Iron blood Suiming

The most important thing is that it will be easier to gain Li Kaiguo's trust by going through life and death with an adult, and life in the navy will not be so sad in the future.

Seeing that the morale was available, Li Kaiguo immediately ordered the Haicang ship to turn eastward and escape from the fleet of Zheng's navy.His goal of sinking the troop carrier has been achieved, and he can return to the voyage at this time, but before returning to the voyage, he has to interrupt the masts of all the three-masted gunboats to delay the time for the warships to rescue the Ming army.

Soon, the Haicang boat slipped out of the range of Zheng Jun's fleet without anyone noticing.Seen from the outside, twenty super fireballs are burning on the sea.Zheng Jun's warship had given up using water dragons to press the seawater to put out the fire. The fire was too big, so they had to do their best to rescue the Ming army who jumped into the sea.

It's just that most of the Ming soldiers who couldn't swim couldn't wait for rescue, and sank into the sea after splashing in the sea for a while.The surface of the sea was like boiling water, splashes of the Ming army were everywhere, and the whole body of the Ming army fell into the sea on fire. The scene was horrible.

Li Jianguo kept scanning with his supernatural eyes all the time. He knew the situation on the sea at a glance. Seeing that as long as he restrained the rescue speed of the Zheng army's warship, more than [-]% of the Ming army could be wiped out. How could he retreat like this? ?

Li Jianguo immediately ordered that all four Francois machine guns be replaced with explosive bombs. He wanted to beat Zheng Jun so overwhelmed that he was unable to rescue him.A gunboat that was nervously rescuing the Ming army was constantly pulling people up.Dozens of ladders and hundreds of ropes were thrown down early, allowing the fallen Ming army to climb up. From a distance, dense black spots covered the hull of the gunboat under the light of the fire.

Li Jianguo immediately decided to attack this large gunboat, and without hesitation, he immediately ignited four cannons.The large gunboat was doing its best to save the Ming army, without any protective measures at all. Four flowering bombs fell on the gunboat evenly, and exploded almost at the same time. Amidst the loud bang, nearly three hundred Zheng Jun and Ming Jun were killed by the shrapnel of the bomb.

The casualties were so heavy that the number of people was too dense. The entire deck was full of people, shoulder to shoulder, and it was impossible to blow up fewer people.Zheng Zhihu was about to burst into anger, and he saw the enemy ship killing his soldiers in front of him and blowing up his ship, the flames of anger could almost be breathed out from his lungs.He immediately issued an order that all warships stop rescue.They all spread out and formed a fishnet formation to pull the net in the direction of the bombardment to find the boat.

Zheng Jun's naval division had long held back their anger, and at this time received Zheng Zhihu's irrational order, they all gave up the rescue of the Ming army who fell into the water and opened their formation.Head east.

The governors of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the commanders-in-chief of Jiangsu and Zhejiang looked pale, looking at the Ming troops struggling on the sea.My heart aches like death.It's not that they love soldiers like children.But at this time, every Ming army died tragically, and the court's guilt in the future will be increased by one point.

Suddenly hearing Zheng Zhihu's order not to rescue but to chase down the enemy ship, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was furious and shouted: "Zheng Zhihu, what are you trying to do? It is a serious crime to refuse to save them."

Jiangsu General Soldier was also very angry.He pulled out his waist knife violently, but before he could step forward and put on a show, Zheng Zhihu's cronies had already pointed dozens of knives at them.

The Zhejiang General Soldier was also furious.But he was angry on the surface and happy in his heart. He said sharply: "Zheng Zhihu, if you don't rescue, the army will suffer heavy casualties, and you will bear all the responsibility for these crimes." His words reminded the angry governors of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. soldier.

These two also came out of the crowd, and they immediately understood the intention of the Zhejiang General Soldier. This was to shirk responsibility and put all the responsibility on Zheng Zhihu, so as to reduce their charges.

Immediately, the two also shouted repeatedly, shouting: "That's right, Zheng Zhihu, you rescue him quickly, otherwise we will jointly sue the court and punish you for an incurable crime."

Zheng Zhihu had a violent temper. He was a pirate, but he couldn't understand the meaning of these three treacherous people.But although he didn't understand its meaning, he was rough and subtle.He didn't bother to distinguish, and with a big wave of his hand, he ordered the three of them to be imprisoned, waiting for Brother Hou to deal with them.He didn't have the time to toss with these three corrupt officials, and he had to continue chasing the enemy ship.

This is how he handled it when he was a pirate. Whatever he did, as long as he was in doubt, he would let his big brother Zheng Zhilong help him clean his ass.The governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the other three people were shocked, thinking that Zheng Zhihu was going to kill them and blame them all, they were about to resist, only to feel that they had been hit hard on the head, but it was Zheng Jun who knocked them unconscious with the handle of a knife, and then resisted until They were locked up in the prison on the ship, and the soldiers of the three were also dealt with together.

Without the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang who kept chirping, Zheng Zhihu could immediately let go of his hands and feet.While they were arguing on the boat, two more bombardments from the Haicang boat of the Lingshan Guard were finally locked on by the Zheng Jun warship.Immediately, all Zheng Jun's warships surrounded them, especially the sentinel ships, which were the fastest, biting Li Kaiguo and the others tightly.

Although the Haicang boat was also retreating at full speed, it was still approached by dozens of gunboats.Li Kaiguo looked at the approaching gunboats, smiled coldly, and immediately turned the muzzle of the guns, aiming each gun at a sentry ship. After firing four consecutive shots, the four sentry ships sank into the sea.

Zheng's troops were all pirates. Although Li Kaiguo hit every shot and sank four sentry ships with four shots, the other sentry ships still pursued bravely and did not retreat at all.While waiting for the gunpowder to be loaded, Huang Hailong sighed: "Look, my lord, the Zheng family deserves to be called the wolf of the sea, they are tiny sailors, and they are brave and fearless. No wonder so many pirates were wiped out by the Zheng family before." gone."

As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of cannons were heard, and Zheng Jun's gunboat began to shell. After a breath, dozens of water columns rose from the sea around the Haicang boat.

Although it looked scary, the Lingshanwei sailors on the Haicang boat didn't care.At a distance of three miles away from the Zheng Jun Navy, let alone dozens of shots at a time, even hundreds of shots at a time, it is difficult to hit a large gunboat that is driving at high speed, let alone their medium-sized gunboat that is driving in the dark. Haicang ship.

So the sailors loaded the ammunition in an orderly manner, and then signaled that the ammunition was loaded, and the adults could fire the cannon.Li Kaiguo smiled and said, "Don't always be ambitious of Zheng Jun. Look at the sailors of our Lingshan Guard, aren't they also calm in the artillery rain?"

While speaking, he fired four more shots, destroying four sentinel ships again.The sailors of Lingshanwei were very obedient, and as soon as the four cannons sounded, they immediately turned their rudders to avoid the coming shelling.

Sure enough, after seeing the shelling flames again.But within three breaths, the sound of dozens of cannonballs came again. The howling sound of the shells flying could tear people's eardrums, but the shells still fell through again.

In this way, Li Kaiguo commanded the Haicang boat to fight and flee, but within an hour and a half, he actually cleared all of Zheng Jun's sentry boats, and disabled more than a dozen small and medium-sized warships.Finally Zheng Zhihu felt distressed. He knew that this strange enemy ship could not be dealt with in the dark night, so he immediately retracted his formation.Wait until dawn.

Li Kaiguo watched Zheng Jun retract his head like a tortoise, smiled coldly, and said, "Let's go back to Lingshanwei." The Haicang boat immediately turned to the north and sailed towards Lingshanwei.On the way, Li Jianguo encountered six Lingshan sentry ships who had been observing the situation from a distance.Li Jianguo ordered them to leave five fleets to monitor Zheng Jun's fleet at sea, and one to return to Lingshan Island to report Haidongguan's battle situation.Let him drive out all the naval warships and wooden ships.Drive to Lingshanwei, he has an important use.

The bright moon was still shining on the sea full of broken planks drifting and floating corpses swollen everywhere. After two hours, the shrinking Zheng Jun fleet finally waited for the first wave of fleet led by Zheng Zhibao.Zheng Zhibao looked at the twenty troop carriers that had not been completely extinguished by the moonlight, and hurriedly sent people to rescue them.

He happened to have twenty empty log boats.But it was too late by this time. After three hours of rescue, when the sky was slightly bright, only [-] Ming troops were saved.A total of [-] Ming troops.Only four thousand Ming troops survived.

Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Zhihu looked at each other, both of them were rough people, but no matter how rough they were, they knew that the matter was too big.Zheng Zhihu gritted his teeth and said, "Go back and find Big Brother, we can't resist this matter." They also didn't care about going to trouble with the enemy ship last night, so they immediately turned around and went back to Fuzhou to find Zheng Zhilong.

These two guys were all careless, and none of them thought of notifying the Ming army on the land, so they went back to Fuzhou.

The Haicang boat sailed against the wind to Lingshanwei. It was already dawn, but there was still more than an hour's journey from Lingshanwei.Huang Hailong counted the time and said, "My lord, I'm afraid Lingshanwei has already taken over the Ming army at this time." Li Jianguo nodded, but he didn't mean to worry at all.

He has already sent someone to inform Feng Guoyong where the enemy is coming from. If Feng Guoyong can't even stop the [-] Ming army for half a day, then Li Jianguo should not fight for hegemony, but just find a place to spend his life never mind.

What Huang Hailong said was correct. At this time, the Lingshan Guards and the Ming Army had indeed contacted each other, but they did not meet the fire.The [-] forwards of the Ming army marching on land arrived at Chaoyang Mountain at dawn.

The name of Chaoyang Mountain is very bluffing. In fact, it is just a small hill by the beach. The mountain is not high but densely forested, and people cannot leave in the forest. Moreover, although Chaoyang Mountain is low and densely forested, it extends continuously to the west. Connected with Huashan, Gushan, Jingtaishan, and Doiyazishan, the access to Lingshanwei Town was blocked for as much as thirteen miles.

Moreover, there is only a small path in the mountain, and one person can pass it. If the army detours, it will take at least one day to open the path.Therefore, the [-] forwards of the Ming army could only pass through the space about two miles east of Chaoyang Mountain to the beach.It's just that before the forward of the Ming army arrived, they were rewarded for not accepting at night, saying that the road in front of Chaoyang Mountain that could be passed by the army had been camped by the Lingshan guards, blocking the way.

The vanguard of the Ming army led the lieutenant general in surprise. They marched cautiously this time. They didn't even do the usual things of harassing the local area and poisoning the people. How could the Lingshan guards find their presence?He had a bad feeling in his heart, and hurriedly led thirteen generals to lead the troops to investigate. He saw that on the endless road, a wooden fence camp had been set up, connected with Chaoyang Mountain, blocking the route of the army. .

One of the generals laughed loudly and said: "Lingshan Guard seems to have no generals, but he actually set up camp in his own way without setting up horses, antlers, trenches, etc. Our army can overturn his camp with just one charge. " He laughed a few times, but he couldn't hear the voices of his colleagues. Looking left and right, he saw that the generals and the lieutenant generals were all shocked. He quickly fixed his eyes and saw that there was a push out in the gap between the camps. There are at least 100 cannons at a glance, and they are still being launched.

The general stopped laughing immediately, but was choked on saliva and coughed again and again.The deputy general was horrified, and said: "How can there be so many tigers squatting on a small Lingshan guard?"

One of the generals calculated quickly, and he said with a heavy face: "My lord, although the tiger squatting cannon has a short range, it cannot attack from a distance. But all of them are shotguns, and one cannon can produce a hundred irons. If our army rushes close One shot from these 130 seven-armed tiger cannons could kill nearly a thousand of our army in no time."

The generals were shocked, 130 seven, which is too much.One of the generals shouted: "How can a small Lingshan guard have so many small cannons? In mine, there are only five small cannons issued by the imperial court, which is less than a fraction of them."

Another general smiled bitterly and said, "I know, this is when the city of Dengzhou was broken, and all the craftsmen of the Dengzhou battalion were moved to Lingshanwei. These craftsmen can not only make tiger crouching cannons, but even red cannons."

Immediately, the generals gasped.There are more than 100 tiger squatting cannons alone, so how many red cannons and Fran cannons can be left?Presumably, the Lingshan Guards also hid a large number of red cannons and Franco cannons behind the formation.

In fact, they don't know that it is very difficult to cast the Franco cannon and the red cannon, while the tiger crouching cannon is the easiest to cast.Most of the red cannons and Frang machine guns were taken to Jinan by Li Kaiguo. Lingshanwei had less than five red cannons and ten thousand jin Flang machines, which were hidden behind the real defense line two miles away.Just discharged more than 100 tiger squat guns.Just to intimidate the Ming army, scare them first.To stall for time.

This is the idea of ​​the ninth thousand households.Feng Guoyong followed good advice and adopted it immediately.The effect was very good. The forwards of the Ming army were too scared to attack. Just kidding, they fired with more than 100 cannons in one shot.Who dares to lead troops forward to attack?

The forward lieutenant immediately decided to wait for the arrival of the rear army and obey the orders of the governor Rongzheng.Thinking about it again, as soon as this sentence came out, the thirteen generals all looked relieved. They had to admit that they underestimated the strength of Lingshanwei when they came. It was the secret path in my heart that I escaped.

Feng Guoyong and Wu Daqianhu looked at the Ming army's forwards from behind the camp and did not dare to attack, and they also shouted in their hearts that they were lucky.They didn't know that the [-] troops on the sea route had been abolished by Li Kaiguo, and they all thought that there would be a battle on two fronts. Given that Lingshan Guard only had [-] soldiers, it would be very difficult to deal with two fronts at the same time.

The worst thing is that the Ming army attacking from the sea still has a well-established camp to stop it. This is a camp that has been set up in a hurry. Everything is empty and can only be intimidated. The camp is just a fake, and the real enemy camp is built by auxiliary soldiers one mile away.

Feng Guoyong said to the thousandth household: "Should we include some of the auxiliary soldiers? We don't have enough troops now." The thousandth household shook his head and said, "No, although the auxiliary soldiers have also been trained, they are not as strong as they are now." The soldiers don't cooperate well, if they are mixed together, the auxiliary soldiers will be the weak point of the soldiers, if the Ming army sees the onslaught, it will be fatal."

The first thousand households followed Li Kaiguo to Liaodong and fought the Tartars. After returning, his prestige increased greatly. He was recognized as the number one general in Lingshanwei. Since he said so, everyone was convinced.

The first thousand households went on to say: "Don't worry, everyone. Since your lord has arrived, our army will surely be victorious and undefeated. At this time, we just need to hold on to this side and wait for the rear camp to be completed. If we retreat into the camp, we will be invincible." Then stop the Ming army from landing, since the Ming army has traveled thousands of miles away, there must be a shortage of food, grass and equipment. As long as we can hold it for half a month, the [-] Ming army will naturally retreat."

Feng Guoyong and other generals nodded together.They have very little combat experience, and even if they have, it is only a small-scale battle. They have never dealt with a battle of 10 people, so they lack confidence. military.

The rear army of the Ming army arrived very soon. The governor of Fujian, Zou Weilian, saw that the vanguard was blocked by a camp, and immediately became furious, and shouted, "Why don't you march?"

The lieutenant-general of the vanguard immediately knelt on the ground and said about the more than 100 tigers of the Lingshan Guard. Zou Weilian was not only not surprised, but even angrier. Take him down." Immediately, there were military judges holding down and binding the deputy general.

The generals in the tent pleaded: "Your Excellency, please act slowly. The big battle is imminent. It is not appropriate to lose the general. Please allow him to take the blame and make meritorious service." Zou Weilian calmed down and said: "Since everyone will intercede for him, then demote him one level. , Sent to the striker to join the battle as a guilty body."

The lieutenant quickly thanked him again and again, and retreated out. As soon as he got out of the tent, the lieutenant mounted his horse and left the camp quickly, and has since disappeared.It turned out that he was very winking, knowing that if he was really sent to the forward as a general, with the artillery fire of the Lingshan Guards, he must be dead. He has eaten and drank the blood of soldiers all these years, and he has earned enough , it is better to run away immediately, take your family to Taiwan to hide your identity, and live a good life.

Zou Weilian didn't know that he had just let go of the forward lieutenant, and the lieutenant fled immediately.He looked around the tent, and said in a deep voice: "This governor is short of a forward general. Whoever is willing to take on this task and defeat the enemy blocking the way, this governor will make him the first hero." Gao Yingyue, the commander-in-chief of Fujian, flashed out.

Gao Yingyue said loudly: "The last general would like to be a forward general, please allow me, Governor-General."

Zou Weilian was overjoyed, and said: "With you going, the governor will feel relieved. The governor will send you another [-] cannons, and we must clear the way within two hours."

Gao Yingyue responded loudly, and took the order to leave.Zou Weilian broke up the tent, came to the small single tent of the rear army, and said respectfully to the woman in black: "Princess, the forward camp was blocked by the Lingshan guards, and the officials are sending people to attack, at most two When the time is right, you can get through."

The princess held a sword in her hand and said softly: "You don't need to call me a princess, I have already become a monk, so just call my Taoist name Taizhenzi."

Zou Weilian was shocked, and hurriedly said: "How dare you, the lower official, since the princess doesn't like the old address, the lower official will call the princess Taizhen Zhenzhen." (To be continued...)