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Nine cannons fired in volley, iron bullets, lead bullets, and stone bullets flew together.

Two of them fell into Zhao Han's camp, hit the muddy ground, and stopped after a few bounces.The muddy ground absorbed the kinetic energy of the shells.

Four fell outside the camp, and the fart had no effect.

But there were still three shells that hit the wall accurately, blasting the wooden wall out of a big hole.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Ruolian sent civilian men to fill up the trenches outside the camp with soil, and let the artillery continue to aim at the gate of the camp.

It took the officers and soldiers half a day to finally fill the first trench.

The nine cannons also fired several rounds, during which there were various misfires, and the gunpowder was damp after all.

The camp was in the north, and the walls of the camp were knocked down in several places.

Especially those old antique mortars, once they hit the target, they can immediately collapse. This thing itself was used by Zhu Yuanzhang to attack the city.

"what!"

Half a day later, a shell happened to fall into the trench in the camp, and the first unlucky guy in Zhao Han's army appeared.

It was a stone bullet fired from a mortar, which directly smashed the wooden shield, and then smashed his head, and the soldiers beside him were so frightened that they went limp.

For a whole day, the results of the officers and soldiers were as follows: filling up the two trenches outside the rebel camp, and killing one rebel.

That night, Zhao Han didn't lead his troops out to attack at night, because the officers and soldiers must have taken strict precautions.

Continue the next day.

"boom!"

A mortar finally exploded. It was a gadget left over from the early Ming Dynasty. It can be used for more than 200 years, which is considered to be of excellent quality.

It is very likely that it was caused by the gunner's improper operation. It is estimated that the gunpowder was accidentally loaded too much.

Li Maofang quickly reprimanded: "Don't fill in too much medicine!"

"Toot, toot, toot toot..."

Suddenly the sound of suona sounded, not from Zhao Han's side, but the navy of the Ming army was using suona to warn.

Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book" contains: "Everyone who plays the flute is playing the suona."

Wang Siren is on his own ship at the moment. His task is to guard against the rebel navy. At the same time, if the official army is defeated, he will immediately sail to the river to meet him.

Gu Jianshan led more than [-] large and small warships, and came along the rapid current after the flood.Due to the lack of large warships, fighting with the officers and soldiers will definitely fail, but now it is different. There are several small fishing boats next to each warship.

It was a small sampan that could only accommodate two or three people, but at this moment only one person was operating it, and the boat was full of dry firewood drenched in grease.

"All troops retreat!"

Wang Siren stared wide-eyed, he knew what the rebels were going to do.But he is in the downstream, even if he uses the fireboat to attack, it is the exclusive power of the upstream rebels.

When Wang Yangming defeated the Ningwang Navy, one of the key factors was that Wang Yangming occupied the upper reaches!

In this way, the official navy, which had an absolute advantage in warships and troops, was chased all the way by the anti-thief navy led by Gu Jianshan.Both sides followed the rapids down to Bailuozhou on the Huangyaodu River, which is the narrowest point of the nearby Ganjiang River.

The river here is divided into two by Jiangxinzhou.

After flooding, the river in the west is more than 200 meters wide and the river in the east is more than 50 meters wide.However, the place where large warships can pass is only four or fifty meters away, and other areas are easily stranded.

Wang Siren was on a warship near the ship. After receiving the military order, he slowed down and concentrated on passing through the deep water area.

But the official warships that were too far away only cared about driving fast.The small warships passed easily, but four large warships ran aground in a row, blocking the friendly troops behind them in an instant.

"ignition!"

The rebel sailor on the small sampan first lit the torch, then pulled the rope and threw the torch into the firewood pile.

When the torch touches the fat, it quickly burns into a raging fire.

The sailor drew his knife and cut the rope that tied the sampan, and then climbed onto the big ship along the rope. More than 200 burning small sampans rushed towards the navy of the official army along the rushing river.

This is also the reason why Zhao Han waited for the rain. Only after a heavy rainstorm, the speed of the water flow can meet the requirements of the fireboat attack.Otherwise, the navy of the army can easily push away the slow-moving fireboat with only a long pole.

In the narrow part of the river, the large warships of the government and army are slowing down and gathering to pass through the deep water.

This speed difference was enough for the fire boat to catch up, and soon several official warships were ignited, and the sailors of the official army quickly jumped out of the boat and left.However, the water speed is too fast, even a man with excellent water quality is not easy to swim ashore, most likely he will be drowned by the river.

The officer, army and navy were in complete chaos, and Wang Siren couldn't hold back at all.

The warship that had sailed through the narrow river ran towards Fengcheng County regardless of the safety of its teammates.The same is true for small warships, fleeing in a swarm, forgetting where the commander's ship is.

"kill!"

Gu Jianshan let his own large warships anchor to stop, and personally led the small warships that were not afraid of running aground, and followed the fire boats to kill the enemy.

More than 200 fire boats, many of which hit the shore and capsized, most of them drifted through the shallow waters, and only dozens of them ignited six large boats of officers and soldiers.

To be honest, as long as the officers and soldiers are not in chaos, only six ships will be ignited, and they still have an absolute advantage.

But how can there be no chaos?

Half of these officers, soldiers and sailors are recruited Poyang Lake water bandits!

With the two-handed sword on his back, Gu Jianshan stepped on the bow of the small warship, and quickly caught up with a slow enemy ship.

"Flying hook!"

Dozens of flying claws with ropes ran towards the side of the big ship.

Gu Jianshan was about to climb to seize the ship, when suddenly someone from the enemy ship shouted: "But Old Gu?"

"Fan Er?" Gu Jianshan asked.

"I'm Fan Er," the other party shouted, "Go elsewhere to seize the ship, I'll kill the captain and surrender!"

As he said that, the guy lifted his knife and shouted: "Brothers from Poyang Lake, follow me to kill the officers and soldiers!"

All of a sudden, the water bandits who recruited security turned around to kill the real officers and soldiers, and soon beheaded a sailor.

Gu Jianshan quickly searched for the next target. The small battleship he was on was very flexible, and the large ship with 400 materials of officers and soldiers completely became the prey.

"Lime!"

When Gu Jianshan led his troops to climb, the enemy ship threw limestone from it.

Fortunately, Gu Jianshan had been on guard for a long time. All the sailors were covered with gauze, even their eyes were covered with gauze.Although the line of sight is not very good, it can minimize the impact of lime.

"Falling rocks!"

A stone the size of a head was thrown down by officers and soldiers from the big ship, and several rebels fell in an instant.

"Chop the rope!"

More than 30 ropes of the flying claw were cut off one after another, and the rebel sailors fell one after another.

However, six small warships besieged this large warship, and the officers and soldiers on board lost sight of each other.

With only the strength of his arms, Gu Jianshan quickly climbed up, and stabbed a long spear head-on.Gu Jianshan dodged in the air, grabbed the barrel of the gun, and pulled the officers and soldiers down.

This fellow turned over quickly to the side of the ship, and before he even stepped on the deck, he drew his sword and killed an officer and soldier in the air.

Due to the charge of Gu Jianshan, more and more anti-thief sailors climbed up, and the officers and soldiers knelt down and surrendered one after another.

"Sail at full speed!"

After seizing the ship, Gu Jianshan drove the big ship and rushed towards the officer navy in front.

Over there in the camp.

During the surprise attack on Ancient Sword Mountain, Zhao Han laughed. If it hadn't been for the fact that it hadn't been raining, this water battle would have already broken out.

The officers and soldiers were on the contrary. Seeing their navy retreating, Li Maofang and Li Ruolian quickly ordered the withdrawal.

"kill!"

Zhao Han climbed out of the trench and directly ordered the charge horn to be sounded.

If he didn't want to defeat the officers, soldiers and navy, Zhao Han would have gone out to fight a long time ago!

Chapter 163 [Fierce Battle]

More than 1 officers and soldiers evacuated with their luggage. A few old antique mortars must be given up, but the two Franc cannons have time to carry away.

This thing is light and detachable, and five or six people can march with a gun.

Hearing the charge of the rebel camp, Li Maofang immediately ordered: "Give up the baggage, go to the hill in front of the formation, and pour money and food along the way. Remember, throw more copper coins and broken silver!"

Although the officers, soldiers and generals were reluctant, the battlefield had reached a critical moment, so they had to scatter the looted silver.

Seeing that the opponent actually ran to the hillside to form an array, Zhao Han also stopped the charge horn, blew the horn to gather troops to form an array, and slowly advanced towards the enemy on the hillside.

On the top of the slope, Li Ruolian was inexplicably horrified: "These thieves don't even want any money!"

Li Maofang was also shocked. He originally wanted to spend money to destroy the formation and morale of the rebels, and then rely on the superiority of their troops to kill them.

This trick is very effective against rebels. Li Maofang has succeeded several times before.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers under Zhao Han's command lined up neatly and walked through the area full of money, but none of them stooped to pick it up!

Everyone has selfishness, and so do Zhao Han's soldiers.

But everything seized must be returned to the public, which is repeatedly emphasized by the missionary officer.If it was in private, maybe some soldiers hid and refused to pay, but who would not see the money picked up on the battlefield?The money he picked up was not his own, and he would be dealt with by military law instead. Soldiers with a normal mind knew what choice to make.

Although a few mortars were lost, at this moment, the situation was more conducive to the officers and soldiers fighting.

Before Zhao Han stood firm in the camp, the officers and soldiers had to slowly fill up the trenches, and then attack the rebel camp. Moreover, there were trenches in the camp, and archers shooting arrows were enough for the officers and soldiers to drink a pot.

Now it is the officers and soldiers occupying the high ground, and Zhao Han leads the troops to attack the hills!

Although Li Maofang is greedy, he also knows how to fight.After he lined up his troops, he suddenly raised his sword and shouted: "Pass my military order, kill a rebel, and reward five taels of silver. Behead a rebel officer, reward ten taels of silver. Behead a rebel general, reward a hundred taels of silver." Two. Whoever can capture Zhao Yan and Zhao Yaonian will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!"

In the hands of Li Maofang, silver has endless uses.

It can be thrown out to harass the army of rebels.You can offer rewards to boost your morale.You can feed your boss and colleagues, let everyone help him speak, and you are not afraid of a lawsuit before the emperor.

Li Maofang is very smart, he is not a fool who is greedy for money.

In his opinion, if silver cannot be used, it is no different from stone.

As soon as the reward was offered, the morale of the officers and soldiers was immediately boosted.In addition, they had more than three times as many soldiers as Zhao Han, which for a while actually downplayed the negative emotions of their own navy being repelled.

"Hurry up and assemble the Folang machine gun! The archers step forward and shoot the bandits!" Li Maofang shouted.

There are only more than 500 archers in the officers and soldiers, who were originally deployed on warships, but are now transferred to land to shoot and kill rebels.

The thousand archers on Zhao Han's side also dispersed into a sparse formation and stepped forward.

Huang Shun and Li Zheng, each with [-] soldiers, went around the opposing flanks, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

"Shhhhhh!"

The archers on both sides shoot at each other, one side occupies a high position, and the other side has more people.

Fei Yinggong is now the captain of a hundred archers. The bows and arrows used by these guys are different. They are the standard stone bows used in the martial arts exam.

An arrow shot out and hit an officer accurately, and Fei Yinggong specifically sought out the officer.

What Xiong Yao used was the seven-double bow, and he followed the soldiers in salvo.He aimed for the enemy's head, but shot an arrow into the target's calf.

"Boss Zheng, go attack the bandits' archers!" Li Maofang shouted.

That General Manager Zheng, with five hundred soldiers, took advantage of the gap between the archer's stringing, and rushed down boldly.

The flag was waved, and Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang each led 500 people to come forward to meet them.

The archers on both sides retreated separately, and 1000 melee soldiers were strangled together. Zhao Han's central army was only left with more than 500 people, and [-] people from each flank circled out.

"The first six posts, let's go out and kill the thieves!"

Li Maofang launched an attack immediately when he saw the opportunity. He felt that he had the upper hand in troops, and he could kill the rebels with a pile of people.

Li Ruolian also shouted: "Siege and kill the thieves and bandits!"

The two had the same idea, thinking that Zhao Han was too mentally handicapped, and his troops were not enough, so he actually divided his troops to go around the two wings.

Zhao Han's central army will soon be surrounded by officers and soldiers several times larger than himself.

Zhao Han smiled and said to Fei Ruhe, "I'll be on the left and you on the right, and form an formation together as bait."

"No problem." Fei Ruhe said.

After the thousand archers withdrew, they lobbed at the main force of the rushing army.

A round of bows and arrows only killed and wounded dozens of officers and soldiers, but it directly collapsed a thousand-man sentry of officers and soldiers.