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Chapter 311: The army is defeated like a mountain

Yan Liang's order was three solid bullets, followed by shotgun. The command of the gun company was naturally executive.

The first wave of ninety lead bombs was fired at the team of the Ming army in Guangxi, and immediately opened ninety blood alleys in the dense crowd. Along the way the shells passed, countless unlucky Ming soldiers either broke their hands or feet, lying on the ground, howling loudly. They were lucky to be hit by the shells and died directly without suffering such heart-wrenching pain.

Lin Jiading behind him was stunned. He had never seen the power of the heat-heating weapons. In his impression, the cannons were placed on the top of the city and shot a big guy who was shocking the sky and earth. Unexpectedly, the Guangdong man opposite actually brought the Red Barbarian cannons, and there were still quite a lot of them.

The military supervisor Xia Sifu was also frightened and said, "Master, the Guangdong man actually brought the red barbarian cannons. Let's withdraw our troops!"

"No! The red cannons are difficult to load. We must take advantage of this time to rush forward, pass on the orders, and charge the entire army!"

The quality of the Guangxi wolf soldiers was much better than that of the Ming army. After the first round of artillery attacks, they were only panicked for a while, and immediately adjusted their formation and rushed towards the Guangdong New Army.

The artillery company's firing rate was one round per minute, and three solid bullets were quickly shot out. Then they all replaced with shotguns. At this time, the Guangxi wolf soldiers rushed to nearly five hundred meters.

If the solid bullet looks tragic, the shotgun is a slaughter. The shotgun is composed of sixty-eight lead bullets the size of quail eggs. On the outside is a thin iron bucket packaged with iron. After the iron bucket is out of the barrel, because the speed of the lead bullet inside is different, the iron bucket will be torn apart. Sixty-eight lead bullets will form a nine-meter-wide and three-meter-high death zone from 300 meters away.

Ninety shotguns were fired out, and immediately formed an unmanned land three hundred meters away. If they were hit by solid shotguns, they could still leave a whole body. If they were hit by shotguns, they would become a pool of rotten meat.

The charge of the Guangxi army was like being pushed by an invisible giant hand, and they were knocked down three hundred meters in front of the Guangdong army.

After the Guangdong New Army fired the fourth round of shotgun, the Ming army in Guangxi finally couldn't hold on and turned around and fled in all directions.

Most of the Guangdong New Army are in Dongguan. They have seen shotgun fire during daily training, but this is the first time in actual combat. Seeing that their firepower is so strong, the enemy was beaten everywhere, and the musketeers have collapsed before they can fire a lead bullet.

Yan Liang and other officers had seen the world. At least they fought against Zhang Xianzhong's bandits when they went south with Zhu Hongsan. Seeing that the Ming army in Guangxi retreated, they quickly ordered the entire team to attack and chase the Guangxi army.

"Mr. Song Tuan, you can take a company to clean the battlefield and save it with the energy to save it. I will take people to chase these bastards. After that, you catch up with me!"

"Captain, where are we going to fight?"

"I occupied his mother Wuzhou Prefecture. How many times have these guys crossed the border in recent years? That time, the farmers who robbed our farmland. I'll give them some colors this time!"

The magistrate who watched the fun on the wall of Fengchuan County did not expect that the ending would end so quickly. The Ming army in Guangxi was defeated before they arrived. The new army with eyes growing above their heads was really powerful. At this time, seeing that the new army was all set off and followed the Ming army in Guangxi, the county magistrate was so scared that he would die. What if the Guangxi people came by to take a detour.

So the county magistrate hurried out of the city, grabbed Song Kai who was cleaning the battlefield, and said in tears: "General, where are you going? What should you do if you leave Guangxi people and come back?"

"Don't worry, the regiment commander led people to Guangxi, and I will follow you later. The magistrate needs to find someone to clean up here. So many people die here, and there will be plagues if they don't hide it."

At this time, the magistrate looked at the battlefield where the murder was just now. When he saw that people were dead, their hands and feet were broken, some were beaten into human form by shotguns, and their intestines and stomachs were scattered all over the ground, red, white, green, and black, and colorful.

When the county magistrate saw this, he felt his stomach rolling and spitting out in one mouthful. The young and strong yamen runners following him also lay on the side and vomited wildly.

After several major wars, Song Kai was used to the cruelty of the battlefield. Seeing the virtue of the county magistrate, he couldn't help but despise him.

"Mr. Magistrate, I'll leave it to you here. I have the energy to save you. After all, they are all people of the Ming Dynasty. I'll take people to chase the regiment commander." After saying that, I ignored the magistrate and led people to chase Yan Liang.

The magistrate did not dare to stop him, so he could only go back to the city to organize people to bury the body, write a letter of victory, and send it to Zhaoqing Prefecture.

The document was sent to Chen Zilong in Zhaoqing, and Chen Zilong opened it and looked. The Hu Tian and Emperor Hu were blown inside. The cannon was blown by dozens of miles. The soldiers of the new army fought bravely under the leadership of the magistrate, and the magistrate killed several people himself, etc. Chen Zilong knew all the virtues of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, but if such documents were sent to the front line, they should have won. Chen Zilong had seen the combat effectiveness of the new army in Nanzhili, and was quite at ease whether they could win. However, the document continued to say that in order to revenge the Ming army's cross-border enemy, the new army had entered Guangxi under the leadership of the regiment commander Yan Liang.

Chen Zilong frowned. The emperor had not decided whether he would start fighting with Zhu Youlang. Yan Liang was a bit reckless in doing this. Chen Zilong did not dare to make decisions on such a major matter. He quickly added the Fengchuan County warranty documents and his own suggestions to Guangzhou, asking His Majesty the Emperor to make a decision.

The letter was sent out at a speed of 800 miles. Guangzhou was less than 100 miles away from Zhaoqing, and the third time document appeared on Zhu Hongsan's desk.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the documents and asked the ministers below: "Dear Prime Ministers, what do you think you should do?"

As the Prime Minister, Chen Zizhuang stood up and spoke first.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks it is better to punish the King of Gui in Guangxi. Since the soldiers have entered Guangxi, it is better to occupy one or two prefectures. Our Guangdong starts a plain from Fengchuan in Zhaoqing, and goes to Guangdong without any danger to defend. Occupying Wuzhou with a high terrain will be very beneficial to defending our west gate."

Zhu Hongsan nodded. He thought so too. At the same time, he cut a nail in Guangxi and could pass through Guangxi and enter Yunnan and Guizhou.

Zhu Hongsan picked up the pen and wrote an opinion on Chen Zilong's document to report the war, ordering Yan Liang, who had entered Guangxi to occupy Wuzhou Prefecture and stabilize the front line between Tengxian and Pingnan. At the same time, one of the three regiments in Guangzhou was drawn out, and set out from Guangning in Zhaoqing to Guangxi, and fought to Pingyue Prefecture in Guangxi, threatening Zhu Youlang's Guilin Prefecture. You must know that Pingle is less than 200 miles away from Guilin, and the coward Zhu Youlang is so scared that he is half scared to death.

After Zhu Hongsan finished writing, he handed it to Qian Qianyi from the Military Affairs Office, asking him to form an order and issue the troops.

Qian Qianyi took it and said, "Your Majesty, there were three regiments in Guangzhou, and one regiment has been taken away by Qian Yong. Is it not conducive to the defensive base camp to draw a regiment here?"

"Don't worry, Lord Qian, there is no group in Dongguan. Dongguan and Guangzhou are less than fifty miles apart. You can arrive day and night, no problem."

Qian Qianyi didn't dare to speak, so he quickly took Zhu Hongsan's order to go down to handle the troops transfer.

Now Zhu Hongsan is not as energetic as he ascended the throne at all. Now there are unfavorable news from Nanxiong and Chaozhou in the north. On the other side of Chaozhou Prefecture is Zhu Yu'e, the younger brother of King Zhu Youjian of Tang Dynasty. With the support of Su Guansheng, a senior secretary of the Longwu Dynasty and He Wuzuo, he proclaimed himself emperor in Chaozhou Prefecture on the fifth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Shenwu, and his reign was named Shaowu.

When the news reached Guangdong, Zhu Hongsan scolded Zhu Yuyou for being a good person, but he was only thinking about his own benefits when the country was in crisis. In fact, Zhu Hongsan forgot that he himself was not the same. According to the Ming Dynasty, the most legitimacy of the emperors in the south was Zhu Youlang.

Although Emperor Shaowu was in a hurry to become emperor, he was still somewhat powerful. All officials of Chaozhou Prefecture were loyal to the new emperor as soon as possible. Zheng Chenggong, who fled to Kinmen with the Zheng family fleet, also expressed his loyalty to the new emperor.

Before becoming emperor, Zhu Hongsan was preparing to attack Chaozhou Prefecture, which was pro-Tang King. Now he had an excellent reason. After receiving the news that Shaowu was elected as emperor, he immediately sent his first thug Qian Yong to take two new troops of the regiments to rush to Chaozhou Prefecture to subdue the lost land.

Qian Yonggang set out with his army, and news came from Chaozhou Prefecture that on the 20th day of the first lunar month of the first year of Shenwu, the Qing army in Fujian, led by Li Chengdong, crossed Baisongling from Pinghe, Fujian, and entered Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong. On the eighth day of January, the Qing army sneaked into the periphery of Chaozhou Prefecture and suddenly attacked. The official army guarding the city saw the Qing army with braids suddenly appearing at the city, and was so scared that they abandoned the city and fled. Chaozhou Prefecture was occupied by Li Chengdong. Emperor Shaowu's emperor position had just been sat for a month before it was destroyed by the Qing army. When Emperor Shaowu was broken, he hanged himself with Grand Secretary Su Guansheng and others, which was considered to have saved his reputation.

Zhu Hongsan, who was occupied by Chaozhou, immediately sent an order to Qian Yong, asking him to destroy all the Qing army entering Guangdong.

On the Nanxiong Mansion, in October last year, he received an order from Emperor Longwu Zhu Youjian to send troops out of Ganzhou and cooperate with the Minister of War Wan Ji to guard Ganzhou.

Of course, Zhang Jiayu could not listen to Zhu Youjian's orders, but Zhang Jiayu still knew the importance of Ganzhou. After receiving the order from Emperor Longwu, he quickly wrote an emergency document to Zhu Hongsan, which explained the current situation of enemy and us in Jiangxi and asked Zhu Hongsan what to do.

It was already November after Zhu Hongsan received the letter. Due to backward transportation in the Ming Dynasty, a lot of time was wasted on the road. After receiving the news from Zhang Jiayu, Zhu Hongsan immediately replied, ordering Zhang Jiayu to lead a team to Ganzhou to defend the city and defend the Nanda Gate of Guangdong. Zhu Hongsan knew about the traffic problems of this era and gave Zhang Jiayu the right to make decisions at the moment, ordering Zhang Jiayu to serve as the prefect of Nanxiong and to guard Nanxiong well. At the same time, he handed over the last regiment in Guangzhou responsible for his own safety to Zhang Jiayu. In this way, there was no new army in Guangzhou except Zhu Hongsan and 400 guards.
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