At this time, Dagukou City was heavily guarded, and the city gates on all sides were firmly closed. On the gate tower directly facing the west, the right division command flag and the right division commander flag were erected, and at the same time, thunderous drum sounds were made! The walls on the southwest sides were also crowded with black heads. The soldiers of the left division of the new army looked at the Manchurian soldiers who were getting closer and closer with horrified eyes. The officer commanding them also held his breath nervously. Although the enemy is still far away, an invisible sense of oppression is already coming!
Most of them are veterans who have experienced battles for a long time. Before joining the new army to overcome the difficulties, they had been in other Ming army ranks. Even the new recruits Danzi protected the emperor and the prince all the way from Beijing. Those who fought their way to Dagukou had accumulated more or less battlefield experience. But the sudden appearance of the Manchu Tatars at the gate of Dagukou still made them shudder.
These are Tatars!
If they were rogue bandits, with this amount, everyone would have already asked to go to battle to earn the silver reward.
But facing the Tatars, let alone two or three thousand, even if there were only two or three hundred people, no one dared to fight lightly!
Wu Guoyong, who personally went to the west gate tower of Dagukou to supervise the battle, just pressed his hands on the crenels and stared intently at the Dagukou Sea Road Pier four or five miles outside the west gate. He gritted his teeth for a long time, but could not make up his mind to send troops to set up defenses there - Dagu There are two important piers outside Kou City, one is the sea pier, and the other is the ferry pier to Haisha Island.
Once the two docks are lost, Dagukou will become an isolated city. The isolated city cannot be defended!
Moreover, there are a large number of wooden buildings on the two docks. After they are demolished, the available wood can be used to build siege equipment. By then, Dagukou City will be even more undefendable.
But Wu Guoyong thought about it repeatedly, but still couldn't make up his mind to go out of the city to fight. Just when he was frowning and thinking hard, the deputy general Qin Mingtao next to him suddenly pulled him: "Look! Reinforcements are coming!"
"Reinforcements?" Wu Guoyong was stunned, "Where did they come from?"
"That side of the pier!" Qin Mingtao said, "The sea pier...should be from Haisha Island!"
Wu Guoyong looked up and saw a fleet of dozens of sand boats and canoes, led by two centipede boats, Dalongtou and Erlongtou, appearing on the Weihe River near the Hailu Pier. .
"How is this possible?" Wu Guoyong took a breath, reached out and took a monocular telescope from a soldier, and began to look in the direction of the fleet. When I looked around, I found that a large sand ship sailing at the front actually had six dragon flags of the Crown Prince, a flag of the three armed forces and a red flag that I had never seen before. There were still black characters on the red flag, which could not be seen clearly from a distance. After a while, he saw seven black characters clearly through the eyepiece.
"Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated..." Wu Guoyong muttered softly, "Why did the Crown Prince raise such a banner?"
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"Zhang Jing, look over there!"
A white-armored soldier beside Duolong, the first warrior in Manchuria, also discovered the fleet on the Wei River.
Duolong glanced in the direction of the white-armored soldier's finger, immediately reined in the reins, and raised his arm to signal the entire army to stop.
His horse had stopped firmly, and he jumped lightly on the saddle. His heavily armored body was as flexible as an ape, and he stood firmly on the saddle.
Geng Zhongming, who was following Duolong, took out his own telescope and handed it over in a flattering manner. Duolong took the telescope, opened it and looked at the fleet, and he let out a sigh as soon as he looked at it.
"Zhang Jing, what's wrong?" Geng Zhongming asked next to him.
"I saw six dragon flags, one flag for the command of the three armies, and one... flag for the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao!"
Of course Duolong can read! How can you read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" if you don't know how to read? At his age, he is no longer the first generation of the Eight Banners, but the second generation of the Eight Banners. He has been to school since he was a child.
"Six dragon flags...The crown prince of the Zhu family has come in person? And he is carrying the flag of Emperor Taizu Gao's reincarnation?" Geng Zhongming snorted, "What does this mean? Does the little prince of the Zhu family think he is Is Ming Taizu reincarnated? Even if he is really the reincarnation of Zhu Yuanzhang, he will be defeated but not victorious when he encounters our Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers!"
Duolong put away his binoculars, parted his legs, slid down the saddle, and sat firmly. His equestrian skills were indeed handsome, and all the Eight Banners soldiers around him cast admiring glances. Duolong smiled proudly: "If Zhu Yuanzhang is really here, we may not be able to win. We have to let the regent take action personally to win.
But people cannot be resurrected... Now that the Ming Dynasty is over, there will no longer be such heroes! "
"What Zhang Jing said is absolutely true!" Geng Zhongming nodded, "Not only does the Ming Dynasty have no heroes who can fight against the Qing Dynasty, but there are no elite soldiers in the world who can fight against the Qing Dynasty's heavenly soldiers.
Zhang Jing, that little prince of Can Ming really doesn't know how high the sky is, and he doesn't know how to fight even if he thinks about it. There is no need for the heavenly troops to come out, just let me take the Han army with the Zhenghuang flag to occupy the dock. "
Duolong smiled and waved his hand: "There is no need to occupy the pier...let them go ashore! Only when they get ashore can we catch them all!"
Geng Zhongming immediately picked up Brother Thumb, with a flattering look on his face: "High, really high! Zhang Jing's military skills are so exquisite that I can't even match them."
Duolong laughed loudly, waved his arm and said: "Get off your horses, take a rest, eat something, and wait for the Red Thief Prince to come ashore and die!"
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"Is that the Mantatars? Why are they all wearing the same colors as our Ming army?"
On the big dragon's head, the neatly dressed Zhu Cixiang also held up binoculars to look at the official battlefield situation.
"Reporting to Your Highness, those Manchu Tatars are indeed wearing the war coats and armor of our Ming generals. They were also wearing the banners of 'Deputy Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses on behalf of the King' and 'Governor of Ji Liao'. They were arrested because of the wrong banner. I saw through it."
The person who was reporting to Zhu Cihong was Tian Xiucai. His and Yu Daren's performance in the "Battle of the Floating Bridge" had been reported to Zhu Cihong by Qin Mingtao. Tian Xiucai himself was also sent to Haisha Island to report the enemy's situation to Zhu Cixiang face to face.
Zhu Cixiang nodded and asked, "Is it possible for these Manchu Tatars to fight?"
Tian Xiucai said: "Some of them were just average. When they were attacked by mad cows, they fell into a mess and fell into the water and drowned many of them. But there were also some who were very powerful. They didn't panic at all and even threw long spears at the cows. If it weren't for these powerful Tartars, Son, the pontoon will not be thrown away so quickly."
"Master Chitose, those Tatars throwing spears should be Bagala warriors, that is, white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers." Wu Xiang came up and said, "These people are the elite of the Tatars, and they are all carefully selected warriors. He has superb martial arts skills, even more powerful than the Yiding Cavalry of the Guan Ning Army!"
"Haha," Zhu Cixiang smiled and asked Hao Yaoqi, who was standing next to him, "Are you afraid of waving the flag?"
"Don't be afraid!" Hao Yaoqi said with a smile, "No matter how good his martial arts skills are, he can't stop the fire blunderbuss!"
Wu Xiang shook his head: "Tatar soldiers are not afraid of firecrackers... If they could defeat the Tatars with firecrackers, how could they be so arrogant today? Moreover, the Tatars also have firecrackers and red cannons, both of which are It was those traitors like Kong Youde who brought them there, they are very powerful! In addition, North Korea also has fire rifle soldiers, and now they are also used by the Manchu Tatars!"
Zhu Cixiang looked at Hao Yaoqi again, and Hao Yaoqi snorted: "He's not the opponent of our Central Normal Division's Forward Association!"
"Okay!" Zhu Cixiang praised, "We must have this kind of momentum! Wave the flag, it will be up to you later!"
Hao Yaoqi raised his hand and said, "Don't worry, Lord Chitose, Waoqi will definitely let the Tatars know how powerful our new army is in overcoming difficulties!"
On the side, Wu Xiang and Wu Sanfu, father and son, sighed - Hao Yaoqi, a bandit, really doesn't know how powerful the Tatars are!
After this battle, the entire army will probably be wiped out...
Old Wu gave his son a wink, which meant that the prince must be saved!
Wu Sanfu nodded. He had been prepared for a long time and selected 500 elites with superb martial arts skills from the left and right associations of the middle division. As long as something goes wrong on the battlefield, they will protect Zhu Cixiang and retreat to the sand ship, and then escape.
"Master Chitose, the Tatars don't seem to be planning to occupy the dock." Li Ruolian, the commander of the Zuo Division, was also following Zhu Cihong. He had been observing the movements of the Tatar soldiers and found that they had dismounted and rested.
Wu Xiang said: "That's deliberately letting us go ashore!"
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "Then go up! Wave the flag! Tell your people to prepare!"
"Here!"
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