On April 25, the eighth year of Yongli, the house of Xu Lei's house guarded by the right battalion of Fubiao in Hangzhou looked as it did on weekdays, but today, Xu Lei, as the head of the family, did not go to the camp to respond, but stayed at home, anxiously waiting. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After the failure of the last suppression of the four provincial capitals, a large number of Qing troops, including the promotion of standards and the raising of standards, were expanded. In this expansion, non-commissioned officers can be recruited, but most of the officers are promoted by various departments, because in the current situation, few people are willing to come to the troubled waters of Zhejiang.

In this case, logically speaking, like Xu Lei, his uncle is Xu Xin, a confidant of Tian Xiong's henchmen, the general of the Chinese army, who expanded the army to make up for the deputy general of the former battalion, and his father-in-law is the deputy general of the battalion who was promoted.

However, it was under such circumstances that Xu Lei was not promoted, and he was still the garrison of the right battalion of Fubiao, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

What is the reason, in fact, a discerning person can see at a glance that the reason why Xu Lei was demoted from the standard promotion camp to the Fubiao camp was nothing more than the incident of his unauthorized change in the mandarin duck formation. Now that he has not been promoted, it is obvious that the anger of the imperial court has not passed, so that his career has been affected.

However, seeing that most of my colleagues have been promoted, it is impossible to say that there is no resentment in my heart. Because of this, in the past half a year, he has been even more fond of Li Ruixin's sister, and even in terms of treatment, he can compare with his wife Yu.

It can be like this, but it is actually normal. From the moment he learned that Li Ruixin was still alive and was working under Chen Wen's account, he gradually raised the Li family's treatment to make up for the abuse in the past few years. With Chen Wen's successive victories, especially after last year's war, the Zhejiang Ming army swept the southeast, and the difference was that the gap in the comprehensive strength of the two sides was too large. Of course, the Manchus could not come up with any better solution to this for the time being, and could only further rely on Hong Chengchou's ability. As a result, Lee's today has actually become inevitable.

Of course, in addition, Li's pretty appearance is extremely outstanding among the families of the officers under Huang Degong, and his temperament is not as supple as other generals. He admired it for a long time back then, if it weren't for the Li family's middle way, being able to marry Ming Media was the biggest wish at that time.

Under the combination of the two sides, it was natural that he quickly recovered to the glue he once was, and even at that time, Yu Shi learned that Li Ruixin was in Chen Wenjun, and his lie may not have been out of love and pity in his heart.

Xu Lei didn't go to Ying Mao today, in fact, in addition to leaving tomorrow, more of Li's illness made him find a reason to stay at home and take care of him.

In the quiet courtyard where Li's mother and daughter lived, the people were already waiting for the doctor's pulse diagnosis results, and even Xu Lei was walking around, anxious and overflowing, but Yu's face was extremely complicated as if he was waiting for the results like the following people were in charge.

Among the old men here, it is a recent famous doctor, and Xu Lei spent a lot of money to invite him. Seeing that Na Langzhong had checked his pulse, he hurriedly greeted him.

"Old man, no matter what the disease is, as long as it can be cured, there will be a generous gift below."

Xu Lei's impatience made her even more jealous in Yu's eyes, but when Na Langzhong said the next sentence, she immediately poured out her jealousy.

"Sick? No, no. Lao Langzhong shook his head, and then smiled and said: "Little Lao'er congratulates the general, congratulates the general, such as Mrs. This is happy." ”

"This, but really?"

A Lang Zhong once told him that the Li family could not have children. In this way, the former "goddess" will become a hen that cannot lay eggs at that time. This impression is too deep, even to the point that Xu Lei will have some regrets when he is with Li so far. It was precisely because of this incident that he was happy at first glance, so much so that he wondered if this old man was playing tricks on him.

"The old man has diagnosed the pulse, can he still make a mistake?"

Hearing Xu Lei's questioning was not only joy, but also distrust of his medical skills, the old man wrote displeasure on his face when he was on board. If it weren't for Xu Lei being an officer, he would have known some of Xu Lei's background, but he was afraid that he would have gone long ago.

"Don't dare, don't dare. It's a gaffe, and I hope that the old gentleman Haihan is one. ”

It is true that this old man is a famous local doctor, and more importantly, he is also the guest of Xiao Qiyuan, the governor of Zhejiang.

Two years ago, Chen Wen became more and more troublesome, and Xiao Qiyuan had a headache because of this, and he once asked a famous doctor named Wu Youke in Suzhou to diagnose and treat him. At first, it was okay, the medicine was put into the abdomen, and the pain was relieved, but it didn't take long for this Wu Youke to pass away, and the prescription behind him couldn't come out.

The disease can't be cured, and Xiao Qiyuan can't kill himself first, find Wu Youke's soul to get rid of the prescription behind him and then continue to treat the disease. had to find another famous doctor, and in the end, it was this old man who rejuvenated, and he was very good at talking to Xiao Qiyuan. Of course, with his background, although he is not afraid, but in the Fubiao camp, it is better not to attract the governor boss to the eyes.

Besides, there should be nothing wrong with such a famous doctor.

took the prescription, sent the consultation money, and sent Lang Zhong away with a thousand thanks, Xu Lei originally planned to tell the ancestors of the Xu family the good news first, after all, this is still his first child, if it is a man, their old Xu family, especially his branch, will naturally have a future.

It's just that he was just about to go to the ancestral hall, but he saw Yu Shi still standing there in a daze, as if he was in the only dead leaves on the branches in the cold winter wax moon, trembling alone.

When he got closer, Xu Lei stared at it with wide eyes for a moment, as if he wanted to re-understand the pillow person who had been with him for many years. It wasn't until a long time later that the ice blades came out of their mouths.

"You're doing a good job!"

………………

"This bunch of ungrateful people."

Gritting teeth is not limited to Xu Lei. A few days later, when the vanguard of the Qing army arrived at the foot of Dalan Mountain, Vance planned to organize the heroes of the rivers and lakes that he had invited with a lot of money as a killer weapon in the decisive battle with the Qing army.

"When I return to the village, I will make the unrighteous deeds of these dog thieves public, and let them be reviled to the fullest!"

Vance is now only one in his twenties, and he has been influenced by his father Wan Tai and teacher Huang Zongxi and other famous people of the Donglin Restoration Society all the year round, and he has made friends with such people. He is willing to make friends with people in the rivers and lakes, and among these people, he has always been the existence of the stars holding the moon, and when he is betrayed here, he is naturally angry.

In contrast, Huang Zongxi has long been accustomed to seeing such things, climbing high and stepping low, although he has not entered the officialdom, he has seen too much, but he is more calm.

"Chongzong, it's useless to have such a temper at this moment, let's do something more beneficial."

Hearing Huang Zongxi's words, Vance had no choice but to suppress this tone: "What Mr. said is that the student will write the desperate poem well, even if he can't win the battle, he must let the world know that I and other righteous gentlemen have struggled here!" ”

Escape is not escaped, to be able to come here were originally some of the more radical among the scholars, and the infamy to be borne by the Qing Dynasty was also something they were unwilling to bear, even if they had this idea in the atmosphere of "sacrificing their lives for righteousness", they did not dare to put it into their mouths, especially in today's undecided world.

Everyone wrote a desperate poem in the lobby where they complained about each other on weekdays, and the contradictions on weekdays seemed to be swept away at this moment. Of the people present, only Wang Jiang was still noncommittal there, and he had no intention of starting to write.

"Uncle Wang, are you planning to be a Feng woman again?!"

What Wan Sicheng said about being a Feng woman again is actually asking Wang Jiang whether he intends to reduce the Qing again. From Wang Jiang's denial of his quick attack on Yuyao, especially during this period of time, the momentum of this Dalanshan Ming army has become worse and worse, which makes him even more convinced that this is Wang Jiang's fault for not listening to people's words. With resentment, it is natural to draw the most malicious understanding of any action of others.

"Hmph."

Hearing this, Wang Jiang didn't refute it, just smiled coldly, and the disdain in it didn't need words to express it at all.

Seeing this, Wan Sicheng was even more firm in Wang Jiang's speculation that he planned to lower the Qing again, and immediately rushed up to fight with him, while his younger brother Wan Sida stood side by side with him, saying that he was going to go up to help him.

"Enough, among us, the eldest uncle is the least likely to descend to the Tartars!"

Huang Zongxi shouted violently, and the Wanjia brothers stopped when they landed, Wang Jiang had already had an experience of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty before, but he and Chen Wen played Ma Guozhu together, naturally it was impossible to surrender again, even if he really surrendered, the Manchus would not accept him again.

The anger dispersed, and Huang Zongxi took the lead in walking out. This time to repair the camp, they only left a gate, in order to facilitate the defense, here are still more than 200 soldiers in the camp has been waiting in the school field, in Jianghan to the family in the camp as a call, finally to boost the morale of the mourning soldiers.

The cavalry of the Qing army approached, but only observed and did not attack. The next day, a Qing army under the banner of raising the banner of the former battalion finally arrived.

Under the banner, Xu Xin, the deputy general of the Zhejiang Admiral Biao Battalion, was in charge of the guerrilla affairs of the front battalion, and only made a cursory observation of the movement of the enemy camp in the distance and ordered the attack, but he looked absent-minded, as if he was still distracted by something else. Taking advantage of Xu Xin's observation, the recruits in the rear battalion also learned from the veterans to take a final rest, and then when the order was issued, they began to climb the mountain.

There are only more than 200 rebels in the battalion, and according to the establishment of the Ming army in Zhejiang, there are two outposts, but at the beginning of the rebel army, the firearms team can only use bows and arrows, so the initial version of the Nantang battalion is also selected.

However, due to the escape of the soldiers, three pure Mandarin Duck Array killer teams and a firearms team composed of archers were barely organized after mixing, and that's it. But what they need to face is the nearly 1,000 pre-standard battalions under the mountain. Moreover, he also had to take care of the families in the camp, so Jiang Han, who was in charge of leading the troops from the beginning, gave up the mountains and forests and was determined to defend the camp.

There was no obstruction, it was not the first time to kill this big Lan Mountain, and the battalion before the standard was quickly approached to the old camp under the leadership of some officers who had been here.

After getting along during this time, he knew that the literati behind him were not reliable figures at all, so Jiang Han simply left Huang Zongxi alone, asking him to sit here to maintain morale, while the others rushed back to the hall of the Chinese army directly, so as not to interfere with his command of the soldiers to fight.

Repair the ruined old village, on the wall of the wall where adobe and wooden walls are mixed, the archers are already in place, intending to condescendingly shoot the Qing army attacking the village. At this time, the gate of the old camp was not closed, but it was wide open, and only the mandarin duck array killer team blocking a sentry there was still there, blocking the way for the Qing army to rush straight into the old camp.

"Mandarin Duck Array?!"

This kind of siege and attack on the mountain, since it is impossible for the whole battalion to go up the mountain together, not to mention anything else, the military formation alone will not be used, and the retreat will be blocked in case of accidents, Xu Xinai is a general, so he naturally understands this, so he only sent two garrisons up the mountain, and the strength of less than 400 people has nearly doubled the strength of the rebels on the mountain. Unexpectedly, as soon as they saw the rebels guarding the gate of the village, the two garrisons were startled.

As the Qing army's attempt to improve its combat effectiveness by copying the establishment of the Zhejiang Ming army was punished by the Qing court, other places did not know, anyway, only Chen Wen's subordinates in the southeast were still using the Mandarin Duck Formation, so that when they saw the formation and weapon configuration on the opposite side, the two garrisons who had fought with the Zhejiang Ming Army immediately remembered those unpleasant pasts.

After looking at each other for a moment, the two of them seemed to have regained some courage and hurriedly commanded their subordinates to form a formation and advance.

The Qing troops of the brigade pressed forward step by step, and soon entered the firing range. With Jiang Han's order, the archers on the walled wall began to shoot freely, aiming at every enemy they felt was likely to kill.

However, the standard battalion is the leader in the Zhejiang green battalion, although it has clashed with the Zhejiang Ming army several times, and the veterans have lost a lot, but the experienced officer corps is still there. From the very beginning, seeing the deployment of the rebel army, the Qing army was already prepared. At the beginning of the shooting, the sword and shield soldiers in the team immediately raised their shields, and almost in an instant, a shield wall was formed to protect the front of the Qing army, even if there were many gaps between them, but they still blocked most of the shots.

Arrows crackled on the shields, and from time to time Qing troops were shot by arrows that had penetrated into the gaps and fell to the ground, but they did not cause the slightest confusion in the queue. Whenever someone was wounded, the Qing army behind would immediately make up for it, just as they did when they trained and encircled small groups of rebels in the battalion, and they also did not lack the reprimand of the officers.

Soon, the Qing army of the brigade approached the left side of the walled gate, and the archers and musketeers of the rear team also began to return fire after entering the firing range, which caused the pressure on the infantry of the front team to drop sharply.

The distance between the two sides was no more than twenty or thirty meters, and the sword and shield soldiers in the first row of the Qing army put their shields back one after another when the pressure on their heads was not too great, grabbed throwing axes, throwing knives or javelins and rushed out.

"Array!"

With an uproar, with the running action of the Qing saber and shield soldiers, the rebels at the gate of the village instantly squatted down, with long cards and rattan cards in front, covering the entire queue behind, just like the performance of the Nantang battalion in the first battle, it was very easy to resist the first wave of projection.

"It's fine."

Seeing this, Jiang Han couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and used a vertical formation to defend and project, which was a very basic tactic in the Ming army in Zhejiang, although it was simple, but it was extremely practical in the face of the Qing army.

It's just that at the same time as the running and throwing, the Qing army of the brigade began to charge, and Jiang Han's nerves immediately jumped up again.

"Beat the drums, the junior is in formation!"

"Tiger!"

As during training, while beating the drums, there was a loud shout, and the wolf won a crucial few seconds for the other soldiers with a wave, and then a complete junior talent formation was presented in front of the Qing army.

The mandarin duck array of this outpost is the best unit trained by Jiang Han, and it is also the most complete outpost. Through the previous diligent training, they quickly completed the formation change.

The Qing army and the righteous army soon collided together at the gate of the village, just like the battle behind the Siming Mountain Palace, in the face of the Mandarin Duck Formation, this standard battalion was still unable to form a rapid breakthrough, and was even once pressed and beaten by the Mandarin Duck Formation, which had both offense and defense. There is a mountain road at the gate of the wall, which is wider, but it is only a few tens of meters, and the troops cannot continue to deploy, and the artillery has never been moved, and it is extremely difficult to enter the village.

In fact, Jiang Han also saw the Mandarin Duck Array actually used on the battlefield for the first time, during which they occupied the advantage of geographical advantages, especially this narrow area is more suitable for the use of the Mandarin Duck Array, so that they suddenly had the hope of holding on to this to force the Qing army back.

However, there was not a single veteran in the queue who had seen blood, all of them were new recruits guarding here, and even the proportion of them with martial arts foundation was far from being compared with the Nantang battalion of Chen Wen back then, as the first archer was shot and fell from the wall, the few morales began to drown in the sea of blood.

Time passed minute by minute, and the characteristics of both offense and defense of the Mandarin Duck Formation made their battle at the gate of the village extremely smooth, not to mention that they were killed, and none of them were seriously injured. However, gradually, there were fewer and fewer archers on the wall, some fell on the wall, some fell from the outside of the wall, and many fell directly into the inside of the wall, completely exposed to the sight of the side queue of the mandarin duck array.

Soon, the threat from the walled walls became smaller and smaller, and the archers and musketeers of the Qing army's rear team also had their hands free. With the order of the garrison at the head, a group of archers passed through the first rows of infantry and appeared behind the first row of Qing troops.

"First row, squat!"

Liu Zhiyuan used it last year, and this is a tactic that has been trained for a long time, in order to use it against the Mandarin Duck Formation. As soon as the order came out, the Qing army in the first row subconsciously squatted down, and the archers in the second row shot at the righteous army column that was almost breathing.

In an instant, amid the screams, the four Mandarin Duck Array killer teams that were blocked at the gate of the village at the first outpost were all killed to varying degrees. However, due to the lack of armor, even if the shot does not hit the vital point, it will still cause a large part of the wounded to lose the ability to fight. This is reasonable and expected, but it still makes Huang Zongxi and Jiang Han feel frightened, because they only have these three whistles in their hands!

"A sentry, retreat into the village. Whistle B, whistle C, step forward! ”

Retreating means giving up the walled gate, but there are already a lot of wounded soldiers at the outpost, and the fear of the other soldiers is also in Jiang Han's eyes. It will take time for this outpost to regroup, and at the same time restore some morale, and for now it can only give way to the walled gate.

After receiving the order, the first post began to retreat, and some wounded soldiers and soldiers who had time to retreat in the future were immediately besieged by the Qing army, which invisibly delayed the Qing army to take advantage of the situation to enter the village. When the Qing army entered the formation, the first post had retreated to the rear of the formation, and the oncoming second and third posts held the inside of the walled gate on the left and right, still blocking in front of the Qing army.

In this way, the front, left front, and right front of the Qing army are all righteous troops on three sides, and because of the restrictions of the walled gate, the tactics just now are no longer difficult to perform, and it seems that they can only enter the war of attrition, so that the opponent's morale is exhausted due to casualties, so that they can enter in one fell swoop and completely wipe out the cottage.

It seems to be so, but the gate is lost, and the wall is difficult to preserve. Next, the wall, which had not many archers left, immediately ushered in the ant attack of the Qing army, and was soon occupied by the Qing army under the disparity in strength.

"Retreat, retreat!"

As soon as the wall was lost, the Qing army could take advantage of the condescending advantage to shoot at the defenders, and the casualties would immediately rise sharply if they were attacked on both sides. It's just that retreating back and forth is also extremely dangerous, especially for a rebel army like them who has no combat experience.

After Jiang Han's order, a group of mandarin duck formations began to retreat step by step, retreating to the established area of the old battalion administration and warehouse as the last resistance, and the families of the remaining soldiers were also concentrated there.

However, this retreat is not as good as advancing, especially in the shouts of experienced Qing army veterans about "the thieves have been defeated", and the morale drops rapidly. Team after team retreated one after another, and when Huang Zongxi and Jiang Han retreated to the hall of the Chinese army, there were only twenty or thirty rebels left, and they belonged to each team, so that even a mandarin duck formation could no longer be put together.

"It looks like I'm going to die here today."

In the process of retreating, Jiang Han was also wounded by several knife slashes and arrows, relying on the armor on his body and the treasure knife given to him by Qian Sule in his hand, he reluctantly retreated here. It's just the pathos in the words, but it infected everyone present.

Although the Ming Army of Dalanshan is a righteous army, it is more like a real royal division than other Ming armies and righteous armies. Four years ago, the Ming army of Dalanshan was annihilated, and the only remaining Nantang battalion in its remnants grew up step by step in the cracks of the Qing army in Zhejiang in the past four years. However, the price of its growth is not lacking in the loss of the interests of scholars, even if it is illegal interests, it is enough for Huang Zongxi and others to fight.

With such thoughts, especially when he happened to meet Wang Jiang who fled Nanjing, Huang Zongxi simply rebuilt the Ming army of Dalanshan as Wang Yi's sons and daughters.

However, in the past two months, the reconstruction has not been completed, but has been declining. Now with less than twice the Qing army against the old camp protected by the wall, but not even an hour can be defended, especially compared to the time when Chen Wen and the Qing army fought bloodily for half a day, the first battle defeated five times their own standard battalion army, really made them, who think that they are righteous gentlemen, will definitely defeat Chen Wen, the remnants of the eunuch soldiers, feel ashamed, guilty, even to the point of having no place to be ashamed.

Looking at the people in the front yard of the Chinese army hall, Huang Zongxi, this complex character who actively resisted the Qing Dynasty in the Shunzhi Dynasty in history, refused to serve the Qing court in the early years of Kangxi, and turned to sing praises for the slave chief Xuanye in his later years under the coercion and temptation of the Manchu literary prison and a series of policies to win over Han scholars and doctors, at this moment, he is still the world-famous Yaojiang Huang Xiaozi who was famous for "stabbing Xu Xianchun and beating Cui Yingyuan"!

At this moment, the three-grade official robe of the left deputy capital Yu Shi Zheng, which has been treasured on his body for many years, has many tears, but Huang Zongxi's gaze is still like a sword in his hand, and the edge is exposed.

"To be able to die here with all the monarchs is really a blessing in the life of Yuyao Huang Zongxi!" (To be continued.) )