Hong Chengchou, a name that many people who like to read historical novels are thunderous about, although most people don't know how to pronounce this domain word.

According to the encyclopedia, Hong Chengchou is a Jinshi in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, and he is tired of being a political envoy to Shaanxi to participate in politics, and the political envoy is equivalent to the provincial governor, and he is a deputy to participate in politics, which is almost the vice governor. Chongzhen was an official to the military department of Shangshu, the governor of Jiliao, after the defeat of the Battle of Songjin, he was captured by the Qing Dynasty, and then surrendered to become a bachelor of the Han Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, and made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty's unification of the world, in short, he was a big traitor.

There are rumors in the market that he has a leg with the famous Xiaozhuang Empress Da Yu'er of the Qing Dynasty, and the reason why he surrendered was because Da Yu'er personally went to persuade him, but this is just what the folk history says, so I won't say much.

At this time, Hong Chengchou's official worship of the governor of Yansui, the prime minister of Yansui's military and civil affairs, on the ground in northern Shaanxi, except for Yang He, the governor of the three sides, is his largest.

As a general under Yang He, Hong Chengchou did not support Yang He's appeasement policy, but vigorously suppressed the bandits, because he knew that the rogue who was appeased could not believe it, to be precise, he knew that the imperial court was unable to feed these hungry people, so they would rebel sooner or later.

Wang Zhi came all the way from Yanchang, more than 10,000 people were mighty, it was very obvious, even if Zhang Ran, the prefect of Yan'an, covered up for him, he could not hide from Yang He and Hong Chengchou, these local snakes, he had just conquered Yanchuan, and the news of his army to the north reached the ears of Yang He and Hong Chengchou.

Suide Prefecture was under the rule of Hong Chengchou, and when he learned that tens of thousands of rogues were coming to attack, he hurriedly dispatched troops and recruited 10,000 troops, known as 30,000, and waited for them in Suide.

-- If it weren't for the fact that he had been guarding against the rogues who had been placed in various parts of northern Shaanxi after being appeased, his forces would have been relatively concentrated, otherwise he would not have been able to gather so many troops at once.

After Qingjian County. It's Suidezhou. Because Hong Chengchou didn't have the idea of fighting an ambush. led the army to wait outside Suide City, so as soon as he entered the territory of Suide, Wang Zhi's scout cavalry heard that there was a large army stationed outside Suide City.

"Hong Chengchou, after being in this world for so long, I finally met the first historical celebrity."

With a sigh of emotion, Wang Zhi ordered the army to march towards Suide City, preparing for a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers, after all, the main purpose of his dispatch this time was to eliminate all the armed forces in northern Shaanxi that were not under his control. Now that they're together, they don't have to look for them one by one.

Wang Zhi, who went straight to Suide City, soon met Hong Chengchou's army stationed outside Suide City.

Wang Zhi's army arrived outside Suide at night, although none of his men had night blindness, but night battles were always inconvenient, so Wang Zhi still ordered to camp less than five miles next to the camp of the officers and soldiers, which was full of provocation, and provoked some thousands of households of the Ming army to go to battle immediately, and give this group of arrogant thieves a little color.

But they were all pressed down by Hong Chengchou: "What are you impatient, give the order to go down, let the soldiers have a good rest." Tomorrow will fight to the death with the thief army. ”

Most of the generals of the trilateral army led their troops to the capital at the end of last year, and they have not yet returned. There were only two or three big cats and small cats left, and no one dared to refute Hong Chengchou, who was the governor, so he had to stop fighting.

Looking at the camp opposite that was brightly lit and as bright as day, Hong Chengchou was in a very bad mood, and it could be seen from the fact that he was camping alone, this thief army was not simple.

Seeing Hong Chengchou's sad look, a strategist beside him asked, "Why are you worried?" ”

"This army of thieves is not simple!"

"This army of thieves is indeed highly disciplined, but after all, it is a thief army, and it is rootless duckweed, as long as the army is launched, it will be able to uproot it." The strategist confidently said that so far, the officials and soldiers have chased and beaten the rogues, and in the hearts of many people, the rogues will run, and as long as they are touched by the officials and soldiers, they will die.

"Rootless duckweed? They are not rootless duckweed, and the other rogues only live by plundering, and after grabbing one place, they go to the next, so they are called rookies. And this thief army, what they did in Yanchang is really chilling, they don't attack the county, but they attack the countryside, not famous in the imperial court, but secretly gather the displaced people to Tuntian, which is clearly taking the road of Taizu accumulating more grain and slowly becoming the king, such a talent is a big trouble for the imperial court. ”

"My lord is too worried, as far as I know, now that the displaced people in northern Shaanxi are pouring into Yanchang, do they have so much food to feed the displaced people, this kind of behavior is nothing more than self-destruction." The strategist said with a smile, this is also the reason why many big people know about Wang Zhi's existence but always treat him as if he doesn't exist, just want to wait for him to sit and eat the mountain and play himself to death.

"There's no food to grab, aren't they coming? Fortunately, they are only going north, not south, otherwise the court will be in danger! Hong Chengchou said with emotion, if such a powerful army of thieves goes south, there is really no army in the south to stop them, once it is rushed into the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, the entire north will be finished, and the north is almost completely dependent on the south at this time.

The summer night passed quickly, about four or five o'clock in the morning, the sky began to dawn, the loud and long wake-up call sounded in Wang Zhi's camp, and the soldiers and laborers slowly woke up.

The logistics team had already prepared breakfast, and after everyone had eaten, they went out of the camp and began to arrange the troops. The musketeers were in the center, and the spears were on either side.

With Wang Zhi's order, the Wang family's army, which was lined up, stepped on a tight pace and gradually pressed towards the Ming army camp.

Because the barracks of the two armies were too close to each other, Wang Jiajun's wake-up call also woke up the Ming army, so Wang Jiajun's side had just launched an attack, and the Ming army had begun to organize defense, and one cannon after another was pushed out of the camp.

The Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to firearms, although many troops are reluctant to use firearms because of quality problems, but cannons are good things that everyone wants, as a border town, there are already a lot of cannons in northern Shaanxi, in order to deal with Wang Zhi, Hong Chengchou collected these cannons, there are more than 100 guns, densely lined up in front of the Ming army.

Wang Zhi only knew two kinds of artillery in the Ming Dynasty, the tiger squat cannon and the red-coated cannon, the former belonged to the field artillery, with a range of between 500 and 1,000 meters, and the latter was a heavy artillery, generally used to defend the city, and the maximum firing range was said to be up to 2,000 meters.

According to Wang Zhi's observation, there were no heavy cannons such as red-coated cannons in these cannons, they were all field guns similar to the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the firing range would not exceed one thousand meters, so Wang Zhi and the other Wang Jiajun and the Ming army were about a thousand meters away and immediately asked them to stop.

"Machine gun on the rack (tripod)."

The effective range of the general-purpose machine gun heavy machine gun form is generally more than a thousand meters, and the maximum range is much more than that, so it is completely fine to fire at this distance.

The Ming army, which was waiting on the opposite side, saw that the Wang Jiajun suddenly stopped, and was very puzzled, the combat distance in this era is generally about 100 meters, because the effective range of the bow and arrow is only so long, and now at this distance, the artillery can't hit, do you still want to fight? The generals looked at Hong Chengchou one after another, waiting for him to make an idea.

Hong Chengchou didn't know the machine gun, nor did he know the power of the machine gun, but he thought it was a strange firearm, and seeing that the enemy army only had infantry and did not form a battle formation, he immediately gave the most suitable order in terms of his knowledge: "Let the cavalry attack." ”

In Hong Chengchou's view, the army on the opposite side did not have a single archer, they were all foot soldiers, and they did not form an army formation, and the battle line was so long that they only had to rush with cavalry, and they would definitely collapse.

However, he didn't know that the strange firearm in Wang Jiajun's hand was a machine gun known as the nemesis of the cavalry. (To be continued.) )