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  Chapter 199 197 [Gentlemen and Peasants Union]

  The river terrain of Ganzhou City is indeed similar to that of Linjiang Mansion, but it is much more complicated here!

  Three rivers confluence and four mountains stand.

  Behind each river, there is Daji Bay. Even if you climb up and look far, you can't see the opponent's navy layout. Because the main force of the navy is all hidden behind Jiwan, only a few ships are sent out for cruising.

  So everyone can set up an ambush with the water master, and guess what the other party is like based on experience.

  The Fujian Navy was used to fighting naval battles before, but this was the first time they fought inland water battles. Moreover, after the merchant ships raised in Jiangxi were transformed into warships, many water warfare weapons were missing.

   Originally equipped with some Franco cannons, they were all brought back to Guangdong by Shen Youlong to suppress the bandits. Who made him the coach who carried Shangfang's sword?

  After the water battle took over, Fujian sailors jumped into the river one after another, scrambling to swim back to Ganzhou City.

  The distance is very short, and you can go ashore by swimming a few hundred meters. When you go ashore, you will be the city wall of Ganzhou.

   As for the army battle on the other side of Ganzhou City, the terrain is also somewhat complicated. Fei Ruhe still remembered the basics of camping that Pang Chunlai taught him when he was a teenager. Behind him was the Egong Mountain, with two large ponds on the left and right, and the front facing the Ganjiang River. There is only a gap of three miles between Daying and the Ganjiang River, and officers and soldiers must attack from here.

   And Fei Ruhe himself, can attack and defend, has sufficient food and grass, and abundant water sources.

During the march, Huang Hanliang said: "We can divide our troops into three thousand, capture the hilltop in the south, and raid the camp of the bandits from the hillside. The main force of our army will attack from the front, and we may win a big victory by attacking from both sides. Our army captures the hilltop, and the bandits The army must divide its troops for defense. Once it is divided, it will be beneficial to our army, because the enemy has fewer troops."

   "You lead people to attack the mountain!" Chen Ting ordered.

  Without saying a word, Huang Hanliang led 3,000 people to the mountains.

  Chen Ting turned around to the west, and came to the gap between the rebel camp and the Ganjiang River.

  Compared to Ji'an, rice planting in Ganzhou is earlier, and it is ready to be harvested at this time. In the paddy fields near Fei Ruhe's camp, the peasant association has already organized the farmers to harvest, and the two sides will fight in the vast paddy fields.

  Although Chen Tingdui hated Zou Weilian, he had to admit that the governor had a way of training troops.

  Stationed in Ganzhou City for a year, in addition to raising food and grass and making fireboats, the training of more than 10,000 Fujian soldiers has been greatly improved, and they are no longer the rabble that collapsed at the first touch last year.

  Including the generals, all took off their shoes, rolled up their trousers and stepped into the field, stepping on the muddy water and marching in line.

  One thousand gunfire soldiers were hidden in the central army, waiting for the critical moment to show their power.

  Chen Tingdui sent 2,000 Fujian soldiers to attack the rebel camp with two intentions: first, to tear down the wooden wall of the rebel camp; second, to attract the rebels to chase after the defeat.

  It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. If you win, take advantage of the situation and attack with the whole army. If you lose, use the firecrackers to fight back.

  The strong troops trained by Zou Weilian gave Chen Ting the full confidence that he would not feign defeat and turn the whole army into a rout.

   "Shhhhhh!"

  Two thousand Fujian soldiers rushed towards the camp, the anti-thief archers began to shoot in salvo, and there were still spearmen waiting behind the wall.

   It is not so much a wall as a relatively strong wooden fence, which is very convenient for a spear to poke out through the gap.

  After the Fujian soldiers were shot by a volley of bows and arrows, they were already showing signs of collapse. A few rushed to the outside of the wall, and were immediately stabbed back by the spearmen, and then the two thousand Fujian soldiers were defeated.

  Chen Ting was extremely depressed. The rebels in the camp did not take advantage of the victory to fight out, which made his follow-up deployment completely ineffective.

  Under normal circumstances, the rebels should take the opportunity to kill, and then kill all the officers and soldiers to collapse.

  What Fei Ruhe thought was, why should I chase after him?

  My navy has won a complete victory, and I occupy the camp to wait for work, and the officers and soldiers cannot cross the river to return to the city. As long as there is a delay of one more day, the morale of the officers and soldiers will drop by one point, so why rush to a decisive battle?

  In Taihe County, Fei Ruhe, who chased and killed hundreds of rebels by himself, suddenly turned into a wise general.

  Thanks to Fei Yinghuan's secret report last year, Zhao Han, Fei Ruhe and others all knew that Fujian officers and soldiers had firecrackers in their hands, and the rebels had to deal with them carefully.

  Chen Ting thought that the Fire Gun Battalion was a surprise soldier, but he was caught off guard at a critical moment. But how did he know that the rebels even knew the names of the generals who commanded the Fire Gun Battalion.

   Seeing that the lure failed, Chen Tingdui could only reorganize his team and decided to forcibly attack the rebel camp.

  The terrain is a bit disgusting. There are ponds on both sides of the camp, so we can only attack from the front.

   While deploying the army, he waited for his son-in-law.

  Son-in-law Huang Hanliang is making a surprise attack into the mountain. As long as he succeeds, he can dive from the mountain behind the rebel camp to kill the rebel's ass.

  Planning back and forth will definitely work!

   There were not many rebels who stopped Huang Hanliang, only four or five hundred people.

  Huang Hanliang is not only a child prodigy, he can write stereotyped essays at the age of nine, but he is also proficient in the art of war, quite skilled in martial arts, and is good at water warfare.

"kill!"

  Huang Hanliang charged forward, leading three thousand Fujian soldiers, to kill hundreds of rebels on the hillside.

  But seeing the hundreds of rebels, more than 50 people suddenly stood up, raised a strange bowl-sized object with both hands, raised it above their heads, and threw it down the mountain forcefully.

  Huang Hanliang thought it was a small falling rock, but...

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The "enemy of ten thousand enemies" made of coarse porcelain, a few of the fuses were extinguished and did not explode, and a few of them exploded in advance.

   But there were still more than 30 bombs, which fell on the Fujian soldiers and exploded.

  Not only did the tiles splatter and injure the enemy, but also chili noodles exploded. Huang Hanliang's thigh was hit by the tiles, and when he inhaled, he felt his throat burning.

   "Kill...cough cough cough..."

  The more than fifty rebels raised the enemy again, and the friendly army used slow-burning ramie rope to help ignite the fuse.

   "Boom boom boom!"

   There was another burst of bombing, and the three thousand Fujian soldiers who made a surprise attack on the mountain collapsed and fled down the mountain.

  Huang Hanliang still wanted to charge with injuries, but he couldn't hold back the rout, so he could only flee down the mountain with him. When he came to the foot of the mountain, he pulled out the shrapnel embedded in his leg, and he was completely speechless. The anti-thief's enemy turned out to be made of porcelain.

   No way, Zhao Han’s site is full of kaolin, and Zhu Yuanzhang even used it to make porcelain city bricks.

  Because of the convenience of obtaining materials and the large quantity, the manufacturing cost of porcelain bullet casings is actually much cheaper than that of iron bullet casings.

   This thing is fired in one kiln, hundreds of thousands!

  Huang Hanliang ran back with the remnant soldiers, and said to his father-in-law: "The bandit army has ten thousand enemies."

   "What's wrong with your throat?" Chen Ting asked.

  Huang Hanliang's tonsils seemed to be inflamed after catching a cold, and his eyes kept weeping. He said in a hoarse voice: "The bandit army's enemy is mixed with ground pepper, and my eyes and throat have been hit."

  Chen Tingdui picked up the binoculars and observed the arrow tower of the rebel camp.

   Those arrow towers did not release arrows at all when the officers and soldiers attacked for the first time. Thinking about it now, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of enemies hiding, and when the main force of the officers and soldiers attacks, they will throw them out and blow up a large area.

  Chen Ting began to curse Shen Youlong in his heart, that **** governor of Guangdong and Guangxi took away all the artillery in the army, otherwise he could blow down the anti-thief arrow tower at this moment.

  Huang Hanliang said: "Master Taishan, retreat, this battle is impossible to fight. It is good to say that the rebels are out of the camp for a decisive battle. These rebels are all turtles. They are huddled inside the camp and occupy a favorable terrain. How can our army break through?"

  Chen Ting turned around and looked back at the river. The water battle had come to an end, and all the officers, soldiers and sailors were gone.

   "Withdraw!"

  Chen Ting issued a military order to bite his teeth.

  In the rebel camp, Fei Ruhe smiled and said, "Get ready to pursue."

   It's not chasing, but following from a distance.

  This approach made it impossible for the officers and soldiers to retreat safely. They could only step on the paddy fields, barely maintaining their formation and retreating slowly.

  Once the officers and soldiers came out of the paddy fields, they all left along the ridge. Under the pursuit of the rebels, the officers and soldiers could easily flee.

  Huang Hanliang said: "Continuing like this is not an option."

  Chen Ting sneered at him: "I know, I just want to lure the rebels out of the camp for a decisive battle. The terrain just now made it impossible to fight. Let's fight in another place where we are comfortable."

  The scene became very weird.

  In the paddy fields by the river, more than 5,000 rebel troops spread out and slowly advanced, and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers also spread out and retreated slowly.

  Finally, the officers and soldiers stopped, because the terrain was open and the officers and soldiers could take advantage of their strength.

"stop!"

  Fei Ruhe also stopped the pursuit, and the two sides faced each other across a few paddy fields.

  Chen Ting issued orders to the commander of the Banner Commander to expand the formation of the officers and troops, trying to rely on the superiority of troops to conduct a semi-surrounding attack on the east side—the west side is the river.

   "Withdraw!"

   With a bright smile on his face, Fei Ruhe suddenly ordered the entire army to withdraw to the camp while the officers and soldiers were in formation.

   Just one meaning, I won't fight you, and I won't let you go.

  Under such repeated pulls, the morale of the officers and soldiers will inevitably drop, because they cannot return to Ganzhou City, but can only retreat to Xingguo County or Yudu County further back.

   Moreover, the training speed of the officers and soldiers is definitely not as good as that of the Datong Army, and they may collapse after repeated pulling.

   "Zizi deceived me!"

  Chen Tingdui's lungs were about to explode. He wanted to fight a decisive battle, but the rebels withdrew to the camp to defend. He ordered the withdrawal of the troops, and the rebels followed. How can there be such a reckless fight?

   And there are paddy fields all around, both sides can advance or retreat calmly, even if one side wants to charge suddenly.

"kill!"

  In a mountain behind the officer's army, there was a sudden loud cry of killing.

   Chen Ting transported many of the looted goods back to Ganzhou City. However, a lot of food and grass were left behind, and camps were set up by mountains and rivers, and more than a thousand officers and soldiers were left to guard the camp and food and grass.

   "Where do the rebels still have the strength to go around and attack our army camp?" A Fujian boss was shocked.

  Fujian soldiers were all shocked, because the shouts of killing came from the rear, at least tens of thousands of troops.

   Can rebels turn beans into soldiers?

   "Go into the mountain, go into the mountain!"

  Chen Ting immediately ordered that the main force of the rebels was in the northwest, and a large number of rebels appeared inexplicably in the southeast.

  After the officers and soldiers withdrew like this, Fei Ruhe followed slowly.

  There are paddy fields everywhere, if you can't charge and chase, then chase slowly.

   Soon, more than a dozen defeated officers and soldiers ran frantically along the field ridge, shouting in horror: "General Town, our army camp has been attacked!"

   "The battalion guards, are there only a dozen of you left?" Chen Ting asked.

  The defeated soldier said: "Fleeing in all directions, the others don't know where to flee?"

  Chen Ting asked again: "How many rebels attacked the camp?"

  The defeated soldier said: "Thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people. Most of them are farmers, with kitchen knives and hoes in their hands. Some are village warriors. The gentry came to attack the camp with village courage."

   "How dare a gentleman follow a thief?" Chen Ting said in horror.

   Yes, the gentry also became thieves.

  In the past few days, the missionary officers have been contacting the landlords, and the peasant associations are mobilizing the farmers.

  Because the Fujian soldiers killed too hard, the landlords in Ganzhou would rather follow the rebels and help the rebels defeat the Fujian officers and soldiers. Otherwise, once the rebels were defeated and fled, the Fujian soldiers would be able to kill the landlords in Ganzhou.

  This kind of thing has happened a long time ago. A hundred years ago, soldiers from Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang encircled and suppressed Southern Jiangxi, burning, killing and looting all the way.

   Guangxi wolf soldiers are the most ruthless, killing Nangan to the nines!

   Even sages such as Wang Yangming also used the method of continuous sitting when suppressing bandits. One family followed the thief, and ten families were punished by the law. The heads were rolled, and the people reported each other to their neighbors.

  Fei Ruhe chased the officers and soldiers into the mountain, not a rolling mountain.

   Soon, the local militia also came to join. The domineering landlords and gentry, and the oppressed tenant farmers, under the tandem of missionaries and peasant associations, worked closely together to besiege and kill Fujian officers and soldiers!

  (end of this chapter)