"Child, three minutes of passion. A difficult exploration trip will make him quit." Li Hao excitedly went to the backyard, and Li Xiao shook his head helplessly.

"I don't think so! I have met your fourth brother several times when I was in the capital. Although he is not as good as your second master in doing things, his calm demeanor is much stronger than that of the third master. Since he can ask you to cultivate

Railway, I guess I really think so in my heart. You have to be mentally prepared. One day he comes to you with the exploration results. Should you leave this job to him or not?

You want to take the postgraduate entrance examination for Li Hao, but the people below heard that Li Hao is your fourth brother. It’s too late to flatter him along the way, so how can you possibly give him a hard time? I’ll make a bet with you that the fourth master will go to Liaodong for exploration this time.

It will definitely go smoothly." Zhang Huangyan looked at Li Hao's back and posed a problem to Li Xiao.

"Uh...!" Li Xiao just wanted to embarrass Li Hao and sharpen his mind. But he didn't expect that the local officials had a burning ambition to flatter him. Hearing that Li Hao was his fourth brother, he probably

I can support this Fourth Master.

"Hey...! I have to do the evil thing. I will greet you along the way. No special treatment is allowed to Li Hao. He needs to rely on his own ability to complete this exploration mission."

Zhang Huangyan shook his head helplessly. It seemed that he had to bear the blame himself. His cousin even gave birth to a son by Li Xiao. After all, Longwu Emperor Zhu Yihai should be regarded as Li Xiao's stepson. Before joining Li Xiao's gang

From that day on, the rise and fall of the Zhang family has been closely linked to Li Xiao.

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Fireworks set off in Yangzhou in March, the shadow of the solitary sail in the distance is gone in the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River can be seen flowing in the sky.

The poem is beautiful, but Li Hu doesn't have any sense of beauty now. The Third Division encountered unprecedented tactics in Yangzhou. This made Li Hu, the commander of the vanguard battalion, suffer a lot!

"The battalion commander killed three more brothers." As expected, the bad news came again. Li Hu was as angry as a furious warrior, but there was nothing he could do.

When he was still more than thirty miles away from Yangzhou, Li Hu felt something was wrong. When the local people saw the Liao army, they were obviously full of hostility. Black guns were fired at his soldiers from all directions, all of which were muzzleloaders abandoned by the Liao army.

Fire gun.

Because of the large amount of powder, this kind of firecracker can hit very far. Moreover, the ballistic trajectory is straight and accurate, and it has great lethality at a distance of three to four hundred meters.

Often when the team is walking along the official road, two bullets will be fired from unknown places. When the team stops to take cover and prepare to fight, the shooter has already hidden.

The team could only move forward cautiously while searching. Especially when they reached areas with dense vegetation, they had to be more alert. Now it had reached the point where they had to use mortars to fire any suspicious bushes they saw.

The gunmen didn't kill a few, but they consumed a lot of ammunition. The most head-scratching thing was that it seriously slowed down the marching speed. Nie Dahai's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he frequently greeted the family of the forward battalion commander. In the end, this was a bad job.

It fell on Li Hu's head, and even with Nie Dahai's courage, he didn't dare to greet Li Hu's ancestors.

The weather has been good these days. Under the strong sunlight, the smoke emitted from the muzzle of the gun is invisible. But when the irritated soldiers rush over in a swarm, there will be people on the other side.

Shooting. Gou Ri's marksmanship was very good. In just one day, eight of Li Hu's men were killed.

Finally, we got very close to the gunman once, and we could even see the gunman's appearance. But there was a huge explosion under the soldiers' feet. The air wave of the explosion could directly tear people into pieces. Steel balls were denser than spring rain.

, scattering around.

That time, Li Hu lost his entire sharp knife squad. Three died on the spot, and five were injured to varying degrees. Two of them were seriously injured and were not expected to survive tomorrow.

Nighttime was the real beginning of the nightmare. Even if he lived in the village, the stubborn Nanming army could accurately bombard the houses of the Liao army, forcing Li Hu to spend a miserable night in the cellar.

Even the well-trained Liao army suffered heavy casualties during the night of continuous shelling. The Nanming army completely ignored the life and death of the local people, and the casualties among the villagers were more than double that of the Liao army.

All mortars were used, and the shelling fortifications were underneath and covered with nets. Not only did there be no muzzle flash, but the sound was even very low. Li Xiao organized people to rush over and stepped on landmines along the way, and he didn't know it in the darkness.

How many gunmen were there? A platoon sent out was all corpses in the morning. Fortunately, the opponent only had three mortars, and it seemed that there were not enough shells. Otherwise, the Liao army's casualties would be even greater.

If their mortar shells were as abundant as the Liao army's, the entire battalion would have been wiped out by now.

Li Hu found himself like a tiger that suddenly fell into the mire. He was full of strength, but he couldn't use it at all. Within three days of entering Yangzhou, he lost almost a company of Yangzhou city walls without even seeing it.

A search platoon sent out this morning was attacked in the thin mist. As a result, three men were lost. The continuous deaths made Li Hu almost crazy.

"What a fool!" Li Hu carefully looked at the hills on the opposite mountain with his binoculars, but found nothing.

Those Nanming troops were obviously small in number, and they were very familiar with the ground in Yangzhou. The most terrible thing was that these guys' marksmanship was surprisingly good. Many soldiers were hit in the chest, and there was no way to save them.

"Battal Commander, there is a mist now. You can't see the smoke from the muzzle of the gun at all. We have to wait for the sun to clear away the fog."

"Get out! I know." Li Hu was like a furious lion, kicking this talkative guy.

"Send another squad to go out to search. All the tricks will be highlighted for me, and mortars are ready at any time. If you find anyone, I will fucking blow them up!" Li Hu roared angrily.

This is to use a squad of people as bait, as long as the other side can't help but shoot. No one can escape the covering fire of nine mortars!

A squad of Liao troops went out to search again, and everyone was staring at the hills opposite.

"In the paddy field opposite." Li Hu suddenly pointed at the paddy field opposite and shouted. Just now he saw a flash of fire in the paddy field.

Sure enough, a Liao soldier fell softly to the ground.

The ruthless Nanming Army was really smart. Everyone thought the bullets were fired from the mountain opposite. Unexpectedly, the man was lying in the paddy field. No wonder there were hundreds of pairs of eyes in the whole camp, but they didn't see where the man was.

They were all gunners who fired hundreds of rounds. Li Hu just pointed. The gunners quickly adjusted their positions, but within ten seconds, the shells roared down.

Amidst the explosion, Li Hu saw three people covered in mud and water getting up from the rice field and running. The mud in the rice field seriously affected their speed. After setting the lead, they fired another salvo. The three people were flying.

was torn into pieces by shrapnel.

"Damn it, how do these idiots stay in the paddy field?" Li Hu was a little confused. The water in the paddy field was up to his knees. People would not drown if they lay in it. Besides, it was all water and gunpowder.

It's easy to get wet. I really don't understand how these guys do it.

"Hello, sir!" A group of people stood at attention and saluted Cao Wenzhao who came over. Cao Wenzhao was so angry that he wanted to strangle these bastards to death.

"I've already said that you are not allowed to salute on the front line. Damn it, pull them down and give each of them five sticks." Cao Wenzhao showed no mercy to these bastards who almost killed him. No matter how old you are,

Officer, you have to finish every bullet. God knows if there are any sharpshooters around here!

Seeing his men being beaten, Li Hu had nothing to do. He warned these bastards many times, but these guys got excited when they saw the teacher, and forgot about the battlefield regulations. They deserved to be beaten.

"I heard there were heavy casualties?" Cao Wenzhao frowned and looked at Li Hu. When they were outside Xuzhou, Li Hu's battalion fought very well, but when they arrived in Yangzhou, it seemed like they had a different army.

"I'm not strong enough. I just killed three sharpshooters. These idiots hid and fired hidden guns. When we were camping at night, there were mortar attacks. Mines were laid on the official road. As long as one person steps on that thing,

Go up. The soldiers will feel that there are mines everywhere under their feet, and the whole team will not dare to leave.

From the day before yesterday to now, we haven’t even fought a serious battle. But we have lost a hundred men, and the casualties combined mean that we have lost a company. We have never fought such a useless battle!”

"New tactics! It looks like there are experts in Yangzhou!" After listening to Li Hu's report, Cao Wenzhao also felt that something was wrong.

The Liao army has always adhered to the idea of ​​artillery. Whether it is offensive or defensive, artillery attacks first. This method can be used to deal with the regular army, and the battle between the two armies can be successful. However, it seems to be at a loss to deal with this harassing style of play.

"Commander, you can't fill it with the lives of the soldiers like this. This is still twenty miles away from Yangzhou, this...!"

"There is a team of mastiffs brought from Liaodong in the division. I will transfer them to you. Let the dogs out. I don't believe these bastards can escape the noses of the dogs. Let your people hide. As long as the dogs are found biting people,

Come out and do it to death.

These people's marksmanship is so accurate, they must not be ordinary soldiers. It is estimated that there will not be too many people. Let's search the outskirts of Yangzhou first to wipe out as many of these bastards as possible. Otherwise, these people will be more lethal when attacking the city.

." Cao Wenzhao thought for a while and came up with a way.

Li Hu knew that Cao Wenzhao had obtained a group of mastiff dogs from the Jurchens in Liaodong. At first, he did not understand why he wanted to obtain dozens of large dogs. Only now did he understand the purpose of these dogs.

You can hide just to see if you can hide from the dog's nose.

Soon, dozens of big dogs were led to the front of the formation. The ropes of the five big dogs were loosened, and the five big dogs ran out like arrows. They were in a bush about a mile away.

, a guy dressed in colorful clothes was immediately kicked out.

Li Hu's head immediately broke out with beads of sweat. This guy was only five or six hundred meters away from him. If he had gone more than a hundred meters forward, he would probably shoot him. Of course,

After the fools saluted Cao Wenzhao, the target should have become Cao Wenzhao.

A few more dogs were released, and a group of big dogs surrounded the guy and started biting him. Li Hu could hear the screams clearly. No one thought about shooting, they all wanted to see this bastard being beaten by dogs.

Torn into pieces. When one of his arms was torn off by a big dog, the Liao soldiers burst into deafening cheers.

That guy is also a tough guy. Under the siege of more than a dozen big dogs, he actually stood up holding on to the tree.

"No!" Cao Wenzhao grabbed the gun from the guard's hand, and heard a gunshot before he could fire. The guy's head shattered like a watermelon, and a violent explosion suddenly occurred when he fell.

The explosion and smoke engulfed more than a dozen big dogs!

"Found it, the gun fired over there." Yangguan pierced the mist, and the soldiers quickly saw the green smoke coming from the muzzle of the gun.

The mortar shells struck with a whistle, and Li Hu clearly saw the man's thighs and half of his butt fly up to the branch.

"There is a landmine next to that tree. The man rushed over to it even if he died, just to detonate the mine and give himself a good time. It's a pity, it's a pity that there are more than a dozen dogs. Give the order and release at most three dogs. It's still far away from Yangzhou.

I don’t know how many of these bastards there are out there.” Cao Wenzhao threw the gun to the guard helplessly. From a distance of 500 meters, he actually had no chance of knocking that guy down.

"No!" Li Hu agreed, finally finding a way to deal with these bastards. The Jurchens were annoying, but the dogs they trained were really good. For the first time, Li Hu felt that Li Xiao had let those hundreds of thousands of Jurchens go.

, and letting them live in Lushun seems reasonable.

In one day, the advance was very fast. Those guys wearing colorful clothes, even with weeds hanging on their bodies, had no way to hide under the encirclement and suppression of the big dogs. Li Hu advanced for more than ten miles without any casualties.

You can already see the tall city wall of Yangzhou in front.

Hundreds of gunmen were killed along the way, and no one was left alive. The casualties of the mastiffs were also shocking. Some were shot dead by the gunmen. Some were killed by the gunmen who pulled grenades in their arms and died together with the mastiffs. At night, they camped.

By that time, only a dozen of the dozens of big dogs were left.

Li Hu was cautious and sent a company outside instead of resting in the village.

Sure enough, there was another shelling in the middle of the night. The Liao soldiers hiding in the fortifications covered their heads to prevent the shelling. The company outside had let go of the big dogs and followed them to search for mortar positions. Soon, they found several

It was a big pit. Inside were three mortars being fired. The soldiers and the big dogs rushed into it together.
Chapter completed!