Chapter 57: Defeat the Thieves (Part 3)

"The Central Army, Jiading Chen-character, Hangzhou Xia-character, Changzhou Cui-character, all turned right to meet the enemy, supervised the team, divided half of the men to follow, first destroy the thieves, and then broke through Jiangwan." At this point, Dong Tuanxiao had no good choice. He bit his teeth and ordered all the remaining troops to fight to the right.

The Huaian Army was brave and good at fighting, but the number was too small, so it was not easy to make a breakthrough in the front of the Zhejiang Army. Although the right-wing Fang family army, although there were many people and powerful people, became famous in the past, but they might not be able to maintain the same combat effectiveness when they arrived on land. At least, Dong Tuanxiao did not believe that his direct troops and Mao Hulu soldiers would be defeated by them.

In this way, defeating the Fang thieves and eliminating the threats from the flanks became the inevitable choice. Only by defeating Fang Guozhen can the Zhejiang army concentrate on dealing with the Huai bandits in Jiangwan City, and even take the opportunity to encircle them from both wings, making them unable to return.

"Destroy the thieves in the square first, then break the river bay." "Destroy the thieves in the square first, then break the river bay." The personal soldiers opened their voices and repeated the orders of the generals with due diligence over and over again.

"First destroy the thieves in the square, then break the river bay." "First destroy the thieves in the square, then break the river bay." The various Maohulu soldiers also repeated loudly, giving themselves courage.

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"Dongdongdongdong, dongdongdongdongdong, dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong." The sound of war drums was like muffled thunder, rolling around on the top of a person's head, making the scalp numb and the body trembled involuntarily.

Accompanied by the shrill horns and dull war drums, the remaining 25,000 Zhejiang troops slowly turned, from east to west to north and south, facing the pirates of the Fang family who were slowly pushing over. Everyone's eyes were full of resentment.

Two hundred and fifty steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and in a blink of an eye, it was shortened to within 120 steps. Suddenly, a short war drum came from Dong Tuanxiao, "Dong,,."

"Dong,." There was a short drum sound in the center of each team. The archers walking in the back row quickly stopped, raised their bow arms, skillfully put the two and a half feet long carved feather arrows on the bowstrings. The other soldiers holding spears and swords and shields continued to move forward, adjusting the distance between them while walking, preparing to cooperate with the archers and give the enemy a fatal blow.

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"No." Dong Tuanxiao's heart shivered when he saw it. He immediately grabbed the order flag and prepared to order his soldiers to speed up and avoid any long-distance shooting. However, before he could shout out the order, the small cannon on the opposite side had already spit out several fire snakes, "Boom, Boom." "Boom, Boom." "Boom, Boom."

A whole row of black iron projectiles, with pale white trails, whistled towards the Zhejiang Army's array. After most of them hit the target, they immediately plunged into the ground, causing large masses of flesh and soil. After the other four, after landing, they jumped up quickly and drew four strange lines in the crowd.

The broken weapons and limbs splattered and danced in the path of the shells passing by. The distance of 120 steps, even the smoothbore cannon was amazingly powerful. All the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army who were swept by four kilograms of shells, whether they were the Dong family's direct armoured family in leather armor, or the wool gourd soldiers who only protected them by bamboo boards or paper armor, were swept into pieces.

Four bloody cracks appeared in the Zhejiang Army. It seemed like a huge gap bitten by the devil. A soldier turned around and fled, and was immediately cut off by the supervisors in the last row of the team. The centurion, the commander of thousands of men, and the children of gentry who were preparing to gain fame in the war, forced their subordinates with steel knives to fill the cracks. After a sudden pause, the entire Zhejiang Army array accelerated forward again.

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"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh." The archers of the Zhejiang Army shot a ball of feather arrows up to the sky. As the artillery loaded on the opposite side was loading, they launched bloody revenge on the Fang family army. Hundreds, thousands, densely packed, making people unable to hide.

Large groups of blood splashed among the Fang family army, and hundreds of pirates fell to the ground by arrows. However, more people quickly took over the position of the fallen one hand, raised the rattan card with one hand and the harpoon with the other, with shoulders next to the shoulders, and continued to slowly approach the enemy, without any speed.

"Dong,." Another war drum sounded.

Thousands of feather arrows flew into the air again, cutting the sunlight between the two armies into pieces. More pirates fell down by arrows, and more pirates stepped forward to fill their positions in the pool of blood of their companions. Among them, there were only a very small number of them, most of them were just wearing armor made of fish skin and nitrogen, but none of them turned around, even if death was close to them.

"Dong,,." The third short drum sounded, and the large waves of feather arrows continued to fly into the air. The Zhejiang Army archer who found the feeling quickly pulled out the fourth feather arrow, put on the bow arm, and at the same time slightly raised the angle.

The distance between the enemy and us is only seventy steps left. The initial angle of the feather arrow must be adjusted to cause greater damage to the pirates.

"Boom." "Boom, Boom." "Boom, Boom." Before the fourth wave of feather arrows came, the twelve four-jin cannons roared again, and they were still twelve solid bullets. After half of them hit the Zhejiang army, together with the target's corpse, they were quickly swallowed up by the sea. The other six jumped up again, swaying left and right, jumping at high speed in a zigzag shape, and decomposing all the Zhejiang army soldiers they encountered along the way into corpses.

Six bloody cracks appeared again in the Zhejiang army's ranks. Nearly twenty people were killed by artillery shells on the spot. More than ten unlucky people were seriously injured by artillery shells and rolled and struggled in a pool of blood. Compared to the dead, their appearance was even more daring to look directly. Any part rubbed by the artillery shells was deeply concave inward. The black plasma continued to gush out along the wound. Under the cover of the black plasma, there were white bone stubbles, piercing the muscles of the skin, exploring the air full of sulfur, stimulating people's eyes.

The tragic situation of the seriously injured made the Zhejiang soldiers near the shell trajectory tremble and their legs were as weak as if they were filled with lead. However, other soldiers who were not affected by the shells made crazy shouts and rushed towards the pirates at a faster speed, seventy, sixty, and fifty steps, with only such a short distance left. The artillery was not as good as the third loading. As long as they met the pirates, they would definitely win.

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Between the steel forks and iron spikes flashing with cold light, thousands of iron pipes were poked out, and they pointed steadily at the various Zhejiang Yongs who were rushing forward through just fifty steps.

"Squeak,." A shrill copper whistle suddenly penetrated the sound of horns, the trio of war drums and conchs, like the first ray of sunlight coming from behind the red clouds.

"Bang." One thousand two hundred iron pipes spewed out white and bright projectiles at the same time, sweeping on the bodies of the front row of soldiers in the Zhejiang Army like a storm. The entire Zhejiang Army's team's advancement speed suddenly stopped. Then, countless blood arrows rose into the air, dyeing the world in front of them red.

It was a musket, a large number of muskets, lead bullets pushed by gunpowder, and at a distance of fifty steps, ignoring all armor blocks. Anyone who was concentrated either was exasperated on the spot, broke his arms and legs, and fell to the ground and screamed loudly.

The sound of all drums and horns suddenly paused as if they were stuck in their throats. The entire battlefield suddenly became extremely quiet. Apart from the howl of the injured, there was no noise from others. Amid the screams of the injured, the musketeers from Yangzhou City quickly put the barrel back and straight upwards. Then they took out a small paper tube from their waists, bit the red end with their teeth, poured the gunpowder inside out from the muzzle, and then squeezed out a bullet from the bottom of the paper tube with their right thumb and index finger, and quickly filled the muzzle.

The distance between the two sides was so close that the front row of soldiers in the Zhejiang Army could almost see every move of the musketeers. However, most of them did not know whether they should continue to move forward or backward, and they squeezed each other into a mess.

There are at least a thousand muskets in the Fang family army. When did the muskets have been there? It is definitely not the Fang family army, but the Huai thieves under Zhu Tuhu. When dealing with the Fang family army, the Maohulu soldiers had absolute confidence in their hearts. When facing the Huai thieves under Zhu Tuhu, the Maohulu soldiers were absolutely unwilling to die in vain.

However, Dong Tuanxiao did not allow anyone to retreat, snatch the drumstick with his own hands, and beat the death-hunting drum again, "Dongdongdongdongdongdongdong, dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong

Hearing the drum, he advanced. This was a military order. Those who violated the order died. The supervisor team, who followed the last row of the military formation, immediately rushed forward and boosted morale with their own blood. Dozens of bloody heads were cut off on the spot, including many gentry children. All the teams cheered up their morale again under the pressure of steel knives and crossbow arrows and rushed forward. The sound from their mouths was like howling ghosts and wolves.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh," another wave of arrow rain enveloped the hedgehog formation formed by the Fang family army and the Huaian army.

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"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" the horn kept ringing, like a deadly ghost howl. Dong Tuanxiao personally led the direct troops to rush up, and the steel knife in his hand reflected the blue sunlight.

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"Shark Soldier." Dong Tuanxiao's eyes narrowed suddenly, and the cold light was like lightning.

Fang Guzi was really crazy. I don’t know what benefits he had taken over Zhu Butcher, but he actually sent out the shark soldiers who started his family. Although the number of people in this team was not large, it was famous. The official army went to sea to fight several times, but in the end they were all broken by the hands of this group of evil thieves who used sharks and whale skins as armor.

However, the Dong family army also hid the same Dinghai Shen Needle, and it was impolite to come but not to go. He quickly picked up the corner flag and issued the final order, "Personal Barracks, attack."

"Boom." Like an angry ant colony, two thousand burly men wearing double armor surged out from the underworld. The clear character "Dong" was written on the flag behind each person.

They are the personal military camps trained by Dong Tuanxiao for a large sum of money, commonly known as the Family Camp. Each person usually receives four times the military salary, from weapons, armor to food and clothing, all of which are superior to others. Even their surnames are completely different from ordinary soldiers. Everyone has long changed to "Dong", as if they are really a child of Dong Tuanxiao's tribe. Their lives have long been sold to the Dong family. They have no other choice except to work hard to move forward in the battle.

"Press my husband's handsome flag here and never retreat." Looking at the back of his personal military camp rushing up, Dong Tuanxiao took a deep breath and slowly pulled out the sword from his waist. The killer weapon had been sent up. The rest can only be handed over to God. Mr. Dong was ordered to come here, and today he should repay his kindness with death.

"Mr. Qingtian, look." Just over 200 steps away from Dong Tuanxiao's handsome flag, Fang Guozhen quickly turned his head and asked a scholar beside him.

"No hurry." Liu Bowen, who was called Mr. Qingtian, smiled and calm.

The two had known each other for many years. As early as when Fang Guozhen was recruited for the first time, Liu Bowen, a local official, once suggested that his superiors kill him, but no one adopted his suggestion. In the end, Fang Guozhen made him lose his job because of his management.

However, the old grievances remain the same, and now the two have become close partners. From collecting money and letting go to joining forces to destroying Dong, in the past few days, the cooperation between the Huai'an army and the Fang family army has been Liu Bowen's threading needles. Invisibly, Fang Guozhen also regarded him as the incarnation of the fourth army's army. Every word and action represents the thoughts of Wu Yongchun, the commander of the Fourth Army.

The elites of both sides were already strangled in front of the formation, and they went back and forth without giving in. The Huai'an army's musketeers kept poking out the gun barrels from behind the hedgehog formation, causing huge casualties to the Zhejiang army. The archers of the Zhejiang army poured all the revenge on the Fang family army's head, causing their corpses to spread all over the ground.

Every moment, a large number of soldiers died, regardless of the enemy and me. Such a huge loss made Fang Guozhen feel the pain. He gritted his teeth and risked being despised by his friendly forces. He asked Liu Bowen again, "General Wu, when will General Wu be able to succeed? Mr. Qingtian, there are only fifty cannons. You can't let me put all my brothers in."

"It's almost done." Liu Bowen was still calm and took out a monocular telescope from his waist, looked around, and then smiled and handed it to Fang Guozhen, "If you can't even hold on to Mr. Dong's three axes, what can you do to dominate the world in the future? But don't worry too much. It won't take too long. At most half a quarter of an hour, the situation will naturally be clear."

After saying that, I was too lazy to explain anything. The old god was putting his sleeve behind him, closing his eyes and starting to sleep, turning a deaf ear to the shouts of killing that were close to him.
Chapter completed!