Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Although you are my immediate superior, you have to abide by the rules of the Jinhua Rebel Army. At this time, you don't command the troops to fight, but you want to escape. According to the military regulations of the Jinhua Rebel Army, I will automatically take over your command and establish three Now, you have been arrested, put down your weapons and accept punishment." Qianhu was wearing the regular army uniform of the Jinhua Rebel Army, a blue uniform with military rank and logo.

Lin Chengcheng is the commander. He has a regular army of [-] households and [-] militia troops under his command. The commander of the garrison battalion is not under his command, but he is also mobilized with him in wartime to cooperate with him in fighting. The main task is to defend the city.

Just as Lin Chengcheng was about to make a move, several firecrackers were aimed at them.

Veins popped out of Lin Chengcheng's forehead, but he finally suppressed his thoughts of running away and resisting. He knew the policy of the Jinhua Rebel Army on prisoners and deserters, not to mention that he had been the commander of a prisoner camp and a hard labor camp, and he knew what to do if If he fell out, there might be something wrong, unless he defected to the Qing army, or surrendered to Zheng Cai immediately, otherwise he would have no way to survive, and his life would even be worse than death.

"Alas," he sighed, and told his subordinates to put down their weapons and tie them up.

The battle was still going on, but Lin Chengcheng, the supreme commander, was imprisoned by his own people. Qianhu and the guard took over his command and fought against the enemy together.

Outside the city, Zheng Fu looked at the city wall with binoculars, "We went up, and up again, this time we rushed up the city wall for the fifth time. According to those deserters who fled back earlier, there were piles of enemy corpses on the wall. , have been wiped out a lot.”

"Okay, let my elites attack," Zheng Cai shouted.

"My lord, you mean the pirate sailors?" Zheng Fu asked.

"Yes, let the armored soldiers come on," Zheng Cai shouted.

Tens of thousands of pirates and fishermen rushed up one after another, jumping onto the city wall one by one, but were killed by the militiamen, and the militiamen also suffered heavy casualties. Although they had received a lot of training and experienced several small-scale incidents The tempering of the battle, but they have never experienced such a brutal fight. Moreover, they are all eliminated soldiers who have been trained by recruits. Under the impact of so many enemies, many militiamen began to flee.

A few miles away, Zhang Qiang finally brought his large troops around the battlefield.

Zhu Dayou said: "My lord, according to the information we have, the enemy is concentrated near the county seat, some of them are on Longzhu Island, and the warships are moored in the open sea. We can stop them outside the range of the enemy's warship artillery."

"Well, sneak in quietly. Then block the enemy's return, outflank and annihilate."

"Send cavalry and let the navy attack to attract the enemy's warships."

A scout rushed down from the mountain and shouted: "The city is broken, the enemy has entered the city."

Chapter 139 The End of Zheng Cai [-]

"broken,"

"The city gate is open, children, come with me."

Zheng Liang yelled loudly, pinched the horse's belly with both feet, and shook the reins vigorously with both hands, and the war horse shot out like an arrow that had been shot from the string.

"Third brother, be careful." Zheng Lian roared from behind.

Zheng Cai happily sat on the horse and looked at Zheng Liang who was going away, "Let him go, if [-] sons can't break through a broken county guarded by his [-] defenders, it's better to find a piece of tofu and kill him."

Zheng Lian laughed loudly, and then said to Zheng Cai: "Brother, this time we broke through their county seat, I think Zhang Qiang will know how powerful we are, and he will obey us obediently, and won't make trouble with us."

Zheng Cai shook his head, "We can all see that the Jinhua Rebel Army is incompatible with the Longwu court, just like when Shibazhi faced the Longwu court, he will not be willing to be inferior to others,"

"However, when we beat him this time, he can't do anything to us, so he has to bow his head, but remember that Xiongxiong may bow his head sometimes, but it is impossible for you to make him completely surrender. Once you have the opportunity, you I will die without a place to die."

Zheng Lian squinted at him, "What should we do? Kill him? We can't do it. We can't beat his powerful army. I heard that he uses musketeers like the Portuguese and the Dutch." , The combat effectiveness is quite high, we don’t know how many times we have suffered losses in the hands of these foreigners.”

Zheng Cai smiled and said: "Wait, he will always have internal quarrels with the Longwu court. What we have to do is to blackmail him by taking advantage of our maritime advantages, and then sell him to the Manchu court, so that the Manchus can continue to fight." Hitting him once weakened his strength, frightened the tiger, and pulled out the tiger's teeth, so that we can accept the great territory he created for us in the future."

Zheng Fu was the first to laugh out loud, and the others laughed too.

"Hahaha"

"Second, take your soldiers and horses to help the third." Zheng Cai raised the whip in his hand, pointing to Sanmen County Road.

Zheng Lian's feet were strong, and the spurs pierced the horse's belly. The horse groaned in pain and galloped out with hooves raised. Behind him were bandit sailors in iron armor, shrimp soldiers and crab generals in leather armor, and then pirates composed of two thousand pirates and fishermen. infantry.

Some of these pirate infantry were holding axes, some were holding harpoons, some were carrying wooden oars, slaughtering knives and buffalo knives in their hands, and some were wearing the gray soldier's robes of the inspection department of the Ming army. They roared and ran behind. go out.

"Boom, boom,"

"Clap clap clap."

Suddenly there was the sound of artillery and the sound of musket shooting in the city.

Zheng Cai frowned, "What's going on?"

Zheng Fu looked left and right, "My lord, go and have a look."

A scout ran over, "Report to my lord, the Ming army from Tiantai County is here to help. Two thousand Ming troops have entered Sanmen County, and two hundred cavalry are chasing and killing our scouts outside the city."

"What's going on, didn't you ask you to send people to intercept the Ming army?" Zheng Cai roared angrily.

The scout cried and said: "My lord, it's not that the villain is incompetent, but the enemy is too powerful. The small army we sent to intercept and harass the enemy was defeated as soon as they met. The enemy cavalry cleared the way and were unstoppable. Our people saw them , It will collapse at the touch of a touch, it can't be stopped at all."

In Sanmen County, Lin Chengcheng has been killed to the point where he is covered in blood. He is a locust-like pirate. Although he is not very powerful, even in close combat, he is not as good as his former peasant rebel army. .

One thousand soldiers of the Huayi Army, the soldiers of the regular army were well-founded and coordinated well, but there were too many families, and they were divided and surrounded, so they could only fight hard. The two hundred firearms guarding the county government had already destroyed six or seven of them. Ten firecrackers, these firecrackers were captured by the Ming army by Zhang Qiang, and used by the Qing army many times. After possessing the quality-guaranteed muskets made by themselves, they retreated and gave them to the firecrackers in the subordinate team. Not long after the gun was fired, the chamber exploded and was damaged.

Hu Kui arrived in time, one thousand warriors, five hundred cavalry, and five hundred gunners, as soon as they entered the city, suppressed the enemy's arrogance.

The core area of ​​the entire city has not been breached, and the west gate, which is backed by the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army, has not been occupied by the enemy. Hu Kui led a pair of reinforcements to control the wall and gate of the west gate, and then advanced from west to east and south along the root of the city wall. Taking control of the north gate again, the Jinhua Rebel Army regained the initiative on the battlefield, seized less than half of the territory, and fought with the enemy together.

Zheng Cai began to worry. The strength of the Jinhua Rebel Army was not something he could challenge. The reason why he gathered so many pirates was to use the advantage of their numbers to quickly capture and loot some of the Jinhua Rebel Army's territory. In addition to capturing the enemy's wealth and Apart from weapons and equipment, the most important thing for him was to express his sincerity to the Manchu Tartars. Everyone could see that the Nanming court was miserable, and everyone wanted to seek refuge with the new court, the new master of the Chinese land.

But now that it's done like this, he feels that this is no longer showing his sincerity to Man Qing, but is squandering his money.

"Zheng Fu, send an order to retreat." Zheng Cai gritted her teeth, with a livid face, and in a trembling voice gave the order he didn't even want to give.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good," a scout stumbled over.

Zheng Fu ran over and lashed the scout's face with a horsewhip, "Why panic, your family is dead?"

The scout was crying, covering his blood-stained face, "My lord, behind us... we are surrounded."

"What?" Zheng Fu was stunned.

Zheng Cai was also taken aback.

"Speak clearly." Zheng Cai shouted, glaring.

The scout panicked, "My lord, there are six or seven thousand Jinhua rebels behind us, and our retreat has been cut off by the Jinhua rebels."

"What?" Zheng Cai was stunned.

The once high-spirited, once arrogant, at this moment has gone to the Java Island blown by the wind, only fear, only panic, he is not Zheng Zhilong, nor Zheng Chenggong, he does not have so much courage and arrogance, otherwise he would not Playing a sneak attack, but an upright challenge to the Jinhua Rebels.

"Quick, quick, order them to withdraw, let's stop fighting and retreat to the boat." Zheng Cai panicked and gave orders incoherently.

On the mountains five miles away, Zhang Qiang rode a war horse and looked at Sanmen County.

There were Zheng Cai pirates running for their lives in a panic inside and outside Sanmen County. Zheng Cai and his men tried their best to gather their subordinates, but when they heard that the back road was cut off and the enemy was attacking, these pirates immediately dispersed. There were at least 8000 pirates. People fled all over the mountains and plains.

Putting down the binoculars, Zhang Qiang sneered, "A group of mobs, maybe you can still show off at sea, but on land, you are not even as good as my militia."