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The dense firecracker projectiles immediately became a nightmare for the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen.

Originally, I thought that these South China Army were only fighting with firearms, and they just caught us off guard just now. Head-on hand-to-hand combat may not be our opponent.During the confrontation just now, Liu Guoneng's subordinates dismounted more than a thousand people from their horses and lined up in the closed chamber. Veterans with shields and broadswords were in the front, followed by hundreds of pikemen, and finally several layers of archers. Under the cover of the crowd, he bent his bow and set his arrows, twisting the bowstring tightly, only waiting for the order from the deputy commander-in-chief.

These people are old thieves who have traveled around since Liu Guoneng's uprising, and all of them have extremely rich experience in the battlefield.For the southern Chinese army on the opposite side, although they are quite envious of the southern barbarian armor on their bodies and the weapons in their hands, many ordinary soldiers don't take it seriously. Since the years of fighting in Shaanxi, there are many troops with bright armor and excellent equipment Now, which one is not about to collapse or make peace?But Liu Guoneng, the leader, did not dare to think so.As the commander-in-chief of an armed force, especially the bandit leaders who have fought old battles, looking at the wind is the first skill for everyone to survive. You may not know how to fight, but you must not know how to look at the wind.The so-called wind is to judge the combat effectiveness of an army from the appearance and morale of the army, and then compare it with your own army to see if it can be provoked or not.

What Liu Guoneng regretted in his heart was that the aura of the South China Army in front of him, the murderous look in the eyes of the soldiers, the indifference to the opponent, and the contempt for life and death were not the kind of army that had experienced many battles and climbed out of the sea of ​​corpses. No.

When the arrow flew out, Liu Guoneng almost yelled and cursed.

But it's too late!The dense firecracker projectiles hit head-on like raindrops and hail.Immediately overturned the men with swords and shields in their hands at the forefront.

Qi Jiguang commented on firecrackers in his military training experience: "Bird blunderbusses are different from all kinds of firearms. They can penetrate armor, shoot and hit, and bows and arrows are far away!" , and even the bird guns made of wrought iron that the rebels in Liaodong are used to are different. The gun tubes made of ductile iron can withstand greater pressure and use more charges, especially the addition of copper oxide Gunpowder as an additive is even more powerful.After the brutal war test, within dozens of steps.Can pierce Jiannu's double armor.Within a distance of twenty steps, even putting on a layer of Nanzhong armor on top of the double armor would not help.

Not to mention these former rogues, most of whom only had one piece of cotton armor!

Crack, clap, the sound of firing guns.A large plume of gunpowder smoke was released.The rebels immediately fell down in large numbers.

The gunners in the squatting position in the front row finished shooting with the comrades in the standing position behind them.Quickly stood up and took the loaded firecracker from the comrades behind him, and at the same time passed the empty gun in his hand to the back, in the process.The gunners in the third row raised their guns on alert.

There was another volley within a few breaths, and the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen on the opposite side let out another burst of inhuman screams, and the people who were shot fell to the ground in pain, uttering heart-piercing howls.

The first to be overthrown were the group of sword and shield soldiers who relied on their bravery. Some of them had heavy shields in their hands, even iron shields, but what was the use?However, most of the shields they used were light wooden shields or leather shields. If they were hit by a gun, they would leave a big hole, or they would simply be broken into several pieces, which could not provide protection at all.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen came to their senses, what kind of guns were those, and the shields held by the people in the front row didn't work at all?

Not allowing them to think too much, there was another sound of volleying guns on the opposite side, like the urging of death, harvesting dozens of lives.

"Fire arrows!"

Not caring too much about it, nor caring about how lethal these bows and arrows will be when they are released, or whether they will hurt his own people, Liu Guoneng just thinks that he can't die like this and be beaten violently with firecrackers!

He can only hope that the projectiles of his hundreds of archers will stop the gunners on the opposite side for a short time, and allow his subordinates to rush up and mix with the opponent's army. It's gone!

Flying arrows created more chaos in the chaotic battlefield in the narrow streets.Bringing death and pain to more people.

A few arrows flew obliquely over the heads of Liao Dongzhi and Wuqiao County Magistrate, and pierced several holes in Liao Dongzhi's banner, scaring Wuqiao County Magistrate, who was already heartbroken, to yell.

Taking advantage of the time when the bows and arrows were thrown, seeing that the gunners on the opposite side were disrupted by the sudden rain of arrows, the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen rushed forward with a shout.

"Kill! Grab their armor, swords and guns!"

"put!"

The officers have long had a lot of experience in how to focus fire and shoot to cause the greatest damage to the opponent. Seeing the opponent rushing up desperately, how can such an opportunity be missed?Immediately ordered hundreds of front row musketeers to fire together.

The sound of the firecrackers kept ringing, and almost every sound of the blunderbuss would cause someone to be shot and fall down. The narrow streets provided the best performance stage for the firecrackers to focus their fire. the deceased.The unprecedented combat method and huge casualties made it useless for the howling officers and soldiers who rushed forward, even Zuo Liangyu's servants and Liu Guoneng's elite old battalion, they were beaten dumbfounded.

Officers and soldiers who were former bandits were knocked to the ground one by one, rolling on the streets paved with bluestone slabs, howling and moaning.The power of the Nanzhong Army's gunfire salvo was beyond the imagination of these officers and soldiers.

"The Tartars who entered the customs and looted were all beaten up by us, screaming and screaming, and ran away! You guys who only know how to show off your prestige on your own family are considered a ball!"

An officer enthusiastically manipulated a firecracker, firing lead bullets at the opposite crowd.

At this time, dense white gunpowder smoke rose, and the vision was somewhat blurred in a short distance.However, the gunners just aimed at the smoke and shot out streaks of flames.Each spurt of fire was accompanied by screams and the sound of bodies falling to the ground.Those who were shot had big holes in their bodies, many of them had their internal organs, liver and intestines blown out, kneeling on the ground would be worse than death.

Zuozhen's army formation was already in chaos.

Some brandish weapons.Howling and rushing forward, some people screamed and wanted to retreat.For a time, people in the entire queue rushed and trampled each other, and the crowd became more and more dense.And this formation provided the best killing conditions for the Nanzhong Army's volleyball.The firecrackers continued to make loud noises, flames and smoke, and every time they sounded, the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen became more and more confused.

Liu Guoneng felt more and more cold hands and feet, and he had already suffered heavy casualties before he rushed to the opposite side. Can this battle still be fought?

"Bayonet! Kill!"

There was a shout from the Nanzhong Army team, and everyone raised their firecrackers together to see through the gray-white smoke.By the sunshine of late winter.The thorns inlaid a silver chain on the shape of the Nanzhong Army.

"Who handles the plate, go!"

The leader of the soldiers next to Liu Guoneng was flustered for a moment, and even forgot to address him by his official title, and adopted the usual slang term.He took the reins of his horse with one hand.He turned his horse and ran out of the city.

The coach leaves.The officers and soldiers in Zuozhen fell into chaos even more.

Facing a forest of bayonets.Some people brandished knives and guns to resist, while others turned around and ran after Liu Guoneng and others' horses.

Liu Guoneng led the remnants of the defeated general to escape from Wuqiao County in one breath and ran eastward for more than ten miles, only to stop slightly to catch his breath when he bumped into Zuo Menggeng's troops head-on.Start taking stock of losses.

With this check, Liu Guoneng and Zuo Menggeng couldn't help but have the desire to kill again.

In just over an hour, hundreds of Liu Guoneng's subordinates were killed, injured, fled, or separated, and the troops that Zuo Zhen accompanied into the city also lost this amount.

"Thousands of elite soldiers! How can I explain this to my father?!"

"These hundreds of people are the elite of the Quartet that I have gathered since I led the army. They have never been injured, and they have been used to defeat the enemy in every battle. Now that they are all lost, how will I lead troops to fight in the future? Alas! My army is over! "

Liu Guoneng cried a lot, but he had no choice but to pack up the remnants of the defeated soldiers, and the soldiers who escaped from Wuqiao County with their injured legs and feet followed Zuo Menggeng to Nanpi County.Zuo Liangyu's camp is currently stationed there.

With the change of Wuqiao, the martial arts drama came to an end.

A more lively pen and ink lawsuit began to fight.

Yu Shangchun, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, who was born as a Jinshi, spoke Mandarin with a Sichuan Quxian accent, and supervised the common people in the city to check the losses and count the casualties. Afterwards, his eyes were crying like two hearts.

In his letters to his fellow villagers, same year, and peers, he described the tragic situation of his colleagues being killed after the city was looted by Zuozhen soldiers and horses: "Liu Gong tabooed the court training, and Tongzhou people were also. Sui Gong was appointed as Wuqiao's instructor. Zuozhen soldier On the day of entering the city, arrows were injected into the clothes and robes, and the blood and red Yin holes protruded from the chest. , The beard and beard are vigorous and vigorous. When the funeral returns, hundreds of people block the road and set up sacrifices and cry to shake the sky, and the common people cut paper and buy pulp to make offerings."

The eunuch Lu Jiude and others accused Zuo Liangyu and others of looting prefectures and counties for no reason, killing good people and killing officials. (It's no wonder, everyone knows that the eunuch with the handprint of the Supervisor of Rituals is in the Nanzhong Army at this time, and he is too fat to wear a pair of trousers with Li Shouhan, so why doesn't he know how to do things? Besides, Zuo Liangyu has always treated these eunuchs Army eunuchs don't catch a cold.)

In line with the principle that we should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports, a group of Donglin party members represented by Zuo Liangyu's old boss and old benefactor Hou Xun, were against Li Shouhan and him. The Southern Central Army rose up and attacked it.

One of the main crimes is lying about military exploits.

"Since the rise of the Liaodong army, although the soldiers have been brave and dedicated, they have never beheaded the enemy's chieftain, Baylor, or a prince or above. The banner is relied on, but it seems to be suspected of taking credit."

The second is to be good at doing Weifu and changing the military system.

"In the military system of this dynasty, below the commander-in-chief of each town, there are posts for lieutenants, generals, guerrillas, and guards. The brigade is good at setting up battalions, and it is said to be the commander, and it is called the brigade commander. What is the intention of this move?"

The third is the change of Wuqiao, which seems to be strange.

"On the day of Wuqiao's change, Zuozhen entered the city first. It was Wuqiao's scholars and people who ate pots of pulp to welcome the king's army. Why did the riots occur as soon as they entered the city? Was it looting prefectures and counties? Was it forced to defend itself? The South Central Army When they entered the city, they fought against Zuo Zhen, to put down the chaos, or to harm the friendly army?"

The titles of this kind of articles are like snowflakes going back and forth between the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies, and the same copies are sent to the parties concerned by fast horses.Look at these no matter right or wrong.Regardless of the words of the party and the dissidents, Zuo Liangyu, whose face turned red and purple from the incompetence of his son and general a few days ago, gradually returned to normal.But Shou Han, who originally thought he had meritorious service, turned blue with anger at the pen and ink of these ministers and literati.

"These bastards! When I led the soldiers and Jiannu to beat one Buddha to heaven and two Buddhas, why didn't they come out and bark? Why didn't they talk when I sent my captures to the capital? Now I have been beaten for a robbery Liaozhou County massacred good people, Zhaoan bandits who killed court officials, but they all jumped out of the gutter one by one?"

Shou Han stamped his feet and cursed in the newly recovered Cangzhou Prefecture.

If it wasn't for the conflict with Zuo Liangyu, he would have commanded three groups of people to bite Dorgon's guard and tear off a piece of flesh fiercely.But because Liao Dongzhi was tripped at Wuqiao, the soldiers in Shou Han's hands were not enough.I had to watch helplessly as Dorgon left hundreds of corpses and walked away.In vain, he added a rhetoric of "raising the bandits and letting the enemy go north" to those who criticized them in the capital.

The coach was annoyed, and the generals were naturally even more fuming.

"My lord, we have fulfilled the wishes of my ministers by going north this time to serve the king. The whole army will simply go south. Go to Dengzhou, Jiaozhou and other places to board the ship. Go to Tamra Island to rest for a while. After that, the whole army will go south!"

"Old Liao, what are you talking about? If it's according to what I, A Biao, let's simply slaughter all of Zuozhen with the whole army. Don't these poor people say that we kill our allies? Let's just kill them and show them look!"

"Angkor's words are right! Tou Namma's Qidi. We are not even afraid of tartars. A mere Zuozhen can be regarded as a ****!"

Seeing the generals yelling in front of Shou Han, Li Peiting, Wang Dehua, Wu Liangfu and others who were on the side were one with joy and the other with fear.

Wang Dehua and Wu Liangfu have already regarded the South China Army as the target of force they want to win over with all their strength.In any case, you should pull this powerful force to your side as foreign aid.

Even if it is impossible to use the South China Army for its own use, at least it is necessary for the two sides to maintain a good cooperative relationship.Over the past few years, the eunuchs have fattened up a large number of people by controlling the sea transportation in Nancao and purchasing Nanzhong ordnance, armor, knives and guns.The more you know the benefits of this, the more you must firmly grasp this cornucopia.

However, if Li Shouhan was provoked by these mad dogs of Donglin because of a little conflict with Zuo Liangyu and Liu Guoneng in the district, and returned to Guangdong and Guangxi to become his local emperor in a rage, by that time, the emperor would spend hundreds of thousands of shi every year. Not to mention the japonica rice and several 10 yuan of private house money. In the future, slaves will be built and invaded by bandits. Where can I find such an army that dares to fight and can fight?

Wang Dehua was about to speak to persuade, lest the situation become more difficult to end, but Li Peiting who was on the side spoke first.

"My lord, from my point of view, there must be someone in the DPRK who feels sorry for the lord. This generation must have seen the lord beheading a large number of Jian slaves and slaughtering several slave chieftains, and felt unwilling. The lighter, this generation is It is jealousy and jealousy, and the intention is for the lord to share with them the military achievements gained by the bloody battles of the soldiers, so that these elders who are in the beautiful mansion in Washington, with beautiful maidservants and singers in front of them, and soft jade in their arms, can easily gain strategic command. The most important thing is that he colluded with Jiannu and was instructed by Jiannu to stage another storm on the meritorious soldiers of our South China Army."

Li Peiting's words could be said to be heartbreaking, and everyone was moved by what he said, but it made Wang Dehua and others unable to refute for a while.

There are treacherous ministers in the court, who want to harm the lord and the Nanzhong Army.After this terrible consciousness was formed in the minds of the brigade leaders, it never lingered.

Wang Dehua looked at the faces of the crowd gradually becoming serious and even murderous, feeling bad, he couldn't help but blushed, and suddenly became at a loss what to do.

"Wang Gonggong, since the words have been said so far, even if Guan Yue is still alive, he must think more about the lives of the entire army, his children and his family. Please go to the capital first to meet the emperor. Discuss the interests of Shou Han. Shou Han will then lead the army and horses to follow slowly. After arriving in Gyeonggi, the soldiers and horses will be stationed between Tongzhou and Tianjin. If the emperor does not want to see me, or the ministers in the court do not hesitate to guard When the Han enters the city, the defenders of the Han will lead the army and horses to the south!"

Shou Han's words were neither fast nor slow, neither soft nor hard, but it made Wang Dehua sweat through his underwear.

It's very clear, if you can't give me a satisfactory answer and hand over those treacherous ministers who are chewing their tongues, then my father will pat his ass and leave immediately, and we will be separated from now on!

"The general is appointed by the imperial court to be the president of the Eastern Route Army. It is his job to straighten out military discipline. Why do you talk about overstepping? This must be because the treacherous parties in the court are jealous of the heroes and wanton lies!" Wu Liangfu hurriedly took over the conversation, Trying to bring the wind color back some.

"Hey! I hope so!"

"That's right! Those thieves in the Guan Ning Army are always making mutiny, and even fighting is about to collapse at the first touch. Why don't these elders take it seriously? We killed so many slaves and they blamed us? "

"That's not true! The son of the dog thief Wang Xiangchun forced the defenders to open the gate of Wuqiao to allow Zuozhen to enter the city to murder, plunder and rape. How could these Donglin party members turn a blind eye? This is too partial?!"

"Yanlong, don't talk nonsense. It's fine for the old emperor to give us an explanation. If not, which one would not do this matter of rushing into the state and looting the state? If our cannons bombard the city wall, it will What about the capital?!"

Amidst the ridicule, Wang Dehua's face turned green and pale, ordered his horses to be prepared, and under the protection of a cavalry regiment sent by Huang Yishan, he rode his horses again and again and headed towards the capital. (To be continued..)