The war of annihilation has begun!

Fang Yuan and Qin Zhan took advantage of the cover of the night to act separately and ambushed in the grass outside the front and back doors of the post station.

The six brocade guards were divided into groups of two and two, forming a three-stage strike formation, and they all raised the fire guns, and the two teams in the front row set up the night vision devices on the fire guns, aiming at the door, as long as there were Houjin Tartars escaping, they would be killed immediately.

Jing Jie, who was in charge of the raid mission, first led eight brocade guards, carried the haystacks prepared in advance, and secretly approached the two lookouts set up by the Houjin soldiers.

Jing Jie divided six more people, and with the help of haystacks, climbed the earthen wall of the post station, and aimed at the dozen or so Houjin soldiers who were ** women in the courtyard.

"Woohoo!"

With Jing Jie's order, four gunshots rang out in the night sky, and the two outposts were solved in an instant.

At the same time, the brocade guards on the earthen wall shot wildly at the lone Houjin soldiers in the courtyard.

The sound of gunshots, the shouts of the Houjin soldiers, and the screams of the women were intertwined, and everyone was holding their heads and running around, and the yard was a mess.

After a volley of Jinyiwei, he killed eight or nine Houjin soldiers on the spot, but it also aroused the vigilance of Houjin soldiers.

Houjin Bing deserves to be the number one force in the world, and under the hasty sneak attack, he was still able to stabilize his position in a very short time, and began to shout and draw his sabers, as well as bows and arrows.

These Houjin soldiers fought with the Ming army all year round, and when they heard the gunshots, they knew that they were attacked by the Ming army's firearms. According to the usual way to deal with the firebolt is to fight at night, when the firebolt is fired, it will produce firelight, just hide behind the cover, shoot the arrow towards the place where the fire is lit, you can easily kill the Ming army who came to sneak attack.

As Jing Jie expected before, there was no need for the Ming army to do anything, and the Houjin soldiers had already started to act, extinguishing the bonfire in the courtyard, and more than ten torches, and in an instant, the courtyard was once again black and oppressive, and only a few women were still screaming in horror in the night, which was even more desolate in the night sky.

The tactics of the Houjin soldiers in the past to deal with the Ming army were unpleasant, but this time they failed, and the night battle was more conducive to the Jinyi guards who wore night vision devices.

Jing Jie ordered the Jinyi guards to hide behind the haystack guarding against bows and arrows, and observed the movements of the Houjin soldiers with night vision devices.

After the shot, the Jinyi guard hid behind the haystack to guard against the bow and arrow attack of the Houjin soldiers, and took the opportunity to use the night vision device to fill the gunpowder of the fire gun and prepare for the next round of salvo. Houjin's bows and arrows counterattacked, and all of them were shot into the haystack, and there was no threat to the Jinyi guard.

Half an hour passed, several confrontations came down, the Houjin soldiers in the dark night are tantamount to a blind man beating a clear-eyed person, can only be beaten passively, Jinyi Wei has killed more than 20 Houjin soldiers at a fixed point.

The battle losses of the Houjin soldiers have exceeded half, the morale of the army is completely lost, several Houjin generals combined, today's scene is too weird, has exceeded their understanding of the combat power of the Ming army, so it will inevitably be annihilated by the sneak attack of the Ming army in the post station.

Two or three Houjin generals decided to take advantage of the dark night, throw down the gold, silver and jewelry, as well as young men and women, and began to break through to the front and back doors of the post station.

Their plan to break out was to use the Houjin soldiers as a cover and take advantage of the chaos to escape.

As soon as more than a dozen Houjin soldiers who broke through the cannon fodder rushed out of the gate of the post station, they were shot and killed by the Jinyi guards who were ambushed outside the gate.

There are ambushes at the front and rear gates, and the Houjin soldiers in the post station have been completely surrounded.

The Houjin generals were dumbfounded, and they had a poisonous plan, the only way to break through the siege may be the only way to use the robbed woman as a cover, as long as they can get out of the post gate, they can escape.

Several Houjin generals led the only eight or nine remaining Houjin soldiers to light torches and escort more than ten women into a circle, and the Houjin people and horses all hid in the women's siege circle, bowing down to avoid being attacked by the Ming army's firearms.

Seeing this scene, Jing Jie didn't dare to order the Jinyi guards to shoot, so the Jinyi guards behind the earthen wall rushed to the front door to meet Fang Yuan.

The Houjin people have retreated to the gate of the post station, because the other party has twenty hostages in hand, Fang Yuan is also helpless, the Ming army's fire gun shooting accuracy is very low, not as good as modern sniper rifles, if the fire gun shoots, it will first kill these women as cover.

Jing Jie couldn't be the master, so he could only ask Fang Yuan's instructions, "Fang Zongqi, shoot or not?" ”

Fang Yuan hesitated for a moment, then gave up the idea of shooting with Hou Jin Bing and these women, waved his hand and said, "They still have four or five horses left, they can't escape far, wait for these women to be safe, and then pursue them." ”

The Houjin generals saw that the Ming army was a rat trap, knew that this trick was effective, and regenerated their courage, and drank the Houjin soldiers mixed with the women, driving the women to rush to the Jinyi Guard.

A few Houjin soldiers shouted as if they didn't want to die, shouting words that Fang Yuan didn't understand, and brandished their iron waist knives to kill the Jinyi Guard where Fang Yuan was.

If this group of Houjin Tartars who are fighting the trapped beasts rush in front of them, the casualties of the Jinyi Guard will be doubled.

Fang Yuan immediately made a decisive decision, and ordered the Jinyi guards to raise their guns and aim at the approaching people, and shouted in Chinese, "If you don't want to die, squat down for me!" One step closer, shoot and kill! ”

Several Han women listened to his shout, and they were so frightened that they squatted on the ground and stopped fleeing.

Hou Jin Bing couldn't understand what he was shouting, and was stunned for a moment, and was about to swing his knife to slash and kill those women who disobeyed the order and were unwilling to advance.

A dense burst of gunfire rang out, and these few Houjin soldiers who were still standing became live targets for the firearms, and they had been beaten into a sieve before they could come to their senses.

The remaining Houjin generals saw that the charging subordinates had been completely annihilated, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Jinyi guard to fill the gunpowder, turned over and fled.

The culprit fled, Fang Yuan hurriedly ordered Jinyiwei to fire a volley in the direction of the Houjin generals fleeing again, and the dense gunfire sounded again in the night, and the last two Houjin generals who fled fell off their horses and died, leaving only one person to quickly whip up and disappear into the night.

Seeing that he couldn't catch up, Fang Yuan could only order the troops to be collected and return to the post station to rest.

When the group waited until dawn, they began to count the casualties of the battle, as well as the spoils of war.

Of the more than 50 Houjin soldiers, except for one who fled, all the rest were shot and wounded. Fang Yuan ordered the Jinyi guards to cut down all the wounded Houjin soldiers, leaving no one behind, and throwing all the corpses into the woods outside the post station.

The fine iron waist swords, bows and arrows, and armor of the Houjin soldiers were all captured and used as military supplies.

Twenty-three young men and twenty-five young women were rescued; After the seizure, the gold soldiers plundered 800 taels of gold, 3,000 taels of silver, and more than 30 pieces of jewelry and jade.

Fang Yuan summoned Qin Zhan, Jing Jie, and all the Jinyi guards who participated in the battle last night, and began to discuss the rewards for meritorious deeds and distribute the spoils.

The three hundred taels of gold borrowed from Zhitian Hongyu must be repaid, and it is much more cost-effective to pay with gold in the Taobao system, and the remaining five hundred taels of gold will all be returned to Fang Yuan.

3,000 taels of silver, Captain Jing Jie made the first contribution to the raid and divided 500 taels; Qin Zhan, who was fighting hard, made a second achievement, divided into three hundred taels; The rest of the brocade guards were divided into one hundred taels each.

As for the seized jewelry and jade, Fang Yuan was not good at it, and it was of little use to hold it, so he handed it over to Tian Hongyu as a trophy.

Each Jinyi guard got a lot of silver, and everyone was excited, morale was high, and the other party's impartiality was convinced.

Qin Zhan and a few brocade guards secretly suggested that a few middle-looking women should be left to take back to the capital, but they were categorically rejected by Fang Yuan!

Military discipline is the guarantee of combat effectiveness, it is okay to rob the enemy's gold and silver, if even the people of the Ming Dynasty do not let go, then what is the difference between it and the Houjin people? As soon as it loots today, tomorrow the common people will fight back by supporting the rebels.

Fang Yuan drank Qin Zhan and a few brocade guards, and distributed the remaining hundred taels of silver to the people and women who were looted, and each of them divided two taels of silver as the fare to return home.

All the people's husbands and women escaped death, and the other party's life-saving grace was grateful to Dade, and they all knelt in front of him and kowtowed.

Fang Yuan picked up these men and women who had been looted and left their hometowns by the Houjin people, comforted them a few words, and asked them to bring a few ox carts left by the Hou Jin soldiers to hand them over to everyone, and let them go back to their hometowns in the ox carts.

After dealing with the aftermath of the war, Fang Yuan ordered Jinyiwei to rest at the post station for a day, waiting for Tian Hongyu's return, and then continued to Jiangnan.

On the third day, Tian Hongyu, who had met with Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu, finally returned to the post station.

Fang Yuan truthfully reported the battle report of the annihilation of fifty Houjin Tartars, and handed over the captured jewelry and jade.

Tian Hongyu's eyes lit up after listening to Fang Yuan's report, twenty brocade guards, annihilated fifty Houjin soldiers, and achieved an astonishing zero casualties. Although the number of Houjin soldiers after the annihilation was small, Fang Yuan had already created a miracle in the history of the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin, and it sounded almost the same as the Arabian Nights in Tian Hongyu, if he hadn't seen the corpses of fifty Houjin soldiers with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it anyway.

Tian Hongyu couldn't help but praise the other party, "Fang Zongqi, this battle annihilated the five hundred post-Jin Tartars, it was really a great victory!" ”

Five hundred?

Fang Yuan was stunned for a moment, obviously he had annihilated fifty people, but Tian Hongyu increased the number to five hundred people when he opened his mouth, and exaggerated the victory ten times out of thin air.

He was slightly stunned, and then he knew that Tian Hongyu had the intention of falsely reporting his military exploits, exaggerating the number of annihilation tenfold, and reaping benefits in front of Chongzhen.

Fang Yuan is not inflexible, Tian Hongyu wants to hype up this big victory, he has to hype it, anyway, he doesn't suffer a loss, the more brilliant the results, the more it can attract Chongzhen's attention.

This is actually a win-win deal, the credit will definitely be shared by Tian Hongyu, but, one person eats alone, the road of officialdom will become narrower and narrower, as long as he can win Chongzhen's attention and take the opportunity to take the position, Fang Yuan will not be stingy to share the credit with Tian Hongyu.