Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Qiang looked back at him, and Zhou Porridge immediately stopped talking carefully.

Zhang Qiang added another sentence, "Let the Ming army surrender and other prisoners watch the punishment, and execute it."

Chapter 53 History or History

In the Battle of the Abandoned Village at the foot of Bailuxi Mountain, although Zhang Qiang directly defeated Chen Jia's tribe, he was accidentally attacked by He Jin and suffered heavy losses. More than 400 people were lost in the First World War, and more than 300 people were injured.

Let Wei Wuji take his troops to escort the prisoners and the wounded to Mingwang Temple, while he took the remaining troops and supplies to Bailuxi Mountain to rest.

Hu Kui said to Zhang Qiang very depressed: "Is this how you let the Qing soldiers go?"

Zhang Qiang snorted coldly, "No way, you take the previously trained 45 firecrackers and the remaining [-] cavalry to attack and harass near Wuyi County. You can't make them feel better. Wait for me to rest for a while. , and fight them again."

"Yes, my lord, I'll go right away." Hu Kui happily drove his horse to carry out Zhang Qiang's order.

Zhang Qiang watched him leave and rubbed his chin. Although his headquarters had suffered heavy losses, he still had more than 100 people. But when it comes to attacking the city, it is definitely not enough to face the enemy's 2000 guards. It's okay if the enemy is nervous.

This time the enemy came with more than 7000 troops, but he wiped out more than 5000 troops. Liu Guangbi, who wanted to come to the city, must be scared to death. Bing can no longer threaten him now.

While harassing the enemy, he can rest for a period of time and transform captives. This time, at least 800 captives were captured. The food is not burdened by the people. The food captured by the troops in his hands and the food hidden earlier are enough for his troops for two years.

A total of five thousand stones of grain, and other food, a lot of supplies, a lot of captured weapons and armor, muskets, cannons, and the most horses, a total of seven or eight hundred horses, just eating grass gave him a headache, and he had to transform them For combat effectiveness, but this is the south, not many people can ride horses, Zhang Qiang is really embarrassed to find some cavalry talents, he only managed to cobble together 150 cavalrymen in the past two months, and 63 cavalrymen died after the first battle cavalry, lost [-] horses.

In Bailuxi Mountain, in a hidden valley, hundreds of captives are busy. They are building a cottage. The exits on both sides of the valley are built in the style of city gates. The mountain is dug up to build a hidden cave. Inside the cave The tunnel exits extending in all directions extend far away.

Mi Chun is leading soldiers to monitor the captives. There are 800 captives. Except for the stubborn ones who were sent to dig tunnels in the mountain, the others are leveling the land on the ground and building cottages.

Zhang Qiang took Zhou Congee to inspect the entire construction site, Mi Chun followed, "Mi Chun, this is very important, it is our public base, so you have to build it strong, no matter how strong it is, and pay attention to hoarding food and supplies, Be prepared to stick around for the long haul.”

Mi Chun said: "My lord, digging soil and cutting down trees every day, do we want to hide here for a lifetime?"

Zhang Qiang walked with his hands behind his back, looking left and right, "No, this place is just a bait for us to attract the enemy to attack. We will stick to this place for a long time. The great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty will not be achieved overnight."

Zhou Congee interjected, "My lord, where is Milin?"

"Well, where, it will be one of our secret bases. For bases like this, we need to prepare a few more, and be prepared to fight against the enemy for a long time."

Zhou Porridge asked again, "My lord, we have suffered heavy losses after this battle, and now we have no young men to replenish. Should we add some surrendered troops, at least some of the surrendered troops from the Ming army to our army?"

"Okay, it's been a month since you went to pick 200, and you performed well. You want to join our surrendered troops and add them to each army. In addition, you will transfer [-] archers from your army to join my firecracker team. "

Mi Chun said: "My lord, do you have to train all of them to become firecrackers? Even if your firecrackers lose dozens of people, there are still 400 people, and if you come to 200 more, that's not 600 people? Those firecrackers I Seeing that there are no archers, cavalry is useful, if we train more archers and cavalry, we have captured a lot of crossbows, so it is better to train a crossbow army.”

Zhang Qiang rubbed his forehead and thought for a while, "Okay, let's change your army to the crossbow army, and hand over the supply team to Milin, and you go to him to pick the [-] Ming soldiers who surrendered, and the Han army flag will Those who use crossbows, train a crossbow troop. From now on, we will have another long-range troop in our hands."

The days passed quickly, and two weeks passed in a blink of an eye.

The situation in the entire Ming Dynasty took a turn for the worse. After Li Chengdong was unable to attack the county seat of Jinhuafu for a long time, he left Ruan Dacheng to lead the [-] Ming troops to surrender, the Ming army guards, and [-] Han army flag troops to continue to besiege Jinhuafu. The [-] troops turned to carry out Boluo's demise and the order of the Longwu court.

Zheng Zhilong, who wanted to surrender to the Qing court, finally showed his fangs. He asked Shi Fu to retreat from Xianxia Pass and let go of Xianxia Pass. The Qing army's 3 vanguard troops went straight to Yanping Mansion. Li Chengdong's troops followed Heading towards Fuzhou, the road was like a broken bamboo, and Emperor Longwu fled to Tingzhou Prefecture in fright.

But what is different from the history is that because Zhang Qiang broke the siege of the Qing army in Jinhua Mansion, Boluo vomited blood, went back to Hangzhou to recuperate, and returned to Yanjing in August. Li Chengdong was responsible for all the things that went all the way to attack Nanming. , Ruan Dacheng cooperated, and there was no such thing as the Qing army's desperate pursuit of Emperor Longwu, and Li Chengdong did not pursue Emperor Longwu, but went to attack Fuzhou Mansion, so that Emperor Longwu stayed in Tingzhou Mansion, and gathered the officials and defeated soldiers who were loyal to him, and gained To take a breather and restore strength, and to control the time of the court.

Emperor Longwu was one of the few capable emperors in Nanming. He got rid of the control of the Zheng family. In half a month, his subordinates had already reached [-] troops and gathered generals.

At the end of August, they defeated the vanguard of the Qing army in Yanping Mansion and stabilized the front line in Yanping Mansion.

At this time, Chen Jia, who had fled back to the Jindong area of ​​Jinhua Prefecture, was planning to send troops to Wuyi County with Ruan Dacheng again.

After Ruan Dacheng received Chen Jia's defeat, he sent another 5000-strong army from Nanming to surrender Ma Bao, Ma Weixing, and Qi Sansheng to rescue Liu Guangbi.

A few days later, He Jin fled back to the Jindong area with his people. Ruan Dacheng reprimanded him, and then asked him to lead 2000 troops to follow Chen Jia to destroy Zhang Qiang's Nanming army.

Chen Jia led 5000 troops this time.

On the way, Chen Jia said to He Jin: "General He Jin, this time you are the vanguard, and my Chinese army will accompany you. The distance between you and my two armies should not exceed five li. We should support each other. Be careful, and don't rush in. You have been caught by Thief Zhang. count."

He Jin replied reluctantly, "It's my lord."

Back at the military tent where he was, a man ran in. He Jin saw that it was Lin Chengcheng's general, frowned and said, "Tian Bin, I didn't expect you to be smart when the time came, so you also ran back."

Tian Bin wiped the dust off his face, with a look of lingering fear, "My lord, the generals of the Ming army are too powerful, and they are stable and not chaotic in the dark night. Even if I try my best to mobilize their troops, it's just scratching their heads. The villain fought all night, seeing that nothing could be done, he had to retreat, took 50 people, traveled to many places, finally came back here today, and heard that he would send troops again, the villain had nowhere to go, so he had to come to you .”

Chapter 54 Defeating Enemy Reinforcements

In two weeks, Zhang Qiang trained two batches of rebel recruits, [-] troops, a batch of gunners, and a batch of infantry.

These are all surrendered soldiers from the Qing army. Although they are all surrendered soldiers, they have no combat effectiveness. They are all Weisuo soldiers, that is, Ming army militiamen who surrendered to the Qing army. The combat effectiveness is much lower.

They are all poor people. In fact, they are farmers with the title of soldiers. They have not received any formal military training, and they have maintained a simple nature. This also guarantees their loyalty to Zhang Qiang's army, making some The bad habits and habits of the Ming army will not be brought into Zhang Qiang's army.

The 180 wounded soldiers also recovered quite a bit, and at least [-] of them rejoined the army. In addition to Mi Chun's [-] crossbowmen drawn from the captives, Zhang Qiang's strength increased instead of decreasing.

Among Zhang Qiang's troops, those holding matchlock guns, which the Ming army called firecrackers, were called musketeers, and those holding Portuguese matchlock guns were called musketeers.

Comparatively speaking, the Portuguese arquebus guns were superior to the firecrackers of the Ming army in terms of workmanship and performance, so Zhang Qiang called them Musketeers, which means a relatively elite army.

Previously, he could only bring out [-] troops. This time, in addition to the few prisoners and supplies left by Mi Chun's [-] infantry, he also brought Wei Wuji, Xuanyuan Longfei, Zhou Porridge, and Mi Chun. With [-] troops, Hu Kui's [-] cavalry, his own [-] cavalry, and [-] musketeers, they went out again.

According to the intelligence sent back by sentry cavalry, there are four guards in Wuyi County with a force of [-], and Chen Jia's second attack force has two generals with a force of [-].

Compared with siege warfare, Zhang Qiang prefers field battles, because he can arrange the battlefield by himself.

It's a good day, sunny and sunny.

Zhang Qiang's troops lay in ambush in the forest five miles outside Lutan Town, and the Qing and Han army flags carried by Chen Jia were passing through the official road outside the forest.

Chen Jia learned his lesson this time. He Jin's troops were only five miles away from him, so it was very difficult for Zhang Qiang to strike at once. With 7000 troops attacking [-] troops, no matter how you look at it, he was at a disadvantage.

Chen Jia called a soldier beside him, and said to him: "Let Liu Guangbi bring people out to meet this general."

"Yes, Lord Chief Soldier." The personal soldier took five cavalry away.

The soldier beside him asked: "My lord, it's only twenty miles away, and you'll be there if you speed up, why do you still let Shen come to meet you?"

Chen Jia held the reins with both hands and looked into the distance, "The Ming army is cunning."

The soldier said again: "Are you afraid that the Ming army will ambush our troops?"

Chen Jia said with a smile: "Ming's army is small, so it's not possible to ambush them, but it's always right to be careful. It's very uncomfortable to blame Lord Ruan for losing troops for no reason."

While answering the words of the soldiers, Chen Jia recalled that Ruan Dacheng scolded him half to death when he went back. If the other generals hadn't interceded, he would have been pushed out and beheaded on the spot.

"This time we must wipe out Zhang Qiang's Ming army." He whispered.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the front queue, and a rain of black arrows flew out of the woods. Before the Qing army below could understand, another cloud of crossbow arrows flew out of another forest.

The Qing soldiers were caught off guard, and were beaten into chaos.