Chapter Eighty-Six: Tuition and Sacrifice

"Fourth brother, inherit your auspicious words......"

Xiao Sheng's face turned red instantly, and excitement shook his whole body.

"Okay, it turns out that this Yang Chun is also a civil science, and our civil science and civil science are actually together."

Li Xian had mixed feelings in his heart, it was not that he was like a god, but that Yang Chun, like him, was the kind of half-jar of water with a flexible brain, but he didn't understand military affairs. The two of them were thinking almost in unison, so he could guess Yang Chun's actions. The prophecy was fulfilled, but it was not a good thing.

"Then let's have a good fight!"

Putting aside the distractions, Li Xi also became excited.

On a June afternoon, the fire was blazing, and the gray-brown crowd approached a mile or two away. According to rough estimates, there were actually two or three thousand people, the dazzling reflection of the blades was dotted, and the crowd was not too chaotic, obviously Yang Chun's main force of bandits, not the homeless people he had coerced.

Before the pressure was transmitted from the eyeball to the heart, the roaring cannon sound came from a distance, listening to this familiar sound, it was the mountain splitting cannon cast by Li Xian before, which should have been captured by Yang Chun when he ambushed Hou Lin in the left battalion.

But Li Xi and Xiao Sheng didn't feel scared, but laughed out loud.

It's still a mile or two away, and they're firing artillery, and when they hear the sound of cannons, are they tofu soldiers who run away?

After the sound of cannons, a wave of five or six hundred people broke out at the front end of the crowd, rushing forward half a mile, the sound of crackling bean guns rang out, the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the laughter of the two people became louder, what a lively firecracker......

But as the crowd continued to pour in, and then saw the direction of the gunsmoke, Li Xi and Xiao Sheng's laughter stopped abruptly.

"Not good!"

The two shouted in unison.

"Skirmishers!"

Li Xi patted his forehead.

"The direction of the wind!"

Xiao Sheng hammered his thigh.

The two looked at each other, frustration and wry smiles passed in their eyes.

Li Xian was annoyed that he did not arrange stragglers in front of the battle...... In front of that wave of people, dozens of bandits suddenly came forward, and they were the sharp soldiers who were called "Xuanfeng" in ancient times.

Xiao Sheng said that this would blow the south wind, and the gunpowder smoke would all blow towards the other party. Although it will not affect his own actions, the opponent's movements will be hidden in the smoke of gunpowder, which is a taboo against the enemy.

Li Sheng is from a civil science background, even if Xiao Sheng, as a shotgun expert, didn't pay attention to the wind direction, the two of them were really full of flaws in their initial formation.

"This ...... To fight or not to fight? ”

Thirty or forty bandits had already rushed to within two hundred paces, all of them fully dressed, rattan heavy axes and broadswords, cotton armor and iron helmets, vigorous in their hands, and fast in their feet. Luo Tangyuan and Fang Tangheng and other teenagers in the front row of the shotgun formation all looked at Jia Hao, who was at the head of the row on the left, let's fight, these people are still following the brigade one or two hundred steps behind, and when the time comes, they will not be able to load, and the shotgun array will only deal with these dozens of stragglers. If you don't fight, the shotgun array has to gather and fight hand-to-hand, otherwise you won't be able to stop these elite soldiers, how can this be good?

"What are you staring at!? Wait for the order! ”

Jia Hao scolded everyone, and he couldn't help but look behind him, and saw Li Xi leading a team of miners out of the formation with spears.

Bang bang......

The shotgun formation of the young guards did not move, but several gunshots rang out from the battalion soldiers.

"Ceasefire! Which bastard will shoot without an order and be dealt with by military law! ”

Xiao Sheng was also anxious, shouting and scolding.

"Archer, reserve, follow me!"

He shouted while catching up with Li Shi.

The integrity of the shotgun formation cannot be destroyed, originally there should be stragglers in front of this shotgun array to resist the opponent's stragglers, but Li Xian has no experience in battle battles, and he didn't expect to set up the formation before, so he can only bring the miner spearman to personally make up for this mistake.

The skirmishers approached at a very fast pace, and in a matter of moments they had advanced a hundred paces, and dozens of feathered arrows flew high and fell in a clearly visible parabolic trajectory with the sound of a clangling bowstring. This round of inaccurate and damaging feather arrows made those pickers speed up their pace, and the formation also dispersed a little, and only one or two unlucky ghosts were vaguely seen falling to the ground.

Eighty steps...... Sixty steps...... Forty steps......

Another round of feather arrows was fired, and this time the effect was a little more obvious, and four or five thieves fell to the ground, but they did not slow down the other party's speed at all.

"Stay behind!"

It was already close to thirty steps, of course Xiao Sheng would not let the villagers practice courage to stop these elite people, he raised his arms and greeted, and fifty or sixty soldiers gritted their teeth and rushed out. Look at their blushing faces and thick necks, they are obviously frightened, but they don't stagnate much under their feet. Li Xian sighed in his heart, at this time, the military discipline of the green battalion soldiers has obviously not completely collapsed.

The muffled sound of fluffy puffs continued, and the two groups of men and horses collided together, and suddenly splashed a large ball of blood. The soldiers Xiao Sheng used as a reserve were all soldiers who were skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and those bandits were even more skillful in selecting the front, a high-level ...... The street brawl was staged in front of Li Xian's eyes, and the scene was really the same as the film and television works he had seen in his previous life, and the chaotic 1v1, 2v1 and other duels made the corners of his eyes twitch.

The sharp howl continued to sound, and Li Yan swore that he would never let his people fall into this kind of stupid battle. At this moment, several bandits chose to defeat their opponents and rushed straight towards Xiao Sheng at the rear of the battle group.

"You have to dress like a peacock today!"

Seeing that there were four or five people around Xiao Sheng, and he himself was not good at hand-to-hand combat, Li Xian did not dare to slack off, and scolded Xiao Sheng while waving his hand to let the miner who had leveled his spear rush up. Dressed in red and black cotton armor and a lightning rod helmet, that guy couldn't be more eye-catching.

"Fight!"

Xiao Sheng was shouting at the top of his voice, his arm was full of strength, and he was waiting to engage the opponent's blade. There was a sound of hula, but a row of spears rushed out from the left and right, forcing the bandits to stop.

"Don't treat me like a piece of trash!"

The shotgun always yelled angrily at Lee, who came to his side.

"Be careful!"

For example, a big man in the leader of the selection of the front waved a heavy chopping axe estimated to be more than 20 catties, and the two axes made the two soldiers in front of him fall and roll, and he strode towards Xiao Sheng, seeing that there was only a distance of three or five steps.

Xiao Sheng looked back, and the waist knife in his hand also trembled.

"Dog officer! Die! ”

The axe was raised high above his head, and the big man carried the whirring wind and pressed towards Xiao Sheng like a mountain.

Rumble......

Xiao Sheng, who was one head shorter than the other party, was gritting his teeth to fight with the other party, but there was a bang around him, and at the same time, he saw that the big man's face opened with a ball of blood, and his eyebrows, mouth, and nose suddenly blurred.

The big man shook his body, dragged a step forward, and landed on the ground with a heavy axe, the axe almost grazed the tip of Xiao Sheng's nose, making him numb in shock.

In his blurred eyes, he saw Li Xi holding a strange-looking short thing in both hands, the explosion started again, white smoke erupted, and a few steps ahead, another thief fell to the ground with blood rushing on his chest.

"Short guns! Spontaneous fire shortshot! ”

Xiao Sheng snorted and panted, and looked at Li Shi with blood-red eyes.

"That's right!"

With a twist of his wrist, Li Xi inserted two short guns emitting green smoke back into his waist.

This is his secret weapon, taking the opportunity of forging the barrel, making a few short barrels is just a gesture, and the only trouble is the firing device. This short gun can't see people, so there is no need for a fire rope. After He Gui set up a hydraulic drilling machine, he squeezed this carpenter, who already had a good understanding of gear machinery, and joined forces with Guan Fengsheng, a blacksmith, to make him such a pair of flintlock short guns.

It's a pity that his short gun is completely homegrown, how can he get the flint machine out in just a few days? The trigger on his short gun is actually just a safety, the index finger pulls the trigger, loosens the medicine pool cover and flint hammer, picks the medicine pool cover with his thumb, and then quickly presses the hammer down to rub the buckle spring, and fires by hand...... Because the body of the gun must be stabilized, this "pistol" is held in both hands, and the other traversers must definitely laugh to death if they want to see this product.

Although it is very earthy and cottage, it is enough to defend and save the field, no wonder Xiao Sheng looked at Li Shi's waist and eyes, like a hungry lion staring at two sheep.

"Let's go!"

With the addition of the miners and spearmen, coupled with Li Xian's two shots, the bandits Xuanfeng lost the courage to continue to break through, and they turned around and retreated. Li Shi also woke up Xiao Sheng and retreated with his subordinates. Twenty or thirty corpses spread out on the grass below the high slope, and the curtain of the battle was officially opened.

The brigade of bandits with hundreds of people behind Xuan Feng had already rushed to within a hundred steps, and everyone on Li Xi and Xiao Sheng's side was waiting with bated breath, but the bandits stopped. When he was surprised, a banging bang burst into the sky, and the frightened people who were so nervous that their heartstrings almost jumped.

"I learned so fast, as a bandit, I used all the postures of officers and soldiers to fight."

Xiao Sheng sighed.

"In comparison, our two students are really not as good as others."

Li Shi laughed at himself, and the two glanced at each other, but they both laughed.

The bandits were learning from the officers and soldiers, but they were learning a different set of things, and although they made a big mistake at the beginning, they made up for it after all.

With two loud bangs, the two of them froze with smiles, and were worrying, but they saw two water columns splashing in the ponds on the left and right. The bandits set off the mountain cannon a hundred steps away, and naturally they were not accurate. And the crackling shotgun didn't cause any damage here.

With a sigh of relief, Li Xian raised his arms, and all eyes were focused on him, including Xiao Sheng.

I've paid all the tuition fees that should have been paid, and now ...... It's time to put the results to the test.

Five or six miles away, the generals were trying to distinguish the sound from the north, but there was a faint sound of guns and cannons from the west.

"Military Gate! Yang Chun's brigade is coming from Hengshitang, and our department is blocking it! Mr. Xiao Qian implored him to send troops quickly! ”

Zhang Ying rolled down from the saddle, hurriedly rushed to Shi Shibi, who had a calm face, and knelt on the ground to report.

Li Shi and Xiao Sheng were not arrogant enough to fight against the elite Yang Chun's team on their own, and after discovering the bandits, they asked Zhang Ying to come to Shi Shibi for help, and the Xiaochuan horse under Zhang Ying's crotch had already run out of breath.

"Send troops!? Don't you have a whole battalion? Hold off the bandits! How to decide, he can always peck on behalf of the army!? ”

Luo Huaien, the general of the Chinese army, scolded loudly, Zhang Ying ignored him, and looked at Shi Shibiu, but saw that he was still silent.

"Military Gate!"

Zhang Ying had the courage to call again, but Shi Shibiu's response was only two words: "Waiting for orders!" ”

That's the absence of reinforcements......

Zhang Ying's face was distorted, but he didn't dare to speak again, gritted his teeth and retreated.

After he left, the generals looked at Shi Shibiao again, but heard him sneer.

"When Yang Chun breaks through them, let's close the net again!"