This is the time, Sun Jiayuan opened his eyes and shouted angrily: "All fire!" ”

The firearms men were in a hurry. The quickest group had already lit the fuse, and the sparks crackled and flickered into the fire door, but General Bamboo did not react.

"First dumb fire!" Sun Jia was accustomed to the failure of this new weapon, and Zheng Yunming had long reminded the officers and soldiers of the firearms team that there would be many deficiencies in the new weapon before it was put on the battlefield, and General Zhu's biggest problem was that he would often mute fire.

"Leave no one else's mind, each group launches on its own!" Sun Jia shouted loudly. Fortunately, except for the dumb fire of the bamboo general, the other bamboo generals all fired smoothly.

A huge smoke mixed with rolled loess raised a puff of smoke in front of the phalanx, and after the smoke dissipated, it was not surprising that the opposite side was a scene of wolves running and pigs suddenly fleeing.

Zheng Yunming pointed at the horsewhip in his hand and shouted: "The whole army is pursuing!" ”

The phalanx erupted with a deafening shout, and the pikemen and swords pursued the fleeing enemy.

"The Lord will catch up with us!" Zhu Sheng urged the mount and said, "Sure enough, Yang Yu said it!" ”

Zheng Yunming nodded, gently knocked the horse's leg with his horsewhip, and the war horse galloped away in the direction of the enemy's escape.

The army gradually broke away from the baggage boats that were slowly advancing on the frustrated waters, and pursued the defeated thieves into the vast mountains and forests.

The scouts, who were watching in the grass in the distance, immediately reported the battle to the group of men who were waiting for news in the distance.

"Hehe, I can't even figure out where our brigade is ambushing, this Zheng Yunming is really just a vain son of Yanei." The leader asked, "What happened to the baggage ship?" ”

"The grain and grass tents are being unloaded on the shore, and it seems that a large camp will be set up nearby for the night."

The big boss sneered: "They don't have to stay overnight, we will receive these food treasures and tents." ”

"Everyone went to the place where the transport ship was anchored together, and snatched all Zheng Yunming's baggage!"

The crowd shouted for joy, and it seemed that the thieves were about to win the battle again.

When countless thieves who came out of the banks of the frustrated water and rushed to the temporary camp on the shore of the frustrated water, the soldiers who saw this scene panicked, dropped the packages and tents on their shoulders, and fled downstream of the frustrated water. Naturally, the boatman did not care about his own boat, and joined the fleeing army with a few soldiers who guarded the baggage.

The frustrated thieves obtained all the baggage of Zheng Yunming's army without a single sword or shot.

Straw bales and cloth containing rice, and copper coins were scattered on the banks of the frustrated water, and all sorts of new utensils and tents were piled up haphazardly, and it was a treasure trove for the poor and frustrated thieves, and everyone was frantically snatching the supplies discarded by the people.

The big boss took out a crimson official uniform from a gorgeous suitcase, which was obviously Zheng Yunming's own official uniform. This one-line little ya-nai only cares about chasing the enemy in the phantom, but he doesn't know that even his own clothes have fallen into the hands of his opponent.

The big leader casually threw his official robe over his body and shouted, "Brothers, you are all here to carry things!" This is the dog official's filial piety to our village, let's take care of it ourselves! ”

Amid the cheers, thousands of people began to desperately snatch cloth and copper coins, and they didn't even bother to pick up the large bags of grain that fell on the ground. Some people even fought with their peers over a piece of porcelain, and the scene was chaotic.

Amid the clamor of the crowd, a loud horn suddenly sounded from the woods on the left. The sound of the trumpet was followed by the sound of war drums that shook the sky in all directions.

From each direction, the soldiers of the Tulong Army spread out their formations, and slowly emerged from the woods and grass with spears, and the thieves who were carrying them on the shore found that they had completely fallen into the snare of the official army.

In all directions, there were fierce officers and soldiers who suddenly appeared like divine soldiers descending from the sky, and the frustrated thieves were already in chaos before they could engage in battle.

A fast horse jumped out of the official army formation and shouted: "The thieves have listened! Since you know that you have fallen into the strategy of the officials and soldiers, you will abandon your weapons and surrender as soon as possible, and if you resist and disobey, you will not be spared! ”

"The dog officer of the straight mother thief, serve your grandmother!" The grumpy commander Hu picked up his bow and arrows and shot at the general who persuaded him to surrender.

Zhu Sheng saw the arrows flying, let the side of his body pass the rushing feather arrows, and pulled out a carved arrow from the arrow gourd and shot it back, this arrow was much faster and more powerful than the arrow of the commander of Nahu. An arrow pierced Commander Hu's throat, and the corpse fell to the ground.

The thieves shouted, turned and fled towards the bank of the Fushui River. It's not that they lost their minds in the panic, their minds are very sober, and now there are officers and soldiers on the left, middle and right, and there are banners and shouts of officers and soldiers on the other side of the river, and the only chance is to go down the river. In the river, there were not only more than 30 clippers that they had driven from upstream, but also more than 200 baggage boats that had been discarded by the officers and soldiers. Escaping by water is the only way to survive at the moment.

At the head of the fleeing crowd was the big leader, who made a beeline for a government transport ship covered with reed mats. He knew that this kind of splint clipper was much faster than ordinary transport ships, and was most suitable for escaping.

When he jumped onto the boat and was about to use the pole to prop the boat off the riverbank, he realized that something was wrong.

The reed mat behind him suddenly opened, and several knives were set on the neck of the big leader.

"Tulong Army Yang Liang has been waiting for a long time!" Yang Luo looked at the thief with a knife in one hand, and blew a bamboo whistle in the other. With the sound of the whistle, hundreds of soldiers uncovered the reed mats and jumped up from the civilian boats on the bank of the river, brandishing swords and sticks to meet the fleeing thieves.

"Don't kill me! We surrender! "We surrender!" Seeing that the last way of life was cut off by the ambush soldiers hidden in the ship, most of the thieves immediately lost the courage to resist. There were almost twice as many people as the officers and soldiers, but they did not dare to raise their swords and guns to face the well-trained Tulong army surrounded on all sides. Thousands of people threw down their weapons and bowed down to the officers and soldiers.

A small number of bandits who still refused to surrender fled downstream along the bank of the Fushui River, only to find that the reeds on the bank of the river were also full of officers and soldiers. It turned out that the officers and soldiers who had escaped from the battle and were guarding the baggage did not run far, but laid an ambush in the reeds downstream. These fish that slipped through the net fell back into the double net of the officials and soldiers before they could run a mile.

There was hardly any battle to speak of, and all the great thieves had been captured by the Earth Dragon Army.

Zheng Xian walked past the listless captives of the brigade and picked up the official robe that had been discarded on the ground in a panic by the big leader.

"Childe's official robe was all dirt by that fight!" Zheng Xian complained as he fluttered the dust on his official robes.

"Just take it back and wash it." Although Zheng Yunming, who was riding on a horse, was majestic and majestic, he still didn't forget to tell Zheng Xian a joke. A mere piece of clothing is nothing compared to a bandit who can easily solve the frustration.

Most of the credit for this naturally belongs to the clever little Zhang Liang and Yang Liang.

"Unlike the official army, the frustrated bandits who have been mutinous thieves only have two things to care about the most, one is to survive, and the other is to make money." At the military meeting before the expedition, Yang Luo pointed to the topographic map of Fushui and talked eloquently: "In a head-to-head confrontation, they are by no means the opponent of the Tulong Army, so most of the enemy uses the old trick of thieves to deal with the officers and soldiers, let go of our army brigade, and copy our baggage team with the main force." ”

"We're going to make a fuss about them. After discovering the enemy's situation in front, the deputy commander led the troops to engage in the battle, but the front did not have to go too far, and after chasing out a mile or two, he sent a department to continue to pursue the enemy, and the main force was divided into multiple roads, and with the cover of woodland and grass, they withdrew to the place where the baggage fleet was unloaded for ambush, and the thieves came to attack later, and in order to covet the goods, there must be a lot of people coming. Let's use these materials as bait to give him a waiting plan. ”

In order to block the enemy's most reluctant escape route, Yang Luo also personally led two hundred elite soldiers to hide in the cabin, waiting for the thieves to suddenly come out when they were surrounded, and carry out a psychological blow to these weak-willed guys.

Zheng Yunming thought in his heart that if this kid can learn to look at the overall situation, he will definitely be a handsome person who can stand alone in the future.

"General! There are fast horses approaching downstream! It seems to be the messenger of our army! A soldier on the back who was watching the situation in the direction of the downstream suddenly shouted.

Sure enough, one person and one rider in the downstream galloped on the road leading here, and even if he looked at it from a distance, Zheng Yunming could recognize that it was the Tulong Army's own knight.

Sure enough, it was Han Feng who came back.

Han Feng Pegasus came to Zheng Yunming, threw the reins and dismounted, and hurriedly said, "Something happened to the military division!" ”

Bai Yijie sent Song Yichang to Huangzhou to find out the news, and he got up and went to another place.

His destination was Pingxiang County, under the rule of Yuan Zhou on Jiangnan West Road. The purpose of the visit was also very clear, Zheng Yunming told him that there are rich coal reserves in Pingxiang County, and once developed, it will not only supply more than enough for all parts of Jinghu. Moreover, it can be used all over the Yangtze River downstream by the river. Zheng Yunming was about to seize the time to set up a handicraft workshop at Jinghu University, and the demand for iron ore, coke, and copper ore was several times higher than in previous years.

Unlike Bai Yijie, who is well versed in the products of Jinghu, Zheng Yunming is the son of an official eunuch in Beijing, and he only has some impressions on paper about the local products of the prefectures and counties. However, what has an advantage over Bai Yijie is that Zheng Yunming has the historical knowledge of the next thousand years, and of course he knows that Daye in Huangzhou has rich iron ore resources, and Pingxiang in Hunan has enough coal resources, and it is the best choice to transport the ore to Hanyang for processing by water transportation.