Capitalist of the Late Ming Dynasty

Tang Tong transmigrated, possessing the body of an unlucky Qianhu. From then on, he changed the image of that bloodsucking Qianhu, leading a group of dirt-poor subordinates onto the path of wealth. Ta...

Chapter 98: Battle of Daling River (Part 1) (2/2)

These foods were prepared by Tang Qi himself. Now Tang Qi has many people who need to eat, and the food in his hands is very tight, so Tang Qi brought so many Japanese and Koreans this time. His purpose is to rob food on the Liaodong Peninsula.

To be honest, Tang Qi and Zu Dashou had a grudge against each other. Wu Sangui died at the hands of Tang Qi, and Wu Sangui was Zu Dashou's nephew. If the two had met at other times, they might have fought. But now Dalinghhe City was under siege, and the Daqi army in the city was facing a life-and-death moment. They had held out for so long without any reinforcements arriving. Suddenly, when they saw a Daqi reinforcement arriving, Zu Dashou could only put aside the hatred between the two sides temporarily.

The city of Dalingh was built not far from the river and was surrounded by Huang Taiji's army on three sides. Only the side close to the river was not surrounded because it was not far from the river and the army could not deploy. Historically, the northern navy of Dalingh was either in rebellion or had defected to the Jiannu at this time, so it could not get support from the navy of Dalingh. Another reason was that large warships could not reach here, and Tang Yu only used some merchant ships that could sail in the river.

Before Tang Qi and his men arrived at Dalingh City, Huang Taiji had already received intelligence and sent troops to intercept Tang Qi. However, their arrows did not have the long range of the breech-loading rifle in Tang Qi's hand. After losing some men, they could only helplessly watch Tang Qi and his men arrive at the city of Dalingh City.

Zhang Yiheng looked at the Jiannu army waiting in formation on the shore, curled his lips in disdain and said, "Damn it, you think you're so great just because you have horses? I'll show you how powerful the people of Da'an are today. Sir, what do you think, should we give them a blow?"

"Dock the boats, and have the brothers get ready. However, we have to pay attention to whether they have cannons. Well, let's disperse the fleet first." Tang Qi was about to let his men assemble, but suddenly remembered that the Jiannu already had a lot of cannons at this time, and the number of cannons was greater than that of the northern army. He changed his mind and asked everyone to disperse the boats to avoid being wiped out by the concentrated artillery.

Zhang Yiheng slapped his forehead, wondering how he could have forgotten that the Jiannu had artillery. This time, the ship only had about ten small copper cannons, which were no match for those red-coated cannons. "Your Excellency is right. Look at my brain. I almost forgot about the red-coated cannons in the hands of the Jiannu."

Zhang Yiheng hurriedly passed on Tang Qi's order, and everyone formed the fleet into a long line on the Daling River. Fortunately, those red cannons weighed several thousand pounds and were not easy to move. Huang Taiji really wanted to use the cannons to bombard Tang Qi and his men on the shore, but Tang Qi and his men came too fast, and the cannons were still halfway and had not reached the Daling River.

The Japanese auxiliary troops that came with Tang Yu were all young soldiers. The old soldiers who came before them either died in battle or fled to Southeast Asia. This was the first time for these young Japanese auxiliary troops to fight. When they saw the majestic cavalry on the shore, they were a little scared. Although they had heard from their predecessors how powerful Tang's men were, they had never seen them. On the contrary, they had heard about how powerful cavalry were since they were young. In Japan at that time, war horses were rare, and those who had war horses were extremely powerful in Japan, so these Japanese were naturally a little scared.

Even more useless were the Korean laborers. Seeing that a big battle was about to begin, they were so scared that they lay on the deck and dared not get up. However, among the thousand soldiers under Tang Li's command this time, one thousand were veterans. Seeing the miserable appearance of the Korean laborers, they spat in contempt. You have to know that since these people followed Tang Li, they have always won battles, and the losses in each battle were very small. Naturally, they did not take the Jiannu seriously.

After receiving the order to fight, these soldiers made preparations on the boat. Seeing that the soldiers of the Da'an army were calm, the Japanese auxiliary soldiers felt much more at ease and boldly pulled the boat to the shore. Some soldiers on the boat raised their guns to provide cover, while other soldiers got off the boat. These soldiers who got off the boat lined up in battle formation to cover the other soldiers getting off the boat.

Huang Taiji saw this group of soldiers getting off the boat in an orderly manner. The formation was neat and uniform. It was the first time he had seen such military might. He couldn't help but feel a little curious about the generals of this army. You know, he, Huang Taiji, was also a man who knew military affairs, and his troops were well-trained. Compared with Da'an's army, their formation was much stronger. But now, Da'an's army had an even neater formation than his, Huang Taiji.

However, Huang Taiji did not care too much about it. He believed in the combat effectiveness of his army. With only about a thousand people in the current army, Huang Taiji believed that as long as one of his men was strong enough, he could defeat this team.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji smiled and raised the knife in his hand, pointing it at Tang Lu's men on the bank of the Daling River.

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