Lord of Ming Dynasty

The two sides are chasing after each other, exchanging fire from time to time.

The enemy was already approaching, less than 300 meters away, and the firecrackers fired row after row, blocking the attack of more than [-] enemy infantry.

Two miles away, Zhang Qiang and the others are only two miles away from the city gate.

The city gate was wide open, a hundred cavalrymen filed out, and a thousand musketeers formed a formation, opened the city gate, and lined up on the side of the moat outside the city gate.

"South of the city, enemy cavalry, north of the city, enemy cavalry, west of the city, enemy infantry."

"There's still a mile to go."

"The enemy infantry in the north of the city has come around, and there are still three miles away."

Tang Dianfeng stood on the top of the city gate, listening to the scouts' reports, and watched Zhang Qiang's troops in the distance covering the supply troops and prisoners, supplies, and war horses, resisting and retreating steadily.

"One mile. Come on," he clenched his fists vigorously, leaned on the battlement, and looked outside nervously.

"My lord, my lord, the enemy is attacking from the east of the city. There are about [-] infantry and [-] civilians. The enemy is building a moat and destroying obstacles."

"My lord, the enemy is attacking from the south of the city. One thousand cavalry, five thousand infantry, and two thousand civilians. The enemy is fighting with our army's musketeers."

Here, at the west gate of the city, Zhang Qiang's central army and supply troops have reached the moat and are entering the city through the moat.

One mile behind, the Gunners were blocking the enemy. The enemy's [-] infantry were advancing one after another. From time to time, cavalry rushed into the Gunners' troops to kill them, and they were chased and killed by the cavalry led by Yang Yangyang. The two sides fought on the battlefield two miles away. .

"The horse has passed." Jin Qi said to Zhang Qiang.

"Well, speed up and let the baggage and prisoners pass." Zhang Qiang said.

The cavalry coming out of Pingnan County met the enemy cavalry attacking from the south and north of the city.

The infantry on both sides of Fan Shaozu pressed to the edge of the moat, and fought with the gunmen on both sides of the city. One side used bows and arrows, and the other used firecrackers.

"My lord, His Majesty the Emperor has already crossed the river." Jin Qi ran back again.

Zhang Qiang looked at the firecrackers, "Tell the firecrackers to retreat 200 meters."

He looked back at Tang Dianfeng on the city wall, and gave him a slight nod.

Tang Dianfeng turned his head and said to the general beside him, "The artillery fires."

"Boom, boom, boom." The artillery on this side began to bombard Fan Shaozu's infantry and cavalry.

Zhang Qiang said to a cavalry hunter: "Go and call Yang Yangyang's cavalry back and let them retreat."

With artillery and firecrackers, Fan Shaozu's infantry suffered heavy losses. In less than an hour of fighting, more than 1000 people were lost.

Fan Shaozu felt distressed, but faced with the credit at his fingertips, he still didn't want to give up. He said to the messengers beside him: "Let Lord Frey's musketeers attack the enemy's musketeers."

Here, Zhang Cunren's infantry and archers pressing up from both sides caused great damage to the firecrackers of the Jinhua Rebel Army on the other side of the moat. The firecrackers had to shrink their defenses and move closer to the city gate.

"My lord, all the prisoners have passed, and the infantry has started to cross the river. Shall we also start to cross the river?" Jin Qi ran back and asked.

"No, let the cavalry cross the river, go and call back the cavalry on both sides, and let the musketeers support them for a while."

Zhang Qiang observed the battlefield calmly.

The situation on the battlefield was not in his favor.

Suddenly he saw something even more unfavorable to him.

Chapter 1 Seventeen: The Arquebus Showdown

The gunners led by Gu Yuesheng had retreated another 50 meters. Facing the swarming infantry, the gunners had done their best.

Looking back, all the luggage, supplies, captives, and war horses had already entered the city gate, and the remaining civilians and some wounded cavalry and musketeers were moved to the bottom of the city wall. Hanging baskets were placed on the city wall to pull them up, speeding up the process of entering the city. speed.

And beside him, there were only 30 chasseurs left.

"dong dong dong,"

The battlefield suddenly fell silent. Six hundred Portuguese musketeers lined up neatly, holding matchlock guns, stepped forward, gradually approaching the musketeer troops led by Gu Yuesheng.

"Fire, the cannons on the city gate continue to fire." Zhang Qiang shouted to the wall behind him.

The stunned artillery immediately ignited and fired at the enemy's infantry.

Looking back, Gu Yuesheng led the gunners to retreat another 30 meters, leaving behind hundreds of gunners who were fighting hand to hand with the enemy. enemy attack.

Zhang Qiang grabbed the arm of a Chaser, "Let the [-] musketeers under the city wall cross the bridge and line up in front of me."

The hunting cavalry ran away, and the last dozen Jinhua rebel cavalry who had come out of the city to meet the enemy cavalry also returned. They hurried across the river and entered the city.

The city gate slowly closed halfway.

Yang Yangyang sent away the wounded cavalrymen and some of the cavalry corpses and horses they had snatched back, and took only [-] cavalrymen to line up beside Zhang Qiang.

The enemy's infantry began to surround Zhang Qiang and the others.

The Portuguese infantry had advanced to less than a mile from the city gate.

On the left and right of the musketeers were Portuguese artillerymen. They pushed forward the portable Fran machine guns and three-pound guns and moved forward quickly.

There are about [-] Portuguese Lancer guards on both sides. Dozens of infantrymen dressed like cans are standing upright, covered in plate armor, wearing straight iron helmets with small gaps in the iron helmets, while observing the outside .

"Order Gu Yuesheng's gunners to retreat." Zhang Qiang issued the order again.

Eight hundred gunners who blocked the enemy infantry just now quickly lined up on the bank of the river. Behind Zhang Qiang, they lined up in three rows of shooting, facing the enemy, and dealt heavy blows to the surrounding enemy infantry.

Fan Shaozu rode a horse and looked at the battlefield two miles away, "My lord, our army's artillery has been pulled up."

Fan Shaozu pointed to where Zhang Qiang and the others were, "Blow it up, blow it up hard, blow them up to death."

Gu Yuesheng led the troops back to a place 30 meters in front of Zhang Qiang.

At this time, of the more than 800 gunners, there were less than 400 left.

Tang Dianfeng has already moved to another place. Where he was just now, Yang Yangyang has replaced him. Yang Yangyang's cavalry has been handed over to Jin Qi to lead and line up behind the position.

What he had to deal with was Fan Shaozu's thousands of siege troops and Zhang Tianlu's [-] Qing troops attacking from the south and north sides of the city.

Tang Dianfeng went to the east of the city to direct the battle.

Zhang Cunren's army has launched an attack on the east, south, and north of the city.

With the help of more than 1 civilians, [-] Qing soldiers quickly filled the moat and pushed up tens of thousands of siege equipment.

At 300 meters, the Portuguese musketeers began to advance slowly, and the surrounding Qing soldiers stepped aside one after another.