Zhang Huangyan’s 1500 New Army consists of 1,000 new army veterans who have been trained for nearly two months and 500 new army recruits who have been trained for less than one month. There are 50 guard veterans trained by the emperor as grassroots officers. In addition, the officers are equipped with 50 cadets from the first and second stages. This new army team led by old, the 50 cadets and 50 guards from the first stage were fine, and they finally got into the 1,000 new army veterans for a period of time. The 50 cadets and 500 new recruits from the second stage were trained separately for less than a month. Even if the top students were selected in training, they would go on a hurry. God knows what they would look like on the battlefield! This mixed new army team only had three days of running-in training time, and they had to set sail as soon as the troop transport ship arrived in Nanjing.

Guo Yunlong brought 10 first-class students back to Xuzhou, then led his troops to advance eastward, abandoned his horse from Haizhou Harbor, boarded the ship, joined forces with the new army, and headed north to Laizhou.

The staff of the new army formulated three combat plans based on the intelligence provided by the Jinyiwei, setting a precedent for the Ming Dynasty's preset combat plan. Finally, a conservative combat plan was eliminated, leaving two combat plans to land nearby in the Laizhou waters. As for whether to land one or two, there was no plan in the world, and then it would be determined by Wang Youqing based on the situation.

On the 23rd day of the eighth lunar month, the Ming Dynasty Northern Expedition fleet arrived at Laizhou Bay and had only been practicing for three days in Nanjing. Although there were a group of vomiters on the ship, most of them did not vomit. The rest of the time was to practice on the ship. After more than ten days of time, each company finally became familiar with it.

On the ship, Wang Fuzhi, the scholar company commander who led the troops, actually proposed a crazy sneak attack plan. After careful consideration by the staff room, half of the people thought that this plan could be tried.

At three o'clock in the morning on the 24th, six small boats transported 165 new army pioneers brought by Wang Fuzhi, carrying only ten small thunderbolts. Under the leadership of the Jinyiwei and the navy sailors who arrived in advance, they landed lightly on a secluded beach northwest of Laizhou City. The group was wearing casual clothes and quickly approached Laizhou Prefecture. As soon as the sun rose, they arrived outside the west gate of Laizhou.

Zhang Hanfei, a platoon leader who was a guard, and Liang Yongnan, a deputy platoon leader who was a cadet, led a pioneer platoon to sneak attack the city gate. Yang Heng, who was temporarily appointed as the squad leader, was also in the pioneer platoon. The pioneer platoon only brought pistols, pretended to be the people, approached the city gate first, and then carried out sneak attacks. Other platoons followed the city gate hidden in the city gate. Rifles, shotguns and thunderbolts were hidden in several trolleys. Although they attracted the attention of few passers-by, they did not suspect that they were. Based on the power of firearms, the new army had already cancelled armor, so they did not think there was anything wrong with the civilian uniforms to fight. Anyway, there were not many face-to-face melee shotguns, so the new army had no idea of ​​armor when fighting.

These soldiers were originally from peasants and had limited knowledge of military affairs. After arriving at the new army, they would train endlessly. When it comes to combat, there was no experience in fighting on the battlefield. Only Platoon Commander Zhang had a few times of realism. Although Yang Heng had learned martial arts with others, he was the kind that was the same as that. Therefore, the vanguard platoon had zero combat experience, and they were all rookies. Platoon Commander Zhang was worried, fearing that his men would wet their pants when they were fighting, which would embarrass the company commander. Platoon Commander Zhang heard the plan of Company Commander Wang to take off the city gate over and over again on the boat, and recalled everything that Company Commander Wang said in his mind.

I remember what Company Commander Wang said at the time: "The key to our success in this sneak attack on Laizhou is to approach the city gate unexpectedly. As long as we disguise ourselves from the city gate, we will not be able to see through it by the defenders, even if we succeed half of it. Our vanguard platoon disguised as a commoner and only brought a pistol, and the pistol was hidden in our arms. If nothing unexpected happened, we could completely deceive passers-by and defenders. After approaching the city gate, we immediately shot and killed the defenders at the city gate, rushed into the city gate, and captured the city tower. The vanguard platoon carried some grenades and guarded the city gate and the city tower for about ten minutes. The subsequent troops of the vanguard company could come to pick them up. At that time, with rifles and shotguns, we would no longer be afraid of the defenders counterattacking."

Platoon leader Zhang walked in front and followed his men in the back. There were a few people with bulging bags inside, which were loaded with grenades. The Dashun Army guarding the city saw twenty or thirty Dings and Zhuang coming in front of him, and they didn't know who they were, but it was impossible for them to hide swords and arrows in this situation. There were only a few people with bulging bags inside, and they were a little strange. These Dashun soldiers fought half of China, and they still had the vigilance. However, since the people who came did not have weapons, they might have come to find gold.

A Dashun soldier asked loudly a few feet away, "What are the people coming in front of him doing?" while aiming the spear in his hand at the front, he felt as if he was facing a great enemy.

Yang Heng next to Platoon Commander Zhang replied: "This military master, we are all here to hunt gold. I heard that there are many gold mines in Laizhou. We were originally trying to hunt gold in Tangshan. I heard that there are gold mines everywhere here, and the quality is good, so I want to try my luck. I would like to ask this military master to take care of him."

After saying that, he touched his arms. The Dashun soldier thought that this person was going to take out some money or something to respect him, and his eyes were full of anticipation. As a result, the young man in front of him took out a dark thing from his arms. With his fingers, he saw a flash of fire and a bang. There was a blood hole in the middle of the eyebrows of the Dashun soldier, and his brain splashed. He went to the King of Hell with the dream of receiving red envelopes. The group of Dashun soldiers behind him were still shocked. Before he could come to his senses, there was another thumping sound. These guys who claimed to have come to hunt gold all took out two such short muskets from their waists, fired their bows left and right, and put down the soldiers in the city gate one by one.

In fact, Platoon Commander Zhang forgot to issue the order to open fire. He pulled out his gun and fired. He was busy firing the bullets and shooting, but he forgot that he was the platoon leader. Fortunately, Liang Yongnan was still clear-headed. After seizing the city gate, he hurriedly shouted:

"Team 2, Team 3 comes with me to seize the city tower. Platoon Leader Zhang, just keep the city gate hole."

The Dashun soldiers on the city wall had already reacted and repeatedly shot arrows under the city. According to the combat regulations, Liang Yongnan shouted: "Top the grenade", and threw a grenade on the city wall while shouting. After throwing several grenades, Yang Heng rubbed his body and held two guns in his hand, and was the first to attack the city wall.

A leader of Dashun on the city wall vaguely saw a man rushing up in the smoke. He raised his hand and had an arrow. The arrow brushed over Yang Heng's shoulder and brought away a piece of flesh and blood. Yang Heng shook his hand and shot him. He killed the archer, but he couldn't control the severe pain in his shoulders. He lay down and barely avoided another feather arrow. At this time, Liang Yongnan and his soldiers rushed up, and a gunshot sounded, killing the Dashun army on the city tower and taking down the city tower in one fell swoop. After taking down the city tower, he relied on the range of the pistol to fight against the Dashun army rushing over the city walls on both sides. The Dashun army's bows and arrows were unable to reach far, but the pistol could easily take lives within 100 steps. After consolidating the city tower, the vanguard gradually expanded to the two wings. However, there were few people. After pushing 50 steps to the two wings, he only defended but did not attack.

The one who guarded Laizhou City was a Qianmao of the Dashun Army, named Duan Lin, with only 1,500 men under his command. In addition, some of the guards of the mine owners, the total was only over 2,000. At this time, he heard that the Xicheng Gate was occupied, and only dozens of people occupied the Xicheng Gate. These dozens of people were dressed up and were equipped with powerful firearms, and most of them were the vanguards of the Ming Army. Duan Lin did not take Liu Zeqing's Ming army seriously, thinking that what is your ability to attack, I will immediately find this Liangzi. He mobilized a large group of people to counterattack on the street and the two winged walls, intending to quickly retake the city gate to prevent the subsequent Ming army from flocking to the crowd, and then he would be passive.

Wang Fuzhi heard gunshots and grenade explosions from afar, and no longer had to hide them, so he hurriedly shouted:

"Run at full speed. The order for each row to run at full speed. Those who arrive at the West City Gate will support the first row to guard the city gate on the spot."

Fortunately, the Dashun Army was unprepared. When caught off guard, the Dashun Army inevitably had a short panic. However, Duan Lin had his troops after a long battle formation and immediately ordered his subordinates to snatch the city gate with all their might. He personally directed the frontal attack along the street, and sent his subordinates to attack the city tower along the two wing walls. The Dashun Army's current local army is also equipped with some grenades, and now distributed the grenades. The No. 500 Dashun soldiers rushed in three directions. In addition to the pistols, there were more than twenty-two grenades. When the grenades were captured, half of them were consumed, five soldiers died and seven were injured. In addition, there were only twenty-five or sixty people who could shoot. It was undoubtedly a dream to defend the city gate with these people and more than sixty pistols.

However, the first round of Dashun Army's attack was not effective. When the Dashun Army, which was head-on, rushed to within 100 steps, Liang Yongnan ordered concentrated fire. More than 20 people shot in two rounds, killing more than 20 Dashun soldiers. The Dashun soldiers behind shouted and retreated. At first, Lin did not expect that more than 30 people would have such firepower. Only then did he realize that the other two sides did not act at the same time, causing more than 30 people to attack the front, so he immediately ordered three sides to attack at the same time and ordered them to retreat and behead them.

When the attack was again, the first row could only resist the enemy from three sides. The Dashun Army also followed the one row. Before attacking, it threw a few grenades and rushed forward with the smoke screen. The Dashun Army, with two wings, advanced along the city center, shooting feather arrows on the city wall, throwing grenades from time to time, and rushing to the city gate with a shield. Although the shield could not resist the bullets of the pistol at all, with the shield in his hand, he always thought he had security. The first one fell down and the next one rushed forward. Seeing that a row of hasty circular positions were about to be destroyed by the crowd of the Dashun Army, the second row led by Wang Fuzhi happened to arrive, and Wang Fuzhi shouted: "Let's fire."

The pistol, rifle and shotgun fired together, especially when the shotgun fired, the iron sand sprayed out a large area like a ball of rain and fog. The lethality within a dozen steps was terrifying. The Dashun soldiers fell down suddenly, and the rest retreated in embarrassment.

Duan Lin was furious. The opponent had only fifty or sixty people, but his subordinates were defeated. He cut two soldiers back with his own hands and then stabilized his position. This time, the cavalry took out a horse, each cavalry carried two grenades and accelerated to rush forward at 500 steps. The cavalry carried grenades and charged forward with grenades. The cavalry then killed a lot, which could achieve miraculous effects.

100 cavalry rushed forward, and the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded on the street. The sound of horse hooves became more and more urgent. The rifles on the city wall opened fire at the same time. The Dashun cavalry fell one after another, with their men and horses in the middle, but the cavalry still rushed and rushed to the city gate in a blink of an eye. At this time, the individual thunderbolters on the city tower began to show their power. With the height of the city wall, the grenades flew out 120 steps away. Before the Dashun cavalry had time to throw out the grenades in their hands, they were blown into blood and blood by a piece of grenades flying from the sky. The three or two cavalry who rushed over were knocked to the ground by dense rifle bullets.

Wang Fuzhi's entire company had arrived at this time, and eighty rifles on the city wall firmly controlled the street. The new version of the bullet has been improved. An iron needle was pre-installed in the bullet, and red phosphorus was added to the small holes of flint sand to cause fire. Therefore, on the one hand, there is no need to change the striker frequently, and on the other hand, the fire silence rate was greatly reduced. After using the new bullet, the fire power became much stronger invisibly.

Duan Lin no longer had the courage to use his subordinates' lives to fill it up. If there were five hundred cavalry more, there would be a possibility of rushing over the opponent. In the rushing just now, one hundred cavalry only fled back a dozen cavalry. Duan Lin's current choice is really a dilemma.

After Duan Lin heard that the Ming army was coming in a steady stream of troops, he had thirty-six strategies, and it was the best strategy. He knew the opportunity quickly and immediately ordered the withdrawal of Laizhou to avoid the disaster of annihilation of the entire army. Unfortunately, the large and medium-sized thunderbolters that the Ming army later arrived later made the other party run away before they appeared, and the emperor had no way to start the advertisements.

As a result, the Ming army used only one vanguard company to drive the Dashun army out of Laizhou Prefecture. When Guo Yunlong arrived with 3,000 troops, he was shocked to learn about such a result. Although the Ming new army won unexpectedly against the Dashun army, he later defended the city gate and had a force of 10, but he did not lose the disadvantage. It seems that the future battles really need to be changed.

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