The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 378
Xu Erxian was Shang Kexi's deputy and a former Dongjiang veteran. As the vanguard in this battle, he was the first to set foot on Jianghua Island in three rounds with a thousand soldiers.

When he first followed Ding Yi, Xu Erxian was still a little bit dissatisfied.

One is that Ding Yi was young and helped Yuan kill Mao back then.

But Shang Kexi didn't say anything, so he could only follow.

Then he participated in Ding Yi's military training, and he trained every day.

At that time, Xu Erxian was so trained that he wanted to run away.

But Shang Kexi is also practicing, and Ding Yi pays his salary every month. He was appointed as the chief executive, and he gets ten taels of silver every month, which makes him bite the bullet and persevere.

After several months of training, Xu Erxian felt that something was different, because his soldiers and horses were obviously more elite and more disciplined than before.

Then he and Shang Kexi participated in the battle against Japan.

In the battle against Japan, Ding Yi's troops won a complete victory, not only seizing Japan's silver mountain, but also forcing the shogunate to hand out 20 taels of silver.

Afterwards, Shang Kexi led the three of them to rob Japan of hundreds of thousands of silver and gold.

It was only then that Xu Erxian realized that wars could make money.

From then on, he felt the fearfulness and strength of Ding Yi's soldiers and horses even more.

From then on, he has decided to follow Ding Yi with all his heart.

"Mr. Xu Qian, the first set is over."

"The second set is complete."

"The three rounds have been assembled."

Just as he was thinking wildly, various bureaus reported the situation to him one after another.

Xu Erxian quickly came back to his senses, and he smiled: "The first game is according to the plan, to capture the North Korean soldiers and find the granary."

"Two rounds, three rounds to defend the position, and wait for the follow-up."

"No." The generals agreed.

Xu Erxian was not polite, and immediately left with a game.

In the first round, he was always his original servant, so naturally he didn't dare to say anything.

In the past few years, according to Ding Yi's request, Zhao Dashan has been developing and buying members of the Intelligence Department among North Korean businessmen who travel to and from Phi Island.

Last year, the internal structure of Ganghwa Island was ascertained.

The Liushou Mansion, Changning Hall, and Manning Hall of Ganghwa Island are all in the west of the island, and the largest granary is in the south of the island.

They landed within five miles of the granary.

At this time, there were more than 300 people in the whole game, one hundred and five blunderbuss soldiers, one hundred and fifteen gun shield soldiers, and sixty artillerymen, with six 6-pound field guns, rushed to the granary frantically. Their gun mounts and guns were separated. lifted.

Four people carried the cannon, two people carried the cannon, and the six people ran sweating and panting non-stop, changing to six people carrying the cannon every 50 meters or so.

This is also the 6-pound gun that Ding Yigang changed to the previous 12-pound gun. Six people carried it, and they had to rest every ten meters, and their mobility was poor.

After traveling for less than a mile, just after passing a slope, a black mass of human heads appeared on the road ahead.

Zhang Shen, with more than 200 people, is also coming to the south pier from this road.

The two sides met head-on in the middle of the road.

Most of the Korean soldiers are sword and shield soldiers, and they have no armor, and a few have bird guns.

The two sides met suddenly, they were blocked by the slope before, they didn't see the other side, and now they were both stunned.

But Dongjiang soldiers reacted quickly, and the artillery retreated immediately, looking for high ground to mount artillery.

The spear and shield soldiers stepped forward one after another, and the shield of the first card had already been erected on the ground.

"Ming army." Zhang Shen didn't expect that the Ming army really came, but now is not the time to ask questions.

He drew his knife and waved: "Kill."

Whoosh, whoosh, a wave of arrows from North Korea shot over first.

There are more than 200 people on the opposite side, and there are twenty or thirty shooters.

The spear and shield soldiers in the back row raised their shields one after another.

The gunmen squatted down to load their powder.

After the rain of arrows, the blunderbuss soldiers of the Korean soldiers also began to charge the gunpowder, and the sword and shield soldiers rushed forward frantically.

The distance between the two sides was very close, and before Xu Erxian's blunderbuss had loaded their medicines, the North Korean soldiers had already charged up.

"kill."

There was no retreat, and the Dongjiang spearmen went up with their guns, puffing, puffing, and the forwards of both sides immediately began a tragic hand-to-hand fight.

Both sides came at a trot, but the Korean soldiers obviously lacked training and were already half dead from exhaustion, and suddenly encountered the enemy again.

Many people have no strength to slash with their knives. Just now some people's arrows were weak.

And Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have to run 5000 meters every morning and evening, and the artillerymen have to run with artillery shells and gunpowder.

Physical fitness far exceeds that of North Korean soldiers.

As soon as the two armies joined the battle, there was a plop, plop, plop, and the North Korean soldiers screamed and turned their backs.

Moreover, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have two characteristics. One is that the first wave is all defensive, and the front row is squatting on the ground, specifically stabbing people in the lower plate.

The North Korean soldiers attacking from the opposite side jumped back one by one with their feet hugged.

Then the second wave is to attack.

Whoosh, whoosh, everything in the front row was being smashed, and a small ax was smashed over.

The North Korean soldiers screamed and fell down.

The pikemen said that they were stabbing randomly, and the North Korean forward almost collapsed at the touch of a touch, and fled in all directions.

Zhang Shen was startled and frightened, at this moment he took a look out of the corner of his eye and immediately shouted: "Get out of the way."

North Korean soldiers ran to both sides.

A dozen or so blunderbuss soldiers in the rear had loaded their gunpowder and walked forward quickly.

But I heard the other side calling.

"Squat down."

Crash, the spearmen in the front row squatted down one after another.

"Bang bang bang" Ding Yi's gunmen fought first.

Before the North Korean soldiers started to take aim, they were already shot one after another.

There was another scream at the scene. There were few North Korean soldiers, and they were almost wiped out by Ding Yi's two rows of soldiers and horses.

The Korean soldiers under the crowd turned their heads and ran away immediately.

"Boom" suddenly there was a cannon sound.

Xu Erxian's artillery had already loaded shells, and fired a single shot into the crowd of the retreating Korean soldiers.

Now it's all right, the North Korean soldiers are running away crazily like bereaved dogs.

Seeing that something was wrong, Zhang Shen quickly turned around and ran away.

Xu Erxian laughed out loud, almost vulnerable, with a wave of his big hand, the whole army chased after him.

The defeated North Korean soldiers ran in front, and they chased after them all the way to Chengdao Fort.

Chengdao Fort originally had [-] defenders who were responsible for protecting the granaries here.

Just now Zhang Shen came over and took away 150 people, plus some of his soldiers wanted to go to the shore ahead to organize resistance.

It was expected that he would be defeated by Xu Erxian on the way.

Seeing the defeat, the people in the rest of the fort immediately closed the gate of the fort, and did not let themselves in. Many defeated North Korean soldiers yelled at the top, and then quickly scattered and fled.

Xu Erxian is not very familiar with other nearby places, and his goal is the Fort of Daoism.

Immediately led troops to block the door, first caught a North Korean soldier and asked him to call the door to surrender.

The people inside did not agree.

Not long after, the artillery arrived behind.

Six guns were fired at the gate of the fort, and the gate of the fort was quickly opened inside, and immediately dropped.

Xu Erxian went in to control the surrendered troops, guarded the gate of the fort, and ordered the surrendered troops to dig the soil into a ditch, make a good defense, and guard the granary.

After a while, some subordinates arrested a North Korean official from inside, and after questioning, they found out that this person was called Li Minqiu, and he was the Deputy Prosecutor.

Ask him how much grain there is in this granary.

Li Minqiu said with a mournful face, "More than 20 shi."

Xu Erxian was overjoyed.

Originally according to Ding Yi's plan, the first wave of [-] soldiers will be sent to the island, and then they will see if they can find food. If there is no food, the second wave will transport food and gunpowder supplies to the island, and the third wave will send [-] soldiers and horses. The fourth wave transported the remaining troops and supplies.

Dongjiang is going to come up in four batches.

Unexpectedly, more than 20 stones were found on the island.

In this case, Ding Yi is the same as fighting Japan, and half of the logistics problem is solved.

Dongjiang soldiers began to attack at seven or eight in the morning, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, they had already controlled the whole island.

The 200 defenders of North Korea (except for more than 7000 people who died in battle), plus [-] civilians, a total of more than [-] people, were all captured by Dongjiang Town.

(End of this chapter)