Wu Sangui hurriedly bared his teeth to interrupt Huang Chongzhen's words, looked around again, and said depressedly: "Why don't you even have a decent forest nearby?" It's like someone has cut it down. ”

Only then did the honest Zu Dale and others realize that the other side of the river was lush and green, with towering trees, but on this side of the river there were only some weeds and small shrubs, not to mention making rafts, it was extremely difficult to hide.

Seeing that the birds in the forest farther behind him were frightened, and the gold thief had chased closer and closer, did he want to swim across the river? But the strings of the fire gun and the strong crossbow can't withstand the river soaking.

As soon as they thought of this, a group of teenagers couldn't help but be so anxious that even Huang Chongzhen was at a loss, gritted his teeth and ordered to throw all the heavy fire guns into the water, and then swam to the other side.

"Look, there's a boat there." Wu Sangui, who was still peeking at the maid in the house taking a bath, suddenly saw that in the middle of the drinking road diagonally above, a flat boat turned over a river bay and was coming slowly.

The young people followed their hopes, only to see that in the misty autumn rain, the old man on the boat wore a green hoop on his head and a green coat on his shoulders.

With a huge penny, he deftly supported the flat boat, shuttling in the river, and humming a long and deep tone in his mouth, looking so chic and happy.

The teenagers were overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted, "Hey, boatman, boatman, come here." ”

Huang Chongzhen's eyesight is excellent, and he obviously saw that the old man was stunned when he heard the shout, and after following the prestige, he saw so many people, and obviously hesitated.

But after all, he still propped up the boat to the middle of the river, and responded vigilantly: "Who is coming?" What are you doing here? ”

A young man couldn't wait to shout: "Boat family, we are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Jiannu is chasing us behind, you come and drive us over." ”

The old man was furious when he heard this, and shouted angrily: "Nonsense, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have long shrunk into the Great Wall, and they have not come out to inspect for many years, I am afraid that I have long forgotten that this land is also the land of the Ming Dynasty, and there are also Han people living here." ”

Huang Chongzhen listened to the tone of this old man, and seemed to have a lot of resentment towards Da Ming and Da Ming's soldiers.

The rest of the young men didn't notice it, and when they saw that the old man didn't believe it, they anxiously explained: "Boat family, we are really the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, or the Guan Ning army of Jin after the defeat of Ningyuan." ”

The old man was even more furious when he heard this, and opened his mouth to scold: "It's nonsense, the Guan Ning army is stationed in Yuguan and Ningyuan, how can it be possible to come here?"

In my opinion, you are more like Bi Niang's post-gold thief. How? Ningyuan City and Juehua Island were deflated, and they found that Guanning Road could not be passed, so they had to break through the Liuhe Ancient Road? ”

Huang Chongzhen couldn't imagine that an old man in the mountains would have such an insight, so it can be seen that Huang Taiji's detour to Guanning is not necessarily an unexpected move.

It's just that for some reason, from the court bosses to the border guards, they would rather believe that the Guanning defense line built by Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan would exhaust the national strength of Houjin, so as to turn the tide.

However, Huang Chongzhen knows that national defense is a whole, and it depends on the overall strength and comprehensive factors, and it can never be firmly defended by one or two solid lines of defense.

So, Huang Chongzhen shouted calmly: "Boat family, we are really the Guanning Army under the command of Yuan Dashuai, the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty.

You see that these firecrackers in our hands are more advanced than the most advanced three-eyed bird guns in the Ming Dynasty. There are also these strong crossbows, and the gold thieves are good at using bows and arrows, and they do not have the production capacity of firearms, and they are not used to strong crossbows. ”

Huang Chongzhen's example was obviously very convincing, the old man stared for a while, then nodded slightly, but still had doubts, and said: "Ruo'er and the others are really Guan Ningjun, and they must know how many of them are young heroes. ”

Wu Sangui immediately shouted: "I don't know if I, Wu Sangui, can be counted as one of them?" ”

The old man was immediately moved, and blurted out: "You are the general Wu Xiao who went out of the city to pursue and returned with beheading?" ”

"It's a certain house." Wu Sangui replied loudly, and glanced at Huang Chongzhen proudly.

Huang Chongzhen smiled, then hugged his fist at the old man, and said, "My name is Huang Chongzhen, I don't know if I can be counted as one of them?" ”

"Huh?" The old man exclaimed in surprise when he heard this, his steady legs trembled slightly, his calm body shook slightly, and he even shook the boat a few times, and almost fell into the river.

"Beware! Boatman! "The teenagers are close.

The reputation of the first generation was almost ruined, but the old man didn't care at all, but was busy using a wooden penny to stabilize the boat and body, and also stabilized his mind.

Then, he took a deep breath and said: "You are the big locust on Najuehua Island, under the leadership of General Zhao Shujiao, and the 20,000 soldiers and civilians of my Ming Dynasty were born and died, killing the enemy with all their might, and killing the 5,000 Golden Cavalry, locusts really?" ”

"Exactly down there." Huang Chongzhen nodded, not caring at all about the nickname "Big Locust".

Then, he pointed to Zhou Ji and Yuan Qidao, "The young Yingjie who fought side by side, and he Zhou Ji, as well as him Yuan Qi, and the son of the golden crown general who died bravely, Jin Shilin."

General Wu Xiao was seriously injured because he was desperate to kill the enemy at the head of Ningyuan City, and he was absent with regret. ”

After Wu Sangui's smug face turned gloomy, he finally looked better because of this explanation.

Zu Dale felt helpless about this, so he shouted: "A certain is the clan brother of General Zu Dashou, Zu Dale." ”

Zhou Ji also said: "I am Zhou Ji of the artillery battalion, Ah Zhen's deputy." ”

Yuan Qi said again: "A certain is Yuan Qi, who is Yuan Shuai's own army." ”

"I'm called a big cow!"

"I'm ......"

The rest of the teenagers also quickly signed up one after another, although their names are not as loud as Huang Chongzhen and Wu Sangui, but they also have some glorious records.

"Ahh It's really Guan Ning Yingjie! It's really Guan Ning Yingjie! ”

The old man snorted softly every time he heard a name, and no longer doubted him, and when he whistled, he saw several gray and black birds flying on the boat, flying fiercely and quickly towards the way he came.

"The old man's boat is too small to carry so many people, but he has already made them go and call the villagers to come over. Come on, come on, come up a few little generals first, and let the old man take you across the river first. ”

At the same time of explaining, the old man flexibly propped the boat to the shore, and Wu Sangui took the lead in jumping up, but he did not forget to thank the old man with a fist: "There is work." ”

The old man hurriedly said: "It should be!" You're welcome! ”

As soon as the words fell, he was shocked to find that the forest behind him was full of frightened birds, and he could faintly hear the Jurchen swearing.

"Not good! It's Jiannu catching up! Zu Dale was shocked.

Huang Chongzhen hurriedly said: "Don't panic, you lead people to cross the river first, Zhou Ji Yuan Qi, Wu Laosan, Lao Si Lao and Wu Lao, and a detachment, take your arquebus, and follow me to stop the enemy." ”

Before the words fell, Huang Chongzhen couldn't help but hold the arquebus, rushed up the small high slope behind, lay down in the bushes, and silently pointed the black and secluded mouth to the narrow road, like a sniper in later generations.

Not only that, but he also used the heaviness of the land to hold the heavy arquebus steadily, increasing the accuracy.

Zhou Ji and Yuan Qi and more than a dozen people fought side by side with him several times, although they had not systematically studied his tactics and tactics, they had already heard about it, and when they saw this, they were busy learning from each other, occupying the high ground and aiming at the front.

Although their numbers were small, they formed a small arquebus forest, forming a relatively dense network of firepower at this narrow intersection.

"Bang!"

Soon, a fierce Jurchen figure appeared at the mountain intersection.

But with a muffled sound, the man who was biting his braid and running wildly was immediately blasted by a shot on his braid head, and his headless strong body ran forward two or three steps before falling heavily to the ground.

The pursuers behind immediately panicked, but they could no longer hold their feet, so they could only try to dodge against the side slope wall.

But listening to the muffled sounds sounded one after another, even if they were bombarded into a sieve by the intertwined firepower nets - Zhou Ji and others' control of thermal weapons was not as skilled as Huang Chongzhen after all, but under the interweaving of firepower, the effect was equally amazing.

- Why did Huang Chongzhen call these firearms arquebuses instead of arquebuses?

Because these firearms have not yet left the category of iron sand bullets, they are not more accurate bullets.

The Jurchen pursuers behind heard the terrible sound of firecrackers, and when they saw the tragic situation of the clansmen in front of them, they immediately gave up the breakthrough and instead relied on the hunter's intuition to throw them with archery.

"Dodge!"

Huang Chongzhen hurriedly let out a low sigh and rolled a few times to the side, and several other leakage positions also dodged one after another.

Fortunately, the range of the fire gun is much farther than that of the bow and arrow, although the Jurchens are known for their archery skills, but after all, it is shorter, but there is still an arrow, especially powerful and heavy, and there is a teenager who did not dodge in time, and was shot in the thigh.

"Ahh

He forced himself to endure it, but he still couldn't help but let out a low, short cry.

When the other teenagers heard this, they simply screamed a few times to cover up his position.

The Jurchens were really confused, thinking that the Ming army cubs in front of them had been shot, so a few people poked their heads out with bare foreheads to check, but they didn't want those cries to be deceptive.

When Zhou Ji, who had the iron sand bomb, saw it, he resolutely opened the fire fold and quickly lit the fire rope.

With a muffled sound of "bang", one of the shiny foreheads immediately turned into a blur of flesh and blood.

Yuan Qi and the other two or three teenagers also shot one after another, and the remaining Jurchens who probed their brains were either killed or retracted their heads in fright.

- Three-stage shooting, or batch shooting.

After Huang Chongzhen regained his power on Juehua Island, he was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Guanning army, and Zhou Ji and Yuan Qi cooperated with Chongzhen the most tacitly, so they didn't need to be ordered, and they could naturally do what they needed to do.

In this short gap, Huang Chongzhen and the rest of the teenagers all went through the tedious process of pouring medicine, charging, pressing fire, loading, loading door medicine, and loading fire rope in their new positions.

Then, again, he firmly set up the arquebus, but he had not yet opened the lid of the fire, and he still held it tightly with his hand, so that the arquebus would not be easily ignited due to moisture.

This process, although the action is skillful, without the slightest drag, the efficiency is also extremely high, the time is very short, and there is even a feeling of playing a sniper rifle in the field of breaking fire.

But Huang Chongzhen was still a little dissatisfied - even if it was an arquebus, it was not as easy to use as a trigger musket, and the accuracy was much worse.

However, the Jurchens were frightened by this earliest gun, and only dared to hide behind the mountain and throw arrows into the air, but because the number of people who caught up was not large, they were killed and wounded more than ten times, and they could not form a rain of arrows to cover, and because the distance was too far, it seemed that the deterrent effect was insufficient after all.

When they didn't come out, Huang Chongzhen and the others didn't shoot, they just stood silently, and the Jurchens couldn't detect their specific location, and after blindly releasing a few rounds of arrows, they stopped this waste of arrows.

There were a few Jurchens who wanted to go around to a high place to release arrows, but it was not easy to climb because of the slippery, and because the large trees were cut down, there was no cover on the mountain, and if they accidentally made a movement, they would be used as targets by Chongzhen Zhouji and other good marksmanship, and after several times, they all gave up.

As a result, the ferocious Jurchen warriors were blocked at the intersection by a group of small turtle cubs, and they were bored and anxious, yelling and screaming, but they had no choice but to send people to urge General Wuneg in the rear to quickly send a large group of men and horses over and crush them with the advantage of numbers.

The loud sound of the arquebus startled the old man holding the boat, but he still carried three or five teenagers steadily, and quickly sailed towards the opposite shore. Obviously, although he is a reckless man in the mountains, he also knows the truth of racing against time.

Wu Sangui clenched his fists tightly, very angry that he was the first to get on the ship, like a deserter who abandoned his comrades.

But fortunately, when he set foot on the land on the other side, he suddenly saw a crowd of boats in the bay, and there were more than a dozen boats coming quickly along the current.

The men who supported the boat were tall, short, fat and thin, and they were dressed like the old man, all wearing green hats and green coats, and their hands were always long.

"The green mountains are surrounded by doubts, and suddenly I see a thousand sails looming." Wu Sangui learned from Huang Chongzhen's appearance, and happily chanted a poem, which made the riverside even more wet in the autumn rain, but in exchange for a few big white eyes.

- The brothers are building a fortress with flesh and blood on the other side to buy time for us to cross the river, but you have the leisure to chant poetry here? What's that? Is!

More than a dozen small boats and old men finally carried Zu Dale and others, as well as the remaining dozen or so war horses, and quickly came to the other side of the Liuhe River.

When they survived to carry Huang Chongzhen and the others, two more Jurchen vanguard squads arrived, and they were still increasing rapidly, as if they felt that the prey was about to escape again, so they launched another round of attacks regardless of the dead and wounded.

Although they were still suppressed by the powerful arquebus, those Jurchen warriors who closed the distance also released many arrows before they died, injuring several Guanning teenagers.

"General Huang, hurry up and get on the boat."

The old man's suppressed voice came from the shore, and Huang Chongzhen immediately said: "You go first, I will cut off." ”