After learning about Huang Zhong's predicament, Ye Tianlong quickly organized a supply team to transport supplies to Huang Zhong and them, and at the same time, he also convened the civil and military ministers in Beijing and held a meeting, mainly to introduce the situation of the Bai Mulin case to these ministers in detail, so as to reassure them and tell them that as long as they don't commit adultery, they will be fine.

To be honest, Ye Tianlong felt that the money he gave to these civil and military ministers was already very high, no worse than that of the Song Dynasty, but some officials took so much money, but they were still not satisfied, and they had to find ways to make money.

In the second half of the meeting, Ye Tianlong discussed with everyone the huge official gap that appeared after this big case, and who should be allowed to fill it.

This can be said to be a re-division of the cake, this kind of good thing, no matter which faction of the officials behaved very actively, they all wanted to win a few more official positions for their faction, even those eighth-rank and ninth-rank officials The competition for positions was fierce.

Because in the Qinglong Empire, the boundary between officials and officials has been completely broken, even if they start from small officials, as long as they perform well, they can also be promoted to serious officials, and officials are more generous than officials, that is, they are more treated.

And at the same time that the court of the Qinglong Empire was arguing over those vacant official positions, on a road near Constantinople, five four-wheeled carriages were slowly advancing, because the weather was hot, and the militiamen who were responsible for driving the carriages were also sweating profusely, and the ones used to pull the carriages were not pack horses, but mules, because of this hot weather, many pack horses were reluctant to move, and only this docile mule could still be used, in order to pull these carriages full of various materials, There were as many as four mules pulling the cart in front.

"Damn! It's so hot, I can't stand it anymore, I have to take off my armor and cool off! In the scorching sun, a soldier complained as he took off his cloth armor, and as the armor was removed, a sultry water vapor was immediately released from it, making the soldier feel much more comfortable. Then the soldier took off his shirt again, bare his upper body, and let the sweat on his body evaporate from the heat, giving him a cool feeling.

"Zhou Gong, put on your armor and be careful of the enemy's sneak attack! And there's a woman here! How ugly you are naked! The chief of a carriage behind him spoke to him. The woman in his mouth is a female soldier in their team, named Jiang Jundi, who is the first group of Song people to migrate to Ye Tianlong's territory in the Nord Kingdom with Zhang Shun and them

In the face of Shi Chang's persuasion, the soldier fanned himself with the palm of his hand, and replied with a hippie smile: "Boss, you are too cautious, this big rear, the comrades in front of you have already cleared this place several times, where will there be an enemy to sneak attack us!" ”

However, as if to slap him in the face, just when Zhou Gong's words fell, dozens of arrows suddenly shot out in the woods on the left side of the road, Zhou Gong was very easy to bully because he was not wearing armor, so at least seven or eight arrows were towards him, although Zhou Gong tried hard to dodge, but his left arm was still hit by an arrow, and he cried wolf in pain. Another militiaman beside him pushed him out of the carriage with all his might, and he jumped off with it, hiding on the right side of the carriage, leaning on the carriage to block the rain of arrows fired by the enemy.

These carriages of the Blue Dragon Empire are also made of steel plates, so ordinary arrows can't penetrate at all, and can only hit and splash a little spark on them.

The other soldiers also took refuge on the right side of the carriage as they began to reload their flintlock rifles. Everyone can say that this attack is very unexpected, after all, what they escorted is not a precious material, just a few carts of watermelons, said to be watermelons, but in fact, the watermelons in this period are not as big and sweet as they were later, and even the flesh still has a slight bitter taste, the only thing that remains unchanged is that the water content is also very high, and it is often used as a special fruit to replenish water, so it is more appropriate to call watermelons in this period. Because the escort is these watermelons that are not very valuable, and they are still in the area that has been cleared by the front troops several times, so most of the soldiers are actually the same as Zhou Gong, thinking that this will only be a very ordinary, very calm escort mission, and there will be no accidents, but on the contrary, this is really an accident.

When the density of the enemy's arrows began to decline rapidly, Ouyang Chao quickly poked his head out to check the situation, and found that many enemies had rushed out of the woods, looking at some infantry, as for those archers, they were all hiding in the woods behind, Ouyang Chao was also difficult to see the location of these guys for a while, and in desperation, he could only raise his hand and shoot at the fastest enemy rifle, and then did not see if he had hit, but quickly retracted back to the back of the carriage, Reload the flintlock rifle.

While loading ammunition, Ouyang Chao was also quickly explaining the current situation to his soldiers, according to his observation just now, the enemy's infantry alone had seventy or eighty people, and judging from the density of the arrow rain just now, the enemy's archers should also have forty or fifty people, with a total strength of more than one hundred people, which was ten times more than their ten-person squad. Fortunately, the enemy seems to be equipped with cold weapons, and there are not a few people with armor on their bodies, so they should not be the enemy's elite troops, otherwise this battle will really be impossible to fight.

When Ouyang Chao was briefing his subordinates, more than a dozen arrows and javelins whizzed over the carriage, making everyone dare not poke their heads out to counterattack and observe the enemy's situation.

"And how many grenades?" Ouyang Chao felt that this was not the way to go, the enemy infantry was getting closer and closer, once they were allowed to rush in front of them to start a white-knuckle battle, their own firearms advantage would no longer be able to be brought into play, so Ouyang Chao wanted to throw out the grenade and rely on the smoke and dust from the explosion to disturb the sight of the enemy archers, so that they had a chance to fire back.

"Three left!" After some inspection, the female soldier named Jiang Jundi replied to Ouyang Chao, the chief of the country.

Hearing that there were only three grenades left, Ouyang Chao covered his head and sighed helplessly, because it was too difficult to transport the rear ammunition to the front line, so now all units are basically in a state of lack of ammunition, and their militia unit is no exception, in terms of bullets, because the flintlock rifle rate of fire is very slow, so each of them still has more than 20 rounds, but the grenade is used quickly, so now there are three left in the entire team. I'm afraid this battle won't be enough.

After taking a grenade, Ouyang Chao asked a soldier next to him to help him carry a steel shield to block the arrow, and then he stood up and poked his head out from the back of the carriage to throw the grenade in the direction where the enemy infantry was most numerous.

Those enemies had already seen all kinds of firearms of the Blue Dragon Empire, and when they saw the grenade flying, they were frightened and dodged, but as the grenade exploded violently, two enemy infantry were still injured.

And as the explosion sounded, Ouyang Chao and the others also got up one after another, picked up their rifles and shot at those enemy infantry.

At this time, a large amount of dust and gravel was blown up by the grenade, and the vision of the enemy archers was greatly affected, and in order to avoid accidental injury, these archers did not dare to continue to release arrows for a while.

And Ouyang Chao and them, the flintlock rifles were loaded with scattered bullets, so even if they were affected by the gunsmoke, they could not accurately judge the enemy's position, but after a volley of shots at the approximate position, there were still several screams in the gunsmoke, and at least five or six enemy soldiers were injured.

After firing a shot, Ouyang Chao and the others quickly retracted the carriage and began to continue to reload the flintlock rifle in their hands.

And those enemies, after being bombed once, also learned to be smart, and learned to disperse and advance without a teacher. And those enemy archers had also walked out of the woods, followed behind the infantry, and under the cover of the infantry, they quickly approached Ouyang Chao and them.

After Ouyang Chao quietly observed this, he knew that this time two grenades had to be used together to effectively suppress the enemy.

So he and Jiang Jundi calculated the time, and after counting to three at the same time, they threw the grenade out.

With two loud explosions, Ouyang Chao and his soldiers poked their heads out from behind the carriage again and shot at the enemy, what made Ouyang Chao feel depressed was that this time because the enemy troops were scattered, so the two grenades actually only injured one enemy each.

Fortunately, in the ensuing musket volley, everyone had experience, and this salvo knocked out seven enemy soldiers at once, and two of them seemed to have been killed on the spot.

But after retracting back to the back of the carriage, Ouyang Chao and they were worried, because the grenades had run out, if they continued to poke their heads out to fire, the enemy archers would definitely shoot arrows at them if they were not frightened by the grenades, at this time the other party had approached less than fifty meters away from them, such a short distance, the enemy with better archery skills could completely shoot them in the face, this is also one of the few places on their bodies that is not protected by armor, after all, they are actually musketeers, If you wear another Iron Mask, it will affect your vision, which is very unfriendly to them as ranged troops.

Just when Ouyang Chao was annoyed because he ran out of grenades, Jiang Jundi on the side suddenly grabbed two small watermelons from the carriage, and then held these two small watermelons and suggested to Ouyang Chao, the chief: "Use this to trick them once!" ”

When Ouyang Chao heard this, he immediately understood the thoughts of this right-hand man, these two small watermelons were about the same size as a grenade, and the skin of the melon was also dark green, looking black, and when they were thrown out suddenly, the enemy panicked, it was really possible to use them as grenades.

However, this trick can only be used once, so after Ouyang Chao loaded the flintlock rifle in his hand with ammunition, he also asked his soldiers to load the bayonets, preparing to jump out and start a white-knuckle battle with the enemy after watching this last shot.

Zhou Gong, who had already bandaged the wound on his left arm, although he could not pick up a rifle to shoot because of an arm injury, he also pulled out a spare melee weapon from his waist at this time, a steel knife, and was ready to rush out with his comrades to fight the enemy at that time.

After everything was ready, the nine soldiers, led by Ouyang Chao, threw a small watermelon out almost at the same time.

When the enemy soldiers saw that so many grenades had been thrown this time, they were all stupid, some of them fled in a panic, and some of them lay down on the spot, wanting to gamble their luck that the grenade would not fall near them.

And while the enemy army was in a panic, Ouyang Chao and the others had already picked up their rifles and fired another volley at the enemy.

At this time, the enemy army had already approached a lot of distance, and they were only more than twenty meters away from the carriage, so this time the shooting achieved great results, especially those archers who were specifically targeted and shot by Ouyang Chao, and eight people fell at once.

After firing this shot, Ouyang Chao roared and took the lead in jumping over the carriage, and rushed towards the enemy with the rifle with the bayonet.

After an enemy soldier finally dodged the countless scattered bullets that had just been fired, and before he had time to catch his breath, Ouyang Chao rushed in front of him, and with a hard push of the rifle in his hand, the sharp bayonet was sent into his chest, because the enemy was not wearing armor, so Ouyang Chao felt that there was almost no resistance, and the bayonet was already more than twenty centimeters deep into the opponent's chest.

After stirring the bayonet vigorously and enlarging the wound on the opponent's chest a lot, Ouyang Chao pulled out his rifle, and then shook it hard, and the butt of the rifle smashed right on the chin of an enemy infantryman who pounced on him from the side, smashing it to the point that he vomited blood and fell on his back.

Zhou Gong also held a steel knife in one arm at this time, and when he saw a spearman about to sneak attack from the right side of his own chief, the steel knife in his hand immediately slashed hard, and the spear shaft was cut off with a single sword, and then he took advantage of the situation to give the enemy spearman a disembowelment.

Other soldiers also quickly killed, they relied on the armor protection in addition to the front door, they were very fierce to kill, and it was a fierce stab when they stepped forward, fast and fierce, few enemy soldiers could block it, Jiang Jundi, a female soldier, was even more powerful than those male soldiers, and a bayonet went down to stab an enemy soldier in the chest.