All the troublemakers at the entrance of the General Military Mansion were expelled, and the bodies of the killed scoundrels and scholars were also cleared aside. The main entrance of the General Military Mansion was now passable again.
Li Zhi left 300 soldiers to protect the General Military Mansion, and led 200 soldiers out of Tianjin City to Fanjiazhuang.
The daily defense of the Tianjin Acropolis is handled by the Tianjin garrison. This garrison originally received an order from the governor and was asked not to let Li Zhi's troops enter the city. But he really did not dare to confront Li Zhi's troops with Li Zhi's troops.
Mana was able to defeat the Tatars who were more numerous than him. Didn't his hundreds of guards look like a joke in front of Li Zhi's 500 men?
Speaking of which, this garrison should have a thousand troops, but he wanted money to honor his superiors, so the actual recruitment was only 600 men. How could these 600 men be the opponent of the 500 Fanjiazhuang soldiers?
No matter how big the governor's order is, it is not as powerful as his fate. This guard knew that he would definitely die if he blocked Li Zhi's soldiers and horses from entering and leaving Tianjin, so he let Li Zhi's people pass freely. Therefore, Li Zhi's 500 soldiers and horses could enter the Tianjin Acropolis with great arrogance.
, at this time Li Zhi could also lead two hundred soldiers directly out of the city.
Li Zhi walked halfway when he received a report from the scouts: The 12,000 Tianjin soldiers and horses that had been assembled by Charden had reached thirty miles northeast of Fanjiazhuang. All Tianjin's capable soldiers and horses had gathered together and were heading towards Fanjiazhuang.
Li Zhi snorted coldly: "The mantis' arm is like a chariot!"
Li Zhi arrived at Fanjiazhuang with his escort. Before he entered the city, he saw that 4,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division had gathered in the northeast of the city. This time, the Selection Regiment sent 2,000 cavalry to various states and counties to notify merchants to pay taxes. The other regiments
Soldiers were deployed to protect the tax collectors and guard the General Military Mansion. Each regiment had exactly 1,000 people left in Fanjiazhuang, and the total number was exactly 4,000.
Seeing Li Zhi coming, Li Xing, Zheng Kaida and others rode up to meet him.
"Brother, the scouts just reported that Chadenbei's men are walking very slowly. It will probably take until tomorrow to reach Fanjiazhuang."
Li Zhi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if they walk slowly. We will go up to greet them."
Li Zhi left two hundred soldiers and auxiliary troops to guard Fanjiazhuang, and led four thousand Huben divisions to advance northeast to meet Cha Dengbei's twelve thousand army.
After walking for an hour and a half, Li Zhi's troops found the enemy.
Twelve thousand Ming troops were walking on the withered grassland of Fanjiazhuang under various banners, and many scouts were sent around. Knowing that Li Zhi's 4,000 soldiers and horses were approaching, the soldiers and horses of each battalion in Tianjin Town listed their formations:
Check and prepare the standard army, the Zhenhai camp is the central army, with the Tianjin deputy general, the lower East Road generals and others as the left wing, the lower West Road generals, the upper East Road generals and others as the right wing, and confront Li Zhi.
Unlike the frontier army, which has ample soldiers and well-armored troops, Tianjin's soldiers and horses serve as an inland army town, and the pay and equipment they receive are very limited. On weekdays, these soldiers and horses do not come out for training and stay in the camp, so Li Zhi does not
Understand their situation. At this time, Li Zhi looked over with a telescope and found that the equipment of these soldiers was very shabby, far inferior to the Beijing camp and border troops that Li Zhi had seen before.
Only about one-third of the soldiers wore cotton armor, one-tenth wore scale armor, and the rest were unarmored. The only weapon was a broadsword. Even the poor Qin army had better equipment than these.
Tianjin Camp.
Li Zhi shook his head and secretly thought that Cha Denbei brought an army to die.
He arranged 3,000 infantrymen in three rows and arranged 140 light cannons in groups of two among the infantry as infantry support firepower.
In the central army of the Ming army, a group of military attachés from the Ming Dynasty turned pale when they looked at Li Zhi's soldiers and horses with dense armor and cannons. Although the 12,000 Tianjin soldiers looked like many people, they were not Li Zhi at all when they fought.
An opponent with thousands of troops.
Chadenbei looked at Li Zhi's troops on horseback and snorted coldly: "This Li Zhi really put up a formation to scare me. Does he really dare to fight back against me? Does he dare to rebel?"
Ruda, the general of Xiadong Road, handed over his hand to Cha Dengbei and said: "Sir, we still don't want to fight Li Zhi. He can even defeat the Tatars. How can we, the troops, defeat him?"
Luo Shibin, the deputy general of Tianjin, showed no intention of fighting and said: "Sir Governor, it is not easy for us to train a few soldiers and horses. We spend a lot of money. If we are knocked down by Li Zhi's muskets and cannons, it will really outweigh the gains."
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The commander of the Zhenhai camp gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, most of our soldiers and horses are unarmored. If we charge forward, we will die."
Cha Dengbei waved his hand and said: "Don't say any more. This battle is about progress or retreat. Press forward! If Li Zhi dares to fight back, he is rebelling! I don't believe that Li Zhi dares to attack us!"
Liang Yishou, the magistrate of Jingzhou, was also in the army. He said to me: "What are you afraid of? Don't call Li Zhi's bluff, he will not dare to attack us! If he really fights with us, what awaits him is the encirclement and suppression of powerful armies from nine sides.
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Chadenbei made up his mind this time and came to force Li Zhi. If Li Zhi dared to counterattack his army, he would be a traitor. Chadenbei thought that Li Zhi would not dare! If Li Zhi did not counterattack him, he would lead his own troops.
They went into Fanjiazhuang to conduct a search and threatened Li Zhi to find out all the industrial secrets of Fanjiazhuang. Presumably under such a threat, Li Zhi would have no choice but to give up the business tax.
Cha Dengbei believed that this strategy was very feasible. How could he allow the generals to retreat timidly?
After hearing what Cha Dengbei and Liang Yishou said, the generals looked at each other with ashen faces. They didn't know what would happen to Li Zhi in the future, but now it was inevitable that their soldiers would be used as cannon fodder.
Li Zhi observed through the telescope for a while, and saw Cha Dengbei's troops grinding and whining, and suddenly pulled out thirty-three furlong machine-made light cannons from behind.
Li Zhi was surprised when he saw those light breech-loaded cannons. He didn't expect that although the Tianjin army was weak, it still had so many artillery. People said that the Ming army was good at using firearms, and it seems that this statement is true.
The Fran cannon is an early type of breech-loading rapid-fire cannon, which is prone to air leakage and therefore has a short range. However, because it uses a loaded blunderbuss for loading, the firing speed is extremely fast, and it is quite lethal when firing shotshells in close combat.
However, although successive governors and military commanders from various battalions left so many French cannons to Chadenbei, Chadenbei and others were not familiar with military affairs and did not know how to use artillery rationally. Chadenbei placed all the artillery in the middle of the army.
At this time, it became the best target for Huben Division's artillery.
The two armies were getting closer little by little.
When he was one mile away, Li Zhi shouted: "Open fire with the artillery, take out all the artillerymen of Cha Deng Bei first!"
One hundred and forty cannons had already been loaded with shells. At this time, the gunners saw the flags fluttering and immediately pointed the cannons at the Chinese army that was preparing for Cha Deng.
After aiming for a while, the field artillery fired in unison.
The granular black powder was suddenly ignited and turned into black smoke and flames. The five kilograms of artillery shells were violently sprayed out of the barrel and hit the Chardon artillerymen a mile away. One hundred and forty artillery shells were like
It was a storm that smashed the artillery position consisting of more than thirty French cannons to pieces. In one fell swoop, more than a hundred artillerymen were killed and more than a dozen cannons were smashed.
Seeing Li Zhi's cannon firing, all the more than 10,000 people on Chadenbei's side were stunned. They were not here to fight, but to force Li Zhi to give in. Their intention was to force Li Zhi to
They gave in step by step and finally gave up collecting commercial taxes. However, they did not expect that Li Zhi was so courageous that he actually dared to open fire on the governor's troops.
If we really fight against Li Zhi, more than 10,000 people on our side will not be enough to watch!
The Tianjin military attachés lowered their heads one by one, as if they could no longer bear to watch the tragic battle that was to follow.
Chadenbei's originally slumped face suddenly collapsed and turned pale. He bent his waist suddenly, as if he was a thief discovered by his master, and said in a trembling voice: "Li Zhi really dares to hit us? What should I do?
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Liang Yishou looked at the fleeing artillerymen with his mouth wide open, and it took him a long time to say: "How could Li Zhi dare to attack us?" (To be continued.)
