In order to avoid the red-haired ghosts, under the leadership of the guide, Li Yan's straightforward army did not take the riverbank road on the north bank of Bengang Creek, but passed through the dense forest and went straight to Bengang, and arrived at Beizhai first.

Looking at the reinforcements that seemed to appear like divine soldiers descending from heaven, Zhang Hong, the leader of Beizhai, was overjoyed and took the leaders of the Han people in the village to worship in front of Li Yanzhi.

"Meet the Chief Soldier!"

Although Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the imperial court, the imperial court did not send people to Taiwan Island, and this Ben Harbor is still a place of foreign culture, and the Han people here are either pirates or poor people who cannot survive on the mainland.

Originally, these people did not have a good impression of the government and the official army. And now, he is full of gratitude to Li Yanzhi and others. When they were attacked and slaughtered by the red-haired ghosts, the most hopeful thing was to get reinforcements to help them drive away the red-haired ghosts!

Zhang Hong beckoned the Han people in the village to take out all kinds of food to reward the hard-working officers and soldiers, and vacated the camp for them to rest.

Li Yanzhi called Zhang Hong, who was busy with his work, over and asked about the current situation.

"The situation is very critical." Zhang Hong sighed, and then talked about the situation of these days.

Seven days ago, the red-haired ghost's plywood boat appeared off the coast of Bon Harbor and launched an attack on the sailing village by the sea. Zheng Zhilong took half of the army and sailing ships, and left more than 200 ships in Bin Harbor, including more than a dozen Fu ships with more than three masts.

Although the red-haired ghost only came to six plywood boats, each of them was equipped with twenty or thirty cannons, which was what the Ming people called the Hongyi cannon. Fifty or sixty Hongyi cannons opened fire in turn, and the wooden sailing village was torn apart by the bombardment.

Although the soldiers of the sailing village bravely drove the ships to fight the red-haired ghosts, although the number of ships was more than ten times that of the red-haired ghosts, the largest three-masted sailing ship was like a child to an adult in front of the plywood boat.

Many of the warships did not even get close to the plywood boats, and they were torn apart by the bombardment of the Hongyi cannons. Even if a ship approached the plywood ship, the height of the plywood ship was more than three feet, just like the city wall, and the deck height of the three-masted ship was less than half of the plywood ship, so it could not jump even if it wanted to jump into the gang. And the bow of the red-haired ghost plywood ship is equipped with sharp ramming horns, which can break the waist of the Ming boat as long as it hits.

In a naval battle, the fleet of Bon Harbor was defeated, more than 100 sailing ships were sunk by the red-haired ghost plywood, and the rest either fled into the deep sea, or fled up the Ben Harbor Creek to other stockades.

The red-haired ghost landed and occupied the sailing village, and after resting for a day, he marched along the river and land along the Ben Harbor stream to attack other villages.

It's just that although Bengang Creek is about 20 zhang wide, the red-haired ghost's plywood boat still can't drive in, which makes the people of other villages in Bengang breathe a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the red-haired ghost abandoned the ship and landed, he actually wanted to storm the villages, and the leaders of the villages, under the leadership of Zheng Zhibao and Yang Tiansheng and others, gathered the troops of each village, and wanted to fight to the death with the red-haired ghosts.

Just outside the Qianzhai, 5,000 people from Bin Gang and more than 1,000 people from the red-haired ghost started a big battle.

Half of the soldiers were former pirates, and most of them were young and strong people who had been hastily assembled, three times as many as the red-haired ghosts.

The number of red-haired ghosts is only more than 500, but there are more than 1,000 indigenous servants, most of these indigenous servants are claw slaves, and a small number are Taiwanese natives near Dayuan.

In the eyes of Zheng Zhibao, Yang Tiansheng and others, their own number is several times that of the other party, and there should be no problem in achieving victory. However, the outcome of the battle was unexpected.

Although the number of red-haired ghosts is small, they are equipped with very sharp firearms, and there are many of them. However, the main weapons of the Bengang soldiers were swords, spears, fishing forks, and only a few bows and arrows and firearms.

Soon after the two sides clashed, hundreds of Ben Hong Kong soldiers were shot by the red-haired ghost, and then the military formation collapsed all of a sudden, the red-haired ghost took the opportunity to pursue, the Ben Hong Kong army was defeated, under the pursuit of the red-haired ghost and the indigenous servant army, more than 2,000 people were killed and captured, the front village was broken, and the remaining soldiers fled into other villages, according to the village resistance.

"Right now, the front village and the right village have been breached, Zheng Sanye is taking most of the people to retreat to the main village of Bengang, the battle has been fought for two days, and the main village has suffered great casualties." Zhang Hong said very frustratedly.

At present, most of the young people around Bengang are gathered in the main village, if the main village is breached, the remaining other villages are powerless to resist and can only surrender.......

"Leader Zhang doesn't have to worry, now, everything is left to us!" Li Yanzhi comforted.

"It's so good." Zhang Hongxi said, "Mr. Li, you personally brought people here, plus the brothers who came back to help Brother Zheng, at least there is no problem in holding Bon Harbor." ”

"......" Li Yanzhi was a little speechless. Feelings: Zhang Hong is so happy not because of himself, but because of Zheng Zhilong's return.

"General Zheng is leading the fleet in the open sea, fighting against the red-haired ghost, it still depends on us." Li Yanzhi still explained.

"However, you have brought these seven or eight hundred people, and the number is still a little small." Zhang Hong couldn't help but say.

This guy has been scared of the red-haired ghost, and he doesn't believe that Li Yanzhi's seven or eight hundred people can be the opponent of the red-haired ghost.

"The soldiers are fine, not many." Li Yan said lightly, no longer explaining to this guy. A bunch of pirates who have never seen the world and don't know what real war is!

After resting in Beizhai for a night and recovering the physical strength consumed by the two-day march, Li Yan ordered his troops to change their clothes, put on the tattered clothes of the people of Beizhai on the outside of their military uniforms, and pretended to be the people of Beizhai. Because the men in Beizhai did not have enough clothes, they even found a lot of women's clothes, and many colorful soldiers were very reluctant to wear them.

After changing clothes, from a distance, there is no longer the demeanor of the Praetorian Guard, more like a group of messy people.

"Mr. Li, what are you?" Zhang Hong asked in surprise.

Li Yanzhi smiled faintly: "It's just confusing the enemy." ”

After changing clothes, after breakfast, Li Yanzhi immediately led the team to set off, from Beizhai to the main village is only seven or eight miles, Li Yanzhi did not even let the dry food, each soldier carried a fire gun, the gunner carried more than 20 tiger squat guns, in order to avoid the enemy to find out, the tiger squat cannon was also covered with rags. As for the other artillery, it was difficult to carry it through the dense forest on foot, so it was left on Zheng Zhilong's ship.

Between the north village and the main village, there is a road, there are farmlands on both sides of the road, in the farmland, the ears of wheat have turned yellow, a group of 800 people along the road between the wheat fields, to the main village.

When there were still two or three miles away from the main village, the sound of guns and cannons was already heard.

"Damn the red-haired ghost is attacking again!" Zhang Hong, who was with the army, gritted his teeth and scolded, "Chief soldier, let's speed up the march." ”

Li Yanzhi ignored Zhang Hong, and instead asked his soldiers to slow down and trim on the spot. Because he knew that the two sides were so close, the red-haired ghost must have discovered himself.

ps: I want to get together with friends at night, I have to go now, even if there is a second watch tonight, I'm afraid it will be very late, if not, I will make up for it tomorrow.