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

Three rivers merge and mountains stand on all four sides.

Behind each river, there is Daji Bay. Even if you climb up and look far away, you can't see the other side's naval layout. Because the main force of the navy was all hidden behind the emergency bay, only a few ships were sent out to cruise.

Therefore, everyone can set up an ambush with navy, and guess what the other party's situation is, all relying 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.

It was originally equipped with some Fran cannons, but they were all taken back to Guangdong by Shen Youlong to suppress the bandits. Who made him the commander carrying Shang Fang's sword?

After the water battle broke out, Fujian sailors jumped into the river one after another and swam back to Ganzhou City.

The distance is very close, you can swim a few hundred meters to reach the shore, where you will see the Ganzhou City Wall.

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

And Fei Ruhe himself can attack and defend, with sufficient food and water sources.

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

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

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

Chen Ting walked around to the west and came to the gap between the rebel camp and the Gan River.

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

Although Chen Ting disliked Zou Weilian, he had to admit that the governor had a good way of training troops.

After being stationed in Ganzhou City for a year, in addition to raising food and grass and building fire ships, the more than 10,000 Fujian soldiers also had their training greatly improved. They were no longer the ragtag group that collapsed at the first touch last year.

Everyone, including the generals, took off their shoes, rolled up their trouser legs, stepped into the fields, and marched in formation in the muddy water.

Thousands of firecrackers are hidden in the central army, waiting for the critical moment to show their power.

Chen Ting sent 2,000 Fujian troops to attack the rebel camp with two intentions: first, to knock down the wooden wall of the rebel camp; second, to attract the rebels after their defeat.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. If you win, take advantage of the situation and attack with all your troops. If you lose, use your fire gun troops to counterattack.

The strong soldiers trained by Zou Weilian gave Chen Ting full confidence that a feigned defeat would not turn into a complete defeat.

"Boohoo!"

Two thousand Fujian soldiers rushed towards the camp. The rebel archers began to fire volleys, and there were spearmen waiting behind the wall.

Rather than talking about a village wall, it is better to talk about a relatively strong wooden fence, which is very convenient for spears to poke out through the gaps.

After the Fujian soldiers were shot by bows and arrows, there were already signs of collapse. A few rushed outside the wall and were immediately stabbed back by spearmen. Then the two thousand Fujian soldiers collapsed.

Chen Ting was extremely depressed. The rebels in the camp did not take advantage of the victory to kill them, causing his subsequent deployment to be completely ineffective.

Under normal circumstances, the rebels should seize the opportunity to rush out, and then kill the officers and soldiers until the whole line collapses.

But what Fei Ruhe was thinking was, why should I chase him?

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

In Taihe County, Fei Ruhe, who was chasing hundreds of rebels by himself, seemed to suddenly transform into a wise general.

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

Chen Ting thought that the Fire Gun Camp was a surprise force, but he could be caught off guard at the critical moment. But how did he know that the names of the generals who commanded the Fire Gun Battalion in the rebel company were clearly known.

Seeing that luring the enemy failed, Chen Ting had no choice but to reorganize his team and decided to attack the rebel camp by force.

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

While he was deploying his troops, he was waiting for his son-in-law.

The son-in-law Huang Hanliang entered the mountain in a surprise attack. As long as he succeeded, he could swoop down from the mountain to kill the rebels from behind the rebel camp.

Attacking from both front and back will definitely work!

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

Huang Hanliang was not only a child prodigy, able to write eight-part essays at the age of nine, but he was also proficient in the art of war, quite skilled in martial arts, and good at water warfare.

"kill!"

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

But out of the hundreds of rebels, more than fifty people suddenly stood up, holding up a strange object as big as a bowl with both hands, raising it high above their heads and throwing it down the mountain with all their strength.

Huang Hanliang thought it was a small rockfall, but...

"Boom boom boom!"

Among the "enemies of ten thousand people" made of rough porcelain, a few of the fuses went out but did not explode, and a few exploded in advance.

But there were still more than thirty of them, which fell next to the Fujian soldiers and exploded.

Not only did the porcelain shards fly and hurt the enemy, but also the chili pepper noodles exploded. Huang Hanliang's thigh was hit by the porcelain shards, and he felt his throat was on fire when he inhaled.

"Kill...cough cough cough..."

The more than fifty rebels once again raised up ten thousand enemies, and the friendly forces used slow-burning ramie ropes to help light the fuse.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was another explosion, and the three thousand Fujian soldiers who unexpectedly attacked the mountain collapsed and fled down the mountain.

Huang Hanliang wanted to charge even though he was injured, but he could not suppress the retreating troops and could only flee down the mountain with them. When he came to the bottom of the mountain, he pulled out the shrapnel embedded in his leg. He was completely speechless. The enemy of the thieves turned out to be made of porcelain.

There was no way, Zhao Han's territory was full of kaolin, and Zhu Yuanzhang even used it to make porcelain city bricks.

Because the materials are easy to obtain and the quantity is large, the manufacturing cost of porcelain bullet cases is much cheaper than iron bullet cases.

This thing can be fired in one kiln, making hundreds or even thousands of them!

Huang Hanliang rushed back with the remaining 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 seemed to have tonsillitis after a cold, his eyes kept weeping, and he said in a hoarse voice: "The thieves' army of ten thousand enemies was mixed with pepper powder. My eyes and throat were hit."

Chen Tingdui picked up the telescope 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. Now that I think about it, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of enemies hiding there. Once the main force of officers and soldiers attack, they will be thrown out to blow up a large area.

Chen Ting began to curse Shen Youlong in his heart, that bastard governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who took away all the artillery in the army, otherwise he could have destroyed the anti-traitor arrow tower at this moment.

Huang Hanliang said: "Master Taishan, withdraw, this battle is impossible to fight. It's okay for the rebels to go out to the camp for a decisive battle, but these rebels are all turtles, huddled in the camp, and still occupy 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 and soldiers were gone.

"withdraw!"

Chen Ting issued a military order to Grit his teeth.

Inside the rebel camp, Fei Ruhe said with a smile: "Get ready to pursue."

Not chasing, but following in formation 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 slowly retreat.

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

Huang Hanliang said: "It is not an option to continue like this."

Chen Ting sneered at him: "I know, I just want to lure the rebels out of camp for a decisive battle. We can't fight in the terrain just now. Let's fight somewhere we are comfortable."

The scene became very strange.

In the paddy fields by the river, more than 5,000 anti-thief troops spread out in formation and slowly advanced, while more than 10,000 officers and soldiers also spread out in formation and slowly retreated.

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 chasing, and the two sides looked at each other across several paddy fields.

Chen Ting issued orders to the flag commander to spread the formation of the army more widely, trying to rely on the superiority of troops to conduct a semi-encirclement attack around the east side - the west side was the river.

"withdraw!"

Fei Ruhe had a bright smile on his face. Taking advantage of the time when the officers and soldiers were forming their formation, he suddenly ordered the entire army to withdraw to the camp.

I mean, I won’t fight you, and I won’t let you go.

Under such repeated pulls, the morale of the officers and soldiers must have declined, because they could not return to Ganzhou City and could only retreat to Xingguo County or Yudu County further back.

Moreover, the training of the officers and soldiers is definitely not as good as that of the Datong Army. If they are repeatedly pulled, they may collapse.

"Shu Zi is bullying me!"

Chen Ting was so angry that his lungs were about to explode. He wanted to fight a decisive battle, so the rebels withdrew to the camp to defend themselves. He ordered the withdrawal of troops, and the rebels followed him. How could there be such a shameless fight?

Moreover, there are paddy fields all around, so both sides can advance or retreat calmly, and one side cannot charge suddenly if it wants to.

"kill!"

A mountain ridge behind the army suddenly rang out with loud shouts of killing.

Many of the looted goods by Chen Ting were transported back to Ganzhou City. But they also left a lot of food and grass behind, and camped near mountains and rivers, leaving more than a thousand officers and soldiers to guard the camp and food and grass.

"How can the rebels still have the strength to attack our army camp from behind?" A Fujian general manager was shocked.

All the Fujian soldiers were shocked, because the shouts of killing coming from the rear must have been at least tens of thousands of troops.

Can rebels spread the beans and become an army?

"Enter the mountain, quickly enter 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. The officers and soldiers were surrounded by rivers in the southwest, so they could only retreat toward the mountains in the northeast.

As soon as the officers and soldiers withdrew, Fei Ruhe followed slowly.

There are paddy fields everywhere, so you can't charge and pursue them, so just pursue them slowly.

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

"Are there only a dozen or so of you soldiers guarding the camp?" Chen Ting asked.

The defeated soldier said: "They are fleeing in all directions. The others don't know where to flee?"

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

The defeated soldier said: "There are thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people. Most of them are farmers, holding kitchen knives, hoes and the like in their hands. Some are country warriors. The gentry brought the country warriors to attack the camp."

"How dare a gentleman become a thief?" Chen Ting asked in horror.

Yes, the gentry also became thieves.

In the past few days, missionary officers have been contacting landlords, and farmers' associations have organized and mobilized farmers.

Because the Fujian soldiers were so brutal, the landlords in Ganzhou preferred to join the thieves and help the rebels defeat the Fujian officers and soldiers. Otherwise, once the rebels are defeated and flee, the Fujian soldiers can kill the Ganzhou landlords till they leave nothing behind.

This kind of thing has happened before. A hundred years ago, soldiers from Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang encircled southern Jiangxi, burning, killing and looting along the way.

The wolf soldiers in Guangxi were the most ruthless, killing all the people in Nangan!

Even sages such as Wang Yangming used the continuous sitting method when suppressing bandits. One family was a thief, and ten families were punished. They killed so many people that they reported their neighbors to each other.

Fei Ruhe chased the officers and soldiers into the mountains, which were not rolling mountains.

Soon, local militiamen came to join them. The domineering landlords and gentry, and the oppressed tenant farmers, with the help of missionaries and peasant associations, worked closely together to surround and kill the Fujian officers and soldiers!