More than 10,000 officers and men were evacuated with baggage, and a few old antique mortars were definitely abandoned, but the two Franco cannons had the time to carry them away.

It's light and detachable, and five or six people can march with a cannon.

Hearing the charge in the anti-thief camp, Li Maofang immediately ordered: "Give up the baggage, go to the hill in front of you to line up, and pour money and grain along the way." Remember, scatter more copper coins and broken silver! ”

Although the officers and generals were reluctant, the battlefield had reached a critical moment, so they had to scatter the stolen silver.

Seeing that the other party actually ran to the hill to line up, Zhao Han also stopped the charge, blew the horn of gathering troops to line up, and slowly advanced towards the enemy on the hillside.

At the top of the slope, Li Ruolian was shocked and inexplicable: "These thieves don't even want any silver!" ”

Li Maofang was also frightened, he originally wanted to throw out the silver coins, destroy the formation and military spirit of the anti-thieves, and then rely on the advantage of troops to kill him.

This trick is very good against anti-thieves, and Li Maofang has succeeded several times before.

didn't think about it, the soldiers under Zhao Han's command lined up in a neat military formation, stepping through the area full of silver coins, and no one bent down to pick it up!

Everyone has selfish intentions, and so do Zhao Han's soldiers.

But all seizures must be returned to the public, as the missionaries have repeatedly emphasized. If it's in private, maybe there are soldiers who hide and don't pay it, but who can't see the money picked up on the battlefield? The money he picked up was not his own, but he had to be dealt with by military law, and soldiers in their right minds knew what to choose.

Although a few mortars were lost, at this moment, the situation was more favorable for officers and men to fight.

Before Zhao Han held the camp, the officers and soldiers had to slowly fill in the trenches, and then attack the anti-thief village, and there were trenches in the camp, and the archers shot arrows enough for the officers and soldiers to drink a pot.

Now it is the officers and soldiers who occupy the high ground, and Zhao Han leads the troops to attack the hills!

Although Li Maofang is greedy, she also knows how to fight. After he arranged his troops, he suddenly raised his sword and shouted: "Pass my military order, kill a thief, and reward five taels of silver." Kill the anti-thief officer, and reward ten taels of silver. Kill the anti-thief general, and reward 100 taels of silver. Who can capture Zhao Yan and Zhao Yaonian, the two thieves, and reward a thousand taels of silver! ”

In Li Maofang's hands, the silver has endless uses.

You can scatter it out and harass the army of the thieves. You can make bounties to boost your morale. can feed his boss and colleagues, let everyone help him speak, and he is not afraid of lawsuits in front of the emperor.

Li Maofang is very smart, he is not a fool who is greedy for money and swallows it alone.

In his view, if silver cannot be used, it is no different from stone.

As soon as the bounty was issued, the morale of the officers and men was greatly boosted. In addition, they had more soldiers, more than three times that of Zhao Han, and for a while, they actually diluted the negative emotions of their own sailors being repulsed.

"Assemble the Franc cannon quickly! The archer stepped forward and shot the thief! Li Maofang shouted.

There were only about 500 archers, who were originally deployed on warships, but were now brought in by land to shoot the rebels.

The thousand archers on Zhao Han's side also dispersed into a sparse formation and stepped forward.

Huang Shun and Li Zheng, each with 500 soldiers, circled around the opponent's flanks, waiting for the opportunity to attack.

"Woohoo!"

The archers on both sides shot at each other, with one side occupying the high position and the other being more numerous.

Fei Yinghui is now the captain of the 100-man archers, and the bows and arrows used in this commodity are all different, and they are the standard one-stone bows for the martial arts.

An arrow was shot and accurately hit an officer, and Fei Yinghui was looking for the officer's attack.

Xiong Yao used the Seven Bucket Bow and fired a volley with the soldiers. He aimed at the enemy's head, but shot an arrow into the target's calf.

"Mr. Zheng, you go and attack the archers of the thieves!" Li Maofang shouted.

The general Zheng, with five hundred soldiers, took advantage of the interval between the bow's winding, and rushed down hard.

The flag waved, and Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang each led 500 people to come forward to respond.

The archers on both sides retreated, and 1,500 melee soldiers were strangled together, and Zhao Han's Chinese army was only more than 1,000 people left, with 500 people on each flank circling out.

"The first six outposts, let's kill the thieves!"

Li Maofang saw the opportunity to attack immediately, he felt that he had the advantage of troops, and he could kill the thieves by relying on the crowd.

Li Ruolian also shouted: "Surround and kill the thieves!" ”

The two had the same idea, thinking that Zhao Han was too mentally retarded, and his troops were insufficient, so they actually divided their troops to go around the two wings.

Zhao Han's Chinese army will soon be surrounded by officers and soldiers several times his own.

Zhao Han smiled and said to Fei Ruhe: "I will be left and you will be right, and we will form a formation together as bait." ”

"No problem." Fei Ruhe said.

After the 1,000 archers withdrew, they fired at the main force of the officers and troops who were rushing forward.

A round of bows and arrows went down, killing and wounding only dozens of officers and soldiers, but directly causing a thousand-man sentry of officers and soldiers to collapse.

"Escapees, slash!"

Li Ruolian personally led the law enforcement team and stood behind to slash and kill the fleeing soldiers.

More than a dozen people were hacked to death one after another, and these rout soldiers screamed, and then turned around and rushed towards the anti-thieves.

Huang Shun and Li Zheng on both sides immediately charged after receiving the military order, and Li Maofang hurriedly divided four outposts to engage in battle. This is tantamount to saying that Huang Shun and Li Zheng, each of whom led 500 men to flank, had to face four times as many officers and soldiers as themselves.

Zhao Han carefully observed the enemy's situation and said to Zhang Tieniu: "The sentry of the king's flag of the officers and soldiers, rushing out a few steps will be chaotic, and you will kill through the enemy's Chinese army." ”

"Slave army, kill with me!"

Zhang Tieniu rushed out with hundreds of slave soldiers and two axes.

Zhao Han and Fei Ruhe, with the rest of the soldiers, each formed a formation and rushed into the frontal battlefield to aid Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang. They were only two people in total, and they were almost half-surrounded by officers and soldiers, forming a circle to resist more than 6,000 officers and soldiers.

There were no reserves left, and Zhao Han himself personally went into battle.

Don't look at the lively fighting, in fact, the battle is not fierce.

The wolf soldiers were in front, holding a bamboo with a bamboo, and an iron branch was tied to the bamboo branches. Just stabbed with a wolf whip, making it difficult for the enemy to approach three meters away, and the few who could rush in were blocked by the rattan player with a shield, and the spearman behind took the opportunity to poke out.

It's like facing a turtle, you can't find where to put your mouth.

More than 6,000 officers and soldiers besieged and killed 2,000 thieves. In half an hour of fighting, only three of the thieves died, but dozens of officers and soldiers were stabbed to death.

The main reason is that those rabble officers and soldiers cowered in the face of wolves, and did not dare to sacrifice their lives to rush in. Most of the officers and soldiers were sleepwalking on the battlefield, completely unaware of what they should do.

Fei Yinghui and a thousand other archers retreated to the back and kept shooting arrows, hanging and shooting straight into the pile of officers and soldiers, shooting so that people in the rear of the officers and soldiers continued to flee.

Li Maofang waved the command flag and sent a reserve team, trying to bypass and attack the archers. But I saw Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu, with Zhao Han's personal soldiers and slave soldiers, all the way through the "Wang" flag, and the general surnamed Wang was so frightened that he turned around and fled.

Zhang Tieniu's left arm was cut and his right leg was grazed by a spear, but this thing rushed forward bravely and knocked down the boss with an axe.

This general is a thousand households recruited by Li Ruolian, who have never fought a war, and his command is full of weak military households who have put down their hoes. They even fell crookedly in formation, where could they withstand Zhang Tieniu's fatal impact?

However, Zhang Tieniu is very weird, no matter how big or small, he will inevitably be injured in many places, and it is surprising that he is not injured this time.

Looking at Liu Zhu next to him, he also rushed to the front, and his clothes were not even torn.

"Kill!"

Seeing Zhang Tieniu rushing towards the Chinese army, Li Maofang urgently transferred the reserves sent to kill the archers to fill the gap in the battlefield. In addition, there is another whistle, wanting to surround Zhang Tieniu to death.

The two sides were completely mixed together, and the archers could not shoot at all.

"Kill me!"

Fei Yinghui threw down her bow and arrows, drew her sword, and began melee combat with the hundred-man team.

The nearly 2,000 soldiers centered on Zhao Han have been completely surrounded by more than 6,000 officers and soldiers.

However, there is a clear boundary in the middle, that is, the area of the wolf whire, which is more than three meters long, and the vast majority of officers and soldiers are blocked from the wolf whizz and dare not rush.

This formed three concentric circles on the battlefield, and the circles inside were the 2,000 righteous troops led by Zhao Han and Fei Ruhe. In the middle is a ring, made of a wolf and a spear. In the outermost ring are more than 6,000 officers and soldiers sleepwalking.

More than 6,000 officers and soldiers have besieged and killed until now, and the casualties of the rebels are still in single digits.

Fei Yinghui rushed with a team of 100 people, and these archers fought with daggers after abandoning their bows. But the impact of the inside and the outside directly caused thousands of officers and soldiers to collapse.

Except for a small number of reserves, Li Maofang and Li Ruolian have completely lost control over the official army.

They constantly gave way to trumpeters and flag commanders, and conveyed the military orders to divide their forces to attack the anti-thief archers. But the 6,000 officers and soldiers in front of them only knew how to stupidly besiege the enemy's Chinese army, and if they couldn't get in, they were stunned outside, and only one or two of the ten officers and soldiers could really meet the enemy.

"A rabble, a rabble!"

Li Maofang was so angry that he stomped his feet, but if he was given another year and trained thousands of real elite soldiers, he would not be able to fight like this.

Seeing that Fei Yinghui's surprise attack worked, the other archers also threw away their bows and arrows, pulled out their daggers and ran to fight.

On the left flank, Li Zheng led 500 soldiers and suddenly defeated four times his own number of officers and soldiers. Moreover, these officers and soldiers collapsed without warning, and Li Maofang did not have time to send reserves to rescue.

Just because most of the 2,000 officers and soldiers were recruited by the Linjiang prefect, and a small number of them were young and strong people selected from the people, they could bully the peasants with combat effectiveness.

They first besieged Li Zheng's 500 soldiers with absolute superiority, but after fighting for a long time to no avail, they were stabbed to death by Li Zheng. After nearly 100 casualties, the two thousand miscellaneous fish instantly dispersed, and they were afraid of being served by the military judge, so they did not dare to flee back to the direction of the commander, and dispersed directly towards the side of the Ganjiang River.

Li Zheng immediately led his troops to rush to the enemy commander, and Zhang Tieniu also killed the anti-thieves who rushed over, less than a thousand people, and went straight to the anti-thief Chinese army with superior troops.

Seeing this, Li Maofang rode on his horse and ran, how could he still take care of his own army?

Li Ruolian was stunned, and the sixty-nine-year-old Jiangxi general soldier also hurriedly rode his horse away.

Although the war horses of the officers and soldiers are scarce, the two commanders must have horses.

As soon as they fled, the large array of officers and soldiers of the Chinese army immediately collapsed, because the reserves were constantly sent, and the Chinese army had no officers and soldiers left.

"Kill!"

Zhang Tieniu had been injured in five places at this time, and he chased after the slave army.

Li Zheng did not continue to pursue, but led his troops back and went to meet Huang Shun on the right flank. Huang Shun is facing hard bones, and he is still fighting there.

As for Zhao Han and Fei Ruhe, who were besieged, they didn't need Li Zheng to save them at all.

6,000 officers and soldiers could not attack, and they were attacked from behind by 1,000 archers, which was equivalent to being surrounded by counter-surrounding. Before Li Maofang and Li Ruolian escaped, these 6,000 officers and soldiers began to disperse, and at this time, the whole line collapsed.

The whole battle, if you count from the archers firing each other, lasted about twenty-five minutes.

The next step is to pursue the enemy and receive prisoners.

According to post-war statistics, Zhao Han killed 41 people, seriously injured 18 people, and slightly injured more than 100 people.

Moreover, the most casualties were not the Chinese army that was surrounded and killed by 6,000 officers and soldiers, nor the casualties of the archers, but the Nuer army led by Zhang Tieniu in the charge.

This thing completely gave up defense, that is, it kept moving forward, so that the reserves sent by Li Maofang did not dare to come forward to fight.

As for the officers and soldiers, including the people, a total of more than 16,000 people went to the battlefield. However, less than 700 officers and men were shot dead and killed head-on.

Very outrageous data, a total of more than 20,000 people on both sides fought, and the real battle and death, the total was less than 1,000, and then the winner was quickly divided.

It is not even clear whether the two main generals, Li Maofang and Li Ruolian, fled first, or the main force of officers and soldiers on the frontal battlefield collapsed first.

On the contrary, in the course of the pursuit, hundreds of officers and men were stabbed to death, and thousands of people were drowned by jumping into the river, and the casualties were more than twice that of the head-on battle.

Zhao Han and Fei Ruhe did not have the opportunity to exert force, and they were directing the defensive battle throughout the whole process.

After a long time, Zhang Tieniu came back with a war horse, still carrying a head in his hand. The thing was covered in blood, and said with a smile: "If he cut a thousand generals, he is unlucky, and he broke his leg while riding a horse." ”

Zhao Han said speechlessly: "How many injuries did you have this time?" ”

"I don't know," Zhang Tieniu was still happy, "Brother, don't worry, I'm not stupid, can I still hurt people?" ”

Zhao Han looked at the captives who were escorted back one after another, there were thousands of people, and he had already made a decision in his heart.

These captives selected some of the soldiers who did not do much evil, and threw the rest to mine, and the newly occupied iron mines were in dire need of miners.

Jiangxi Governor Li Maofang and Jiangxi General Li Ruolian were only accompanied by two or three personal soldiers. Because there are too many rivers in Jiangxi, I can't run on horseback, so I often run and walk for a while, and I have to go around the river in circles.

After a journey of more than 200 miles, the two rode horses for nearly ten days, and finally returned to the other side of the river in Nanchang City.

When I crossed the river and asked, I learned that Wang Siren's sailor was defeated!