On the bank of the river, under the majestic Purple Mountain, the sound of gunsmoke and fierce battle is faint.

One of the three armies of the capital from Jiangzhou upstream, the Yisheng Army, has just taken over the overseas garrison troops who have been blocked here for a long time.

Behind the rudimentary breastwall that had been improvised and piled up across the roads and fields in front of them was a mixture of firearms and cold weapons, consisting mainly of white soldiers in armor and spears, strappers, and a small number of auxiliaries in light cloth.

Only one-third of the soldiers wore vest-like cuirasses, the rest were soft leather armor, the non-commissioned officers had iron shoulder pads and knee coverings, and the officers wore feathers and colored ribbons on their helmets in addition to their jumpsuits to identify themselves.

With the roar and roar of the rumbling and the roaring bombardment projected from under the banner of the Auditors on the opposite side, from time to time in the splatters of dirt and rubble, knocked down some of the standing figures, but the waists of the others were still straight, and the weapons in their hands were still firm and powerful, and no one tried to dodge, or there were other signs of panic and confusion.

Then the galloping horses appeared in the midst of the smoke and dust, and in response to them were the fire and smoke that spewed out between the spears.

The effect of firing at the galloping cavalry was not very obvious, only a small number of figures fell, and the crossbow held by the horse warrior was also fired head-on in the military formation, because the violent shaking was also very fruitless.

After the first round of firearms firing in formation, they quickly formed something resembling a hollow phalanx under the cover of spearmen.

The roaring cavalry of the city also rushed in front of them, some of them could not hold back, some were stabbed by the spears, and some were hit by firearms at close range, smashed on the earthen ramparts or crashed into the crowd opposite, and after leaving some of the tumbling and struggling corpses in vain, the remaining cavalry swept diagonally in front of the formation and went around to the descendants of the army formation, and continued to wait.

Then they were pressed up by the infantry, and when their array seemed to be filtered through several layers by a comb-like firecracker, they quickly entered the face-to-face hand-to-hand encounter.

The half-arm-thick spear was carried on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row, held in the crook of the arm, or leaned diagonally upwards on their backs, so calmly and fearlessly facing the enemy formation.

Then the flesh and blood flew and the spears fell one after another, and they were filled up from behind, and the firearms behind them also began to shoot at close range, in the deafening sound of ping-pong and the choking smell of smoke.

The opposing standard-bearers and officers were the best targets, but the remaining soldiers also rushed forward, stabbed with their spears at a distance from each other, and then fell or pushed the enemy down.

The bodies that had fallen were held up from behind, and the spears in their hands were taken, and the dead and the not yet dead soon formed a low slope of flesh and blood on the ground of the staggered fronts.

At this time, the lightly armed and unarmored auxiliaries began to wield, they were almost dexterous, bowed their heads through the swinging spear array, crashed into the enemy's spear array from the bottom plate, and then used horizontal knives and daggers, or hand axes and short hammers, to cut their legs and stab their waists, and put the spear-wielding vanguard on the opposite side to create more confusion and breakthroughs for themselves.

Because they didn't have armor, they basically couldn't come back alive as long as they were hit, but despite this, after a short head-on encounter and surprise attack, they still achieved several times the fruitful results of their own.

With more and more intertwined figures and weapons, these people who are mixed together can only be distinguished by their hats, similar to the hat of the round-edged helmet, obviously belongs to the style of the Huaidi army, and the round helmet or pointed helmet with a leather curtain belongs to the style of the Jiangnan army, as for the crossbowmen in the Jiangnan army and the Huai army's guns, it is much simpler colored cloth head.

It experienced the impact of the horse team, the bombardment of the Shenji artillery team, the crossbowmen shooting and the infantry fighting.

The wave-patterned wind and thunder flag still stood tenaciously behind the gunsmoke, although it had become tattered and mutilated, but it was still like a reef in the waves, standing behind the corpses of the high earth barriers, and people were daunted and frustrated and depressed.

"Why fight,"

"Why don't you fall down."

Many of the Jiangnan soldiers who were fighting against them had red eyes and muttered to themselves.

And behind the crippled earthen ramparts and breastwork, there are grizzled soldiers, scarred officers, and the few non-commissioned officers who are still running tenaciously.

In the moaning everywhere, those who survived were silently bandaging their wounds, and those who were injured in arms or legs and feet could only help each other with others.

As the temporary commander of the incomplete navy of this battalion, Luo Quanxin, a Borneo-born Guoyi Commander, was also gently stroking the face of a young soldier lying on his side on the ground, his waist was directly missing, revealing the organs inside, but he could still speak like a whisper.

"Mother. . . Can you go home? ”

"It's so blue."

"Why is it dark again?"

Then he heard the sound of a long horn, and then saw the figure of a young heroic military officer wearing a vermilion coat and mountain pattern armor on horseback to negotiate.

"Are you going to keep going?"

"The hard work and courage of the seniors have been witnessed and recognized by our department"

The other party announced very solemnly

"For this reason, the lord of my family, I am determined to give you a decent end."

"You are allowed to bring your weapons and belongings. Get out of here in a group."

"We are the Marines of Huaizhen."

Luo Quanxin interrupted him suddenly.

"Never give up the position, and never leave the back to the enemy."

In the short moments of the negotiations, several people in the position died of their wounds. And the opposite side was ready to attack again, and this time he saw the black muzzle on the cart that was pushed out, which was actually a gun cart; In order to defeat their remnants of the road as soon as possible, the other side actually moved out the artillery wagons as if attacking a fortification; This couldn't help but make him not only smile bitterly, but also feel a little proud and flattered.

The enemy's flank suddenly became chaotic, and then it was drowned in the roar and crackle of the firelight, and the retreating artillery carriages were also busy and hurriedly turned around, but after some unknown events on the river, some warships of the Nanyang Naval Division appeared, which were facing the enemy troops who were arrayed on the riverside, and the artillery bombardment was one after another.

Many large sampans were lowered, and when they got closer to the shore, they flew up from them a line of unregular smoke, but they were small flying fire mines of the Huai army, and then they fell one after another among the enemy troops who were escorting and transferring the gun wagons, and they scattered and fled, and even attracted the medicine on the sports cars, which suddenly roared and burst out on the avenue.

A moment later, Luo Quanxin met with the liaison officer who came down from the ship to support.

"Dashuai and his entourage have boarded the ship safely in Pukoudu,。。"

"And most of the equipment was kept."

"I am specially ordered to return to the division to respond and support."

"Please also hurry up and move your position and let the wounded come aboard."

"The enemy army that has been routed for the time being may come back at any time."

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Gangdong Province,

Hangzhou Prefecture, which has been relieved of the siege, is under the city of Lin'an, and corpses are everywhere and embers are curling; Lin'an City, which had been besieged for several years by the Dayun Sect Army for 66 years, also ushered in the official army who had been relieved of the siege again, and the soldiers and civilians above and below the city who had been tortured by long-term hunger and hardship were all cheered from the bottom of their hearts.

Because although they no longer have the ability to send troops out of the city to meet the foreign forces there, they have just witnessed a hearty decisive battle between the official army and the Great Cloud Thief.

Under the rule of the officers and soldiers who relied on the scale advantage of a large number of firearms, those thieves who shouted the doctrine of death and were not afraid of death, and who were almost invincible in the local area and could only rely on high walls and hard villages to refuse, were overturned and knocked down in the field almost like summer harvested rice;

Most of the thieves have been killed and injured by a large number of long-range firearms and broken the formation and order even before the official battle with the official army array, and then they are rushed by the melee armor armed to the teeth, and they are already all kinds of defeated and retreated; And those die-hard thieves who tried to unite and resist stubbornly after being divided and dispersed were often unable to resist for long under the concentrated firecrackers; It was quickly broken by each one and turned into a chain of landslides and sea retreats.

And Wei Chen, the Jiangdong interview envoy who had just finished commanding this big battle and the ambassador of the two Zhejiang, also appeared on the battlefield under the city to receive the cheers and excitement of his subordinates.

This time can be said to be the biggest fiasco and loss suffered by the Great Cloud Sect since it ravaged Liangzhejiang, Jiangdong, and Jiangxi. Among the twenty or thirty bandits besieging Hangzhou, known as the "100,000 army", only a very small number survived and escaped.

The remaining tens of thousands of people lay on the spot, and more than 20,000 others knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and were captured. In addition to most of the cannon fodder who were driven or coerced by the doctrine, as well as the miscellaneous currents of local defectors, there were still old sectists who were the backbone and team of the Great Cloud Thief, and at least seven or eight thousand people were killed.

On the spot, at least two outer hall lieutenants and a deputy privy councillor of the inner hall were killed, and the rest of the servants who were called servants, scholars, squires, assassins, generals, etc., as well as teachers and priests, mages, and protectors, and countless others. It can be said that it is a big victory and news that has never been seen since the Great Cloud Thieves Rebellion.

More importantly, as the heart of the two Zhejiang, the territory of Hangzhou was also recovered, and then took advantage of this great victory to pursue and expel and clean up, including Jiazhou, Huzhou, the Hangjiahu Plain area, the two Zhejiang, Jiangdong thieves, cut off and divided into two parts, north and south, which could not be echoed and supported.

In this way, he can completely turn around, and then slowly concoct those big cloud thieves who are wandering in the Jiangdong area, but have broken off their retreat and are beyond their strength, it will become a relatively simple and gradual matter.

Of course, he did not expect to be able to clean up these weed-like and tenacious thieves after several decisive battles; However, it is still relatively easy to do this by squeezing and excluding these big cloud thieves from the newly occupied areas through the joint protection and village formation strategy that he has enforced, and through the blockade and containment of the camp step by step, and the restriction and squeezing of their scope of activities and living space step by step.

However, his good mood did not last long, and a sudden news made his joy and ambition of just winning a big victory suddenly turn into a bubble and anger.

"How can that be."

"How dare they do this"

"Is this God's desire to make things happen to me?"

"Did you let this generation, who has no regard for the overall situation and no regard for the consequences, run rampant between the courts?"

"Even the most brilliant place in the dynasty has become the choice of anti-rebellion."

"Then in the huge world in this mountain, how can anyone be safe and alone."

"Do you want my generation to fight another protracted battle to conquer the north against my former comrades?"

Subsequently, what the soldiers and civilians in Hangzhou could see was Wei Chen's subordinates, who had retreated from the city in a hurry.

In order to appease people's hearts, he claimed on the surface that he wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and sweep away the thief atmosphere in the nearby states in one go, but the reason inside was that he really couldn't retreat.

Because, this time, he was able to personally lead his elite troops to venture for hundreds of miles, and crossed Tianmu Mountain to enter the Hangjiahu Plain, which was occupied by thieves, that is, relying on the three armies from Jiangning as backup, he could stabilize the relatively empty front due to the transfer of the main combat power; However, this order from Jiang Ning was forcibly called back to these reinforcements who had just arrived to receive the defense.

This also means a huge crisis and imminent hidden dangers, which he really can't do to ignore.

on the other hand, in his subordinate troops, a large number of soldiers from Huaishang were replenished; And because these Huaishang disciples have relatively good physical fitness and mental outlook, they are also brave and brave in the face of those big cloud thieves and are quite useful, and they have repeatedly made military exploits and promoted and promoted between the ranks of many middle and low-level officers, and in the past two years, because of the war, they have served in the front line or stationed in the rear points; The reaction they will have when they hear the bad news is unpredictable;

What's more, whether it is the backlash and riots they have caused from this, or the radical and impulsive old generals in the army, trying to purge first; An imminent infighting and division is inevitable; And this is undoubtedly a huge disaster and heavy blow to the old crusading army under Wei Chen, which was only easily integrated and fought in Jiangdong.

If he can't lead his troops back in time to suppress the situation or curb the agitation and radicalization in the army, I am afraid that even his basic territory and garrison in the rear will not be able to maintain. There is also a high possibility that it will either fall into the hands of the thieves who are facing the battle, or it will disintegrate and disintegrate with civil strife, or simply both.

And all of this is just the beginning of the different reactions and chain effects in various parts of Jiangnan...

(End of chapter)