When Li Xi attacked with 1,600 elites, Wang Wenxiong's defeat was already doomed, and Li Xi had no doubt about this.

But there is an old saying, called "Heaven does not fulfill people's wishes".

At noon on February 14, at the west foot of Guanyin Mountain in Fogang, the official road was obliquely pulled through a valley. On the north side of the valley, several carriages formed a high platform to choke the official road, and Li Xi was using a telescope to look at the large group of people and horses three or four miles away to the southeast.

"Desheng is really clever, he can actually detect the movements of the bandits, and invite ...... here"

Zhou Ning, a guerrilla in the middle battalion of Shaozhou Town, was also observing with a telescope, and his tone was quite regretful.

"If I knew that it would be so easy to get it, there was no need to let your Yingde practice courage and do it for you, just let me come to my own house."

Near the high platform, the banner is displayed, and the font size of "Yingde County Lian Yong, Wu" and "Shaozhen Zhongying, Zhou" is very clear. Zhou is Zhou Ning, Wu is Wu Ya, Yingde is now Li Shi's territory, and giving Wu Ya the title of Lian General is just a gesture.

Zhou Ning complained so much because Li Shi greeted him and said that there were Jieyang thieves coveting Yingde Li Zhuang's Sanjiang Ticket Bank Treasury, which was gathering in groups, and Yingde Lian Yong was ready to attack, and he also brought the town standard camp to get some credit.

Zhou Ning and even Bai Daolong lived a comfortable and leisurely life in Shaozhou, and they didn't know much about the wind and rain in Guangzhou, even if they knew that there was some rumors in the imperial court, they didn't expect that the matter would go straight to Li Xi. They have silver on both the public and private sides of the Sanjiang ticket shop, and even Sanjiang investment, hearing this, Zhou Ning was furious and dared to touch his own silver! immediately raised the banner and followed Li Shi. It's just that Li Shi said that he was in a hurry, so he didn't bring a pacesetter, and only followed Li Shi to run a trip to divide the meat.

"Hey, although there is no flag, it is the attire of officers and soldiers, and these bandits are too bold!"

Then Zhou Ning made a discovery, and it became more and more wrong.

"Wait...... Even the order flag is a routine of officers and soldiers, that is Huizhou soldiers! Raise the standard! Don't get me wrong, Desheng? Li Desheng!? ”

He shouted a few words, but Li Xi didn't respond. In the distance ahead, in a few carriages that had been tightly covered before, something was pushing down, Zhou Ning saw it and almost shouted, cannon! Cannon!

He looked at Li Xian, who was still silent, in horror, but met Long Gaoshan's face, this Yao family man smiled and rested the straight knife on his neck.

"Let's just watch the excitement next, if you are messing around, this is the battlefield ......"

Li Xi looked into the distance and said lightly.

"You...... Are you going to rebel!? ”

Zhou Ning's tongue was knotted.

"I'm not rebelling, I'm killing thieves."

Li Xi continued to emphasize the "truth" of this matter.

Zhou Ning was thrown into an open-top carriage in a daze, huddled with a few of his own soldiers, he still didn't understand what kind of puzzle he was in? Raising the standard without playing the flag, rushing for hundreds of miles, but Li Xi raised the banner of the town mark and Lian Yong, and intercepted the standard, what is this?

"What are the Shaozhou soldiers doing here!?"

When the scout reported this situation to Wang Wenxiong, not only did he not understand it, but Li Wei, who accompanied him, did not understand it either.

"When I passed through Fogang, I heard that there were bandits in Jieyang, probably on patrol."

Li Wei said this, still wondering if he would move the other party as well.

can make Wang Wenxiong come out of the nest, not only relying on Yinzhen's handwritten letters, but also Li Wei's "knowing the benefits" is more crucial.

Wang Wenxiong has been in Guangdong for two years, although he has no intersection with Li Xi himself, but he also has "business dealings", but he is a coarse person and is not interested in long-term business, so he asked Sanjiang Ticket Company to help him allocate trivial salary and forage money.

As soon as Li Wei came, he first scared Wang Wenxiong, saying that Sanjiang Ticket was issued, and anyone who had an affair with Li Wei would be unlucky, and the fourth elder brother had already laid a net and was investigating local officials one by one.

Wang Wenxiong, who didn't care much about the affairs of Guangzhou, was really frightened, and then Li Wei said that there was still a chance to remedy it, so he took out Yinzhen's handwritten letter.

Li Wei added another weight, saying that the target was Li Shi's hometown in Yingde, and there were millions of taels of silver piled up in the headquarters of Sanjiang Ticket Bank, although he couldn't take it all, but he wrote tens of thousands of taels less on the search list, this matter was simple, and even the fourth elder brother would help cover it up.

The bank of the headquarters of the Sanjiang Ticket Bank is in Yingde Xunhuan, and those who have come into contact with the Sanjiang Ticket Bank know it. Hearing this good thing, Wang Wenxiong's eyes immediately turned green, and he urgently convened the fifth battalion to raise the standard, prepared for one day, and set off on the third day, and went straight to Yingde in the starry night. In order to keep secrets, naturally he could not go north from Qingyuan to Feilai Gorge, but directly from Fogang to the mouth of the Wengjiang River, and traveled west from the county seat.

In the night after Wang Wenxiong's decision, the first news was rushed to Yu Hanyi, who was still in Guangzhou at that time, followed by a steady stream of information, including the guerrillas of the Upgrading Battalion who had bought a large amount of dried meat and dry food from businessmen [1], which meant that when Han Yi flew back to Yingde to inform Li Shi, more than 4,000 people from the Fifth Battalion had just left the boundary of Huizhou.

But the Qing army in this era is not slow to move, there are white flowers and silver beckoning, and the feet are even more energetic. When Li Shi led his troops to Fogang, he only waited for half a day before Wang Wenxiong appeared, and he traveled sixty or seventy miles.

When the two armies met, Wang Wenxiong didn't understand it, so he sent his men down to talk.

"Wang Junmen's standard brigade is here, wait for the officials to go and see you quickly!"

The chief horse came, and just after roaring this voice, a gunshot rang out, and he fell off the horse, and Wang Wenxiong and Li Wei, who saw the rear, had a jump in his heart and the corners of his eyes.

"Yingde practice bravery...... That's Li Shi's soldiers! It's a thief! ”

Chattering about the banner of the scout, Li Wei slapped his thigh and finally woke up.

"The left battalion and the right battalion, hit the side according to the system, and the rear battalion will rush forward!"

Wang Wenxiong gave orders according to the rising anger, and from a distance, the other party was only a thousand people, and he dared to stop in front of his 5,000 soldiers, and he really didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

The left battalion was on the left, the right battalion was on the right, and in front of the rear battalion platoon, they formed a rough formation of characters and began to slowly press forward.

"The horses go around the left flank."

Seeing that the three battalions of 24,500 men pressed up, Wang Wenxiong gave another order, and the six or seven hundred horses rushed away from behind the formation.

"The military gate is really cautious."

Li Wei exclaimed, although the other party only had 1,000 people, but Wang Wenxiong pressed most of the troops at once, and also used the horse team, he really fought the rabbit with a tiger and was unwilling to take risks.

"It's better to be careful."

Wang Wenxiong smiled crookedly, but he didn't want to elaborate, where was he cautious, he just wanted to quickly solve this gang of anti-thieves who were blocking the way, and quickly rushed to Xunhuan. Looking at this posture, his own collection has been exposed, but more than one million taels of silver, it shouldn't have been cleaned up yet, it's really gone, copy it around in that Xunhua town...... If it weren't for the fact that he was still pumping a trace of Qingling, beware of another ambush, and the valley was too narrow to spread more people, Wang Wenxiong wanted to press the remaining two battalions up.

The roar of the puff was continuous, and more than 2,000 people from the three battalions began to fire artillery from a distance of almost a mile, and the usual three-fold array of the Qing soldiers and green battalions began the first stack of repertoire.

"Our cannon, it's going to sound!"

Li Shi plucked out his ears, for three years, he has always wanted to taste the refreshing feeling of leading his army to bully the Qing soldiers, and it has finally been realized today, although it is still an ambiguous battle, but if history is written in the future, this battle should also be counted, strictly speaking, this is his real first battle.

The thud shook and rang, like a muffled thunder, and it looked dull and heavy. This is a new formula of gunpowder obtained by repeated trials and tests of the gunpowder group, after raw material purification, granulation and graphite polishing, like gunpowder, it is roughly close to the black powder standard of the British during the Opium War 130 years later. The new gunpowder is more than twice as powerful as the gunpowder of the Qing Army.

Pushed by this powerful gunpowder, seven or eight catties of iron bullets roared into the air, pulled out an arc trajectory with a small curvature, and smashed into the queue of Qing soldiers gathered more than a mile away.

Watching the black cannonballs fall from mid-air, the slow speed seemed to be easily avoided, but when the cannonballs landed, smashing up a pillar of dirt and shaking their feet, time seemed to be rapidly adjusted.

Almost most people have judged where this shell landed, but after that, it was a secret. The cannonball rubbed a strange angle on the ground, and the first jump wiped off half of a soldier's head, and then swept over the string of people diagonally, turning into a horizontal bounce, which seemed to be a small cannonball, but it seemed like a stealthy impermanence swung it, breaking arms and legs, and collapsing the chest.

If it was a Qing soldier more than 30 years ago, he would not be unfamiliar with this scene happening around him, but now it is the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, and in Guangdong, the most recent war is to conquer the Yao people in Lianzhou, which was also more than ten years ago. In the fifty-first year of Kangxi, Shaozhou Yang Chun rebelled, that is, a bunch of grass people, real bandits, they did not encounter, let alone be bombarded by artillery.

In the first round of bombardment of the eight guns, the Qing soldiers of the three battalions were stunned and did not react at all, until the second round of shells splashed the flesh and blood stumps carrying the soil in the dense crowd, and then they came back to their senses and dispersed one after another.

"Yo, morale hasn't reached zero yet."

Seeing that the Qing soldiers of the three battalions were just in chaos and did not disperse, Li Xianxin said that the Qing soldiers of this era were really not tofu scum.

Of course, it won't be tofu scum, Wang Wenxiong has already pressed to the rear of the three battalions, and the flags and horns are repeated, urging them to rush forward.

Wang Wenxiong, who had mastered the promotion for two years, was powerful enough, and the guerrilla garrisons of the three battalions did not dare to turn back to face his angry eyes and even waist knives, and they all shouted vigorously, and occasionally there were encouraging voices of "take whatever you want".

Rushing up, there were only a few cannons, and when they rushed up, it would be difficult for their thousand men to stop. Led by this thought, although the eight cannons exploded in the crowd, the scattered crowd of the three battalions still moved forward. In a short time, the three battalions rushed through half a mile.

"The Wild Age of the Lost Flowering Bombs......"

Li Xi sighed with emotion, waved another order, and the sound of the cannon suddenly stopped.

Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, seeing that it was about to be a hundred steps closer, Li Xian waved his hand, and the eight artillery pieces roared again, but this time it was no longer a single shell. Eight shotguns in wire cages came out of their chambers, and after forty or fifty paces, the half-molten wire frame was finally torn apart, and a large lead the size of a pigeon's egg shot out, exploding a wave of flesh and blood in front of the crowd a hundred paces away.

"Let's go......"

Seeing that the momentum of the crowd stopped abruptly, like a wave slapping a bloody foam on the beach, Li Xi issued an order.

Wu Ya in front of him had already looked back frequently, and when he saw the red flag waving on the high platform of the carriage, he clenched his fists excitedly and shouted: "Go!" ”

The aftermath of the cannon was still streaked across the sky, and another sound was churning. This sound was scattered in more than a dozen places, converging, but it formed a background sound like waves, pushing out a force, a force that those Qing soldiers had never experienced.

It was a strange drum beat, with a strange rhythm, from far and near, steadily pressing.

Da, da~ daladeda~ dalada, daladeda......

(To be continued)