Zuo Mengeng sat up and shouted, "Then give me a fight back!" The dog-headed military advisor asked, "What are we going to fight back?" "A cannon, of course, what else could it be?" "Oh, I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to sleep, so I didn't order a fight back." Zuo Mengeng kicked the calf of the dog-headed military division: "What kind of military division are you, it's simply mentally retarded, even if we don't fight back, will the sound of artillery disappear?" Hurry up and give the order to fight back! ”

The Qing army's honor guard Jiancheng and the Ming army shot at each other, although the Ming mercenaries' archery skills were exquisite, but Zuo Mengeng's firearms were originally equipped for the 200,000 troops he once had, and now although there are only more than 30,000 people left, the number of artillery has not decreased, and there are still hundreds of large and small artillery, compared with the Ming army, the number is much more.

However, the Ming army still relied on more exquisite archery skills to almost completely destroy the outer Guotu city of Dongguan in Qingzhou, and almost all the buildings in the city were razed to the ground. But he continued to attack Nanyang City, but encountered extremely stubborn resistance. The Qing army had the height of the artillery erection, and had a strong city as a cover, and had a firepower advantage, so that the mercenaries could not do anything for a while. Only every day is a persistent artillery battle with Zuo Mengeng.

As time passed, Li Yuanyin and Zheng Chenggong became more and more anxious, and they found the commander-in-chief of the mercenary army, Gonzalo, Bi Fangji and Pang Tianshou to discuss together, but they still couldn't come up with any decent specific plan, only to make the anxious mood more eager. "In the past few days, the Western army has lost more than 100 gunners in artillery battles with the enemy, and they are all experienced and excellent soldiers."

Gonzalo conveyed his thoughts through Bi Francis's translation, and Pang Tianshou said to Gonzalo: "How can there be immortals on the battlefield? This great war has lasted several years to this day, and our Ming army has lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers, isn't it still moving towards victory step by step? Your Excellency the Commander, don't worry, the pension promised by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be cashed out immediately. ”

Gonzalo said: "Chief Pang, you are a close minister of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, I believe what you say, and the soldiers who died in battle have also received pensions, but I am not talking about this question, but whether it is reasonable for us to fight in this way." On the plains, my 3,000 troops were enough to withstand the assault of 10,000 or 20,000 elite cavalry, but the enemy relied on fortresses and more artillery than us for defense, and our losses were too great. Therefore, I would like to ask you gentlemen to consider whether they can abandon the attack on Qingzhou and continue to use the sea route to advance westward, or to the north to Tianjin, or to attack Liaodong? ”

Zheng Chenggong has always been a quick temper, and he is also the most despised by these white-skinned people in the Ming army. After all, since the time when his father Zheng Zhilong was a pirate, if this group of white people wanted to trade in East Asia, they had to pay protection fees, otherwise they would overturn the ship and people in the sea. As soon as he heard Bi Fangji's translation, Zheng Chenggong immediately slapped the table: "What? The loss of more than 100 dead and injured people is too great, so what kind of bird war is there to fight, isn't it good to simply go back to your home to care for the elderly? Li Yuanyin hurriedly stopped Zheng Chenggong and told him not to get excited, and then said to Gonzalo: "The temper of the country surnamed Ye has always been irritable, please forgive Your Excellency the commander, we also consider your suggestion, especially the attack on Liaodong, it is definitely sticking a knife into the hinterland of Jiannu." But our most important task now is to cooperate with the main army in the decisive battle of the Central Plains, and we cannot threaten Jinan, the stronghold of Jiannu's defense, through the westward advance by sea, so we have no other way but to storm Qingzhou. ”

Gonzalo said, "Marshal Li, I understand your intentions, but I still want to remind Your Excellency that we are only a lone army after all. Shandong is also close to Zhili, Shanxi and Henan, and perhaps reinforcements from the Qing army will arrive soon. If our army cannot win a quick victory, we can only prepare to retreat back to Denglai, so as not to fall into a deeper crisis after the battle situation is unfavorable. ”

Zheng Chenggong jumped up again and shouted: "If you want to retreat, you Westerners have received so much silver one by one, but you refuse to work hard, we have to come by ourselves!" What is a mere Qingzhou city? We've fought even the biggest battles. Bi Fangji did not translate Zheng Chenggong's words to Gonzalo, but said to Zheng Chenggong himself: "Guo surnamed Ye, please forgive me for being presumptuous, although we have different cultures, we are all comrades-in-arms, I hope you will not personally attack us." Western soldiers are also very brave, in our team, there are warriors who defended Laizhou City for nearly half a year during the Wuqiao Mutiny. ”

Zheng Chenggong didn't know about this, he was stunned by Bi Fangji's words, Li Yuanyin didn't want to say it, but Pang Tianshou didn't give Bi Fangji face. "Bi Fangji, you can talk about things, but you can't talk nonsense, there were no Western soldiers in the Laizhou City that Kong Youde besieged back then, but there were really Western soldiers in Dengzhou City that he breached. But God willing, in the end, the army was wiped out. We are all comrades-in-arms, but also Catholics, and we cannot lie to each other. Moreover, the surname of the country is just discussing military affairs with His Excellency the Commander, so let's not mix blindly with the two military laymen. ”

The lie was immediately exposed, Bi Fangji was very embarrassed, but the problem was still unsolved, and at this moment, the outsider said: "Report to the marshal, Dengzhou Yu Qi asks to see you." Li Yuanyin's eyes lit up, and he immediately got up and said, "Please!" With that, he led everyone in the tent to go out of the account and walked to the gate to greet him.

For readers and friends, the seventh master has been absent for a long time. Now he came to the Ming army camp alone to see Li Yuanyin, and Li Yuanyin stretched out his hands to him from afar. The seventh master did not take Li Yuanyin's hands, but gave him a standard military salute. "Oh, hehe, I almost forgot, Brother Lewu is also the general in my Ming Army, the chief officer of Dengzhou, I am fortunate to meet, come and come, we are invited."

Back to the handsome tent, everyone gave up the quarrel and sat down again, Li Yuanyin let Yu Qi sit in the first position on the left hand, Yu Qi felt very sudden, he gave way to Li Yuanyin: "The handsome man is too polite, Yu Qi is just the former Dengzhou general soldier, there are so many adults in the tent, how can someone be the leader?" Li Yuanyin said with a smile: "Brother Lewu listened to me in detail, this is not my Li Yuanyin's overstepping of the courtesy, but that the long-lived Lord has already had a holy decree, and Brother Lewu was named the general of the Beiwei battalion by the saint." It's just that when I received the holy decree, I was told that the Holy Lord wanted you to repair it well. If Brother Lego accepts the appointment, he will also be ordained to you in person when the Holy One sees you. But if Brother Le Wu can take the initiative to come, the Holy One asks that the younger brother read the will in person. What is Brother Lewu's opinion on this appointment? ”