The Great Bandit in Kangxi Year

Chapter 61
At this time, Huang Tianfeng was leaning on his sword, staring blankly at the enemy in front of him, laughing wildly, the soldiers beside him were so frightened that their hairs started to stand up, and they didn't dare to take a big breath.

The death of his cousin and nephew in battle was already a great blow to Huang Tianfeng, not to mention the current predicament, with only five hundred remnants and defeated generals left under his command, and most of his food and grass were lost. It is also difficult to recover from defeat.

"Master Defense, let's retreat. If we are surrounded by bandits, then... hey." A chief executive looked at Huang Tianfeng in panic, and said cautiously.

Ah!
Huang Tianfeng snorted, taking advantage of his loss of consciousness, cut the neck of Mr. Qian with a sword, and said in a dark voice: "Anyone who dares to withdraw the army will be killed without mercy!"

Just now, the movement of swinging the sword was too strong, Huang Tianfeng almost fell down, leaning on the sword again, he took a breath, and shouted: "Our reinforcements will arrive sooner or later, the outcome is still unknown, and with the cunning of the bandit army, it is hard to say that there is no ambush, Wouldn’t it be dead without a burial if the troops were withdrawn?”

All the officers and men were only Ruo Ruo Ruo Ruo Ruo Ruo, who dared to object, but they had other thoughts in their hearts.

Seeing the reaction of the soldiers, Huang Tianfeng snorted in his heart, and continued: "Soldiers, as long as you stick to it for two more days, I will spend all my wealth on the defense to repay you. Besides, some thieves can only be rampant for a while, and the imperial army will arrive soon. You have to think carefully, don't regret it later."

"Follow Lord Bei's order!" All the soldiers should be weak, and they all came to the front line, and they understood what Lord Defense said. Even if they join the bandit army, they will inevitably die, and their family members may be implicated. They can only bite the bullet and stick to it.

Seeing that the defeated soldiers were temporarily appeased, Huang Tianfeng sat on the millstone in the rice field with difficulty, thinking about it, knowing that the bandit army's invasion of prefectures and counties was beyond control. He no longer dared to think about his own survival, but he must To get rid of these thieves, whether it is revenge or duty, the leader of the thieves must die.

He regained some physical strength, ordered his staff to write three identical secret letters, personally selected three personal soldiers, and shouted: "Immediately hand over the secret letter to Lord Zhizhou separately, try to follow the trail, don't be careless, and tell the family power to immediately Hide it, don't come out of the world, and avoid the disaster of destroying the family, after the matter is completed, you don't have to come to find the official, and follow the family directly."

These three people were all the remaining personal guards in black. When they heard the words, they burst into tears, said "Take care, my lord", and resolutely separated and left.

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At this time, Jiang Tao and the leaders were discussing the strategy of defeating the enemy.

"My dear brother, I didn't kill anyone just now, but my old cow was injured instead. This time I must play the striker and kill a lot." Niu Mang smashed the wooden table with his fist, and said unconvinced.

Jiang Tao shook his head and smiled wryly: "Brother, don't be impatient. There must be a lot of casualties. We can't stand such a torment. You can tell me what you think."

"General, why don't we attack at night?" Luo Qian said confidently after a battle.

Jiang Tao nodded and looked at Wei Donglai again. Wei Donglai stood up confidently and said with a light smile, "General, why worry? At this moment, the Green Battalion soldiers have no fighting spirit. Our army only needs to besiege, and we can win without fighting. Besides, we It’s not that the three tiger crouching cannons were captured, and it happened to return them in their own way.”

"The military adviser is right, but I'm afraid that the night will be long and dreamy, that's all, let me think about it, and let the men of the green battalion have a taste of artillery for a while, but I don't know who can operate this artillery?" Jiang Tao sighed inwardly, frowning.

As soon as the words fell, all the leaders looked elsewhere, and no one dared to answer.

After a long time, Jiang Wudao said weakly: "Maybe Lord Yifu can operate it."

"Forget it, hurry up and invite uncle, and you must not slack off. In the future, the world will be dominated by artillery and muskets. No matter how high your martial arts skills are, you will not be able to stop the flames of the explosion. Commander Wang's flying knife skills are unstoppable, but he was hit. The stray bullet was seriously injured, but fortunately there is no serious problem, everyone should learn more, we will also form an artillery battalion in the future, after Jiang Yan recovers from his injuries, he will merge the blasting guard into the artillery battalion, and he will be the commander of the artillery battalion." Jiang Tao solemnly As it happened, although everyone was not convinced, no one dared to refute General Heihu's face.

When everyone came to the front, they saw three tiger squatting cannons lined up in a row, squatting behind the Iron Spear Battalion. The tiger squatting cannons really lived up to their name. The whole cannon is about [-] meters long, and it is all made of bronze. Two brackets protrude from the middle of the cannon body, resembling the mortars of later generations.

Less than half an hour later, Jiang Zhong came over on horseback, and praised: "Hei Hu'er is good, he fought well, and all the soldiers are also good. I think the general of the Green Battalion is still an old friend of my uncle."

"Ah!" Jiang Tao was very surprised, and hurriedly asked: "According to the captives, this army is the garrison of the state city, and the leader is guarding Huang Tianfeng. Is he an old acquaintance of my uncle?"

"It's not only an old acquaintance, but also a good friend before, but now it's over, so don't mention it, hehe." Jiang Zhong said with a grim expression.

Although Jiang Tao was very curious, he knew that this matter was out of the overall situation, so he changed the subject and said, "Uncle, I don't know how many wheelbarrows have been made in the city, we are about to withdraw our troops."

"It's wonderful to retreat bravely from the rapids, but now that the territory of the state city is empty, why not expand the results of the battle?" Jiang Zhong said kindly, and then calculated: "With the strength of the whole city, we can only collect and manufacture [-] vehicles. Before tomorrow and sunset Should be able to build another two hundred."

"Okay, uncle is a great talent. As for other things, let nephew think about it again. Uncle, can these small cannons be operated?" Jiang Tao looked at his uncle nervously, even if he didn't know how to do it. After asking, the green battalion soldiers who fired the guns also ran into the village.

"What's so difficult about this?" Jiang Zhong laughed loudly, as if he had encountered a fun toy.

Jiang Tao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked all the soldiers to study beside him.

Looking at the gloomy sky, he was suddenly a little distracted, and calculated in his heart that a wheelbarrow can carry up to 600 catties, and he has plundered at least [-] million catties of various materials. Even if there are [-] wheelbarrows, it is difficult to transport them at once. After finishing all the materials, the key is that the hermit where my uncle lives is more than two hundred miles away from Heihuzhai, and there are all mountain trails, which are extremely difficult to walk.

Jiang Tao only felt a headache for a while. Recently, in order to survive, it can be said that he has been working hard. In his previous life, he had always had a fixed life and a fixed pattern. Now that he has traveled through time, he thought he could block gods and kill gods and demons. Bandits, the reason why he wanted to build his base in the deep mountains and old forests was because he was afraid of Emperor Kangxi, who was praised by experts.

But the life of a bandit has no choice, and Jiang Tao is definitely not the kind of person who dies in the mountains and forests. Although he yearns for it very much, he said firmly in his heart: "First eliminate these green battalion soldiers and then talk about other things!"

Boom boom boom...
Under Jiang Zhong's instruction, the blasting guards succeeded in igniting the tiger crouching cannon.

Moreover, when the shell hit the house in the village, an orange-red flame was ignited immediately, and black smoke was still rising.

Jiang Tao was overjoyed to see this, and immediately had a good plan to defeat the enemy.

(End of this chapter)