The next day, at dawn, there was a large group of brutes on the other side of the river.

But instead of attacking immediately, they stopped on the other side of the river, screaming and provoking the Ming army while waiting for the follow-up troops.

They danced by the river, and even went down to the river to wade across the river, trying to spoil the mentality of the Ming army.

As a result, the sharpshooters of the Ming army eliminated several clowns who jumped off the beam one after another, so they did not dare to approach the river bank easily, and honestly waited in a safe place.

As the sun rose and the fog lifted, the brutes on the other side numbered in the tens of thousands. The mountains and fields are full of all kinds of brute soldiers.

They wore either blue cloth over their heads, or their hair and feet, some wearing large earrings, some wearing nose rings, and some with large painted faces, apparently from many different tribes.

A group of leader-like men quarreled for a long time by the river, and the brutes finally attacked.

Leading the way were the brutes with their hair and feet, and they rushed up to the stone bridge with a roar of six or seven feet long.

Halfway through the rush, the Ming army set up a horse rejection on the bridge deck, blocking their way.

The barbarians wanted to use the three-pronged boring to push the rejection horse away, but the lower end of the rejection horse was pressed by the Ming army with big stones, how could they push it away for a while?

The Ming army would not give them a chance to clean up calmly, and the archers and musketeers arranged on the bridge deck and on both sides of the bridge kept aiming and shooting, shooting down the barbarians who rushed to the vicinity of the rejected horses.

It wasn't until another group of brutes armed with wooden shields came to their aid and shielded them from the hail of bullets that the brutes, who were barefoot, were able to push the big rocks into the water one by one, and finally pushed the horses into the water.

Almost an hour had passed.

But this rejection of the horse was just an appetizer, and there was a deer firewood behind it, and behind the deer firewood, there were Ming troops with eight-foot spears waiting for them.

The two sides pierced each other with spears and trident boring across the deer firewood.

But the spearmen of the Ming army themselves were not there to kill the enemy, their task was to protect the deer firewood with spears, and under their obstruction, the barbarians were grabbed as soon as they moved, and there was no way to clean up the deer firewood.

And the barbarians did not go to the point of risking their lives to clear the bridge deck, so the two sides stabbed each other for a long time with a piece of deer firewood, watching you come and go very lively, but the casualties on both sides were very limited, and the total number of people was not killed.

On the bridge deck, the follow-up troops of the barbarians were densely stationed, and the people in front could not open the passage, so they could only wait in the rear.

The purpose of the Ming army was to hold for three days, not to destroy the enemy, and it was natural to see this situation.

The toast leader on the opposite side was in a hurry. Seeing that it was almost noon, and you poke me as if you were still playing there, Yang Tho, the leader of the Heiyi, said to the leaders anxiously: "This can't be done, the Ming army obviously wants to delay time, and we are grinding and falling into their hands." ”

"Hmm." All the leaders nodded one after another, and they made it clear when they formed an alliance that the goal of this uprising was to capture Kunming City and make the entire Tusi leaders of Yunnan rebel together.

Now the Ming army has to send troops out of the city to block them when the troops are empty, obviously to buy time for the rush to transport autumn grain.

Of course, they couldn't let the Ming army succeed, and without the autumn grain, the Ming army couldn't stay in Kunming, even in Yunnan.

But if the Ming army rushed the autumn grain into the city, and there was enough food, it would be difficult for them to capture Kunming again.

So they decisively withdrew their troops first.

When the barbarians re-attacked in the afternoon, the Ming army saw that they had changed their tactics-

Some sturdy brute soldiers, carrying a few thick logs, under the cover of shields, launched a charge against Luchai!

The Ming army hurriedly blocked it with bows and arrows and firearms, but these barbarians actually wore armor, although it was only rattan armor and leather armor, but the protection was greatly improved. They finally withstood the firepower of the Ming army and rushed to Luchai!

When the thick log slammed into it, the makeshift wooden fence collapsed and shattered.

The barbarians who carried logs also died under the spears of the Ming army......

But their sacrifice was worth it, and the barbarians who followed behind were holding swords, guns, and sticks, and excitedly swarmed towards the Ming army.

The soldiers of the Ming army did not panic at all, but retreated a few feet back and regrouped. Shieldmen held back the enemy in front, spearmen killed in the rear, and archers and musketeers remained on both sides of the bridge, providing constant fire support.

The two sides fought fiercely on the seven-foot-wide bridge deck. The barbarian soldiers rushed and beat violently, the Ming soldiers did not give an inch, both sides were red-eyed, brandishing their blades and frantically greeting each other, and there were soldiers dying in battle all the time......

But the old problem still exists, the scope of the fight between the two sides is limited to the front line of hand-to-hand combat, and the brute soldiers in the back are still watching the excitement......

This kind of local fierce fighting was naturally beneficial to the Ming army, and the numerical superiority of the barbarians was still impossible to play. As a result, until dark, they did not break through the bridgehead guarded by the Ming army, and had to retreat again.

The soldiers of the Ming army also breathed a sigh of relief, and rested directly on the spot, ate some dry food, and recovered their strength.

Yu Min was also exhausted. Although the narrow bridge did not hold many troops, he had been watching the battle from behind today, and he had not been fishing for battle at all, but he had not been idle for a moment, and had been wielding a hoe and digging a trench.

At the end of the day, he and his comrades dug a ditch about two miles long, and dug waist-deep water out of the ditch.

The soldiers were dirty and tired, and they all became mud monkeys, and when the officers shouted to rest, they were all paralyzed by the edge of the trench, and they did not even have the strength to lift their arms.

"Is this the end of the day?" But everyone was quite happy, and they all said: "What's so difficult about keeping it like this for three days?" ”

"I can keep it for ten days!" Some soldiers bragged.

"You can dig ten days of ditches, right?" All the soldiers laughed, and the overall atmosphere was still very optimistic.

Qi Xiang was not optimistic, he knew that today was just the enemy's head that had not turned for a while. Seeing that they were guarding the bridge, they only thought about capturing the bridge, but as a result, the advantage of troops could not be brought into play, and a day was wasted.

But they will surely realize that there is more to crossing the river than just a road from the bridge. Once they turn the corner, the real test comes.

Then he saw that the brutes began to cut down bamboo from the nearby mountains and drag them to the shore, and he knew that they had finally thought of building a raft to cross the river.

"When they're almost pierced, I'll lead people to rush over and destroy them all!" Lu Qianhu said coldly.

"It's useless, you can't destroy it as quickly as others." Qi Xiang shook his head and said, "It's better to save your strength and strengthen the fortifications." ”

"Ugh." Lu Qianhu answered. After a while, the soldiers who had just eaten a mouthful of dry food and rested began to jingle again.

(End of chapter)