In Zhangjiakou Fort, Li Xingzhi rode proudly on horseback to inspect. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhangjiabao is not big, and there are not many residents in the fort. The small fort was almost occupied by the merchants of the Jin Dynasty. However, at this time, there were almost no associates in the firm. I heard that Li Xing's soldiers and horses defeated the local army, and all the people in the major businesses escaped.

The recruits of the trap regiment searched courtyard by yard and soon seized a large amount of supplies.

"Second general, the Jin family's business has seized 4,000 stones of rice, 3,000 catties of saltpeter, and 4,000 catties of sulfur."

Li Xing was interested and said, "Go and see." ”

Entering the courtyard of the Jin family, Li Xing saw a warehouse full of grain, all of which were good new rice. If these rice are transported to Liaodong, I don't know how many tartars will have to be fed.

However, Li Xing was most interested in those saltpeters. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of the Tiger Army, more and more saltpeter gunpowder has been consumed, and the price of saltpeter in Tianjin has become higher and higher. All the purchase channels of the original merchants gradually could not meet the training needs of the Tiger Army. Especially after last year's Tiger Army's large-scale expansion, Tianjin's saltpeter appeared in a situation where money could not buy it.

In order to obtain saltpeter, Li Zhi had to organize a caravan to the south to purchase it. However, there were thieves in Henan, and the gentry of Nanzhili were hostile to Li Zhi, and the caravans that went out to purchase were in difficulty, and the harvest was not large.

I didn't expect to be able to get saltpeter in Zhangjiakou.

Li Xing walked up to the jar of saltpeter, took out some powder, and walked out.

"Find a place with fire!"

The soldiers searched around and found a house where they lit firewood. Li Xing walked up to the firewood, took out some saltpeter powder and threw it on the fire. Only a boom was heard, and a purple glow appeared on the flames.

Li Xing took out some charcoal and threw saltpeter powder onto the red-hot charcoal, and the charcoal suddenly erupted into flames in all directions, burning violently like a deflagration.

Li Xing scolded: "The thief kills talents, this saltpeter is even better than the saltpeter we use in Tianjin, these Jin merchants can really be killed." ”

Li Xing was cursing there, but saw a personal guard running in: "Second general, two cannons were found in the Fan family's warehouse. ”

Li Xing was stunned.

"And the cannon?"

The guard nodded, and walked with Li Xing towards the Fan family's business. Entering the gate of the magnificent compound, entering the storehouse, turning around, I saw two huge bronze cannons behind a pile of rice.

The cannon weighed three or four thousand pounds, was eight or nine feet long, and was equipped with a well-equipped gun carriage. The Hongyi cannon cast by the Ming Dynasty does not have this kind of gun carriage, which is probably a bronze cannon cast by the Macao or the Dutch.

Li Xing secretly said that the hands and eyes of these Jin merchants really want to reach the sky.

"These Jin merchants can be cut with a thousand knives one by one."

After a while, another soldier came to report: "Two hundred fine Liaodong mink skins have been found!" ”

Li Xing was interested again, clapped his hands and said, "Go and see!" ”

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In Datong City, there is a hustle and bustle, chickens and dogs barking.

The other Jin merchants didn't expect the Wang family to actually put Li Zhi's soldiers and horses into the city, and they all went crazy and cursed desperately.

There was only one batch of goods stored in Zhangjiakou Fort, and the value was limited, so the Jin merchants abandoned the city and ran away. The place where the Jin merchants really stored a large amount of goods was still a big city like Datong.

Of course, Wang Pu's Datong royal family is the most powerful in Datong City, but in addition, there are Liang family, Tian family, Zhai family, and Huang family. These firms are the de facto masters of Shanxi, who have been trading in Datong for hundreds of years, and I don't know how much money they have hidden in the city. At this time, Li Zhi's soldiers and horses suddenly rushed in, and the men and horses of these merchant houses were unwilling to hand over their goods and goods, and they resisted stubbornly behind the courtyard gate with their families.

Several battalions of local soldiers and horses in the city were also unwilling to admit defeat, and were ready to fight with the Tiger Ben army in the streets and alleys.

According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the general army has no jurisdiction over other soldiers and horses in peacetime, and only has the power of moderation in wartime. On weekdays, the generals and guerrillas of these battalions did not listen to the general soldier Wang Pu. Instead, they married and formed alliances with other Jin merchant families for a long time, became the men and horses of those Jin merchants, and fought against the Wang family in Datong City.

So seeing that Wang Pu put Zheng Kaicheng's army, which numbered only 5,000 people, into the city, these local battalions were ready to fight with Zheng Kaicheng's army.

But in front of the Breakers armed to the teeth, these people are not a problem.

Gunfire rang out all over the city. It crackled like a firecracker during the Chinese New Year, and it rang non-stop.

Zheng Kaicheng was riding on a horse and was walking towards the Tian family's merchant house, but saw thousands of local battalion soldiers rushing over on the road in front of him.

The battalion soldiers were ragged and armed with rudimentary weapons. But under the supervision of the Jiading team, these battalions continued to advance. Walking three hundred steps in front of the Breaker, the battalion soldiers raised their spears and broadswords in their hands and rushed towards the Breaker.

"Kill!"

"Kill these Tianjin people!"

The soldiers of the Broken Division simply listed three rows of salvo formations. The street was only about ten meters wide, but the soldiers of the Breaker Division had more than 90 people in three rows of round firing formations. When the soldiers of the Datong battalion on the street rushed to within 200 meters, the soldiers of the Broken Division opened fire.

The sound of crackling gunfire, like the sound of popping beans, constantly rang out in the streets. The battalion soldiers who rushed over were like straw cut by a sickle, and they screamed one after another. They spewed blood arrows or blood mist and fell to the ground, twitching and groaning on the not-so-tidy ground.

The three rows of the Breaker Division's round firing array fired at the front every five seconds, and after the three rows of rounds, dozens of corpses had fallen on the streets in front of them, and rivers of blood flowed.

But the round doesn't end there, it continues. The first row of soldiers who crouched down to reload was quickly reloaded—in fact, for these veterans, the use of smokeless gunpowder meant that they did not need to be reloaded, and they only needed twelve or three seconds to reload.

The soldiers in the first row stood up again and fired at the Datong battalion soldiers in front. More than a dozen people fell screaming, bleeding all over the ground.

Only then did the battalion soldiers understand the power of these Tiger Army soldiers - the dense formation of the Tiger Army on this narrow street was extremely difficult to break through, because each Tiger Army soldier only occupied a gap of half a meter, and the density of firepower was too high. The battalion men rushed forward desperately, and the people behind had not yet rushed a few steps forward before they fell.

Such casualties were not something that the local army could bear, and more than a thousand people lost their fighting spirit and fled with a cry.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Broken Prisoner Division no longer bothered with those shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and walked in front of the Tian family's business.

The business is built very magnificently, the heavy eaves gatehouse outside is carved beams and painted buildings, and there are two stone lions carved in white marble at the door. Zheng Kaicheng was looking at the gatehouse, but saw that five sturdy family members suddenly stood on the courtyard walls on both sides of the gate. These family members held bows and arrows, and bent their bows to shoot at Zheng Kaicheng.

"Be careful!"

Zheng Kaicheng's two guards slammed Zheng Kaicheng to the ground.