"Son of Turtle, slow down, why are you running so fast?"

Liu Xing, who led his troops along the wheat field, cursing all the way, the ones who ran fast and the ones who walked slowly, were scolded, making the four hundred Sichuan soldiers even know if they were here to combat the thieves.

Liu Xing was in a bad mood. He had no intention of suppressing the thieves and suppressing the bandits. If his boss Hu Shangyou had not asked him to come in the immediate future, he would rather find a pile of haystacks and pound a hole in the back and sleep in a big sleep.

The reason for this is that Liu Xing heard a rumor that Zhang Xianzhong, the bandit leader who claimed to be the "King of the West", was leading troops to attack Sichuan and conquering Kuizhou. Liu Xing's hometown was in Wanxian not far from Kuizhou.

My hometown is facing the danger of being captured by a thief. How can Liu Xing not be anxious or get angry?

The Liu family is a big family in Wanxian. With the virtue of a thief, can he be as good as the Liu family?

When he heard this news, Liu Xing wanted to put on his wings and fly back to his hometown. He did not lead the troops to fight against the bandits, but moved the whole family away quickly.

However, no matter how shocked or anxious he was, he had to accept the facts in front of him - he could not save his family.

He was in a daze these two days, and at night he dreamed of the tragic situation of being killed all over the family, dreamed of the old mother calling his youngest son's name in a pool of blood, dreamed of the wife holding two sons and three daughters calling his name...

He was completely haggard, and he had to lead the army to kill Huaiyang thieves when he was worried. It would be strange if Liu Xing was energetic.

Besides, Deputy General Hu had an explanation, saying that the Sichuan soldiers were not good at being the first bird, and they shouted a few times when they were fighting smoothly, cutting off some thieves' heads to grab some credit. They didn't make a fool of themselves if they were not good at fighting smoothly, so they ran back directly. As the sky fell, Hu Shangyou was holding him.

In this way, Liu Xing had no idea of ​​showing off his power. He wanted to fight against Gansu soldiers and attack Gansu soldiers, so he did not want to be cannon fodder.

Gradually, the Sichuan soldiers and the Gansu soldiers took off a large part, just like a piece of cake being pinched off by someone, which looked like a concave shape.

This made Li Qifeng, who was supervising the formation behind, gritted his teeth in anger. If it weren't for the large number of soldiers in Gansu, he would have sent someone to scold Liu Xingyitong.

"This person is not a single person. No matter how good he is to him, he only thinks about himself." Gao Qi Fengyin said with a sneer.

Li Qifeng did not answer this, but she must have had the seeds of dissatisfaction with Hu Shangyou in her heart.

Liu Xing's troops were not moving fast and acted hard, but in the end they still "rushed" towards the thieves with Gansu soldiers.

As he walked, Hu Shangyou found something wrong. Looking closely, there was a lot of straw in the wheat field under his feet. When he looked up, he saw that the large area of ​​wheat field was covered with straw.

Afraid of freezing wheat?

Liu Xing thought it might be that it was cold recently, so it was reasonable to say that people were afraid that crops would freeze to death and lay straw on them, so he didn't think much about it. In his early years, when he was in the Central Plains, he often saw people lay straw on the vegetable fields to keep warm.

The Gansu soldiers on the right are already very close to the thieves. From a distance, I heard the thieves shouting at each other. The Gansu soldiers on the official road on the left are even less than a hundred feet away from the thieves.

The battle between the two sides began soon.

"kill!"

The garrison under Li Qifeng's command, Xie Wennan, couldn't wait to wave his knife, and hundreds of Gansu soldiers holding spears rushed forward stepping on straw bees on the ground.

The formation is a bit chaotic, because the wheat fields here are not in pieces and there are many ditches, which makes the formation of officers and soldiers unable to be neat.

However, the large number of officers and soldiers effectively made up for the disadvantage of the disorder in the storm formation.

Xie Wennan met with the Huai army in front of him and they occupied the open space in the south of the village. After the officers and soldiers launched a charge, Chen Xiaozi, who was in charge of command, quickly responded.

More than a hundred long bamboo poles were stretched out towards the officers and soldiers.

Before going to the battle, Shi Dewei sent someone to briefly inform the Gansu soldiers of the thieves, especially emphasizing that the thieves had long bamboo poles that could easily disrupt the officers and soldiers. Therefore, when he saw that the thieves really had bamboo poles stretched out, Xie Wennan was not surprised at all, and just shouted that his subordinates would scatter and attack the thief formation from the flanks to avoid the thief bamboo poles.

However, Xie Wennan soon discovered that the thief's long bamboo pole was not "simple".

There seemed to be something tied to the top of the bamboo pole, and it looked like it was a large and small paper bag, square, and some paper bags had obvious dense small black holes.

This is?

Xie Wennan looked familiar. He seemed to have seen the thief's paper bag somewhere. When he looked closely, he thought about it in an instant and almost laughed out loud. It turned out that the thing was fireworks that the people set off during the holidays.

Are the thief crazy?

More Ming troops recognized the firecrackers hanging by the Huai army with bamboo poles. No one took this thing seriously, and some even thought that the thief might be too ignorant and ignorant, thinking that the firecrackers were just muskets.

Some Gansu soldiers laughed subconsciously. It was the first time they had encountered such a stupid thief after fighting for so many years. God knows how those Yangzhou soldiers were defeated by these stupid thieves.

.........

The Huai Army really used the fireworks used to promote entertainment during the New Year as a firearm. In order to blow it farther away, they tied the fireworks to the front end of the bamboo pole with a rope. Two people stretched out long and stretched out with force.

"ignition!"

Chen Xiaozi shouted, and he believed in what Brother Lu said. Brother Lu said that this thing can ruin the enemy, and this thing can definitely ruin the enemy!

More than a dozen men holding torches walked out from behind the formation and ignited the firecrackers one by one in front of the officers and soldiers who were rushing towards him.

Instead of covering their ears, the rest of the people clasped the weapons in their hands and arched their waists slightly. This position was a charge position.

With the sound of "puffs", hundreds of bamboo poles hanging with firecrackers exploded.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

Just like a meteor, the firecrackers hanging on bamboo poles were constantly firing like dense muskets. Countless firecrackers were fired at the Ming army. With the first explosion, colorful flames radiated from the Ming army formation.

One after another.

I don’t know when it was the first time, Xie Wennan suddenly changed color. He realized a serious problem. The firecrackers could not kill people, but they couldn’t help but shoot so many times at the same time.

What's even more terrible is that he dared not open his eyes!

"Bang!"

With a thunderous explosion, a choking smell of gunpowder, a Ming Jun covered his eyes and screamed, and blood kept flowing out of his fingers.

"Bang!"

The Ming army was in chaos, with explosions all over the ears and scent of sulfur all over the noses, and everyone's eyes were closed tightly.

Some people's ears were blown, some people's faces were blown into pockmarks, and some people's hands were blown into...

There were no serious injuries or deaths, but the team was in chaos.

This is true for all Ming troops. From east to west, dense fireworks kept flying, forming gorgeous fireworks in the Ming army formation.

“Gatling.”
Chapter completed!