Finally, the bandits stopped in the wilderness more than a mile outside the west gate.

They are clearly divided into several parts.

The first one is the sword and shield hand in the infantry, with a proportion of about 20%.

They are considered elites in the infantry. They all have strong murderous aura and are very good at short-term contact and assaulting hand-to-hand combat. Many sword and shield hands also carry javelin bags on their bodies, simple javelins and standard javelins.

The proportion of archers is about 30%. They carry double inserts on their backs. The bow bag is hung on the left side of the belt, and the arrow bag is hung on the right side of the belt.

They usually use small bows on the left and right arrows, with five or six forces and six or seven forces. Only a very small number of people use eight-power strong bows. The arrow bags of these people are loaded with heavy arrows.

Behind the archer is the firearm hand, the proportion is about 10%.

Some people use three-eyed guns, and some use bird guns to select better-quality firearms from the army to gather together. They carry bird guns, three-eyed guns, and their bodies are covered with objects, such as lead bags, put in cow horns, or medicine bags in pots.

There are also gunpowder belts. If the bullet belts on the side back in later generations are like copper or bamboo tubes on them, each tube is filled with a gun medicine. The fixed-mounted thinking left by the Qi family army back then was widely used in various parts of the Ming Dynasty.

Each of them had a fire rope wrapped around their guns and a fire snail between their waists. Some even held firearms such as four-eyed guns and winged tiger guns.

Finally, there are spearmen, with a proportion of about 40%.

Some of them hold big sticks, palladium, hook and sickle spear, etc., and are considered elite among spearmen.

These elite spearmen were basically officers and soldiers.

Among several troops, archers and firearms are all technical jobs, and it is not easy to use swords and shields. They have become increasingly occupied by surrendered officers and soldiers. Most of the young and strong refugees who were eliminated from the sea of ​​corpses and blood have become spearmen, and some are swords and shields.

A small number of hunters turned out to be archers.

But from the beginning to the present, the backbone of the bandits is still the original "border thieves" and the current surrendered officers and soldiers.

Since the bandits grew up to now, Buying is basically the main force in war, and it is usually them who drive out hungry people.

Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Wang Long joined forces to take revenge. There were 4,000 infantrymen, with a total of 800 soldiers in the army, 1,200 archers, 400 firearms, and 1,66 spearmen. They also divided into two parts, under the camp and under the Cao camp.

At this time, the bandits and infantry were in front.

Behind them were horse soldiers, these were elite infantry riding horses. They had all kinds of weapons and were skilled in horse racing, but they could not rush and slash on horses, nor could they ride and shoot on horses, and they still had to dismount during battles.

Their number was one thousand, and they were still dressed in red and blue. The two camps of the camp formed a convergence.

Finally, there are the elite riders. Not only are they skilled in horsemanship, but they can rush and slash on horseback, and some people can even ride and shoot.

These people are elite elites in the bandit camp, typical of the old camp. Generally, they are rare to fight until now, and they only roar and rode their horses everywhere, reconnaissance everywhere, or intercept enemy troops that might emerge from behind the two wings.

Behind the horse soldiers, there were a large number of servants gathered with hungry people.

They came and went, carrying shoulders and backs, piled up a large number of mud bags and prepared to charge to fill the trenches.

There are also some stoves, cook rice, and bake cakes.

In the altar of mountains, rivers, the country and other big flags fluttered the flags, hundreds of elite cavalry wearing cotton armor and inlaid with iron cotton armor. Their elite cavalry has a total of one thousand. At this time, only about two or three hundred cavalry gathered here. The rest were divided into multiple strands, and horses were strewn out four times.

On the altar, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Wang Long and other thieves were discussing tactics and how to arrange the attack on the troops.

"If you have a hole, you can rush in. The trenches on the walls at both ends of the low walls do not need to be filled, but the trenches in front of their low walls must be filled, otherwise the brothers will not be able to use their troops."

"Fill the trench and let the hungry people go, the swords, shields, archers, and firearms behind them."

"I saw that the short wall was two hundred steps long and not very wide. I couldn't squeeze out the crowds. Five thousand hungry people were divided into five waves, one thousand people per wave. The drums were still not stopped and they could not retreat. Those who dared to retreat were killed. The first three waves could try to rush through the gap, and they would not rush in and not hurry. Let's wait for the trench to fill it."

"The last two waves of main attack gaps poured in from the filled trenches, and the walls that were more than one person high jumped down and entered."

"Brother Xie, come and command the attack on the front and give you this opportunity to make meritorious service."

"Brother Zhang, you hit the right wing, Brother Li, you hit the left wing..."

Yuan Zongdi was the main tactics. He was a drama thief and an old fox. He was extremely experienced in the battlefield and was able to easily arrange all kinds of arrangements, so that Li Guo, Wang Long and others next to him had nothing to say.

In Yuan Zongdi's arrangement, he asked Xie Junyou to command the attack on the front of the earthen wall and redeem himself for his crimes and meritorious deeds.

Xie Junyou has followed him for a long time, and he will soon be General Zuo Guoyi from his former camp in history. Yuan Zongdi naturally wants to give him this opportunity.

Yuan Zongdi asked Zhang Neng to attack the right wing again. Zhang Neng was considered a general under the command of Li Guo's brothers, and soon he would be General Zuo Guoyi of the rear camp, and he also needed to give him this opportunity to make military achievements.

Yuan Zongdi also asked Li Rugui to be responsible for the left wing, which was a general under Cao's camp. At this time, Wang Long and others watched, Yuan Zongdi naturally did not want to favor one and the other, and also gave them a chance to set up a fighter opportunity, so that they could have the right to say to scrap the spoils.

Soon Yuan Zongdi finished the arrangement and everyone thought it was fine.

Soon after, a noise came from behind, and about a thousand hungry people were driven up, both men, women, young and old.

These hungry people were basically the people of Lingbi County. Lingbi City was captured, the city walls were flattened, and all the young and strong were wrapped and left. The remaining families, the elderly and weak women, naturally had to follow.

But once you join the group, it is impossible to quit.

The escapee said he was lost to the grass and cut him into pieces.

Among these people who were covered with craftsmen, cowherds, grooms and other skilled people were fine, but they became servants.

The remaining people who are not skilled and ordinary people must be eliminated by life and death. After filling in a few trenches and digging wall bricks several times, they will be considered as accepting the letter of fame and becoming their own people.

After they fought several battles, the weak could be selected as servants, and the strong were selected as infantry. Even women also entered the servants' team to do some cleaning and sewing, such as sewing numbers, cotton armor, etc.

Of course, when there is a shortage of troops, you have to fill a trenches.

Children usually work as servants, and brave ones are chosen as children.

At this time, these hungry people were divided into a team of dozens of people and more than a hundred people, with many neighbors and neighbors gathered together, and were designated by the old camp and designated some strong people in each team and those with prestige were the chief leaders of the whistle.

More than a dozen teams of hungry people were driven up, carrying bags and soil, with yellow faces and thin skin, ragged clothes, and miserable.

They stood numb and afraid, and soon after the camp, some swords and shields were out of the line, standing behind them in groups, supervising and driving them away.

Their eyes were cold and ruthless, and they looked like they looked at pigs and sheep, and the sound of drums would come soon. If the hungry people were afraid to retreat, the supervisory infantry could be killed.

It can be said that from this moment on, their control of their lives has been handed over to the hands of these sword and shield hands.

Even the chief leaders of the various hungry teams were all frightened.

The infantrymen who were supervising the war stood behind them, and everyone was a little excited: "Brothers and sisters, the hometown elders, the government is unrighteous. Fengtian advocates the general and the general who is powerful and virtuous on behalf of Tianfu and the general who is powerful and moral. This is to live a good life for us poor people, and to make more people not work on their jobs and not pay food."

They said loudly: "When the drums sounded together, everyone rushed forward desperately and threw the soil into the trench. After they went back, there were big cakes to eat and they could also go back to the camp to sleep. Those who dared to retreat, the Buying brothers who supervised the war would chop your heads on the spot. My rebel army was very disciplined, so that's not just a casual talk. The elders of all villages should remember it well, so that they would not be beheaded. In the end, I blamed me for not explaining it clearly."

There were a lot of arousal among more than a dozen teams of hungry people. The infantrymen who were supervising the battle stood expressionlessly, and there were some people behind each team of hungry people.

At first, bandits drove away hungry people to fill the trenches, and they were all hungry people in front and infantry behind. However, the more cities used artillery partitions, the more hungry people were mixed together.

...

"It's so unscrupulous!"

On the dike wall, the magistrate Gao Qifeng said angrily: "It's driving the hungry people out of the trenches again."

The chief clerk Zheng Shixin trembled and said, "What should I do? The hungry people rushed over, or not?"

County Magistrate Liu Zunhe was silent, and Zhou Mingyuan, the chief executive, wanted to speak but stopped, but said: "Be careful of your words, you can't show mercy at any time."

The officials continued to be speechless. Yang He stared at the outside world in a daze, and the eyes of others were coming. Several officials of the court were waiting for him to make a decision.

He knew that killing hungry people was very likely to cause criticism, and in serious cases it would also affect the career of the officialdom. All officials would not speak, but...

He said lightly: "I really can't show mercy. Behind us are the people of Suining City! If they are attacked by thieves, how many of the hometowns in the city will eventually survive?"

Looking at the officials who were still silent, Gao Qifeng, who seemed quite courageous in his opinion, was hesitant. He made a decision: "If the hungry people outside the city dare to turn back and fight against the thieves, they will not kill them. Those who dare not be the thieves, and they do not need to be sympathetic."

He looked around and said, "There is a saying in the Suining people that is right. I am the Tianshaxing Star. I am not a gentleman who can deceive him. People also need to save themselves, so that outsiders can save him."

But I sighed in my heart. This is the shortcomings of civilized people compared to barbarians. Whether it is the Qing army or the bandits, they are ruthless in killing the people. Everyone feels accustomed to it. However, civilized people need to look forward to it, and even often tie their own hands and feet.

But he could not show mercy. Behind him were the people of Suining City and his soldiers and brothers.

He summoned various guards to arrange the cavalry team of Jiuye, telling them not to defend to the death, attack more and attack more and more weak positions in the bandit formation, especially the troops of Cao's camp. Yang He believed that the breakthrough was on their side.

However, he felt that his troops were still insufficient. He came to Suining, but there were only 650 people, and there were some non-combatants in it.

During this period in Suining, nearly 40 people were injured and killed, especially more than 20 people, and many seriously injured were killed.

But when the war begins, there is no choice but to fight desperately.
Chapter completed!