"Grandpa, it looks like Lu Bu is alive! He led two thousand cavalry out of the city."
On a particularly tall building on the Ganjiang River, Wu Shifan, the grandson of the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, put down the telescope in his hand and pointed at the lancers of about two thousand people spread out in an open field outside the Desheng Gate of Nanchang's North Gate, seven or eight miles away. , shouted loudly to Wu Sangui who was sitting in the cabin.
Wu Sangui was sitting in the cabin at this time, wearing a pair of reading glasses and holding a memorial. He looked at it carefully, and showed a rather proud smile while reading - this memorial was sent by Sun Jiqing from Guangxi!
Sun Jiqing originally planned to start a rebellion as soon as he arrived in Guangxi, but he was suppressed by Kong Sizhen who arrived later. However, Sun Jiqing still expelled the officials sent by Li Jizhen to Gui Haijun's territory, blocked the road to Wuzhou (which belonged to Guangxi, but was the territory of the Nanwang vassal), and began to recruit troops and prepare for war.
However, Kong Sizhen did not abolish his son's military governor of Guihai Navy, nor did he imprison his son. He only tried to persuade his son to change his mind and recognize Li Fuchen as his father again. At the same time, she also wrote letters to Li Jizhen in Zhaoqing and Wu Xiaotuo in Guangzhou, ensuring that "Li Jiqing" was only angry because his adoptive father was killed by Li Zhongshan and would not really rebel.
Li Jizhen and Wu Xiaotuo seemed to have been "deceived" by Kong Sizhen, so they did not send troops to Guilin to attack Sun Jiqing, who had openly implemented armed separatism.
And when the news that Wu Sangui sent millions of troops to attack the Ming Dynasty and conquered Hanyang, Wuchang, Anlu, De'an and other prefectures (actually only part of them were captured) spread to Guangdong and Guangxi, the Gui naval generals (mainly) who were still watching on the sidelines They were the old tribe of Dingfan), and all of them immediately supported Sun Jiqing in his rebellion. This group of people was also unlucky. They were originally an alternative in the system of Nanwangfu. They were neither reformers nor martial arts factions, nor were they Li Fuchen's nephew Yuan Cong was a complete outsider. He only became Li Fuchen's subordinate because of Kong Sizhen.
If it hadn't been for Li Jiqing's transformation into Sun Jiqing, they would have been able to remain as heroes of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. However, if Sun Jiqing makes trouble now, they will all be in trouble. But we couldn't kidnap Kong Sizhen and Sun Jiqing and sacrifice them to Li Jizhen. After all, neither General Li Zhongshan nor Southern King Li Fuchen ordered a crusade against Sun Jiqing and Kong Sizhen, so they obviously still wanted to win.
Turns out Wu Sangui looks pretty good!
So this group of people got angry, stamped their feet, and simply rebelled against Sun Jiqing!
Sun Jiqing got their support and immediately gave this memorial to Wu Sangui. Now Wu Sangui defeated Li Zhongshan again! Wu Sangui has been winning these days, and he is almost losing money!
Now hearing Wu Shifan's shouting, Wu Sangui put down the memorial in his hand, stood up and walked to the platform outside the cabin. He held the railing with one hand, took the telescope with the other, and looked in the direction of his grandson's finger.
In the telescope, two armies were confronting each other.
On Wu Zhou's side were five thousand cavalry led by Mang Yitu, who had just surrendered. Their task was to cover Wu Zhou's army division and get as close as possible to the lower village of Nanchang City.
Wu Sangui's plan was to "encircle his father and bring reinforcements". By besieging Li Fuchen, he would lure out Li Zhongshan, set up formations in Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake, and catch all Li Zhongshan who came from afar.
This strategy is actually a replica of Chen Youliang's strategy when he fought against Zhu Yuanzhang at Poyang Lake!
Although Chen Youliang failed to defeat Zhu Yuanzhang using this strategy, in Wu Sangui's view, Chen Youliang's failure did not lie in his wrong strategy of besieging Nanchang for reinforcements, but because he was not impressed by the reinforcements and was killed by the reinforcements. In the final analysis, it was Chen Youliang's army's poor combat effectiveness. , unable to defeat Zhu Yuanzhang's army.
If you can't beat him, all your strategies will be in vain!
So today he put the newly surrendered Mang Yitu in front, just because he wanted to see with his own eyes the strength of the Li family army.
Mang Yitu had a blood feud with the Ming Dynasty, and quite a few of his soldiers were from the Jiangning Banner Army and the Green Camp. Their families were all massacred by the Ming army, and they all hated the Ming Dynasty.
When following Yue Le and Jieshu to fight against the Ming army, their group has always been the most tenacious, and under the care of Yue Le and Jieshu, their equipment is also the best. Although there are not many cavalry, they are all wearing armor. , half of the soldiers were equipped with shotguns, and the remaining half were mostly equipped with both lances and bows.
In addition, Mang Yitu also had a small artillery force under his command, equipped with eight lightweight bronze cannons that could fire three kilograms of projectiles.
Seeing Li Fuchen leading two thousand cavalry out of Nanchang City, Mang Yitu's eyes immediately turned red - enemies are meeting!
"The disciples of the Eight Banners are all optimistic that the tall man riding the big horse is Wang Fuchen!"
Mang Yitu shouted, and people around him immediately responded.
"The person riding the big horse is Wang Fuchen!"
"The tall one is Wang Fuchen!"
Listening to these shouts, Mang Yitu knew that the morale of the people below was rising!
This is revenge for themselves!
Now Mang Yitu understands why Cantonese people hate Shang Kexi and his family so much.
The five thousand people in Mang Yitu have already set up a very traditional Chinese square formation, which is the kind with a square or rectangular outer ring and a roughly hollow inside, which can fit baggage, Chinese troops, cavalry, artillery and Reserve formation.
Mang Yitu himself, riding a war horse, stood in the center of the formation. Under his own general's flag, with bloodshot eyes, he looked fiercely at the Li family's cavalry who had spread out in two dense lines three to four hundred paces away. .
These iron cavalry look very "iron"!
The cavalry on horseback all wore pitch-black armor - a breastplate made of a single piece of iron hammered white, plus a suit consisting of arm armor, iron helmets and skirts. The whole suit was invulnerable. Come in!
And the horses under these iron cavalry are all wearing horse armor!
The men were wearing armor and horse gear, and they formed a dense horizontal formation of thousands of cavalry. Each cavalryman was holding a slender bamboo spear, obviously preparing to charge into the formation.
Seeing these cavalry slowly advancing toward them, everyone, including Wu Sangui who was far away on the boat, felt a little breathless.
Wu Sangui nodded lightly and said to himself: "Lu Bu is still quite capable. It's a pity that he is in the south of the Yangtze River and can't gather the large cavalry. If there are 20,000 such cavalry, even I won't be sure to capture him!" "
"Grandpa, how do you think Li Fuchen's cavalry compares to our Guan Ning Yi Ding cavalry?"
Wu Shifan on the side smiled and asked Wu Sangui.
Wu Sangui thought about it seriously: "Li Fuchen's cavalry should be stronger. The Manchurian white-armored soldiers back then were no more than that!"
"White-armored soldier?"
"Is it really that strong?"
Wu Shifan and Wu Shijue, two boys who grew up listening to the myth of how awesome the White-armored Heavenly Soldiers were, were shocked when they heard Wu Sangui's words.
Wu Sangui smiled and said: "Anyway, it's two thousand. Haha, Can Ming estimates that there are only two thousand elite cavalry there. It's better if they are all in Nanchang, so Geng Jingzhong and Sun Jiqing don't encounter them."
"Grandpa," Wu Shijue asked with a smile, "do you think Mang Yitu can stop him?"
"Yes!" Wu Sangui said with a smile, "Mang Yitu's five thousand cavalry are also rare elites, and they have a deep hatred against the Li family, so they are willing to fight to the death!"
"Grandpa, Li Fuchen's cavalry has stopped." Wu Shifan shouted again.
"Stopped? How far away?"
"Two hundred steps away!" Wu Shifan said, "The cavalry in the back row have all dismounted!"
"Two hundred steps away? Dismount in the back row? Are you going to do this?" Wu Sangui's expression suddenly changed and he roared: "No!"
When Wu Sangui knew it was "not good", Mang Yitu was still there in a daze!
What does it mean for this armored cavalry to dismount more than 200 steps in front of the enemy's formation? Storing power? Is this too close? Aren't you afraid that your opponent's cavalry will rush out? It doesn’t seem to work either. The people in the back are dismounted, but the people in the front are still sitting on their horses!
Just when Mang Yitu was wondering whether he should empty all the iron sand bullets in the small cannons and replace them with solid bullets to bombard the opponent's cavalry, he suddenly saw more than a thousand cavalry in the front row of the enemy formation in the gap. Eight or nine hundred dismounted cavalry carrying flintlock muskets emerged!
"Is this the musketeers?" Mang Yitu watched in disbelief as these dismounted musketeers quickly formed a team more than 200 steps away from his square formation, and then raised their guns to aim. At this time, he knew something was wrong!
He has also heard of a rifled gun that can kill people at a distance of two to three hundred paces!
However, this kind of gun is difficult to make and easy to damage, so he has never seen it very often. It is said that only Li Zhongshan's Shanziying soldiers are equipped with many of them. Are Li Fuchen's dismounted cavalry now equipped with rifled guns? Is this too much?
"Bah, bah, bah"
Before Mang Yitu could figure out what to do, eight or nine hundred rifled guns on the opposite side had already fired!
Eight or nine hundred rounds of "mini bombs" swept through Mang Yitu's formation like a whirlwind. The "Mang Army" shotgun soldiers standing in the front row holding matchlocks and being at a loss were immediately cut down like straw. A big piece. The "reckless" shotgun soldiers who were not defeated did not care about the distance between them and the enemy. They raised their matchlocks and fought back against the enemy. Almost at the same time, five of the eight three-pound cannons of the Mangyitu Army also fired with a rumble, spraying out a lot of thick smoke and iron sand, but it was completely unable to reach the enemy more than 200 steps away.
The advantage of "mini bombs" is not only that it can shoot accurately and far, but also reloads relatively quickly. So while Mang Yitu's artillery and shotgunners were still busy loading ammunition, there were another eight or nine hundred rounds of "mini bombs". "Coming roaring!
These eight or nine hundred armored cavalry are all sharpshooters that Li Fuchen trained for a long time. Normally they can hit a target three hundred paces away, but now they are shooting at a target two hundred paces away. It's not like a massacre. ?
By the time they finished several volleys of fire, Mang Yitu's phalanx was in chaos. Not only were the shotgun soldiers in the front row killed two to three hundred, but even the pikemen standing behind suffered more than two hundred casualties. As for the eight Next to the three-pound cannon with the door pushed forward, there were all scattered corpses and dying wounded. There were almost no gunners left who could move!
Mang Yitu already knew that it was impossible. Just as he was loudly ordering his men to retreat slowly, he suddenly heard another rapid blast of drums, and then he heard a horrified shout: "Cavalry. Lancers are charging!"
Mang Yitu quickly raised his head and moved forward. Through the thick smoke, he did not find any cavalry galloping ahead, but the rumble of horse hooves had already reached his ears.
"This, this Li Fuchen's cavalry is so strong!"
On the building ship, Wu Sangui, who was watching the battle from a high position, could clearly see that Li Fuchen's cavalry could not be invisible. They just used the smoke cover from the gun battle between the two sides to quietly gather on both sides of the dismounted musketry cavalry, and then formed a group of dozens of cavalry. , launched a "wheel assault" - one group after another rushed towards Mang Yitu's headquarters, which was beaten by rifle guns and the formation was in chaos!
The Mangyitu Department is mainly infantry, and the formation can naturally resist the cavalry attack. However, the formation of infantry cannot withstand the intensive firepower of rifled guns-the power of eight or nine hundred rifled guns with a fast firing rate is no less than Several red cannons firing shotguns!
How can any infantryman stand and be hit by the shot of the red cannon? Therefore, after a few rounds, they will inevitably collapse. Once they collapse, Li Fuchen's cavalry can come to kill people. This tactic is simple and effective. The only disadvantage is that it costs too much!
Rifled guns and armored cavalry are both very expensive. Li Fuchen combined these two expensive items into one expensive item, so why shouldn’t they be too expensive?
This is simply throwing money at people!
Is this bullying Wu Sangui for being the "poor emperor"?
"Failed, defeated"
When Wu Sangui, the emperor, just thought that he was too poor, a loud and noisy shout had already come from the battlefield on the east bank of the Gan River.
Mang Yitu's army has been defeated!
With just a few rifle volleys and a wave of armored cavalry charges, Mang Yitu's five thousand elites who were fighting in formation could only throw away their armor and flee. The battlefield was full of fleeing "reckless soldiers" who rushed towards the rear troops who were hurriedly lining up. As a result, they received another round of bullets and arrows, and then they turned to both sides of the battlefield and retreated.
This kind of attack power is much stronger than the white-armored soldiers back then!
However, Li Fuchen, who succeeded in the attack, did not hesitate to fight. After all, the enemy was outnumbered, and Wu Sangui seemed to have "a million-strong army". And just behind Mang Yitu's troops, a group of Wu family cavalry who had just disembarked from the ship were already there. The battlefield unfolded.
Li Fuchen's style of play is very good for dealing with the enemy's artillery and infantry. If it is used against the enemy's cavalry, it will not have much advantage.
Therefore, Li Fuchen gave up as soon as he could. He led the captured war horses, dragged several stolen artillery pieces, and escorted the prisoners who could still move, and withdrew to Nanchang City with cheers.
Wu Sangui, who witnessed the defeat of Mang Yitu and the strength of Li Fuchen's musketeers, frowned and stood there without saying a word, watching the victorious Li Fuchen lead his army back, and then he breathed out and said: "It's passed down. I have ordered all infantry units to immediately build shield chariots and use them to protect the front when arraying."
"yes!"
Loud responses from left and right.
Wu Sangui paused, and then whispered: "Prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, I want to reply to Sun Jiqing!" He then murmured to himself: "Fortunately, I have this chess piece. As long as Guangdong is in my hands, I will also There will be many rifled guns. It seems that if you want to conquer the world, you must have rifled guns!"
Zhejiang, Anji County.
The flag with the word "Jing" is dancing at the head of the county town!
This county was originally Liu Jinzhong's territory, but now that his surname is Geng, it was Geng Jingzhong who took it without a fight!
As expected, Liu Jinzhong had no intention of quarreling with Geng Jingzhong. When he heard that Geng Jingzhong's "hundred-thousand-thousand-strong army" had arrived near Huzhou, he retreated into the city of Huzhou Prefecture and defended it behind closed doors. Although he did not state which family he would surrender to, his actions showed that the two sides were not helping each other. It also gave way to Anji, an important intersection leading from Hangzhou to Guangde and Nanjing.
Geng Jingzhong, who is now stationed in Anji, has two roads laid out in front of him. To the northwest, he can first take Guangzhou to cover the flanks, and to the north, he can attack Nanjing!
Nanjing. He has another chance to enter Nanjing!
In Anji County, while he and Yue Le were looking at the map and discussing how to fight next, soldiers suddenly came to report: "Report to the emperor, more than ten thousand Ming troops have appeared near the Chashan Mountain north of Anji County, and they are fighting. Yingtian Tuanlian Monk Shu Zuocheng Chen Jinnan’s banner.”
"Chen Jinnan? Shangshu Zuocheng." Geng Jingzhong was stunned, "Is that Chen Yonghua?"
"That should be the case," Yue Le said, "Maybe he started howling Jinnan?"
Geng Jingzhong thought for a while: "Why is he here? Is there no one in Nanjing?"
Yue Le said with a smile: "Isn't there no one left? Liu Jinzhong is in Huzhou, Li Fuchen is in Nanchang, and Li Zhongshan has led his troops on board the ship a few days ago and also went to Jiangxi. Now the only people in Nanjing who can serve as commanders are Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao ”
"Haha," Geng Jingzhong clapped his hands and said, "This is great! I am not afraid of Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao. Here are the people coming. Beat the drums and gather the generals. This time I will go on a personal expedition to capture Chen Yonghua, the white-faced scholar! "
"yes!"
(End of chapter)
