Huangtong was hungry during his years,
Thousands of households are frowning.
Mouth but no meal,
Tears turn into beads.
Disaster, disaster.
How to avoid disaster.
There is no disaster in the world more terrible than not having food to eat. A stubborn man will still be so hungry that his eyes are filled with stars if he does not eat for a day. No matter how capable the commander is, if he does not give food to his soldiers, you see Are they making trouble?
Sun Kewang, the commander-in-chief of the Great Western Army, has been very upset recently. He has less than two months of rations.
The original plan was to seize Guizhou quickly and establish dominance. Unexpectedly, an army of 200,000 troops was sent to Guiyang, with people eating horses and chewing, and the food and grass consumption was staggering.
We must fight decisively with the army as soon as possible!
Sun Kewang was worrying about food and grass when he suddenly reported that the main force of the Ming army was going to attack Xifeng Station.
"His Royal Highness, Supervisor, is so vicious! He wants to cut off our army's retreat! However, the main force of the Ming army is far away, which is a good opportunity to attack Zazuo City. If we capture Zazuo City, we will have food!"
Sun Kewang called together Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, Wang Shangli, Feng Shuangli, Ma Yuanli, Wang Dingguo, Zhang Hualong and other generals for discussion. It was not a discussion, but a way to boost morale and prepare for a decisive battle.
"All of you here are old brothers. I won't hide it from everyone. Our army's rations are less than two months. We must fight the Ming army as soon as possible. Now that the main force of the Ming army is going to attack Xifengsuo, it is a good opportunity to capture Zazuo City. .Generals, are you willing to follow me to capture Zazuo City and fight for a way out for the entire army?"
"We are willing to fight to the death with the commander!"
Li Dingguo frowned and thought for a moment: "Brother, the Ming army has sharp guns and cannons. If you want to fight, you must use all your strength."
"My second brother's words are very much in line with my wishes."
Sun Kewang ordered Feng Shuangli and Wang Dingguo to lead 20,000 troops to contain An Kun of Longchangyi. He personally led an army of 110,000 to Zhazuo City.
Zhu Hengjia used Zheng Feng's plan and pretended to destroy the beacon. Halfway through, he sneaked back to Zazuo City. He closed the city gate tightly, blocked the news, and quietly waited for Sun Kewang's army.
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When golden maple and jade dew meet, they will defeat countless people in the world.
The two armies met thirty miles outside Zazuo City.
There was silence, and there was a murderous atmosphere in the air.
Minister Zhao of the Great Western Army licked his lips and clenched his sword tightly as a habit.
Minister Zhao was originally from Zhaojiazhuang, Xiangyang Prefecture. That year, the boss Wang Zhang Xianzhong attacked Xiangyang, and the whole village was turned into rogues. His father, mother, younger brother, younger sister... all the family members died in the rebellion one by one, and only the remaining Let him be the next one. At first, he hated the Daxi thief so much, but slowly, he became a thief himself, still a small flag, in charge of ten people.
In the past few years, he has robbed two wives and given birth to children, but they were all scattered among the rebels. He had no choice but to have a future as a thief. The boss, Wang, killed his wife and children, and only accepted four godsons.
, let alone a pawn like myself.
"When Guiyang is conquered, I must snatch another wife to leave a queen for the old Zhao family!" Minister Zhao thought.
"Brother Minister, what are the cars on the Ming Army side?" Zhao Huzi from the same village asked him secretly.
Minister Zhao glared at Zhao Huzi: "Don't talk in the battle formation, be careful of Ping Dongwang's military law."
In the formation of the Ming army, Commander Yu Zhong was putting on his armor in a leisurely manner. He was from Liuzhou, Guangxi, and joined the army when the supervisor of the country was fighting against Chen Bangchuan.
He is a veteran, and he has been promoted very high for his meritorious service. The prison government treats soldiers very well. Not only does he receive a promotion for his meritorious service, he is also rewarded with silver and farmland. He was also rewarded with a hundred acres of meritorious land for his meritorious service, and his whole family lived a good life.
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"The second brother is already a grown man. In this battle, I must make more military exploits, receive the reward, and marry the second brother a wife," Yu Zhong thought.
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"Bring out the king's flag!"
The goal of inducing the Daxi Army to fight in Zazuo City has been achieved, and Zhu Hengjia no longer hides it.
"Chitose!" "Chitose!" "Chitose!"
The Ming army roared like a tsunami and their morale was like a rainbow.
Seeing the dragon-coiled banner in the Ming army, Sun Kewang knew that he had been fooled. But when the two armies met, the brave would win, and a big battle was imminent, so there was no reason to retreat.
If you want to fight, I will fight!
Sun Kewang gritted his teeth and carefully observed the Ming army's formation.
The Ming army's military formation consisted of three square formations on the left, middle and right. The middle square formation was large and the two wing square formations were small. The three square formations formed a long "one" character.
"To shoot the man first, shoot the horse; to capture the thief first capture the king."
Sun Kewang decided to concentrate his forces to attack Zhu Hengjia's Chinese army. He issued a military order and the flag officer raised the flag.
Following the order, Li Dingguo's 20,000 troops moved to Wang Xiang's department on the right wing of the Ming army; Ai Nengqi's 20,000 troops moved to Fan Youxian's department on the left wing of the Ming army; his main force of 70,000 slowly approached Zhu Hengjia's center.
King vs. King.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The war drum sounded.
One cart after another slowly pushed toward the Ming army's formation. Daxi's soldiers lined up in a long line, hiding behind the carts, and marched one after another.
This is an old strategy for dealing with cannons and artillery. The infantry uses the cart as a cover, approaches the military formation, and then breaks out from behind the cart.
After hearing what Li Dingguo said about the powerful guns and artillery of the Ming army, Sun Kewang did not dare to form a dense formation. Instead, he increased the distance between the battalions and launched a charge in battalion units.
Because the formation was sparse, looking from a distance, the Western Army's battle formation was actually ten miles long.
Holding up the telescope, Zhu Hengjia secretly sighed: "Sun Kewang is also an outstanding person!"
This formation can effectively reduce the losses caused by cannons.
Zhao Erhu, deputy general of the vehicle and artillery battalion, issued the order.
The soldiers of the Ming army quickly put down the four legs of the side carriage, which can be retracted and retracted. Although the side carriage only has two wheels, with these four legs, it is equivalent to six points of support, which is very stable.
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Yu Zhong used the sight to direct the gunner to adjust the firing angle of the Qianjin Fran machine.
There are many models of Fran cannons in the Ming army. This type of Fran cannon is the most powerful fortress-type Fran machine, also known as the thousand-jin Fran machine. It can be used as a siege cannon, not to mention a small launch vehicle.<
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Yu Zhong saw the flag waving and immediately shouted: "Shoot!"
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The advantage of the Franco gun is that it has a fast rate of fire, fast heat dissipation, and is not easy to explode. After firing one round, replace it with another and continue firing.
Kisses of death one after another, kissed the soldiers of the Western Army.
"Boom!" A truck was blown apart.
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"Ah!" A soldier was lifted into the sky.
Minister Zhao bit his lip, held up the shield, hunched his waist, and followed closely behind a carriage.
This carriage was lucky to have escaped the Ming army's heavy artillery.
"Bang! Bah! Bah!"
The Ming army's squatting tiger artillery showed its power.
This kind of cannon is very weird. Either it misses, or if it hits, there will be countless wounds on the body and the pain will be excruciating.
With a "pop" sound, a shell hit the carriage in front of Minister Zhao, killing a driver.
Minister Zhao thought the car was finished. Unexpectedly, the remaining drivers pushed the car up again, but it was only severely damaged and did not fall apart.
"Grandma's", Minister Zhao spat and continued to follow.
A dark cloud flew in the sky, which was a rocket from the Ming army.
"Raise your shield quickly!" Minister Zhao reminded his subordinates of this small flag.
"Ah!"
He heard the screams of fellow countryman Zhao Huzi. Zhao Huzi was nailed to the ground by a rocket and saw that he would not survive.
Minister Zhao did not dare to stay. Every time he stayed for a while, he would be one step closer to death.
"Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!"
Like beans falling apart, the Ming army's muskets rang out.
Zhu Hengjia's Chinese army had 14,400 gunmen, divided into three rows, with 4,800 men in each row.
Row after row, shooting in sections, the bullets rained continuously.
With a "bang" sound, the scarred carriage in front of Minister Zhao finally fell apart.
At this time, he was only forty steps away from the Ming army.
"Go!"
Minister Zhao held up a shield with his left hand to protect his chest, drew his sword with his right hand, and rushed towards the Ming army's formation.
"Bang!"
The rattan shield could not stop the Ming army's bullets. Minister Zhao fell slowly as if struck by lightning, and his consciousness slowly dissipated.
"Father, mother, second brother, and little sister, I'm here to reunite with you!"
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The Ming army's guns retreated, and now what appeared in front of Sun Kewang was a "city" and a "car city".
Sun Kewang's heart was bleeding. Even though he used the carriage and set up a sparse formation, the wave of attacks just now still cost him more than 7,000 people.
He also has artillery, one hundred and thirty squatting tiger cannons, and twenty thousand-pound Fran machine cannons. However, they have been consumed by long-term operations and there is no stable base to provide them. Therefore, he does not have many artillery shells in his hands.
These shells should be used at critical moments. For example, now.
The Ming army in the "city" was not idle and was assembling the fort.
The Ming army is now fighting in the "city", surrounded by "city walls" more than two meters high, so the artillery must be raised to the fort to avoid accidentally killing its own troops.
Two hundred double-box cars are being spliced together. This kind of double-box car is almost the same as the side-box car, except that it has one more wooden board than the side-box car. It is filled with grain bags. It is a grain transport truck in peacetime and a fort in wartime.
Like sidecars, the shafts of the cars had hooks. The Ming army hooked every five cars together and spliced wooden boards on the roofs of each car. One hundred and fifty cars formed thirty forts. Each fort
There are ten tiger squatting cannons.
The left and right wings have their own military formations. Zhu Hengjia did not arrange forts on the left and right sides. Instead, he arranged twenty forts and two hundred squatting tiger cannons in the front; he arranged ten forts and one hundred squatting tiger cannons in the back.
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There are another fifty vehicles, each with a 1,000-pound Fran machine gun installed on the roof. Because the gun body is heavy and takes a long time to install, it is not in use for the time being.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
With loud noises one after another, the Daxi Army suddenly opened fire.
The fighting was so fierce in the front that the artillery of the Daxi Army did not move, which gave the Ming army the illusion that the Daxi Army had no artillery.
Many soldiers had no time to squat down and raise their shields before they were knocked down by artillery fire.
One round after another, artillery shells fell on the wooden planks of the sidecars. The wooden planks could not block the bombardment of the artillery shells, and the "Car City" was blasted with gaps one after another.
"Don't panic, aim and shoot!"
Yu Zhong commanded his men. He commanded a sidecar with twenty-five people per car, twelve gunners, eight gunners, and four sword and shield men. The gunners had been moved to the fort, and now there were
He and his sixteen subordinates.
Under his command, his men fired at the Western troops outside through the shooting holes, shooting down one enemy after another.
There is no need for gunners to worry about charging. Behind the twelve gunners from the vehicle and artillery battalion, there are twelve gunners from the infantry battalion, who are responsible for loading the gunners in the first row.
Behind the Ming army's chariot city, there was an infantry battalion on each side, lined up with countless mandarin duck formations, standing guard.
In the middle is the cavalry battalion, a thousand of Zhu Hengjia's personal guards, and 800 heavy armored infantry. These heavy armored infantry are designed to deal with the enemy's heavy armored infantry that breaks into the formation. They are small in number and are all elite.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The Ming Army's Crouching Tiger Artillery reacted and began to counterattack the Western Army's artillery.
The Ming army had a lot of artillery and quickly suppressed the Western artillery, and still had enough energy to bombard the Western infantry outside the city.
After shrinking into a small city, the Ming army only had 1,800 muskets on each side facing the Western Army. However, because it was denser, the damage to the Western Army was even greater.
Countless Western troops were knocked down by artillery and shot down by bullets.
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Sun Kewang came to the twenty thousand-jin Fran cannons and said to Wang Ziqi, the commander of the artillery camp: "Have you seen the Ming army's Panlong banner? Blow it down for me."
Zhu Hengjia's command platform is one and a half miles away from the Western Army's artillery position. The Crouching Tiger cannon can't shoot that far, but the Thousand Jin Franco machine can.
"Commander, just watch it!"
Zhu Hengjia was on the command platform with two bachelors, observing the battle situation, when suddenly one shell after another exploded near the command vehicle.
"The Western thieves actually have heavy artillery that can shoot far!"
Zhu Hengjia was shocked.
"Please monitor the situation and move the command vehicle back!" The subordinate requested.
"No!"
Zhu Hengjia flatly refused. Now is the critical stage of the confrontation between the two armies. If Gu Yi retreats, the morale of the army will be chaotic.
"Where is the lonely heavy artillery? Let them quickly counterattack the enemy's fort."
Fortunately, the Qianjin Fran machine is a breech-loaded gun, so even if it is equipped with a sight, it is not easy to shoot accurately.
Multiple shells landed next to Zhu Hengjia, but they just missed.
"Bodhisattva bless you!" Zhu Hengjia lowered his head and muttered to himself.
The Ming Army's heavy artillery vehicles were finally installed, suppressing the Western Army's heavy artillery in time, and the command post turned the corner.
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"The whole army attacks!"
Sun Kewang ordered a general attack and ordered the flag officer to move the Chinese army forward.
"Kill!"
The soldiers of the Western Army opened fire. They pushed away the antlers in front of the sidecars, moved away the horse rifles, and rushed in from the gaps between the vehicles or from the gaps blasted by the cannons.
"Kill!"
The Ming infantry battalion behind the carriage formed a mandarin duck formation to fight, and cut down the Western troops who broke in through the gap one by one.
At this time, some gunmen of the Ming army put down their fire cannons, took off the round shield from their backs with their left hand, and pulled out their sabers with their right hands, changing from gunmen to sword-and-shieldmen.
A group of five people, with two swordsmen and shieldmen in front slashing, two spearmen stabbing behind, and a gunman in the middle to shoot at the enemy.
"Death!"
A Daxi thief jumped into Yu Zhong's sidecar from the gap and chopped off the head of a Ming army gunman with a knife, causing blood to fly.
"Kill!"
Yu Zhonghu roared, used a round shield with his left hand to hold the Daxi Thief's knife, and stabbed the Daxi Thief's abdomen with his waist knife in his right hand.
"Ah!"
The Daxi thief screamed and got out of the car.
Yu Zhong was eager to kill, so he jumped out of the car and chopped down two Daxi thieves who were about to board the car.
Suddenly, a spear stabbed his throat.
His eyes were blurry: "Xiaocui, after I die, remember to use the pension money to find a wife for your second brother."
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