The Fan family's servants and a large number of caravan guards who were guarding the outside of the river bank had just been compressed together due to the collision of Li Lu's horses. At this moment, they were blown up by the dense rain of grenades falling from the sky. Their flesh and blood were flying everywhere, and they were wailing all over the place.

Many of the outermost caravan guards had thrown away their bows, arrows and swords and fled in all directions. Some fled into the reeds on the river bank, hoping to escape back to the other side of the Laohua River.

Only some of the shopkeepers and ministers of the Fan family's caravan, who had discovered that something was wrong ahead and hurriedly rushed to dispatch and direct the caravan, refused to retreat and asked the Fan family's servants who had been guarding the inside to raise their muskets to fight back.

It's just that these people are the Fan family's servants who are equipped with muskets. Although the muskets in their hands are very well-made, there is a generation gap between their muskets and the musketeers led by Yang Zhen and Zhang Chen who arrived later.

Because although the Fan family is rich, they are willing to spend money on their own team of servants, and they have the most advanced muskets and muskets in the customs, but the muskets they are equipped with are matchlock guns.

At this critical moment, it was too late to light the match.

After Li Lu and others threw the first batch of grenades, they had already rushed to the crowded crowd on the river bank. At this moment, Li Lu took the lead and led the grenadiers to make a sharp turn and rush towards the river bank just now.

The escaped convoy.

At the same time, the Fan family's musketeers, who had been forced to be at the forefront, appeared in front of the advance camp musketeers led by Yang Zhen, Zhang Chen, Zhang Guogan and others.

"Bang bang bang bang -"

After bursts of intensive gunfire, the setting sun on the river bank was obscured by a rising thick white smoke that choked the mouth and nose.

The thick white smoke that filled the air was exactly the smoke caused by the firing of muskets.

The two sides were only a dozen steps away, and the other side was almost crowded into a ball. Yang Zhen and the groups of charging musketeers under his command did not need to aim at all. They only had to point their guns in front of them.

Just shoot at the crowd that shoots but nothing is produced.

The power of the lead bullet finally came out at this moment.

When iron projectiles are fired at such a close range, most of them are penetrating injuries. As long as they don't happen to hit the head, chest, abdomen and other vital parts, they will probably not die, or if they are treated in time, they can be saved.

However, when lead bullets are fired, there will be almost no penetrating or penetrating injuries. If they hit the head or other vital places, they will be killed immediately, but if they hit other places, they will be dead.

When it hits a person, it doesn't just make a hole, but a large area, not to mention it has lead poisoning.

Yang Zhen didn't want to use such projectiles on these people. For him, if he wanted to use them, they would be used on the most ferocious enemies. However, with the situation in front of him, he had no choice.

The advance battalion musketeers led by Yang Zhen rode close and fired with muskets, almost wiping out all the Fan family servants on the east bank of the Laohua River who were still trying to resist.

Fortunately, some of the gun-wielding servants who were not hit by the musket balls were shot to death by Zu Keyong and Hu Tuge's troops who then rushed forward with arrows.

It was also at this time that Ma Zhuang, who had just been forced to run elsewhere by Li Lu's team, rode in a circle and came back. As soon as he arrived here, he shouted loudly:

"Kneel down! Those who don't want to die, kneel down quickly! Those who surrender will not be killed!"

Yang Zhen heard Ma Zhuang's cry and immediately shouted loudly: "Drop your weapons and surrender without killing! Drop your swords and guns and surrender immediately!"

As soon as Yang Zhen shouted, the soldiers around him also shouted in unison, and the cry of surrender without killing suddenly resounded throughout the world.

It was also at this time that a cry of killing suddenly rang out from the west bank of the Laohua River: "Kill, kill! Kill them all and steal their things! They are robbing them of gold, silver, and women!"

The screams of death gradually grew from far to near, from small to loud, and from faint and ethereal to clearly discernible.

At this time, Yang Zhen had led his team to the reed marsh on the river bank. His sight was blocked by the reed marsh, and the situation on the other side of the river was no longer clear.

However, he heard the continuous shouts of killing carried by the wind across the river, and soon knew that they came from the troops under Xu Changyong's command, and that it was the troops led by Xu Changyong who launched the attack on the west bank.

The reason Xu Changyong likes to shout like this is because such a wish has never been realized. He thinks this is the best way to inspire the bravery of his mixed Mongolian and Chinese light cavalry teams.

In fact, this is exactly what happened. Xu Yongchang led his troops and Liu Wanzhong, and Qingshan's good men and horses were a thousand people small. Since crossing the river, they have been hiding in a reedy depression south of Tuchengzi on the west bank of the Laohua River.

enemy.

They endured the scorching heat, the raging mosquitoes, and the foul smell of the nearby semi-dry swamps for almost two hours.

When a large number of caravans and camels arrived near Tuchengzi along the Yinjin River, the sentinels sent by Xu Changyong and others quickly discovered it.

But he didn't dare not listen to what Yang Zhen asked Li Ma to bring him.

Although Xu Changyong was careless and informal, even though Yang Zhen had already become the commander-in-chief of the Songshan Regiment, he still called him a "commander-in-chief" and acted like he was a brother-in-law to Yang Zhen, no matter how big or small.

But in fact, of course he knew it in his heart.

Yang Zhen didn't care at all about the issue of addressing each other in normal times, and he didn't pay much attention to the superiority and inferiority, but in wartime, it was absolutely unacceptable to not follow orders.

After having more contact with Yang Zhen, Xu Changyong is very clear about this. Therefore, even if he usually relies on his old man and calls Yang Zhen his brother in public in order to highlight his close relationship with Yang Zhen, at this moment

, but he did not dare to disobey Yang Zhen's clear order.

In this way, until they heard the rumbling explosions a few miles away on the other side of the Laohua River, Xu Changyong, Liu Wanzhong and Qingshan Hao's troops, who had long been unable to bear it, rushed out from hiding, shouting and rushing

The other half who were stranded in the Tuchengzi area left in a convoy.

At the same time, in order to inspire the bravery of his brothers at the critical moment, he took the lead and led a personal army composed of his own servants and relatives to shout out the battle cry that had been buried in his heart for many years.

Such battle calls are simple and easy to understand, so they are very contagious. After listening to the hundreds of horse thieves under Liu Wanzhong and Qingshan's masters, they were more excited than Xu Changyong's brothers.

The hard work of many days and the anger that had been suppressed for a long time finally burst out at this moment. The cavalry of eight or nine hundred people roared towards the sunset with their backs facing the sunset, but they had an overwhelming momentum.

On the east bank of the Laohua River, the soldiers under Yang Zhen quickly discovered this and immediately cheered, their voices resounding throughout the world again.

After discovering this situation, a large number of coachmen, horsemen, and camel workers who had arrived on the east bank of the Laohua River knew that their way back was cut off and there was no way to retreat. They immediately knelt down and surrendered.

They were just carmen, horsemen and camel workers of the caravan. After a trip outside the Great Wall, they only had to take care of food and accommodation and pay them part of their wages.

The wages are of course much higher than those of long-term and short-term workers in the customs, but no matter how high they are, you have to save your life first.

Besides, the caravan's mules, oxen, carriages, camels, and the goods on them are not yours. Do you have to risk your life for this?

The guards hired by the caravan have all run away. Why are we, the coolies who rely on our strength, still bothering?

After someone thought this way, some people naturally knelt down and surrendered to save their lives. Then the word spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and hundreds to thousands. Soon, the east bank of the Laohua River was kneeling all over the ground along the river bank, coachmen, horsemen, camels, and camels.

head.

The camel workers and the caravans who originally fled to the reed marshes and river beaches, and the bodyguards hired by the caravans from the pass, were also persuaded by Ma Zhuang to surrender, returned to the shore, surrendered their weapons, and knelt down.

They surrendered and became prisoners.

Yang Zhen first asked Ma Zhuang to identify the surviving people in charge of the caravan and the escort one by one, and then asked Zhang Guogan to lead the right wing of the musketeers to shoot them on the spot.

After the unstable elements in the captive team were identified and killed, Yang Zhen quickly handed over the affairs of a large stall on the east bank of the Laohua River to his deputy Zu Keyong and asked him to take his men and Hu Tu

The team with the right grid is left to deal with it.

Yang Zhen himself, under the leadership of Ma Zhuang and others, led Zhang Chen's musketeers and Li Lu's grenadiers, rode their horses to bypass the large convoys that were jammed in the river and crossed the old river.

Huahe, rushed towards the Tuchengzi area, riding horses and galloping, while shouting in unison:
Chapter completed!