"It's a fight! It's great... It'll be a fight!"
Seeing that the defense line on the east side of his camp was already in a battle, Zhu Heji seemed extremely excited and could not help but gear up. He also smiled and said to Yang Qilong and Zhuge Zhengyang: "Tu Hai is putting all the chips in his hand." I want to make a big bet with the Gu family! Right Military Advisor, Zhengyang Zai, do you think you can win this one with the Gu family’s luck?"
How could you not win?
Zhu Heji is now the Lord of Macau, and with the blessing of Macau's gambling city...of course he will win every time he gambles!
Besides, Zhu Heji just "peeped" at Tu Hai's trump card, how could he not win? The question now is how big is the win?
"Your Majesty," Yang Qilong frowned slightly. His gambling luck has never been good, so he doesn't like gambling. "The battlefield is not like a casino. You should make a decision before taking action. Only by calculating your moves accurately can you win!"
"We must win! We must win!" Zhuge Zhengyang was already shouting. Zhu Heji and Yang Qilong looked back at him and found that this guy was counting his fingers in an imitation of his father Zhuge Yao... I don't know how many he counted?
"Forget it!" Zhuge Zhengyang said with a smile, "The founding of the state was based on water transportation, and my Ming Dynasty was a fire virtue... Now when we fight with fire and thunder, of course our Ming Dynasty will win! This time, Tu Hai will level the two vassals. The coffin has been weighed down by the bet. As long as we win this battle, where can Guangdong and Guangxi go?" He paused, "Sage, students think we can bet a little bigger... The sailors led by dad will also press forward to determine the outcome!"
The navy led by Zhuge's military advisor is now also in a formation on the open waterway north of Makou, Xijiang River, confronting Shi Lang's navy.
Zhu Heji has made an appointment with Zhuge's military advisor. Once they win on the battlefield of Guichengdu, they will light up the wolf smoke on Lingshan Mountain.
Once Zhuge's military advisor sees the smoke, he will order the navy to attack and drive Shi Lang's navy to fight. If the defeated Tuhai wants to take most of the defeated troops to Shaozhou, he will have to take the waterway.
If Zhuge's navy defeated Shi Lang's navy and burned the Qing ships, Tu Hai would probably have to abandon most of the Green Battalion and Han infantry, and flee with only his "supervising heavenly soldiers"... ...
"Not bad!" Zhu Heji nodded with a smile and said loudly: "Light up the smoke!"
He paused and then ordered: "Give Su Zhanhai an order to mobilize six battalions of infantry and twelve three-pound cannons from Qinjun Town, and hand them over to the command of Zhao Hongkui, the commander-in-chief of Zuojun Town... ..In addition, the artillery leaders belonging to these six battalions were not mobilized and remained below the pro-army town.
Give Lin Tianbo an order to do his best to repel the Qing Yao in front of him, and then launch an attack on Qing Yao's left wing! "
Zhuge Zhengyang took out a small notebook with a brush and quickly recorded the orders dictated by Zhu Heji.
Then Zhu Heji took out his special "Jin Yi Qianjun Commander" seal and stamped it on several orders written by Zhuge Zhengyang - this was the "token".
After several cavalry messengers came down the mountain with Zhu Heji's "token", Zhu Heji said to Zhuge Zhengyang: "Let's go down the mountain too... go to Su Zhanhai's place! Let's see how the Gu family fights. Explode the demon’s fire and thunder formation!”
After giving the instructions, he handed over his "Jin Yi Personal Army Commander" seal to Yang Qilong, "Once the demon clearing fire thunder formation explodes, let's launch rockets and issue a general attack order!"
Although Yang Qilong found Zhu Heji's words a bit unbelievable, he had seen so many "miracles" these days that he was no longer surprised. He immediately and respectfully accepted the not-so-large "big seal".
...
The gunshots crackled like exploding beans, and bullets rained like weaving. Coupled with the projectiles of the three-pound cannon and the general's cannon, you came and went on the battlefield, fighting in a ball. The Ming Army's Sky Thunder also began to show its power again after Qing Yao launched a full-scale attack. Together with Qing Yao's Sugar Thunder, it exploded clouds of smoke on the battlefield.
The corpses of the Qingyao green battalion soldiers and the feudal army flag soldiers wearing blue-gray cloth armors fell like wheat on the not-wide battlefield. Inside and outside the trench in front of the Ming army's formation, as well as near the wooden fence, there were layers of dead bodies, which was shocking.
However, Qingyao's offensive was still fierce. Wave after wave, 30,000 troops, like a stormy sea, started from noon on November 20, repeatedly attacking from the south slope of Dinghu Mountain in the north to the north bank of Xijiang River in the south. The Ming army's camps and positions retreated in waves, and came again and again.
Now not only the coffins of Ding and Ping vassals, but also the 20,000 green troops from the northern provinces brought by Sun Sike, the main force of the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong and Guangxi, and even the ownership of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces have all been placed on the map. Chips on the gambling table! Moreover, Emperor Kangxi would not chop off Tu Hai's head even if he lost the bet... He would not even hold Tu Hai accountable!
Because Wu Sangui has rebelled!
If Tu Hai hadn't taken a big gamble before the news of Wu Sangui's rebellion spread among the army and Wu Sangui defeated Yunnan and Guizhou and entered Hunan...the chips in his hand would have disappeared by then.
So Tuhai is now letting go of big bets!
Although Sun Yanling and Ma Xiong also knew Tuhai's trump cards, they were unable to attack Tuhai's pirate ship.
Because they can only surrender to Wu, not Zhu!
Sun Yanling was Kong Youde's son-in-law and Kong Sizhen's husband...and the reason why the Ming Dynasty encountered the crisis of heaven and earth, Kong Youde could not escape the blame!
If Kong Youde had not defected to Houjin and taken away a large number of Western firearms purchased from Macau, as well as the musketeers and artillerymen trained by Sun Yuanhua with the help of a Portuguese instructor in Macau, the Ming Dynasty might not have been able to turn things around.
Zhu Heji didn't even spare Shang Kexi's family, but could he spare the family and old subordinates of Kong Youde, the most sinful among the three kings of Shun?
Don’t even think about it!
As for Ma Xiong...he can defect to Ming Dynasty anyway. But Tuhai is leading the six hundred and eighty-banner heavenly soldiers behind him to supervise the battle! And if he can't show any prestige, what will he use as a capital to enter?
Guangxi's territory will probably be taken away by Zu Zeqing, a bastard who deserves to be sent to hell, right?
Of course, compared with Sun Yanling and Ma Xiong, Shang Zhijie and Yan Ziming are the most diligent. Shang Zhijie must be a dutiful son! Yan Ziming, on the other hand, was controlled by Shang Zhijie... so he had to pretend that he was "Shang Ziming" and fight along.
The two of them fought hard from morning to evening. Their eyes were red and their lips were chapped by the smoke that filled the battlefield. But the two of them remained motionless on the front line, watching helplessly as waves of their men filled the furnace-like battlefield in front of them, turning into cold corpses, or being carried away with scars. Come down and leave to die...
"It can only be defeated by all the efforts..." Shang Zhijie saw that the remaining strength of his Pingnan Palace was disappearing in front of his eyes like rapidly melting ice cubes, and he could only cry. No more tears.
...
"Quick, quick, move faster!"
"Stop grinding the powder, just mix it in..."
"Yes, yes, just use a shovel to mix... add sugar, gunpowder, and iron nails. Once mixed, reload!"
"Quick, quick, quick... Take out all the sugar fire thunders and pile them here! Hey, stay away from the open flames!"
Deng Zhong was shouting with a hoarse voice. He had been shouting like this for almost an hour.
The reason why he was so tired was because he did not have much ammunition on hand, but Tuhai did not allow him to withdraw... Although the Fire and Thunder Army did not achieve many results, it was a real factor in the morale of the entire army. .
The thunder cannot stop!
So he could only direct the firing of thunder, and at the same time direct his men to make mines... Fortunately, the army still had a lot of gunpowder, sugar, and iron bullet casings, so many fire mines could be made crudely.
Under his command, more than 200 thunder soldiers were working desperately to make mines. They used a big iron pot and a big shovel to constantly turn over the sugar, gunpowder and iron nails! The stirred "fire bombs" were randomly stuffed into cast iron cartridge cases. Then these fire mines loaded with medicine are piled up everywhere casually, and no one has bothered about safety production or anything...
