"Retreat!" Han Ming and the other heads of the three major families roared together, their eyes full of horror.

Only by escaping from the city gate did they kill and wound more than 2,000 men and horses, and Suzhou is dozens of miles from the sea, so how could they escape to the sea under the pursuit of Ying Long's army, and then board a ship and flee overseas.

"Kill, outflank before and after!" Yan Yingyuan ordered expressionlessly.

"Yes, big brother!" General Feng Houdun immediately led the 5,000 Ying Long Army of his headquarters to outflank the army of dead soldiers of the three major families.

The five thousand Ying Longjun's roundabout movements were naturally very large, and Han Ming and the others were not people who didn't have the slightest vision, and they guessed Ying Longjun's plan after just a few breaths.

"It's not good, they want to outflank us front and back, once we are surrounded here by front and back, we are all finished!" Wang Dongli, the head of the Wang family, exclaimed.

In the end, he is not a regular general, he has not systematically studied the art of war, and he has no experience in actual combat, in the face of Ying Longjun's move, whether it is Han Ming, Wang Dongli or Xu Yaotang, they are helpless!

Originally, the three major families thought that the battle between the two armies was a hard battle, looking at the dead soldiers raised by their own families in the feeding of a large amount of silver money under the martial arts are not weak, with a number of enemies, but also thought that there were 12,000 dead soldiers and 4,000 Suzhou defenders, at least worthy of 50,000 soldiers and horses, but the current situation proved that they were wrong, the two armies on the battlefield were not as simple as they thought, not only the quality of individual soldiers, but more importantly, teamwork, no matter how strong the ability of individual soldiers, an army that would not cooperate with each other, the same is a group of rabble.

"What to do!" The people of the three major families were all in a hurry.

In fact, there are only 15,000 Ying Long troops who really attack the three major families, and the other 5,000 people have already been divided into several units, according to the information provided by the Jinyi Wei secret agents, to capture the other rich businessmen and tycoons involved, but this Ying Long army of 15,000 people is not something that the so-called dead army can resist like a rabble.

"Divine Fire Guard! Quick, get them on! Wang Dongli shouted.

Shenhuo Wei is the 1,500 musketeers, the muskets they hold are purchased from the Dutch foreigners at a high price, the three major families have seen the power of the Dutch foreign soldiers musketeers, it is for this reason that the three major families each formed 500 musketeers, together the scale of just 1,500 people, and they also gave these musketeers a mighty and domineering name Shenhuo Wei.

The 1,500 divine fire guards of the three major families not only use advanced muskets in the hands of the Dutch, but even the training is secretly invited by the Dutch, which can be said to be not much worse than the real Dutch.

They had heard that the Dutch could defeat 20,000 native Javanese soldiers with 1,000 musketeers, so these Shenhuo guards, who were armed with the same weapons as the Dutch and trained by the Dutch, could be said to be the last cards of the three families.

It's just that the people of the three major families have ignored one point, although they have seen the arquebus of the Ming Dynasty, and they have compared it themselves, so they have always thought that the arquebuses in the hands of the Dutch are more advanced than those of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, Ying Longjun has been using more advanced flintlock pistols for a long time, and at this time the flintlock pistol has just begun to be equipped in Europe, and it is impossible for the Dutch to sell it to these rich businessmen of the Ming Dynasty, after all, what the Dutch do is just money, as long as the rich businessmen who can fool the Ming Dynasty change, And the three major families in Suzhou were really fooled, and under the repeated assurances of the Dutch, they always thought that the Dutch muskets equipped by their Shenhuo Wei were the most powerful in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the Dutch are not deliberately fooling the people of the three families, but even the Dutch themselves do not know that Da Ming has invented the flintlock pistol, let alone know that many key parts of Da Ming's flintlock pistol are still cast with new alloy steel with high strength, and the range and power are more than those of European flintlock pistols, not to mention the old arquebuses that the Dutch have begun to eliminate.

With the order of the three family heads, all the fifteen hundred divine fire guards were pushed to the front.

At this time, Feng Houdun happened to lead the 5,000 Ying Long army to return to the front of the army of dead soldiers, just in front of the 1,500 Divine Fire Guards.

"Divine Fire Guards line up, light the fire!" Fifteen hundred Divine Fire Guards immediately began to urgently ignite the fire rope.

Billowing white smoke from the firerope rose from the ranks of the Divine Fire Guard.

"Huh? These traitors even use muskets! Feng Houdun was surprised.

"Hmph, facing our Ying Long Army, it's like playing with a big knife in front of Guan Gong, looking for death!" Feng Houdun sneered, looking extremely disdainful.

Indeed, although Feng Houdun was surprised that there was a musket battalion under the command of the three major families, he could see at a glance that what the Shenhuo Guards of the three major families were holding was nothing more than the arquebuses that Ying Longjun had eliminated at the beginning, and he was holding those broken things, and he also wanted to compare with Ying Longjun's flintlock pistol.

At this time, the dead army of the three major families had been flanked and surrounded by the Yinglong army.

"Shenhuo Wei enters the palace and advances!"

In any case, the people of the three major families can only rely on the 1,500 Divine Fire Guards under their command to fight their way out of the bloody road at this moment, as long as they can escape to the sea, they can escape overseas with the help of the pre-arranged people, and when the time comes, as long as they wait for a few years, after the rumors have passed, they will secretly return to Suzhou, and take away the huge amount of gold and silver that the family has accumulated for nearly a hundred years and buried in the secret underground, and they can still live a rich life overseas.

"Hehe, looking for death, the dragon army is arrayed!" Feng Houdun sneered.

The 5,000 Ying Dragon Army quickly lined up a neat attack formation more than 200 meters away from the 1,500 Divine Fire Guard.

"Kill!" Feng Houdun waved his hand and led Ying Longjun towards the 1,500 Divine Fire Guards who were attacking.

As the two armies approached, two hundred meters, one hundred and seventy meters, and one hundred and fifty meters, Ying Longjun and Shenhuo Wei launched a collision of a new type of flintlock pistol and arquebus.

"Fire!" As the Divine Fire Guard entered the range of Ying Long's flintlock pistol, Feng Houdun brazenly ordered to fire.

"Bang bang bang" more than a thousand buckshot swept through.

"Ahh

"Fire!" The people of the three major families also ordered the Divine Fire Guard to open fire immediately.

The "bang bang bang" arquebus was activated, and under the white smoke, more than 200 lead bullets shot towards Ying Longjun in front, but the people of the three major families were horrified that none of Ying Longjun fell.

"Hahahaha" A loud laugh erupted in Ying Longjun's formation, and the laughter was full of sarcasm.

"Nope! That's impossible! Why is this the case! "The people of the three major families all widened their eyes, and they couldn't believe it, didn't those Dutch people swear that the muskets they provided to Shenhuo Wei were definitely the most advanced in the Ming Dynasty, how could they face the Ying Long Army of the Ming Dynasty but they didn't kill or hurt at all!

"Fire!" Feng Houdun coldly ordered.

"Bang bang bang" Ying Longjun fired again, and the Shenhuo Guards of the three major families fell more than 300 people again, and at this time, the Shenhuo Guards were already less than 900 people, and nearly half of them were killed or wounded!

"No, how is that possible!" The people of the three major families were dead and full of despair, and even the Divine Fire Guard could not be effective, how could they still break through the encirclement of the Ying Long Army.

"Damn Dutchman!" Han Ming, Wang Dongli and the others roared angrily, and the eighteenth generation ancestors of the Dutch were instantly greeted one by one.

The Dutch arquebus may be more powerful than the old arquebus of the Ming Dynasty, and the range may be longer, but compared with the Daming flintlock pistol made of alloy steel, it is a big step behind, which also leads to the fact that within a certain distance, the flintlock pistol of the Ying Long Army can hit the Shenhuo Wei of the three major families, and the Dutch arquebus in the hands of the Shenhuo Wei of the three families cannot hit the Ying Long Army, so there is only one result, that is, the Shenhuo Wei was slaughtered by the Ying Long Army on one side!

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

When the third and fourth fire of the Ying Long Army were fired, the 1,500 Divine Fire Guards of the three major families had already suffered more than 1,200 casualties, and they were only one round away from being killed and wounded, and the Divine Fire Guards finally collapsed.

Although they are all composed of trained dead soldiers, they are not afraid of death, but under the one-sided slaughter of Ying Long's army, their fearful and powerless hearts still break their last psychological defense!

After the Divine Fire Guard was defeated by Feng Houdun's troops in the front, Yan Yingyuan's main force pursuing in the rear also defeated the army of dead soldiers who were blocking.

"God will kill me!" The heads of the three major families looked up to the sky at the same time and cried out, all of them were like ashes, and those who did not resist were captured.

In the face of the powerful offensive of the Ying Long army, the three major families only fled to three miles outside Suzhou City under the protection of the army of dead soldiers and were all defeated, together with the family of the governor of Suzhou and the family of the salt envoy who followed, hundreds of men, women and children were all captured, including the heads of the three major families.

Not only the three major families, the governor of Suzhou and the salt transport envoys, but also all the rich businessmen and corrupt officials involved in Suzhou City were all captured and wiped out, adding up to more than 1,000 people.

At the same time, what happened in Suzhou also happened in Yangzhou, another salt administration center in Jiangbei.

Because after Ying Longjun entered the city, he attacked directly without saying a word, and immediately caught all the corrupt officials and profiteers in the two major salt administration centers by surprise, and almost none of the people involved in it missed the net, and all of them were collected in one net.

The next step is to ask the ledger and wipe out more people involved in the same net, cutting the grass and eradicating the roots!

For this reason, Ying Longjun handed over all the patriarchs of several major families who refused to cooperate to Jinyiwei for interrogation overnight, and with Jinyiwei's methods, no one could stand their torture, and they would definitely be able to pry open the mouths of the heads of several major families.

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