When Wang Quan heard Wu Hao's shouting, he didn't agree. He had seven elite cavalry archers, including himself, and more than 1,400 strong men. Although he had only undergone simple training, he was trained by Qi Jiguang's mangosteen as wolf squids, a sharpened wooden pole as wooden spear, and a wooden board was nailed into shields. There were 126 military households in the refugee team. When they came to join, they all carried bird guns, waist knives and bows. Ordinary refugees were trained to be wolf guns and spearmen, and military households acted as sword cards, captains, bird gunners and archers.

Without palladium, all of them are replaced by spears, so that each mandarin duck formation will have two sword players, a captain, two wolves, six spearmen, and a bird gunner or archer, and dozens of mandarin duck formations can be formed.

The hundreds of young and strong refugees who had emerged simply formed all the strait pike soldiers. The spears used by the strait pike soldiers were super long spears with a length of more than two meters long. The spears that were too long had poor combat capabilities alone, but the combat power of formation was super strong. When encountering bandits who had no organizational discipline and did not understand the battle formation, they could push them over. However, the spear soldiers had too poor protection, so they were placed behind the Mandarin Duck Formation.

Wang Quan, who had already armed the young and strong refugees, was naturally not afraid of the bandits.

But after Wang Quan climbed the arrow tower and climbed up to look up, he was shocked: "Good guy! Where did so many thieves come from? It seems that all the bandits near Hongze Lake gathered here, right?"

Standing on the tower and looking into the open space in front of you, you can see dozens of ships of all sizes and big and small berths and bandits from the boat. From a distance, you can see dense heads, spreading from the shore to the feet of Tucheng. It seems that there are at least 1,500 thieves!

These thieves were all water bandits who were active in the areas from Xuzhou to Huaian, and the government was unable to eliminate them. The leader of the thieves was named Cheng Jikong and from Cheng Village, Xiaoxian. In real history, these thieves later echoed the thieves and the thieves Xian in the distance when Zhang Xianzhong attacked Fengyang. They ran around the Huaian area of ​​Xuzhou for a long time, and were finally wiped out by He Tengjiao.

In the chaotic times in the late Ming Dynasty, bandits were rampant. Fortunately, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had not yet entered Henan and Nanzhili. These bandits had not yet been twisted into large thieves, and they were still sporadic bandits. They just used the terrain to deal with officers and soldiers, making it difficult for officers and soldiers to wipe out them.

"So many thieves!" Zhang Yong felt a little nervous when he looked at the large number of thieves outside the village.

After all, the Tucheng City has not been completed yet, and there is only a trench between the refugees and the bandits that has not yet been dug out and a prototype of a Tucheng City that is just two feet tall. There are almost no obstacles to stop the thieves.

However, Wang Quan was not afraid. He observed the thief team very calmly and found that among the thief team, there was a guy wearing an eight-petaled iron helmet and a chain mail, which seemed to be the thief leader. The thief leader surrounded him with more than a dozen guys wearing red tassel felt hats, mandarin duck war jackets, and leather armor. Those thiefs who should have been officers and soldiers. There were also dozens of guys wearing red tassel felt hats and wooden armor on the mandarin duck war jackets. I don’t know if they were the armor that they had been naval officers or killed after killing the naval officers and soldiers.

The total number of thieves in armor is less than 100. They must be the core elites of the thieves. These thieves have shields, bird guns, three-eyed guns, waist knives, long spears, bows and arrows in their hands.

Most of the remaining more than a thousand thieves were wrapped in red turbans on their heads and wearing the clothes of the people. The weapons in their hands were just simple weapons such as hoes, wooden sticks, bamboo spears.

After a while, one person walked out of the thief formation, walked about a hundred steps away from Tucheng, opened his voice and shouted loudly to Wang Quan: "We are the commander of Cheng Jikong, a righteous man in Xiaoxian County! We built a village in Wutong Mountain. Because the bandits were rampant, the government did not act, and had no choice but to rise up! If you are willing to enter our village to resist the government together, we will be a family from now on! If you refuse, don't blame us for being ruthless!"

Wang Quan had a rough understanding of the situation. He knew that Cheng Jikong was also a wealthy landlord. He practiced martial arts since he was a child and liked to make friends with heroes from all over the world. This person was familiar with "Water Margin" and compared himself to Lu Junyi.

Later, he really rebelled because someone in Suzhou wanted to annex his thousand acres of fertile land, but the man had a backer in the government, so he framed him for secretly engaging in the water bandits. As a result, the magistrate actually sent a yamen runner to capture him. So Cheng Jikong was furious and killed the servants, and simply went to join the water bandits.

Back then, from Xuzhou to Suzhou, Huai'an and other places, there were water networks everywhere. The water bandits were like bandits in Liangshan, and they appeared in the lakes and rivers. They often plundered the people and occasionally seized the opportunity to rob the official ships. The officers and soldiers were helpless about it.

Wang Quan sneered: "Let me follow the thief? Don't think about it! I have tried a lot of effort to bring refugees here just to prevent them from being thieves!"

Zhang Shiwen and Wu Hao and six other friends shouted loudly at the thieves outside the city: "We are the leader, and don't think about it! You and the rebels will attack as soon as you want! Why are we afraid of mere thieves!"

Cheng Jikong was furious and ordered an attack.

The first attack was the poorly equipped bandits. The first group of more than 300 bandits screamed, waving bamboo spears, chopping hatchets, oars, harpoons, hoes, shovels and other weapons, rushed towards Tucheng.

Thirty teams of mandarin duck formations composed of refugees stepped forward and shouted in unison: "Tiger!"

Refugee youth training is not long, but in just over a month. However, due to strict discipline, many people have been beaten with military sticks during training, so they already know some basic array keys, with several people who have served as military households as captains, and the Mandarin Duck Formation looks quite good.

Wang Quan and his six old friends did not join the Yuanyang Battle Formation, but acted as free-shooting archers, scattered on high places, while providing long-range fire cover, and also commanding the overall battle.

Seeing the bandit rushing up, Wang Quan was the first to slash the bow and arrow. He pulled the bow into a full moon shape. His fingers loosened, and the bowstring trembled. The heavy arrow made a roar that tore the air, and pierced into the throat of a bandit seventy steps away like lightning, shooting the bandit back and rolling out.

Zhang Shiwen, Wu Hao and six others also set their bows and arrows, and a row of arrows flew out, and the bandits rushing over fell down.

Among the thirty teams of Yuanyang, there were twelve archers, eight bird gunners and ten three-eyed gunners. However, neither the archers nor the gunners in Yuanyang, they only watched the arrows shot by Wang Quan and the seven others pass over their heads one by one, pierce into the bandits, and a burst of blood was swelling.

However, only more than 20 thieves were shot and killed. For the thieves with more than 1,000 people, it was just a drop in the bucket. The thieves behind shouted and rushed towards Tucheng.

"Tiger!" The thirty-some Yuanyang teams stepped forward in unison, and the sword player in front protected the entire formation.

At this moment, more than a dozen archers emerged from behind the thief, took out light arrows from the quiver, and prepared to use a hanging shooting to deal with Wang Quan's Yuanyang Battle Formation.
Chapter completed!