Looking at Liao Jieren's appearance, Geng Shangzhi was a little puzzled.
Logically speaking, Liao Jieren, as a subordinate, should not be so distracted.
"Sir, we cannot say that our brothers are not fighting tooth and nail in this battle, but the other side is simply too powerful."
Liao Jieren came to his senses at this time, knelt down and said to Geng Shangzhi.
Geng Shangzhi asked Liao Jieren to stand up and speak, and then asked him to continue.
"Sir, Li Hengfeng and I followed your instructions and moved forward cautiously. However, the enemy was ambushing us at some point. They appeared all of a sudden. Before the brothers could react, bursts of sound rang out. The sound of volleys of gunfire.”
"Bursts of gunpowder smoke filled the air instantly. Bullets swept over like rain, and the brothers suffered many casualties all at once."
Liao Jieren tried hard to recall the scene at that time, wishing that Geng Shangzhi could watch it right there.
"How did you respond to such a battle?" Geng Shangzhi continued to ask, feeling quite unwilling.
"At that time, I discussed with Li Hengfeng: This musket will only fire the first shot on the battlefield. As long as the brothers rush forward, they can only be used as fire sticks." Liao Jieren said with some anxiety. He also I don’t know if it’s right to think like this.
"Yes, that's right." Geng Shangzhi also confirmed Liao Jieren's point of view.
After hearing Geng Shangzhi's affirmation, Liao Jie immediately became calm. So, he continued:
"So, Li Hengfeng and I organized the brothers to rush forward. Who would have thought that they would not even break the volley."
"The whole front of the valley is filled with their musketeers, with two to three hundred people in a row. After the front row is finished, the back row will be moved up, and after the back row is finished, the back row will be moved up." Liao Jieren said with a look of sadness and indignation.
Geng Shangzhi heard this and understood the difficulties faced by Liao Jieren and the others. Even if he was there at the time, it wouldn't be much better.
If there were no cavalry to harass them, it would be difficult to break through them.
"That's not the only thing that's hateful. When the brothers were about to rush in front of the musketeers after suffering hundreds of casualties, some more soldiers with half-foot-high shields and spears appeared in front of them."
"It would be nothing if only the spearmen appeared, but their volleys of guns still did not stop. At this time, the brothers who rushed forward began to collapse." Liao Jieren was helpless, but there was nothing he could do.
"Just when the brothers started to run back, they heard the rapid suosing sound. Then they shouted something: If you are injured, there will be a medical team, if you die, there will be Sixth Brother."
"At first, no one understood the meaning of these words. However, after just a moment, they saw the enemies rushing up with muskets in their hands, and a short sword was installed in front of the muzzle of their muskets."
"When some brothers saw this, they wanted to turn around and fight back." Liao Jieren's eyes flashed slightly at this moment. However, he then said in an even lower tone:
"However, the brothers who turned around to fight back were stabbed to death by them one after another. They did not fight one-on-one, they all mixed with each other in groups of three to five. If one of them takes away your weapon, it is natural that there will be others. One person comes to hold you back. Then someone stabs you."
"At the beginning, none of the brothers understood the horror of this kind of battle. It turned out that they were all fighting three against one or five against one. After killing one, they killed another one, neatly and without mercy. .”
"Many brothers were stabbed to death out of frustration."
"When I saw such a situation not far away, I knew that we had lost this battle. So, I came over to ask you to leave first..."
Liao Jieren said this and breathed out slowly. Then he looked around at the soldiers who were following the banners of the Han army and ran back, but it was a scene of "sad people everywhere".
Many bannermen of the Han army were wiping tears at the resting place at this moment. He kept saying this, and even complained about Geng Shangzhi.
But they forgot that Geng Shangzhi had previously said that Zhang Rui would be encircled and suppressed. When each of them was given twenty taels of silver, there was a scene of joy.
Geng Shangzhi felt quite emotional after listening to Liao Jieren's entire story.
He really didn't expect that Zhang Rui was so powerful.
If he had known that Zhang Rui was so difficult to fight, Geng Shangzhi would never have foolishly rushed up to test his fighting ability.
But is this still the strength that a mud-legged guy should have? From this point of view, he did not defeat Yang Yingju and Sitku simply by relying on "opportunism."
This time I really hit the muzzle of the gun. Say anything else at your own risk.
now
If there was a regret medicine in this world, and it cost him a few cuts, Geng Shangzhi would cut himself several times without hesitation.
"It's true that stealing a chicken means losing a handful of rice. This rice is not even a small handful." Geng Shangzhi said sadly in his heart.
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"Sixth brother, we have won this battle! The statistics are out. We lost forty-three brothers, fifty-nine were seriously injured, and one hundred and thirteen were lightly injured. And, we killed two hundred and thirty-two of the enemy. Name, killed and wounded 187 enemies and captured 110 enemies..."
At this time, Wang Kaiyuan was talking to Zhang Rui one by one about the data he knew.
"Why do we have so many casualties among our brothers?" Zhang Rui asked unhappily after hearing his casualty data.
"The deaths were mainly caused by the musketeers and archers of the Han Army Banner in the early stage. Their shooting caused so many casualties on our side." Wang Kaiyuan said what he had learned.
"so?"
After Zhang Rui listened to Wang Kaiyuan's words, he thought in silence for a while. Then, Zhang Rui said to the bandit suppression team members around him:
"Go find the general managers of each team and tell them that I have something to tell them and ask them to come over to my side."
"Yes, Sixth Brother."
The five bandit-suppressing team members beside Zhang Rui replied one after another.
Zhang Rui looked at the backs of the leaving bandit squad members and couldn't help but think:
"It seems that we need to prepare some messengers and soldiers who are specialized in delivering orders, otherwise it will be inconvenient to issue orders."
