The Chinese view of history always likes to talk about what is moral, and what is virtuous prevails over what is not virtuous. What else is there to eat pot pulp to welcome the king, as if the victors have the world because they win the hearts of the people.

In this time and space, there are many such contents in the history textbooks of the Ming Empire. It was as if the whole world was full of unscrupulous and immoral tyrants, and the working people all over the world had stretched their necks and prepared pots, plates, baskets, and so on filled with food, soup, and "god's stool", just waiting for Chen Dexing's army to liberate them.

However, this kind of thing is rarely seen in reality, and in most cases, Chen Dexing's army is not very popular.

Now, Major General Zhang Jiu, the commander of the 12th Brigade of the Ming Army, has not met any Taizhou people who have come to welcome him. However, there were many peasants standing in the fields that had just been harvested on both sides of the road, far away, empty-handed, no one showed any kindness, and they were still talking in Taizhou dialect that Zhang Jiu did not understand, and they knew that it was not a good word by listening to their tone.

"What a lot of thieves!"

"Still wearing iron armor......"

"That's not iron, it's steel!"

"Steel makes clothes!? How much does that cost? ”

"I don't know, it's not cheap after all, why do you have to get thousands of dollars in this body, right?"

"Where did they get the money?"

"Of course it's robbed!"

"Rob!? Now Du Qiao is going to be robbed by them, right? I wonder if I will go to the countryside to rob it? ”

"Definitely, but we countrymen don't have much money."

"I don't have money, I have a wife and a daughter!"

"yes, what can I do?"

"What......"

However, when the banner of the front battalion of the left army of the Taizhou regiment appeared in front of the 12th Brigade of the Ming Army. The onlookers suddenly burst into cheers.

"Look, look. Du Jiajun is here! ”

"The Du family army is here to kill the thief!"

"It was the Du family's Shi Xiucai who brought the troops, and Shi Xiucai's ability is great. It's too much of a student, sooner or later, I'll be a jinshi......"

"There are ten shows, Taizhou can be saved......"

This is what the people want in the legend! However, these people didn't seem to think that Taixue and Jinshi would not necessarily fight.

"Stop!"

Zhang Jiu was already neatly draped at this time, riding on a Mongolian horse-this horse was transported by boat, and he was dizzy all the way, and he was a little sluggish at this time.

"Array!" Seeing the banner of the opposite regiment training army, Zhang Jiu hurriedly ordered the whole army to line up, "The phalanx meets the enemy!" ”

It is still the signature formation of the Ming army. A phalanx of swords, shields, spears, and bows and arrows. Because of the lack of a regiment of soldiers, this phalanx is somewhat thin. There were only three battalions of pikes, three battalions of bows and arrows, and one battalion of swords and shields. The seven battalions plus Zhang Jiu's brigade headquarters company totaled more than 2,200 people. Occupied a rice field that had already been harvested, and spread out the formation.

The formation was tight, the steel armor was shining, and the tips of the spears and the blades of the large horizontal knives were all glowing with a terrifying cold light under the sun. The archers of the three battalions were in front, and there was no sword and shield to cover them, for they were now all clothed in steel armor. From a distance, it looks like more than 2,000 iron men!

The tenth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-second talents of the Yimen Du family went to the battlefield on a sliding bar. These five people are all white-faced scholars in their thirties. Except for Du Yu, a fifteenth talent who is preparing for the martial arts examination, the others are all powerless scholars and are not good at riding horses.

Moreover, there are few horses in the Yimendu family that can ride on the battlefield - horses are rare animals in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are a wealthy family like Yimendu. Nor will they raise these useless delicate animals.

So the talents of the Du family went to the battlefield in a sedan chair. And the showmen didn't wear armor or helmets, that thing weighed dozens of pounds, and they couldn't walk when they wore it. It would be too much to say that people would lift it again. Moreover, the talents are all masters of strategizing, and they will not go forward to fight the enemy alone. You don't need to wear armor.

Du Yin shielded himself from the sun with a feather fan, squinted his eyes and looked at the enemy formation from a distance—the enemy was four or five hundred paces away. The unfolding was very rapid, as if it was flowing water, and it was completed in the middle of the march, and what kind of formation was discharged......

"Brother Fifteen, you can command." Du Daxiu ordered.

In the Song Dynasty, brothers and sons were called "elder brother". Du Yu is Du Yin's younger brother, and he is fifteen in the clan, so he is called the fifteenth brother. Because he is a martial artist, he knows some art of war and can also play some martial arts. On weekdays, he also likes to discuss the art of war with his brothers, and no one can talk about him in the art of war. Therefore, it gives people the impression of "knowing the soldiers", and the training of the Du family regiment can be organized and trained, which is naturally his credit.

"Order!" Fifteen Xiucai Du Yu arched his hand on the slide bar, then took out the order flag that had been prepared a long time ago, and ordered loudly, "Array, bow and arrow in front, sword and spear in the back, no bow can be opened without an order, and no retreat can be made without an order!" Du family Ding, supervise the battle after the battle! Pass my order, this battle is related to the survival of Taizhou, only forward, not backward, whoever kills a thief, will be rewarded with a hundred dollars......"

Not to mention, this dispatch is quite methodical. And the 1,7800 men of the Du family's army, although most of them are tenant farmers and salt households, but these days they are practicing every day, and Du Yu has trained the Du family's slaves to act as the backbone, and several talents of the Du family are supervised by officers, and they actually have some elite appearances. Soon the battle array was discharged, and it also attracted a burst of applause -- the news of Du Jiaxiucai's battle against Chen Jiagang's soldiers spread very quickly, and all the peasant and salt households in the four towns and eight miles gathered over, stood far away, stretched their necks to watch the battle, and applauded for the soldiers in their hometowns.

"Good!"

"Du Jiajun is doing well!"

The cheers of the people reached Zhang Jiu's ears, although he couldn't understand Taizhou, but he still knew who the other party was cheering for.

The hearts of the people are not attached! But so what?

Zhang Jiu snorted coldly, "Advance, the enemy stops a hundred steps away, and the first row of archers shoots freely!" ”

Three orders were issued in succession, and the two regiment commanders under his command crossed their hands, and then rushed back to their respective command posts. Under the command of the command and the sound of golden drums, 2,200 steel-armored soldiers pressed forward like a moving steel wall, so that they could walk at a speed of step. The battlefield was quiet, and even the onlookers clearly felt a strong murderous aura.

A hundred paces away from the enemy, the rapid drum beat stopped abruptly, and more than 2,000 steel-armored soldiers also stopped at the same time, neatly as if they were one person.

"It's really neat!"

The same thought came to the minds of several Du family talents: This time the battle was a bit hasty......

Tight ......

It was the soft sound of the bowstring, not neat, but sporadic and scattered. Then two or three hundred feathered arrows came out of the string, crossed a perfect parabola in the air, and then accurately landed in the middle of the three horizontal formations composed of the archers of the Du family's army, and the screams suddenly rang out. These feather arrows shot from a hundred paces away actually had quite accurate heads, and they immediately swept down the unsuspecting regimental training archers!

"How can you be so accurate!" When a few shows saw this scene, their eyes widened. That's an arrow shot from a hundred paces away!

Tight ......

Before the showmen could react, there was another rain of rain arrows on the opposite side, which was also not a salvo, and it was also amazing. Standing in front of the regimental training formation, the archers wearing only paper armor fell down again. It's not all shot, after all, the distance is far away, the bow power is insufficient, although it can still enter the flesh after penetrating the paper armor, but as long as it doesn't hit the vital point, it won't be able to kill for a while, it's just a heart-rending scream. Originally, because it was the first time to go to the battlefield, I didn't know how powerful, and there was a heavy reward from Du Yu for fifteen talents, and the big guy was still a little excited, and he forgot to be afraid for a while. At this moment, they heard the screams and smelled the blood, and everyone was a little scared.

"Fifteen talents!" Du Yin still forced his composure, "Hurry up and let the soldiers fight back!" ”

Fight back? Du Yu glanced at his brother, a hundred steps away...... Not to mention the regimental training below, even if he is the master of fighting small martial arts, he can only barely shoot arrows to such a long distance, and he is already at the end of the crossbow, and there is no lethality at all!

Moreover, if you want to shoot a feather arrow a hundred paces away, you must use a hard bow, which is not something that anyone can pull and the price is expensive...... So Du Yu equipped his regimental training with an ordinary soft bow, and he couldn't shoot that far at all!

"Archery! Shoot fast, shoot the thief! ”

Seeing that Du Yu seemed to be at a loss as if in a daze, Du Yin yelled loudly and commanded his younger brother blindly. The archers of the regimental training army in front were also at a loss for a long time, if it weren't for the overseer team behind, they would have collapsed at this time. Hearing Du Yu's roar, these people didn't care what kind of bow they had in their hands, and no matter how much strength they had, they all started shooting arrows like crazy. Again, it's not a salvo, it's a chaotic array of arrows. Everyone is desperately shooting, trying to force the enemy away from afar. It's just that none of these feathered arrows reached the steel-armored soldiers on the opposite side, but were all inserted on the ground twenty or thirty steps in front of them, and the ground was densely covered with a layer of white feathers, as if it had just snowed heavily. On the opposite side, after Zhang Jiu's three hundred archers saw the range of the bows and arrows of these regimental training, they took more than a dozen steps forward, stood outside the range of the opponent's bow and arrows, and shot extremely accurate feather arrows with the infantry bows in their hands, knocking the opposing regimental training soldiers to the ground one by one.

These regimental training soldiers on the battlefield were shot dizzy, and they didn't know how powerful they were. However, the crowd watching the battle around them were dumbfounded.

These talents don't seem to know how to fight! The bow and arrow have been shooting for a long time, none of the thieves have died, and a large part of the group training of the talents has fallen, how will this battle be fought?

At this moment, the sound of golden drums came from the battlefield again, and a battalion of sword and shield men, a battalion of spearmen, and a battalion of archers suddenly formed a column in the large formation of steel armor soldiers, and quickly formed a column and moved towards the left flank of the regimental training army...... (To be continued......)