Hua Ji'an's first thought was to study the weapons of those bandits to see if they could defeat the enemy. But even if there were gun bullets, the firing of the firearm was not accurate. There were not many bullets on the bandits' bodies, and they could not achieve the effect of defeating the enemy.

Upon hearing the news of the arrival of bandit reinforcements, Hua Ji'an immediately ordered: "Retreat for the time being!"

The strength comparison between the enemy and us is unclear, and the enemy has powerful firearms as a backing, so Hua Ji'an doesn't want to take risks.

The local defenders sent by King Jing was General Zheng Dong Yan. When he learned that Hua Ji'an was going to retreat immediately, he immediately found Hua Ji'an to argue. His meaning was very simple. Even if all the bandits came, their troops were not enough. Why not wipe out the bandits in one go?

Hua Ji'an was eager to make contributions, and Dong Yan was even more eager to make contributions. King Jing's soldiers had suffered too much in the past few days. The loss of soldiers and generals had already lost their spirits. After finally sending reinforcements to King Huai, he won the first battle. Dong Yan naturally believed that the two armies worked together and were invincible in the world.

But he didn't know how tragic the victory in Hua Ji'an was, and the Huai Army was also afraid of being beaten.

"If you don't go, we will go! Our soldiers in Jiangyou are not timid!"

Dong Yan said a word and had already returned to the camp to mobilize King Jing's soldiers, ready to fight alone. Hua Ji'an smiled bitterly. Originally, he thought he was an impulsive person, but when he encountered these generals who had no practical experience and had nothing to do with the ranks of the generals, he realized how calm and steady he was, and thought about his subordinates.

It is terrible to lack practical experience. If you think you will win by 10,000 or 1,000.

"General, have we responded from the sidelines?"

Faced with the inquiry from his subordinates, Hua Ji'an said angrily: "What a f*ck, let's retreat to Lianzhou for the time being, and let's talk about it when they disintegrate and come back!"

Five thousand excellent Huai Army cavalry suffered heavy losses to 500 bandits. This time, the bandits moved in full swing, with more than a thousand people. Even if there were more than 10,000 defenders in these places, they could not escape the fate of defeat. Hua Ji'an had already cut off the victory or defeat of this war in his heart.

The Huai Army withdrew to Lianzhou, but the Jing Wang Army was ready to take action to eliminate the bandits.

On the afternoon of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the bandits' reinforcements were less than thirty miles away from Mao County. Dong Yan gave an order and took the initiative to attack, preparing to defeat the reinforcements before the bandits in the city and the bandits outside the city joined forces. The idea was good. The reinforcements were better in the siege and the chances of victory were quite high. Dong Yan was even planning for the rewards of King Jing after the victory, and the hateful Hua Ji'an's depressed expression.

But when the two armies were three miles away, fireballs fell from the sky, and Dong Yan immediately realized that he had fallen into a trap!

This is the first time these bandits have used light artillery weapons since the war started. The enhanced version of this weapon was briefly released in the Battle of Xuzhou, which caused heavy losses to the Huai Army. Now it suddenly appears, which caught the King Jing Army off guard.

When the fireball fell to the ground, the soldiers fell off the horse and were covered in pain and wailed in pain, or were blown to pieces, and the bandits had not yet appeared in front of them. The King Jing army had already weakened in momentum. Originally, Dong Yan still had a luxury, hoping to disperse the bandits and divide them through a round of cavalry attacks. Who knew that the bandit reinforcements that came this time were extremely powerful. In the rapid advance, the two armies confronted each other. At the beginning of the encounter, they had already stood on their heels and quickly deployed defenses. The King Jing army was in a trap with a relaxed and waiting for labor.

When the two armies were one mile away, the Jingwang Army had already suffered a large loss. The soldiers were already very timid in fighting. It was impossible to raise morale again. Originally, the Jingwang Army was a temporary local defender who had been pieced together. He lacked practical experience and even the training on weekdays was hasty. At this time, facing the heavy pressure of powerful firepower, more and more deserters began to increase.

On the other hand, the bandits had a more strict formation than the regular army, and guns and cannons kept firing at the Jingwang Army. Even though the cavalry of the Jingwang Army were less than 300 steps apart, there was still no scattering in the formation.

The result is self-evident. With the vanguard of the King Jing army's charge cavalry was wiped out, and the number of bandits was one-sidedly suppressed, and the number of bandits was more than expected. The bandit reinforcements were at least 2,500, and they were all perverts who could dismount and shoot on horseback and ride on horseback. Dong Yan Lin had already found that his defeat was decided and he had already fled with his men.

When the King Jing was fighting head-on with the bandits, Hua Ji'an led the cavalry of the Huai Army to retreat to the city of Lianzhou. When he learned of the cannon used by the bandits, he immediately felt passionate and a chill covered his whole body. Then he smiled bitterly for a long time, and a person's name suddenly jumped into his mind. He had heard Meng Chuliang say this name countless times.

Liu Wenyan.

Although he was not sure whether Liu Wenyan was in this bandit army, he was already convinced that this bandit had a close connection with the court army, or that it was simply led by Liu Wenyan to block the Huai Army's food supply route. As for the disastrous defeat of King Jing's army, Hua Ji'an had expected it, and he didn't feel much surprised. This might have been asked by Dong Yan.

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Outside Mao County, a large number of bandits were cleaning the battlefield, and a team of cavalry quickly entered the city. After seeing the people, the army commander Huo, who had been a little depressed these days, opened the city gate.

The gentry and the people wanted to know who was coming, and they needed the fearless Chief Huo to greet him personally. Then they saw a strange scene at the gate of the county magistrate's mansion in Maoxian County. A young man in his twenties was chasing the leader of the bandit, Chief Huo, with a stick, to beat him. At this time, Chief Huo, who was originally very fierce, had no temper at all. Apart from pulling his legs and running away, he seemed to have no intention of resisting. There was also a young and beautiful woman at the gate of the county magistrate's mansion, such as a lady from a counterfeit village who was persuading the young man who was chasing and beating Chief Huo. The other bandits were doing their own things with themselves, either holding horses or patrolling, and seemed to be reluctant to participate in this conflict.

The gentry instinctively felt that the person who came might be a big man, and it was probably the "commander" that the bandit leader often mentioned.

The person who came was Liu Yu, who had not appeared in public for many days. The woman who persuaded him at the door was Xu Xuanzhu, the head coach of the female army.

"Do you know where the wrong one is?" Liu Yu was not as fast as Huo Bing. He was tired of chasing. He stopped and panted and asked angrily.

"Aren't there just a few people dead?" Huo Bing was far away from Liu Yu, like a child who did something wrong. "Where can't die in war?"

"I'm hitting you because of this?" Liu Yu asked again with a stern face.

"Why is that?" Huo Bing has been in deep self-blame these days. Since he followed Liu Yu out and made a fortune, he has been smooth sailing and has not encountered setbacks. He naturally thought that victory was necessary and failure was unacceptable, especially for a proud young man like him, failure was even more unacceptable and he needed to find excuses to escape.

Xu Xuanzhu walked over and stood quietly beside Liu Yu, saying, "Actually, your boss has deep expectations for you. Who knows that you have some dissatisfaction, so you give up and hide in the county town and don't come out. You are almost surrounded by local troops. At that time, you will kill everyone you bring. If you come one day later, you will be unable to turn things around."

Huo Bing then realized that Liu Yu was not complaining about his loss of troops and generals. In fact, Liu Yu was not an unacceptable person to fail. After all, Huo Bing's experience was still shallow. Liu Yu dared to let him lead his troops because he was interested in his unconventional genius. Although he was ambushed by the Huai Army, he was still within the acceptable range. Huo Bing also showed a great general in his retreat. He could escape unstoppable underestimate the Huai Army. This caused more than ten times the loss of these by ordinary people.

Huo Bing was told by Xu Xuanzhu, and he wanted to defend himself, saying, "It's not that I don't want to leave the city, am I looking for a solution?"

"Looking for a countermeasure to hide in the city and stare at me and be surrounded?"

Seeing Liu Yu lifting the stick again, Huo Bing shrank his head and said, "I won't know next time, even if I fight, I'll only be left. I'll have to fight with them too!"

Only then did Liu Yu breathe a sigh of relief and put down the stick.

The gentry and the people hid at the streets and watched for a long time before they realized that the commander complained that Chief Huo was not working hard enough.

The perverted general led the perverted soldiers, which is very suitable for bandits now. The commander is already at the level of a pervert, so the commander has not yet reached his grandma's house? And the woman next to this super perverted woman was a little confused by the gentry and the people. Seeing that she was calm and reasonable, she was obviously not a vase-like lady who was suppressing the village. She should have a good say in the village, and even Commander Huo, who has always been worried, was respectful.

The gentry were all thinking about how to communicate with the commander. At this time, Commander Huo had already walked over with a dark face and looked around the gentry and the people. No one who was seen dared to be troubled. As the representative of the gentry, Gu Li quickly stepped forward to pay his respects.

"Let's go, our commander wants to see you!" Huo Bing said in a bad tone.

The gentry were panicked now, and the commander alone could not handle it. Now the commander came, and now he wanted to summon them. What did the commander say when he saw him? Could it be that if he asked him a favor, the commander would let them go?

Gu Li asked tentatively: "This commander, too, wants to see the people?"

"Our commander is so busy, how can we have time to meet the people? Just go in quickly. If the commander is anxious, be careful..."

Huo Bing raised the gun, which scared the gentry's legs to the point of weakness. He pushed the front and the front of him, and about ten gentry entered the county magistrate's mansion. The commander was waiting for them in the lobby of the county magistrate's mansion.

When they saw the commander, the gentry did not dare to breathe. They all wanted to hide behind and let others get into trouble. But at this time the commander had turned around, and the wife beside the commander also smiled and nodded at them. This smile made them feel in their hearts.

"Who is Mr. Gu?"

The commander was quite polite, at least not as aggressive as Huo Bing, and was as easy to talk to as Lian Husheng. On the surface, the gentry also understood that people could not behave like appearance. How could the leader of the village be Yi?

"I... the villain is."
Chapter completed!