He did not participate in the battle last night, but he obtained a lot of information and knew that the Tiance Army's muskets were powerful, especially the enemy's cavalry, which also used muskets, which were extremely sharp. If conventional means were used, it would inevitably lead to a crushing defeat.

When he heard that Mao Chengfu's lancers were dispatched, and there were only 300 people, he made up his mind to fight quickly, intending to take advantage of the absolute number of people to charge directly and defeat the enemy's lancers.

However, things were not as he wished.

When Mao Chengfu saw that the number of cavalry in the Daoming Army was so large, he knew that there was something to play this time. The guerrilla tactics that had been integrated will shine again.

Immediately, according to the old rules, the three hundred cavalrymen were scattered into multiple squads, and they were fanned toward the Ming cavalry.

Faced with such a situation, Fang Yiyuan was also stunned. Although he had never been on the battlefield, he still had some research on the battle formation and often participated in military training. Although there were more fun in it, he was not unaware of combat.

In recent years, especially in such hard-working battles, the comparison is whose formation is more stable and whose strength is stronger. It depends on cluster combat, destroying the enemy with one fierce attack, or being defeated by the enemy. Even if you want to divide the troops to attack, you must at least maintain one main formation.

The enemy army had only 300 people, but it even scattered. What was going to make a fuss? Are you planning to make him lose sight of one thing?

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Before they could figure out what was going on, gunfire began to sound around them.

But strangely, although the gunshots were sporadic and not dense, the Ming cavalry fell one after another. In just a dozen breaths, more than ten people fell from Fang Yiyuan's team.

Then they were surprised to find that almost every direction, the enemy cavalry appeared, often firing one or two shots, and then changing positions, and fear began to spread gradually.

Fang Yiyuan now understood why yesterday's battle was a pale ending no matter which team went up, and why Li Hu had just arrived and more than 300 cavalry were wiped out.

This enemy is too sharp. I know that if this continues, the team will soon collapse.

After thinking for a moment, he ordered, "The whole part is scattered, and every hundred people are a team to attack the enemy's cavalry! The number of enemies is only 20% of us. As long as we get close to them, these enemies will be our military achievements!"

Soon, more than a thousand Ming cavalrymen quickly dispersed into twelve small teams and attacked in different directions.

Fang Yiyuan followed his private soldiers, his target was Mao Chengfu. He no longer expected to wipe out the enemy army. As long as he could kill or capture the opponent's general, he would make great contributions to this battle. After all, from last night to now, other Ming troops have not even caught a small number.

However, things were not as he imagined. When he was about to catch up, another cavalry team suddenly broke out from another direction, opened fire on them for a while, and then ran away. They had no choice but to pursue one of them.

After two or three times, the team lost its personnel and soared directly to twenty or thirty people, morale plummeted, and if you continue to chase, you can only repeat the previous results.

When he was hesitating whether to continue chasing, a crisp gunshot came. He seemed to have premonitioned danger in advance. He instinctively lowered his head, and then heard a harsh sound passing through the top of his head, and then felt a warm thing flying to his face.

When he was still in shock, he saw a very familiar private soldier. A hole appeared in his head, and blood splattered and fell down his horse. The blood on his face was the private soldier's blood.

Before he could calm down, another crisp gunshot was heard one after another, and another private soldier around him fell down. He knew that he was being targeted, but there was no enemy in his sight, which means that the enemy had a sharpshooter ambushed in a place he could not find.

"Retreat! All retreat!"

Knowing that he would definitely lose if he continues to fight, his destiny might not be able to be saved, so Fang Yijun decisively ordered a retreat.

At the same time, the trumpet was sounded and the rest of the scattered departments gathered together. However, not many soldiers were summoned back, and each of them suffered heavy losses.

In fact, except for Fang Yiyuan's part, other Ming cavalrymen also faced the same situation. The scattered lancer teams were constantly reaping their lives. At the same time, a large number of snipers were ambushed on the surrounding buildings.

On the one hand, they used their vision to provide enemy movements for the lances and sniping at enemy generals at one time. Their results may not be as good as those of the Tiance Army, but they are all more valuable.

The Ming cavalry had no time to worry about these snipers. In other words, they could not even find these snipers where they hid, and they had nowhere to fight back. If they stopped and searched carefully, they might be able to find them, but they would be attacked by the lancers again.

Panic spread rapidly, and some teams collapsed and fled in scatters before they could hear the horn of the assembly.

The troops that Fang Yiyuan finally gathered were only over 400, and he no longer had the courage to continue fighting and directly ordered the withdrawal of troops. He did not retreat at this time. When the enemy's cavalry rushed up, they would have no chance to retreat.

After the Ming army gathered, Mao Chengfu also sounded the agglomeration call. Compared with the losses of hundreds of Ming army, their losses were only three or four people, which was another perfect victory.

Then they rushed towards the direction of Shence Gate instead of pursuing the Ming cavalry. These cavalry only provided cover for the enemy artillery. Mao Chengfu's target was the Ming army artillery that had not yet arrived in the rear.

At this time, Chang Yanling was escorting artillery with his army. When he learned that the three cavalry guarding ahead were all defeated, he ordered to withdraw very decisively. If he fought hard without the cover of the cavalry, he might have to repeat the mistakes he had yesterday.

The team immediately began to retreat, and at the same time, Chang Yanling also destroyed the houses along the way, arranged some musket soldiers to enter other buildings, trying to delay the actions of the Tiance Army's cavalry.

Sure enough, Mao Chengfu could only stop and clear out the Ming army that was blocking the surroundings. Although the latter was not their opponent, it still took him at least two incense sticks.

This strategy was quite successful. Although almost all the more than 200 people who remained were destroyed, their artillery was successfully preserved.

Seeing the Ming army artillery entered the Shence Gate one by one, Mao Chengfu knew that it would be meaningless to continue chasing him, so he went back to report the battle situation to Kong Youde.

After Kong Youde learned of the situation, he directly ordered the entire army to set off at Shence Gate except for the remaining troops.

Walking along Huating Street, Kong Youde and his party soon arrived in front of Shence Gate.

"Boom boom boom!"

Before we could see the defenses at the city wall clearly, there was a violent roar of cannons in the direction of the Shence Gate, and we could see white smoke coming from the city wall.

Kong Youde also frowned. They were more than two miles away from Shence Gate, so the Ming army fired the cannon. It seemed that they also had heavy cannons in their hands.

In a moment, three shells hit the team around, two fell on the open space, one hit a house, and a big hole was made.

Kong Youde raised his telescope and carefully checked the defense situation on the Shence Gate. Fortunately, there were not many heavy cannons like red cannons, and they seemed to be imitations. There were only five of them that could be seen, so there shouldn't be more. Cannons of this specification might be so easy to hide.

But another problem is very difficult, that is, there are too many small-caliber guns, and there are at least forty guns on the top of the city, which may be more.

After all, Nanjing City is one of the capitals of the Ming Dynasty. Even if its status is not good, its defense will not be too bad. There were many artillery on the walls of the outer city before, and it would be unreasonable if there were fewer artillery in the capital city walls.

It seems that Chang Yanling is indeed capable and has made very decisive decisions, and he has not made a mistake again.

Now with the protection of the city wall, the artillery he cannons are not as easy as outside the Shangyuan Gate

Liang Qiu, who was traveling with him, was also embarrassed. He was the chief artillery officer. Once the siege operation began, his artillery was naturally the first to bear the brunt.

However, the power he had at hand seemed extremely insufficient to deal with the Shence Sect. Not to mention anything else, the number of artillery was not enough. Although he seized the thirty god flying cannons from the Shenji Camp and seized more than a dozen in the battle last night, these were not heavy artillery and the effect of dealing with the city wall was not strong.

The important thing is on the navy's warship. They were fighting last night, and the navy was fighting, but they didn't know what the current situation was. It might take some time to wait for their heavy artillery to arrive.

The Ming army artillery on the top of the city only bombarded three rounds, and stopped seeing that there was no result in the battle.

They also knew that it would be useless to fight like this, and it would be better to wait until the enemy attacks and concentrate their firepower to destroy the enemy.

"Report! Our navy defeated the enemy navy and won a complete victory in the water battle! We captured fifty-six warships, sunk thirteen enemy ships, and captured nearly 10,000 enemy troops!"

At this moment, a messenger came on horseback and reported the situation of the water battle to Kong Youde.

This news made Kong Youde overjoyed. Originally, the navy was his only concern, but he did not expect that this problem would be solved so quickly.

According to the report of the messenger, during this naval battle, the hostile Nanjing Navy was commanded by Duke Xu Hongji of Wei, the son of former admiral Caojiang Zhao Shixin, Zhao Zhilong, and Ancheng Bo Zhang Guocai as the deputy generals, commanding the main force of the Nanjing Navy to fight.

The Nanjing Navy had nearly 100 warships, and there were more than ten warships defeated in Xinglongsha. There were more than 80 warships. I thought it would be more than enough to deal with just over twenty enemy ships, but I didn't expect that it would be another crushing defeat.

The battle took place after midnight. The nearly 10,000 troops originally sent by Yan Mingtai to reinforce Yangzhou. After receiving the order to return to Nanjing, they also returned one after another. At night, they arrived on the other side of the Yangtze River. Some guards stationed near the north bank also received orders to reinforce Nanjing and head to the north of the Yangtze River.

So the Nanjing Navy used warships to pick them up and return to the south bank of the Yangtze River and enter Nanjing City to defend.

They also saw that the Tiance Army Navy had not been in a state of movement and had been in a confrontation with them. They felt that the other party had no strength and courage to take the initiative to attack, so they gradually relaxed their vigilance.

At the beginning, they were quite cautious and only sent five ships for transportation. Even if the situation changed, there would be enough warships to deal with it.

As a result, after several transportations, the number of warships transporting soldiers increased to fifteen. The other party was still unmoved. Then, Xu Hongji, Nanjing, was completely relieved and did not fight like this, and tried to get it done in one go.

The previous few times he had transported more than 4,000 people across the river. He decided to transport the remaining 7,000 people at one time. As long as this operation is completed, the garrison power of Nanjing City will greatly increase, and he can also welcome the next battle with peace of mind.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the Tiance Army Navy, who had confronted them from the afternoon to the late night, suddenly attacked and rushed towards them.

The leader was a large Guang ship, which rushed into the Nanjing Navy's formation with an absolute speed advantage. With an unstoppable situation, it directly broke a No. 3 lucky ship in the middle, and nearly 300 people on the ship were almost wiped out.

The latter tried hard to escape, but carried too many soldiers, and most of them were guards. Seeing the enemy ship approaching, it triggered a large-scale riot, which made the order unable to be passed on. Other ships watched the ship being sunk.

This was just the beginning, and then two other huge warships joined the formation, following each of them with several smaller warships, taking three battle lines to separate more than 80 warships from the Nanjing Navy.

Although the Tiance Army's navy does not have an advantage in number and is also at a disadvantage in the downstream attack to the upstream, in addition to this, whether it is the number of artillery, combat formation, army morale, command level, or the soldiers' combat will, tactical literacy, weapons and equipment, the Tiance Army is in an absolute advantage.

More than twenty warships, like tigers rushing into the pack of wolves, rushed into the Ming army's battle formation and opened fire violently, using the advantage of the sidewalk to attack the Nanjing Navy's warships.

With the roar of one cannon, their already scattered formation was soon hit even more scattered.

Especially the large and broad ship, it rushed forward in an unrivalled manner in the Ming army formation. Even if the other party was the No. 1 Big Blessing Ship, it still rushed forward fearlessly. As a result of this ship, the Ming army warship could only flee in a hurry.

From the beginning of the battle, in just half a stick of incense, three Ming army warships were sunk. Although they were all No. 3 and No. 4, the impact on the morale of the Ming army was quite heavy. After all, in addition to normal combatants and sailors, these three ships also had many infantry soldiers who had been transported to generals.

Although the Navy of the Tiance Army was established for only half a year and only less than two months in actual combat, Xu Wenyi, the commander of the Navy, is not a rookie, but a veteran with more than ten years of experience in naval combat. He is not a small role, but a rising future maritime overlord like Britain and the Netherlands.

It is even easier to deal with a product like Nanjing Navy. (To be continued)
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