Song Ting led an army of 3,000 people to meander, and encountered many bandits and rogues along the way, because his army had no armor, so there were also many rogues and bandits who regarded them as "peers".

Of course, after all, it was an army of 3,000 people, and no one dared to come up and rob.

When the soldiers approached the city of Yangzhou, the defenders of Yangzhou City immediately closed the city gate and closed the drawbridge of the moat.

The partial general defending the city is a red-robed young general, making a red tasseled silver spear.

"Who are the defenders?" Under the city, Lu Junyi asked.

"A certain Han Shizhongye!" The red-robed young general replied, and shouted, "Who are you waiting for?"

Han Shizhong looked at the Biao military horses under the city, although they were not wearing armor, they were all energetic and heroic, so he asked curiously.

These people are like bandits and officials, and he thinks it is better to ask questions first and then make a decision on whether to fight or ignore them.

"It turns out that you are Han Shizhong who captured Fangla, I have heard of the name for a long time, my concubine was ordered to take over Yangzhou by the edict of King Qin, and please open the city gate quickly!" Lu Junyi shouted.

"Han has not heard of an edict from the imperial court, forgive your family and the master of the horse has no edict, forgive me!" The red-robed young general shouted with a silver spear in his hand, "Please retreat quickly, otherwise, Hugh blames Han for being ruthless!" ”

Hearing Han Shizhong say that it doesn't matter if he doesn't open the city gate, he actually said that the imperial court has not passed on the edict, is it true that the edict of King Qin of the horse master is still fake?

Lu Junyi was immediately furious, and clapped his horse and shouted: "General Han, you are full of nonsense, dare to fight with me?"

"Why don't you dare!" Han Shizhong immediately took more than ten soldiers, opened the city gate, put down the drawbridge, and stepped out on horseback.

Lu Junyi also hit the horse and rushed forward, Han Shizhong came to greet him, one made a horse chopping knife, the other made a silver spear, and as soon as he looked at his face, the silver spear came and the horse chopping knife greeted him, and sparks came out with a click.

One of these two people is "Hebei Jade Qilin", and the other is a veteran general with high martial arts, and the two are comparable in martial arts.

Song Ting watched from a distance in the soldiers, surrounded by Yan Qing, Hu Sanniang, Yang Zhao and others, seeing that Han Shizhong's martial arts were so high, he suddenly showed his love for talent, and wanted to collect it for his own use, but unfortunately even Lu Junyi failed to gain the upper hand, and he couldn't for a while.

As soon as Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang saw Song Ting's face, they knew what he was thinking, and immediately slapped their horses out, swept straight there, one left and one right, and attacked Han Shizhong.

Han Shizhong played with a silver spear, and when he saw Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang coming, he fought even more vigorously, and after pulling away the horse sword, he asked, "Who are you and you?"

After Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang exchanged their names with him, they attacked, at first, Han Shizhong had some difficulty parrying, but gradually, he was also at ease.

The three of them fought for another thirty moves......

"Newspaper—"

In the Song Dynasty army, suddenly a spy came to report: "Captain Yudu!" There is a large army in the northwest to kill, judging by its banner, it is Chen Tai's rebel army! ”

The defenders of Yangzhou City on the city wall also saw the smoke and dust billowing from the northwest direction, and a huge peasant rebel army shouted in unison to kill the general, so they immediately shouted in the direction of Han Shizhong: "General Han! Chen Tai, the old department of Fangla, is here to attack the city! ”

Seeing Chen Tai leading a large army coming, drums were beaten on both sides at the same time.

Hearing the sound of drums, Lu, Yan, and Hu stopped attacking Han Shizhong, fought their horses and returned to the battle, and Han Shizhong was also ready to return to the city tower.

"General Han—"

Song Ting hit his horse to catch up, and Lu, Yan, and Hu immediately guarded left and right, "General Han's martial arts are so high, why do you want to escape?" Why not join our troops in the fight against the rebels? ”

Han Shizhong came back with his gun, glanced at Song Ting, snorted lightly, and said, "This Chen Tai has come to harass him again and again, but he just wants to attack Yangzhou City because of the large number of people?" Hmph, even if Fang La comes back to life, it's wishful thinking! With my Han here, I will teach him to break his bones! But with your little men, if you want to resist Chen Taijun, it's unlikely! ”

"If I repel the rebels for you, would you like to open the city gate and let me take over Yangzhou City?" Song Ting looked at Han Shizhong and asked.

Han Shizhong said: "Du Wei Xiu is going to be embarrassed, Han has not heard of an edict from the imperial court, let alone heard that there is a word of letting Du Wei take over Yangzhou."

Damn, I don't know the current affairs, axis!

Song Ting filled the musket with ammunition, raised the gun, and without saying a word, put a shot in Han Shizhong's ear.

The bullet pierced the wall and got stuck in the wall.

"Han Shizhong, listen to me! You are just a nine-rank young general, and now Bendu Wei tells you that Bendu Wei has been ordered to enter the king of Jingqin, who dares to stop it, there is no forgiveness! If you want to read the edict, I will send someone to get it at any time! But the ugly words are ahead, if there is an edict, what will you do? ”

"If there is an edict, the last general will be at the disposal of the captain!"

"That's what you said, Han Shizhong."

"If the captain is fine, he will go back to defend the city."

After Han Shizhong finished speaking, he returned to the city on horseback, put away the drawbridge, closed the city gate, and prepared the city wall with archers and rolling stones.

Before the tea was ready, I saw a mighty peasant rebel army in the northwest rolling up the dust and shouting.

This large army, to say the least, numbered fifty or sixty thousand people, but the equipment was very poor, bows and arrows, hoes, iron forks, bamboo spears, sickles, everything, no armor at all, and the formation was relatively chaotic, carrying long ladders and swarming to the city.

"Order, the whole army retreats two miles to the southeast!"

Seeing that the peasant rebel army was coming violently, the Song court ordered the whole army to temporarily avoid its edge and retreat two miles to the southeast.

The peasant rebels surrounded the city gate, erected a wooden bridge over the moat, used shields made of dustpans, and escorted the rushing team to hold ladders to erect the city wall.

Han Shizhong grabbed a silver spear, knocked over the peasant army, stabbed two behind him, and then pushed down the high ladder, calmly commanded the defenders to counterattack, and quickly cleaned up the peasant army that climbed onto the city wall.

And the peasant army is still continuing to attack the city.

Song Ting led an army of 3,000 to watch from afar, and felt that this Han Shizhong was indeed fierce and had the heart to help him, so he reorganized the army, with pikemen as the first echelon, musketeers as the second echelon, and lancers or archers on the left and right flanks, and slowly leaned over.

After all, it was the New Army, and many people were very nervous, sweating in their palms.

"Next, act according to the orders of Captain Pontus, and if there is any retreat or disobedience, it will be dealt with according to military law!"

Song Ting, dressed as a white-robed general, drew his long sword, and commanded the army to approach the peasant rebel army.

And those peasant rebels, when they saw the people of the Song Dynasty, didn't react at all, and thought that they were also rebels and came to help them.

300 meters......

100 meters......

Fifty meters......

Thirty meters......

"Ready—"

The projectiles had long been filled, and at a distance of twenty meters from the rebels, there was a clatter, and the pikemen covering in front scattered one after another, and the musketeers showed their heads.

The musketeers moved in order, the first row squatted, the second row stood, and the men behind loaded and prepared, which was the simplest two-stage shooting formation.

"-put!"

Under the order, I only heard the sound of banging bang, although there was a slight sequence, but it was neat.

After the release, the squatting and standing musketeers were trained to turn their muskets back and take the loaded muskets from those behind them.

Raise the gun - aim -

"Ready-to-go!"

Bang bang!

With the sound, a burst of gunpowder smoke filled everywhere, and the smell of gunpowder smoke came to the nostrils, and some recruits just wanted to pinch their noses......

At this time, it was another one: "Ready-"

Bang bang bang bang bang gun again and put it again!

Three consecutive shots, less than a minute, when the recruits looked up, they were simply startled, at least hundreds of corpses of peasant soldiers were lying on the ground far away.

When the peasant army reacted, Chen Tai, who was sitting in the chariot, was stunned, what kind of operation is this?

He originally thought that these "peasant armies" were friendly troops, but who knew that hundreds of them would be killed at once!

Hearing those bang-bang sounds, he also knew that it was a firearm, but the question was, what kind of ghost firearm is this? It's scary, isn't it?

However, as the leader of the rebel army, he felt that he should do something, so he immediately divided an army of 10,000 people, and the army of the Song court poured like a tide, gradually taking on a semi-encircled posture.

"Okay, let's shoot in three sections! Change the lineup! ”

At the sound of the order, the musketeers immediately dispersed and changed formations, standing in three rows with 30 people, two rows in front and two with guns in front and back, and the middle row was responsible for filling ammunition.

The rebels who rushed over, before they could wake up to what was going on, there was a bang-bang sound, and another group of people fell.

"It's a firearm!"

"It's a firearm you've never seen before!"

Finally someone came to their senses, shouted, and as soon as they heard that it was a firearm, the rebels were so frightened that they no longer dared to rush forward, and some people began to flee.

The guns were still firing, the projectiles kept coming, and gradually, the peasant army was frightened and stupid, threw away their weapons, and fled one after another!

Seeing that the situation was not good, Chen Tai hurriedly ordered the archers to shoot arrows, and suddenly, arrows rained down and shot at the musketeers.

Song Ting had already prepared, "in the hand of the sword and shield", as soon as he gave the order, the sword and shield hand immediately raised his shield to block the rain of arrows for the musketeers, but unfortunately more than a dozen people were still hit by arrows.

After the rain of arrows, the sword and shield hands dispersed, and there was another "release!" ”

The muskets crackled again.

Just kidding, there are 1,800 people in the musket battalion, and there is enough ammunition, there is no need for 1,800 people to shoot at the same time, and there are 200 people who can shoot at the same time......

Bursts of gunfire made Chen Taijun look confused, and he hadn't reacted yet......

"Ready—charge!"

Another order, an army of 3,000 men, with musketeers in the center and archers on the left and right flanks, advanced as they fired.

When Chen Tai's army had already collapsed, he stopped shooting, and Lu Junyi rushed directly with the cavalry, and in less than five rounds, he took Chen Tai's head.

The rebels retreated like a tidal wave.

Song Ting didn't pursue either, after all, they were all peasants, and they had no combat effectiveness, so there was no need to increase the killing.

And the officers and soldiers who witnessed the battle under the city were all stunned and speechless at this time.

The sudden crackling bang bang sound just now really scared them, they knew that this was a firearm, but how could this firearm be so unreasonable? Put it and put it, put it and put it away...... It's horrible.

"Raise your gun—prepare—"

Song Ting asked all the 1800 musketeers to raise their guns and aim them at the city wall, this one action can scare the guards stupid!

"General Han—"

"General Han—"

Han Shizhong also looked at the 1,800 muskets in surprise, and was speechless in surprise for a while.

"Edict!"

Song Ting rode on the white horse, stretched out his hand, took another edict, took it in his hand, and shouted to Han Shizhong: "Han Shizhong, open your eyes and see clearly, King Qin's edict is here!"

"Huh?" Han Shizhong was shocked, and then ordered: "Put down the drawbridge!" Open the gates! Welcome the Captain into the city! ”

After Song Ting led his army into the city, he directly announced in the government that he would take over Yangzhou City, and announced that all the soldiers in the city would be temporarily under his control.

I heard that the horse was edicted to take over Yangzhou, and the officials in the government office, the horse step officer, Han Shizhong and the generals all came to pay respects.

(End of chapter)