Daming pirates

After hearing the news, Liu Wutang immediately ordered the officers and soldiers to stop advancing and temporarily camp on the spot. General Zhongqian's garrison was called in front of him to discuss what to do next.

Liu Wutang looked at the map and cursed secretly. He didn't need to think about who this group of thieves was that was blocking their way. Nowadays, in Tong'an County, there is no one else who can go so deep into the territory to block their way.

Apart from the Sea Wolf tribe, I'm afraid there will never be another family.

The Sea Wolf was indeed arrogant enough. This time, they actually dared to go so deep into the land. This did not take their officers and soldiers seriously at all.

And the place they chose today is really good. There is a ditch sandwiched between two mountains. It is the only road directly to Tong'an County. They set up camp here, clearly to prevent them from going to Tong'an County for rescue.

If he can't repel this group of sea wolves today, let alone rescue Tong'an County, he may not even be able to protect himself. Moreover, the terrain in this area is also very unfavorable to them, because there is a ditch sandwiched between two mountains.

There was no open terrain wide enough for their officers and troops to deploy.

Now, if he wanted to break through the opponent's interception and reach Tong'an County, he would have to bite the bullet and lead his troops to attack and disperse the pirates in one fell swoop before he could break out of the mountain pass and reach Tong'an County.

But if he wanted to take a detour, he would have to retreat dozens of miles away and detour to Quanzhou Prefecture before he could detour to Tong'an County, which would add another one to two hundred miles to the distance.

You must know that their journey from Yanping Prefecture was not easy. Almost all along the way were mountain roads. It was relatively easy for the infantry to march alone, but these four thousand officers and soldiers had to eat horse chews and consume a lot of money every day.

There is little food, even if the government provides them with some supplies along the way, most of the time, they still have to carry a lot of food.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty went out to fight, but they didn't pay attention to it. When they were stationed at the station, it was fine for the officers to bully them. But once they went out to fight, the officers had to be kind to their soldiers, otherwise no one would

There is no guarantee that these officers and soldiers will stab them in the back when they go into battle. Even if they don't turn their spears towards them, if they are expected to go into battle and fight, there will still be no way for officials to break up on the spot.

Therefore, when going out to march and fight, officers often try to find ways to make the soldiers well-fed or even better fed. What they are afraid of is that the soldiers refuse to go on the road, which will only delay the march. However, if they mutiny, it will be a big trouble.

But it is not easy to keep the officers and soldiers well fed. In addition to asking the officials of the places they pass along the way to provide them with some food and grass, their usual method is to intimidate and force the villages along the way.

The village provides them with food.

Some soldiers simply walked all the way and robbed all the way. As soon as the people heard that they were going to have officers and soldiers there, some people immediately packed up their things and fled to the mountains to hide. Some villages simply closed their village gates tightly and refused to let the officers and soldiers in at any time.

When they entered, the officers and soldiers pressed hard, so they simply picked up their swords and guns and fought against the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the reputation of the officers and soldiers is extremely bad in the hearts of the people. Even the local officials know this. It is not that there is really no way, they will not easily transfer the officers and soldiers from other places to fight. What they are afraid of is that these officers and soldiers will arrive.

When fighting in a different place, the people passing through the border aroused great resentment.

But now Fujian officials have no choice but to mobilize troops from Yanping Prefecture and Tingzhou Prefecture. Otherwise, their coastal prefectures will not be able to draw any usable troops.

This time General Liu Shen led his troops from Yanping Mansion. It was a hard journey. The discipline of his officers and soldiers was ruined. He did not dare to let these officers and soldiers do too much. Otherwise, local officials would inevitably impeach him afterwards, so

He could only walk slowly, for fear of causing trouble on the road.

In the past few days, Cai Shanji, the governor of Zuo who temporarily replaced Zhu Yifeng in charge of affairs in Fujian, sent people to his army every day, ordering him to speed up his troops and must reach Tong'an County within five days.

Come on, he has delayed it for two days now. If he delays it any longer, he will inevitably be severely impeached by this leftist political strategist afterwards.

It has not yet completely reached the end of the Ming Dynasty. Although the generals are usually very arrogant, they have not yet reached the level where they can not lose their tail like the generals at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The status of military generals is still very low, and the civil servants still suppress them.

Therefore, General Liu did not dare to turn a deaf ear to Cai Shanji's words.

Today, after learning that there was such a group of sea wolf troops blocking their way in the Luotian Village area, General Liu Shen thought for a while, summoned his Qianzong guards to discuss it, and thought that their strength would be the upper hand.

Under the circumstances, as long as you use your full strength, there is no problem in defeating this group of pirates.

Otherwise, if they were scared off by such a small band of thieves and had to take a detour, not only delaying the matter, but also spreading the word afterwards, they would probably be sprayed to death by those civil servants. So now they had no choice but to defeat this group of thieves blocking their way, and doing so would be beneficial.

Just before arriving in Tong'an County, you can give a big boost to your morale.

In addition, there are not many bandits who should come ashore during the sea wolf attack this time. As long as they are defeated, they may be the first to succeed.

Therefore, after General Liu Shen made up his mind, he immediately began to line up his army, ordered his troops and generals, and began to prepare for the battle. However, he forgot one thing, that is, the Sea Wolf's infantry was not an ordinary infantry.

In the Battle of Nanri Island that day, the Sea Wolf Infantry defeated more than 6,000 elite officers and soldiers of Fujian with a small number.

Meng Fei held a piece of grass in his mouth, with his hands behind his back and his waist straight, pacing back and forth in front of the formation. Behind him, there were more than a thousand neat Sea Wolf infantry, standing silently in formation, the formation was like a knife cutting

It was like a piece of tofu, exuding a chilling atmosphere invisibly.

Everyone has no expression on their face, they just stand there with their chests raised, their waists straight like javelins. In the queue, there are a forest of long guns, and the musketeers have their musket butts at their feet, holding muskets.

The gun body looks like it is made of steel poured into iron, which gives people a feeling of being immovable after looking at it.

In the middle of the queue, a large flag of the Sea Wolf was flying on a flagpole more than ten feet high. On the white edge of the flag, the small characters of the Second Battalion of the Sea Wolf Land Division were embroidered in red thread. This flag was the Sea Wolf flag.

The flag of the Army's Second Integrated Battalion, among the team, there are also a few smaller company flags, and some smaller military flags, fluttering in the wind. Because of their presence in the valley, it is even more obvious.

There was a solemn atmosphere.

On the mountain road in the distance, the sound of people shouting and horses neighing could be heard at this time. Some officers and soldiers constantly appeared in their field of vision, watching them from a distance. In terms of distance, if the snipers were to use precision

The Sea Wolf rifle can already kill those military scouts.

But Meng Fei prohibited the snipers in the camp from shooting at this time, because once they fired at this time, although they could kill the enemy's scouting horses, it would expose the advantage of the Sea Wolf rifle's long range. He had to wait for the official

When the army begins to charge, it will give the officers and soldiers a head-on blow. By then, the officers and soldiers will know that it is powerful and it will be too late.

After a while, a large number of officers and soldiers began to appear at the end of the road. Flags of the officers and soldiers and the recognition flags of various generals were flying. The dark crowd lined up in irregular formations and started to march.

When they arrived about a mile away from the front of the Sea Wolves formation, they slowly stopped marching.

Because the terrain in this area is relatively narrow, the thousands of officers and soldiers cannot fully deploy. On the front, the officers and soldiers only placed about 2,000 infantry troops, arranged in four formations, filling the entire valley. The rest of the officers and soldiers were

They lined up at the back, because General Liu Shen did not plan to camp here, so the baggage they carried with the army also followed the team. They only waited for the soldiers and horses in front to repel the sea wolf, and then they immediately continued to move forward.

After the officers and soldiers were in formation, General Liu Shen rode on a Mongolian war horse in the army, stood up with his feet in stirrups, put up an awning with his hands in the distance, and looked towards the sea wolves' formation.

It was noon at this time, and the winter sun was directly in front of them. Looking over from the position of the officers and soldiers, it happened to be in a backlight state. Liu Wutang couldn't help but frown a little. Such a position was a bit disadvantageous for them, and the archers were not very good.

It is easy to see the target clearly under backlight, which will affect the archer's archery accuracy to a certain extent.

In addition, the terrain here is not good. He cannot put all his troops on the battlefield at once and can only attack in batches. In this way, his superior strength cannot be used to some extent.

And after taking a closer look at the Sea Wolf infantry column opposite, Liu Wutang suddenly took a breath of cold air, because after all, he was also a general leading troops. Although his level was not high, he still had basic common sense.

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Just by watching this, he felt that today might not be as simple as he thought. The Sea Wolf tribe opposite did not look like thieves at all. Although the entire Sea Wolf formation was not that big, the number of them was still there.

It's not too much, but it gives people a feeling of being as still as a mountain.

This kind of military appearance was the only one he had ever seen in his life. Even when he went to Fuzhou before and watched the Fubiao military formations in Fuzhou, the officers and soldiers of Fubiao in Fujian could not form such a neat formation as the Sea Wolf Bandits in front of him.

As a leader, why didn't he know that the formation of an army can tell the other party's training level? The Sea Wolf team, when arranged in formation, really creates a strong threat to people.

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Liu Wutang couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He asked himself that the officers and soldiers he brought with him, even the more than a hundred soldiers he had on hand, might not be able to reach the level of the other party. This couldn't help but remind him of recent events.

According to some news I heard, Chen Wencan led an army of 7,000 troops, which was claimed to be 20,000 strong soldiers. After landing on Nanri Island, they were actually made dumplings by sea wolves and the entire army was annihilated.

So today it seems that Sea Wolf's ability to completely wipe out Chen Wencan's men is not a fluke. He might have hit a brick wall today.

But now, it was too late for him to adjust. He could only bite the bullet and fight, because if he retreated and ordered a retreat, the sea wolf would just pounce on him and kill him.

His few thousand soldiers and horses would be finished.

No matter how stupid the generals are, they still understand the consequences of retreating on the battlefield. Retreating without a fight will have a huge impact on morale. If you retreat carelessly, you may be taken advantage of, eventually leading to a collapse and retreat.

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