In August, the sky was pouring rain, and the whole north of the world was shrouded in white rain and mist.

Fang Yuan and his entourage of thousands of people took a little shelter from the wind and rain in the simple fortifications built by Chigutai.

In the past two days, Chigutai has destroyed two wooden bridges and a stone bridge over the canal, and built a small fortification fifty zhang from the river bank, using local materials.

Three layers of 100-zhang long rejecting horses can delay the impact of the rogues, who must face the long-range fire of firearms and bows and arrows, and then clear these rejecting horses one by one, so that they can attack the position of the musketeers.

The positions of the musketeers have been set up into small bunkers for hundreds of people to shelter from the wind and rain.

After that, there is the simple command center.

Fang Yuan stood in the command center and looked at the other side of the river with a telescope, densely packed, and countless Liangshan Liukou began to camp on the other bank.

Liangshan Liukou obviously did not expect Fang Yuan to cross the Grand Canal before the rain came, and the whole army crossed the Grand Canal, established a defensive line on the other side of the river, and destroyed the only three bridges within two hundred miles that could be used by the army.

Liang Min had no choice but to order the army to camp on the other side of the river, across the river from Fang Yuan's 1,000 men, and sent 3,000 men south along the canal to pursue the convoy carrying the two little princes south.

The gentry and wealthy merchants in Jiangnan sent people to say that Fang Yuan was carrying at least three million taels of silver in his trip, and he estimated that the big ship was loaded with gold, silver and jewelry, and he was never willing to let go of this piece of fat easily.

Fang Yuan put down the binoculars and turned his head to ask Jing Jie, "Third brother, when do you expect the Liukou to attack?" ”

Jing Jie looked at the pouring rain and said, "At this moment, the wind and rain are too urgent, which is conducive to defense and not conducive to attack." The rogues will wait until our firearms are wet in the pouring rain, and when the wind and rain subside a little, they will launch an offensive. ”

Fang Yuan explained the tasks one by one, "Jing Jie, the sergeant of the 1,000th Divine Machine Battalion is responsible for the frontal defense of the fortifications, and he can't let the Liukou get close!" ”

"Yes!"

"Chigutai, the cavalry battalion is divided into left and right wings, and once the war starts, they will cut off the rogues fleeing to the left and right flanks with light horses."

"Yes!"

"Sister Su, your drone team will be fully loaded immediately, enter a state of combat readiness, and once the rogue is halfway crossed, it will start attacking!"

"Yes!"

After the pouring rain, the rain gradually became lighter, turning into a drizzling rain, just as Jing Jie estimated, the liukou on the other side of the canal began to move in the direction of the canal.

Because Fang Yuan's trip was going south through the Grand Canal, this section of the canal had already been pulled by the sluice, and it was a calm backwater. The heavy rain for half a day only raised the level of the canal, but did not cause a flood with a strong current.

Tens of thousands of rogues began to cross the river with the help of trees on the riverbank, and the dense river surface was full of rogues crossing the river.

Fang Yuan's side did not take advantage of the opportunity to assault when Liukou crossed the river, but let them cross the river.

When Liang Min first crossed the river, he was quite cautious, fearing that the Ming army would take advantage of the Liukou crossing the river to intercept him, so he only sent other 500 Liukou who were not descendants to make a tentative crossing of the river to find out the strength of the army's firepower first.

The 500 men who fought the vanguard crossed the river unhindered until they assembled on the bank, and did not see any counterattack by the Ming army.

Liang Min saw that the Ming army on the other side of the river had been silent, and thought that the Ming army had no firearms to support, so he did not dare to take the initiative to attack, and he became bolder, and began to order the Liangshan Liukou of the lineage to also prepare to cross the river and seize the first credit.

Five hundred, a thousand, two thousand, five thousand......

A group of rogues armed with steel knives had already stood on the embankment on the opposite bank, and in two hours, at least half of the rogues had passed, approaching fifteen thousand people. The Liukou army who crossed the river was quite disciplined, and did not take the initiative to attack, but waited for the reinforcement team to assemble.

Liang Min saw that tens of thousands of Liukou had been assembled, and ordered to be divided into three armies, the front, middle and rear armies, 5,000 front armies responsible for attacking, 5,000 Chinese troops under command, and 5,000 rear armies responsible for pressing the formation, fifteen thousand troops.

Fang Yuan saw that Liukou was ready to attack, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "Go to war!" ”

As soon as his battle order was delivered, Su Hongyu, who was the main force of the attack, immediately ordered the drone team, which had long been eager to try, to start attacking.

Su Hongyu's tactic is to divide the drone team into two teams, which can take turns to attack and load, without giving the rogues any respite.

A row of twenty-five drones soared into the air and roared towards the rogue in a formation of geese.

These rogues had never seen such strange birds, and they all looked up and watched.

Su Hongyu's drone team flew over the Liukou assembled on the riverbank, opened the warehouse directly, and threw out a small iron bucket loaded with metal sodium and kerosene.

Twenty small iron buckets smashed into the front army's 5,000-column Liukou army array, and before the Liukou could come to their senses, the metal sodium washed by the rain reacted violently.

"Boom, boom!"

In the thousand-strong army array, a fire dragon burst into the sky, and at least 500 people were burned by the flying sparks and kerosene, screaming again and again.

The two rogues in the middle of the thousand-strong team had no idea how this fire was started, and they were taken aback and scattered, and the army could not form an army, and the formation could not form a formation.

Liang Min was still calm-headed, and immediately ordered the crowd to stabilize his position, and divided the left and right flanks of two thousand people who were not affected by the fire and began to attack Fang Yuan's defensive position.

He divided a team of three hundred archers and began to counterattack the drones with bows and arrows. However, the flight altitude of the drone reached 20 zhang, which had long exceeded the range of the Liukou bow and arrow, and this round of bow and arrow did not cause any damage to the drone team.

The drone team that attacked in the first wave returned home safely, and the second wave of drone teams loaded with calcium carbide immediately rose into the air and entered the attack state.

The target of this round of attacks is the thousand-man team that the former army can still array.

The drone threw hundreds of kilograms of calcium carbide down, and with the help of the previous kerosene fire, it set off a more violent explosion, and the three thousand-person teams of the Liukou Front Army have all been affected, and countless people have been burned and burned to death.

The two thousand-strong rogues who attacked Fang Yuan's defensive position had just walked before the first rejection of the horse, and had already entered the firing range of the Shenji Battalion's firearms, "Crackle! A burst of gunfire rang out, and more than 100 people were knocked down.

Jing Jie commanded 1,000 sergeants of the Shenji Battalion, lined up in a five-stage formation, each team of 200 people, three teams loaded, and two teams took turns shooting. The formation of the five-stage attack is the most reasonable formation that has been verified by later generations that the firearm can achieve gapless shooting.

The charging rogues did not dare to force their way past the rejection of the horse, so they could only hide behind the rejection and return fire with their bows and arrows.

The sergeants of the Shenji Battalion who shot were all wearing the explosion-proof equipment issued by Fang Yuan, and although the Liukou's counterattack rained down arrows, it could not cause large casualties.

The two sides were separated by three layers of horses, and shot at each other with bows and arrows and firearms.

After three rounds of fire, the 2,000 rogues in charge of the attack lost hundreds of men desperately, and only crossed the first line of rejection. Attacking further, the crosshairs of the Shenji Camp Fire Gun were more accurate and more powerful, and they were unable to advance an inch before they could attack the second line of rejection.

The rogue who launched the offensive was embarrassed to take advantage of the cover of the rejection of the horse, prostrate on the ground, and did not dare to charge forward, let alone flee.

Because the screams from the rear rushed into the sky, and the eyes were full of fire, fleeing back was a more terrible option than rushing forward.

Liang Min originally thought that after the baptism of heavy rain, the firearms of the Ming army could no longer exert great power, and only one or two thousand people, even if they had a defensive position, could forcibly break through and kill this line of Ming army.

Who knew that the Ming army actually used strange birds and incendiary bombs that were more powerful than artillery and firearms. This kind of incendiary bomb can still be used in the rain, which scared him dumbfounded.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

After the end of the fourth round of the UAV's offensive, the 5,000-man squad of the Liukou front army, including the 2,000-man squad that was attacking, had been defeated, and the entire battlefield had fallen into a raging sea of fire.

The rogue who had been burned by the fire fled backwards, trying to jump into the canal to extinguish the fire on his body. But this escape not only disrupted the formation of the 5,000-strong team of the Chinese army, but also shocked everyone with no morale and fighting spirit.

Liang Min was unwilling to admit defeat like this, and hurriedly commanded the five thousand troops of the Chinese army to enter the battlefield, preparing to launch an offensive again, as long as he could capture the fortifications of the Ming army, he would be able to turn defeat into victory.

Fang Yuan's drone team would not give him this opportunity at all, and before his order to attack was delivered, countless drones had already flown into the air, once again dropping deadly kerosene, sodium blocks, and calcium carbide, dragging the Chinese army into the flames of war.

At this point, the entire canal bank has been full of beacon fires, and the 10,000 rogues of the front army and the Chinese army have not touched a single hair of the Ming army, and they have been burned to the ground, and they cannot form an army.

Countless rogues began to rush into the canal, hoping to use the river water to extinguish the fire around them, because after the heavy rain, the water level of the canal rose sharply, and the rogues who jumped into the river could not swim, and countless people drowned.

Today's battle situation is too weird, it is completely beyond Liang Min's cognition, and if the battle continues, the rogues who cross the river will definitely be wiped out, and no one will survive.

Liang Min immediately issued a military order to retreat, and if the rogues of the rear army were amnesty, the rogues of the five thousand members of the rear army immediately sat on the raft when crossing the river, or held the trees that crossed the river, and fled to the other side of the canal, away from the hellish battlefield in front of them.

The remnants of the Chinese army and the front army could not escape to the river, and those who could not grab the equipment to cross the river fled like crazy to the left and right flanks.

The rogues of the rear army who were scrambling to cross the river did not know that death was approaching them step by step.

Su Hongyu's drone team would not give them a chance to cross the river and escape at all, and when they crossed a small halfway, the drones had already flown in a line in turn, and hundreds of kilograms of sodium blocks, kerosene, and calcium carbide were thrown into the river.

Due to the abundant amount of water in the river, the chemical reaction with metal sodium and calcium carbide is more thorough, and the river suddenly becomes a flowing fire dragon, sweeping the entire river surface.

Due to the sufficient chemical reaction, the concentration of hydrogen has reached the value of the explosion.

"Boom, boom!"

There was a deafening loud noise on the surface of the river, the power of the hydrogen explosion was extraordinary, and the rear army who fled across the river were all completely swallowed by the fire dragon, and the screams resounded through the sky, only one or two hundred excellent water properties could dive and escape, and the rest did not survive.

The cavalry on the left and right flanks of Chigutai had already been waiting on the left and right flanks, and directly copied the two flanks to cut off the escape route of the rogue.

Because on rainy days, firecrackers are not as good as sabers and bows and arrows, so the cavalry of Chigutai collected firecrackers and directly shot with bows and arrows and slashed with sabers.

After a dense rain of arrows, the cavalry of Chigutai slaughtered into the scattered rogue pile, and it was like a hungry wolf entering the sheepfold, killing left and right, and the rogue who fled to the left and right flanks was pressed back into the raging battlefield.

The rogues on the other side of the river who had not yet crossed the river were so frightened that they lost their three souls and seven spirits, and they dared to stay in the hellish battlefield for a long time, and they fled for their lives.

So far, the war has lasted only two hours, and the more than 10,000 people who crossed the river, excluding the 3,000 who were burned or blown up, drowned in the river, and the 5,000 who were seriously wounded, the remaining 4,000 or 5,000 people have been completely cut off from retreat and compressed in a corner of the river bank that has not yet been affected by the flames.

"Bump Bump Tu Tu!"

Fifty drones reappeared above the crowd's heads.

Seeing that the incendiary bombs that were urging them to be dropped were about to be dropped again, they were so frightened that they cried and screamed one by one, and their voices were hoarse, and they had become thousands of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.