On 19 July, Xu Shisong led the last of the Zhou army field troops out of the camp to meet the Chinese army, at this time the first army of the Chinese army had sent many people to maintain law and order in the newly controlled area, but at the same time, many new troops in the north also joined, and the total strength was maintained at the scale of 40,000 people.

And Xu Shisong, including himself, has a total of 997 people who can participate in the war.

If it weren't for the wrong person on the other side, Xu Shiyang probably really wanted to tease: "Do you want to be a coward for a lifetime, or do you want to be a hero, even if it's only for a few minutes?" ”

Xu Shiyang erected his handsome flag on a small hill in the north of the battlefield, and directly pointed out the direction of attack to Xu Shisong.

It also seems to be some kind of provocation - come on, I'll give you a chance to be a hero.

For the survival of the Great Zhou, this is actually not a chance, even if Xu Shisong can go straight to Xu Shiyang's position and kill Xu Shiyang, the Chinese army will continue this war - the empire is originally a two-headed dragon.

But for Xu Shisong's need to show loyalty to the world, this opportunity is very good.

Sure enough, at around 9 o'clock in the morning, Xu Shisong personally led 996 cavalry to a reactionary attack in the direction where Xu Shiyang Shuaiqi was located.

Because of the receipt of more than 100,000 troops and horses from the Royal Dragon Bone Duozi and other troops, Xu Shisong's personal guards at this time have also become a luxury equipment for everyone to have horses.

However, no matter how luxurious the equipment is, there are only a thousand people, and in the face of the 40,000 troops and the black holes of hundreds of cannons, this has really become a suicide attack for honor.

"Kill Xu Shiyang!"

Xu Shisong pointed his sword straight at Xu Shiyang's handsome banner, and the cavalry of the Zhou army followed him wildly, shouting in unison:

"Kill Xu Shiyang!"

Nearly 4,000 horses' hooves stepped on the ground, and the momentum actually looked pretty good, in the middle of the queue, Xu Shisong turned his head slightly to look left and right, all he could see was his subordinates with angry faces - most of these young warriors were warriors selected from the homeless children after he arrived in Jiangnan, and everything about them was closely related to Xu Shisong, so even if he knew that he would die, no one flinched.

Xu Shisong felt that if he had 10,000 such soldiers, then he would have a good chance of success in this assault - of course, if there were 10,000 such soldiers, then he should actually defend the Huai River, or the Yangtze River, instead of inexplicably fighting on flat ground.

It's a pity that today, these warriors have to die with him.

A cannon rang out in front of him, and a black iron ball roared, landed a few meters in front of the cavalry, and then bounced violently and crashed into the cavalry.

Zhou Jun suddenly turned on his back, Xu Shisong heard an irrepressible scream, he squinted slightly, completely unmoved.

There is no need to grieve for the victims, most of us have to go with them today anyway.

Sooner or later, it's just that.

Immediately afterwards, more shells crashed into the Zhou army's array with a terrible whistling sound, and the screams of people and the neighing of horses rang out, and the shells opened a bloody alley in the ranks of the Zhou cavalry, and those who were in it would surely die.

As the distance approached, the firepower of the Chinese army became more and more accurate, and a ten-pound cannonball flew past Xu Shisong, shattering the head of a horse of a personal guard cavalryman, and then cutting off its upper body.

The warm blood splashed Xu Shisong's head and face, and even dyed his vision red, and the wind brought by the cannonballs hung off Xu Shisong's helmet, and his hair was scattered, like a demon, but he still roared unwillingly:

"Kill! Kill Xu Shiyang! ”

Compared with the almost crazy Xu Shisong, the position of the Chinese army was silent, for them, no matter how fanatical a thousand cavalry was, its momentum was only so, many officers and veterans had seen the charge of tens of thousands of enemy cavalry, and when the Jurchen, Mengwu, and Dangxiang launched the final counterattack, which one was much stronger than the Zhou army.

The scene in front of me is really not worth showing.

Only the officers were still following the order: "Change the shotgun!" ”

……

On July 19, 1795, 11 minutes after the Zhou army launched a counteroffensive, it was routed by the Chinese army.

Of the 997 officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou, including Xu Shisong, the privy envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, 371 were killed in battle, and all the rest were captured - Xu Shisong's own mount was hit by a shotgun and broke his leg when he fell to the ground, and he fainted in pain, so he was captured.

When the other Zhou troops saw their commander fall to the ground, they immediately lost their will to fight, and gave up resistance and surrendered before the Chinese muskets could fire.

At this time, the nearest Zhou soldier to Xu Shiyang's banner was still about 100 steps away.

The Zhou army itself did not inflict any casualties on the Chinese army - not a single one.

Two days later, when Xu Shisong woke up, he was surprised to find his cousin Xu Shiyang sitting next to him, carefully peeling an apple with a knife decorated with precious stones and gold.

"Big brother, are you awake?" Xu Shiyang handed the apple to Xu Shisong, smiled and said, "Eat an apple to moisten your throat?" ”

"If a gentleman doesn't erect a wall, aren't you afraid that I will rise up and kill you?"

"As you are, I'll give you a hand." Xu Shiyang looked at his pale cousin, smiled and shook his head: "Besides, there are already a lot of dead people, enough, don't be willful." ”

"You know, my people have invented some new weapons, which are particularly easy to use for killing, but I regard the Jiangnan Han people as compatriots and don't want to kill too much, so I didn't agree to use them in this war."

Xu Shisong believed in this, the north established the country by force, and new inventions in military science and technology emerged one after another, many of which were made by Xu Shiyang himself or at his behest, but there were also many independent inventions by factories and scientific researchers.

"Actually, it's the same whether you bring that new weapon or not, and if you want to kill people, a cannon and a musket are enough." Xu Shisong pursed his lips and pretended to be disdainful and said, "I don't want to kill anyone, you can't kill a few more people with that new gadget, so I can kill you horizontally." ”

"I won't kill you either." Xu Shiyang said: "Although I am very annoyed because you have died hundreds of good guys, I will not kill you." ”

"You are my brother, when I went south, my uncle and aunt sighed all day for your business, they all thought that they would soon receive the news of your death, but I didn't want to kill you - if it was possible, I didn't want to kill any Han people, unless he really deserved to die, and you didn't cause me any casualties, so spare your life."

"You better kill me, I want to be a loyal minister of Da Zhou." Xu Shisong said: "In this way, I can at least leave my name in history as a loyal minister, if I surrender until now, I will be a complete joke above history." ”

"No, no, I won't kill you."

"Then leave me a knife, and I'll solve it myself."

"That's not good, then you will die too badly, you are my cousin after all, if you want to die, you have to die vigorously." Xu Shiyang said: "In the end, don't you just want to go down in history as a loyal minister?" It's actually very simple, I'll let you continue to live as a loyal servant. ”