Hearing the woman's scream, several farmers in the yard became agitated. But they were immediately pinned firmly to the ground. But what they imagined that their female family members would be molested did not happen!
Following the scream, a young daughter-in-law rushed out of the door. Just as she was about to call someone, she saw what was happening in the yard and sat down on the ground in fright! Then two soldiers walked quickly from the room and shook their heads at the officer. The officer cursed in a low voice with dissatisfaction, probably because he felt that he was unlucky and did not block the salt owl.
However, he still strictly performed his duties. He said loudly: "Drive people back to the room, and we will run to the next house!"
As soon as the soldiers let go of their hands, the young man who was pushed to the ground jumped up and rushed to the door to help his wife up. He said with an angry look: "Daughter-in-law, did they touch you?"
The wife shook her head in shock and said, "They didn't touch me, they just ran around the house. It was so scary!"
Hearing this, several farmers breathed a sigh of relief! At this time, the faces of the soldiers leaving the yard look much better! The old man who was being questioned muttered something, but no one heard him clearly.
In fact, there are not many salt owl and swordsmen living in the entire Zhuangzi, and the total number is less than a hundred. According to their combat effectiveness, this number is enough for a head-on fight with officers and soldiers, and they can easily deal with those farmers!
But no matter how powerful they are, they are no longer a match for the well-trained regular army! Especially when it was dinner time, they were all scattered at various farmers' homes to eat, which simply gave Wu'an's army the opportunity to defeat them!
And the most important point is that among these people, the swordsman is particularly easy to deal with! Because swordsmen are a half-black and half-white profession, they usually make money by working as bodyguards and escorting goods. They occasionally play gangsters behind the scenes, but in general they still dare to show their faces in front of the officers and soldiers.
But on the other hand, they have a lot of worries when facing the champion. After all, after killing officials and rebelling, they will just fall into disgrace! So when these swordsmen saw that the people rushing in were government troops, most of them surrendered directly.
But swordsmen are a minority among this group of people after all, most of them are salt lords! These people are extremely cruel and arrogant, and they have a blood feud with the army, so they will never lay down their weapons and surrender! The main combat opponents of Wu'an Army are these people!
At the beginning of the battle, Liu Haojia was afraid that these salt lords would take people hostage, which would be very troublesome to deal with! But as the battle reports kept coming, he finally came to his senses and knew why the salt owl didn't kidnap the people!
Because in Yan Xiao's mind, no matter which officer or army of the Ming Dynasty, they are not good things! The fighting is not good, the equipment is broken,...! But they all have one thing in common, that is, they kill the good and take the merit! The difference between Hu Ao's officers and soldiers and bad officers and soldiers is that the bad officers and soldiers directly killed the people and beheaded them to report their merits! Good officers and soldiers cut off the heads of dead people to report their merits!
So no matter what, this thing is true! Therefore, the salt lords all felt that if they took the common people as hostages, these officers and soldiers might be happy to see them! They must have killed the hostages as well, so that there would be heads to repay! That's why the most troublesome situation for Liu Haojia didn't happen!
This Zhuangzi itself is under the name of Qian Shounian. Zhuangzi itself is not big, with only a hundred households. That's why Qian Shounian placed the salt lords here. Whatever these salt owl eats can be taken directly from Zhuangzi. But now this has become a disadvantage. Zhuangzi is surrounded on all sides and cannot escape!
Moreover, these salt lords have been dealing with officers and soldiers for a long time, and they regard Wu'an Army as ordinary Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers! The reason lies in the firecrackers held by the soldiers. Because only the official army has a large number of firearms.
The fire blunderbuss used by the Ming Dynasty's official army were well designed, but they were not properly maintained and the gunpowder configuration was not good. Coupled with insufficient training, the soldiers had poor shooting opportunities and accuracy when using them! Therefore, the salt owls are not afraid of firearms at all!
But what they were facing today was a new type of fire cannon. When the trigger was pulled, lead bullets would be ejected, instead of relying on match ropes as in the past, which wasted time and gave them opportunities to counterattack or dodge. So the first people who rushed out to fight back after hearing the sound suffered heavy casualties.
Heavy!
These people were basically shot down by fire blunderbuss as soon as they came face to face. Even if they were not shot down, they would just fall into the bayonets of the soldiers when they rushed over! Those who escaped the lead bullets will immediately be stabbed by a dozen bayonets flying up and down. No matter how powerful you are, you can't dodge, so you can only hide your hatred!
Seeing that their companions in front were either beaten into sieves or stabbed into sieves by bayonets, the salt owls behind became smarter and huddled in the room to resist. This left great difficulties for the soldiers to clear up! In particular, there were five archers among them who caused casualties!
After being alerted, they did not rush out of the room. Instead, they ambush at the door and window. This is related to their profession. After all, bows and arrows are long-range weapons, and they can only be lethal if you keep the distance! Moreover, the power of bow and arrow shooting at close range is slightly less powerful than that of firecrackers, but it is not much different! Therefore, the three soldiers who first entered the courtyard where the archer was were shot to the ground by feather arrows!
At this time, we can see the benefits of Liu Haojia's adjustment of the army! Seeing that their companions were shot to the ground, the sword and shield soldiers quickly rushed into the yard, first used their shields to protect the wounded and themselves, and the people behind directly dragged the wounded out.
Then the sword and shield soldiers held their shields to protect their bodies and approached the room first. The archers in the room kept shooting arrows, but they were all blocked by shields! When the sword and shield soldiers came closer, they rushed forward quickly and pressed their shields directly against the window, completely destroying the archers!
Then the fire cannon soldier rushed into the yard, stretched the fire cannon from the edge of the shield and fired randomly, killing the archer directly in the room! In this way, the only group of people who caused casualties to the soldiers were eliminated!
There are close to a hundred of these salt lords, which is already a considerable force! If they faced off against five hundred strong men and archers, they would be able to defeat them and drive them into a frenzy! If they could face a garrison of 500 people and be confident of defeating them!
Although they will definitely lose if they face five hundred officers and soldiers, they will definitely fight hard in the early stage. If they are not careful, they might even be able to make a comeback! But it was different against five hundred Wu'an troops. They were completely crushed!
