Here, the White Lotus Sect Leader Xu Hongru also felt the change in the atmosphere, for fear that these disciples and grandchildren who had gathered around him temporarily, and who might not even trust him, would be frightened away by the scholar in front of him in a few words.

So Xu Hongru barely held back the pain in his shoulder, which suddenly became more and more intense, and said to everyone: "Don't listen to that poor scholar blowing conch. Tens of thousands of Nanjing defenders have been repelled by us with three punches and two feet, how many people are there under Ji Qingwen, what are you afraid of them doing? ”

In fact, the number of Nanjing defenders killed just now was less than 10,000, and Xu Hongru deliberately said that the number was several times more in order to boost morale.

Hearing this, several backbone disciples in the White Lotus Sect immediately echoed in a loud voice:

"The sect leader has supernatural powers, and his mana is boundless! Mingzun appears to the world, and the demons retreat! ”

"The sect leader has supernatural powers, and his mana is boundless! Mingzun appears to the world, and the demons retreat! ”

"The sect leader has supernatural powers, and his mana is boundless! Mingzun appears to the world, and the demons retreat! ”

They shouted in unison more than a dozen times in a row, and the believers around them also shouted: "The sect leader has supernatural powers, and his magic power is boundless!" Mingzun appears to the world, and the demons retreat! ”

Their shouts were louder and louder, and they gradually dispelled the fear in their hearts, and they seemed to be full of confidence, and their faces were flushed and their voices were hoarse, as if they were ready to be martyred at any time.

Ji Qingwen, who was about thirty steps away, saw such a scene, and pulled Li Yan's sleeve in disappointment, and said, "Brother Li, it's a pity that you have said so many words, and finally you still play the piano to the cow...... It seems that it is useless to reason with these followers, and they can only know that they are wrong if they teach them a good lesson and beat them up. ”

Li Yan was originally a little conceited about Fang Cai's own rhetoric, but in the end, he tried his best to convince these White Lotus Sectists on the other side, so he had to shake his head and say: "Alas, I am also a good heart, thinking that if these people don't believe in Xu Hongru's set of fallacies, they can still be regarded as good citizens...... Pity...... It's a pity ......"

Li Yan couldn't help but sigh a few times and said, "Okay, the student's kindness, even if it's for the dog, Brother Ji, please do it!" ”

After that, Li Yan unfolded the folding fan in his hand, lowered his head and paced back to the back of the formation, disappointed as if he was a general who had lost a decisive battle.

Although Ji Qingwen's side also wanted to defeat the White Lotus Sect rebels in front of him immediately, but after all, the opponent was outnumbered, and he only had a thousand brothers under his command, but he was also fighting fiercely for a long time, exhausted, and many of them were slightly or seriously injured, so he had no confidence in victory, and he did not make up his mind to launch a general attack for a while.

Xu Hongru over there was full of confidence, seeing that Ji Qingwen suddenly hesitated, and thought that he was afraid of himself, so he summoned Zhou Xiuying and Xu Daoqing: "See?" Ji Qingwen, this little thief, swears by his words, but the soldiers and horses in his hands are only one-tenth of ours, so we will catch him first. ”

So Xu Hongru asked Zhou Xiuying and Xu Daoqing to lead 3,000 men and horses each, and detoured back to Ji Qingwen's left and right flanks from the left and right directions, and he personally led an army to attack from the front - thus forming an all-round attack posture, and he wanted to finish his work in one battle, and defeat the so-called "Ming Wu Army" under Ji Qingwen through this charge.

Xu Hongru's deployment made some sense, but this White Lotus Sect Master was only half a bucket of water in terms of the art of war.

Although he had a three-way attack plan, he had no choice but to have a very narrow front of the "Jade Courtyard", and so many more than 10,000 people were already standing shoulder to shoulder at the intersection, and it was a little difficult to catch their breath, so how could he leave room for them to attack in a roundabout way?

Therefore, the ideal three-way attack was squeezed into a fierce attack by the ruthless reality, and what they faced was the "Ming Wu Army" under Ji Qingwen, who was extremely well defended.

Ji Qingwen saw that Xu Hongru on the opposite side was attacking all the way to the death, so he didn't use his brain to think more about how to deal with it, and without hesitation, he ordered the whole army to fire a volley of guns at the enemy arrows on the opposite side.

Although such a salvo may hit Zhou Xiuying, who is in Ji Qingwen's heart, but now is a matter of life and death, the matter of beauty naturally has to be put back, and for the time being, he can only save his life first, and then he can take care of Zhou Xiuying's safety.

Because the White Lotus Sect on the opposite side intentionally or unintentionally adopted a dense shock formation, the thousand muskets equipped by the thousand "Ming Wu Army" under Ji Qingwen did not need to be aimed at all, and as many as five or six hundred people were killed and wounded in a volley.

After the first blow hit, Xuan Wei quickly reloaded the "paper bullet" he had learned from Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Shandong, and pulled the trigger to fire another volley.

With the "paper bullets", the reloading speed of the flintlock pistol increased by more than a third, and in the blink of an eye, four volleys were fired, killing and wounding 1,200 White Lotus Cultists, not to mention 1,200 or 300 people.

If it continues to be fired like this, all nearly 10,000 White Lotus Sect followers will be wiped out by the muskets of the "Ming Wu Army" in less than an hour, but now the distance between the two sides is extremely short - only a few dozen steps - in the blink of an eye, the White Lotus Sect has already killed the opponent, and the "Ming Wu Army" can engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Xu Hongru had just been injured by the pistol in Ji Qingwen's hand, so what he was most afraid of was the thousand flintlock pistols imported from the West, and now the disciples and grandchildren of the White Lotus Sect under his name had already killed in front of the opponent, Xu Hongru couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and shouted loudly: "Disciples, we will kill all the officials and troops in one go, occupy Nanjing, and revitalize the Holy Sect, just today!" ”

Although this Xu Hongru is old, his martial arts are extraordinary and full of neutrality, and these words are loud and magnetic, and he immediately stirs up the confidence and morale of the White Lotus disciples, and they have picked up the simple tools and farm tools in their hands and slashed their heads and faces at the opponent "Ming Wu Army".

The White Lotus disciples originally thought that as long as they narrowed the distance with their opponents and eliminated the advantage of the musket's long-range strike, they would naturally be able to regain the upper hand, and then rely on their superiority in strength to defeat the defenders of Nanjing, just like the "Ming Wu Army" in front of Manchu.

What they didn't know, however, was that the firearms of the "Ming Wu Army," which had completely absorbed the organization, training, and combat methods of the "Qi Army," were certainly very powerful, but cold weapons combat was also something they were good at.

I saw that the soldiers of the "Ming Wu Army" saw that the opponent was rushing closer and closer, running faster and faster, and killing more and more, and immediately followed Ji Qingwen's order, after shooting the last musket bullet in the chamber, he put the musket on his back again, and pulled out the sword worn on his waist and the rattan card hanging on his back, holding the knife in one hand and the shield in the other, and using his Yu Dayou's military knife technique, he slashed at the opponent.

According to the fencing skills of the Japanese samurai, they should be dressed and held with both hands in order to give full play to the maximum power of the sword.

However, although this kind of sword and swordsmanship is powerful, it is only a martial art of two people fighting to the death one-on-one, and it is not suitable for the hundreds of soldiers of the two armies to face each other in a dignified manner.

Therefore, Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general who was as famous as Qi Jiguang, deliberately adapted the Japanese knife method, the two-handed knife is a single-handed knife, and the other hand can hold a shield to protect the torso, so that although the attack power of the Japanese knife is inevitably weakened, it has greatly increased the defensive power, and has become a set of concise and practical knife techniques suitable for the regular army.

Of course, the original version of the sword technique was also recorded by Yu Dayou, and evolved into a set of general martial arts that can be used on long knives, long sticks, and spears - and that Huang Degong practiced this set of martial arts.

The "Ming Wu Army" set of melee kung fu was used, and the rabble-like White Lotus Sect disciples on the opposite side were really not opponents, and they clearly felt the strength of the opponent at the slightest contact, and immediately retreated.

Seeing this, Ji Qingwen sneered, stretched out his hand and pointed forward, and ordered: "All the troops listen to the order, cover up for me to move forward!" ”

The troops received the order, and continued to wave the Japanese knives in their hands in a very rhythmic manner, and crushed forward step by step.

The White Lotus Sect members are just ordinary people who have entered the battle for the first time, and they can only support it by relying on a sharp spirit in their chests until now, and now that the opponent has attacked like Mount Tai pressing the top, their morale immediately collapsed, and they scattered and fled towards the city of Nanjing like a crying father and a mother.