Chapter 208: Volunteers

"Quick, get his flag out and flee to the front with the helmet!" The commander of the Fifth Army, Shi Lu Deshan, kicked his own personal soldier captain Lu Fan and reminded loudly.

According to the internal regulations of the Huai'an Army, the marching commander does not have to rush to the front line. So he watched almost the entire process of the enemy from the time they started to charge and the time they were crushed by the muskets. His understanding of the local details of the battlefield was far clearer than that of Wu Liangmou, who was in charge of commanding the entire Fifth Army. Seeing Xie Guoxi die, he immediately realized that this was a wonderful opportunity to break the morale of the enemy army.

The reaction of Lu Fan, the captain of the pro-soldiers, was not slow, and after taking a kick, he immediately jumped and pounced on Xie Guoxi on the ground, and at the same time shouted loudly, "Lu Shun, Lu Feng, Lu Hou, you guys hurry up and follow me!." Hurry, hurry up and get a few of the longest guns. Pick, pick this to the front of the formation. Then, take this flag, this flag, and raise it with the helmet. Then everyone shouted with me, beheaded one of the ten thousand households of the Yuan army, captured his corpse and recognized the flag! ”

"Kill one of the ten thousand households of the Yuan army, capture their corpses and recognize the flag!"

"Kill one of the ten thousand households of the Yuan army, capture their corpses and recognize the flag!"

"Kill one of the ten thousand households of the Yuan army, capture their corpses and recognize the flag!"

Several pro-soldiers from the Lufu family picked up Xie Guoxi's helmet with spears, and shook it and shouted with the general flag. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of tens of thousands of people, it is impossible for their voices to travel too far. However, those Ningzhou "volunteers" who were crowded more than 40 steps away from the Fifth Army saw it and were frightened.

The so-called "volunteers" are all local regimental exercises set up by Mengyuan officials under the banner of protecting their neighbors. Its main general is a "loyal man" who is brave, unwilling to be lonely and disappointed in the local people's expectations. That is, some castle owners, village owners and village owners who are proficient in martial arts. Looking at the world, from the Miao Army in the south, the Qing Army and the Yellow Army in Lianghuai, to the "Mao Hulu Soldiers" in the north, this is the case. There are only differences in the name, and the specific establishment, operation, and selection of generals are all similar.

There are many advantages of this way of forming an army, first, the government spends less, and most of the daily food, clothing and training are raised by the countryside. Second, the army is fast, affected by the "way of sharing spoils" when Meng Yuan unified the world, and the leaders of each fortress are mostly after the "gong dog" when the founding of the country, the family martial arts and military strategy. And in each fort, there are also a large number of Zhuang Ding who can be used as a source of soldiers. The third advantage is that the soldiers and generals are extremely familiar with each other, and the uploading and distribution of orders is smooth, so there will be no situation where the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers, and the commanders are in a mess when they command the battle. (Note 1)

However, while the "volunteers" have many benefits, they also have a huge flaw. That is, the influence of the Lord General on this team is so great that it is related to the survival of the entire army. Once the main general is defeated, the morale of the entire team will instantly drop to the extreme, and it will not be able to recover its combat effectiveness until a new core is formed next time.

This is the case at the moment, Xie Guoxi's golden helmet and recognition flag have fallen into the hands of the Fifth Army, which means that even if he does not die, he has been taken prisoner. Where do the "volunteer soldiers" in Ningzhou, who usually regard him as their soul, still have the courage to fight again? They all cried and rushed backwards, and even the Tanma Red Army that followed closely was affected, and they had to stop in place to set up a formation, so as not to chase the footsteps of the rout.

The most affected are Zhu Liangzu and his "Luzhou Volunteers"! They had previously paid a huge price in exchange for a chance to engage Fu Youde's troops in a short fight. Unexpectedly, the Ningzhou volunteers on their right wing actually collapsed because of the killing of the main general, and all of a sudden, the entire lower abdomen of the "Luzhou volunteers" was exposed in front of the Red Turban Army. Frightened, the souls of the Zhu Liang clan rushed around, and they didn't dare to do anything more, so they shouted and forced Li Xixi, who was right with him, to take a few steps back, and with hundreds of cronies, he turned around and left.

"Where to go?" Li Xixi was also a bold man, and when he saw the enemy retreating in a panic, he immediately chased after him with his cronies. tried to completely defeat Zhu Liang's ancestral troops, and pushed the rout to give the Tanma Red Army pushed behind him an inverted bead curtain.

"You've been fooled!" Zhu Liangzu shouted again, turned around suddenly, and rushed towards the canal again. bumped into Li Xixi head-on, shook his hand and shot straight to the other party's throat.

"Smack!" At the last moment, Li Xixi reluctantly knocked the barrel of the gun and smashed the spear that stabbed him. Before he could catch his breath, Zhu Liangzu's second shot arrived again, flashing cold light and heading straight for his chest. "Yikes!" Li Xixi was so frightened that his scalp was numb, and he used all his strength to barely block the thorn. However, unfortunately, Zhu Liangzu's movements were far more agile than him, and the third shot followed closely and again, like an enraged poisonous snake, spitting out the core and slashing straight at his lower abdomen.

"It's over!" Li Xixi didn't have a chance to block it again, closed his eyes, and prepared to die. However, the expected sharp pain did not come, and a sudden force was felt in his shoulder, dragging him backwards. Immediately after, a tasseled gun stabbed forward against his neck, and the target was Zhu Liangzu's choked voice.

"Shameless!" Zhu Liangzu had to withdraw his gun to protect himself, so as not to die with Li Xixi. Fu Youde threw Li Xixi in his left hand back, held the gun with both hands, and stabbed Zhu Liangzu in the chest again.

"Shameless!" Zhu Liangzu parried while scolding, "It turns out that the jade-faced spear king is also such a good thing, and he actually hides behind others and sneaks up!" ”

Fu Youde didn't bother to say a word of nonsense to him, just took his own soldiers and continued to attack forward. More than 100 spears are like more than 100 small dragons, shaking their heads and tails, and they need the enemy's flesh and blood to be satisfied.

Zhu Liangzu's martial arts may not be inferior to Fu Youde, but his own soldiers are far inferior to the elite under the other party's command. In addition, there was a Wu Liangmou on the flank, who did not dare to delay any longer, and led the last few hundred "volunteers" to fight and retreat, and after a while, they retreated to the protection range of the archers of Liao Daheng's department, and completely disconnected from the soldiers of the Red Turban Army.

Fu Youde first saw the Tanma Red Army behind the three "volunteers", so he didn't dare to hold it up. Seeing that although Zhu Liangzu was defeated, he also took the initiative to pull the team. Then he retreated in small steps, adjusted his formation, and once again connected with Wu Liangmou's Fifth Army, watching and helping each other.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Seeing that his own team was disengaged from the enemy, the artillery under the command of Huang Lao Er was once again powerful. With a frequency of five breaths and one round, with a frequency of ten per round, they launched a bombardment attack on the Tanma Red Army, which was waiting a hundred paces away. The Khitans, who were known for their bravery, were beaten to the ground with corpses and miserable.

Note 1: Gong dog, in Mongolian and ancient Chinese, gong dog is not a derogatory meaning. Under the account of Genghis Khan, there was a saying of four heroes and four dogs. There is also in "The Biography of Yuan Shao", "Yichen has a lot of sections, and he can be blamed for the work of eagles and dogs." Words. When Meng Yuan destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to speed up the progress, he once incorporated a large number of local Han Chinese armed forces. And the descendants of these "meritorious" people have become local fortress forces. On the one hand, it can effectively deter bandits and make them dare not attack. On the other hand, a small court was formed within the fortress, which ruled dark and brutal.

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