The commander of the Qing army, Lin Fenglin, noticed that although the enemy on the opposite side looked numerous, there was no formation to attack at all. It seems that the Fuqing Ming army had some cavalry, but instead of lining up on the flanks, these cavalry retreated to the middle of the infantry position. Therefore, Lin Feng suspected that the other party was an inexperienced general, and judging from the movements of the other party's soldiers, it didn't seem to be a strong army.

Therefore, Lin Feng finally ordered to attack, and if he was smashed down by a catapult like this, the morale of the army would really be dissipated. Considering that the other party didn't seem to have the intention of attacking, Lin Feng hesitated for a moment and decided to use the attack method of cannon fodder in front, let his town mark supervise the battle, and let the battalion soldiers go first. In the past six months, the green battalion has been invincible in the land of Jiaodong, relying on this sharp spirit, the soldiers of the green battalion responded to the call of the generals, shouting and charging the Ming army of Fuqing.

Behind the first wooden fence of the Fuqing Army, there were soldiers of the Fuqing Army holding spears in dense clusters.

Cao Xinmu is an honest tenant, his grandfather fled from Henan to Shandong with his family during the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and was taken in by an official eunuch surnamed Qu and became a tenant of the old man Qu's family. Later, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Master Qu took advantage of the chaos to stuff some money to the Xu officials, and handled household registration documents for Cao Xinmu's grandfather, so that they could become legitimate Shandong people.

Whether it is the deceased grandfather or the middle-aged father, they all told Cao Xinmu to be grateful, you must know that many Henan villagers who fled the famine together have starved to death in the troubled times. After hearing that there was chaos in the surrounding area, the Qu family gathered the tenants into the manor and selected sturdy young men to guard the dock fort. Cao Xinmu was chosen, his father, mother, and brother were all in the dock fort, and if there were really thieves attacking, he was also determined to defend the dock wall.

But then the rumors suddenly changed, the old Engong went to Weixian to go around and came back, announced that everyone wanted to attack the thieves, although leaving the dock fort made people a little uneasy, but as a tenant Cao Xinmu did not have any choice, so he followed Qu Xiucai - Qu Mushan, the grandson of their old Cao family Engong set off together.

Because Cao Xinmu also has a wooden character in his name, Young Master Sun, who lacks wood in the five elements, thinks that he will bring blessings to himself, so he appoints Cao Xinmu as a personal guard. After arriving outside Weixian County, Qu Xiucai announced that the people outside the city were not thieves, but allies to beg thieves, and those who stayed in the city were thieves. The allies blew up the city wall, and Cao Xinmu followed in. The actions of the thieves were very smooth, and they defeated and arrested the thieves who were disguised as county magistrates and officials. Since Qu Xiucai said so, it must be right.

Next, he followed the team all the way to the south and the north, Cao Xinmu escorted Qu Xiucai into the capital city of Laizhou, although he won victories along the way, Cao Xinmu was more and more confused. Obviously, they are talking about serving the imperial court and the Qing Dynasty, but they are fighting with the Qing army along the way - later Qu Xiucai did not say that the people in the prefect's yamen were all thieves in makeup, but said that these officials were all thieves, and they were all thieves! So crusade against them. At the same time, Deng Ming stayed in the Chinese military tent in a big way, and Qu Xiucai also went to receive Deng Ming's training every day, and shared the spoils and equipment from Deng Ming. But since it was Qu Xiucai who confessed, then just do it.

Laizhou Mansion is undoubtedly an eye-opener for Cao Xinmu, after all, he has never even been to a neighboring village before, and Weixian alone has made him excited for several days, let alone Fucheng. When they left Laizhou and marched to Dengzhou, even a peasant like Cao Xinmu, who had never left the twenty miles around his birthplace before, felt that what the Fuqing Army was doing was exactly the opposite of what they said. I really couldn't help but ask Qu Xiucai, and the other party sighed: "Lao Cao, I'm afraid that you will be confused, so I didn't talk to you carefully......" After Qu Xiucai explained for a while, Cao Xinmu was even more confused, but anyway, whatever Qu Xiucai ordered, he just did what he did.

When the enemy rushed over, Cao Xinmu stood up in front of Qu Mushan: before entering Dengzhou, dozens of strong young men who followed Qu Xiucai were a little resistant, because they felt that they were too far away from home, and when they went out for the first time in their lives, they always wanted to go home and see it quickly. However, Qu Xiucai said that this is the military order of the famous Xia master in Weixian, and everyone still has to move forward, and everyone's credit is remembered by the Qu family.

Qu Xiucai wrote a letter and sent it back to his hometown, and read it to these tenants before sealing it, in which he praised them well and asked Master Qu to exempt some of the rents of these families; A few cousins were outstanding, and Qu Xiucai also asked his grandfather to instruct the housekeeper to change a piece of fertile land for them; As for Cao Xinmu, a particularly outstanding bodyguard, Qu Xiucai asked his family to tell him about family affairs, not to find any tenant girls, but to find him a girl from a rich peasant family, and when he returned home in the future, he would also let him get a share of the errand of collecting rent and dividing the land.

In that case, what else is there to say? Whoever wants to hurt Qu Xiucai's cold hair is not unless he steps on Cao Xinmu's corpse. Even if he was unfortunately defeated, Cao Xinmu would never leave Qu Xiucai and run away - the other people who came with him should not either, even if they were grateful that Cheng Dù was not as tall as Cao Xinmu, but if Qu Xiucai had any three strengths and two shortcomings, they would be beaten to death by their parents even if they fled home, and then go to the master to receive severe punishment.

When he saw the Qing army rushing over, Qu Mushan behind Cao Xinmu also had a stern expression, although he was born in a gentry family and won the examination very early, but in essence, Qu Mushan was also a country child. When he left Laizhou, Qu Mushan was also very reluctant, feeling that Yu Qi's life and death had nothing to do with his family. However, Mr. Xia Jiexia is the most knowledgeable elder in Weixian County, and he has lived in Jinan for several years. Since Master Xia said that this was a cold tongue and a cold tooth, and he wanted to send troops to save Yu Qi, then Qu Mushan, the young scholars who left Weixian with Xia Jie, of course obeyed the order-when he left home, his grandfather repeatedly told him not to disobey Uncle Xia's words, otherwise he would serve the family law after he went back. If you do anything deceitful, don't complain about the removal of the family tree. Moreover, Qu Mushan's brother-in-law and brother-in-law also came with him, if he left his relatives and ran home, it would definitely affect his grandfather and the whole family in their hometown.

Although there were not many of Baoguogong's Sichuan troops, they were all amazing elite soldiers, and after seeing Baoguo Gong for the first time, his guards performed a queue change, which stunned Qu Mushan and his relatives at that time. However, Bao Guogong said that those things could not be learned by the Ming army for a while, not to mention the cavalry queue, that is, the left and right rotation of the infantry, and they could not teach their soldiers for half a year. Facts have proved that Bao Guogong is not contemptuous of them, not to mention the formation change, it is the flag, Qu Mushan often misreads it, and he will forget the meaning of the slightly obscure flag - far less simple and easy to understand than the signal of the three-eyed gun.

Of course, the trade-off for simplicity is not to make any complicated tactical moves. With Qu Xiucai's level, it is impossible to execute it at all. If you need to rotate constantly in the field to face an outflanked enemy, the Fuqing army will be in chaos itself. Now it was much more convenient, everyone surrounded Deng Ming in the middle, moved forward slowly, no matter which direction the enemy was, after setting up the fence, everyone looked out, just defend the fence in front of them - it was too easy, it was as simple as defending their own dock fort.

The Qing army rushed to the position of the Fuqing army, Cao Xinmu looked at the hideous faces on the opposite side, and also let out a roar, and pierced the spear in his hand over the chest-high fence towards the enemy.

Then the two armies fell into a long-term confrontation stage. Due to the blockade of the fence, the two sides were never able to meet each other in close combat, and the accuracy and speed of the stab were often affected by the storage of obstacles. When a soldier of the Fuqing Army was stabbed down during the long confrontation, he would be dragged to the middle of the circle by his companions behind, replaced by a person, and continue to tie up with the Qing soldiers on the other side of the fence.

When the front-line soldiers were fighting each other, the two armies continued to attack each other with long-range weapons, and because the battle line was almost stationary, the accuracy of both sides was getting higher and higher, and later the trebuchets of the Fuqing army could also accurately throw stones on the heads of the enemy soldiers on the periphery of the fence.

After fighting for half an hour, Lin Feng was sure that he would definitely lose if he continued to fight like this, although the enemy soldiers on the opposite side were indeed not elite soldiers, their morale was quite high, and they did not flinch at all after being tied for so long. Moreover, in this mechanical confrontation movement, even if the green battalion had a more flexible command, it could not play it at all, and coupled with the threat of catapults, the losses of the Qing army were much greater than those of the enemy.

However, what was beneficial to Lin Feng was that the troops in the other directions of the enemy were all stationary. The Eastern Front had been entrenched for a long time, and the enemy on the other side was still staring ahead, as if he was completely unaware of the fierce battle going on on the other side.

After an hour of fighting, Lin Feng finally couldn't bear it anymore, the crisp sound of gold sounded, and the Qing army, which had been unable to attack for a long time, retreated away from the wooden fence. Cao Xinmu stared at the enemy leaving, because there was a wooden fence to obstruct it, and the Fuqing army did not want to pursue the retreating Qing army -- some wounded Qing soldiers were dragged back to the position by familiar companions from Cao Xinmu's eyes, but the people inside the fence had no intention of turning out to stop them -- Deng Ming refused to take this risk, although the Shandong Green Battalion on the opposite side was not a strong army, but the Fuqing army did not have the ability to change the formation in the field battle at all, and one could be defeated by the other side if he was not careful, so the Sichuan army would have to go to the rescue again, and the idea of training the troops could not be completed.

It was not easy to retreat to the starting position and reorganize, but the Qing army was not disturbed in any way, so it was calmly completed, but the stones were still constantly thrown from the opposite formation and continued to be smashed to the side of the Qing army.

Lin Feng thought about it for a moment and decided to try again and try to defeat this enemy army. He felt that the legendary demon Deng Ming might arrive with elite soldiers, and Lin Feng wanted to seize the way back to Dengzhou before then.

The drums sounded again, and this time it was Lin Feng's town mark that led the charge, shouting and swooping towards the position of the Fuqing army.

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