiers came in waves, and Liang Xiuxun, the general of the Fubiao Middle Battalion in Jiangxi, and Tian Wenjing's nephew, stepped on the city gate tower, looked at the crowd of people in mixed clothes, and said disdainfully: "Tuji tile gǒu ear ......",

Tian Wenjing's subordinates have five battalions of Fubiao, five battalions of promotion, and nine battalions of three towns in Nanchang, Jiujiang and Fuzhou, with a total of 20,000 green battalions, plus 20,000 Lian Yong directly under his control, these 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers are collectively called "Tianjia Army". This army had high morale and the strength to fight in the Manchu Green Battalion. Yongzheng added Tian Wenjing to the rank of secretary of the leading department, and he didn't want to move him, because he felt that Tian Wenjing was there, and the gate of Jiangxi made him feel at ease.

As Tian Wenjing's cronies and favorite generals, Liang Xiuxun has his own ability, otherwise it will be difficult to lead the three battalions through Yue County, Zhouzhou, and take Guangchang directly. After this achievement, Liang Xiuxun suddenly felt that the sky was high and the clouds were wide, and he was the first in the history of the Qing Dynasty to seize the county seat of Nanban! Tian Wenjing said that this merit is enough to exchange for a commander!

The red-clothed soldiers in Jiangxi are in Yuanzhou, and it will take ten days and a half to rush over. Attack Jianchang first, then attack Guangchang, mobilize the red-clothed soldiers and internal guards in Jiangxi, and then attack directly from the waist of the army gathered in Linjiang Mansion, and the situation in Jiangxi will change greatly. The Wuchang camp and the Xishan camp, with a total of more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops, will be pressed down again, and no matter how capable the Nanban is, I am afraid that they will not be able to return to the sky.

It doesn't matter if it can't be mobilized, just close the door and hit gǒu, eat Jianchang Mansion, create a situation that threatens Fujian, and push Nian Qianyao to respond. In short, he grasped the initiative, and Nanban was stumbling left and right, and it was difficult to parry at all.

With this game of chess, Liang Xiuxun was extremely disdainful of the thousands of enemy troops under the city who were obviously rural brave. I have already worked with these villagers in Guangchang City before, although the equipment is fine, but there is no discipline, and it is vulnerable. He then seized more than 1,000 good guns from the county armory, and consulted and killed in the city, and was arrogant from the official to the soldier.

"Sanrong, there are thousands of good muskets down there.........

"Those hillbillies, no matter how good the muskets are in their hands, they are just burning sticks, Sanrong, let's do another vote!"

His subordinates enthusiastically asked for battle, and their eyes were red. Although the muskets seized in the county armory were old, they were much better made than those in Jiangxi. Look at the new guy in the hands of the village warriors in the city, it must be the Nanban four-year style, which is a good thing that makes all the musketeers drool.

Liang Xiuxun's middle battalion was replaced with the muskets that had been surrendered, and he shouted at the two battalions on the left and right of Fubiao. Liang Xiuxun still calmly used the telescope to take a closer look, there was no cannon, it was the real Xiangyong, he nodded resolutely.

"Out of town! Go duck hunting! ”

If you want to get rid of the ducks, you have to open a wide net, and Liang Xiuxun sent out the left and right battalions in one go, leaving only about 1,000 people in the middle battalion to defend the city.

The brigade rolled out of the city according to the Spanish canon, lined up in two large formations, each with four rows, dragging small cannons, neatly and neatly towards the chaotic village two or three miles away, and for a moment, both the offensive and defensive sides had a sense of misplaced roles.

Chen Tingzhi was very nervous, this Tian Wenjing really trained the Jiangxi soldiers to look at this posture, and changed into red clothes, even he felt that the red-clothed soldiers from many years ago were standing opposite.

But... After all, it was the redcoat soldiers of many years ago, and the current redcoats would not be sparsely sparsely sparsely swayed in front of the horizontal formation, and they would never line up in four rows of horizontal formations.

"Aim it! Aligned! It's like shooting a target! ”

Chen Tingzhi was nervous, but the township lieutenants below were doing their best to relieve the psychological pressure of the township bravery.

"Ready...... Put! ”

Seeing that the Jiangxi soldiers were advancing within half a mile and were setting up small cannons, the township lieutenants and inspectors gave orders in unison, and the guns rang out, and a cloud of gunpowder rose up. …,

Upstairs at the city gate, Liang Xiuxun almost laughed out loud, sure enough, it was Xiang Yong, who was in a hurry to shoot at a distance of nearly a hundred zhang, and it would be hellish if he could hit someone. This laughter was as comfortable as when Li Shi faced the shotgun bombardment of the Qing soldiers half a mile away.

The laughter was abruptly cut off by the chaotic and piercing screams, and the horizontal formation, which was advancing neatly, corresponded to a row of gunpowder smoke a hundred feet away, and also neatly splattered a scarlet blood line. Not only were the skirmishers crushed by this inexplicable rain of bullets, but the Qing soldiers in the first column on the front were almost half defeated.

The horizontal array suddenly fell into chaos, and countless people screamed at the same time: "Marksman! Marksman! ”

The marksman of the red-clothed soldier wears Yang in a hundred steps, and the Qing soldiers know this. But that's the red-clothed soldiers, and there aren't many of them, they're all stragglers, why are the thousands of soldiers in front of you all sharpshooters?

"Fire! Fire! ”

Liang Xiuxun felt that his heart was sinking rapidly, and the guerrilla commanders of the two battalions below also tried their best to control it, cutting down a group of routs who turned around and fled, and finally stabilized the situation.

The cannon rang out, the courage of the Qing soldiers was slightly pulled back, and the shells rubbed a bloody path in the Xiangyong group, and the Xiangyong, who had not experienced the artillery fire, also panicked, and the group retreated, and the courage of the Qing soldiers soared in a straight line.

Whether it is friend or foe, all soldiers are afraid of guns and brave guns, which is almost an iron law.

The Qing soldiers continued to advance in a horizontal formation, but they didn't want the villagers to stop again.

"Ergǒuzi, your father is still releasing the gun, you dare to run first!?"

"Wang Dazhu, if you dare to run, I will kill you with my own hands! Why? I'm not only your boss, but also your uncle! ”

"Xu Sanduo, you are so energetic in the old man's cave room, and now you are soft on the ground? You're so soft, see if you can still marry a daughter-in-law in the township in the future? ”

The township warriors are all organized from township to township, and not only do they know each other, but also the officials such as the inspectors and township lieutenants are also very familiar with each other, and many of them are even related to each other. After some greetings and shouts, the momentum that was supposed to collapse was blocked, but the organization was still maintained and not completely collapsed.

Of course, in Chen Tingzhi's eyes, this messy pile of posture was already a rout.

The gunshots rang out again, this time in a messy and disorganized manner. But far away from more than 100 zhang, the Qing soldiers were still like peeling onions, falling layer by layer, and it was the turn of the Qing soldiers to panic, but Xiang Yong gradually rose in courage. You can hit the Tartars from afar, but the Tartars can't hit themselves, how good" ,...

The townsmen figured out the trick and retreated in groups, shooting while retreating, and the Qing soldiers here did not dare to rush, for fear that they would be chaotic as soon as they rushed into the horizontal formation, but if they did not rush, they could only be beaten, if it were not for a few small cannons to constantly fight back, the brigade would have been defeated long ago.

"Rush! Rush up! Smash with a gun, slash with a knife! ”

Liang Xiuxun really couldn't stand it, these townsmen obviously didn't fight, as long as they rushed up, they could win.

His roar seemed to reach the ears of the guerrillas on the left and right, and the two gritted their teeth and decided to gamble, and the distance of more than 100 zhang was instantaneous, and they dispersed each other, and they could cut vegetables like a hob like they had snaked into the county before.

Seeing that the Qing soldiers abandoned the horizontal formation, Wu Yang rushed up, and Chen Tingzhi in the rear was red and shouted hello.

"Hurry up and march to the army!"

The guards appeared, and a battalion of 1,500 men was divided into two columns, the left team of stragglers, and the right team of battle officers, each in three columns, carrying guns and rushing forward. At this moment, Xiang Yong was fighting and retreating, and the guards protruded from the right side of Xiang Yong and headed towards the left side of the Qing soldiers who had formed a scattered brigade.

"......Shhh

Liang Xiuxun on the tower of the city gate saw the guards at a glance, and immediately slammed the wall and stomped on the ground.

The Qing soldiers who were pursuing also saw it, but only a small number of people on the outermost part of the left flank. Their reactions were chaotic, some were so frightened that they retreated, some bravely pounced on the guards, and some who ignored it and buried their heads in chasing the villagers, and it was a mess. …,

The sound of scattered gunfire, mixed with thunder and roar, was a line of stragglers blocking the Qing soldiers who rushed over, and when the guards pulled out a long column and covered the side of the Qing brigade, the stragglers retreated, and Chen Tingzhi gave an order, and the column suddenly changed.

"Stand!"

"...... left, turn!"

"Raise your gun! Aim! ”

"Put!"

The guards did not receive rigorous queue training, and they switched from rapid marching to horizontal formations, which were also crooked and convex. But the order was very familiar, and the salvo of 1,500 eight-year-old rifled guns faintly had the momentum of a platoon of red-clothed soldiers, like a bison, crashing into the waist of the Qing Brigade, smashing out a rain of blood.

Chen Tingzhi did not know that he was the first Yinghua person to introduce the column tactics into actual combat, and the reason why he did this was nothing more than the lack of training of the guards, and they did not want to fight against the Qing soldiers who formed a horizontal formation, so they had to take advantage of it. And Xiang Yong used kraft candy tactics to break but not disperse, and used rifled guns to destroy the horizontal formation of the Qing soldiers.

This volley from the side instantly broke the backbone of the Qing soldiers.

"Close the gates and let them fend for themselves!"

Seeing that the two battalions of men and horses under the city were defeated on the spot and made a swarm of bees, Liang Xiuxun immediately made a decision. He still has a thousand men, and he can still defend the city, and he must keep this victory, and he must not let the enemy army follow the defeated army into the city.

The defeated Qing soldiers scolded and scolded under the city, surrounded by the guards and Xiang Yong, and knocked down a large area from a hundred zhang, and then did not dare to stay, running in all directions, Xiang Yong chased after him like a hunt, Chen Tingzhi didn't stop him if he wanted to. After thinking about it, it is good that the local townspeople are familiar with the terrain, and they completely wiped out these Jiangxi soldiers, which also saved the trouble later.

Then there was the siege of the city, and it was bombarded with eight catties of artillery for a while, but it was still not strong, Chen Tingzhi and Liang Xiuxun fought wisely.

Chen Tingzhi first covered the head of the city with a musket, and then used a ladder to climb the city. Liang Xiuxun also shot at the guards on the battlements at first, but both the range and accuracy were far inferior to the guards' eight-year-style rifled guns, and the corpses of the Qing soldiers fell down the city wall one after another.

Liang Xiuxun learned a lesson, and did not put his troops on the head of the city, but retreated to the back edge of the city wall. More than a dozen warriors who went up first were bombarded by a platoon of guns, and they all fought.

Chen Tingzhi also changed his tactics, not directly on the city wall, but let the grenadiers drop bombs first, which caused the dense Qing soldiers to cry wolf and almost collapse. Unfortunately, the guards were equipped with too few grenades and could not take advantage of the situation to break through.

Both sides attacked and defended for an afternoon, each with hundreds of wounds, and did not stop the battle until dusk. Chen Tingzhi finally confirmed that his troops were insufficient, so he could only wait for the scattered villagers to reunite.

"Can you keep it......"

The next day, Liang Xiuxun struggled to calculate his rì, if he could hold on for another three days, Nanfeng should have broken the city, and then there would be reinforcements.

Looking out carefully from the battlements, Liang Xiuxun was almost so frightened that he planted the city wall.

He is still counting on reinforcements here, and there are many more soldiers below, tens of thousands!

Chen Tingzhi was happy, the township warriors of Ningdu and Shicheng came by order, there were six or seven thousand people, not to mention the recovery of Guangchang, even the Qing soldiers of Jianchang, he was confident that they would eat them all, how to use these township warriors, he already had experience.

The ensuing siege battle was very tedious, with no artillery on either side, and all the muskets were fired. And Chen Tingzhi's side not only has an overwhelming advantage in numbers, but also far exceeds the Qing soldiers in terms of range accuracy. The villagers were like targets under the city, so that the Qing soldiers couldn't raise their heads.

As soon as the troops are sufficient, the Guangchang city wall is full of loopholes, the county and the township Yong found the place where the ants attached to the city, and then there is their own firepower to cover, not long after, the guards all entered the city. …,

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Liang Xiuxun was worthy of Tian Wenjing's favorite general, and decisively abandoned the city and fled.

The Qing soldiers all retreated, and the Xiang Yong who rushed to the city gate tower still did not let go, and a row of guns knocked down a large number of Qing soldiers running sixty or seventy zhang away, one of whom was still wearing a lightning rod helmet, shook it, and then slowly fell to the ground.

Liang Xiuxun was killed, in order to fight for this credit, the villagers of the two townships almost fought, Chen Tingzhi had to strip Liang Xiuxun's body, count the bullet holes, count six, and had to let the two townships divide equally.

Chen Tingzhi sighed with emotion: "Under this rifled gun, there are all sǐ ground within a hundred zhang......"

Of course, it is not only the credit of rifled guns, Jianchang Fucheng and Nanfeng County, relying on the mobilization of the township bravery, as well as the guns and weapons just prepared in the house, and Tian Wenjing's 10,000 strong army for more than half a month, Chen Tingzhi led nearly 10,000 reinforcements to arrive, Tian Wenjing collected his troops very rationally.

"There is a large army hidden in the Southern Barbarians, and it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of people in Jiangxi Province alone, and I hope that the emperor will think twice before acting, and do not fall into the trap of Li Shi."

The nephew and beloved general Liang Xiuxun was killed in battle, the three battalions of strange soldiers were wiped out, and the tens of thousands of horses attacking Jianchang also returned in vain, Tian Wenjing naturally did not think that he was defeated by the other party's people's army, he firmly believed that the Nanban had set a trap in Jiangxi. Fortunately, he tried the depth first, if the Wuchang camp and even the Xishan camp army were pressed, maybe he would fall into some trap of Li Shi.

Tian Wenjing's temptation was Yongzheng's confession, but Yongzheng was very dissatisfied with the answer sheet handed in by Tian Wenjing.

"Do you know how to read? Are you reading the Nanban newspaper? Jiangxi is just a township brave group training, you are so careless, it is in vain for me to believe in you like this! There is also the rifled gun, the Spanish instructor has long said that the rifled gun is just to supplement the combat power, and it is difficult to form a battle formation if it is used, and it is impossible for everyone to have it! If you don't form a battle formation, it's useless! You have to learn more from me when you train your soldiers......"

Yongzheng washed Tian Wenjing, but he didn't forget to add Tian Wenjing as a loyal waiter, although this person is not as intimate as Li Wei, but he is also one of the few courtiers he can trust at present...... ）