Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 67 Great Victory and Disastrous Defeat

"The enemy retreated, the enemy retreated, we won, we won..."

"Our new army won, our new army won, and killed the enemy army to flee..."

"It's so happy, it's so happy, the enemy army is dozens of times larger than mine, and they can't even get half a step closer to my Huanggang City. It's so happy, so happy, so happy..."

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On the city wall, the recruits who had witnessed the whole battle in Huanggang City were all inexplicably excited, and each of them couldn't wait to express their pride loudly.

How could they not be proud of such a hearty victory?They are all about to be part of the new army.

Almost all the residents of Huanggang City have faced the chaos of war directly, and many of them have more or less suffered various injuries caused by the chaos of war.

Knowing that Huanggang City could provide a stable place to live, they didn't hesitate to come here with their families.

Just because they have experienced it, they don't want to experience it again, and therefore cherish this hard-won peace very much.

However, this is destined to be a fantasy. In the face of the general trend of the world, how can the small Huanggang City be spared.

Everything was shattered early this morning, and the cloud of war once again enveloped the suffering Huanggang City and the hearts of the people in the city.

I don't know when, there are rumors that tens of thousands of enemy troops are besieging the city. When the city is broken, anyone who leads the new army will be killed without mercy.

Those who have made great achievements will be rewarded.

The new army was plotting treason. Tang Ning formed an army privately, which was outrageous. Mr. Zheng, the commander-in-chief of Fujian Province, is the commander-in-chief bestowed by the imperial court, and he eats the royal rations.

The attack on Huanggang City this time is to suppress the rebellion.

Violent explosions, fierce gunfire, and resentful shouts of killing swept from all directions, all of which showed that this was not a simple battle.

Coupled with the spread of rumors, the people hiding in the city were panicked.

Some enemies who sneaked into the city took the opportunity to set fire, smash and cause all kinds of chaos, which further stimulated the fragile hearts of the people in the city.

Song Yunshu, who was maintaining order in the city, advertised that he had magical soldiers and had an absolute advantage, while trying his best to capture the enemy.

But there are still some people who can't stand the bewitchment, and cooperate with the enemy to create all kinds of chaos, and the inside and outside of Huanggang City are suddenly filled with gunpowder and smoke.

But all of this, as the victory outside the city was decided, the enemies inside the city were no longer able to create more chaos, and were quickly suppressed.

This is mainly because the battle outside the city was won too quickly. If these enemies were given more time, they might be able to create even greater chaos.

When the news of the great victory spread into the city and spread rapidly, the people in the city still couldn't believe it.

This ups and downs, as if in a dream.

Especially people who have experienced wars in other states and counties of Chaozhou Prefecture, even if they hide in the city, they never experience the bloody feeling that the war is right in front of them.

But this time, it seemed that no enemy shells fell in the city, not even a stray arrow was seen.

What is even more shocking is that the war does not seem to have spread to the top of the city, and no gunpowder smoke has been seen on the city wall.

Only when you look up, you can see the smoke rising in the distance, but the smoke has faded a lot, obviously you don't know how far away.

As time went on, some details spread little by little.

Only then did everyone know that, except for the direction of the south city, the powerful new army directly limited the war area to the outer city.

Even if the enemy exceeds [-] people, they will besiege the small Huanggang City from three sides.

However, under the command of the chosen one, General Tang, and under the resistance of the soldiers of the new army, who hold magical weapons in their hands, they can only look forward to the city and sigh, and suffer a miserable defeat.

After stabilizing the situation, the new army sent out recruits, and then used civilians to clean up the battlefield.

When seeing the shattered corpses of the enemy on the battlefield, many people will never forget it for life, and their cognition and awe of the new army have also risen to an indescribable height.

According to statistics, in the defense of Huanggang, the new army suffered 22 casualties, including one death, all caused by stray arrows and bullets.

Although almost all the enemies were blocked at a distance of 150 meters, which was far beyond the effective range of the blunderbuss and bows and arrows, there are exceptions to everything, and it is unavoidable on a huge battlefield.

Faced with the casualties of the new army, the casualties of the Zheng army represented by Shi Fu and Zheng Cai were very serious.

Preliminary statistics show that Zheng's army suffered more than 4000 casualties, because the number of corpses and wounded left on the battlefield exceeded 500.

Fortunately, the enemy West Route Army retreated immediately after being bombarded, otherwise, their casualties would have been even greater.

There is a lot of wasteland around Huanggang City, and the corpses can be buried nearby, but more than 300 people with mild or serious injuries greatly exceed the treatment efforts of Huanggang City.

Tangning gathered all the doctors in Huanggang City to treat these people as much as possible, and also invited doctors from other states and counties as much as possible.

But in the face of so many wounded people who need to be treated, they can only obey the destiny and do their best.

In order not to disturb the lives of residents in the city as much as possible, Tangning temporarily set up a field hospital outside the city to treat the wounded.

After all, there are too many people, and the howling of the wounded in pain all day is also frightening.

Of course, the treatment of these wounded is only out of humanitarian rescue work, trying to save as many lives as possible.

Tangning didn't have the ability or the energy to take care of so many enemy wounded.

So Tang Ning immediately sent people to notify Shi Fu and Zheng Cai, saying that they could send people to take the corpses and wounded back, and they would guarantee their safety.

But Shi Fu and Zheng Cai didn't understand at this time, they just withdrew the troops back to Fujian as quickly as possible, licking the wounds that they couldn't bear to look at in pain.

Hearing that both Shi Fu and Zheng Cai suffered disastrous defeats, Zheng Zhilong, who had hardly experienced a fiasco, turned pale with fright. This pirate leader has experienced countless battles over the years. When was he beaten so embarrassingly?

Because of this, even though Shi Fu and Zheng Cai were confidantes, Zheng Zhilong still drove them to the end in a rage, and went home to reflect.

The two of them had indeed reflected on themselves, and felt that this disastrous defeat had something to do with their own arrogance and aggressiveness.

With his numerous achievements in battle, he looked down on Tang Ning, a fledgling kid, who couldn't even do a good job of scouting the enemy's situation in the early stage.

But the new army knew its side well, and even set up traps.

On the other hand, not only did they know little about the deployment of the new army, but they even naively believed that they had fooled Tangning.

In the end, in order to speed up the progress, they abandoned the baggage that slowed down their speed and plunged into the trap that Tangning had set up.

Because they didn't know much about the strength and firearms of the new army, after being shelled, they naively thought that as long as they got closer as soon as possible and broke through the fire blockade of the new army, they would have a chance to annihilate the new army in one fell swoop by virtue of their huge force superiority, thus Take Huanggang City.

But the reality is cruel. Tangning obviously concealed her strength. The fighting power of the new army was surprisingly strong. It was several times stronger than it was during the rescue in Chenghai County and the attack on Huanggang City.

All these factors were superimposed, and at the very beginning of the battle, it was almost declared that their Zheng army had no choice but to lose in the end.

This disastrous defeat certainly shocked the Zheng Group headed by Zheng Zhilong.

But the next big news made them even more horrified.

(End of this chapter)