Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 335 Live Lu Bu Has a Gun!Chen Jinnan is here! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Grandpa, it seems to be a living Lu Bu! He actually led two thousand cavalry out of the city."

Above the Ganjiang River, on a very tall building boat, Wu Shifan, the grandson of Emperor Zhou of the Great Zhou Dynasty, put down the telescope in his hand, and pointed to about 2000 cavalrymen who were unfolding on an open field outside Deshengmen, the north gate of Nanchang, seven or eight miles away. He shouted loudly to Wu Sangui who was sitting in the cabin.

Wu Sangui was sitting in the cabin at this time, wearing a pair of presbyopic glasses, holding a memorial, looking at it carefully, and smiling complacently while reading it—this memorial was sent by Sun Jiqing from Guangxi!
This Sun Jiqing originally planned to rebel as soon as he arrived in Guangxi, but he was suppressed by Kong Sizhen who arrived later.However, Sun Jiqing still expelled the officials sent by Li Jizhen to the territory of the Gui Navy, blocked the road to Wuzhou (belonging to Guangxi, but it was the land of the Southern King), and began to recruit troops and make full preparations for war.

But Kong Sizhen did not abolish his son's Gui Haijun Jiedushi because of this, nor imprisoned his son, but persuaded his son to change his mind and recognize Li Fuchen as his father again.At the same time, she also wrote letters to Li Jizhen who lived in Zhaoqing and Wu Xiaotu who lived in Guangzhou, assuring that "Li Jiqing" was only resentful because her adoptive father was killed by Li Zhongshan, and would not really rebel.

Li Jizhen and Wu Xiaotu seemed to be "deceived" by Kong Sizhen, so they did not send troops to Guilin to attack Sun Jiqing, who had publicly implemented armed separatism
And when the news that Wu Sangui sent millions of troops to defeat the Ming Dynasty and captured Hanyang, Wuchang, Anlu, De'an and other prefectures (actually only occupied part of it) spread to Guangdong and Guangxi, the generals of the Gui Navy who were still waiting and watching (mainly It was the old department of Dingfan), and all of them turned to support Sun Jiqing's rebellion - this group of people was also unlucky, they were originally an alternative in the system of the Southern Palace, neither reformers, nor martial arts, nor Li Fuchen's nephew Yuan Cong was completely an outsider, and he became Li Fuchen's subordinate only because of Kong Sizhen.

If it weren't for Li Jiqing changing Sun Jiqing, they would be able to be a hero of the Ming Dynasty in peace and stability, but now if Sun Jiqing makes a fuss, they will all have to follow the bad luck.However, Kong Sizhen and Sun Jiqing could not be tied up and dedicated to Li Jizhen. After all, the general Li Zhongshan and the Southern King Li Fuchen did not order the crusade against Sun Jiqing and Kong Sizhen, obviously they still wanted to fight for it.

As a result, Wu Sangui looked very good!
So this group of people's hearts were overwhelmed, they stomped their feet, and they simply rebelled against Sun Jiqing!
Sun Jiqing got their support and immediately wrote this memorial to Wu Sangui. Now Wu Sangui won Li Zhongshan's son again!These days, Wu Sangui has been winning and winning all the time, and he is about to win!

Hearing Wu Shifan's shout now, Wu Sangui put down the memorial in his hand, stood up, and Dabu walked to the platform outside the cabin, holding on to the railing with one hand, taking the binoculars with the other, and looked in the direction of his grandson's finger.

In the telescope, two armies are confronting each other.

Wu Zhoujun's side is the five thousand step cavalry led by Mang Yitu who has just surrendered. Their task is to cover Wu Zhoujun's land division brigade as close as possible to the Xiazhai of Nanchang City.

Wu Sangui's plan was to "besiege his father and fight for aid". By besieging Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan was drawn out, and he set up formations on the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake to catch Li Zhongshan who had come from afar.

This strategy is actually a replica of Chen Youliang's strategy when Chen Youliang fought against Zhu Yuanzhang in Poyang Lake!

Although Chen Youliang failed to defeat Zhu Yuanzhang with this strategy, in Wu Sangui's view, Chen Youliang's failure was not due to the wrong strategy of besieging Nanchang to fight for aid, but because he was not moved by the aid and was killed by the aid. In the final analysis, Chen Youliang's army was poor in combat effectiveness , Can't beat Zhu Yuanzhang's army.

If you can't beat it, all the tricks are for nothing!
So today he bet the newly surrendered Mang Yitu in front, just to see with his own eyes how powerful Li Jiajun is.
Mang Yitu and Daming had a bloody feud, and quite a few of his soldiers were from the Jiangning Banner Army and the Green Camp. Their family members were slaughtered by the Ming army, and everyone hated Daming very much.

When fighting with the Ming army with Yue Le and Jie Shu, their unit has always been the most tenacious, and under the care of Yue Le and Jie Shu, their equipment is also the best. Although there are not many cavalry, they are all in armor , half of the soldiers are equipped with shotguns, and the remaining half are mostly equipped with long spears and bows.

In addition, Man Yitu also had a small artillery force equipped with eight light bronze cannons that could fire three catties of projectiles.

Seeing Li Fuchen leading two thousand cavalry out of Nanchang City, Mang Yitu's eyes turned red—meet your enemies!

"The disciples of the Eight Banners are all optimistic, the tall man on the big horse is Wang Fuchen!"

Mang Yitu yelled, and people around him immediately responded.

"The horse rider is Wang Fuchen!"

"The tall one is Wang Fuchen!"

Hearing these yells, Mang Yitu knew that the morale of the people below had risen!
This is revenge for themselves!
Now Mang Yitu somewhat understands why Cantonese hate Shang Kexi and his family so much.
The 5000 people in Mang Yitu have already set up a very traditional Chinese-style phalanx, that is, the outer circle is square or rectangular, and the inside is roughly hollow, which can be stuffed into luggage, Chinese army, cavalry, artillery and reserve Team phalanx.

And Mang Yitu himself, riding a war horse, stood in the center of the formation, under his general flag, with his bloodshot eyes, he looked viciously at the Li family's iron cavalry who had already formed two rows of dense horizontal formations three or four hundred paces away. .

These cavalry look very "iron"!
The cavalry on horseback are all wearing black lacquered iron armor - a set of breastplate hammered out of a whole piece of iron with a thousand hammers, ring arm armor, iron hat helmet and skirt armor. Enter!

And the horses under the crotch of these iron cavalry are all covered with horse armor!
People were dressed in armor and harnesses, and they also lined up a dense horizontal formation of thousands of cavalry. Each cavalry also held a slender bamboo spear, obviously preparing to launch a charge.

Seeing these cavalry slowly advancing towards their side, everyone, including Wu Sangui who was far away on the boat, felt a little breathless.

Wu Sangui nodded lightly, and said to himself: "Living Lu Bu is still a bit capable, but it's a pity that he is in the south of the Yangtze River and cannot gather large cavalry. If there are [-] such cavalry, I will not be sure to take him down! "

"Grandpa, what do you think of Li Fuchen's cavalry compared to our family's Guan Ningyi Ding Tuqi?"

Wu Shifan on the side laughed and asked Wu Sangui about it.

Wu Sangui thought about it seriously: "It should be that Li Fuchen's cavalry is stronger, and the Manchurian white armor soldiers are nothing more than that!"

"White Armored Soldier?"

"Is it really that strong?"

Wu Shifan and Wu Shijue, the two boys who grew up listening to the myth of how awesome the white armored heavenly soldiers were, were shocked when they heard Wu Sangui's words.

Wu Sangui smiled and said: "Anyway, it's two thousand. Hehe, Canming estimated that there are only two thousand elite riders. It's better if they are all in Nanchang, so that Geng Jingzhong and Sun Jiqing don't run into them."

"Grandpa," Wu Shijue asked with a smile, "do you think Mang Yitu can stop it?"

"Yes!" Wu Sangui laughed, "Mang Yitu's five-thousand-step cavalry is also a rare elite, and he has a deep hatred with the Li family, so he is willing to do his best!"

"Grandpa, Li Fuchen's cavalry has stopped." Wu Shifan shouted again.

"Stopped? How far away?"

"Two hundred paces away!" Wu Shifan said, "The cavalry in the back row have all dismounted!"

"Two hundred paces away? Get off the horse in the back row? Is this necessary?" Wu Sangui's face suddenly changed, and he growled: "Not good!"

When Wu Sangui knew it was "not good", Mang Yitu was still in a daze!
What does it mean that this iron cavalry dismounted more than 200 steps before the enemy's formation?Store horsepower?Is this too close?Are you not afraid of the opponent's cavalry rushing out?It doesn't seem to work. The back row gets off the horse, and the front row is still sitting on the horseback!
Just when Mang Yitu was wondering whether to empty out the iron grit bullets in those small cannons, and then replace them with solid bullets to bombard the opponent's cavalry, he suddenly saw the enemy's front row of more than a thousand cavalry in the gap. Eight or nine hundred dismounted cavalry carrying flintlock guns emerged!

"Is this musketeer?" Mang Yitu watched in disbelief that these dismounted musketeers quickly formed a team more than [-] steps away from his phalanx, and then raised his gun to aim at this time, he knew something was wrong!

He had also heard of a rifled gun that could kill people at two or three hundred paces!

However, this kind of gun is difficult to make and is easily damaged, so he has not seen it much. It is said that only Li Zhongshan's Shanziying soldiers are equipped with a lot.Now Li Fuchen's dismounted cavalry are all equipped with rifled guns?Is this too much?
"boom blah blah"

Mang Yitu hadn't figured out what to do yet, the eight or nine hundred rifled guns on the opposite side had already fired!
Eight or nine hundred rounds of "Mini bombs" swept across Mang Yitu's formation like a whirlwind, and the "Mang Army" shotgunners standing in the front row holding their matchlock guns at a loss were cut down like straw. a large piece.And those "reckless army" shotgun soldiers who were not defeated did not care how far they were from the enemy, and raised their matchlock guns one after another to fight back at the enemy.Almost at the same time, five of the eight three-pound cannons of Mang Yitu's army also fired rumblingly, spewing out a lot of smoke and iron sand, but they couldn't reach the enemy more than 200 paces away.

The advantage of the "Mini bomb" is not only that it can be fired accurately and far, but also reloads faster. Therefore, when Mang Yitu's artillery and shotgunners were still scrambling to reload, there were eight or nine hundred rounds of "Mini bombs". "Here comes roaring!

These eight or nine hundred armored cavalry are sharpshooters who have been trained by Li Fuchen for a long time. Usually they can hit targets at [-] paces, but now they are replaced with targets at [-] paces away. It is not like a massacre. ?

After they fired several salvos, Mang Yitu's phalanx was in disarray. Not only were two or three hundred spearmen in the front line killed, but even the pikemen standing behind were killed or injured more than two hundred. Next to the three-pound cannon with the door pushed to the front, there were all corpses and dying wounded in disorder, and there were almost no gunners who could move!
Mang Yitu already knew it was going to die, and when he was loudly ordering his men to retreat slowly, he suddenly heard a rush of drums, and then he heard a terrified shout: "Cavalry, Lancers charge!"

Mang Yitu hurriedly raised his head and moved forward. Through the diffuse gunpowder smoke, he did not notice any galloping cavalry ahead, but the sound of rumbling horseshoes had already reached his ears.
"This, this Li Fuchen's cavalry is so strong!"

On the building boat, Wu Sangui, who watched the battle condescendingly, could clearly see that Li Fuchen's cavalry could not be invisible. They just used the smoke cover from the gunfight between the two sides to quietly gather on both sides of the dismounted Musketeers, and then formed a group of dozens of cavalry , Initiated a "wheel assault" - a group of people rushed towards Mang Yitu's troops who had been beaten into chaos by rifled guns!
Mang Yitu's troops are mainly infantry, and the formation of formations can naturally resist the impact of cavalry, but the formation of infantry cannot withstand the intensive firepower of rifled guns-the power of eight or nine hundred fast-firing rifles is no less than that of cavalry. A few red cannons firing shotguns!

How can infantry stand and be shot by red cannons?Therefore, after a few rounds, they will inevitably collapse. Once they collapse, Li Fuchen's cavalry can come to take the heads. This tactic is simple and effective. The only disadvantage is that it costs too much money!
Rifled guns and armored cavalry are very expensive, and Li Fuchen even combined these "two expensives into one expensive", so shouldn't they be super expensive?

This is simply hitting people with money!

Is this bullying Wu Sangui as the "Poverty Emperor"?

"lost, defeated"

When Wu Sangui, the emperor, just thought that he was too poor, a burst of loud and noisy shouts came from the battlefield on the east bank of the Ganjiang River.

Mang Yitu's army has been defeated!

It was just a few rounds of rifled gun salvos and a wave of armored cavalry charging, and the five thousand elites fighting in the formation of Mang Yitu had no choice but to throw away their helmets and armor and flee.Fleeing "reckless soldiers" were everywhere on the battlefield, rushing towards the rear soldiers and horses who were hurriedly lining up, only to be hit by bullets and arrow clusters before turning to the sides of the battlefield and retreating.

This kind of attack power is much stronger than the white armored soldiers back then!
However, Li Fuchen, who succeeded in one blow, did not love to fight. After all, the enemy was outnumbered, and Wu Sangui seemed to have "a million troops". And just behind Mang Yitu's troops, a group of Wu family's vest cavalry who had just disembarked was already there. The battlefield unfolded.

Li Fuchen's style of play is very good for dealing with the enemy's artillery and infantry. If it is used against the enemy's cavalry, it will not have much advantage.

So Li Fuchen took it as soon as he saw it, led the captured horses, dragged a few looted cannons, escorted the prisoners who were still able to move, and withdrew to Nanchang City cheering.

Witnessing Mang Yitu's defeat and how powerful Li Fuchen's cavalry musketeers were, Wu Sangui frowned and stood there without saying a word, watching the victorious Li Fuchen lead his army back. I ordered all infantry troops to build shielded chariots immediately and use shielded chariots to cover the front when they are in formation."

"Yes!"

Answer loudly left and right.

Wu Sangui paused, then said in a low voice: "Prepare pens, ink, paper and inkstone, I want to write back to Sun Jiqing!" Then he muttered to himself: "Fortunately, I have this chess piece, as long as Guangdong is in my hands, I will also There will be many rifled guns. It seems that if you want to conquer the world, you must have rifled guns!"

Zhejiang, Anji County.

The flag with the word "Jing" is hunting and dancing at the head of the county town!
This county town was originally Liu Jinzhong's territory, but now it's surnamed Geng, and Geng Jingzhong took it without a fight!
As expected, Liu Jinzhong had no intention of fighting Geng Jingzhong to the death. Hearing that Geng Jingzhong's "[-] troops" had arrived near Huzhou, he retreated into the capital city of Huzhou Prefecture and guarded behind closed doors.Although he didn't say which one to surrender, but in action, he acted like he was not helping each other.And it also gave up Anji, the main road from Hangzhou to Guangde and Nanjing.

Now Geng Jingzhong, who is stationed in Anji, has two roads laid out in front of him. To the northwest, he can take Guangdezhou to cover his flanks, and to the north, he can go straight to Nanjing!

Nanjing. He has another chance to enter Nanjing!
In Anji County, when I was looking at the map with Yue Le and discussing how to fight next, a soldier came to report: "Report to the emperor, more than ten thousand Ming troops appeared near Chashan in the north of Anji County. Ying Tiantuan practiced the title of Shangshu Zuocheng Chen Jinnan."

"Chen Jinnan? Shangshu Zuocheng." Geng Jingzhong was taken aback, "Is that Chen Yonghua?"

"It should be," Yue Le said, "Maybe he called Jin Nan?"

Geng Jingzhong pondered for a while: "Why is he here? Is there no one in Nanjing City?"

Yue Le smiled and said, "Isn't there nobody? Liu Jinzhong is in Huzhou, Li Fuchen is in Nanchang, Li Zhongshan led his troops on board a few days ago, and also went to Jiangxi. Now in Nanjing, only Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao can be the commanders-in-chief." gone."

"Haha," Geng Jingzhong clapped his hands and said, "This is great! I'm not afraid of Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao. Come on, beat the drums, gather the generals, and I want to take down Chen Yonghua, a white-faced scholar, personally this time! "

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)