History is always written by someone, and the key depends on what the guy who wrote history is.

"On the day of March 20 in the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, Li Shouhan's right-hand man, the number one executioner who slaughtered the people of my Anjing tribe, Ye Qi, led his gang of robbers, under the strategy of another Li Shouhan's minions, the scum of the Miao people, Wang Bao, brazenly launched an attack on the army led by my ancestors, from this day on, Annan, was trampled under the iron hooves of Li Shouhan, and the people groaned under his rule."

This is Nguyen Phuc Thanh's definition of the Battle of Linh Giang in the stairwell of Lisbon.

That day was destined to become a nightmare for the Ruan family, a nightmare forever!

Looking north from the monocular clairvoyant in Lieutenant Fernandez's hand, soldiers of the South Central Army were advancing one cannon after another into the gun position at the sound of horns and whistles. However, in his eyes, after carefully counting several times, he only saw twelve six-pounder guns and twenty-four Furlong cannons.

"It's fine! It seems that the enemy artillery fire in the north was not as fierce as the legend suggests, and this is confirmed by their artillery figures. ”

However, Lieutenant Fernández had not read Chinese books and did not know that the ancient sages of China had said, "The sharp weapons of the country must not be shown!" "In accordance with the formation of the battalions. The battalion artillery team had four six-pounder guns and eight Franc machine guns. The artillery figures he saw were exactly the guns of these three battalions.

However, what he didn't know was that Ye Qi still had a strengthened artillery team in his hands. There were as many as six eight-pounder guns, six twelve-pounder guns, and four groups of rocket artillery.

In front of the artillery position, it was the bamboo stick array that Ruan Jiajun and Ruan Fuyu had arranged with great effort, and a few days ago, it had been destroyed by Ye Qi with a few straw bags and wooden planks.

Before Ye Qi's camp, bamboo sticks were stepped on with wooden planks and straw bags, and a barrier was paved with a width of thousands of meters. The bamboo sticks that were originally intended to stop the attack of the Nanzhong army turned into a fortification to stop the attack of the Ruan Jiajun.

It's called shooting yourself in the foot!

"It's finally time to do a big job!"

In the large camp of the Nanzhong Army, there were soldiers who had just finished breakfast, nervously sorting out their equipment. The sword and shield soldiers sharpened their knives with whetstones, and the spearmen wrapped and wrapped the white cloth on the stone oak pole to increase the friction of the spear shaft in their hands. A large number of musketeers lined up in front of the baggage officers to receive cartridge ammunition.

Since Li Shouhan replaced his predecessor Li Shouhan, the implementation of the system of division of land, vigorously develop the economy in the jurisdiction, now, in his one acre and three points of land, the land has been reclaimed more than 4 million mu, of which there are more than 2 million mu of paddy fields, the rest of the mostly mountainous, dry land, these lands on average, can reach about three stones per mu per season. Note that this is an average and includes all the newly cultivated farmland. If you count only those that can be harvested normally, this figure will almost quadruple.

According to the standard of 15 taxes and 1 public grain set by Shouhan, the public grain collected almost every season can meet the annual ration consumption of the army, craftsmen, and those officials and slaves and other non-agricultural population, and there is a slight surplus.

A large number of fishing boats trawl in the near and far seas, bringing a large number of fish and shrimp to people and providing rich marine protein; The technology of raising fish and ducks in rice fields not only eliminated the mosquito larvae that may lead to the occurrence of miasma blight, but also provided farmers with fertilizer that could fertilize their fields, and a large number of fish and eggs. Wang Bao's uncle, veterinarian Huang Duo, and his colleagues carried out acts such as plowing pigs and castrations, so that the breeding of these animals can provide people with a large amount of meat and eggs.

The abundant variety of food and the abundant supply made Li Shouhan's army soldiers have oily faces and bulging muscles, which can withstand high-intensity military training.

Inside the tent, Ye Qi and several battalion officers were eating breakfast in the tent. Huang Leiting swallowed loudly while shouting and scolding.

Soon, a bowl of steaming rice noodles covered with red and bright chili peppers was killed by Huang Leiting.

"Lao Huang, you eat less, the commander has already ordered the chief secretaries to prepare a celebratory banquet, and after beating this group of little ghosts in the south, there are good things to eat! Don't always look like a starving ghost reincarnated! Mai Daming next to him chewed a piece of wind chicken in his mouth, and teased his comrades vaguely.

"You don't look better than me!" Huang Lei scolded back, turned around and picked up the big bowl again and began to fight with rice noodles unremittingly.

"Pepper for rice!" Huang Shi'an next to him muttered a vague sentence, and then ate his breakfast in a big gulp.

"Chili pepper has it! You all eat less, don't be caught up in the middle of the war! I don't know who muttered next to me.

The speaker may have no intention, but Ye Qi, who heard this, didn't know why his heart suddenly moved. He put down the big bowl in his hand, motioned for his soldiers to invite the baggage officer, whispered a few words, and then waved his hand to let him go down to prepare.

Coincidentally, the two armies, after a single cannon shot, broke out of the camp gate and formed a formation between the fortifications of both sides.

Looking at the sturdy soldiers under the banners on the opposite side, and then looking at the thin and weak Jing soldiers beside him, Lieutenant Fernandez, whispered in the vernacular of his home to convey this message to his colleagues around him: "If the situation is not good in a while, we will immediately surrender to the Northern Army, hoping that their commander is not only a good officer, but also a knight!" ”

Several Portuguese officers and sergeants who were responsible for operating artillery for Ruan Jiajun around also nodded with stern expressions, and some of them took off their hats with gloomy expressions, "I don't know if we will be able to see our Portugal and break away from damn Spain one day." ”

Ruan Fuyu, who was standing in the war elephant bamboo house, was full of spirits, "Today, I will destroy the northern thieves!" Take the river quietly! The monocular in his hand kept observing the formation of Ye Qi's department in the distance.

Different from the three-fold array commonly used by the Ming army in the impression, the formation of Ye Qi's department seems to be a reversed three-fold array, with dozens of artillery pieces on the front, which seems to be the ones that have been engaged in small-scale artillery battles with the Ruan family army from time to time in the past few days. (In order to hide strength and paralyze opponents, the South Central Army used six-pounder guns.) Bags of earth were used to fill the forts and cover the two-wheeled gun carriages very tightly. Behind the artillery emplacements, there were many wooden barrels neatly piled up, which contained the propellant of the artillery. The gunners stood there with their gear in their hands behind their respective gun emplacements.

About fifteen paces behind the artillery team, a column of flags was planted, which was clearly the dividing line between the artillery team and the infantry team. Judging from the color and pattern of the flag, it should be the troop flag of each unit, the battalion flag of each battalion, the sentry flag of each outpost, and the team flag of each team, all listed here.

Judging from the battalion flags, there were as many as eight infantry battalions in the Nanzhong Army lined up in front of the Ruan Jiajun, and the Chinese Army in the second echelon had three infantry battalions, and two infantry battalions on each flank. The infantry units were lined up according to their respective formations, at the level of A, team, sentry, and battalion, and apart from the sound of the wind blowing from the river and waving the flags, there was hardly any other sound heard on the positions of the South Central Army.

However, what puzzled Ruan Phuc Wei was that in the position of the Central Army of the South Central Army, it was clear that there were not so many troops, only the banners of three infantry battalions, but they occupied almost five infantry battalions. It seems to be extremely large. On the position, there are still many vehicles covered with tarpaulins, and I don't know what they are.

"Strange, why can't you see the general's flag in the army of the northern thieves? Don't they know that they need to configure flags for officials at all levels? ”

Nguyen Phuc was a little strange.

On the opposite side, Ye Qi also looked at Ruan Jiajun on the opposite side with a telescope.

The Ruan Jiajun in the camera, like the armies of the world in this era, put their artillery in the forefront of the infantry, and dozens of artillery pieces, large and small, also looked majestic, but through the past few days, Ye Qi already knew the details of the other party's artillery, and only showed a contemptuous smile at the corner of his mouth.

Behind the artillery, about fifteen odd troops lined up there, ready to fight the Nanzhong army, and with the help of the rattan wielded in the hands of Guan Qi and the officers, the chaotic soldiers of the Ruan family army lined up in odd units, and the triangular recognition flag and the rectangular military flag fluttered in the wind.

Judging from the banner and the number of people, the Ruan family lined up ten odd troops behind the artillery, and the five odd troops served as the escort and reserve of the Chinese army. And in the shadow of the long base, there are also dozens of behemoths lined up there. Ye Qi knew from the soldiers of the Ruan family who came over and the people who escaped that it was another killer weapon of the Ruan family, the war elephant.

Both the Ruan Jiajun and the Nanzhong Army put the main force on the front line and tried to complete the battle. Not only are the formations similar, but also the two sides rely on the rear formations that they think are very solid, and the South Central Army is backed by the big camp, and behind the big camp is the big river crisscrossed by ships; The Ruan family borrowed one from the city and relied on the city to fight with the Nanzhong army in the field.

"Let's get started!"

"Let's get started!"

The commanders of both sides gave the same order almost simultaneously.

On the position of the Nanzhong Army, with an order, the commander of the division waved the order flag in his hand, and ten trumpeters blew the brass trumpet in their hands. Huang Lei, who was directing the gunners to load on the artillery position, grinned and laughed, "Boys, have you eaten enough in the morning?" ”

The surrounding gunners replied in unison, "It's full!" ”

"Then give Lao Tzu a hard beating! Kill the scrap copper and rotten iron on the other side to Lao Tzu! ”

The cannon roared, and hundreds of shells crossed through the air, falling near each other's targets according to their respective trajectory.

Iron balls roared past the Ruan family's artillery positions and rushed into the Ruan family's army formation, and flesh and blood flew in the military formation.

The cannon sounded, and the artillery of the Ruan family immediately discovered the gap between themselves and their counterparts on the opposite side. For the same six-pounder gun, their own guns will hit two miles at most, and they still have to risk the threat of exploding and reload gunpowder. The six-pounder cannon on the opposite side easily sent the shells to the rear of his own military formation, turning dozens of shells into hundreds of people's urging Yama.

Thanks to the nitrification fields and toilet soil, all the artillery of the South Chinese Army now uses millet gunpowder as the propellant. At such a distance, all the artillery guns equipped by the South Central Army were within the effective firing range, and the hit rate was extremely high. The Ruan Jiajun lined up in a battle with Qiwei basic units, this kind of dense military formation, a solid cannonball rushed in, and it was a blur of flesh and blood. However, fortunately, there are not many people in the Ruan family army who are wearing armor all over their bodies, especially those who batch iron armor, if they are wearing iron armor, the armor leaves will become prefabricated fragments under the action of solid bullets, causing more and greater casualties.

After the artillery of the Southern Chinese Army fired a salvo, Huang Leiting proudly ordered the gunners to stop firing temporarily, and he wanted the observers to take advantage of the short time when the smoke cleared to observe the situation of the opponent's position and evaluate the effect of this round of artillery strikes.

In the entire formation of the Ruan family's army, stumps and broken bones could be seen everywhere, and blood was all over the ground. Those skinny Jing soldiers, holding their hands and feet that were taken away by the shells, howled loudly, and the people next to them avoided them like ghosts, such a terrible artillery, their own artillery fire has always been a sharp weapon for self-reliance, but now they find that it is completely useless! There was an immediate commotion in the Ruan Jiajun formation.

Lieutenant Fernández's face was pale, beads of sweat on his forehead wet his sideburns, and he muttered to himself, constantly scratching a cross on his chest, "Virgin Mary." Bless your people, the Virgin Mary! ”

Completely to Fernandez's surprise, the artillery on the opposite side was entirely six-pounder, but it hit so far and so hard that it dealt such a blow to his own soldiers, if those Jing soldiers were barely his comrades.

Behind him, the soldiers who were usually like wolves and tigers had fallen into a state of madness, and people either spun around like headless flies, or seemed to be unaware that the enemy was far away, meaninglessly raising their firearms and shooting at the Nanzhong army opposite, screaming at the same time. Some people cried and fled to the rear.

Several Guan Qi jumped out of the horse and waved the Jedi knife in their hands, and the knife flashed, and more than a dozen soldiers who were running around in despair were cut to the ground. Led by Guan Qi, the leaders of each team also drew their swords one after another to stop their subordinates from scattering.

After a brief period of confusion, the Ruan Jiajun's position calmed down. For this, the Ruan family paid the price of nearly 100 lives.

However, another round of artillery fire from the South Central Army came.

"Your Royal Highness, this will not work!" Lieutenant Fernández yelled eagerly at Nguyen Phuc Thanh, at this time, he had forgotten that he was a guest of the Nguyen family, a hired adviser.

"If the Ming artillery keeps bombarding round by round, then our army will inevitably be destroyed by the Ming people's artillery fire, or it will collapse by itself!"

Ruan Fuyu was also a little at a loss by the endless artillery fire on the opposite side, and in the rumbling cannonball, he felt as if his three souls and seven spirits had been shaken out of his body.

"Then you say, what should our army do?"

"Your Highness, either we will withdraw to the city and hold on, but in this way, we will be surrounded by enemy troops, and the enemy will take advantage of their firepower superiority to suppress us and destroy us! Moreover, in the process of retreat, our army may collapse. ”

"This is a must-have! Is there any other way? ”

"Yes!"

Lieutenant Fernández's eyes were on the rear of the formation.

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