In the distance, a bright and dazzling red flag finally appeared on the horizon, bordered by black flame patterns on a red background, with a big "king" on it. At the same time, three large flags, all red, appeared and swept in the wind blowing on the Pearl River. These three red flags are also embroidered with black thread, the first of which is "Governor Liangguang", the second is "Zhenfu Tiannan", and the third is "Governor Nanyang".

If Mingzhu is also outside Dongguan City in Guangzhou now, and sees the two big flags embroidered with "Zhenfu Tiannan" and "General Manager Nanyang", he will definitely be confused. Because "Tiannan" is the south of the Celestial Empire, and "Nanyang" is the ocean and islands in the south of the Celestial Empire.

When will this governor of Liangguang be able to take care of the affairs of the south and southern seas and islands of the Celestial Empire? The emperor doesn't seem to agree, right? Why did this Wang Fuchen talk to himself and add officials and errands to himself?

Now the officials of the Qing Dynasty are really becoming more and more active.

But if you go on like this, what else do you want the court to do?

However, Shang Zhixin and Wang Shirong don't care that Wang Fuchen himself adds a little errand and official position to himself, there is only one thing they care about now, Wang Fuchen, how many men did Lu Bu bring to Guangzhou?

It's just a few hundred cavalry, and if you still have a large group of infantry troops, then today's peace talks will turn into a siege!

Soon, after the flying red flag, there was a red helmet tassel on a jumping iron helmet, and then I saw hundreds of ironclad knights, Wang Fuchen, the governor of Liangguang who surrounded them, appear in everyone's sight.

These hundreds of knights are all northwestern men who have grown up, wearing a one-color hat and iron helmet on their heads, wearing half-body Western-style plate armor, and ring arm armor on their arms. What a combination of Chinese and Western armor!

All the helmets, plates, and armbands were burned black with fire to fade away. These hundreds of armor soldiers gathered in one place, it was a surging black, dark and extremely imposing.

Those who are familiar with Wang Fuchen know that the real ability of this "living Lu Bu" is actually on horseback, he himself is one of the best knights in the world, and he is also very good at training cavalry horses. Although Lingnan lacked horses, his new army came from the north, and there were already many cavalry. Among them, a battalion of personal soldiers and iron cavalry is the strongest! The whole battalion, more than 800 horsemen, were all men from Shaanxi and Gansu in the northwest, and they were all good men recruited for him in Gansu and Shaanxi by several Wang Fuchen's old men who were transferred from the Northwest Army.

After this cavalry followed Wang Fuchen to Guangdong, they were treated as baby bumps, and they were equipped with good armor and weapons. After Wang Zhongxiao took Macao, Wang Fuchen even asked his son for a batch of Western plate armor stored in the Macao treasury for this group of cavalry to wear, and also asked the Portuguese in Macao to go to the "big horses". He also set up a "Yanma farm" in Zhaoqing, specializing in raising Western long-legged horses

However, the Western long-legged horses have not yet been raised, so this group of royal iron horses is still riding Mongolian horses. Because the Mongolian horses were small and could not carry the all-armored cavalry, Wang Fuchen improved the Western plate armor and dismantled the whole armor into half armor. In fact, it was a cuirass, and then two cloth skirt armors, plus arm guards made of wrought iron.

Such a pair of armor is worn on the body, and when charging, it can always block the oncoming arrow clusters, and if it is a little farther, it may also be able to resist lead bullets. But when he escaped, he was just the iron horse trained by Wang Fuchen, and he didn't have to think about escaping here in Guangdong, just rush!

Although this living Lu Bu is capricious, his military quality is very reliable. In the original rebellion of the three feudatories, his army was small in number, and he was attacked on all sides, but the number of officers of the Eight Banners with names and surnames was still as high as more than 90 (including the results of joint operations with Wu Zhimao and Wang Ping Domain), which was more than Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing, and Shang Zhixin! Among the generals of his rank (he is a commander), that is definitely the first!

Shang Zhixin saw these hundreds of iron horsemen rushing one by one, so nervous that the fingers holding the horsewhip turned white, and he couldn't say a word, and the subordinates waiting in the formation behind him also held their breath, just looking at the scene in front of them. They were beaten by Wang Zhongxiao's Guangdong township soldiers before, and they couldn't even raise their heads, but now they are the real elite iron cavalry of the old Wang family!

If it really gets hot later, will you be able to beat them?

This Hongmen banquet seems to be a little wrong!

The Hongmen banquet should have been set up by Xiang Yu to slaughter Liu Bang, and now it is used to slaughter Lu Bu

Wang Shirong sighed and said with a smile: "Shizi, these knights don't carry bows or long blades, it seems that the royal army is sincere enough." ”

That's right! Cavalry has no bow and no spear, what is the use of this?

Shang Zhixin also laughed, and said to himself in his heart: There are no bows and arrows and spears, no matter how powerful the fine cavalry is, it is also a dish, and this is not a place for cavalry to play, this is under the city of Guangzhou, and the cavalry can still put on their wings and fly to the city? Later, they will ambush the soldiers together, they are all targets of shotgunslingers!

Just when he was thinking about a good thing, a long suona sound suddenly came from the cavalry team led by Wang Fuchen, and the knights carrying the flag in front of them reined in their horses with one hand, and several long-legged horses that looked higher than other horses let out a long neigh, and the two front legs were raised high, and then fell heavily, cutting the clods into a mess, but stopped their footsteps one or twenty steps away from Shang Zhixin and others.

The brigade of ironclad knights in the back did not pass these banner-bearing cavalry, but spread out to their left and right, forming two rather dense four-row horizontal formations.

waited for all the more than 800 horsemen to stop, only to see Wang Fuchen's tall figure, his dress was the same as the northwest man below, when he went into battle to kill, it was not easy to recognize. However, at this time, surrounded by more than a dozen personal guards, he immediately stood in the middle of two rather dense four-row horizontal formations composed of 400 cavalry each, and beckoned at Shang Zhixin and Wang Shirong with a smile.

Shang Zhixin and his henchmen and generals at this end were all relieved!

Wang Fuchen's cavalry did not have a long-handled guy, and they were empty behind them, and there was no Wang Jiajun to follow, the nearest Wang Jiajun's fortress was more than ten miles away from Dongguan Tower!

However, Wang Fuchen's position is still a little problematic, and it is still a little far away from the city wall where the shotgunners are ambushed on the edge of the Dongguan City Tower, and the shotguns can't hit it!

Also, what does it mean that he is so far away and immediately does not enter? Did you smell the murderous aura?

How good is that?

Shang Zhixin was about to use some trick to trick Wang Fuchen a little more, when he saw Wang Fuchen waving at him.

Of course he couldn't have passed. That's a living Lu Bu!

However, Wang Shirong didn't know that Shang Zhixin had already set up a Hongmen banquet to prepare to clean up Wang Fuchen, and he thought that he could persuade Wang Fuchen and Shang Zhixin to join Wu Sangui together with three inches of innocence this time!

In addition, yesterday he also received a secret letter sent by Wu Sangui, asking him to inquire about the whereabouts of the third prince Zhu with Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao - now there is a job for Emperor Ming Xian to be given to the third prince of Zhu, and the third prince of Zhu is very likely to be in Guangdong!

So when Wang Shirong saw Wang Fuchen waving to him, he whipped off his horse and rode forward with a smile.

And Wang Fuchen saw Wang Shirong coming over on horseback, and Shang Zhixin was still not moving, so he could only smile bitterly and said to Wang Shirong: "Bourne, come here, come here." ”

Before Wang Fuchen's words fell, Wang Shirong had already arrived in front of Wang Fuchen, and stopped the horse under his crotch, and was about to say a few words to Wang Fuchen, when he suddenly saw Wang Fuchen take out a flintlock pistol from a holster hanging on the saddle of the war horse, and broke the flint clip of the pistol with his other hand, and then raised the pistol at a target behind Wang Shirong!

Wang Shirong subconsciously looked back and found that Wang Fuchen was pointing a gun at Shang Zhixin!

This living Lu Bu actually wants to shoot Shang Zhixin!

Isn't that shameless?

When Wang Shirong was so shocked that he couldn't even say anything to accuse Wang Fuchen, Shang Zhixin was already frightened!

Because the people he saw pulling out their guns did not refer to Wang Fuchen alone, but more than 200 people—all the royal iron horsemen in the front row drew their pistols, or long-barreled flintlock pistols (that is, those straight grooved rifled guns)!

I didn't expect that!

Instead of spear assault, the ironclad cavalry switched to musket shooting!

This is too much about martial arts, right?

Before Shang Zhixin came back to his senses, he was pushed by someone who didn't know why, and the whole person didn't sit down, so he fell from the saddle, fell heavily to the ground, and fell with a gold star in his eyes, and before he could react, he saw a row of large and small fires suddenly flashing in the hands of the cavalrymen lined up on the opposite side!

Then, Shang Zhixin heard a dense crackling sound, and then the screams of people and the neighing of war horses came from his left and right, and they rang out together!

Along with the screams, there was the sound of a human body falling to the ground!

Since this round of gunfire was fired by more than a hundred flintlock pistols and more than twenty straight-grooved rifled guns, the lethality was not small. The accuracy of the flintlock pistol was not high, and it did not have a high accuracy of hitting at a distance of one or two paces. But those two dozen straight groove rifled guns are powerful, and they are almost 100 shots at this distance!

Just one round of shooting, forty or fifty officers and armor soldiers under Shang Zhixin have already been brought down!

It can be described as a heavy number of casualties!

There were all dead and wounded under his hands, of course Shang Zhixin knew that he was plotted by Wang Fuchen, a sinister and cunning living Lu Bu who did not speak of martial virtues, if it wasn't for someone pushing him in time, he might have been shot by Wang Fuchen's people at this time!

Thinking that he was almost killed, Shang Zhixin was really in a cold sweat, and just wanted to shout loudly to come out of the secret passage and the hidden soldier cave in the ambush behind the sheep and horse wall, he suddenly saw through the thin layer of gunpowder smoke in front of him, and saw that the Wang family iron horsemen who had just emptied a flintlock pistol pulled out another pistol from somewhere and raised it!

How can you still change guns?

It's already very unmartial arts to use a pistol to plot when negotiating with an opponent, so why do you still bring a different gun to fight? That's doubling down on martial arts!

Shang Zhixin was speechless, Wang Fuchen's living Lu Bu is simply shameless!

At this time, Shang Zhixin's subordinates who had survived the first round of enemy gunfire had already reacted and shouted loudly, accompanied by the rather dissatisfied neighing sound of the whipped warhorse.

"Plotted, despicable"

"Damn, the one surnamed Wang still has a gun!"

"They're going to shoot again, hide."

"Bang Bang Bang"

Gunshots rang out again!

The chaotic Shang family's armor general, Zuo, was killed and wounded by a pistol bullet from a distance of one or twenty paces - this round of shooting did not have a straight groove flintlock pistol, so the lethality was reduced, but the confusion caused was even greater.

Because when those people of the Shang family were "shot for the first time", they still had the idea of jumping up and fighting hand-to-hand, and some even beat their horses forward. As a result, before they could rush up, the enemy changed their guns and "killed" them again.

And when Wang Fuchen's subordinates changed their guns again and prepared to "shoot" them for the third time, Shang Zhixin's subordinates couldn't hold back anymore and shot them yet!

"Run!"

"They still have guns!"

With a few desperate shouts, the generals and soldiers of the Shang family army outside the Dongguan urn in Guangzhou turned around and ran towards the city gates on both sides of the city urn!

Xiang Zhixin also fled to the urn city at this time, and the Hongmen banquet had failed!

It's time to run for your life!

"Bang Bang Bang"

Another round of life-threatening gunfire!

Shang Zhixin didn't care about how many of his subordinates were killed in this round of shooting, and he now had a thought in his head, hurry up! If he escaped into the urn city, he would have to live, so he spread his two long legs and ran as fast as he could, and the speed of these two legs was almost as fast as that of four legs.

At this moment, the shouting of the northwest accent sounded along with the neighing of the war horses and the dense sound of horses' hooves. Needless to say, I also know that it must have been Wang Fuchen's cavalry that launched the attack.

Shang Zhixin fled quite quickly, and when Wang Fuchen's cavalry rushed up, he had already run in front of the hundreds of armor soldiers under his command. This allowed him to escape for the time being!

Because Shang Zhixin had already set up a defense outside the Dongguan Urn City in Guangzhou, most of the originally open roads had been blocked by horse guns, leaving only a very narrow passage. If Shang Zhixin had run slower, he would have squeezed into the narrow passage with the hundreds of armor soldiers.

Whether it can be squeezed out or not, that's really hard to say.

But now, he had run through the narrow road before everyone else, and the armor soldiers who were lagging behind blocked the way of Wang Fuchen's cavalry charge.

Shang Zhixin, who escaped the catastrophe, looked back behind him before entering the small gate on the left side of Dongguan, only to see hundreds of armor soldiers crowded in front of the narrow passage, forming a strong wall, no matter how Wang Fuchen's cavalry was, it could not break through for a while.

The sounds of killing, swearing, cries, and flintlock pistol fire rang out.

And the soldiers who were originally lying in the secret passage opened at the heel of the city wall and the hidden soldiers in the cave inside the city wall have already rushed out with shotguns and bows and arrows, as long as they are in position, they can rely on the sheep and horse wall to resist.

The arming of the city wall should have also begun to start.

Shang Zhixin breathed a sigh of relief, strode into the urn city, and just wanted to beckon his men to give orders, but suddenly found that there was silence in the urn city. The knights who had entered the city before him didn't know who had dragged them off their horses and knelt in a row inside the urn city!

Shang Zhixin immediately realized that something was wrong, and just wanted to turn around and leave, when there was a "bang", and a fence gate (jack gate) fell, blocking the exit of the left small door.

At this time, Shang Zhixin couldn't get out, so he had to open his throat and shout: "What's the matter? Sookyoung! Mr. Liu"

"I answer the father! Don't shout. Your sister is here! ”

Kong Sizhen's voice suddenly sounded.

Shang Zhixin hurriedly turned his head to look, and saw that his sister, who was quite plump and plump, was also tied up with a rope at this time, kneeling on the ground, the rope was still tight, and the mouth was blocked by a piece of cloth, and he was still sobbing there, and a pair of big eyes were full of tears.

There were still two people standing next to Shang Shuying, it was Kong Sizhen and Liu Jinzhong, both of whom had a wicked smile on their faces. There is adultery when you look at it!

"Liu Jinzhong, you, you" Shang Zhixin came up at once, pointed at Liu Jinzhong and scolded, "You shameless person, you are not satisfied with my sister-in-law, and you actually betrayed me and Shuying for the girl surnamed Kong!" ”

"What are you talking about?" Liu Jinzhong glared at Shang Zhixin, "Shang Zhixin, Lao Tzu made it clear to you that Lao Tzu was ordered to arrest you, a thief!" ”

"Ordered?" Shang Zhixin was stunned for a moment, "You, whose order are you?" ”

This has to be asked clearly, now Kangxi's purpose should not be able to control Guangdong, right? And Wu Sangui's purpose should not be!

Liu Jinzhong really took out a small yellow scroll from his arms, held it high, opened his throat and shouted: "By the order of His Royal Highness the King of Da Mingding, the traitor is still happy to be the whole family!" ”

"What?" Shang Zhixin couldn't believe his ears, "King Da Mingding? Zhu, the third prince of Zhu? The surname is Liu, what are you kidding? You said you arrested me on the orders of the third prince of Zhu? ”

"Woo." Shang Shuying, who was gagged, also struggled to scream.

"Don't move! Turn around and clean you up." Liu Jinzhong didn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, so he raised his foot and kicked Shang Shuying, and then said with a heartfelt voice, "This official is ordered by the king!" ”

"Nonsense, the third prince of Zhu died a long time ago, where did you get his order?" Shang Zhixin didn't buy it, and while arguing with Liu Jinzhong, he was looking forward to reinforcements on the walls of Guangzhou City and outside Dongguan.

Delay a little, and maybe his people will come and save him.

Liu Jinzhong laughed and said, "Shang Zhixin, have you forgotten what the origin of this official is?" This official is from the Yongwei battalion of Emperor Yizong of the Ming Dynasty. This official is a personal soldier of the Ming Emperor, and he has seen Emperor Yizong and the young king!

Although this official has not seen the young master for more than 20 years, this official has a very good memory, and he can still recognize it at a glance and can't be wrong! You, still hold your hands down! Come on, take it for me! ”

"Yes!"

(End of chapter)