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Chapter 104 I know that this pit has to be stepped on

"There are [-] people in the bandit army? Impossible."

"How can you fight this? I have only had enough to eat with the master Futai for a few months. Is this going to be repaid with my life? Why is life so hard?"

"No chaos! Our army has excellent weapons, and there are camps and cities that can be relied on layer by layer. The imperial court will soon come to help! If there are any nonsense words that shake the morale of the army, we will deal with them according to the military law!"

"The thieves are bluffing! Where did the 8 come from? You forgot that the imperial court sent troops five or six times each time, and the 47 people in the Saerhu War dared to claim [-], while the opposite side only had [-] at most! Team! Bows, crossbows and firecrackers are ready to go!"

As the main force of the bandit army showed off its power, the recruits in the Ming army camp at the mouth of the Shishui River began to be timid. Some whispered, some dared not cry, and their morale immediately dropped.

Both Zuo Zixiong and Zhang Mingzhen knew that the situation was critical, and they were desperately suppressing military discipline. When they saw soldiers in disorganized ranks, they beat their heads and faces with whips.They all know that they must not panic at such a time, and must use thunder methods.

In the final analysis, the number of thieves is still too scary, so many rush in at once.Among the Five Thousand Ming Army, quite a few ordinary soldiers felt that it was impossible to hold on.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers have a barracks wall to stop them, and the temporary commotion of the troops will not lead to retreat or collapse.

Seeing all of this in Shen Shuren's eyes, it also made his face pale. It has been almost two full years since he traveled through time, and he has always been holding Zhizhu. tricks are not working" feeling of powerlessness.

Licking his dry lips, Shen Shuren could only see the tricks, watching Zhang Mingzhen walking back and forth to boost his morale, and when Zhang Mingzhen passed by him, he grabbed him and added a word of care:
"Zhang Dusi, it's useless to say that the thieves' bluff is useless. You have to tell the soldiers that we still have reinforcements. Mr. Yang Ge, Governor Fang, will send reinforcements in a few days. We have camps and Xiaogan County Can defend, no matter how small the troops are, retreat slowly and stick to the ten-day-eight-day assembly, right? We have the advantages of land and armaments!
The mountains on both sides of the river are difficult to navigate. We can still cross to the east bank of the river and retreat north to the county seat. At least we will not be cut off from the back road that the county seat is holding on to.Remember, we must emphasize to the soldiers that we have a retreat and reinforcements! "

Zhang Mingzhen got the order, and he was a little relieved. He can't boast about these bullshit. If he can't keep it in the future, his morale will only become more desperate and collapse when the time comes.Only when Master Daotai is willing to speak up and take on this responsibility can he boost morale like this.

"Understood! Leave it to me, my lord!" Zhang Mingzhen generously agreed, quickly stabilized the morale of the army, and organized a scolding team to swear back.

He greeted the eighteen generations of He Jin and He Yilong's ancestors and all their relatives, and said that sooner or later they would be wiped out by the scourge of God, and this time they came to die just to fulfill them.

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"Don't be ashamed of your face. If you don't go if you don't go to the heavenly palace, if you don't have a way to go to the underworld, you have to break in. You want to die!"

He Jin, who was on the opposite side, scolded patiently and persuaded him to surrender for a while. Seeing that he and his eldest brother He Yilong secretly assembled troops and suddenly appeared in a mighty manner, they didn't scare the officers and soldiers to collapse.

He couldn't hold back his anger for a while, and immediately ordered the main force to launch a tentative attack on the camp, and asked He Yilong's troops to support him as well.

He Yilong also knew that Shen Shuren was very fat, otherwise he wouldn't have crossed the Tongbai Pass from the Henan side of the Dabie Mountains and marched to the Hubei side to help in the battle.He also promised generously at the moment, and after a while, 3 to [-] people began to fight on this plain at the mouth of the Shishui River.

"Stick to the camp! The bandit army is only 50, and the reinforcements from Mr. Yang Ge and Governor Fang will arrive in a few days! At that time, everyone will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! Brothers who died in battle will receive [-] taels of compensation! Kill a thief and add ten taels !"

Zuo Zixiong and Zhang Mingzhen, one on the left and one on the right, were responsible for the defense of the camp walls on both sides of the camp gate respectively. They shouted hoarsely to boost morale, and asked 1000 or two hundred gunners to divide into three rows and shoot in salvo, with one or two thousand archers supporting them. Be ready to plug leaks everywhere.

The camp wall was not too high, just a slope of rammed earth a few feet high, and the fence made of wooden piles buried in the rammed earth could be broken through without heavy siege weapons.

The thieves came from far away today, and they were unprepared. They just carried some freshly felled trees and rushed up.

"Fire!" Commander Qian and General Commander-in-Chief of the officers and soldiers gave an order, and three or four hundred firearms opened fire when the enemy army was still more than a hundred steps away from the wall.

Hundreds of fixed shotgun shells wrapped in paper shells splashed out, forming a rain of lead, which immediately aroused screams from the opposite side.

He Jin and He Yilong who were one or two miles away on the opposite side were quite surprised soon.Although they couldn't see the specific number of casualties, the veteran general who had led the army for many years could tell a thing or two just by hearing the scale of the screams.

"Officer Shen Gou's firearms are so sharp? It seems that those defeated soldiers under Liu Xiyao's men who fled back are telling the truth. I have fought with Yang Sichang for many years before, why haven't I seen that the official army's firearms can be so accurate?"

Surprised by He Jin, he hurriedly galloped to He Yilong's side, and urgently discussed this issue with him.He Jin himself was not a soldier, but He Yilong was a genuine Ming army officer who went to sea to be a thief, and he had a deeper understanding of firearms.

However, before Erhe could figure out a countermeasure, on the front of the battlefield, with waves of musket fire, the bandits had been fired at least [-] times before they rushed to the wall of the village. heavy.

A very small number of brave men rushed to the wall of the village with great difficulty, and some of them slammed into the wooden fence with big logs on their shoulders, but even if they broke through a gap, they rushed up the slope with their waist knives to fight with the army musketeers.

It can be imagined that the situation where "official firearms soldiers had to draw out their waist knives to block" did not appear - at the position of their breach, the officer army musketeers had already mounted their bayonets in advance, and three or five of them held a company gun together. A long weapon with a musket and a bayonet with a total length of nearly seven feet, slashes towards the breakthrough, and can quickly pierce the bandits at the entrance into hedgehogs, and blood gushes like a fountain.

As the blood splattered, groups of rogues were killed and wounded, and the rogue's team wavered and retreated, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was finally boosted back.

No matter whether you believe that there are only more than 2 people on the other side, at least under such strict defense, the enemy several times can't rush in!

"Attack the bayonet! Kill!"

"Like team step forward! Make up the gap!"

After killing red eyes, the officers and soldiers no longer cared about being afraid. The weak swung their knives at the weaker, and the more they swung their courage, the stronger they became.

Seeing that He Jin and He Yilong were a little reckless, they hurriedly ordered Jin to withdraw their troops, and let Shen Shuren go for now.

"Zuo Zixiong, lead the cavalry to rush out! Cover up for a while! Don't chase too far!" Shen Shuren in the camp was always concerned about the situation outside the camp, and when he saw an opportunity, he immediately asked Zuo Zixiong to seize the opportunity to boost morale.

Shen Shuren's cavalry is too small, so chasing and killing may not kill many people, but the effect of boosting morale is very strong.

Zuo Zixiong was also unambiguous, and quickly raised his knife and mounted his horse, leading five hundred riders to bite the tail of the retreating enemy, kick and slash violently, and the killing sound was loud for a while.

Hundreds of rogue wounded soldiers who were running slowly were easily overtaken by Zuo Zixiong, who slashed left and right and harvested frantically, bleeding in a short time.

But he was also very measured, he just hacked and killed some wounded soldiers who were slow to escape, and he didn't dare to charge Erhe's main force at all, and he would stop as soon as he saw a good situation.

In the First World War, even cutting off their heads while cleaning the battlefield, they easily wiped out more than a thousand thieves.

"Victory! Victory! Victory!"

"Master Bingbei has a great plan! The Fifth Battalion of Gezuo is bound to be destroyed!"

"Zuo Dusi is brave and invincible! Brothers, fight the enemy and serve the country together!"

With Zuo Zixiong's return to the camp, the morale of the whole army was completely boosted, and no one dared to resist just because the number of enemies was at least five times that of our army.

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After returning to the camp at night, He Jin and He Yilong started drinking and resuming the game. He Jin took the lead in self-criticism, sighing with grief and indignation, like a gambler who lost a bet.

"In today's defeat, I still underestimated the enemy. I wasn't ready to attack the camp! Hey, I just wanted to gamble on the low morale of the officers and soldiers. Seeing that we have a large number of people, we fled. I didn't expect Shen Shuren to rule the army very strictly! "

He Yilong's expression on the side was not very good: "Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, it is not a mistake to gamble on the opportunity to defeat the enemy by deterrence, and it is not a big deal to lose more than a thousand people.

The ones leading the battle today are not the elite old battalion brothers at all. These strong men can catch as many as they want, and they can fight after a few months of training.But the key point is that this battle was a small defeat, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was boosted again. It is impossible for us to scare the officers and troops down by relying on numbers. "

The side with a large number of people seems to be powerful. When you don't make a move, the other party still thinks you are a martial arts master. When you make a move, you are found to be a Ma Mouguo with a silver-like pewter head, so no one is afraid.

One punch was not opened, and a hundred punches came.

He Jin did something wrong impulsively, so he had to endure complaints. He sincerely admitted his mistake, and then asked for advice: "Brother, you didn't say it this afternoon. How could the firearms of this officer be so sharp? You were an officer before. See Have you ever had such a powerful firecracker?

Or is it so sharp after replacing it with the red fire gun that is only found in the south?When I heard what happened to Liu Xiyao, I still didn't believe it, but now I don't dare to underestimate the enemy. "

He Yilong obviously focused on revisiting this issue after he came back. On the battlefield, the firecrackers are fired so frequently and intensively, there are always soldiers who can escape with minor injuries after being shot.He Yilong had already shown it to the military doctor.

Especially for a few soldiers who died of excessive blood loss after running back, He Yilong had no psychological barriers, and directly asked the doctor to cut open the wounds of the dead, roughly dig out the lead bullets, and see the killing effect.

Therefore, at this moment, he said with confidence: "I have already let the medical staff look at it. Shen Shuren's firecracker is very accurate. It is probably because they all use lead bullets of the same size, and one gun can fire many bullets. Only in this way can the gun be averaged." Two or three shots will kill and wound a soldier of our army.

When I served in the Gansu army, I also used firecrackers. We rarely used such broken projectiles. Even if we used them, we just grabbed a handful of iron sand, broken nails, and lead beads to make do with them.The officers and soldiers do not specialize in making such finely rounded small lead bullets——

The elite Jiannu Tartars now all have iron-clad cotton armor. Such a small projectile can't hurt the heavily armored soldiers at all.It is the officer who led the charge today. I have also seen it after I came back. Many of the department chiefs and sentry chiefs who wore iron-coated cotton armor had more than one lead bullet embedded in their armor, but they were all fine. It was like a small hammer hitting it, and there was a bruise.

This Shen Shuren is vicious. Since ancient times, the government and army have made weapons to be the most effective against Jiannu. He used this kind of fragmented bullets specifically to deal with us!This guy really knows himself and the enemy, and knows that we are much poorer than Jiannu, and lack iron-coated cotton armor! "

When He Jin heard the words, he also bitterly said: "Then how to fight for the current plan?"

He Yilong thought for a while: "Build the siege equipment first, slowly spread our army camp forward, and surround Shen Shuren from as many directions as possible!

Also, the cannons we have in Anlu County will be brought over quickly.Although there are not many, it is more than enough to make a few holes in the camp wall so that the soldiers can rush in from several directions at that time!
We still have so many rear troops who have not arrived, even if we prepare for a few more days, our advantage will only increase!But I heard that it is unlikely that the reinforcements from the government army will come. There seems to be another accident outside the pass. I heard that last month, Huang Taiji surrounded Jinzhou Zu Dashou, and he will send reinforcements from Yang Sichang to Hong Chengchou!

Shen Shuren's small twists and turns won't make waves, and we will win in the end! "

(End of this chapter)