"There are 100,000 thieves? Impossible. ”

"How can this be fought? I have only followed Lord Futai to eat a full meal for a few months, so I have to repay my life, why is my life so miserable. ”

"Don't mess around! Our army is well-armed, and there are camps and walled cities to rely on, and the armies of the imperial court will come to the aid soon! If there is any nonsense that shakes the hearts of the military, it will be dealt with by military law! ”

"Rogue, this is a bluff! Where did the 100,000 come from! You have forgotten that the imperial court also falsely reported five or six times every time, and the 80,000 people in the battle of Salhu dared to claim 470,000, and the most on the other side was 20,000! All in line! Bow and crossbow firearms are ready to fire! ”

As the main force of the thief army showed off its might, in the Ming army camp at the mouth of the Lishui River, the recruits began to be timid, some whispered, and some did not dare to sob, and their morale was suddenly discharged.

Zuo Zixiong and Zhang Mingzhen both knew that the situation was critical, and they were desperately trying to suppress military discipline at the moment, and when they saw the soldiers in the unorganized ranks, they beat them with whips. They all know that they must not panic at this time, and they must use thunder means.

In the end, the number of thieves is too frightening, so many come at once. Among the 5,000 Ming troops, a considerable number of ordinary soldiers felt that it was impossible to carry it.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers had a camp wall that could block it, and the temporary commotion of the ranks did not cause retreat or collapse.

All this is in the eyes of Shen Shuren, and it also makes him pale, it has been almost two years since he crossed, he has always been Zhizhu in his hands, and he has never encountered this kind of powerlessness of "in the face of absolute power, no matter how you conspire and trick it".

Licking his dry lips, Shen Shuren could only see the moves, watching Zhang Mingzhen go back and forth to boost morale, and when Zhang Mingzhen passed in front of him, he grabbed the other party and added a sentence:

"Zhang Dusi, it's useless for you to just say that the thieves are bluffing, you have to tell the soldiers that we still have reinforcements. Elder Yang Ge, Governor Fang, will send reinforcements in a few days. We have a camp, and Xiaogan County can be defended, no matter how few troops there are, slowly retreat and insist on the ten-day and eight-day assembly, right? We have the advantage of geography and armament!

The mountains on both sides of the river are difficult to walk, and we can cross to the east bank of the river and retreat north back to the county seat, at least we will not be cut off from the back road back to the county seat. Remember, be sure to emphasize to the soldiers that we have a way out and reinforcements! ”

Zhang Mingzhen got the order, and he was a little relieved, these cattle are not something he can blow, if they are blown up, they can't be fulfilled in the future, and when the time comes, the morale will only be more desperate and collapse. Only when Lord Daotai is willing to open this mouth and take this responsibility, can he boost morale in this way.

"Understood! Leave it to me, my lord! Zhang Mingzhen agreed with indignation, quickly stabilized the morale of the army, and organized the scolding team to scold back.

He Jin and He Yilong's ancestors of the eighteenth generation and all their relatives were greeted, and said that sooner or later they would inevitably be killed by heaven, and this time they came to death to fulfill them.

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"The dog said that he is shameless, there is a road in the heavenly palace, you don't go, there is no way to break into the underworld, look for death!"

He Jin, who was on the other side, scolded and persuaded him to surrender for a while, and saw that he and his eldest brother He Yilong had secretly assembled the troops, and suddenly appeared in a mighty manner, but did not scare the officials and soldiers, but also provoked the officials and soldiers to scold and become more and more fierce, and all of them were returned.

He couldn't hold back his anger for a while, and immediately ordered the main force to tentatively launch an attack on the camp, and asked He Yilong's troops to also respond.

He Yilong also knew that Shen Shuren was very fat, otherwise he would not have worked hard to cross Tongbai Pass and march from the Henan side of Dabie Mountain to help in the battle on the Hubei side. At that moment, he also promised that after a while, on this plain at the mouth of the Lishui River, twenty or thirty thousand people began to fight.

"Defend the camp! The thief army is only 20,000, and the reinforcements from Elder Yang Ge and Governor Fang will come in a few days! When the time comes, everyone will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! Fifty taels of bereavement for brothers who died in battle! Kill a thief plus ten taels! ”

Zuo Zixiong and Zhang Mingzhen, one on the left and one on the right, were respectively responsible for the defense of the camp walls on both sides of the camp gate, and their hoarse voices boosted morale, so that 1,200 musketeers were divided into three rows to fire volleys, and one or two thousand crossbowmen responded, and pikemen were everywhere ready to plug the leaks.

The walls were not too high, a few feet high with a fence of wooden stakes buried in the rammed earth, which could be broken through without heavy siege weapons.

The thief army came from afar today, and they were unprepared, but they just carried some freshly cut down trees and rushed up directly.

"Fire!" The officers and soldiers gave orders to three or four hundred firearms, and when the enemy was still more than 100 steps away from the wall, they opened fire.

Hundreds of shotguns in paper shells flew out, forming a shower of lead, which immediately provoked a burst of screams on the other side.

He Jin and He Yilong, who were a mile or two away on the opposite side, were soon quite surprised. Although they couldn't see the specific number of casualties, the veteran generals who had led the troops for many years could hear a thing or two just by listening to the scale of the screams.

"Shen Dog Officer's firearms are so sharp? It seems that those routs who fled from Liu Xiyao's men are true. I have been fighting with Yang Sichang for many years before, why haven't I seen the official army's firearms so accurate? ”

He Jin was surprised, and hurriedly rode to He Yilong's side and urgently discussed this issue with him. He Jin himself is not an officer or soldier, but He Yilong is a genuine Ming army officer who went to the sea to be a thief, and his understanding of firearms is more profound.

However, before Erga could find a countermeasure, on the front of the battlefield, with waves of muskets being fired in turns, the thieves had already been fired at least 3,000 times before they rushed to the wall, and the front army suffered heavy casualties.

A very small number of brave men finally rushed to the side of the wall, and used the big wood they carried to hit the wooden fence with all their might, but even if they broke a gap, they rushed up the dirt slope with their waist knives to fight for their lives with the officers and musketeers.

It is conceivable that the situation in which "the officers and firearms had to draw their swords to block" did not appear -- at the location of their breach, the officers and musketeers had already loaded their bayonets in advance, and three or five people together held a long weapon with a musket and bayonet with a total length of nearly seven feet, and stabbed towards the breach, and at once the thieves who rushed to the mouth were pierced into hedgehogs, and blood gushed like a spring.

With the splash of blood, groups of thieves were killed and wounded, the ranks of thieves wavered and retreated, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was finally boosted.

Whether everyone believes that there are only more than 20,000 people on the opposite side, at least under such strict defense, the enemy who is several times more hasty cannot attack in a hurry!

"Get on the bayonet! Kill! ”

"The pikes are on board! Fill the gap! ”

After killing the red eye, the officers and soldiers couldn't care about being afraid, and the weak swung their swords at the weaker, and the more they waved, the stronger they became.

He Jin and He Yilong saw that they were a little reckless, and hurriedly Mingjin withdrew their troops, and let Shen Shuren go for the time being.

"Zuo Zixiong, lead the cavalry team to rush out! Cover up for a while! Don't chase too far! The Shen Shuren in the camp were also always concerned about the situation outside the camp, and when they saw an opportunity, they immediately asked Zuo Zixiong to seize the opportunity to boost morale.

There are too few cavalry of the Shenshu people, and the pursuit and cover may not be able to kill and injure many people, but the morale boosting effect is very strong.

Zuo Zixiong did not know the lake, and soon picked up his sword and got on his horse, and led five hundred horsemen to bite the tail of the retreating enemy and kick and slash wildly, and the sound of killing shook the sky for a while.

Hundreds of slower-running thieves and wounded soldiers were easily caught up by Zuo Zixiong, slashing left and right to harvest frantically, and after a while, they were bleeding and drifting.

But he was also very measured, he just slashed and killed some wounded soldiers who fled slowly, and he didn't dare to rush at all for Erhe's main army array, and he soon accepted it when he saw it.

Under the First World War, even with the mending of the head when cleaning the battlefield, he easily annihilated more than 1,000 thieves.

"Victory! Win! Win! ”

"Master Bingbei's clever plan! The Fifth Battalion of the Left Revolution will inevitably be destroyed! ”

"Zuo Dusi is invincible! Brothers, kill the enemy and serve the country together! ”

With Zuo Zixiong's return to the camp, the morale of the whole army was completely boosted, and no one dared to resist just because the number of enemies was at least five times that of our army.

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After returning to the camp in the evening, He Jin and He Yilong began to drink and review the game, and He Jin took the lead in reviewing with a sad sigh, like a gambler who lost a bet.

"Today's defeat is still a light enemy, and I am not ready to attack the camp! Alas, I just want to gamble on the demoralization of the officers and soldiers, and we will flee when we see that we are outnumbered. I didn't expect that Shen Shuren, a literati, was quite strict in governing the army! ”

He Yilong's face on the side was not very good-looking: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and it is not wrong to gamble on the opportunity to break the enemy by deterrence, and it is not a big deal to lose more than 1,000 people."

The people who are leading the battle today are not the elite old camp brothers, these strong men want to catch as many as they want, and they can fight after a few months of training. However, the key point is that the morale of the officers and troops has been boosted again by the small defeat in this battle, and it is no longer possible for us to rely on the strength of the people to scare down the officers and troops. ”

The side that looks powerful when there are many people, when you don't shoot, the other party is still a martial arts master, and when you make a move, you are found to be a certain country, and the silver-like pewter gun head, then no one is afraid.

One punch didn't open, and it provoked a hundred punches.

He Jin impulsively did something wrong, so he had to endure the complaints, he sincerely admitted his mistake, and then asked: "Big brother, you haven't said anything in the afternoon, how can this official's firearms be so sharp?" You used to be an official in the army, have you ever seen such a powerful firecracker?

Or is it so sharp that it has been replaced with a red fire gun that is only available in the south? When I heard about Liu Xiyao's experience, I always didn't believe it, but now I don't dare to underestimate the enemy. ”

He Yilong obviously concentrated on reviewing this problem after he came back, the fire of firearms on the battlefield was so frequent and intensive, there were always soldiers who could barely escape back with minor injuries after being shot. He Yilong had already asked the military medicine craftsman to show it just now.

Especially after a few soldiers who ran back and died of excessive blood loss, He Yilong did not have a psychological disorder, and directly asked the doctor to cut open the wound of the deceased, and roughly dug out the lead bullet to see the killing effect.

Therefore, at this moment, he said confidently: "I have already shown the medical worker, the fire gun of the Shen Shuren is particularly accurate, probably because they all use lead bullets of the same size, and one shot can fire many pieces." Only in this way can an average of two or three shots kill and wound a soldier of our army.

When I served in the Gansu military army, I also used firearms, and we rarely used such fragmented projectiles back then, and even if we did, we just grabbed a handful of iron sand, broken nails, and lead balls, and made do with them. The officers and soldiers will not specialize in making this kind of finely rounded small lead bullets-

The elite of the Jiannu Tartars now have iron cotton armor, and such a small projectile can't hurt the heavily armored soldiers at all. It was the officer who led the charge today, and I have seen it since I came back, and many of the commanders and sentinels who wore iron cotton armor had more than one lead bullet embedded in their armor, but they were all right, at most they were bruised as if they had been smashed by a small hammer.

This Shenshu man is vicious, since ancient times, the officials and soldiers have made weapons, all of which are based on the most effective way to deal with Jiannu, and he uses this kind of fragmentation bullet to deal with us! This guy really knows himself and his opponent, and knows that we are much poorer than Jiannu, and we lack iron cotton armor! ”

When He Jin heard this, he also bitterly said: "That is the plan for today, how to fight?" ”

He Yilong thought for a while: "Build siege equipment first, slowly spread our army's camp forward, and surround the Shenshu people from as many directions as possible!"

Also, the cannons we have in Anlu County will also be transported over quickly. Although it is not much, it is more than enough to blast a few openings in the camp wall so that the soldiers can rush in from several directions!

We still have so many rear troops that have not arrived, even if we prepare for a few more days, it will only be our advantage getting bigger and bigger! I heard that the reinforcements of the official army are unlikely to come, and there seems to be an accident outside the Guan, I heard that last month, Huang Taiji besieged Jinzhou Zu Dashou, and this is going to transfer reinforcements from Yang Sichang to Hong Chengchou!

Shen Shuren's little twists and turns, can't turn over the waves, and we are the ones who win in the end! ”