Who knew that Niu Dan stiffened his neck and protested: "General, the court has given me a name, how can I still be called Niu Dan..."

Li Xin laughed dumbly and scolded: "Good you bull... The official has been promoted, and his temper has also risen..."

When Zhuo Kai was sacrificed, Zhu Youzhen, the son of the Great Tomorrow, suddenly found that the names of many generals in the Three Guards Army under Li Xin were numeric and rural names, so he changed their names by the way with a stroke of the pen, including Niu Dan. So from that moment on, Niu Dan officially had a big name, Niu Jinsong.

But seeing Niu Dan bowing down and saying with a look of grievance: "The general doesn't want to wronged me, and I don't dare to be presumptuous in front of the general with ten guts." ”

Time was pressing, Li Xin didn't want to dwell too much on a name, so he waved his hand to interrupt the chatter of Niu Dan: "Dongchang is the place where we must pass through this time to go south, and now it is occupied by the chaotic people, if the commander asks you to lead the troops, what should you do?" ”

Suddenly, hearing that the general actually asked a question, Niu Dan instinctively stretched out his right hand and scratched the back of his head, only to understand that this must be the general teaching himself, and after thinking for a long time, he hesitated and said: "If I let the army lead, attack Dongchang only disperse the chaotic people, recapture the city, and punish the first evil, and the rest will not be asked..."

Li Xin hummed but was noncommittal, Niu Dan looked at the general worriedly, not knowing if his answer was right about the general's temper.

"Okay, give you 800 soldiers, two artillery teams, and the commander will take the rest of the men and horses to sweep the battle for you, can you be sure of winning this battle?"

Niu Jinsong's answer Li Xin was very satisfied, the reason why he handed over the task of attacking Dongchang to Niu Jinsong instead of Gu Shishi, the official battalion officer of the soldiers, was because the two people had completely different temperaments. Niu Dan has a generous nature, but Gu Shishi is narrow and ruthless, when this person was just a team officer, he dared to slaughter hundreds of Mongolian women, children, old and young behind his back. Although Li Xin did not pursue him afterwards, he has always been careful about using this person.

The people of Dongchang Mansion made a lot of rebellion because of the drought and the exploitation of the government, so they had to do it as a last resort, and it was still a short time to do evil. If Gu Fourteen is sent to go, he will inevitably be wantonly killed, and I don't know how many innocent people should fall to the ground.

Seeing that the general belonged to him, Niu Jinsong's eyes narrowed into a slit, and the previous feeling of hesitation was swept away in an instant.

"The general still wants to ask you for someone, I don't know, I don't know...... Agree or not......"

"Whoever you want, just open your mouth..."

"General Heisenberg..."

Many generals in the Three Guards Army, including Lu Jiu and several other Li Xin's henchmen, had no good impression of Heisenberg, and they all jokingly called him a red-haired ghost behind his back, and he was rarely willing to take the initiative to cooperate with him in ordinary wars. But only this Niu Jinsong is not prejudiced against Heisenberg, and sometimes even takes the initiative to post it and talk to him.

It's just that Heisenberg has always been strict, and it is said that no one has ever seen him laugh in the rest of his life in the Three Guards. Niu Jinsong didn't care at all, and ran to the First Artillery Battalion without incident, and today he proposed to join forces with Heisenberg to attack Dongchang, and Li Xin didn't feel strange at all.

When he left Beijing, Li Xin brought out the two artillery battalions of the Three Guards, namely Heisenberg's First Artillery Battalion and Kong Youde's Second Artillery Battalion. It is indeed the best choice for people like Heisenberg, who have always been cautious, to go to Dongchang with Niu Jinsong. As for Kong Youde, if he can, he can do it, but in Li Xin's view, he is a good general, so he must also be cautious when using it, otherwise it will become a source of chaos.

After Niu Jinsong went ashore, he named 800 auxiliary soldiers as soldiers, and at the same time joined forces with Heisenberg and went south along the right bank of the Grand Canal, while the rest of the men and horses escorted the five large ships in the canal and continued southward in a step-by-step manner.

Linqing is only more than 40 miles away from Dongchang Fucheng, and it can be reached in half a day after a rapid march, not to mention that both sides of the Grand Canal have a smooth road, and the marching speed is much faster than ordinary places.

Under the rapid march, the effect of Heisenberg's 1st Artillery Battalion's strict training in peacetime immediately appeared, and it was on a par with the 800 infantry led by Niu Jinsong. Seeing that there was a village a few miles ahead, Niu Jinsong called the local guide he had recruited in Linqing.

"How far is this place from Dongchang Mansion?"

"Back to the general's words, the Zhuangzi in front of me is Zhu Zaozhuang, and the people have long been empty, and there are about more than 20 miles to Dongchang Mansion."

Niu Jinsong secretly thought, the chaotic people are the chaotic people, there is no rule at all to fight, if he is stationed in Dongchang, this radius of thirty miles will definitely sprinkle a team of hundreds of people of ranger scouts, and if there is a storm, he will be ready to deal with it as soon as possible. But looking at the current situation, there is not even half a ghost shadow.

"General, if you go any further, you will be a chaotic people, and you still want to continue?" The guide was already weak in his legs, how could he have thought that this military master was already so close to Dongchang and still had to march. In fact, this is not the crux of the question, the key is that he counted along the way, in addition to those soldiers who pushed and pulled the cannons, there were only a thousand people who really held long and short weapons, and there were tens of thousands of chaotic soldiers and people in Dongchang Mansion, and twenty or thirty thousand people couldn't run.

Niu Jinsong ignored the guide's verbosity, and ordered the army to bypass Zhu Zaozhuang in front and continue to Dongchang Mansion. Along the way, he had already thought that he had few people, so when he arrived at the city of Dongchangfu, he had to find ways to lure the rebellious people out of the city, and then annihilate them in the field battle, defeating the morale of the rebellious people in one fell swoop, so that the city of Dongchangfu would be just around the corner.

Li Xin's Three Guards did not taste a single defeat, so the generals under his command were extremely confident, and they never looked forward and backward because of their small number of people, and feared the enemy and feared the enemy. What's more, when did the Three Guards not win more with less? This kind of battle between more than 1,000 people and tens of thousands of people cannot frighten them at all.

"Someone..."

Suddenly, the outer forehead scout pointed at Zhu Zaozhuang and shouted. Niu Dan looked at it, and saw a group of chaotic people rushing out of the Zhu Zao Village, all holding knives, axes and spears in their hands, and the equipment was not bad. Niu Jinsong suddenly became excited, and he didn't expect that the first battle of going south would start in such a sudden encounter.

Niu Jinsong turned his head and discussed with Heisenberg, "General Hai, is your artillery battalion ready?" ”

Heisenberg nodded solemnly: "General Niu is the main general of the striker, but there is an order, even if you are ordered, you don't have to be polite... The 1st Artillery Battalion had already been prepared in order, just waiting for the general to give the order..."Heisenberg had already spoken Chinese fluently at this time, and although he still had a strong Fanbang accent, it was no longer a problem to communicate with these Ming people.

"In this case, please ask General Hai to open fire and bombard the damn..."

The infantry battalion and the artillery battalion came and went, each forming a phalanx, echoing left and right. The distance of three miles is not far, and the noisy roar of tigers grows louder and louder as the distance closes, and Niu Jinsong roughly estimates that there are about three or four thousand people. Although he was many times his own, he was not afraid.

When the rebels entered a distance of one mile, Heisenberg gave an order, and the six-pounder, eight-pounder, and twelve-pounder guns belonging to the artillery battalion opened fire at the same time.

Countless solid lead bullets shot out of the chaotic soldiers, and in an instant they were like stones and water, stirring up waves of blood, and the solid bullets continued to bounce forward after hitting the ground, and the limbs and arms were broken in the places they passed, blood splattered everywhere, and there was a miserable howl.

The rebellious people are the rebellious people, who has ever seen such a battle, and soon some people were frightened by this terrible artillery and fled in all directions, but after all, they could not withstand the slashing of the overseers, and continued to charge forward after the regrouping, but they had lost their morale compared to before.

Heisenberg was expressionless and ordered again: "All artillery is loaded with shotshots..."

At the same time, Niu Jinsong ordered all the soldiers to form an offensive phalanx, with arquebuses ready to fire, and pikemen to press the formation. Although they are auxiliary soldiers in the Three Guards, they have experienced all the major battles in Xinzhou, Taiyuan, Daizhou, Monan, Jinzhou, etc., and have participated in battles as soldiers almost every time.

The infantry soldiers who followed Niu Jinsong south to Dongchang Mansion were basically from the Sanwei Chaoyangbao refugee camp, and he was half a fellow countryman, so the cohesion was stronger.

In the blink of an eye, the entire battlefield was shrouded in thick white gunsmoke, and after the baptism of artillery, the rebels were demoralized in the face of the first salvo when they were more than ten paces away from the infantry phalanx. Soon, the entire battle almost turned into a one-sided shooting and assassination.

The chaotic army was defeated, and Niu Jinsong resolutely ordered the phalanx to advance and continue to pursue by victory, so as to fight the majesty of the Three Guards in a battle.

Thus there was a rather strange scene on the right bank of the Grand Canal, where thousands of routed soldiers fled south like flies, followed by an offensive phalanx of 800 men marching in rhythmic steps.

Some ran westward, some simply knelt on the ground and gave up resistance and surrendered, while others plunged headlong into the canal and swam to the opposite bank, trying to block the pursuit of the officers and troops with the big river.

The rebellious army of four or five thousand men collapsed in an instant, and there was no trace of it. Niu Jinsong was very satisfied with the effect of this battle, and immediately ordered to collect the prisoners on the spot, and after screening, it turned out to be the local people who were in chaos, and after a rough count, there were as many as a thousand. These people must not be able to take them on the road, and when Niu Jinsong is in trouble, Heisenberg still asks them to go north along the Grand Canal, and then they will be dealt with by the general.

Niu Jinsong thought about it well, no matter where these rebels went, as long as they didn't go to the Dongchang rebels.

After a delay of nearly two hours in Zhuzaozhuang, Niu Jinsong took the forward army on the road again, and walked only about five miles, waiting for the Pegasus to report, and found a large number of chaotic people with their families and mouths going north.

Niu Jinsong was taken aback, and immediately went to negotiate with him in person, seeing the old and weak women and children all over the field, his heart was mixed, and he remembered the tragic scene when he fled.

Niu Jinsong did not dare to get too close to the group of refugees, for fear of being dragged in, so he invited an old man closest to them.

"Don't be afraid, my lord, we are the officials and soldiers from Beijing to quell the rebellion, where are you going?"

When the old man heard that it was an official from Jingshi, the fear in his eyes did not weaken, and he replied to Niu Jinsong in a trembling voice with a thick Luxi accent.

"Those people, out of nowhere, hooked a group of thieves from other places, killed the prefect, and the young and strong boys were robbed, saying that we were too old and weak to use, and kept and wasted food, so they were driven out alive. I heard that there were more thieves to the south, so I had to go north..."

Niu Jinsong's heart sank, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know where those outsiders came from?" ”

"It's a group of people coming back, I heard someone call them the Fifth Battalion of the Left Left..."

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