"Lonely is Li Huabao! Li Erman, the man in your mouth! Your fame and wealth are all in the lonely body! If you have the guts, take it! ”

In the open space between the business area and the Qing army front, Li Huabao was on a white horse and a red robe, with a golden crown in his hair, and he rode in the dust. Behind him, dozens of cavalry guards, holding his recognition flag and military flag in their hands, followed closely. The horse is a heavenly steed of the same color, with bright hair, tall physique, and a distinct saddle and chewing ring, and even those metal ornaments, which also shine with lovely light in the setting sun, must have been made of gold. People are strong men, although in the eyes of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, these people's riding skills are average, at most they can complete basic actions such as controlling horses, driving, and avoiding obstacles on the battlefield, but there is one advantage, that is, the formation is guaranteed to be excellent! From just coming out of the battle to galloping back and forth for a few laps, the formation is still compact and not scattered. At this point, even the Eight Banners Manchuria, which has always been based on the art of riding and archery, and fighting on horses is also sighing.

Dozens of horsemen were scattered on the battlefield with corpses and broken vehicles, burning military flags, and scattered weapons, pretending to be full of hatred.

More than a hundred steps beside him was the Qing army's Green Flag Soldier Brigade array. Tens of thousands of people stood here. The crowd was in a commotion, but no one dared to step forward.

The soldiers and civilians defending the city in the trade area were excited by Li Huabao's shouts. Some people shouted along with Li Huabao's rhythm, and gradually, the military, civilian, civilian, officials, and businessmen in the city shouted loudly, "You and other fame and wealth are all here, if you have the guts, just come and take it!" ”

The dozens of gentry who had never moved out of the city, listening to Li Huabao's shouts outside the city, couldn't help but twist their beards and enjoy themselves, and from Li Huabao's very arrogant self-title, they got the information they wanted. Stay in the business zone and advance and retreat with Li Huabao, they bet right! From then on, he can claim to be "the same as the second son to overcome the difficulties in the dangerous city of Shanghai". With this karma of spending time together in the smoke of artillery fire, they can do a lot of things, and they can do a lot through this, just like the mother delivers nutrients to the fetus through the umbilical cord and promotes blood circulation, to complete their transformation of Li Huabao, the future lord who is most likely to inherit the throne in the Hongwu army, so that he meets the standards of the Lord of Sainthood in their minds.

According to the patriarchal system and inheritance system, Li Huabao is the eldest son born to Li Shouhan's main wife, Yan Mei'er. Although it is ranked second, it is a sister-in-law after all. And the eldest son Li Huayu has been killed, so Li Huabao is a veritable eldest son. Whether it is a successor or a long-term candidate, Li Huabao is a well-deserved candidate.

What is lacking is military merit.

Therefore, these officials, gentry and businessmen who stayed in the Shanghai trade zone and never fled had to work together to help Li Huabao defend the trade zone. First, for his own net worth, and secondly, for Li Huabao to add a strong stroke to the Li family's merit book. They were all well-read people who knew how much profit could be gained by raising a king. Needless to say, the distant Lü Buwei, the closer Yuan Taizu Temujin, and the Banjuni Lake swore that whoever went through that difficult time with him, which one was not the founding father of the Great Yuan Dynasty? The subordinates of the Zhu family's father and son, not to mention. It's his Li family, the various families who followed Li Shouhan all the way from the garrison mansion, which one didn't jump from a dumpling in a remote place to a wealthy family? have become characters who turn the clouds and rain and stir up the storm. There are so many examples of our ancestors, they can, why can't we?!

"Prepare the firecrackers! When Li Ermanzi passes in front of us again, you will fire one hundred and ten firearms together! "In the ranks of the Qing army, there are finally people who can't hold back. The chief soldier Zhao Shouzhen called the leader of his own soldiers and asked him to arrange it.

Under the cover of the crowd and the flag, the two hundred firecrackers under his command hurriedly packed the firecrackers with the medicine, waiting for Li Huabao to gallop past again.

"Move forward!"

"Fire!"

Seeing Li Huabao's recognition of the flag from far and near, Zhao Shouzhen couldn't help but laugh wildly, he roared, and ordered his soldiers to come up from the back of the queue and fire at Li Huabao.

Suddenly, bursts of fire rang out in the ranks of the Qing army.

This sudden firearm shot startled both the Qing army and the Hongwu army. There was a commotion in the ranks of the Qing army, some of them taking a few steps forward, preparing to attack, while others retreated.

"Damn! Which bastard king eight lambs ordered the firecracker?! "In the middle of the Chinese army's main formation, the great general Le Ke Dehun was also jumped. He wasn't worried about anything else, he was just worried about how he would face the Hongwu Army's crazy counterattack and retaliation once Li Huabao was hit by the firecracker?

The defenders in the trade zone all fell down violently. The eldest young marshal Li Huayu fought with the Qing army and was shot and died, if the second young marshal Li Huabao is also unfortunate today, then how should we treat the main bus and explain to the people of the world?

However, when the sound of the fire stopped, people were surprised to find that Li Huabao was unharmed. In order to announce to the people on both sides of the enemy, he snatched the military flag from the hand of the flag bearer behind him, swayed it from side to side in his hand, and shouted loudly in his mouth.

"The second young marshal should be the mandate of heaven, and the gods will bless you!"

"The Hongwu army responds to the heavens, and the gods bless!"

"Lord Hong Fu Qi Tian!"

The soldiers and civilians in the city have brains to react quickly, and when they shout out new slogans, the whole city will cheer. For a time, the morale of the military and civilians in the trade zone reached an unprecedented height.

On the contrary, the morale of the Qing army was extremely low. Originally! When people beat us, someone will always fall down at the place where the fire rings. But we have gathered 200 firecrackers here, and not a single projectile has touched the placket of the second son of Li!

"The Southern Barbarian merchants all say that Li Shouhan is the person chosen by the Emperor of Heaven, so isn't that the true Dragon Son of Heaven? His son is naturally also in the Heavenly Stars and the Nether Realm, how can this hurt him? Gradually, some people in the ranks of the Qing army began to whisper.

Yesterday there was a big battle, and the Qing army was defeated. Luck Dehun used the Eight Banners of soldiers and horses to supervise the Huaibei armies, and the Huaibei armies to contain the Huainan Jiangnan troops. It was not easy to gather the defeated army. Fortunately, Li Huabao was determined to defend the city, and did not release troops and horses to pursue, otherwise, Luck Dehun's face would be lost.

As soon as he came out of battle today, Luck Dehun didn't say a word, and first tied all the hundreds of officers at all levels in various towns and battalions of the Green Banner soldiers who had been defeated yesterday behind their horses, and ordered the cavalry to gallop on horseback, dragging them into a blur of flesh and blood, so that their screams and moans resounded in front of the entire Qing army array. Let everyone be able to hear the screams from high to low, and gradually disappear.

After that, more than 2,000 deserters who were the first to retreat were pulled out, and dozens or hundreds of them were distributed to each battalion and town, and they were beheaded in front of their own ranks, and their heads were picked up with the tips of spears, and they patrolled back and forth in the array, so that everyone could see them.

"This is the end of running away and cowering!"

On the one hand, the glory and wealth of the gold and silver wealth that can be obtained by desperately moving forward, and on the other hand, the big swords and sharp axes after escaping, screaming and groaning, and even the family members were thrown into the military prostitute camp, and the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Green Flag began to turn red.

"This king has also fought with this group of Nanban in Liaodong! It is a well-known model brigade of the Beijing camp in the former Ming army! It's also a soldier from the Nanban line! However, this king told you to wait! This king has won against him! Yue Le also appeared in front of the army to cheer up the soldiers.

"Spread out! The more spread out the better! The Nanban's artillery guns won't be able to hit you! ”

"Rush up one by one! Don't be too far apart! Don't give Nanban time to reload the gunpowder! ”

"The sword and shield men are in front, and the pikemen are behind! The sword and shield soldiers rushed into the trench to fight hand-to-hand with the southern barbarians, and this group of barbarians knew that the king knew that the firearms were sharp and the stabbing was fierce! However, it's all up to the battle! The trenches are so narrow that they can't stand in formation! Rush into the trenches, and you'll see the mountains of gold and silver in the trade area! ”

Yue Le kept roaring loudly, and poured out the experience of fighting with the model brigade and the experience of the Qing army in the defense of Tashan, and told the officers of the Green Flag Soldiers.

Soon, a squiggly line of attack appeared in front of the trade area.

And Yue Le himself was once again sent to the rear team by Luck Dehun to be on battlefield alert.

On the way from the front to his own formation, Yue Le heard a tsunami-like shouting sound from behind him. The rumbling of cannons, the dense firecrackers mixed with the explosion of grenades, the sound of cursing, the cheers of rushing into the trenches, the sound of swords and guns repeatedly fighting in the trenches.

"Humph! The general is also stingy! It was obviously our master's idea, but he asked the master to go back and drink the northwest wind in the back! Bah! A few of them complained angrily, they saw that the Qing army opened an extremely wide and sparse front according to the tactical actions proposed by Yue Le, and rushed towards the trade area, and made the artillery fire that the Hongwu army was proud of instantly lose its effectiveness. Seeing that the Qing army had already started hand-to-hand combat with the Hongwu army in the trenches, and people drank wine in big bowls and ate meat in large bowls, and divided gold and silver in large scales, but they had to accompany their masters to the rear to suppress their positions and serve as battlefield guards, so they were naturally full of complaints.

"If you want to be full of nonsense, be careful of this king's family law!" Although Yue Le is not very old, he has strict family rules and military discipline under his rule, and since he said this, everyone has to walk forward stupidly. Don't dare to advance the words anymore.

However, his ears were tilted up to listen to the movement on the battlefield faintly heard in the distance.

Bursts of thunderous cheers rang out, "Attack!" Attacked! ”

"This must be the first trench to be taken down." People were thinking to themselves right away.

"Take! Take it down! After another burst of shouts and the clash of knives and guns, another cheerful shout came.

"The business district is really extraordinary. In the end, it was built by Grandpa Li Guo. Returning to his flag array, Yue Le carefully observed the progress on the battlefield in the distance with the help of the telescope.

After several trenches were successively conquered by the Qing soldiers who were good at fighting alone, taking advantage of the narrow terrain, the strikers had already pounced under the wall, some were waiting for the follow-up people to move the ladder, and some were slashing and digging the wall with their knives and axes, trying to cut a path to climb up. There were also people who carried wooden planks and deer barges from the trenches in one place, threw straw bags on them, and planned to use them to climb the wall.

The perforations on the wall, the bunkers and ditches under the wall, spraying projectiles outward, and on the city wall, from time to time, bombardiers threw grenades into crowded places, so that the Qing soldiers who were still cheering and running instantly turned into dead people and wounded soldiers holding their wounds and crying.

"Damn! These dogs! Go crazy! From time to time, some people were stabbed by the Qing soldiers with knives and guns, and fell down from the wall with a scream, and in the blink of an eye, they were surrounded and devoured by the Qing army.

"What are we going to do! Do you want to go back and hold the barricades?! Rely on the fortifications in the city to clean them up?! ”

"Retreat to the barricades, but this group of dog thieves has come in, and we will be even more troubled!"

"Let's grit our teeth and hold on first! If the second young marshal doesn't give an order, let's withdraw it without authorization, which is also the crime of killing the head! ”

Several battalion officers and sentry officers were a little flustered in the face of the Qing soldiers who were attacking frantically like a tide, and kept waving their waist knives in their hands, slashing and stabbing.

"Let's hold on first! Anyway, I have to wait until the eldest lady has a letter from her! ”

According to the operational deployment, the trade zone must firmly attract the Qing army's soldiers and horses on land, and it is necessary to wait until Li Huamei has eliminated the Qing army's naval division and returned to the division before counterattacking.

"! Pour it in! Several generals who were incorporated from the pole into the Ming army, and turned into the Qing army, commanded the flag in one hand, raised the knife in the other, and led a group of fierce henchmen to swoop towards the wall.

"Little ones! Keep it up! A lot of silver, the beautiful little lady is right in front of you! Kill! ”

The morale of the Hongwu army here is exhausted, but the strength of the Qing army over there has come up. Today, since the beginning of the war, they have given full play to their superiority in strength and quality of soldiers (good at fighting alone), and have succeeded one after another, so that they have been born forward, and they are rewarded with gold and silver when they are born, and they will die if they retreat, not only will they die without a place to be buried, but also the red-eyed Qing army that has been stimulated by the huge contrast of their families and relatives is even more energetic.

"Master General! Will the master! This group of southern barbarians is really too fierce! No matter how we attack, the people on the wall fall down and come up in rows, and our brothers just can't attack it!"

"Captain! These braided soldiers are all red-eyed mad dogs! How can we shoot with guns and bayonets, we are just surrounding a hard attack, and we refuse to take a step back!"

Mid-level officers on both sides complained to their superiors, often with a slap in the face or a kick in the face, "Don't talk nonsense!" Less verbose! Go up to Lao Tzu! ”

Finally, the Qing army outside the wall really couldn't hold back. Under the double pressure of the temptation of huge wealth and tragic casualties, some means that were originally reluctant to be taken out also had to be taken out.

"Light the torch! Cast it for Lao Tzu! Set! ”

"Set fire! Burn! Burn these Southern Barbarians! ”

Outside the outer wall were broken wooden planks, ladders, and various offensive equipment, and the Qing soldiers greeted them with swords and axes, and soon turned these into piles of firewood, staining the broken military flags with grease and wrapping them in firewood, which were ready-made torches.

"Give us firewood and pile it in the corner! Set it on fire! ”

The hill-like firewood piles were carried back and forth by the Qing soldiers against the projectiles and cannons on the wall, and people were constantly hit by flying projectiles and fell to the ground. Bundles of firewood were piled up in the corners, torches were thrown up, green smoke rose, and flames flickered. There were constant Qing soldiers throwing firewood onto the fire, and even those with long arms threw torches over the wall.

"Burn! Burn it for Lao Tzu! Not only the walls were burned, but the houses inside were also burned by Lao Tzu! Anyway, it's not Lao Tzu now, and it's not distressing to burn Lao Tzu! ”

This fire has a division: in an instant, there is a crackle, the flames fly, vigorously, and sparks. But in the middle of the air, the fire crows were flying; The mountains are full of fire, and the fire horses are galloping. Both red rats, right against fire dragons. Both red rats spew flames, and thousands of miles are red; Spit smoke on the fire dragon, black in every way. The train was rolled out, and the fire gourd was spread. The fire flag shook the sunset, and the fire rod stirred the ground. What do you say Ning Qi whips the cow, and the victory is as strong as Zhou Lang Chibi.

After a while, several walls showed signs of collapse, and the green flag soldiers outside the wall were even more arrogant, shouting, booming, booming, and knocking down the wall several sections, revealing a gap dozens of feet long!

"Kill!"

"Kill it!" Thousands of Qing soldiers did not wait for the order of the commander, but shouted in unison and pounced forward.

Seeing this scene, the officers and soldiers of Hongwu in the city retreated one after another.

For a while, the situation was precarious!

"Lao Tzu is Li Huabao! Follow Lao Tzu! ”

On the streets of the city, someone shouted like a thunderstorm, while recognizing the flag, it was Li Huabao's face was pale, his face was murderous, and he was holding a long knife in his hand, but it was an iron steel knife made in the style of the Yetai knife.

"Don't think that there is only Li Huayu in my family, now Li Huabao is here!"

The hundreds of guards behind him were all orphans he took in from the Miao Yaoxi Cave tribe when he was in Guangxi, and they were selected to be strong, although they were thin and small, they had a strong physique, and they walked through mountains and mountains as if they were walking on the ground. What's even more good is that most of these people have been instructed by Daoist Liu Guidan to make a few martial arts. In terms of individual fighting skills, Li Huabao's guard battalion should be the highest average in the entire Hongwu military system.

"Li Huabao is here! Follow Lao Tzu! ”

These hundreds of guards roared in unison, and the momentum was even more shocking.

With a knife in hand, Li Huabao cut an escaped Hongwu soldier into two sections. "Lao Tzu didn't run away. You run away! ”

"The second brother has personally gone into battle!"

"The second brother has personally gone into battle!"

On the streets, many junior and middle-ranking officers cheered loudly, turned their heads and killed the way they came.

"Damn! The second brother's life is much more expensive than ours, he is in battle, we are afraid of a bird! ”

These people are all orphans adopted by Yan Meier over the years, and there are all ethnic groups in all parts of the country, but they all grew up under the care of Yan Mei'er, and they have no worries about food and clothing. Now he is an officer in the Hongwu Army, settling down in various parts of Nanzhong, marrying a wife and having children. Although there are superiors and subordinates in the army according to military orders, in private, they all call Li Huabao the second brother. Because, they are all regarded as the adopted sons of Yan Meier.

"it! If the second brother makes a mistake, let's go back and don't talk about the military law, just Ah Niang's pass, we will have no face! ”

"That's right! When the time comes, A-Niang will say, what about your second brother? We can't be ashamed to pee and drown ourselves?! ”

"Damn! Damn the bird upwards, immortal for thousands of years! Brothers, follow Lao Tzu! ”

"That's right! Get these short-tailed dogs out of the way! ”

In an instant, the retreating crowd of the Hongwu army became the spearhead of the counterattack.

At the back of the ranks of officers and soldiers, there were groups of young men in disheveled uniforms, with a variety of weapons in their hands, some with armor and some without armor. However, as a sign of identification between friend and foe, each person's left arm was written in yellow silk with two large characters in cinnabar, "Righteous and brave!" ”

This is a team of merchants who fled in the Shanghai Trade Zone, the gentry who belonged to them, and the family members, slaves, and children of the officials.

They knew very well that no matter whether the Qing army came in or Li Huabao made any mistakes, they would not have a good life.

Shanghai Business Zone, Li Huabao, there can be no mistakes, no problems!

Those who want the same up and down, and those who are concentric on the left and right, win!

This is the origin of Li Huabao's white horse and red robe leading dozens of cavalry guards to fight in the Qing army array under the sunset.

Fang Cai's firearms did not hurt him at all, and it made the morale of the Hongwu army high.