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In the midst of the rain, Sun Chuanting, who had a blue face, tied up a thousand generals and dozens of officers and soldiers who were the first to break and escape, and beheaded them for public display.

Dozens of pro-soldiers supervising the Chinese army, holding high the heads of people dripping with blood dripping downward, galloped through the march that stretched for dozens of miles, loudly announcing the crime of these people fearing the enemy like tigers and retreating before fighting.

"If you want to go back to Shaanxi to hug your wife and children, you have to show the temperament of a cold baby in northern Shaanxi, just move forward!"

There are generals who see the opportunity quickly, and they take advantage of the situation to loudly encourage morale in their own battalions, and motivate their soldiers and officers to work hard to move forward and fight their way to the death. said so in his mouth, but in his heart he was uneasy, the 10,000 new army that acted as the vanguard was also the elite in the entire Shaanxi army, how could he be so defeated in front of the rogue with only one face?

"Ben Governor gave you 10,000 horses, how come you only came back more than 2,000?"

In Niu Chenghu's military tent, Sun Chuanting's face condensed with murderous intent, and Niu Chenghu, a veteran soldier, didn't dare to make a sound, just watched Sun Chuanting's trial of the right arm hit a gun, and his muscles and bones were broken, and half of his arm was the deputy general hanging in the wind and rain.

"Governor!" The severe pain on his body distorted the adjutant's facial features, and the sweat on his head flowed down uncontrollably. However, he didn't dare to go down to rest, knowing that he could endure the pain and answer Sun Chuanting's question.

"The mark originally thought that the thief's firearm could not last in the wind and rain, so he oversaw the soldiers swooping forward, and in order to suppress the thief's firecracker, he did not hesitate to use the bow, and would rather the bow and crossbow be damaged than kill and injure the thief's firecracker. As everyone knows. The thieves not only continued to fire guns, but also arranged artillery in the mountains on both sides! After two volleys of firearms, the formation of our attacking soldiers was scattered, and when the army was panicking, the thieves bombarded it with artillery, which immediately caused heavy losses to our soldiers. ”

And then. The thieves turned from defense to attack, and slowly stepped forward, and each line of more than ten steps bombarded our army's offensive position with firearms. Every two rounds of bombardment, cannons are used to help. Our army is invincible. I wanted to pack up my men and horses, retreat slightly, reorganize the camp, and mobilize artillery to move forward, but the thieves suddenly copied the two wings of our army with fine horses. The last general's team was smashed into several sections, and they were held hostage with firecrackers and cannons, and the besieged soldiers were carried away. ”

"In the camp of the last general, there were no more than 1,000 people killed and wounded by thieves, more than 2,000 people who fled back, and more than 1,000 people who were killed in battle. Most of the rest were coerced away by thieves! ”

Such a thief tactic? Firearms, artillery, and cavalry, relying on the mountainous terrain to exert their respective power to the extreme, it is no wonder that the casualties of these 10,000 soldiers have suffered such huge losses. Counting the wounded soldiers in the battalion, they barely had less than half of their strength left.

Niu Chenghu was thinking in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel worried about himself. If it were his turn to fight this bandit, what would be the casualties?

However, according to the law of the devil, whatever you are afraid of comes. Just when Mr. Niu was crackling in his heart, Sun Chuanting spoke.

"Chief Soldier!"

"Mark it in!"

"Let the new barracks make way for you, and your cavalry will come forward together. Be sure to break through the bandit leader Luo Hu's command in one fell swoop! Open the way for the great army! ”

When Sun Chuanting said this, his face changed, "You can now order someone to go to the Governor Biao Zhongjun to receive 50,000 silver dollars as a reward for recruiting and selecting the front, and after breaking through the road, the Governor will immediately go to the imperial court." Request for knighthood for you. If you still can't tear the hole, come and see! ”

Sun Chuanting pointed to the head of the thousand generals hanging on the treetops outside the tent: "The military law of this governor is certainly not allowed to wait!" ”

Sun Chuanting even dared to kill a madman, what is a mere cow becoming a tiger? Even if you are scared, the cow is about to squirt out urine. The mouth is only promised, and immediately sent someone to arrange it without mentioning it.

It's no wonder that Sun Chuanting is impatient and wants to kill people at every turn.

The rangers arranged on both flanks of the army, Gao Jie's headquarters, who served as the rear guard of the army, constantly sent news, and to the east, south, and north, the cavalry of the peasant army continued to approach the officers and troops, numbering as many as tens of thousands. The large force of cavalry was followed by a larger infantry in the wind and rain. Now more than 100,000 officers and soldiers are gathered in this narrow area within a radius of dozens of miles, if they can't break through before the main forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai arrive, then his Sun Chuanting will really become Li Zicheng in the southern plains of Tongguan back then.

The question is, Li Zicheng was defeated when he was defeated, and he was able to hide in Shangluo Mountain and Xu Tu to make a comeback, if he was defeated, would Emperor Chongzhen in Beijing give him a chance? Shaanxi's official gentry who vomited blood by the new policy he forcefully promoted, will he be given a chance? ?

His only way to survive now is to save as many troops as possible, according to the unwritten rules of the Ming Dynasty over the years, as long as there are soldiers and horses in hand, even if the defeat is miserable, no matter how angry the slaughter and burning of the people of the state and county is, the court will only pretend not to see it!

A shout was sent from the official road to the ears of Luo Hu and Zhang Nai, who were inspecting the seizures and spoils of war in their own positions.

"Brethren, brethren! The Overseer knows that everyone is a brave man! They are all our heroes in Shaanxi! If you want to go back to Shaanxi to eat pot helmets, you have to sell hard! opened the opening in front of him, and the overseer rewarded 30,000 silver dollars! ”

More than a dozen officers such as Qianzong and garrison officers shouted hoarsely in front of their respective battalion posts, waving a large number of silver dollars in their hands. Behind them, dozens of porters lay heavy baskets on the dirt floor, lifted the lids, and filled them with glittering silver dollars.

"Now recruit the Drafted Death Squad! Those who are willing will be given fifteen silver dollars! The opening was opened, and another twenty yuan per person was issued! ”

Under the temptation of heavy rewards, Shaanxi soldiers kept coming out of the ranks, taking off the cotton armor on their upper bodies, and lining up on the official road in front of the mountain with swords and guns in their hands.

"Huzi, it seems that Sun Lao'er has no new tricks, and he has used the magic weapon of recruiting and selecting the front!"

"Brother, you can't worry about it! You see, this damn rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it is more and more difficult for our firearms and gunpowder to be filled, as long as Sun Lao'er keeps throwing in soldiers and horses, we are really not easy to deal with. Luo Hu pointed to the dense and dense autumn rain outside the shack, and his face showed a difficult color.

Zhang Nai disagreed. Just put a bowl of horse broth in the copper pot hanging from the brazier and handed it to Luo Hu, "You, you!" Little Huzi, how can I praise you as an elder brother? There will be no war in these years?! When we broke into the camp and didn't have firecrackers, how did those damn battles go? Now our soldiers and horses are complete with swords and guns, and their armor is complete. Back then, I could be happy for days when I got an iron armor. But do you see now? Looking around you? ”

Zhang Nai stuffed the copper bowl to the sworn brothers who grew up together in the smoke of the guns, and his eyes were full of the elder brother's praise for the promising younger brother. Luo Hu laughed twice and drank the hot soup, looking at the soldiers around him, who were the most ordinary infantrymen, and they also had a cotton armor on their bodies, or coconut shell armor for protection. And those veterans and small leaders who are older or have official positions are wearing one-color dragon leather armor, and the dense copper nails are full of rain, and this armor is now the favorite of the army. Not only is it lightweight, it has a good protective effect, and it is also first-class to resist wind, cold, rain and snow. (Just kidding!) Do you try wearing a leather jacket in crocodile? ）

"Not bad! Brother Naizi, we don't have firearms, we still have swords and spears, and your cannons on the mountain! My two thousand firecrackers that I have not been willing to use are still to be used! ”

Looking at the dozens of baskets lined up in front of him, the eyes of the more than 1,000 selected strikers were red. Almost all the silver dollars inside are flowing out of the basket!

"Brothers. The big marshal said and rushed forward. Tear the mouth for the whole army, and all the silver rewarded by these overseers is everyone's! However, if there are those who are timid and retreat, don't blame us for being ruthless! ”

At the back of the line, 200 axemen lined up with machetes. Cold light flashed from the broad blade, and rain flowed down from the tip of the blade.

"Rush forward, share the reward!"

"Rush forward! Bonus number! ”

There was a howl, and the selection of more than 1,000 cold babies in northern Shaanxi rolled up a crowd in the rain curtain. Rushed straight to Luo Hu's position.

"Give the brother in front of you a command, get out of the way. Bring up my 2,000 musketeers, and give them a taste of lead and thorns!" Seeing from the telescope that more than 1,000 people were stumbling all the way to the muddy water, Luo Hu sneered.

With the help of the cover of the rain curtain, Niu Chenghu's selection had already rushed through the area where the first vanguard rangers were beaten all over the field, and the outlines of the houses in Wulichuan Town in the rain could already be seen in front of him. Behind them, Niu Chenghu's main force was also advancing steadily and slowly, and every time he walked forward dozens of steps, he placed repulsive horses, and used dense spears to block the rebel cavalry that might appear on both sides at any time.

Similarly, facing the wind and rain head-on, it was the two thousand firecrackers who were all equipped with flintlock guns and equipped with sleeve guns and spurs that Luo Hu always cherished in his hands.

"General! The enemy is less than eighty paces away from me! ”

"Panic what! No fire is allowed under sixty paces! ”

"Seventy steps!"

"Herald, gun raised!"

There was a loud bang, and the firecrackers in the front row took the firecrackers off their shoulders and put them flat in their hands.

"Put!"

The first row of five hundred firecrackers raised their firearms in unison, and suddenly a dense layer of firearms appeared in the queue like a forest, aiming at those who had rushed within the best range of sixty paces, mercilessly pulling the triggers.

The "Porphyry" fire gun resounded endlessly, and a fierce fire light came out, followed by this firelight, a large amount of dense smoke produced by the fire gun was mixed with the rain. The dense projectiles were enthusiastically pushed forward by the power generated by the burning of gunpowder, and they pounced on the oncoming cavalry half-pushing. And those poor selectors, not only did they not wear thick armor, but they all wore shirtless in order to show that they had the courage to advance and retreat, die and live, and they were all shirtless, and they were hugged and kissed by these guys at such a close range, regardless of the people and horses, their bodies were immediately densely covered with thick blood holes.

When the projectile hits a person's body, it is a large hole that is broken and broken. The irregularity of the trajectory causes the final wound area to be several times, or even dozens of times the surface of the projectile. This kind of pain is unbearable for ordinary people, and few people survive being shot in the torso.

Four times in a row, each time a salvo of 500 firebolts, the front of the rebel army was filled with gunsmoke, and the deafening volley of firearms was heard non-stop. The whole formation is like a hedgehog and porcupine with spikes all over its body, and the spikes are the bayonets in the mouth of the outermost firecrackers, which makes the bull tremble and chill.

The more than 1,000 candidates he recruited for 20,000 or 30,000 silver turned into corpses lying in the muddy water and colorful numbers in the muddy water, those silver dollars that seemed to be urging ghosts. The east and west were soaked in muddy water and blood.

However, there was only one shot, and the sound of the heart-wrenching fire gun was no longer heard on the opposite side, and someone in the Ming army shouted: "It's raining!" The thief's fire gun is not good, and he rushed up with Lao Tzu to divide the lottery! ”

Wealth touches people's hearts, and this is not true at all. When people suddenly realize that the other person is now on the same starting line as their own technical level. Immediately, the fear brought by the salvo of the four rows of firearms just now was thrown out of the clouds. Each of them carried the long and short weapons in their hands, roared, and stepped on the corpses of their comrades and pounced forward!

"Huzi! Get your musketeers down! Let my soldiers go up! They can't do this kind of work! Zhang Nai took out the sword from his waist and ordered his generals to prepare horses, and then rushed to the battlefield with his subordinates to fight Niu Chenghu!

"Brother Naizi! Hold your horses! Let's take a look! Luo Hu grabbed Zhang Nai's oilcloth poncho, handed him the binoculars, and asked him to watch from the battlefield.

On the battlefield, thousands of men from both armies have been mixed together.

Originally, it was thought that after the fire gun on a rainy day had hit a preloaded projectile, it would become a useless burning stick. You can rest assured that you can boldly rush to the front and exchange the head of the opposite person for silver with the big knife and sharp blade in your hand! However, what I never expected was that these firecrackers turned into spearmen in the blink of an eye!

As soon as the two armies fought, Niu Chenghu secretly screamed bitterly! Originally, I thought that with the help of the weather, it would not be a problem for the whole army to be used to deal with these thieves who relied on the fire and sharp weapons in their hands to deal with the officers and soldiers, but it turned out that the stabbing skills of this group of thieves were even more difficult to deal with than the fire guns!

Not only will it deceive the left and right, the right and the right, and the eyes, hands and feet will cooperate more properly. Especially striking the thorns. Every movement was ruthless and skilled, far more than the Ming soldiers, and he witnessed a Ming soldier holding a spear in his hand and stabbing at a thief with a spear. The firecracker was not in a hurry, but there were already two firecrackers next to him who had already held the spear from the flanks! Immediately afterwards, the firecracker pressed the spear in the hand of the man with his left hand slightly in front of the right, and pushed the spear forward and up with his right hand, and at the same time, the left foot strode forward to the left and turned forward. The two-foot-long thorn had pierced the vital part of the family's chest. The firecracker didn't look at it, but flew up and kicked the family to the ground, pulled out the spur, and the three of them continued to search for the target with two comrades. The whole action is fast and powerful, and it is done in one go. I almost shouted good when I saw Niu Chenghu!

Two thousand firecrackers and Niu Chenghu's Guyuan Town main barracks soldiers and horses fought in one place, although the number of each other was huge, but, after all, the battlefield area was narrow, and no matter how many soldiers and horses there were, the main barracks could not be fully invested at one time. can only join the battlefield one by one, which has formed the most taboo refueling tactic of soldiers! On the contrary, the Zhenshan battalion formed a local superiority in strength, and it was often three or five firecrackers who used their guns to stab the soldiers and horses of the regular battalion holding knives and guns, and stabbed spears and broadswords, making up for the rest of the shortcomings in terms of number and coordination.

Those soldiers and horses of the main battalion who were skilled and eager to fight were actually suppressed and beaten by the 2,000 firecrackers of the Zhenshan Battalion, whose number was far less than their own, and they retreated step by step. The horse-rejecting spear that had just been set up to prevent the cavalry from raiding had also become an accomplice at this time, and the soldiers of the main barracks were constantly pushed and pushed onto the horse-repelling spears by the crowds of people, stabbing them like flesh and blood gourds.

"Governor!"

Niu Chenghu, who was defeated and retreated by Wan Xizi's command of the Zhenshan camp, knelt down in front of Sun Chuanting covered in blood.

"The thief is fierce and fierce! The last general's troops are insufficient, please send troops to help quickly! Niu Chenghu is also a character, he doesn't say that he can't beat him, but he just says that he doesn't have enough troops in his hands, and asks Inspector Sun Chuanting to mobilize reinforcements for him and increase his troops.

The actions and actions of Niu Chenghu's department were all taken into account by Sun Chuanting, Zheng Jiadong and others, and Sun Chuanting thought that he personally led the troops, but that's it!

At this time, it was in response to the sentence "Compassion is not in charge of soldiers and righteousness is not in charge of wealth", so he could only keep throwing the lives of soldiers into this melting pot of life like chopping wood, either being burned to ashes by this furnace, or burning through the furnace!

"This overseer will order the next 10,000 soldiers to immediately come forward to accept your command and dispatch!"

With more than 10,000 new troops in his hands that could be squandered, Niu Chenghu's waist was immediately a lot thicker. When even standing in front of the battle, shouting and cheering, boost morale!

"Brothers! God help! Auspicious from the sky! This rain has helped us a lot! Otherwise, we don't know how much we will lose to the fire guns of the upper thieves! At present, the thieves are dumb and hot, and they can only rely on the spurs to fight with us, although the thieves are fierce, but after all, they are alone, our team just go forward, tear the opening, and rush forward for dozens of miles is Tongguan! ”

"If you want to go back and sleep with your mother-in-law, give it to me!"

The Ming army brigade covered the official road, and the crowded flow of people rushed down the mountain, forming a sea of people on the hillside, and the red military uniform on the body looked particularly dazzling and heavy in the rain curtain.

"Two young generals! Shuangxi General ordered me to come to pass the generalissimo's order, the road is difficult to travel on rainy days, and it will take at least half a day for the army to reach Wulichuan, ask how long can you withstand it? If you can't stand it anymore, you should retreat a few miles back, lest the deaf man be too crazy! ”

An old battalion general who came to convey Li Zicheng's military order on the order of General Li Shuangxi conveyed Li Zicheng's intentions to Luo Hu and Zhang Nai.

"Please go back and tell the generalissimo that the children are having fun fighting in Wulichuan, and their bodies and bones are not fully moving! Please rest assured! ”

Zhang Nai's expression was relaxed and determined.

However, in order to prevent any accidents, the two bold little guys quietly ordered people to continue to repair the fortifications along the official road and relying on Wulichuan Town, so as to block the attack! (To be continued.) )