Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 62 Showdown
The night is not closed, and it keeps going back and forth between Meishan Village and Long Beach.

The information they brought back proved more and more that the defeated Tartars did not flee back to the north of Hangzhou Bay, they rested in Long Beach, and even felt that they were about to make a comeback at any time.

The Tartars were so arrogant and arrogant, Zhu Yihai felt a little incomprehensible at first, but after being reminded by Zhang Mingzhen and others, he immediately came to his senses.

In today's battle, I am afraid that the Tartars will not be convinced at all, thinking that it was just a temporary loss, and they still have absolute strength, so now I have the advantage of self-confidence, and I want to fight back.

After understanding this, Zhu Yihai became excited.

Everyone is confident that I have the advantage, so this battle has to be fought. This is exactly what he wants. If he is not convinced, he wants to fight again, so let his strength speak.

"I suggest that it is better to stop with stillness, defend with the stronghold, wait for it to attack, and strike later." Zhang Mingzhen put forward his own suggestion.

Zhu Yihai smiled and stroked his chin, "Since Qing is here alone, I'm afraid that you will be a burden when you attack alone. Since you want to fight, it's better to attack directly."

During the daytime battle today, Zhu Yihai also felt a little regretful. With such a huge advantage, he failed to completely wipe out the Tartars. This battle could have been fought better.

After a small victory, the morale is just right now, and it's time to go all out.

At the temporary military meeting in the village, Zhu Yihai's determination played a role, especially today he also came to the battlefield in person during the daytime. Although he failed to actually slay people with a knife, he also commanded the commander in the army and the artillery to participate, so everyone respected him. He wanted to lead troops into battle, but he didn't have such firm opposition.

In the end, Zhu Yihai's plan was reluctantly passed, and Huang Zongxi and others stayed behind with their long husband.

Zhu Yihai led the newly expanded ten battalions of soldiers to attack bravely, and wanted to wipe out all these tartars in Long Beach on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay.

At night, the Tartars did not attack, and they seemed to expect that there might be vigilance in the village, so they planned to attack after dawn. Zhu Yihai sent people to take turns to guard overnight, and Tianming led the army to set off.

After checking the flintlock, Zhu Yihai put on the cotton armor and set off.

"I wish Your Highness the best of luck and triumphant triumph!"

The gentle granddaughter of Huangzhai Lord bowed down and sent Zhu Yihai farewell, Zhu Yihai smiled at her and left.

"Your Highness won't give Miss Huang a title?" Yang Boxing, who was carrying the gun for Zhu Yihai, asked.

"Miss Huang is very nice, but Gu doesn't intend to accept her. What title will she give?"

"What's wrong with Miss Huang?"

"It's a pity that I'm disabled." Zhu Yihai shook his head.

"Master Huang, how dare you bully the king? I'll find him!" Yang Zaixing was furious.

Zhu Yihai called Yang Boxing to stop. This matter has nothing to do with the Huang family. Huang Laozhai's willingness to send his granddaughter to serve as a servant already made Zhu Yihai very fond of him. However, although Zhu Yihai had a good chat with this Huang girl yesterday, here Between the military and brigade, it is rare to relax.

However, he really didn't like the small feet of rich women in the late Ming Dynasty. The three-inch golden lotus scholars liked it very much, but Zhu Yihai felt disgusted. It was too deformed and ugly to bind a good pair of natural feet into a disability. up.

So even though Miss Huang is rare and generous and gentle, Zhu Yihai just chatted with her for a while.

He also didn't say that he took advantage of the opportunity to put the beauty in his arms, sow dragon seeds or something.

"Little feet disabled?" Yang Boxing was stunned, with an incredulous expression on his face.

How many years has this bound feet been? Which lady from a famous family doesn't bind her feet?Only women from poor families do not bind their feet, because they have to help with work.Do big families not bind their feet?Then how to get married.

He couldn't figure out why His Highness Jian Guo still thought of bound feet and said he was disabled.

Zhu Yihai didn't have the heart to worry about these things, his main task now was to fight the Tartars, and everything else was secondary.

The fact that Shen Wenzhong and others raised that he has no children is certainly a problem, but it is not that serious.

The tenth battalion of the new army has 8000 troops, and the action is not fast.

All battalions and sentries followed one by one.

Fortunately, although they have just undergone expansion, after all, there are four battalions of veterans, and these four battalions are basically half of the veterans of Zhejiang soldiers, and they have absorbed some veterans of Chen Wu, so in Xinsheng Under the momentum, the morale is quite high.

Still Zhang Mingzhen led the two battalions as the forward, the two battalions of Shenji and Yongwei as the left and right wings, the two battalions of Shizhong as the rear, and the two battalions of standard bearers led by Zhu Yihai as the central army.

Keep a certain distance between each battalion and move slowly.

Zhu Yihai rode on the horse and looked at the army. Generally speaking, it was still very messy.

Even the flags were made on the spur of the moment, not to mention the military uniforms, which were messy.

The armor rate is not high, there are fewer mules, and all kinds of weapons, but the morale of the soldiers is high, which is brought about by a victory. At this time, everyone is confident in teaching the losers.

Such a large group of troops attacked, and the Tartars knew about it very quickly. Not long after, they saw some captive cavalry appearing from a distance. They watched and observed, but they didn't panic.

Zhang Mingzhen also sent Yebushou Qingqi with great general style to drive out these captive cavalry who were scouting the military situation, and the sentry cavalry of both sides started a chasing battle in front of the army.

A small group of cavalry that you come and go, run around and shoot.

Even from time to time, they took guns to shoot, and the bang bang bang made the atmosphere of fighting continue to increase, and the soldiers gradually became agitated.

The battalions were closer together, and every half an hour or so they would stop and regroup so that the recruits could keep up with the formation.

"There are about [-] Tartars, and our army is [-], ten times more than that."

Shen Chenquan, who was following Zhu Yihai, felt that I had the advantage and was very confident. The whole army, even the recruits from the Shizhong Battalion, thought there was nothing wrong with this battle.

"Push forward slowly, and drive all the Tartars into the sea."

Half of the Tartars were lost in the battle yesterday, 300 people were lost. They returned to the camp here and added [-] troops, which is [-] more troops than yesterday's battle. .

Although Zhu Yihai has always looked down on the Ming army, but when it comes to war, his new army is also professional because it has thousands of veterans, at least marching, guarding, sentrying, etc. are still very professional.

After walking for about [-] miles, the temporary camp of Tartars appeared in front of us.

Zhu Yihai's 8000 men and horses spent almost the whole morning stopping and going.

The horn is melodious.

The two armies approached, but they didn't fight immediately. Only a small group of cavalry approached each other for reconnaissance and expulsion.

"Rest on the spot, build defenses, eat some dry food, replenish physical strength, and prepare for battle!"

The morale of the whole army is very high. A group of elite veterans of the Zhejiang army, with newly recruited young soldiers, no one was left behind, and no one ran away.

Arriving here, the physical strength is still very sufficient.

Seeing the Tartars approaching, he didn't panic.

Although Zhu Yihai wasn't sure whether some of these recruits would pee their pants when they fought, but the momentum now was indeed the atmosphere of the army, not the fighting of the common people.

At this time, I can feel why those military officers in Ming Dynasty like to spend a lot of money to build an elite family. In the case of lack of pay and food, the army is seriously short and lacks sufficient training. When troops are sent out to fight, it may be a mess. With these elite servants as the backbone, at least they can stand up.

Zhu Yihai's family team is still a banner battalion of 60 people, of which [-]% are veterans and [-]% are new recruits. All of them are equipped with two horses, and there are twenty mules to carry things. Their weapons are also relatively abundant and sophisticated, and all spearmen Cotton armor, archers and musketeers are also equipped with breastplates, iron helmets, and even an artillery squad equipped with five small tiger squat guns.

And the whole battalion of banner bearers has long been regarded as Zhu Yihai's imperial guards by Zhang Mingzhen, Shen Chenquan, etc. Zhu Yihai's safety on the battlefield is still guaranteed.

"It seems that the Tartars don't intend to defend, but are going to have a serious field battle with us."

Zhu Yihai held up the binoculars to watch, the Tartars had a temporary camp, but it was very simple, without even a fence or horses, just set up some tents, and then stayed overnight like this.

When the Ming army appeared, they also cleaned up early.

Shen Chenquan also held up his binoculars to watch. The Tartars were very calm and calm. About half of the troops, more than 300 people, had already walked out of the camp.

Like spreading the wings of a goose.

Then there are more than a hundred cavalry on the left and right sides of the back.

In the end, there were about a hundred people in the camp, probably the reserve team.

"The Tartars are very arrogant!"

Zhu Yihai felt that the Tartars were indeed a bit overconfident. He had 8000 people, and ten battalion men came by horse-drawn horses, occupying a huge area, and his eyes were full of black soldiers.

The so-called more than 8000 people are boundless, and [-] people can spread out for several miles.

Zhu Yihai here has one battalion with four sentries, and each sentry has four teams, so the sentries are large and small army formations, and the last ten battalions are divided into five divisions according to the head, wing and tail. .

But Tartar obviously didn't pay much attention to it.

What they set up was a defensive formation, about 400 people dismounted into three infantry formations, one hundred cavalry on each side covered them, and the last 100 people were the reserve team.

This formation is mainly defensive, but it also has killer moves, and the two wings can attack at any time.

"The Tartars are so arrogant!"

"Since entering the customs, they have been invincible. They often defeat enemies ten times stronger. They have long been used to this."

"Yesterday, we killed three hundred prisoners!"

"They also just thought that they underestimated the enemy for a while and were attacked by surprise, and they were not convinced."

Zhu Yihai looked at the entire battlefield. This is the tidal flat on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay. It was reclaimed and planted by the common people, and it has been opened up into pieces of fields.

It can be said that it is a flat land with one eye to the bottom, no danger to defend, no soldiers to hide, and the sea behind.

Tartars are put to death.

In any case, military strength and geography are beneficial to Zhu Yihai.

However, Zhang Mingzhen was very cautious and sent Qingqi to run around continuously, searching carefully, not letting go of any suspicious places, and even asked Qingqi to expand the search range to [-] miles around, in case there were still Tartars lying in ambush nearby. .

After resting for about half an hour, Zhang Mingzhen took the lead in attacking.

The two battalions of Zhenbiao pressed forward slowly, and the Qingqi galloped between the battalions to convey the military orders.

The four battalions of Shenji and Yongwei also followed from the two wings, covering and supporting them from the side. The two sides still maintained a sufficient distance, and Zhu Yihai's second battalion, the standard bearer, also moved.

The battalions moved slowly, and there was no scene where the whole army rushed forward as soon as the horn was blown.

But Zhu Yihai rode a horse and slowly followed the army, but felt that the blood in his body was still boiling uncontrollably.

This is a head-on battle, he is more than ten times stronger than the Tartars, so it is impossible for him to lose, right?

(End of this chapter)