In the sound of firecrackers that continued to explode, the Han Shou ordered the pair of auspicious people from heaven to be sent to the back to be fed, "give more fresh meat every day...... After the first day of the first lunar month, the pair of white tigers can be placed in the Mazu temple in the city for the people in the city to watch and pay respects. ”

Someone brought this pair of white tigers and other rare beasts to the back garden to feed them, and Shouhan turned to Wang Dehua, whose face was cloudy and uncertain because of the swaying lights, and said: "Father-in-law, Xiao'er's move is my great tomorrow's son Hongfu, and the heavens have sent this pair of auspicious stars." Shaoqing bothered to ask his father-in-law to draw up a question book with Ben Bo, and ordered someone to send it to Beijing by speedboat, which was Ben Bo's New Year's gift to His Majesty the Emperor. When the father-in-law goes north, he can transport the pair of strange beasts to the capital together, which is no less than the grand event of someone offering a unicorn when Grandpa Cheng was alive. ”

"So good! This is a sign of my Ming Zhongxing! Wang Dehua, who was bent on becoming the second eunuch of the Three Treasures of the Ming Dynasty and was famous in history, heard that Shouhan wanted to play with him, presented this pair of white tigers, and at the same time reported the great victory of the barbarians in the distance, and suddenly felt a little happy.

The people at the banquet were excited in the tent, some simply chased the pair of white tigers to see the legendary beast, a symbol of wealth, and more people were enthusiastically discussing what the appearance of this divine beast meant to the lord and the Nanyue army.

Some people who were very close to Li Peilin began to observe words and expressions in the crowd and secretly connected with each other.

And Shouhan took Wang Bao, Li Peilin and Wang Dehua, who was followed by the dead beggar, back to his study, and he wanted to ask Zhang Ergou. How is the war going?

"You just have to say it. The father-in-law is the one who came to Nanzhong to announce the decree on behalf of the Son of Heaven, so he is naturally trustworthy. Our Nanyue Army, military and political affairs, must be honest with my father-in-law. ”

Seeing that Zhang Ergou was a little hesitant about the middle-aged fat man in front of him who was white and beardless and had a strange look, Shouhan opened his mouth to warn him.

"This general, our family is the eunuch in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and he was ordered to come to Hue to see Uncle Ning Yuan. I heard that you waited for you to go on an expedition to a foreign land under the command of the third prince of Ning Yuanbo and won another great victory, and my heart was also very happy. Although our family is a person who has been tortured, he has also killed enemies side by side with Ning Yuanbo. You can rest assured, our family will use the eunuch of the celebrant to seal the eunuch and the Qinchaguan defense to the imperial court, please award the White Tiger Army Flag of the Third Prince's Department! Awarded the post of deputy general of the Shenji Battalion of the third son! ”

"Yes! Lord! We lined up outside Barisal that day......"

The fleet sailed along the Mekna-Shahbazpur River, one of the five largest inland ports. The breadth of the river. The grandeur of the wharf is not much better than the wharves in Hue, Cam Ranh Bay and Guangzhou. However, there are no military facilities on the dock, and those wearing colorful headscarves are not ready for battle at all.

I saw dozens of big ships rushing in. The ship was full of eyebrows. Each with a sword and a gun. There were also so many pieces of artillery, and the people on the dock shouted that something was wrong and fled.

"Quick! Ashore! ”

"Hey!"

The officers of the Nanyue Army urged the Japanese volunteers to jump from their boats into the chest-high river. Rushing towards the shore.

In the face of the attack of the Japanese volunteers wielding their long knives like crazy tigers, the native soldiers on the dock who originally wanted to resist suddenly scattered.

This is due to two aspects, one is that these native soldiers themselves have poor combat effectiveness and were caught off guard, and on the other hand, this group of Japanese volunteers can no longer be described as not afraid of death, but as a way to describe their behavior as wanting to die!

Anyone who sees a guy who is not afraid of your stabbing knives and guns and is struggling to pounce on you will have an instinctive sense of fear in their hearts, and when there is not just one such creature in front of them, but a large area, the soldiers of Barisal City collapse. They chose to turn around and flee into the city.

Zhang Ergou kicked and beat the men who recruited from Chittagong to unload the guns on the ship to the wharf, lined up the gun emplacements along the wharf, and used the rice, jute and other materials piled up on the wharf as building materials for the fortifications.

"Young marshal! After the artillery formation is completed, do you want the brothers of the sailor to release a guard post in the direction of the city to monitor the movement in the city? ”

The officers' construction had not yet landed, and a noise came from the direction of the city with the wind.

An army of thousands of men rushed out of the city of Barisal and headed straight for the docks.

"No, it's not coming!"

Looking at the thousands of people who were shouting all the way, from the formation and smoke and dust of their march, Li Huaxuan could see that the discipline and combat effectiveness of this army were very low, otherwise they would not have shouted so loudly during the march.

"Array! Get ready for the siege! ”

The officers began to gather their troops and formed themselves on the wide roads outside the docks.

It was still the position that the Nanyue Army was accustomed to, but with slight changes, the volunteers of the Wa Kingdom were placed in front as the main force of the first wave of hand-to-hand combat. And Li Huabao rode his horse to stand in front of the main formation, after the Fusang volunteers, and ordered the general to convey his orders loudly.

"The Third Highness has a will! In this battle, the war dead were compensated with 600 stones of good japonica rice! If there is a meritorious person before he dies in battle, he will be rewarded with a fine muslin cloth! Whoever cuts off the head of the enemy will be given a stone of rice for a head! I'll give you rice tickets after the war! You can mail it home! ”

"If the resistance here is fierce, after our army breaks the city, the Japanese soldiers can rest and camp in the city for three days and arrange their own activities! But don't loot the treasury! ”

The meaning is clear! As long as the opposing army fights fiercely and resists fiercely, then after we break through the city, we can grab it for three days and live happily for three days! These Fusang volunteers who came were all veterans, and many of them had the title of intermediate samurai, but the head of the family was defeated and could only become ronin. However, the ronin is the ronin, and these things in the army are still understood. Look at the appearance of the army on the other side, and you will know that the combat effectiveness will not be too strong, this battle. Lao Tzu has won!

Qing Bingwei stood in the middle of the queue, holding the three guns that had followed him from north to south, but there were blazing flames in his eyes in the midst of nervousness, and in the eyes of him and his colleagues, it was not a person who rushed towards him. Rather, it was bags of rice and horses of fine cotton.

"Uncle!" A little soldier next to him who had just fluffed his lips was a little nervous, and his voice trembled, "If I ascend to heaven and become a god, you remember that the six hundred stone bereavement shirt that His Royal Highness and the Third Highness asked me to send home." My wife and several younger siblings are waiting for my pension! My mother said that when I went out. Let me give my family filial piety with a pension! ”

"Don't be ambitious! Destroy our own prestige! Don't let the lord of the kingdom listen to him and beat your military stick! Have you ever seen the artillery fire of the old man of the Ming Kingdom when he attacked Kumamoto Castle, and a large part of the city wall collapsed as soon as the cannon passed! Are these people stronger than the walls of Kumamoto Castle? ”

An old fritter standing next to the little soldier was a survivor of the Battle of Kumamoto Castle that day, and from his mouth, the Seibei team knew a lot of things. Of course. There are also a lot of nonsense.

As if to confirm the words of this old fritter. The cannon fodder team, oh no, it was the artillery that was placed behind the Japanese volunteer team began to speak.

Eight doors of the big Buddha machine. Sixteen six-pounder guns and eight eight-pounder guns fired thirty-two shells at the defenders of the city of Barisal, who were hastily lined up.

Suddenly, like stones thrown into a paddy field, the thirty-two cannonballs splashed countless water in the dense crowd, but the splash was made of flesh and bones.

A shout could be heard faintly from among the defenders, followed by the sound of countless people rushing.

"Good boy! Sure enough, it is a savage man in the wilderness! The end is amazing! ”

In the Nanyue Army, from Li Huaxuan to Zhang Ergou, and then to every soldier, they couldn't help but praise in their hearts!

If you change to another army, this round of artillery fire will pass, even if it does not collapse, there will be a little chaos.

Praise is praise, but Li Huaxuan is still a little nervous and ordered the artillery team, "Fire!" Give me a boom! ”

"Volunteers! Get ready to fight! ”

Seeing that the second round of artillery was discharged, the swarming defenders were beaten to flesh and blood, and the cannonballs bounced around in the dense crowd, penetrating and interrupting any object that blocked them, in the face of the huge kinetic energy, the defenders of Barisal City fell a large number of people and horses, but this round of artillery bombardment did not stop the momentum of their charge at all!

"Sure enough, it's a strong soldier!" Riding on the Arabian horse captured from Chittagong, Li Huaxuan carefully observed this team that could charge under artillery fire with the telescope in his hand, praising it in his mouth, but secretly thinking in his heart, the eldest brother's Dongfan soldiers faced the artillery fire of the Gulangyu Fort, it was nothing more than that, right?

But in the eyes of the Qingbei and others who were standing at the forefront of the team, the charging formation on the opposite side not only did not have anything commendable, but the more frightening it became, even if these devils were bent on looking for death, in order to get the 600 stone pension, but when they faced a group of almost crazy guys in front of them, the first thing to consider was whether this battle could be won. If you can't even go back to the Third Highness, then who are we looking for to go to the pension?!

"Gentlemen! Fight to the death today! Even if you die in the face of a strong enemy, you must keep the Third Highness! It doesn't matter if we're dead! Your Highness can't afford to lose the slightest! ”

Seibei shouted in a voice of desperation as he shouted through the ranks, and as he shouted, shouts of Kyushu, Honshu, Kanto, and Kansai accents rang out one after another.

"Gentlemen, you must fight to the death today! Keep Your Highness! ”

The shouts made these Fuso soldiers feel a lot more emboldened, and they picked up the weapons in their hands and prepared to fight to the death with the enemy on the opposite side, swearing to protect His Highness to the death (others can die!). It doesn't matter if you die 10,000! Your Highness must return to safety unharmed! Otherwise, who will go to collect those pensions after we die in battle? It doesn't matter if I die, it's a god who has ascended to heaven, as long as my family has a good life! ）

Once again, the shells landed and bounced in the ranks of the defenders, but the wave of the charge was still raging, unhindered by the constant number of people being hit and limbs smashed, and even became more frantic by casualties.

Gradually, the momentum of the charge got closer and closer, facing the enemy troops who kept shouting and shouting. Even the old fritter who crawled out of the pile of dead people under Kumamoto Castle was a little desperate, it seemed that he was destined to receive this pension this time, but he had to cut off a few enemy heads before ascending to heaven, and earn back a few horses of fine cotton cloth from the Celestial Empire for his wife and children!

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the miscellaneous footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Qing Bingwei couldn't help but hold the three guns in his hands tightly, and the white cloth wrapped around the barrels of the guns had already been soaked with sweat in his hands. He stretched out his fingers slightly, letting the sweat on his hands be blown by the wind. lest too much sweat make him unable to grip the barrel of the gun.

Gradually, the enemy approached. Finally, being able to see what these brave enemies looked like, the Fusang soldiers in the queue opened their eyes wide and tried hard to see these brave native soldiers who rushed over from the opposite side. "I want to remember what they looked like. lest you get the kingdom of heaven and you can't even remember the enemy. ”

But gradually. Seibei and the old fritter who had gone through the battle of Kumamoto Castle loomed, and there seemed to be something not quite right. Unlike the fierce enemies that I had encountered in the battle formations that I had remembered and experienced, what could I say about these people who rushed over from the other side. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a rabbit with a startled gun.

Qingbei and the veteran glanced at each other, and they both saw this doubt in each other's eyes.

"No, no, no!" The veteran shook his head and swung the wild sword in his hand vigorously, as if he wanted to cut off the gods and demons in his mind. "Never be deceived by the illusions created by the enemy!"

Three miles are different winds, and five miles are not customary. Not to mention in this land thousands of miles away from Japan? Maybe here in Bangladesh, the local natives are so panicked when they charge into battle to kill people and set fires? It's not that there is a legend that somewhere overseas, there is a daughter country, where the man is a woman, and the woman is a man. Men and women can be different, let alone an expression?!

A few thoughts flashed, and the person on the other side had already rushed to within thirty steps, "Ready!" The officers in the queue blew brass whistles one after another, and the sharp whistles echoed one after another in the ranks.

"Hah!"

The Qingbei guards stabbed their spears out, protruding their sharp fangs from the outermost part of the queue. More samurai pulled their swords out of their scabbards, and the sun danced on the tips of their swords in the warm winter sun.

The Iron Artillery Corps stood in the middle of the line, aimed the guns at the troops who were rushing in the distance, and only waited for the command of the officers in the ranks to pull the trigger.

All of them stared intently at the Bengali soldiers who were getting closer and closer. The Qingbei who stood in front of the iron gunners and half-crouched with his body squatted, stared at the group of warriors rushing in the distance with wide eyes, ready to hear the first round of fire in his ears, and then heard the commander's order to raise his gun and fight into the opposite formation, and had a cordial, warm and frank exchange with them with the spear in his hand.

"Fire!" A cold military order came from the back of his head, and Qing Bingwei instinctively lowered his head again, he knew that with this order, the iron artillery team behind him would not hesitate to pull the trigger towards the target in front of him, and then, a dense storm of projectiles would sweep over people's heads in a heat wave, and hit the target not far away.

Hundreds of muskets opened fire at the same time, dropping a dense rain of bullets into the crowd of Bengali native soldiers, who had only rudimentary armor on their bodies and no helmets on their heads, only turbans, and were immediately hit by the oncoming projectiles and burst their brains and broken tendons.

However, Rao was like this, and the fast team was like a flood, only a little stagnant, and the team behind was still surging wildly, pushing the people in front and running forward.

"It's different!" Hua Xuan jumped off the horse, took a desperate knife from his own soldier, pulled out half of it to look at the blade, and then put it away again, hung the knife on the saddle, and the telescope in his hand was still holding high and staring at the Bengali soldier in front of him.

Similarly, during the interval between the firing of the firearms, Kiyobei and the others also observed the opposite team through the smoke. Well? Kiyobei and the old fritter nicknamed Gorro braggart appeared almost at the same time, and something was abnormal! Why did most of these hot-blooded warriors who rushed to the forefront not carry weapons? And some people are still struggling to throw away the tattered armor on their bodies? How many other people may have rushed too hard, too fast, with snot and tears on their faces? Many people have lost their shoes on their feet? It's not scientific to think about it!

Whether it's science or not, at this life-and-death juncture, there is no room for it, "Pikemen!" Advance! With the sound of the officers' orders, the Qing Guards took their men and opened a long front with a dozen captains of spearmen on the left and rushed towards these strange warriors on the opposite side!

"Come on! Today is the day I ascend to heaven and become a god! However, before ascending to heaven, I will also send you to see the Buddha! Gritting his teeth, the Qingbei held the three guns in his hands straight, and the muscles on his arms were raised due to excessive force, and the whole person rushed straight over like a spear.

However, an even more peculiar scene appeared before their eyes!

When the spears of the Qing guards were only a step or two away from the nearest people, these warriors who were still running wildly just now suddenly had a big change of one hundred and eighty degrees, and one by one they lowered their bodies by half and fell straight to the ground.

And so tragedy was born!

The Bengali soldiers who rushed in front suddenly knelt down, but the people behind were still running wildly, and they couldn't close the momentum for a while, and a very strict stampede appeared.

Hundreds of pairs of large feet trampled on the body of the man who fell to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they trampled him to pulp.

And the spears of the Qing guards also pierced into the bodies of dozens of warriors.

The situation is getting more and more chaotic! (To be continued......)

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