The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 615
The battle continued, and people on both sides continued to fall. Xi Shanhu was not in a hurry to use the old camp's habitual bandits to launch a general attack. He believed that after this battle, he could select the strong people who survived to join the old camp to feed them.

What are those cannon fodder dead?There is simply not enough food to eat, and if more useless people die, there will be fewer mouths to eat.

The intentions of the rogue bandits to ensnare the common people are extremely vicious. Not only do they become cannon fodder during the war, but when the food runs out, the women and children who are engulfed among the common people become two-legged sheep and food for these frenzied thieves.

Guo Sanxi did not retreat when he learned that a large number of bandits were attacking Yiyang County. He continued to lead the team to accelerate forward, and soon Zhu Guobing's scouts found a four-wheeled carriage galloping from the direction of Yiyang County.

This car is actually a product of the Huang family. Guo Sanxi has no cavalry. Among the 36 scouts, only seven officers from the Patriarch's personal army can ride and fight.

These people were former postmen of the Ming Dynasty recruited by the Huang family. They had the same experience as Li Duyan. They were all unemployed young adults after being laid off from the post office.

When the scouts saw the carriage from Yiyang County, they had to intercept it to inquire about the situation. Eighteen knights including Zhu Guobing and four Lijiabao martial artists surrounded the carriage. They also found that most of these knights were wearing mandarin duck war jackets from the Ming army.

The one who was intercepted was Jin Huijia, the magistrate of Yiyang County, who fled in a hurry. When he saw the well-dressed Ming cavalry, he thought it was reinforcements. He refused to reveal that he had fled from the city. He did not answer the knights' questions, but only asked How many people came from which department they were.

Xu Sijiu and Guo Sanxi, who were speeding up along the official road, saw Jin Huijia. The two of them appeared in the military uniforms of the fifth rank and the fifth rank, and there were hundreds of soldiers behind them. Jin Huijia believed that the two The man should be the chief general of the Ming army.

He immediately revealed his identity, and told Xu Sijiu that there should be tens of thousands of rogues, and that the soldiers in Yiyang City were weak and unable to hold on, so he rushed out of the city to rescue them.

Xu Sijiu has traveled to many places in the Central Plains during these days, and he has long seen that the Jinzhi County is abandoning the city and fleeing, but he didn't point it out, and regarded it as the county magistrate who really left the city to ask for help.

Xu Sijiu and Guo Sanxi immediately decided to speed up and attack the rogues as soon as possible. Even if the thieves had broken through the city, it was impossible to quickly control the situation. As long as they were beaten out quickly, too many families would be saved and too many people would be saved.

Just when Tieshanhu found out that the rolling logs and stones at the top of Yiyang city had been exhausted, they launched a new army from the old battalion to carry out a general attack, and rushed to the top of the city many times. , Bah, bah..." The sound of firecrackers.

Li Zhongzheng, who led the soldiers and civilians to start a hand-to-hand fight with the rogues rushing to the top of the city, heard the sound of firecrackers and shouted: "Folks, the rescuers must have come. We are saved, and beat the culprits down!"

Many young and strong defenders of the city also heard the sound of firecrackers, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians at the head of Yiyang City was greatly boosted in an instant.

Some of them stabbed with long spears, some hacked with big knives, some only had wooden sticks, and they also smashed them round at this time. The thieves who had been shaken in the army couldn't resist for a while, leaving two or three hundred corpses and fled.

Guo Sanxi's own force value is terrifying. He is tall and burly, and he wears a full-steel breastplate in addition to soft armor and cotton armor when he is in battle. Among the 800 people, there are 66 officers who came from the Huang family's private soldiers, and the rest People are also the best in Wuqian Xiangyong.

Because the closer you are to the battlefield, the more likely you will face an encounter, so all those left along the way are those with weak skills or physical strength. Of course, the last seven hundred Xiangyongs are all heroes.

Although these Xiangyongs do not have breastplates or soft armors, they all have cotton armors made of canvas and lined with steel wires exclusively produced by the Huang family.

This kind of battle armor is light and warm, and its protection is strong enough to withstand the bows and arrows of rogue bandits, even if it is shot directly at about forty or fifty steps by the standard step bow of the Ming army.

Because it was winter, the thick cotton coat also played a protective role. The level of archery of the rogues was far worse than that of Jiannu, and they didn't have many step bows.

There are too few cavalry in Guo Sanxi's team, only seven officers can be considered as cavalry, the others can only be considered as cavalry infantry, and the eight martial artists in Lijiabao can't attack the enemy.

Xu Sijiu, who is a slightly higher position, has the final say in handling daily affairs, and Guo Sanxi, the military chief, is in charge of fighting. The most basic rule of the Huang family's combat regulations is to obey orders and obey commands.

After Guo Sanxi arranged for Xu Sijiu to lead a hundred Xiangyongs and nine auxiliary soldiers from the propaganda team, he and 66 officers rushed forward with their helmets and armor on, followed by [-] Xiangyongs with wooden spears.

The 39 men on horseback, led by seven cavalry officers, found that the enemy was fleeing in the back and tried to expand the victory.Behind the cavalry is Sibai Xiangyong pushing a wheelbarrow full of grain.

Behind them were the magistrate of Yiyang County and the four servants who were still accompanying them in a four-wheeled carriage.

We are already close to the battlefield, and food is life. If we win the battle and lose the food, maybe even the private soldiers of Huang’s family will be hungry. It’s a joke to save people. If we don’t hurry back to Liu’s Fort, everyone may starve to death. Where? Have the energy to take care of the starving people?
The ranks of the rogues were in disarray, their sentry horses were not far away at all, and coupled with the lax discipline, the few sentry horses already knew that Yiyang County was about to be breached, and they all fantasized about entering the city to grab gold sooner. Yin Caibao and the sleeping beauties all went down to Yiyang City.

When Guo Sanxi led the team to appear, he happened to attack the rear team of the bandits in the east of Yiyang City. Before the battle, Guo Sanxi told everyone to attack the bandits who were well-dressed and well-armed. Most of these people were habitual bandits or leaders. .

Those with ragged clothes and sticks can let them go as long as they don't take the initiative to attack.

Indeed, if the refugees who have just been coerced have good clothes, they will be seized by habitual bandits, and if they have armor and weapons, they will not be able to use them. It must be good to only target enemies with better equipment.

The 67 private soldiers of the Huang family who were striding forward approached the bandits and decisively fired their flintlock guns or double-barreled short guns. Many bandit leaders were killed on the spot immediately, and the bandits in the east of Yiyang City who were suddenly attacked collapsed instantly.

The tall and mighty Guo Sanxi inserts the double-barreled short guns, the light steel round shield in his left hand, and the one-handed battle ax in his right hand, invincible like a god of killing.

He was fully armed and had sufficient protection. The arrows shot by the bandit soldiers were so light that Guo Sanxi didn't even bother to block them with the light steel round shield.

Guo Sanxi double-clicked with his left and right hands, and flesh and blood flew in front of him. There was no bandit soldier who could make a move in front of him.

(End of this chapter)