"It's out! The whole team! Zuo Nianyuan stood up and ordered loudly.

The soldiers stood up one after another. After Zuo Nianyuan briefly formed a team of soldiers under his command, he led them forward. Under the city of Guangzhou, both officers and non-commissioned officers have an extremely high casualty rate, and Zuo Nianyuan's battalion has repeatedly exhausted and replenished its training, and compared with more than ten days ago, nearly half of them have changed their faces. Most of the recruits are crop men who have never left the village for dozens of miles in their lives, and Zuo Nianyuan uses veterans like Liu Sanqi to manage the recruits, and virtually establishes a far greater authority in the battalion than before. In the eyes of the recruits, Zuo Nianyuan had both the benevolence of a squire and the authority of a general, and heard that the soldiers who followed Zuo's command died the least, so they redoubled their obedience to him.

"Out of battle, out of battle!" The same shouting rang out among the ruins of Nanyan.

After the first battalion launched the operation, there was no need to conceal the various battalions participating in the night attack, and one battalion after another gathered in the yard to the south. This large area of empty space is the largest cargo yard in the south of Guangzhou, there are thousands of porters who have been making a living here for many years, at this time, the goods in the yard have already been transferred to the city of Guangzhou, only to see the black pressure of a crowd. Before the "first, second, and third ......" went into battle, each battalion was busy counting the number of people for the last time. The officers greeted each other. "Brother Zuo is here too?" "Isn't this Brother Huang?" "Fight tiger father and son, go into battle and brothers, everyone take care of each other!"

"Everyone outside the city is here, what a big battle tonight!"

At this time, Zuo Nianyuan was surprised to find that the Guangzhou regimental training was almost exhausted, and the state government pressed all the old books. Not far away, Zhou Ruilan's apprentice camp had been completed, Zuo Nianyuan glanced over, but he didn't find Zhou Ruilan's figure, and the deputy commander Cen Zhibao stood in front of the team. Zuo Nianyuan had an ominous premonition in his heart, if Zhou Ruilan was fine, he would never be absent from tonight's night attack. Guangnan's military system, only the imperial forbidden army has a guard position, like Zuo Nianyuan's regimental training battalion, Zhou Ruilan's apprentice battalion this kind of temporary patchwork, after the war will definitely be dismantled battalion is no escort, each level only appoints one more deputy general from the army. When a general is killed or unable to command the troops, the adjutant general will take charge of the troops.

Cen Zhibao also saw Zuo Nianyuan, and came over first to hug his fists and said, "Lord Zuo." ”

"General Cen," Zuo Nianyuan returned the salute and asked again, "Why haven't you seen Brother Zhou?" ”

"Lord Zhou?" Cen Zhibao hesitated slightly, took a step closer, and said in a low voice, "Lord Zhou has gone to the camp to be a centurion first." ”

"Huh?" Zuo Nianyuan's face changed suddenly, and he touched the thin envelope in his arms, which was handed over to him by Zhou Ruilan yesterday. The deep voice was still in his ears: "If Zhou is unlucky, transfer this to Neiko." "Most of the officers trained by the Guangnan Regiment are local Qingliu scholars, some of them have land, and some of them have big families, so it is natural for them to entrust some future affairs in advance. Therefore, when Zhou Ruilan entrusted the future, Zuo Nianyuan was not too strange, but also wondered if he had to make some arrangements earlier.

He didn't have time to sigh, three fireworks rose at the head of Zicheng, and the drumbeat of the marching troops sounded at the same time.

This is the second drum, and the three-way drum is beating at the head of the city, which is the time to go out of battle.

"Check the knives and guns!" The officers shouted the order, "Ready—out of battle!" ””

"General Cen, don't leave it at that." Zuo Nianyuan arched his hand and hurriedly returned to the camp, and the flag bearer had already raised the camp flag. A moment later, the third drum sounded at the head of the city, and Zuo Nianyuan pulled out his scimitar and said loudly: "Forward-" "Forward!" The centurion followed and handed down the order, "Onward!" As the military order sounded, one regimental training camp after another formed a phalanx and slowly pressed towards the south. Zuo Nianyuan pressed the knife and walked in front of the left front of the camp team, it was the darkest time before dawn, and there were countless lanterns at the head of Hanhai City in the distance, and under the bright lights, there was a series of firecrackers under the city.

Dozens of steps away from Hanhai City, in the night and firelight, the figure pupiled, it was the first to camp.

The 10th battalion of firecrackers were lined up in ten phalanxes, and the arrows from the opposite side kept flying, and from time to time the arrows in the firecrackers fell, however, the formation of the firecrackers camp did not waver. "Everybody in the queue! Don't move! The front row of firecrackers had already set up the guns, and Zhou Ruilan said loudly: "Raise the guns - ignition!" During this time, more than 20 people had fallen, and there were more than 70 people left, some of whom had turned white with fright, and their legs were trembling, but none of them had turned around and fled so far.

After the ignition, the primer of the medicine will still burn, and at this moment, the fire gun hand only waits to hold the pole of the fire gun.

At this moment, the opposite Haikou sped up the release of the arrow, and the arrow whizzed through the ear of the firearm. In this very short period of time, once someone was hit by an arrow and fell, the firecrackers in the back row had to immediately rush up to support the firecrackers, and they could only resist the firecrackers to the death, even if the arrows were fired directly at them. "Don't move, stand up and die!" This is the old marching forbidden army officer shouting. "Sacrifice your life for righteousness, right now!" This is the majority of the scholars shouting, "Sacrifice your life for righteousness!" The officers shouted to the sergeants, "All in line!" Stand up to death! ”

"Sacrifice yourself for righteousness......" Luo Yuanhan closed his lips tightly, and kept saying something in his heart, "...... Death is heavier than Tarzan......"

If he didn't, he was afraid that he would immediately fall to his knees. The night was extremely dark, no one could see Luo Yuanhan's face was as white as a piece of paper, and the arrows whizzed through the night sky, as if they were taking the life of the robes around him everywhere, Luo Yuanhan was so desperate that he gave up dodging, he could only close his eyes slightly, and kept reciting the lessons of the saints to motivate himself. As for turning around and running away in front of everyone, this humiliating thing, in Luo Yuanhan's opinion, it would not be done in death. "Life is a small matter, but a loss of temperance is a big matter." Luo Yuanhan is the best among the children in Xinhui County, and he was known as a "prodigy" when he was young.

At this moment, he clenched the fire gun, sweating like pulp, and muttered in his heart: "The scholar will not change his face when Mount Tai collapses in front of him. ”

"Stand to death, stand up to death, stand up to death......" the officers shouted.

"Death is heavier than Mount Tai, and there is light as a feather......" "Life is also what I want, righteousness is also what I want, and the two cannot be both......"

"Sacrifice your life!!" In the fire gun array, many scholars like Luo Yuanhan stubbornly adhered to simple beliefs and supported the fire gun hard.

In an instant, there was a loud bang, and a fire burst out of the gun's mouth, and the firecracker's shoulders felt the gun slam back.

"Bang!" "Bang bang" "Bang bang! "Bang bang bang!" The sound of guns exploded like beads, and countless guns flew towards the opposite side wrapped in a whirlwind.

At the same time, a sharp arrow flew through the air, like a poisonous snake suddenly poking out its fangs, and pierced into Luo Yuanhan's forehead in a daze, he fell on his back with a "ah-" sound, his eyes widened, as if he was looking at the sky, as if he was very surprised, and as if he was infinitely unwilling. In the second year of Zhili, Luo Yuanhan, the first talented son in Xinhui County and the seventh place in the Guangzhou Fuxiang test, died in battle.

The fire hammer was extremely powerful, and with the sound of "poof", there were countless deep and shallow holes in the low wall of Hanhai City. Hanhai City was only half built, the city walls were low, and there were no brick and stone battlements at the head of the city, and the war tents built with thin wooden planks could not stop the guns at all. As the guns passed, a scream rang out in the battle tent at the head of the city. When a thousand guns are fired, even the most daring thieves dare not show their heads and shoot arrows.

"Second row!" Zhou Ruilan shouted loudly, "Hand over! The muskets in the back row immediately handed over the loaded muskets.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

The first row of firecrackers handed over the hot guns in their hands to the back, and set up the firecrackers that had just been replaced without stopping.

In the darkness of the night, the archers on the opposite side stood up and released their arrows, and one arrow after another whizzed through the air.

Constantly the arrows in the hands of the firecrackers fell, and the people behind immediately stepped forward to support the firecrackers, and there were not many archers who could move the hard bows in the Khair, and the range of the arrows hurting people was about the same as that of the firecrackers, and they could kill people. "Get ready—" Zhou Rui's eyes narrowed slightly, and he ordered loudly, "Raise the gun—ignition!" A moment later, the sound of guns sounded again, and countless guns pierced the night sky with a blazing howl, and the screams of the head of the city of Hanhai were one after another. After several rounds of back and forth like this, there were a lot of casualties in the fire gun battalion, but there were also significantly fewer arrows from the opposite side, and the surviving pirates on the opposite side did not dare to show their heads.

"It's time!" The sound of gongs and drums sounded quickly, and Zhou Ruilan took a deep breath and shouted, "Get on the gun!" ”

"Get on the gun!" "Get on the gun!" The shiny spear stabbed into the barrel with a "pop", and the front row of soldiers raised their guns, while the back row rested the barrels of guns on the shoulders of the front rows.

"Shoulder to shoulder - charge!" "Onward—rush!"

Countless firecrackers lined up and marched forward, which was a queue trained under the auspices of the Lishe Zhibing Zhai since the day when Guangnan Road responded to Ezhou's "respect for the Son of Heaven and do not obey the order". In their spare time, the scholars used in the drills were all from Zhao Xingde. However, if the initiator saw this scene, he would have been very surprised to go to the camp in a neat queue and carry out the military order with extreme determination.

The fire gun array broke the morale of the pirates, and the whole camp was speared first, and only one charge was made, and they boarded the city to defend the sea!

"Charge!" "Big guys rush together!" Driven by the first battalion, the subsequent battalions also ran forward at full speed.

And not far away, at the wharf of Western Australia, the candles were blazing, the knives were flashing, and countless pirates jumped off the ship urgently.

Zhizhou Chen Gongju, the city envoy Liu Yu, Xuezheng Huang Yuanlong and other officials changed their uniforms and crowded at the head of Guangzhou Zicheng to watch the battle.

The Haikou were overwhelmed, plunged for thousands of miles, and abandoned the city of defending the sea with little resistance. The Song army re-erected the banner at the head of the city of Hanhai and shouted victory loudly. Huang Yuanlong looked at the corpses all over the field in front of Hanhai City, showing a look of regret, and under the urgency of the heart, he scolded desperately: "Chen Gongju, you have a kind of only coming at me Huang, why are you so arrogant, and declare personal vendettas!" You tricked and drove the soldiers into battle shirtless, trying to be happy for a while! My talents in Quang Nam are almost wiped out! Chen Gongju's face changed slightly, and he did not refute, and everyone in the city was silent.

The horn sounded on the dock, and a large group of pirates flocked to the city of defending the sea like a tide, and the brutal battle had just begun......