Zhu Jiu's large army was originally not far from the exit of the sheep intestine trail, only about 150 to 200 meters. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The effective firing range of the smoothbore gun is relatively close, only about 80 to 100 meters, and once this distance is exceeded, the hit rate will drop sharply, and the hit rate will not even reach 20% within 150 to 200 meters.

It is also because the pirates are in the most traditional dense formation, and the smoothbore gun troops can barely make some achievements by relying on the number of people.

However, the firing range of the rifled rifle can reach at least two hundred meters, and most of the people in the first class are the children of Orion who originally had a bow and arrow foundation, and at this time, after holding the rifled rifle, they are like a tiger, and they fight accurately and ruthlessly, causing great casualties to Zhu Jiu's side.

Several pirates rushed around the four guns on the side, trying to attack with the help of artillery, but the escort side could not let them succeed, and immediately several rifled rifles were transferred to deal with these artillerymen, and Li Xian's grenades were also immediately thrown over, and the powder kegs scattered next to the guns were also detonated.

Zhu Jiu's pirates barely withstood a few rounds of fire before they began to break down and run backwards, trying to distance themselves from the escort.

However, the so-called defeat is like a mountain, and the troops retreat in front of the enemy, which is a very difficult thing, even some famous generals in ancient times are difficult to do, and the pirates retreat, Zhu Jiu immediately loses the ability to control his team.

The people who retreated at the beginning did not necessarily want to escape, they probably thought about regrouping in the distance and continuing to fight the people of the Mixed Yuan Temple, and then once everyone began to retreat, they became scrambling, and no matter who wanted to stop, they had to be driven by the people behind to continue to run forward.

Li Xian also lacked experience in large-scale operations, and when he saw Zhu Jiu's team retreating in an avalanche, he didn't grasp the fighters, but just let the smoothbore gun troops in two columns advance alternately.

This is an extremely slow way of advancing, in which the first column comes forward to fire a round of bullets, stops, and reloads the rifles on the order of the officer, at which point the second column takes the opportunity to advance, about two meters past the first column, and then fires the bullets and reloads, and so on.

Judging from the introduction alone, you can know that this way is moving forward, and the speed is not fast, but Li Xian is afraid that Zhu Jiu's number of people is still seven or eight times more than his own, and he refuses to press too hard, but gives the other party a chance to breathe.

Zhu Jiu was also a frightened bird at this time, and with some henchmen, he ran to the beach where the boat was moored before stopping, trying to pull the team together, and kicked the subordinates who were running around like headless flies and wanted to get on the boat.

Li Xian was still playing the difficult alternate advance at this time, and if Zhu Jiu's movements were faster, he might not be able to reorganize the team and confront the guards of the Mixed Yuan Temple again.

It's a pity that it backfired, Zhu Jiucai recruited dozens of subordinates, and his most confidant military advisor Lu Tongsheng came over and grabbed him.

"Big boss, we can't do anything, let's retreat first.

If you delay any longer, I'm afraid you won't be able to withdraw if you want to. Lu Tongchang sighed and made Zhu Jiu look at a place.

"Why, there are only forty or fifty people in the Mixed Yuan Temple, we may not be able to reorganize the team..."Zhu Jiu's words were only halfway said, and then came to an abrupt end.

It turned out that Li Xian's side was advancing slowly, and General Zhao Hu was not idle on his side, taking this opportunity to lead the remaining half of the troops, crossing the sheep intestine path, and quickly approaching Li Xian's side.

Even Chen Youfu, who was in charge of logistics in the back, also saw that it was cheap, and led more than 50 soap workshop workers, holding iron picks and shovels, and came over to make a strong noise.

Zhu Jiu didn't understand the truth and truth, he only thought that the total strength of the Mixed Yuan Guan was more than 150 people, and he couldn't help but change color in horror.

On the other side, the pirates who had invaded the fishing village were also repelled by the fishermen, and at this time, more than 50 young and strong fishermen were chasing and killing the retreating pirates with various rudimentary weapons.

In the distance, there was faint movement, and it seemed that fishermen from other fishing villages had come to support.

After all, the relationship between the Mixed Yuan Guan and the fishermen is a little worse, and there are no people from the fishing village to support after fighting for so long, but the pirates attack the fishing village, and these villages that have been watching and helping each other for hundreds of years have all mobilized and formed a team of hundreds of people to fight, and the difference between inside and outside is too obvious.

In short, no matter how Zhu Jiu looked at it, it looked like his team's morale had fallen to the bottom and was about to be wiped out by several times the enemy, so he couldn't help but be disheartened, waved his hand and said, "That's it, this battle is too badly defeated, let's retreat first." ”

When Zhu Jiu and other pirates grabbed the ship and escaped from the sea, Li Xian and General Zhao Hu joined forces, Shi Shiran arrived at the beach, intercepted the pirates who failed to escape, and killed and injured the unlucky people who got on the boat but failed to start.

Zhu Jiu originally came over with more than 500 people in high spirits, but in the end, less than 150 people returned to the base camp on Jinzhou Island, which can be regarded as impermanent.

The casualties on Li Xian's side were not small, more than 20 people died directly, and more were injured, in short, they also hurt their vitality.

After the battle, Li Xian looked at the mess on the beach, but sighed.

In this battle, Li Xian's side captured more than 200 pirates, more than 20 ships, and 2340 guns, including four cannons, but these were useless.

Pirate captives can't be killed directly, otherwise it will be bad to arouse the public anger of the pirates, and they have to find a way to eat and drink well, and those who are injured and not dead must also be given some treatment.

Capturing ships would have been a good thing, but with the current situation of the Mixed Yuan Sect, the nine ships captured from Hai Yama could not be used up, and these more than twenty were purely redundant.

As for the weapons seized, among the more than 200 guns of various colors, only about 60 Western muskets could be used, and they were all just ordinary smoothbore guns, and they were not of great significance.

The four cannons are even more pitted on the surface, authentic special artillery for the Qing official army, Li Xian does not dare to let his subordinates use these artillery, if the explosion hurts his own people, it will be a big loss.

General Zhao Hu thought completely different from Li Xian, piled up firearms and artillery, and happily said to Li Xian: "With these muskets, you can recruit another fifty or sixty escorts, and you can also establish artillery pairs, and you will make a lot of money this time." ”

Li Xian opened his mouth to give some mean comments, but finally held back, and just said: "This time, the fishermen from the nearby fishing villages have also made great efforts, and we will treat everyone to a meal, which can be regarded as a reward."

In this way, we can help each other with something in the future. ”

"What the sect master said is reasonable, you can invite them to have a good meal. Zhao Hujiang nodded in agreement.

If Chen Qian is in charge, Zhao Hujiang may also suggest that he don't have to break too much, but after a long time with Li Xian, Zhao Hujiang has also begun to get used to Li Xian's approach, that is, he will never be stingy with small money, try to win people's hearts, and the most important thing is that he can always make a lot of money.

Since Li Xian officially became the sect master, he has formed a guard team and expanded the workshop, and the money has been spent like running water, but the money that comes in is also uproaring, and it is always many times more than what is spent.