Lord of Ming Dynasty

At 200 meters, the Portuguese soldiers put down their muskets, raised them, and started loading.

At 100 meters, the artillery on the city head exploded in their ranks.

Five or six Portuguese soldiers fell immediately.

The Portuguese soldiers advanced another ten meters. Under the call of the officer, they squatted down and took aim. The three-pound guns began to shoot at Gu Yuesheng's firecrackers.

But Zhang Qiang and the others were pushed up by larger cannons, shot by the red cannons of the Qing army. For a while, there were endless screams, and limbs flew all over the place.

The Portuguese soldiers were also having a hard time. While they were bombarded by the artillery at the top of the city, they also had to be shot by Gu Yuesheng's firecrackers.

Even the Portuguese infantry, who were like iron cans, were injured from time to time. They couldn't hold the cannon, and at the same time, bullets hit some weak places, which could also hurt them. They had already suffered more than 30 casualties.

The Portuguese musketeers fired a volley, but at a distance of 100 meters, facing the Jinhua Rebels' musketeers wearing chain mail, they did not do much damage, and only unlucky ghosts would be hit.

One for one, they also injured more than 30 people.

Zhang Qiang didn't want to confront them at this distance, "Order Gu Yuesheng to retreat another 20 meters, squat down, spread out, line up in two horizontal lines, squat down, and the firecrackers will advance ten meters and line up behind them. The three platoons fire in rotation."

With such a change, the firepower of Zhang Qiang's side finally equaled that of the enemy's [-] Musketeers.

They retreated, the Portuguese advanced, and more than 500 firecrackers advanced 30 meters, approaching Gu Yuesheng and the others, and the distance between the two sides was 90 meters.

Row after row of muskets fired in salvo, and the smoke filled the battlefield.

The Portuguese were able to receive the bombardment of the artillery from the top of the city closer, but Gu Yuesheng and the others had more gunfire support from the rear, and their firepower became stronger.

If the other side kills 30 people, this side can kill 40 people and injure a dozen people.

Frey was already extremely shocked.

This is the first time he has led the Portuguese musketeers to encounter such a large-scale musketeer resistance on the eastern battlefield. In the past, the Qing or Ming armies were always defeated by one blow. With superior mobility and strength, they attacked their own positions, but most of them were quickly defeated by the superior firepower of several sides, retreated, and then were hunted down. This happened every time.

This time, he found that he had bumped into a tough opponent.

The opponent's ability to use musketeers was no less than that of the Portuguese. If the opponent's muskets were not as good as his own, and if there were not tens of thousands of Qing infantry behind him, he already wanted to retreat with his soldiers.

In the short less than half an hour of the confrontation, ten infantrymen were killed on my side, twenty infantrymen were injured, and seventy musketeers were killed or injured. What if we continue to fight?His total strength is only nine hundred.

Although the opponent was in a confrontation with his own side, the casualties were even greater. It can be seen that the opponent has already fallen a hundred firecrackers, and there are more than 50 people who were injured and pulled back.

There are cannons on the other side's walls to help, why not on my side, not to mention the four three-pound guns I brought, but the six red cannons behind, a dozen Fron machine nine-pounders, eight six-pounders, compared The enemy had more powerful firepower, but in the end, the casualties on one's own side were so heavy, and the enemy's firecrackers resisted so resolutely.

He realized that he couldn't go on like this, so he drew out his command knife, "Forward, forward, press down to a distance of 50 meters and fire."

he yelled.

After the Portuguese infantry fired a round of volley, they began to line up and lined up neatly, marching forward against the firepower of Zhang Qiang's side.

80 meters, seven infantrymen fell.

70 meters, [-] musketeers fell,

At 60 meters, another fifty musketeers fell, and the cavalry waved their spears and began to charge.

As a result, fifty cavalrymen fell down at a distance of 30 meters, while Gu Yuesheng's gunner retreated 20 meters and turned to rest behind the 800-meter gunner.

This time, Frey was ruthless and continued to push the team forward. After 70 meters, eight hundred musketeers fired, firing in turn.

Thirty musketeers fell, sixty cavalry fell, ten cavalry fell, two infantry fell.

Another thirty cavalry fell, and the enemy cavalry struck.

Three hundred cavalrymen collided fiercely and killed each other.

Gradually the cavalry moved away, clearing the battlefield for them.

At 50 meters, the Portuguese stood still and started firing salvos. Eighty musketeers fell.

Another volley came, and sixty musketeers fell.

This time it was the turn of the musketeers to fire.

In one round, a hundred musketeers fell.

In another round, 120 Musketeers fell.

A stray bullet hit Major Frey, who fell from his horse.

The enemy's infantry began to charge under the hail of bullets.

One round of bullets hit it, nothing happened, another round, [-] infantry fell down, and the remaining dozen infantry rushed in front of the firecracker soldiers. After a flash of swords and swords, the team of firecracker soldiers was disrupted.

"Papa papa" a round of short fire from the chasseurs wounded them again, and then the horses rolled over, and the Portuguese infantry was wiped out.

Zhang Qiang's musketeers are busy forming a team here, while the Portuguese musketeers are busy forming a team over there.

Gu Yuesheng's gunfire soldiers rolled up from behind, stood at a distance of ten meters, and fired a volley. The Portuguese gunfire soldiers immediately fell down more than a dozen people, and at the same time, seven or eight Portuguese cavalrymen who had just passed the open space between the two sides were knocked off their horses. Of course, three volunteer cavalry were killed by mistake.

"Press it up." Zhang Qiang roared angrily when he saw the slightly neat team of gunners.

There were less than 180 gunners left, and when they passed Gu Yuesheng's gunners, they fired a salvo. On the front of the battlefield, 200 Portuguese musketeers fell, and more than [-] Qing soldiers from Fan Shaozu and [-] cavalrymen was killed.

The Portuguese formation was in disarray, the musketeers discarded their muskets and began to flee, behind Zhang Qiang led the cavalry to pursue, and behind Gu Yuesheng led the musketeers to harvest the enemy.

Under the impact of the Portuguese, the Qing soldiers behind were also in chaos.

This chaos spread to the Qing soldiers attacking the city wall on both sides, and the Qing soldiers who had not crossed the river left their comrades and fled to the back.

Like a flood, the Qing soldiers of Fan Shaozu and Zhang Tianlu were thrown into disarray, and a major defeat was inevitable.

Yang Yangyang sent elite infantry out of the city to pursue them in time, and the battle lasted until dark before both sides stopped fighting.

Fan Shaozu discarded a lot of cannons and supplies, and retreated for [-] miles. Zhang Tianlu bypassed the city, took the remnants of the defeated generals, and retreated to Zhang Cunren's Qing camp nearby.

Affected by them, Zhang Cunren had to stop his siege of Pingnan County, but the Qing soldiers in these directions were still strong, and they were not defeated, they just retreated.

Chapter 1: The Enemy and Ourselves

No fighting tonight.

After the great victory, the Qing soldiers did not continue to attack the city.

The Qing Army of Yanping Mansion led by Liu Liangzuo had already reached the place where Zhang Qiang fought Fang Anguo.

Looking at the messy battlefield, Ma Bao said to Liu Liangzuo, "My lord, it seems that the Qing soldiers were defeated here very badly."

Liu Liangzuo said: "It's more than disabled. Three thousand cavalry were annihilated in Changqiao Town, and the general Ruan Jie was captured. Here, five thousand Qing infantry soldiers were defeated, and 2000 were captured. The general was beheaded. Although Zhang Qiang also The loss was heavy, but I still know from the captured deserters that they have gathered reinforcements from Pingnan County, and they have grown stronger again, not to mention making up for the loss, and making those gentry and tyrants who are around the corner hear the name of the Jinhua Rebel Army No, trembling with fear."