After taking over the defense of Maoming County, the scouts were dispatched, and the volunteers sent a large number of people over, and the scouts returned to the county seat to report, and the county immediately responded, leaving a small number of people to guard the county seat, and the remaining temporary officers and soldiers were sent out.

The officers and soldiers came to encircle and suppress the rebels of the volunteers, and the other party is now coming, but they are defending the county seat, and the battle has not started on their own side, and the face of the court is gone, so who is the thief and who destroys whom!

Knowing that the volunteers were coming against the thieves, the officers and soldiers also did not show weakness and sent people out to fight. Anyway, there are many people on my side, and I am afraid that the volunteers will not succeed.

The road leading from Zhangjia Village to Maoming County is still the original dirt road, compared with other roads, the importance of Zhangmao Highway is insufficient, Chen Zijian only sent 500 people to repair the road before, compared to the tens of thousands of people on Zhangdian Highway to build the road at the same time, only 500 people here can show its low importance.

The spies on both sides continued to report the enemy's tracks, and soon stopped at a relatively safe distance, less than a kilometer between the two sides, and the nearby terrain was gentle. At this distance, even if the other side comes by surprise, there is enough time to react, and now that there is no cavalry on both sides, the surprise attack in the case of infantry is avoided.

The cavalry in the southern region is mostly used to transmit news, and the ability to fight on horseback is far lower than that of the northern cavalry. Let the same number of cavalry, the southern cavalry and the northern cavalry fight, not surprisingly, the northern cavalry crushes the southern cavalry, because the congenital conditions for the south to breed cavalry are insufficient.

Chen Zijian didn't need to use a telescope to see the imperial army in front of him, the figures were surging, setting up all kinds of flags, red, blue, I don't know what pattern to scribble, anyway, Chen Zijian looked strange, because he didn't have a flag here.

"Alas, this is the man of the imperial court. How did you mix so badly! Wang Shi's demeanor, the dignified court army is like this, I'm so disappointed! With armies ruling a vast empire like this, it's no wonder they can't deal with just a few Tartars. ”

Chen Zijian used a telescope to look at the situation on the other side, and could see clearly the appearance of those officers and soldiers, dressed in shabby clothes, I don't know how many patches, with yellow muscles and thin faces, there was no majesty at all, Chen Zijian originally thought that the imperial army should have the demeanor of a king, but now it seems that he is disappointed, such an army can fight? The economy of eastern Guangdong Province is in Daming, and I dare not say that it is the first in the country, but no one objects to it, but in the economically developed provinces, the army is like this, think about the troops in the provinces that are worse than eastern Guangdong Province, what will it look like? Well, Chen Zijian didn't know that the imperial army in front of him was mostly a temporary miscellaneous army, if it was the elite of the imperial court, the combat effectiveness would still be there, but the elite of the imperial court was in the northern region.

Because the location was relatively gentle, Chen Zijian wanted to find something threatening in the army, but it was very difficult to find it with tens of thousands of people on the opposite side.

A nearby hill, can look down on all the situation on the battlefield, Li Si is holding a telescope and searching for things in the imperial army, this Li Si is different from the army commander Li Shi, this Li Si Chen Zijian plans to train to become a man of the blame, ordinary things Chen Zijian disdains to let others take the blame, in the future Chen Zijian will slaughter a race, and the people of a country will die unexpectedly, so that Chen Zijian is not suitable for the destruction of humanity, and it is the king to find a guy to dump the pot to others.

Li Si searched the imperial army for opportunities and confirmed that he had not found anything ordered by the chief.

"Alright, let's go, stay in danger here." There is no war yet, but the scene is already full of the atmosphere of slaughter, who knows if the scouts of the other side will touch it.

Li Si rode back to Chen Zijian, dismounted and said, "Chief, I have checked several times, but I have not seen any trace of artillery. ”

Chen Zijian: "Well, let's go down." The killing atmosphere had no effect on him, and his heart blossomed, he took away hundreds of Hongyi cannons on his side, and the other party did not have any of them, maybe they were hidden more deeply Li Si couldn't find it, but even if there were numbers, it would not be much.

Chen Zijian: "Let the artillery battalion brothers set up the artillery and wait for my order." ”

Your own side has obvious advantages, of course, you have to make good use of it, Chen Zijian will not be stupid enough to have artillery on his side, and fight fairly with the other party, hey, now it's just to crush the enemy with equipment, fair? Inexistent.

The volunteers have not yet completely mastered the control of the Hongyi cannon, at most they can use the Hongyi cannon, Chen Zijian is that the Hongyi cannon will bombard the opponent's morale, and he doesn't care about the number of enemies killed and wounded.

The volunteers were preparing to open fire, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed over, shouting all kinds of shouts from their mouths.

Chen Zijian looked at the enemy's charge, and then looked at his side, but felt that his side was the imperial army, and the enemy who rushed over was like a thief.

The volunteers were dressed in armor, captured from the two county towns, equipped with all the volunteers, the array was like the wind, the shadow of the guns was like a forest, even if they saw the enemy coming, there was no riot, but they looked at the enemy with their eyes, which was the credit of promotion and wealth.

When the enemy came halfway over, the platoon commander was assembled, and there were 250 platoon commanders in the five regiments.

The five legions gathered to fight the enemy, such a thing may only happen once, and when the Volunteer Legion expands in the future, a single legion can defeat the enemy in a battle like the one in front of him, and now the number of the Volunteers is less than 10,000, so the five legions are combined.

"Five hundred meters!"

"Four hundred meters!"

"Two hundred meters!"

The enemy who rushed in front had already entered the range of 100 meters, arrows appeared sparsely in front of the volunteers, and the enemy shot arrows behind the charging army, but these archers were not professional, and the bows and arrows shot fell more than 20 meters in front of the volunteers.

This can't blame them, the archer is a professional doorway, weaker than the cavalry, if you want to be accurate, you need to practice all year round, the government will die by itself, and the archers are such a big consumer of money and food, how can they be willing to train. Nowadays, most archers give their bows and arrows to the assembled family members, and if they can shoot the bow and arrow, they can achieve their goal, and whether they can shoot or not is not considered.

This is the consequence of civilian officials leading troops, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while? If it doesn't exist, the civilian officials have long since abolished the soldiers.

Chen Zijian said with a solemn face, "Three-stage shooting, start." ”

Li Shi stepped forward to command, the five corps were assembled, the other corps commanders were mainly him, and Chen Zijian gave orders, and he conveyed them.

"Shoot!"

After the platoon commander assembled, the Minnie gun was reloaded, heard the command, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang!"

A puff of gunpowder smoke came out of the muzzle, the wind did not blow away, dozens of people in front of the charging officers and soldiers were unlucky, they were hit by bullets, the officers and soldiers wore cotton armor for Mini bullets, the defense was insufficient, after being shot by Mini, looking at the bloody hole, let out a miserable cry, and fell to the ground.

The people in front fell to the ground, but the momentum of the charge did not weaken, and the officers and soldiers who fell to the ground were trampled under their feet, becoming stepping stones and drowning the crowd.

After the first row was fired, Li Shi issued the password in an orderly manner.

The musketeers reloaded, fired, reloaded, and fired in a loop......

"Bang bang bang!"

The gunfire continued to ring.

The smell of gunsmoke on the battlefield is getting stronger and stronger.

Just as the sixth shot was fired, something unexpected happened, and the charging imperial army dropped their weapons, pulled their legs and ran, fleeing back faster than they had charged.

Unexpectedly, the corners of Chen Zijian's mouth twitched, and the charge paid attention to the word "brave", and the guy on the opposite side rushed up to fight hand-to-hand with the volunteers, but unfortunately the two hundred and fifty mini guns on the side of the volunteers fired continuously, giving the enemy a blow to the head, seeing the tragedy of rushing up to death, the people who followed the charge were frightened, and there was no firm belief in letting them have the courage to send them to death, which was unrealistic, and the result was that after approaching the volunteers fifty meters, the court army that came over was scared away. Don't expect a makeshift army to have the courage to fight to the death.

Chen Zijian: "Stop what to do, continue shooting." ”

Since you want to beat the opponent's courage down, then don't stop, Li Xian hurriedly commanded the platoon commander to shoot, and soon, more than 100 corpses were left on the way to charge.

A charge ended in such a tiger, the volunteers were thousands, and they caught an officer and soldier who was not dead and was a small leader, and when they arrived in front of Chen Zijian, they didn't care about the wound left by the Minnie bullet in their thighs, and they knelt on the ground trembling and begging for mercy. There is no way, the injury may be fatal, and there is still a chance to live, and now that he has been arrested here, the anti-thief leader sees himself unpleasantly, and no one will avenge him with a knife.

Chen Zijian: "Tell me, where are you from?" ”

Soon, the guy in front of him endured the pain and told what he knew, and Chen Zijian knew that the so-called army in front of him consisted of miscellaneous soldiers from all over Guangdong Province who had temporarily made up the block, local gentry, Haoqiang, and landlords, as well as young and strong people who were forcibly recruited by the local government, as well as a small number of military households.

The combat effectiveness and combat determination of such a temporary ragtag army can be imagined, regardless of strength or ideology, it is like tofu scum, and to put it bluntly, except for the large number of people, any other aspect is the five scum of war.

At this time, Li Hu came over and said excitedly, "Chief, the Hongyi cannon is ready." ”

Chen Zijian: "Hehe. ”

Li Hu was sweating, what does the chief mean, hehe?

Chen Zijian: "Send this guy for treatment." ”

Although the person in front of him is an enemy, and now he has become a prisoner, there is no need to kill all the Chinese people, but he was hit by a Minnie bullet, and one leg must be crippled, but he can pick up a life on the scene, he is already lucky, dissatisfied? There are a lot of corpses in front of them, and those who are called dead are aggrieved.

Chen Zijian: "Open the cannon and bombard the enemy's morale for me." ”

Li Hu received the order to pass it over, and soon, one hundred and ten Hongyi cannons roared, and the Hongyi cannons could hit the enemy camp at the farthest, and there were no warriors under the cannonballs, even if they were wearing strong defensive armor, they would only be separated by the cannonballs.

The imperial army sent 5,000 people to charge into battle, but I didn't expect that in less than half a pillar of incense, it was defeated and retreated, and then the shells attacked, which was going to be fatal, I didn't expect that the anti-thieves had artillery, or they could shell artillery a few miles away, and the civilian officials hiding behind the army also felt the danger, and the shells would not think that you were a civilian official, so they would avoid you.

In the second round of artillery firing, Chen Zijian saw that the army in front of him was still neat, and began to collapse, most of the soldiers dropped their weapons and fled in the opposite direction, and there were still people carrying various banners here, which were thrown on the ground at will.

Before the official start of the battle, it was bombarded twice by the Hongyi artillery, and tens of thousands of people on the opposite side were defeated. What is the situation! Chen Zijian is full of question marks? Even if you are defeated, you should fight a few times before you are defeated, okay, now the anticlimactic ones are fleeing, now it's not a small number of people who are fleeing, it's the entire army of tens of thousands of people fleeing, what is this!

Chen Zijian also guessed why the Northeast Imperial Court sent millions of people, but they were still driven ducks by the Tartars, isn't this scene in front of him a side example?

As for whether it will be the tactics of civilian officials, using the illusion of defeat and retreat to lure the volunteers into being fooled, and go to a certain ambush site to eliminate the volunteers, uh, then it will look good for civilian officials, those who lose their armor in front of them can't wait to have two more legs to escape, if the imperial court has a strategy in the middle of the battle, and the decisive victory is won by the capable ministers thousands of miles away, as for being attacked by Li Zicheng Beiping!

The scene in front of him was not a fake defeat, but a real escape from the artillery that had completely destroyed the morale.

Chen Zijian thought that the other party would escape, so don't expect to resist, deserters are the most suitable for capturing prisoners.

"Let the brothers charge, catch a prisoner for a tael of silver, and be careful to be wounded and mutilated."

If a prisoner is caught, the captive has to give Chen Zijian a free year of work in order to be free, Chen Zijian must have earned it, and the volunteers can have one or two silver for catching a prisoner, so they will definitely not suffer.

After hearing the order, his eyes were red and he looked at it, and then rushed up according to the platoon, squad level. The credit for capturing the captives may not be great, but the silver is real.