Chapter 367

Wang Yong promised in a deep voice, and rushed out of the city tower quickly, and more than 100 black-helmeted guards guarding the left side of the city tower stood solemnly.

Wang Yong stretched out his hand and slowly pulled out the swarthy firearm from his waist, and shouted: "Clean up the city wall and bombard the thieves." ”

Everyone shouted in unison, took out the fire gun on their waists and followed Wang Yong to the city wall like a whirlwind, the fire gun spewed firelight, emitted pungent smoke, and the deafening sound filled the ear drums, and the most elite of the more than 100 Song Nan personal guards equipped with the 'Mrs. Song' double-barreled shotgun fire gun were like a black whirlwind sweeping all the way along the city wall from north to west.

The power of the firebolt is no longer overstated, and many thieves have not yet figured out what is going on, and they have been beaten into a sieve by the stormy sky full of iron sand, and their faces and bodies are speckled and unbearable; The power of this short-range area kill is too terrifying, and the reload of the modified firearm shotgun has been adjusted to increase the reload of the gun chamber within the range of the chamber capacity, in order to increase its area killing power.

Within a distance of thirty steps, the iron sand can penetrate the thin iron armor, not to mention that most of these unarmored thieves, the iron sand hits the body, like a piece of tofu, directly into the body, through into a small hole sprayed with blood.

After a moment of silence, an earth-shattering scream erupted from above and below the city, most of the brocade-clothed guards had never seen anything in the hands of the guards, and when they saw it at this moment, they could only stare and open their mouths. And the rebellious thieves have never seen this kind of terrifying firearm that can kill and injure a large area, if the killing caused by the dense arrow rain of the Jinyi Weiti cavalry when they charged just now is the most terrifying scene they have ever seen, now these more than 100 Jinyi Wei's black-helmeted Ti cavalry are simply devils sent from hell, as long as they raise their hands, several people will fall down with blood holes.

Several breaches at the head of the city were quickly cleared, and the black helmets guards' targets were aimed at the thieves who were climbing under the city, and there was almost no need to aim at close range, with the area of killing, the dense thieves under the city could be killed piece by piece with their eyes closed; In the face of the thunderous blow, the thieves fell like leeks, and the sound of cries and trumpets shook the sky.

In this case, how can the already cowardly thief still attack, even if there is a big knife behind the battle, the horror of the big knife is far less than the bombardment of unknown firearms.

Liu Qi and Zhao Qi looked at this qi in amazement, they finally understood that they had kicked the hard bones, the Jinyi Guards in this city were not ordinary Jinyi Guard captains, the well-armored, and equipped with powerful firearms were by no means something that their own rabble could face.

Song Nan slowly pulled out the firearm in his hand, pulled the trigger with his finger, and aimed at the dozen or so rebellious thieves who were carrying a giant log to hit the city gate under the city tower, the thieves looked up and saw Song Nan's black muzzle, their faces were frightened and stood still, and their eyes were full of pleading when they looked at Song Nan.

Song Nan's hand on the trigger trembled slightly, Song Nan never turned his head to look at the killing up and down the city wall, he has been reluctant to use the fire gun to resist the enemy, because he knows that with the fire gun, there will inevitably be a large area of casualties, and most of these rebels are just coerced people, speaking of innocent people, Song Nan is unwilling to kill, even if no one can blame such a killing.

"Get out!" Song Nan shouted coldly: "If you participate in the thieves again, you will not get a second chance to live." ”

When more than a dozen thieves under the city heard this, they immediately dropped the logs and turned around and fled, and a volunteer officer who was supervising the battle behind him waved his sword and shouted: "Don't escape, hit the city gate!" ”

Everyone ignored it, and the officer swung his knife and slashed at a person who passed by, and the steel knife was embedded in the man's shoulder blade and could not be pulled out for a while, and the remaining dozen or so people swarmed up one after another, and when they scattered, the officer had become a piece of flesh and blood.

Song Nan sighed slightly and inserted the fire gun into the leather sheath on his waist, and turned his head to look in the direction of the city wall, between which the thieves under the city were retreating like a tide, and the shotguns on the city head spewed out streams of yellow smoke at the head of the wall, like a deadly flower, with the thieves who fell down one by one during the rout.

"Stop shooting." Song Nan shouted loudly.

Wang Yong hurriedly ordered to stop shooting, and everyone surrounded Song Nan to inspect the city wall in the north and west of the city, counting the losses of the enemy and me in this battle, their own losses were very small, and it was easy to count, and the Jinyi Weiti cavalry had zero deaths and wounded more than 20 people; More than 80 of the soldiers in the county town and the 500 strong men who came to defend the city were killed and more than 100 wounded.

Compared with the loss of the thieves, the loss of Xin'an County is nothing, although there is no detailed count, there are thousands of casualties and thieves under the city, many people were shot by arrows but did not die, lying in a pool of blood wailing, and the creepy cry floated in the empty wilderness outside the city after the thieves retreated.

Hou Dabiao looked at the billowing smoke and dust stirred up by the panicked retreating thieves and said, "Lord Song, at this time, if we send cavalry to chase and kill, we will definitely be able to take a big advantage." ”

Song Nan thought for a while and shook his head and said: "Maybe I can take advantage of it, but if the thieves have no way to escape, they will jump off the wall in a hurry, I don't want my brothers to die at the hands of these thieves, and I feel sorry for ten for one." ”

Hou Dabiao nodded and said, "That's right, the thieves are going to return to Rongcheng County." ”

Song Nan said: "Send scout cavalry to reconnoiter the large and small roads near the south of Xin'an County to prevent the thieves from bypassing Xin'an County and go south, and send a small team of cavalry to follow the thieves and explore their movements." The rest of the people cleaned up the battlefield, replenished and rested, figured out the movements of the thieves, and then we went to find them. Though they were defeated, they numbered four or five thousand, and we could neither engage them in the wilderness nor take the cities they garrisoned, and I did not want to take my elite to fight these bands of thieves. ”

Wan Zhidao: "What my lord said is that our goal has been achieved, the thieves can't go south, so they can only choose to retreat to the northwest, it is impossible for the thieves to guard Rongcheng, they will definitely run to the northwest, the soldiers and horses of the Bauhinia Guard and Maoshan Guard must have received orders, and they should be able to block it head-on." ”

Song Nan nodded slowly and said, "That's the case, I hope the order of the imperial court to send troops has been issued." ”

……

Three days ago, in the Qianqing Palace in the capital, Sun Xuan hurriedly entered the palace and submitted the first letter sent by Song Nan back to the capital to Zhengde, which was the first report sent by Song Nan in the new town.

Zhengde only glanced at the letter a few times before standing up from behind the case, his eyes wide.

Liu Jin on the side hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, what happened?" ”

Zhengde threw the letter on the case, and scolded angrily: "What a Liu Daxia, he actually dared to deceive me, Bazhou Wei commanded Chen Wei to suffer two defeats in a row, Xu Shangyi of thousands of households in Xinzhen was killed by the enemy, Chen Wei himself was also defeated by the anti-thief, Bazhou Wei lost more than 2,300 soldiers and horses, and this Liu Daxia has been arrogantly saying that he will exterminate the anti-thief in a few days, this is a bully!" ”

Liu Jin was startled, and hurriedly took Song Nan's letter and read it carefully, after reading it, he couldn't help but sweat, Song Nan's letter not only said about the defeat of Bazhou Wei, but also said that the thief soldiers had grown to seven or eight thousand people, and it was difficult to contain just one Bazhou Wei.

"Don't be angry, the emperor should quickly convene important ministers to discuss, let the thieves develop, and the consequences will be unimaginable; Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, deceived the monarch, and Chen Wei, the Bazhou Wei, lied about the military situation, and the emperor needed to punish him immediately to correct the atmosphere; The slave almost believed Liu Daxia's nonsense, but she didn't know what Liu Daxia's intentions were and why she wanted to deceive the court. ”

Liu Jin's words added fuel to the fire, and Zhengde was even more annoyed and cursed repeatedly.

Liu Jin was secretly happy in his heart, and he had long wanted to get the military department into control, but unfortunately he never had a chance; Liu Daxia's foundation is too deep, and the cabinet is desperate to protect the military department, although he has repeatedly entered Liu Daxia's slander in front of Zhengde, but it is all trivial things that are not enough to shake Liu Daxia, this time Liu Daxia himself is confused, this is an excellent opportunity.

At nightfall, Zhengde immediately summoned important ministers to discuss the matter, and the four scholars of the cabinet, Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department, Zhang Mao, the governor of Beijing, and Xu Guangzuo, the governor of the five armies, were all summoned to the Qianqing Palace for discussion.

As soon as they entered the imperial study, everyone obviously felt that the atmosphere was wrong, Zhengde Tie blushed and did not speak, and ordered someone to circulate the letter sent by Song Nan to everyone, and suddenly the sound of gasping in the imperial study continued, Liu Daxia knew the truth for the first time, and the previous judgment reported by Chen Wei was like a cloud, and he was already shocked that his lips were blue and his face was white and he was at a loss.

"Liu Shangshu, didn't you swear that Ulzhou Wei Chen Wei was about to quell the rebellion, so that the emperor and the people of the court don't have to worry too much? Why did Song Nan write a letter saying that Chen Wei had been defeated repeatedly, Bazhou Wei had lost nearly 2,000 soldiers and horses, and there were already seven or eight thousand thieves? Jiao Fang took the lead in firing unceremoniously.

Liu Daxia hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Zhengde and said: "The minister is guilty, Chen Wei has reported false news, this guy is the most evil, the minister will not spare him, please forgive the emperor." ”

Zhengde said with a blue face: "Chen Wei deserves to die, as the secretary of the military department, are you not at fault?" ”

Liu Daxia hurriedly said: "The ministers are not strict and can't distinguish clearly, so that if such a thing happens, the ministers must deal with Chen Wei severely, and they are willing to accept the dereliction of duty." ”

Liu Jin said coldly: "Lord Liu, this matter is not a dereliction of duty that can be shirked, because of the failure of your military department, the thief soldiers spread and become uncontrollable, this is not an ordinary sin." ”

Liu Daxia hurriedly said: "What Father-in-law Liu said is that I will definitely give you an explanation; This matter arose due to the negligence of the Ministry of War, and it should also be resolved by our Ministry of War, and the minister implored the emperor to give the minister a chance to make amends. ”

Zhengde said coldly: "How do you make up for it?" ”

Liu Daxia said: "Please personally lead the army to suppress the thieves, if you can't exterminate the thieves, the minister will die on the battlefield and wash away the mistakes of the minister." ”

Zhengde was thoughtful, Liu Daxia personally led the troops to suppress the bandits, and he would definitely be able to quickly exterminate the anti-thieves, but it was also a way to atone for his crimes.

But listening to Liu Jin beside him, he sneered: "Lord Liu has a good idea, this is to make up for it, the emperor can't believe you anymore, you can connive at a small riot to become a big disaster, and the emperor will let you lead the army again, won't even the Ming Dynasty be gone." ”