And in the battlefield of Hanzhou (Guanghan, Sichuan), the official army camp that began to lose the upper hand.

"What, the Shence Town Army on the right flank has been defeated and retreated。。 Dongchuan Ruishi has already rushed into the divine crossbow array. ”

And in front of the battle array, General Zuo Jinwu, who was covered with sweat and blood on his battle robes and armor, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites of the Inspectorate, and Liu Jurong, the anti-ban envoy of the gates in front of the palace, were also roaring at his own soldiers.

"Oh no, the Huangtou Army, the Bao'er Army on the left, and the regimental training of various states have also begun to retreat, and the remaining generals who are still fighting on their own have all fallen into the enemy's encirclement."

Then another general rushed to the school and shouted.

"How can this be reasonable, it is only a hundred and ten steps away."

Liu Jurong hatefully looked at the Dou Da Yang character general banner who was already not far away, as if he wanted to put the flag in his eyes, and finally ordered to lead the soldiers and horses gathered around him to turn around and turn back.

"The barrel shooting team gave me all the strength to shoot the enemy's central army, cover the right turn of the formation, and pick up the three generals."

In the Dongchuan Army's main formation on the opposite side, Yang Shili also looked at it with palpitations, turned the big banner of "Liu" in the distance, and let go of the whip and bridle that were ready to be turned in at any time.

"Congratulations to the marshal, all the armies have been defeated in front of you. The door to Chengdu has been opened. Please also take advantage of the victory to chase the death to the north. ”

The bloodied vanguard generals all knew that the soldiers and horses were Hao Li, and they congratulated loudly on the side.

"Poor Kou Mo chasing, that peerless Kou Shuai Liu Deliang (Jurong) is not an easy person; What he is best at is foot shooting and rewinding tactics.,Don't fall into his hand easily.。。 ”

Yang Shili waved his hand.

"The order was given to slow down his pace with the arrows of the Shooting Battalion, and the horses marched around his headquarters, and attacked the rest of the retreating men first. As long as you can get rid of the evil and get the holy car, this generation will not have to worry. ”

In Chengdu, dozens of miles away, General Zuo Shenwu, who was temporarily summoned to the head of the city, and Zhou Bao, the envoy of the left and right guards, bowed down in front of Tang Xizong and shouted hoarsely: "The servants should do their best to protect the Holy Lord. ”

"Let you lead the former team brothers, and quickly welcome the Fu, Mu, Ze, and Shou kings and clansmen in the Xishan Villa into the line and settle them properly."

Tang Xizong also slightly led Rong's back to explain.

Then shortly after, he got a corresponding reply.

"What, the kings have been welcomed into the Xichuan Festival? ,It's so good.,I'm at ease.。。 ”

Tang Xizong's face did not change and said freely.

"Come on, summon the left and right regiments in Chengdu to train Mu Yan and Lin Shun to come and show the military situation."

And in the Xichuan Festival at the northern end of Zicheng, Tian Lingzi scolded Chen Jingxuan, the envoy of the Xichuan Festival:

"Look at the good deeds you have done, why don't you hurry up and escort the kings to the line and get people into the festival. That's all you have and vision? ”

"I, I, this is not for the eldest brother. Why?"

Chen Jingxuan also lamented in panic: Then he was coldly looked at by Tian Lingzi and quickly changed his words.

"I'll do it, but in case the front is defeated, how can this be good, except for these united sons and tooth soldiers who defend the city, there are no soldiers available. I would have known it earlier. ”

"In fact, we still have soldiers and horses available, and the mountains and towns of Victoria and Maozhou have always been the choice of the feudal armies of all dynasties; You can send someone to spread the rumor, so that it can quickly bring its own swords, guns, bows and horses to escort it. ”

Tian Lingzi said with deep eyes.

"The most important thing at the moment is that I have stabilized my position up and down; Just insist on going to Gao Renhou's side and bring the troops back to help. Send a few more messengers to ask where Gao Renhou's thief army has gone. I asked him if he still wanted the festival in Dongchuan Town. If you want to, you can quickly raise troops and come back to serve. ”

In the territory of Zizhou (now Ziyang, Sichuan) in the south of Jianchuan, Gao Renhou, the Meizhou defense envoy and Xichuan crusade envoy who led troops north along Zishui (Neijiang), also just broke through the stubborn resistance of the Anyi (town) army, killed more than 1,000 people and burned its military village.

Then, before he could reorganize and reinstate his army and get back on the road, he heard an unexpected news.

"Another fifth wave of messengers from Chengdu has arrived in the army? Yang Maoyan, the deputy envoy of the march, had already led 5,000 marching battalions in advance, and only a few days of dry rations were lightly loaded。。 ”

- I'm the dividing line -

In the mountains to the west outside the city of Xiangyang, with the successive orders and neatly waved small flags, a large group of fireworks and roars resounded in the muzzle of a cannon, shaking the frost on the treetops and trees near and far, and the birds and beasts fled in groups.

Then, it turned into a fleeting whistling trail, falling one after another behind the bunkers and trenches on the hillside, which were used as targets to simulate the real battlefield, and were made of real materials, such as horses, barracks, ramparts, vehicles, and houses.

Suddenly the dust of the sputtering canopy exploded one after another, or broke into fragments; Among them, many pigs and sheep were hidden as live targets, but they were dumped on the ground in blood and rotten, and few were spared.

Immediately, the naked eye could see the steaming cannon barrels around them, and groups of artillery team operators wearing fireproof cloths and fire raccoon (asbestos) gloves were also busy again with their hands and feet;

They are almost immediately flawless in resetting, clearing, filling (packs), pressing bombs (separators), inserting (ignition) tubes; Then the prepared whistle sounded, and then burst out in the sound of the flag guiding the firing boundary and the gauge distance.

Then it moved and shifted back and forth at different distances, angles and directions, and step by step knocked down, shattered, and exploded the remnants and surviving targets and human stacks in the dust and smoke.

"It seems that the newly cast custom four-inch field (battle long-barreled) cannon has the best firing distance within 300 steps. After that, it will be lost in the depths and weakness. ”

Chen Nian, the captain of the artillery regiment, said to Yu Hou, who was recording data one by one.

"But if you emphasize accuracy, you have to be within one hundred and eighty steps to think that it is superior,"

"If you use loose pills, it is best to take less than 30 steps outside 10 steps."

"If stick and chain bullets are used, it shall be within eighty paces; Arson bombs can be reached 360 steps away. ”

"After the maximum service life test is roughly completed, the next step is to conduct high-intensity short-rapid-fire training."

In another heavily guarded valley, there was a small and neat crackling sound.

Lined up in a horizontal formation, wearing polished and shiny steel chest guards and iron scale cloaks, and wearing round-brimmed helmets, the sergeants in light gray battle robes also held a light iron square card in one hand, half-kneeling on the ground, and holding a three-pipe gun with a heavy front and a light back like a mallet with a cone-pointed three-pipe gun in the other.

I saw that they took turns beating the sub-medicine stuffed in the stimulus tube on the edge of the square card, and it turned into a puff of gray smoke that bloomed more than a dozen steps away, and there were traces of thousands of holes on the wooden target. The soldiers in the back row were constantly handing over the three-tube guns filled with the sub-medicine packets, in order to keep moving forward with the middle layer of shooting.

In the other column were sergeants dressed in lightweight two-section puff nail holsters and knee-covering, and their hands were held with long pipes thin in front and thick in the back. With the sound of slogans and whistles, the tip of the cone of the charged reed struck the primer trough, and in an instant a puff of shining sparks burst out;

Then he ignited the stuffed sub-medicine, which burst out in a dull thrust of shock, and suddenly flew the human target that had been densely combed twenty or thirty paces away, and the crumbled and beat debris flew around, and quickly became incomplete.

In another newly dug trench and in front of the breastwork, rows of sergeants dressed only in thick canvas robes stood one after another, and at the sound of the order, they stepped forward one after another to take out the elliptical projectiles in the boxes carried by their companions, and then inserted the fuse pipes taken out of the cowhide box, and threw them one after another, smashing them into the demarcated large and small rings.

On the hillside in front of the basic training ground of these fire throwing teams, there are more non-commissioned soldiers crouching behind the fence for the training of high-level grenadiers.

I saw these obviously much more experienced soldiers, rushing out alternately at the sound of the trumpet, running over the uneven ground and many obstacles, and throwing one after another splashing fire oil bombs at half of the wall and the human targets laid on it, or fire and thunder bombs that exploded a large cloud of gray smoke and fragments.

It wasn't until the trumpet sounded that he stopped practicing, and Fu Cun, who was sweating profusely and sore everywhere, that he returned his weapon and sat down on the ground; Take big gasps and scoop water to drink. The fried barley tea soup with bitterness and a little burnt aroma is so hot that it suddenly makes people transparent.

At this time, the veterans who led the team had to walk back and forth, explaining and telling them one by one to these new veterans who had not participated in the training for a long time:

"Don't be in a hurry to take off or loosen your robe, it's easy to catch the cold after sweating and heating. If you really fall ill, then you will be blind to the opportunity to come here. ”

"Don't be greedy to untie the leggings and corsetes, and you'll be punished if you can't count the points later."

"Don't drink the water too quickly, it will block the breath in the chest. That will affect the afternoon behavior. ”

"Don't drink too much tea and soup, and it won't be easy to eat in the afternoon."

Hearing the words "lunch", many soldiers who were still angry suddenly became excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and looked left and right. Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long, and the baskets loaded on the big cart for cooking filled everyone's palate with the diffuse aroma.

The basic unit is the team that sits together in a circle; There are two kinds of staple foods in a tin vat insulated by cotton cloth; One is the fragrant, crispy flatbread baked by chopped green onions and plate oil residue; A kind of rice ball made by stir-frying red beans, black beans, raw seeds, flax, and minced fish, and pressed so tightly that you can't see the gap between the rice grains.

The food served in a tin basin is a two-color meat and vegetable combination of sauced radish with red and spicy soy sauce, salted melon slices and shredded beans, and shrimp paste, dried bamboo shoots, and taro potato stewed and chopped; At the end, everyone can also get a large spoonful of salty and spicy fish cake soup to clean the leftovers of the lunch box.

After shouting slogans and singing songs in a uniform manner, everyone couldn't wait to eat and snort, not to mention how comfortable and useful;

Fu Cun also made two baked flatbreads with ease, used a few chopsticks to cushion them, and took a kneaded rice ball, broke it in half, pressed it on the cake and flattened it, and then poured it on the lid with the stewed crumbs with juice, rolled them up attentively, and then dipped them in the fish cake soup in the food box and ate them.

mixed the taste of the north and south scenery, and then bloomed layer by layer in his mouth, and it inevitably made his eyes moisten a lot. If he had this kind of all-you-can-eat food every day, why did he bother to follow the so-called principle of "the weak eat the strong", and search for and plunder those small people.

This kind of satiety is the day of conduct, and I wish it would go on forever. Who let him know that this is a luxury.

And in a small group of people who were observing the drill on the hillside not far away, Xu Yijiang, the pro-direct battalion officer and the third general, also nodded to the left and right and said:

"It looks like it's starting to take shape and it's a bit presentable. But I don't know how much it can come in handy directly. ”

Someone immediately reported:

"Today's pro-direct battalion, three brigades of the teaching team, and five artillery regiments of the model team; There are also grenadier seeds specially selected by the various armies, who are trained here to be equipped with new firearms, except for those who are currently on duty. Among them, the shortest training was more than two months, and the longest was more than half a year."

"Most people have mastered the basic gun exercises fluently, and only the difference in proficiency remains; However, it is the mastery and mastery of long and short cannons and mountain artillery, flying fire mines, volcanic mines, and directional blasting, but it still takes enough time to polish it. ”

"But it doesn't matter, on the orders of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, let's first pull out at least two battalions of human heads for me who are familiar with the use of guns."

Xu Yi conveyed the command from the words.

"According to the current progress and outline, I am afraid that we can only barely scrape together a battalion of more people."

The person in charge of the training camp couldn't help but look at each other before someone explained.

"Then mix the old and the new, and wait until the battle formation to practice further in actual combat."

Xu Yijiang has been prepared for a long time.