Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 765 Whose Home Field 1
Zhangzhou is a famous city in Fujian. It is surrounded by mountains and the sea, just across the border from Xiamen and across the sea from Taiwan. It can be said to be a strategic location for military strategists.Zheng Zhilong cleaned himself up, worked hard to run Xiamen, and made Xiamen his base camp in Fujian. Of course, he would not ignore such an important place as Zhangzhou.As early as a few years ago, he sent his adopted son Zheng Biao to lead thousands of elite soldiers to guard Zhangzhou. Zheng Biao spent a lot of money in Zhangzhou to attract refugees and recruit bandits and pirates. An army of 2 people.It is not known how well this army is capable of fighting. Anyway, it is not bad at harming the people. The people of Zhangzhou made them suffer enough. If an army composed of bandits and refugees is not strictly disciplined, it will be destructive. It was very scary. It was commonplace to rob homes and houses and rob civilian girls.Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong was stronger than Zuo Liangyu after all. With him around, Zheng Biao didn't dare to be too presumptuous, and would restrain his subordinates to some extent.

After receiving Zheng Zhilong's order, Zheng Biao curled his lips and said to his confidant General Wang Bin: "My foster father is too cautious! From Guangzhou to Zhangzhou, those black men ran more than 1000 miles in one go, and they were exhausted. Our army is waiting for work, and one of them can defeat five of them. The few men and horses are not enough for us to eat for one meal, so why send Shi Daxuan and Shi Fu over again? It is simply unnecessary!"

Wang Bin was convinced: "Yes, it is more than enough to use 2 people to beat those black skins. Sending another 2 people, wouldn't that add to the chaos?"

Zheng Biao snorted: "It's obvious that you can't trust me!" He pinched his chin and stared at the map, and asked, "Where are all those black skins?"

Wang Bin searched on the map for a long time and finally found the location of the Heluo New Army: "They are only forty miles away from Zhangzhou City!"

Zheng Biao snorted again: "They ran so fast, why are they in such a hurry to come here?" He slapped the table and shouted: "We won't wait for Shi Fu and Shi Daxuan! Wang Bin, send cavalry to stare at them and find out who they are. Where they are camping, tonight we will sneak out of the city with [-] elite soldiers, and catch them by surprise!"

Wang Bin's eyes lit up: "Steal the camp?"

Zheng Biao said proudly: "Yes, stealing the camp! They must have been exhausted after walking such a long distance. At night, they slept like pigs. As long as we deal with the sentries, we can enter their camp. Cut off their necks like killing chickens and kill them one by one in the tent, when Shi Fu and the others arrive, we have already settled the battle!"

Wang Bin sighed in admiration: "The general is really clever. In this way, it will be difficult for those black skins to survive. The last general will arrange it!"

Zheng Biao said: "Hurry up and do a good job. Whether I can show my face in front of my adoptive father depends on this one time!"

Wang Bin immediately went down to make arrangements, scattered all the more than 1000 cavalry in Zhangzhou City, and at the same time selected elite soldiers to prepare for a night attack.More than half of Zhangzhou's 6000 defenders are desperadoes. After hearing the news, they signed up enthusiastically, and even fought for the quota... The new Heluo army came from afar, exhausted. Oh, this kind of credit is almost like a free gift, and those who don't sign up are fools! The [-] people were quickly recruited, and Zheng Biao took out wine and meat to let everyone have a full meal, recharge their batteries, and prepare to kill at night.

All the arrangements are decent, and the morale of the defenders in Zhangzhou is also high. It seems that the classic passage that has been repeated N times in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will be repeated under the city of Zhangzhou.

However, the Heluo new army does not seem to intend to follow the script they wrote.

When it was still forty miles away from Zhangzhou, Han Peng ordered the army to slow down and waited for the artillery and supply troops behind to catch up.Since it was necessary to leave a mobile force in Guangdong to prevent the Zheng family from bypassing him by sea and going straight to Guangzhou, Han Peng put most of his cavalry in Guangdong. Now he only has five hundred cavalry in his hands. It can be regarded as the most disparity in the proportion of infantry and cavalry in the history of the Heluo New Army.However, these five hundred hunters were all carefully selected from the Mongolian knights. Each of them was skilled in bowing and horseback riding. The rifled flintlock gun shoots every shot within 50 meters, which is a rare soldier Han Peng painstakingly cultivated.Now the Fifty Cavalry Team of Chaser cavalry spread out and began to cover the battlefield.

Jiang Zheng was leading a team of hunting cavalry, galloping along the post road. Looking at his momentum, it didn't look like he was fighting, but more like a lion patrolling his territory.

Fujian is hot and rainy in June. Even if I don’t do anything, I will sweat non-stop. The clothes will get soaked quickly and stick to my body, which is very uncomfortable.But Jiang Zheng didn't care about this, and even enjoyed it a little bit.He has been Yang Menglong's personal soldier for the past few years, and Yang Menglong refused many times to lead troops to fight. The reason is that he is the only seedling of the Jiang family and has no heirs. Never!He was one of the first group of people to follow Yang Menglong. He watched Xue Siming, Han Peng and others who were later than him step up and become the only generals, while he was still just a small personal soldier. Jiang Zheng was naturally very uncomfortable. .Fortunately, now that he has a family and a career, and has a precious son, Yang Menglong has no reason not to let him go to the army. In addition, now that the army is expanding one after another, the speed of training officers cannot keep up. It is logical for them to be soldiers Being put into the legion, I finally don't have to look at my colleagues making great achievements and making small achievements, rocketing up and being jealous.Jiang Zheng swore in his heart that he must seize this rare opportunity to make contributions and make his family shine!

He soon discovered the traces of enemy cavalry activities. Humph, it seems that Zheng's army is not stupid. They also know to send cavalry out for search and warning, instead of huddled in Zhangzhou City and crouching in defense waiting to be attacked. Beating... But it's of no use. These pirates can only use cavalry so much. Don't expect them to use cavalry to create any beautiful tactical coordination.Their routine patrols and searches, when they bump into the Heluo New Army cavalry with green eyes looking forward to taking their heads in exchange for credit, are no different from giving away their heads - in the villages, woods, and hillsides in the distance Even the gunshots and explosions that came from the fields from time to time showed that the chasseurs were beating up these desperate enemy rangers and were happy to accept the heads and war horses that were delivered to them.

Jiang Zheng did not participate in this carnival. He did not care about those small characters. If he wanted to play, he would play with a big one and kill a big shot like a deputy general or a general!
"Master Jiang, there is movement!" His deputy, the Mongolian man Tuman suddenly pointed forward and said in a low voice.

Jiang was looking in the direction he pointed, and sure enough he saw a puff of smoke rising high, and the faint sound of dense hoofbeats rolling towards this side. Needless to say, it was a large-scale cavalry force, at least as large as the cavalry force. Hundreds of rides!Jiang Zheng looked around and pointed to the canal a hundred meters away: "Let's go up!"

The entire squadron immediately changed from the rear to the front and galloped towards the canal dam.The main body of the dam is actually a slope, and it was easy to climb up, and then let the horse lie down, and everyone lay down and stared down.

Two miles away, four or five hundred cavalrymen were galloping on horseback.It's so hard to die, it happened to be driving this way.Jiang Zheng took out his binoculars to carefully identify the flag, yes, it was the Zhangzhou cavalry!And look at the guy who ran at the front with a team of servants... He was so excited that he was trembling all over, he was a lieutenant general!The young master did not run in vain this time, he caught a big fish!

Below the canal, Wang Bin's deputy general Wang Hu led [-] elite cavalry, and while speaking Hokkien greeting the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Heluo New Army, he rushed towards Zhangshutou, where the killing sound was the most intense.This rather brave general was in a very depressed mood. In order to cooperate with Zheng Biao's night attack, he sent out half of the cavalry under his command to conduct reconnaissance, search, and harassment, trying to put pressure on the Heluo new army, forcing them to stop and set up camp. Otherwise, it would be troublesome for them to rush to the city of Zhangzhou in a rush.Ordinarily, there was nothing wrong with his command, but the hell is that the cavalry of the Heluo New Army is obviously only half of his, and to cover such a large battlefield, it should be stretched and restrained everywhere, but the rangers he sent out kept coming. Bad news back: we're under attack by black cavalry!We are attacked by black cavalry!We are attacked by black cavalry again!We were once again attacked by black cavalry... Those who can send back bad news are very lucky. After two tribes went out, they disappeared without a word!The Zhangzhou defenders who were fighting at home were attacked everywhere, and the cavalry of the Heluo New Army who were fighting away were like ducks in water, beating up the enemy without a trace. Damn, whose home field is it?
Bad news came just now: more than 100 cavalry were surrounded by cavalry hunters from the Heluo New Army in Zhangshutou Town, and they were in danger!Don't mention Wang Hu's anger, but those who are surrounded are all his subordinates, no matter how angry he is, he has to rescue him, so he has to bring all the troops he can mobilize to come to the rescue, he can't just watch his brother being killed Easy to eat right?Depressed, Deputy General Wang yelled at his subordinates: "Speed ​​up and get to Zhangshutou as soon as possible. When I catch those black skins, I will hang them on the tree and peel them. I will let them know what will happen to me if I provoke Lord Tiger!"

A group of cavalry shouted: "It's too convenient for them to peel and cramp. It's better to put them in the madai and throw them into the lime pond, and boil them with lime to make them smash!"

"Cut off their heads for chamber pots!"

"Tie them up and drag them into mud!"

Wang Hu widened his eyes and shouted: "Shut up! Just because you have a fierce mouth, you are really capable if you meet those black skins and dare to rush up and kill them all! You have to kill me, you know? But Don't yell fiercely, if you are going to die, you will have diarrhea immediately!"

The cavalry said with a smile: "How can it be, brother, although we are not as brave and invincible as you, we are not cowards. Brother, you let us fight wherever you want us to fight. If you let us charge, we will never fight." They will back off!" They patted their chests one by one, talking big words in a competition, but the idea in their hearts was: I heard that those black cavalrymen only had a team of four to fifty people at most, and we have hundreds of people, ten times their number. I'm afraid they'll run away in fright before they even meet each other, and they're sure to win without a fight!

The ideal is full, but the reality is as thin as a stick.

When encountering an enemy ten times larger than oneself, as long as it is a normal person, the first reaction is to retreat, but the problem is that people are not normal after being on the battlefield for a long time... When they approached the canal, Jiang Zheng yelled: "Get ready to shoot!" The yell was like a thunderbolt, shaking the cavalrymen who were talking and laughing. A row of soldiers in black, black helmets, black combat uniforms, and black breastplates, isn't it the Heluo New Army?The most terrible thing is that these black-clothed soldiers each have a musket, and the black muzzles are pointing at them...

Wang Hu was dumbfounded. These knights in black were only around 400 people to death, and there was no terrain to hold on to. How dare they ambush more than [-] of them?My goodness, are they not sick?Don't these Yankees have the same brain circuits as them?The corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and he was about to imitate a certain general in "The Romance of the Triangle" and laughed wildly, taunting the group of overwhelmed opponents, when he suddenly heard another loud shout: "Shoot!"

Bang bang bang!

Gunshots sounded like popping beans, scaring away the birds on both sides of the canal. Orange flames shot out from fifty muzzles at the same time, and the barrage swept across, setting off a rain of blood. Big balls of plasma sprayed out from their bodies like an explosion, screaming and rolling into a ball, some unlucky ones were shot in the head, most of their heads were blown apart, and their brains were sprayed out. The terrifying scene made people's liver and gallbladder tear apart!The Zheng's cavalry, who were caught off guard, suffered a heavy blow. With just a volley of guns, they were knocked down by nearly 20 people, and they were in chaos!Wang Hu is the object of the most important care. Of the fifty muskets, at least five or six were aimed at him. He has not practiced the stunt of the Huoyun evil god to catch bullets with his bare hands. Naturally, he cannot escape. After being hit by a bullet, he fell off his horse, and all he could do was twitch.Before he died, he saw that his cavalry was in a mess, and the cavalry of the Heluo New Army on the canal dam put away their muskets, drew their sabers and mounted their horses, rushing down from the dam like a gust of wind , Wield a saber and start killing...

"These Yankees are crazy!" With this thought in mind, Wang Hu pumped the last stream of blood from his chest and closed his eyes.

(End of this chapter)