Although the quality of equipment and personnel is good, compared with the Chuang battalion and Cao Cao's troops who fought to the death in Henan and Shaanxi, they cannot fight against the wind, fight hard, or fight for a long time.

But such an army still has the upper hand on the officials and troops of the imperial court, and it rarely suffers any defeats in the activities of Huguang, Henan, and Nanzhili, and the accumulation of time is also quite a bit of Lao Tzu's arrogance.

Therefore, when Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, saw the officers and soldiers swaggering to the front by boat at the height of Zhengyang Town, he thought that the officers and soldiers were broken for a while.

Zhengyang Town's large and small rivers are staggered, and the plots are fragmented, even if they are complete, they are cut unevenly by the ridges, and there is not even room for a team of more than 1,000 people to expand. With so many officers and soldiers rushing over, there is only one possible outcome, and that is to send them to death.

But the first wave of impact was caught off guard by the opponent's firearms, and then their own artillery was knocked by the opponent's artillery again, and the morale immediately plummeted, and they retreated into the town in an uproar. Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, knew these routines of his own, and when he saw that he retreated, he immediately secretly shouted that it was not good, thinking that the other party was going to take advantage of the situation to kill him, and if he didn't do it, the team would collapse.

Liu Xiyao ordered several of his cronies to organize the backbone troops, prepare to evacuate the troops who ran back first, and then organize them to defend to the death.

Who would have thought that after the officers and soldiers went ashore, they were like turtles crawling, rubbing forward step by step, according to the truth of this soldier and noble god, everyone understands how the other party uses soldiers so strangely.

Since the other party is slow, then this side must hurry up the arrangement, and wherever Zhengyang Town can break in from the front, barricades and fortifications are placed on the roofs, houses, and streets. Soldiers armed with bows and arrows and firearms entered these positions.

Zhengyang Town is not a small town, the streets in the town are vertical and horizontal, if the other party wants to rush in, it is impossible to expand the team at all, it can only be broken into parts, playing street warfare, familiar with the terrain, relying on the defense of the fortifications, naturally you can take a lot of advantage. The five artillery pieces of Zuo Jinwang's battalion were all arranged by Liu Xiyao in the place where the intersection was covered, and if the officers and soldiers rushed in and came in ten steps, they would at least be hit by these five artillery pieces for three rounds.

These defenses were all planned actions, and Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, arranged for his cronies to arrange them. You don't have to worry too much about it, the real key is to organize a second wave of attacks. Although the opponent advanced like a turtle, it took a lot of time to sort out the defeated troops and arrange the defenses, and the opponent advanced less than a hundred steps.

But after all, the other party is always moving forward. I have to wait for the other party to arrive at the entrance of the town and then fight back. Orders were given one after another. Soon another force was assembled at the entrance of the town. The leaders were all old brothers from the fifth camp of the Revolution. Wearing leather armor or worn-out subway armor. Wielding knives and guns, he shouted loudly there.

The soldiers of the first and second rows of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Ground Leather were all holding the big shields of the Qi people on the high ground. The soldiers carried short knives on their backs. Holding a large shield in both hands. The shield was heavy. Even with both hands. It is also impossible to pick up too high.

Behind these soldiers of the fifth battalion on the left with a large shield. It was the soldiers with bows and arrows and firearms. Another group of soldiers from the 5th camp got on board. Get ready to go downstream. Since fireships are useless. Then use people. Destroy the other party's transport.

The soldiers of the Huaiyang Army in the Jiaozhou Battalion have been walking very slowly. The Ground Gun Ammunition in the hands of the Musketeers also has plenty of time to reload.

Two thousand generals were on either side of the line. They want to control where the team is advancing. The front of the ground firemen and spearmen is a wall. Use this wall to ensure that the work behind you can be completed smoothly.

Opposite the entrance of Zhengyang Town. It has long been densely packed with people. A few drums were heard. I saw a wooden wall slowly rushing outward.

The soldiers with this large shield in their hands walked with great difficulty. Shouting the trumpet in their mouths, correcting each other's queue formations, and slowly moving forward, of course, the slow pace of the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution is still much faster than the advance of the Huaiyang army.

The two sides leaned over step by step, and the other party was hiding behind the shield except for half of his head popping out to see the reaction.

On the right side of the array, the Qian Zong who was leaning against the river stared at the other party's approach, estimating the distance between the two sides, and when the distance was about a hundred paces, he raised the axe gun in his hand, and the drum beat stopped, and then he waved the axe gun forward, and shouted:

"First platoon, fire!!"

In the case of a salvo, the first sentence should have been "all ready", the slow movement of the brigade began to stop as soon as he raised his axe gun, and after the first platoon of soldiers had loaded their ammunition and checked the arquebus, they began to maintain a posture of preparing for fire, and the officer gave the order.

The first row of firecrackers was fired immediately, and the big wooden shield held in the hands of the fifth battalion of the left was extremely thick, otherwise it would not be so heavy.

There are also many people who fall backwards, but they are held up by their comrades with big shields behind them, and many people's shields are directly penetrated by lead bullets and killed instantly.

But at a distance of 100 to 90 paces, the uncertainty of the fire shot was much higher, and the lead bullets smashed into the shield with huge momentum, many of which were also embedded in the wood, but the soldiers holding the shield could not resist such a force and were directly fallen.

Although the front of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Left was in an abnormal mess, the effect was very good, at least the casualties were much less, after the first round of shooting, the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Left suddenly burst into cheers, and those uninjured shield soldiers gathered in the center again, accelerated their pace, and moved forward again.

Seeing the opponent's defense, the Qian Zong on the right did not move, and raised the axe gun in his hand again, the soldiers in the first row half-squatted on the ground and began to load ammunition, and the second row was ready to shoot.

The front of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing gradually approached, and when it was about sixty paces, behind the wooden shield, someone had already begun to shoot arrows and shoot.

In the water network area, the air is humid, and if you don't pay attention to it, the bowstring will be a little loose. At a distance of about sixty paces, the arrows shot were crooked and indestructive, but the spearmen in the front row were still a little confused.

At a distance of sixty steps, the Qian Zong of the Huaiyang Army of the Jiaozhou Battalion shouted loudly again:

"The first platoon is ready, fire!!"

At this distance, the firecracker was enough to penetrate these large wooden shields, and watching the sawdust fly in front of them, at such a close distance, both sides were crowded on this barely able to spread terrain. Unable to dodge at all, the soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing, who were holding the big shield, fell straight down.

But the distance of about fifty or sixty paces was enough for the bow and arrow of the fifth battalion of the left side, and there was a big shield in front of it. Their firearms are also incapable of shooting.

The soldiers with large shields fell, and the archers had already fired the first round of arrows, and almost at the same time, the commander shouted the second command:

"The second platoon is ready, fire!!"

The first two rows of musketeers of the Huaiyang army of the Jiaozhou battalion were holding a dwarf shield as a bracket, and this shield had already been passed into the hands of the spearmen.

The opponent's first round of arrow rain came, and he directly used this shield to block as much as possible, but it was inevitable that there would be casualties, but the bows and arrows and fire bolts of the fifth battalion of the left side were able to make the first round of shooting, and the soldiers with the big shields fell. Those archers and firecrackers happened to be exposed in front of the firecrackers of the Huaiyang army in the Jiaozhou battalion.

Sixty paces away. Basically, the accuracy of the shooting ground can be guaranteed.

The second row of firecrackers basically did nothing, and the soldiers of the fifth battalion on the left side of the ground were suddenly ambushed, but there were still archers and firecrackers preparing, after all, the front facing the two sides was too narrow, and the face-to-face fight would kill the first few rows. It doesn't hurt your muscles and bones at all.

"Get ready, stride!!"

At this time, the Qianzong on the left side of the Huaiyang army array issued a loud order, and the firecrackers in the front two rows dropped the firecrackers in their hands, took out the swords on their bodies, stood up and aligned the formation slightly, and began to walk forward.

The thousand commanders in the array on the right side of the spearmen shouted loudly, and the spearmen followed the musketeers who were advancing in small steps in front of them, and moved forward together.

If you want to shoot the bow and arrow and fire gun in the second round, you still have to prepare time. Take it in stride. The time of walking the distance of sixty paces will soon pass, and he will be able to shoot a bow and arrow. After firing the firearms, ensure that the officers and men do not come to the front, and ensure that they are prepared to escape or conduct a third round of shooting.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers were holding swords in their hands, and the spears were like forests behind them, the homeless soldiers couldn't help but swallow and spit at the mouth, and no one was sure of this.

If it is to break into the camp or Cao Cao's subordinates, when encountering such a situation as the Jiaozhou battalion, it is really overjoyed, whether it will kill him or not, he will definitely beat the bow and arrow and fire gun as much as possible, and the soldiers who break into the camp and Cao Cao are closer to the warriors and more brave.

And the soldiers of the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution have been in the rich place for a long time, and they have lived a little more comfortably, and the desperate strength is almost, a little hesitation, many people retreat to the back, and the officers behind are also helpless, so they have to urge them to continue to move forward, and at the same time, those soldiers who are holding long and short weapons and preparing for hand-to-hand combat begin to move forward.

Only a few arrows were shot out scattered, and there were not many firearms, and the soldiers of the Huaiyang army had already arrived in front of them. The backbone soldiers of the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution, unlike those soldiers in front, are also crawling out of the pile of dead, this life should be gone, they have no stage fright in the face-to-face hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield, and they are holding back a breath of anger, thinking that you are powerful with firearms, and when this real knife and real gun fight, this is the time to see the real ability.

"Raise your spear!!"

When they were about to meet each other, they heard someone in the array of officers and soldiers shouting an order, and the team that originally raised their spears vertically all raised their spears to the flat end, while the hand-to-hand opponents who were waiting for the 5th Battalion of the Revolution all bent down and did not move forward.

Some people subconsciously want to chase ahead, but they hurriedly stop their steps, and if they go further, there are rows of spear blades, and if they hit it, they will be killed.

The spearmen were holding their spears flat, and under the spears were shielded by firecrackers with short weapons, and the soldiers in the first row of the 5th Battalion were stunned, and in a hurry they didn't know what to do, and in this narrow battlefield, the front of the officers and soldiers seemed to have no flaws.

Hesitating, fearing, and retreating, but the leaders of the 5th Battalion on the left side of the rear could not continue to retreat, and the two armies engaged. It was true that it caused damage to the officers and men, but the effect was very small, on the contrary, the other side had already taken more than 100 steps forward, and the space to the east where the officers and men disembarked was not small.

It is not necessary to advance to the front to have space, but this inexplicable officer and soldier has been advancing towards the front, and the front line is extremely dense, like a wall, pressed over, and there are so many spears. It looks a bit like a hedgehog again. The front blocked the field of vision tightly, and I didn't know what was behind me, I just listened to the boiling sky, I didn't know what I was busy with, this world is like this. The more you don't understand something, the more mysterious it is, the more terrifying it is, the more awe-inspiring it is.

"Damn, everyone is leaning in front of me, and I retreat a bird and rush forward for Lao Tzu."

A leader shouted behind him, and the cloaked cronies and veterans were all at the back of the team at this time, not playing forward, but having the role of supervising the team.

Later order. People are rushing to the front. There is a river on the side, and there is a push behind it, and many people on the edge are caught off guard and are directly squeezed into the river, and the water is not urgent, but it is very deep. A large number of warships released from Zhengyang Town were going down the river at this time, and it was very dangerous, and it was inevitable that they would be scratched.

The really unlucky thing was the rows of people in front, who involuntarily bumped into the front, scolding in their mouths, but they couldn't hold their feet at all, and they were pushed and knocked down on the tip of the spear.

In desperation, he had to wield his weapon and strengthen his feet. Hopefully open the spear. Kill inside, but just get there. As soon as the sword was swung, I felt a sharp pain in my waist and abdomen, but it was those firecrackers with swords waiting below.

Some people bent their waists to beware of the sword below, and the spear assassination was also fatal, stabbing directly into the shoulder or back from top to bottom, and the account was closed in one turn. But at this time, they could no longer retreat, and the people behind them were struggling to rush forward, and the huge pressure pushed them to keep moving forward.

The soldiers in the first few rows were sent to the top of the spears and swords by their own people, and the queue in front of the fifth battalion of the Gezuo was suddenly a corpse lying down.

Finally, there is space, but the fifth battalion of the left can move, and the other party is also able to move, and the ground front of the Huaiyang army squeezed up closely, as long as the two sides fight face-to-face, long-range weapons cannot be used, face-to-face fighting, spears and blades under the spears are unsolvable problems for the fifth battalion of the left side.

The officers and soldiers advanced step by step, and the soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution could only retreat step by step, and these inexplicable officers and soldiers were very trivial in their fighting, and those soldiers below who were armed with swords and swords would not come out of the bottom of the spear alive or dead, but they were just cats there, and in such a posture, they really couldn't think of any way to attack it.

These officers of the 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left Battalion who were fighting outside the town did not dare to order a retreat easily, opening up space, and with the morale of their subordinates, they were afraid that if they ordered a retreat, it would immediately turn into a rout, and they could only retreat step by step.

However, the officers and men also maintained this state of seeking no fault and not meritorious, and directly rushed in, and the two sides maintained a distance of about five paces.

Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, watched the battle outside the town from the rooftop, first the fire gun knocked down one of his men, and then he was forced to retreat step by step by the front of the officers and soldiers, fortunately, there is still some distance, outside the town of Zhengyang Town, the left flank is the terrain made up by ponds and grass and trees, which is not suitable for sports.

In the face-to-face battle and being beaten by the other side and retreating step by step, it can only count on the battle on the river on the right flank, and the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing still has a lot of experience in water warfare, and it is downstream again, so it naturally has an advantage.

Liu Xiyao, who was on the roof, looked at the thicker and thicker infantry line on the opposite side, and his heart was extremely upset, but what made him feel strange was that behind the infantry line, in addition to the soldiers who had disembarked from the boat, a large number of people were leveling the road, so he didn't know why.

The more I don't know, the more I feel that I have no bottom in my heart, Liu Xiyao wants to push the cannon to fight, but a large number of his own soldiers outside are still crowded there, and they use artillery to fight, I am afraid that they are injured by mistake, and it doesn't matter if they kill these soldiers, what they are afraid of is that if the artillery hits on their side, the front army will collapse violently, and the opponent's artillery is also sharp, and he doesn't see the opponent's artillery appear, so he is always worried.

But Liu Xiyao was not too worried about the attack of the official army, the officers and soldiers of Zhengyang Town set up a lot of obstacles and fortifications that day, and it took some effort when they came in. But the other party has to rush in, and in the street fighting, don't try to bargain.

Even Huang Degong, a famous fierce general in Nanzhili, had already led his men into the town a few days ago, but suffered a big loss, and was shot with an arrow in the arm, so he had to lead the troops to retreat.

What Liu Xiyao is looking forward to now is that the sailors of the fleet can win the battle, and take advantage of the situation to copy the back path of these people on the shore.

Defeated these people. This inexplicable army must have been defeated and fled.

The southern part of Luzhou Mansion and Fengyang Mansion are densely covered with water networks, and the large army operates and fights, many of which are carried out on the river, and the five battalions of the left side of the revolution must be mixed in this area. still made great efforts to rectify his own water army.

There were really a lot of ships in the 5th Battalion of Zhengyang Town, and many of them were ships that captured officers and soldiers. When driving out of Zhengyang Town, the bow of the ship is shielded with large planks and shields, completely in an inclined plane, some of them are covered with wet quilts, and some of them are wrapped in iron sheets.

Seeing that several boats on the opposite side were lined up on the river, this formation was not the formation of a water battle at all. The boat and the boat are very close to each other. As long as it rushes in, it will inevitably be chaos.

The more the sailors of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution looked at this situation, the more they felt that the chances of victory would be very great, and when they were still about 200 paces, they saw that the officers and soldiers were on the boats, and some soldiers rushed to the bow of the boat. The tarpaulin covering the bow of the ship was lifted, and the artillery was covered underneath.

As soon as they saw this artillery, the officers at the bow of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Zuo were all panicked, but looking at the caliber of the opponent's artillery, the muzzle of the cannon was not large, and even if it hit the ship, it might not even be able to break the ship's board.

At the moment, it was just a stack of voices urging his subordinates to row faster, rush to the front, and take a few fewer shots.

The soldiers of the Huaiyang army hurriedly ran up. The artillery was already loaded with ammunition. Everything is already ready, but against these ships ground artillery. But it's a little different from the usual.

An artisaner took a small piece of wood, covered with a thick layer of damp clay, and then stuffed the plank into the barrel, and another soldier took a pair of pliers with a wooden handle and iron head, and took out a dark red iron ball from a charcoal-burning stove, carefully stuffed it into the barrel, and then hurriedly dodged it, and the soldier who operated the cannon immediately lit the medicine bag.

The caliber of the cannon was not large, and the officers and men did not look like they had to pay attention to accuracy, and as soon as the cannon was fired, the ship immediately retreated backwards, and four shells flew out with a roar.

The artillery was fired at an elevation angle, and the ships of the 5th Battalion could even judge the landing point clearly and dodge in time, but they did not see what the shells looked like.

I thought that the artillery of the officers and soldiers was nothing more than that, but as soon as it flashed, the shells fell, and those small boats were not the targets of the officers and soldiers, and the big ships were multi-layered planks.

There are also large ships, there are officers who are clever and let the soldiers either hold grass and trees, or take off their clothes and pad them on the deck when the officers and soldiers open fire.

Since the Huaiyang Army was shooting at an elevation angle, what was more worrying than the hull was the deck, the cannonball was just an iron ball or even a stone ball, and if it landed on the deck and did not bounce, it would not hurt anyone.

Who would have thought that it would be a red subway ball, these boats with things directly burned up, and it was even more chaotic, don't think that it is easy to get water on the river, the big boats are high, and you can't even find tools to get water in a hurry.

In the naval army of the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution, several big ships are the main force, but now they are all in a mess, busy fighting fires, but the artillery over there has not stopped.

The charcoal fire in the furnace on the Huaiyang Army warship was burning, the iron balls in the hearth were burned red, and the degree of artillery fire of the officers and soldiers was much slower than that of normal artillery on weekdays, but it never stopped, and the cannon was fired.

The ship was already in chaos, after the first round of shelling, all the ships were in a panic, and even two of them had already been crossed, causing a great chaos in the fleet, and everyone could not move, and the red shell attack after the second round was not so easy to dodge. Being hit by a high-flying red iron ball, under the high temperature, people may not feel pain, but there will be greater damage, more landing points, and it is too late to extinguish the fire.

There was already green smoke rising from several ships. The fire on one of the ships in the middle was already a little uncontrollable, and the people on the boat jumped off ship like dumplings to escape.

The rest of the boats were in a similar situation, but this was only the beginning of the disaster, the people on board jumped into the river, and the big boat in the middle lost control, and the hull of the ship suddenly tilted, and it hit the boat next to him, so that many people who fought the fire and saved themselves were injured.

Originally, the battle on the river was dressed thinly, and I met this red-hot subway ball. It's even more tragic......

Several large boats crossed the river, not to mention those small boats and sampans, which were completely out of order.

But the river was going down the river after all, and the chaotic and burning boats continued to crash downstream. The officers and men on the ship are still doing the same thing.

Holding a long bamboo pole with iron, he resisted the boats, but they were all small boats, and the big boats that were on fire were still floating downstream, and they were afraid that they would not be able to withstand them with bamboo poles.

There was a loud "boom", and there was silence inside and outside Zhengyang Town, and many people's ears were buzzing, this sound was not the sound of those small cannons on the Fangcai River, as if there was a thunderstorm on a sunny day.

Looking at the fireboats drifting downstream on the river, they have already begun to sink. The sailors of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo on the remaining ships did not even bother to fight the fire and treat the wounded. Just staring blankly at the riverbank.

"Boom" and "boom" loud sounds continuously, each time the ground shakes the mountains, the five battalions of the left of the Revolution and the Huaiyang soldiers who were facing each other on the six places have stopped moving, and the soldiers of the displaced people who are waiting for each other in Zhengyang Town are pale, and everyone who looks at the land on the roof can see it clearly.

After each loud bang, one of the big boats on the river sank. The displaced soldiers on the boat, which had not yet capsized in the 5th Battalion of the Revolution, saw the source of the loud noise.

Four artillery pieces on the bank, facing the direction of the river, the artillerymen nervously loaded ammunition, this artillery is almost the largest artillery they have seen, among the leaders and soldiers of Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, the fifth battalion of the Revolution, there are also characters who have seen the world, that is, these people have seen this size of the cannon.

But artillery of this caliber has been seen in the past and is placed at the head of the city, and where the cannon can be placed. There are only two big cities in Kaifeng and Xiangyang.

The muzzle of the cannon in front of me looks no smaller than it was back then. It can be moved relatively flexibly, when do officers and soldiers have such sharp weapons. But after seeing this cannon, who cares about such a careful analysis, the boat did not sink desperately trying to turn, and in a hurry, there was such a chaos on the river, where did it turn around.

The soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution still had any fighting spirit at the moment, and they jumped into the river regardless of it, the big boat was sunk, and the people in the small boat all jumped down.

The soldiers on the 6th were beaten back step by step, and the offensive on the water failed even worse, and when the water was quiet, the boats behind could only row back, and they had already run clean, and the rest were either sunken or overturned.

Only then did these soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution understand that when the officers and soldiers went ashore, the spear array and the musket team rubbed over like turtles, and the people behind them were busy with the four cannons.

Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, almost fell on the roof, and he didn't even care about going down to arrange it, although he hadn't seen the appearance of the cannon until now.

But he had seen this movement and power, his cronies watched their leader stay on it, and he didn't care about the urgency of the situation in front of him, and the five people grabbed it and ripped Liu Xiyao down, and when he pulled people, he heard Liu Xiyao muttering to himself:

"General cannon, general cannon ......"

As soon as the earth shook and the movement came out, who dared to continue to stand there, and the leaders behind did not dare to continue to supervise the battle, in this situation, if he shouted at the brothers to rush up, he would be slaughtered by these brothers with knives.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the 5th battalion of the left side of the revolution retreated into Zhengyang Town, and then took advantage of the location of the terrain and fortifications to fight again The tactics were also well practiced, and everyone ran fast and quickly retreated.

On the other side of the river, the generals of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing had already ordered people to fill the remaining boats with firewood and grass and pour oil.

Chen Liu's armor was on the boat in the middle, and there were constant reports from the heralds, and when he heard the situation in front, Chen Liuhehe, deputy chief soldier of Shandong and general of the Huaiyang Army, said with a smile:

"Didn't he, Liu Xiyao, want to use Zhengyang Town as a shrunken turtle? If you don't play with him, you can just use the bombardment to finish the ......"

After a pause, Chen Liu complained again:

"These twelve-pounder cannons are good for anything, but it's really troublesome to move and pave the way."

The unit of measurement of Shandong artillery is pounds

On Tuesday morning's plane, Lao Bai went home to visit his parents