"Captain, let us help! We are also fire gunners." Pan Yi begged Zhang Sancha in front of him.
Zhang Sancha said with a straight face: "There's no point begging me, the captain wants you all to stay here."
"Then I'll go talk to the captain." Pan Yi walked towards Jia Liu.
At this time, Jia Liu was focusing on the outside of the iron field. He had just repelled a wave of attacks by the government troops. This time, all the government troops were obviously dispatched.
"Reporting to the captain, Pan Yi, the third team of the first team of Fire Guns, requested to lead the team to fight." Pan Yi stood upright in front of Jia Liu, put his right hand flat on his chest, and made a military salute unique to Hutou Village.
Jia Liu turned his head, looked at Pan Yi in front of him, and said, "Don't worry, there will be a chance in the future."
Jia Liu still admired Pan Yi for being a miner guard who took the initiative to stand up when the army surrounded the iron yard. Compared with Zhang Ergou, Pan Yi was many times stronger in terms of character.
Pan Yi said loudly: "Captain, please believe us, our third musketry team is not bad either."
Jia Liu's face sank and he said: "Obey the order."
"Yes." Pan Yi agreed loudly.
Although I feel unwilling to do so, I also know that the iron field guards have strict disciplines. The first rule is that they cannot disobey the orders of their superiors.
He had no choice but to retreat to his own team.
At this time, the people at the front among the officers and soldiers had already rushed within fifty steps of the gate of the iron field, and a row of firecrackers sounded one after another.
Because the officers and soldiers dispersed too widely this time, after a row of fire cannons were fired, only two soldiers were killed and wounded, and the soldiers behind still rushed over.
The second row of muskets was fired, and four soldiers fell to the ground.
The third row of muskets were fired, and five soldiers fell to the ground.
Xiao Qi among the officers and soldiers loudly urged his soldiers to continue rushing towards the gate of the former iron field.
After firing a round of fire cannons, the officers and soldiers not only did not retreat even half a step, but rushed to a place less than twenty steps away from the gate of the iron field.
Zhang Hong shouted loudly at this time: "The gunmen retreated and were free to find their targets, and the spearmen formed an array."
As his voice fell, rows of spearmen with flat-ended spears and fire gunmen began to retreat towards the wings of the spearmen.
The hundred households in the army outside the iron yard saw the gunmen inside the iron yard retreating on their own initiative, with a smile of victory on their lips.
In his eyes, the only people who could pose a threat to the army were the gunmen among the bandits. In his eyes, the spearmen in the iron field were just a bunch of ragtag men.
Without the threat of the gunman, the soldiers rushed towards the gate of the iron field a little faster, and several small flags also rushed up with the soldiers.
"The spearmen listen to my orders, move forward, move forward..." Zhang Hong shouted loudly.
The spear phalanx moved forward step by step, with ten people horizontally and four vertically. Spears stretched out from the spear phalanx.
The soldier at the front had red eyes and shouted, "One tael of silver for each bandit's head." In front of him were not bandits at all, but ingots of silver.
In the army, only servants could get one to two cents of silver every month. Ordinary soldiers in the army were often in arrears with pay, so even if they were given the money, it would be good to have five or six cents in their hands.
This time, one or two pieces of silver will be given for killing a bandit, which is enough to make these soldiers who were born in the camp go crazy.
The moment the two sides were about to get closer, Zhang Hong shouted: "Stab..."
The spears of the spear phalanx thrust out, and from a distance it looked like the soldiers were actively running into the spears.
A soldier at the front dodged the oncoming spear. Before he could get close to the spearman among the bandits, he felt a sharp pain in his right rib. He looked sideways and saw a spear stabbing him from another direction. Pierced between the ribs.
Just as he was about to reach out to pull out the spear on the right side of his body, another spear was stabbed from the left side of his body, directly penetrating his body, and the spear tip came out from the other side.
This time he was not so lucky. The spear pierced his heart directly from the left side, killing him on the spot.
Only then did the two spears inserted into his body come out.
Like this soldier, there were other soldiers who rushed to the front. Each of them was stabbed by at least two spears. Several soldiers had three or four spears stuck in their bodies. One of the small flags was stabbed in the body. He took five spears and pierced one through his chest. The man was so dead that he could no longer die.
In one encounter, the army lost a soldier with a small flag, and even the flag officer was stabbed to death by spears. There were still a few who failed to rush to the spear phalanx, but were killed by fire cannons on both sides of the spear phalanx. Killed by hand.
Standing outside the Iron Field, Commander-in-Chief Xu's eyes were filled with tears when he saw this scene. Counting the soldiers who were killed by fire guns during the first attack on the Iron Field, he, the Commander-in-Chief, only had one soldier left who was not worth a small flag.
There were more than forty corpses left on the ground, and the smell of blood was so permeable that even the mountain wind could not dissipate it.
Originally, when General Chen Qi saw the gunmen in the iron field retreating, he thought he had a chance to win, so he asked his soldiers, the general banner, to rush to the iron field, hoping to take the opportunity to wipe out the bandits in the iron field.
But when he saw that the soldiers of a small flag under General Xu's bannerman did not disperse the bandit's spearmen, but were all stabbed to death by the bandit's spearmen, he immediately realized that the bandit's spearmen were just as bad as those fire gunmen. He quickly ordered his soldiers to retreat.
Because all the soldiers of his general banner were at the back and did not get too close, the order was timely, and soon all the soldiers of the general banner withdrew.
When General Xu saw this scene, he thought that his general's soldiers were dead and only less than one of Xiaoqi's men were left. He said in a strange voice: "General Chen, Master Baihu ordered you to attack the iron field. Now, My people have repulsed the gunmen in the iron field, it's time for your people to deal with the bandits with spears."
After hearing this, Mr. Chen Qi rolled his eyes and thought to himself: Those gunmen obviously retreated on their own, but when did you fight them off?
However, he knew that General Xu's battalion soldiers were seriously injured, so he must feel uncomfortable and unwilling to argue with him.
"Spearmen, advance, advance, the target is the army directly in front." Zhang Hong did not stop because of the retreat of the army. Instead, he ordered the spearmen to take the initiative to attack.
In order to maintain the formation of the spear phalanx, the spear phalanx did not move very fast, but it was only a hundred or so steps away from the iron field to the official army, and it quickly approached the official army led by General Chen Qi.
boom! boom! boom……
At a distance of twenty or thirty steps, every time the fire cannon was fired, it could take away the life of a battalion soldier. Before the spear phalanx could get closer, the officers and soldiers retreated again. No one was willing to use their flesh and blood to block the fire cannon. Played lead.
One hundred households, two general banners, and more than a hundred battalion soldiers, nearly half were killed or injured, and corpses were left on the ground. However, none of the bandits in the iron yard were injured or killed. Such a huge disparity left no surviving battalion soldiers. Courage to fight again.
If it weren't for the efforts of Baihu, Zongqi and Xiaoqi to restrain them, the camp soldiers would have been in chaos.
Shi Baotou and the police officers who were supposed to be guarding outside the iron yard saw that the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties. How could they dare to stay here in the iron yard? Without waiting for Mr. Chen Qi and other soldiers to return, they took the people in the Yamen to Flee down the mountain.
As for whether he would lose his position as the chief after escaping, Shi Baotou no longer cared. He had finally figured out that these officers and soldiers in Dongshan were no match for the bandits in the iron yard. If they stayed, they might even join him. .
As soon as the police officer escaped, even the battalion soldiers were in panic. At this time, there was no one to care about the headquarters. Baihu followed the police officer and fled down the mountain.
