Chapter 574: Fujian soldiers attacked Zhangzhou

Fujian has raised nearly 40,000 troops, but these people will not put too much burden on the whole country. As we have said before, most of the barracks and garrisons in Fujian are in the eastern coastal areas, and it is not too far away to be mobilized from various places to Zhangzhou.

Many armies can even transport grain back and forth on the same day, which makes it extremely easy for the local area, and the army has less logistical considerations.

After the provisions of the Governor's Office, the five thousand soldiers trained arrived near Zhangzhou in two days, and the rest gathered quickly. Everyone was not sure why the thousands of foreigners in Zhangzhou City easily defeated the six thousand officers and soldiers that day. However, they did not continue to expand their territory, but only defended a city in Zhangzhou. Speaking of which, most of the government offices in Fujian were done in some business, which was a helpless thing. The profits of sea trade were so high that everyone could not be moved.

These people also know what happened in Zhangzhou City and several nearby ports. They make a lot of money and the residents are happy. In other words, there must be a lot of gold, silver and treasures in this city. At present, there are almost no rebellions in Zhangzhou City in a year. The Spanish rule is very stable. This can characterize the Han people in Zhangzhou City as traitors who are abducted by the rebels. After entering the city, they can burn, kill, loot and make money.

Undisciplined burning, killing and looting have always been able to inspire the beastly nature in the hearts of soldiers, make them bloodthirsty, and make them more combat-effective. The garrison soldiers gathered from all over Fujian and the newly trained Fuzhou garrisons are all full of energy. Such wars are subject to the command of the generals of Fujian.

Fujian General Deng Minyue personally led the team. He was a military general in Fujian for generations. This generation has achieved the position of Fuzhou General, and it is also considered to be a glorious family. However, it has always been a shameful person. First of all, the Japanese pirates are rampant, and the Fujian army is not as strong as the people and has suffered continuous defeats. Next, the local pirates are rampant, and there is no way. Now, Zhangzhou Prefecture City is occupied by foreigners, which is considered embarrassing.

However, unlike the Jiubian Nanzhili, Fujian's strategic position is relatively poor, and others are unwilling to come to Fujian. Therefore, despite repeated defeats, Deng Minyue's position is solid. Every time he issued an order to criticize him, he could not escape.

This time, the capital was changed drastically, and officials in every place were trembling, fearing that they would be affected by the storm from the center. The fall of Zhangzhou was too easy to be made into trouble. Deng Minyue also changed his lazy character and worked hard to train a new army. The army of the Ming Dynasty was corrupt not because of the system, but because there was a system and no one was willing to implement it. The officers would rather drive the soldiers to farm than to train hard, so they naturally became declining. Deng Minyue's training this time was nothing tricky, just strictly abide by the original scriptures and prevent the soldiers from doing anything else, except training and fighting.

The result of training made the officers from all over Fujian feel ashamed. It turned out that the weak soldiers were just not practicing, and there was no other reason.

After training this team, Fujian's confidence surged. It was thought that with the cooperation of this army and other guard soldiers, it would be fine to win a small city of Zhangzhou. This time, because I heard that the firearms of the Western Japanese in Zhangzhou were powerful, the whole province tried its best, and allocated loans in Zhejiang and Guangdong, and also collected dozens of cannons and prepared to do a big battle.

Since the Ming army was besieged by superior forces, there were no plans to talk about. The army directly set up a formation outside the city to prepare to attack the city. As a side note, many Fujian merchants gave officers various benefits before the war, in order to enter the city to bring out their goods and debts, and to prepare to go in for the last business. However, both sides of the war were allowed to do this.

So there is a ridiculous phenomenon. On the one hand, the troops of both sides confront each other. On the other hand, the merchants were busy on the road between the two armies. After this situation lasted for three days, the Ming army finally couldn't help but send their soldiers to pretend to be merchants and try to touch the city. This is how both sides were preparing to fight with martial law.

According to the conventional rule, it was to send a vanguard to conduct an attempted attack. The 3,000 Ming army members carefully advanced. However, the fortifications and fortifications in Zhangzhou City were really troublesome. First, various small fortresses and trenches broke the terrain west of Zhangzhou City, and the army was unable to line up the marching queues, and they could only be divided into small teams or narrow formations. In this way, the advantage of large numbers could not be revealed at all.

And if you don’t care about the fortresses, the bows, arrows, and muskets inside, don’t look at the maximum of a hundred people, but dozens of people dare to try to harasse and attack, and then quickly retract, which is extremely troublesome.

So at the beginning, they could only pull nails one by one. However, it was even more troublesome. Fortresses were often a group of more than a dozen itineraries, and they relied on each other. Although the Ming army attacked one point, they were actually attacking one side, which was a bit of a siege. This was really too energy-consuming.

During the attack throughout the morning, more than 3,000 people did not move forward in the fortress group, but instead lost four or five hundred people there. The morale was declining. No matter how they asked, they were unwilling to fight again.

Deng Minyue was helpless and trained troops near Fuzhou, but the other party was not a good-fortified lamp. He built a large-scale construction here and built various fortifications. He attacked hard and could not attack in a formation.

Fortunately, this time, the cannon was brought. Dozens of large and small cannons were really majestic. In the camp outside, all soldiers and officers with combat missions today would squeeze in front as much as possible to see the excitement. The guards of these southeastern provinces have always been unable to use any firearms. First, the eunuchs and officials in charge of the arsenal will not give you good weapons without bribery. Second, the climate in the south is humid and it is difficult to preserve gunpowder. The effect of those broken gunpowder on firearms is reversed.

Over time, the wars in the southeastern provinces have always been the first to fight cold weapons, and even bows and arrows are not often used, because there is a problem with bowstrings and gunpowder. If it is not properly maintained, it cannot exert its power. If you are not careful on the battlefield, you will lose your head. How can you make any mistakes? Therefore, everyone would rather believe in the swords, guns, swords and halberds in their books than use more powerful firearms, bows and arrows.

As a result, if the soldiers in the Southeast were younger, they had never even seen firearms. This time, many people pushed the cannons up in a huge voice, and they were curiously looking forward to watch.

This time the gunpowder is all good materials and it is preserved very well. Speaking of which, Fujian has also invested a lot this time. Since it is rich, the eunuchs and officials have taken out some good things.

The soldiers who had been standing on the city wall and looking at the city wall, saw the Ming army pulling out the cannons, and immediately started shouting at the city.

In fact, the locals in Zhangzhou in the city have also known this past few days. The so-called Spanish are actually Han people, and they are the soldiers of Yizhou. The white foreign devils they met are all subordinates of Yizhou military soldiers, although these Han people in Yizhou claimed to be the Southern Army of Huazhou.

Speaking of which, among the scholars in Zhangzhou City, there are also people who drink for this matter, saying that they are promoting the majesty of China. In fact, there is no reason for the moral guilt of being obedient to the people under the so-called foreign devils, so we should celebrate it.

However, the Ming army, who was fighting, always thought that they would fight the Spanish again, for no other reason. In the fortress outside the city, there were all Spanish from Luzon and Spanish prisoners of war escorted from Malacca. What they told them was very simple. If they wanted to survive, they would stay in the fortress outside the city. If they survived after the battle, they would be free.

Seeing the Ming army's cannons pulled out, these people were panicked. The Spaniards inside rushed out to capture the cannons. The Ming army was still able to easily defend this level. Without much effort, the Spaniards were defeated.

The Ming army's artillery roared, dozens of cannons, and about a dozen of them were fired. However, the momentum was already strong enough. There were so many Ming army howling in the air. Many Ming army were so scared that they took a few steps back. The effect after landing was really unsatisfactory.

Because of the work of sightseeing and correction, no one has any experience, and the accurate head of landing can be foreseen. Only two fortresses were really lucky. They were hit by a few lead bullets, and there was a sudden flood of soil and rocks. Of course, no one inside survived.

But this scene was already very effective in Deng Minyue's eyes. He quickly arranged for the artillery to continue loading ammunition and prepare for a second shooting. The Spanish Pick Army guarding in the fortress could not bear this pressure and ran out one after another to prepare for field battle with the Ming army.

At this moment, the gate of Zhangzhou City suddenly opened slowly in front of the battlefield, and several carriages pulled by eight horses came out one after another. They stopped in the open space in front of the city wall, and people jumped out of the carriage and began to load and unload something. The Ming army, who was looking here, also passed what they saw to Fujian General Deng Minyue.

Deng Minyue was stunned when he heard this news, and then laughed and said:
Chapter completed!