At this time, the enemy troops crossing the bridge were forming a long snake along the river bank. They were very unscrupulous, pushing and shouting at each other, not caring about the twelve teams at the front gate.
"What do you know about him and the rebel Lou family? Tell us."
As Li Dan spoke, he called a messenger to send a message to Gu Da, asking him to show weakness and lure the enemy to the second fence and enter the right wing defense. The musketry team prepared and listened to the order to shoot at a range of 20 to 30 steps in front of the second fence.
The second fence is about 70 steps away from the fence on the north hill. The effective shooting distance of the fire gun is between 120 and 150 steps.
Li Dan's order was to let them shoot at a distance of 90 to 100 steps. Accuracy at this distance is basically impossible. Injuring the opponent is considered a victory. It is more about deterring and disrupting the enemy's rear team, so as to prepare for the battle and attack in front of the second fence. Kill the enemy's front troops to provide support.
Li Dan actually knew that since he was short of time and had no time to build more solid defenses and mobilize more troops to fight against the enemy, he must try to use the existing troops at hand to weaken the enemy's morale and force them back in order to further consolidate Nanshan. Position to gain time.
Although he only reached the rank of deputy battalion officer in his previous life, the intermediate and low-level command skills he learned in the military academy are still useful to him so far.
Li Dan felt that the trouble was only in how to reorganize these things and effectively combine them on a battlefield that was still dominated by cold weapons.
"Go and slim down King Kong. The battle is almost over. Why is he dawdling?" Sent the order, Li Dan nodded at Feng San with his chin: "You tell me, I'll listen."
"People think that Lou Zishi was a miner who was forced to revolt, but this is not the case.
He was originally a miner leader, with thousands of miners under his command, divided into twelve teams, each with a foreman to control them.
Because he was dissatisfied with the excessive demands of the mine supervisor and feared that he would collude with the government to suppress him, he encouraged the miners to cause trouble and drowned the mine supervisor underground. Then he seized the guards' weapons and drove away the government troops.
The Zhejiang Army sent troops to encircle and suppress the enemy, but Lou Zi was not in a good position to engage in the battle, so he led his family members, young and old, and farmers to flee to Jiangxi. Unexpectedly, after three battles and three victories, Guangfeng and Chaoyang were captured, and Shangrao was besieged.
Zi'an, the eldest brother, was a simple and honest man who did not interfere with his affairs. The army was mainly financed by his second brother Zisheng's business performance, so his second brother is now called the Grand Sima in the army.
Since then, there have been four sons, namely Shiyong, Shiming, Shifan and Shiji.
Dalangshi used a lot of resourcefulness and it was his handiwork that captured Guangfeng.
The second son, Shiming, was bold and brave, and could make friends with knights in the world. He was born with a good beard and was nicknamed 'General Red Beard', but he preferred to be called 'Emperor King'.
This Shifan is the third child, with the worst reputation among the brothers. He harms women all day long, and is nicknamed "Flower Arms".
He also prides himself on being tall and brave, and is looked down upon by his other brothers. However, his mother is Lou Thief's favorite, and she is usually reluctant to let him lead the army alone, but I don't know why this time?
The fourth Shiji, the youngest, is only three years old this year. He is thin and sick, and lost his mother when he was young. He should be stationed in Chaoyang with his uncle. "
Feng San said, while Li Dan listened quietly and stared at the opposite side. In the middle, he called two messengers and whispered a few words for them to do it. After he finished speaking, the rear column of the bandits over there finally began to cross the bridge.
"Standing around, sticky, hum! These people want to drive us away? I'm afraid we've already lost without a fight!" Kuroki's words made everyone feel the same.
"Guess why they are so lazy?" Li Dan asked with a smile.
"They must not know the reality of our army, so they have doubts." Zhao Jingzi said.
"It's also possible... they don't think this is a big deal. They think they can win by just three, five, and two." Master Master Ba said.
"It's more likely that they were scared!" Li Dan told them: "I asked Captain Gu to hang the heads chopped off from the Yousanjiang tribe outside the fence. Do you think they will be scared after seeing them?"
"Oh, that's it!" Everyone suddenly realized. Wu Mao put his hands on his hands and laughed: "I'll give them a surprise later, and they will be even more scared! Are you trying to attack their hearts first and take away their fighting spirit?"
"Look, they're about to charge!" Mao Zaidi shouted.
Sure enough, the thief on the horse on the opposite side pointed his whip at the gate of the village and yelled something. The thief soldiers shouted, and then the thief soldiers standing behind the horse rushed towards the bamboo village gate first.
Huang Qin shouted something unknown, drew his bow and shot. A small leader running in front was hit by an arrow in the eye, screamed and fell down, and was immediately swallowed up by the crowd behind him.
The archery team fired the first arrow, Gu Da's siren sounded, and each of his men suddenly turned around and ran away.
When passing by the archery team, the second arrow was shot, and then Huang Qin called out, and the archery team also ran back.
Yang Yi immediately ordered: "Open the Juma!" The four Juma separated left and right. At this time, the gate of Toudaozha has been pushed down, and the fences on both sides have collapsed. The thieves swarmed in!
"Form up and hold on!" As the sirens sounded, all the teams behind the second fence turned into the Golden Flower Formation.
Li Dan looked up and saw that Zhang Bo was already in place and lining up behind Song Jiuyi, so he didn't look back and said:
"The gunnery team will fight for one round, and then come down to the right wing to gather and shoot. The archery team will pay attention to protecting the left wing.
Inform Tan Yingzheng to come from the south to attack the flanks of the rebel army, and ask Shanda Ren's officers and soldiers to take the north road to surround the enemy on three sides! "The messengers ran away one after another.
"Sir, is it too early? I don't know whether the front can be defended." Master Ba said.
"I didn't let the firecrackers come down just now because I was worried that the enemy would find out too early that the firecrackers were prepared.
If the fire gun team comes down to attack closely, the enemy's casualties will inevitably increase sharply. It is best for us to take advantage of the opponent's morale to weaken and attack in three ways. The rebel army will definitely be defeated! "
As soon as Li Dan finished speaking, the last regiment member had already entered the second gate, and Juma quickly closed the entrance and exit.
"Attention, they are coming! There are still thirty steps, keep the formation! Twenty steps..." Yang Yi reminded loudly.
The bandits once again hit the second fence like a wave. However, everyone felt that the momentum was not as good as before.
Running across the flat ground and then up the hillside, sprinting three hundred steps (two hundred meters) in one breath is no joke, and the thieves are attacking from the back.
In front of me was the round shield of the Golden Flower Formation. I wanted to pass from the left or right, and a spear was thrust into my face. I just dodged it when I felt a "woo" in my ear, "bang"! The heavy flail hit his head, and the soldier couldn't stand and fell down.
Seeing the losses suffered by the first few, those behind realized that they had to dodge carefully, but how could they get out of the crowd?
So "bang", another one. "Ah!" This was the thrust of the spear. Some people got anxious and shouted, "Don't push for those in the back, stay back!" It was no use.
Everyone saw that the fence was knocked down just now, so everyone thought about pushing down the second fence together and it was over.
Little did he know that Yang Yi had specially reinforced the second fence. Not only did it have more support points, but the fence was double-layered and had stronger toughness than the first fence.
"Pa, pa, pa", the bandits behind didn't know what was happening in front. They looked up and saw smoke and dust rising from the hills, and then people around them kept howling or falling down silently.
It wasn't until the people around them screamed that they realized that these people were dead or injured, but they didn't understand the reason, and panic began to spread among everyone.
At this time, everyone at the entrance and exit finally worked together to move away after paying the price of more than 20 people being injured and killed by bows and arrows.
Those in the back were still crowded together, and the "bang, bang" sound from the opposite side started again. This is the fighting position on the north side where the Fire Guns team came down. It was only forty steps (thirty meters) away from the fence line, and they were almost fighting face to face.
Most of the thieves were unarmored, and the fire cannons would basically injure two of them with one shot. The first two or three rows in front of the door and on the left wing of the thieves' side were almost wiped out.
Not only were the bandit soldiers and their leaders at the back stunned, but Wu Mao, Master Ba and others were also stunned. There was an eerie silence for two or three seconds on the battle line.
"Firegun Soldier, reload your ammunition!" Li Dan roared angrily.
This sound woke everyone up. Tan Zhongxiao reacted first and stabbed a soldier in the chest with his spear. When he fell down screaming, he shouted: "Kill them down!"
Huang Qin fired an arrow and shot an enemy soldier to death, also shouting: "Shoot, shoot quickly!" Suddenly the fighting resumed on the front line, with the collision of shields, the metal friction of weapons and the roar of the wounded everywhere.
The third fire blunderbuss shot was targeted. Just when the fence on the right wing was crumbling, Li Dan caught a glimpse of the red flag of the army waving behind the slope and immediately shouted:
"Liu Er, fire gun team three-stage shooting, target the opposite side!" Then he ordered Su Piantou, Han's four and three troops, Hei Mu, Zhao Jingzi, and Feng San to rush forward to help Song Xiaoniu block the gap, and at the same time ordered the messengers : "Shout after me, the troops are coming!"
The firecrackers fired heavily and severely damaged the jubilant enemy. Then they heard the cry of "the officers and soldiers are coming" and turned around to see the officers and soldiers rushing towards them with their swords flashed under the red-bordered guard team. The thieves suddenly collapsed.
They ran backwards and exposed the middle road. The enemies who had already rushed into the fence and were entangled with Yang Yi's team had no time to pay attention. But the people behind knew that the situation was not right, leaving the people inside to turn around and run away.
The left wing realized that it could no longer stand and began to retreat. Unexpectedly, after taking only a few steps, sirens and shouts rang out from behind.
This is Tan Zhongxiao leading the team around from the foot of Nanqiu. The thieves on the left wing did not expect that they would become the slowest runners, and the little bit of order they had maintained was instantly lost.
Yang Yi and Gu Da were still fighting with the enemies who rushed in from the door and didn't have time to run away. This group of people are the most loyal and core old gangsters, who are stubborn and have a certain fighting capacity.
However, Su Piantou, Han Si and others joined in from the side and quickly overwhelmed them.
Song Jiuyi and Zhang Bo had already begun to pursue them. Liu Hongsheng ordered the Fire Gun Team to abandon the Fire Gun Team and draw their swords to assist in the battle. The four reserve teams that had just been transferred rushed out behind the Fire Gun Team.
The battlefield was in chaos. All the rebels wanted to cross the bridge earlier than others. As a result, they were pushed into the water and screamed for help one after another.
In the end, some people didn't have time to get to the bridge and threw themselves into the river. The archery team came and stood on the river bank and calmly shot them one by one.
On the other side, there were two to three hundred thieves holding back the formation without crossing the bridge. They were all stunned by the scene.
Even if one of their own fell into the water and called for help, no one dared to step forward to help because they noticed that the other party's archer could shoot quite accurately.
Those who escaped had to run a stone's throw away before they could stand, and most of them fell to the ground trembling.
Those who didn't come back were either prisoners and being driven back to the hillside, or they were already lying on the ground groaning in pain.
Those who have become corpses are waiting for the people who clean up the battlefield to come and cut off their heads.
Lou Shifan, who was lying on the horse, was also in a state of confusion. He couldn't figure out why he suddenly collapsed when victory seemed to be in his hands just now.
"You bitch, they have fire guns! Why didn't you find out beforehand?" He roared: "Go and kill the sentinel sent out in the morning!"
After counting, more than 300 of the 1,200 people who followed across the river did not come back, and probably 200 were killed. The rest were squatting on the hillside with their hands raised, and they could be counted one by one.
Lou Shifan was even more angry. This guy was so bad that he made the prisoners squat like this, facing each other across the river. This meant: If you have the ability, come over. If you come over, you will either be beheaded or become a prisoner!
There was also a person on the other side who was holding a machete in his hand. Every time he took out a head, he would raise it up and scream in protest.
Lou Shifan gritted his teeth and glanced at the surrounding soldiers and generals. They were all disheveled and dejected, and he knew something was wrong in his heart:
Morale is about to be ruined. If we don't fix this situation, we will definitely not be able to mobilize these people!
