"Occurrence, offense!"

The officers in the White Horse Armies drew out their weapons and shouted.

Bai Liangzhu rode his horse out and encouraged him back and forth in front of the formation: "It's going to rain. This is God helping us, so everyone keeps attacking forward. Those who survive will be rewarded with five taels of silver."

"Today I have been bleeding and sold my life for the Xin Dynasty, and from now on, everyone will be loyal and kind to the Xin Dynasty. The emperor wants to equalize the land and exempt taxes. If you don't work hard, do you still want the land or acres?"

"Who dares to retreat? Kill it on the spot!"

As he said that, he pulled out his waist knife, pointed to Yangcun, shouted at the top of his lungs, "First break Yangcun, then break Tianjin, chopped Zheng Zhilong, and captured Emperor Zhu alive-"

"Cut Zheng Zhilong and capture Emperor Zhu alive!"

Twenty thousand white horse soldiers raised their swords and responded with each other, with dense spears like a forest.

Bai Guangen and Ma Ke had a bright red look on his face. Didn’t Li Zicheng want to vote for the name? This is our vote for the name.

Hao Yaoqi also felt a sense of pride in his heart. "Okay, okay. Both generals are my pillars of Dashun."

He chopped down Zheng Zhilong and captured Emperor Zhu alive. This is a tough sentence! Hard.

Hao Yaoqi believed that after this incident, these two people would never be able to turn back.

In front of the Dashun Army's horse and soldiers in the rear, Zhang Nai praised: "Taoyuan Bo (Bai Guangen) is still brave. Today, seeing Zheng Zhilong's army, he is indeed well-trained and has sharp guns and cannons. Taoyuan Bo has no cannons in his hands. The defeat in the past is not a crime of war."

Luo Hu also agreed, "Zheng Zhilong is really a strong enemy, which can be seen from their shelling."

And I was even more happy about the slogans shouted by the two armies. "If such words were passed to Emperor Chongzhen's son, how could Baima still have room for ease with him?"

Bai Liangzhu's agitation over there was an extreme point, and he turned around and returned to the central army. Then a large number of light-armored soldiers, half-armored soldiers, and even unarmored soldiers showed a hot light in his eyes. He was free of food and was a family business that could make his children and grandchildren full. He rushed forward with swords, guns, bows and arrows one by one.

In the back formation, Bai Guangen led his troops to fight the formation, and Ma Ke beat the war drum with his own hands, and the soldiers like tide rushed forward shouting.

Bai Liangzhu retreated and sneered in his heart: "Die it, it's better to die." The emperor only had 100,000 soldiers in Yanjing, and there were 30,000 white horses and Tang Tong, which was really a lot. Tang Tong lost two consecutive battles, and nearly half of them had been killed or injured. They also lost three or five thousand, which was just right.

The charge of thousands of people was extraordinary, and it seemed that the entire sight from the east of Yangcun was covered by them.

Looking at the soldiers who were shouting and purging slogans, Zheng Zhilong's cheeks trembled. What's the matter? When these people were fighting for the Ming Dynasty, their morale was not so high.

The scene in front of him made him think of the Ming army after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty in history. They all seemed to have been transformed, and added a bloodthirsty buff, which was called a battle-capable one!

“Md!”

Zhang Kui cursed fiercely at the opposite side and shouted loudly: "Send the order, prepare the grenade—"

The shield car on the opposite side was closest to 50 or 60 steps. At this distance, no matter how good the guns were fired, it would not be able to stop the heads.

What's more, the shield chariots are also uneven, which means that the shield chariots provide the enemy soldiers with both strength and weakness. The opposite army did not rush out in line, but batch after batch. With only guns, they will definitely be endless.

At this time, muskets and small cannons could no longer carry the whole audience, and there must be grenades.

On the top of the city, Hong Xu also looked at the Sheep and Horse Wall under the city with some concern. "The bandits attacked fiercely, and I don't know if they could defend the Sheep and Horse Wall." "They all wear armor, so why are they afraid of?"

Don’t you see if Zheng Zhilong has already assembled the Iron Man Army under the city? If necessary, open the city gate and push it out, and he is not afraid of fighting hard.

The morale of the two soldiers of the White Horse Army was very strong, which to a certain extent could stimulate the growth of their combat effectiveness. However, the gap between the hard conditions between the two sides could not be made up for by these.

The first is armored clothes. The Zheng army's most cannon fodder soldier was also wearing twelve kilograms of cotton armor, which was completely out of Bai Guangen's army and Ma Ke's army.

Second physical fitness. The basic physical fitness of the military soldiers on both sides should be different, just like a big man from Shandong and a big man from northwest. But can the military soldiers based on the same level continue to wait for their physical fitness after experiencing different treatments?

The cannon fodder of the two soldiers of the White Horse is probably hard to eat and fill every day, and it is difficult to wear warm clothes and sleep well. What about Zheng Zhilongjun? You can eat rice and big buns at will, and you can even have a tooth sacrifice every few days. Even if they are all salted fish and sea food, isn’t that meat?

The difference in quality of life has made Zheng Jun soldiers' current physical fitness firmly surpass one end of their opponents, let alone the military training of the two.

Even if they don’t consider guns and rely on bayonets, the Zheng army can suppress their opponents. Not to mention, the first-line crusades among the charge troops of the White Horse Army were mostly brave people in the army, and they had long been killed by rows of guns and cannons.

Next, the two sides fought with cold weapons. The white horse army was blocked by the wall of sheep and horses, not to mention that they had to be guarded against the guns on the top of the city.

"What a powerful Zheng Jun." Hao Yaoqi said in surprise.

He thought that the Zheng army was relying on guns and cannons to show off his fierceness, but he didn't want to fight in hand-to-hand combat, so the Zheng army was also very fierce.

Ma Ke twitched his cheek. He had fought with Zheng Zhilong and knew more clearly about Zheng Jun's methods. "Brother, Zheng Zhilong's army has another trick. Look, this is it..."

From afar, Ma Ke saw beautiful fireworks suddenly popping up in front of the sheep and horse wall in front of the crowded white horse soldiers.

Zheng Jun finally took out the grenade.

Hao Yaoqi stood up in the stirrups, "Is this..."

"This is a grenade. Use a bamboo tube and a wooden jar as the shell, and contain medicine powder in it, or fill it with iron gravel, and then ignite the fuse and throw it out by manpower. Those with strong arm strength can easily throw it away thirty or fifty steps away."

"Once the explosion sounds, the shells splash, iron gravels fly across the sky, and one shot immediately covers the surrounding area, killing and injuring dozens of people."

"This is really a killing weapon. Why didn't you use it?" Hao Yaoqi said in confusion.

Ma Ke had to roll his eyes. He had to use the conditions, but he didn't use it. "The grenade was thrown by human arms, so it should not be too heavy, otherwise it would be difficult to go far. The internal one must use refined medicine powder to make it scare people and not cure the enemy. However, the refined medicine powder is very valuable and the number is even reduced. The military is not used for cannons, so how can it be used in large quantities? That is, Zheng Zhilong, who earns tens of millions of dollars a year, is a master who is not short of money, so he is willing to squander this way."

Marco didn't plan to explain some unnecessary words in detail, and just took a word.

The charcoal required for making medicinal powder is very cheap, but saltpeter and sulfur are difficult. Most of the saltpeter mines in China are small, and most of them are in the Hanzhong, Sichuan and Sichuan areas, so mining and transportation are not easy. If you collect the nitroso soil and boil it into the soil, it will be very troublesome and troublesome.

What's more, what about sulfur? It's natural to have it in China, but mining and transportation is difficult, and the second point is that it's not high.

If you really want to refine the powder, you have to start with the raw materials. Not to mention the trouble, the cost is quite large. For example, purifying saltpeter requires eggs and radishes. This is the method recorded in the book "Fugang" produced by Zheng Zhilong from the Imperial Academy.

Of course the effect is the best.

The next step is to use radish, which is mentioned in Song Yingxing's "The Heavenly Gong Kaiwu". The method mentioned in Mao Yuanyi's "Wu Bei Zhi" is to only put ash water in the grass and wood. There are many methods, and many people know it, but not many people really do it.

The powder made by Mako himself has a certain quality assurance, but the quantity cannot be guaranteed. It seems that the refining of saltpeter, sulfur and salt is very consuming, and it takes a lot of manpower and a long time.

What about the powder he got from the court? If he made money, he could still have some good things. Without money, he could only get a pile of dust wrapped in firecrackers that were not loud.

Where can I compare with Zheng Zhilong?

The latter can get first-class and low-cost sulfur from Japan and senior officials, and can transport saltpeter from India, which is as cheap as possible. Isn’t this arbitrary?

From top to bottom, you can throw it at random.

Isn't it a squander?

At the stall where Ma Ke and Hao Yaoqi were talking, the grenades in front of the sheep and horse wall were no longer one by one, but one by one.

Is this still grenade? This is throwing money.

"Boom boom boom..."

The entire wall of sheep and horse seemed to suddenly turn into a sea of ​​fire hell. Pieces of grenades exploded alternately! The fireball smoke columns were not clustered, but rose up in groups, and immediately wrapped countless soldiers from two groups of white horses.

Bai Guangen felt really distressed after seeing it.

Although these soldiers were all victims he took the initiative to set off, he still felt distressed when he died so much.

In front of the sheep and horse wall, it completely became a place of death that devoured human life.

The two white horse soldiers who were previously blocked by Zhang Kui were first crowded in front of the sheep and horse wall like sand gathering, and then the blood was splattered by the explosion of grenades, dyeing large areas of land under their feet red.

For a moment, the screams of the soldiers of the two white horses who were injured by grenades overwhelmed the drums, horns, and shouts of killing on the entire battlefield!

There is no need for Bai Guangen. Marco thought about how to have a tragic failure, and they would really lose miserably.

Zhang Kui would not miss the opportunity, so he roared and led the army out of the wall of sheep and horses. He chased Bai Guangen, and the two soldiers of Mako stopped from behind the butts from the shield and chariot area.

There was no way, the Shun army and horse soldiers on both sides had already surrounded him. How could Zhang Kui dare to pursue him again?

But even so, there are many killing and capturing enemies.

Those shields were shields to cover the two soldiers before, but when they retreated and fled, they became their obstacles and stumbling blocks.

"Don't worry, my uncle. This is just a small setback. When it is dark and heavy rain is pouring, I and General Ma will mention the soldiers to attack the city again. I will ask the thief Zheng to repay the blood debt."

Bai Guangen pointed at the dark clouds covered in the sky and patted his chest, "Faithful".
Chapter completed!