Zhou Xiuying is such a charming and gorgeous woman, how can Ji Qingwen be willing to shoot her into rotten meat?

However, the grudge between Qin Xiangzhen and Zhou Xiuying was too great, and Ji Qingwen was inconvenient to refuse Qin Xiangzhen directly, so he could only lie and said, "That's not good." Miss Qin, Zhou Xiuying really has some skills. You see that the 'women's army' led by her is all women, and women belong to 'yin', but my artillery is the most 'yang' thing, and when I encounter an army full of women, I can't fight......"

Qin Xiangzhen really listened to Ji Qingwen's nonsense excuse, and said with a little disappointment: "I see, it seems that one thing descends one thing, although the artillery is powerful, there is still something that can restrain it......"

However, she immediately turned her sadness into joy and said, "But that's okay, just give me a chance to capture Zhou Xiuying, the demon girl, alive in person." ”

Because Ji Qingwen was ready not to use artillery, he took the opportunity of the White Lotus Sect on the opposite side of the opponent to temporarily retreat, and ordered people to move the two chariots placed at the forefront of the formation to the back of the formation, revealing the front of the formation with both offensive and defensive white pole soldiers.

Seeing that the decisive battle with the White Lotus Sect was about to break out, Ji Qingwen at this moment also wanted to talk to Zhou Xiuying opposite, but Zhou Xiuying had no choice but to lead the army to retreat to a place about 100 steps away from him, and even the power of the musket may not be able to reach it, let alone speak out.

Zhou Xiuying's side reorganized the team's formation, and waited for the White Lotus Sect Leader Xu Hongru.

As soon as Xu Hongru saw this formation, he knew that it was Xu Daoqing's first attack that was unfavorable, and he was a little annoyed in his heart, but now that he was still fighting, he couldn't reprimand Xu Daoqing, the "big disciple" under his name.

So Xu Hongru could only force a happy face and said: "It's okay, it's okay, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and now our army's vitality is not injured, and victory or defeat is still unknown." Come, let's discuss it and see how to deal with Ji Qingwen, this thief. ”

It's not so much a matter of deliberation as a straightforward decision – a second set of attack tactics.

I saw Xu Hongru and Xu Daoqing, from the more than 10,000 White Lotus disciples who had arrived on the battlefield, specially selected more than 300 strong disciples, and asked them all to wear thick cotton clothes and cotton pants, and stuffed wooden planks and iron pieces in the gaps between the clothes and pants, making the already heavy winter clothes even more cumbersome.

It was the end of August and the beginning of September, and it was the time when the autumn tigers were raging in Zhejiang, which was located in the south of the Yangtze River, and such a set of cotton clothes was worn on the body, which made these burly White Lotus disciples sweat profusely, and the sweat on their foreheads flowed down like a stream.

That's not all, Xu Hongru ordered someone to fetch a few buckets of water from the pond next to him and pour them on these people. These buckets of cold water were poured down, making these White Lotus Sect disciples a lot cooler all at once, but the amount of cold water absorbed by the cotton clothes became heavier and heavier, making it a little difficult for these carefully selected guys to walk.

Xu Hongru nodded with satisfaction, and said to these "disciples" who had not moved a single step but were already out of breath: "You are the vanguard against the imperial court eagle dogs, and we will cover behind." You will definitely be done here, and then it will be the first achievement in front of Mingzun! ”

As he spoke, Xu Hongru ordered someone to bring a few jars of fine wine, a few stacks of large bowls, and when the wine was full, he wanted to drink a bowl with these hundreds of disciples.

However, these people are so hot that they can still drink old wine?

Therefore, these people can only pretend to drink the wine in the bowl half-drunk and half-spilled, and they are already exhausted and out of breath. Xu Hongru nodded in satisfaction, and then urged these White Lotus Sect disciples wrapped like pillows to attack forward.

This is Xu Hongru recalled what he saw and heard when he was working in Beijing, and he came up with a way to fight the musket.

It turned out that he heard that a guy named "Aobai" in the Manchurian Tartars once carried a shot from Ji Qingwen's Ming Wu Army, and sniped its main general Chen Wenzhao with arrows, and later was able to retreat with his whole body. And this tartar, called "Aobai", relied on a heavy armor, so that the bullets of the musket failed to hurt his flesh.

Therefore, this is the second set of plans that Xu Hongru came up with to deal with the muskets of Ji Qing's civilized army - let the strong disciples wear wet cotton clothes, use them as meat shields to open the way for the whole army, suppress the attack of the muskets, and when they are killed with the opponent, the whole army will attack and annihilate the opponent in one fell swoop.

At this time, Ji Qingwen didn't know Xu Hongru's plans, but he felt that these guys in front of him, who were dressed up round and slow, were like moving targets, making others embarrassed not to shoot at them.

So Ji Qingwen was no longer polite to them, and immediately ordered the musketeers to fire a volley.

Unexpectedly, a burst of muskets swept by, and although they also knocked down six or seven opponents, most of the White Lotus Sect disciples who were walking slowly this way only took a few steps backwards after being shot, but they didn't seem to be injured.

Since Ji Qingwen's Ming Wu Army was formed, although it had also suffered some losses under the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the benefits of firearms had never failed, so he couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw such a scene, and hurriedly took a new telescope, and looked at the White Lotus Sect crowd - the telescope he was used to using had already been given to Qin Xiangzhen as a gift.

After taking a closer look with the binoculars, Ji Qingwen was relieved, it turned out that the White Lotus Sect was wearing heavy wet cotton clothes, which were specially used to block musket bullets.

Ji Qingwen was thinking about how to deal with it, but he heard Huang Degong's voice in his ears: "Dongjia, why aren't these guys from the White Lotus Sect afraid of guns?" Could it be that some demon magic was used? ”

Huang Degong is straightforward and fast-talking, and he is an old man brought by Ji Qingwen from the northwest, and he speaks much more casually than Ji Qingwen, so he said what many people doubted in their hearts but did not dare to say.

This kind of absurd remark that is easy to shake the morale of the army, Ji Qingwen naturally wanted to refute it on the spot, so he scolded loudly: "Huang Degong, you don't talk nonsense with me, these White Lotus bandits are just wearing thicker clothes and sprinkling water on them, so they can temporarily resist the musket." It has nothing to do with the demon law or not. If he Xu Hongru really had a demon technique that could resist muskets, how could he be injured by me with a pistol in Nanjing City? ”

As he spoke, another burst of muskets fought, still not causing much damage to the White Lotus Sect disciples who were moving towards here step by step, while the other White Lotus Sect's elite teams in the distance began to move slowly at some point, and they also pressed up.

Huang Degong scratched his head and suddenly realized: "I see! I remember that in the Beijing Division, the Manchurian Tatar Aobai was also shot by us, and he was also not killed...... However, Ao Bai seemed to be injured on the spot, and he immediately couldn't stand firmly, could it be that these White Lotus Sect in front of him were more capable than Ao Bai? I can still deal with one Aobai, so many Aobai...... I'm ......."

Huang Degong was dumbfounded, but these words gave Ji Qingwen a wake-up call.

Aobai is known as "Manchuria's first Baturu" (Baturu, Manchu "warrior"), on physical fitness, martial arts, and ingenuity, they are all first-class characters. Moreover, at that time, Ao Bai was wearing two heavy armors, and after being shot, he still inevitably broke his bones and tendons, and was immediately beaten to lose his combat effectiveness.

And there may be one or two martial arts masters in the White Lotus Sect, but it can be said that one hundred and eighty people who are more powerful than Ao Bai have suddenly appeared, which is undoubtedly a fantasy.

So what's the problem?

Ji Qingwen pondered for a long time, and finally found out the crux of the problem - the problem is the "paper bullet"!

The paper bullets learned from Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Shandong, although they were able to increase the loading speed of the musket by one-third, inevitably led to a decrease in the power of the musket, and it was this decline that caused the musket to be able to severely damage Aobai, and the power of the holy decree was not enough to stop the onslaught of the White Lotus cultists.

Thinking about this clearly, Ji Qingwen immediately ordered: "Immediately stop using 'paper bullets' and use the usual reloading method instead!" ”

When Meng Hong, the leader of the Mingwu Army's musket team, heard this, he immediately reacted and urged his brothers: "What are you still stunned about?" Why don't you hurry up and take out the gunpowder and projectiles, and load the musket in the same way as before! ”