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Chapter 1692 Break Zheng Zhifeng Again

"Boom, boom, boom!" Accompanied by bursts of rapid drumbeats, elite soldiers in heavy armor from the two divisions of the Rebel Army appeared outside the Shangyuan Gate.

Shangyuan Gate is the Guocheng Gate outside Nanjing City, located on Shihui Mountain.

Due to the terrain, Zhang Shun could not see the situation here from Yuejiang Tower, but Wang Ding could see the battle outside Fengyi Gate from here.

When he saw Wu Kong's personal guards defeating Xu Chengming like a broken bamboo, he couldn't help laughing: "His Royal Highness's personal guards have already won the victory of Fengyimen, and I can't be compared!"

At the same time as Wang Ding said this, most of Zheng Zhifeng's soldiers had already landed.

He has a total of more than 6000 men and horses under his command. Excluding the sailors and those left behind on the ship, there are a total of [-] men and horses available.

The 6000 men and horses were arranged into three square formations, spread out along the river bank.

The soldiers Wang Ding sent out were only two divisions of 1000 troops, which was not as large as Zheng Zhifeng's square formation. Two square formations were also formed, one on the left and one on the right outside the city.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The two sides had just completed their formation, and before they had time to make any moves, Zheng Zhifeng's boat began to fire.

It turns out that the three gates of Foning Gate, Shangyuan Gate and Guanyin Gate winding on the Shihui Mountain are all close to the Yangtze River, and only one mile away from the riverside, so the ships docked on Jiangmen can use Hongyi cannons to bombard the rebels outside the city gate. .

Under normal circumstances, the Hongyi cannon will not be accurate if it exceeds one mile.

However, there were so many artillery pieces on the opposite side, two or three iron bullets shot into the formation of the rebel army, killing seven or eight heavy armored elites.

"Bastard!" Seeing Wang Ding on the wall, he couldn't help cursing, and had to order, "The whole army goes out!"

Following Wang Ding's order, the two divisions of the rebel army lined up in a neat formation and pressed forward.

There are thousands of chapters and sentences in the art of war, but there is only one sentence "to the people but not to the people".

Then Wang Ding was a veteran general, how could he not know?

But now the situation is stronger than others, so he has to take the initiative to attack.

"Fire gunners fire!" Seeing the rebels approaching, Zheng Zhilong gave an order, and the sound of gunfire immediately rang out.

"Dangdang!" Most of the lead bullets hit the bright iron armor of the rebels, except for bending the armor and sparking sparks, it had no effect.

Of course, there were occasional rebel soldiers who were unfortunately shot and fell to the ground on the spot, but these were very few.

"Moving the hook?" Du Hongyu, who was walking forward in the formation, heard the sound of the gun and couldn't help being surprised.

However, he thought about it again, since firearms such as bird guns and moving hook guns came from the West, it is not surprising that Zheng's equipment is a little bit.

Thinking of this, he saw that he was already approaching the opponent's formation, and the Zheng Jianiao musketeers in front of him were retreating one by one, and the spearmen gradually appeared.

Du Hongyu's thoughts changed, and he couldn't help but ordered: "Get a Francophone!"

The blunderbuss can shoot eighty paces, while the Franji can only shoot fifty paces.

Under normal circumstances, Franji would naturally not be able to shoot at the blunderbuss.

However, not now.

The heavy armored soldiers of the rebel army had approached about twenty or thirty steps outside the Zheng family's formation, and they had reached the distance available for charging.

Therefore, Zheng Zhifeng had to order the withdrawal of the gunmen, preparing to let the spearmen resist the rebels.

However, Du Hongyu did the opposite, and instead ordered the bombardment with Francophones.

"They... what are they doing?" The spearman, holding the spear tightly in his hand, saw the heavily armored rebel soldiers who were ready to charge at any time suddenly stopped and gave orders, but instead squatted down to fiddle with something.

"Franji, that's Franji!" Someone had already seen it clearly, and couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Boom, boom, boom!" At this moment, the Francophone resounded, and countless cannonballs hit the Zheng family's formation like raindrops.

"Ah, ah!" The spearman was caught off guard, and was immediately hit by dense shells.

Some people escaped unharmed by relying on the protection of iron armor.

Unfortunately, some people were pierced through their armor, or injured parts that were not protected by the armor, and fell to the ground and screamed.

"Bastard!" Zheng Zhifeng was furious when he saw how cunning "Shun Thief" was, and he couldn't help but ordered loudly, "Kill him, kill him!"

Many of the Zheng family's soldiers were born at sea, and their many years of sea life have trained them to be brave.

When they got Zheng Zhifeng's order, they charged back decisively.

Due to the large number of soldiers of the Zheng family and the small number of soldiers in the rebel army, soon, except for the first formation of the central army, the other two formations surrounded Du Hongyu, Jiang Yaozu and others from three and a half sides from three and a half sides.

When Du Hongyu and Jiang Yaozu saw this, they were not surprised but delighted.

The two divisions couldn't help retreating a little, like a Taiji diagram, the first division transformed into a semicircle, forming a defensive circular formation, and fought with the Zheng family's three formations.

"What a thief, so powerful!" Zheng Zhilong couldn't help being extremely surprised when he saw the formation of the rebel army changing like flowing water.

He has seen a lot of enemies in the south, there are red-haired ghosts who are extremely proficient in bird guns and artillery, there are extremely brave Japanese pirates, and there are Franji who are extremely good at phalanx formation, and so on.

However, he has never seen such a fierce and tenacious man and horse, who will not collapse under the blows of Hongyi cannons and bird guns, and who will be surrounded by three sides and still fight.

However, fortunately, there are not many "shun thieves" in this group. If not, I am afraid that the ship will capsize today.

However, just when Zheng Zhifeng breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to welcome the imminent victory, suddenly a "rumbling" sound came from afar, either like thunder, or drums, or like an earth dragon turning over.

"Cavalry, cavalry, armored riding equipment!" At this moment, Zhu Dadian suddenly exclaimed.

"What kind of armor riding equipment?" Zheng Zhifeng looked blank, but he soon understood.

It was ten o'clock in the evening, and the sun shone from the west, shining on the cavalry and soldiers in front of them, and pieces of dazzling light flickered.

"Knight, this is a knight, oh, my God, help me!" At this moment, Zheng Zhifeng's Frankie mercenaries quickly reacted, and couldn't help shouting in a strange tone.

Yes, this is the last cavalry in Wang Ding's hands, a fully armored cavalry covered in bright iron armor.

In fact, this armored cavalry is no different from the previous armored cavalry of the Rebel Army, and it is also a half-armored cavalry.

The horse on which he sits is only equipped with the front half parts such as the chest and neck guard.

However, even such a half-armored cavalry cannot be easily resisted by the soldiers under Zheng Zhifeng's command.

"Pikeman, spearman, turn around and go up, go up!" Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help shouting anxiously.

"Dang Kouhou, it's over, let's go, let's go!" Seeing this, Zhu Dadian couldn't help trying to persuade Zheng Zhifeng.

Are you kidding me, in your current situation, can you withstand armor and riding equipment?

"Master, you don't know, my phalanx uses the method of Frangji!" Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "The gunmen are used to attack the enemy, and the spearmen are used to block the cavalry. There is nowhere to go. unfavorable."

"Teacher, please be safe and don't be impatient, just watch me break it for you!"

No, are you serious?

Hearing this, Zhu Dadian looked Zheng Zhifeng up and down, and couldn't help but fled to the boat without looking back.

"Ah, you." Zheng Zhifeng didn't expect Zhu Dadian to be so timid, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: No wonder the state affairs are at this point, it turns out that the civil and military people in the city are so greedy for life and afraid of death
It's too late, it's too soon.

Just when Zheng Zhifeng was full of emotion, the armored first flag of the righteous army slammed into the spear array fiercely.

"Huh, stop it!" Zheng Zhifeng was taken aback, and was relieved to see that the spearmen were not defeated.

"Kill, kill!" However, he never expected that the first flag had just crashed, and the second flag followed closely behind.

However, it is the third banner, the fourth banner, and the fifth banner, which repeat themselves like endless.

"Ah, this..." Zheng Zhifeng couldn't help but turn ugly.

"Ah, run quickly, I can't stand it anymore, I can't stand it!" Soon, the spearman who had endured several impacts began to collapse, and the gunner who was covering behind was exposed again.

"Kill!" Wang Ding, who was out of breath, saw that the formation had been broken, he couldn't help shouting, and excitedly led his cavalry to kill the general again.

"Kill!" Seeing that the Zheng family's phalanx began to become chaotic, Du Hongyu and Jiang Yaozu couldn't help leading their heavy armored soldiers to fight back.

For a while, the Zheng family's phalanx was in chaos, and was led by Wang Ding, Du Hongyu, and Jiang Yaozu to charge repeatedly with heavy horses and heavy steps, and it collapsed not long after.

"How is this possible?" Zheng Zhifeng couldn't believe her eyes.

He never expected that his number of six thousand to fifteen hundred would suffer such a disastrous defeat!
Zheng Zhifeng was finally dragged onto the boat, but Zhu Dadian had already been waiting for a long time.

He knew that Zheng Zhifeng was a little unconvinced, so he couldn't help but commented: "The Zheng family's sailors are all good men, but the armor is not as good, the discipline is not as good as the training, and the training is not as good as the man. Now I have nothing but bravery, how can I get things done?"

(End of this chapter)