The Liu brothers stepped forward to toast, and Cao Wenzhao raised his glass and said: "My Guards have rules that you are not allowed to drink alcohol during wartime, but today I am really happy to see you Han'er return to my Ming Dynasty, so I will make an exception and toast you with a glass of wine on behalf of all the officers of the Third Brigade of the First Division of our Guards Army, welcome you back to the Chinese family, please drink this cup!" ”

The Liu brothers saluted the officers of the Guards again, and Cao Wenzhao said: "Don't care about them, they will definitely not drink, violating military rules is not fun, I just drank a glass of wine, and then I will have to settle accounts." ”

Everyone laughed, but their hearts were stunned. It seems that the Guards are not only better equipped than the original Ming army, but also have much stricter military discipline and military regulations, and the discipline of an army is complementary to the combat strength of an army.

After the banquet, Cao Wenzhao wrote a letter about Li Yangeng's situation, and wrote a letter to Lu Xiangsheng about the situation in Fuzhou, and then asked people to send it to Gaizhou overnight.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was discussing the strategy of defending the city with Du Guangting, Chen Liyuan and others in Haizhou City. The scouts came with the news that Yue Tuo, the lord of the Red Banner Banner, was coming to Haizhou with about 4,000 Han troops and more than 3,000 armor soldiers, and should come to Haizhou tomorrow morning.

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "Old opponent, hehe, I fought in Liaoxi last time." ”

Wang Chengmin also smiled: "It seems that I didn't hurt him last time, but I can't let him go this time." ”

Although Du Guangting didn't know, he should have won Yue Tuo after hearing the two of them, so he said: "Since he is the general of the defeated army, then fight so that he no longer dares to speak bravely, and the last general will ask for battle and defeat him tomorrow." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "This person is not easy to deal with, let's see his situation tomorrow." ”

Chen Liyuan also said: "This Yue Tuo, in the battle of Liaoyang and Shenyang, had many military exploits, in Baitapu, expelled the Ming army for forty miles, and killed more than 3,000 people of our Ming army. ”

Du Guangting stopped talking, but thought that tomorrow he would have to fight no matter what, capture this guy in one fell swoop, and avenge the dead Ming army.

The next morning, the Houjin army really rushed to the outside of Haizhou. Du Guangting wanted to take advantage of the confusion of the enemy's formation to attack, so he asked Lu Xiangsheng to bring a battalion to battle. Lu Xiangsheng also wanted to take the opportunity to see the combat strength of the Houjin Army this time, but felt that one battalion was too little, so he allowed him to take two battalions to test it.

Du Guangting was overjoyed, and rushed out with the soldiers after opening the city gate. When he was two hundred paces away from the Houjin army, he stopped, straightened his ranks, and slowly advanced in three columns.

When he was fifty paces away from the enemy, Du Guangting wanted to give the order to shoot, but he hesitated, thinking that it would be better to go to thirty paces, this distance was relatively safe, but at this time, a large number of arrows were shot from the opposite side, and dozens of people were knocked down at once.

It turned out that Yue Tuo asked all the Houjin armor soldiers to shoot with bows and arrows, he had fought with the guards, and knew that letting them get close to the Houhuo was too powerful, and his own bows and arrows were at least incomparable in terms of lethality, so he simply attacked first and attacked with a rain of arrows.

Du Guangting's eyes were red, he directly ordered the attack, the bamboo whistle sounded, and the first row of the guards fired the fire guns, but the hit rate of the fire guns was greatly reduced during the march, some lead bullets were shot into the air or on the ground, and the opponents were not well distributed, some of the enemy soldiers in the front row were hit by multiple lead bullets, and some did not greet them with lead bullets at all, so they only knocked down dozens of people.

At this time, Houjin's second wave of arrow rain had come, and this wave shot down about a hundred people, although most of the people who were hit by the arrows were only injured in non-fatal parts such as legs and abdomen, but some people were shot in the head, and the injuries could not be saved.

The bamboo whistle sounded again, and the second row of firebolts fired, and this time only a hundred or so people were knocked down, and most of them were Han soldiers. At this time, the two sides were no more than thirty paces apart, and Du Guangting ordered another attack, and the sound of bamboo whistles and the sound of fire guns knocked more than 100 enemy troops to the ground.

At this time, Du Guangting ordered to stop advancing and began to charge. The rain of enemy arrows continued, and people fell to the ground one after another. The guards didn't care about it, and continued to charge, Du Guangting waved his hand and shouted: "Free shooting, no advance." ”

At this time, it was a war of attrition, the two sides were raining lead bullets and arrows, and the fighting was lively, and people kept screaming and falling to the ground, Lu Xiangsheng looked through a telescope, and the number of people on both sides fell to the ground was about the same.

Lu Xiangsheng was in a hurry, this kind of war of attrition was too unfavorable to the Guards, although the wounds of the Guards soldiers were lighter than those of the enemy, but the number of the Guards was less than that of the enemy, and they would inevitably retreat in the end, so the wounded of the Guards would be all confessed.

He said to Wang Chengmin and Chen Liyuan: "It can't go on like this, the two of you are afraid that they will be dispatched." ”

Wang Chengmin had already seen that he was anxious, and he was about to go down when he heard the sound, but Chen Liyuan was embarrassed, he naturally knew what his subordinates were like, and at this time, he wanted him to take people to attack Jiannu, but he was afraid that most of the soldiers would not dare to go out of the city.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "It's not to attack Jiannu, General Chen, you lead people to be responsible for snatching back the wounded of the Guards, Wang Chengmin, you lead the cavalry to cover the retreat of the Second Brigade, listen clearly, don't attack Jiannu." ”

The two took the order and left, and Lu Xiangsheng called the director of the artillery bureau and said: "Aim the cannon at them, and if Jiannu chases them, listen to my order to attack them." ”

Du Guangting had already repented at this time, he had known that this was the case, he should have lined up the troops in six rows or more, and he should have ordered to open fire earlier, but now like this, if he rushes up to fight a white-knuckle battle, the number of people on his side is too small, and the result will be worse, and in the end, it will be a complete annihilation. And attacking with a firearm like this doesn't have much advantage.

At this time, Wang Chengmin came behind him with a cavalry battalion, and Wang Chengmin shouted: "The division commander has an order, after General Chen takes the wounded away, the second brigade retreats slowly, and our cavalry battalion comes to cover." ”

At this time, Chen Liyuan had already gathered part of the Han army, and Lu Xiangsheng's herald stepped forward and said: "Save a wounded person for ten taels of silver, snatch back a corpse for five taels of silver, take money from people at the city gate, and pay attention to the wounded not to make their injuries worse." ”

The Han army was originally going to die and live in the whole team, most of the people were thinking about how to escape this drudgery, and now when they heard that there was such a high reward, they immediately became alive, but they just needed to grab the wounded back, but there were guards in front of them, and this safety could be guaranteed in the first place, and as long as five were snatched back, it would be fifty taels of white silver. I can't get ten taels of silver here for a year, and this business is really done.

So everyone geared up, and there was no need to fight, and there was no need to take weapons, so they first put their armor in order, and then rushed outside.

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