The weather in June was already very hot, and even the wind seemed to be hot, and a few people knew that they were singing about summer in the trees beside the road. There were some weeding farmers scattered in the wheat fields on both sides of the road, and they all stopped their farm work and looked at the road with curiosity. There were six teams of soldiers sitting on the road in turn, the queue was very quiet, only the occasional sound of opening and closing the lid of the kettle, at this time a horn sounded, Zhou Shao'er who was sitting on the ground did not move, and the other soldiers who were sitting were in a commotion, some stood up, some sat and looked around, after some chaos, Zhou Shao'er saw Lu Baizong on the side of the road holding a leather whip, while scolding and personally beating his own soldiers, listening to the sound of the whip whipping meat, the soldiers on the ground immediately calmed down again.

The pro-soldier took the wrong number, and misremembered the Polo who set off for a horn, and there was no horn order when he sitting, so the soldiers were at a loss, but Zhou Shao'er memorized it very clearly, so he sat and didn't move. Like this trumpeter who blew the wrong trumpet, in wartime, Lu Chuanzong could already cut off his head.

In order to train more drum and bugle players, Chen Xin had three miscellaneous soldiers in each game, and when each game was carried out alone, they were used as drummers, so that the soldiers had more opportunities to practice. However, the drums and trumpets of the Ming army are very complicated, and there are many people who can't memorize them, and these recruits have one more reason to be beaten in addition to the queue.

After Lu Chuanzong beat the pro-soldier well, he ordered again, the pro-soldier was sweating profusely, and dragged Polo out from behind with a nervous face, put it to his mouth and blew it, and the low and melodious Polo sound sounded, this time everyone knew, the soldiers of the entire bureau stood up together, and there was a sound of weapons and kettles colliding, Zhou Shao'er put a thick cloth on his shoulders, and carried the basket on his shoulders with knives and sticks.

Then the drum beat, after three sounds, all marched forward, this time beating a slow marching drum, twenty steps per drum, Zhou Shao'er still prefers a drum step by step, walking more rhythmically.

Most of the farmers near Weihai have seen this group of soldiers who like to walk, these soldiers do not seem to harass the people, they all walked to the side of the road, looking at the neat army like a lively look, a few children followed the team at the end of the frolic, their eyes made Zhou Shao'er a kind of pride, his thin red training uniform was very beautiful, the short placket style, the waist was tied with the Ming army's belt (Note 1), plus the big lapel and white buttons, everyone was very energetic.

Zhou Shao'er's No. 1 killer team, on weekdays as a blue team to accompany those recruits to fight training, after the training of the squad in May, the team of fighters will continue to attack, against the bandits around Weihaiwei, there have been six or seven bandit cottages have been broken, according to today's Huang Yuan's combat briefing, their target is a group of bandits in Aishan, the number of bandits is only about 100 people.

All the way to the afternoon, the first two sentinels came back, and after muttering to Lu Chuanzong for a while, the step drum changed, changed to a tight drum with each drum step, and the soldiers of the whole country began to speed up according to the sound of the drum, and the team soon entered the mountain, and the mountain road was full of green trees, and everyone suddenly felt cool. After entering the mountain, a killer team broke away from the brigade and opened the way ahead, and Zhou Shao'er's first killer team was arranged to march at the end as a response to the ambush.

There were no bandits found along the way, and half an hour later, a pass appeared in front of it, and a stone wall was built on top of the pass, on which more than a dozen bandits were built. As soon as they saw the officers and soldiers, they immediately shouted and threw some stones from above, Lu Chuanzong gave an order, and the three firearms teams lined up in a slightly flat place under the pass, and the three firearms teams had two teams of bird guns, one team of turtledoves and one team of turtledoves, and the first time was a salvo of three teams, and after a burst of explosion, the mountain road was full of smoke.

The stone wall was beaten to a loud scale, and the bandits were hiding behind the wall, but they were not hit, but the cries were even more alarmed, and after the first volley, the three teams took turns to reload, and every time a bandit came up, one team shot.

Taking advantage of the bandits' panic, the third killer team was divided into two teams, when the first team rushed to the pass under the cover of the long card soldiers, the remaining one team followed closely behind, the front long card player turned out to be a mountain man, he was wearing iron scale armor, and he didn't see if he was following behind him, and he rushed up quickly without stopping, only one bandit probe saw, threw down a stone, and was blocked by the strong long card player with a long card covered with cowhide, and then he rushed to the pass.

As soon as the long card player rushed into the pass, he turned to the left, made way of the passage, raised the waist knife in his right hand, and disappeared behind the stone wall, Zhou Shao'er had just arrived at the pass, he looked at the four teammates behind the long card player who were slightly two steps behind, and couldn't help but whisper anxiously: "Hurry up, hurry up." Zhou Shao'er's memory is very good, this long card player is a new addition to the troops, one of the original two round cards replaced, one person per team, larger than the round card, can cover the whole body, the long card is covered with several layers of raw cowhide, very strong. If he dies and the whole team has no other great merits, all four of them will pay for his life, as long as the long card player dies, the lives of the others are decided by the military judge.

Therefore, the long players are all bold and strong, and this kind of person will definitely drag the whole team down to death.

Fortunately, the four people behind also knew this, and tried their best to follow, and there was a sound of fighting and screaming from behind the stone wall, and then the second team also rushed up, and after a while, the captain came out from behind the stone wall and waved his flag gun.

Zhou Shao'er breathed a sigh of relief, and several other teams of people climbed the pass one after another, Zhou Shao'er took a slight look when he passed the pass, seven or eight bandits died on the ground, and only one of the third team was injured by a knife and stick, and the firefighters dragged them aside, and were cutting off people's heads with a knife, two people's heads had been cut off, and blood flowed all over the ground, and some recruits vomited while walking after seeing it.

Spitting all the way, they rushed to a small cottage, which was small in scale and also had stone walls, and the gate was made of tree trunks tied together. Some bandits were moving around the stone wall in a panic, and the inside was already in a mess.

Lu Chuanzong ordered the firearms team to continue firing volleys, and the third killer team just now went to cut down trees, and they did a good job of hitting the wood after a while, and this time the attacking team was replaced by the second killer team, and the first killer team cooperated.

The second team came to the gate with the bumping wood, shouted and rushed forward, and when there were more than ten steps, a group of bandits appeared on the wall, holding stones and preparing to smash them, the captain shouted, and the second team immediately stopped, and there was a burst of birds behind them, several bandits were hit, and others hurriedly hid. The second team retreated to the same place, shouted again and rushed over, and just like last time, the bandits were killed before they could hit the stone.

When the third impact no bandits dared to come forward, the second team no longer stopped, banged on the gate, the wooden gate creaked, but it was not knocked open, the captain of the second team looked through the crack in the trunk of the gate, there were more than ten bandits against the door.

The captain inserted the flag gun through the gap and stabbed one or two people, followed by a spear with two wooden poles sticking out, the second team had to retreat slightly, and several bandits on the walls on both sides came out and threw down a few stones quickly, and the two soldiers were injured, and the second team had to retreat again.

Lu Chuanzong cursed twice, called the captain of the killer flag, and asked him to lead his team and another team of bird gunners to climb over the wall from the other direction.

After receiving the order, the flag captain came to the first killer team and ordered: "The first team starts to put on armor!" ”

Zhou Shao'er is a fireman, he has no armor, he had to watch others take off the cotton armor from their backs, the cotton armor used by the first team of soldiers is the Ming army equipment from Dengzhou, it is a short armor, there is no kind of long waist-like leg skirt, the same placket style, only the nail bubble has no armor leaves, it is lighter than the kind of iron-inlaid cotton armor, but the protection is much worse.

The soldiers of the First Killer Team began to put on their armor, and tied them to their chests with their armor, and the straps around their waists, and when they were dressed, the Flag Captain led the two groups around to the left.

Zhou Shao'er followed the end of the team, the two teams walked quietly through the woods, and when they went around to the west side of the wall, several bandits were turning out of the wall, the flag captain did not let the muskets shoot, and when they left, the musketeers set up two ladders under the wall, Zhou Shao'er saw Huang Yuan stepping on the people first, and after a little observation on it, he jumped into the stockade, followed by two sword and shield hands and boring palladium. When Zhou Shao'er finally entered, the first team had already formed two junior talent formations.

As soon as Zhou Shao'er landed, he put the knife and stick in his hand, touched the bulge on the stick, put it in the right direction, and stood behind the left side of the queue. Some of the scattered bandits and family members inside saw someone coming in and ran to another place screaming.

When the firearms team also came in over the wall, the flag captain gave an order, went to the gate of the village, turned a few grass huts, and Zhou Shao'er saw in the gap that thirty or forty bandits were concentrated at the gate.

The bird soldiers rushed to the front, shot at the more than 20 bandits piled up at the gate, killed a few people, and there was a shout outside, the bandits were attacked in front and back, and their fighting spirit was lost in an instant, and they scattered in a hurry, and fled to both sides.

Zhou Shao'er followed behind Zuo Wu, opened the gate with everyone, and went to the village to kill. After breaking through the gate, there was basically no resistance, and the able-bodied bandits were either killed or ran over the wall, leaving only some old and weak and women.

Zhou Shao'er did not kill a single person as the previous two bandits, after cleaning the village, he was arranged to behead, just when Lu Chuanzong was by his side, the captain of the killer flag came to report that the second team injured three people, and he heard Lu Chuanzong complain, "It's good to have a cannon, just the cannon on the ship, and the wooden door shadow is gone." ”

Huang Yuan heard it next to him, and came over to interject: "I have also seen that cannon, it is too heavy, where can it be moved up the mountain, even if it is dragged down the mountain, I don't know how many horses it will use, the horses are so expensive, Zhu Guobin has been pestering Mr. Liu for so long, and he has only bought more than 20 horses." ”

Lu Chuanzong snorted, Zhu Guobin had twenty cavalry, Liu Minyou only counted twenty horses for him, each horse bought more than 20 taels of silver from Wendeng, and ate a few catties of feed every day in addition to grazing, and later found that a few horses could not go far, Zhu Guobin looked for Liu Min many times, and then bought a few more horses, and fed and bathed every day. Every time he sent out troops, he had to send a few cavalry as sentry horses, and he never entered the mountains, except for running faster, Lu Donkey didn't think they were of much use.

He didn't want to say much about the cavalry, but complained: "When Lord Chen comes back, I have to tell him that if he fights bandits, there must be a small cannon to bombard the gate." ”

After speaking, he looked at the sky and said worriedly: "It's June, I don't know if Lord Chen hasn't come back this time." ”

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Note 1: The straps of the Ming army are almost the same as those of the modern army, with jack type and officer circlip type. Thank you for your tips, recommendations, favorites, and comments.