On the Longmen Wharf, Zhong Shangwei shouted to the bow of the king's boat: "Why can't you go?" Didn't you use it as a black ship before? What's wrong with being hacked again now? There can be 100,000 people outside the dragon gate, 100,000! If you don't leave, it's too late! ”

Wang Chuantou spread his hands: "My ship is no longer a black ship, and if you want to leave, you have to stay with the government." Even if I had to leave, I reported the sailors to the guards, and they would all be pulled away by the defense envoys, and no one would sail the boat. ”[.]

Zhong Shangwei wiped the sweat on his forehead, stomped his feet and said: "Fighting is not our people's business......

was complaining, and a voice sounded: "Master Zhong, where are you from the coal company?" Leave it all to me! ”

When he turned his head, it was Li Shun, Zhong Shangwei scratched his head, and he ran away by himself, even leaving behind the dozens of workers sent by the company.

"It's all country hardwork, what can you do?"

Zhong Shangwei muttered to him while leading Li Shun to his own company.

"If you report to the guard, you will be trained by the defense envoy for half a day every ten days, and others will not, and you will always shoot."

Li Shun said lightly, and his steady tone also calmed down Zhong Shangwei, who was nervous.

Taking away the workers of Zhong Shangwei Coal Company, Li Shun found Liu Wenlang again, and saw that this scholar was clumsily loading the short gun and wanted to lead the guards of the salt company to fight, Li Shun smiled and said: "Don't be difficult for yourself, I will help you lead these people." ”

Liu Wenlang breathed a sigh of relief, he was actually taking responsibility head-on, and it was best for someone to help. At present, the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River gathered troops to besiege them, but most of the red-clothed soldiers of the first battalion of Longmen went to Dinghai, leaving only four or five hundred people here.

The Longmen defense made Xu Shidao urgently call for industrial and commercial guards, and they had to lead the team as the managers of the company.

Although after two or three months of construction, Longmen is still lined with tents, and now it is crowded with people, and the eyes are full of people with loaded guns, and it is like being in a grand military camp in a trance.

It's just that these people have different colors and colors, which dilutes the atmosphere of rectification and people's voices, and they don't have the calm atmosphere of the barracks.

"Fan Zhizheng borrowed the ordnance of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau and distributed it in the defense envoy Yamen, as long as there is a guarantee from the company, all the guns and ammunition will be taken in vain!"

"The leaders of the guards of each company reported to Yangwei, Zhenyuan and Sanshan Dart Bureau! Personnel assigned by the dart board! ”

"It's still too late for the guards to be registered, and if the time comes, the court will not be responsible for the compensation if the people and goods are lost!"

The clerks of the Jiangnan camp held the iron horn and shouted in all directions, and the crowd of people gradually gained a vein with their shouts, shuttling back and forth according to the organized route.

Zhong Shangwei and Liu Wenlang took their subordinates and Li Shun all the way to the defense envoy Yamen and the office of the Dart Bureau, and hung the hundred or so guards of their three parties under the name of the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau, and everyone wore red sleeves with the words "Town Sixteen." Li Shun's red sleeves also have an eye-catching big word: "long". The hundred or so of them were organized into the sixteenth post under the jurisdiction of the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau, and Li Shun became the sentry commander.

One of the dart heads of the dart bureau was Li Shun's temporary boss, and when he learned Li Shun's origin, he was very happy, "Funan people? I've got a treasure in this wing! ”

A red-clothed lieutenant next to him said to Li Shun: "You can't cut people's heads here, but you have to suppress your habits there." ”

Li Shun smiled: "There is no reward for cutting it...... money." ”

The dart head is a veteran, plus the red-clothed lieutenant, and Li Shun, who killed at least 100 people in Funan, talked and laughed, and did not take the tens of thousands of Jiangnan People's Army who were clamoring outside seriously, Zhong Shangwei and Liu Wenlang were even more stable in their hearts.

But Li Shun walked towards the dragon gate with the dart, and Zhong Shangwei was a little anxious: "Still going out?" We have ditches and ditches, so why go out to fight? ”

Of course, he is anxious, the company's employees will be killed or injured, although the court will compensate, but the company will also bear some bereavement benefits.

Li Shun snorted, "I always let the mosquitoes buzz and make trouble, and I am annoyed to shoot early and die early, and be quiet early!" Thousands of strong men dressed in different colors, but all wearing red sleeves, went out of the dragon gate to confront the tens of thousands of "tides" four or five miles away. Under the leadership of the dart bureau and the temporary officials at all levels, these six or seven thousand guards gathered into three large horizontal formations, although the process of the formation was chaotic and chaotic, far from being comparable with the regular army, but it was quite organized, and after about a quarter of an hour or two, the large array was basically formed.

In these moments or two, the tens of thousands of Jiangnan militia troops in the distance were vigorously clamoring, gongs and drums, ingots, spurts, and miscellaneous sounds, which were extremely lively, making the atmosphere of the battlefield extremely strange.

At the front of the team, a man pressed the short gun on his waist with one arm, shook his head, and said, "Are those guys here to catch the market, or are they here to fight?" ”

On the other side, Li Shun let out a long sigh, and the boss of the dart asked him why he sighed.

"When Governor Wu led us to attack Phnom Penh, the Cambodians also gathered more than 100,000 people to resist, and the tossing and turning they had in front of the battle was exactly the same as these Jiangnan people's troops on the other side."

The dart head asked, "And what was the result?" ”

Li Shun said calmly: "Governor Wu has piled up a tall tower with people's heads, probably ...... There are 30,000 of them. ”

The dart head shuddered, but frowned again: "Those Cambodian natives, they should have no muskets and cannons." ”

Li Shun said leisurely: "Yes, that's why so many heads were cut." ”

This sounds rough, it means that the 100,000 troops in Cambodia are not as good as the Jiangnan People's Army in front of them, but you can see Li Shun's face, but it doesn't mean this, the dart head doesn't understand it now, and after this battle is over, he really understands.

Behind the big array, on a sentry tower, Xu Shidao said to Fan Jin: "Don't worry, governor, although we are also civilians here, all the officials at all levels have been soldiers. ”

Fan Jin smiled: "Don't treat me as a scholar......"

The salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River gathered troops, and Fan Jin had responded to it, and he had urgently reported to the country and dispatched reinforcements. According to his estimates, when the salt merchant army came to fight Longmen, it had to camp and dig ditches, which would take a lot of time. I don't want these guys to even have any military common sense, let alone the front and rear, it's completely a picture of ruffians and hooligans coming to the door to cause trouble, so they just rolled up their sleeves and started working.

This "chaos" punch really hit the place, at this time Dinghai had something to do, Fan Jin calculated that he had a lot of time, and transferred a thousand troops to Dinghai to help. Now there are only a few hundred army left in Longmen, and they can only rely on their own civilian army to fight.

Seeing the situation of the two sides, Fan Jin was relieved.

In that place where the gongs and drums shook the sky, a group of leaders of the Jiangnan People's Army were also relieved, there were no red-clothed soldiers. If it is a few thousand red-clothed soldiers, then it is really worried, but the other party is a civilian army like himself, and the number of people is only four or five times that of his own, what else is there to be afraid of?

The "former enemy meeting" ended quickly, and the leaders of this gang made trouble for a long time, and finally planned, left and right, front and back, and then scattered in all directions, the war strategy? One word: rush! Four or five to one, and still lose?

The sound of gongs and drums became louder, and the "tide" began to move forward, and tens of thousands of people covered the wasteland in a clumsy manner, pressing towards the thin horizontal formation that stretched out three or four miles wide.

What are the Anglo-Chinese Nationalists on this side of Longmen busy with? Draw a lattice .......

Li Shun followed his boss and drew lines on the ground with a bayonet.

"This horizontal line is to shoot, and you can only shoot if you stand on this line!"

"This vertical line is retreating after firing, and it is not allowed to block this line!"

"Behind this horizontal line is reloading, have you all practiced reloading? It doesn't matter if a lot of words are slow, you just can't make mistakes! ”

Among the more than 500 people in the wing where he was, there were more than a dozen veterans, and while explaining, they drew on the ground, pulled out the grid, and covered the entire team.

The guards have all received superficial musket "shooting" training, but they have not involved queue training, and now they are fighting in a hurry, and there is only so much that Li Shun and the others can do. ..., seeing that the overwhelming crowd was gradually approaching, someone shuddered and asked, "What if they rush to this line?" ”

Li Shun raised his bayonet: "The musket has to be taught, but does Xizi still need to be taught?" ”。

The subordinates looked at each other, and their hearts were empty.

Seeing that this atmosphere was not right, the dart head raised his musket and said in a high-spirited manner: "Those on the other side are not people at all, they are pig gongs!" Don't see the pigtails on the back of their heads? We are human beings, can we be run over by 100,000 pig gongs? ”

Everyone laughed, not to mention anything else, at this time, the people of Yinghua and the people under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty really looked at it like this. Not only the newspapers are saying this, but also the people who fled from Jiangnan are saying this, and now that they have arrived in Longmen, they usually have the impression of those Jiangnan people: ignorance and cowardice.

Among the thousands of guards, the dart bureau and ordinary veterans all used the wrists of the senior officers of the peacetime army to calm the team and gather their spirits. When the crowd of people approached a mile away, the military spirits on the two sides were completely different, one was manic and the other was calm.

I don't know which brave salt patrol shouted, and the speed of the "tide" and "approaching" suddenly accelerated, and a few small cannons were originally dragged out of the queue, ready to be fired, but the crowd that was accelerating up by Hula blocked the "shooting" realm.

With a "Mao" cannon, everyone rushed up side by side, killing each other in one go, and the dragon gate was wide open. The salt of the white flowers, no, the silver of the white flowers, beckoned to them right ahead.

Even the gunner thought so, secretly scolding himself for being too stupid, and he was tired and tired of dragging the cannon. He also rushed forward with a knife, for fear of falling behind.

Two hundred zhang, one hundred and fifty zhang, one hundred zhang......

Everyone rushed forward at the speed of a 100-meter race, and the "tide" of people who had originally divided a number of arrows was gradually flattened, and no matter how fast they ran, they began to pant for breath when they came down a hundred zhang, but at this time there were still a hundred zhang away from the thin horizontal formation on the opposite side.

Eighty, seventy, sixty .......

Li Shun's post was arranged at the forefront, and he used his hands to compare the approximate distance, and seeing that he was only about fifty feet away from his side, Li Shun shouted: "Raise your gun!" ”

Not only Li Shun was shouting, but the captain's shouts in the front row came and went, and the three rows of muskets were raised at the same time, aiming at the "tide" of people who were rapidly "approaching".

Fifty, forty .......

Li Shun was still waiting, he was accustomed to following the close-range bombardment tactics cultivated by Wu Ya in Funan, and put the enemy troops within 20 or even 10 zhang to open fire, but the gunfire had already sounded.

First there was a small formation, then a large horizontal formation, and then Li Shun's side, everyone also subconsciously pulled the trigger, everyone was in the herd, the pressure of the "tide" of the person in front was too great, someone shot and couldn't stop.

Li Shun's temple drummed high, and he wanted to scold but pressed it down, after all, he was not a real soldier.

On 2 December, three platoons of 30 or 40 zhang "fired" in unison, officially opening the prelude to the battle between the northern and southern people's armies.

The Anglo-Chinese People's Army was busy with chaos, Li Shun didn't scold, but the other officials shouted and reprimanded, and at the same time urged their subordinates to quickly load their ammunition, how many people can be killed or injured thirty or forty zhang away?

The smoke of gunpowder rose up, and the vision began to blur, the Anglo-Chinese People's Army was "chaotic", and the Jiangnan People's Army was even more "chaotic" and "chaotic". The sound of this neat and long row of gunshots alone was enough to wake up those salty wanderers who were only soaked in the smell of street fighting, and the people who rushed to the front fell in large parts at once, which made them even more distracted.

The "tide" of people suddenly stopped, like a fierce wind passing through the field, and the grass and trees were low. For a while, the chewing stopped, the gongs and drums stopped, the people in front screamed in surprise, and the people in the rear burst their livers and gallbladders, just this row ......of gunfire, which had scared tens of thousands of Jiangnan people's troops so much that they couldn't even distinguish between the front and the back, and the left and right.