Chapter 57: Victory

"Watch the formation! Steady! ”

Xu Shiyang stood in the center of the first row and yelled, his figure and dazzling iron armor made him the focus of attention on the battlefield, the enemy began to unconsciously concentrate on this side as he ran, and his own side was much more determined because the commander took the lead.

The front row of sword and shield soldiers all stood leaning, with their left leg in front of them, their knees slightly bent, and they covered their bodies with the shields hanging from their left arms, and they lined up in dense rows, ready to receive the impact.

Opposite them, the bandit leader Luo Daoren quietly retreated to the rear of the team, he was not as convinced of the collective power as Xu Shiyang, and he did not want to risk his life to test the strength of the militia's shield array.

Moreover, when the situation is unfavorable, it is the bandits' style to quickly find an opportunity to escape.

The others were not as cautious as him, and the brutal methods of the Luo Dao people in the past ten years still had a certain deterrent effect on them, and these bandits ignored them, let out an inhuman howl, and crashed straight into the shield array of the fifteenth tun .......

Rumble!

With a loud bang, the shield array that was originally lined up in a straight line bent inward slightly, but it did not break, Xu Shiyang himself was the focus of the other party's impact, but he was strong and strong, and he was wearing a heavy iron armor, and he took two steps back, and he withstood it.

Several bandits on the opposite side seemed to have lost their minds, and after missing a blow, they began to swing their blades to smash Xu Shiyang's shield, and even one guy raised his leg and kicked the shield, resulting in knocking himself down .......

Xu Shiyang's double-layered cowhide shield captured from the Tartar in his hand supported these heavy blows, and the rear row militia raised the wooden spear and stabbed forward over the shoulder of the front row shield soldier, the sharpened wooden spear was difficult to directly stab the enemy, but the bandits did not have any armor, and they could still be severely injured if they were hit.

The militia stabbed twice, the bandits retreated again and again, and the inwardly sunken shield array took the opportunity to return to a straight line, at this time, the third row of personal soldiers squeezed over, and the fire door gun penetrated through the gap in the crowd, and directly resisted the front row of bandits at a distance of less than one step and opened fire!

There was a crackling sound, maybe it was too nervous, maybe it was something else, only 10 of the 15 muskets went off, and 7 bandits were headshot, their heads exploded into fragments flying backwards, and red, white, sticky flesh and brains splashed the bandits behind them all over their faces.

This terrifying blow completely destroyed the fighting spirit of the bandits, and I don't know who shouted:

"Defeated! Run for your life! ”

Then, regardless of the old bandit or the coercion, everyone turned around and fled the battlefield .......

Xu Shiyang smelled a pungent smell of smoke, but he didn't know what was going on, he especially liked the smell of gunpowder burning, in the previous life, he liked the smell of smoke after the explosion of firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, and now it is even more so, the rapidly disappearing smoke makes him extremely excited, like a shark smelling blood, Xu Shiyang roared angrily and took the lead in launching a counterattack!

The huge cowhide shield knocked down a bandit who fled in a hurry from behind, Xu Shiyang stepped heavily on the bandit's back, and there was a faint sound of bone breaking under his feet, the bandit screamed and struggled, but he couldn't use any strength, the tiger tooth knife swung violently, and the scream was interrupted.

"Kill!"

Xu Shiyang raised his blood-stained broadsword and shouted to the militia:

"Kill the bandits!"

"Kill the bandits!" All the militia shouted together, and the battle entered the phase of pursuit without any danger, at this time, even a militia auxiliary armed with a wooden stick could easily kill an old bandit from behind, as long as he could catch up with the other party.

A quarter of an hour after the start of the white-knuckle battle, Xu Shisong led the 4th and 12th Tun militias into the cottage to support, followed by Xu Mujiang's 1st Tun and Wang Yong's 13th Tun.

After another quarter of an hour, the chaos spread to the north gate, and Sun Li's troops took the lead in breaking through the north gate, and then the troops of the other eight dock forts swarmed in, officially announcing the destruction of the Fulai Mountain bandits.

At this time, there was no battle at all, even the so-called old bandits who had fallen into the grass for a long time, none of them dared to turn back and resist, all the bandits were scurrying around like headless flies, looking for a way to escape that did not exist, and the fastest escape was their big boss.

The attackers from the north and south soon met, and at this time nearly 2,000 Xu family militia had poured into the cottage, crowding the entire village, and Luo Daoren was captured by Luan Tingyu near his private house.

Xu Shisong then broke open the gate of Dinglin Temple, which was the core of the bandits, and captured all the wives and concubines of the Luo Dao people inside.

The desperate bandits knelt down one by one and begged for mercy, and the militia of the Xu family army tied up every ten of them into a small group, and tied up more than 50 groups, and escorted them to squat near the threshing floor.

In addition, there are more than 100 crying women, most of them are the family members of the bandit leaders, and there are also the wives and daughters of civilians (or new bandits) who have been robbed.

By the afternoon, near dusk, it was all over.

The lords of Xujiawu Fort sat in the hall of Dinglin Temple one by one, Xu Mujiang frowned and looked at the plaque of "Walking for the Sky" hanging on the main hall, and waved his hand to order someone to remove it and chop it up as firewood, and then sat down in the middle of the head with satisfaction.

Everyone still sat down in the order of the Xu family, but compared with before, the eyes of the castle lords who looked at the three masters this time were full of anticipation - they were all waiting for the lord to divide the spoils obtained this time.

Only Xu Shiyang doesn't care about this, he really lacks everything, and even if he gives him all the captures in the Battle of Fulai Mountain, he can't satisfy his appetite, in this case, it is better to be generous.

What's more, he had already been promised a priority distribution of the spoils, and that was enough.

"Ahem!"

The head of the house pretended to clear his throat, and then said in a slow and logical manner like an old pedant:

"This time, everyone fought very well, and in one fell swoop to exterminate the bandits in Fulai Mountain, our family will be able to be more stable in the future."

"As for the seizure, there is no accurate number of how many there are now, but what can be taken away is nothing more than the population and money, food and cloth, I will put my words here first, no matter how many, divide 15 shares equally, let's take one each, let the third brother pick first."

"Dare to disobey!" All the castle lords agreed together.

"Third brother, you played the best, what do you think?"

"Uncle, my nephew has no problem with how to divide the money and food." Xu Shiyang stood up and said solemnly: "But in terms of population, my nephew thinks, we must screen out the old bandits who have been in the grass for more than three years and have blood debts in their hands, and kill them all!" ”

There are about 6,000 men in the 15 dock forts of the Xu family, and this time the new and old bandits alone have caught nearly 2,000, if they are all left, the proportion of bandits in the Xu family is too high.

Therefore, if you want to turn these people into a benefit to yourself, you should at least kill all the old bandits who are the core of them, so that those coercion cannot be united.

What's more, the old bandits have not been productive for a long time, and it is useless to stay in the fort.