Killing someone with one shot is also called a slight punishment, which is what a scholar like Xu Guangqi can say. However, the robbers are all a rabble, and the death of a handful of people is nothing to other robbers, so Xu Guangqi still hopes that the strongmen will accept the conditions of peace.

"You fart!" The bandit leader scolded loudly.

Now, it's not a matter of how much property can be grabbed, but a matter of his face. If the other party is a powerful caravan with hundreds of guards, then he will endure a little loss. Now the other party is just a woman, a scholar, and a half-sized man with a firecracker, and the two sides haven't fought yet, and they have broken a person on their side first. If this matter is stopped like this, how will he mix up on Ningshan Road in the future.

"Pass my order, what the other party is fighting is just a firecracker, let's rush up together, whoever is injured by the firecracker, it is their own life that should be like this. If you are not injured by the fire, you will break the corpses of these people into thousands of pieces and avenge Du Lao Er! The bandit leader gave the order viciously.

Before the dysentery head rushed in front of others, he was beaten to death by others, which had a great impact on the psychology of the horse thieves. They rarely encounter the other side with firearms, and they do not know how to fight an opponent with firearms. Hearing the leader's order, everyone plucked up their courage, drew their swords in their hands, and silently recited the names of the gods they believed in their hearts, hoping that if the other party released their guns again, it would not be themselves who would be shot.

"It seems that these strongmen are determined to fight against us, so they can only form a car formation to fight against them." Xu Guangqi said.

"Well, why don't these people listen to persuasion?" Lu Xiu'er complained, "We will definitely hurt people again in a while, if my mother knows, she will definitely nag." ”

"Don't tell your aunt, how will she know." Su Xiaohu reminded on the side. He didn't know that Lu Xiu'er's muttering was actually just a reason for himself.

As early as the three of them were talking to the robbers, the porters behind them were already starting to drive the cart into formation. These carts were flanked on both sides by a head and tail mechanism that could be connected to form a simple fortress. This method of forming a formation with a large cart has a long history, and Qi Jiguang once used it to fight against the Mongols, and his chariot formation can be unharmed in the face of the impact of the Mongol cavalry.

The big cars of the Su family team were also designed according to the specifications that could form a car array, and Xu Guangqi and others gave full play to their ingenuity and made some improvements on the basis of the traditional car formation. In some key parts of the cart, it was also reinforced with steel bars. It is really wishful thinking for a few ordinary horse thieves to break through such a car formation, no wonder Lu Xiuer thinks most about her own safety at this time, but whether hurting the horse thief will cause her mother to complain.

The robbers took a few dozen steps back, scattered in a line, and prepared to charge. And here, Lu Xiu'er and the others had also dodged into the car formation, facing the horse thief with a solid compartment and a flintlock barrel sticking out of the shooting hole.

"The other side is lined up in a car formation, nothing remarkable. Let's rush to the front. Let the horse jump over the carriage board, and the people in the car formation will be the meat on our board. The leader of the robbers shouted, "Come, prepare." Rush! ”

With the word "rush", more than 30 horse thieves urged the horses to rush forward, and the horses' hooves stepped on the dry loess, raising the sky full of smoke and dust. Lu Xiu'er stood on a high platform made of boxes in the car array. Commanding the guards and craftsmen to fire on the horse thieves. As a craftsman in a firearms factory, I don't miss these flintlock pistols on weekdays, but I have never had the opportunity to use real people as targets. But. On the way to Ningxia this time, they had already encountered several strongmen, and there was no longer any psychological obstacle to killing and injuring the enemy with firearms.

"Fire!" Lu Xiu'er saw that the horse thief rushed to within a hundred steps, so she gave a loud order. After repeated improvements, the range of the flintlock pistol of the Liangxiang factory can reach more than 300 steps, but to ensure the accuracy of shooting, it is more effective to wait for the enemy to rush to within 100 steps and fire.

"Slam! Impeach! Impeach! ”

Gunshots rang out one after another, and in an instant, five or six horse thieves had been shot, killed or wounded, and they had fallen off their horses. In addition to this, several horses were also shot, and the intense pain and fear of the unknown danger caused the horses to leap and roll, or throw the rider off the horse, or flee the battlefield with the rider on his back.

"Rush! People are hanging to the sky, immortal for thousands of years, rush! The leader of the robbers, seeing that his men had lost a third of their men before they could reach the cart, began to secretly regret his impulsiveness. But the arrow is ready to be sent, and the current plan is to compensate for the loss only by breaking through the car formation, killing all the guards in the caravan, and grabbing supplies. If you lose at this time, the loss will be too great.

"The horse thief has arrived, and he is on the spur!" Lu Xiuer issued a second order.

This set of methods of guarding against horse thieves had been practiced by everyone before the caravan set out. Hearing Lu Xiuer's order, all the people put down the guns in their hands and pulled the machine springs on the cart. I could only hear the sound of machinery starting, and two rows of five or six feet long steel thorns suddenly appeared on the flat carriage board, and the bright tips of the thorns were facing the direction of the horse thief.

"Phew! Sigh!!! "All the horse thieves subconsciously tightened their reins, trying to stop the galloping horses. In fact, it was not only the horse thieves who discovered the danger, but also those war horses who saw the long thorns that suddenly appeared in front of them. But it was too late, except for a few horses that were lucky enough to stand outside the long spike, the rest of the dozen or so horses all hit their heads head-on on the tip of the long thorn, the horse's blood splashed, and the struggle before the death of the war horse dragged the cart to shake incessantly.

The horses were tied to the long thorns, but the riders on horseback could not stop at all, and one by one they threw themselves out of their horses, rolled in mid-air for a few weeks, and then fell into the chariot in disarray. The porters, who were hiding behind the chariots, saw how quickly they stepped forward to hold down the horse thieves, and tied them up one by one with water-soaked hemp ropes.

There are also fierce horse thieves who quickly get up after falling to the ground and fight with knives. Seeing this, the guards in the car formation also drew their swords and bullied the widows with the crowd, and quickly eliminated these people.

"!" The surviving horse thieves on the car formation were scattered, the leader of the horse thieves shouted, and everyone turned back to the horses and fled, where was there any fighting spirit. More than 30 people rushed into battle, more than a dozen were killed, and more than a dozen were captured alive, even if the remaining few of them were able to break through the car formation, how could they withstand dozens of porters and guards.

Another volley of guns was released from the formation, knocking down the two fleeing horse thieves, leaving the leader of the horse thieves with the last two minions to flee without a trace.

"Well, why bother, so many people have been hurt."

Lu Xiu'er got down from the high platform, commanded everyone to withdraw from the car formation, and then examined the corpses of the horse thieves left on the battlefield one by one. encountered those who were not hit and could still be saved, Lu Xiuer hurriedly called Lang Zhong who was with the team and asked him to bandage the horse thief. Of course, these survivors have to be tied up in advance.

"12 were killed, 18 were captured, 10 were seriously wounded, and 1 was almost out of breath." After Su Xiaohu counted it, he came to report to Lu Xiu'er.

Lu Xiu'er said: "Load all the dead thieves into the car, and tie them up strongly, don't let them break free in the middle of the night and hurt people." Let's hurry up, there is a county town in front, let's hand over these thieves to the government for disposal. ”

"Understood." Su Xiaohu agreed, and arranged for someone to do what Lu Xiu'er said.

Lu Xiu'er stood there, looking at the blood stains on the ground, feeling disgusted and sad in her heart. She was originally an extremely kind person, and it was only a last resort to command her subordinates to meet and kill the enemy. Every time she defeats a strongman, she has to feel sorry for the strongmen who are killed and injured for a few days.

"Xiu'er, what's wrong, it's uncomfortable again?" Hao Qing stepped forward and asked Lu Xiu'er.

Lu Xiu'er said with tears in her eyes: "Brother Hao, why did you say that so many people died, how uncomfortable these people should be." ”

Hao Qing persuaded: "Xiu'er, this is something that can't be helped, they were horse thieves, and they originally committed a capital crime." If we hadn't been prepared today, and the firearms were powerful, maybe it would have been our people who died. ”

Lu Xiu'er said: "I understand this truth, but I am soft-hearted and can't see the things of dead people." ”

Hao Qing smiled: "Xiu'er, if you knew this, you shouldn't have come out with us." When you get to the border, if the Mongols invade, you may see more dead people. General Su is a person who leads troops to fight, I remember there is a saying called what, by the way, if a general is called a thousand bones, how many people will have to die. ”

Speaking of Su Hao, Lu Xiu'er's face was a little warm, she pouted and said: "My brother is really, it is not appropriate to be a good scholar, but he wants to be a general, I hate people who fight all day long." ”

"If that's the case, then let's turn around and go back, there are guns and cannons in our car, and what yellow explosives Luo Xiucai invented, if it gets to General Su, I don't know how many lives will be injured. Since Miss Xiu'er has the virtue of a good life, let's not send these things. Hao Qing teased Lu Xiu'er and said.

"That's not going to work!" Lu Xiu'er jumped to her feet and said, "How dangerous my brother is at the border pass, if a Mongolian comes, he doesn't have a firearm in his hand, so don't you suffer." I've heard people say that the Mongols are vicious, and they kill people without blinking. ”

"That's it, we have to be more ruthless than them when dealing with bad guys, don't you say?" Hao Qing said.

Lu Xiu'er blushed, in fact, she also understood what Hao Qing said, but she couldn't accept it emotionally for a while. She thanked Hao Qing and ran to direct everyone to do things.

The porters put the big animals on the cart, and the convoy set off again, according to the instructions on the map, not far ahead of them was their destination, Ningxia Pingyu City ......)

ps: Gorgeous third update