Hua Ji'an's first thought was to study the weapons of those bandits and see if he could defeat the enemy with the enemy. But even if there were bullets, the firing of the firearm was not the point, and the bullets on the robbers who left the corpses were not many, and they could not achieve the effect of defeating the enemy.

Hearing the news of the arrival of the bandit reinforcements, Hua Ji'an immediately ordered: "Withdraw temporarily!" ”

The contrast between the strength of the enemy and the enemy is unclear, and the enemy has a powerful firearm as a backing, and Hua Ji'an does not want to take risks.

The assistant leader of the local garrison sent by King Jing was General Zheng Dong Yan, and when he learned that Huaji'an was going to retreat as soon as he learned it, he immediately looked for Huaji'an theory. His meaning is very simple, even if all the bandits come now, the army is not as strong as the army, why not sweep away the bandits in one go?

Hua Ji'an is eager to make meritorious contributions, and this Dong Yan's heart for meritorious service is even more urgent. King Jing's soldiers have suffered too many losses on this mountain bandit these days, and the loss of the army has already lost their spirit, and finally King Huai sent reinforcements, and the first battle was also successful, and Dong Yan took it for granted that the two armies were invincible in the world.

It's just that he didn't know how tragic Lu Daohua Ji'an was about winning that battle, and the Huai army was also scared.

"You don't go up, we go up! Our Jiangyou soldiers are not cowards! ”

Dong Yan threw down a sentence and had already returned to the camp to mobilize King Jing's soldiers, preparing to fight alone. Hua Ji'an smiled bitterly, originally he thought he was that kind of impulsive person, but when he met these generals who didn't even have actual combat experience, just by pulling the relationship to the top, he realized how calm he was and thought about his subordinates.

The lack of actual combat experience is too terrible, 10,000 against 1,000, and I think I will win.

"General. Are we doing this? ”

Facing inquiries from subordinates. Hua Ji'an said angrily: "Cooperate with a fart." Let's withdraw to Huizhou for the time being, and wait for them to disperse and come back!" ”

The 5,000 elite Huai cavalry suffered heavy losses against the 500 bandits, and this time the bandits poured into the nest, with more than 1,000 people, and even if there were more than 10,000 defenders in these places, they could not escape the fate of defeat at the least. Hua Ji'an had already broken off the victory or defeat of this war in his heart.

The Huai army withdrew to Huizhou, but the Jingwang army was ready to sweep away the bandits in one go.

On the afternoon of the eighth day of the lunar month, the bandits' reinforcements were less than 30 miles away from Mao County. Dong Yan gave an order and took the initiative to attack, preparing to defeat the reinforcements before the bandits in the city and the bandit reinforcements outside the city combined. The idea is good, the siege of reinforcements is superior, and the odds of victory are quite high. Dong Yan was even thinking about King Jing's reward after the victory, as well as the hateful Hua Ji'an's deflated expression.

But when the distance between the two armies was still three miles, fireballs fell from the sky one after another, and Dong Yan immediately realized that he had been tricked!

This was the first time the bandits had used light artillery weapons since the start of the war, and an enhanced version of this weapon briefly appeared in the Battle of Xuzhou. At that time, the Huai army suffered heavy losses, and now it is suddenly apparent. King Jing's army was caught off guard.

When the fireball hit the ground and exploded, the soldiers fell from their horses and wailed in pain and were on fire, or they were blown to pieces, and before the bandits could appear in front of them, the Jingwang army had already weakened in momentum. Originally, Dong Yan still had extravagant hopes, hoping to disperse the bandits through a round of cavalry impact, and divide them, who knew that the bandit reinforcements who came this time had an amazing combat effectiveness.

When the two armies were one mile apart, the Jingwang army had already suffered a large number of losses, and the soldiers were already very timid, and it was impossible to raise morale after that. Originally, the Jingwang army was a temporary patchwork of local defenders, lacking actual combat experience, and even the training on weekdays was hasty, and at this time, in the face of strong firepower, more and more deserters began to appear.

On the other hand, on the bandit side, the formation was tighter than that of the regular army, and the guns and cannons were constantly fired at the Jingwang army, even if the cavalry of the Jingwang army was less than 300 paces away, there was still not the slightest scattering in the formation.

The result is self-explanatory, with the annihilation of the vanguard cavalry of the Jingwang army, the rear is suppressed one-sidedly, and the number of bandits is much more than expected, the number of bandit reinforcements is at least more than 2,500, and all of them are perverts who can dismount and shoot on horseback and charge on horseback.

When the Jingwang army was engaged in a head-on battle with the bandits, Hua Ji'an led the Huai army cavalry to retreat to the city of Jizhou, and when he learned about the cannon used by the bandits, the blood was on his head, and then a chill enveloped his body. Then he smiled bitterly for a long time, and a person's name suddenly came to his mind, this name, he had heard Meng Chuliang say countless times.

Liu Wenyan.

Although he was not sure whether Liu Wenyan was in this bandit army, he was already convinced that this bandit was inextricably linked with the imperial army, or that it was simply led by Liu Wenyan himself to block the Huai army's grain route. As for the fiasco of King Jing's army, Hua Ji'an had expected it, and he didn't feel too surprised, this may have been caused by Dong Yan.

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Outside the city of Maoxian, a large number of bandits were cleaning the battlefield, and a group of cavalry quickly entered the city. After seeing the people who came, Commander Huo, who had been a little sluggish for the past few days, opened the city gate.

The gentry and the people were very eager to know who was coming from the road, and they needed to be greeted by Captain Huo, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, and then they saw a strange scene at the gate of the county governor's mansion in Maoxian, a young man in his twenties who looked very gentle, was chasing the leader of the bandits, Huo Junchang, with a stick, and at this time, Captain Huo, who was still very fierce, had no temper at all, except for pulling out his legs and fleeing, he didn't seem to have any intention of resisting. There was also a young and beautiful woman at the gate of the county governor's mansion, like a certain lady in the cottage, who was persuading the young man who was chasing and beating Commander Huo. The other bandits, all consciously doing their own thing, or leading horses or patrolling, seemed to be very reluctant to participate in this conflict.

The gentry instinctively sensed that it might be a big man, probably the "commander" to whom the bandit leaders often mentioned.

The person who came was Liu Yu, who had not appeared in public for many days, and the woman who persuaded him at the door was Xu Xuanzhu, the commander of the women's army.

"Do you know what's wrong with Lu Dao?" Liu Yu didn't run as fast as Huo, and he was tired of chasing, so he stopped and asked angrily.

"Aren't there just a few people dead?" Huo was far away from Liu Yu, like a child who had done something wrong, "How can there be immortals in war?" ”

"I hit you because of this?" Liu Yu asked again with a straight face.

"What's that?" Huo Yi has been in deep self-blame these days, since he followed Liu Yu out of the adventure, he has been smooth sailing and has not encountered setbacks, he takes it for granted that victory is necessary, defeat is unacceptable, especially for a young man like him, failure is even more unacceptable, and he needs to find an excuse to escape.

Xu Xuanzhu walked over, stood beside Liu Yu demurely, and said: "Actually, your boss has deep expectations for you, who knows that if you encounter something wrong, you will give up and hide in the county town and not come out, and you will almost be surrounded by the local army. ”

Huo Zhi only then realized that Liu Yu was not complaining about his loss of troops, in fact, Liu Yu was not a person who could not accept failure, after all, Huo Yu's experience was still shallow, Liu Yue dared to let him lead the troops, that is, he took a fancy to his eclectic ghost talent, and was ambushed by the Huai army, although there were some reasons for underestimating the enemy, but it was still within the acceptable range, and Huo Yi also showed a great general's style in the retreat, and he could retreat under the disadvantage, so that the Huai army lost more than ten times, which could not be brought by ordinary people.

Huo Yi was said by Xu Xuanzhu, and he wanted to defend himself, and said: "It's not that I don't want to go out of the city, I'm not looking for a countermeasure?" ”

"Looking for a solution, use the turtle to shrink in the city and stare at the crowd?"

Seeing Liu Yu say and raise the stick again, Huo Yi shrank his head and said: "Not next time, even if the battle is over, there will be only one Lao Tzu left, and Lao Tzu will also play with them!" ”

Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and put the stick down.

Those gentry and the common people hid in the street for a long time before they understood, and the feeling was that the commander complained that Commander Huo was not desperate enough.

The perverted general leads the perverted soldiers, and now it is very suitable for the mountain bandits, this army commander is already at the perverted level, so the commander still does not change his attitude to his grandmother's house? And the woman next to this super pervert is a little incomprehensible to the gentry and the people, seeing that she is calm and reasonable, she is obviously not a vase-like lady of the village, she should have a lot of right to speak in the cottage, and even Captain Huo, who has always been worried, is respectful.

The gentry were all thinking about how to communicate with this commander, and at this time, Commander Huo had already walked over with a black and tender face, looking around at the gentry and the people, and the people who were seen did not dare to touch their heads. Gu Li, as a representative of the gentry, hurriedly stepped forward to say goodbye.

"Let's go, our commander wants to see you!" Huo Ill's tone was not good.

The gentry are all panicked now, they can't cope with just one army commander, and now the commander is here, now I want to summon them, see what the commander they say? Could it be that if you say hello, the commander will let them go?

Gu Li asked tentatively: "This commander, master, also want to see the people?" ”

"Our commander is so busy, how can we have time to see the people, just you, hurry in, if you are in a hurry by the commander, be careful Lao Tzu ......"

Huo Yi raised the barrel of the gun, and the legs of the frightened gentry were weak, the back pushed the front, the front pushed Gu Li, and more than a dozen gentry entered the county governor's mansion. And the commander was waiting for them in the lobby of the county governor's mansion.

Seeing the commander, the gentry didn't dare to breathe, and they all wanted to hide behind and let others touch their heads, but at this time, the commander had already turned his head, and the lady next to the commander also smiled and nodded at them, this smile made them feel that their hearts were infiltrating.

"Who is Gu Yuanwai?"

The commander spoke quite politely, at least not as impulsive as Huo Yuan, much like Lian Husheng was good at talking. On the surface, the gentry also understood that people can't look good, how can it be easy to be the leader of the cottage?

"Old man...... The villain is. ”

Originally, Gu Li wanted to say politely, but he really didn't dare not to whisper in front of this group of perverted leaders, he knew that Commander Huo had lost a few brothers before and caused the commander's dissatisfaction, and he didn't want to see this commander angry with the gentry and people of Mao County. (To be continued......)