Chapter 737 Zhang Xianzhong's Attack
Gao Huan gave Zheng Zhilong a chance, but Zheng Zhilong was extremely angry after learning about Gao Huan's conditions.
Gao Huan asked the Zheng family to cede southern Jiangxi and eastern Zhejiang, and asked Zheng Zhilong to surrender to the court. What is the difference between this and being defeated?
Zheng Zhilong was furious, and the generals of the Zheng army also shared the same hatred for the enemy.
Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth, "Gao Huan bullied people too much, I decided to fight with him! Now Sen'er has brought troops back to the rescue, and I also sent someone to ask the Western Army for help. As long as the generals defend the line of Xianxia Pass to the death, victory will belong to us!"
When the Zheng army generals heard the words, they were all excited. Zheng Cai said indignantly: "The king is right! As long as we defend the northern line and prevent the main force of the Liang army from entering Fujian, the Liang army's partial divisions that attacked will not be afraid."
Gao Huan knew that Zheng Zhilong would not agree to his conditions and asked his subordinates to prepare for the problem. Zheng Zhilong also knew that Gao Huan would not fall into his delaying plan, so he decided to fight desperately.
When Zheng and Liang's army had already started fighting, Zhang Xianzhong finally realized it later.
When Zhang Xianzhong saw the Liang army start a war with the Zheng family, he was surprised and felt a little embarrassed and angry.
In the palace, Emperor Zhang Xianzhong of the Great Western Emperor, after reading the news sent back by the Western Army, his face was gloomy. He slapped the desk with his palm, "What a good thing Gao Huan, leading me from Guangxi to Huguang, ruined my good deeds, but he did not go to war with me, but instead went to fight Zheng Zhilong."
"It's outrageous! I'm playing tricks on me like a monkey!" Zhang Xianzhong swept all the cups on the desk to the ground.
Zhang Xianzhong was originally in Guangxi and was about to take Nanning, but Gao Huan attacked Huguang, forcing him to return to help in a hurry.
After Zhang Xianzhong and the main force of the Western Army returned to Huguang, they built fortifications and waited for Gao Huan to attack, but Gao Huan let him go and attack Zheng Zhilong.
This made Zhang Xianzhong very angry. He felt that he was being released from pigeons and being played with by Gao Huan. If you hit Zheng Zhilong, you will hit Zheng Zhilong. Why did you have to provoke me Zhang Xianzhong first?
"Your Majesty! Now Gao Huan is attacking Zheng Zhilong, how should we deal with it? Should we send troops to destroy Qu Shili again?" Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin said: "I see that the so-called anti-Liang alliance is just a mess. I should take advantage of Gao Huan's battle with the Zheng family to expand our own power, which is the most correct choice!"
Since the formation of the Anti-Liang Alliance, no victory has been won in the confrontation with the Liang Kingdom, which has made many people in the Western countries less likely to catch a cold about the so-called Anti-Liang Alliance.
Over the years, the Western Army has also participated in several wars of the Inverted Liang, but they are thankless and have not only failed to gain any advantage, but also suffered heavy losses.
Therefore, among the Western Army, a group of Shu officials led by Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin were unwilling to continue fighting with the Liang army, hoping that Zhang Xianzhong could recuperate or expand in other directions to strengthen the Western Country's own strength.
After hearing Wang Zhaolin's words, Zhang Xianzhong frowned. After pondering for a while, he immediately shook his head and rejected, "Now, go to clean up Guangxi. The journey is too long. Since Gao Huan's son has led me back to Huguang, I will make him pay the price and make him regret provoking me!"
In mid-November, on the front line of hundreds of miles on both sides of the Xiangjiang River, the Western Army began to move, choosing to cross the river in Jinggang Town, north of Changsha.
On the front line that lasted more than ten miles, Zhang Xianzhong assembled more than 200 artillery pieces and began to bombard the east bank. After pouring out thousands of shells, the east bank position was smashed into a mess. The rafts and ships parked on the shore were sunk, and the river beach position was also full of holes.
Zhang Xianzhong saw the splash of soil on the other side through the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, and said with hatred: "Gao Huan, it's impolite to come but not go! You ruin my good deeds, and today you should let you suffer a little and taste the taste of good deeds being destroyed."
At this time, the Western Army's forced ferry had already boarded the raft and boat, and lost the Western Army general Feng Shuangli of Changsha, and took the initiative to take on the task of taking the vanguard.
Generally speaking, the first wave of soldiers in the forced ferry is usually very risky and has a very high casualty rate. Feng Shuangli took on this task and was preparing to avenge his previous shame. He stood at the bow of the boat, feeling the wind and cold Yishui.
At this time, Zhang Xianzhong gave the order, Feng Shuangli immediately drew his sword, "Brothers, set off!"
For a moment, thousands of sails competed on the west bank of Xiangjiang River and rushed to the east bank.
The Western Army ships arrived at the center of the river. The Liang army artillery fired on the east bank. The shells fell into the river and splashed high water columns, which scared the Western Army officers and soldiers lying on the boards and did not dare to move around.
At this time, Feng Shuangli raised his sword and stood on the bow of the ship without moving, "Don't be afraid, the main force of Liang's army is not on the east coast, everyone will follow me to kill!"
The Western Army's artillery continued to bombard, suppressing the Liang army's artillery group on the east coast. The "rumbling" cannon sounded, and the Western Army was about to rush to the beach with its artillery.
At this time, Yuan Zongdi, who was commanding at the front, saw the enemy's artillery fierce and the army was full of morale, so he ordered the Liang army, which was bombed on the frontier, to retreat.
Yuan Zongdi actually only placed two battalions of more than 6,000 soldiers on the position of the river beach. They hurriedly set off muskets toward the Western Army that rushed to the shore, and retreated in an orderly manner to a position more than one mile from the river beach, jumped into the already dug trenches, and hid behind the earthen wall.
At this time, the Liang army soldiers raised their muskets one by one, waiting for the Western Army's attack.
The Western Army warship rushed to the shore, and the soldiers jumped off the boat. Seeing the Liang army retreating in panic, leaving behind the ground with weapons and supplies, Feng Shuangli was overjoyed. He waved his sword forward, "Brothers, you will be rewarded with great rewards to capture Changsha!"
The soldiers of the Western Army were greatly energetic and rushed forward with a scream. A round of artillery shells hit, and the Western Army was immediately overturned.
Seeing this, Zhang Xianzhong of the West Bank was furious, "How did the artillery team fire artillery?"
The Western Army's infantry and artillery coordination tactics were not proficient enough, mainly because the Western countries were relatively poor and lacked gunpowder, so the artillery team could not train unscrupulously.
At this time, the Western Army infantry rushed too fast, and the Western Army artillery was still firing at the original angle. The artillery team just hit the Western Army's crowd and hit its own people.
This made the charge of the Western Army soldiers quickly retreat. Feng Shuangli and the vanguard soldiers scolded the artillery team for being blind and actually hit their own people.
Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly asked the artillery team to adjust the angle and shoot at the depth of the Liang army's position.
At this time, there were already thousands of Western troops climbing the river, and the Western troops stood firm on the east coast.
More than 200,000 Western troops gathered in the west coast. As long as the army successfully landed on the east coast, the war would have a 70% chance of winning.
Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed. As long as the army of 200,000 crossed the river, it would be not difficult for him to destroy Yuan Zongdi.
This time, Zhang Xianzhong must have killed or captured a general Gao Huan in order to exchange for Sun Kewang, so he ordered the army to continue to cross. Thousands of rafts and hundreds of sailboats carried the soldiers and supplies of the Western Army and rushed to the east coast.
At this time, Feng Shuangli had already reorganized his team. He first established a position at the beach and then prepared to launch a charge.
On the east bank, within the second line of defense of the Liang army, Yuan Zongdi used a thousand-mile mirror and naked eyes to observe the situation of the Western Army.
After Yuan Zongdi recovered Changsha, he fought against Zhang Xianzhong across the river. He learned Gao Huan's technique and collected ships on the surface to cross the river to attack the Western Army, but in fact he built a line of defense along the river.
After the Western Army was bombarded by its own artillery again, Feng Shuangli changed his strategy and did not launch an attack immediately. Instead, he let the artillery bombard the Liang army's second line of defense to wipe out the morale of the Liang army. He first established a beachhead position to guard against the Liang army's counterattack.
"Old Yuan will fight back!" Hao Yaoqi said: "I will lead the cavalry to rush and promise to drive them down from the Xiangjiang River to feed the fish."
Yuan Shizhong looked at the sailboat rushing towards the river and smiled and said, "Old Hao, you are too impatient. Just a few people are enough to get between your teeth?"
Hao Yaoqi raised his eyebrows and laughed, "Old Yuan, you are getting more and more cruel!"
Yuan Zongdi smiled, "After all, we have few people. If we don't beat Zhang Xianzhong, it will be difficult to beat him later!"
"Governor, the second batch of enemy troops has begun to land!" At this time, the general reminded him urgently.
Yuan Zongdi saw that the Western Army was gradually becoming dense on the beach, and immediately waved his hand and shouted loudly, "Blooming bullets, bombard our governor!"
With a command, the Liang Jun mortar cannon hidden behind the trenches and earthen walls suddenly opened fire.
"Boom boom boom" loudly, gunpowder filled with smoke, black shells were thrown into the sky, drawing an arc, and landing among the dense Western military crowd on the beach.
"Boom" white light burst out, thick smoke rolled, and the Western Army on the beach was immediately blown up and overwhelmed with chaos.
Yuan Zongdi then smiled and said to Hao Yaoqi: "Old Hao, it's your turn to fight."
Hao Yaoqi turned over the horse, raised the Daguan sword, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, let the Western Army see the power of the Daliang Iron Cavalry, and fight with me!"
After saying that, he jumped out of the trench and rushed forward with one horse. Behind him, the Liang cavalry rushed out of the defense line, raised their spears, raised their swords, and roared towards the river beach, breaking into the enemy group, and immediately killed the Western Army vanguard and threw away their armor and urinated.
When Zhang Xianzhong saw this scene, his muscles in the corners of his mouth unconsciously pulled backwards...
Chapter completed!