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Chapter 1376 Shoot!

"Drive another 5,000 hungry people to attack from both wings."

Li Zicheng looked at the hungry civilians who had pressed forward earlier, and found that they were only 150 steps away from the central army formation of the officers and soldiers. He immediately ordered the hungry civilians on both wings to also press forward to add some pressure to the officers and soldiers.

Everyone around King Chuang knew that today's battle was destined to be a fight in which they would have to risk their entire fortunes, and they would not withdraw their troops until they achieved complete victory.

Sure enough, just as they were thinking, the voice of King Chuang came again: "Yi San, send a message to Han Ju and the vanguard soldiers, in today's battle, we must advance and not retreat, and we will not retreat until we win."

"Yes."

Li You was about to turn around and arrange for the flag soldiers to go and convey the commander's order when he heard the King of Chuang say in a deep voice: "Yisan, you go there in person."

Li You stopped immediately upon hearing that. He turned around, clasped his fists solemnly to receive the order, and then turned and left.

At this time, Wu Ruyi rushed over in a slightly impatient manner, and whispered to the King of Rebellion, "Grand Marshal, General Buzhi has sent a letter. The local tribes such as Shen Wandeng and Liu Hongqi, who originally submitted to us, have betrayed their loyalty and turned to the government."

"Is this true?"

"It is absolutely true. General Buzhi has made it very clear in his letter."

Wu Ruyi paused for a moment, then continued, "Especially Shen Wandeng is the most hateful. He actually killed the people sent by the Grand Marshal, and even raised an army to help the government troops besiege General Buzhi."

Li Zicheng was not very concerned about what Shen Wandeng did, but was very concerned about Li Guo's safety. He asked anxiously, "How is Buzhi? Does the letter say anything?"

"General Buzhi is fine. The government troops and Shen Wandeng and the other old thieves have not really attacked the city. There will be no danger for the time being."

A trace of doubt flashed across Li Zicheng's face, and he stretched out his right hand to Wu Ruyi. Wu Ruyi immediately understood and hurriedly handed the letter to him.

King Chuang quickly took it and read it carefully, then handed it to Niu Jinxing who was following behind him, and motioned him to take a look at it together with Song Xiance.

"Send a message to Bu Zhi immediately, asking him to lead the elite cavalry in the army to return immediately to provide support, and leave the infantry to Ma Chongxi to retreat to Xuzhou." While Niu and Song were reading the letter, King Chuang issued another military order.

"Yes."

Wu Ruyi had just received the military order when he heard Song Xiance, who had just glanced at the letter, stop him and say, "The Grand Marshal has abandoned Xiangcheng, so he doesn't care about the old camp in Funiushan..."

King Chuang looked at him expressionlessly and said, "The government troops are only trying to contain the enemy and have no real intention of attacking Xiangcheng. In this case, it is useless for Buzhi to stay there. It is better to lead the cavalry back to provide assistance. Perhaps we can chop off a few more heads of the government troops."

Song Xiance took a peek at Niu Jinxing and saw him nodding his head at him. He immediately understood what was going on and said, "The Grand Marshal is truly a god from heaven. He saw through the government army's trick at a glance. He is truly a god... a god!"

Although Li Zicheng's expression was the same as usual, he was already beaming with joy in his heart. Ever since Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others came to submit to him one after another, especially after Song Xiance presented him the prophecy of "the Eighteen Sons holding the sacred weapon", the King of Rebellion became more and more pleased with the praise from others.

Especially those educated people like Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, who are much more eloquent than those rough guys in the army. When they praise others, they often talk about the facts and always manage to lead the final topic to the "Heavenly Saint's Visit to the Earth".

Such a compliment, which is both subtle and extremely clear in its direction, would probably be very helpful to anyone!
"I think the military advisor has already seen through this crude trick." Li Zicheng said with a smile.

Song Xiance replied without revealing any trace: "No, it was only after listening to the Grand Marshal's military order that Xiance suddenly realized it!"

Li Zicheng smiled upon hearing this, but did not continue the topic. Niu Jinxing glanced at Song Xiance, also smiled mysteriously, and also did not speak. "Grand Marshal, should we continue to press on the hungry civilians in the middle route to prevent the government troops from having a chance to breathe?" Song Xiance made a timely suggestion.

Li Zicheng seemed to have heard it, but also seemed not to have heard it. He looked in the direction where the starving people were heading, deep in thought...

After a moment, the King of Rebellion waved his hand fiercely and shouted, "Ten thousand hungry civilians, follow up in the middle, speed up, anyone who delays will be killed in front of the battle!"

"Yes." Wu Ruyi received the order loudly and immediately arranged for the flag soldiers to pass on the message.

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"The enemy has entered within a hundred steps."

After hearing the observer's report, Lin Fangping took a breath before shouting in a deep voice, "Continue observing."

He was still riding on his warhorse so that he could better see the condition of the soldiers in the formation. Looking around at this moment, the entire army was dead silent. Except for the breathing of the soldiers, there was no other noise.

Each man's musket had also undergone two rounds of inspection, and was now standing quietly beside each soldier, ready to be raised and aimed at any time.

"The enemy is ninety steps away from me!"

According to the drill manual of the Yongyi Army, the enemy should start reporting when they are 500 steps away from us, and report every 100 steps thereafter. Within 200 steps, report every 50 steps, and after 100 steps, report every 10 steps.

Now, after hearing the report of "enemy...90 steps away", Lin Fangping rode back to the formation. He drew out his sword with a swish and shouted, "Attention, gunners. First row, raise your guns. Second row, get ready."

"Enemy, eighty steps."

"First row, aim. Second row, get ready!"

The Yunzhou Type 2 gun was a new flintlock gun that was finalized after several improvements. When using a new fixed-charge powder bag, it has terrifying killing power against unarmored people within ninety steps.

However, Lin Fangping did not seem to be in a hurry to give the order to shoot, but waited for the hungry people to move forward, as if he wanted them to get closer so as to increase the hit rate of his own muskets.

When the observer shouted "seventy steps", Lin Fangping raised the sword in his hand high, but still did not order to shoot.

"Sixty steps!"

Just as the observer shouted this report, the hungry people on the opposite side seemed to be stimulated by something. Several flashes of blood appeared in the team, and they rushed towards this side like crazy.

Lin Fangping originally wanted to wait a little longer, but seeing this scene, he did not dare to delay.

Lin Fangping suddenly swung down his saber and shouted, "First row, fire; second row, aim; third row, get ready!"

As the command flags were waved and the messengers shouted, until finally the captains of each team gave the order, the musketeers in the first row fired a very beautiful volley.

After a huge bang, a row of light smoke billowed upwards, and deadly bullets whizzed through the sky and flew towards the oncoming group of hungry people.

Lin Fangping didn't want to give these hungry people time to react, and immediately ordered: "Second row, shoot, third row, aim, first row, reload!"