There is no doubt that Wang Lin'er, Xie Erjian, and Qi Jingtong are the three capable generals under Xu Jin, and each has its own advantages. These three people are a powerful combination when they are together, and they can also take charge of each other when they are scattered, and being alone is the basic quality necessary for a general.

At noon, Wang Lin'er led two hundred people to march among the continuous fields, and his men were also a combination of a hundred soldiers and a hundred recruits.

In late spring and March, it is the time to sow early rice in the south, and the seedlings in the nursery have grown to a few inches high, and it is estimated that they will be scattered and planted in the paddy fields in a few days.

Because a few days ago, Xiahe Village was sacked by a gang of thieves, so the people in the nearby villages were too afraid to go out, and they hid in front of the village in fear all day long.

"This gang of thieves must be eliminated as soon as possible, otherwise the people in the vicinity will have to delay their farming." Wang Lin'er secretly thought in his heart, looked up at the height of the sun again, and estimated that it was close to noon, so he ordered the team to rest in place and eat dry food.

Yan Lang sat down on the stalks, nibbling on the dry rice crackers, and scolded viciously: "These thieves can really fucking hide, Boss Wang, according to his subordinates, the thieves are estimated to have run away, and it is a waste of time for us to wander around Xiahe Village." ”

Wang Lin'er shook his head and said: "Nearly two hundred thieves are not a minority, even if they are out of the night and move for a long distance, they will show their traces to some extent, but until now there have been no reports from nearby villages and towns, so it can be seen that most of these thieves are hidden somewhere." Everyone be patient, the food in the hands of the thieves is estimated to not last long, and when they are hungry, they will definitely find the village to loot. ”

As soon as Wang Lin'er finished speaking, Yan Lang's goods suddenly jumped up as if they were burned by fire, and pointed to the distance and made a strange whining sound, and the mouth of this goods was stuffed with rice crackers.

Wang Lin'er suddenly turned around to look, but saw that a few miles to the northwest, behind the hidden trees, there were several puffs of smoke rising up, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and shouted: "There is a situation, stop resting and set off immediately." ”

The two hundred soldiers immediately shoved the leftover rice crackers in their mouths, spread out their strides and ran in the direction of the rising smoke, and a hundred fierce soldiers armed with flintlock pistols marched forward bravely and strode on the field stalks.

The hundred recruits followed closely behind, both nervous and excited, one with a red face, there is no doubt that courage is contagious, if there is no one hundred soldiers of the five hundred battalions here, these hundred recruits will not let alone attack, it is estimated that they will turn around and run away.

After turning over the two hills, a village came into view, but when the fire broke out in the village, the chickens flew and the dogs jumped, and the villagers cried and screamed wolves and ran to the fields outside the village.

"Livestock!" Wang Lin'er spit out two words between his teeth, waved his right hand, and shouted: "Attack!" ”

In an instant, a group of 100 soldiers marched towards the village in a crescent shape under the leadership of Xiao Qi.

This is the difference between Wang Lin'er and Qi Jingtong leading the troops, if it was Qi Jingtong, he would have personally rushed to kill him at this moment.

Bang......

A thief who was chasing a village woman on a field stalk was shot in the chest and rolled into a paddy field on the spot.

Bang bang bang......

Gunfire rang out one after another, and a hundred thugs rushed out of the village, and the slower thieves were shot one after another. The hundred recruits who followed closely behind the thugs were enthusiastic, this kind of autumn wind sweeping the leaves like a way of fighting is too cool, far away from the buckle machine, bang to dry over one, bang to dry over another, how to a "cool" word.

The sharp whistle sounded, and the thieves who were looting and setting fire to the village fled desperately in the direction of Huluzui in the north of the village, some carrying the looted iron pots, some carrying grain bags, some holding wine jars and oil cans, and even some carrying village women and girls.

"Kill!" The hundred recruits were obviously inspired by the courage, and they rushed to chase after them with their swords, after all, every thief killed was a military feat.

Wang Lin'er did not stop it, and it was a good time to train these recruits when fighting a good battle, and the soldiers of the 500 battalion obviously understood the boss's intentions, so they slowed down one after another, leaving the opportunity to kill the enemy to the recruits, and at the same time took the opportunity to reload the ammunition.

After all, they have been a farmer for too long, and all of them are recruits who have not gone through the real battle formation, cutting people to drag mud and water, so when they chased and killed outside the gourd mouth, these recruits only hacked and killed ten thieves, and they also fell and trampled several people, and were killed by the thieves.

On the hill on the west side of Huluzui, Ori Shin Miko was lying behind the terrier, the muzzle of the flintlock pistol was aimed at the direction of the Ming army, and there was a hint of smugness on her beautiful face, her plan really worked.

However, when Orishibumiko saw the hundred recruits chasing and killing behind, she couldn't help frowning, the weapons used by these recruits were all the standard waist knives of the Ming army, and they were obviously not the elite of the five hundred battalions.

Ouchi Soseki was lying on the ground stalk not far to the left of Orishimiko at this moment, and the position he was in, as long as he looked up slightly, he could see Orishimiko's peach-like hips when she was lying on her stomach.

Ouchi Sect secretly swallowed a stream of saliva and said, "Miss Miko, it's time to do it." ”

Ori Shinmiko shook her head decisively: "Wait a little longer." ”

Hosokawa Takeshu glanced coldly at Ouchi Sosui, who looked grim and turned his gaze to Yamaboshi.

Under the mountain bag, the dozens of pirates under Chen Dong who were responsible for luring the enemy had already run into the narrow valley between the two mountain bags in Huluzui at this time, and a hundred recruits were also chasing after them.

At this time, Wang Lin'er also led a group of soldiers to chase outside Huluzui, perhaps out of his own cautious and steady character, as soon as he saw the terrain in front of him, Wang Lin'er faintly felt that it was inappropriate, but at this time, a hundred recruits had already chased into the valley, and could only urge the team to speed up and pass.

In Wang Lin'er's opinion, this small valley can be seen through at a glance, and it only takes a few minutes to pass through, so he doesn't care too much.

On the mountain bag, Ori Shin Miko finally saw the elite of the Ming army using flintlock pistols, and her cheeks couldn't help showing a sneer, but when she was a little disappointed, the general of this Ming army was not Xie Erjian, but that Wang Lin'er.

In other words, since getting two flintlock pistols in Dongtai County, Orishin Miko has been playing all day long, and the principles are basically understood, the only deficiency is that there is not much ammunition, and she is reluctant to practice marksmanship with real guns.

At this time, Orishin Miko aimed the front sight of the flintlock pistol at Wang Lin'er, decisively pulled the plate machine, and bang, the lead bullet whistled out, flying past Wang Lin'er's side, but hit the arm of another 500-battalion soldier.

The soldier fell to the ground and screamed in pain, Wang Lin'er was startled, and hurriedly looked at the mountain bag, and the two arrows had broken through the air.

Dangdang......

Wang Lin'er quickly swung his knife and shot down two arrows, shouting: "Enemy attack!" ”

Here, the thieves who were in ambush on the mountain bag on both sides appeared one after another, and the arrows whizzed down, and immediately several soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, but the soldiers of the 500 battalion reacted very quickly, immediately squatted down, raised their guns and fired back at the enemy on the mountain bag.

At this time, the pirates who had been chased before did not escape, turned around and killed back, coupled with the cold arrows shot from time to time by the mountain bags on both sides, the hundred recruits were in confusion and hurriedly retreated, so that the formation of the soldiers was immediately disrupted.

Wang Lin'er was shocked and angry, and while directing a counterattack, he slowly withdrew out of the valley.

As mentioned before, there is a stream flowing out of Huluzui, tracing up the stream, but seeing that a dam more than two meters high has been built in the open area of the stream, the stream has already filled the dam surface, and a small lake has been stored outside the low-lying area.

Orishin Miko has admired Han culture since she was a child, is proficient in Chinese, and is familiar with military books, this trick of "flooding the Seventh Army" is what she learned from the Han books, but unfortunately, the water volume of this stream is still poor, otherwise Wang Lin'er would be miserable today.

At this moment, it is the pirate leader Chen Dong who is guarding the dam, and the Pujing monk who has been covering his face. However, at this time, Monk Pujing had an internal conflict with Chen Dong, who was not Monk Pujing's opponent and was knocked down in the stream under the embankment.

Monk Pujing stepped on Chen Dong's chest with his foot and stepped him into the stream, revealing only one head.

Monk Pujing's eyes were cold, the crossbow arrow was against Chen Dong's temple, and his fingers clasped the crossbow bracket of his hand, as long as he pressed it lightly, the sharp arrow could shoot through Chen Dong's head.

"Xiaohai, if you have something to say, you have something to say!" Chen Dong's face was pale, his two triangular eyes were full of pleading, and several of his henchmen were surrounded by weapons in their hands, but they did not dare to save people.

Monk Pujing said coldly: "Chen Dong, don't think that Lao Tzu doesn't know how Chen Sipan died, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will kill you now." ”

Saying that, Chen Dong killed the big boss Chen Sipan in Dongtai County that day, and now he has become the new boss of the Dongsha Island bandits, and gradually he doesn't take the Pujing monk in his eyes, and disobeys Pujing's order, so today's contradiction broke out.

"Xiaohai, everyone, brothers, you can spare me." Chen Dong pleaded.

Monk Pujing stepped on his feet slightly, and the surface of the stream soaked into Chen Dong's mouth, and said coldly: "You ask Master Shark if he will spare you?" ”

Chen Dong's eyes finally showed fear, and he hurriedly said, "Xiaohai...... Brother Hai, don't tell Master Shark, I will listen to you in the future, all of you. ”

Monk Pujing's feet were slightly relaxed, and his eyes lightly glanced at several of Chen Dong's henchmen, and Chen Dong immediately shouted: "You feces eaters, put down your weapons, and call Brother Hai." ”

Several of Chen Dong's henchmen glanced at each other, put down their weapons and took two steps back, lowered their heads and shouted respectfully: "Brother Hai! ”

Monk Pujing actually didn't really want to kill Chen Dong, after all, his identity should not be exposed, and the group of thieves on Dongsha Island had to be led by someone, at this time, since Chen Dong was soft, he also put away his murderous intent, let go of his feet and said coldly: "And spare you this time, I dare to disobey Lao Tzuyang in the future, and be careful about your dog's life." ”

Chen Dong hurriedly expressed his loyalty and said: "I will listen to Brother Hai in the future, Brother Hai will let me go east and never west, let me chase dogs and never chase chickens." ”

At this time, there was a banging gunfire from the direction of the downstream, and the Pujing monk leaned over and lifted Chen Dong from the stream and threw it to the shore, and said lightly: "The five hundred battalions are in the trap, it seems that this widow really has two brushes, destroy the embankment!" ”

Chen Dong immediately got up and very actively teamed up with several henchmen to knock down the embankment, and with a boom, a water dragon rushed downstream, and the stream downstream swelled sharply.

At this time, in the gourd valley, Wang Lin'er was pointing and waving the team and fighting and retreating, the flood came suddenly, because the gourd valley was narrow, the water flow was blocked by the terrain, the water level rose sharply, and it suddenly spread above the knees, and the huge momentum also made many soldiers fall, and the formation was chaotic.

Wang Lin'er was shocked, fortunately, the amount of water stored upstream was not large, that is, in ten seconds, Hong Feng completely passed, and the water level quickly fell, but even so, it still had a great impact on the 500 battalions, and the magazines of the soldiers were completely soaked.

"Kill!" Orishin Miko let out a low cry and led people to rush down from the mountain bag.

"Hey!" Those Japanese warriors were barefoot in the muddy water, like wolves descending the mountain, the long Japanese swords were simply unstoppable, and in an instant, flesh and blood flew sideways, and those recruits were killed with fear.

Wang Lin'er waved his waist knife and shouted: "Kill!" ”

The soldiers of the 500 battalion threw down their flintlock pistols one after another, drew their swords and shouted in unison, the courage of the veterans of a hundred battles was not comparable to that of new soldiers, even in adversity, they were not afraid of fighting to the death.

Wang Lin'er took the lead and led the soldiers to meet the thieves, and the panicked recruits also settled down when they saw this, and rushed forward behind the soldiers.

Boom......

The two groups of men and horses violently tore into one place, severed limbs and arms, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the stream was instantly dyed red.

Orishin Miko's face was cold, obviously she didn't expect that this group of elite five hundred battalions without the advantage of firearms could still be so strong in combat effectiveness, she jumped in front of Wang Lin'er with a loud voice.

The Han people have a saying that "the man shoots the horse first, and the thief captures the king first", so Orishin Miko planned to kill this Ming general first.

Dangdangdang......

Wang Lin'er stabbed Ori Shinmiko three times in a row, and there were three gaps in the edge of the waist knife.

Although the Wa State lacks iron materials, but the Japanese knife is very sophisticated, the blade of the steel is obviously stronger than the Ming army's waist knife, not that the casting process of the Ming Dynasty is poor, but the Ming army's waist knife is mass-produced, and the Japanese knife is carefully made, a Japanese knife from beginning to end takes two months to make.

Therefore, even in Japan, not everyone can afford to use this kind of sophisticated Japanese sword, only true samurai are qualified to have it, and the waist sword of the Ming army is standard, at the cost of reducing some of the quality, in exchange for mass production.

While......

Wang Lin'er stabbed Ori Shinmiko again, and the tip of the knife was cut off, and he couldn't help but be taken aback, so he was in a trance, and his ribs were kicked, and he fell in pain on the spot.

Orishin Miko pounced on him with an arrow, and was about to kill Wang Lin'er, but a fierce soldier next to him rushed up to save him without fear of death, and Orishin Miko had to turn around to deal with it......

The fierce battle lasted for about half an hour, and both sides suffered casualties, but the casualties on the side of the 500 battalion were obviously greater, of which the casualties of 100 recruits were the most heavy, and nearly half of the casualties had been reduced.

Wang Lin'er was covered in blood and mud, his feet were beaten, the blood stained the trouser legs red, if it weren't for Hosokawa Takeshu's knife just slashing on the thorn bag of the three-edged army, one of his calves would have been removed.

Seeing that Wang Lin'er was about to die under the sword of Hosokawa Takeshu, a Japanese warrior who was on guard on the hillside suddenly screamed nonsense.

Orishimiko slashed a soldier with a sword, and shouted unwillingly: "Withdraw!" With that, he turned around and ran quickly.

A group of thieves also hurriedly evacuated, and Wang Lin'er finally couldn't support it anymore at this time, and fell into the stream.

In about half a minute, Qi Jingtong led people to kill, and a hundred gun-wielding soldiers roared through the gourd mouth, instantly selling smoke everywhere, and the sound of gunfire like bursting beans came and went.

Qi Jingtong led people to chase and kill for several miles, shot more than a dozen people, and then collected his troops and returned to Huluzui.

"Commander Wang, what's the matter, can you still go?" Qi Jingtong walked to Wang Lin'er and asked with concern.

At this time, Wang Lin'er's legs had been bandaged, and he smiled bitterly: "It's okay, fortunately, you arrived in time, old Qi, if it's really not enough, the life of a certain family is estimated to be here." ”

Qi Jingtong frowned and said: "It seems that we still underestimate this gang of thieves, they are ambushed and flooded, and there are masters among the thieves!" ”

Wang Lin'er nodded and said: "It should be the means of the widow Ori Shin Miko, those thieves just now obviously took her as the head of the horse, by the way, she still has a flintlock pistol in her hand, which is estimated to have been snatched from our brothers." ”

Qi Jingtong couldn't help but hate, and said in a deep voice: "His grandmother's, if he is caught by Lao Tzu, he will have to dismantle this widow into eight pieces." ”

Wang Lin'er waved his hand and said: "Let's count the losses first, Lao Tzu was pecked by the geese today, send someone to contact Xiao Xie, let him not take it lightly, this gang of thieves is not easy to deal with." ”

After counting, Wang Lin'er's losses this time were really not small, eight soldiers were killed, three were seriously wounded, and thirty-two were lightly wounded, while twenty-eight of the 100 recruits were killed, almost all of them were wounded, and 12 were seriously injured.

However, the thieves also suffered a lot of losses, and with the part of the cannon fodder that lured the enemy, the death toll reached as many as fifty-one, of which seven were Japanese samurai.

According to Wang Lin'er's estimate, the remaining number of this gang of thieves will not exceed 120 people, and no more than 100 people can fight.