The Sun Never Sets Great China

Dozens of smoke pillars shot up into the sky, rising to a height of nearly a hundred feet, and more smoke pillars rose in a further place. These smoke pillars slowly moved eastward, and then gradually disappeared on the horizon.

Zhang Huahan put down the binoculars in his hand and listened attentively, but he heard the rumbling sound. Obviously, the battle ahead was very fierce.With a wave of his hand, he summoned a guard, and said, "Go and send an order to Li Gaoshun, ordering him to march faster, and must set up his formation before the enemy lands." Wait until the guard rode forward. After running away, Zhang Huahan asked another guard: "Have you heard any news from Jiangbei?" The guard replied: "Report to the deputy commander, there is no new news, it seems that Jiangbei has not found any traces of the enemy. "

"It seems that the enemy hasn't landed in Jiangbei yet." Lin Mo, the officer in charge of the defense on both sides of the Yangtze River, rushed to Zhang Huahan's side and said to him, "Deputy Commander, I'm still a little worried. After all, most of Shi Lang's hands are small and medium-sized warships. Ships, the artillery fire is not fierce, if Shi Lang and the others cannot stop the enemy's fleet, then the enemy may go up the Yangtze River and directly attack Nanjing City. If this is the case, then the few forts we set up are simply I can't stop them." Zhang Huahan nodded and said: "I also have the same worry, so I will divide the army into two armies, ten miles apart, so that if the enemy really breaks through Shi Lang's fleet, then we can also If we rush back in time, we may be able to assist Nanjing in defending."

Lin Mochong pondered for a moment, then said: "Master Chen, Governor of Jiangsu Province, went to Jiangnan to gather militias. Many militias have gone to the north. In addition, militias from all over the country are needed to maintain law and order, but I don't know how many people can be summoned? The Henan army in the north We are sieging cities and plundering land, and Shandong has to deploy defenses along the Yellow River to prevent the Manchu Qing army from crossing the south of the river. Now there is no way to send troops to support our army, and the troops sent by the Hangzhou headquarters have not been seen for a long time, although the headquarters sent us again Some guns and gunpowder, but if the enemy has a large number of troops, I am still worried that we will suffer great losses with only half of our division." In this battle, the response of the headquarters was very slow, which made Lin Mochong a little dissatisfied.

Zhang Huahan said: "Now we can only take one step at a time, no matter what we can't let the foreign barbarians invade the hinterland of Ming Dynasty!" He paused, and then said: "When Yangzhou was attacked a while ago, the militiamen from Jiangnan came to help, Although their combat power is not strong, they can still be counted, and they can still wave their flags if they are not good enough."

A carriage drove over under the protection of a group of guards. About 5000 militiamen came not far behind the carriage. The carriage stopped beside Zhang Huahan and Lin Mochong. When the carriage stopped, one of them jumped out of the carriage. , but it was Huang Zongxi, Minister of Education.He also helped Mr. Chen, Governor of Jiangsu, from the car, then looked at Lin Mochong who was riding on the horse, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "Mr. Can make fuss, and can fight on horseback, Huang can't even fight a guerrilla war in Guangdong, in front of you, Huang really has no place to be ashamed."

Lin Mochong chuckled, and said: "That's nothing. I also learned from Deputy Commander Zhang later. If I am free in the future, I will learn what I have learned and sell it now. I will be a master to the two of you with the cheek." Zhang Huahan looked at Huang Zongxi said: "In fact, riding a horse is not too difficult, you can learn it in a few days." He pointed to the back, and then said: "You two, please look there, and brother Nong is a good rider."

Huang Zongxi and Jiangsu Governor Chen Wenzheng looked at Wang Fuzhi, the Governor of Jiangsu Province not far away, but saw Wang Fuzhi riding a pony, staggering towards this side.The two looked at each other and smiled.Wang Fuzhi obviously also saw the expressions of the two, and immediately said loudly: "Why don't I be a teacher for the two brothers. It seems that I have a talent for learning how to ride a horse. I learned it in just one night. I should be a good teacher."

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" A cavalry galloped over, passed by the marching troops in front, and reined in the horse when he went straight to Zhang Huahan and the others.The cavalry did not dismount, but immediately saluted Zhang Huahan, and then said: "Report to the deputy commander! Brigadier Commander Tian Fengyao's forward has already contacted the enemy, and the two sides are fighting fiercely! The enemy's firepower is very strong, and our army has suffered heavy casualties. Tian Fengyao The brigade commander hopes that the rear army can rush to support as soon as possible."

Zhang Huahan was startled when he heard this, and quickly asked: "Where did the enemy land? How many people are there?" The cavalry replied: "The enemy army landed more than ten miles to the east. There are a lot of people, about 8 to 3 people. They have just landed on the shore, not only have not fully set up their formation, but there are still many troops disembarking from those boats on the river, so they did not take the initiative to attack our army, but suppressed our army's attack with firepower. Now Tian Fengyao The general has already ordered the troops to form a formation, and we are waiting for reinforcements." Zhang Huahan was secretly surprised when he heard this, he thought that forty to fifty thousand would be a big deal, but it seems that if there are hundreds of thousands, it is almost the same, the troops prepared here There are only 2 people in the first division, even if you add the [-] people led by Mo Xiao and the [-] marines who arrived later, the number is much smaller than others.

Zhang Huahan knew that the military situation was very urgent, so he didn't ask any other questions, but said to the civil servants around him: "The war has started ahead, you can check it at will, I have to go first! Everyone, take your leave." He said to As soon as they clasped their fists, they clasped the horse's belly with their legs, yelled in their mouths, and led Xiaoyue and a dozen guards to rush out.A group of people rushed forward along the long dragon-like marching troops, and at the same time issued orders loudly: "Everyone! Run forward!"

Matsudaira Nobutsuna was very upset, because as soon as his army landed, just after setting up their marching formation, they discovered the troops of the Chinese Revolutionary Army marching rapidly from the west to the landing site.

Frightened, he had to immediately order to rearrange the formation, but when he was greatly surprised, the Chinese Revolutionary Army was obviously not the vulnerable mob in Xiangjingkou. And the attack was extremely fast. Before the Japanese army completely changed their formation, they rushed over like tigers on the mountain.

The Japanese army, who had just recovered from the artillery fire of the Chinese Revolutionary Army warships, could not have imagined that they would encounter the Chinese Revolutionary Army army so soon, and let alone that the Chinese Revolutionary Army army would take the initiative to march against them. Attack.The Japanese army hurriedly changed their formation, trying to resist the attack of the Chinese Revolutionary Army in a dense formation, but when they huddled together in a mess, a row of guns shot out, and after countless Japanese soldiers fell, 5000 Chinese Revolutionary Army troops The people rushed into their marching formation with shining bayonets. After a fierce hand-to-hand fight, the Japanese forward iron artillery troops dropped thousands of corpses and retreated to the shore like a tide.

However, it was precisely because the forwards of the Japanese army used their huge casualties to win a certain amount of time for the main force of the Japanese army, allowing them to successfully change formations. Due to the heavy casualties, the Chinese Revolutionary Army had to retreat for a few miles temporarily, join with the main force of the Chinese Revolutionary Army who arrived later, and set up an formation three miles upstream from the Japanese army to confront the Japanese army.Mukai was even more anxious than Matsudaira Nobutsuna, because he judged from the flag of the squadron that this was the First Division of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Although he did not believe that this army was really invincible, the sight in front of him A short assault has already shaken him a little, but the wavering is wavering, the Manchu Qing has given him a lot of benefits, he must tell the Japanese generals that the Chinese Revolutionary Army is weak, otherwise how can the Japanese generals send a big What about the Japanese army equipped with matchlock guns and flintlock guns in large numbers.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna looked at the Japanese soldiers behind him, and at the assembled Chinese Revolutionary Army troops in the distance, he couldn't help but began to worry about the fate of the Japanese army.Originally, he had made a wishful thinking. He wanted the Japanese troops participating in this expedition to bring all the [-] flintlock guns that had been manufactured, but what made him very helpless was that General Tokugawa obviously also wanted to He liked those guns, so he kept [-] flintlock guns and used them to prepare his own guards. In this way, the expeditionary force can only be equipped with [-] flintlock guns, and the firepower is already much worse. What's more terrible is that Nobuzuna Matsudaira discovered in the battle just now that the troops of the Chinese Revolutionary Army seemed to be equipped with a gun with a fast reloading and shooting speed. From the telescope, it seemed to be a kind of gun. A musket similar to a flintlock, and there are many of them.Compared with the Chinese Revolutionary Army, which is almost completely weaponized, the Japanese army not only retains [-] spearmen used to cover the musketeers, but those musketeers cannot be equipped with bayonets at all. reason for failure.

Shocked, Nobutsuna Matsudaira was a little overwhelmed. He couldn't figure out why the Chinese Revolutionary Army also had high-end guns. Nanming and Manchu Qing didn't have such high-end muskets. Mukai never told him this information. Nobutsuna Matsudaira was caught in confusion and doubt. "General!" Mukai's shout woke Matsudaira Nobutsuna from his confusion and doubts.

Matsudaira Nobuzuna knew that although Mukai was not the general who led the troops, General Tokugawa liked him very much, and he had better not be an enemy of him, after all, the things he doubted were all speculations.Nobuzuna Matsudaira saw the unnatural expression on Mukai's face. He looked at Mukai, secretly underestimated this frail person, and asked, "What? Are you scared?"

"No...no!" Mukai explained, "I'm just a little surprised why those Chinese troops appear here."

"It's not important anymore!" Matsudaira Nobuzuna said confidently, "20 years ago, during the famous 'Shimabara Rebellion', I went to wipe out the rebels of that day grass. There are many of these armies, but in the end I completely wiped them out, and now I want to reproduce the glory of the year again! Destroy all those enemies!"

Seeing how confident Matsudaira Nobuzuna was, Mukai had to remind him in a low voice. He said, "General, please be careful. The usual marching method of that Chinese army is to divide it into front, middle and rear armies. The army in front of our army is probably just the enemy's army." There may be more troops behind them."

"Oh? That's it." Matsudaira Nobutsuna felt a little depressed. He looked around and asked, "Where's my white horse? Why, didn't you get off the boat?" "It was the horse that Hawkins gave Is it your war horse?" Mukai, who was afraid that something would happen to him, asked absent-mindedly, thinking that he had accepted a lot of bribes to make the Japanese army face such a powerful enemy.

"Yes! That's the one!" Nobuzuna Matsudaira became a little excited, "Hawkins said it was some kind of Arabian thoroughbred horse. He first gave it to the General, and the General liked it very much. However, when I went out later, the General Your Excellency rewarded me with that horse again, and let me ride it to conquer the whole of China!" Mukai suddenly remembered, and he said: "It seems that the horse was loaded on a British fleet ship, not with us. Together."

"What?" Nobuzuna Matsudaira didn't believe that his subordinates would be so negligent. He asked, "Who did it? Didn't I tell you before I set off? You must protect this horse!" Tadaki Sakai looked at him in the distance, and said in a low voice: "Hawkins said that the war horse is very delicate and cannot be carried on other ships, but can only be carried on his own flagship. At that time, you have already boarded the ship, so Sakai Zhongqing made the decision for you and put that horse on Hawkins' flagship."

Hearing what Mukai said, Matsudaira Nobuzuna gave Sakai Tadaki a disgusted look. He had long been displeased with this guy who can only flatter generals, so he shouted to Sakai Tadaki: "Hey! Sakai, how do you look like that? Hiding behind like a coward? You should stand with the soldiers like a warrior!" Sakai Zhongqing walked over very unwillingly, and stood beside Mukai without saying a word.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna glared at Sakai Zhongqing, and asked: "Where is my white horse?" Sakai Tadaki turned around, looked into the distance, and then said respectfully: "Master General, your horse is here. On a certain ship in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but I don't know exactly which ship, because those British ships ran too far, they not only took your war horse, but also took away our [-] Infantry."

Hawkins stood on the rickety deck, looking in horror at the warships of the Chinese Revolutionary Army that were slowly approaching him.He didn't understand why these warships of the Chinese Revolutionary Army kept chasing him.

As a captain of a privateer fleet, Hawkins is very aware of the importance of preserving strength. He believes that he must not act rashly when the battlefield situation is uncertain, otherwise he will definitely be used as a shield by the Dutch. Therefore, When his fleet passed through the narrow and terrifying Jiangyin, he ordered his warships to break away from those Dutch battleships and mix into the huge transport fleet, so as to protect the nearby ships that had been refitted. Armed merchant ship for transport ships.

Hawkins' fleet consisted of seventy ships, all armed merchant ships that could be used both for transport and for resistance.In order to accommodate the 55 Japanese soldiers, he had to order most of the ships in the fleet to be refitted, and all redundant cannons were removed, leaving a lot of space for loading soldiers.As a result, the [-] ships under Hawkins became transport ships with no combat effectiveness at all, and two of the remaining fifteen warships were refitted as fire attack ships. The fleet was destroyed, and now there are only thirteen poor warships left in his hands to fight.

When their fleet met the Chinese Revolutionary Army warship fleet led by Shi Lang in the Yangtze River, Hawkins was even a little complacent looking at the large number of Chinese Revolutionary Army fleet warships upstream, he secretly admired his own Foresight.But his joy soon passed away, because Shi Lang's warship team broke through the blockade of the Dutch and rushed towards them.Hawkins knew that these ships of his were simply unable to fight the large fleet of Chinese Revolutionary Army warships, so he wisely gave up the battle.In fact, when he saw Shi Lang's Chinese Revolutionary Army warship fleet break through the interception of the Dutch forward warship fleet and rush downstream, he knew that he had to retreat, so 10 minutes before Kuiyi's retreat order was issued. , Hawkins hoisted the flag and ordered the ships of his own fleet to turn around, leave the transport fleet, and sail downstream.

But no matter how Hawkins drove the sailors to toss the sails, the ship full of Japanese soldiers couldn't move fast. Seeing that Kui Yi, who set off behind him, ran ahead of him with ease, Hawkins hated his teeth itching, but didn't After he greeted the women of the Kuiyi family for the eighth time, Shi Lang led the warships of the Chinese Revolutionary Army to catch up with their transport fleet.

Hawkins watched in horror as the Dutch transport ships behind him were beaten up and down, and the only thing he could do was to continue to urge the sailors to speed up.

Although Hawkins' ship had gone 10 minutes first, it was only 10 minutes. When he led the British fleet and ran downstream for another mile, the warship team led by Shi Lang approached his flagship.

The artillery fire continued to rumble, and water jets popped out high into the air. The falling water hit the hulls of all sides, and the two sides fought again. Although Hawkins' flagship temporarily repelled the Chinese Revolutionary Army with its powerful firepower. It was the first melee attack of the fleet, but his flagship was an armed merchant ship after all, not a powerful warship like the "Sovereign of the Sea". Compared with the warships of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, their firepower was not too high. It was fierce, so the second attack of the Chinese Revolutionary Army's fleet of warships worked. Hawkins' flagship was punched with more than a dozen large holes, and the main mast was also interrupted in the middle.

Hawkins was soberly aware that if the ships loaded with infantry were not brought to shore and unloaded, his British fleet would most likely be wiped out.

Hawkins brandished his long sword himself, commanding his subordinates to repel more than a dozen sailors of the Chinese Revolutionary Army who attacked the deck, and then he ordered all the transport ships to approach the south bank of the Yangtze River, preparing to unload the infantry, while the thirteen warships were responsible for Ensnare the Chinese Revolutionary Army warships on the periphery to protect the safety of the transport ships.

Hawkins should feel lucky, because Shi Lang's interest is not his transport ship, Shi Lang's main target to pursue is Kui Yi's warship, so most of the Chinese Revolutionary Army warships gave up continuing to attack Hawkins' fleet, and they all Followed behind Shi Lang's flagship, and chased towards Kui Yi's fleet.

Hawkins looked at the nearly [-] Chinese Revolutionary Army warships downstream, crossed himself unconsciously, and said loudly: "God bless! Bless Kui Yi, a bastard who was killed by a Chinese Revolutionary Army warship from the Porcelain Country." Catch up!"

Hawkins ordered the sailors to lower the boats as soon as possible and transport all the Japanese infantry ashore.Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were driven off by the cursing sailors, Hawkins thought unconsciously: "These Japanese are really crazy!"

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