HLnovel Chapter 625 Elite Cavalry
Chapter 625 Elite Cavalry
Chapter 625 Elite Cavalry
The "Little Lanlan" docked, and Wang Wenzhou hurriedly disembarked.
Chen Yuanyuan and Li Mei had been waiting on the beach. When they saw their nemesis, the two babies rushed over with tears in their eyes and threw themselves into Wang Wenzhou's arms.
Chen Yuanyuan was deeply moved. This was the first time she had felt that she had fallen in love with Wang Wenzhou after being with him for so long.
Just now, Wang Wenzhou led his fleet, charging ahead to fight the Dutch to the death in order to save her. Chen Yuanyuan witnessed everything.
Since ancient times, beauties have loved heroes. How could Chen Yuanyuan not love the great hero Wang Wenzhou?
Wang Wenzhou hugged the two babies, kissed them one by one, and said with a smile, "Babies, you scared me to death! I was afraid you would be caught by the Dutch."
"By the way!" Wang Wenzhou asked, "What about the Dutch who landed? How did you defeat them?"
Zheng Chenggong smiled slightly and said proudly, "Father, with your son here, I will never allow anyone to harm my mothers."
Wang Wenzhou tilted his head and saw that Zheng Chenggong, that little rascal, had bandages wrapped around his arm, looking like a victorious hero.
"Pah!" Wang Wenzhou laughed and scolded, "You little brat, you've already learned to brag so quickly? If you want to protect my baby, you'll have to wait a few more years."
Li Mei quickly said, "Husband, we were only able to win this time because of him."
"Huh?" Wang Wenzhou was completely confused. Could it be that this amazing person was also amazing when he was a child?
Seeing Wang Wenzhou's incredulous expression, the two babies quickly and cheerfully recounted what had just happened to him.
After the defeat of the youth army, the Dutch launched an attack.
Lieutenant Van Nistel, though a naval officer, was not entirely without land combat experience. Under his command, the Dutch advanced slowly.
Using the range of their muskets, they drove Wu Sanying's garrison from the first line of defense to the second. In this round of fighting, the guards suffered more than 40 casualties, leaving only 160 men still capable of fighting.
As for the remaining eight hundred young soldiers, they were terrified. Upon hearing the sound of gunfire, they lowered their heads and lay prone in the trench, not daring to raise their heads.
Wu Sanying thought about it and realized that things couldn't continue like this. If the second line of defense fell, there would be no safe place to defend.
While the Dutch were resting, Wu Sanying ran to report the battle situation to Chen Yuanyuan.
Wu Sanying said helplessly, "Madam, I'm afraid we can't hold out any longer! The only option now is to fight our way out and break through. There are jungles on the island. As long as we escape into the forest and hide, the enemy will have a hard time finding us for a while. Once you return to the island, we can escape unscathed."
Chen Yuanyuan knew nothing about military affairs. She looked at Li Mei and asked, "Sister Li Mei, shall we escape?"
Zheng Chenggong quickly said, "Yuanyuan, we still have nearly a thousand men, while the enemy only has five hundred. We outnumber them by a factor of two, how can we possibly lose? Your son is willing to lead the army into battle and will surely annihilate them!"
"Pfft..." Wu Sanying was completely dumbfounded. What was going on?! Just now, Hou Fangyu and Mao Xiang, those two idiots, were also so arrogant, wanting to kill the enemy and win. But now, Hou Fangyu's life or death was unknown, and Mao Xiang was terrified. He was holding his sword, squatting on the ground, his body trembling uncontrollably. He didn't even have the courage to stand up, let alone fight.
Wu Sanying glanced at Zheng Chenggong and said with a wry smile, "Young Master Zheng, you are still young, and we are at war now..."
Before Wu Sanying could finish speaking, Zheng Chenggong immediately flew into a rage. His small eyes widened in fury as he angrily said, "What do you mean? I'm young? I'm not young anymore! I'm twelve years old this year! Gan Luo became prime minister at twelve, so why can't I go to the battlefield and fight the enemy at twelve?"
Wu Sanying shook his head with a wry smile; he couldn't afford to offend this young master. Wu Sanying had been by Wang Wenzhou's side for a long time and understood him. Wang Wenzhou liked this young master very much; the young master received similar treatment to Wang Wenzhou's adopted son, the petty thug Jiang Xuyang.
“Young Master Zheng, you’ve misunderstood! That’s not what I meant!” Wu Sanying quickly said, “Our army only has a small number of bows and arrows, and no muskets. The enemy is fully equipped with muskets, and the youth army was just defeated. They are all terrified and have no fighting power.”
Wu Sanying said with a wry smile, "Now, we only have a little over 160 guards left, who can still fight. With so few men, even if the enemy doesn't have muskets and charges in, we can't hold them off."
"Why defend?" Zheng Chenggong hurriedly replied, "Only offense can bring victory! What's so scary about barbarians? My mother's guards are all highly skilled in martial arts. As long as I lead them in, we will surely slaughter the barbarians without leaving a single one alive!"
"Sigh..." Wu Sanying sighed, cursing inwardly: You little brat, do you think you're Xiang Yu? That you can win with fewer troops?
Wu Sanying said with a wry smile, "Young Master Zheng, it's not that I'm afraid to lead men to charge, but the key is that if we use infantry against a musket formation, the casualties will be too great. If you brothers had horses, I would definitely lead men to charge. Once we get in, these barbarians will be like meat on a chopping board, and we can chop them up however we want."
Firearms in that era were not advanced. Even during World War II, without the cover of heavy machine gun fire, infantry were still afraid of cavalry charges. If infantry encountered cavalry and their formation was disrupted, they would be utterly defeated.
Zheng Chenggong quickly replied, "Who said we don't have cavalry! We do! We have two horses, two dogs, and two giant panda war pets."
These are all pets that Wang Wenzhou brought to keep the babies happy. Li Mei and Zheng Chenggong like to practice martial arts and often want to play horseback riding and sword fighting, so the two horses were prepared for them.
The two dogs and the giant panda are all beloved possessions of Chen Yuanyuan. The dogs, needless to say, are treated like sons by Chen Yuanyuan. The giant panda is her latest favorite. It must be said, even though the panda is fierce, it's incredibly cute! Chen Yuanyuan is absolutely smitten with it.
So wherever Wang Wenzhou went, even if transportation to the island was inconvenient, he always brought these things with him for the babies.
Wu Sanying said with a wry smile, "Two horses are too few!"
Zheng Chenggong quickly said, "The two dog masters and the two battle pet pandas are all elite cavalry. You don't know how powerful the battle pet pandas are. The other day, when I accompanied my godfather to attack Lamma Island, a hundred battle pet pandas defeated five hundred ronin samurai."
"This..." Wu Sanying was very conflicted. He was the captain of Chen Yuanyuan's guard. Dog and the giant panda were both Chen Yuanyuan's beloved pets. Once they went to the battlefield, it would be hard to say whether they would survive.
Zheng Chenggong continued, "Don't underestimate our cavalry just because we have fewer troops. We can still disrupt the enemy's formation. When the muskets are fired, they will produce a lot of thick smoke, which will affect visibility. As soon as the cavalry charges in, the enemy's formation will be thrown into disarray. Even if the young soldiers are scared half to death, as long as they take up their weapons and charge in, the enemy will be so frightened that they will collapse without a fight!"
"Madam, what do you think?" Wu Sanying thought for a moment. Zheng Chenggong's tactics were good, but he didn't dare to make the decision himself, so he quickly asked Chen Yuanyuan for instructions.