Hu Dawei was worried that the Liukou would set up an ambush on the west bank of the Jialu River, or attack half-crossing, and when he began to cross the river, he was still cautious, and waited until more than 1,000 soldiers landed on the west bank and established a temporary defensive formation, and then he put his mind at ease.

He shouted and told the soldiers to cross the river quickly, while staring at the other side, the rangers had already investigated, as long as you got ashore, there was a flat river in front of you, and there was no place to set up an ambush at all, unless the rogues made a hole and drilled into the ground!

Hu Dawei's heart, more excited than the soldiers, after chasing for so long, finally had a chance to catch the Liukou, the ranger told him that the Liukou is twenty miles outside the southern city, is distributing food to the people, this distance, as long as the brothers work harder, in a blink of an eye, they can catch up, the Liukou has made the brothers suffer a lot, this opportunity is coming, it will definitely let the brothers relieve their anger, it is the surrender of the Liukou, and there is no need to stay.

But Hu Dawei didn't understand that the soldiers of the imperial court, the food was unsustainable, if it wasn't for the expedition, it would be difficult to get enough food, why did the Liukou have a surplus of food? If it weren't for the abundance of food and grass, they would never have distributed food to the people.

In this world, the rogues are even richer than the imperial court?

In Hu Dawei's heart, he was envious of the Liukou, the Liukou could loot at will, but the officers and soldiers couldn't, if it was on the grassland, they could loot at will, and he once again remembered the life on the grassland.

Just when Hu Dawei was angry, a guard suddenly shouted next to him: "My lord, the rogue is here......"

"The Rogue is here? How many people are there? "Hu Dawei felt strange, the officers and soldiers had already established a foothold on the West Bank, and the Liukou came here at this time, didn't they look for death?

His heart suddenly moved, perhaps the Liukou had just discovered that the officers and soldiers had crossed the river, and the main force had not yet fled, so he sent out the soldiers to attack, wanting to wait to hold off the officers and soldiers and cover the retreat of the main force......

With the naked eye, it can be seen that there are thousands of people in the black pressure of the rogues, and they are approaching the line of defense of the officers and soldiers on the west bank.

Hu Dawei naturally will not put the Liukou in his eyes, if the Liukou has combat effectiveness and has the strength to fight with the officers and soldiers, there is no need to go around in circles, being chased for half of Henan, they must be covering the main force!

To Hu Dawei's surprise, Liukou did not take the initiative to attack, but stopped outside the range of the officers and soldiers' bows and arrows, across the Jialu River, he could not visually measure the accurate distance, but the officers and soldiers did not release the arrows, and the Liukou must be outside the range.

Liu Zongmin took the soldiers of the second regiment and stopped at a hundred paces away from the Ming army, and more than 5,000 soldiers were arranged in a fan shape, blocking the Ming army on the west bank of the Jialu River, from the inside to the outside, there were a total of three rows of gunners.

Looking at the extremely nervous Ming army on the other side, a cold smile appeared on the corner of Liu Zongmin's mouth, "Damn, I chased Lao Tzu for half of Henan, and now let you know that the rifle of the Heavenly Mandate Army is not something you can afford to provoke!" ”

"Report to the head of the group, ready!"

"Ready!"

"Ready!"

Liu Zongmin finally looked at the Ming army opposite with some sympathy, and squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Shoot!" ”

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

The gunners of the 16,700 Heavenly Mandate Army in the front row pulled the trigger almost at the same time, and the same number of bullets roared towards the Ming army on the opposite side, and the archers in the front row of the Ming army had been measuring the distance of the Liukou, seeing that the Liukou was about to enter the range of the bow and arrow, but the Liukou suddenly stopped, they were annoyed, and they did not pay attention to the Liukou but there was a movement.

After the initial astonishment, some soldiers noticed that there was blood in one part of their body, followed by pain, and screams were incessant......

Just when the Ming army was in chaos, the second row of gunners of the Heavenly Mandate Army began to shoot, followed by the third row, more than 5,000 bullets were fired, and the Ming army's defense line on the west bank of the Jialu River had completely collapsed, nearly 2,000 soldiers, almost all of them were wiped out.

The gunners of the Heavenly Mandate Army did not stop shooting, and Liu Zongmin asked the soldiers to raise their guns and aim at the Ming troops who were crossing the river.

Hu Dawei will see that after the officers and soldiers were hit by the rogues, the remaining soldiers not only did not bravely rush towards the rogues, but retreated along the pontoon bridge to the east bank, and met the soldiers who were crossing the river, and the pontoon bridge was blocked for a while.

Even if they retreated to the pontoon bridge, the Ming army was still passively beaten, and the screams soon extended to the pontoon bridge, and Hu Dawei saw with his own eyes that the soldiers on the pontoon bridge seemed to be hit by invisible wooden sticks, and jumped up one by one screaming, and then drilled into the river.

Blood-red waves rose from the river, and the soldiers who were not yet dead fluttered a few times, quickly connecting the waves into a line, and the sides of the pontoon bridge soon turned completely dark red.

Although Hu Dawei ignored the call of the soldiers, the dark red river water shocked him, and his brain was stunned for a while.

The remaining soldiers on the pontoon bridge automatically retreated to the east bank, although the number was small, but the impact was very great, completely breaking away the soldiers who were about to walk on the pontoon bridge, and even the overseers behind were swept away.

Hu Dawei was furious, drew his sword and killed a soldier with his own hands, "Lao Tzu didn't give the order to withdraw the army, who let you retreat without permission?" ”

The retreating soldiers could not give a reason, and they did not know why they were retreating, and the soldiers on the west bank ran back along the pontoon bridge, and the soldiers on the pontoon bridge had to retreat to the east bank.

The speed of the Ming army was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, the soldiers on the pontoon bridge almost completely retreated to the east bank, with only a small number of wounded soldiers, screaming in despair while groping around, and could not find the direction of retreat at all.

Hu Dawei couldn't wait to kick these soldiers into the river one by one, but in front of the rogue, he was so embarrassed that the faces of the officers and soldiers were all lost by them.

Liu Zongmin divided a thousand soldiers, mended the wounded soldiers of the Ming army on the west bank one by one, and took advantage of the soldiers to clean up the wounded soldiers of the Ming army on the pontoon bridge, he came to the west bank, looked at the Ming army on the other bank, and said: "Can the rifle shoot down the other bank?" ”

"It seems too far, go down and ask." The pro-soldiers soon returned, followed by five soldiers, "reported to the regimental commander, the five soldiers said that they could shoot to the opposite bank. ”

Liu Zongmin was overjoyed, wiped the short beard on his chin, and said: "Those who shoot bullets on the other side will be rewarded with one tael of silver, and if they are shot at the Ming army, regardless of casualties, they will be rewarded with five taels of silver." ”

"Captain Xie!"

The five soldiers turned their guns and carefully aimed at the opposite bank, Hu Dawei also saw it, pointed at the west bank and scolded: "You rogues, you will conspire and sneak attack, don't run if you have the ability, let's do it with real knives # real guns against ......"

When Liu Zongmin heard Hu Dawei's words, he was more wronged than Dou E in his heart, did the Heavenly Mandate Army use conspiracy and tricks in today's battle? It's obviously a conspiracy, the rifle of the Mandate of Heaven has a longer range, and Lao Tzu hits you, but you can only cry and call your mother.

"Bang, bang......"

As soon as Hu Dawei stopped scolding, he heard the familiar voice just now, a bullet fell on the stone two or three steps in front of his feet, bounced up a burst of gray mist, startled him, and was about to scold, but a personal guard next to him covered his chest, screamed, and slowly fell......

"My lord, let's go, the rogue firearms are too powerful......"

"Ah......" Tiger Dawei was shocked, can Liukou's firearms shoot to the east coast? Could it be artillery? He visually inspected the Jialu River here, which was at least 400 paces wide, because the river was wide and the water flow was gentle, so he chose to cross the river here, could it be that Liukou's firearms were ......

"My lord, let's go." Seeing that there were rogues on the opposite side, the guards hurriedly dragged Hu Dawei out of the embankment, and hurriedly ran away, and the Ming army saw that Hu Dawei had retreated, and immediately ran away, and Hu Dawei half pushed and half fell, but fell behind.

Liu Zongmin laughed, "Who shot at the soldiers on the other side just now?" The reward is five taels of silver, and also, who will shoot the bullet to the other side? Lao Tzu is true to his word, and there will never be less silver. ”

"Thank you regiment commander" The soldiers who aimed at the opposite bank just now were all grinning, and the soldiers who were added later and were ready to shoot at the other side were a little annoyed, the Ming army retreated too quickly, otherwise, it was very likely that he would get the reward of the regiment leader......

"Commander, what about these corpses?"

Liu Zongmin glanced around, plus there were at least more than a thousand corpses on the west bank on the pontoon, "How about the casualties of the brothers?" ”

"The brothers are not dead, these are the corpses of the Ming army"

Liu Zongmin nodded, I didn't see the Ming army release arrows just now, the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army were all out of the range of the Ming army's bows and arrows, and it was useless to release arrows, he looked at the corpses everywhere, frowned and said: "Search the corpses to see if there is any information we need, since there is no our brother in the corpse, let the Ming army bury it by itself, after we leave, the Ming army will definitely cross the river." ”

"Yes, Commander of the Regiment" The soldiers were overjoyed, and searched for the corpses of the Ming army, on the one hand, for information, mainly to see if there were any property, silver, food, and so on on on the corpses of the Ming army.

The armor and weapons of the Ming army, the Mandate of Heaven army are not looked down upon, but the Governor of Heaven told them that the Mandate of Heaven Army will soon expand the army, and these armors and weapons are also good for the recruits.

Hu Dawei was coerced by the guards, and ran out of more than ten miles in one go, and the observer who stayed behind came to report: "My lord, Liukou has not crossed the river, and has gone west."

"Going west?" Hu Dawei shook off the soldiers who had been holding his arms, stopped, turned around and looked, there was no shadow of the rogue, his heart was a little settled, and he said casually: "The rogues didn't cross the river to chase?" ”

"No, the rogue has dismantled the pontoon bridge and is already far away," the observer said cautiously: "The rogue general...... Took away the armor and weapons of his brothers......"

"It's really a rogue, you know how to loot." Hu Dawei scolded, but he didn't feel good in his heart, in the first battle of the Jialu River, the officers and soldiers were completely defeated, with nearly 2,000 casualties, but they didn't even catch a single hair of the rogue, how to explain to the court?

He knew in his heart that the firearms of the Liukou were too sharp, and the responsibility for the defeat did not lie with the soldiers, and it should not be the responsibility of him, the chief general, but Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, and the imperial court, would not ask for specific details, they only asked about the result.

Hu Dawei found a rock to sit down, leaving only the most trusted guards around him, the guards knew that the adults were in a bad mood, and they didn't dare to speak for a while, and after a long time, someone whispered: "My lord, should we cross the river to pursue?" ”

"What's the use of chasing after you? It's not that there are more dead, the firearms of the rogue ......"

"My lord, the villain has an idea......"

Hu Dawei was annoyed, so he said angrily: "What kind of fart is released!" ”

The guard smiled and said, "My lord, we will continue to pursue and keep it twenty miles away......

"That's a fart...... Well? Hu Dawei suddenly understood, raised his eyes suddenly, and stared at the guard, "You mean ......?"

The guard crouched down and whispered, "As long as we are still chasing the rogue, the battle will not end......

"Then today's battle ......" Hu Dawei did not expect the pursuit in the future, today's defeat of the nest, he did not know how to explain to Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding.

"We caught up with the rogues, the brothers marched forward bravely, desperately rushed to kill, the rogues were defeated, scattered and fled, with more than 5,000 casualties, and we also lost more than 1,000 brothers......"

Hu Dawei felt that this was indeed a method, and the imperial court didn't know the real battle situation anyway, "However, the Liukou took away our armor and weapons......

"Since it's a fierce war, how can there be no war damage?" The guard smiled: "Your Excellency can report some more battle damage, on the one hand, it can show the fierceness of the battle, and on the other hand, in case there are a small number of casualties one time......

Hu Dawei was overjoyed in his heart, the Han people couldn't fight, but this was a flowery ...... If it weren't for the guards this time, I wouldn't know how to explain to the Governor...... He patted the guard on the shoulder, "I'll get five hundred taels of silver in a moment!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" The guards hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him.