Liu Jinzhong had a small abacus in his heart, but in order to save face, and at the same time to test the true intentions of the Ming army squatting on Longquan Mountain, he led the army to arrive at S Hong on the second day, and did not wait for Li Dingguo's army to arrive, and led people to the bottom of the mountain to call for battle. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

His men and horses, not counting the more than 1,000 people in Zhang Daqi's S Hong Garrison Mansion, really have 10,000 people, including 2,000 veterans, all of whom were officers and soldiers who followed him when he was in Henan, and they have always been fully paid. The other 8,000 people were all miscellaneous soldiers, either all kinds of market figures who took the initiative to take refuge, or strong men who were caught, or homeless people who came to cooperate, wearing all kinds of clothes, and holding all kinds of strange things in their hands, some wearing leather armor and raking sickles, some wearing cloth clothes and holding iron-headed spears, and even some farmers who had just taken refuge and held hoes.

Liu Jinzhong lined up more than 10,000 people in a row under Longquan Mountain, walked into a three-fold array, dozens of small squares formed a large square, miscellaneous soldiers in front, family members in the back, flags flying, gongs and drums were noisy, the momentum was full, and the black pressure of the head occupied a large piece of ground.

And on the stone town on Longquan Mountain, there are some soldiers in white robes standing sparsely, lazily screaming and scolding at the military formation under the city, no one scolds back, no one squeaks, like a monkey watching a circus, indifferently looking at it, without any nervousness.

Liu Jinzhong rode on a horse, put his hand on a pergola and looked at the city, he had no intention of attacking the city, but he just wanted to see the details of the Ming army, it didn't matter if the Ming army didn't come out, he wanted to spend a few days, and when Li Dingguo came, let the Su Guards go to be the dead ghost of the siege, and keep his strength in order to future.

However, the reaction of the Ming army was beyond his expectations, according to the general process, at this time, the city should be crowded with people, and the garrison should be dense, as if facing the tense preparation of the enemy. As long as their own people get closer, ten thousand arrows will immediately be fired in the city, rolling lime bottles raining down, shouting monstrous and murderous.

But at this moment, not to mention murderous, not even popular, a few soldiers who were lazy and sparse at the head of the city, seeing that they didn't take their 10,000 people in their eyes, a feeling of being despised spread from Liu Jinzhong's heart to his limbs, straight to the top of his head.

"Zhang Daqi, how many Ming troops are there in the city? Tell Ben the Governor the truth! Liu Jinzhong was a little angry, and said to Zhang Daqi beside him.

Zhang Daqi also looked at the city head with a surprised face, and replied in surprise: "General, there are indeed nearly 10,000 Ming troops in the city, and when the small ones lose this city, there will be no mistakes when the Ming army rushes up all over the mountains." ”

Hearing this, several lieutenant generals of Liu Jinzhong's army gathered around also laughed, and said: "Zhang Shoubei, I'm afraid you're dazzled, you open your eyes and see, there are no more than 1,000 arrow battlements on the city, where did the nearly 10,000 horses come from?" ”

"I see if the Ming army who came out to grab food got lost and went up the mountain by mistake, and the people guarding Zhang didn't see the Ming army for a long time, and they turned around and ran away when they were startled, and they even saw people's faces."

"Hahaha, Zhang Shoubei is brave and unparalleled, how can it be as you say? I think it must have been the Ming army that attacked the mountain city, and yesterday I saw that our Liu Dudu banner was coming, and fled back, leaving a few remnants of the army to bluff. ”

A few people said it, and they said that Zhang Daqi was red-faced, but they couldn't talk back, and there were only so many people in the white-robed Ming army standing at the head of the city, and they could see it with long eyes, how to justify?

Liu Jinzhong let these people laugh at Zhang Daqi, and he didn't speak, but he was thinking in his heart, if the Ming army on Longquan Mountain really didn't have many people, it would be impossible to attack it, otherwise how would Li Dingguo explain when he came, it seems that tomorrow he will have to build some siege ordnance and take back the pass of Longquan Mountain.

Several lieutenant generals were still coaxing, and at this moment, a horn cannon sounded on Longquan Mountain, and with a "bump", a cloud of smoke exploded.

Everyone's eyes were attracted to the past, and they saw the gate of the walled city in the distance open violently, and teams of white-robed soldiers rushed out, spreading out in the open space in front of the gate like a tide, and quickly formed a queue to form a battle formation.

At this time, all the people were stunned, and there were originally only a few stragglers on the head of the city, and many people came out like a trick, erecting a few big drums, and the sound of "dong dong" war drums was accompanied by the neat footsteps of the white-robed soldiers under the city, which was terrifying.

"General, general, look at it, the Ming army is really nearly 10,000 people!" Among the shocked generals, only Zhang Daqi was very excited, and shouted happily like a woman who had cleared her grievances: "The little one is not wrong, the Ming army is here!" ”

"Which end of the ****** are you? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu cut off your head! Liu Jinzhong shouted angrily: "What are you doing in a daze? Go to their respective camps and prevent the Ming army from rushing into battle! ”

The lieutenants woke up like a dream, and immediately hurriedly beat their horses and scattered as birds and beasts.

And Liu Jinzhong's face was uncertain, looking at the white-robed soldiers rushing out like ants, his brows furrowed, and he was secretly surprised.

It's too fast, the Kuizhou army on the opposite side is moving too fast.

As the former Henan general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jinzhong is very familiar with the Ming army, but whenever the two armies face each other, regardless of the towns in the world, he has never seen the white-robed soldiers so well-trained and orderly, just like playing a point on the school field, every soldier and every general knows their clear position, and ran out of the city gate directly to the point, many but not chaotic, mixed but not mixed, a large number of generals under the green and cyan banners will automatically fall into position, just with the speed of this array, the Kuizhou army is much stronger than the Ming army that Liu Jinzhong has seen, At least it's a lot more elite than his Henan town.

"There are pacesetters in place, and the rest are lined up with the pacesetters." Liu Jinzhong is also worthy of the general, after watching it for a while, he saw the mystery in it, and said to himself: "The general who leads the team is an old man, and the fierce enemy is also!" ”

Witnessing the battle of the Kuizhou Army, there was a burst of S movement in Liu Jinzhong's team, and the white clothes on the opposite side were neatly aligned, and the variegated clothes and armor on this side were suppressed from the momentum.

The Kuizhou army is lined up into two large arrays, each large array is divided into three small arrays, all of which are arranged in a triangle, with the pointed ends facing the front, and the three small triangular formations are arranged in a conical shape, converging into a large triangular array, and the soldiers in the formation have a spear in their hands, and the tip of the spear is facing the sky, forming a forest of bright and shaking spear blades, and under the banner of the rows, shining with dazzling cold light.

Fifty paces away in front of the large array, there was a horizontal row of bird commanders, the position of the bird commanders was three hundred steps away from the Great Western Army, and the birds in one hand were unified with the crescent axe, and when they stood still, they pierced the crescent axe on the ground and began to charge and reload.

Liu Jinzhong's brows furrowed even deeper, it was common for the Ming army to have bird commanders, but it was the first time that the bird commanders equipped with axes had seen them, which was a little strange.

He had excellent eyesight, and he saw from a distance that under the blue "king" banner of the Kuizhou soldiers opposite, a young general who was also dressed in a white robe was pointing to his position, commenting on what was happening to the people around him, looking at that look, he was very contemptuous.

That young general is naturally Wang Huan.

Wang Huan was riding on a horse, and he was explaining the battle strategy to the deputy ancestor of the Fengzi battalion.

The strategy is very simple, just one sentence.

"See? The one wearing a silver mountain armor and a red cloak must be Liu Jinzhong. Wang Huan said lightly: "Rush over directly and bring his head to me!" ”

Zu Bian's face was hideous, he straightened the iron helmet on his head, and responded with a cruel smile: "Don't worry, my lord, if you don't lose a stick of incense, the last general will be able to come back." ”

Wang Huan nodded, he has absolute self-confidence, and Zubian has this ability.

Zubian rode out of the crowd, came to the front of the triangle formation, and glanced to his right.

Under the green banner of Lin Ziying on the right, Li Tingyu also rode out slowly, and came to the same level as his ancestors.

The two of them were far apart, but they nodded to each other as if they could see each other's faces, and at the same time raised their spears in their hands, the blades of which were raised towards the sky, dazzling in the sun.

Two loud voices in unison rang out in the sky: "Attack!" ”

The drums on the head of the city suddenly accelerated, and the sound of the cowhide drums of "dong dong dong" gathered like rain and fell stones, and then dozens of big drums in the triangular array rang out, beating the same drum beat and echoing, and the whole battlefield was a drum sound, filling every corner.

On the left and right sides of each triangular array, there is a horn trumpeter, accompanied by the sound of the drum, the trumpeter with amazing lung capacity puffs out his cheeks and blows the horn, and the unique low sound of the vast horn is stirred up in the drum, spewing out the murderous aura between the guns and flags, and soaring into the sky.

Zu Bian and Li Tingyu put down their spears, pointed diagonally ahead, and drove their horses forward slowly.

Behind the two, several centurions lined up on the tip of the triangular formation also flattened the spears in their hands and shouted: "Attack!" There was a thud and a thud came out.

Thousands of white-robed soldiers followed the steps of their respective centurions, and at the same time, like a white wall, slowly advancing forward.

And the bird commander in the front, following the drum beat, holding an axe in his left hand and a gun in his right hand, the bird commander was on the crescent axe in his left hand, staring at the Great Western Army five hundred steps away, and passed step by step.

The S movement of the Great Western Army on the opposite side became more obvious, and the noise became louder, scolding the generals, and suppressing the unstable military heart, in fact, they were also a little surprised, the Ming army actually attacked first!

Liu Jinzhong already felt that something was not quite right, since he took refuge in Zhang Xianzhong, he fought with the Ming army, except for Zuo Liangyu and other individual generals, he rarely encountered the Ming army that dared to go out of the city to fight in the field, and it was even more rare for Kuizhou soldiers to attack aggressively like others, and in the past year, they have hardly encountered it.

But the development of the situation is beyond him, and the white-robed soldiers are hundreds of paces away, so they can't just turn around and run.

Liu Jinzhong gritted his teeth, straightened up on the horse, and shouted: "Minggou is just bluffing, sons!" All cheer up Lao Tzu, who dares to embarrass Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu hacked him alive! ”

Behind him, a group of guards and generals suddenly agreed, shouting: "I am willing to fight to the death with the governor!" ”

Liu Jinzhong looked angry and said in a loud voice: "Order, beat the drum!" The front army moved forward, first broke his bird commandery, and then confronted the enemy head-on! ”

"The left and right armies, defend the middle army, wait for the front army to break the enemy, move forward with the governor, and kill the Ming dog together!"

"The cavalry battalion held firm in the rear, and when the Chinese army moved forward, they charged from the right flank, defeated the left flank of Minggou, and opened the way for the whole army to break the enemy!"

A series of orders went down, and several heralds carried the C red flag to lead the horses and galloped, bringing orders to the camps everywhere, and the dozen or so drums in the Chinese army formation were also beaten by a team of **** men with thick wood, and they sounded-for-tat.

The drums were rumbling, the horns were sounding, and under the bleak winter sun, the dozen or so phalanxes at the front of the three-fold array of the Great Western Army were also driven by their respective generals, facing the array of the Kuizhou Army and slowly moving forward.

The distance of 500 steps is slowly closing.

Four hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps......

The Kuizhou military bird commander at the forefront can already see the faces of the soldiers of the Great Western Army who are crowded together and crazy on the opposite side, and the roaring mouth shape and the chaotic shouts are already as loud as in the ears.

Yan Mingde, who was walking on the far right of the horizontal line, tried his best to suppress the tension in his heart, estimating the distance between them, and when the two armies were one hundred and fifty paces apart, he stood on his heels.

"Stop!" Yan Mingde roared loudly and raised the crescent axe.

The entire bird commander stopped at the same time, they couldn't hear Yan Mingde's shout, but they could see the centurion beside him, the centurion had been staring at Yan Mingde's direction, and when Yan Mingde's crescent axe was raised high, they stopped together.

"According to the system!"

The bird commanders stabbed the spikes under the axes into the ground, stood firmly, and set the birds on the axes, blew a fire rope wrapped around their wrists, and lit the beak clips.

The former commander of the Great Western Army has seen the sparks rising on the bird, and he disdains it in his heart, according to the convention, the Ming army's bird commander will either put the lead into the air, or because the charge is insufficient, the lead will not hit himself at this distance of one hundred and fifty steps and will fall to the ground with all his strength, even if any unlucky guy is unlucky and is hit by the lead flying around, it is a single-digit casualty, and it is harmless.

"Rush up! Cut those cowards! The Commander shouted loudly, swinging his long knife in the air.

"Ahh The miscellaneous soldiers twisted their faces, screamed wildly, and turned their slow march into a rapid charge, and the front army of nearly 3,000 people, which was originally a well-organized phalanx, turned into a chaotic flow of people, shouting and charging forward.

"Don't be afraid, if they can't hit, rush over and cut off the head, and there will be a reward! All of you are side by side! He shouted hoarsely and urged his men to rush ahead, but he quietly hid in the crowd, dodging the coming rain of bullets.

"Rush!"

"Kill!"

Stimulated by the silver bounty and death, the miscellaneous soldiers had forgotten their fears, their bloodshot eyes staring at the white-robed bird standing still, and there was only one thought in their heads: rush! Kill!

"Bang!"

Yan Mingde fired, and the lead bullet screamed out of the mouth, leaping a hundred steps, accurately hitting the forehead of a large Western Army soldier wielding a broadsword.

A shot glass-sized amount of blood appeared on the soldier's forehead, a mist of blood erupted from the back of his head, and he shook his forward body, took a few more steps forward, and threw himself to the ground, dead.

The muffled sound of gunfire was not very harsh against the background of the battlefield, and the soldiers who followed did not stop, countless footsteps stepped over the corpse of the dead soldier, trampling him into a ball of mud.

Yan Mingde's first shot was a signal, and the continuous gunfire was like firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, and black gunpowder smoke rose one after another, and nearly two thousand birds fired almost at the same time, forming a wall of smoke between the white Kuizhou Army and the variegated Great Western Army.

The surging crowd seemed to have crashed into an invisible barrage, and the rows of people running in front of them staggered and screamed to the ground, their leather armor and cloth clothes as fragile as paper in the face of scattered lead bullets.

The blood mist rose and the corpses were scattered.

The soldiers of the Great Western Army were blinded, and their galloping pace slowed down.

People are afraid of death, especially when the people around them are dying in front of them, and the thrill of death is huge and boundless.

Even the craziest people will cool down before they die, or panic.

"Their guns can only be put in one row, and then charge! There is no gunpowder in their birds, so they rush over to avenge their brothers! The Commander, who was running behind, roared again.

He shouted on his mouth, but his heart was dripping blood, the dead were all combat power, the Ming army knocked out at least a thousand of his own people with a row of guns, but it was still so far away, and the archers on his side ran at the rear, and he couldn't accurately throw S at a distance of more than a hundred steps, and he couldn't kill if he didn't hit, and he had to be brave enough to approach.

However, his shouting made a lot of sense, and the miscellaneous soldiers all knew that it was very laborious for the bird commander to reload, as long as he was fast enough to rush over before the second round of S strikes from the bird commander, he would be able to slash and kill those grandsons happily.

Sure enough, the bird commanders who stood in a horizontal line had no intention of putting a second shot, so they all collected their guns and turned around, scattered to both sides, and ran with their backs.

The courage of the Great Western Army was immediately strengthened, and the slowed pace was accelerated a few points, the Ming Army was so virtuous, and after the firearms were released, they turned around and ran, and in close combat, the Great Western Army had not been afraid of the cowardly Ming Army.

One rushed to the front to wipe a handful of blood splashed on his face, grinning and running at the front, he was strong and strong, holding a long-handled simple knife, the black and purple old blood stains on the rusty blade showed his martial bravery, the bloodshot eyes were full of fierce cruelty, staring at the back of the bird's hand exuding a murderous aura.

But in the next moment, his pupils contracted suddenly, and his forward steps suddenly stopped.

Because he saw it, as the bird's hand dispersed to both sides, revealing the countless white-robed soldiers lined up behind him, forming a formation of sharp spears, and walking towards him.

(End of chapter)