The Pingpu people, who had no armor protection at all, could only scream and wail under the volley of the imperial army's dense projectiles, even if they were ready to sacrifice, those Pingpu people with bamboo spears and arrows in their hands could not throw their weapons into the opponent's array at all.

Nika and Rodao heard the sound of the gong, and it was the patriarch Aganon who told them to retreat. In fact, even if Aganon hadn't had people blow the gong, Nika and Rodao would no longer have been able to charge at the Han army without fear of death.

The other party is the real Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, not those Han immigrants who dare not provoke them!

Rodao was the first to retreat, shouting for Nika and them to go quickly, for the Han Chinese army had already rushed forward.

"Bayonet!"

Kojiro Kumamoto's command knife was erected forward, and the 180 officers and men of the 1st Squadron immediately put a dagger with a circular hollow end and a sharp knife-like tip on the firearm.

This form of dagger, but the longer weapon was called the bayonet, which was named by Gonggong Wei himself. Although bayonets are very easy to break and take off in actual combat, and many often become "disposable" equipment, the bayonet is extremely lethal and has become a fixed equipment of the imperial army.

The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is developing a bayonet that can be welded to the mouth of the gun, and can be folded, and is not easy to break, is prismatic, and has three sides, I heard that this bayonet is an imitation of the ancient weapon three-corner spear, the power is greater, once the enemy is stabbed, there is absolutely no hope of survival. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations, a breakthrough has not yet been made in the development of prismatic bayonets, so the army is still equipped with this "disposable" bayonet.

"For the sake of the emperor, forward!"

The banner of "Fenglin Volcano" jumped forward, and 180 imperial officers and soldiers with the spirit of pig's head rushed towards the Pingpu people with a fearless and resolute attitude.

The Pingpu people, who had already been beaten by the opponent's iron guns, were suddenly overwhelmed by the momentum of the imperial army, and the panic exploded in an instant, everyone turned around and ran, and the warriors of Nika's clan were also running, and they were running at the front.

Soon, the battlefield was one-sided. In front are the Pingpu people who fled for their lives, and in the back are the imperial officers and soldiers who are brave and straight.

Compared with Nika who went to lure the enemy, Aganon's side was calmer, although the combat effectiveness of the Han army exceeded his imagination, and Nika and they suffered heavy losses, but his goal was also achieved - the Han army was being lured to the hunting grounds.

There, the jungle will be the burial place of these outsiders!

However, there was one thing that worried Aganon that the women and children who were moving to the hunting grounds in the southeast were in trouble, and a Han army was chasing them through the stockade.

The people who organized the transfer tried to hold back the Han army, but after paying dozens of casualties, they had to give up and hope that the women and children would run faster.

"Give Squadron Leader Kumamoto a third-class meritorious service!"

His own officers and soldiers moved forward bravely, the battlefield won instantly, and the savages fled in embarrassment, this scene in the clairvoyant mirror made the ninth master very happy, and he couldn't wait to summon the herald, and dictated his good news to his great-great-grandson - "Yimao day, east wind, rain." ”

"East wind, rain" is the base camp for the system of success, where the ministry reports "east wind, rain", that is, a great victory.

"Order, the 1st Wing and Brigade Guards are all engaged in battle, well," the Ninth Master looked up at the sun, "End the battle before dark!" ”

After speaking, the ninth master threw the big cigarette pouch to his nephew Wei Dayuan, "Let's go, go and see what treasures are in the old nest of the Pingpu people, just take what you like, and the sixth master will reward you!" ”

"Uncle Xie Liu!"

Wei Dayuan was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, in the end, he didn't say anything about his own uncle!

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The pursuit of the 1st Infantry Brigade was huge, and the performance of the 1st Squadron in front of the 1st Squadron was very satisfactory to the captain Xu Xing, who was already like a lost dog, and the savages who had lost their homes were killed one after another under the pig's head attack of the 1st Squadron. From time to time, you can see wild men who have been pierced by bayonets lying or lying on their stomachs, allowing blood to gush out of their bodies.

The performance of the more than 100 recruits replenished by the first brigade is also remarkable, although they only underwent a short training before the war, and have no actual combat experience, let alone kill the enemy on the battlefield, but under the leadership and infection of veterans, the recruits also appear brave. There was a Kunshan soldier named Tao Dayi who killed two savages, and before that, this guy had never even killed a chicken.

Overall, the recruits seem to be a little inferior, but this time is not the time of combat skills, that is, the time of training, but the time of killing, and their bodies obviously do not have the fierceness of the veterans.

However, Xu Xing is already quite satisfied, which of these soldiers is born to kill.

The brigade commander's order was quickly delivered, and Xu Xing did not feel that the brigade commander was too optimistic, and he also thought that the battle would be over before dark, because the savages were really unbearable.

Before the war, those security guards said how fierce the Pingpu savages were, but now it seems that in the words of Grandpa Wei, they are all a group of paper tigers. In the past, the Pingpu people were fierce, but it was because their enemies were too weak!

In the southeast of the front, there were more than a dozen escaped Pingpu Fan surrounded by the first squadron, and the imperial army had a tradition of treating prisoners preferentially, so the team leader tried to persuade these savages to surrender, but these savages were unwilling to surrender, and instead threw their bamboo spears at the imperial army.

The squad leader was furious and immediately ordered a strike. After the sound of the gun, the squad leader rushed forward with a knife and cut off the neck of a Pingpu man who was still standing, and then with a shocking tiger roar, the Pingpu man's hanging head was cut out completely.

The same scene played out on the battlefield within a radius of several miles, except for a few Pingpu people who fled into the forest to the southeast like Scuds, the rest of the Pingpu people were basically annihilated.

In order to expand the results of the battle and quickly end the battle, Xu Xing ordered his three squadrons to ignore the scattered enemies, concentrate on pursuing the people who fled to Pingpu in the forest, and be sure to destroy all these savages who dared to disobey the might of the imperial army.

However, Squadron Leader Kumamoto seemed to hesitate a little, and he said to Xu Xing: "Your Excellency, it seems that the wild man deliberately wants to lure us into the forest!" ”

"Huh?"

Xu Xing frowned when he heard this, raised his eyes and carefully looked at the dense forest in front of him, looking at it from a distance, he couldn't see the edge at a glance, the forest was full of towering trees, and he could vaguely see Pingpu people haunting the forest.

The art of war is cloudy, and you can't enter the forest!

Xu Xing also hesitated, and for the sake of safety, he quickly sent someone to report the situation to the brigade headquarters.

"What strategy can the savages have, even if they really have an ambush trap in this forest, can they still defeat my heroic imperial army!"

The Ninth Master is convinced that in the face of absolute strength, the savages can't make trouble with the demon moth, and his old man wants to expand the results of the battle and cut more than a thousand levels, otherwise the "east wind, rain" reported to his great-grandnephew will inevitably be a little untrue, and there is a suspicion of lying about the military situation.

Chief of Staff Lu Jianrong suggested that a squadron should be sent into the forest to investigate first, and if something was found wrong, it should be withdrawn in time and then discussed.

"Isn't our first brigade still inferior to those red deer in the navy!"

The ninth master was very unhappy, this was the first battle under the direct command of his old man, and he couldn't give up halfway, otherwise it would reach Guo Qi's ears, saying that the first brigade called a woods to bluff, where did his old lady go to the fame.

At this time, a situation strengthened the confidence of the ninth master. Wing Captain Ma Wenqing came to report that he led his troops to capture hundreds of women and children of Pingpu savages, and the rest fled into the forest in fright.

"They can't even control women and children, and they don't even want houses and property, what does it mean? It shows that they were completely defeated by our 1st Brigade! Ladies and gentlemen, the glory of the 1st Brigade is not to be defiled! ”

As soon as the Ninth Master gave the order, the officers and soldiers of the brigade quickly assembled into the mountain.

However, the facts quickly proved that the ninth master was wrong, and the wild man was beaten and fled in a hurry, but there was really an ambush in that dense forest.

The 1st Infantry Squadron, as the vanguard of the brigade, was the first to be attacked by savages lying in ambush in the forest. Those wild people behaved completely differently from the plains just now, one by one they either hid in the tall grass or climbed the trees, and unexpectedly attacked the imperial officers and soldiers with bamboo spears and arrows. Moreover, after the sneak attack, these wildlings quickly moved places, so that the retaliatory attacks of the Imperial army often failed.

The rest of the troops suffered the same situation, and for an hour the Imperial Army was moving slowly, and not only did it find it difficult to detect a large number of enemy traces, but even the direction in which it was itself was gradually confused. In the end, the only way to tell if you are friendly is by the whistle.

The officers and men of the 1st Squadron slowly felt powerless, and after entering the forest, they only killed more than a dozen savages, but their own casualties reached six. In the previous battles on the plains, the officers and men of the 1st Squadron had not killed a single person.

By the time the sun went down, the 1st Brigade had 56 killed and 84 wounded, and this situation was quickly reported to the brigade headquarters in total.

"Your Excellency, the dense forest makes it impossible for our troops to deploy, and it is even more difficult to search for wild people, but the wild people can use the dense forest to kill and injure a large number of our officers and soldiers, I suggest that all departments withdraw immediately, block the main entrances and exits of the mountains and forests, and force them to surrender!"

As chief of staff, Lu Jianrong must fulfill his obligations, and the battle cannot continue any longer, otherwise for the officers and men of the First Brigade, it will be a process of constant bloodletting.

The Ninth Master finally came to his senses, and he squeaked and agreed to Lu Jianrong's proposal to withdraw the army, and let the latter be in charge.

Subsequently, under Lu Jianrong's arrangement, the various units withdrew from the forest one after another, and the officers and soldiers of the two squadrons blocked the two main entrances and exits of this mountain forest, and the rest of the units retreated into the Pingpu people's stockade to rest and search for supplies.

The captured women and children were placed in the southwest of the village, and Lu Jianrong secretly deployed two squadron officers and soldiers to hide in this area, but unfortunately the savages did not come to rescue these women and children that night, otherwise there would have been great results.

In the days that followed, the 1st Brigade tried several methods to force out the Pingpu people hiding in the mountains and forests, but they were unsuccessful and had to continue the blockade.

At the same time, Lu Jianrong suggested that the true situation of the First Brigade should be reported to the base camp, but the Ninth Master said that the loss of the First Brigade was not large and there was no need to report it. The Ninth Master thought that the savages went up the mountain in a hurry and did not carry much food at all, so as long as the First Brigade continued to blockade, the savages were eventually forced out.

But how many days will be blocked, the ninth master has not counted in his heart, his old man really hates the savages now, do you say that these savages come out to die well, they have to hide from his old man, and his old man's mood is very bad.

For the next few days, there was still no progress, and the wild man seemed to have disappeared into the mountains and forests, and the few reconnaissance teams sent in did not find the wild man.

With the passage of time, the 1st Brigade was also a little overwhelmed, because the Pingpu people did not have much food in their villages.

Lu Jianrong estimated that if the Pingpu people still did not descend the mountain for a maximum of 10 days, the 1st Brigade would have to lift the blockade and retreat, otherwise the officers and men of the entire brigade would have to go hungry.

There was also a plague in the army, but fortunately, the army carried a lot of herbs, and the plague did not spread, but it also affected the morale of the army.

There are all kinds of indications that the first battle of the 1st Brigade is likely to be anticlimactic.

Just when the Ninth Master and the brigade officers were discussing how to solve the problem of food shortage, the sound of gongs and drums suddenly came from outside the village, and then a soldier came to report, saying that the supervising army Wei Gonggong heard of the great victory and specially came from Chiayi to celebrate the officers and soldiers of the First Brigade.

The Ninth Master's face was a little uncomfortable at that time.