There were 1,600 people in a regiment and 800 people in half. When dealing with the 3,000 private soldiers of the Yan Owl, Sichuan felt that the imperial guards were too ruthless.

"Even if the Duke of Liao is here, doing so will take risks. General Sun is young and energetic. If he suffers setbacks, it will be unfavorable for future conquests!"

Li Hualong said directly to the aide, and the aide understood very well. He immediately asked someone to pass the message to Sun Xin. The person above covered his words, and the aide said it was much more direct.

"If there are three thousand chaotic soldiers, General Sun can fight at will, but this Yan Xiao is a thief household on the ground, and most of the thief soldiers are relatives, which is very difficult to chew..."

This sentence makes people laugh and cry when they are carefully studied. If the three thousand officers and soldiers are allowed to fight at will, but these three bandit soldiers have to consider it because their combat effectiveness is not bad. In fact, this is the truth. Local officers and soldiers are all idiots and are indeed unstoppable, but the private soldiers of the salt owl are different.

If you can transport Zigong salt to Bozhou to sell profits, such a salt owl is also powerful. It is impossible for a person from the Green Forest underworld to achieve this level. This salt owl is a local hero and has two children of scholars who are famous in his family. The relationship between the official face is also very strong. It is said that he can reach the level of a governor.

However, the Bozhou Rebellion was too serious. After Sichuan Jinyiwei found out the matter, the hero quickly cut off his arm and separated the relationship.

The reason why the local great-captained salt owl has so many private soldiers is because he transported salt to the villages of the mountain. Some people might come to rob the villages in the middle of the mountain. It is very dangerous. When encountering a blind official inquiry, sometimes he would have to go through the fire with real swords and guns. This kind of children, on the one hand, have blood ties and family connections, on the other hand, are all fed with money and grain, on the other hand, and have more or less fighting with the Miao people and Yao people, and have experience. Such a team is almost the same as the level of the governor and governor, and it is definitely difficult to fight.

Sun Xin ignored other people's advice at all. The mature Eunuch Zhao didn't listen. Everyone sighed and mobilized their troops.

If you have to fight 800 and fight 3,000, you can just recruit and reconcile such private soldiers of the salt owl? If you don’t help, the Sichuan general will bring tens of thousands of people over, so why can’t you eat it?

The battle went on very quickly and easily. Eight hundred imperial guards and three hundred fire-milling shots, shot two rounds, swept the opponent's people holding the bow and arrows in the air. Then the imperial guards formed a small team and rushed into the opponent's formation, straight through the opponent's team, and then penetrated them back and forth twice.

The Yan Xiao's private soldiers could not be maintained at all and collapsed all at once. The battle ended so shockingly, but seeing the imperial guards as if they were taken for granted, the people who followed the war realized that the imperial guards had already been in the middle of the preparatory position.

The salt owl originally wanted to resist for a while and let the government suffer a loss, and then negotiated relatively good conditions for recruitment. He knew how bad the officers and soldiers in Sichuan were. He also thought that the government wanted to deal with the Yang family, and maybe his own people would have to work hard. But he never expected that the imperial guards would come so quickly and have such a strong combat power, so he had to tie up and surrender himself, asking for the lives of women and children to be safe.

The imperial guards fought this salt owl to establish their authority. Everyone understood this truth. They did not expect that the imperial guards would establish their authority so successfully and so simply.

Such a big salt owl was destroyed in an instant, and the others dared to do whatever they wanted. Li Hualong and the governor of Sichuan were strict orders for two years, and there were still people doing business with Bozhou. After this time, the order was banned and no one dared to move.

Before the Yang family in Bozhou caused chaos, they saved enough supplies, which was also the reason why they could recruit a large number of copycats, but having enough supplies does not mean that they don’t need to be imported.

Everyone understands this truth. If there is no supplementary foreign materials, with the terrain of Bozhou, it will be a dead end. There has not been many places to be played out yet and are trapped and surrounded. The end is that they will slowly consume the supplies and then collapse and wait for death.

The Yang family also understood this truth. On the fifth day after the import of Xiyan was cut off, the Yang family gathered nearly 15,000 of its main forces and vassals, launched a fierce attack on Hejiang County, opening up this side, and going to Chengdu was a smooth road. When it arrived at the richest area in Sichuan, it would be convenient to obtain any supplies.

Six thousand imperial guards and 20,000 Sichuan officers and 20,000 Sichuan officers and soldiers stopped them in front. Sichuan officers and soldiers were just prepared as supplies camps, and they still had to rely on imperial guards in field battles.

This battle even made Sun Xin not very proud. During the field battle, the cannons bombarded two rounds, and the enemy's formation was a little unsteady. Seeing that the enemy was about to collapse, the enemy was dispersed because the enemy was too dispersed and could not be annihilated. So he stopped the cannon and launched the enemy to rush forward.

As a result, the fire mill shot for less than five rounds, and the enemy could no longer organize any effective attacks. Sun Xin ordered a charge helplessly.

The horse team defeated the enemy's team directly. The Yang family also had cavalry, but the Yunnan horses and Sichuan horses were short and there was no impact. The cavalry in the northwest were very tall, and the difference between horses was so big, so don't mention the difference between armor and weapons. The southwest cavalry was more like making up for the numbers than cavalry. The northwest cavalry was on the horse's back every day.

The cavalry in Bozhou were directly defeated and then driven back. The Yang family rushed back as a core force to trample on their own team. The team was completely collapsed.

Such a situation is what cavalry likes to see the most. Chasing defeated soldiers, letting them trample on each other and killing themselves, which can continuously expand the results of the battle. The infantry will break the enemy's attempt to clean up the disabled team and leave without spending too much effort.

It’s still not that Sichuan has a vast plain, otherwise if the cavalry really spread out and washed it, the results of the battle would be even greater. This is where Sun Xin was not satisfied with it.

However, he was not satisfied with him. Li Hualong, Sichuan and Guizhou officials were very happy. While organizing the army, they found someone to write a memorial of flowers and flowers to report the victory in Beijing.

Now the civil and military officials in Sichuan, Guizhou and Chu areas finally know how powerful the Imperial Guards are. I always feel exaggerated when I heard it. In the past, beheading and defeating the Tartars was a great victory. You, Wang Tong, were good, and you could only receive tens of thousands or tens of thousands of head-level rewards at once. This is too shameless. After the battle in Hejiang County, they realized that there was no exaggeration. One group of the Imperial Guards could easily kill thousands of enemy troops, and defeat the opponent like chopping melons and cutting.

The next step is to march to pursue. The Yang family in Bozhou has been in charge of this place for eight hundred years. If they fail to look out, they will have the idea of ​​keeping the truth. The terrain here is so complicated. Anyway, you can't get in. I will apologize for a while, and then I will throw out a close-knit brother to take the blame. The matter may be over.

Compared to Wang Tong's lack of letters before the war, he confirmed the victory, Wang Tong instead wrote a few more letters and said a little more.

It mentioned that we must not leave any future troubles, and we must let more local soldiers and horses help us. The meaning of not leaving any future troubles means that we must pursue the enemy and let more local soldiers and horses help us. Wang Tong also explained that if we keep three points in speaking, it would be so troublesome to communicate with Songjiang Prefecture from Sichuan to Sichuan, and it would definitely delay the trouble.

It would be better to say that local officers and soldiers are also bandits. The crossing seems to be a breeze, which has greatly damaged the local area. But what is needed is this destruction. The court in Bozhou entrusts the Yang family for generations to serve as Xuanwei envoy. In fact, the Yang family is the local emperor here. Those natives and those villages only know that there is an Yang family but not the court. Let the local officers and soldiers go over and "sort" them and then immigrate to the inside. That is the court's solid territory.

Sun Xin was a familiar man in marching and fighting. He had no fault of this matter, so he naturally focused on Wang Tong. After Li Hualong saw it, he felt a little awkward, and the corruption of military discipline of the officers and soldiers became an advantage at this time. But it cannot be denied that Wang Tong's considerations were all for the overall situation of the court and could not say anything.

For the local military generals in Sichuan, although the imperial guards can fight, they are really good at being a human being. Knowing that everyone can share the benefits of military merits and make money together, Bozhou is worse than Chengdu, but if they can let go of it, there will be a lot of oil and water, and there are many opportunities to be happy.

All the generals were fully motivated, and the superiors and subordinates gave instructions to first ensure the supply of the imperial guards' grain sisters, so that they could win the battle, and then we were so happy.

The real hard battle was the third day before entering the core area of ​​Bozhou. The imperial guards were in a strong position. There were brigades of local officers and soldiers behind them, and even local natives who were not in the face of the Yang family came to help. If they wanted to attack, they could only hit their heads and burst into blood. However, seeing that they threatened their own foundation, the Yang family had to spend a lot of money.

The opportunity was on this third day. It started to rain heavily on the marching road. Sichuan was already stuffy in June, so it was common for such heavy rain. However, in the face of such heavy rain, no matter how good the gunpowder drying work was, it was difficult for the cannons and the mesh gun to fire. For the Yang family, who had been waiting for the opportunity, it was once a lifetime.

Bozhou is a mountain after all, and the Yang family's soldiers are more adaptable than others in the mountains, and the same is true for fighting on rainy days. More importantly, the half-pressure of the imperial guards makes Bozhou feel a sense of urgency and determination to fight to the death. Bozhou's army, which was half-stopped in advance, was already following nearby, and this time they came here.

When fighting on rainy days, firearms cannot be fired, but bows and arrows can still be killed. In rainy days, soldiers from the north are more likely to be unable to support them and be mentally frightened.

The impact this time was quite effective. The officers and soldiers behind the brigade had already begun to retreat, and the imperial guards had only formed a formation. More than 2,000 model soldiers from Ningxia and Shaanxi could only gather into teams, and they could not even make it possible to line up.

The cannon and fire mill had not started, and there was no way to start. Fire mill either picked up the wooden fork or pulled out his sword.

The model soldiers from Ningxia and Shaanxi were quickly killed and dispersed. They were already unacceptable when they were poured on their bodies by heavy rain, let alone fighting hard with each other in the muddy terrain. After the collapse, the Bozhou army, with great morale, had all its strength to siege the two regiments of the imperial guards.

Without firearms, the imperial guards still have discipline, armor, and swords and guns. Sun Xin himself was in front of the formation, wearing armor and spears, shouting orders. Even Zhao Jinliang was holding a short knife and leading his personal guards to press the formation in the formation.

The head coach was like this, and the confidence to be raised forever was maintained. The two regiments of the imperial guards remained unmoved in the heavy rain and the repeated attacks of the Bozhou Army. The non-commissioned officers holding axe guns and the fire locks holding short weapons were repeatedly fought with the Bozhou Army.

In the heavy rain, bows and arrows were not accurate enough. What made the Bozhou Army feel troublesome is that the opponent's protective gear is so exquisite that his own weapons often cannot hurt the opponent, but the opponent's weapons are not vague.

This situation did not last long. Although those who came from the north were not adapted to fighting in the rain and mud, it was also extremely physical and mentally consuming for these Bozhou troops. It was expected that these officers and soldiers would collapse soon, but they could not conquer for a long time, and the casualties on their own side became increasingly serious, and the morale of the Bozhou troops was floating.

The model soldiers from Ningxia and Shaanxi are all elite forces under the local governor general, and they are also preserved by this reform of the border town. They are the capital raised by each family and can fight well. They are just disrupted and retreated, but they have no loss of energy. The two infantry regiments of the Imperial Army supported them, but they also stabilized, but they killed them back. With the joint efforts of both sides, the Bozhou Army could no longer support them. After several hours of tug-of-war in the rain, even the elite soldiers like the Imperial Army felt tired, let alone the Bozhou Army with a defeated morale.

However, the battle in the rain consumes amazing physical strength. It is impossible to retreat as smoothly as in Hejiang County. Before dark, the rain became lighter and the battle stopped. The imperial guards set up camp on the spot and sent people to contact the Sichuan officers and soldiers who had retreated and left, and then inspected the bodies.

The number of casualties in the muddy areas around was almost the same as the battle in Hejiang County. This loss was very large, because the enemy invested less power in this battle than in Hejiang County, and the ratio was amazing.

More importantly, after this battle, the Yang family could no longer gather any force for battle, and the people in Bozhou should have completely dispersed.

The imperial guards died 153 times and were injured 300 times in this battle. This was also a very heavy loss for the imperial guards. In the final analysis, they were still not suitable for fighting in an environment like the south. So this is why. Sun Xin was extremely angry. However, the military supervisors and the military supervising officers and officials were very good at doing things. They immediately said that these soldiers were all killed and injured for peace in the southwest. The locals would be generously compensated. Of course, when the officers and soldiers in Sichuan and Huguang retreated, it would be good if they didn't ask for any crime...

The battle has come to an end, and the Yang family wants to defend the fortress in Bozhou to see if they can survive this desperate situation.
Chapter completed!