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Wu Tong came down from the roof and followed Chen Qingfu into another courtyard.
"Well done, I just killed three of the opponent's cavalry at once." Wu Tong said excitedly.
However, Chen Qingfu was not as happy as he imagined.
Seeing his serious face, he said: "My subordinates did not make arrangements and forgot to remind our peasants and soldiers not to take action against the enemy's sentry."
"Aren't you already killing several riders? This is a good thing." Wu Tong looked at Chen Qingfu in confusion.
Although he had just won a battle, he didn't understand why the other party was not too unhappy.
Seeing that the other party really didn't understand, Chen Qingfu explained to him: "If we had just let those few sentries leave and waited for the enemy's cavalry group to enter the village, we would then fire artillery and cooperate with the firecrackers. At least a dozen of the enemy's riders would be killed or injured." , instead of just the three cavalry now."
He looked annoyed.
I regret that I reminded him more at that time, and the result was several times what it is now.
"I don't blame you, we all have no experience. It will be fine if we encounter this kind of situation next time." Wu Tong comforted the other party on the side.
He knew that Chen Qingfu could not be blamed for this kind of thing. The other party had killed several enemy cavalry. If it were him, all he could think of was to set up an ambush on the hillside and wait for the enemy to arrive and directly fight the enemy.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The sound of arrows was heard, and the officers and cavalry outside the village began to shoot arrows into the village.
"Quickly, retreat to the village." Chen Qingfu ignored what he was saying to Wu Tong and hurriedly called on the peasants and soldiers in the yard to continue retreating to avoid the arrows fired from outside the village.
At this moment, screams came from the yard in front.
The expressions of Wu Tong and Chen Qingfu changed.
"There are still people who haven't come back with us." Chen Qingfu said with an ugly expression.
Before taking action, he told everyone that he would retreat immediately after firing the musket, and he also called out other peasant soldiers before retreating. Unexpectedly, there were still peasant soldiers hiding in the original yard.
Wu Tong said with an ugly face: "It's not your fault. Casualties are always inevitable. You have tried your best. The farmers and soldiers did not have enough time to train. After all, they cannot compare with the soldiers of several combat divisions."
"Let's go, we can't stay in this courtyard." Chen Qingfu saw arrows falling into the courtyard where they were hiding, and understood that the enemy cavalry outside the village had entered the village.
Wu Tong nodded.
The two led the peasant soldiers in the yard and continued to retreat to the center of the village.
Among the people following them were farmers and soldiers from this village, which gave them the advantage of a convenient location. Even if they retreated to the village, they would not run around aimlessly.
A group of people passed several houses one after another, and many door panels were also prepared to resist the arrows of the enemy cavalry.
"Get ready, let's set up an ambush here and fight again." Chen Qingfu said to the peasant soldiers following him.
Most of the peasant soldiers he took with him used firecrackers, and only a few were peasant soldiers carrying long spears.
The door panels were also carried by peasant soldiers who wielded long guns.
There are fewer arrows fired by the enemy cavalry. It is obvious that after the previous consumption, the enemy has begun to use arrows sparingly.
"Remember everything. Don't stay with the gun in your hand after you finish shooting. Evacuate to the next yard immediately. Do it quickly, understand?" Chen Qingfu warned the peasants and soldiers around him.
I don’t want to see peasants and soldiers disobeying orders and staying behind privately.
On the street outside the yard, dozens of enemy cavalry were walking on the street. Every time they passed a yard, someone would kick open the gate and check the situation in the yard to make sure there was no danger before continuing to move forward.
Chen Qingfu looked carefully at the enemies on the street from behind the courtyard wall. He watched the enemy cavalry getting closer and closer to the courtyard where he was hiding, and slowly retracted his head behind the courtyard wall.
He pressed the back of his head against the courtyard wall and listened to the sound of horse hooves outside.
"Hit!" Chen Qingfu shouted. He stood up first, leaned out of the courtyard wall, and fired the gun in his hand at the enemy cavalry on the street.
boom! boom! boom!
With him taking the lead, the other peasants and soldiers were not slow in their movements and raised their fire blunderbuss to hit the enemy.
Among the enemies walking on the street at this time, the nearest person was only about ten steps away from the yard where the peasants and soldiers were hiding, and the farthest one was only more than thirty steps away.
The sound of cannons was heard, and the first few riders were hit by the cannons and fell to the ground. The other enemy cavalry reacted and took cover in the yards on both sides of the street.
"Get out." Chen Qingfu waved to the others, jumped down from the table behind the courtyard wall, and left quickly.
Other peasants and soldiers followed and evacuated from the yard.
A few peasants and soldiers holding door panels walked at the back, with the door panels in their hands half-raised.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Arrows were shot into the yard from outside, and most of them landed in the open space in the yard. A few arrows were directly blocked by the door panels, ensuring the safety of the evacuating peasants and soldiers.
Several peasants and soldiers holding the door panel felt the vibration coming from the door panel. They were all startled and ran faster.
Soon, Chen Qingfu led his people across two courtyards, and then he had time to clean the blunderbuss and reload the medicine.
"We just killed at least three, right?" Wu Tong approached Chen Qingfu.
When the peasant soldiers fired their guns, he secretly glanced at the enemy cavalry on the street and saw that the guns had hit three enemies.
Chen Qingfu filled the medicine and tamped it down with a pipe. At the same time, he said: "This small number of casualties is not much of a threat to the enemies who come to the village. It is not enough to break their muscles and bones. It's a pity that we didn't have it the first time." Seize the opportunity.”
He still regrets that he failed to set up an ambush for the first time and caused a lot of casualties to the enemy.
"It's already very good. As long as there are a few more ambushes like this, the enemy will definitely be hurt." Wu Tong seemed to be in a good mood.
From his second success in ambushing the enemy cavalry with a fire gun, he saw hope of consuming the enemy's vitality.
Chen Qingfu raised his head, looked at Wu Tong and said: "Such an ambush can be used at most twice. We have retreated to the center of the village. If the enemy splits his troops and enters the village from behind us, we can ambush at most once. If the enemy is directly in the village If we set fire inside, we might not even have a chance to ambush."
"This," Wu Tong's face fell.
The good mood I had just now disappeared completely.
"Get ready to fight hard! The next step is a hard fight." Chen Qingfu put away the instrument in his hand and looked at the peasant soldiers following him.
He didn't know how long these farmers and soldiers could hold on.
The word "desperate" is simple, but he knows that it is too difficult to do it, and he really has no confidence in whether the peasants and soldiers can do it.
As for surrender or escape, he didn't even think about it.
It was almost impossible to escape under the watchful eye of more than 200 cavalrymen, and the only consequence of surrender was death, and the enemy's head became a record used to claim credit.
