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  Chapter 340 338 [The first confrontation with the rogues] (add more for the penguin boss)

  Huangmei County.

   Li Zheng and Xiao Zongxian brought only a thousand civilian husbands.

   A few days later, there were nearly ten thousand civilian husbands!

  Huangmei County and Jiujiang Prefecture are only separated by a river, and many residents on both sides are relatives.

  What kind of life is it in Jiujiang? Can the people of Huangmei County not know?

   Propaganda instructors and the backbone of the peasant association shouted along the river and lake, and countless farmers carried hoes and killed the heads of the tenants, and ran to help the Datong army in the war.

  They didn't do anything else, they just filled the moat with soil and helped transport some supplies.

  Do not get paid, just take care of food.

   Seeing the moat being filled up little by little, the guard Wang Ziqi was quite worried. Although there were not many enemy troops besieging the city, the equipment looked scary. Compared with the two, the soldiers under his command were like beggars.

  The whole army wears armor, even the cooks wear leather armor!

   Fortunately, the enemy army is not in a hurry to attack the city, and seems to want to... besiege the city and fight for reinforcements?

  Guangji direction.

  The spies reported back: "General, the enemy's situation has been ascertained. The enemy has thousands of soldiers, and they have recruited nearly ten thousand civilians in Huangmei County."

   "Thousands of soldiers, just want to take the city?" Sun Kewang sneered, "The whole army is going!"

  Sun Kewang's internal affairs capabilities are extremely strong, and now all of Zhang Xianzhong's sites belong to Sun Kewang's side that develops best.

  In just one year, Sun Kewang's military rations can already be self-sufficient.

  However, this person has great ambitions.

  After the military supplies are self-sufficient, immediately expand the army. He didn't want to stay in Huangzhou to defend Zhao Han, and kept trying to fight. Susong County was defeated this year, and he planned to fight Taihu County next.

  Develop the territory, expand the army, hoard food and grass, and occupy the entire Jianghuai!

  Zhang Xianzhong asked Sun Kewang to command 20,000 troops, but he secretly already had 30,000 troops, which did not include the guarding troops along the river.

   Fart bigger territory, raise tens of thousands of troops, and still be self-sufficient, one can imagine how the soldiers are treated.

  Almost only rations are given, and it is impossible to pay military salaries. Anyway, the land is allotted to the soldiers, and the soldiers can recruit tenants to farm the land to support their families.

   Not counting the investment in military equipment, but only in terms of rations and military pay, what Zhao Han spent on raising one soldier was more than enough for Sun Kewang to raise ten soldiers!

   It may seem scary to say it, but it is not outrageous.

  The military salary of a Datong soldier is only 70% of that of a Guanning army. The Ming court really paid a high salary to support soldiers.

  The difference is that the Datong Army is all paid, and the quality of food in the army is very good.

  Sun Kewang personally led an army of 20,000 to fight towards Huangmei County. The subsequent assembled troops all went to Huangzhou and Qizhou to defend the city, so as not to be attacked by the Datong navy.

   With an army of 20,000, plus 30,000 civilians, Sun Kewang claimed to send 100,000 troops.

   "It's finally here." Li Zheng had been waiting for a long time.

  Both sides didn't do any tricks, after they set up their own camps, they fought in front of the line.

  Sun Kewang wanted to lead the cavalry to attack Huang Shun and Fei Yinggong outside Susong City by surprise. But he learned that the enemy army in Huangmei County was only a few thousand, so what a surprise attack, just eat the enemy in front of him.

   There are many enemy soldiers, and there are also in the city. Li Zheng lacks cavalry and dare not run to attack at night.

  Li Zheng was cautious, so he simply withdrew from the siege to avoid being attacked by inside and outside, and shrank into a ball to prepare for a decisive battle.

   "This guy is very timid," Sun Kewang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "As soon as Lao Tzu came, he didn't besiege the city anymore, and he didn't give him any chance. I guess it's useless to attack at night. Let's take a day off and fight hard."

  Sun Kewang and Li Zheng had a very good understanding, and they both chose the land a few miles west of Huangmei County as the battlefield, where the farmland was mainly dry land.

  The rice hadn't been harvested yet, and Li Zheng didn't want to damage the crops.

  Sun Kewang wanted to take advantage of the cavalry, and there were too many paddy fields for the horses to run.

  Of course, Li Zheng is not a pedantic person. He chose the dry land as the battlefield because he was afraid that the enemy would run away, so how long would he have to wait to get the results?

  The two sides lined up slowly, and Sun Kewang gathered the entire army of cavalry, a total of 1,200 cavalry, all of which were handed over to the general Feng Shuangli.

   "Da da da da!"

  Feng Shuangli came with cavalry, trying to disrupt the formation of the Datong Army.

   "Array, raise guns!"

  Five thousand regular soldiers, one thousand of them are gunfire soldiers.

  The gunfire soldiers in front of him came out, but Feng Shuangli did not dare to charge straight, and led the cavalry around the flank of the Datong army.

  The Datong Army quickly rearranged and marched firmly and calmly towards the enemy.

   Walk slowly, because there are artillery.

   "Woo~~~~"

  Sun Kewang blew the horn, as if giving some order.

  Feng Shuangli immediately led the cavalry, abandoned Li Zheng's army, and went straight to the camp on the bank of Leichi. This guy wants to take the opportunity to seize the camp, kill the peasants, and burn the food and grass.

   "Boom boom boom!"

   Still far away from the camp, Gu Jianshan immediately ordered the navy to fire.

  Dozens of artillery shells hit, only hitting two horses, but still scared Feng Shuangli enough.

  As for the lakeside camp of the Datong Army, the sailors had already disembarked to defend, relying on the camp to hold their muskets and prepare for the battle.

   "There is an ambush, retreat!"

  With so many muskets displayed, Feng Shuangli dared not to charge to the village on horseback, so he had to lead his cavalry back to the battlefield.

   Among the thousand and two hundred riders, some horses were more than 1.35 meters high at the shoulder, and some were less than 1.23 meters high at the shoulder. Anyway, the mounts were very messy, and the equipment was also very messy. Some carried the standard equipment of the Ming cavalry, while others only carried lances and sabers.

  Running back and forth, many horses lack physical strength and gradually fall behind.

  Sun Kewang's 20,000 infantry marched in ten square formations.

   There are all kinds of arms, and there are even special firearms units.

  Firearms are also varied. In addition to the more popular bird guns, there are even three-eyed guns from the early Ming Dynasty.

  The armies of both sides, after marching to a certain distance, chose to stop.

  Of course the chief general has something to do, while observing the enemy's situation, while rectifying his own formation.

   It's just that Sun Kewang rode out on horseback and went to the front of the battle to observe with the naked eye.

  Where Li Zheng was sitting in the middle army, he took out the binoculars.

   After observing for a while, Sun Kewang really couldn't find any loopholes, so he waved his hands and divided his troops to outflank. 12,000 people attacked from the front, surrounded by 4,000 people on each side, and 1,200 cavalry behind them.

  Li Zheng's army was soon surrounded on all sides.

  The cavalry led by Feng Shuangli, after a short rest, began to attack from behind.

  Li Zheng transferred 300 firecrackers to line up specially for the cavalry.

  Feng Shuangli's cavalry unit rushed to a distance of sixty paces. The Datong soldiers neither fired nor appeared flustered, they just waited in neat lines.

   "What ghost soldier is this?"

  Feng Shuangli was so frightened that his vest was sweating, he quickly stopped charging, and divided into two teams to turn left and right.

   Unless the iron can heavy cavalry, the rest of the cavalry units are impossible to charge directly. It is nothing more than repeatedly pulling, rushing over and coming back, creating a psychological deterrent to the enemy.

  Ordinary township troops can withstand two or three intimidations at most, and they will be frightened by the cavalry and their formation will become chaotic.

   But these big soldiers in front of them frightened Feng Shuangli, who was in command of the cavalry!

   Not to mention the chaotic formation, facing the charge of the cavalry, the large synchronized pawns did not even move their feet, like sculptures standing on the ground.

  The effect of standing in the military posture is reflected.

   Just when thousands of infantry circled to the sides, Feng Shuangli assembled the cavalry to rest for a while, and launched a threatening charge against the Datong Army again.

  He felt that the charge last time was not close enough, so he planned to charge about fifty paces this time.

   "Da da da da!"

  The ground was trampled by horseshoes and kept shaking, but the Datong soldiers remained motionless.

"shoot!"

   "Shhhhhhh!"

   At a distance of forty or fifty steps, the cavalry began to shoot arrows.

  The Datong soldiers didn’t bother to hide, only the rattan player raised his shield to protect his face, neck and other vital points, and the gunfire soldiers stood behind the rattan player all the time.

  The arrows were shot crookedly, at a distance of forty or fifty steps, facing the well-armored Datong army, the horse bow can cause effective damage.

  Feng Shuangli was going crazy, he had never seen such an army.

  Two intimidating charges, plus a round of volley, could only make the enemy's rattan hand raise the shield.

   What the **** is going on?

   On the frontal battlefield, Sun Kewang's infantry advanced again, encircling them from three sides.

   "Test the gun!"

  Xiao Zongxian held up the binoculars and said.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  Ten artillery pieces fired one after another.

  Most of them were smashed crookedly, but three artillery pieces landed in the enemy's formation.

  One of the cannonballs first smashed a head, then crippled an arm, and then rolled all the way and broke several legs.

   "What kind of gun is this? It hits so far!" Sun Kewang was shocked.

  Zhang Xianzhong's army also has artillery, but the number is small, and they are all Zhang Xianzhong's. Sun Kewang is not qualified to lead the artillery team for the time being.

  Sun Kewang drew his saber and shouted, "March faster!"

  The ten cannons in Li Zhengjun's army all adopted the barrel cold casting technology of the Portuguese in Macau, directly doubling the range!

  Rushing halfway, another volley of ten guns was fired.

   This time the shooting was more accurate, a total of six shells hit, plowing the **** passage in the enemy's formation.

   Two of the phalanxes were chaotically formed by the artillery. Although they did not collapse directly, they seriously slowed down their progress.

  Two years ago, Zhang Xianzhong had only tens of thousands of soldiers.

  Now, his righteous descendants are expected to have tens of thousands of soldiers.

  How high can the training be?

  Faced with the chaotic formation, Sun Kewang could only order the other troops to advance, and the two phalanxes stayed behind to adjust their formation before leaving. Otherwise, once the formation is chaotic during the battle, it is likely to become a breakthrough for the enemy.

   "Woo~~~"

  Sun Kewang had someone blow the horn again, ordering Feng Shuangli's cavalry to rush forward.

   In all directions, all speeded up and trotted towards Li Zheng's army.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The artillery was fired again, shooting flat at close range, and ten shells plowed the bleeding gully.

  Then the cannon can no longer be fired, the distance between the two sides is too close, and it is too late to reload. Melee infantry and firecrackers quickly stepped forward to block in front of the artillery.

  Sun Kewang roared loudly: "The military law team steps forward!"

  It was a unit recruited this year, most of which were recruits, and were directly defeated by artillery. That scene was too terrifying, with blood and flesh flying everywhere, the recruits couldn't bear the fear in their hearts at all.

  These defeated soldiers were hacked back by the military law team.

  Amidst the chaos, Sun Kewang's frontal line was crooked. Some walked fast, some walked slowly, and the sides were not hit, but they ran the fastest.

   There is no way to line up again, and the firecrackers dare not go forward alone. Sun Kewang can only order the whole army to charge, otherwise the opponent's artillery will shoot again.

  Disregarding the chaotic charge of the formation, he wanted to pile up Li Zheng to death by virtue of his superior force!

  Sun Kewang's firecrackers fired from a long distance away, and the archers followed behind.

   Li Zheng didn't care about the enemies rushing from both sides, and only let the wolf soldiers, spearmen and rattan players deal with them. No matter how many enemy troops there are, the width of the battlefield cannot be expanded. The Datong Army seems to have a small number of people, but in fact it has a partial strength advantage.

   There are 700 firecrackers on the front and 300 firecrackers on the back, waiting calmly.

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  Shooting front and back almost at the same time, a super close range of thirty steps.

  Sun Kewang only heard a burst of gunshots, and a row of frontal troops charging forward suddenly fell down collectively. Bursts followed, and the second row fell down again.

   The formation of the pawns was chaotic when they charged, and then they were divided into two rounds of shooting by the 700 guns. The two troops in front of them collapsed in an instant, and when they fled, they also crushed a new recruit army next to them, and then formed a big rout like a contagion.

  The cavalry charging in the rear was ordered to charge closer, and was beaten by 300 gunfire salvos.

"kill!"

   "Doo doo doo da da da doo doo doo da doo~~~~"

  The Datong Army, with only 5,000 men, even started to charge from three sides, chasing and killing the enemy with 20,000 troops, only the side facing the cavalry remained unchanged.

  Sun Kewang divided his forces to outflank the two-wing troops, with as many as 8,000 people. It was not broken at first, but when they heard the Datong army blowing the charge horn, and saw the Datong army suddenly screaming and killing, it was only then that they realized that their frontal friendly army was defeated.

  The whole army collapsed!

  Sun Kewang was so frightened that he fled the battlefield with a few personal guards on horseback, and soon joined the remnants of the cavalry who had fled back.

  Sun Kewang has an army of 20,000. Those who can really fight tough battles, including those cavalry, can have three to four thousand.

   This guy probably won consecutive victories in Hubei. He thought he was very powerful, and he dared to bring a large number of recruits into battle.

  More than 10,000 recruits and 30,000 civilian husbands were all thrown on the battlefield by Sun Kewang.

  On the side of the Datong Army, only 18 people were injured by bows and arrows, one person was killed and six were injured by firecrackers, and 25 people were stabbed by enemy infantry.

  One was killed, three were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured.

  The entire army is armored, with excellent weapons, and a strict formation. It is only accidental that there are large-scale casualties.

  Sun Kewang fled far away on horseback, and asked Feng Shuangli: "Why did the cavalry repeatedly attack without success?"

  Feng Shuangli wanted to cry but had no tears: "I have never seen such soldiers. No matter how they charge, they shoot arrows, their feet don't move. If it were an officer army, they would have been crushed long ago."

  Sun Kewang hesitated to speak, and finally sighed: "Withdraw to Guangji to gather the remaining soldiers, and don't fight with the surnamed Zhao again. From now on, I will train soldiers well, and I can train soldiers like this."

  (end of this chapter)