Chapter 3: The First Battle (I)

Liu Xia divided the thirty people into six squads, a squad of five people, and then four squads formed a squadron, a total of twenty people, of which Liu Dazhuang served as the squadron leader and concurrently served as the captain of the first squadron of the squadron.

The other two squads have a total of ten people as Liu Xia's personal guards, these ten people are the most powerful ten selected from thirty people, all of them are extremely strong, Liu Xia let Wang Shishi be the captain, which made Wang Shishi speechless with excitement, Wang Shishi felt that he must not live up to the trust of the general, and he must protect the general.

After Liu Xia arranged the military system of the team, he began to ask what weapons were in the team at this time, including several bows and arrows, bows and arrows were very important weapons in Liu Xia's eyes at this time, because to minimize casualties, these are their most basic team, and there can be too many casualties. I also have to rely on these more than 30 people to slowly control the team that will grow in the future.

Liu Dazhuang saw Liu Xia ask about the number of weapons in his team, he thought carefully for a while and hurriedly replied: "General Hui, we are thirty people, among which there are ten archers, and the rest of the brothers are all armed with knives, and now we don't have too many arrows in our hands, although we have ten archers, but now there are only four bows that can be used, and the rest of the bows are either lost during the retreat, or have been damaged in the battle and can no longer be used."

Listening to Liu Dazhuang's words, Liu Xia's heart suddenly cooled half, the weapons of long-range attack in this era are also this bow and crossbow, crossbow Liu Xia didn't dare to think about it, but he didn't expect that there were few bows left, Liu Xia thought how good it would be to have a musket, musket! Yes, muskets, the Ming Dynasty did have muskets in this era, and they were equipped with a lot, but most of the Ming army was arquebuses, this era of pre-loading guns, the range was about 100 steps at most, and the restrictions of arquebuses were very much, it took a few minutes to shoot a bullet, a skilled arquebusier, three minutes can shoot two rounds, and it is not possible to use it in rainy days, the rain can directly extinguish the arquebus, and in front of the cavalry, this arquebus is not much of a threat at all.

After all, the cavalry's charge is very fast, just at a distance of 100 meters, the cavalry will arrive in an instant, and the arquebusiers will not have time to load ** and ammunition, and it will be a one-sided slaughter at that time.

When the rear-loading gun did not come out, it was obviously not good to deal with the cavalry with arquebus, if you have a firing pistol team, then it would be very easy to unify China, although you are not a master of firearms, but Liu Xia still knows the basic principles of this gun, and then find some craftsmen to study, maybe you can make the firing pistol come out in advance, at that time, you must be the rival, thinking of this Liu Xia began to get excited.

"How nice it would be if there was a gun" Liu Xia, who was thinking about the question, said it unconsciously from his mouth, at this time Liu Xia thought in his heart that if each of the more than 30 of them had a gun, and then ambush and fight a tunnel battle, anyway, the absolute advantage was very great, whoever was not convinced, went down with a shot, quack quack.

"Guns? General, do you talk about muskets? We have muskets! General, what are you going to do? Liu Dazhuang is the closest to Liu Xia, although Liu Xia's voice is not too high, but Liu Dazhuang can still hear it clearly.

The gun Liu Xia said is indeed a musket, but it is a firing gun, this Liu Dazhuang doesn't know that there are still firing pistols in the world, he only knows arquebuses, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, arquebuses are called bird guns, so Liu Dazhuang hurriedly took out a somewhat broken arquebus from a soldier's side, but if you add **, it can still be used, and it is not damaged.

Liu Xia was a little surprised, he didn't expect them to get a gun, he looked up, he was very disappointed, and smiled bitterly.

This is a typical arquebus, this arquebus can't be used at all when it's raining, and the accuracy is not very high, but no matter what, this arquebus is the first gun Liu Xia has seen in this world, and it is still okay to use it for sneak attacks, of course, it requires high technology.

"This shot isn't that ...... though But that's it, there will be a chance to recreate that rifled gun in the future" Liu Xia said to himself, Liu Dazhuang was a little depressed in his heart, what Liu Xia said, he didn't understand, what rifled gun? Is a flare pistol better than a birdshot?

Liu Xia thought about it again, and then said to Liu Dazhuang: "Is there a **?" ”

“**? Still a**? Liu Dazhuang shouted at the soldier, the soldier is a musketeer, but this musketeer is only part-time, he is also an excellent archer, just practice a musket for a few months, but if you practice a good bow and arrow, I am afraid that it will not pass the test in a few years, because the army is equipped with some bird guns, he shoots good bows and arrows, so he gives priority to the use of this bird guns.

The soldier listened to Liu Dazhuang's words, so he touched it in his arms, touched it for a while, and found a handful of projectiles, he searched all over his body and found a box of black **, and finally the soldier handed over these projectiles and black ** to Liu Dazhuang, and Liu Dazhuang handed them to Liu Xia.

The power of black ** is not particularly large, it can only be regarded as medium-sized**, if you want to build powerful ** and guns in the future, you need to develop smoke-free**, it seems that the current bullet is filled with nitrocellulose, don't think about these first, now it's better to talk about the things in front of you.

Liu Xia held the arquebus in his hand, Liu Xia felt quite heavy, for the gun, Liu Xia had never touched it, after all, in his previous life, it was a legal society, not a police officer or a soldier, it was difficult to touch a gun.

Liu Xia played with the arquebus for a while, and saw that the time was almost up, so he said to the soldiers below with a serious face: "Are you ready to kill the enemy?" I only heard the following say in unison: "Get ready, drive out the Tartars, and restore my big man" But he didn't shout too loudly, after all, he was fleeing in this small courtyard now, and he couldn't let the Qing army find out.

"Okay, then good your own weapon, let's go" After speaking, Liu Xia took his big knife, pushed open the door and walked out first, followed by Liu Dazhuang and Wang Shishi, and the rest of the people followed at the end, Liu Xia did not swagger out, first of all, the reconnaissance form, but this place, the Qing army has not yet come.

When I walked out of the house, it was still raining outside, but it was already a light rain, and the ground was full of water. Liu Xia ordered the two guards on the left and right to reconnoiter the enemy, and then the large army followed closely behind and moved little by little, knowing that they were victorious in every battle.

Liu Xia and the others left the courtyard, and there was red blood flowing in front of the courtyard, Liu Xia and the others were very angry, they all knew who this blood was, it was innocent people's, these god-killing beasts, damn it, this is what everyone thinks in their hearts.

Following the direction in which the blood flowed, Liu Xia led everyone in that direction, and there were corpses on the side of the road along the way.

Liu Xia wants to see what these Qing soldiers look like, they are so cruel, since Jing Xiao came to this world, Liu Xia has not actually seen the Qing army with his own eyes, and he has the image of the Qing army in his mind, but that is not what he saw with his own eyes, and now he wants to see with his own eyes what this Qing army looks like.

Along the slow flow formed by the rain, Liu Xia and the others soon arrived at a courtyard, at the gate of the courtyard, at this time there was a big man with a rough physique, this big man was full of displeasure, and looked inside from time to time, but soon this guy took out a bunch of jewels from his arms, his face was full of happiness, and he couldn't close his mouth. From time to time, the screams of women and the panting of men could be heard in the courtyard. And the blood that flows in the water comes out of this courtyard......

"Brute, I'll kill him" Liu Dazhuang stared at this scene angrily, his heart was full of anger, but he still knew that he couldn't reveal his location now, so he just said in a low voice, wanting to go directly to kill the wild boar-skinned man.

Liu Xia hurriedly stopped Liu Dazhuang, turned his head coldly to look at the tartar, turned his head to Liu Dazhuang and said: "We can't startle the snake now, we must first find out how many people are here, and then make a decision, everyone rest assured, I, Liu Xia, will never let go of these tartars."

After Liu Xia finished speaking, these people were all honest, Liu Xia and the others were in front of the wall of the courtyard at this time, which was a good place to observe the form inside, so Liu Xia ordered a soldier to climb the wall to see how many people were in this courtyard.

"Da Hei, you come and hump me, I'll take a look" Liu Dazhuang got Liu Xia's order, and hurriedly ordered a strong soldier under him, and then with the help of this soldier, Liu Dazhuang's head was exposed over the wall, and his two eyes carefully observed the situation in the courtyard.

After inspecting for a while, Liu Dazhuang got off Dahei's body, walked to Liu Xia's side and said: "General, most of the Tartars inside are in the house, in this courtyard, there is only one main room, I see that the house is not closed, from the outside, there are about seven or eight Tartars inside, as for the ones that are not seen, there are almost a dozen in total" As soon as Liu Dazhuang finished speaking, there were more than a dozen Tartars inside, and these guards were in chaos.

They all came from Liaoning, of course, they knew that the Tartars were not easy to deal with, often four or five Ming troops could not beat a single Tartar, and now there are more than a dozen Tartars in it, and they have no advantage at all, even if they win, I am afraid that there will be many casualties.

Liu Xia was not like these soldiers, a little worried, although this Tartar is powerful, in fact, the Ming army is not weak, but these generals are not good, the Ming army and the Tartar often fight several times more than the Tartar, and they also lose the battle, which causes the Ming soldiers to think that they can't win a Tartar with a few people.

"General, what should we do?" Liu Dazhuang asked.

Wang Shishi leaned over and pouted, "What to do, I'll fight with him."

"Stone, come back quickly, this won't work, we need to outwit it" Liu Xia said to Wang Shishi.

"Outwitted, how to outwit? General, I'm not afraid of death, I can kill the gatekeeper myself" Wang Shishi pursed his lips a little unhappily, as if Liu Xia's words were questioning his force.

Liu Xia looked at the sky, and then said calmly: "At this time, it is close to dusk, let's wait for the evening to act, the bows and arrows are ready, we don't have many bows and arrows now, so every time we shoot an arrow, try to be as accurate as possible, and then the rest of the people, wait for the archers to shoot some, and then go up to kill."