Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 188

The bandits attacked the watchtower at the northern end. Luan Tingyu was taking his direct reinforcement company to patrol the stronghold at the southern end of the road. He was switching defenses with the second company of the first battalion in the southern stronghold and was preparing to change to the second company for patrolling.

At this time, the bandits attacked the first company of the northernmost battalion.

It turned out that the bandits didn't want to stop at all, but had been waiting for the right time. They had figured out the time interval between Luan Tingyu's patrols that day, and they took a fancy to the isolation and helplessness of the first team. This war will be over before the aid of the reinforcement company.

When the first company was attacked, it was indeed too far away from the southern stronghold, and there was no time to send out a signal, so it could only use the preset position and the small inspection watchtower left by the official army to start a positional battle.

The bandits originally expected to use a quick attack to eat up the group of farmers and soldiers in one go. Two cavalry generals led dozens of bandit soldiers with messy weapons and charged towards the stronghold at a high place.

The company commander of the first company is a peasant soldier who participated in the defense battle of Sunjiazhuang Village Gate. He has practical experience in how to use musketeers to focus fire and attack. He panicked at the first moment and ordered all soldiers to disperse in units of platoons. One row in a row was used as flank cover, the second row was defending the enemy's ridge line to face the enemy, and he led the third row as a mobile force to strengthen the frontal firepower. The effective range of the musket was only about 150 steps, so he repeatedly emphasized that it was not allowed to advance Let go of the gun and watch him swing the saber down to shoot a volley.

When the bandits ran to a distance of more than 200 steps, they hadn't seen any counterattack from the peasants and soldiers in the stronghold. From this distance, they could already vaguely see the appearance of the peasants and soldiers on the opposite side.

Seeing the opposite group of peasants and soldiers who didn't even have a collar standing in front of the bunker, they thought that the group of peasants and soldiers had been frightened out of their wits. He was very greedy, the gun alone was worth one or two catties of good iron, and the more than 30 peasants and soldiers in front of him were all holding guns, and if they just snatched the guns, the attack would definitely be worthwhile.

So the leader on the horse shouted to encourage a group of bandits to rush up and kill all the farmers and soldiers.

But when they crossed a distance of 150 steps, there was a burst of intensive musket attacks from the flanks.

The first volley of the musketeer platoon of ten men reimbursed the leader on horseback who rushed to the front. Just as the bandits were stunned by the sudden blow, the two musketeers on the front also started a standard two-shot attack. Shot.

To be honest, the effect of cavalry and shooting by musketeers is not very good. Many peasant soldiers, even the elite among Sunjiazhuang peasant soldiers, lost their aim because they were too nervous. Five or six bandits walking on the opposite side, and when they shot out in a row, only one or two people on the opposite side were injured.

But the peasants and soldiers had undergone special morale training after all, and their fighting will was much stronger than that of the mob on the opposite side. This intensive and uninterrupted shooting quickly wiped out all the courage of the bandits on the opposite side after a few rounds.

After dropping more than 20 corpses on the mountain road, the bandit gang of more than 100 people began to collapse.

And when they saw a bandit leader riding a horse leading the way down the mountain, the remaining dozens of bandits scattered in an instant.

It's also pitiful for the bandit leader who took the lead, holding a majestic gold-thread nine-ring ghost-head knife in his hand. With such a flamboyant weapon, he must be a person with extraordinary skills, but riding a horse and leading the minions to charge, there is no way. He didn't even touch the opponent's body, but he was beaten and ran away with his head in his arms.

The bandits fled from the ridgeline one after another, and could no longer pose any threat to the watchtower. Only then did Yilian finally have the opportunity to light up the beacon.

The terrain of this commercial road is long and narrow, and the road where the peasants and soldiers stationed at Sunjiazhuang takes more than 20 minutes to travel. When seeing the wolf smoke, the closest friendly army team to Luan Tingyu was Baojia from Zhaojiazhuang in the east of the city, but Luan Tingyu didn't choose to waste it at all. Manpower went to Baojia in Zhaojiazhuang for help, but decisively called the two companies he could command to go to the direction of the northern watchtower for support.

It turned out that Luan Tingyu's choice was correct. Until the end of the battle, Zhaojiazhuang's Baojia didn't even send a scout horse. It is estimated that when they saw the wolf smoke, they decisively chose to close the village and defend themselves.

This time the bandits are preparing for a big battle to attack the Beikou Watchtower. Probably they have long wanted to show their strength by counterattacking the Baojia soldiers. The reason why they decided to start with the farmers and soldiers in Sunjiazhuang is probably because Sunjiazhuang Baojia has the most complete equipment. Even if you don't know how to use those muskets, it's good to grab the equipment of the peasants and soldiers and get some swords, guns, swords and halberds, so that you can increase your strength the fastest.

After the first batch of more than 100 bandits failed to attack, the bandits actually had a follow-up ambush. When Luan Tingyu rushed to the reinforcements with two companies, what he saw was more than 200 bandits. Form a formation and face the scene of encircling the peasant and soldier watchtowers on the mountain.

The leader of the bandits obviously knew how to fight. Seeing the first round of chaotic charges being broken up by the opponent's neat counterattack, he was amazed at the power and discipline of the muskets of the Sunjiazhuang peasant soldiers and understood that the opponent had already practiced the formation beforehand. , Such a chaotic charge could not move those 30 people at all.

The bandit then also used a dense formation to gather a group of minions tightly together, by a few.The leader of the cronies watched them rush forward, just to make them run over the death distance of more than 100 steps with their flesh and blood.

Behind the small bandits who were driven to charge upwards were cavalry soldiers composed of more than a dozen horses. As long as those young people waded dozens of steps away to attract the firepower of farmers and soldiers, these cavalry troops would Quickly broke out from behind the bandit's formation, rushed directly into the peasant's position and slashed and killed.

The leader of the bandits also saw that although the strength of these farmers and soldiers far exceeded his previous expectations, as long as they were put in to fight these farmers and soldiers, they would definitely not be the opponents of his bandits, and they would be crushed to death with numbers. up.

In fact, this deal was already at a loss, just for beating thirty or so people, he had left more than thirty dead brothers on his side.But the bandit leader didn't know if he had taken a fancy to the power of Sunjiazhuang muskets, and wanted to get two for research, but he decided to gnaw down the watchtower in Sunjiazhuang before talking about it.

When the troops led by Luan Tingyu arrived, the gunshots from the peasants and soldiers on the mountain were very sparse.

Luan Tingyu was nervous for a while, and quickly looked from a distance. Fortunately, the bandit's attacking team had not stepped into the watchtower. The reason why the counterattack gunfire was sparse was because as the opponent's formation got closer and closer, the peasants and soldiers guarding the watchtower They were getting more and more panicked, and all the reloading steps were a beat slower, and it was impossible to fire salvos as a result.

Luan Tingyu directly asked the camel horse to drag up the horse-drawn bronze cannon that Tang Long treasured so much, and pointed to the formation of bandits in the distance and quickly asked Tang Long's apprentice, "Did you hit it?"

The apprentice took a glance and nodded, Luan Tingyu immediately ordered: "Aim at their own battle!"

(End of this chapter)