After arriving in Anqing, the Liu family army immediately began to garrison and took over the city defense in full. They sent all the previous guards and city defense forces to stand guard and carry out tasks on the second line.

These local officials were only a little unhappy, they were the local people, and they should have sang this good show, but when they saw the Liu family army continuously pulling in the Folang machine cannons and red-clothed cannons, as well as the number of muskets and iron armor in their army, they were shocked. The local rustic buns had never seen such well-equipped troops.

You should know that only one hundred households or above have iron armor, which are passed down from generation to generation and are extremely precious. Many of their soldiers are wearing iron armor, and their weapons are also very new, so they can be worn with sharp sterns.

When ordinary people judge the military strength of an army, they first look at whether they have enough food to eat, and secondly, they look at their weapons and equipment. In this regard, the Liu family army has won completely.

The Liu family army is so awesome, so they decided that the Liu family army will be responsible for the city defense and take charge of the overall work.

Since Liu Bu took over Anqing City Defense, he immediately set up his command center and sent a detective cavalry to inquire.

In fact, before Zhang Xianzhong's troops arrived here, they had already grasped the other party's movements. When the other party decided to dispatch a large army and rush to Anqing, they had already grasped enough information and knew that the other party was coming here. Even the commanders and detailed numbers of the other party's respective camps were clearly known. These things were placed on Liu Bu's desk, giving him a very clear understanding of the enemy.

The person responsible for the work here is Zhang Zhijie. This is one of the four people recommended by Liu Ning to join the Liu army. Among them, their boss Zhou Hui was in charge of the work in the Denglai area, and Zhang Zhijie was responsible for the intelligence collection work in the area here.

Their young master Liu Bu led the army to the war, so Zhang Zhijie naturally took the initiative to come to the tent to obey the orders.

Of course, Liu Bu would not let them be idle either. Intelligence work is extremely expensive. In order to support a Jinyiwei of their Liu family, they spent a lot of money. They didn't spend so much money on raising a battalion of troops. As the saying goes, raising troops for a thousand days is used for a while. Now it is the time to use them. Zhang Zhijie and the others did not let down Liu Bu's watch and reported all the information that Liu Bu wanted to in front of Liu Bu, so that Liu Bu had a clear understanding of the battlefield situation and the comparison of the enemy and us. It can be said that for them, the battlefield has a certain unilateral transparency.

For example, Zhang Xianzhong is a very smart person. He has a strong talent. He had secretly put many spies in Anqing when he was planning other cities. These spies would also be like in Fengyang. Once his army arrived, the spies would kill and set fire in the city, creating chaos, and waiting for an opportunity to seize the city gate.

But all of these spies have been put into prison now, some have been tortured and some have been executed, and they have no effect at all.

When Liu Bu saw that he could use the other party so well, he also wanted to use the other party to blacken the other party and let the other party know what it means to swimmers to drown.

When the bandits' army was dispatched, Liu Bu directly ordered his troops to go out to fight with the other side. This time, because it was their first time to fight with the bandits, they did not take it lightly. Liu Bu personally led 2,000 main forces to the battlefield.

The Liu family army attaches great importance to their opponents, but the bandits despise them very much. You should know that the government has asked them to chase them to fight recently, which has made them extremely crazy. They simply disdain for this Qi army that came out of nowhere.

Wang Zhaolin brought 2,000 troops and directly attacked the Qi army's position. He was ready to attack the government army in one fell swoop, then slash and kill, defeat the opponent, and take the opportunity to seize the city gate.

The army led by Wang Zhaolin is considered elite even in the court, because more than 100 of them were riding horses. The more than 100 people were riding horses and rushed forward with all their might. The 2,000 people behind followed him and rushed again. If it were an ordinary Ming army, it would probably cause their horse team to collapse. The troops behind rushed up and slashed them and killed them, and they could be defeated.

But what they faced was the Liu family army, an army trained by the servant system, and they also had a large number of firearms.

When they were noisy and rushed into a hundred steps with all their might, the archers sitting on the ground of the Liu family army stood up one after another, and then shot a large number of bows and arrows at them continuously.

These bows and arrows were shot over in large numbers, and one sweep of them was swept down. A large area was swept down, and more than half of them fell down. This was the arrow rain attack that the Liu family army was more specialized in, and was used to deal with the opponent's army that rushed to the formation, which was very effective.

The 2,000 men led by Wang Zhaolin rushed forward with all their might. Seeing the other party shooting a dense rain of bows and arrows, Wang Zhaolin couldn't help but feel scared. Fortunately, he had a small shield to hold and lie on the horse's back and rushed forward with all his strength, but his subordinates did not have such good equipment. Many were hit by the rain of arrows, many people screamed and fell down, and many people fell to the ground.

Wang Zhaolin knew that there was a moment of life and death in front of him, so he shouted and ordered the soldiers to rush forward with all their might.

He is also a veteran with rich combat experience. He knows that the opponent's arrow rain attack is limited. They rushed through this hundred steps, but only gave the opponent time to shoot three arrows. As long as they avoided the opponent's three arrows, they could slash and kill the enemy. Therefore, they had only one way out, that is, to rush forward with all their strength, rush to the opponent's formation, break through the opponent's queue, and then slash and kill the enemy. He had also used this tactic to defeat the official army, and he believed that the same was true this time.

But the incident surprised Wang Zhaolin a little, that was, he risked his life and rushed forward with all his might. When he rushed to the Liu family army's front fifty steps, more than 500 people fell down, with the casualties exceeding his bottom line. They rushed to the Liu family army panting and attacked a shield wall made of iron shields. Before, they wanted to continue rushing forward, but who knew that in the other party's army, countless people held muskets and fired at them.

The opponent's muskets poured a large number of bullets into them, and countless people fell into pools of blood. Even the war horses that were attacking at high speed were hit by the opponent's muskets, they all fell to the ground quickly. The knight on the horse was also thrown to the ground and died.

There were musketeers in the opponent's army. Not only Wang Zhaolin was a little surprised, but even Zhang Xianzhong, who was watching the battle, was a little surprised. You should know that there were not many firearms in the Ming army. If there were firearms, they were all elite troops. So Zhang Xianzhong immediately ordered: "Who, grab a tongue and ask who the other party is?"

Zhang Xianzhong only discovered something now, that is, they didn't know who they were fighting. This is different from the past. In the past, he would have collected enough information before the battle, know who the opponent was, and also studied the opponent's weaknesses, hoping to find out the opponent's shortcomings.

Wang Zhaolin also fought with the former musketeers. He knew that the musketeers of the Ming army looked very awesome, but they were like that. They only had one shot. After they fired a shot, these elite soldiers could rush to their eyes and slash and kill. At this time, the so-called musketeers were not as good as a fire stick.

So Wang Zhaolin also understood one thing, that is, they must do whatever it takes, no matter how far they are, as long as they rush forward, they will win before rushing to the other party's array.

But Wang Zhaolin thought a little too much, that is, the other party would definitely not only shoot one shot, but immediately squat down and load the bullets after one shot, and continue to shoot forward in the second row, and then shoot in the third row after the second row, and so on. After shooting in the third row, the people in the first row also completed the loading and continuing to shoot. In this way, their bullet rains were actually continuous.

Wang Zhaolin was too late to find these things because he was shot three times, and fell to the ground. He was stepped on by the horses and people behind him and stepped on them directly into meat sauce. His soldiers also rushed to the Liu family army's queue in the rain of bullets. Before they rushed forward with more than 2,000 people fearlessly. When they rushed to the Liu family army's team, there were only more than 1,000 people left.

According to casualties, they have exceeded 50%. Generally speaking, if a war is over, as long as the casualties exceed 30%, the morale of the army will almost collapse. However, they have reached 50% and have not yet collapsed. This does not mean that their elite forces are so strong, but that they have no way to go and have no other choice. They can only rush forward with the teeth. Before they rushed to the Liu family army's ranks, they thought they could cut and kill. Who knew that countless spears were extended behind the Liu family army's shield. These spears were three meters long and extremely sharp, and they stabbed them directly. These soldiers who worked hard and panting and were stabbed and killed by them one by one.
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