Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Hehe, Captain Zhu, you have been teased about your brother and me. Let's talk about before, your brother and I really dared to teach you, but now your brother and I are old and lagging behind. What's new, when..." Brother Zhu chuckled, and picked it up for him, "My lord said it, it's called the new era of warfare, the age of firearms, the era of muskets, and the era of cannon winning. My lord said it when he taught us."

"Yes, yes, the war in the age of firearms, brother, I don't know how to fight this war?"

Brother Zhu took a sip of tea, "My lord, I'm not trying to shirk, you have to come up with something, otherwise, you can see that our Huaxia Army doesn't support idlers, if I tell you how to fight , then do you still need to guard the city here? I can go if I go? Why should I keep you? The governor is giving you a chance."

Liu Liangzuo chuckled, sat back and straightened his body, took off his military cap and touched the back of his head, wanting to say something, but when he raised his head to see Brother Zhu hanging up like nothing to do with himself, he couldn't help feeling a little unhappy, With the majesty and prestige of a general with a 10,000+ army, the young man in front of him looked down upon him. No, I have to show some appearance, otherwise it will be difficult to mix in the Huaxia Army.

Thinking of this, Liu Liangzuo picked up his teacup and said slowly: "In that case, then brother will not send General Zhu off, General Zhu will invite you first."

Brother Zhu stood up and flicked the clothes on his body, "Then the younger brother will take a step first. If Admiral Liu has any orders, just send someone to tell the younger brother. The younger brother will definitely do his best to help the elder brother."

After speaking, he walked out of the government office lobby.

Liu Liangzuo narrowed his eyes, and his confidantes wanted to step forward, but Liu Liangzuo waved his hand to keep them still. His personal guards were standing on his left and right. These personal guards were originally arranged by Zhou Porridge when he was the guard envoy. The ones that came down are now taken over by Milin, and now Bagyaru. These classes are all Zhang Qiang's people.

Liu Liangzuo thought for a long time, and finally thought of a way.

"Come on, go and hang up the flag of the great governor, my flag at the side gate of the city, the flag of General Hu Cang at the camp at the east gate, and the flag of Deputy Prime Minister Du Ge at the barracks outside. Some militiamen, send some heavy soldiers to wear the uniforms of each army to guard the camp outside the city. Our militiamen will change into the flags of each army, and the uniforms of each army will guard each gate. Let the young and strong in the city change into militia uniforms and patrol day and night. Move around and disturb the enemy's eyes and ears."

The confidant couldn't help asking, "My lord, are you determined to defend the city here?"

"What do you mean, the great governor's kindness to me is as great as a mountain, how can I not repay the great governor's kindness, come on, stop the remaining young men and militiamen in the city from changing into military uniforms, and dig me around the fortress outside the city Get out of the trenches and arrange the cannons for me, and I will sing an empty city plan to the Qing army tartars here, so that they will think that the army of the governor is still here." Liu Liangzuo still has a hand, after all, he has been marching and fighting for so many years. To be honest, others really can't play with him.

Liu Liangzuo beckoned his confidant to come over, "Take people to recruit all the people and militiamen in the vicinity to our place. We count as much as we can recruit. One more manpower, one more strength!"

The confidant said: "My lord is wise."

Liu Liangzuo waved his hand, "Go down."

Hong Chengchou and Boluo, who were dozens of kilometers away, had set up camp, waiting for Tanma to bring updated news.

Chapter 3 and Six: The Encounter of the Two Armies

Zhang Qiang retreated with the army, Liu Liangzuo and the newly appointed Deputy Commander of the [-]th Field Brigade, Zhang Qiang's Deputy Captain of the Personal Guard, Brother Zhu, guarded Raozhou Prefecture City, the city they had just captured for two or three days.

Just as the entire Raozhou Prefecture fell into chaos, the people and militia troops in the entire Raozhou Prefecture were retreating, and the Huaxia Army was clearing the walls to prevent the Qing army from carrying out bloody cleansing and retaliation when the Qing army arrived, and at the same time caused the Qing army to fall into starvation However, the difficulty of having no water to drink weakened the combat effectiveness of the Qing army from another aspect, created difficulties for the Qing army, lengthened the supply line of the Qing army, and created an opportunity to wipe out the enemy in the battle against the Qing army's pressure.

Feng Wuyu's Second Field Brigade and First Cavalry Brigade, who were defending the Qing army in the north of Raozhou Prefecture, received Zhang Qiang's order and began to gather their troops and prepare to retreat. While gathering troops, they reported to the surrounding Raozhou Prefecture people , At the same time, let the following engineers and supplies evacuate first, and they stay in place to wait for the troops to gather to prevent the enemy's scout cavalry from prying.

For this reason, Feng Wuyu sent out all the cavalry of the field brigade to block the enemy's advance and at the same time check the deployment of the enemy's troops.

On the first day, there was no movement in the north of Raozhou Prefecture. According to the news from the scouts, the Qing army was still hundreds of kilometers away, with a number of more than 5 people.

The next day, the militiamen of the Raozhou Prefecture escorted the people to retreat. Some of the people were unwilling to retreat, and the militiamen fell into a difficult situation. Some other people evacuated to nearby mountains or more remote small villages for refuge.

The Qing army has dispatched about [-] troops and is rushing here.

On the third day, the militiamen in Raozhou Prefecture received an order to retreat in an all-round way. People who were willing to follow were escorted, and those who were unwilling to follow were ignored. The important thing was that the militiamen had to retreat to the south and southeast of Raozhou Prefecture.

On the fourth day, Zhang Qiang led the army to retreat from the city of Fufu. The people in the south began to flee spontaneously, and the remaining militiamen began to retreat. The engineers of the second field brigade destroyed the road along the way, leaving only a road for the second army to retreat. The field and cavalry brigades withdrew.

On the fifth day, the [-] soldiers sent by the Qing army approached [-] kilometers away, and the heavy soldiers began to retreat. The strength of the second field brigade in three directions has been reduced by more than half, and the rest will also go to the south to join the large army. .

At night, the [-]nd Field Brigade and most of the Cavalry Brigade began to retreat back to distance themselves from the enemy.

On the sixth day, Zhang Qiang's army had disappeared at the border of Raozhou Prefecture in the north. According to the news sent, Zhang Qiang took away the [-]st Field Brigade, the [-]nd Cavalry Brigade, and the [-]rd Cavalry Brigade. In addition to some militiamen in the entire Raozhou Prefecture He and the people did not withdraw, leaving only the troops of Raozhou Fucheng and the first cavalry brigade of their second field brigade.

On the seventh day, the vanguard Qing soldiers disappeared from sight, and the enemy's army had joined forces, less than [-] kilometers away from them.

The [-]st Cavalry Brigade had retreated first and hid.The troops of the Second Field Brigade have been assembled and have retreated fifteen kilometers to distance themselves from the enemy.

There was a mist in the early morning, and the second field brigade, which had rested for most of the night, caught up with the retreating team of engineers and baggage soldiers, as well as a part of the militia team that retreated last. There are still 120 kilometers to the border of the state capital, and [-] kilometers to the Quzhou capital.

I was woken up before dawn, buried pots to make food, and dismantled the camp. The Second Field Brigade, which had just embarked on a new journey, pulled a long team and continued to approach Quzhou Mansion, walking about five or six miles.

Feng Wuyu received a report from the cavalry brigade. They were resting about [-] kilometers away from the capital city of Raozhou Prefecture. Quzhou Prefecture.

When I was thinking about retreating to the south and reuniting with the cavalry brigade, I heard the sound of horseshoes in a hurry, and I heard someone shouting in the wind, "Qing army, there is Qing army, the left wing of the team, Sanlidi, there is a large army. The cavalry of the Qing army is advancing."

"Order the battalions to deploy on the spot, form a defensive formation, put the people and militia into the battalion, the baggage soldiers unload the baggage, and guard on the spot, and the engineers immediately begin to build defensive fortifications, and the battalions quickly deploy according to their positions, protect the army, and dispatch The five teams assigned the militiamen and civilian troops who were retreating in the south, and told them to transfer to Raozhou Prefecture, and the other teams reported to Raozhou Prefecture, to the Dudu Camp, and to Quzhou Prefecture.”

Feng Wuyu quickly gave orders to the guards around him, and the scouts of the guards rushed away quickly.

After the assignment was completed, another group of scouts returned, "Report, the cavalry of the Qing army have found us and are regrouping."

Feng Wuyu waved his hand, "Explore again."

After the scout cavalry left, he beckoned again, "Send two more cavalry squads to contact General Huang Tao's cavalry brigade, and ask him to move closer to our troops, cover our flanks, and support our retreat."

At this time, three miles away, Man Dahai also stopped to listen to the scout cavalry's report.

"What are you talking about, our army found a large enemy army on the flank, how many people are there, have you found out?" Although Man Dahai looks a little sorry for the audience, he looks like a reckless man like Zhang Fei, but he is also a capable man in the Qing army. A good fighter, he is one of the Manchurian warriors. Although he is not as famous as Oboi, he is both wise and brave. There are many good comments in his favor in history, but these comments are not good for the Han people.

The better the evaluation, the stronger the rule over the Han people, and the harder it is for the Han people to stand up.

"Where are our infantry units?" Man Dahai asked.

The general of the Qing army on one side said: "It's still twenty miles away, but Horqin's cavalry is marching ten miles away from our flank."

"Okay, that's on the enemy's flank. Order them to speed up their march and assault the enemy's flank, so that the enemy has no time to estimate our side. We send a large cavalry to harass the enemy, cut off the enemy's scout cavalry, and oppress them."

Turning around, he said to the general of the Qing army who answered: "Let the infantry led by Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao catch up and go into battle as soon as possible."

General Qing said: "My lord, the marching Ming army will definitely not be able to resist our impact under such circumstances. Why don't our two thousand cavalry charge first and disrupt the enemy's position? The Horqin Mongolian cavalry can capture the prisoners without waiting for the green battalion soldiers and the Han army flags to arrive, isn’t it good to leave the credit to our people?”

Man Dahai waved the horse whip in his hand unhappily, and yelled: "What do you know, how many Manchus are there, 10,000+ people, and there are more than 1 Manchus besieged in Raozhou Fucheng ahead, If we rush up, whoever will be killed or injured, hurry up, let those Han people go first, let the Mongols go first, anyway, the Mongols are also our slaves."

"Yes, master, this slave will do it now." The Qing general didn't touch the burning wound on his face, and immediately got on his horse to send orders to the Han army flag and the green camp behind him.

And the poor Mongols, the former descendants of Temujin were used as guns,

Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao, who were walking behind, didn't actually want to come, but had to. They fought against Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Army under Azig's account, and 9 Qing troops were killed. Fleeing in all directions, the two of them separated and escaped from Raozhou Mansion with a thousand or hundreds of people from their own headquarters. They stationed in the Qing army's territory for a period of time. While observing the movement of the Huaxia Army, he also gathered up the defeated soldiers incidentally.

After more than half a month of gathering, they gathered the 5000 Green Battalion and [-] troops from the Han Army Banner who fled. After the two reconciled, the total force reached [-] troops. Unexpectedly, the merit did not come down, and Man Dahai arrived with [-] Qing troops.

Instead, Man Dahai, who had always hated them, reprimanded them and received fifty army sticks and thirty leather whips. Up to now, both of them can only march in sedan chairs, not on horseback.

Man Dahai was anxious to meet the Huaxia Army, wanting to experience the limelight in the past few years. Facing the Jinhua Rebel Army who had won many battles and victories against the Qing Army, he looked down on Hong Chengchou, a civil servant of the Ming Dynasty who looked forward and backward, and led the Qing soldiers away overnight. Leave a Manchu general with them to watch over them and let them reinforce him later with infantry.

Facing this master, the two couldn't laugh or cry, and their faces were full of sadness. They had dealt with the Huaxia Army for five full years. They started fighting when the Huaxia Army was still a rebel army under Zhu Dadian's command, and when the Jinhua Rebel Army broke away from Zhu Dadian. Chengyi faction changed to the Huaxia Army in Jinhua Rebel Army. Every time they faced the Huaxia Army, they were defeated miserably, and the shadow area in their hearts was quite large.

Although they tried their best to evade, Man Dahai still threw down [-] Han flags and green camps for them to lead, and left with the Qing cavalry by himself.

Twenty miles away, Mandahai's warlord Qing will arrive soon, and after announcing Mandahai's order, the faces of the two are ashen, and their complexions are even worse, as if they had eaten a stool.

But two Manchurian generals of the Qing army urged them to hurry up and urge the troops to go on the road.

Despite all kinds of reluctance, the two dared not disobey the order of the master of the Qing army, and urged the troops to go on the road.