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Zhang Xianzhong slapped his thigh fiercely: "Damn, what a Zhao Han. Go back ten years and replace Zhao Han as the emperor, and I will make a rebellion? If I were a commoner, I would definitely treat him as a Bodhisattva. That's right, I want to lead troops to join him!"

This remark was purely a joke, Zhang Xianzhong was willing to surrender, and neither were the civilian and military generals under his command.

Not to mention the generals and godsons, the three military divisions in front of them each have tens of thousands of acres of land, are they really willing to hand over all the land?

In Zhang Xianzhong's territory, military farms supply the army, and civilian farms supply the government.From Zhang Xianzhong to generals at all levels, they also recruited refugees to work as tenants to cultivate the land they occupied.The soldiers also divided the fields, almost occupying all the good land.

Owner farmers have almost all disappeared, leaving only remote areas, and landlords can still keep their own land, or keep middle and lower fields in rich areas.

Thinking about it carefully, Zhang Xianzhong sighed and said, "Forget it, give up Huangmei County to Zhao Han. To spare time and troops, first take down the surrounding areas of Nanyang, and then go to take down Sichuan as well."

As for Sun Kewang, who has already dispatched troops, let Zhao Han take care of it. Anyway, this godson has been a little disobedient recently.

It's also good to knock and knock.

Chapter 338 [The first confrontation with the bandits]

Huangmei County.

Li Zheng and Xiao Zongxian only brought a thousand civilian husbands over.

A few days later, there were nearly ten thousand civilian husbands!

Huangmei County and Jiujiang Mansion are separated by a river, and many residents on both sides are relatives.

What kind of life is it in Jiujiang? Can the people of Huangmei County not know?

The mission officers and the backbone of the peasant association roared along the river and lake, and countless peasants carried hoes and killed the heads of the tenants, and ran to help the Datong army in the war.

They don't do anything else, just fill the moat with soil and help transport some supplies.

No salary, just food.

Seeing the moat being filled up little by little, the guard Wang Ziqi was quite worried.Although there were not many enemy troops besieging the city, the equipment looked scary. Compared with the two, the soldiers under his command were like beggars.

The whole army is wearing armor, even the cooks are wearing leather armor!

Fortunately, the enemy army is not in a hurry to attack the city, and seems to want to... besiege the city and fight for aid?

Guangji direction.

The spies reported back: "General, the enemy's situation has been ascertained. The enemy has thousands of soldiers, and they have recruited nearly ten thousand civilians in Huangmei County."

"Thousands of soldiers want to seize the city?" Sun Kewang sneered, "The whole army is going!"

Sun Kewang's internal affairs capabilities are extremely strong, and now all of Zhang Xianzhong's sites belong to Sun Kewang's side that develops best.

In just one year, Sun Kewang's military rations were already self-sufficient.

However, this man has great ambitions.

After the military rations are self-sufficient, immediately expand the army.He didn't want to stay in Huangzhou to defend Zhao Han, and kept trying to fight. Susong County was defeated this year, and he planned to fight Taihu County next.

Develop the territory, expand the army, hoard food and grass, and occupy the entire Jianghuai!

Zhang Xianzhong asked Sun Kewang to command [-] troops, but he secretly already had [-] troops, not including the city guards along the river.

Fart a little bigger territory, raise tens of thousands of troops, and be self-sufficient. One can imagine how the soldiers are treated.

Almost only rations are given, and it is impossible to pay military salaries. Anyway, the soldiers are allotted land, and the soldiers can recruit tenants to farm the land to support their families.

Not counting the investment in military equipment, but only in terms of rations and military pay, what Zhao Han spent on raising one soldier was more than enough for Sun Kewang to raise ten soldiers!

It may sound scary, but it's not outrageous.

The military salary of a Datong soldier is only 70% of that of a Guanning army. The Ming court really paid a high salary to support soldiers.

The difference is that the Datong Army is all paid, and the quality of food in the army is very good.

Sun Kewang personally led an army of [-] to fight towards Huangmei County.The subsequent assembled troops all went to Huangzhou and Qizhou to defend the city, so as not to be attacked by the Datong navy.

With an army of [-] and [-] civilians, Sun Kewang claims to send [-] troops.

"It's finally here." Li Zheng had been waiting for a long time.

Both sides didn't do any tricks, and after setting up their own camps, they fought in front of each other.

Sun Kewang wanted to lead the cavalry to attack Huang Shun and Fei Yinggong outside Susong City by surprise.But when he learned that the enemy army in Huangmei County was several thousand behind, what a surprise attack, let's eat the enemy in front of him.

There are many enemy soldiers, and there are also in the city. Li Zheng lacks cavalry and dare not run to attack at night.

Li Zheng was cautious, so he simply withdrew from the siege to avoid being flanked by internal and external attacks, and huddled into a ball to prepare for a decisive battle.

"This guy is very timid," Sun Kewang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Once Lao Tzu came, he didn't besiege the city anymore, and he didn't give him any chance. I guess it's useless to attack at night, let's take a day off and fight hard."

Sun Kewang and Li Zheng had a tacit understanding, and both chose the land a few miles west of Huangmei County as the battlefield, where the farmland was mainly dry land.

The rice hadn't been harvested yet, and Li Zheng didn't want to damage the crops.

Sun Kewang wanted to take advantage of the cavalry, and there were too many paddy fields to make it convenient for the horses to run.

Of course, Li Zheng is not a pedantic generation.He chose the dry land as the battlefield because he was afraid that the enemy would run away, so how long would he have to wait to get the results?

The two sides lined up slowly, and Sun Kewang gathered the entire army of cavalry, a total of 1200 cavalry, all of which were handed over to the general Feng Shuangli to command.

"Da da da da!"

Feng Shuangli came with cavalry, trying to disrupt the formation of the Datong army.

"Array, raise guns!"

Five thousand regular soldiers, one thousand of them are gunfire soldiers.

In front of them, the firecrackers came out, Feng Shuangli did not dare to go straight, and led the cavalry around the flank of the Datong army.

The Datong Army quickly rearranged and marched firmly and calmly towards the enemy.

Go very slowly, because there are artillery.

"Woo~~~"

Sun Kewang blew the horn, as if giving some order.

Feng Shuangli immediately led his cavalry, abandoned Li Zheng's army, and rushed straight to the camp on the bank of Leichi.This guy wants to take the opportunity to seize the camp, kill the peasants, and burn the food and grass.

"Boom boom boom!"

It was still far away from the camp, Gu Jianshan immediately ordered the navy to fire the cannon.

Dozens of shells hit the two horses, but they still scared Feng Shuangli enough.

As for the lakeside camp of the Datong Army, the sailors had already disembarked to defend, relying on the camp to hold their muskets and prepare for the battle.

"There is an ambush, retreat!"

With so many muskets on display, Feng Shuangli dared not to charge to the village on horseback, so he had to lead his cavalry back to the battlefield.

Among the thousand and two hundred riders, some horses were more than 1 meters high at the shoulder, and some were less than 35 meters high at the shoulder.Anyway, the mounts were very messy, and the equipment was also very messy. Some carried the standard equipment of the Ming cavalry, while others only carried lances and sabers.

Running back and forth, many horses lacked physical strength and gradually fell behind.

Sun Kewang's [-] infantry marched in ten square formations.

There are all kinds of arms, and there are even special firearms units.

There are also various types of firearms. In addition to the more popular bird guns, there are even three-eyed guns from the early Ming Dynasty.

The armies of both sides, after marching to a certain distance, chose to stop.

Of course the general has something to do, while observing the enemy's situation, while rectifying his own formation.

It's just that Sun Kewang rode out on horseback and went to the front of the battle to observe with his naked eyes.

Li Zheng, on the other hand, was sitting in the middle army, taking out the binoculars.

After observing for a while, Sun Kewang couldn't find any loopholes, so he waved his troops to outflank. 12000 people attacked from the front, surrounded by 4000 people on each side, and 1200 cavalry behind them.

Li Zheng's army was soon surrounded on all sides.

The cavalry led by Feng Shuangli, after a short rest, began to attack from behind.

Li Zheng transferred 300 gunfire soldiers to line up specially for the cavalry.

Feng Shuangli's cavalry unit rushed to a distance of sixty paces.The Datong soldiers neither fired nor appeared flustered, they just waited in neat lines.

"What ghost soldier is this?"

Feng Shuangli was so frightened that his vest was sweating, he quickly stopped charging and divided into two teams to turn left and right.

Unless the iron can heavy cavalry, the rest of the cavalry units are impossible to charge directly.It is nothing more than repeatedly pulling, rushing over and coming back, creating a psychological deterrent to the enemy.

Ordinary township troops can withstand at most two or three intimidations before being frightened by the cavalry into confusion.

But these big soldiers in front of them frightened Feng Shuangli, who was in command of the cavalry!

Not to mention the chaotic formation, in the face of the cavalry charge, the large synchronized pawns did not even move their feet, like sculptures standing on the ground.

The effect of standing in the military posture is reflected.

Just when thousands of infantry circled to the sides, Feng Shuangli gathered the cavalry to rest for a while, and launched a threatening charge against the Datong army again.

He felt that the charge last time was not close enough, so he planned to charge about fifty paces this time.

"Da da da da!"

The ground was trampled by horseshoes and kept shaking, but the Datong soldiers remained motionless.

"shoot!"

"Shhhhhhh!"

At a distance of forty or fifty steps, the cavalry began to shoot arrows.

Datong soldiers didn't bother to hide, only the rattan player raised his shield to protect the face, neck and other vital points, and the firecrackers stood behind the rattan player all the time.

The arrows were shot crookedly, at a distance of forty or fifty steps, facing the well-armored Datong army, the horse bow can cause effective damage.

Feng Shuangli was going crazy, he had never seen such an army.

Two threatening charges, plus a round of volley, can only make the enemy's rattan hand hold up the shield.

This mother is still playing a ghost?

On the frontal battlefield, Sun Kewang's infantry advanced again, encircling them from three sides.

"Test the cannon!"

Xiao Zongxian held up the binoculars and said.

"Boom boom boom!"

Ten artillery pieces fired one after another.

Most of them were smashed crookedly, but three of them fell into the enemy's formation.

One of the cannonballs first smashed a head, then disabled an arm, and then rolled all the way and broke several legs.

"What kind of artillery is this? It hits so far!" Sun Kewang was shocked.

Zhang Xianzhong's army also has artillery, but the number is small, and they are all Zhang Xianzhong's. Sun Kewang is not qualified to lead the artillery team for the time being.

Sun Kewang drew his saber and shouted, "March faster!"

The ten cannons in Li Zhengjun's army all adopted the barrel cold casting technology of the Portuguese in Macau, directly doubling their range!

Halfway through the rush, another volley of ten guns was fired.

This time the shots were more accurate, and a total of six shells hit, plowing bloody passages through the enemy's formation.

Two of the phalanxes were chaotically beaten by the artillery. Although they did not collapse directly, they seriously slowed down their progress.

Two years ago, Zhang Xianzhong had only tens of thousands of soldiers.

Today, his righteous descendants are expected to have tens of thousands of soldiers.

How high can the training be?

Facing the chaotic formation, Sun Kewang could only order the other troops to advance, and the two phalanxes stayed behind to adjust their formation before leaving.Otherwise, once the formation is chaotic during the battle, it is likely to become a breakthrough for the enemy.

"Woo~~~"

Sun Kewang had someone blow the horn again, ordering Feng Shuangli's cavalry to rush forward.

In all directions, all speeded up and trotted towards Li Zheng's army.

"Boom boom boom!"