Chapter Eighty-Nine: Defeated in the First World War

The hundred generals sent by Zhou Shixian and the eight sentinels to help them are nothing special, just like the other eleven hundred generals in the two thousand headquarters in the same company, they are all the elite of the "Tianwei Middle Military Camp", and both veterans and new recruits are there.

Although their enemies have two or three hundred people, Zhou Shixian is not worried at all, the combat effectiveness of the elite under Gao Jie's command is just an ordinary Ming army, and these people here may not even be able to compare with Lu Zhenfei's pacesetter battalion, and they are vulnerable to the real elite soldiers based on the elite Beijing battalion.

From another point of view, if Zhou Shixian's most elite "Tianwei Zhong Military Camp" could not defeat them with one enemy and three enemies, then how could they talk about driving out the Tartars and restoring the rivers and mountains?

Zhou Shixian still hung up on the southeast branch as soon as possible, so as not to humiliate himself when he got it.

After all, if he can't change the crisis of the nation, what is the point of him coming to this world?

Zheng Chenggong wore two layers of armor and followed the side of the hundred presidents who went out to fight, he looked at the originally neat and solemn hundred people who deliberately made a chaotic appearance, but only sent the sentry cavalry to fight against the cavalry of those chaotic soldiers, and did not take the opportunity to attack, which was simply a big surprise.

However, what surprised him even more was the so-called "elite of the four towns" on the other side, whose reaction was not even comparable to the sailors and crew of his Zheng family, let alone others. In contrast to the two, it is already clear who is strong and who is weak.

Zheng Chenggong looked at the chaotic military camp opposite, as well as the Ming army with uneven armor and chaotic formations like the chaotic people, and couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, and he also understood Zhou Shixian's painstaking efforts more - in order to let the other party be fooled, take the initiative to attack, not weak to a certain extent, it is not possible.

He naturally had guessed Zhou Shixian's calculations, these chaotic soldiers burned, killed and looted, no matter what the reason, Zhou Shixian, who was the concubine of the Ming court, should be exterminated, but in order to achieve greater political goals, they must also be allowed to take the initiative to attack, so that the crime can be added to the crime.

"Zheng Gongzi, when the fight starts, you have to pay attention, don't run around, the sword on the battlefield has no eyes, and the small one is afraid of hurting you." That Bai Zong withdrew his gaze from the messy military camp opposite and said to Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong went to the battlefield for the first time, and he was a little bottomless in his heart, but after all, he was not the kind of person who had never seen the world, so he immediately responded: "Xue Bai, you don't need to worry, I will act on my own when the time comes." ”

"Okay, then please Zheng Gongzi take a good look at how we fight. If someone is not angry, Lao Tzu will be the first to cut him. "That Mr. Bai was born in Ningxia Town, he is a veteran, and he looks very relaxed at this time, even if he is talking about cutting people, he is also smiling.

However, compared with the ease of the military camp in Tianwei, the Ming army on the opposite side was completely chaotic, their only four cavalry had been killed by the sentinel cavalry, and in the end, only the war horses of five officers were left, and it was naturally impossible for them to fight in person.

Faced with this sudden situation, the five officers hurriedly began to organize their soldiers, preparing to give these enemies a head-on attack, Liu Zeqing's soldiers and horses were not afraid, not to mention that the opposite side also looked chaotic, and they were dumbfounded, they didn't know how to sneak attack quickly and accurately, and they were still lined up there.

But now it was close to noon, and their soldiers were either preparing to eat, or they were still on the way to take off their pants and put on their pants, and many soldiers rushed out when they heard the movement, they were still bare-legged, and the temperament of the thieves was taken care of by them.

After a full quarter of an hour the sparse contingent finally came to an end, and they formed a long formation on the north side of their camp, with a few musketeers with obsolete muskets in their hands, archers scattered among the soldiers, and five officers and their guards in the rear, driving them forward.

Zhou Shixian watched from the small hillside in the rear, and the Ming army on the opposite side had begun to fight, but the team was still chaotic, the military formation was not in shape, and the armor and weapons were insufficient. And the Bai Zong under his command is ready, and the formation has begun to recover.

Soon, when the Ming army on the opposite side entered less than a mile away from the line, the eight sentinels also began to move, they rode horses to attack from the flanks, and the cavalry bows in their hands continued to shoot arrows, and soon shot down a dozen Ming soldiers without armor.

This Ming army has almost no formation to speak of, the team is very dense, and there is no shield cover, more than 200 soldiers, only half of them have armor, the others just have a weapon in their hands, that is, a bow, and the threat to them is also huge.

The Ming army on both flanks was attacked and soon there was a commotion, and the momentum weakened a lot, and even the pace of advance had slowed down, and the whole formation began to show a prominent appearance in the middle. But because there were officers behind them, no one dared to retreat, so they could only continue to advance.

Soon, these Ming soldiers entered within a hundred, and the eight sentinels did not continue to attack, they were very worried that their charge would directly scatter more than two hundred people, which would ruin the plan of the horses.

As a result, these eight people immediately went around the back of this chaotic army, surrounded the more than 200 chaotic soldiers with the inferior force of eight men and eight horses, and prepared to attack from behind them again when the frontal troops attacked with heavy fists, forming a two-sided attack.

Zheng Chenggong looked at the approaching chaotic soldiers, although the formation on the opposite side was more chaotic, but the strength of more than twice the force looked menacing, which made Zheng Chenggong feel more nervous. After all, he is still a beginner on the battlefield, and for the first time, he will always be a little cramped.

After the harassment on both flanks was eliminated, under the hard work of the officers, this chaotic army finally regained some order, they had entered seventy paces by this time, and the formation had also recovered somewhat, and it was no longer the appearance of being out of line and the front and the front were inconsistent.

However, the officers in the back were a little puzzled, they didn't pay attention at first, and they only cared about tidying up the troops and horses in the chaos, but now they are closer, looking at the well-equipped and neat enemies in front of them, they have a bad premonition in their hearts at the same time, especially their neatly lined helmets, which are even more frightening.

But the matter has come to this, the arrow is already on the string, they have no choice but to fight, if they stop at this time, or retreat, it is really looking for death.

Although fighting a war is not their strong point, they still have this basic battlefield experience, and they are not really ignorant.

"Kill all these unplanted deflated three, everyone sleeps with the little lady tonight, and receive the reward!" The scruffy bearded officer, riding on his horse, suddenly shouted.

And as soon as he said this, the morale of this chaotic army was immediately boosted, for them, there is no better incentive than money and women, and they have no other purpose in joining the army, that is, to eat well, if they can go to grab things, it will be better.

It can only be said that such an army has become the main force of Nanming, and it is a miracle to be undefeated, and it can only be said that it is a normal performance if it is defeated.

Not to mention morale, but basic equipment and training cannot be maintained. And these two points are exactly what Zhou Shixian values most about the new army under his command, and he knows where the real gap between the Ming army and the Qing army is.

Zheng Chenggong looked through the dense bright helmets of the military formation, and suddenly accelerated towards the opposite side, and soon entered fifty steps, among which some archers stopped to stretch their bows and arrows, and the firecrackers were ready to shoot, and their hearts were even more nervous.

However, as soon as the opposite side accelerated, he heard a trumpet, and then the shield at the front of his own front line was lowered, revealing more than forty musketeers behind, who had already prepared and waited for this chaotic army to rush fifty paces.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

As soon as Zheng Chenggong looked over, a series of explosions rang out, and then white smoke rose up, quickly filling the already small front.

At the same time, the rebels on the opposite side immediately let out a scream, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people fell, some soldiers had no armor to protect them, and at a distance of forty or fifty paces, their injuries were very serious, they fell to the ground, constantly struggling, and spat out large mouthfuls of blood.

There were also some even more unlucky ones, who were shot directly through the stomach by the lead bullets of Lu Mi Gun at such a close distance, and the intestines and colorful feces flowed all over the ground, with a terrible cry and hideous faces, which caused the morale of the entire team to suffer a heavy blow.

As a result, the entire offensive against the rebel army stopped, and even some people began to retreat.

Zheng Chenggong has not seen muskets, his family's merchant ship is also a pirate ship, and in addition to transporting goods, robbery is also the focus of going to sea.

However, this neat and sudden blow still made him surprised, especially from fifty paces away, the reaction of those chaotic soldiers, and after completing the shooting, the musketeers on his side were not chaotic at all.

However, such an attack was not enough to defeat this serious Ming army, although they were defeated, they were not outcasts after all, and it was impossible to be defeated. But it was not much better, and the soldiers who tried to retreat in vain, under the organization and coercion of the officers, did not advance or retreat, and almost stopped in place.

Soon, the second round of military trumpets sounded, and on the front of the military camp in Tianweizhong, a series of explosions broke out again in the muzzle of the black hole, and more than a dozen people fell down again in this group of chaotic soldiers, and the screams and wails were even worse.

And after this blow, even the officers, who lost their courage, and as soon as they slackened, some of the soldiers immediately broke and fled, and the situation began to completely rout.

Under the disguise that Zheng Chenggong looked calm and calm, but in fact he was already terrified to death, the war drums of the military camp in Tianwei Zhong sounded, the musketeers quickly contracted and retreated, and the pikemen and sword and shield men rushed out of the military formation to carry out a final attack on this chaotic army.

At the same time, the eight sentinels also resumed their operations, they were condescending and moving quickly, and the weapons in their hands were harvesting the lives of one deserter after another.