So why is there no one in the big market town?

Could it be a fraud?

Wang Datou shouldn't want to attack with fire, right?

Geste is also familiar with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and when he saw the situation in Fu Liji, he immediately thought of burning Xinye, so he immediately ordered: "Each battalion (staff leader) should carefully restrain the team and beware of the fire attack of the rebels!" ”

His "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" really hasn't been read in vain, and a fire suddenly broke out near the east and west gates of Fu Liji not long after this order was issued!

The fire came very quickly, and at a glance, you could tell that it was a flammable thing that had been prepared for a long time!

Geste hurriedly ordered: "Order the first and right battalions to draw two soldiers from each of the left and right to extinguish the fire!" The rest of the battalions on the left and the right were scattered to control the entire Fu Liji, carefully ambush, and carefully search for the things that started the fire!

Order all battalions not to panic, not to make noise, to strictly guard the queue, and wait for orders! ”

In fact, Geste and his Eight Banners soldiers were not too panicked, they were different from Cao Bing who was set on fire and barbecued by Zhuge Liang in Xinye, Cao Bing had never read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he had never heard of it.

And the Qing Heavenly Soldiers are all familiar with or familiar with listening (those who are illiterate can only listen to the commentary on the Three Kingdoms) "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang's tricks will all of them, isn't it just to set fire to the house? How could it be burned to the Eight Banners?

In fact, the Eight Banners soldiers who entered the set earlier than Gostai saw that there was no one in the Fuli Collection, and they had already thought that someone was going to set it on fire, so without waiting for Geste to give an order, those clever Eight Banner Heavenly Soldiers began to search along the north-south street in the Fuli Collection, from the north gate to the south gate, and the houses along the street were broken into the door and searched. See if there's anything in there? For example, silk, cloth, silver, copper coins, wine and meat, chickens and ducks, and so on, must be confiscated as soon as possible, so as not to cause a fire.

Perhaps these Eight Banners soldiers who searched for flammable and explosive materials along the street frightened the ambushed "arsonists" away (ran away through the secret passage), so the north gate and south gate of Fuliji, and the two sides of the street between the north and south gates were not on fire.

After the order to restrain the troops was issued, the Eight Banners who rushed into the Fuli Collection quickly restored order, and the unhurried Eight Banners were divided into groups, one by one, from the south gate to the north gate.

The vanguard of Geste's department had already left the south gate and rushed to the north bank of the Suishui South River four or five miles away from Fuliji, which was divided into northern, middle and southern rivers on the Fuliji side, of which Fuliji was located between the middle and south rivers. Compared with the shallow water depth and narrow river surface, it is easy to find the north channel of the shallow ford, and the middle and south channels of Fuliji are much wider and deeper, which is the main waterway of the Huai River in Suzhou.

Once the pontoon bridges on the central and southern rivers of Suishui are controlled by Gestet's subordinates, then his passage south to Suzhou will be completely opened!

And according to reliable information, Suzhou is the fundamental place of Wang Datou in Huaibei! Military rations, equipment, gunpowder, and family members were all placed in the city of Suzhou. Once Suzhou was broken by the Qing army, Wang Datou's foundation in Huaibei would collapse, not to mention collapse, and it would also be a big injury!

But the current situation doesn't seem to be quite right, there is obviously an ambush in the Fu Li set! Do you want to continue to fight south?

Guste hesitated!

This set of talismans clearly has a fire attack game in it, but this fire attack game doesn't seem to be used to deal with strong enemies. Unless Wang Datou is really a nerd who can only read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". But that's obviously impossible! Although Wang Datou is not very old, he has followed his father Wang Fuchen to play toast in Yunnan since he was a child, and later followed King An to fight with Wu Sangui in Sichuan, and then fought the Portuguese and Shangjia in Guangdong.

How can you believe that a few fires can burn a big town and destroy tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the Qing Dynasty?

When he was really a little confused, the first battalion of forwards, who had already rushed to the south gate of Fuliji, had already sent a cavalry to report the latest military situation.

"Yudutong, the north bank of Suishui South Road has been cleaned up, and no rebels have been found ambushing!"

"Yudu Tong, the head of the rebel thief king led more than 1,000 cavalry to block the south of the pontoon bridge on Suishui South Road!"

"Yudutong, there is a lot of smoke and dust behind the south bank of Suishui South Road, and it seems that a large group of people and horses are approaching."

What's the situation?

Ambush so far back? Still is. Bravado?

Thinking of this, Geste pulled the reins, rode forward, and led his own soldier Goshha to gallop out of Fuliji, and arrived at the north bank of Suishui South Road outside Fuliji, found a high place to stand on the war horse, and then raised the clairvoyant mirror to look south.

As soon as I looked at it, I saw that Wang Datou, who was on a red horse and spear, was leading a team of armored horsemen on the south bank of a pontoon bridge, and behind them, there were more than 1,000 horsemen who had already launched a phalanx. A camp flag with the word "mountain" on a red background is waving in the wind.

And farther away, the sky was filled with smoke and dust, as if an army was approaching. How is it a bit like the famous scene of "Zhang Fei angrily drank Changbanpo and scared off the millions of soldiers of the Cao family"?

"Dutong, Wang Datou must be bluffing, right?"

One of the leaders who followed Gustai also saw that something was wrong.

"Dutong, the last general will lead the troops to rush and see if they can grab this pontoon bridge. Wang Datou does so many tricks, Suzhou must be very empty, if we can grab the pontoon, then we can enter Suzhou tonight! ”

"Don't take the enemy lightly!"

Geste, who had already ventured all the way from Xuzhou for more than a hundred miles, suddenly became cautious at this time, he thought for a moment, and ordered: "Order the first battalion and the second battalion to firmly guard the north pontoon bridge in the north of Fuli Jicheng!"

Order the left battalion and the right battalion to extinguish the fire in Fuliji City as soon as possible and control Fuliji City!

Order the rest of the battalions to form a queue along the banks of Suishui South Road! The sequence is from left to right, in order.

As orders were issued one after another, the more than 10,000 Manchurian iron cavalry led by Geste quickly deployed with Fuliji as the center, and also quickly extinguished the fire that had just burned in Fuliji City and was not too violent.

At the same time, in the upper reaches of Fuliji, in the area of Xuxikou, a large town on the shore of Suishui Road, countless soldiers are gathering here!

On the Suishui Wharf outside the town of Xuxikou, a fleet of three or four hundred boats has been concentrated. These boats have been reinforced, the boats are filled with crossbow machines, side signs, set up muskets, and selected boatmen who often travel to and from the Huai River, Suishui, and Huhe River. Preparing to transport the Huai army, taking advantage of the rainy and rising water in summer, they went down the river and inserted directly into the north of Fuliji, cutting off the retreat of the Qing army that broke into Fuliji.

Zhou Chang and Luo Dawei were leading their own soldiers along the Suishui River embankment, inspecting the fleet full of Huai soldiers and various water and land battle equipment.

The fire that had just been extinguished by the Qing army was a signal for them to board the ship and march into the army!

And whether the Huaixi soldiers gathered here in Xuxikou can achieve a counterattack in life and regain the glory of their ancestors, it depends on the battle in front of them, and if this battle is fought well, they will have a share of the new Ming Dynasty in the future, and they are the "original soldiers" of the new Ming Dynasty - the soldiers who hold the "original shares" of the new Ming Dynasty!

After the new Daming is officially "listed", they will send it!

If this battle is not fought well, everything will be like a dream, which will be regretted for a few lifetimes!

The difference between fighting well and not fighting well, the leaders of those "group army" (a certain group training army) have made it clear to the children below that what kind of life they can live in the second half of their lives and future generations depends on this battle!

Whether it is glory and wealth, or life is better than death, it depends on whether they are willing to risk their lives to fight!

Of course, they got the desperate "first period", white flowers, heavy silver. It's been played, and there will be it in the future!

And when these Huaixi regiments bravely left the "market town" of Anjia and embarked on the journey, the parents, wives and children of the family had the most ardent expectations for them. If they win the battle, the family's hard life will come to an end!

Thinking of the benefits after winning the war, these Huaixi heroes are like being beaten one by one!

When he saw Zhou Chang and Luo Dawei passing by on the shore, they let out the loudest shout: "Drive out the Tartars and restore the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Well, this Ming has a stake in their Huaixi people. It must be restored!

Feeling the high morale of these Huaixi soldiers in front of him, Zhou Chang was very satisfied, turned his head and said to Luo Dawei: "There is a brother, Huaixi male is a pillar of the Ming Dynasty, and this battle is all thanks to the Huai soldiers!" ”

Luo Dawei nodded heavily: "The military advisor can rest assured. Huai people do not fall, Ming will not die! Daming treats my Huaixi children very well, today's Huaixi children should repay the country with death, and I Huaixi have a good man, in order to restore the Ming Dynasty, all are not afraid of death! ”

In fact, the Huaishang men didn't show much when the last time the Ming Dynasty was finished, but when they lost the country that the Huaixi predecessors fought down, they knew. Without Daming, they are even more bitter!

And when another new Ming was placed in front of them, and they were also allowed to "take shares", the wealth effect of the last wave of Huaixi heroes suddenly made their blood boil.

Zhou Chang nodded with satisfaction: "There is a brother Cheng, it's almost. It's time for us to go! ”

"Good!" Luo Dawei immediately opened his throat and shouted loudly: "Send troops. Kill the Tartars! ”

"Troops! Kill the Tartars"

"Kill the Tartars and make a meritorious deed!"

"Kill the enemy and make a meritorious service!"

The carnival-like shout suddenly erupted on the river near the mouth of Xu Xi!

"Work hard, hurry up and kill the Tartars, and be a hero!"

"Hurry up, don't let the Tartars run!"

"Hurry up, hurry up tonight, you must rush to Suishui!"

"The whole army is lightly armed, except for armor, weapons, and dry food, nothing else is important for meritorious service!"

"Meritorious! Make contributions! Meritorious service."

Similar cheers also resounded one after another on the road between the south bank of Suishui and Suzhou.

Tens of thousands of Huaixi warriors who were only wearing cloth clothes and wearing red scarves on their heads were also rushing to the battlefield with the greatest enthusiasm!

The smoke and dust they saw was actually made by them - Wang Datou was not bluffing at all, he was not false at all!

Although he didn't bring much army this time, he did bring a full million taels of silver to the north. That's a million taels of sincerity!

A regiment will give three taels for training, and a long will give ten taels, that's really giving!

After giving it, draw a pie and send an "option"!

Even if the Ming Dynasty "couldn't get on the market" in the end, the silver they got from the Huaixi regiment was twice as much as that of the green battalion soldiers on the opposite side.

Moreover, the purchasing power of silver in the countryside of Huaixi is very strong, and three taels of silver a month is enough for a family to eat and drink. If the young man of any family has this income, the matchmaker who proposes marriage can break the threshold.

As for regaining the glory of our ancestors after meritorious service, it is also real!

Although Zhu Yuanzhang slaughtered a lot of Huaixi nobles back then, it was the top level fighting for power and profit, which had little impact on the middle and lower ranks of Huaixi small heroes. For the middle and lower classes, it is really fragrant to have a commander, a thousand households, a hundred households, or something, and to pass on their children and grandchildren. Compared with these declining Huaixi children now, it is simply heavenly.

So after they got the money, they really believed, and this is not the first time, there is no reason not to believe!

This is an army that has faith and knows who to fight for!

Although the equipment of this army is really not good, except for the "old regimental training" who serves as the backbone, everyone else only has spears, bows and crossbows, red scarves, cloth clothes, and straw sandals, but their morale is higher than anyone else.

When rushing to the battlefield, there is no need to urge or mobilize, all of them are scattered and run fast!

Moreover, there are still a lot of them, but not only the "group army" in Huaibei, but also the newly established battalions south of the Huai River, and even the "three battalions of Wei, Yong, and Meng" in Tianchang County, which is close to Yangzhou, also followed their bosses Chang Wei, Chang Yong, and Chang Meng.

In the evening of the same day, on the north bank of Suisu South Road, a tentative battle between the two sides had begun.

Geste knew the results of Wu Yingqi blocking the bridgehead with a phalanx during the Battle of Southern Sichuan, so he did not let his men rush to the pontoon bridge, but sent horseback spearmen to dismount and shoot at the Ming army on the opposite bank to attract their attention, and at the same time sent rangers to go west along Suishui to find a shoal to wade.

Suishui is not a big river in the south, the water depth is limited, there are many places that can be crossed, as long as you find a place, Wang Datou can break the situation guarded by the river.

When the time comes, tens of thousands of Eight Banners will cross the river and kill Suzhou. Can the big head surnamed Wang still be undefeated?

When he was thinking about how to attack Suzhou, he suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, turned his head to look, and found that several horse armor soldiers were running towards him like crazy!

This. What happened again?

A wave of foreboding welled up in Gustai's heart. At this moment, the vests had already rushed to the vicinity, but were blocked by his own soldier Goshha. As soon as he rode on horseback, he announced loudly: "The rebel warships have been found in the upper reaches of the water, and there are hundreds!" ”

"What?"

Gustai was stunned for a moment.

Suishui is not the Yangtze River or the Huai River, can there still be a water army?

Where did these trolls come from? Could it be that Wang Datou arranged an ambush in advance?

The thought of ambush made him a little scared.

There are ambushes, which means that this battle is not his raid on Wang Datou at all, but Wang Datou is setting up an ambush for him. He is not a hunter at all, but a prey.

If it's prey, you should run away!

But run. I'm afraid it's not that easy, right?

The enemy will definitely pursue, and there may be an ambush on his retreat, and in addition, the pontoon bridge north of Fuliji may also be quickly broken by the enemy's warships, so that a considerable part of the army may be lost in Fuliji.

These are the best Eight Flags vests!

And if the Eight Banners vests suffer a crushing defeat in front of the Huaixi people, will all the Huaixi people take refuge in Wang Datou? And Xuzhou's Shang Kejiao and Nian Yaoling, will they defect?

As soon as these thoughts gathered in his mind, he made a decision - he couldn't run! Although he is now the prey, he is not an ordinary prey, but a very ferocious prey of the Eight Banners, and the enemy is not necessarily. No, it's impossible to take him.

Therefore, he should stick to the help, and then come to the middle to blossom, cooperate with the follow-up Mu Zhan team, and give Wang Datou a little bit of a powerful look.

Thinking of this, he shouted an order: "Withdraw the Fu Liji!" ”

"Zhongtang, this old guy has withdrawn! It seems that the withdrawal of the character is out of the set."

On the south bank of Suishui, Li Zhongshan, who was riding a horse and pretending to be Zhang Fei, suddenly heard the shouts of Wang Quan, the general of the Shanzi battalion standing on a lookout car next to him, and the heart he was carrying was finally steady.

All he wants now is to bring Gustai closer to the Fu Liji. As long as Gustai enters, then he is not far from death.

Because the Huai army that Li Zhongshan had at this time was not a strong force that could really be put on the table.

It is very difficult to put an army into a large array, without long-term training and running-in, the team will not be able to put up an array at all, and it will not be flexible if it is barely put up, and it is easy to be stunned by the opponent.

In contrast, it is much simpler to build fortifications and siege cities and fight positional warfare. It's nothing more than how many casualties there are, anyway, now Li Zhongshan has people, and he can not hesitate to lose casualties and the Qing army!

(End of chapter)