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As several grenades exploded on the embankment, several more rebels were blown to pieces. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe unlucky rebels near were busy shooting arrows in front of them, but the only thing that responded to them was the silence of the night.

Under the cover of night, the officers and soldiers carried out a non-stop approach bomb attack. The distance of the grenade varies from person to person, and the farthest is only thirty or forty paces, which is closer than the range of a bow and arrow, so it is more dangerous to reach the embankment during the day. But at night it was completely different, with nothing to be seen from a distance of one or twenty paces, and the bombardiers were all holding shields and moving slowly, even if they were occasionally hit by the rebels' bows and arrows.

Once in range, the bombardiers begin to throw bombs irregularly. They did not necessarily throw straight forward, but probably diagonally, so that the rebels could not even figure out the exact location of the bombardier. If they are in a position where they are being shot with a bow and arrow, they can also change the place to continue dropping the bomb, and some of the brave ones even touch the distance of about 20 paces, using the characteristics of the grenade, they can easily attack the enemy on the back of the river embankment.

Some people are in a hurry, and they will be lost after a few brushes; But there are also experienced fighters who will listen to the sound coming back from the front and throw another shot at the previous position every once in a while. At this time, it was often the rebels who were carrying the dead and wounded down, and instead of carrying them away, several more bodies were added.

It wasn't until the sky was bright that the bombardiers all retreated. Thousands of grenades were consumed overnight, and the fighters did not yet know their results. However, after the day dawned, Zhu Youzhen climbed to the lookout platform of the North Embankment, carefully observed with Anna's telescope, and found that on the South Embankment alone, there were at least two or three hundred corpses lying horizontally, and the rebels were so afraid of the elusive grenades that they didn't even dare to collect the corpses. As for how many more enemies were killed on the back of the dike, it is difficult to estimate.

Seeing that the rebels did not dare to go up to the embankment to defend, Zhu Youzhen immediately ordered Meng Gong to raise the flag to the commander of the forward position, asking for a feint to force the rebels to go up the embankment regardless of casualties.

In fact, this flag language has long existed in the army, and on the ancient battlefield, the commander-in-chief used the command flag to command the troops, which was a relatively timely and effective method. However, the flag language of the Ming Dynasty was still relatively simple, especially conformist, and a set of flag language was used for hundreds of years, and even the Mongols and Jurchens knew what it meant. After Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, he ordered several generals to integrate the flags of the Qin soldiers and the three battalions, and created a new flag language system, several sets of flags can be used flexibly in battle, so that their own side can get orders in time, but the enemy is completely incomprehensible.

At this time, the commander of the front saw the flag of the feint, and ordered a hundred infantry to walk out of the bunker with a large iron shield and make it look like they were going to attack the embankment. When they advanced from one hundred and fifty steps to one hundred, they were finally discovered by the rebels.

The rebel general in charge of the defense of this section of the embankment was Liu Liangzuo, a capable general under Hong Chengchou. He is in his Chinese New Year's Eve, and he first came from the border army, but later became a thief because of his unpaid mutiny. Because he often rides a variegated horse, he is nicknamed "Flower Horse Liu", and is very famous among thieves.

Hong Chengchou rarely recruits thieves, and Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Li Chengdong are exceptions. Because they all have several characteristics in common: they are brave in battle, fierce by nature, and open-minded and capricious. Ordinary thieves often have the idea that "monks don't kiss their hats", and after being recruited, they will refuse to fight seriously when they encounter thieves, especially fellow villagers. But these three people are different, they don't recognize their relatives when they start a war, and they attack their past "comrades-in-arms" even more blackly, so everyone hates them.

This time the army rebelled, because Dou Mingming pretended to be a thief in Xiangyang City to save Cheng Ji's life, and the thief and Hong Bing almost caught fire together, but fortunately, Zhu Yousong and Hong Chengchou comforted them to calm down the situation. However, since then, the suspicion between the various bandits and Gao Jie and others has deepened, and the action of the coalition forces has become even more impossible. Hong Chengchou originally wanted to mobilize 100,000 troops to go north to Zhengzhou, but no one was willing to partner with Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Li Chengdong, so he had no choice but to lead Hong Bing to act alone. Among them, Gao Jie and Hong Chengchou were stationed in Zhengzhou, Li Chengdong raided Zhangde Mansion as a cavalry, and the defense on the south bank was commanded by Liu Liangzuo.

Liu Liangzuo saw that the officers and troops wanted to seize the south embankment, so he had to strictly order his subordinates to go up to the embankment to defend. But he also has his own little abacus, the power of the official firearms is so powerful, it is completely unexpected, after yesterday hundreds of casualties, he will no longer use his standard battalion. On the way north, Hong Bing coerced many civilians to join the army like thieves, and at this time he let these recruits with no combat experience go to the embankment. Whoever dares to disobey will be immediately beheaded for public display.

After cutting down a dozen soldiers in a row, the rebels had to tremble and climb the South Embankment and fire arrows at the officers and soldiers. But they were farmers ten days ago, how could they shoot arrows? Many arrows fell to the ground within twenty steps, posing no threat to the officers and soldiers.

Liu Liangzuo didn't expect them to kill or injure the officers and soldiers, because he could also see that the officers and soldiers seemed to be very cautious and did not dare to attack the embankment easily. Then, as long as you take people to the top, after a long time, the food, grass and ammunition of the officers and soldiers cannot be replenished after a large amount of consumption, and they will be defeated without a fight. Anyway, it wasn't his own standard camp that died, and Hong Chengchou could still supply a batch after he died, so he squandered the lives of his subordinates like this.

After fighting for a while, the officers and soldiers also saw that their opponents were much worse than yesterday. Zhu Youzhen also saw clearly from the lookout, and Lu Xiangsheng, who knew the thieves very well, analyzed it from the side, and quickly saw through the rebels' intentions. Although the official army is now in absolute superiority, these rebels were also the people of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and every time they kill someone, it is a weakening of the national strength, which makes Zhu Youzhen feel very unbearable.

According to Lu Xiangsheng's meaning, he still has to kill these rebels. But Zhu Youzhen pondered for a while, remembering that in his previous life, our army was good at doing political and ideological work, and he couldn't lose this magic weapon. Therefore, he immediately summoned Meng Gong and gave him a detailed explanation.

After receiving the order, Meng Gong immediately went to the forward position, first selected dozens of soldiers with loud voices, and then ordered to stop shooting, so that these dozens of people shouted in unison with their throats: "Brothers on the other side, listen to the truth!" Long live knows that you are forced to join the rebels out of desperation, and it stands to reason that rebellion is a heinous crime, but long live has the virtue of a good life, and you have not yet had time to do evil, as long as you throw down your weapons and surrender to Chengcheng, you will be spared death, and you can eat and drink! If you resist stubbornly, you will not be merciful in the next attack! There is only one chance, Wang'er and think twice! ”

As soon as the words fell, a teenage student on the opposite side immediately threw down his bow and arrows, and while running towards this side, he cried loudly: "I won't fight, I surrender, I won't fight again!" ”

But after a few steps, the sound stopped abruptly, for a sharp arrow had pierced the boy's heart.