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Zhu Xieyuan was very depressed. The rebels guarding the city dared to go out of the city to prevent him from crossing the river.The navy led by Zhu Guoxun, the general soldier of Jiangxi Province, has been standing still for so long. Compared with the two, it is really pissed off.

Zhu Guoxun had heard the cry of killing a long time ago, and his order was: "The enemy's situation is unknown, wait until dawn."

"Shhhhhh!"

Five hundred archers were hidden in the circle, and they began to shoot at the surrounding officers and soldiers.

There were screams all of a sudden, and the officers and soldiers were all topless, defenseless against bows and arrows.

"kill!"

Li Zheng, Fei Yinggong, Zhang Tieniu, and Liu Zhu finally rushed back and rushed directly to the officers and soldiers who had not yet crossed the river.

Zhu Xieyuan was startled and angry. The anti-thief defenders in Fengcheng County took the initiative to attack, which caused his crossing operation to be delayed. Now the whole army is divided into three parts.Most of them have crossed the river, some are in the river, and some are on the other side.

"Gather soldiers, gather soldiers!"

Zhu Xieyuan asked the messenger to blow the horn.

After reinforcements from the Datong Army rushed in, officers and soldiers who did not cross the river jumped into the river and swam to the other side.

The river is 30 meters wide and the flow is slow, which is nothing to Jiangxi soldiers, and they can swim across it in a blink of an eye.

They could besiege and kill 2 soldiers of Jiang Liang with [-] people, or they could stand by the small river and kill Li Zheng, Fei Yinggong and others who were trying to cross the river.It can also be transferred to the Ganjiang River, with officers, soldiers and navy as the backing, and can return to Nanchang in a safe and sound manner.

However, how can a group of terrified soldiers retreat in embarrassment in the dark and maintain their sanity?

It's not bad to be able to withdraw here.

"The rebels are coming, run!"

"Thieves know how to use demon magic!"

"Master, let's run away too, we can't fight any more."

"..."

The officers and soldiers who swam across the river were already in chaos.

Obviously they have the upper hand in numbers, they have already crossed the river, and they have multiple choices to remain invincible!But they just became chaotic, groups of village braves did not gather after crossing the river, but fled directly along the small river.

The bugle sound of Zhu Xieyuan's gathering of troops seemed to turn into a starting gun for fleeing, and countless officers and soldiers rushed to escape.

Zhu Xieyuan was stunned. Our entire army crossed the river smoothly, blocked the enemy's main force on the opposite bank, and surrounded the enemy's Fengcheng defenders by the river.Our army has the advantage at the moment. If we fight harder, we can even take the opportunity to seize the city.The enemy army is still on the other side, they should be feared, what do you mean by rout?

In a word, the officers and soldiers were terrified, and their retreat turned into a rout.

And it was a mess.

Wang Ting tried to mix in the rout, and he really wanted to rebel against the water at this moment.But the defeated soldiers didn't give him a chance, and the two thousand township warriors he recruited were also fleeing in a swarm, without knowing what the hell they were fleeing at all.

Anyway, if someone escapes, we will follow suit. If you escape early and quickly, you will surely survive.

"Master, let's go, it will be too late for the rebels to cross the river!"

Zhu Xieyuan was dragged away by his own soldiers. Those Guizhou rattan armored soldiers were very loyal, and they could form an formation to cover the retreat of the coach in the dark.

"Damn, if I knew I shouldn't wear armor, I'm exhausted from running all the way!"

Zhang Tieniu took off his armor and plunged into the river. His ax was a bit heavy, and Liu Zhu swam to the front soon.

At this moment, Huang Yao also led his troops to chase after him.

But his soldiers were too exhausted. Seeing that the officers and soldiers had collapsed, they all lay down by the river to sleep, and left the rest to the friendly army to deal with slowly.

"kill!"

Jiangliang's 930 guarding soldiers were besieged for a while, only more than [-] people were left to fight, and they took the lead in chasing down the defeated soldiers.

Li Zheng, Fei Yinggong, Zhang Tieniu, Liu Zhu and others also led troops to swim across the river one after another, leaving only more than a hundred firecrackers and hundreds of archers.

There are too many big and small rivers in Jiangxi. After chasing for several miles, there is another small river ahead.

Countless broken soldiers jumped into the river, swam to the other side of the river and continued to flee.The chasing soldiers also jumped into the river, and continued to chase after landing.

Give them each a bicycle and it becomes a true triathlon.

After chasing from dawn to morning, many rout soldiers were so exhausted that they could only sit down and rest for a while, and then ran for their lives when they saw the pursuers coming.

Those with poor physical strength couldn't run, so they just lay flat there, doing whatever they wanted, killing or cutting, whatever they wanted.

Wang Tingshi's physical strength was even weaker. He was lying on the riverside, and when he saw Datong soldiers chasing him, he quickly shouted: "I am Zhao Zongzhen's internal response, don't kill me!"

Although the officers, soldiers and sailors in the Ganjiang River in the north did not dare to go ashore to fight, they also sent spies over to check.

Knowing that Zhu Xieyuan's entire army fled, Zhu Guoxun immediately ordered a retreat, and the navy retreated outside Nanchang City before stopping.

This Jiangxi General Soldier is a parallel importer!

When he was fighting in Fujian, in three years, he was promoted from the general to the deputy general. First, he followed Zheng Zhilong to fight the wind, and second, he pretended to claim other people's military merits by spending money.

The court officials thought that Zhu Guoxun was good at water warfare, and he would definitely show his prowess in suppressing bandits in Jiangxi.

However, he did not dare to fight a tough battle...

Chapter 203 [Development of Farmers Association]

Zhu Xieyuan was carried back by more than 1000 rattan armored soldiers. He was not injured, but tired.

Fleeing from Fengcheng to Nanchang, a hundred miles, no more, no less, a total of ten rivers and rivers crossed!

With such ghostly terrain, one can imagine how desperate it would be if the northern cavalry crossed the river.

It is very convenient for those rattan armor soldiers to cross the river, because the rattan armor is waterproof and fireproof, can float in the river, and can be directly transformed into a life jacket.

Zhao Han's weapons workshop is also making rattan armor.

Because Zhao Han's army imitated Qi's army, among which the rattan players were very important.The reason why it is called the rattan hand is that the shield is a rattan shield, which is lighter and more defensive than a wooden shield, and is exactly the same as the rattan armor.

There is no rush for this thing, and the yellow vines in the mountains must be selected and soaked repeatedly for more than one year before the real production can be started.

It was already the next afternoon when Zhu Xieyuan fled back to Nanchang, and he immediately sent an order to gather up the defeated soldiers who had fled back.

Seeing the Jiangxi navy leaning on the shore, he quickly called Zhu Guoxun to ask, "Mr. Zhu, did the rebel navy show up?"

"There seems to be an anti-thief navy cruising." Zhu Guoxun answered ambiguously.

Hearing this answer, Zhu Xieyuan was furious, and wanted to draw out Shangfang's sword and chop Zhu Guoxun to death on the spot!

Forcibly suppressing his anger, Zhu Xieyuan warned: "The navy must always be on guard against rebels attacking Nanchang."

"I would like to obey the military order of the supervisor." Zhu Guoxun knew that he was wrong and behaved very respectfully.

Two days later, Zhu Xieyuan only gathered more than 2000 routs.

On the other side of the Datong Army, including the wounded officers and soldiers, only more than 7000 prisoners were captured.

As for the remaining [-] officers and soldiers, of course not all of them died.Most of them fled directly back to their hometowns, unwilling to fight for the imperial court again. Even if they were forcibly conscripted into the army in the future, they would definitely be ready to run away anytime and anywhere.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

In the governor's mansion, Zhu Xieyuan hid himself and coughed. He dared not let others know that he was sick.

An old man in his 70s was carried across ten rivers, so it's no wonder he didn't get sick from the sun and blisters.Historically, Zhu Xieyuan would have died of illness in Guizhou in two years, but now he just fell ill in another place.

……

Hu Dinggui slept for half a day and one night. Due to his leg injury, he stayed on the Lion Mountain and did not chase the enemy.

After filling his stomach, Hu Dinggui limped to the barracks with a spear, "What's wrong with Lao Chen?"

The doctor in the army is changing Chen Fugui's dressing: "He has been suffering from fever, whether he can live or not depends entirely on himself."

In the wound on Chen Fugui's abdomen, the intestines could be seen faintly.Fortunately, the cotton armor blocked the force, and the intestines were not punctured, but the wound infection was very fatal.

Zhao Han also didn't know much about medical knowledge. For the wounded and injured in the army, he only asked people to prepare highly distilled alcohol in advance, and emphasized that the bandages for dressing wounds must be boiled in boiling water.As for the others, they can only be handed over to the ancient trauma doctors, but the golden sore medicine has always been effective.

Hu Dinggui sat in front of Chen Fugui for a while, and then went to condolences to other wounded.

In the Battle of Lion Mountain, although there were only more than 400 casualties, the total number of casualties was more than 1000.There were only more than 25 people in the entire army, and the casualty rate was as high as [-]%.

"what!"

There were screams from the tent next door. Hu Dinggui leaned on his spear and saw the doctor amputating a wounded man's leg.

It was a soldier whose calf was bruised by a shell. It was a bruise, but in fact a large piece of flesh was gone.Although the wound was wiped with alcohol and the golden sore medicine was applied quickly, the hot and humid weather for several days still caused the wound to fester in a large area.It was horrific, and the calf had to be amputated in order to save her life.

Hu Dinggui came to the edge of the cliff and silently looked at the distant fields.

"Your leg is injured, don't move around carelessly." Xiao Zongxian came behind him at some point.

This is Hu Dinggui's old chief, leading them to drag Yang Jiamo's family.

Xiao Zongxian was also quite unlucky, in the fierce battle on the fourth day, he was injured just after the fight started, and was hit in the back of the head by the stones splashed by the shells.If he hadn't been wearing a bamboo helmet, he might have died in battle for no apparent reason.

Hu Dinggui smiled and said: "It's okay, I just scratched a few cuts, and the flesh is not very deep."

Xiao Zongxian took out a pen and paper: "How many did you kill? How many attacks did you repel?"

"I don't know." Hu Dinggui shook his head.

Ordinarily, the military exploits have to be counted every day, but on the fourth day of the fierce battle, the situation was critical and stalemate.Even if the soldiers were replaced to rest, the missionaries and military judges would not bother them, and it has been delayed until now.

Xiao Zongxian had no choice but to write down the number of times Hu Dinggui was injured, and discuss it with the mission officer and military judge when he went back.

Huang Yao's high-level officials were also discussing. The commander, military judge, and mission officer agreed that the number of enemies killed by individuals could not be determined, and the enemy's corpses in front of each position would be counted on average among the soldiers in that position.Then, the military merits are calculated based on the importance of the position and the intensity of the battle.

After another two days, Hu Dinggui, a lightly wounded person, was able to go down the mountain by himself.

Everyone made a stretcher, carefully carried away the seriously injured, and went to a temple at the foot of the mountain for recuperation.

The people who hid in the mountains have returned home one after another, and the rice fields that were not harvested in time are also rushing to harvest.

Hu Dinggui looked at the farmers, and suddenly laughed, and the wounds on his body seemed to no longer hurt.

this afternoon.

Mission troupes organized condolence performances, which became more and more professional, many former actors and prostitutes.They can sing ditties and big plays, and officials, soldiers and common people all like this kind of program.

Hu Dinggui came to the nearby threshing ground, and the stage had already been set up.

The title of this scene is "Qingjiang Moon", which is adapted from the story of last year's bloody battle between peasants and soldiers, and the character based on Hu Dinggui belongs to the male number three.

The male number one is Yang Mo, the mission officer who died in battle, and he is only one word different from the villain Yang Jiamo.

The male number two is Xiao Zongxian who commands the battle.

In the beginning, an actress came out and sang in Yiyang tune about the happy life after the land was divided.It is no longer in the form of drama, but most of the performances have now been changed to Jiangxi operas that actors are familiar with.

While singing, the officers and soldiers came suddenly, burning, killing and looting everywhere, the people fled in panic, and the heroine's parents were also killed.

The actor who played the villain Yang Jiamo stepped onto the stage and laughed arrogantly, and then performed a monologue and solo.

"Kill the dog officer!"

"Kill!"

"..."

In Zhao Han's opinion, the villain's solo singer was very good, but the soldiers were filled with righteous indignation at the moment, and some even wanted to rush up and beat the actor.

This kind of emotion, when Mr. Yang, the mission officer, was killed, had already brewed to the peak of boiling.

Some soldiers yelled and cursed, and some soldiers cried bitterly.

Huang Yao had no choice but to organize a military law team and yell at those emotional people to sit down, otherwise someone would rush to the stage to make trouble.

At the end of this scene, it is not about repelling the officers and soldiers, but the actor who plays Zhao Han, who ranks the martyrs and sends them to the Hall of Valor for worship.

After venting their emotions, the soldiers began to chatter.

Xiao Zongxian winked at Hu Dinggui, and asked: "Is Miss Sai Sai beautiful?"

Hu Dinggui shook his head and said, "Sitting too far away, I can't see clearly."

Xiao Zongxian said in a low voice: "I've seen it up close, and it's as beautiful as a fairy. My son is two years old, so you can't break the rules. You can try it."

"Try what?" Hu Dinggui asked blankly.

"Marry Miss Sai Sai," Xiao Zongxian urged, "I've inquired about it, and this girl Sai Sai is only two years older than you. You were named and praised by the general town, and you will have a bright future in the future. With this Sai Sai girl, she is talented and beautiful."

Hu Dinggui shook his head quickly, blushing and said: "I... I will get married in a few years."

"Hey, you are really elm-headed." Xiao Zongxian felt that he was playing the piano against a cow.

Pan Sai Sai on the stage, although he just started his career last year, he has only joined the mission team for a short time.But she is beautiful, and she sings very well, so she has been sought after by countless soldiers and common people.