Lord of Ming Dynasty

On this side, Zhang Qiang's firecrackers raised their matchlock guns one after another, shaking them, cheering and celebrating loudly, while there was a sound of mourning and exclamation, and some people fell off their horses in fright.

"Why are these musketeers so good?" Ruan Jie said to himself, a little puzzled.

A cavalry soldier beside him said, "My lord, you have never participated in the battle of Taizhou Prefecture. Master Fan's [-] troops were defeated by [-] musketeers."

"Is there such a thing?" Ruan Jie asked.

Qianhu of the cavalry said: "Yes, my lord, this matter is quite embarrassing, so Lord Fan strictly ordered the army not to talk about it, only saying that the rebel army is strong, and our army is short of food and grass, which is why we were defeated and lost the Taizhou government. Of course, this matter cannot be reported to the court. For some details, Master Fan is going to seek revenge against the Jinhua Rebels after he has accumulated strength. For this reason, he also contacted the Portuguese who also used firearms. You have also seen that the Portuguese sent 900 troops this time to help you defeat the Jinhua Rebels. Gunners."

Ruan Jie sighed deeply, and remembered Fan Shaozu's words, "We must block them there and wait for the army to come."

Perhaps at that time he had anticipated today's situation, the enemy's firearms were too powerful.

But Zhang Qiang touched the sweat on his forehead. He knew that the current firecrackers made in the Ming Dynasty, or even the matchlock guns made by the Portuguese, were not strong enough to withstand the cavalry. The speed is too fast.

The sprinting of one hundred cavalrymen on three sides is only six or seven meters away from the thirty firecrackers on the front line. As long as there is more force, even if only one cavalry rushes up, the thirty firecrackers The soldiers may suffer heavy losses. Most importantly, they lose the reloading time and firepower advantage. Even if that one cavalry is eliminated, the time they spend fighting the enemy in melee is enough for five or six cavalry to rush to the position.

Five or six cavalrymen, they can cause more than chaos to thirty musketeers, and more than just a time gap. If these are the white armored soldiers of the Qing army, only one person can kill thirty The fire gun soldiers discarded their helmets and armor, and two people can completely extinguish the fire gun soldiers, not to mention that there are not only two people, they can charge up to a dozen or even more infantry during this period of time.

How to improve the performance of firearms, replace them with better firearms, or add armor to these soldiers, add some melee weapons, or add some infantry to cover them, this is what Zhang Qiang has to think about.

"My lord, the enemy has retreated."

The soldiers around said to Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang raised his head to look at his opponent. The opponent seemed to be very smart. He would not fight him in a positional battle or fight him to the death on the terrain he chose. The cavalry ran away from them, but they did not give up on them. Surrounded by the rhythm of death here.

But what can this little person do?

Relying on the terrain, maybe you can last longer, go down and fight the cavalry?

This is almost the same as sending to death.

Chapter 1 Twelve Go Down and Fight the Enemy

Zhang Qiang looked at Emperor Longwu, whose emotions had stabilized. Emperor Longwu was looking at him. At this moment, Zhang Qiang was like Emperor Longwu's savior. Emperor Longwu felt that Zhang Qiang could not be separated for a moment. Such an urgent dependence on someone.

Having had enough of hardships, he always wanted to make a career without relying on others.

But the reality made him feel that without Zhang Qiang, he would not be able to survive for a moment.

Zhang Qiang turned his head, stopped looking at him, and looked firmly at the Qing army general riding a horse in the distance, "Go down and line up. We will fight them."

Pulling over the chasseur who tipped off the news, "Get ready for the signal. Once I send out the signal, you should signal Yang Yangyang to support us."

He turned to the hunting cavalry around him and said: "Everyone sits on a horse to protect someone, and when they see the signal, they rush out with them."

"Captain, Commander-in-Chief." The Chasers looked at Zhang Qiang one after another. They were Zhang Qiang's personal soldiers, and they couldn't accept that they were asked to protect others.

"Accept the order, obey the command, and execute it!"

At this time, Gu Yuesheng took the [-] soldiers that Tang Dianfeng handed over to him, and drove out of Pingnan County. Before the encirclement by the Qing army, Gu Yuesheng rushed to Zhang Qiang's place with fifty cavalry.

"One thousand gunners, one thousand infantry, five hundred captive soldiers, and fifty cavalry. Of course, there are also dozens of infantry and guard cavalry that Gu Yuesheng survived from the Battle of Dongshan Mountain Pass, 32 people."

The soldiers retreating from Nanshan and Ferry were defeated by the enemy's army in less than half an hour after completing the battle to intercept the enemy and cover them, and they fled all over the mountains and plains.

Tang Dianfeng lost 3000 captive soldiers, [-] young soldiers who had just joined them, and more than [-] trained soldiers from the Jinhua Rebel Army drawn from Taizhou Prefecture, as well as soldiers from Pingnan County. The original Ming army, government servants.

A total of more than 5000 troops.

The total force in his hands dropped from more than 8000 to more than 3000.

After Zhang Cunzhe's 5000 army defeated and defeated his rebel team and the regular soldiers of the Jinhua Rebel Army, they lost more than 3000 people, but captured more than 3000 prisoners, killed more than [-] rebels, and defeated several times the captive soldiers and rebels. Soldier.

At noon, Pingnan County was surrounded from all sides.

And sent 500 troops to chase Gu Yuesheng's [-] troops out of the city.

The sun was shining brightly, Frey wiped his sweat with his sleeve, and said to the officer beside him: "Captain, go and ask how long it will take to arrive?"

A captain of the Portuguese Lancers saluted and said, "It's the major."

Fan Shaozu didn't walk or ride a horse. He was sitting on a sliding pole, carried by four bearers. He heard the sound of horseshoes. He turned his head and looked at the cavalry captain in a reddish-brown military uniform and a cavalry breastplate, and asked. :"whats the matter?"

An interpreter translated his words, and the cavalry captain said: "Your Excellency, the major asked me to ask you, when can we reach our destination?"

Fan Shaozu turned his head to look at a local official, and the official said: "My lord, this is Gantang. If you hurry, you can go to the outskirts of Pingnan County in half a day, but if the army travels like this, it will take one day to go to Pingnan County. It takes a day and a half."

Fan Shaozu said to the interpreter: "Tell him, there is still a day's journey."

Frey heard what the cavalry captain said, cursed, and then continued to follow the army without speaking.

Fan Shaozu recruited a scout from the front, "Go and send someone to contact Ruan Zongbing to see what's going on there, and ask him to send someone to report to me."

Tens of miles away, in Pingnan County, Tang Dianfeng heard the report from the sentry, "My lord, the enemy is rushing to manufacture some siege equipment. It is estimated that the siege will start at night or tomorrow morning."

Tang Dianfeng said to the whistle: "Continue to investigate and report the situation of the enemy army in time."

Knowing that the enemy was not ready to attack the city immediately, he went to the back hall to take a rest.It was a day and night, and he didn't close his eyes.

Zhang Qiang, who was far away in Daqiao Town, was slowly walking down the hillside following the lined up firecrackers.

The infantry surrounded Emperor Longwu's party and Zhang Qiang's party in the middle, and the firecrackers formed a small team of 30 people, advancing towards the cavalry in a horizontal formation.

Ruan Jie watched Zhang Qiang and the others come down from the mountain, smiled and said to the people around him: "That's right, order a thousand cavalry to attack the front of the enemy, and you two cavalry who lost their hands go around and attack the enemy's back."

"I will crush the enemy in one fell swoop."

A thousand cavalry galloped up, and the momentum was terrifying.

As soon as Zhang Qiang and the others went down the hillside, the enemy had already rushed to a distance of 100 meters.

Without Zhang Qiang's command, the general banners had already ordered the squad to open fire.

The enemy's cavalry fell from their horses like dumplings.

After firing, the soldier ran back desperately, and stopped to reload immediately after running ten meters away.

120 people were shooting across the front.

After the first round, the second row continued to shoot. After they drove to the gun, they ran back again. This time it was not ten meters, but 22 meters.

The cavalry on the front of the enemy has lost more than 70 people.

But this is just a drop in the bucket for their more than 1000 troops.

When the third row fired, the enemy had rushed to a distance of 30 meters.