Rebirth of the Four Seas Emperor

Ji Wenjun wrote an essay to criticize the thieves overnight, which was widely distributed throughout the country before departure.

Then a hundred strong servants were temporarily recruited as personal guards, and Yu Xiuer, Shen Yuluoyan and others were appointed as generals to accompany the army.

Zhu Liang'ao was the vanguard general. He led five strong soldiers to advance lightly and quickly to provide support.

Hou Yao took charge of the Chinese army and commanded the army to rush north to aid Guangzhou City.

Jiang Qizheng was in charge of the rear Yamen and was in charge of supervising the transportation of grain and grass.

The two places are about [-] to [-] kilometers apart. A normal march would take about three days, and even a forced march would take two days.

Zhu Liang'ao led the vanguard with five men, traveled day and night with five days of dry food, and arrived at the border of Guangzhou in only one day.

The sea-breaking coalition forces here also learned about the dispatch of troops from Bao'an County early in the morning, and sent Lavezaris with a Spanish matchlock team, three Japanese pirates, and six Luzon land troops to intercept.

The two armies met near Longtou Mountain.

Since Zhu Liang'ao was marching in a hurry and was tired from traveling and traveling, he immediately ordered to retreat to a valley at the foot of Longtou Mountain and set up a camp wall for defense based on the terrain.

Rave Zaris saw the Baoan Army's lineup on a high ground and saw numerous spears. He immediately smiled contemptuously:

"The army in Bao'an County really uses our Spanish Spear Formation. Hmm, let me teach you what the real Spanish Invincible Spear Formation is today."

Immediately ordered the army to organize an attack.

A group of Spanish arquebusiers, protected by six groups of Luzon spearmen, slowly approached the Bao'an army, while three groups of Japanese pirates roamed on both wings. They only waited for chaos in the Bao'an County army formation before launching a fatal blow.

The Bao'an army had been running for two days, and the soldiers were very tired, but they had to fight when the enemy came to attack.

Zhu Liang'ao had no choice but to order the soldiers to rest in batches in order to regain their strength as soon as possible, and reserved half of his troops to defend the entrance of the camp.

The Spanish gun array slowly approached the Bao'an military camp, 300 meters, 200 meters, 150 meters...

The optimal shooting range of the matchlock gun is about 100 meters. You only need to walk another 50 meters to reach the optimal shooting range.

At that time, the Spanish musketeers would launch a volley attack.

According to the scouts' reports, the Baoan Army should only have about five people. As for whether it has long-range strike capabilities, it has not been found out.

If the Baoan Army does not have long-range strike capabilities, then the five thousand people will be equivalent to living targets.

Each Spanish soldier carried at least [-] packets of gunpowder and bullets with him, which amounted to [-] rounds for each of them, which would definitely make the Baoan Army doubt their lives.

Seeing that the gun array had reached the best shooting location, Ravi Zaris had raised his hand high, and the Spanish soldiers also began to take out their fire tucks.

Then at this moment, a deafening round of gunfire suddenly rang out from the Baoan Military Camp.

A row of pikemen standing at the front fell to two or three hundred people in an instant.

Just by listening to the sound of gunshots, Ravi Zaris could tell that the opponent had at least a large number of musketeers, which was far beyond his expectation.

However, the most elite Spanish matchlock soldiers can only achieve a firing rate of two rounds per minute at most.

Now the distance between the two sides is only a hundred meters, and it only takes ten seconds to run across.

Since the opponent has set up a camp and allows the pikemen to defend against the walls of the camp, it is tantamount to giving up the biggest advantage of the pikemen's invincibility in frontal guns.

In this case, since our own side has already withstood a round of volleys, it would be more cost-effective to take advantage of the situation and attack the camp.

Otherwise, the two sides will fall into a situation where musketeers shoot at each other, and the losses will be even greater.

After all, the opponent can still find cover if they stick to the wall, but our own side has no protection at all, so shooting at each other will definitely suffer more.

Lave Zaris was worthy of being a veteran, and he figured out the key in an instant. After ordering Spain to complete a round of volleys, the Luzon soldiers and the Japanese troops launched a general attack.

"The strongest point of the Spanish spear formation is the frontal gun forest. I didn't expect Daxia's commander to abandon the gun forest to defend the camp. Daxia's officers still lack experience."

Ravi Zaris smiled and talked to himself, and then waited for the news that the army had entered the Baoan barracks and killed all sides.

After ten seconds, his smile solidified on his face.

"Bah bah bah bah bah..."

Another shot from Shangqian came from the camp in Bao'an County.

Ravi Zaris frowned, an ominous premonition already welling up in his heart.

"Three-stage shooting? Do the Baoan Army's musketeers have three ranks? How do these scouts do their jobs?"

"Bah bah bah bah bah..."

Tens of seconds later, the sound of a third volley of gunfire came, completely dashing Ravi Zaris's last hope of breaking the camp.

The only thing he was glad about now was that he did not let the core combat force attack the camp together with those miscellaneous troops, otherwise he would suffer heavy losses.

In just ten minutes, dozens of corpses were left behind, and Ravi Zaris gave the order to retreat with difficulty.

This was definitely the most humiliating war he had ever fought in the army.

Whether in Europe, America or Luzon, he has never had the experience of being beaten to the point where he was almost unable to fight back with an absolutely superior force.

The Spanish army has always used less to attack more, suppressing the enemy and crazily kneading it. When has it ever suffered such a loss?

They lost their superiors and didn’t even understand their opponent’s basic situation.

It’s frustrating, it’s really frustrating.

However, Ravi Zaris did not think that it was a problem with his command. He felt that he could only blame the scouts for not detecting the status of the enemy's troops.

Ravi Zaris ordered the army to retreat about two miles and form a camp. Now he has no idea of ​​​​wiping out this Baoan army.

With his current strength, it was impossible to eliminate three arquebusiers protected by two spearmen. It would be difficult to win against such an opponent without dozens of times the force.

So his only idea now is to drag the Baoan Army here and prevent them from advancing.

After Zhu Liangao repulsed the enemy, he counted the results of the battle and found that a dozen pikemen were killed by the first round of volleys of matchlocks.

This loss was acceptable, but it was a big problem before him.

The opponent has a strong arquebus team, which is too much of a threat. We don't have enough troops, so it is difficult to annihilate them in a frontal attack.

We must find a way to annihilate these matchlock teams. We cannot let them escape, otherwise there will be endless trouble.

It was getting late, and the soldiers had finished cleaning the battlefield and returned to camp to rest.

Zhu Liang'ao was in the camp thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy.

At this time, it was already dark, and suddenly there was a strong wind outside. The originally shining starry sky suddenly became covered with dark clouds and thunder roared.

At the second watch, Zhu Liang'ao heard the wind and walked out of the tent. He saw dark clouds in the sky and knew that this was a precursor to a storm.

I was immediately overjoyed. If there was a storm tonight, wouldn't it be a God-given opportunity for a surprise attack?

Now that the army had rested for almost two hours and had basically restored its combat capabilities, he immediately ordered the entire army to prepare.

Sure enough, it rained heavily not long after.

Zhu Liangao shouted:

"The whole army attacks - we can only defeat the enemy tonight."

……

Just as Zhu Liangao was preparing to attack the Spanish camp at night, Liu Chengfu, several kilometers away, also issued an order for the entire army to launch the water.

Liu Chengfu and two others had already lurked in the reeds on the south bank of the Pearl River in the morning.

It wasn't until nightfall that everyone held a bamboo tube for ventilation and began to swim to the other side.

When he reached the other side, Jiang Hong was keenly aware of the change in the weather, so he quickly asked Liu Chengfu to postpone the launch time.

They waited until there was a thunderstorm in the sky before the two men rushed from their hiding place to the dock.

Originally, Lu Haikui left two people to guard the ships at the dock, while Wensalset left five people to guard the ships. After all, they had more ships.

However, since the city of Guangzhou could not be captured for a long time, they were constantly deploying troops to defend the ship.

So far, the sea-breaking coalition's ship-guarding troops are insufficient, and Spain has only less than two thousand defenders.

Although there were nearly three thousand defenders on both sides, they were completely unable to stop Liu Chengfu from releasing the ships.

On the one hand, it was because the troops who were left to guard the ship were originally weaker troops;

On the other hand, it was also because the thunderstorm concealed the true situation on the battlefield.

As a result, the defenders were divided into different places, fighting on their own, and did not dare to attack easily to support, giving Liu Chengfu every opportunity to defeat them.

The main force of the garrison was Lu Haikui's deputy, who was very skilled. With only a dozen people, he dispersed Liu Chengfu's 50-man squad.

Liu Chengfu could only fight with him personally. The two fought for hundreds of rounds before he finally caught an opening and killed him.

The defenders immediately collapsed, and there was no suspense about the ensuing battle.

The battle that was originally expected to take half an hour was miraculously completed in less than two quarters of an hour.

Moreover, due to heavy rain, the water in the Pearl River surged. Even the fences of the docks did not need to be destroyed. Simply cut off the cables and the boat would be carried away by the flood flow.

The operation of releasing the ships went surprisingly smoothly, and Liu Chengfu's army won a complete victory.

In the lower reaches of the Pearl River, the one-eyed dragons intercepted by nets on Haixin Island were not so lucky.

Due to the surge in the river, the water was so fierce that many ships were unable to intercept it.

There were even more than one or two casualties.

But compared to the harvest, these casualties are nothing at all.

The one-eyed dragon and the pirate gang are still trying their best to intercept the ship.

Liu Chengfu retreated south with the army that robbed the ships. Because the water in the Pearl River was too strong, they could only go south along the coast and take the land route to join the main force.

At the same time, Zhu Liang'ao here had completed the deployment of his army in the heavy rain, but had not yet launched an attack.

The current rain is too heavy, which will seriously affect the shooting accuracy of the musketeers. They can only wait for the rain to lighten up before launching.

The heavy rain continued for nearly an hour, and then the rain slowed down.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Liang'ao issued an order to attack the camp.

"Commanders, the opportunity to defeat the thieves has arrived, kill the enemy——"

"Kill the enemy—"

Two musketeers fired only one salvo at the Spanish army's simple camp wall and knocked it down.

"Bah bah bah bah bah..."

The sound of gunfire awakened countless Spanish sergeants from their sleep.

Ravi Zaris also sat up suddenly from his dream. When he heard that there was still a thunderstorm outside, he put down the heavy stone in his heart, thinking that he had just had a nightmare.

"Who can still shoot a matchlock gun in this damn weather?"

"Bah bah bah bah bah..."

There was another volley of musketry outside, and Ravi Zaris was completely stunned. What was going on? Why were there gunshots outside?

At this moment, a messenger broke into the camp:

"General Ravi Zaris, Daxia's army attacked... the camp..."

Ravi Zaris suddenly loudly said:

"Hold, we must hold. We must not let them enter the camp."

The messenger shouted:

"General, they have entered the camp."

Ravi Zaris looked blank:

"What? How could this happen...?".