Chapter 427: The Terrifying "Zhejiang Army" (Page 1/1)

Ma Degong thought for a while, and could only agree with Tian Xiong's statement - this was the Zhejiang army to give himself courage, after all, the Fujian people had defeated Boluo and Azig.

He nodded slightly, "Or maybe the Ming army in Ningbo and Taizhou rushed to help." ”

Wan Xiuhe, a staff general on the side, was puzzled again: "My lord, these Ming troops are very strange, they don't enter the city to hold on, but want to line up outside the city to meet them. ”

Tian Xiong smiled when he heard this: "It must be that Zhang Mingzhen knew that his troops were not strong and he was worried that he would be besieged in the city, so he Chen soldiers were outside the city, so that he could flee to Ningbo immediately when he saw that the situation was wrong." ”

Wan Xiuhe also laughed, "In this way, it saves us a lot of work, and it seems that we can spend the night in the city tonight." ”

"It must be so, haha......"

When Ma Degong rushed to the line between Jianhu and Lingjiang with the Chinese army, looked around at the terrain, and saw the Ming army gathered on the north bank of the Lingjiang River to wait for the battle, he couldn't help but snort coldly, "It's a little clever, so I chose to deploy here." ”

He turned to Tian Xiong and said, "This place is very narrow, but it is not conducive to the development of our army.

"The order was given to the Green Battalion, divided into three formations, each of 6,000 men, to attack the enemy's line of defense with wheel warfare. When the Southern Army is tired, I will break it in one fell swoop with my yellow flag elite! ”

"Subordinates obey!"

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"Lao Tzu worked hard to get the position of this striker." At the front of the Qing army's battle formation, Geng Tianrui shouted at his subordinates, "Look at the back." Zhang Jin and Lu Ruicai's people are all looking forward to us being blocked by the Ming army, and they will go up to grab the battle merits! ”

"Damn, we must not fulfill their wishes!" He pointed to a few thousand general officers beside him, "A few of you are all rushing to the front for Lao Tzu, be sure to kill the enemy formation at one time, and let the surnamed Zhang and the surnamed Lu follow behind to eat soil!"

"When Lao Tzu accumulates merit and is promoted, the benefits are indispensable to you!"

His words were so straightforward that his officers were ready to go. The strongest main force of the Zhejiang army was killed by them in Qingshanling, and when they heard that most of these Ming troops in front of them were the villagers who were brought by Zhang Mingzhen to respond to emergencies, they looked down on them even more, and simply regarded them as low-hanging fruit.

If you can take the lead in rushing into Shaoxing in one go, the valuable things in the city will be the first to loot.

As a low horn whimpered from the direction of the Chinese army, without Geng Tianrui's command, his men and horses immediately pressed towards the defense line of the Dragon Guard Army nearly three miles away.

These 6,000 Qing soldiers opened the way with eight thousand-pound red cannons, followed by more than 3,000 sword-shield and spearmen, and nearly 2,000 bows and gunners were at the end of the battle array. The land near Jianhu Lake was wet and soft, and the battlefield was narrow, which was not conducive to the cavalry galloping, so the cavalry had to dismount as foot soldiers to protect both sides of the battle array.

After rushing to a distance of one and a half miles from the Ming army, Geng Tianrui ordered the gunners in front of the formation to fire.

In fact, this distance was beyond the range of his cannon, but according to his previous experience in fighting with the Ming army, as long as his own cannon sounded, the Ming army would immediately panic. At this time, he approached quickly, and in the middle he attacked with a salvo of guns and cannons, and attacked on both flanks of foot and horseman, and almost never missed.

A continuous roar sounded, and eight heavy iron balls slammed into the Ming army's infantry line more than a hundred paces ahead, and some of the crumbling earth had fallen on the Dragon Guard soldiers.

But they ignored this and stood up straight, except for some of the recruits, whose breath became rapid, but they also gritted their teeth desperately and stared straight ahead. Without the order of the commander, even if the shell falls on the head, it will never move for half a minute, this is the iron discipline that only a modern army can have!

Geng Tianrui was also surprised to see that the enemy formation had not moved at all, but the arrow was already on the string, so he had to order to continue to advance according to the previous tactics.

After walking out of the small half mile, his gunners stopped again, and were about to aim and fire, when they suddenly heard a thunderous roar on both wings of the Ming army's battle formation.

More than 20 six-pounder shells slammed into the battle formation of the captive army, and hundreds of Qing soldiers didn't even have time to snort before they were instantly torn to pieces by the huge impact. A large number of severed limbs and armor wreckage were thrown everywhere, and many bows and guns of the rear team were covered with flesh and blood.

There is no doubt about the level of firing of the artillery of the Dragon Guard, the firepower is accurate and concentrated. Under the cross-firing from both sides, Geng Tianrui's battle formation showed a huge "V" shaped by blood when it was neutral.

Where had these Qing soldiers seen such a terrifying fire bombardment, especially the soldiers of the front team, they only heard a clicking sound in their ears, and turned their heads to see that the person on their side had disappeared. Although only about 100 people died, this huge psychological impact caused the other Qing soldiers to twist their legs and stomachs, and the momentum of the entire impact immediately slowed down.

Geng Tianrui chuckled in his heart, he didn't expect the artillery of the Ming army to be so fierce.

He gritted his molars, let the men and horses of his subordinates scatter into a formation of fish scales, and urged to step up the beating of drums, and strictly ordered his officers to take the lead forward. I only hope that I can rush forward to engage the Ming army before the courage of the soldiers is exhausted, otherwise after a few more rounds of artillery, my morale will definitely collapse, and I will have to disperse without the enemy's fight.

But then the Dragon Guard artillery immediately shattered his delusions with powerful firepower. Every twenty or thirty steps forward for Geng Tianrui's men and horses, the artillery of the Dragon Guard Army was able to complete a salvo.

Although the ranks of the captives were scattered, and only sixty or seventy people could be killed or wounded in each shelling, the courage to rush forward in the face of the deafening roar of cannons and the thick smoke of gunpowder was not possessed by anyone.

A moment later, except for Geng Tianrui's own soldiers and another seven or eight hundred people under General Qian, who approached about 100 steps to the Dragon Guard, the rest had all turned around and fled towards the Qing army's main formation.

Geng Tianrui saw that the Ming army was in front of him, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart - when he rushed into the enemy formation, he would kill a hundred and ten people, and then he would be able to go back and give his hand to Ma Degong, as for this battle feat, he didn't have to think about it.

However, he immediately heard the Ming army shouting in unison, "Aim!" ”

Careless...... The people on the opposite side are definitely not the Zhejiang army! Ma Degong put away the binoculars, his face was pale, Geng Tianrui's 6,000 army was scattered by artillery before it could hit the enemy, and the strength of these Ming troops can be seen.

But he knew that he had to take Shaoxing City as soon as possible to survive, otherwise it was very likely that before Zheng Zhilong could reopen the Qiantang waterway, his men and horses would be trapped to death by the Ming army.

The enemy soldiers are only four or five thousand, and I will pile you to death with a pile of people! He was ruthless in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Order, Zhang Jin and Lu Ruicai's troops will immediately assault the enemy's formation, and if Geng Tianrui's troops retreat, they will immediately cut the battle!" ”

Tian Xiong's heart tightened, Geng Tianrui's men and horses actually didn't die much, at least nearly 4,000 people turned around and fled to the Chinese army, according to the meaning of the general soldier, these people were all killed to make an example?!

He was thinking about it, and he listened to Ma Degong and said: "Tian Xiong, let you personally lead the yellow flag infantry armor to supervise the battle in the back, and anyone who dares to fight cowardly will be killed!" ”

(End of chapter)

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