"Attack!"

"Gentlemen! For the sake of white rice for our children and grandchildren, we must fight bravely today! ”

"Kyushu soldiers are the first in the world! Kumamoto soldiers are the first in Kyushu! Today's military exploits must belong to our Kumahon! ”

"If you want a field, you are not afraid of fat meat, follow me!"

With the order for Wu Liuqi to attack, there was immediately a wave of noise in the camp of the mercenaries of the Japanese State. Nagoya accents, Kumamoto accents, Hiroshima accents, Osaka accents, and almost all over Japan, from Kyushu to Kanto and Kansai, are all gathered and intertwined here, and the noise makes the sun in the sky dim.

No way, the temptation of profit is huge! Japan, with its many mountains and few fields, has always been plagued by the contradiction between population and arable land resources. Otherwise, it would not have been after being opened by the Western colonizers with the same strong ships and cannons, and the Perries shook their heads and left. It's not these Western gentlemen in tuxedos who occasionally find out in their conscience, it's really because they can't find someone in Japan who they can plunder!

The scarcity of resources and the crowding of living space have made the Japanese nation have an almost pathological pursuit of land and resources, from the Battle of Shirae Estuary to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, each time it was to plunder the resources and land of the mainland.

Now, with the support of the powerful force of the Nanyue Army, relying on their own military exploits, they can obtain a fertile land for themselves and their descendants, and think about the land area that year's harvest is almost comparable to that of the daimyo, these Japanese mercenaries are immediately adrenaline secreted, their eyes are red, they clench the swords and guns in their hands, and they are eager to try it one by one.

Most of these mercenaries from the bankrupt samurai and ronin classes also camped at the daimyo in their respective locations when they came to recruit mercenaries, otherwise. It was impossible to join the volunteer corps that provided sufficient and reliable soldiers for the recruitment of mercenaries for the Southern Yue Army, so he had to join this organization to serve as cattle and horses for the local daimyos, maintain law and order, manage the city, and clean the streets. It was possible to be sent by the daimyo when the Ming lord who came from Nanzhong recruited troops. Otherwise, don't even think about it!

In order to be able to join the volunteer preparation, some people even used their pensions as collateral and borrowed money from businessmen to bribe officials at all levels. In order to be able to go to that distant overseas to fight for a worry-free future for yourself and your family! When the officers at all levels announced in the camp that those who had made meritorious contributions could be treated the same as the officers and men of the Nanyue Army and have their own land on the Java Islands, this sudden sense of happiness made countless people cry.

But. Self-fame is only taken on the horse. Great Shogun (this is what the mercenaries of the Japanese Kingdom called Li Shouhan in private, and they thought that since the shoguns were all bowing down in front of this Li Guogong, it was a general who was even bigger than the general, what is not a great general?) With such deep kindness, if we don't behave well, how can we be worthy of ourselves and future generations. Worthy of the Great General and the Gunma-sama?

A trumpet sounded, and a group of Japanese mercenaries rushed out of the array with their swords and guns. Behind them were the firecrackers of the Nanyue Army.

A team of mercenaries is equipped with a class of musketers, and such a standard configuration is as many as hundreds.

A team of about forty or fifty mercenaries, twelve and one class of firecrackers, and nearly sixty or seventy people in a team. Three or four hundred teams of men and horses opened an extremely wide front along the blockade line, and pressed in the direction of the Yusupu Sultanate with a horizontal team waving their flags and shouting. Every mountain crosses the mountain, encounters the water and crosses the water, and sees the forest through the forest. During the march, he constantly waved flags and shouted, blew whistles, and banged on bangs. Make a great deal of noise.

Behind this wave of offensive, it is an elite reserve of nearly 10,000 people led by Wu Liuqi himself, as long as it is found that there is the main force of Yusupu somewhere in front, and the forward is entangled with it, the brigade in the rear will wave the army to press, and be sure to annihilate the main force of Yusupu in one fell swoop, at least, to beat his main force to the point of great injury, and have no strength to confront the Nanyue army head-on.

The two waves of offensive are like a huge comb grate, with hundreds of strikers in front of them with sharp and sharp comb teeth, and a powerful reserve behind them as powerful comb walls. Forced out the small group of rebels hiding in the depths of the dense forest, behind the rocks, like grate hair.

The Yusupu rebels, who were originally hiding behind the favorable terrain and were ready to use the terrain and trees and bamboo forests to attack the attacking Nanyue army, had already been overwhelmed by the offensive momentum of the Nanyue army that was forced like mountains and mountains.

It doesn't matter if one person runs away, the key is that this one person is like lighting a firecracker, and hundreds of cannonballs are exploding one after another. The people swarmed out of their hiding places and fled in the direction of Yusupu's royal city. Just abandon the position and expose your back in front of the Nanyue army.

"Si Shi Mai! Boss Mai! The Kyushu accent, who is known as the number one in the world of Kumamoto soldiers, roared loudly in a high-pitched and somewhat splitting tone, urging his men to charge.

"Military merit is ahead, white rice is ahead! Kill! ”

Hundreds of people shouted in unison, each with their swords and guns in their hands, and rushed straight into the ranks of the defeated soldiers.

One by one, the bad news was quickly passed from the front line to the royal city, and then the people who came to report it rushed into the city and said that they would not go out of anything!

The battle ahead can be described as a touch of collapse and extreme erosion for Yu Supu. Originally, his troops were far more than the thirty or forty thousand people commanded by Zheng Sen and Wu Liuqi, and he originally planned to concentrate his forces to take advantage of the favorable terrain of mountains, forests and trees, and set up an ambush to give Wu Liuqi a ruthless attack. However, he didn't want Wu Liuqi to do the opposite, apportioning the troops. There is no main direction of attack, but there are small knives everywhere that let people blood and cut human flesh. If you don't divide the forces evenly and fortify everywhere, he will take advantage of the loopholes. But how can the rebel soldiers under your Yusupu bully the common people and rob the infidels to make do, how can they compete with these elite soldiers and professional warriors?

The rabble faced hundreds of elite soldiers, and the difference in quality between the two sides was immediately revealed!

Under the leadership of the leader, waving a white flag, the miscellaneous servants in the army picked picks loaded with weapons, knives and guns, and came out of the hiding place. Looking for a wide place, the big thing shouted, "We are all good people, and we were coerced by Yusupu!" We surrender to the army! ”

There are also some who are self-assured of their strength, hiding in the bushes, their teeth creaking. "Damn Kafir, damn infidels!"

Seeing that the mercenaries of the Japanese Kingdom were getting closer and closer to the woods and grass where they were hiding, the leader of the rebels waved his hand violently, and the archers, who had already twisted their bowstrings tightly, shot at the mercenaries in front.

Unfortunately, although the arrows have been processed in various plant saps that seal the throat with blood, the bow power is insufficient, and the distance is slightly larger. Sparse arrows shoot out. Occasionally, a few landed in the attacking formation, but they could only shake their arrow feathers on the thin bamboo armor made of boiled bamboo strips, trying to drill inward and try to penetrate the gap. There were also a few Japanese mercenaries, I don't know if Amaterasu opened his eyes, and shot arrows that had been processed with blood to seal their throats with blood, such as their faces, arms, and calves. There was a burst of black gas on his face and near the middle arrow part, and he couldn't live anymore!

"Lift it down! Register your name. Pension is issued! The commander of the firecracker who was pressing the formation in the back didn't look back or look at the low voice and shouted, "Get out of the way, let's have a round!" You guys cover on both wings! After the fire is blown, you rush forward, cut off people's heads, and collect military merits! ”

A dozen musketeers lined up in a row. Half-crouching at the dense forest that threw arrows not far away, the fire guns were flat, and with the command of the first chief to fire, more than a dozen fire guns pulled the trigger in unison, and the dragon head fell, igniting the ignition powder in the medicine pool. The tremendous impetus created by the instantaneously expanding gas pushes the projectile out of the gun tube. As the white smoke rose, the small bush on the opposite side was beaten into a mess of branches and leaves, and the screams continued.

"Rush forward! Chop off people's heads! Captain A put away the firecracker, calmly cleaned the gun with a stick, and watched the mercenaries on both sides howl and pounce on the bush.

In the bushes, dozens of people also rushed out, holding up their knives and guns in their hands to fight those mercenaries in one place. For a moment, the scolding of Kumamoto's accent and the local Javanese language were mixed together, and the two groups of equally short figures were mixed together.

The sound of swords and guns, the dull sound of a sharp blade piercing through the armor and entering the body, the tragic pain of a person when he is on the verge of death**, and the strong fishy smell of the blood spurted out after being irradiated by the strong sun, these elements are all stimulating people's adrenaline secretion, making them have a more intense battle ** into this killing battlefield.

Seeing that the traitors had appeared here and fought against the official army, the Kumamoto soldiers on the left and right flanks immediately heard the wind and howled and rushed over to reinforce them. Moreover, more mercenaries rushed at him from a distance.

Under the frenzied attacks of the red-eyed mercenaries who were planning to exchange their heads for their land, this small group of rebels who had "excelled" in the rebellion on the island of Java by slaughtering civilians and was "outstanding" in the midst of the rebellion, and in the blink of an eye became corpses lying under the swords and guns.

Dozens of mercenaries bent down one after another, cutting off the heads of the rebels with the ribs they carried around their waists, and by the way, searching the corpses for any valuable gadgets. Guns and knives soaked in blood were picked up and handed in as trophies or kept for their own use.

When the military secretary counted the military exploits of each battalion and department one by one, and made a record of the number of beheadings of each person, the number of enemies killed and prisoners, and announced that the captured property belonged to the soldiers personally, and all the meritorious personnel would be rewarded according to the standards of the Nanyue Army, the morale of the mercenaries jumped to a new height.

"Junma, general, and the vanguard sent a battle report, starting from the attack at ten o'clock in the morning, and in only six hours of the attack, our army has killed 1,769 rebels under the Sultan of Yusupu, captured 3,027 prisoners, and more than 1,000 surrendered." Wang Jin, the commander of the Guards Battalion, who served as the commander of the reserve, is now assuming the role of Wu Liuqi's chief of staff.

In just six hours, he killed the enemy and captured five or six thousand people, which was enough to make Zheng Sen proud. His ironclad encirclement tactics have been initially tested.

"Tell the troops, don't be careless, the further you go, the closer you are to the traitor's lair, beware of the traitors setting up an ambush for our army!" Years of experience made Wu Liuqi dare not be careless. Especially this kind of situation where the initial battle went smoothly and in the blink of an eye it went deep into the enemy's territory for dozens of miles, and if it didn't work well, it was the enemy's arrogant tactics to lure you to light the enemy's rash advance, and then suddenly appear in an unexpected place!

"Yes! I will send the cavalry out at once. Go to Yang Zhen, Zou Rui, Li Qing, Wu Han, Ou Liang, Chen Diangui, Cai Yuan and others to spread the general's words, and tell them to be cautious! ”

These people are all backbone officers since Wu Liuqi started the army, and they are all old people who have fought in the war. In today's battle, each person supervised the division and supervised the battle of a different number of mercenaries, and the troops divided the routes. Wu Liuqi was also afraid that he would lose all the way, and the whole army would be shaken. The loss of those mercenaries is just a compensation for some food, rice and cloth, but if it is mixed into a brigade headquarters, it will be lost. I'm afraid it will affect the overall situation of the chaos!

Dozens of cavalry signal teams rode their horses in the direction where the commanders of several groups of men and horses recognized the flags, and ordered them to supervise their subordinates, be cautious, and not be careless!

"Fifth Uncle, have those capable officials of yours arrived?"

Zheng Sen is also quite self-aware, knowing that this kind of impromptu decision-making is not necessarily Wu Liuqi's opponent even if eight Zheng Sen are tied together. simply let Wu Liuqi show it, and he also gained a reputation for generosity. All he had to do was put the binoculars down. Picking up the teacup, he took a sip of hot tea and asked Zheng Zhibao about it.

According to Li Shouhan's intentions, Zheng Zhibao transferred hundreds of people from among the personnel of the Reclamation Bureau, all for the development of new areas. A veteran who is quite skilled in dealing with the natives. The system was organized in advance, and each team was a government, and these hundreds of capable officials were enough to turn the entire island of Java into a government system that was indistinguishable from the mainland. As long as Wu Liuqi advanced for dozens of miles, they would take more than 1,000 local Han and naturalized natives who had been trained under the city of Batavia for a long time, and drove into the area where the thieves were entrenched. Build a government system from village to county, so that those bandits have nowhere to hide.

However, all of this is based on Wu Liuqi's troops advancing under the royal city of Yusupu!

Sure enough, when the team continued to advance towards Yusupu's royal city for several miles, the situation in front of them changed again!

A dense and brief burst of gunfire came from a distance, but in a moment, a herald arrived from Ou Liang's subordinates, who were directly facing the direction of the Yusupu Sultan's royal city.

"My lord! Checkmate! We have an encounter with the main rebel army of Yusupu! General Ou was shot and hung with colors, and his subordinates ......"

"How much is the loss!?"

Wu Liuqi habitually twitched his hooked nose, which was also one of the reasons why he was called Wu Hook.

"More than 200 people under General Ou Liang were wounded, more than 40 were killed, and more than 300 Japanese soldiers and horses were killed, and the wounded have not been counted!"

"Order, the health camp will go up with Ben! The artillery team followed the sanitary battalion! ”

When Wu Liuqi heard this casualty figure, not only did he not feel panicked, but he smiled. Orders were loudly conveyed to the troops of the Chinese army, and the officers and soldiers under them were also happily packing up their horses and artillery and inspecting everything that should be used.

Like a torrent, Wu Liuqi led the health battalion, the guards battalion, the artillery battalion and the elite of 2,000 mercenaries to the location of the Ou Liang battalion.

"Da Mu, why is this guy so happy to learn that his subordinates were injured in an ambush and that he had lost a lot of soldiers and horses?" For Wu Liuqi, the members of Zheng Zhilong's family can be said to be inadequate. Although it is said that the battle of Xiamen has long passed, Wu Liuqi made a long-distance raid and copied their Tong'an nest, making the old and weak women and children of the entire family become prisoners of the Nanyue Army, but everyone gritted their teeth with hatred.

At this time, Wu Liuqi was not in front of him, and Zheng Zhibao naturally would not hide his likes and dislikes in front of his nephew.

"Fifth uncle, you are good at government affairs, so you are naturally a little unfamiliar with this military matter. If Uncle Hongkui is here, he will know the secret. "Zheng Sen deliberately sold a pass." Fifth uncle, nephew has been fighting in various parts of my south and central China for most of the past six months, dealing with rebels from all walks of life, and it can be regarded as a little trick from it. I am not afraid of a head-on duel between the rebels and thieves and our army, with the dignified formation of our Nanyue army, any army is just a group of clowns jumping off the beam in front of our army! The only thing to worry about is that the thieves and rebels are scattered, taking advantage of the mountainous terrain and the situation of deep forests and grasses to deal with our army and fall into a protracted battle. This is what our army is most worried about! When Brigade Commander Wu heard that the men and horses led by the Ou Liang battalion had encountered the Yusupu rebels, and there were quite a lot of losses, plus there was also the sound of gunfire, it should be concluded that it was the main elite of Yusupu. Otherwise, with the strength of the rebels of all stripes on the island of Java, no one would be able to inflict such a loss on our army with a small number of troops! ”

After listening to Zheng Sen's explanation, Zheng Zhibao also nodded with satisfaction, "My family has such a thousand-mile horse, why worry that the family business can't be continued?" ”

Forty miles away from the royal city of Yusupu, the two armies were facing each other nervously.

Although he is only a sultan on the island of Java, Yusupu's travel style and honor guard are not much better than Li Shouhan. Flags, umbrella fans. Needless to say, the various utensils held by the maid were carried by sixty-four people. There are also sixty-four sedan chair drivers in reserve, which are changed every five or six miles to ensure that the sedan chair is lifted quickly and steadily. (To be continued......)