Chapter 104: Fierce Battle
It's just that it's a little late for them to rush out at this time, and there are already twenty or thirty boats coming over one after another from the coalition forces here, and there are also seventy or eighty people who have finished going ashore. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the other hand, on the side of the Green Snake Village, there were only 100 people in the village, and after hearing the news of the attack of the coalition army, dozens of people secretly escaped, and there were only 70 or 80 people in the entire village at this time, and only the most capable of fighting were 20 or 30 people rushing over at this time.
There are 30 people in Shuangpu Village alone. At this time, the musketeers loaded their bayonets, and the others also took their own knives and guns, etc., and greeted them.
The most important morale of this battle, if it was suppressed by the Green Snake Village at the beginning, everyone in the coalition army might still be a little hesitant at this time, but seeing that they had firmly suppressed the enemy with only one village of people, and they were still recharging towards the enemy, the people who had just landed were all enthusiastic for a while, and they all rushed over with a roar.
Li Yingyuan rushed to the front of the crowd, still holding the village demon sword in his hand, and when he saw a bandit from the Green Snake Village attacking with a gun, he swung his sword at the barrel of the gun.
He practiced boxing very diligently during this time, and his strength increased a lot, although he had never practiced swordsmanship, he could only use a good sword as a big knife, but he reacted quickly with great strength, and he cut off the barrel of the gun at once, and pulled out a deep wound on the opponent's body.
Li Yingyuan's strength has increased a lot after cultivating his internal strength, which is higher than that of many adult strong men, and at this time, he took the village demon sword for a while, and actually cut off all the guns or swords handed to him, but for a while it was extremely majestic.
He has internal strength support, and his endurance is also first-class, and he does not save physical strength at this time, so he specializes in slashing at the enemy's weapons, and he simply relies on the sharpness of his sword to cut off seven or eight weapons.
"Hehe, junior brother, leave a few for senior brother, don't think about wrapping up yourself. There was a person's laughter next to him, but Wang Jiuyang didn't know when he came up from behind.
Wang Jiuyang's martial arts are far superior to Li Yingyuan, and he also held the sword in his hand, and with a slight stab, several water bandits fell down holding their wrists and feet, and they were all picked by Wang Jiuyang on the key points of their hands and feet.
The young beggar Hong Yuantong also came up with the swordsman Lin Jiujian that day, and the martial arts cultivation and experience of these two people were much stronger than Li Yingyuan's, and they threw themselves into the crowd like a tiger entering a flock, and several people were immediately knocked to the ground.
Those who rushed over saw that it was not good, and immediately turned around and ran back, rushed back to the village and put down the gate of the village, unwilling to open it again.
That Hong Yuantong himself said that he was a person from Liaodong in the north, and he had learned martial arts in a local martial arts sect, and he never thought that Houjin would rebel, and his sect helped the government to crusade against Houjin, but was almost wiped out by Houjin.
This Hong Yuantong escaped the death crisis, but there was no place to stay, so he had to follow the refugees to Guannei, and at first he also went to Qingzhou, Shandong and other places to join the army, but he encountered several wars and was displaced.
I saw Zhujiazhuang recruiting heroes and heroes before, so I went to defect, during the dispute with the daughter of the owner of Zhuzhuang Li Yingyuan also saw, but afterwards Zhu Chao Fengzhu Zhuang owner felt that the other party was strong in martial arts, and the master of internal strength was also a rare talent among ordinary people, and a helpless master like Hong Yuantong was the easiest to return to, so he was accepted as a subordinate, which was very important.
In this attack on the Green Snake Village, Hong Yuantong seemed to be one of the generals under Zhu Chaofeng, and he intended to show his face in front of everyone and contributed a lot.
No matter how he said it, he was also a famous and decent disciple of martial arts since elementary school, and he was far above Li Yingyuan in terms of real kung fu, but he fought well.
There were still some long-range weapons in the Green Snake Village, and there were a lot of people, so they didn't continue to chase here, but retreated back and cheered behind the defense line built by the people of Shuangpu Village.
Li Yingyuan's heart was beating hard, and he barely calmed down and observed his own losses.
Fortunately, there are many people on the coalition side, and there are many masters who have shot, only three or four were slightly injured, which is much better than the other side, Li Yingyuan conservatively estimated that at least more than ten people were killed just now.
"We have so many warriors, why worry about the immortality of the Green Snake Village. Zhu Chaofeng came over with a large number of people at this time, stroking his beard and approving.
"These bandits are too bad with weapons. Li Yingyuan sighed secretly, sighing at the quality of the bandits' weapons.
In addition to the large number of people here, there are two other reasons that the physical strength of the bandits is too weak and the weapons are too poor.
These bandits said that they were bandits, but they did not look strong, they were all malnourished, they had vegetables, and they seemed to be very short of food, and they were not at all the people had the impression of eating meat and weighing gold.
But this is also the real situation of most bandits at this time, how can there be so much money for you to rob after falling grass as bandits, usually hiding from the government, but also avoiding the stronger Zhuangzi village, only those who have the ability to attack the city and pull out the big bandits, but then they will not run to this remote place to extort a few small villages.
It is worth mentioning that the weapons of these bandits are also very bad, many of them are long weapons with wooden handles, which can be cut as long as the swords are slightly sharper; occasionally a few swords, which are also very bad iron and brittle kinds, can be sharpened like clay if you look at them with a little bit of good weapons.
Li Yingyuan had read it from books before, a few decades ago, the Japanese were rampant, and many of the weapons of the Ming army were cut off by the Japanese invaders, forcing General Qi Jiguang and Qi to use bamboo as weapons, so that even if they were cut off, they could still stab people with a sharp head.
The coalition forces had the upper hand, morale was high, and the villagers were gearing up one by one.
Zhu Chaofeng stepped forward at the right time and scolded the people of the Green Snake Village, saying that the other party oppressed the good people, ignored the morality of the rivers and lakes, burned, killed and looted, and asked them to open the door and surrender immediately, otherwise they would not be spared for a while.
Hearing Zhu Chaofeng's speech, he was full of anger and shouted with majesty, and the men of the coalition army cheered.
Li Yingyuan couldn't help but shake his head, if the opposite side was the British army, just send a rifle over, and the owner of the village would be reimbursed.
The English army usually used flintlock pistols, which had a range of less than 100 meters, but were also armed with a small number of rifles.
This rifle is engraved with rifling in the barrel, and although it is a little troublesome to operate, its range and accuracy are far superior to that of the flintlock pistol, and it can even hit targets at a distance of 200 meters.
The English were also very insidious, usually stuffing a team of dozens of flintlock muskets with one or two rifles to kill important targets, and those who didn't pay attention suffered a lot.
"This battle is over, and it is estimated that we will withdraw after eating in a while. Wang Jiuyang didn't know when he came to Li Yingyuan and said.
"This is the end of the fight, isn't it, don't you occupy the whole Green Snake Village?" Li Yingyuan was a little confused.
"What are you doing to occupy the Green Snake Village, this is also a village, if you really want to enter it, you will have to kill and injure at least dozens of people, so even if you win, it is meaningless.
It's better to take advantage of the victory now, let the Green Snake Village promise not to harass the surrounding villages again, and then go home steadily. Wang Jiuyang was very familiar with this kind of war between villages, and shook his head and said.
"But, then what are we doing here, five or six hundred people come to camp dryly? Why don't we take advantage of this time to uproot the entire Green Snake Village, and they will continue to do harm when they grow stronger in the future?"
"It's all fought to this extent, it is impossible for anyone to join the Green Snake Village in the future, this Green Snake Village is not settled. Besides, these people came to solve the problem of Qingsnake Village harassing the surrounding villages, and since the problem is solved, they will not use the knife again.
They are villagers, not officials and soldiers, and they will not chase after people.
Besides, there is a saying that poor people don't chase. If the Green Snake Village is chased and beaten too hard now, they desperately resist in desperation, and the coalition forces have unnecessary casualties, it will be more than worth the loss. ”
Li Yingyuan was stunned for a moment, but he understood that Wang Jiuyang was reasonable, but this was simply treating the war as child's play.
Don't these people understand that this seems to solve the problem at hand, but in the long run it only makes the problem more complex and troublesome?
"Wang Daochang is right, this battle has reached this level, I'm afraid it will end. Tao An sighed and said beside him.