Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 131 Outpost Battle

It was already dusk when they arrived, and the officers and soldiers wisely did not attack immediately, but chose to camp at the foot of the mountain first. The officers and soldiers shivering with cold dug up the thick snow, gathered in groups of three or four In the field, a pile of fires with little heat were lit to keep warm. Many people had already had chilblains on their hands and faces, and they looked extremely pitiful.

But it was such a group of poor people who slaughtered more than 2000 unarmed villagers in the countryside of Shangnan County in succession, and exchanged their heads for bloody silver. Those who have gradually degenerated into an executioner who raises a butcher's knife against the people under his command.

The bitter cold wind is blowing in the valley, and the mighty Niutou banner of Funiuzhai is also fluttering fiercely in the cold wind. Funiuzhai is about one and a half miles away from the foot of the mountain, standing more than three meters away. Looking down from the high wall of the village, the campfires of the officers and soldiers at the bottom of the mountain are like a group of dancing will-o'-the-wisps.

"Ready?"

Wearing a thick animal skin robe and a leather cotton hat on his head, he took a look and wondered why he didn't buy a telescope from Taobao and brought it here, Song Qingshu immediately asked with a stern face.

Xiao Luobo and others came back as early as the heavy snowfall. At this time, he, Li Tiezhu, and a dozen or so hunter-born Funiu bandits were standing neatly on the wall of the village, carrying long guns and wearing a snow-white cloak. The white cloak is also bulging in the wind, like flags.

"Don't worry, master!" After fighting for a few days, it became different. Xiao Luobo's usual tough face also showed a bit of arrogance, and he patted his thick chest. He nodded dully.

"Okay, serve the wine!"

More than a dozen bowls of spirits were served, one bowl for each person, Song Qingshu drank the wine bowl first, and then the Orion bandits followed suit. The wine bowl was smashed to pieces.

"For Funiu Mountain!"

"For the master, kill!"

The wall of the gate of the village is still tightly closed, and it has not been opened at all. The snow on it is also covered with a layer. After a while, the warriors of Funiu Mountain who have completed the expedition ceremony have fallen into the sky without anyone noticing. When we got to the bottom of the stockade, we climbed down with difficulty along the thick snow.

Coincidentally, at the foot of the mountain, the same scene is also happening, but compared with the farewell wine treatment of the Funiu bandits, the Ming army scout team looks a bit shabby. Twelve Ming army musketeers knelt on the ground, and Hong Chengchou was meditating. Circles circled around them.

"You sneak into the bandit village in a while, and you must find out how many bandits there are! Where are you squatting, how about the guy you bring, tomorrow you can fuck the gangsters' butts! It's best to catch some tongues and come back, do you understand? If you can't finish it, you don't have to come back!"

At the front of the scout team, the guard Liu Yinda reprimanded in a loud voice. Amidst the rude voice, several scouts who were shivering coldly also kept nodding their heads.

Seeing that the prestige was almost done, Liu Yinda just waved his hand in satisfaction: "Go away!"

"and many more!"

Before leaving, Hong Chengchou suddenly stretched out his hand to stop the scout team who was about to stand up, and added a few more words.

"Find out whether there is an ambush under the snow, whether there are still such bamboo spikes inserted, and it is best to find out who the bandit leader in Funiu Village is!"

"You bastards, did you hear what Master Hong said?" Liu Yinda added arrogantly.

After the instructions were over, these scouts also wobbled on the snow ground with matchlock guns of the Ming army on their backs, and climbed hard to the cottage on the middle of the mountain.

In order to keep concealed, Li Tiezhu's waist was bowed, his head was lowered, and he tried to cover himself with a white hat and a white cloak. From the past, it looked like a dozen pieces of snow moving in the snow. Some snow cubes salsa rubbing sound.

Little Luobo was a little troublesome. For others, it was calf deep, but for him it was waist deep. Flopping in the snow, Little Luobo was the slowest one to walk. After a while, it was more than 100 meters behind.

Don't look at Xiaoluo's shortness, the more flawed a person is, the stronger his self-esteem, otherwise he would not be included in this mission. Seeing his companion go farther and farther, Xiaoluo's temper also came up. Snow shell, pull yourself out of the snow, wrap yourself in a large cloak, and turn over from the snow like a spinning top.

This Li Tiezhu wanted to turn his head to see if Little Luobo was following him, when he suddenly saw a big snowball whizzing past, Li Tiezhu opened his mouth to shout in shock, but suppressed it abruptly.

"Carrot, come back, you are fucking crazy!"

Turning around in a daze, Xiao Luobo stretched out his hand and gave Li Tiezhu a reassuring gesture, signaling to wait for you ahead.

Rolling is indeed faster than walking, right, roll for a while, stop for a while, the little radish always catches up with the fan-shaped advance, and the roll goes smoothly, the little radish also has the courage to fight, forming a ball and rolling non-stop, Li Tiezhu is terrified. It was easy to grab him, but this guy broke free again.

"It's okay, oops!"

Smiling, he turned his head and made a gesture. Little Luobo didn't wait for the pretense to finish, but suddenly bumped into someone, and the two rolled to the side.

Li Tiezhu's eyes were about to burst, but the next second Li Tiezhu's cold sweat almost didn't flow out. On the opposite side of the snow less than ten meters away, there were also a dozen people wearing white robes, and they were climbing up in the snow. It was too dark in the mountain, and The white color almost blended with the snow, it wasn't the little radish that knocked one of them down, they almost collided with the scouts of the government army.

"Copy guy, you're an official dog!" Li Tiezhu roared anxiously immediately, and for a moment he also copied the firecracker from behind in his hand, and began to load gunpowder and lead bullets.The officers and military spies on the opposite side obviously realized that there was someone on the opposite side. Under the exclamation, they also cursed and picked up the firecrackers, and lit the matchlock.

This is a sneak attack at night, and the sound of firecrackers can easily attract the attention of the enemy. In fact, it is not a good choice. However, in this heavy snow day, people are too cold to open their arms. If they use a bow, they cannot aim accurately. The crossbow is also brittle. It is not easy to load in the snow, so the firearm is more reliable.

Hammer the gunpowder firmly with a cleaning rod, and then stuff the pointed lead bullets in. Li Tiezhu raised the fire blunderbuss with his heart beating wildly. In an instant, eleven swaying fire points came into his eyes, which were the flames of the matchlock. .

Bang~ Li Tiezhu pulled the trigger suddenly!

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Bang bang bang bang bang, a shot of musket fire on the hillside, Hong Chengchou jumped out of the snow nest almost instantly, looked up to the mountain, then kicked Liu Yinda's face with both feet, woke him up, and rubbed his beard in a daze , Liu Yinda also understood when he heard the sound of the gun, and couldn't help but yelled: "Damn! These bastards, they shoot from the middle of the mountain, and they don't know how to solve it with a knife!"

"Liu Shoubei, why are you sure you belong to us and not a thief?"

"Haha, Lord Hong, don't worry, what kind of guns are our guns? South guns! Made in Nanjing Ordnance Factory, the standard was set by Marshal Qi! Originally, Lao Tzu's army was equipped with [-] guns, but I sold all the [-] broken things. Even if this bandit has firecrackers and some fire-breaking guns, he can't shoot more than ten steps, how can he still compete with Lao Tzu?"

This is openly selling arms privately, and showing off triumphantly in front of the supervising army. This is the era when all the rules were messed up in the late Ming Dynasty, but Hong Chengchou felt relieved after hearing Liu Yinda's showing off.

The firecrackers rang a few more times on the hillside, and muttered something like a bastard for wasting gunpowder. Liu Yinda went to sleep again, sitting by the fire, Hong Chengchou also felt relieved, and then dozed off. After the gunshot, it was really quiet.

After sitting for another four or five hundred counts, Hong Chengchou suddenly jumped up again, kicked Liu Yinda's face and shouted: "Something is wrong, the firecrackers are ringing, the bandits are definitely ready, but now, Why haven't the scouts come back!"

Bewildered, before Liu Yinda could complain, there was another bang of the firecracker, and he watched a sergeant on patrol next to him bleed from his neck and fell into a heavy snow shell. Jumped up like a chrysanthemum.

"Stop sleeping! The bandits are attacking on a large scale! Get up for me, fight back! Fight back!"

All of a sudden, the Ming army was stunned by Liu Yinda. The swordsman yelled and stuck his shield into the snow, and the gunman behind him put his shield on top, and immediately built a low wall on the snow to defend against the mountain. The crossbowman was carrying a heavy military crossbow and wanted to fight back, but suddenly another shot came in, and the unlucky crossbowman also screamed and fell into a pool of blood.

The gunshots kept coming and going, hitting the shield and crackling. Liu Yinda really looked like a general at this time, yelling at the back of the army and commanding to fight back with bows and arrows, but hiding behind for a long time, Hong Chengchou couldn't help jumping out and pulling Liu Yinda Cursed: "Liu Shoubei, there are only a dozen guns, why don't you kill them? Could it be that you are afraid of the enemy? Are you afraid that the prison army will join you?"

Liu Yinda almost stopped crying, and dragged Hong Chengchou to hide, Liu Yinda also roared angrily: "If you can kill all my scouts, the other party must have dispatched hundreds of bandits! It may even be dispatched by the whole nest, an army of black lights and blind fire If you lay a shop on the hillside, you will be ambushed easily, what you should do now is to guard against death and wait for the dawn!"

"Hong Jianjun, if the general marches now, will you be ambushed?"

"But there are only a dozen firecrackers!" Hong Chengchou was still unconvinced.

"Don't you say that the gangster's guns are definitely not as good as yours!"

"Oh my Lord Supervisor, the scout is dead, and my firecracker was snatched by those killers!"

At this end, Liu Yinda was still jumping and screaming. In a ditch about 100 meters away, riding on Li Tiezhu's neck, Xiao Luobo put the firecracker on the edge of the ditch again, and shot it hard. …………

(End of this chapter)