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Chapter 52 An Unexpected Victory

Anxi County.

Chen Delu, the former magistrate's yamen and the commander-in-chief of Zhangzhou Town, held the favorite concubine of the Anxi county magistrate with one arm and kept moving his hand up and down while eating wine and meat, feeling very happy.

Zeng Songming, the magistrate of Anxi County, was standing by in official robes. The way he bowed his head and smiled in apology did not look like a county magistrate, but more like a brothel turtle.

"Mr. Chen, you've eaten all this wine and meat. I wonder when you can go to suppress the rebels?" Seeing that the dishes on the table were almost eaten, Zeng Songming asked cautiously with a smile.

"Hmph, what's the hurry?"

After hearing this, Chen Delu snorted coldly, with a face full of displeasure: "This town is stationed here in Anxi County, just for your sake. The rebels are not yet eliminated. If this town does not station here, what happens if something happens?" If those gangs of rebels come back and pretend to go to Anxi, wouldn't they be letting the tiger go back to the mountain? Furthermore, how can this town safely attack the tens of thousands of people in Anxi County?"

Chen Delu said with an awe-inspiring look on his face. If his hands were not running up and down the body of the county magistrate's concubine beside him, it might be more convincing.

After seeing this, Zeng Songming still smiled apologetically and kept saying yes, but in his heart, he had already scolded Chen Delu's eighteen generations of ancestors.

Just a few days ago, the governor personally ordered the troops from all towns in Fujian to join forces to go to Xinghua Mansion to stop the rebel Lin Junbu and completely annihilate them.

However, Chen Delu, the commander-in-chief of Zhangzhou Town, forcibly stayed in Anxi County on the grounds of the admiral's military order and the need to prevent rebels from attacking Anxi County and cutting off the Jinxia passage.

Although Chen Delu has only stayed in Anxi County for a few days now.

But in Anxi County, everyone from the rich and powerful to the common people suffered a lot from the soldiers in Zhangzhou Town.

The wealthy gentry were fine, they just extorted a lot of money from them, but the people at the bottom were miserable.

He would often beat and scold him, and even kill someone in charge of his family. When he saw a good girl, he would directly kidnap her away in public.

The drums of grievance at the county government office are almost being beaten to pieces by the gentry and common people in this county these days.

Zeng Songming even sometimes thought that even if the rebels came, Chen Delu would not kill him as much as he did, right?
"Report!"

Zeng Songming was still in a daze, when a Qing soldier ran in from outside the house.

As soon as the Qing soldier entered the house, he knelt down on one knee and reported with a frightened face: "General Soldier, it's not good! The rebels are here!"

"The rebels are coming!?" Chen Delu was startled, and threw the beautiful concubine in his arms to the side. He walked three steps at a time and accidentally kicked over a plate of chicken offal.

"How many rebels came this time, 20 or [-]? Where are the other generals? Why were the rebels put in Anxi County? Is it possible that the governor was defeated?"

Chen Delu asked several questions in a row. The Qing soldier was confused and stunned for a moment. When he saw Chen Delu's murderous eyes, he realized it and said quickly: "Sir, the rebels did not come for 20..."

"That's one hundred thousand?" Chen Delu said with a gloomy face.

"It's not even 1. After a cursory look, it seems that there are only more than [-] people." The Qing soldier quickly replied.

"What? There are only [-] rebels. How dare you provoke you, Mr. Chen, with such a small number of people?" Chen Delu suddenly sneered when he heard that the rebels only came with [-] troops.

After all, he, Chen Delu, had previously been ordered by the admiral to lure the enemy in, so he naturally had a rough understanding of the rebels' combat capabilities.

If the rebels came with hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands, then he might be a little more afraid.

But with just ten thousand, Anxi County dared to attack him. It was like an old man hanging himself, and he was tired of living.

Fortunately, he has stayed in Anxi County long enough. If he continues to stay like this, I am afraid the governor will really have objections.

Now, this group of rebels has arrived, which can be used as military merit for Chen Delu.By then, the governor will probably reward him, let alone punish him.

Thinking like this, Chen Delu turned his head and looked at Magistrate Zeng Songming, who was already frightened by the news of the rebels' attack: "County Magistrate Zeng, since the rebels are attacking and a certain military affairs is busy, let's have this banquet here! "

Zeng Songming was anxious: "Where is Mr. Chen going?"

"Of course we went out of the city to defeat the thieves!" Chen Delu looked confident, and he puffed out his chest as he spoke, looking like a commander in chief strategizing.

Zeng Songming was shocked when he heard this, and quickly persuaded: "But the rebels have 1 troops, and our army only has 7000 troops. Is it too risky to go out to fight outside the city? It is better to defend the city and wait for reinforcements..."

However, Chen Delu completely ignored what Zeng Songming said, and directly waved his hand and said: "In the opinion of scholars, defending the city and avoiding fighting cannot be done through narrow roads. To deal with such rebels, we still have to defeat the enemy openly and openly. This is the right way. Well, Magistrate Zeng no longer has to do this. I advise you, I have my own opinion, just prepare a celebration banquet for me and wait for my triumphant return."

After that, without waiting for Zeng Songming to say anything more, he strode away directly.

Zeng Songming, who looked behind him, had an indignant look on his face, but he was helpless. He could only shake his head and sigh, secretly thinking that the rebels would be better off with an embroidered pillow. Mr. Chen must not be defeated.

Although Zeng Songming was indeed full of resentment towards Chen Delu, Chen Delu was also an officer and soldier after all, and he had to be restrained by rules no matter how messy he was.

But the rebels are different. They are really lawless. Who knows what will happen if the rebels are really allowed to enter Anxi County?

After a while, Chen Delu, surrounded by his soldiers, quickly came to the city wall of Anxi County.

He glanced at the red army of rebels outside the city wall.

Um?Why is it all red, and why is that flag, the twelve-pointed sun and moon flag?
Isn't this the flag of Qianming?
"Not Lin Jun?" Chen Delu realized in an instant that it seemed that it was not Lin Jun's rebels who came here, but another group of rebels who came out of nowhere.

Chen Delu never thought that the army outside the city was the Ming army coming from Taiwan.

After all, if the Taiwan Ming Army wants to come to Anxi County, they must first break through Xiamen and go north from Jinxia before they can come to Anxi County.

How could he be a rebel from Taiwan?
All right!Chen Delu still doesn't know that Xiamen has long been lost by this time, and even Tong'an County has fallen into the hands of the Ming army.

Information transmission in ancient times was like this, especially in Fujian, which is very mountainous. If you want to transmit information, you can only take a detour.

Because of this, Fujian Admiral Mu Tingqi died in Quanzhou Prefecture. Xiamen still doesn't know about it. Similarly, Chen Delu in Anxi County doesn't know either.

Otherwise, how could he dare to resist the military orders of Governor Lu Youlong, because as the commander-in-chief of Zhangzhou Town, he was under the jurisdiction of the Fujian admiral, not the Fujian governor.

"Master General, what should we do now? Should we defend the city and wait for reinforcements?" On the side, Zhangzhou Town Deputy General Chen Jing, who is also Chen Delu's nephew, asked.

"Hmph, they are just a group of rebels who appeared out of nowhere. They used the banner of Qian Ming and deliberately put on some weird clothes to attack Anxi County."

Chen Delu, however, had a look of disdain on his face and shouted: "Soldiers, do you dare to follow this town out of the city to defeat the enemy, and also achieve great success in suppressing thieves?"

The soldiers and generals who surrounded Chen Delu all raised their hands and said, "I am willing to go into battle with the general!"

"They are just a group of rebels. With the Commander-in-Chief here, they can be destroyed with a snap of a finger!" "Sir, Commander-in-Chief, I would like to be the vanguard and capture the leader of the rebels for you."

……

There was a burst of laughter and contempt at the top of the city, and no one paid attention to the rebels outside the city.

At the same time, several miles outside Anxi County.

Yang Gong, who was in the military formation, put down his telescope and said: "It is worthy of being a county town in a pass land. This city wall is no less generous than Xiamen."

"What Yang Shuai said is true. We still have to use red cannons in this battle. If we attack by force, our army will suffer heavy casualties!" Zhang Yue on the side also nodded. Liu Guoji, as the most junior general among the three, at this time But he didn't interrupt, just to see how Zhang Yue and Yang Gong decided.

Yang Gong pondered for a moment and issued a military order: "Come here, pass my order. First, send people to the city to persuade them to surrender. Let the gunners be ready. If the opponent does not surrender, they will directly use red cannons to blow open the city wall of Anxi County. !”

"Yes!" The ordering soldier had just listened to the order and had not yet come down.

Just a few miles away, the gate of Anxi County, which was originally like a copper wall and an iron wall, slowly opened.

Yang Gong, Zhang Yue and Liu Guoji were all stunned.

Then I saw a Qing army with thousands of people and well-equipped equipment. Under the leadership of several horse-riding generals, they suddenly rushed towards their own army formation, shouting something as they rushed.

"There are actually Qing troops in Anxi County... No, form an array, form an array quickly!" Yang Gong reacted in a moment and ordered quickly.

Yang Gong really didn't expect that there were actually Qing troops hiding in Anxi County, and there were quite a lot of them.

Fortunately, we didn't rush to attack this time, otherwise, even with the red cannon, we would probably suffer a lot of hidden losses.

But now, I don't know what kind of style this group of Anxi County Qing troops have, and they actually take the initiative to go out of the city to fight without defending the city.

With such a great opportunity, Yang Gong would not let it go. He directly ordered the entire army to line up, and at the same time ordered the gunners to load the shells and the gunners to load the ammunition.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps... As the Qing army quickly rushed closer, the leader Chen Delu realized something was wrong. Why didn't the rebel bandits in front of him get frightened and run away when they saw the army rushing towards them? Instead, they formed a formation.

Wait, when will these rebels form an array?

Could that dark hole be an artillery piece?

The rebels actually have artillery?There’s more than one.

For a moment, Chen Delu felt fear in his heart. Unfortunately, he only realized the seriousness of the problem at this time, and it was already too late to run away.

The previous impression given to him by Lin Jun's rebel army was that he was too arrogant. The so-called strategy of attacking with troops and going out to fight without knowing yourself and the enemy was the most stupid behavior.

Just when Chen Delu was panicking and frightened, there were several continuous "bang bang bang" cannons, and bullets, carrying countless gravels, flew down towards the military formation in Zhangzhou Town.

Those bullets carried strong kinetic energy and directly penetrated and crushed several charging Qing soldiers in the front row to death. The remaining gravel was also uncomfortable.

The splash splashed onto the remaining clear soldiers in the front row who were charging intensively. Although they did not die, they were immediately covered in blood. The sight was even more horrifying than those clear soldiers who were killed on the spot by artillery shells.

Chen Delu was lucky. Because he was riding a horse, the cannonball did not hit him.

After firing a round of shells, the gunner began to clean the muzzle and reload the gunpowder.

The unprofessional fire gun battalions, under the orders of the battalion commander, fired volleys at the Qing troops who gradually entered the shooting range.Although many of them fired prematurely, because the Qing troops charged too densely, they still killed and wounded many Qing troops.

After being baptized by artillery and firecrackers for two consecutive rounds, although the Qing army suffered no more than a hundred casualties, which was really a drop in the bucket compared to the Qing army with a total strength of [-], it still caused the Qing army's front row to collapse.

This is normal. Anyone who sees an enemy army that is supposed to be a lamb waiting to be slaughtered suddenly looks like a tiger or a wolf will collapse.

The front army was defeated. Needless to say, the Chinese army and the rear army were defeated. More importantly, in this second round of volleys of firecrackers, a stray bullet hit Chen Delu's mount.

Although it didn't hit any vital points, it still frightened Chen Delu's crotch and threw him off on the spot.

Chen Delu suddenly fell off his horse. He couldn't react in time. The horse was kicked back and forth and stepped on his thigh. He suffered a fracture on the spot...

Seeing that the Qing army was about to be defeated, Yang Gong did not hesitate at all, decisively seized the opportunity and ordered the entire army to counterattack.Zhang Yue and Liu Guoji also said nothing and ordered their generals to attack.

"Kill it!"

"Kill! Kill the clear dog!!"

"Da Ming Wansheng!"

Tens of thousands of Ming troops, plus two thousand soldiers, roared and rushed towards the Zhangzhou Zhenqing army in front of them.

The formation and other things were all out of shape as soon as they charged, especially the extra soldiers who rushed the fastest and were out of touch with the main force.

But the Qing army was even worse. The army formation collapsed, and the soldiers couldn't even find the generals because they were all at the front.

In an instant, the Ming army, which had more troops and better morale, completely defeated the Qing army in Zhangzhou Town, which was already in chaos.

While Yang Gong led his soldiers to charge into the Qing army's formation, he shouted: "Those who kneel down and surrender will avoid death!"

They fought like this for about a quarter of an hour, and all the stubborn resisters of the Qing army were surrounded and killed by the Ming army.

In this battle, the Ming army won a complete victory and captured a total of three thousand levels.Originally, this number should be smaller, but those naturalized soldiers were disobedient. For the reward, even those who surrendered on their knees had their heads chopped off in exchange for money.

Finally, Zhang Yue threatened him and whipped a few of the more aggressive ones on the spot before he managed to stop.

After the war, the Ming army cleaned the battlefield, buried the bodies of the dead on both sides, and tallied the results of the battle. At the same time, they began to interrogate the prisoners to see if there were any senior generals.

It was learned from the prisoners that their Qing army was in Zhangzhou Town, Fujian Province, and that General Chen Delu led them to stay here privately.

The commander-in-chief Chen Delu, after being identified by several prisoners, was confirmed to have fallen from his horse and was trampled to death by soldiers from both sides.

The deputy general Chen Jing was killed because of his stubborn resistance. A few of the remaining generals Qian survived, and a few either died under artillery fire or were surrounded and killed because of their stubborn resistance to the Ming army.

　Anxi Ancient City is seven meters high and three kilometers long
　　
　
(End of this chapter)