"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

When they found that the men in black were rushing towards the town, and they were still holding weapons in their hands, the green battalion soldiers standing stupidly at the entrance of the town came to their senses.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

A rush gong sounded over the town.

The townsfolk who buried the corpses turned white with fright, screamed one by one, and ran around in fright.

Li Laoquan was also stunned, but he was not so frightened that his soul was not possessed, but he shouted at the villagers who were running around: "Don't run around, run to the town!" ”

After listening to Li Laoquan's shout, several people immediately came back to their senses: the wife and children are still in the town! If they run away, the wife and children will do it yesterday!

The townspeople who came back to their senses immediately turned around and ran into the town with a shout, and two people did not forget to carry Li Laoquan to run, and while running, they looked at the black-clothed soldiers who were about to rush over in fear.

"Mother!"

Seeing that the black-clothed soldiers were about to catch up with them, the townspeople were so frightened that they cried out, only hating their father and mother for giving birth to their own two legs, and those who ran behind were already so frightened that they didn't dare to look behind them at all, but closed their eyes and ran forward like crazy. They feared that if they turned around, they would be pierced into a hole by the spears of the black-clad soldiers.

However, those black-clothed soldiers did not pay attention to the townspeople in front of them at all, although they had approached these townspeople, but the black-clothed soldiers had no intention of killing at all, but maintained a neat pace and quickly rushed towards the town.

Seeing that these black-clothed soldiers did not kill them, the townspeople felt a lot more settled, they didn't care whether these black-clothed soldiers were Ming soldiers or bandits, as long as the other party did not come to kill them, then thank God, the Bodhisattva blessed!

Li Laoquan became nervous all of a sudden, looking at the black-clothed soldiers rushing past him, and then at the green battalion soldiers who were hurriedly assembled in front of the town, his eyes were full of worry: I wonder if the officers and soldiers can hold it? In case General Zhao can't hold the town, then the town will be occupied by these black-clothed soldiers!

God forbid, don't let the black-clothed soldiers take over the town, don't!

Li Laoquan's heart was beating so hard because of running, and at the same time, he was trembling because of fear, he was afraid, he was very afraid, he didn't dare to imagine the consequences of the black-clothed soldiers occupying the town.

He was not afraid that the black-clad soldiers would ransack the town, but that the Qing army, which would later regain it, would ransack the town.

……

"Brothers, rush me!"

In order to eliminate the green battalion of Xinxing Town in the shortest time, Zhou Shixiang handed over only a dozen bows in the whole battalion to Ge Zheng, and those archers were following closely behind Ge Zheng with bows and arrows, so that they could use arrows to suppress the counterattack of the green battalion soldiers during the battle.

From the launch of the Taiping Army's attack to the completion of the initial assembly of the Green Battalion at the entrance of the town, only half a pillar of incense time passed. Xinxing Town is not surrounded by city walls, and theoretically the Taiping army can break into Xinxing Town from any point, but Zhou Shixiang hopes to be able to completely annihilate Xinxing Green Battalion through Tang and one battle, otherwise it will be easy to be counterattacked by the Green Battalion soldiers who are familiar with the terrain in a hurry. Moreover, although the Taiping Battalion has experienced a battle with the Deqing Green Battalion, there are still too few soldiers who can fight, and less than 400 of the more than 1,300 people in the battalion have combat experience. Otherwise, in the face of the Qing army, which had many more troops than the Taiping battalion, the Taiping battalion would be powerless to fight.

Constant battles and victories can build a strong army. These 300 green battalion soldiers in Xinxing Town are the first whetstone for the Taiping Battalion's southward advance!

Ge Zheng invited himself to break into Xinxing Town as the vanguard of the whole battalion, this bandit leader did not take the garrison of Xinxing Town in his eyes at all, and his blind arrogance had been exerted to the extreme, it seemed that as long as he Ge Zheng's knife was pointed, the green battalion soldiers on the opposite side would be frightened, and then fled in a hurry.

In fact, there was a brief panic among the Green Battalion soldiers in Xinxing Town, but only for a short time, and by the time the Taiping Battalion arrived at the entrance of the town, about 100 Green Battalion soldiers had already assembled.

"Kill the thief!"

The commander of these green battalion soldiers was not the general Zhao Shiyu, but a military commander Wang Dade who only led a few soldiers. After hearing the sound of the gong, Wang Dade, who was gambling with others, rushed out of the tent with an axe, and after seeing the green battalion soldiers on duty who were noisy and did not know how to meet the enemy, Wang Dade also did not care to ask for the commander's life, and gathered the green battalion soldiers who shouted out with a few of his soldiers, and then killed the black-clothed soldiers who rushed over first.

Someone took the lead, and the Green Battalion soon showed its true colors as an organized army, and they rushed from all directions to join the battle group, and by the time the Taiping Battalion approached, there were already more than 150 Green Battalion soldiers in front of them. The rest of the town's Green Battalion soldiers were also coming this way under the leadership of the officer.

"Just in time!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

The green battalion soldiers rushing over from the opposite side did not make Ge Zheng afraid, but aroused his bravery, the corners of his mouth showed a hideous killing intention, and the long knife in his hand clearly imprinted his face.

At the sound of an order, the dozen or so archers who followed closely behind Ge Zheng released the bowstrings in their hands almost simultaneously.

"Whoosh!"

With a screeching sound, sharp arrows flew out of the bowstring, but unfortunately, a dozen arrows only hit two Green Battalion soldiers, and the rest of the arrows were all missed. But even so, the sudden arrow still startled the green battalion soldiers who rushed ahead, and instinctively stopped to avoid the arrow. At this stop, the people behind couldn't stop it, and the green camp team was in chaos. At this moment, under the leadership of several Jiangxi small banners, the Taiping army slashed towards the green camp.

"Fuck it!"

Here Ge Zheng was also angry and scolded, and the faces of those archers were also very ugly, but this was not to blame them, because they only practiced bows and arrows for half a month, and a qualified archer obviously could not be practiced in half a month. A dozen arrows killed two enemies, which should be considered a good result. It's a pity that in the eyes of Ge Zheng, a bandit, at such a close distance, a dozen bows only shot two Qing soldiers, and these archers are too damn useless!

In Ge Zheng's shouting and scolding, the archers cheered up and struggled to stretch their bows and pull the strings to shoot towards the Qing army. More than a dozen bows naturally do not form a rain of arrows, and the archers are unfamiliar, unable to aim at the leaders of the Qing army, so they can only cause some psychological shadows to the Qing army.

Between the lightning and flint, the Taiping Camp and the Green Camp had already collided together, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

"Die, Qinggou!"

Ge Zheng's right hand clenching the long knife was pulled out, only to hear an extremely terrible scream, the Qing soldiers who were facing him had already cut off their arms, and the half-amputated limbs fell heavily to the ground, and the red blood turned red on the grass on the ground in an instant.

"Kill!"

The terrible screams rang out one after another, and more than a hundred green battalion soldiers slashed together with the swarming Taiping army.

I have to say that these green battalion soldiers who dared to fight were very strong, but although they were brave, the Taiping army came too suddenly, and the strength was several times that of theirs, and after barely holding out for a while, gradually, the green battalion soldiers could no longer withstand it. Especially when Zhou Shixiang personally led Shao Jiugong and Tie Yi to arrive, the situation was one-sided.

"Brother Wang, there are too many enemy soldiers, the brothers can't stand it, let's withdraw quickly!"

During the battle, a Qing soldier shouted at Wang Dade, who was slashing and slashing with the Taiping army not far away. Wang Dade turned a deaf ear, and only kept shouting and slashing down the Taiping troops who surrounded him.

"Clear dog, look at the knife!"

Ge Zheng cut off another Qing soldier with bared teeth and cracked mouth, and then roared straight at Wang Dade.

………

When the gong sounded, Zhao Shiyu, the chief of the Xinxing garrison green battalion, was accompanying the guests from Zhaoqing to dinner, and when the rapid gong sounded, the guests on the table were stunned and didn't know what was happening. Zhao Shiyu's face also changed, he slammed the table, and shouted outside: "What's the matter, who struck the gong!" ”

Several of the soldiers who rushed in after hearing the news from outside looked at each other, and they didn't know what was going on.

Seeing that the soldiers were still stunned, Zhao Shiyu was furious: "Go outside and take a look, what's going on?" ”

"Wow!"

The two pro-soldiers hurriedly rushed out, and as soon as they got outside, they saw that the streets were full of panicked people fleeing, and there was a shout of killing from the east end of the town, and the two pro-soldiers were dumbfounded when they heard it, and they were stunned for a few seconds, and ran back to the house.

"The Ming army called?"

After listening to the report of the pro-soldiers, Zhao Shiyu's face turned white, and the guests who came from Zhaoqing were also frightened and green, you look at me, I look at you, one by one, as angry as if they had lost their fathers and mothers: What about the Ming army in this good Xinxing Town yesterday?

Why did the Ming army call, how did the Ming army call?! Didn't they fly over?

Zhao Shiyu's teeth creaked, his fists clenched tightly, and his breathing was rapid and heavy.

Seeing this, a personal soldier on the side couldn't help but remind him: "My lord, Xinxing has no city wall protection, if it is really the Ming army that kills it, we can't stop it with our three hundred people alone, so my lord should hurry to the mansion to ask for reinforcements!" If it's too late, you won't be able to get out! ”

A pot-bellied guest trembled and got up and echoed: "Yes, yes, Lord Zhao, this place is too dangerous, let's flee to Fucheng immediately to report the news!" ”

As soon as they heard this, several other people were also busy persuading them word by word, all hoping that Zhao Shiyu could immediately lead people to protect them and escape from Xinxing.

Listening to the persuasion of these people, Zhao Shiyu was also hesitant in his heart, the sound of shouting and killing from outside was getting closer and closer, he was not deaf how could he not hear it, from the shouting and killing sound, I am afraid that there were a lot of soldiers and horses in the Ming army, and this little person under his command could not stop it at all. But if he really abandoned Xinxing and fled to Fucheng, could he bear the great sin of losing land and abandoning land! The court has a strict order, not to use force, as long as you commit the crime of losing land and abandoning the land, it is an ironclad death, that is, there are manpower to protect it, and you have to shed your skin if you don't die!

To go or not to go?

Zhao Shiyu couldn't make up his mind.