In last month's battle with Wang Aoyong, the governor of Qing Shandong, the Daishan army captured all their baggage, weapons and armor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After summing up the experience, the Daishan Army paid a lot more attention to its own defense.

In the past half month, under the training of Huang Fengwu, a group of shield players have been trained. The commander and officer of each small banner are shield bearers, holding a large shield to protect themselves and their subordinate soldiers. Of the four remaining men of each group, three were pikemen and one was a musketeer.

More than 100 pieces of armor were seized from the Qing army, and they were all distributed, and each officer above the small flag basically had a pair of armor per person. After the rearmament, the defense of the Daishan Army has been greatly improved.

But like this, Ren Siqi still felt that he had no bottom in his heart, because their opponent was too strong.

Huang Fengwu wore a bright silver armor, straddled a jujube red horse, and walked out of the south gate at the forefront of the army. The sunlight shone on her armor, reflecting the silver light of the debut, and in the sunlight, she was heroic and sassy, straddling her horse and holding a spear like a goddess.

Up and down the city wall, all eyes were on her alone, and at this moment, Ren Siqi was a little ashamed of himself. Letting a woman lead an army is really not something a man should do.

But now he has more important things to do. Orders were issued continuously, and all the new recruits immediately entered the city and guarded the various walls. took out money and food, and sent people to organize the people in the city to transport rolling logs and stones and various defensive ordnance to the city. He ordered immediate martial law and sent soldiers to patrol the streets to intimidate the gentry in the city and prevent them from moving.

If the battle outside the city is unfavorable, you can only retreat to the city, and if you defend the city, it is most important to stabilize the hearts of the people in the city, and many cities are broken from the inside.

"Report, General, the brother who sent the sentry has returned to the city." Just when Ren Siqi was busy, a soldier covered in blood was carried in front of him by two people.

Seeing Ren Siqi, the bloodied sentry struggled to break free from the support of the two soldiers, and his body staggered and was about to salute Ren Siqi.

"No need to be polite, tell me what the situation is?" Ren Siqi hurriedly supported him, and only then did he recognize that the person in front of him turned out to be Li Shiyuan's son Li Ding.

Li Ding did not follow his father back to Qingzhou, but stayed in the Daishan army with all his heart, it was not that he was unfilial, after staying in the Daishan army for a few months, he felt that the Daishan army was more promising. Because Li Ding was familiar with the terrain of Shandong, he was sent out to investigate, and it had been three days since he led the soldiers with a small flag out of the city, and he only returned today.

"General, Manchurian cavalry, my brothers of a small banner, and the brothers of a small banner are all killed!" Li Ding sobbed and prayed.

After careful inquiry, Ren Siqi learned that Li Ding took a soldier with a small flag to the direction of Gaomi to sentry, and just after crossing the Jiaoshui River, he met the spies of the Manchurian soldiers, five Manchurian cavalry, one person and three horsemen, roaring.

There were three musketeers in Li Ding's sentry banner, and they hurriedly fired at the full army, but only one war horse was killed, and the cavalry on the horse jumped on the back of the empty horse next to him and continued to kill.

Facing the roaring iron cavalry, the soldiers of the Daishan Army, who had never fought with the cavalry, turned pale with fright. Fortunately, they were trained for a long time and did not flee from the desert, but huddled together and formed a gun formation. The sharp spear pointed outward, pointing at the incoming warhorse.

In the end, they did not dare to hit the spears with their flesh, and the cavalry roared past them, and then circled their horses behind them, drew their bows and arrows, and shot at them.

"Raise your shield!" Li Ding shouted loudly, and another Wu Commander beside him hurriedly took off his shield from his back to block the arrows.

The cavalry of the full army was very accurate, two of the five feathered arrows were covered by shields, and the other three were all hit, and all of them were shot at the vital point of the throat and chest. Three Daishan military sentries fell to the ground without saying a word, including a musketeer.

The remaining two musketeers hurriedly reloaded the gunpowder pellets, but the tension was much slower than usual.

Knowing that only the musketeers on their side could fight back, Li Ding and another captain raised their shields to protect the musketeers, but soon two more soldiers fell under the opponent's arrows.

The two shields were heavy shields for infantry, about five feet high, which could protect most of the soldiers' bodies, but there were only two shields, but they had to protect seven people, so naturally it was impossible to cover them all.

Fortunately, the remaining two musketeers had already loaded their muskets, waited for another round of arrows to fire, dodged out, and opened fire on each other.

The soldiers who could be selected for the sentry were the best, and the two musketeers fired accurately, and with a distance of fifty paces between the two sides, the two shots were hit separately, and the two full soldiers fell off their horses screaming.

Two accomplices were shot, and the remaining three cavalrymen were alarmed and hurriedly fired their bows and arrows at the two musketeers. Li Ding and another captain hurriedly raised their shields to protect the musketeers, and the three feather arrows were inserted into the shields.

Two musketeers reloaded their gunpowder, while the other soldiers ducked behind their shields.

However, it was impossible for the two shields to cover all parts, and one soldier shot an arrow at a soldier's exposed leg, and the soldier screamed and moved, but was shot in the neck by another feathered arrow, and the scream came to an abrupt end, and he fell to the ground without saying a word.

Now all that was left was Li Ding and the captain, as well as two musketeers.

The gunpowder was reloaded, and the two musketeers dodged to shoot, but before they could fire, a feathered arrow flew and hit one of the musketeers in the throat. It turned out that one of the three full soldiers had already opened his bow and was ready to shoot.

The remaining musketeers flipped the trigger, and the bullet swirled and struck the chest of another soldier, piercing his armor and into his abdomen, where it was blocked by his body, and the bullet changed direction, churning him in the abdomen.

Seeing that his accomplices were shot one after another, the remaining two soldiers were furious, drove their war horses, and killed the remaining Daishan soldiers. Li Ding and the three of them hid behind their shields, and the spears in their hands stretched out from the gaps in the shields, pointing obliquely at the incoming enemy horsemen.

There were only two cavalrymen left, but they controlled a dozen or so war horses, and although the distance of fifty paces was not enough for the war horses to fully increase their speed, the impact produced could not be resisted by shields.

Two spears pierced the chests and abdomen of the two horses, but the massive impact shattered the shields. The three Daishan sergeants were knocked to the ground with their mouths full of blood.

A soldier smirked and slashed off the heads of the remaining captains. And the steel knife of another full soldier was rolled and flashed by Li Ding.

Pulling the reins, the two full soldiers turned their horses and tried to kill them again.

"Bang", and finally the musketeer pulled the trigger, and a full soldier was shot and fell under his horse.

The only remaining soldier, with red eyes and a curse, rode towards the musketeer, his huge iron hooves on the musketeer's chest.

The musketeers let out a terrible scream, a large hole was stepped out of their chest, their ribs were broken, their internal organs were shattered, and they could not live.

As soon as Li Ding stood up, he saw this tragic scene, he shouted vigorously, jumped up, and the spear in his hand plunged into the waist of the full soldier, and the full soldier returned with a knife and slashed it on Li Ding's shoulder.

staggered along, and mended a knife on each of the full soldiers. Li Ding grabbed a war horse and turned over.

When passing the small bridge, he sprinkled gunpowder from the corpse of the musketeer on the wooden bridge, covered it with clothing and thatch, set it on fire, and rode away. (To be continued.) )