Jingming

Chapter 263

The messenger left the Shuikou Shanzhai Fort and headed northward.

Luo An saw through the binoculars: "How long will it take?"

"They arrived, I'm afraid it will take more than [-] minutes."

In Jinyiwei, everyone has started to use a new time unit based on the new Huangming Clock.

Luo An put down the binoculars, took a deep breath, then raised his hand and pointed forward: "Closer slowly!"

Inside the stronghold, Zhan Huabi's eyes were fixed.

A mere hundred or so captains riding in Jinyi began to come east along the Xiangshui River.

Not fast, but they are coming.

"Captain, let the last general lead his brothers out, kill them, and take revenge!"

Hearing this, Zhan Huabi only turned his head and glanced at Dan Zhaonian.

"It's a good thing to want to avenge your shame, just keep the stronghold."

Everyone rides horses over there. Isn't it very obvious that they want to fish out the defenders in the village for a walk?

Now Zhan Huabi knew what Dan Zhaonian's true level was.

In the past, there was no war in Germany that could not be seen, and all the way to Hengzhou Prefecture was overwhelming, just bullying the weak.

Only now is it clear: this guy is really useless except for being loyal.

There are thousands and five hundred guards in Changning County, and thousands of people are strong, and the city can be lost in less than an hour.

After finishing speaking, he ordered: "Your people, guard the gap in the outer wall of the outer wall to the west, and protect the peasants. Even if the outer wall of the outer wall cannot be repaired before the arrival of Chang Ning's army, more horses will be deployed."

"...The last general takes orders."

Dan Zhaonian went with his brothers who didn't sleep well but were full.

Facing the side of the more than a hundred brocade guards, although the peasants were still beating wood and carrying stones with shaking hands and legs, the people in Zhaonian were also tense and would move around in small steps from time to time.

Zhan Huabi's head hurts from watching: Is this just wanting to avenge shame?Still want to fight?
Then his eyes narrowed, and behind the Jinyiwei team, more than a hundred riders appeared, and they were speeding up.

It was the team from the other side of the Xiangshui River.

Instead of going to Changning to bring the army over, but going to the upper reaches of the Xiang River to cross the river and join it?

Seeing that Dan Zhaonian's subordinates and the peasants in the west were already retreating, Zhan Huabi yelled and scolded: "It's only three hundred riders, do you dare to attack? Hurry up and build!"

The layout of the Shuikou Shanzhai Fort was not bad, but after all, it was only built at the end of July according to the standard of slowing down the enemy's speed and consuming the enemy's strength.

Now that Changning County is lost so quickly, the pressure on Shuikou Shanzhai Fort has increased sharply. Zhan Huabi only hopes to stay here for ten and a half days. More than seven days will be enough to drag the southern army here until the reinforcements from Chenzhou and Leiyang and Reinforcements from Hengyang south.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the Sanbai Jinyiwei really sped up and charged this way.

Three hundred riders is not too much, but the distance is not too far, and these three hundred riders are indeed the elite of the elite brought by Luo An.

The dull sound of horseshoes beat heavily on the anxious mind of the defenders. Afterwards, the three hundred cavalry gradually spread out, forming three layers, strangling them like three iron wires.

There is a faint momentum to encircle the north of Shuikou Village.

Zhan Huabi laughed angrily, and said in a deep voice: "The archers are ready!"

As long as they enter the attack range of the arrow, they can launch a round of throwing first.

It is unheard of for 300 people to attack nearly 2000 people protected by the wall!

"Sorry-"

The distance has been shortened to [-] steps, and Zhan Huabi saw that they stopped quickly in the relatively fast charge.

With the dispersal of the three hundred riders, such a simultaneous stop and charge reveals the rigor of the drill.

But what's the point?No matter how much he showed his abilities, it was impossible to deter the defenders in the village.

... three hundred steps.

Zhan Huabi made a visual inspection, and pressed the idea of ​​letting the three-door bowl mouth on the wall of the village blast a round to boost morale.

It is difficult to form an effective kill, and it is nothing more than a waste of ammunition.

But the next moment, he saw a fumble in the distance, and then the Jin Yiwei in the front row got closer to each other, forming a semicircle facing the west of the village.

Afterwards, Jin Yiwei in the second row rode his horse forward and approached the first row, posing in a strange pose.

Three hundred steps is still a bit far away, Zhan Huabi can't see clearly.

But he still saw the people in the first row grouped in twos, raising a pole between the two horses.Some Jin Yiwei in the second row took something from the side of the horse and put it on the pole.And the second row is also in groups of two, and the other person is busy there with his head bowed.

Zhan Huabi's scalp went numb all of a sudden: "Fire a shot first!"

It must be another new weapon that makes Chang Shawei suffer!

At three hundred paces, bows and arrows cannot be shot, and neither can the firecrackers in the camp. Only the bowl-mouthed blunderbuss may be able to form some deterrence.

But this side has not received the order to prepare to fire, and in the distance, dozens of explosions almost condensed together and sounded.

The fan-shaped rain of bullets hit the west side of the wall.

But Zhao Nian and his subordinates seem to retreat subconsciously, hiding behind some Juma and the half-built wall.

After a pause, another round of bullets came after a short distance.

At the same time, there were also three sounds from Shuikou village, and the bowl gun was fired.

But Zhaonian's subordinates and the peasants were trembling all over, and some peasants were crying and shouting: "General, please be merciful, let us enter the village!"

Zhan Huabi was furious.

The bowl-mouth gun did not make any achievements, but although the opponent's new firearm could be fired alternately from the front to the back, it obviously couldn't kill the defenders at a distance of [-] steps.

Under the nose, besides trembling, is there one person injured and killed in this group of bastards?
But it was too ugly, especially under the witness of the rest of the defenders in the village.

With such rubbish comrades in arms, morale can drop a lot.

Zhan Huabi felt that it was a mistake for him to send him to defend the army and build the wall after Zhao Nian asked for a fight.

The rate of fire of the Wankou gun was much slower. At this moment, Sanbai Jinyiwei paused firing, and approached another twenty steps forward.

This time, the sound of being hit by bullets finally sounded on the wall of the village, and finally someone was injured and began to howl below.

Zhan Huabi's face turned ashen. Could it be that the three hundred brocade guards were going to consume a round of bullets from the bowl-mouth gun and the village fire gun first?

"Let them in, wait for the enemy to enter 150 paces!" Zhan Huabi ordered through gritted teeth.

He wants to see how he wants to capture the Shuikou Shanzhai Fort with just these three hundred brocade guards!

However, Jin Yiwei was only two hundred steps away, and more than fifty people in the rear team got off their horses.

The rest of the people also stopped firing the new firecrackers, and instead rode in a group of about a dozen riders, scattered into dozens of groups.

Then, there was a louder gunshot.

Zhan Huabi could see it more clearly: it was a new cannon with an iron frame that could be fired directly on the ground.

The tiger crouching cannon reappeared in the south of Hengyang City, and some of the flowering projectiles could blast in over the wall of the village.

Dan Zhaonian, who had just returned to the village, hurried back to Zhan Huabi, and said as if in shock, "Captain, I heard this kind of cannon fire in Changning County yesterday, it's really powerful..."

Zhan Huabi turned around and slapped them with a big ear, and then only ordered: "Let them be within 150 steps! A hundred steps are fine! Just set up the shield!"

However, the strength of the tiger squatting gun is that it is convenient to transfer positions. The sub-cannon that absorbed the new Portuguese artillery concept has a higher rate of fire.

Zhan Huabi saw that the three hundred Jinyiwei were divided into ten groups, and they moved their positions flexibly after firing two shots, as if teasing them.

But Zhaonian covered his face and quietly hid under the shield set up by his own soldiers.

He looked at Zhan Huabi, only to feel that he was in a dilemma, and a string was getting tighter and tighter.

Jin Yiwei stayed two hundred paces away, putting on a round from time to time, just lingering there, not coming in.

These two hundred steps have become a distance that is difficult for the weapons of both sides to cross at this point in time, causing a greater lethal effect.

But for the defenders in the Shuikou Shanzhai Fort, it was very painful to consume too much gunpowder and projectiles.

But for Jin Yiwei, it was constantly hitting the morale of the defenders in the village.

Chang Ning's army hasn't arrived yet.

After confronting each other for nearly two quarters of an hour, the shadow of Chang Ning's army finally appeared in the distance.

There was a commotion in the fort.

Zhan Huabi regretted it a bit, maybe he should have led his own soldiers out of the camp before, and fought directly with the hundred or so brocade guards.

It's just that the south of Hengyang City really cannot be lost.

The atmosphere became more and more oppressive, and the army from Chang Ning's direction was gradually forcing over to join the three hundred brocade guards.

After squinting for a while, Zhan Huabi raised his morale and said, "There are only a thousand people, so don't panic!"

The war is imminent, and panic is useless, but everyone is very nervous.

Right under their noses, Chang Ning's [-]-strong force finally merged with the [-] Jinyiwei in the distance, and then they separated to form more battle groups.

"Captain, I'm afraid these thousand people brought more of that kind of cannon..." Dan Zhaonian opened his mouth at the right time, "If we only get closer to 150 paces, I'm afraid..."

Zhan Huabi drew his knife sharply and walked towards him: "Are you messing with my army again?"

Seven or eight soldiers surrounded Zhan Huabi and forced them towards Dan Zhaonian. Zhan Huabi was really pissed off by his old subordinate.

But Zhao Nian seemed to be scared out of his wits, and went straight to hide among the people under his command: "The last general knows his mistake, the last general knows his mistake..."

"Give me a good time..."

Zhan Huabi hadn't finished cursing, but Jin Yihua, a hundred households in the outermost "Brave Camp" at Zhaonian, suddenly yelled, "Brother Dan is telling the truth, why don't you slap him?"

In astonishment, Zhan Huabi suddenly realized that this did not seem to be the accent of Hengzhou Prefecture.

Then, as if the three hundred people under Dan Zhaonian had received some signal, all of them suddenly had bloodshot eyes and entered a desperate state.

The sound of firecrackers rang out, and the twenty or so recruited warriors from Changning County brought by Jin Yihua turned out to be one-to-ten warriors, and Jin Yihua even rushed straight at Zhan Huabi.

At the same time, the outside of the village seemed to have received the signal accurately, drums were beating everywhere, all clamoring for the army to approach, and indeed more cannons sounded.

Because of Dan Zhaonian's constant persecution of Lai Lai, Zhan Huabi only brought a few soldiers with him, and was too close to Dan Zhaonian's people.

Is this still the defeated army that was holding the peasants trembling outside the stronghold?
Zhan Huabi knew why they were desperate now.

He couldn't figure it out, but Zhao Nian had been with him for more than ten years, why did he do this?

It's a pity that we are hit by enemies.

There was chaos in the Shuikou Shanzhai Fort, but Zhaonian's [-]-odd men, Zhan Huabi's [-] soldiers and the original defenders really fought bloody battles.

But at this moment, there are still more than a thousand people outside rushing towards Shuikou Shanzhai under the cover of the tiger squatting cannon.

The three hundred brocade guards had all mounted their horses, and the cannon was handed over to the people behind.

It was only two hundred paces, the chaos here had just begun, and the three hundred riders over there arrived in the blink of an eye.

In the chaos, Zhan Huabi's heart sank when the gate of Shuikou Shanzhai Fort was opened again.

"Luo An, the Commander of Jin Yiwei, is here! Your Majesty has an order. The soldiers surrender their weapons and survive, and the one who captured Zhan Huabi alive has no merit!"

How to deal with it after you manage it is the most important thing at this moment.

The artillery fire in the distance does not care who is the friendly army and who is the enemy army in the village.

From a distance, Zhan Huabi only had time to stare at Luo An, and saw the Jinyiwei Jingqi led by him rushing in bravely without fear of death.

In this group of people, he also saw familiar faces, He Quanan, Huang Yanzhong and Si Cong who were on the Qingye Bridge in the north of Hengyang City back then.

Outside the stronghold, the thousands of people in Changning were obviously originally their own soldiers.

Now, they are beating themselves.

And Dan Zhaonian, who lost Changning because of his cowardice and cowardice, made Pu Zitong hint under the double pressure of dissatisfaction and scruples that he should come to defend the southern line, and at this moment he is unparalleled in bravery.

In Zhan Huabi's heart, ten thousand mothers ascended to heaven.

……

In two days, Pu Zitong fell into eighteen layers of hell.

Now, a difficult decision must be made.

Shuikou Village was also lost, and Zhan Huabi was captured alive amidst the heart-wrenching posts scattered from the south.

Should we recapture Shuikou village, or wait for the imperial army to encircle and cut off the Leishui line in the south?
How would the Ningxi Office and the Chenzhou Government choose if they went straight to Changning and Shuikou Village?

He hadn't made a decision yet. Nearly a thousand ships of all sizes appeared in the lower reaches of the Xiangshui River and the Xiangshui River in the direction of Hengshan City.

Gu Shilong's army is preparing to cross the river and attack.

Pu Zitong watched from the Zhanyue Gate, gritted his teeth and said, "Hengyang City is not easy to attack, so what if we attack from three sides! Shuikou Mountain must be taken back!"

He can no longer wait for what Luo An said in that letter: Next, I will go to Leiyang.

If Leiyang is lost, Hengyang City will completely become an isolated city.

"If the defenders outside the city on the east, west, and north sides are unable to stop them, they should retreat into the city and defend against the wall! You will bring 3000 people and join forces with the forts along the way to take back Shuikou Mountain!"

After this incident, all the people under Zhan Huabi's command were under Pu Zitong's command, but Pu Zitong couldn't rest assured that they would go to retake Shuikoushan again.

To keep them to continue guarding the west of the city, more trustworthy people are needed to supervise them and strengthen their control.

Those who go to seize Shuikou Mountain can only be the direct descendants of the gates guarding the east of the city.

"Yan Daniu, the governor ordered you to be the governor of the right army, regroup and return to the rebel army, guard the east of the city, and join forces with the Leishui battalion to attack the enemy troops crossing the river in the east at any time!"

"...The last general takes orders!"

Yan Chunsheng worked hard in the west of the city for so long, and finally became one of the giants in the Hengyang city defenders.

Now, his brothers can reunite.

After grasping the defenses of the defenders in the east of the city, Yan Chunsheng looked at Pu Zitong, who had a serious face, and went to intimidate and gather Zhan Huabi's subordinates.

If I keep on messing around, can I become the leader of the rebel army?

(End of this chapter)