the world is at stake

But just letting it go doesn't mean it's okay.

According to the 'mass' feedback, plus field investigation, Songjiang Prefecture is gathering a force of about 300 troops in Huating County, mainly the servants of local gentry and wealthy merchants, a small number of soldiers in the guard station, and more than [-] accompanying farmers to take care of the logistics.

This army that is being assembled can be called "official bandits". Most of them are bandits who have been doing evil for many years. They gather and disperse invisible on weekdays.

The enemy had 200 infantry troops coming by boat, and more than [-] horse troops marched along the road, advancing by land and water.Three hundred peasant households followed behind with their carts carrying luggage.

This enemy army has no field combat capabilities and needs to stay along the way, and it will arrive in Qinglong Town after two days.

According to the judgment of He Tutou in Qinglong Town, the enemy army will rest for at least one more day after arriving in Qinglong Town, and will only attack Xinhua Village after taking the money rewarded before the battle.

As for whether the enemy has the possibility of being expensive and fast.He Butou said that there will be a small number of bandit spies coming, but it is absolutely impossible for a large force to play a surprise attack of "soldiers are expensive and fast".

It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't do it.

When the main force of the enemy army comes out to fight, the villages and towns along the way must be on high alert.Local wealthy households have to collect food, grass, silver and even women, begging the gang of officials and bandits to leave.

According to He Butouqiu's statement, this gang of officials and gangsters who lived in Qinglong Town for a day and started calling are considered courageous.According to their nature, they wished they could live for ten days and a half months, and bring disaster to the whole town before giving up.

Now all the residents in the town have fled and hid in the countryside with their wives and children to avoid the disaster.The so-called "bandits pass like a comb, soldiers pass like a grate", this is both a bandit and a soldier, just like locusts crossing the border, they will not leave unless they eat and loot them all.

In view of this judgment, the 'Holy Light' team can't allow this enemy army to forcefully cause harm to the local area, at least it must be defeated before Qinglong Town, and it is best to be eliminated.

It was not Zhou Qingfeng's turn to intervene in the matter of sending troops into formation. The military team had serious battalion-level officers.Team leader Chen Ding was originally the team leader in the field army, but this time he personally conducted the staff work and formulated the battle plan.

"This group of officials and bandits are mainly equipped with light weapons, and the quality of the firearms is low. Most of their horse troops are used to ride and pull carts, and they have no ability to charge into battle."

"The internal command system of the officials and bandits is complicated. Once they fight, they will definitely fight on their own. Their communication capabilities are also extremely limited, basically no."

"With us alone, it is very difficult to wipe out our opponents. But if rewards are provided and the masses are mobilized, once they are defeated, the villages and towns along the way will have a deep hatred for the officials and bandits, and they will have the willingness and ability to attack scattered bandits."

"Considering the surrounding situation, two-thirds of the armed forces in Xinhua Village will go out to attack and one-third will stay behind. The two sides will keep in touch and help each other at all times."

"The 'Holy Light' team will have 60 people to fight, mainly equipped with flintlock guns, and some personnel use homemade grenades. All the 'Associate Police' who have undergone short training will go out and be equipped with spears. Once the opponent is defeated, let them see the blood.

In addition, about [-] villagers must be mobilized to provide logistical support, and some talents may be discovered from them.This group of people will also become a propaganda team, publicizing our power and influence during the war.

Our difficulty lies in the lack of means of transportation, and we must rely on rivers to facilitate supplies.The main force has basically not received combat training, and it is difficult to bear heavy casualties. "

Before the time travel, the team considered fully militarized going to the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the result of the deduction is that unless they become a gang of rogues, there is no way to complete the task.

Even if a large number of troops are involved, how to command the troops to fight Nurhachi in the freezing old forests of Northeast China is an ideological work that cannot be solved.

Therefore, the team is mainly composed of technical personnel and trains an army with certain ideas.This determines that most people in the team don't know how to fight at all.

Before and after the crossing, the team conducted many small-scale exercises, mainly in response to emergencies such as foreign enemies and civil strife and village fires.Especially how to use the special flintlock gun specially developed for crossing.

It was used to blow Niu Er's head and all kinds of security purges back then.

In addition to using die-cast black powder for easy loading, the ignition mechanism of the special flintlock gun is inside the gun, and it is also equipped with insurance.Not only is there rifling in the barrel, but it also uses a technology that is more advanced than the Minie bullet.

There is a cork rest on the [-]mm projectile, which can be inserted into the rifling to ensure that the projectile rotates to improve accuracy when shooting.This design does not have the lead hanging problem of the Minie bullet, and has little wear on the bullet chamber.

There is only one shortcoming of special flintlock guns - in order to obtain more guns under unit weight.Its barrel is only 360 centimeters long, the muzzle velocity is about [-] meters per second, and its effective range is less than [-] meters.

This range is almost enough. After all, most people in the team are short-sighted and can't see the target [-] meters away.

Another ten barrels are 500 centimeters in length, and the muzzle velocity can approach 200 meters per second.This is specially used for military groups, and it is no problem to hit targets [-] meters away.

There is no optical sight on the barrel, not even a mechanical sight.It is similar to a shotgun that shoots slugs, and the aiming mechanism is the simplest large target hole sight.

In order to improve accuracy, this gun deliberately uses designs such as floating barrels. In order to be light and has no wooden buttstock, thick steel wire folding buttstock is used instead.

For the non-military personnel who account for the majority of the team, it is the best flintlock gun that uses various advanced concepts and techniques to maximize the current technical level.

The officials and bandits who came out of Songjiang Fucheng were about to face this kind of super flintlock queuing and shooting.

Chapter 17 This traitor is too tough

The city of Songjiang Prefecture was leaking like a sieve, and news about the invasion continued to spread; but Xinhua Village was like a black hole, and the outside world couldn't figure out how the gang of rebels would deal with the government.

In order to find out the situation, Zheng Wusi ran to the direction of Nanwan Village in the cold weather with three liang of silver in his pocket, and waited and watched across the river.He has lived here for more than forty years, and he is very familiar with it. Under the cover of a few haystacks, he approached quietly and poked his head.

Zhou Qingfeng's practice has shown that only eradicating one or two representatives of clan power is not enough to carry out reforms. The old social relations must be completely destroyed in terms of personal attachment and economic structure in order to liberate production relations and release productivity.

As a result, Zheng Wusi looked at the ever-changing Xinhua Village from a distance at this moment, bitter with hatred in his heart, and was at odds with Zhou Bandit.

After the elders in the village were eliminated, he thought he would have a bright future, but unexpectedly, he was happy for a day, and was actually taken away by a daughter-in-law with a foreign surname.

The 'assistant police' forced Nanwan villagers to remove the ancestral halls and ancestral graves in the village, which is equivalent to handing in a certificate of renunciation.Zheng Wusi felt that he had been greatly humiliated, so he secretly ran away and joined the head of the Zheng family in Beiwan Village.

Within a few days of living under the fence, Zheng Dashan, the main branch, sent a job to Zheng Wusi to keep an eye on the rebels in Xinhua Village and make sure to find out what's going on in his village.

According to Zheng Dashan's thinking, the government's plan to suppress the situation is very vigorous, not to mention the Songjiang Mansion, the entire six southern mansions know what they should know.

The Xinhua rebels have no reason not to know.

If the rebels are sensible, they should send someone to Fucheng to send money, talk to the magistrate, beg for favors, be soft, and send some rare and exotic goods, and even beauties...

The matter of the invasion and suppression might be gone.

The magistrate spread the news, just waiting for the rebels to come to give money on their own initiative.Everyone should understand such a clear thing!

Do you still need to teach this?

The Xinhua rebels are not in a hurry, but Zheng Dashan has been in a hurry for nearly half a month.Instead, he sent a lot of people and spent a lot of money to inquire everywhere in the county capital.

But all the prefects, judges, push officials, and even the steward of the magistrate in Fucheng have been asked, and no one has taken money from the rebels, let alone pleaded for mercy for the rebels.

Not only the government doesn't have it, but even the merchants don't have it.

It's not that no one wants to remind, and it's not that no one is willing to matchmaking.Many merchants sent people to Xinhua Village to persuade them - don't be so stubborn, bow your head when you should, and now the magistrate lacks a step.

Don't you just wait to be recruited to be a rebel?

The magistrate knows that you are powerful, and he doesn't want to go to war, as long as Xinhua Village sends someone to talk to Xiang, and find someone to replace the dead ghost.The matter of digging up graves and demolishing houses and killing officials is over.

Zheng Dashan also expected to see the ugliness of the Xinhua rebels begging for help everywhere, but he didn't expect the rebels to be indifferent.In addition to continuous construction and construction every day, they also attacked several surrounding villages, digging up graves and demolishing houses again.

The more silent the Xinhua rebels were, the more ignorant Zheng Dashan was.He sent Zheng Wusi to investigate every day, just to find out what happened.

But the direction of Xinhua Village has been blocked to the outside world.Guard posts have been arranged on all access roads, and sentry towers like bamboo buildings have also been set up.Standing on the sentry tower, you can clearly see the movement of the surrounding three or four miles during the day.

Even at night, Xinhua Village also arranges fixed and mobile sentries to patrol back and forth.Ordinary people can't get in, let alone spy on news.

Zheng Wusi came every day, and he could only wander around the periphery.If you approach, you will definitely be stopped by the sentry.If you want to force your way...it's not like no one has done it before.

A few days ago, several strongmen attempted to sneak into Xinhua Village at night. I don't know if they wanted to steal property, arrest people, or set fire to cause civil strife and poison to create panic.

These people thought that the village must be negligently guarded at night, but when they bypassed the fixed guard post, they were discovered by the dark guard, which soon attracted attacks from several mobile guards.

Zheng Wusi only knew that these outsiders were attracted by Zheng Dashan, who was in charge of leading the way to Xinhua Village at night.But a total of four people went in, and not long after, only one escaped and was seriously injured.

The wounded fled back in embarrassment and asked Zheng Dashan for help.

But without waiting for this person to clarify the situation, the frightened Zheng Dashan immediately ordered him to smother his head to death. The body was carried out overnight and buried. Even the bloodstains that escaped all the way back were immediately wiped away by the housekeeper, so as not to be discovered by the rebels.

Only then did Zheng Wusi realize how powerful he was.When he was sent to spy again, he didn't dare to get too close, he only took a few glances from a distance, hid behind a haystack sheltered from the wind and endured for a long time, and when he came back, he said that the rebels were tightly blocked and found nothing all day long.

At this moment of shelter from the wind, there was a bang bang in the wind.

The sound sounded like thunder, and Zheng Wusi turned over in a jerk, and poked his head behind the haystack.Across the Wusong River, all the rebels from Xinhua Village emerged and lined up in the open space outside the village.

"What is this doing?"

Zheng Wusi felt that after many days of investigation, he was finally able to explain some things to Zheng Dashan.He didn't see it very clearly from a distance, he only saw dozens of rebels lined up, walking back and forth.

Every time they moved around, the rebels in the front row raised their weapons, and immediately there was a bang, puffing up white smoke.On the opposite side of the rebels stood a lot of straw men, about a hundred steps away, were shot one after another, and grass clippings flew around.

"Ah, it's a firecracker." Zheng Wusi had seen this thing before, and it was used by wealthy people to shoot birds on weekdays.Zheng Dashan's nursing home uses this thing, the muzzle is sprayed with iron sand, and it can reach a hundred steps.

But the Zheng Family Nursing Hospital also said that this thing can only shoot birds, it is not allowed to beat people at all, and it is difficult to kill, at most it will hurt.Its sound is quite scary, and it can still be used to bully farmers in the countryside.

The government also has this thing, but the soldiers never use it, saying that it can explode and it is easy to blind.Could it be that the anti-thieves will choose such deceptive things to fight against the government?

On the shooting range across the river, members of the 'Holy Light' team are taking turns practicing volley tactics in batches.Even Academician Li is no exception, and he has to participate.

The practice atmosphere is very serious, not a relaxed state of laughing and joking.This is a battle that determines the life and death of the team, and the opponents are hundreds of people, and they are even vicious officials and bandits.

Once the battle is defeated, the entire team will face catastrophe. Strategically, it can be despised, but tactically, it must be taken seriously.

On the shooting range, Chen Ding, the leader of the military team, had a headache.

Even seven professional soldiers don't understand the tactics and tactics of the early days of cold weapons and hot weapons. They all rely on the records in a few history books, and most of them are more detailed foreign records.

As for the country, there are only records of beatings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are not detailed yet.

Not only do they not understand tactics, but no one in the entire team has used a flintlock before.Everyone gathered temporarily, and the preparation time before the crossing was only two weeks, and they knew how to use the flintlock like a Buddha.

After the time travel, everyone was busy and didn't have much time to practice.Now that the enemy is coming to the door, we can only practice quickly like sharpening our guns in front of the battle-it's okay to line up, but the actions such as manipulating and loading the guns are too cumbersome and basically unskilled.

"What if we really fight?"

Chen Ding was very distressed, he had to be responsible for every member of the team.Everyone naturally felt that there must be zero casualties, because no one can afford to lose.

Wang Xin, who was two meters tall, stood beside him, and suggested in a low voice: "If I don't wait until the fight starts, I will wear heavy armor and bring a machete to fight hand-to-hand, and it will be easier to scare the enemy out of their courage."

Chen Ding immediately became angry, "Why are you fighting melee?"

"Because I'm tall and strong."

"Because you are stupid!"

Chen Ding was in a hurry, "How did you get admitted to the military academy? Now you're not playing the Three Kingdoms, what kind of personal heroism is playing? It's irresponsible for the revolutionary cause to fight indiscriminately. Besides, it's not your turn to go to the battle." you."

Wang Xin froze immediately, bowed his head and admitted his mistake.He glanced at Zhou Qingfeng who was fiddling with a flintlock gun beside him, and he had to admit that he was not as good as this pervert who could carry a load of nearly [-] kilograms.

Really playing hand-to-hand combat, this is the protagonist.

Xiao Jinlang counted in the shooting range, and turned back and said: "50 people played three-stage shooting, three rounds in a row, and it took 5 minutes. The first round of pre-loading was completed in 20 seconds. The second round of loading took 1 minute, and the second round of loading took 2 minute. Three rounds dragged on to [-] minutes. One round was slower than one round.

In addition, in order to save weight, all flintlock guns are very short and cannot hold bayonets.In the event of hand-to-hand combat, only by the double-barreled flintlock pistols issued, the situation will be very bad. "

A flintlock pistol is similar to a pistol, a variant of the front-loading 'Deringer' pistol. It is very small and has an effective range of only ten meters.

When designing the flintlock pistol, four barrels were considered, but everyone felt that it was too heavy and difficult to hold.Now that we are really fighting, everyone feels that the firepower of the two barrels is not enough.

"The situation will be very bad" is a small probability event. It can charge up against the "three-stage blow" and survive at least two rounds of flintlock pistols without collapsing-this is already called an iron army.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty officials and army absolutely can't do it.

"We can't underestimate the possibility of a small number of brave men among the bandits in the south of the Yangtze River rushing forward." Zhou Qingfeng quickly completed a round of reloading, aimed at the straw target ahead, and fired with a bang.

The muzzle kinetic energy of more than 1000 joules can send a target 50 meters away flying wildly, and it is necessary to wear three layers of armor.

"My suggestion is to deploy five members of the military team with good marksmanship tactically to form a hunting team. After the battle starts, first defeat the enemy's command and brave people. After destroying the enemy's will to fight, let the volleyball phalanx."

This is what everyone meant, and a consensus was quickly reached.The next step is to discuss where to attack the enemy, and whether to attack land or water first?

At the same time, the brigade was gathering at the school field outside the city of Songjiang Prefecture.

The site has long been barren and overgrown with weeds.

The wing rooms of the original guard house were either only ruins or were rented out as carriages and horses.Occasionally there are a few flat fields, which are also used by nearby farmers to grow vegetables.

Mr. Jiang had someone burn the weeds and clean up the place.The team of Jiangnan gentry and wealthy merchants arrived here one after another. It was originally expected that there would be more than 600 people, but now only more than 500 came.

What's left... Either it's inconvenient for Tianhan to go out, let's talk about it in a few days; or the army will leave first and then follow;

Even the teams that came here were doing their own business.At most, the leader of the team would come to meet Mr. Jiang and ask when the government and the gentry would pay for the food and salaries.

The only ones who obeyed the command were the Bailai people raised by the Jiang family themselves. They were all men who licked their blood with knives and experienced sailors at sea.

Scarface's entourage followed Young Master Jiang and said, "Young master, the Zheng family just sent someone to deliver a letter saying that the four people we sent to step on the dishes have all fallen into a den of thieves."

Mr. Jiang was surprised, "All trapped in it? Didn't one get out? What's the specifics?"

"The Zheng family said that only one of the four escaped back, and died without saying a word." Scarface's entourage also hated him greatly, "They are all old brothers who have been friends for more than ten years. I didn't expect the boat to capsize in the gutter and be folded in a small village. .”

This made Mr. Jiang even more at a loss.In his line of work, he made great fanfare before the event, secretly sabotaged it during the event, and showed off his power afterwards. This is the proper routine.

It is impossible for the Xinhua rebels to be ignorant of what is going on in Fucheng. Not only the magistrate is waiting for them to come and beg for mercy, but even the Jiang family wants to play a game of defeating others without fighting.

As long as the rebels send people, there will naturally be some people in Fucheng singing the red face and some playing the bad face.If Xinhua Village is not stripped of its skin by then, Jiangnan gentry will be in vain.

But not only was there no movement in the thief's nest, even the thieves who went to spy on the news and sabotage were wiped out cleanly.In this situation, not only is the prefect unable to step down, but the Jiang family also needs to save face, and must teach the barbarians who don't understand the rules well.

If every family is so stubborn in the future, how can the bandits continue to mess around?

"Board the boat and set off to wipe out the Xinhua rebels." Mr. Jiang gritted his teeth in hatred, thinking of what happened to him when he met Zhou's thief half a month ago, he felt that he was being played. Cut to death."

More than 500 people set off from the school soldiers field, either by horse-drawn carriage or on foot, and drove in slowly for two miles.Jiang's family is a maritime merchant, and his subordinate Bailai is good at firecrackers and short knives, and likes to take boats.

The magistrate did not show up, he only sent a general judge to encourage him, nothing else.

If the battle is won, it is natural that the master of Fucheng strategized and commanded merit; if he loses, it will be a private fight in the countryside and order the local government to collect the corpse.

On the contrary, the movement of these hundreds of officials and bandits was too loud, and Mr. Jiang felt very uncomfortable for no reason.