The "--- Killing" thieves were approaching, and Zhu Cihong could even see the excited expressions on their faces.

"Those who capture the prince of the Ming Dynasty alive will be added to the third level of official rank, and the reward will be ten thousand taels of silver!" In the rear, Liu Zongmin shouted. Suddenly, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and tens of thousands of thieves rushed towards this side like crazy. Fortunately, Liu Zongmin didn't know that the queen was also here, otherwise he would definitely have to add 'capture the Queen of Daming alive' in the words.

The mountain road is not easy to walk, and with the weeds and trees, it is not easy to cross this mountain pass, and with the presence of female dependents, a slower one may be overtaken.

"Zhang Kuishan! You lead a thousand Donggong Imperial Forest Army to block the mountain pass, set fire to the mountain an hour later, and then follow! Because the thieves were chasing too close, Zhu Cihong decisively ordered.

"The Last General's Order!" Zhang Kuishan immediately led a thousand Donggong Imperial Forest Army to line up at the mountain pass, the fire rope on the musket was ignited, and all the muskets pointed at the thieves who rushed up.

"First column, fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!! Hundreds of lead bullets pierced the air and entered the crowd of thieves, bringing a blood-red color, and dozens of thieves who rushed to the front were beaten into a sieve, emptying the distance of more than ten meters in front.

"Second column, fire!"

"Third column, fire!"

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After several fires, more than 200 thieves fell, and immediately frightened the thieves behind, all the thieves stopped, looking at the brothers who died tragically on the ground and the muzzles of hundreds of black holes in the Ming army more than 100 meters away, looking frightened!

The mountain pass in front of Qixuan Mountain is not big, at most a charge of more than 100 people, Zhang Kuishan takes the East Palace Royal Forest Army to occupy a favorable terrain, and can put away more than 200 people at a time, and a thousand East Palace Royal Forest Army is divided into four columns, and they are launched one after another.

"The Ming army used firearms like this, no wonder Li Yan's 1,000 cavalry were all wiped out!" In the rear, Liu Zongmin's expression flickered, looking at the formation of the Ming army in front of him, he naturally saw the mystery at a glance with his vicious eyes.

Liu Zongmin wanted to meet the 'master' next to the Ming prince for a while, not only could he come up with such a clever way to use firearms, but also used a trick to trick him Liu Zongmin, he wanted to see if that 'master' really had three heads and six arms, and whether he could withstand a few knives from him! Liu Zongmin smiled coldly.

"General, the Ming army's firearms are sharp, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, so they can't rush through at all, and I ask the general to decide." A general came to inquire.

"Suspend the attack and order the soldiers to cut down trees around to make them into tree shields!"

Thousands of thieves suddenly scattered around to cut down trees, less than half an hour, dozens of two meters long, one meter high several shields were made, five thieves in a group, hiding behind the tree shields and slowly moving forward, after a while to the Ming army formation fifty meters.

"First column, fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!!!

Hundreds of lead bullets hit the tree shield, although the sawdust flew sideways, but almost no lead bullet could penetrate it, according to this, the thieves would soon be able to kill in front of the battle, and then all the muskets would become burning sticks, and only the white-bladed struggle of more than a thousand Donggong Imperial Forest Army could not stop a moment.

Zhang Kuishan was in a hurry, and suddenly his heart moved, although the tree shield blocked the upper body of the thief soldier, but the thief's calf was exposed, Zhang Kuishan was overjoyed, and decisively ordered: "The second column listens to the order and fires at the thief's calf!" ”

Bang! Bang! Bang!!!

Hundreds of lead bullets struck the thieves' exposed calves with a sharp sound that broke through the air.

"Ah---" The whole leg of the thief soldier was broken by the powerful force of the lead bullet, and he could no longer grasp the heavy tree shield, and the whole person fell to the ground and groaned miserably.

"Don't stop, keep going, the archers will follow the formation!"

Seeing that someone stopped moving, Liu Zongmin shouted with a cold face, and dozens of archers stepped forward to hide behind the tree shield and shoot arrows at the formation of the East Palace Imperial Forest Army.

Because it was too close, dozens of arrows all shot into the formation of the East Palace Imperial Forest Army, and suddenly among more than 20 guards of the East Palace Royal Forest Army, nearly ten of them were shot and killed on the spot, and the East Palace Royal Forest Army suffered heavy casualties for a while.

"Retreat!" Zhang Kuishan ordered with red eyes.

"Get on the thunderball!" More than a dozen Donggong Imperial Forest Soldiers rushed forward with lit thunderbolts in their arms, and when the thieves had just shot a wave of arrows, they bent their bows and arrows, and threw the thunderbolts in their hands behind the thief army's tree shield.

"Boom!"

The power of the thunderbolt was enormous, blasting all the tree shields into sawdust and killing hundreds of thieves, and destroying most of the tree shields.

"Line up! Advance! ”

"First column, fire!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!!! "The thieves lacked a tree shield to resist, and the Donggong Imperial Forest Army relined to block the mountain pass. Because the range of the musket was longer than that of the thief's bow and arrow, the musket cleared a distance of more than 100 meters again, and the two sides were at a standoff for a while.

Liu Zongmin's face turned blue with anger, and he regretted that he did not bring out the firearms left by the original Ming army in Bazhou City, otherwise he would have been able to organize his own men and horses to shoot at the Ming army, and he would not be so passive.

"Rush, the violator will be killed!" In less than half an hour, in the face of the powerful firearms of the Ming army, Liu Zongmin found that he had suffered nearly 2,000 casualties on his side, and immediately became angry, and killed a retreating subordinate with a knife.

In the face of Liu Zongmin's ruthlessness, retreating is also death, the thief army is angry, and once again he rushed forward, but it was still useless, after more than 100 thieves fell again, the thieves behind said nothing and refused to step forward, even if Liu Zongmin held a knife on their necks, they would even rather be hacked to death by Liu Zongmin, and would never have stepped forward to be beaten into a sieve.

In the end, it is a group of rabble, afraid of a lot of death, it is okay to fight a good fight, once the casualties reach a certain level, they can crush their courage, and the thieves in front of them are like this.

"Rubbish, a bunch of rubbish!" Liu Zongmin was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, his 20,000 troops were blocked by a thousand Ming troops, and it was difficult to move forward, shame. He swore that if he caught the Prince of Daming and the 'master' beside him, he would not stop if he tortured them for three days and three nights!

"General, the soldiers below have suffered heavy casualties, and they can't rush through at all, so let's think of another way." The general stubbornly persuaded.

"Herald! Suspend the attack, send 3,000 men and horses to scatter and cut wood, that is, use tree shields, and the general will also exterminate this Ming army and capture the Ming prince alive! Liu Zongmin said murderously.

Liu Zongmin's subordinates were ordered to suspend the attack, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, revealing joy, and finally did not have to go up again to die.

At the mountain pass, Zhang Kuishan looked at a group of thieves hundreds of meters away, sneered, and showed disdain, the thieves are thieves in the end, no matter how many there are, they are a rabble, and they are not the opponents of the Ming Imperial Forest Army at all. Zhang Kuishan had forgotten the fiasco of the Imperial Forest Army in the capital at this moment, and did not take Li Zicheng's thieves in his eyes at all.

Looking at the sun in the sky, Zhang Kuishan estimated that he had been blocking here for an hour, and he had completed His Royal Highness the Prince's orders and could retreat.

"General Ben won't play with you anymore." Zhang Kuishan stared at Liu Zongmin, who was hundreds of meters away, and raised a middle finger at him contemptuously, and then ordered the people around him: "An hour has come, come here, set fire to the mountain, and retreat with this general!" ”

Hundreds of meters away, Liu Zongmin saw Zhang Kuishan's movements, he was so angry that he wanted to order the army to attack desperately, but he saw that the Ming army on the opposite side was retreating in an orderly manner and retreating into the mountains.

Liu Zongmin smiled coldly: "Hahahaha, the Ming army must be afraid, want to run, give orders, attack quickly, exterminate this Ming army, and capture the Ming prince!" ”

Beating the water dog is the thief's specialty, seeing that the Ming army that was originally blocked in the mountain pass like a god of death actually began to escape, all the thieves were immediately overjoyed, and when they heard Liu Zongmin's order, they rushed up one by one fiercely and pursued the 'escaped' Ming army.

However, when the thieves rushed to the mountain pass through a distance of several hundred meters, they suddenly saw a burst of smoke rising from the weeds and jungles on the mountain and at the pass, and the flames came out, which turned into a fire in a short time.

"Mom! Blaze! Run! The thief at the front was closest to the fire, and after screaming, he turned and fled for fear of being burned by the fire.

Liu Zongmin looked at the army that was rapidly retreating like a tide, as well as the fire all over the mountain, his face was blue and gloomy.

"Running into the mountains and daring to set fire, it's like digging your own grave, and you're not afraid of burning yourself to death!" Facing the fire all over the mountain, Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and said. Although he was angry in his heart, he wanted to capture the Ming prince alive and torture, but at this moment there was no other way, only to wait until the fire burned out naturally, and then he could re-send the army into the mountains to search for him, he only hoped that the Ming prince was not burned to death by the fire, so that he could be captured alive and tortured out of the evil anger in his heart!

"Come on, block the exits of various mountain roads nearby, in case the Ming army fishes in troubled waters and escapes from other places." Liu Zongmin suddenly thought that the Ming army's fire might just be to attract his attention, and it was possible to run out again from other nearby mountain passes, so he immediately ordered.

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