On January 2, Nannuma Prefecture suddenly became lively.

First of all, Ding Kui announced to the whole country, condemning Mu Shaodianxi of Nannuma Prefecture for sending someone to assassinate his daughter, and vowed to avenge his daughter, and sent troops to Nanjing City, and he was bound to arrest and try Shaodianxi.

Because it was the Chinese New Year, there was not much reaction in other places, but all walks of life in Nannuma Prefecture exploded, and the last national announcement is still fresh in everyone's memory, the anger of the Jiang family is to be vented, and Ding Kui, who holds hundreds of thousands of male soldiers, is not a good man and a woman, and this time there is a big drama in Nannuma Prefecture.

Bang Dang!

"Ridiculous! How could this king do such a despicable thing!" Shao Dianxi smashed the cup angrily, "Ding Kui is slandering! It is the biggest insult to this king!" He called back Lou Xiao, who had just left the city and was about to go south to find Ding Kui.

"Misunderstanding! There must be some misunderstanding here, my lord, my subordinates will immediately find Ding Kui to make it clear. Lou Xiao was a little dazed.

He can't be sure whether Shao Dianxi did that incident, and it is impossible to know whether Ding Kui has any evidence in his hands, and he can't scold the assassin of Ding Kui's daughter for the time being.

"What's the misunderstanding? This is a conspiracy! It's Ding Kui's conspiracy! In order to rebel against the imperial court, he didn't want to lose face, he actually made up such a ridiculous reason, and used such a dirty means, is he worthy of the ancestors of the Ding family?" Shao Dianxi was so angry that he kicked a shoe away, and he couldn't care about his manners anymore.

The people next to him were silent, how far they could hide, only Lou Xiao stood in front of Shao Dianxi with a hard head.

"In this way, we can't fall for Ding Kui, and our subordinates think that we can let Ding Kui come up with evidence, and no one can accuse a noble county king without evidence. Lou Xiao tentatively made a suggestion.

Shao Dianxi gasped and sat down, and the old butler held a new cup of tea.

"How many more troops can we levy?" he pressed the lid of his teacup, his fingers still shaking slightly.

"Your Excellency. Lou Xiao lowered his voice, "Last year's taxes were already beyond our means, and continuing to recruit troops will accelerate the depletion of the treasury, unless!"

"Unless what?" Shao Dianxi's five fingers tightly hooked the edge of the lid.

Lou Xiao held his teacup, dipped his fingers in the tea, and wrote the words "tax increase" on the desktop in front of Shao Dianxi.

He didn't want to say these two words, now the people in Nanmara Prefecture they control are miserable enough, many people can't afford to burn smokeless lamp oil for the New Year, most of them can only barely make ends meet, and if the tax is raised, they will not have enough food and clothing.

"How much?" Shao Dianxi couldn't care about the lives of the people.

"At least 10 percent is enough. Lou Xiao sighed in his heart.

As the Minister of People's Livelihood, he should think about the people's livelihood first, and he has to find a way to stop the tax and levy the army, but now he knows that no one can stop Shao Dianxi.

"It will be implemented next month, and we will be ready for conscription first. Shao Dianxi gradually calmed down, "Immediately sent a message to the whole country, accusing Ding Kui of treason and slandering the king, deliberately provoking a war, and calling on the people of the whole state to resolutely resist this thief!"

He decided to fight Ding Kui to the death.

At noon, two large-scale battles broke out on the ground and on the water.

Hua Song led the Nannuma Prefecture Navy to the south, and encountered Chen Yuan's fleet in the south of the waters of Jinping County, and of course there were dense warships of his own country behind him.

The commander of his own navy jumped from his mast and threw the telescope to a staff officer, "How did this battle be fought? Did the Shaodian people negotiate it themselves? Before the ships on both sides approached, rockets were already flying all over the sky, and the enemy ships were still inexplicably on fire and could not be understood." Turning no longer to pay attention to the battle, he turned and walked into the cabin.

Ahead, Chen Yuan's flagship slammed the flag, signaling the ships to keep a distance from the enemy ships and advance steadily.

Afterwards, a battle report reached the city of Nanjing, Hua Song's fleet was attacked by his own navy, and after a desperate struggle by the sailors, the Nanmaran navy retreated from the battlefield after suffering heavy losses to the enemy.

If the commander of his own navy saw this battle report, he would definitely scold Hua Song, fake the fight, and burn the ship himself, and finally have the face to say that the enemy army was severely damaged, but those who have not witnessed the battle will not know it.

It is said that after this battle, the Nannuma Prefecture Navy lost more than half of its ships, but fortunately, Hua Song's proper command saved most of the officers and soldiers' lives, but it was no longer able to expel the enemy Navy south of Jinping County.

The coastal cities of Jinping County were in an emergency, and the enemy naval forces attacked all the wharves that could dock ships in several batches, and even stopped on the shore to attack nearby villages, towns and cities, causing the Jinping County Guard to order the people along the coast to evacuate.

In addition, in the plain south of Bai'an City, Anyang County, the forward troops of the 1st Southern Army encountered the enemy and a field battle broke out.

First of all, the scouts of the 1st Southern Army found that the enemy had built earthen walls of different heights in the direction of advance, and after many tests, it was determined that the enemy army was only a few thousand.

"Don't use the ballista just yet, the density of the strong crossbow is reduced by half, and you can attack with a repeating crossbow when you get closer. "Cold as a blade stood on the earthen wall and commanded.

She did not have people build a platform, but ran back and forth on the earthen wall, personally commanding the first, fifth, and sixth teams to block the enemy.

The 1st Southern Division took the lead with heavy iron shields, and the heavy infantry protected the two wings, forming a goose-shaped formation to attack the enemy's wide defensive line.

The local army has fought many battles with Ding Kui's subordinates, and knows the power of strong crossbows, but the enemy in front of them has limited strength, and they are also under the banner of the 111th Division, so according to experience, they will not be equipped with too many strong crossbows, so the 1st Division intends to use the advantage of strength to crush the opponent.

At the beginning, the advance was very smooth, and the sparse crossbow arrows caused some casualties, but they had little impact on the combat effectiveness of the 1st Southern Division, and the heavy iron shield troops still maintained an intact formation.

"Four hundred meters!", "three hundred meters!", "two hundred meters!" a rangefinder shouted the number.

"Don't move, the rest of the troops will attack with all their might!" "Cold as a blade was fearless in the face of an enemy army several times its size.

The local army's numerical advantage was nothing, and she still charged in the face of an enemy dozens of times her size.

The bolts suddenly intensified, and they were shot continuously, with the strong crossbows focusing on the heavy iron shield phalanx, and the repeating crossbows sprinkling to the wings.

The casualty figures of the 1st Southern Division skyrocketed, and the soldiers in the front row fell one by one like a strong wind blowing on a wheat field.

Gongsun Mi, who came quickly from the rear, found out that something was wrong and quickly ordered the 1st Division of the South to withdraw from the battlefield.

"This enemy army is well-equipped and has many fortifications, so it is not suitable to open up a formation, and it is necessary to use a dense battle formation to assault, and if you only need to break through a little, the enemy army will inevitably collapse on the whole line, and wait for the 2nd South Division to come up and fight again. "Gongsun Mi knows where the gap between the two armies is, and one division may not be able to defeat the enemy in person.

After synthesizing the intelligence of the past two days, he found that the enemy who invaded Anyang County was under the banner of the 111th Division, and it was estimated that the enemy had only one division, so he was relieved to lead 30,000 forward troops to make a detour and cut off.

Encountering thousands of enemy troops here, he was not worried at all, as long as the forward troops gathered, he was confident that he would hold back a division of enemy troops and wait for the main force to arrive.

"Here, here, another divisional enemy. Dai Le raised his feet on the earthen wall to observe the enemy's situation.

"Come as much as you want, do as much as you want!" Ryushuang sat on a ballista cart with a baffle in front of it that the enemy could not see.

"That is, if the ballista was used just now, none of the people who raised the shield would have been able to escape. Dale jumped off the earthen wall.

"You know what a fart!" I don't have the face to take credit for repelling a division, what if I use a ballista to scare the enemy? If the enemy doesn't dare to launch a second attack before dark, will you compensate me for my victory?"

He didn't participate in the battle just now, and honestly squatted on the ballista.

"I really think you must be able to reap the merits of battle, I shot thirteen people just now, what about you?" Dai Le proudly raised his strong crossbow and gestured at Long Shuang.

He is the best in a large group, and the dragon double crossbow can't compare to him.

"Don't brag, the enemy is starting to line up. ”

Dai Le hurriedly turned around, saw Han Rujian standing behind him, and hurriedly saluted: "I didn't lie about my military exploits. ”

"Still staring at the enemy?" Han Rujian raised his foot in a gesture of kicking, and Dai Le quickly ran away and climbed the dirt wall again.

That is, such people lack lessons. Long Shuang jumped off the crossbow cart and nodded at Han Rujian.

"Look close! "Cold as a blade walked away.

The 1st South Division and the 2nd South Division were mixed into battle formations, this time it was a frontal and arrow formation, or a heavy iron shield unit at the head, with infantry and archers in turn, and the attack surface by crossbow arrows was greatly reduced.

Gongsun Mi saw that there were less than 3,000 people on the opposite side, and the front arrow formation went straight through, even if the arrow was knocked out, the troops behind it were enough to attack under the earthen wall, and then the cavalry on both wings suddenly charged, and the enemy army could not stop it at all.

If 20,000 can't beat 3,000, he can go home and farm.

The local army once again violently attacked the line of the 111th Division, advancing along the route that had just been destroyed.

"Five hundred meters!" the rangefinder had just reported the number.

Han Rujian raised his right hand and ordered: "Ballista ready!"

Long Shuang blew the copper whistle violently, and then shouted: "Remove the board!"

With a snap, the baffles in front of all the ballistae were removed, revealing arrows like spearheads, and some of the crossbowmen retreated, aiming the ballista at the enemy.

Han Rujian watched the last ballista finish its preparations, so he waved his right hand and ordered: "Shoot!"

Bang, bang, bang......

Ten ballistae fired in turn, spear-like crossbow bolts pounced on the fish like hungry sharks, flying straight towards the front arrows.

The soldier holding the heavy iron shield looked at the ten cold rays of light in horror, and there was only one thought in his heart, resist me!

Boom, boom, boom, a loud sound sent dozens of figures flying, and the giant crossbow arrows rushed unstoppably into the crowd, causing unbelievable damage.

Gongsun Mi's heart suddenly pinched: Isn't this a bed crossbow?

It's not that he hasn't seen this kind of heavy long-range weapon, he remembers that he has seen the power of a bed crossbow under a certain city, not to mention a heavy iron shield, which can be shot through by iron beasts.

"Shoot quickly! don't need to save crossbow arrows, shoot them all out for me!" said Han Rujian flailing his fist excitedly.

"Okay!" the dragon twin pressed a giant crossbow bolt with his own hand.

The five men shook the string-opening wheel together, pulling the bowstring of the ballista little by little.