.176, the first battle of Jiafu ()

One Hundred and Seventy-Six, First Battle of the Jiafu ()

It was almost midnight, and everything was silent, and the night became deeper and deeper. Even the bright moon was gradually hidden behind the clouds, appearing and disappearing, dyeing the clouds with a faint silver edge, but casting a rich shadow on the earth.

However, just under the dark and silent night, the bandit camp on the banks of Buwuchuan suddenly fell into a sea of ​​fireworks.

These unorganized and undisciplined ignorant blind people, the crude camps built by these unorganized and undisciplined people, were originally unordered. Looking down from the air, they were like mushrooms or dog urine moss after rainy days, scattered everywhere.

Those who are more particular are also surrounded by cloth snatched from somewhere; those who are not very particular are cut down some branches and a few door panels to build a shack; some lazy people even lay a mat or a pile of straw on the river beach, and sleep directly on the open... Then in this messy camp, there are still piles of food, money and livestock that have just been robbed, without any minimum warning measures.

However, this is also a normal phenomenon. First of all, they were not professional soldiers who had been through the battlefield, and they were not even bandits who committed crimes for a long time. It was inevitable that they had only been engaged in the robbery industry for a few days, and lacked relevant professional experience. Secondly, since they instantly crossed thousands of mountains and rivers through the magic portal and accidentally entered the Kafei Mountain Country, they had never encountered any truly decent resistance. Whether it was the shogunate official in Kofu City or the landlords and tycoons in the country manors, they all hid in their respective surrounds and shivered, and they did not dare to come out to trouble them, such as the robbers, and let those villages lacking defense facilities be looted.

Unfortunately, the Jiafei Mountain Country is really poor. Not only does every household have a few handfuls of rice, but even the big yellow girl can't afford to wear clothes... Although she avoided the trouble of tearing the fabric when she took turns to push it down, there was no souvenir afterwards, which really made these thieves scratch their heads.

The legendary Jiafei gold mine was exhausted hundreds of years ago. If ordinary villagers have a few strings of copper coins, they can be considered a top-notch family. As for those manors that seem to be more oily, they are all village walls, trenches and bamboo stick arrays, and they also have gray bottles, rolling wood and bricks. All day long, strong servants patrolled back and forth with bamboo guns, bows and arrows and muskets, and were very careful.

Without artillery or stone throwing machines, the thieves had to fill up hundreds of lives if they wanted to open any of these earthen enclosures. However, these bandits from Kinki were not in charge, and the largest group was only more than 200 people. They could not catch them alone, but they were both wary of each other. More importantly, these earthen enclosures were not large in size, and they should not be able to store a lot of money. Even if they opened one of them without hesitation of death and injury, there might not be enough things inside to divide them together...

Therefore, when the local wealthy family in a certain earthen enclosure secretly carried out some food, wine and vegetables to destroy their wealth and eliminate disasters, and told them about the rich accumulation and empty inside story of Kofu Castle, these guys saw that there were no soft persimmons left around, and finally decided to join forces to make a big favourite - everyone formed an alliance to open Kofu Castle, snatched all the arms and food inside, and continued to wander around Shinono or Ueno.

Since almost all the thieves were thinking about the beautiful prospect of breaking the city and robbing, they regarded the defenders huddled in the city as local chickens and tiles, and there was another river, so they never thought they would be attacked, and they didn't even arrange sentries and patrols. Therefore, when the explosion occurred, they were like hornets filled with boiling water, and they were completely in chaos.

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The night attack planned and commanded by Major General Feri Taylor was indeed a huge momentum, and it brought its high-end military advantage to the extreme, full of the evil beauty of violent crushing the flow. First, a string of burning meteorite magic fell from the sky, causing the entire camp to bump in the violent tremor; then, more than a dozen rows of rocket launchers hidden in the bushes to ignite together, causing hundreds of paper rockets to drag their orange-red tail flames into the thief camp, splashing the white phosphorus burning agent filled with the warhead, and burning the thief who had just woken up from his sleep to charcoal

——This is the time when autumn is clear and the weather is dry and the things are dry. Unprepared to the guard, the entire river beach that has been tents quickly turned into a sea of ​​burning fire. All kinds of noisy calls, dog barking, scolding, crying and weapon collisions are all chaotic. Even if it is quite far away, the chaos can be clearly inferred.

"...Oh, it's really a bunch of slutty and weak-hearted people. I guess it's completely defeated with just one charge... Tsk tsk, there are probably nearly 2,000 enemy soldiers here. Why is there no spellcaster in the court? Isn't it said that the Emperor family relies on the identity of the descendant of Amaterasu's Great God to mobilize many Onmyoji and witches near Kyoto?"

Fili wore a black robe for concealment, rode on a specially painted gray-black flying broom, commenting on the one-sided slaughter-like battle below with interest. In order to provide enough firepower support for this sneak attack, he first used the provocation to force the double voter of Mitsui Ryuki, the magic goddess and the goddess of wealth, flew over the target, and used an extremely gorgeous set of meteorite rain magic to win the lead.

Then the soldiers who participated in the war used the iron cockroach golem to carry several boxes of burning rockets on the night road. In addition, the boxes of rockets that Feili took out from the space ring on her body. Taking advantage of the opportunity of these thieves being wary, they quietly placed them in a wood not far from the river beach camp... The next thing was enough to perform this barbecue scene.

So, with the fall of the fire meteorite as the overture, rockets dragging orange-red flames flew out of the bushes in waves, flying through hundreds of steps at lightning speed, like a surging rain of fire falling... In an instant, explosions and wails sounded everywhere in the camp, and balls of bright flames burst and soared in the night sky. The soldiers and frightened animals ran around with flames, causing the fire to spread uncontrollably, and made a few leaders roar and try to restore order completely into bubbles...

However, the enemy spellcaster who had been holding his magic wand and being alert to him never appeared.

"...Witches and Onmyoji? They are also worthy of recruiting such powerful people. Humph, even the ruthless and bloodthirsty evil witches who are good at killing will not be willing to depreciate themselves and mingle with these floppy guys who are not even as good as beggars. Not to mention the pampering witches and royal Onmyoji in the major shrines of Kyoto - the more famous the world's strong men are, the more they are both face and life-threatening. How could they hook up with a group of gangsters who cannot make a difference, and take great risks to fight for the enemy's hinterland with their heads?"

Unlike Feili who tried her best to hide herself, Mitsui Ryuki did not care about the possible counterattack and snipers, and she changed into her extremely brilliant and gorgeous Goddess of Wealth Voters suit, shining brightly in the bright red firelight - from top to bottom, golden robes with various dazzling gems and precious metal decorations, golden boots inlaid with pearls and jade at the roots and boots, and cute bows with gold wire on the back of her hair - she looked like a walking wallet.

However, Mitsui Ryuki is floating in the air more than 200 feet above the ground, and no one can touch the thieves below. Therefore, not only did she not have the nervousness of being on the battlefield, but she still had the intention to chat with Feili.

In the blazing firelight under her feet, her delicate loli face was covered with a layer of hazy and strange colors, and she looked rich and innocence with her brilliant and luxurious decorations all over her body. Well, as long as she was not blackened or went wild, the "Dragon Princess" Mitsui Ryuki is still a very cute loli... Unfortunately, in recent times, the time she has been getting blackened and gone wild has been increasing day by day...

However, seeing that these mobs on the river beach were already destroyed by the fire from the sky, they were just trying to protect the stolen goods they had robbed. There was not even half a person shooting into the sky, Feili couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

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In fact, both him and Mitsui Ryuki knew very well that with the powerful spells of the two voters and the cooperation of one or two hundred soldiers, it was not difficult to defeat these unorganized and undisciplined bandits.

The real problem is that it is easy to fight a defeat battle, but it is extremely difficult to wipe out all the bandits. Although there are strong men on our side, the troops are too few after all. If the enemy flees with their lives when they see ideas, they can at least slip out more than half of them.

In this case, the remaining enemies will no longer be held together and set up a clear target for the government to clear them. Instead, they will break them into pieces, hiding in the surrounding forests, and come out from time to time to make a vote... This will inevitably lead to an extreme collapse of public security in the Jiafei area and will also affect agricultural production.

Therefore, Mitsui Ryuki's original idea was to use the incense bait of Kafucheng to hold down his opponents, and to restrain these thieves who were accustomed to running around under the city, and then quickly dispatch troops from the rear, join the Jiafei battlefield to encircle and suppress the thieves, and strive to achieve their contributions in one battle

Strictly speaking, this approach that focuses on the long term cannot be miscalculated. However, in view of the lessons learned by the Edo fire and the Yokohama Concession, Feiri always felt that she overestimated the defense ability of Kofu Castle and ignored the current major problems of people's hearts. If Kofu Castle falls during this period, and equips these 2,000 bandits with muskets and field artillery, and there is a strong city to defend, not only will the situation of Kofu Castle be unstoppable from now on, but the last strategic material reserve within the old shogunate sphere of influence will also be lost to the enemy.

After all, this is still a matter of main and secondary goals. In Feili's view, after accidentally completing the work of recruiting the former Imperial Guards, the main goal at present is to transfer the military supplies stored in the city of Kofu as soon as possible to prepare and support his new recruits.

Due to the previous series of chaos, there are no excess weapons in Edo Castle at this moment for him to expand his army and prepare for war. If he wants to organize imports, it is too late to go to time. In addition, there is also a huge gap in food.

The former guards officers and soldiers of the Naseriel Empire who had just been surrendered made him feel even more deceived. I thought I could see a group of elite troops with their own weapons, but I didn't expect that the actual situation was not the case at all.

——The damn spiritual warlock General Robert, who had not told himself in advance that in order to enrich the small treasury and make up for the travel expenses for the escape, had sold all the weapons and ammunition from the abandoned soldiers, and not even a bayonet left...

Therefore, facing such a group of "new forces" with bare hands, unkempt and dirty faces, Major General Ferry Taylor was so painful that he couldn't hurt anymore. But no matter how painful it was, he had to arm them as soon as possible. The place where the recent accumulation of weapons is in the city of Kofu, and there is a danger of falling and changing hands at any time... Therefore, he refused to wait any longer, betting that these thieves could not break through the castle.

As for the deteriorating public security conditions that may be caused by the collapse of the remaining enemies, Feili also has his own set of rhetoric - first of all, the autumn harvest has passed, and the annual tribute grain and rice have been put into storage. No matter how many thieves ravaged the place (in fact, those who can be ravaged have been almost completely ravaged), it has nothing to do with the government before the next tax collection in half a year... And given the current crisis of the Edo authorities, whether it can last until half a year later, is probably still unknown.

——Simply put, even if the flood is surging after I die. If I don’t die... In short, let’s talk about it after I really don’t die.

Secondly, it is mid-to-late October, and winter is about to begin, and the weather in Jiafei Mountains is even colder. These thieves are not locals, and they have no villages or bandit nests to accommodate. They have no food, clothing, and no house to live in the ice and snow. They can't hold on for too long, and they will freeze to death to starve or struggle to escape to other places... Therefore, there is no need to work hard to strengthen public security operations. As long as you wait patiently for a period of time, the harsh nature will automatically help the government to eliminate this bandit crisis.

Relying on these two reasons, Feili finally told Miss Ryuki Mitsui to solve these enemies as soon as possible, to ensure that she lives in Kofu City. Other things can be discussed later.

When it comes to actual action, there is no difficulty at all - these enemies are so arrogant that they are not even sent to scouts. The night attack troops easily touched their butts. According to the scheduled plan, first the magic bombardment of the two voters was used as the general attack signal, and then the covered firepower strike of a large number of paper rockets (this is the masterpiece created by the half-elf of the Giant Bear Legion, the fake wanted criminal, Little El, and the combination of a series of comprehensive shortcomings such as short range, poor accuracy, fear of water, flammable and explosive, and easy to be blown away by the wind, but it is barely enough to use it here). Finally, the vanguards were organized to break into the enemy's formation with iron cockroaches, and used grenades, flintlocks, crossbows and spears to kill all enemies who dared to resist.

The first two steps were carried out very smoothly, and thousands of thieves were burned by the fire rain from the sky and fled around. But when Feili was about to shoot a beam signal and ordered the 100 soldiers lurking in the woods to attack, a military music of Taigong and magic snails suddenly sounded in the Kafu City on the other side of the Buwuchuan, and the long sound echoed in the night sky for a long time.

——In order to show his initiative and enthusiasm, the official Jia Fei also took the opportunity to lead his troops out and beat the dogs in the water.

But the problem is that no matter how well the weapons and equipment are, laymen cannot beat the level of experts - even if their opponents are also a bunch of laymen.

Even if there is a dog in front of you, if you don’t have the ability to destroy Gundam with your own hands, don’t pretend to be a dog-beating team.

——This is the feeling that Feili couldn't help but burst into tears after watching the low-level and poor melee for several hours.

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"... It's just a matter of dealing with a few dozen bare-butt bandits who swam to the Jiafu City to avoid the fire in the camp. You actually knocked down forty shells and three thousand bullets, and caused six rifles to explode due to illegal and rough operation, and one field gun exploded and one cracked. Four people died on the spot, six were seriously injured, and five were slightly injured... What kind of battle is this he who is fighting? Since you can't use firearms, don't destroy them casually. These imported weapons are very expensive. Do you guys know?"

The next morning, in the residence of the Daiguan in Kafu Castle, all local officials at all levels knelt on the ground tremblingly, lowered their heads and listened to Miss Mitsui Ryuki standing on the main seat with her hips on her hips, and was furious. Among them, Kafu Daiguan Yukawa Hidemi was particularly pitiful. She was pierced by the fragments of the bomb explosion cannon, but she could not pursue the murderer to vent her anger, and she had to kneel down here to be scolded. There was no way, who told her that the one who was randomly slaughtering at that time was his younger brother, who liked to talk big. And because of this bomb explosion, she was poked into a hornet's nest and died.

Feili, who was standing aside, also looked at them both angry and funny. These guys were obviously the custodian of the arms warehouse, but they overestimated their ability to move out these Western firearms that they didn't know how to operate at all. They wanted to beat the dogs in the water, but they didn't want to make themselves trouble.

The various low-level mistakes they made last night were so funny that they could make people laugh: some were dizzy and loaded lead bullets first and then filled in the firing medicine, which caused the firearm to be damaged; some were nervously loaded with double-firing medicine bags, causing the gun chamber to crack and poked their eyes blind; several temporary gunners were flipping the manual under the dim torch while exploring the loading operation, but after more than twenty flowering bullets were fired, none of them burst. Since the manual was not read, even the lead wire of the flowering bullet was inserted, they rushed out the shells, no wonder they didn't explode.

What's even more terrible is that they clearly saw that the gun barrel was already red and hot, and they didn't know that they would have to cool down for a while before shooting, but they blew themselves and this poor field gun together...

To be honest, Feili and Mitsui Ryuki were not feeling sorry for their deaths, but being squandered so many expensive arms was really frustrating - in this Far East island country where wars are rampant, these arms are now super rare goods that have money and have nowhere to buy.

Finally, there were still a lot of arms in stock in the city, which was more than 900 former Imperial Guards officers and soldiers who had just joined. As for the remaining guns, ammunition and field artillery, they were all checked out one by one and packed boxes, and were ready to be transported out with tens of thousands of stones of grain in Kofu Castle. However, the destination of this transportation was not the Edo Castle Town when they came...

"...Yes, Edo is now in ruins and threatened with plague. It is indeed not appropriate to be a capital of a country. So I issued a transfer order before this trip and was about to move... Well, by the way, I have to change a new sign - after all, even the Shogun has gone to Kyoto to surrender. If we continue to fight with the title of Makuto, it would be a bit unreasonable..."
Chapter completed!