Valley Emperor

If Xie Ziwei's artillery is to be trained, it is not a matter of time and a half. However, the war with the Ming army is imminent. If you want to make this Italian artillery work in the next battle, you can only rely on those who built the artillery. of artisans.

These artillery craftsmen are naturally the people who are most familiar with the performance of the artillery. With them, there is no need to worry about the artillery being unable to fire or being inaccurate.

When Huang Zhushan's artillery arrived in the morning three days later, Li Xuan had just eaten breakfast, and someone came to report that there was a change in the Ming army on the opposite side, and it was very likely that he wanted to officially cross the river.

Hearing this news, Li Xuan naturally climbed up the mountain for the first time to observe the Ming army on the opposite side.

I saw the Ming army on the opposite side appearing on the beach one after another, and at the same time, many Ming army soldiers also began to carry the rafts on the river bank into the river.

At this time, Li Xuan is no longer proficient in combat, but he can see that the Ming army on the opposite side is really planning to cross the river.

And counting the time, the Ming army should have crossed the river in the past few days. The two sides have been holding each other at the Lanjiang ferry for more than half a month. During this half month, the two sides have not been idle. The parapet and the fort, while the Ming army was building rafts, and from time to time, the Ming army could be seen launching on a small scale, apparently for training related to crossing the river.

Both sides have been preparing for so long, and naturally it is impossible to continue the confrontation indefinitely, and the battle will always be fought.

This is not because Li Xuan is eager to fight. In fact, he wants the Ming army to delay the time. It is better to wait a few months before crossing the river, but obviously, the Ming army cannot wait so long.

These Ming troops have a clear mission, that is, to exterminate the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

And it is impossible for such a task to be dragged on forever, otherwise, neither the general who led the army nor Song Zhiwen himself would be able to explain it to the top.

Leading an army of 3,000 troops to suppress a bandit, it is fair to say that there is no victory for a month, but if there is no progress for several months, then the bosses above will be unhappy.

In addition, there is a very important point that the army spends a lot of money outside, and every day is an extra day's expense, and these expenses are not managed, and the place is conceited.

Of course, if you capture any loot, such as looting a few large villages on the road, you don't need to turn over the loot you get.

To put it simply, the local army fights, especially the type of war against bandits, that is self-financing, the court does not care!

This is why many historical books will record that the army of the imperial court crosses the border, and the people along the way suffer and suffer, and it is no different from encountering a bandit army.

Why, because the bandit army needs to survive by robbery, officers and soldiers in many places, especially the guest soldiers, also need to survive by robbery. The only difference between them is that the bandit army is not justified. Not smooth, but the officers and soldiers are justifiable, for the people, neither of these is a good thing.

Otherwise, how could there be a word called 'the family of soldiers and bandits'!

Under a lot of pressure, the Ming army cannot stay on the other side of the river to face off against the new army of the Tang Dynasty. After they have completed many preparations, they will definitely cross the river.

And now, they are obviously going to start crossing the river.

"Send the order down, and let the soldiers make relevant preparations!" When Li Xuan said, he turned to look at the group of generals behind him, and then took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Today, we will fight to the death with the pseudo-ming bandit army! "

Li Xuan deliberately said deeply, just to let them know that today's battle is related to the survival of the Tang Dynasty, and it is more related to the life and death of everyone present.

The following group of generals immediately said in unison: "I will obey the order!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then said, "Let's all prepare ourselves!"

Immediately, Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Wang Danxu, Hao Bainian and other generals bowed and retired. They were going to lead their respective troops to prepare for battle, in order to meet the largest battle since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The first large-scale frontal battle experienced by the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

In the past, the new army of the Tang Dynasty generally avoided fighting the main force of the Ming army. When they encountered it, they ran away directly. In many battles, they chose to bully the side divisions of the Ming army.

But this time, they are going to face the three thousand main force of the Ming army directly, even if there is a Lanjiang River as their defensive moat, but can they win, can they stop the Ming army from the Lanjiang River, Li Xuan? The grasp of the heart is not enough.

This confidence is at most 60%. Half of the 60% chance of winning is brought by the musket team of more than 200 people, and the other 30% chance of winning is because of Lanjiang.

As for the remaining 40% chance of winning, it is purely up to God to give him face. If God gives him face, maybe the Ming army will send a flood when they cross the river and drown all the soldiers of the Ming army.

If God does not give face, the Ming army crossed the river very smoothly, was rushed to the beach by their main force, and even entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat with the Datang New Army, then it would be very difficult for the Datang New Army to win.

After all, no matter what, the Ming army has 3,000 people, while the Datang New Army has only a little more than 1,300 people. The strength of the two sides is not small.

As for the quality of soldiers on both sides, they are actually similar. Only half of the Ming army is regular army, and the rest are young and strong. The main force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty is only four or five hundred people, and the rest are all uniform. new recruits.

As the so-called yes, both sides are half a catty, and no one can say that the other is not.

The Ming army on the other side of the river moved quite quickly, and it was not long before they started to move, and they had already begun to assemble on the other side of the river.

At this time, the Datang New Army was the first to start taking action!

With Xie Ziwei's firing, the only artillery "Italian Cannon" in the new army of the Tang Dynasty issued the first roar in this battle.

Under the loading and aiming of the artillery engineers, the Italian guns fired first, and the rumbling sound of the guns sounded on the river surface and spread far and far.

With the sound of a cannon, UU read www. uukanshu.com was a huge shock for dozens of miles, and the soldiers on both sides of the Lanjiang River could hear it clearly.

Accompanied by the loud noise, it was the thick smoke rising from the muzzle!

However, these are not in the scope of Li Xuan's attention. At this time, Li Xuan was wearing a military uniform, walking on long leather boots, hanging three feet of Qingfeng from his waist, and wearing a hand-sewn named Dong Yunyun on his hands, but in fact They were grey leather gloves that Pearl did for them.

The mountain wind blew through, causing the ends of his long hair to float slightly, and along with it, the hem of his uniform swayed slightly.

At this time, he stood on the hill like a green pine, even though the mountain wind blew his face, he remained motionless.

In his eyes, the Ming army on the other side of the river was crowded on the river beach in a dense and chaotic manner. They were heading towards the raft already by the river, and many officers of the Ming army were shouting and urging.

At this moment, a small black dot fell from the sky and fell into the dense crowd of Ming army.

In an instant, flesh and blood flew!