On the official road from Puzikou to Chuzhou, Zhao Xinzheng led his army to advance rapidly.

Like Wang Pu, Zhao Xin did not take the mobs of the White Lotus Sect seriously. This time he went to Chuzhou, it was better to say that it was a new army to train. The purpose of this battle was to make 50,000 new recruits familiar with the battlefield atmosphere and let them know what the war looked like?

Zhao Xin, scarred and stood solemnly on the hill on the side of the official road, with more than a dozen generals surrounded by them.

Standing on the hill and looking down, the 60,000 troops lined up in four columns, like a long dragon slowly advancing along the official road. The 60,000 troops were composed of 50,000 new recruits and 10,000 Datong veterans. Compared with the 50,000 newly recruited new recruits in Jiangnan, the 8,000 Datong soldiers from the Long Spear Camp and the Bailout Battalion are considered veterans.

Veterans are naturally treated better than new recruits. Veterans have horses and horses, and new recruits have to rush on their way with their feet.

After the cavalry and infantry formation, the artillery battalion composed of hundreds of large chariots slowly drove over.

This artillery battalion was something Wang Pu dreamed of, but it was only established when he was in Jiangnan.

In addition to the twelve red cannons given by Sun Chuanting, Wang Pu bought eight red cannons and forty Franco cannons from Macau. With these sixty cannons, Wang Pu's artillery battalion was finally formed. Fortunately, the cannons of this era are still very primitive and extremely simple to operate. To put it bluntly, it is actually physical work.

Although the soldiers of Datong Basketball Team were all too rough to read, they had the strength and became skilled artillery soldiers without any training. In this way, Datong Basketball Team turned into a cannon battalion. In order to make up for the shortage, Wang Pu picked 10,000 people from the newly recruited new army and reorganized two baggage battalions.

The only thing that made Wang Pu regret was that the firing speed of the Red Cannon was too slow. Therefore, there was no way to continuously bomb the enemy's artillery. The Fran machine cannon could not be fired continuously, but the terrifying lethality of the Red Cannon was not as close as the firing, and it could only be used to suppress the artillery fire at close range.

Scar frowned and asked Zhao Xin: "With this marching speed, how long will it take to arrive in Chuzhou?"

Zhao Xin said: "It will take more than ten hours, mainly because the artillery battalion and the baggage battalion were too slow to move, which seriously delayed the speed of the army."

"We must speed up the marching speed. The general is only 500 old Tang's men, and the troops are too weak!" Scarface said in a deep voice, "It's better to do this. I will take the musket battalion and the long spear battalion to Chuzhou in an emergency. You will bring these new recruits and artillery battalion, and the baggage battalion will follow up slowly."

Zhao Xin thought for a while and replied: "It's good that way, after all, the general's safety is the most important thing."

Chuzhou, Daying in the north of the city.

Wang Pu was trying hard to strengthen the camp defense with the seven hundred officials. Fortunately, Monk Zhang built this camp extremely sturdy!

The entire military camp was built on the river beside the river. The north, west and east sides of the river beside the river beside are surrounded by rivers. A river dozens of feet wide became a natural barrier for the military camp, and only the south side was connected to the land. However, Monk Zhang led his men to dig a trench several feet wide on it and lured the river water in.

The terrain of the north camp of the city is undoubtedly very beneficial to the defenders.

Although there were more than 100,000 White Lotus bandits, they could only launch an attack from the narrow south, and their troops could not be deployed. Wang Pu estimated that the maximum number of troops that could be deployed in the attack was only five or six hundred, and they had to fill a few feet wide trench first. This project not only required a lot of time, but also required a lot of life.

Wang Pudi's official army is not a vegetarian, so of course he would not watch the White Lotus bandits fill the trenches.

However, Wang Pu will not forget Li Yan's musket team. Although the official army won the encounter in the early morning, Li Yan's musket team did not suffer much loss. Wang Pu could predict that once the enemy starts attacking, it will inevitably attack at any cost. Li Yan is not a person who ignores the overall situation, and he will definitely send the musket team to suppress the firepower.

Wang Pu asked someone to pull out all the supplies and vehicles in the camp, then put the sacks filled with military rations on the car, and built a sandbag bunker. With the protection of this bunker, Wang Pu's musketeers could protect themselves well. At the same time, they could effectively kill Li Yandi musketeers.

The White Lotus bandits can also launch attacks from the river surface, but the ships they can collect are very limited. And they are all small boats. How many troops can these dozen or twenty small boats send at a time? How many threats can they pose to the defenders in the camp? Of course, the White Lotus bandits can log a large amount of wood to build enough rafts, but when they are ready to stop and can send enough troops at once, Zhao Xin and the Scarface army have already arrived in Chuzhou.

Wang Pu was instructing people to strengthen the camp defense, and a noise suddenly came from the direction of the gate.

When he looked back quickly, he saw the White Lotus Sect Leader and Bian Yujing gathered in the gate surrounded by more than a hundred believers. It seemed that he was about to leave the camp, but the official army guarding the gate stopped them honestly and unceremoniously. The two sides were tense and the fighting was about to break out. Wang Pu hurriedly handed over the reinforcement of the camp to Tang Sheng, and then led Lu Liu and Neng Niang to the gate.

"What's going on?" Before the person arrived, Wang Pu asked sternly, "Put down the gun!"

Dozens of officials guarding the gate put down the muskets in their hands, and the head-in-chief brought the general forward and reported, "General, they are going to leave the camp."

"Wang Pu." The White Lotus Sect Leader said in a deep voice, "Let your people open the gate."

"Master." Wang Pu said calmly, "It's easy to open the gate, and it's easy to let you go. But can you tell me what to do? You have to know that it's not easy to save you from the chaos."

"I really have to thank you for helping you last night." The White Lotus Sect Master's eyes turned soft and he looked at Wang Pu and said, "If you have a chance in the future, I will definitely repay you. But now I will gather my old subordinates to eradicate the rebellious rebellions such as Li Qingshan and Yuan Shizhong. Please let your people go out of the way and don't block the way."

"Oh." Wang Pu sighed and smiled bitterly, "Master, do you think your old subordinates will listen to you?"

"Of course," said the leader of the White Lotus Sect, "they were just bewitched by the rebellious bewitching of Li Qingshan and Yuan Shizhong."

"No, you are wrong, leader." Wang Pu said, "The army you created has actually been in the hands of Li Qingshan and the others from the beginning. Do you think they can be loyal to you by relying on a few poisons? Do you think that a few trusted people in the army can control an army? No, you are wrong, the army is not that true at all."

The White Lotus Sect Leader said in a deep voice: "What do you mean?"

Wang Pu said: "Tell me this way, do you know why the army in Datong Town is loyal to me? Even if I want to fight against the court, they will still be loyal to me. Do you know why?"

The White Lotus Sect Leader meditated for a moment and asked, "Why?"

Wang Pu said: "Because I live and die with them, eat and sleep with them, and I can die for them, so they die for me! But you, the leader, have never done this, and Li Qingshan, who you regarded as a rebellious, did it, so all the soldiers of the Apostasy Army loyal to them, not the leader, you! In other words, you have spent a lot of energy and worked hard to build an army, but in the end they were making wedding clothes for others."

Wang Pu's words were like a sharp sword ruthlessly stabbing the heart of the White Lotus Sect Master. Her face turned pale in an instant, and she said in a trembling voice: "I don't believe it, it's not like this."

"This is the fact." Wang Pu said in a deep voice. "Master, please be honest, you have no idea what the army is like? You are a woman. Although you have the ambition of men, you do not have the ambition of men. Therefore, you cannot make a group of men truly loyal to you, and you cannot truly master an army..."

"Enough." The White Lotus Sect Leader said tremblingly, "Don't say anything, please get out of here."

"No." Wang Pu shook his head calmly and said, "I won't watch you die."

"Get out of the way!" Bailian leader scolded, "Or otherwise, you will regret it."

"No." Wang Pu still shook his head. "I won't regret it."

Of course, Wang Pu would not let the White Lotus leader go. If he let her go today, Wang Pu would really regret it!

This time, the White Lotus Sect suffered a tremendous change. Li Qingshan and Yuan Shizhong's betrayal was undoubtedly a huge blow to the White Lotus Sect Leader. Her confidence has been severely frustrated. Now is the best time to strike while the iron is hot and completely smash her ambition to compete for the world, and it is also the best time to capture her body and mind.

Women like the White Lotus Sect Master are typical strong women in later generations. Their main energy is all focused on their careers. They do not have much enthusiasm for love between men and women. Such strong women will only become fragile when their careers are frustrated. And once they become fragile, they will be easier to conquer than ordinary women.

Obviously, now is the perfect time to conquer the White Lotus Sect Leader.

Wang Pu believes that as long as the ambitions of the White Lotus Sect Master can be destroyed, she will become the best intelligence leader and will bring unexpected benefits to Wang Pu.

"Do not go..."

The White Lotus leader suddenly lost control of his emotions and rushed towards Wang Pu.

When the young lady and Lu Liu, who were standing behind Wang Pu, were about to step forward to protect Wang Pu, the White Lotus Sect Leader who was rushing forward suddenly staggered at the feet of the White Lotus Sect Leader, and with a moan, he collapsed softly. Wang Pu rushed to grab the first two steps and stretched out his hand. The White Lotus Sect Leader's plump and toned body collapsed into Wang Pu's arms softly.

Wang Pu hugged the Liu Liu Liu of the leader of Bailian Sect. When he looked down, he saw that her face was pale, her beautiful eyes were closed, and she was already in a coma. Bian Yujing walked up and said to Wang Pu with some concern: "General Wang, my master seems to be injured, but I can't find out where she was injured..."

"She is hurt in her heart."

Wang Pu made his right hand, bent down slightly to hug the White Lotus Sect Leader, bent his legs and picked up her delicate body horizontally, and then strode towards his tent. Behind him, Tang Sheng and more than a hundred officers and soldiers suddenly howled like wolves. Seeing that excitement, it seemed that they were the ones who were holding the beauty back to the tent.

As soon as dawn was dawn, Li Yan, Song Xiance and Yuan Shizhong led the army to the north of the city.

Wang Pu knew that Li Yan was great and knew that Song Xiance was not a good-looking lamp, but he still underestimated the ability of the two.

Li Yan and Song Xiance did not place their hopes on more than 20 small boats, nor were they stupid enough to temporarily log and build rafts across the river. What Wang Pu did not expect was that Li Yan and Song Xiance actually asked the White Lotus bandits to remove all the door panels of the houses in and outside Chuzhou City, and found thousands of wooden barrels of large and small sizes.

These door panels cannot carry people with wooden barrels, so you can hold them with your hands to cross the river without any problem!

When thousands of door panels and thousands of wooden barrels were thrown into the river, three or five thousand white lotus soldiers held steel knives with their hands, holding the door panels, the wooden barrels, kicking the river water with their feet, and surrounding the camp from all directions, Wang Pu was stunned. Every official and soldier guarding the camp was also stunned.

War is not an exercise after all, and the enemy will never play with you according to the routine you set!

What's even more terrible is that Li Yan's musket team also came from the front. This time Li Yan was determined to kill Wang Pu. In order to achieve this goal, he even paid for the entire musket team. After the musket team was gone, it could be reorganized. But if Wang Pu did not die, the rebel army would have no chance to seize Jiangnan.

The White Lotus bandits and Li Yan's musket team attacked desperately as soon as they came up.

Not to mention Li Yan's musket team, they are all well-trained elite soldiers. The more than 3,000 White Lotus bandits attacked across the river were also the "elite" selected by Yuan Shizhong. Although the White Lotus bandits were all mobs, the short group was tall, and there were always three or five thousand desperate outlaws in the army.

The battle was fierce from the beginning!

Although the official army under Wang Pu was all elite, after all, there were only 700 people. Because they had to withstand the attack of Li Yan's musket team on the front, they were under the greatest pressure. Wang Pu had to leave 300 musketmen on the front and desperately suppress Li Yan's musket team with three-stage shooting.

But in this way, the troops in the other three directions seemed extremely thin, and all of them were less than 400. However, it was difficult to withstand the attack of more than 3,000 White Lotus bandits! Four hundred people guarded the three directions of the camp, and such a thin force could no longer carry out effective volleys.

Moreover, most of the White Lotus bandits crossing the river were immersed in water, with only their heads and shoulders exposed above the water surface. The formation of crossing the river was very scattered, and the effect of the volley was undoubtedly very bad. Wang Pu had to order free shooting, but even in such a harsh situation, the official army still caused huge damage to the White Lotus bandits crossing the river.

After nearly a thousand casualties, the remaining two thousand White Lotus bandits finally got ashore and launched a direct attack on the fence of the camp in the north of the city. As the battle ended, the fence could no longer provide effective protection to the defenders. The official army in the camp could only use bayonets and fight with the White Lotus bandits.

The mainland official army in the camp was all veterans who had experienced many battles, and most of them had participated in the fierce battle between the Sanbulachuan and the Korqin people. They could be said to be the elite among the elites. However, after all, they had less than 400 people, while the Bailian bandits who came ashore had more than 2,000. The huge military advantage was enough to bridge the gap in combat power.

Relatively speaking, the battle between the camp seemed calm and composed.

The three hundred official troops guarded the front of the ground, but were under the fierce attack of Li Yan's more than 2,500 musket teams. The troops seemed to be even more disparate, but the actual combat effectiveness was that the official troops had the advantage.

First of all, since the fire rate of the official army's musket is more than three times that of the bandits' musket, although the difference in strength between the two armies is huge, the firepower is not that great. Secondly, because Wang Pu made sufficient preparations on the front, he built a bunker with bags and sacks, which provided good protection for the official army.

The thieves' platoons hit the sacks in rows, making a sound, but the grains splashed and the government troops fell down.

The platoons of the government army came in rows of guns, but the thieves in the shooting queue fell down one by one. The battle lasted less than half of the hour. More than half of the more than 2,500 thieves musketeers had suffered casualties. The remaining thieves musketeers were greatly reduced in fighting spirit and their firepower was greatly reduced.

The bandits were in the army.

Seeing the musket team he trained himself falling in rows, more than half of the casualties were already in less than half an hour, Li Yan was so distressed that he was almost suffocating. These were the elite he trained by himself. Today's battle would be a disaster! However, Li Yan did not regret it. As long as he could kill Wang Pu, it would be worth it no matter how much the price was.

Song Xiance obviously saw Li Yan's regret and said in a deep voice: "General Li Yan, keep calm, be calm! Believe me, as long as you kill Wang Pu and take Jiangnan again, you can use Jiangnan's sufficient financial resources to form ten, or even one hundred musket teams!"

"Don't worry, military advisor." Li Yan sighed and sighed, "Li Yan still knows the importance of this."

"Okay!" Yuan Shizhong next to him suddenly shouted, "Military advisor, General Li Yan, look, you're in!"

"Um?"

"oh?"

Song Xiance and Li Yan turned around at the same time, looking in the direction of Yuan Shizhong's finger. Sure enough, they saw a fence on the west side of the camp that had been pulled down by the White Lotus bandits who were on the shore. Hundreds of White Lotus bandits rushed into the gap in a swarm. More than a dozen official troops came up from around and were desperately resisting.

The official army was very tenacious, and more than a dozen people blocked the attack of hundreds of bandits!

However, Li Yan and Song Xiance knew that such a situation would not last long, and victory would be won soon!

Official army camp.

Lu Liu's guard had already been sent to the east by Wang Pu. The defense line in the west was in a hurry again, so Wang Pu had to take Neng Niang and the remaining dozens of personal soldiers to suppress it. As the battle reached this point, Wang Pu had no choice but to hesitate. He put on the battlefield and fucked him. It was better to die on the battlefield than to wait for death.

When Wang Pu arrived with his guards, three of the dozen officials who blocked the gap had already died, and the defense line had collapsed.

Without any hesitation, Wang Pu swung his sword into the battle group, raised his hand and stabbed into the chest of a bandit soldier, and then kicked the bandit's chest. The bandit's body suddenly fell backwards and knocked down the other two bandits following behind. With the power of drawing the sword back, the retracted hilt hit the other bandit's face again, and the entire face bone was smashed to pieces.
To be continued...