And under a mountain far away from this nameless bridge,

"As long as you come back alive with the charge three times, you can transfer to the army on the spot. I'm tired of soaking in the sludge, so I'm counting on that. ”

Wang Zhenzhi's brother, who had changed into a gray cloth robe with no logo, was also staring at the little smoke and dust in front of him with wide eyes.

"Naturally, I saw those people exonerate with my own eyes... It's just that there are no eyes on the battlefield.,It's better to be careful in everything.。。 ”

Wang Xianchao, who was accompanying him, took the trouble to tell back and forth. In order to let these two brothers, who have not yet been able to observe the period, seize and get this opportunity, he used his identity as a vouch.

"You have to wear this chest armor, although it is broken, but there is a point of protection on this battle array, even if it is a point, it must be kept light and agile enough, and those who are not smart enough are also the most likely to die,"

"By the way, I've inquired about it, and the goods you can use are all picked up in the battle array, and you have everything; If you remember that there is no hurry for other things, you must first give your own hand (small square shield) or group card (round shield) that you can use; Then choose a good knife, it doesn't matter if it's shorter, but it must be thick and resistant to splitting. . . ”

"Don't be greedy and pick those long guys. Once you get into a chaotic war between friend and foe, you won't be able to last long with this thing; At the very least, you have to hold out until the men and horses of this formation keep up. ”

"Then I can only fight this one with life and death, I want to be able to open meat from time to time, and I have a sip of wine to drink every three or five times, and there is a mouth to divide the field after a long time... It's like the fifth brother."

The youngest Wang Xian couldn't help but vaguely look forward to it.

Because he has already received the exact news, his cousin Wang Yanfu was selected by Yu Hou on the team to be the leader of the banner because of his good performance, and now he has picked up half of the allowance according to the treatment of the old soldier, and three cans will be rationed every ten years.

"Give the mouth and divide the field, you dare to believe this kind of thing. How can there be so many good things in this world for no reason. ”

A cold voice interrupted, but it was a junior colonel who was also a captive.

"Wang Zushu and Wang Zhijun, who quelled Qiu Fu's rebellion, also said that they would give land to the silver sword soldiers and the seventh battalion of the tooth army; In the end, it wasn't a river of blood. The promises of these leaders and nobles are not something that ordinary people can bear, and they are not as safe as the money and goods in the bag. ”

This Fu Cun can also be regarded as a fellow villager of Wanqiu (now Huaiyang, Henan) in Chenzhou, next door to their hometown of Gwangju. It's just that compared with these pawns and military officials, the relationship with the main general is also closer; When he broke through with Li (Hanzhi), he stepped on the ditch and broke his leg, but he couldn't keep up (was abandoned) and became a prisoner of the rebels.

"Then why are you here, with us, wouldn't it be nice to continue to pick up stinky mud and dig ditches?"

Wang Zhenzhi, who was poured a basin of cold water, glared at him not to be outdone.

"Naturally, I also want to exonerate myself from these heavy and arduous hard labor, how can this ability of my generation be buried in this filthy and smelly ditch."

Fu Cun, who was dismissed, still had a cold face, but he didn't say anything angry.

"It's just that if I can return from the battle, I won't continue to be with the thieves. Didn't the Taiping thief say that the unintentional person would pay back the passage fee if he went to stay? I don't expect to be able to pay anything for the journey.,It's good to pay me back and leave on my own.。。 ”

"Since you have this heart, it's good, and please ask Lao Fu and my brother to take care of each other before the battle."

Wang Xianchao was unimpressed, and immediately smiled.

"I still have a few things here that I don't need for a while, so you can use them separately, and you can last a little longer in the formation, right?"

"What the hell is this?"

Wang Xiangui picked up one of the biggest ones.

"This is a paper armor, which is said to be a nail made by the early rebels with mulberry paper and glue; Don't look at its tattered appearance, it's good inside, if it's a little farther away, ordinary bows and arrows can't shoot through; It's not very durable and it's not afraid of flooding, but it's enough to deal with it for a while."

Wang Xianchao hurriedly explained.

"Even though it's only half of this remnant, it's also a cover tied to the chest."

At this moment, the whistle sounded for a long time, and surrounded by sergeants holding the winding repeater and the iron single crossbow, a cart stacked with various weapons was also pushed in front of them, the temporarily released prisoners of war and the miscellaneous servants who had volunteered to get out.

"Take care,"

。。。。。。

With the mournful whistle, it resounded in the sky in the reeds on the riverside; Suddenly, a rain of arrows that buzzed like locusts in the sky staggered over a fleet of boats that were slowly swaying and paddling along the gentle, slightly wide river.

It was like a shower of rain that blew with a gale blowing. Suddenly, these figures, standing or sitting on the planks of the ship, like porcupines or sugar gourds, with their tail feathers, fell into the water without saying a word or screaming, and splashed many waves and blisters with a crimson color.

And there were many rockets with smoke trails, and when they were nailed to the ship's board, the bundled paper tubes burst and burned; Some of them even spewed out a lot of pungent poisonous smoke.

These poisonous smoke and flames suddenly made those officers and soldiers who tried to hide in the cabin unable to survive anymore under the smoke and fire, and could only carry a little spark and charred marks on their bodies, and rushed out of the bamboo shed or the canopy and cabin roof of the wooden vault and fell into the water one after another.

However, even after paying a lot of casualties and hiding in a river full of floating corpses, the fate of these surviving officers and soldiers has only just begun.

As they paddled and dived with their hands and feet, relying on floating corpses and wounded companions as cover, trying to dodge the indiscriminate fire of the crossbowmen who had already appeared in the reeds on the shore, they tried to wade and climb towards the shore on the other side, which was less threatening; But I found that there were already enemies with spears and bows and arrows on this side。。。。。

And the battle in the river continued, and after the small and medium-sized river boats had been set on fire and sunk one after another, in the middle and rear of the flotilla there were still a dozen larger river boats, which relied on quite strong decks and freeboard shields as cover, to block many of the projected arrows; and stubbornly resisted.

They mostly gathered together in groups of three and two to cover each other, while blocking the rockets from the shore and constantly splashing water to extinguish them, while lowering fishing nets and ropes, sheltering and rescuing the soldiers who were struggling and floating in the river, and at the same time having the spare strength to carry out a limited counterattack with the bow and crossbow of the boat through the broadside.

And behind the camouflaged trees on a slope not far from the river, there is a temporary field command post with a unique flavor.

"According to the previous capture, Zhang Quan, the coastal soldier and horse envoy, is the old department of Wang Ying, the commander of the Wolf Mountain Suppression Rebellion in the second year of Qianfu."

In front of a spread map, Qu Chengyu, who was already the left deputy of the Taiping Second Army's cavalry, said.

"After appeasing the imperial court, he was appointed to General Jinwu, and since then he has been entrenched in Mingzhou and has been raising boat divisions to sweep the sea, and Dong Chang has a lot of contention with the Badu regimental training;"

"Among them, the people who relied on: one said that after Wang Ying's defeat, he went to the old department of Wolf Mountain (now Wolf Mountain Town, Chongchuan District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province); The two are the children of the group training recruited locally in Mingzhou; The second is the boat soldiers who travel to and from the inland river and set up a card to pass Jinjin, which is also one of the battles for the Zhang family to be fierce on the road. ”

"This time, the rebel army had many defeats, most of them refused to be in the front of the army, but they did not guard against the back roads, grain roads, cities, and strongholds, so they were attacked by these boats and soldiers who were long in the waterway, and they were in chaos, and they were defeated one after another."

"It is this outpost battle that is to take advantage of the gallop of our cavalry battalion; Cut off quickly or weaken the minions and eyeliner of the Mingzhou army to the greatest extent. At the very least, it should not dare to act recklessly. ”

"The big ships of Mingzhou are starting to try to dock. It seems to want to fight back. ”

At this time, a prisoner with smoke and sweat all over his body walked in and shouted

"That's good, it's exactly what I want."

Qu Chengyu couldn't help but clench his fists and applaud. As a local tyrant group in Annan who was harassed by the barbarian attack, he actually lacked the experience of entangled and fighting with them in the water towns and river networks.

"I don't know Deputy Qu Lang, but I think it's good."

As his assistant jumping general, Lin Ming frowned a little.

"Now I am afraid that those who can still resist stubbornly are the backbone of these Mingzhou boat soldiers; If this generation wants to rely on the ship and get rid of it with all his might, I'm afraid that the means we have prepared temporarily will not be able to stop the majority. ”

Qu Chengyu explained patiently.

"But they actually want to come to the shore to fight our army on the spot, which really doesn't know the height of the sky, and they don't know the strength of our Taiping army. Next, as long as the correspondence is appropriate, discipline them for not being able to run a few.。。 ”

On the riverside, through many sticks sticking out downward, braving the rain of arrows and fireworks, he slowly leaned towards the double-decker riverboat on the shore; Zhang Jisi, who was the captain of the Mingzhou boat soldiers and one of the two major inland river patrol envoys, was also staring at the thieves on the shore who kept shooting arrows through the gaps in the left and right subordinates holding regimental signs.

Although the ambush and sneak attack suffered by the temporary unpreparedness caused many casualties to the troops of this boat on the small and medium-sized river boats, as long as the more experienced core troops on the big ships are still there, there is still a chance to make up for it in the future.

It's just that after he was attacked by the enemy, he gave up these troops who were still struggling in the river, and he was unwilling to flee and take the main road. He also wants to save some face and loss;

Especially after some shooting, he already keenly felt that these array of thieves who were shooting arrows in turn on the shore were not very generous, and it was probably just a bluff; And after a long period of ejaculation, there are already obvious signs of weakness and weakness. Therefore, he resolutely raised the banner of an all-out counteroffensive on the shore.

"Kill,"

"Avenge the brothers,"

"What a lot of thieves."

"It's right now."

With the obvious tremor of the large riverboat desperately holding out the long pole and slowly bottoming out on the shore, the shouts and roars of one after another bloomed almost one after another on these riverboats.

At this time, the thieves who were shooting on the shore seemed to be shocked and frightened by their courage and determination, and the arrows in their hands became more and more sparse, and even began to retreat in droves into the faintly wrong reeds.

As the planks of the boats that were thrown down with a clang slammed into the river stalls, the boatmen who were holding their cards and regimental cards high also jumped out of the boat gang and fell into the shallow water with splashes; They can't wait to use the severed thief's head and blood to wash away and vent their anger.

Subsequently, Zhang Jisi, who personally held a flying fork water pattern flag and wore a shark leather armor and a leather holster, also stepped on the board. However, he saw many objects flying in the air with traces of smoke; I couldn't help but raise my hand and shout:

"Is it a rocket again?"

At that moment, the deafening roar and rising fireworks enveloped and drowned the soldiers and soldiers who were still on the ship, including him.

(End of chapter)