The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 520 A Great Victory
The distance of 70 meters, for the well-trained soldiers of the Qin Army who were fed with a large number of bullets, was not much different from shooting a fixed target.

The sudden attack caused Zheng Jiajun's first wave of attacking troops to quickly fall into chaos.

Screams, shouts, and cursing courses formed a vivid and real symphony of the battlefield.

Did you say that there are not many enemies?The promised enemy is about to run out of bullets?

At this time, all the soldiers of the Zheng family army had a word in their hearts that they wanted to say.

The soldiers of the Qin army seized the chaos of the Zheng family army, kept shooting, and continued to expand the results of the battle. The casualties of these Zheng family army soldiers, who were like headless flies, were rapidly expanding.

And Zheng Jiajun's weak counterattack couldn't hurt Qin Jun at all, but it was more like emboldening himself.

Moreover, some soldiers of the Zheng family's army turned around and ran down the mountain. Finally, after the officer leading the team beheaded a few deserters, the chaotic situation finally stabilized slowly.

The soldiers of the Zheng family's army lay on the ground and fired at the Qin army's position, but because of their panic, basically all the bullets shot into the sky.

Although the Qin army is at a disadvantage in terms of strength, it is better equipped and has high morale, and the soldiers are generally relaxed.

Coupled with the huge difference in training levels, they still easily controlled the battlefield.

The soldiers of the Zheng family's army seemed to be fighting lively, but they were basically lying in place. Many of them fired their guns without raising their heads, regardless of whether the bullets hit the enemy.

What Zheng Sen saw through the telescope was startled and angry.

What surprised him was that the sudden appearance of troops from the Qin army caught him off guard, and he was so angry that the soldiers he had carefully trained for so long were so vulnerable.

Morale is something that ebbs and flows.

The morale of Zheng's army fell rapidly, while the morale of Qin's army rose even higher.

Under the effect of the addition of morale, the soldiers of the Qin Army shot more accurately and faster.

The soldiers of the Zheng family's army who attacked in the first wave finally retreated. By the time they retreated to the foot of the mountain, they had lost more than half of it.

As soon as Zheng Sen and other defeated soldiers were furious, they ordered the officer who led the team to be pulled down and chopped down, and several soldiers who were disadvantaged in the battle were killed.

Seeing the major general so furious, the rest of the people were silent.

The second wave of Zheng Jiajun soldiers began to attack.

Under the threat of death, this time the leading officer desperately urged the soldiers to charge upwards, so the marching speed was much faster than the first time.

But not surprisingly, this time the attack was still repelled by the Qin army, and the Zheng family army fled in a panic leaving behind corpses all over the place.

The two offensive failures made Zheng Sen even more furious.

He finally decided to put all his eggs in one basket. Except for the troops left to monitor the hill on the left, all the rest of the troops were thrown into the attack.

This battle has been fought to this extent, it is no longer a question of how many people die, but the battle must be won no matter how many people die.

This is not only related to Zheng Sen's face, but also related to his future in the army.

In any case, he couldn't afford to lose this man.

This time, Zheng Sen led his guards to form a supervising team, which was specially guarded at the foot of the mountain.

All soldiers who dared to flee backward were shot and killed immediately.

Under the threat of the supervising team, the soldiers of Zheng's army bit the bullet and charged to the top of the mountain.

Facing the soldiers of the Zheng family army swarming from all over the mountains and plains, the Qin army did not dare to push too much this time, after all, they only had two companies in front of them.

At a distance of two to 300 meters, the soldiers of the Qin Army began to shoot.Under the urging of the officers, Zheng Jiajun bit the bullet and rushed forward regardless of casualties.

Under their desperate charge, they even rushed within 50 meters of the Qin army's position.

This level of progress made Zheng Sen at the foot of the mountain heave a sigh of relief, and this battle finally gave him a turning point.

Regardless of whether the soldiers on the mountain could hear or not, Zheng Sen yelled at the top of his voice, urging them to continue charging and strive to take down the mountain in one go.

Under the stimulation of victory and the threat of the major general, the soldiers of the Zheng family army also burst out with rare morale.

They screamed, held guns, and rushed to the top of the mountain regardless of casualties, which also brought a lot of pressure to the Qin army's position.

At this moment, Zhou Ze could no longer hide his strength, and decisively ordered the artillery company to start shelling.

With a burst of sharp sounds, a string of shells crossed a beautiful curve from behind the mountain, and fell into the dense formation of Zheng's army that was charging.

The violent explosion caused more than a dozen gaps in Zheng Jiajun's dense formation.

Just one round of shelling caused 400 casualties to Zheng Jiajun.

This is not because of the accuracy of the Qin army's fighting, but mainly because of the narrow terrain on the top of the mountain and the large number of Zheng's troops, so when they reached the top of the mountain, due to the terrain restrictions, they naturally gathered together, which made the Qin army's mortars extremely effective. Terrifying effect.

The sudden shelling stunned the soldiers of Zheng's army who were already in sight of victory.

Many people died inexplicably without seeing the shells at all.

But before they could react, the second round of shells roared down from the sky again, setting off a bloodbath once again, with countless broken arms and limbs flying in the air.

An object fell from the sky and landed in the hands of a Zheng Jiajun soldier.He took a closer look, it was a head, or the head of their captain.

The soldier screamed, dropped his head, turned and ran.

After the three rounds of shelling, the morale of the Zheng family's army fell to the bottom in an instant. Many people no longer ignored the threat of the supervisor team behind them, turned around and ran towards the mountain.

And the mortars of the Qin army behind them followed their footsteps, exploding constantly, harvesting their lives.

At the foot of the mountain, Zheng Sen looked at the soldiers running wildly and fleeing all over the mountain, feeling cold and desperate in his heart.

At this time, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into the enemy's trap.

He suddenly felt that all his previous ambitions and ambitions seemed a bit vulnerable in the face of real strength.

I thought that the new army, which I had worked so hard to train for more than half a year, was so vulnerable in front of the enemy, which made all his pride and dignity seem like a joke in an instant.

What made Zheng Sen even more desperate was that when the rout at the foot of the mountain ran away frantically, there were fierce shouts of killing behind him.

A soldier ran over in a panic and shouted: "Major General, the enemy is approaching from behind."

Zheng Sen trembled and almost fell to the ground. He hurriedly leaned his knife on the ground and asked in a trembling voice, "Why did the enemy come from behind? How many of them are there? Have you seen it clearly?"

The soldier shook his head in panic and said: "Many people, many people! Major General, let's run, if we don't run, it will be too late."

The defeated Zheng family army who had just escaped from the mountain heard that the Qin army had surrounded them from behind when they were still in shock.

All of a sudden, they became even more flustered. Although Zheng Sen and all the officers were desperately yelling at them and trying to stabilize the army, their efforts were in vain because the Qin army's ambush had already come from behind.

Zheng Sen's telescope lens was filled with figures in gray military uniforms and big-brimmed hats.

At this time, there was also an earth-shattering shout of killing from the mountain behind him.

Zheng Sen hurriedly turned his head to look, but it was the Qin army stationed on the top of the two mountains that launched a countercharge.

The Zheng family army, who was guarding the surveillance on the left side of the mountain, had already followed the large army and fled.

Hundreds of figures in gray military uniforms charged towards our side from behind.

At this time, there was an interception in front, and there were pursuers in the back. Zheng's army fell into a situation where there was nowhere to escape.

The strange thing is that this encirclement is actually the side with fewer people surrounding the side with more people.

But at this time, the Zheng family's army had no fighting spirit, and the soldiers scattered everywhere. Many people even forgot that the muskets in their hands could kill people.

In order to escape for their lives, many soldiers even threw away the rifles in their hands, panicked, and would go straight in as long as there was no one in front of them, regardless of whether it was a dense forest or a cliff in front of them.

What they want is as long as they can avoid the immediate crisis.

At the same time, Zhou Ze commanded the mortar company on the mountain to temporarily stop firing, and began to move the artillery position forward, and continued to use shelling to aggravate the chaos of Zheng's army.

Cannonballs kept falling into the crowd of Zheng's army, and each round of shelling would take away the lives of a large number of Zheng's soldiers. Broken arms and stumps kept flying up, and scorching blood splattered everywhere from time to time. The entire battlefield was like a Shura field. .

At this time, the front and back of the Qin army also completely blocked the Zheng family army.

The Qin army was encircling and killing in an organized manner, while all the organizational systems of the Zheng family army were in chaos at this time. The soldiers could not find the officers, and the officers could not find the soldiers. Everyone's only idea was to find a way out quickly.

Under such circumstances, the Zheng family army, which originally had an advantage in military strength, was like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered, powerless to resist, and was constantly slaughtered by the Qin army.

Zheng Sen kept yelling and cursing at the beginning, trying to calm down the distraught soldiers.

He hacked to death a broken soldier who ran past his eyes with a single knife. This was already the fifth broken soldier he hacked to death with his own hands.

But it still didn't help, more and more soldiers were routed, and one soldier even fired a shot at an officer who prevented him from escaping.

Zheng Sen watched in despair as the number of soldiers in front of him became less and less, and people kept falling down, his eyes gradually turned bloody.

Seeing the soldiers he personally trained fall down one by one, running away like helpless sheep one by one, while those gray figures are constantly approaching, constantly harvesting the lives of his subordinates, Zheng Sen is finally furious , screamed, fell to the ground and passed out.

And Zheng Sen's guard captain saw that his major general had fainted, and hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, protect the major general to break through and fight a bloody path."

The captain of the guard put Zheng Sen sideways on the saddle, and led a group of guards who had surrounded him, and rushed out desperately towards the southwest.

The battle did not exceed two hours from the beginning to the end. Of the 3000 troops, more than 900 were killed in the end, and four or five hundred escaped without a trace, and the rest were all captured.

The only luck was that Zheng Sen, the chief general of the Zheng family army, escaped under the desperate charge of the guards and did not fall into the hands of the Qin army.

After Zhou Ze led people to inspect the entire battlefield, he ordered to take in and count the prisoners, and at the same time ordered people to clean up the battlefield.

Although these muskets of the Zheng family army are not as advanced as those of the Qin army, they can also be used to equip the second-line troops, so they must be recycled.

As for other armored flags and the like, Qin Jun didn't like them.

However, flags and the like can be used to report merit, and they are also useful.

As for the escape of Zheng Sen, the leader of the Zheng family army, Zhou Ze didn't take it to heart.

On the contrary, from another perspective, it was a good thing for Qin Jun that Zheng Sen fled back.

Because Zhou Ze believes that after this battle, Zheng Sen will definitely have a psychological shadow on Qin Jun.

If he leads troops to fight against the Qin army in the future, he will already be afraid of the Qin army before the battle begins.

It is obviously impossible to expect such a general to win the battle.

There were too many prisoners captured this time, and the second regiment only had more than 1000 people, and there were not so many people to guard the prisoners.

However, the commander of the first battalion, who was in charge of counting and interrogating the prisoners, came up with a good way to make all the prisoners take off their clothes.

Then tie each other with their own waistbands, so that they won't be afraid of running away, anyway, the weather is still hot now, so it doesn't matter if they have naked bottoms.

As a result, more than 1000 big men with shrunken expressions and bare buttocks appeared on the battlefield, which caused the soldiers of the Qin Army to laugh endlessly.

Zhou Ze also shook his head when he saw it, but he had to admit that this was indeed a good way. These captives were strung together, and only a very small force was needed to keep them under control.

"Captain, Commander, we almost caught a big fish this time." Old Liang, the lieutenant captain of the reconnaissance squadron, ran over excitedly and said to Zhou Ze.

What big fish?Zhou Ze asked subconsciously, but immediately asked, "Could it be that the guy who ran away has an unusual identity?"

The captain of the investigation, Old Liang, nodded sharply and said: "We interrogated the captive just now. It turned out that the guy who escaped turned out to be Zheng Zhilong, the eldest son of that old man named Zheng Sen, and I heard that this army was trained under the guidance of the British. Half a year. Originally, I thought that this sneak attack on Wenzhou would catch us all by surprise, but I didn’t expect that after the first battle, the whole family would be reimbursed. This kid probably won’t be beaten to death by his father when he goes back, but he will die of anger.”

Zhou Ze was a little surprised by Lao Liang's gloating face. He didn't expect Zheng Zhilong's eldest son to lead the team this time.

But what he cared about was not Zheng Sen's identity, but the other information in Lao Liang's words just now.

These men and horses were indeed trained by the British. It seemed that the Zheng Jiajun had really put all their eggs in one basket this time.

After Zhou Ze said something, he suddenly remembered something and asked in a deep voice: "Bring some prisoners here, I want to question you."

Soon the investigation captain Lao Liang brought a few prisoners over.

Seeing those captives with shrunken and frightened expressions, Zhou Ze smiled gently.

Looking at the baby-faced, bookish enemy officer in front of them, the prisoners couldn't help but relax a lot from their nervousness.

Seeing the prisoners relax, Zhou Ze smiled and said, "Don't worry, our army never kills prisoners. I have a few questions to ask you now. Answers are good, nothing is wrong. But if you don't cooperate well , then I can only pull you out and shoot, after all, there are so many people behind."

Under Zhou Ze's threat of sticks and carrots, these captive soldiers told Zhou Ze everything they knew.

After the prisoner was taken down, Zhou Ze stroked his chin and began to think.

As conjectured before the war, the reason why the Zheng family's army dared to take the risk to attack Wenzhou this time was not only due to Zheng Sen's ambition, but also to the British.

Sure enough, it was because the British announced that their reinforcements were about to arrive in Zhongzhou, so Zheng Sen would take the risk to attack Wenzhou under the stimulation of such conditions.

Zhou Ze's head has been turning very quickly.He suddenly thought that since Zheng Sen was able to attack Wenzhou, he could also attack them backhand.

So come and don't be indecent, Qin Jun has always only taken advantage of others, and taking the initiative to be beaten is definitely not Qin Jun's style.

Since the Zheng family's army dared to provoke the Qin army this time, it must pay the due price. This price cannot be repaid by the destruction of a small team of 3000 people.

(End of this chapter)