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Chapter 617 Counterattack
In the jungle, hundreds of arrows were fired, and the soldiers of the Zheng family used their backward matchlock guns to shoot at the Kyushu army under the cover of trees. The arrows and bullets flew randomly in the air, splashing mud and branches and leaves!
"All ministries don't panic, find a good cover and counterattack!" Zhao Guirong squatted on the ground, took a musket from the saddle, and hurriedly organized troops to counterattack.

The dense jungle and the dwarf bushes reached the waist. The soldiers of the Kyushu Army only felt that the attacks were coming from all directions, so they could only gather back to back into small circles, aimlessly suppressing the attacks from the jungle.

"There are more enemies in the southwest. Your squadron will go around from the left, and you will surely gain something." While shooting, Zhao Guirong was directing the troops that could be mobilized around him.

The [-]-man infantry battalion was blocked in a narrow mountain road, surrounded by dense forests. Zhao Guirong had no more than [-] troops under his direct command. He also mobilized a squadron to fight back, which was very bold.

"Be careful, general!" Unexpectedly, several cold lights in the dense forest drew icy tracks in the air, and struck towards Zhao Guirong!Beside Zhao Guirong is his beloved horse - a fine white horse with no shaggy hair.But even such a BMW indirectly explained to the enemy that Zhao Guirong was an officer, and he received a special greeting from the enemy.

A soldier held a cowhide shield in front of Zhao Guirong, and sharp arrows were nailed to the cowhide shield fiercely. One of the arrows even pierced through the cowhide shield, and half of the arrow body was stuck on the cowhide shield.

"Fortunately..." The soldier looked at the arrow stuck on the cowhide shield. Fortunately, the arrow only scratched a layer of skin, and it missed the heart by a centimeter or two.

"Xiao Wu, thank you for blocking me, otherwise I would really die this time." Zhao Guirong, who survived the catastrophe, was shocked. He didn't have a shield around him. If he was targeted by a few arrows just now, he couldn't help live.Since the Kyushu Army is generally equipped with muskets and artillery, they are not used to wearing heavy armor for the sake of ease of movement, and they have the time and resources to manufacture armor and shields, so it is better to use it to produce a few more rifles.

"This is the order of the general who is rich and powerful..." The soldier known as Xiao Wu had just spoken halfway, when his face suddenly turned blue, and he fell to the ground foaming at the mouth.

"Xiao Wu!" Zhao Guirong stepped forward to help him, and suddenly found that the tip of the arrow left on the shield had dark purple venom, "Damn it, it turned out to be an arrow stained with venom."

"General, please be careful!" Several other guards protected Zhao Guirong.

On the tragic battlefield, there was no time to mourn the death of anyone, and the two sides were still fighting fiercely.From time to time, soldiers of the Kyushu Army were shot to death and wounded by the natives and Zheng family soldiers in the dense forest.Some natives use poisonous arrows to deal with beasts, and they are often fatal with one arrow!Although it was difficult for the Kyushu army to find the opponent's position, relying on the dense firepower and the strong penetrating power of the Dreiser rifle, they just shot and killed many enemies hidden in the dense forest!

Many natives and Zheng family soldiers fell silently in the jungle, and some of them were killed by stray bullets.

"Cannon, put the cannon on me!" Zhao Guirong saw his own soldiers fall one by one in order to protect him, and his mount was also shot to death, his eyes were red with anger.

It's just that his reason told him that he had to live on, otherwise there would be no one to command the remaining troops.

The artillerymen surrounding the elephant hurriedly lowered their cannons and prepared to load their ammunition.

"My lord, what exactly did I break into? The information doesn't mention that there is a powerful force here." Zhao Guirong hid behind a collapsed carriage and shot into the dense forest with a musket himself.

"Could it be the soldiers of the Zheng family who escaped from the Lang Son area? At the beginning, there was an army of about [-] people fleeing towards the Gaoping area in Lang Son City. The subordinates suspected that this was the army." A team leader braved muskets and bows. "Although they were sneak attacks, their numbers may not be much larger than ours. We have the advantage in firepower, and our soldiers have been trained for more than half a year in the mountains and forests of the Chief Secretary of Guangxi. Finding the feel to overwhelm them soon."

"I'm afraid it's not just the escaped Zheng family's army, but also some local people living in the Gaoping area. Otherwise, how could these poisonous arrows be carried by a desperate army." The keen Zhao Guirong sensed the enemy's possible attack. origin.

"Look, our squadron that entered the dense forest is starting to counterattack!" the captain said, pointing to the dense forest in the southwest direction.

Not long ago, Zhao Guirong ordered the squadron to go around and stab the enemy's ass. It seems that they have made progress. In the dense forest to the southwest, there were gunshots, and Zhao Guirong and others, who were familiar with the sound of Dreiser's rifle shooting, heard the sound of their own gunfire gradually .On the contrary, the sound of the enemy's matchlock guns gradually weakened.

"Bombardment!" The gunner waved down the small flag held high, and the two nimble six-pound bronze cannons roared, bombarding the place where the sound of the enemy's muskets was the loudest!
boom!boom!Two flowering bombs exploded in the forest, and the broken shrapnel drew bullet marks on the trees!

Although the Kyushu Army couldn't know exactly how many enemies were killed by the two shells, they could feel the sound of enemy gunfire in this direction paused.Even if it didn't cause a lot of casualties, the psychological pressure brought by the artillery is huge!
A sturdy native accompanied the general of the Zheng family to observe the situation on the battlefield. Because the distance was too close, stray bullets flew past them from time to time, which made the two of them very embarrassed and dared to hide behind the huge trees.

"They also brought artillery!" The burly native shook slightly when he heard the sound of the artillery.Although they live in a relatively remote dense forest, they also know the power of artillery, and even their village has several decades-old earthen artillery.

"Isn't this normal? They want to seize our territory. If we don't have artillery, how can we be defeated in Lang Son City." The general of the Zheng family was helpless, and he didn't expect the Kyushu Army to come with two field artillery.

While they were talking, a few natives ran over panting: "Young patriarch, the thieves are starting to fight back, their firearms are powerful, many of our clansmen have died, if we continue to fight hard, we might be surrounded by rebels! "

The burly native frowned: "Zheng Hu, I didn't expect the enemy to be so powerful. We can't succeed, so we have to retreat."

"Retreating now, wouldn't it give them a chance to breathe?" Zheng Hu, the general of the Zheng family, said.

"You have to know that this mountain forest is our hunting ground, and we still have a hundred ways to kill them here, so there is no need to fight to the death." The indigenous young patriarch said.

(End of this chapter)