Shi Qing was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, crying and begging for mercy: "Uncle spare your life, spare your life!" I really don't know where Chen Qianhu went, he didn't go back to the camp yesterday. His tent was not set up in the camp at all. ”

Yu Jiang was a little regretful that the commander was not in the camp during the battle, and this time it was cheaper for this thousand households, otherwise he really wanted to try the decapitation operation that the captain said.

Yu Jiang ordered the corpses of the soldiers to be hidden in the courtyard and close the courtyard gate, so that the enemy could find out that it was a day later. Then he tied Shi Qing up and stuffed his mouth, and ordered someone to take him back to report the situation to Zhang Chu, while he himself took someone to stay and continue to reconnoiter the movements of the officers and soldiers to see if there was a chance to catch another big fish.

Early the next morning, the camp of the officers and soldiers was lively again, and the team was about to set off from the camp, Chen Qianhu received a report that a small flag and four soldiers were missing, which did not have any effect on Chen Qianhu, he scolded a few cowards, and he deserted before seeing the thief and then ignored it. The team walked for another day, and advanced for twenty or thirty miles, but found nothing unusual. In the evening, Chen Qianhu ordered to choose a site and set up camp.

This time, he did not dare to live outside the camp, but lived in a tent in the center of the camp, and arranged a hundred of his cronies and cavalrymen next to his tent to deal with emergencies.

The soldiers were so exhausted from the two days of marching that they all fell asleep early, and the whole camp was silent, except for the patrolling soldiers, who roamed the camp, and the campfires were lit at the gates, and the sentries stood by the gates against the cold wind. At midnight there was a sudden loud bang, the camp gate was smashed by a flying iron ball, the flying sawdust pierced the soldiers standing guard, the loud noise and the screams of the soldiers were transmitted into the camp, and the camp immediately sounded the alarm, and then several loud noises came from outside the camp, several iron balls flew into the camp, the iron balls smashed down several tents, and the wailing sounded, apparently someone was injured. Only then did the officers and soldiers in the battalion understand that someone was firing artillery at their camp. The officers of each team immediately rushed out of their tents and ordered their men to assemble and prepare to deal with the enemy's stealing camp. According to past experience, the cannon is complicated to load, and it takes half a day to fire after one round, and it is likely that the enemy will rush to the camp next.

But this time they thought wrong, as soon as the soldiers ran out of the tent, they heard the sound of cannons again, and then there was a sound in the sky when the heavy rain came, a large number of shotguns came from the sky, the soldiers just ran out of the tent in a hurry to assemble and did not even wear their clothes and armor, although the shotguns were not direct fire, hitting the people without armor, people could not afford it, and the officers and soldiers were knocked down by the shotguns at that time. The cannon rang out one after another, and after five rounds everything was calm again.

The camp was in shambles, with badly wounded soldiers rolling on the ground wailing and begging for help. Movable soldiers run around looking for a place to hide. At this time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Chen Qianhu rushed towards the camp gate with his cronies. The cavalry could no longer care about the wounded soldier who had fallen to the ground, and the horse's hooves trampled directly through the middle, and the wailing of the horse's hooves ceased.

It turned out that when Chen Qianhu heard the first round of artillery, he rushed out of the tent and ordered his cronies to assemble. The men immediately mounted their armours and prepared to counter the enemy's attack at any time.

When the assembly was completed, five rounds of shells came at the back, but fortunately they were in the middle of the camp, and the range of the shotguns was close and not many shells hit the cavalry.

Chen Qianhu knew that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered the cavalry to rush out of the battalion, if the enemy was allowed to fight in such rounds, I am afraid that there would not be a few soldiers left in the whole battalion. But they were still slow, and the cavalry rushed outside the camp and lost their target. The enemy did not fire again, and there was calm outside the camp, as if nothing had happened, and some soldiers pointed out the direction from which the cannon fire had just come, and the cavalry rushed over, but found nothing.

In the dark night, the cavalry did not dare to go too far, so Chen Qianhu could only leave people on guard and then turned back to the camp.

The soldiers in the camp had already lit torches, and the gate was shattered, and the soldiers standing guard at the door, who had been pierced by sawdust, were silent, apparently dead. A large number of soldiers in the camp were still howling miserably, and the last few rounds of artillery fire were all shotguns, and they were not direct fire, and if they did not hit the vital point, they would not kill people on the spot, but there were many wounded who caused minor injuries. After counting the dead soldiers, there were more than a dozen soldiers, most of whom were wounded soldiers who were trampled to death when the cavalry charged outward, and more than 50 wounded soldiers were injured and affected the battle, and there was no count of those who suffered a little wound. Chen Qianhu felt that the future was bleak at that time, he had not yet seen the enemy, and his soldiers had killed and wounded more than 100 people, and this battle could not be fought.

At this time, Li Yi was leading the cavalry to escort the mules and horses pulling cannons. According to Zhang Chu's plan, the security army was required to meet the enemy as far forward as possible, so as to leave room for maneuvering with it, so the security army went faster and farther than the official army, and was already waiting for the official army outside the county boundary. Zhang Chu still can't enjoy the feeling of strategizing and winning a thousand miles. Overnight, he led the team to the front to join Li Yi and their cavalry. According to the information sent back by Yu Jiang, it was found that the officers and soldiers were very lax, and they were not active at all in hurrying and grinding, thinking that they were still far away from Yanchang County, and the periphery was not sent out even overnight. Zhang Chu immediately made a plan for a sneak attack that night, and directly used mules and horses to pull all the cannons of the security army to the outside of the official camp, and among these cannons were five small franc machines newly cast by craftsmen, each with five guns. Zhang Chu demanded that the officers and soldiers be blasted out of the tents with solid shells from other artillery pieces and then fired with Franc machines, so that although the power was less than that of direct fire, it could cover a larger area of the camp of the officers and soldiers. Zhang Chu's idea was not to kill but to be injured, and asked to run after the fight. If the officers and soldiers caught up and threw away the artillery, they would have to run, and in order to ensure safety, Li Yi and their cavalry were also asked to escort them. However, the cavalry was not used at all, the officers and soldiers were completely blinded, after the artillery was completed, the artillery with iron wheels was connected to the artillery carriage, the mule pulled the artillery carriage and quickly left the position, and the cavalry of the official army chased out, and they didn't even know which direction they went, and they didn't dare to chase too far after dark, and the artillerymen returned to Zhang Chu's camp safely without any injuries.

After dawn, Chen Qianhu carefully explored the surroundings of the camp, and only found the ruts left by the gun truck, and deeply regretted his carelessness, this kind of shotgun has a long range, and the artillery that can be pulled around should be a small artillery, and it can't hit far. If the vigilantes were not strengthened at night, the enemy would not have been able to get close to the camp at all, and he would not have caused such heavy casualties. At the same time, the fact that the thieves did not enter the camp last night shows that the number of thieves is not too large, but there are only a few artillery. So Chen Qianhu ordered the whole army to continue to advance, and must find the thieves and cut these hateful thieves with a thousand knives.