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The dense firecracker projectiles suddenly became a nightmare for the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen.

Originally, I thought that these Nanzhong troops were just firearms, and they just caught us off guard, and frontal hand-to-hand combat may not be our opponent. During the period of confrontation, Liu Guoneng's subordinates dismounted more than 1,000 people in the pass compartment and lined up, densely several veterans with shields and broadswords in front, followed by hundreds of pikemen, and several layers of archers at the back of the crowd bent their bows and arrows to twist the bowstrings tightly, just waiting for the deputy chief soldier to give an order.

These people are all old thieves who have been wandering around since Liu Guoneng got into trouble, and they are extremely experienced in the battlefield. For the opposite side of the Nanzhong army, although they are quite envious of the Nanban armor and the weapons in their hands, but many ordinary soldiers do not think so, since the Shaanxi campaign in the past few years, the army with bright armor and well-equipped equipment has seen a lot, which one is not a touch of collapse or a peace? But Liu Guoneng, who was the leader, didn't dare to think like this. As a commander with strong armed forces, especially these old rogue leaders, looking at the wind is the first skill for everyone's survival. The so-called looking at the wind is to judge the combat effectiveness of an army from the morale and behavior of the army, and then compare it with your own army to see whether it can be provoked or not.

What made Liu Guoneng regret it in his heart was that the momentum of the Nanzhong Army in front of him, the murderous aura in the eyes of the soldiers, the indifference to the opponent, and the contempt for life and death were not the kind of army that crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood after a hundred battles.

The arrow flew out, and Liu Guoneng almost screamed.

But it's too late! Dense firebolt projectiles hit him like hail. Deng Shi knocked over the men at the forefront who were holding broadswords and shields in their hands.

Qi Jiguang commented on the firearm in his training experience: "The bird gun, unlike all kinds of firearms, is good for the cave armor, the shot can hit, and the bow and arrow are also good!" "The guns of the Southern Chinese Army are different from the bird guns made of wrought iron that the officials and soldiers in the mainland, the rogues, and even the thieves in Liaodong are used to, and the guns made of ductile iron can withstand greater pressure and use more charges, especially the gunpowder with copper oxide as an additive, which is even more powerful. Tested by brutal warfare, within tens of steps. Can pierce Kennu's double armor. At a distance of twenty paces, even if you put another layer of Nanzhong armor on top of the double armor, it will not help.

Not to mention these former rogues whose most people only have one cotton armor!

Bang bang bang A large stream of gunpowder smoke was released. The rebels immediately fell in large numbers.

The squatting firecracker in the front row finishes shooting with his comrades standing in the back. Quickly stand up and take the loaded gun from the hands of the comrades behind him, and at the same time pass the empty gun in his hand to the back, in the process. The musketeers in the third column raised their guns and stood on guard.

There was another volley between a few breaths, and the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen on the opposite side screamed again, and the person who was shot rolled to the ground in pain, letting out a heart-rending howl.

The first to be knocked over was the group of self-reliant sword and shield soldiers, some of whom had heavy shields in their hands, even iron shields, but what was the use? However, most of the shields they use are light wooden shields or leather shields, and when hit by a single blow, they will make a large hole, or simply shatter into several pieces, which will not provide protection at all.

And at this time, the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen came back to their senses a little, what kind of bird was that, and the shields held by the people in the front row didn't work at all?

Without allowing them to think too much, there was another sound of guns on the other side, like the urging of death, harvesting more than a dozen lives.

"Shoot the arrows!"

I don't care about it, and I don't care about how lethal these bows and arrows will be when they are released, or whether they will hurt their own people, Liu Guoneng just feels that he can't die like this and be beaten with a firecracker!

He could only hope that the projectile of his hundreds of archers would make these firecrackers on the opposite side stop for a short time, so that his subordinates could rush forward and mingle with the opposing army, and the power of those firecrackers would be gone!

Flying arrows create even more chaos in the chaotic battlefield of narrow streets. It has brought death and pain to many more people.

Several tributaries flew obliquely over the heads of Liao Dongzhi and Wuqiao Zhixian, piercing Liao Dongzhi's banner through several holes, frightening Wuqiao Zhixian, who was already broken, babbling and screaming.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to throw bows and arrows, seeing that the firecrackers on the opposite side were disrupted by the sudden rain of arrows, the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen rushed up with a shout.

"Kill! Grab their armor, knives and guns! ”

"Put!"

The officers had long been aware of how to concentrate fire and shoot to inflict maximum damage on the opponent, and when they saw the opponent rushing forward regardless of life or death, how could such an opportunity be missed? Hundreds of front-row musketeers were immediately ordered to fire together.

The sound of firecrackers was incessant, and almost every time there was a bullet or fall, the narrow streets provided the best stage for firecrackers to shoot, and the ground was littered with blood, broken shields, minced flesh, wounded, and dead. The combat methods that have never been seen before, the huge casualties, so that these officers and soldiers who rushed forward with a howl, even if they were the family members of Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, and the elite old battalion under Liu Guoneng were useless, they were stunned.

One by one, the officers and soldiers from the rogue were knocked to the ground, rolling on the bluestone paved streets, wailing and moaning. The power of the South China arms salvo is unimaginable to these officers and men.

"The Tartars who entered the customs and plundered were all beaten by us to cry wolves and howl, and they ran away with their heads in their hands! You guys who only know how to shake the prestige of your own family are a ball! ”

An officer excitedly operated a musket, firing a lead projectile at the crowd opposite.

At this time, dense white gunpowder smoke rose, and in a short distance, there was already some blurred vision. However, the firecrackers only shot out flames towards the smoke. Each jet of fire was accompanied by a scream and the sound of the body falling to the ground. Those who were shot had big holes in their bodies, and many people's internal organs, livers and sausages were beaten out, and it was better to die on their knees than to die on their knees.

The military formation of Zuozhen was already in chaos.

Some were wielding weapons. Howling and rushing forward, some screaming and trying to retreat. For a while, people in the entire queue collided and trampled on each other, and the crowd became more and more dense. And this formation provided the best lethal conditions for the platoon of the South Central Army. The firecrackers continued to make loud noises, fires, and smoke outward, and each time they sounded, the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen became more and more confused.

Liu Guoneng felt more and more cold in his hands and feet, he hadn't rushed to the other side yet, and he had already suffered heavy casualties, could he still fight this battle?

"Bayonet! Kill! ”

There was a chant in the ranks of the South Chinese Army, and everyone raised their firearms together, through the gray-white smoke. By the twilight of winter. The thorn inlaid a silver chain on the shape of the Nanzhong army.

"The big one is in charge, let's go!"

The leader of the pro-soldiers beside Liu Guoneng was in a panic for a moment, and he forgot to call him his official title, and adopted the usual black name. One hand pulled the reins of his horse. Turning the horse's head and running out of the city.

As soon as the coach left. The officers and soldiers of Zuozhen fell into even more confusion.

Facing the bayonets of Rulin. Some people wielded knives and guns to resist, while others turned around and chased after the horses of Liu Guoneng and others.

Liu Guoneng led the remnants of the defeated army to escape from Wuqiao County in one breath and ran eastward for more than ten miles, and only then did he pause slightly and catch his breath when he bumped into Zuo Menggeng's troops head-on. Start checking the loss.

With this checkpoint, Liu Guoneng and Zuo Mengeng's murderous hearts rose again.

In just over an hour, hundreds of Liu Guoneng's subordinates were killed, wounded, fled, and separated, and the losses of Zuozhen's troops who entered the city were also among them.

"Thousands of elite soldiers! How do I explain this to my father?! ”

"These hundreds of people are the elite of the Quartet that I have entangled since I led the troops, and they have never been damaged, and they have broken the enemy every time they encounter a big battle. Now that I have lost everything, how can I lead my troops to fight in the future? Alas! My army is finished! ”

Liu Guoneng cried, but he had no choice but to pick up the remnants of the defeated army, and the soldiers who escaped from Wuqiao County with injured legs and feet followed Zuo Mengeng to Nanpi County. Zuo Liangyu's battalion is stationed there at the moment.

The change of Wuqiao, the martial arts drama came to an end.

An even more lively pen and ink lawsuit began to fight.

Yu Shangchun, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, who was born in Jinshi, spoke an official dialect with an accent from Quxian County, Sichuan, supervised the gentry of the people in the city to check the losses and count the casualties, and then his eyes cried like two red hearts.

In his letters to his fellow villagers, the same year, and his peers, he described the tragic situation of his colleagues being killed after the city was sacked by the soldiers and horses of Zuozhen: "Liu Gong is a court training, and the people of Tongzhou are also. He was instructed by Wu Qiao. On the day when the soldiers of Zuozhen entered the city, they were injected into their robes, and the blood Zhu Yin acupoint came out of the chest, and the wisps belonged to repeatedly, still shouting and persuading the rebellious soldiers. Even the six arrows are servants. After a month, his son's coffin was even more buried, his face was like life, and his beard was vigorous. The return of mourning, hundreds of living beings set up sacrifices to mourn and cry to shake the sky, and the small people all cut paper and bought pulp to mourn. ”

And Lu Jiude, the eunuch of the prison army, and others accused Zuo Liangyu and others of looting prefectures and counties for no reason, killing good people by arson, and killing court officials. (It's no wonder, everyone knows that the eunuch with the palm print of the master of ceremonies is in the Nanzhong Army at this time, and he is wearing a pair of pants with Li Shouhan, so he doesn't know how to do things?) What's more, Zuo Liangyu has always been not very interested in these eunuchs. ）

In line with the principle that we must support whatever the enemy opposes, and we must oppose whatever the enemy supports, a group of Donglin Party members represented by Zuo Liangyu's old boss and Lao Engong Hou Xun attacked Li Shouhan and his Nanzhong army.

One of the main charges is lying about war exploits.

"Since the rise of the Liaodong Army, although the soldiers are brave and the soldiers use their lives, there has never been a person who has killed the enemy chief Baylor and the prince or above.

The second is that he is good at acting as a prestige and changing the military system.

"In this dynasty's military system, each town has a general army and below, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, garrisons, etc., each with its own posts, called the main barracks, the guerrilla barracks, and the strange barracks, what is the position of Li, and he will use the town to train divisions and brigades at every turn, and set up battalions and brigades without permission, and he is called a commander and a brigade commander, what is the intention of this move?"

The third is the change of Wuqiao, which seems to be strange.

"On the day of the Wuqiao Change, Zuozhen took the lead in entering the city, but it was the Wuqiao Shimin who ate pot pulp to welcome the king, why did it change as soon as they entered the city? Is it robbing the state and county? Are you forced to stand up and defend yourself? When the Nanzhong army entered the city, it fought against Zuozhen, is it to quell the chaos and kill the friendly army? ”

The titles of these kinds of articles are snowflakes back and forth between the cabinet and the celebrant and the celebrant superintendent, and the same copies are sent to the parties concerned by fast horses. Look at these and don't do it. Regardless of the words of the party, Zuo Liangyu, who was so angry with his son and subordinates that he turned red and turned into a purple face a few days ago, gradually returned to normal. And the Shouhan, who originally thought that he was meritorious, was so angry by the pen and ink of these ministers and literati that his face turned blue.

"This group of bitches raised! When Lao Tzu led the troops and Jiannu to fight and one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas were born, why didn't they come out and bark? Why didn't they speak when Lao Tzu's capture was sent to Jingshi? Now Lao Tzu has beaten a Zhao'an Liukou who robbed the prefectures and counties, slaughtered the good people, and killed the court officials, but they all jumped out of the gutter one by one? ”

Shouhan scolded in the newly recovered Cangzhou capital.

If it weren't for a conflict with Zuo Liangyu, he could have commanded three people to bite Dolgon's defender and tear off a piece of meat. However, because Liao Dongzhi was tripped in Wuqiao, the troops in the hands of the Han were insufficient. I had to watch as Dorgon left hundreds of corpses behind and walked away. In vain, he added a rhetoric to those who criticized and criticized in the capital, "raising the enemy to the north, respecting himself, and arranging the enemy to the north".

The coach was annoyed, and the generals were naturally more smoky.

"My lord, we went north to King Qin this time, and we can be regarded as fulfilling the wishes of our courtiers. The whole army simply went south. Go to Dengzhou, Jiaozhou and other places to get on the boat. Go to Tamna Island and rest for a while. After that, the whole army will go south! ”

"Lao Liao, what are you talking about? If it is according to my Ah Biao's meaning, we will simply slaughter all the left towns with the whole army, don't these poor acids say that we will kill our allies? Let's just kill them and show them! ”

"Second Brother Wu's words are reasonable! Lose that mother's brother. We're not even afraid of Tartars, a mere left town can be regarded as a dick! ”

Seeing that the generals shouted in front of Shouhan, Li Peiting, Wang Dehua, Wu Liangfu and others on the side were one happy and the other afraid.

Wang Dehua and Wu Liangfu had already taken the Nanzhong Army as the object of force that they wanted to win over with all their might. In any case, it is necessary to pull this strong force to your side as foreign aid.

Even if the South China Army cannot be used for its own use, at least it is necessary for the two sides to maintain a good cooperative relationship. In the past few years, by controlling the shipping of Nancao and purchasing armaments, armor, knives and guns in Nanzhong, the eunuchs can be said to have fattened a large number of people. The more you know the benefits of this, the more you must firmly grasp this cornucopia.

But if Li Shouhan was provoked by this group of Donglin mad dogs because of a little conflict with a mere Zuo Liangyu and Liu Guoneng, and returned to Liangguang in a fit of anger to be his soil emperor, at that time, the emperor's private money of hundreds of thousands of stone japonica rice and hundreds of thousands of silver dollars every year was gone, not to mention, if there were Jiannu in the future, where would he find such an army that dared to fight and could fight?

Wang Dehua was about to open his mouth to persuade him, lest the situation become more and more difficult to end, but Li Peiting on the side opened his mouth first.

"My lord, in my opinion, there must be someone in the court who has nothing to do with the lord. This generation must have seen that the lord killed a large number of slaves and killed several slave chiefs, and he was unwilling. The light, this generation is jealous of the virtuous and jealous, and intends to let the lords share the military merits obtained by the soldiers in the bloody battles, so that these old men who are in the beautiful mansion in Washington, the beautiful maids and singers in front of them, and the nephrite jade in their arms can easily obtain the skill of planning and commanding. The most important thing is that he colluded with Jiannu and was instructed by Jiannu to perform another storm on the meritorious soldiers of our Nanzhong Army. ”

Li Peiting's words can be described as heart-wrenching, and everyone was moved, but it made Wang Dehua and others unable to refute for a while.

There are traitors in the court, and it will be detrimental to the lord and the Nanzhong army. This terrible consciousness was formed in the minds of the brigade commanders and never lingered.

Wang Dehua watched everyone's faces gradually become solemn and even murderous, and his heart was not good, he couldn't help but turn red, and he became helpless for a while.

"Father-in-law, since the words have come to such a point, Shouhan is Guan Yue is alive, and he must also think more about the lives of the soldiers of the whole army, as well as his children and families. Please ask your father-in-law to go to the capital first to meet the Son of Heaven and tell the stakes for the sake of the Han. Shouhan then led the army and horses to follow slowly. After arriving in Gyeonggi, soldiers and horses were stationed between Tongzhou and Tianjin. If the emperor is unwilling to see me, or if the ministers of the court and the central government do not hesitate to guard the Han and enter the city, the Han will lead the army and horses to the south! ”

Shouhan's words were neither fast nor slow, neither soft nor hard, but they made Wang Dehua sweat through his underwear.

To put it very clearly, if you can't give me a satisfactory answer and hand over those traitors who chew their tongues in the court, then we will immediately pat our butts and leave, and we will be scattered from now on!

"As the President Ma of the Eastern Route Army ordered by the imperial court, the general is within his duty to rectify military discipline, so how can he go beyond it? This matter must be that those traitors in the DPRK and China are jealous of the heroes and wanton reckless! Wu Liangfu hurriedly took over the conversation, trying to move the style back to some of them.

"Hey, hey! I hope so! ”

"That's it! The group of dog thieves in the Guan Ning Army are prone to mutiny, and the battle is even more imminent, why don't these big men care at all? We killed so many Jiannu, but they blamed us? ”

"Not really! The son of the dog thief king Xiangchun forced the defenders to open the gate of Wuqiao City to answer Zuozhen to enter the city to kill, loot and commit adultery, how could this group of Donglin party people turn a blind eye? Isn't that too partial?! ”

"Yanlong, don't talk nonsense, the emperor Lao'er will give us an explanation, if you don't give it, which one won't do this thing of rushing to the state and robbing the state and county? If our artillery bombards the city wall, what if it's the Jingshi?! ”

In the ridicule, Wang Dehua's face turned blue and white, and he ordered people to prepare horses, and under the escort of a cavalry regiment sent by Huang Yishan, he rode his horses again and again and went to the direction of the capital. (To be continued......)