When Shengbao passed through the chaotic army and finally fled to the intersection, more than 50 guards around him, in the end, only three people remained, and the thieves behind him shouted to kill, fortunately, Fang Zhaoxuan arrived in time with a thousand fine horses, and rushed over regardless of life or death, so he blocked again, and he escaped from death.

Just led the horse to run for more than a dozen zhang, only to hear the heart-rending sound of artillery behind him, followed by bursts of heart-rending screams, Fang Zhaoxuan's team of 1,000 horses was blown up, and countless bursts of gravel shot out of the cavalry and the war horses under the crotch were beaten into a sieve, and the flesh and blood were blurred and poured into a piece.

And artillery? Katsuho was so frightened that he swung his horsewhip a few times, hoping that the thieves would not have a horse team, otherwise his life would be confessed here.

When he fled back to Shunde Mansion, the seven thousand elites he took away when he set off, only more than ten horsemen remained, if it weren't for the deputy capital Tong Ruilin to stop him, he was afraid that he would be beheaded by Monk Lingqin on the spot.

"Before the army arrived, the vanguard suffered such a heavy blow, and who would dare to bear such a serious crime as shaking the morale of the army?"

Monk Greenqin had a tiger face, as if he was going to devour Sheng Baosheng alive, and the latter was so frightened that he just knelt on the ground and kowtowed, feeling both frightened and annoyed.

After a long while, Monk Lingqin waved his hand, "Get up, what is the situation, you and I will explain it in detail!" ”

Shengbao then stood aside with his head bowed as if he had been pardoned, and told the whole thing in its entirety.

When Seng Lingqin heard that the cult actually had tens of thousands of troops equipped with muskets, he couldn't help frowning, and now that the Qing court had learned the lesson of the defeat of the British and French forces, it had specially purchased a batch of foreigners' firearms. It's a fantasy!

"Tens of thousands? They are all armed with foreign guns? Did you see it with your own eyes? ”

Katsuho nodded, then hurriedly shook his head and explained: "At that time, I encountered an ambush, and I couldn't see the number of enemies at all, but the bullets were as dense as rain, and the seven thousand elites were wiped out in less than a quarter of an hour, if the enemy didn't have tens of thousands, how could they shoot continuously for so long?" By the way, the enemy still has artillery, but the range of the artillery is not far, but the power is extremely great, and the 1,000 cavalry of the general Fang Zhaoxuan was defeated by the artillery of the thief! ”

The more Monk Lingqin listened, the more outrageous he felt, even if the foreigners couldn't gather such a large number of troops for a while and a half, how could a mere anti-thief have such a sophisticated equipment? However, Katsubo did lose 7,000 elites, and unless they encountered powerful firearms in this kind of battle, the cavalry would never have been defeated so badly against the infantry!

"Rui Vice Dutong, you have also fought with foreigners, what do you think of what Shengbao said?"

Ruilin opened his mouth, wanted to speak and stopped, what can I say about this? In case it is not good to say that it is a matter of sinner, fortunately, he is a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "According to the humble opinion, since the army of the monk and the king intends to suppress the bandits, why not divide the soldiers into three ways tomorrow, all the way along the route of Shengbao Dutong, attract the attention of the thieves, the second road follows behind, in order to respond, the third army goes straight to the daimyo's mansion to cut off the retreat of the thieves, so that the thieves will know in a detailed battle!" ”

What he said was the same as what he didn't say, but he successfully shifted Monk Lingqin's attention from distinguishing the truth and falsehood of what Shengbao said to how to defeat the enemy, which can be regarded as a foolish pass.

Early the next morning, the army of Seng Lingqin had just had breakfast and was about to start marching, when a herald ran over in a panic, knelt down and bowed: "Report, the cult thieves have set up a formation outside the South Gate City, intending to attack the city!" ”

"Hmph, these thieves are moving quickly!" Monk Greenqin sneered, this group of fools probably didn't know that there were already heavy troops stationed in Shunde Mansion, if they still engaged in some conspiracies and tricks as before, they would be a little jealous, and now they came to attack the city without knowing whether they were alive or dead, it was purely self-defeating!

"Let's go to the city wall and see what these thieves are capable of!"

Monk Greenqin waved his hand, took Ruilin, Shengbao and others to the south city wall, and looked into the distance, only to see that two or three miles away from the city, there was an army that had already set up a formation, every five hundred people were a phalanx, taking a uniform pace, and was advancing towards the city wall step by step.

Monk Greenqin nodded, and secretly shouted in his heart, this is indeed a strong force in front of him, just with his own army, he can't be like the enemy, the size and shape of each phalanx are not only exactly the same, but also the distance and travel speed of the phalanx and the phalanx are also amazingly consistent, which is indeed incomparable to ordinary thieves.

At this time, he looked at Katsuho again, not only did he not disdain it, but he felt some sympathy, being ambushed by such an enemy was definitely a disaster.

"Beat the drums, meet the enemy!"

Monk Gerinqin dispatched 10,000 Mongol horses, 5,000 musketeers, 5,000 arquebuses, and 15,000 infantry for a total of 35,000 men, while he stood on the city wall, condescendingly looking down on the entire battlefield, and commanding the army to fight.

After a while, the gates of the city were opened, and the Mongol horse team was divided into six phalanxes, standing on two wings, three musketeers in the middle and three arquebusiers, protected on both sides by six phalanxes totaling 9,000 infantry, and four phalanxes with a total of 6,000 infantry standing in the rear, ready to replace the defeated at any time.

There is a phalanx of every 500 people on Zhang Yuntian's side, a total of 12 phalanxes, the middle is guarded by two Shenji battalion phalanxes, and there are four phalanxes on each side equipped with the demon fire gun and fried bamboo, arranged in an inner figure-eight shape, in a protective shape, and surrounds Zhang Yuntian in the center.

Two other cavalry phalanxes, composed of Qing soldiers who had just been transformed into corpse guards, lingered on either side of the main formation.

Monk Lingqin stood on the city wall and shook his head gently, although the enemy is a strong force, but after all, the number is limited, only five or six thousand people, to fight against his own army of thirty or forty thousand, it is really a mantis arm.

Zhang Yuntian looked at the neat queue of Qing soldiers, his heart was quite a little excited, he didn't expect that he had the opportunity to fight against the famous monk Lingqin, don't look at this person in Bali Bridge defeated, in fact, throughout his life, there are countless battles, a total of two defeats, the first is a wrong field battle with foreigners, the result is a big loss, the second defeat is to be outnumbered by the army besieged in Cao Gaolou Village, Shandong, and finally killed by the rebel army.

In addition, he not only led the first victory of the Qing Dynasty against the foreigners, but also defeated the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, captured the commander Lin Fengxiang alive, and captured Li Kaifang alive a few months later, and was given the title of "Tuan Duo Batulu" by Emperor Xianfeng.

It's definitely a pleasure to be able to play against such an opponent.