Zhu Hao returned to the city, Zhang Huangyan and the others also breathed a sigh of relief, just now the handsome man went out of the city single-handedly and scared a group of people into a cold sweat.

"Uncle, since we have an absolute advantage, why do we want to let Li Dingguo go?" Zhang Huangyan asked.

"You don't understand, although Li Dingguo is talented, he has the temperament of a scholar, that is, loyalty, he is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, loyal to him, it is easy to catch him, but it is difficult to collect his heart. Fortunately, this person has a great sense of the overall situation and great ambitions, and participating in the righteous army is not all the reason for Zhang Xianzhong, so I woke him up with words, Zhang Xianzhong is not really for the people, so that he has room for maneuver and vacillation, and there are also elements of counter-plotting, Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Kewang father and son have cracks, I will add fire, let them suspect each other, and it is more beneficial to us. Zhu Hao patiently explained.

"Uncle (handsome) Takami!" Zhang Huangyan, Xu Guochong and others sincerely patted the horse.

"Less sycophants! Li Dingguo's heart is no longer stable, and Fang County is no longer profitable, so I ordered me to start troops tomorrow to attack Baokang and bring Li Dingguo to help. Zhu Hao gave the order.

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Soon after Li Dingguo withdrew, Zhu Hao no longer entangled with him, but quickly headed towards Baokang with a large army.

Liu Wenxiu, the defender of the Baokang peasant army, has been numb for the past ten days, and the new army outside the city has been noisy day and night, sending people to attack for a while every day, but it is only a distant gun, not an all-out siege of the city, which makes him feel a little punched cotton, and he doesn't know what medicine is sold in the gourd of the new army.

At this time, there were about 8,000 peasant troops in Baokang, and the remaining 6,000 or 7,000 people were scattered around the county seat.

At the beginning, Liu Wenxiu saw that the new army only had more than 2,000 people, and he didn't care, and sent troops out of the city to invite the battle several times, Wang Boda was not polite, and won three battles neatly, annihilating more than 2,000 enemies, and he had almost no losses, so he frightened Liu Wenxiu, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight, but just cowered in the city, and the peasant army outside the city was even more vulnerable.

Although most of the soldiers outside the city were not Liu Wenxiu's descendants, if Wang Boda continued to do so, the entire peasant army would be separated from Germany and the situation would collapse. Now many remnants of the peasant army have left Baokang far away, and some have fled west to Zhang Xianzhong's camp without even informing him.

Forget it, if you lose some people, you will lose it, anyway, your task is to buy time for Zhang Xianzhong's army, Liu Wenxiu figured this out, so he didn't care much about the new army outside the city.

"Report, three generals, the horse outside the city returns, the Ming army from Fang County is the brigade, it seems to be the same as the new army outside the city." A sentry came to report.

"Oh? is from Fang County, could it be that there is a problem with the second brother? It's unlikely, the second brother's leading talent is not an opponent of the Ming army! Revisit. Liu Wenxiu commanded a little strangely.

Li Dingguo's talent knows best, with his 10,000 elite soldiers, Fang County is not so easy to break, is there any problem in the middle? By the way, if the enemy is also such a new army outside the city, it is difficult to say, these new troops are different from the ordinary Ming army, not only fierce firepower, disciplined, well-trained, but also very cunning, extremely difficult to deal with! I hope there is no problem with the second brother, otherwise Baokang will be in danger!

Not long after, another sentry came to report: "Third general, Tan Ma found out that the person who came was the main force of the new army outside the city, Fang County has been breached, but the second general does not seem to have any losses, according to reliable information, there are several rebel armies behind the new army quietly following, it should be the second general's troops." ”

"Oh, I know, it must be the second brother who saw that the new army was strong, so he didn't fight hard, but abandoned the city and harassed the Ming army all the way, worthy of being the second brother, good tactics!" Liu Wenxiu is not stupid, and quickly figured out the joints.

"Pass my order, and the whole army will immediately prepare for battle, ready to echo the troops of the second general." Liu Wenxiu felt that the fighter plane had arrived, and ordered.

Outside the city, the new army battalion, the two armies have already met.

"Boda, I've been having a good time lately." Zhu Hao said with a smile.

"Hey, the big handsome said and laughed, this Liu Wenxiu is too timid, he killed me for a few times and then made a turtle with a shrunken head, no matter how we scold the city, it just won't come out." Wang Boda said with a smile.

"It's okay, it's almost time for him to move when I come, and order the soldiers to rest for a day, and tomorrow they will be bombarded with artillery and attack the city with all their might." Zhu Hao said.

"Dashuai, what about Li Dingguo in the back?" Wang Boda asked.

"It's okay, this kid is a typical kid who can't run away, it's hard to catch him with our mobility, but let's take Liu Wenxiu, he won't sit idly by, and he will show up soon." Zhu Hao said indifferently.

Liu Wenxiu was timid and afraid, he expected that if he attacked Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu might not have the courage to save him, on the contrary, Li Dingguo would definitely come to save him, this is the difference between people.

Li Dingguo, who followed behind, scattered his troops and followed the new army all the way, although Li Dingguo tried his best to harass him on the road, but the new army ignored it, but killed Baokang violently. Li Dingguo couldn't help but worry, if something happened to Liu Wenxiu, then the triangular array that Zhang Xianzhong had painstakingly managed would be broken, not only would he lose his troops and generals, but if he didn't make it, the righteous army would also be squeezed into dumplings in the eastern part of western Hubei and Sichuan.

It's just that how to rescue Liu Wenxiu is quite a brainstorm, the field battle is definitely not the opponent of the new army, with the strong combat effectiveness of the new army and Zhu Hao's cunning, it is difficult for ordinary tactics to work, maybe people are waiting for themselves to come to the door now.

Li Dingguo estimated that with the combat effectiveness of the new army, even if he fought against himself while besieging the city, he would have the upper hand. Moreover, there are no more than 10,000 people after the new army joins the army, which is even more of a headache.

After thinking about it, Li Dingguo decided to implement the tactic of cutting off grain, sending people to cut off the grain route of the new army, and forcing the new army to retreat!

"Wang Yuanhui, you immediately take a thousand soldiers and horses to detour behind enemy lines, find out the new army's grain route, and cut it off!" Li Dingguo ordered his henchmen to lead their troops to implement the tactic of cutting off food.

Not long after the order was given, suddenly the sentry came to report, saying that the new army was attacking Baokang with all its might, and Liu Wenxiu couldn't support it anymore! Li Dingguo was taken aback, he didn't expect the new army to move so quickly, and hurriedly waved his army to press, in a vain attempt to put pressure on the new army behind his back.

When Li Dingguo led the main force to Baokang, the city was already surrounded by the new army, and a large number of artillery poured angry artillery fire on the city wall. The entire wall was crumbling with crumbling ruins and huge cracks!

Li Dingguo didn't dare to slack off, and he didn't care about hiding his personal interests, so he hurriedly ordered all the musketeers to fight. Since the last sniper battle in the jungle, the musketeers have been replenished and the number has reached 800 again.

The new army also discovered the peasant army following behind, Zhu Hao showed a faint smile, and ordered Zhang Huangyan to lead two battalions of troops to intercept it.

The first musket battle since the founding of the Forces nouvelles began!

Although they are both musket teams, and although Li Dingguo is a famous general, the results of the battle are completely different, and in terms of equipment, training, array, and psychological quality of soldiers, the two armies are not half a point behind.

Obviously, the musketeers of the Righteous Army did not receive strict training in the queue, and Li Dingguo was reluctant to carry out live-ammunition training, so compared with the soldiers of the New Army, the musketeers of the Righteous Army were at best new recruits who had just learned to shoot!

The training effect is reflected on the battlefield, and the slightest gap is fatal, and this musket team that Li Dingguo has high hopes for suffered heavy losses as soon as he saw it!

Because the range of the rebels was too short, many musketeers had to rush forward with muskets in an attempt to rush through the 50-meter blind spot of firepower, but at the cost of huge casualties!

The range of the muskets of the new army was 150 meters away, while the guns of the rebels were only about 100 meters, and the soldiers of the new army operated the muskets in an orderly manner, with skillful movements, simple and effective formations, and gave full play to the maximum power of the volley.

Watching the rebel musketeers fall in pieces, Li Dingguo did not give the order to retreat with a blushing face, but carefully observed the tactics of the new army. It was not until two-thirds of the casualties of the rebel musketeers that the soldiers waited for the commander's retreat order, and the relieved musketeers hurriedly retreated out of range of the new army.

Zhu Hao, who was standing at the height of the new army's formation, held a telescope and saw Li Dingguo observing the tactics of the new army regardless of casualties, and smiled faintly, learn it, Lao Tzu's artillery opening tactics are useless, and the various tactics of the new army are enough for you to learn for three years and five years.

Seeing that the rebels on the head of the city had suffered heavy casualties and could not organize an effective counterattack, and the soldiers of the new army poured into the city like a tide, Li Dingguo knew that Baokang could not hold it, but he didn't dare to abandon it because of Liu Wenxiu's safety.

In a dilemma, I suddenly heard a shout, and the city gate had been blown down! Brigade of new troops swarmed in.

Li Dingguo gritted his teeth and ordered the whole army to launch a general offensive to attract the forces of the new army and give Liu Wenxiu time to break through. Li Dingguo's men had now gathered more than 7,000 men, almost all the troops he could mobilize, and he immediately commanded everyone to charge the new army in one direction.

The platoon of guns once again exerted great power, and the strategic depth of the new army was enough to defend, and countless rebel soldiers were knocked to the ground far away from the new army, and they could never stand up again!

Under the almost frenzied impact of Li Dingguo, the rebels suffered heavy casualties, and there were corpses and wailing wounded all over the way, and the huge casualties pierced Li Dingguo's heart and stimulated the nerves of the soldiers of the new army.

The charge, regardless of casualties, was effective, and the peasant army, already in a state of semi-madness, finally rushed within fifty meters of the front of the new army, and was about to crush the enemy, when a sudden rain of grenades extinguished the fire of the rebels! At this time, more than half of the 7,000 people who charged had already been killed or wounded, and the rest of them had no fighting spirit.

The infantry is carrying artillery shells, how can this battle be fought? Many soldiers were in a panic, Li Dingguo's descendant death squad played its due role at this time, and many veterans of the death squad had seen the grenade, which is usually called the Dragon King Cannon, and knew that although this thing was powerful, it was slow to ignite, and as long as it rushed over, it could cancel its effect.

These veterans were not at a loss, but rushed forward, and finally the surviving more than 100 people rushed across the line of death, slaughtered into the formation of the new army, and slashed indiscriminately, and many soldiers of the new army who could not react were cut down.

When the other peasant troops saw that the opening had been broken, they also came back to their senses, and hurriedly used their momentum to enter the battle group. Li Dingguo, who was in the distance, looked at the situation on the battlefield and finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he entered the formation of the new army, with the melee ability of the righteous army, he could at least fight with the new army without falling behind!

Li Dingguo thought so, but Zhu Hao and the officers and men of the New Army did not think so, as soon as the death squad of the Righteous Army broke into the formation, an officer promptly ordered a bayonet white-knuckle battle. Therefore, the death squad of more than 100 people was killed before they pounced a few times.

The rest of the peasant army soldiers also fought fiercely with the soldiers of the new army, at this moment the power of firearms has already been effective, hand-to-hand combat is courage and skill, although the peasant army is born in white-knuckle warfare, but it is far from proficient, in terms of skills are not as good as Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu and others under the Ming army, and the Eight Banners are far behind.

In terms of skill, the new army, which has undergone strict training in fighting and stabbing, is obviously superior to the peasant army in both individual combat and multi-person cooperative combat, and in terms of bravery, how can these peasants, who have just taken up arms, compare with the brave men of the new army who have been strictly selected, and in terms of morale, the peasant army is even more unbearable; the firearms massacre in the previous period has basically broken the psychology of the soldiers, and the current white-knuckle war is just a fluke mentality, and the peasant army is at an absolute disadvantage in these three aspects, how can it not be defeated?

"It is appropriate for the soldiers to get blood up close. The order, the first regiment and the second regiment continued to assault the city, and the third regiment turned around and killed Li Dingguo's department! Zhu Hao was not nervous when he looked at the scuffle, but ordered unhurriedly.

It was the Fourth Regiment that fought with the peasant army, although it was inferior in numbers, but it was still at ease and had the upper hand, and the new army soldiers' stabbing skills and sense of group cooperation were vividly displayed, and the peasant army soldiers kept falling, and on average, the lives of usually four or five peasant army soldiers could put down one new army soldier.

Li Dingguo was terrified when he saw it from a distance, he didn't expect it, he didn't expect it, he thought that he could defeat the new army in close combat, who thought that the new army's individual combat ability was also so strong, much stronger than the descendants he had trained, what kind of person is this Zhu Hao, who can create such a force? If the new army is a strong man, in comparison, the elite of the peasant army is just a teenager, and the ordinary Ming army can only be regarded as a child.