the world is at stake

The Tong family has been doing business in Liaodong for generations, and they know the details of the Nine Frontier Ming Army very well.Daming is equipped with a lot of firearms, but his training is extremely poor, and his hit rate is poor. He often hears the sound after playing for a long time, but no one is killed.

The army in front of them, as if nothing had happened, waited for the Jianzhou army to approach thirty steps before firing steadily.Seeing their own soldiers falling down like a stroke, the Tong family brothers who were watching the battle behind them felt that their eyes were black and they almost fainted.

Be fooled, be fooled.

The opponent's beating was too accurate and too ruthless, the Tong family shouldn't have come at all.

Tong Yangzhen staggered a few steps, remembering that his son was still ahead, he forced himself to stand firm, waved his hands and shouted: "Withdraw, quickly withdraw. The enemy is dangerous, quickly withdraw!"

But at a distance of 240 steps, more than [-] meters, Tong Yangzhen shouted loudly, but his son could not hear him.

Instead, the second wave of gunfire came, not only knocking down the remaining seven or eight Jiannu shooters, but also shooting a dozen or so bullets in front of Tong Yangzhen.

A horse carrying baggage was hit by a bullet. The pain was so unbearable that it immediately lost control and raised its hoof. While neighing, it knocked away the groom leading the horse, and rampaged through the team, causing chaos.

Tong Yangzhen's entourage was hit by a bullet, and a [-]mm warhead grazed his arm.The man didn't have any pain at first, he just felt light in his arm and thought he had dropped something.

But when he looked down, he found that his arm was broken at the elbow, his flesh and blood were torn apart, his bones were shattered, and only a little bit of skin remained, with half of his hand still attached, dangling around.

It took a few seconds for the severe pain to spread to the brain, and the follower yelled sharply, unable to understand why his hand was broken.He was more than 200 steps away from the front line, how could he be injured?

Tong Yang really beat his chest and feet, startled by the screams of his followers.Only then did he realize that it wasn't just his son who was about to retreat, he himself also walked into the opponent's attack range in a daze.

No need for Tong Yangzhen to shout, the injured horse running around is the biggest signal.The hundred or so people around him all panicked and retreated in unison.

What firearm is so powerful?

In the front, Tong Fengnian, who was acting as the vanguard, was still holding a heavy wooden shield, at a loss for the changes in the battle situation.He heard the harsh volley of guns from his opponent, and saw the destruction of the shooter behind him, but what should he do?

In an instant, Tong Fengnian broke into a cold sweat, wishing he could shrink into an inch and escape into the soil.He also immediately understood that he had fallen into the trap of his opponent and was deliberately introduced into the Jedi.

Turn around and run?

Run past the bullets of the musket?

There were Jiannu soldiers who abandoned their shields and fled, running towards both sides of the battlefield.

These are all sharp soldiers who have fought in the white mountains and black waters for many years. They dared to stand still in the face of the Ming army's guns and laughed loudly.But at this moment, they were scared out of their wits, hated that their legs could not be turned into hot wheels, and wanted to run faster.

But the platoon of guns behind the wall fired too fast, and a row could be fired in five breaths, more than 30 rounds each time.The gunshots of bang bang bang were endless, and the deserters running straight were just targets.

Even if he dodges the first row of bullets, the second row will definitely catch up.

After the volley of guns fired for two rounds, Tong Fengnian found that the opponents gave priority to hitting and fleeing, and those who stayed behind the big wooden shield like him were not the primary targets.

When the volley of guns fired for the third round, those who lost their shields and ran would be shot dead by the firecrackers if they could not escape a hundred meters away.There are also people who pin their hopes on thick shields, trying to come with the shields and walk away with the shields.

These [-] to [-] kilogram shields are specially made for attacking tough areas, they are more than an inch thick and require two people to lift them.

It can be impenetrable by knives and impenetrable by spears.When Nurhachi unified Jurchen, he liked to send his own troops wearing heavy armor and heavy shields to storm the cities of other Jurchen tribes.

It is this kind of heavy shield, which can resist ordinary Ming army bird guns loaded with iron sand, and Jiannu bird guns loaded with lead pellets.But facing the firecracker on the top of the outer wall dozens of steps away, it was actually pierced by a single blow.

Once the wooden shield made of pine is exploded, dozens of hundreds of wooden thorns will be splashed.Even if the projectile missed someone, the sputtered wooden spikes could make the shield-holding Jiannu soldiers scream endlessly and drop their shields.

This is death without a shield, and death with a shield.

Tong Fengnian could only simply fall to the ground and pretend to be dead, thinking about finding an opportunity to escape afterwards.He was thrilled to hear six or seven rounds of gunfire on the wall, the suspension bridge on the ravine was suddenly lowered, and a group of screaming Liaodong mountain people came out of the fort.

At this moment on the battlefield, the two troops of Tong Yangzhen and Tong Yangzhen were defeated by the rain of bullets within a few minutes, and they escaped in a disorderly manner-the usual fighting has never been so fast as today.

Wang Xin saw clearly through the binoculars behind the observation window of the command room, and he asked Zhou Qingfeng excitedly, "Are you going to take action?"

"There is no target worthy of my hand."

As far as Zhou Qingfeng could see, there were more than two hundred Jiannu killed on the battlefield.The rest are also trying to escape.So he ordered the mountain people in the military station to dispatch to fight the pursuit.

Wang Xin was wearing full body armor and an iron helmet, but he regretted that he didn't have the chance to fight Jiannu in close combat. Unfortunately, he spent money to build a [-]m long spear, which was transported to Liaodong with great difficulty.

However, the remaining Jiannu hadn't fled far, and many of them were clustered together. Through the telescope, it could be seen that their command system had not yet completely collapsed.

I saw more than a dozen people gathered in a group 300 meters away, and helped a guy who looked like a high-ranking official get on his horse.Wang Xin picked up his special flintlock gun and shouted viciously, "Let me try my hand."

300 meters away, Tong Yangxing was crying loudly.

The southward movement has been going smoothly this time, and the Jianzhou army even crossed the border and approached Pyongyang.

How arrogant Mang Gurtai was when he forced North Korea's monarchs and ministers to send envoys to kneel in front of their horses and beg for mercy.Nurhachi didn't expect the Ming army's combat power to be so weak, which further strengthened his idea of ​​attacking Fushun on the grounds of "seven major hatreds".

But after two or three months, this powerful enemy from nowhere forced itself into the flesh and blood of the Jianzhou Department.

Tong Yangxing was crying for the soldiers who died in front of that strange fortress, among them were dozens of servants trained by Tong's family for many years, which was the basis for him to gain a foothold in front of Nurhachi.

Don't look at the soldiers brought by the Tong family this time, but more than half of them were killed or injured, but this is the backbone of the "Ying Ming Khan" who is preparing to make a big splash and form the backbone of the Han army in the Jianzhou Department.

If this backbone is gone, the Tong family will be gone, and the Han army will not be able to handle it.

Without the Han army acting as cannon fodder, how can the "Eight Banners" dominate Liaodong with 7 horses and less than [-] cattle?

More than a dozen housekeepers are pushing Tong Yangxing onto the horse, desperately trying to send the Patriarch away.One person was supporting Tong Yangxing's rear hip and pushing upwards, but the force suddenly lost.

Tong Yangxing, whose hands and feet were weak, was crying endlessly, and fell off the horse without paying attention.The other servants rushed to help, only to find that the one holding his buttocks had been shot in the vest and had fallen to the ground.

Oh my god!

This place is more than [-] steps away from the strong enemy's stronghold, what kind of firecracker can hit this distance?

On the four-story tower of the command room of the military depot, Wang Xin grabbed the binoculars after shooting... Zhou Qingfeng had already informed in advance: "The real master was missed."

Wang Xin borrowed Zhou Qingfeng's spear again, and took another aim.

More than 300 steps away, Tong Yangxing, whose butt was full of mud, was once again crying and was supported by his servants on the horse's back.This time he sat still and prepared to raise his whip, but a bullet aimed at his vest from a distance hit the Mongolian horse he was riding.

The unlucky Mongolian horse lifted its hooves immediately, neighed wildly, and rushed forward with a sudden shake-the movement of hooves was too violent, and Tong Yangxing was thrown off the horse's back again.

But the Patriarch of the Tong family went down, but one leg was still stuck in the stirrup.The horse was frightened and ran quickly, dragging Tong Yangxing along the ground.

This is dangerous.

The servant of Tong's family screamed immediately, trying to catch up and rein in the horse.But horses run wild, how can people's two legs catch up?Seeing that Tong Yangxing was crying, he was dragged and yelled in the blink of an eye.

The horse galloped wildly and was soon covered by the terrain.Wang Xin completely lost his target.

Zhou Qingfeng put down the binoculars, curled his lips next to him, and said, "It was a good fight. You can collect that guy's body later. It's just a pity that the horse was shot. It won't stop until it's exhausted."

Five or six hundred Liaodong mountain people poured out of the military station, all waiting for work at leisure and excited.Some of them saw with their own eyes how ferocious the Xinhua Expeditionary Team's gun platoon was, and their morale was extremely high.

"I'll go and take command to prevent the scene from being too chaotic. I'll also train the soldiers so that these slave soldiers can't escape too much." Wang Xin led half of the expedition team to fight, and ran behind the soldiers of Tong's family.

The messy mountain people didn't receive any training, but after working in the military depot for a month or two, they were full of food and drink, and had plenty of energy.Holding knives and guns, they came out in a swarm, like hunting prey in the mountains and forests, skillfully chasing after Jiannu's buttocks.

The pursuit battle is relatively easy, as long as the pressure is kept on, the enemy will be quickly overwhelmed by fear, exhausted, and collapsed on the ground waiting to be slaughtered - hunters in the mountains are born with this trick.

Tong Yangxing was dragged away by his mount, and Tong Yangzhen on the other side also ran away in a panic.He didn't care about his son who was stuck in the front, so he randomly found a pack horse to carry the luggage, turned over and whipped hard.

People who often hang out in Liaodong, how can they not understand that physical strength is the most important in escaping?The fastest runner may not necessarily survive. Tong Yangzhen hopes that the horse he rides can take him away from the battlefield.

But as soon as he got on the horse, Tong Yangzhen couldn't help crying.He looked back and saw that more than 500 soldiers of Tong's family were stunned by the volley of guns, running around like ants scalded by boiling water.

I thought that this unknown military village was also like the previous Kuandian Fortress. As soon as the Jianzhou army arrived, the defenders in the village naturally surrendered.But it bumped into the iron plate abruptly, not to mention knocking out teeth, and the head was crushed.

Thinking about it, it was already afternoon, and there were dozens of miles of mountain roads left before fleeing back to Zhenjiang Fort, and there were only a handful of people who could survive.

Tong's family members were also clever in strokes. They stopped after running for a while, and called their companions to retreat together.But the mountain people behind quickly rushed up and stalked endlessly.

After Wang Xin led the team out, he offered a reward, and exchanged ten silver coins for every Jiannu head cut off during the pursuit.

With the reward, the fighting enthusiasm of the mountain people is even higher.Some people wanted to go back and cut up the corpses that had been shot to death with flintlock guns, but found that Wang Xin had figured this out long ago and sent someone to guard the corpses.

If you want to make money, you have to go to live Jian slaves to chop off their heads.

While it was still dark, the profitable business was opened.Whenever encountering an enemy that gathers a crowd to resist, the fusiliers of the expedition team will shoot a wave of guns from afar surrounded by mountain people.

It doesn't take much troops, just a five-man fusil squad can lead two mountain people to act alone.Bomb at a distance of more than ten meters, there is no enemy team that can't be scattered.

The rest is the mountain people encircling and suppressing like hungry wolves.

After going back and forth like this several times, Tong's soldiers also knew that they couldn't escape.Many people put down their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy.It's just that their heads are valuable, and they were still beheaded under the chaos.

Before dark, most of the mountain people returned triumphantly.The heads of Jiannu with thin braids are piled up like a hill.Before dying, those heads often grinned, either in fear or anger, with vivid expressions.

Such a big victory can be said to wipe away the joke of Jiannu's "invincible".What is now 'invincible' is the Xinhua army who have mastered advanced weapons and received professional training.

The corpses in front of the military depot were also cleaned up and burned one by one—it was originally planned to be buried or thrown into the Yalu River, but there were too many of them, fearing that it would cause a plague, so they were burned clean.

Several spies from the Tong family who sneaked into the military depot are now doing the work of moving the corpses.Many of the dead were familiar to them, and they usually called them brothers and sisters, but now they can only throw them away and burn them.

Tong Yangxing's body was found, and it had been dragged by that unlucky horse beyond recognition.The utensils he carried with him proved his identity——Zhou Qingfeng knew that he had killed the famous old thief of the Tong family.

This person is shoulder to shoulder with Li Yongfang, and they are the two big traitors who surrendered to Nurhachi in the early days.

When the scouts of the Tong family saw the Patriarch who sent them, they were even more distraught and dared not show their spirits.However, their identities have not been exposed, and the spies are still alive after all.They didn't dare to show any sadness, they just pretended they didn't know anything.

But when several spies moved to a corpse, they found that the corpse was still soft.Take a closer look, isn't this corpse Tong Fengnian, the son of Master Tong Yangzhen?

Shhh... Tong Fengnian put the dead body on the ground for a long time, and when he saw that it was a domestic slave who had sneaked into the enemy's nest, he blinked quickly and said in a low voice: "Don't make a sound, throw me into the dark, and I will leave naturally. It will be inevitable afterward." Your benefit."

benefit?The Tong family is finished, and there is a ghost advantage!

Several spies were carrying the corpse in the same group. When they saw their young master suddenly, they looked around in a panic, afraid of being discovered, and did not dare to make a big move.

Their first reaction is to cover up.But after exchanging glances with each other, one of them suddenly shouted: "Be careful, there's a live Tartar pretending to be dead!"

Tong Fengnian was furious, knowing that these slaves were going to betray him.But don't wait for him to drink angrily...

"The Tartars are cunning."

"Don't panic, let's do it together."

"Just kill him." The other spies drew out their waist knives and chopped them all together.Blood was spattered on everyone's face.

Chapter 36

Maybe it's because the old horse knows the way, Tong Yangzhen rode in the dark mountains and forests all night holding the horse's neck.At sunrise the next day, he returned to Zhenjiang Fort unscathed.

When the horse's hooves stopped in front of the dusty earthen walls of the fortress, Master Tong, who was in command of Zhenjiang military affairs at the Dajin Kingdom Han Army Xiao Cavalry School, raised his head, looked out with dull eyes, and fell off the horse in a state of exhaustion.

The Tong family was the best, and there were only two old soldiers holding rusty spears on the earthen wall of the fortress, huddled in the doorway to shelter from the wind, and slept soundly.Hearing movement outside, they poked their dirty heads out from behind the wall and saw pack horses and people outside the fort.

The old pawn was not interested in people, but felt that the pack horse was worth some money.They dropped the rope from the wall, trying to take the horse away, and searched the 'corpse' for anything of value.

Tong Yangzhen was turned over and over, but was awakened instead.He only felt his limbs were sore and weak, and he was so exhausted that he sat up and shouted: "Bold, don't help me up, Master."

The two old soldiers were startled, and they took a closer look, the one who came back alone was Mr Tong from Dajin Kingdom.Jiannu was in full swing, they didn't dare to make mistakes, they quickly called someone to open the main gate of the fortress, and helped Tong Yangzhen inside.

There are dozens of Han soldiers in coats in the fort, and they all come out to serve Tong Yangzhen to eat, drink and rest.Master Tong breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sent his cronies in the fort to search for the escaped soldiers of the Tong family.

It's just that yesterday's defeat was overwhelming and irreversible.After searching in the mountains for a whole day and traveling more than [-] miles, only seven or eight people were found.The rest did not know whether they fled to other places or died completely.

More than 500 members of Tong's family set off from Kuandian, but they went to die after exhausting themselves.Not only did Tong Yangzhen lose power, he even set up his own son, thinking about the sad place, and cried again.

It's just that the enemy's soldiers are sharp, and Zhenjiang can't wait.Tong Yangzhen didn't dare to say anything, gathered a few family slaves and cronies, abandoned a lot of belongings, and left overnight.

From Kuandian, you can take a boat and go down the Ai River, but it is difficult to go back.

The river is not calm yet, and it is very risky to travel upstream by boat.So Tong Yangzhen led the team over mountains and ridges, along dangerous mountains and Tangshan castles, all the way frightened, and spent five or six days before returning to Kuandian.

Kuandian is temporarily under the command of "First Minister" Fei Yingdong and "Heshuobile" Mangurtai. This place manages five surrounding big fortresses, dozens of villages, and [-] to [-] Jianzhou troops stationed here. It is an important town in Liaodong.

When Tong Yangzhen came back, the group of people was thin, dirty and smelly, like savages walking out of the mountains.Seeing Fei Yingdong who was guarding Kuandian, he threw himself to the ground, howling hoarsely.

Fei Yingdong was also extremely surprised that Tong's family was the in-laws of 'Wild Boar Skin'.The Ming army was weak, and going south to attack was tantamount to giving away some credit.How can it be so miserable?

Tong Yangzhen was carried into the castle, bathed and changed.Fei Yingdong first asked the remaining family members of the Tong family, "The trip to Zhenjiang is not going well?"

The family member of the Tong family also cried, "The slave followed the master to the south, and all the Ming army fortresses fell in anticipation along the way, and the Zhenjiang fort was easily taken, and there was not much loss during the period.

It's just that it has become less and less and more difficult to gather the mountain people in Liaodong recently.The head of the family sent people to find out that there were Ming army activities in the Jiangkou area, and he was also gathering the mountain people, so he gathered his hands and led troops to attack.

But Jiangkou's powerful enemy came from nowhere, and he was good at using firearms, which were both far and accurate.Within a quarter of an hour of the battle, my Tong family lost nearly half of its troops, and the owner of the family also died in the battle.

During the disintegration, Jiangkou's strong enemy sent troops to chase and kill. Our army suffered heavy casualties, and none of them survived.Zhenjiang is difficult to defend, we can only retreat all the way to Kuandian. "

Ah... Fei Yingdong's brow was full of sweat.He and Mang Gurtai occupied Kuandian because they wanted to collect more wealth from the mountain people and accumulate strength for fighting Fushun.

Who would have thought it would hit an iron plate?

The new "Military Master" Guo has reminded that if you encounter Han soldiers who are good at using firearms when you go south, it is best to avoid the battle, put defense first, supplemented by harassment guerrillas, and hold the opponent.

However, the Jianzhou army has always looked down on the combat power of the Han people, and called them "Nikan" contemptuously. They can only be used as coated slaves and used as expendable cannon fodder on the battlefield.

As for the skillful use of firearms, it was not taken seriously by the high-level officials of the Dajin Kingdom-the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were also "proficient in using firearms", and they were only able to beat a bird, so it was useless.

Now the Tong family has hit the opponent's gun with one head, and the head is bloody, and even the head of the family is gone. More than 500 soldiers and horses were emptied in the first battle, and all the soldiers equivalent to three cows were wiped out.

This is obviously not an ordinary Han. Fei Yingdong realized the danger, and quickly sent someone to send Tong Yangzhen back to Hetuala, and sent sentries to go south again to find out the situation of the Han.

Jiannu was slow in obtaining and transmitting information, waiting for the sentry to find out the situation in the mountains and send it to Nurhachi to provide a basis for decision-making. It took half a month to the beginning of September.