Seeing this, Ma Jinzhong and Cao Bianjiao hurriedly ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle.

I saw that most of the peasant troops who rushed over were cavalry, although the number was not very large, only about 1,000 horsemen, but the momentum that suddenly erupted was very amazing, plus those peasant troops in the city shouted loudly to help, and from time to time sent one or two cannons to smash at the Pingyang army, although they were far away and missed, but Ma Jinzhong, Cao Bianjiao and others could not help but worry that the peasant army in the city would suddenly kill.

Since it was not clear how many peasant troops there were in the city, whether they would suddenly come out, the Pingyang army would inevitably be a little distracted. However, Rao is like this, the peasant army is not the opponent of the Pingyang army, and after the battle, the leader of the peasant army led by him shouted and led the crowd to run towards the eastern suburbs.

Cao Bianjiao took the lead and led his troops to chase after him, Ma Jinzhong was afraid that he would lose, so he also commanded his subordinates to pursue the peasant army cavalry together.

However, the peasant army was obviously more familiar with the terrain of the street than they did, and chased them out for nearly ten miles, only to see that the peasant army seemed to have suddenly disappeared into a group of houses, and only a few stragglers could be seen still fleeing forward in a panic.

This is an intricate town street, close to the county seat of Hequ on one side, and a waterfall washed down by a tributary of the Yellow River, pouring down from the edge of the cliff, flowing into the Yellow River and passing through the city.

Cao Bianjiao and Ma Jinzhong were hesitating whether to continue the pursuit or go back and wait for Moli's army to arrive, when suddenly, countless long bamboo tubes stretched out from the residential buildings on both sides, and one end of the bamboo tube was like a modern high-pressure water gun, spewing out a large amount of river water, surging towards the Pingyang army with great force.

At the same time, countless feather arrows were shot from hidden corners of the street, and as soon as it rained, they fell towards the Pingyang army, and the Pingyang army suddenly burst into a miserable howl, obviously many people were hit by arrows.

Some soldiers were caught off guard by the current because of the incident, and even fell off their horses, and the muskets in the hands of some soldiers were also washed to the ground, and many people were so washed by the water that they couldn't even open their eyes, let alone shoot, and many musket ammunition could not be fired at all because they were wet by the water, and the team was a little chaotic for a while.

Ma Jinzhong and Cao Bianjiao knew that these peasant army cavalry were there to lure the enemy at all, but they were still fooled, and they all blamed themselves for being too careless! Cao Bianjiao thought in annoyance, and shouted loudly: "There is an ambush!" Brothers, withdraw! ”

Cao Bianjiao and Ma Jinzhong commanded thousands of men and horses to hurriedly withdraw by the same route. At this time, thousands of peasant troops rushed out from all kinds of hidden places, still excitedly shooting arrows and slashing at the Pingyang army. The Binh Duong army suffered heavy losses.

Ma Jinzhong and Cao Bianjiao led their troops to fight and retreat in embarrassment, this encounter would be such a predicament and defeat was something they didn't expect at all, although they knew that the peasant soldiers were powerful, but in fact, they didn't put the peasant army in their hearts, because of the strict training and powerful firepower of the Pingyang Army, they have always been very confident, especially after defeating Luo Rucai's ambush last night, whether it is Ma Jinzhong or Cao Bianjiao, or the soldiers below, there is some pride in their hearts.

But they didn't expect the peasant army to take the water attack, and water is the natural enemy to restrain firearms, and those sudden spews of water became a nightmare for the Pingyang army. The meanders of the river happen to have the natural conditions for water attack, and the waterfall that goes straight down is the source of those water guns.

After he fled back to Hequ last night, he discussed with Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong and others for half the night, and finally came up with such a method. He knew that the most powerful thing in the Pingyang army was firearms, and only by using the water of the waterfall to extinguish the muskets of the Pingyang army could they have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

At that moment, Wang Ziyong, Luo Rucai and others rushed to work overnight, ordered people to cut bamboo to open the joints as water pipes, and then set up a mechanism to introduce the water flow of the waterfall, and use the pressure of the impact of the waterfall to achieve the effect of jetting water.

After the success of luring the enemy, the Pingyang army really hit the plan, and most of their muskets were dumb, which was equivalent to scrap metal, so the ambushed peasant army rushed out and frantically pursued the vanguard of the Pingyang army.

In the midst of the fierce battle, suddenly the southeast direction shook the sky, and a black and oppressive torrent rushed over, and it turned out to be Mo Li's army arriving.

Wang Ziyong, the leader of the peasant army, and others saw that a large number of officers and soldiers had come to reinforce the army, and they knew that they were invincible, so they hurriedly stopped the pursuit and retreated.

Mo Li and the others basically didn't get a fight, because those peasant troops immediately slipped away when they saw that the situation was not good, and they were familiar with the terrain, and they disappeared cleanly after a short time.

The Pingyang army quickly cleaned up the battlefield, retrieved some of the soldiers' lost weapons, rescued the wounded, and then evacuated to a hillside in the city's seven miles.

Mo Li looked at the peasant army waiting in Hequ City not far away, and then looked at Cao Bianjiao and Ma Jinzhong who were kneeling on the ground, and his mood was a little heavy.

In this battle, Ma Jinzhong and Cao Bianjiao's troops both suffered heavy losses, the number of dead was close to seven or eight hundred, and the number of wounded reached thousands, and they were also ambushed last night, but only fifty or sixty people were killed. What is even more infuriating is that nearly half of the soldiers have lost their muskets, even machetes, and they are bare-handed, soaking wet, and looking very comical.

But at this moment, Mo Li couldn't laugh at all. Looking at Cao Bianjiao and Ma Jinzhong, who were kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, Mo Li had the urge to scold his mother.

Seeing that Mo Li didn't say a word, his face became very ugly, Guan Feng, who had been following him for a long time, knew that Mo Li was a precursor to getting angry, thought about it, and stepped forward to persuade: "My lord, this gang of thieves is too cunning, and General Ma and General Xiao Cao are also unaware of it for a while, or you can forgive it for the time being!" ”

Guan Feng began to follow Mo Li a long time ago, when Mo Li was still a hundred households, he followed left and right, and always called him an adult, whether it was promoted to guerrilla, general, or when he was the commander of Heiyun Village, or now he was promoted to the chief soldier of the bandits, because he was used to it, his title has not changed.

Mo Li glanced at Guan Feng, tried to calm down his anger, and said slowly: "The enemy is current, but there must be a demon when everything goes wrong, don't go deep alone, why don't you want to think about it, they have a heavy army in the city, why do they only send a thousand cavalry out to attack?" Doesn't it seem strange to retreat as soon as you take the battle? They defended the city with heavy troops, so why did they send such a small army to die? ”

Cao Bianjiao lowered his head and said, "General, the last general should be damned!" The last will know that he is wrong! This is all the fault of the last general, it is the last general who is too careless, and it has nothing to do with General Ma, please don't punish General Ma......"

Mo Li knotted: "Yo, you can't guarantee that you still intercede for him?" Humph......"

At this moment, suddenly the guards hurriedly came to report: "Report to the general, Commander Lu Du has returned!" ”

Lu Chaoji? Didn't he escort the captives?