Chapter 21: Takasaki's Victory

No, how did dozens of pikemen come out in a neat row? Shi Lang felt very strange, didn't he come to greet Master Wang, how could a team of nearly 100 people come out wearing heavy armor and holding long weapons.

Before the Qing soldiers understood what was going on, they only heard a "kill", and more than a dozen chaotic Ming soldiers in front of them were armed with machetes and axes, and rushed over with two wings. In the middle, a team of square formations wearing heavy armor and spears like a forest were revealed, and they smashed straight from the middle lane.

The stragglers of the Ming army armed with swords and axes on both sides slaughtered into the enemy group, and there was a burst of swords and swords, and many Qing soldiers fell.

The square team of the Ming army marching in the middle collided with the Qing soldiers, the spear was flat, and the front was stabbed out obliquely, like the core of a poisonous snake spitting out, and the lives of more than 20 Qing soldiers were harvested in an instant.

Before the Qing soldiers could react, the pikemen had already ploughed a flesh alley in the chaotic crowd of Qing troops, and wherever the spears went, the Qing soldiers fell one after another, and the pikemen in heavy armor stepped on the corpses, arranging a neat formation to harvest life.

"Turn left, kill!" Luo Xiang, the pikemen's officer, roared.

Luo Xiang is the youngest son of a craftsman, and their family was originally from Beizhili. The Qing army entered the customs and abolished the artisan household system, which was originally a popular thing for artisan households, but the craftsmen found that although there was one less internal official eunuch above their heads, there were more Eight Banner Lords, and their lives were not improved at all compared to before. It's nothing, and the Chinese people are used to it. But a shaved hair and easy to wear made many people leave their homes, flee the Qing court-controlled areas, and flee to the south. Luo Xiang's father dragged his family to the south, fled all the way, and finally came to Xiamen Island, where several of his elder brothers joined the Zheng family's army. Some time ago, Wang Xinyu recruited new recruits, and Luo Xiang did not hesitate to sign up for the army. In training, he performed best and was promoted to a team officer.

The pikemen turned in a neat direction and continued to carve out a bloody path through the crowd of Qing troops.

The Qing troops in front had no armor, the Qing soldiers in the back had just gone ashore, and the armor carried down from the small boat behind had just come ashore, and it was too late to put it on. In order to avoid drowning when taking a boat, or falling and not being able to get up when wading on the beach, the Qing soldiers who took the boat did not have heavy armor on their bodies, and they all waited for the shore to wear them.

On the sea, four Ming warships opened fire constantly, and a large number of small boats were blown to pieces or sunk. The Qing soldiers on the boat jumped into the sea one after another, wading towards the beach, thinking that as long as they rushed to the beach, they could avoid the deadly artillery fire from the sea.

The Qing soldiers who came up from behind pushed and shoved the Qing soldiers in front, and kept pouring forward, and thousands of people were huddled together on the narrow beach.

The pikemen smashed into the enemy group, like a sharp steel knife, cutting back and forth in the middle of the tofu block, and the crowded and chaotic Qing soldiers could not form a formation to resist.

Standing behind the female wall above the beach, the bird soldier stretched out rows of gun barrels and pulled the trigger on the dense Qing soldiers on the beach.

There is no need for someone to command at all, the Qing soldiers on the beach are so dense that the bird soldiers do not need to aim at all, and they can penetrate two or three unarmored Qing soldiers with a single shot.

The white smoke was filled, and the modified gunpowder pushed the projectile, bursting out with great power, and the bullet hit the ** without any protection, splashing a burst of blood mist.

A Qing soldier tried to climb the women's wall, but was cut down by the sword soldiers next to the bird soldiers.

In the camp of the Ming army, Ming troops rushed out one after another. Armed with swords and axes, Ming soldiers rushed out of the gate and slaughtered towards the beach, following behind the invincible square array of pikemen, slashing and slashing the chaotic Qing soldiers. Archers and bird-bearers stand on the women's wall high behind the beach and shoot condescendingly, shooting arrows and projectiles into the dense crowd. There were even people who loaded the tiger squat cannon with shotguns, aimed at the dense crowd of Qing soldiers, and lit the fuse.

The Qing soldiers who went ashore in the back finally discovered the changes in front, and some of the Qing soldiers who were eager to make meritorious contributions squeezed forward, but most of the Qing soldiers waited for the armor sent from behind.

A Qing soldier brandished a big sword and shouted: "Go! Hurry up! ”

There is no armor on his body, and rushing up is not to die? Many Qing soldiers did not dare to step forward at all. Seeing the Qing soldiers behind them carrying armor and wading through the water with difficulty, someone anxiously urged: "Hurry up!" Hurry up and come up to Lao Tzu! ”

More and more Ming troops came out of the barracks, and even auxiliaries without armor rushed out with various weapons. After these Ming troops saw Chen Peng hang the green flag, they all thought that the battle would be lost, but they were unwilling to surrender to the Qing army, so they spontaneously organized themselves and launched a suicidal counterattack against the Qing army under the leadership of Chen Python.

The soldiers of the Ming army with the heart of death rushed forward desperately, slashing and stabbing guns, completely with the idea of desperately killing one to make money, and desperately killing two to earn one.

The shouting of killing shook the sky, and the Ming soldiers stared at the blood-red eyes, and cut down the Qing soldiers one by one like crazy.

More and more people joined the battle, flesh and blood flew on the beach, and a large number of Qing soldiers were killed before they could organize effective resistance.

In the position of the female wall of the high platform, the Ming army was condescending, using bows and arrows, birds, and stones to kill and injure a large number of Qing soldiers on the beach below, even if some Qing soldiers barely climbed up, they were also cut down by the crazy Ming army.

Accompanying those archers and bird-slings to attack the Qing army was actually Feng Xifan and several of Chen Jinnan's personal soldiers, who were also fighting bravely to kill the enemy. It turned out that Feng Xifan was not dead, he had long felt that there was something wrong with the master, and when he took the second glass of wine, he blocked it with his sleeve and secretly poured the wine into his cuff. Then pretending to be in pain, the master was really fooled and told everything. Feng Xifan hacked his master to death with a knife and killed Chen Peng's henchmen, he originally wanted to enter the camp to launch the Ming army to block the enemy, but he saw that the green flag had been raised in the camp. Feng Xifan didn't dare to rush to find trouble with Chen Peng, but secretly took a few people to hide in the middle of the Ming army, originally planning that when Chen Peng led the Qing army to attack, they attacked Chen Peng and killed this rebel general in one fell swoop. But now there is no need, Chen Peng's officers and soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy, and Feng Xifan and several people also joined the battle.

The Qing army fought all the way from the north to the south, which can be said to be arrogant. But the horizontal people were afraid that they would not die, and when they encountered a group of madmen who did not want to die, the Qing soldiers who did not even have armor on their bodies suddenly became a mess. Coupled with a group of organized pikemen rushing back and forth in the crowd, the Qing soldiers were even more frightened.

The Qing soldiers in front retreated like the sea at low tide, pushing the Qing soldiers behind and squeezing the people behind into the sea.

Some of the Qing soldiers who moved faster had already put on thick armor, but before they could attack, the Qing soldiers who retreated in front squeezed those Qing soldiers who had already put on heavy armor back into the sea. Many heavily armored soldiers were pushed by the people in front of them, and as soon as they fell into the seawater, they could no longer stand up, and the heavy armor on their bodies became heavier after penetrating the seawater, and they drowned alive in the sea less than three feet deep.

The most elite Eight Banners cavalry was well protected by the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion when they were at sea, and they were not attacked by the Ming warships and did not die in any battles. Now more than 800 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners have disembarked, and the clothed minions behind them are leading the horses and preparing to wade on the beach.

However, the crowd in front of them was crowded, and the cavalry of the Eight Banners did not even have time to put on their armor, nor could they get on their horses, and even the bows and arrows were wrapped in oilcloth to prevent the bowstrings from losing their effect when exposed to water. The Eight Banners cavalry in this state was unable to display their combat effectiveness at all, and they were squeezed back into the sea by the defeated soldiers in front.

"Defeated! Defeated," someone shouted.

"Get on board!" The Qing soldiers, who were still in the sea, scrambled to climb towards the boat.

The Ming army, which was already holding the heart of death, saw that the Qing soldiers, who were much more numerous than themselves, actually began to rout, and their morale was suddenly greatly boosted, and they entered the enemy group one by one. And the morale of the Qing soldiers was extremely low, some of them were parrying and squeezing backwards, and some simply threw away their weapons and turned around and fled into the sea. At this time, those Qing soldiers who had already put on their armor were the most unlucky, and they were squeezed into the sea one after another, and they could not get up again.

"Get out of the way, let the master get on the boat first!" A cloaked minion shouted at the Green Battalion soldiers who rushed over to fight his master for the boat. At this time, his master was not far in front, with no armor on his body, even his helmet had fallen into the sea, and the money rattail whip on his head was scattered, wet by the sea, which looked very funny.

The rebels surrounded the Eight Banners, blocking his escape to the ship.

The clothed servant was in a hurry, drew his knife, and cut off the heads of several green battalion soldiers one after another.

But more people rushed over, and the clothed slave was pushed down by the rebels, and he fell on his back in the sea, and countless feet stepped on him, so that he could not get up from the sea at all.

The coated servant had already drunk several mouthfuls of seawater, salty and bitter seawater poured into his mouth and nose, choking into his trachea, and the coated servant felt that his eyes could not be opened, and he fell on his back in the seawater, and the seawater that kept pouring into his lungs from his mouth and nose made him unable to breathe, he struggled to stand up, but he stepped on more and more feet on his body, and his consciousness gradually disappeared, so he drowned on the side of the boat.

The green battalion soldiers crowded onto the boat one after another, and the poor Eight Banners soldiers in the sea were pushed by the rebels, and they couldn't stand steadily, and a big wave hit, choking on a mouthful of seawater, and then they were pushed down, lying on their stomachs in the water, with countless feet on their backs.

When the Eight Banners struggled to stand up, they were pushed down again. When he stood up again, he saw that the boat full of Green Battalion soldiers had left the shallow water.

"You dog minions! Wait! The Eight Banners shouted hoarsely. But no one paid any attention to him, and the soldiers all around him crowded him into the deep waters.

The Eight Banners soldier finally felt that his feet could not step on the ground, and another wave rushed towards him, and the head of the money rat disappeared from the sea and never surfaced again.

The Green Battalion, which was better water, struggled in the water, desperately swimming towards the boat that was about to leave. But they swam to the front of the boat with great ease, and they were greeted not by a pair of hands, but by a foot, and even by the striking sticks, knives, and barrels of guns.

The boat was already packed, and more people could not come up, or the boat would capsize. The Green Battalion soldiers who got on board first ruthlessly kicked their comrades back into the sea, ignoring their comrades struggling in the water.

Among the more than 800 elites of the Eight Banners who went ashore, more than 300 people were lucky enough to pick up a life under the protection of their clothed minions, and fled back to the capital ship to return to Tong'an. The rest were either killed on the beach, drowned alive in the sea, or shot at sea by Ming warships.

Shi Lang had already fled at this time, and he relied on the advantage of his centipede clipper's fast speed to slip away when he saw that the situation was not good.

The three warships that defected to the enemy did not know where to run when they saw the commander's ship, and when they saw that the Qing army had been defeated, they had long lost their will to fight, and they turned their bows and fled to Tong'an Bay.

"Report to your lord! Shi Lang dog thief ran away! A pro-soldier reported to Wang Xinyu.

"The dog thief ran away, and we can't catch up with the clipper he was on, so let's kill as many tartars in the sea as possible!" Wang Xinyu said.

"Whoa!"

At this time, it was impossible for the Qing army, which had already suffered a heavy defeat, to organize a jumping gang attack, and when they saw the big ships rushing towards them from a distance, they all dodged one after another. In the panic, the small boats of the Qing army collided with each other, and many Qing soldiers fell into the water.

The latter two battleships and one later battleship also joined the attack, following behind the big ship, charging back and forth among the enemy ships, like a male lion leading three lionessess to bite and chase the fleeing antelope herd.

The four warships carried out a one-sided massacre of the fleeing Qing boats. Many boats were knocked over and sunk by them, some were sunk by cannonballs, some were swept away by shotguns, and some boats were shot by bows and arrows and bird guns to kill oarsmen, and the surviving Qing soldiers jumped into the sea to escape from the boats that had lost power.

After receiving the beacon smoke alarm, Weng Tianyu, the commander of the left who came with 500 elite soldiers, originally thought that he was going to face a fierce battle, but he didn't know that they didn't drink a mouthful of soup, and there were only corpses and armor and weapons abandoned by the Qing army on the beach, a large number of surrendered Qing troops knelt on the ground, and there were burning ships and broken wooden planks in the sea in the distance.

The Qing army in Gaoqi had been defeated, and Shi Lang's strange soldiers had been killed by about 2,000 people, and countless more were drowned in the sea, and in the end, less than a third of them fled back to Tong'an.

Weng Tianyou asked his soldiers to take Chen Peng and put him in his big tent.

Seeing Chen Peng, who was escorted in, Weng Tianyou angrily reprimanded: "Chen Peng! King Yanping treats you well, why do you want to betray the prince and betray the Ming Dynasty? ”

"My lord, the sin will be deceived by Shi Lang's thief, and the lard will be blinded for a while, I hope that the sin will not be angry with the subordinates!" Chen Peng replied.

"Chen Peng, do you know how the prince will punish him for defecting to the enemy and treason?" Weng Tianyou asked.

Chen Peng lowered his head, he knew that it was a great crime to exterminate the Nine Clans. Not only did he not get glory and wealth, but even his family had to get in.

Weng Tianyou did an investigation and found that Chen Peng's subordinate Chen Python refused to surrender, and was the first to lead his headquarters to launch a counterattack against the Qing army, and the rest of the Ming army spontaneously organized themselves to kill the enemy without the command of a superior officer, and defeated the Qing army ashore. Among them, the most meritorious one is Luo Xiang's pikemen, and Luo Xiang is an officer under Wang Xinyu.

"What about Wang Yu?" Weng Tianyou asked.

Luo Xiang replied: "Back to my lord, we deceived the chief lord by Chen Peng into the sailor's boat and gave it to the tartars in the north!" However, according to the observation of his subordinates, Chen Pengza's ship has been reversed, and it should be that we killed the thief and recaptured the battleship! The subordinates thought that the one who was now chasing the remnants of the enemy at sea should be our commander-in-chief. ”

Nearly 2,000 of the Ming army of Gaoqi were beheaded, and countless Qing troops drowned in the sea, and a large number of weapons and armor were found on the beach.

But Chen Python and the others did not ask for a reward, but hoped to use their own military exploits to reduce Chen Peng's guilt.

"This matter is very important, the official can't make his own decisions, and he has to wait for the official to report to the prince to decide! But please rest assured, the prince will be lenient as appropriate! Weng Tianyou said. The so-called leniency means that only Chen Peng is beheaded, and his family is not involved.