On the land of Jingzhou, where the grass is full of decay, there is no sound of chickens and dogs hearing each other, except for a few crows can be heard from time to time, you can only hear the sound of this ambush soldier, this area has been a place of frequent wars since ancient times, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for a few wanderers walking in groups, there are only countless armored officers and soldiers left, Li Guoying's army of more than 50,000 troops is part of this countless group of troops, there are cavalry in front of the road, and there are fire guns and archers in the back. The foot soldier followed closely with a spear like a moving forest, and the main general Li Guoying was a big sword in his hand, majestic, but there was a hint of cunning between his eyebrows, and while scanning the dynamics around Helao Mountain with his peripheral vision, he asked: "How far is Jingzhou City from here?" ”

"Back to the general, it's less than a hundred miles!" After the general next to him answered, Li Guoying couldn't help but smile and said: "It seems that there will be no danger along the way, although these thieves have tens of thousands, they can't even take Jingzhou, can it be that they can still pose a threat to us?" Pass the order down, speed up the advance, if you go late, I'm afraid that you can only see Chen Ge Lao's corpse, if so, who do we ask for military salary! ”

And while Li Guoying was speaking, Liu Hei and the soldiers of the second and third standards of the second battalion were already prostrate in the bushes on both sides of the Peaceao Mountain with bated breath, and as soon as Li Guoying's cavalry walked in, they immediately began to shoot.

A series of iron bullets under the action of rapid propulsion, like sharp arrows that plough through the void flew quickly, Li Guoying's vanguard cavalry was shot down a large piece before they had time to react, and the shooting coordination of the soldiers of the Han army is particularly high, when you are responsible for hitting the body of a cavalry horse, I am responsible for hitting the head of another cavalry, and it is really a bullet without missing a shot, although the current firearms technology is still in the era of smoothbore flintlock pistols, but the shooting accuracy of the soldiers of the second battalion has been completely higher than that of the army of the same era.

This may be the reason why the second battalion has been able to adapt to fighting outside for a long time, and the soldiers of the second battalion may not have very strong individual combat effectiveness, but they have a natural tacit understanding with each other, perhaps this is related to the fact that General Liu Hei has always paid attention to collective feelings, in short, the soldiers of the second battalion have played a very good tactical cooperation. Just after Li Guoying's cavalry was dispersed, they were like the beginning of a rainstorm, and they quickly withdrew from the battlefield without the slightest drag.

"How can these thieves fight my cavalry", Li Guoying knew that it must be the cavalry that was attacked when he heard the neighing of horses in front of him, so he immediately ordered the follow-up troops to press up, but when he pressed up with a large army, he found that the thief army had already withdrawn, and he was suspicious for a while, and secretly seemed to have realized what danger there was, but time did not allow him to think about it, because at this time, the cavalry soldiers of the first target of the seventh battalion had rushed over, A sturdy and powerful war horse was like a heavy tank rolling over, and at the same time, rows of bullets also overturned, Li Guoying's elite soldiers were busy consciously setting up a formation, but before they could be arranged, they were rudely torn open by the war horses.

Li Guoying can't change the situation even if Xiang Yu is reincarnated now, because the Han army is playing a game of horse racing, first concentrate firepower to eliminate your mobile force, then use mobile power to eliminate your elite infantry soldiers, and then use elite infantry to eliminate your auxiliary soldiers and troops whose morale has been defeated.

After the first standard of the seventh battalion completely disrupted the elite infantry of Li Guoying's department, the first standard of the second battalion had already rushed out, specifically looking for auxiliary soldiers who were still formed or formed into groups in the chaotic army.

Li Guoying had to take hundreds of brave and warlike warriors to stick to a high ground, and immediately sent people to take the opportunity to ask for help, but at this time, the army of Chen Hongfan or Fang Guo'an Department may be because of the preservation of strength, or because Chen Yan was trapped, so that no one could unify the command of these imperial court officers and troops, so the thousands of cavalry of the seventh battalion forced him into various county towns and did not dare to come out for a decisive battle, in short, Li Guoying did not want to find reinforcements, and these local warlords also had a layer of meaning to weaken the strength of the left army by the hands of the Han army.

The second battalion eventually occupied the high ground, but it was Li Guoying who surrendered on his own initiative. Just like he later followed Zuo Mengeng with Jin Shenghuan to surrender without a fight when the Manchu Tartars pressed the border, Li Guoying did not choose to die on the battlefield or choose to break through with all his strength, but chose to jump ship without pressure.

So, Li Guoying was captured alive, this in the late Ming Dynasty initially served as the chief military officer of Zuo Liangyu's department, and later served as the governor of Sichuan in the Qing court, the secretary of the military department and was awarded the first-class Asihani Hafan, because he came to Sichuan from Haoge to suppress Zhang Xianzhong's ministry and participated in the slaughter of Sichuan and personally exterminated the Kuidong Righteous Army******** and now he has taken refuge in the Han army, however, before coming to Huguang, he has accepted Yang Ming's entrustment, but did not choose to keep him, but resolutely ordered: "Execute this person immediately, leave no trace!" ”

"Why!" Li Guoying couldn't understand that he might have killed innocent people, or he might have fought in the Han army, but compared to Ge Qizuo and Tan Wen, he was already the kindest, and Li Guoying also thought that his military talent was no less than Tan Wen, if he was given the opportunity, the value he brought to the Han army would definitely be greater than Tan Wen. So, after Li Guoying knew that he was going to be executed, he cried and cried to see Xiao Yuan.

"Miss Block, although Li has made a thousand mistakes, he has decided to change his past, please give me a chance to live, let me be a soldier", Li Guoying begged bitterly.

Du Xiaoyuan spread her hands innocently and said: "General Li, I can't help it, our son-in-law gave a strict order before leaving, if Li Guoying is caught and executed directly, there is no need to report it!" What do you think I can do? ”

"Yang Ming, what kind of enmity do I have with you, at best, each is his own master, why do you want to be so ruthless to me!" This is what Li Guoying said before he died, with a knife, this big traitor who should have become a famous lackey of the Qing Dynasty was summarily killed. This is another change in history since Yang Ming came to this world, and at least it can be decided that in the future, the governor of Sichuan, who is responsible for slaughtering Sichuan and exterminating the thirteen families of Kuidong, will no longer be Li Guoying.

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On the side of Dongxiang County, Kuizhou, after a fierce artillery bombardment by the left army, the fortifications of the Han army were not damaged at all, which made the left army very surprised, and they couldn't help but start to really think that the thief army had set up a formation, after all, in their cognition, although artillery could not destroy large city walls, it could also destroy some small fortresses, especially under the continuous artillery bombardment, the countless iron bullets that quickly pressed over could completely collapse the city wall.

But Zuo Liangyu, the commander of the left army who is familiar with the books of sages, does not think that the thief army will really put a formation that can counteract the power of the cannonballs, and the literati who are proud of their proficiency in the art of war also say that this is just that the fortifications built by the thief army are too strong, and it has nothing to do with the Zhuge Eight Formations or something, therefore, Zuo Liangyu did not order to stop the attack, and immediately pressed the army after the bombardment, trying to jump over these unpredictable formations at the fastest speed, but at this moment, The fifth and fourth standards of the gendarmerie battalion suddenly emerged from the bunkers that made the left army feel strange, and the shiny Han guns were almost close to the ground and fired at the left army.

"Bang bang!" A total of more than 2,000 Han guns fired in a cross-section, like several dense tongues of fire mercilessly at the attacking left army, the left army's musket battalion tried to counterattack with firearms in the same way, but soon they found that their shooting was far from enough, and even if there were heroic left soldiers within the range of the approach, because the opponent was hiding in a trench or pillbox, the arquebus in their hands could not hit a Han soldier at all.

"Let the firearms battalion withdraw first, order the rattan players and archers to go up, be sure to disrupt this group of cunning thieves hiding in the ditch, and at the same time order the artillery battalion to move forward thirty miles, change the flower bomb shooting, and blow up these thieves behind the white walls and black houses", the Ming Dynasty already had primitive flowering shells, but the safety was very low when they were used, so most of the time solid bullets were used, but Zuo Liangyu in order to destroy the group of thieves with advanced firearms in front of him as soon as possible, he had to brazenly order the artillery battalion to shoot with flowering bullets.

A series of flowering catapults came over, and countless marbles burst noisily like glass beads scattered on the iron plate, and many soldiers of the Han army who had no time to dodge were broken in the head or died by the bullet through the chest, and Chen Gui was hit in the arm by a marble because he did not bury his head quickly, and he was so angry that he ordered the soldiers of the two standards to hide in the trench while ordering the artillery of the Han army to return fire on the enemy.

"Bomb Lao Tzu, bomb those hateful Left Army artillery battalions!" Chen Gui roared, eager to personally pick up his knife and chop these left soldiers to the ground.

Like the muskets, the artillery of the Han army was not much more advanced than the artillery of the left army, but only improved somewhat in terms of accuracy and range, but it was this small improvement that showed a huge advantage in actual combat. The iron bullets fired by the artillery of the Han army flew towards the left army in a graceful parabola, and directly landed in the center of the artillery camp of the left army, although nearly half of the iron bullets landed in advance and found nothing except for injuring a few foot soldiers of the left army, but half of the iron bullets accurately disrupted the formation of the artillery camp of the left army.

In this way, the pressure on the fourth and fifth targets was greatly relieved, and they quickly advanced to the forward fortifications that had just been forced to retreat by the bombardment of the Left Army, and immediately carried out intensive carpet bombardment and firing on the infantry of the Left Army, which had already come over.

The left army couldn't stand this kind of crazy shooting that could shoot continuously and the bullets were not counted, so they had to retreat, but the archers and rattan soldiers of the left army held up, Chen Gui saw this and directly ordered the artillery to move back, and a series of iron bullets quickly fell on these rattan soldiers and archers, and in an instant, there were no more formed left armies in the center of the two sides.

However, although the gendarmerie battalion's fire was very fierce, Zuo Liangyu did not give up the attack, because he had already seen that although these thieves had sharp firearms, they were far from sufficient in numbers, and if he pressed all his forces and launched a multi-point attack, he did not believe that these thieves could have three heads and six arms to block the attack from all directions at the same time.

"Xu Ensheng's troops attacked from the opposite hill, Wu Xueli's troops attacked from the dense forest on the right, Chang Deng's troops went around to the back to choose a favorable terrain to attack, and the rest of the army gave the old man to continue to attack from the front, be sure to attract the thief army, just hold on for a moment to break through the thief army's resistance, if there is a retreat, don't worry about killing!"

Zuo Liangyu seemed to have realized that it was a mistake for him to attack the Han army, but the more times like this, the more crazy he became, for no other reason, both to make a last-ditch fight and to deliberately paralyze the enemy and take advantage of this to create an opportunity to retreat.