Chapter 64: Collusion between officials and bandits
On the city wall of Bozhou, there are flags of the intruding army, and from a distance, it seems to be full of intruding soldiers.
More than 100 officers and soldiers under the city wall, with hundreds of villagers, scattered and rushed to the city, shouting and killing to shake the sky.
Wang Jiaping had a back flag behind him, and waved his knife to order his subordinates behind him, "Don't rush too fast, don't be accidentally injured by the firecracker, that thing is not accurate, aim at the head and hit the feet, meow in the air to shoot people, weird and terrifying, give me a cat." ”
Listening to his orders, the soldiers behind were very experienced and bent down slowly.
"Second brother, it's here again!" Zhao Zhuzi looked at the figure approaching the city wall, and turned his head to Gao Yihuan, who was wearing iron armor, and said.
Gao Yihuan walked to the battlement when he heard the sound, and looked down at the city wall, the siege of the city was still far away, but he raised his hand, waved his hand and ordered: "Release!" ”
Dozens of soldiers who had just learned how to use the musket tamped the ammunition with wooden poles, then lit the fire rope, lifted the musket and fired a round of guns flat, then retreated to reload, and the second row of soldiers stepped forward and released the guns.
For a while, the sound of "bang-bang" on the city wall was connected, and the smoke of gunpowder fired by the fire on the city head was filled and became blurred.
Gao Yihuan waved his hand, dispersed the smoke in front of him, and shouted loudly to the soldiers: "Well, it's good, just let it go." Pay attention to the dosage when charging, don't fucking blow up. ”
Archers are a class that needs to be trained, not only the skills of soldiers, but also require long-term training to be called good archery, and making a good bow is also very complicated, as short as half a year, and as long as it takes more than two years.
Gao Yihuan's archers, except for Huang San's accurate shooting, most of them were half-hangers, so when the second brother Gao distributed the supplies, he asked for a hundred firearms.
At this time, arquebuses do not have many advantages compared with bows and arrows, and the rate of fire is not even as good as that of archers, nor is it accurate, but firecrackers also have the benefits of fireworks, that is, they are fast to manufacture, fast to train, and their armor-piercing ability is also stronger.
The warriors outside the gate, who drank blood since he was a child, killed people like killing chickens, and could bend his bow and shoot birds at a few years old, the second brother wanted to play with them with bows and arrows, but he was definitely not their opponent, and the second brother had no time to train qualified archers.
The world is about to change, what the second brother needs is speed and quantity, and the firecracker can just meet his needs, so he chose to equip the firecracker.
It's just that the quality of this batch of guns is very average, and in a few days, three or four shots were scrapped, and a soldier was injured, which caused psychological obstacles to the soldiers.
"Second brother! It's been a few days, when are we going to act! Zhao Zhuzi looked at the people in the city howling and didn't rush, and the soldiers in the city couldn't help but ask.
"Let's leave tomorrow!" Gao Yihuan replied casually, he suddenly saw a person put his head to the side, he didn't dare to look at his fire, and immediately pointed at the person and scolded: "Wang Yong, you are a pinch of birds, try to tilt your head again!" ”
Yesterday, when shooting guns in the city, a gunslinger next to Wang Yong, because he put too much medicine, suddenly exploded when he fired, and the whole person was covered with blood and wailed and rolled on the ground, which scared Wang Yong a lot and left a shadow in his heart.
When he released the gun today, he was worried about exploding, so before he released the gun, he closed his eyes and twisted his head to the side, not daring to watch the fire gun fire.
He listened to the angry scolding of the second brother Gao, and was so shocked that he hit a shot, so he hurriedly stepped back to reload~
"Second brother, they retreated again!" At this time, Zhao Zhu suddenly pointed to the city and said.
Gao Yihuan looked back, and not long after Fang Chong arrived at the city, the officers and villagers who had been howling for a while retreated.
Wang Jiaping knew that Gao Yihuan was in Bozhou, so he didn't dare to go too far ahead, for fear that the guy would deliberately shoot him by mistake, so he roared for a while, and as soon as the golden sound sounded behind him, he hurriedly retreated.
This play is an additional condition put forward by Liu Liangzuo, the purpose of which is to show Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, that Gao Yihuan has been acting for five or six days.
Liu Liangzuo knew that there were not many people in Bozhou City, and most of the thieves had returned to Germany, but Ma Shiying didn't know it.
Ma Shiying didn't know that the thieves had retreated, thinking that the main force of the Guide thief army was heading south, which gave Liu Liangzuo an opportunity to cheat and get credit, he sent Huang Shou to lead hundreds of people, and Gao Yihuan fought in Bozhou for a few days, so he could perform a drama of defeating the main force of the Guide thief army and fighting hard to recapture Bozhou.
In this way, he can get credit in both the north and south directions, not only can the defeat of Germany be written off, but the imperial court will also reward him.
Gao Yihuan watched the officers and soldiers retreat, and ordered, "Pillar, you have a good look at the city, don't let the officials and soldiers fake it." ”
Zhao Zhuzi nodded, Gao Yihuan immediately turned around and went down to the city, returned to the mansion, and asked people to find Ma Hongshan to come over, and after discussing a few things, he would withdraw from Bozhou tomorrow morning.
After a while, the horseman walked in with a red face, and he was in a very good mood.
Xiang Yong, who helped the officials and troops to attack the city outside the city, was the person he organized, and this time he also took a share of the credit, maybe he could get a pawn.
Although the official of the canonical history is not in the stream, he is in charge of the arrest and prison of a county, and he is a role with real power.
Gao Yihuan saw him come in, and without waiting for him to salute, he said: "Ma Yuanwai, tomorrow morning, I will leave Bozhou, you inform Huang Qianhu outside the city to prepare to take over the city." ”
"Captain, are you leaving?" The horseman was slightly stunned.
Gao Yihuan smiled, "Could it be that the horsemen are reluctant to let me go?" ”
Ma Yuanwai smiled awkwardly, he just hoped to fight for a few more days, so that the Governor Ma of Fucheng would know that it was not easy for them to recapture Bozhou, and it was after a hard battle, so that his credit could be greater.
He and Ma Shiying are of the same clan, they are distant relatives, and in terms of seniority, Ma Shiying still has to call him uncle. With this relationship, coupled with the credit for recovering Bozhou, he can operate it and take a walk, and he may be able to find an errand to be a pawn.
Ma Yuanwai naturally doesn't want Gao Yihuan to stay in Bozhou all the time, he has always been a rogue, not bound by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, saying that killing people can kill people, nothing can restrain him, such a person is very terrifying, similar to Emperor Laozi.
After Gao Yihuan left, Bozhou returned to the imperial court, then he was protected by the law, which made him feel more secure, and Gao Yihuan didn't leave, how could he do evil in Bozhou?
"Captain Gao is busy with affairs, although the old boy wants to stay for a few more days, he doesn't dare to delay Captain's time." Ma Yuanwai said: "The old boy will go out of the city to inform Huang Qianhu later!"
"There's no rush to the notice." Gao Yihuan waved his hand, pointed to the chair and asked him to do it, and then said, "I came to you because I have a few things to tell you."
Seeing that the horsemen were listening carefully, Gao Yihuan immediately continued: "Regarding the grain, after you buy it from the south, you don't need to send it to Luyi, I will let people bring silver to Bozhou to trade with you, so you can rest assured?"
If the grain is sent to Luyi, and Gao Yihuan does not give money, then there is no way outside the horseman, and the transaction in Bozhou is different, as soon as Gao Yihuan leaves, Bozhou is controlled by the official army, and the horseman does not see the silver, so he can not give grain.
In addition, if he is investigated, he can still shirk it, he doesn't know the identity of the person who bought the grain, but if he sends it to Luyi, there will be no chance to quibble.
The horseman immediately nodded, "Captain, the old boy has no opinion." ”
"The matter of the grain trade is decided like this." Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, suddenly took out a few pieces of paper, spread them on the table, looked up and said, "Ma Yuanwai, come and take a look, I hope you can send someone to Jingdezhen to customize a batch of porcelain vases for me." In addition, find a place in the south of the Yangtze River, order some iron boxes, I have drawn them for you, and also wrote the requirements for the size of the bottle and how many medicines to contain, and you can let them do it according to the picture. ”
The horseman stepped forward, and on two pieces of paper, one was a very small porcelain vase, only the size of a baby's fist, and the other iron box was not very large.
The amount of gunpowder has been stipulated in Qi Shuai's time, Gao Yihuan just wants to use two utensils to be more standardized, using a porcelain bottle of uniform size to hold propellant, each soldier carries more than a dozen, and pour it directly from the bottle when firing, so as to avoid more and less panic in battle, as for the iron box, it is used to hold lead bullets.
The horseman glanced outside, and he didn't know what it was, but it shouldn't be a big problem, "This old boy will let people do it, but I don't know how much the lieutenant wants?" ”
Gao Yiyi was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Six thousand porcelain vases first, six hundred iron boxes, if it is not enough, I will send someone to entrust you to purchase~"
Ma Yuanwai thought that he wanted more than a dozen, but when he said such a number, he couldn't help but suspect that he had heard it wrong~
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