Lord of Ming Dynasty

Xuanyuan Longfei rode his horse and ran to the bottom of the watchtower, and hurriedly climbed up, "What should I do, my lord? The enemy army is coming to attack."

Zhang Qiang twisted his neck and looked at the sky. There was no cloud in the sky, the cold wind was blowing, and occasionally one or two snowflakes floated down from the top of the watchtower. He sighed and said decisively: "Decisive battle, send troops."

Xuanyuan Longfei looked at Zhang Qiang with his mouth wide open, he must be joking.

I have only three thousand soldiers under my command, two thousand households, plus some civilian husbands and prisoners, if I can't hold the stockade, how can I send troops?

Zhang Qiang seemed to see through his mind, "Go back and prepare to hold on to the camp, I will lead the troops to attack, if I am defeated, you will lead the troops to flee back to Xianju County, lead the Duge Department, withdraw to Wuyi County, Jinhua Prefecture, and prepare to hold on. "

"What about you, my lord?" Xuanyuan Longfei asked worriedly.

"Hehe, I won't be caught. I will go back to Xin'an County, and then return to Yongkang County to stand firm. If it fails, we will withdraw to Jinhua County, Jinhua Prefecture and stand firm."

"This,"

"Go ahead, success or failure depends on it."

As soon as Xuanyuan Longfei left, several war horses came from the camp of the rebel army, and they also came straight to where Zhang Qiang was.

"The leader of the Linhai Rebel Army, Chen Hanhui pays his respects to the governor." The visitor, wearing a mountain armor and a Ming army hat, bowed down when he saw Zhang Qiang.

Chen Hanhui had already been wiped out by Fan Shaozu, and the time was not far away. Between October and November of 1646 last year, he should have died in history, but here, because of Zhang Qiang's time travel, he was rescued by loyal subordinates.

Later, he hid in the mountains and was disheartened for a while. When Zhang Qiang marched into Taizhou, he gathered a group of bandits from the mountains, recalled his old troops, and fought them out.

Playing hide-and-seek with the Qing army in the east of Linhai County, when Zhang Qiang's army was fighting against the Qing army, he led the rebel army to join Zhang Qiang first, and was appointed by Zhang Qiang as the commander of the Linhai rebel army. He has Zhang Qiang's support, so he has to be called the big leader on the surface. At this moment, he leads the rebel army to garrison the rebel camp, echoing Zhang Qiang's two camps, and confronting the Qing army.

"General Chen, at this time, I am about to fight a decisive battle with the enemy's central army. You lead the rebel army to stand firm in the camp and not attack. If I lose, you can run away. If I win, you will take the opportunity to attack and completely destroy the main force of the Qing army."

Zhang Qiang said to Chen Hanhui seriously.

"My lord, this is too risky for you. Why don't you stick to the camp and rely on the location to defend, and then ask for help from King Lu and Emperor Longwu. On the islands in the sea, there are still rebels and imperial troops resisting. I beg them to attack the enemy's rear. Partial pressure." Chen Hanhui said.

"No need," Zhang Qiang replied firmly.

"My lord, we can't go our own way. Our rebel army has suffered many times. We can't fight the enemy head-on. We need to attack from the enemy's weak points. In the current situation, we can only retreat and avoid their sharp edges. When the enemy retreats, we will wait for the enemy to retreat." Make a comeback," Chen Hanhui persuaded bitterly.

"I've made up my mind, there's no need to say any more, Commander Chen, take care." Zhang Qiang waved his hand after speaking.

Chen Hanhui took a step back, then another step, then another step, suddenly seemed to see through everything, patted his thigh vigorously, and let out a long sigh: "Alas—" Then he turned around and walked away. Running out of Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel camp, bypassing the approaching Qing army brigade, and rushing into the rebel camp before the enemy formed an encirclement of the rebel camp.

In the camp of the Jinhua Rebel Army, the drums of war never stopped.

"Tong Tong Tong" kept ringing, getting more and more urgent.

In every corner of the Jinhua Rebel Army camp, on the clothes, shields, and armor of each rebel soldier, there is a slanted blue slash from left to right on the lower waist, palm-width.

They are gradually gathering together, and then converging into streams, flowing to various vacant places in the camp, forming small rectangular teams, and these small rectangular teams, amidst the sound of shouting, flowed again and flowed to the camp. various defensive locations.

Amidst the yelling of the cavalry, more rebels ran out of the barracks, gathered in a large square on the large square, and then separated again. The cavalry column rushed out of the camp first, and spread out in small groups. Expand to the vast mountains in front of the entire camp.

Then one by one, the troops rushed out from the gate of the camp, quickly forming a battle line and a battle formation.

The Qing army on the opposite side was confused by their movements, and stopped temporarily to wait for them to line up and form a battle formation.

When Zhang Qiang took the 150 Chasers around him, like the last water poured into a bottle, they reached the rear of the entire battle formation. On a mountain, his general flag, a red swallowtail flag, was surrounded by a blue one. When the slashes were separated and fluttered over the battlefield, the war drum suddenly stopped.

The entire battlefield was silent.

It was as if a [-]-kilowatt motor suddenly lost power, and the huge roar suddenly disappeared from the ears of electromechanical workers who were used to it. Everyone felt a sense of loss and discomfort.

It was as if something had been taken from the body.

Chapter 82 Momentum

In the large formation of the Qing army, Pires and his companions, at the request of Fan Shaozu, also came to watch their battle to wipe out the rebels of the Ming army.

As a personal assistant to the governor of Portugal, he needs to observe the battle between the Ming Empire and the Qing army, and who will win in the end. At the very least, he needs to know whether the Qing army can occupy the Nanming sphere of influence in a short period of time. It is not a child's play to provide some administrative advice to the governor and who to make friends with. It determines the Portuguese colonial territory and who will eventually associate with the moat mirror.

After all, the Portuguese colonists have long realized that this is not the Mughal Empire, a seemingly powerful empire without borders, but it is basically a palace built of sand, which can collapse when the tide comes, and hundreds of Portuguese , can disrupt the entire empire, hundreds of British people, can fight tens of thousands of so-called imperial warriors crying father and mother.

Not here, they have worked hard, and they have not conquered this place after nearly 200 years. They are still tossing on the seashore in a tiny place. In the barren land where the plague was rampant, a new stove was set up, and it took decades of operation to see results.

They can't afford to offend the powerful dynasty on this land. When this powerful dynasty is having trouble with themselves, they need to choose whose side they will stand in the end. It mainly depends on who is the final winner. Let's see who is still holding down their territory around Haomenjing. Although they took advantage of the weakening of Nanming's power to occupy several small towns and two small counties around Haomenjing, they still don't think they have the ability to To advance on land, one must choose the winning side, and the victors stand together.

"Your Excellency Pires, it seems that this Ming army is more powerful, at least they seem to know more about the art of battle formation, compared with our army." The trench gate mirror infantry captain Rafael stood sideways to him. he said.

"Raphael, don't you see anything?" Pires didn't directly respond to Lafael's words, but asked rhetorically.

Rafael held the rein in his hand, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. A few seconds later, he suddenly shouted: "Swallowtail flag, Spanish phalanx, no, it's a weird formation. It's definitely not something that barbarians from the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty can understand." Yes, is there someone from Europe on the opposite side?"

Pires said, "It's the Spanish phalanx."

Rafael frowned and said, "The deformed Spanish phalanx,"

Pires said, "Yes."

"It's still a Spanish phalanx with wings."

Rafael smiled, and he glanced sideways at the commander of the Qing army in the distance, Fan Shaozu. The other party was dispatching troops, and the entire Qing army began to press heavily.

Pires looked at his smile, "Do you think the opponent is about to win? The Qing army has no chance of winning."

Rafael said: "At least, the commander of the Qing army whose troops are several times larger than the opponent will suffer heavy losses."

Pires was silent for a few seconds, "Yes, this will delay the Qing army's plan to unify the entire Ming land."

Rafael said: "Let the two sides fight, the more chaos here, the better for us."

Just when the two were evaluating the battle between the two sides, the Qing army and the rebel army were well prepared. The Qing army pressed forward carefully, while Zhang Qiang's army made great strides forward.

Behind him, the big drum on Zhang Qiang's side was beating rhythmically, "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom," according to the beat taught by Zhang Qiang.

And the war drums of the Qing army were beating fiercely, thump, thud, thump, thump, thump, endless.

Because the drums used by the two sides are different, the sound of the drums is very different, so that even if they are far away, they can be clearly distinguished.

A banner of the Jinhua Rebel Army, under the banner is Zhang Qiang's cavalry guards, behind it are several big drums consigned on an open carriage, on both sides are two long spear phalanxes to protect them, behind is a row of cavalry, scattered widely, no How many people, but protected the rear wing of the entire formation.

One general flag, one general flag's firearms troops, arranged in five rows, advancing in long horizontal formations, with a distance of about five meters between the long formations.

Behind the musketeers is the main force of the Chinese army in the Spanish phalanx formation with wings. In the front row of the main force of the Chinese army is a rectangular phalanx composed of three musketeers from a hundred households and a musketeer from a hundred households. At the bottom of the flying geese formation, followed by a sword player from a hundred households.

On the two wings, there is an archer from a thousand households, a crossbowman from a thousand households, behind the archers is a pikeman from a thousand households, a knife player from a thousand households, and behind them are two firecrackers from a hundred households, mixed with some The rebel infantry units, these are captive soldiers, are forced to take up arms to fight, and they are guarded by the firecracker units who wear waist knives.

The entire army is about 1 people, with more than 7000 main soldiers and 3000 auxiliary soldiers. Among them, many archers, crossbowmen, and pikemen were recruited from captives who surrendered.

The whole team, stepping on the drums, strode forward, forward, and the messengers around Zhang Qiang waved various flags to command the team.