"Yes, yes, captain, it's not our fault. They were scared away before we even used any force. Yes, yes, they ran away when they saw the cannon. Okay, okay, I understand, yes."

Because Li Chaohu did something wrong, he personally sent a telegram to Li Chaosheng. The above is the entire content of the telegram. Li Chaohu reported the situation. Li Chaosheng was also confused. What happened?

Why did you beat the Chang'an Guard away as soon as the fight started? Don't they all say that the Chang'an Guard is very powerful and fierce?

Li Chaosheng was surprised and repeatedly confirmed in the telegram that Qingyu did not take the initiative to attack and did not scare these Chang'an guards, right?

Li Chaohu also repeatedly assured that it was absolutely not the case. He fired the cannon, but no more guys were fired. Only then did Li Chaosheng believe that it was nothing if the Chang'an Guards were beaten away. After all, they were still in Lantian, right? After all, they were still there.

You have enough fighting power, don’t you?

Li Chaosheng thought, comforting himself, and at the same time strictly ordered Li Chaohu not to allow pursuit. At the same time, the next time the Chang'an Guards came to attack, try not to kill them too hard to preserve their vitality.

Li Chaohu also promised that they would defend well and never take the initiative to attack. Of course, if the Chang'an Guard continued to attack out of ignorance, they would do their best to let it go.

At the same time, Li Chaosheng also received a very useful piece of information from the telegram, that is, the Chang'an Guard's combat effectiveness was quite good, significantly higher than that of the bandit army.

Li Chaosheng was very happy to get the news. Okay, okay, as long as he has fighting ability.

At the same time, the Chang'an guard who was beaten away ran for two miles before stopping. Hu Wan was so tired that he gasped and said: "Huhu, what's going on? I'm not chasing you."

"No, Commander, I didn't pursue him at all."

At this time, Cao Qianhu said from the side, Hu Wan gasped and said: "Scared, scared me to death, her mother, why do they have cannons? Are they still bandits? They are better equipped than us."

Cao Qianhu said at this time: "Commander, there is nothing you can't buy with money these days. This is not the first time that the Northern Border Army has resold weapons and equipment. This cannon is worth ten or twenty thousand silver in the Northern Territory."

After hearing this, Hu Wan cursed: "Damn it, Beidi sold the artillery to the bandits for such a small amount of money. The cannon just now almost killed me. You wait, I have to join them when I get back."

It’s impossible.”

After hearing this, Cao Qianhu said: "Sir, please don't be impulsive. There are many links here. The water in the Northland is too deep. If you go up, you will offend many people. Don't worry about the people in the Northland by then."

It’s okay, you were pulled down by them instead.”

After hearing this, Hu Wan knew that he was a little impulsive, and said with a smile: "I, don't I just talk freely? Okay, stop gossiping, and quickly notify me to check how many troops and horses have been lost. These are all

My brother-in-law's pet peeve has suffered too much loss and I can't explain it to my brother-in-law."

After hearing this, Hu Wan immediately ordered. Cao Qianhu hugged his fists and ran over to count the remaining soldiers with Tang Qianhu.

Tang Qianhu had been organizing the team just now. When he saw Cao Qianhu, he said: "Old Cao, the loss this time is a bit heavy."

After hearing this, Cao Qianhu said: "How many casualties are there? Mr. Hu asked us to go over and report."

After hearing this, Tang Qianhu said: "I took a look just now. A total of 1,321 of us ran back, 279 died, and among these 1,321 there are still

Ten people were seriously injured and forty people were slightly injured. We suffered heavy losses in this battle."

"Hiss... so many." Cao Qianhu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

Tang Qianhu said at this time: "We didn't expect the enemy to be so powerful. When we started attacking, more than a hundred of us were shot and killed. Later, kerosene, huge rocks, and the explosive jar...

We killed and wounded more than a hundred people, and the last round of explosive shells hit the crowd, killing more than 20 of us at once."

After hearing this, Cao Qianhu said: "I can't believe it. This is a bandit camp owned by her mother. She didn't know she thought we were attacking the county town."

After hearing this, the two of them fell silent, looked at each other and said: "The first battle was in vain, and the losses were so heavy. There is no way to explain to the commander when we get back."

"Alas~ Old Tang is a blessing, not a curse. It is a curse that cannot be avoided. Forget it, go over and report to Mr. Hu."

Cao Qianhu was still very open-minded and spoke directly. After hearing this, Tang Qianhu said: "Okay, I will go and talk."

Cao Qianhu said: "Okay."

As the two of them walked over, Hu Wan was leaning under a big tree, with a dark face and breathing heavily. At this time, Cao Qianhu said: "Sir, Old Tang is here. He will report the situation to you."

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"Oh, okay, Tang Qianhu, what are the casualties?"

Hu Wan looked at Cao Qianhu and asked, and Cao Qianhu said: "Reporting to your lord, we have 279 dead, 10 seriously injured and 40 slightly injured."

"Ah, are there so many people?"

Hu Wan was surprised after hearing this, then looked at Tang Qianhu and said, "Have you checked carefully?"

Tang Qianhu said at this time: "It's absolutely true."

"Ah, the losses are so heavy. How can I explain this to my brother-in-law? How can my brother-in-law explain it to the court? The most important thing is that the fortress was not taken down and the money was not obtained. This business is lost."

After hearing this, Cao Qianhu and Tang Qianhu didn't speak.

Hu Wan muttered for a while, then looked at Cao Qianhu and said, "Old Cao, what do you think we should do now?"

Cao Qianhu said: "Sir, I think our top priority is to report the situation here to the commander, and ask the commander to make a decision."

After hearing this, Hu Wandao said: "It makes sense. Then send the cavalry to deliver the letter. It should be delivered to Chang'an County tonight."

"It's my lord."

Cao Qianhu immediately called for the cavalry. Hu Wan then took out a pen and wrote military information on a piece of cotton cloth, and finally added: The Qingyu bandits are too strong and cannot be destroyed by our troops. Please report to the court at your discretion.

After finishing writing, he immediately asked the cavalry to send him away. At this time, Hu Wan said: "Arrange the troops and horses and return to the garrison."

"yes."

The army returned to the outside of Lantian County, and immediately followed the camp into martial law, and took many protective measures. For a time, the Chang'an Guard became frightened.

Here Qingyu, Shi Dalei, Luo Heita, Li Dezhen, and Niu Ben looked at Li Chaohu and said, "What did the leader say?"

After hearing this, Li Chaohu smiled bitterly and said: "The regiment leader has an order to strictly guard the village and reduce going out."

"Ah, what about the fact that we beat the Chang'an Guard away this time?"

Several people looked at Li Chaohu. Li Chaohu then looked at several people and said, "I won't be held accountable. I'll pay attention next time."

"good."

After hearing this, the four of them were immediately excited. Luo Heita chuckled and said, "I just said I'd kill those grandsons. It's okay. If you still don't believe it, just accept it now."

Li Dezhen said: "Haha... I thought the group leader was going to give us a severe scolding, but now we look happy."

Li Dezhen laughed loudly, and Shi Dalei also said at this time: "I thought I was in trouble, it scared me to death."

"What, what? I just said that the leader is not a narrow-minded person, hahaha..."

Several people burst into laughter. At this moment, Li Chaohu said with a dark face: "What are you doing? What are you doing?"

After hearing this, Luo Heita laughed and said: "Haha, I thought, I thought we had beaten the Chang'an Guards away, and the regiment leader had to give us a severe scolding, but I didn't expect that we didn't, hahaha..."

"Oh, I didn't criticize you, but you raised your tail, I, I will criticize you now, criticize you, you..."

Li Chaohu pinched his waist with a dark face.

"No, no, no, battalion commander, you can't do this, you can't do it."

Several people immediately comforted Li Chaohu, and then said with a smile: "Our company still has something to do, so we should evacuate the battalion commander first."

As the four of them ran away in despair, Li Chaohu burst out laughing: "These bastards."

As he said that, Li Chaohu turned around and went back to the house. In fact, he was also shocked. He thought he had caused trouble for Li Chaosheng, but this is a war. Keep your hands. This thing cannot be kept.

Li Chaohu was thinking, while the soldiers had already gone to clean up the battlefield, and quickly seized a large amount of supplies, including twenty muskets, more than three hundred red-tasseled guns, several siege ladders, and two hundred and seventy-seven siege ladders pulled from corpses.

There are more than ten sets of leather armors. These leather armors can just cover the chest and belly, exposing the limbs.

They all looked quite new. Li Chaohu took a set and felt good. At this time, Shi Dalei smiled and said: "Batalion Commander, give this leather armor to our company. With this leather armor, the soldiers' protective power has been raised to a new level.

After hearing this, Luo Heita quit: "Hey, you Shi Dalei always likes to take more and more, why should I give you the first company and this one to us the second company?"

After hearing this, Shi Dalei glared angrily and said, "Why? Our company number is a company. Do you understand what a company means? If the first company doesn't give things to the first, how can it be given to the second?"

"Hey, you stinky stone, are you dissatisfied and want to fight with me?"

"Hehe, just use the same move. Luo Heizi, I'm afraid of you."

The two people stared at each other and pushed each other, but neither Li Dezhen nor Niu Ben grabbed them. Li Dezhen's unit was a long-range archer unit, and the stab-proof uniform provided by Li Chaosheng was enough. There was no need for an extra leather armor.

, wearing leather armor became a burden.

Next is Niu Ben. Niu Ben’s unit is a bit special. It has few people and is not considered the main force. It is a second-line unit. Therefore, it is not competitive. He can’t get the leather armor, but the twenty captured fire guns are given to him.

By killing him, their army will have fifty muskets, and their combat effectiveness will also be considerable.

So in the end, only Shi Dalei and Luo Heita were left to snatch the leather armor. At this time, the two people who were already on top had rolled up their arms and sleeves to prepare for a fight. Li Chaohu came out at this time, but he did not stop them, nor did he agree to a duel.

Instead of deciding the fate of the armor, we made a very creative distribution competition.

There are a total of 270 sets of leather armors. Twenty-seven people, including the coach, compete in a row. The winning side takes ten sets of leather armors. They are also allowed to form a team during the battle. For example, the three people here think they have a tacit understanding of cooperation.

Then you can invite a three-on-three competition.

Anyway, twenty-seven people, each with ten sets of leather armor, let's start.

First, it was Shi Dalei versus Luo Heita. In the end, Shi Dalei lost. There was no way to say that Shi Dalei was really no match for Luo Heita in a one-on-one fight. In the end, Luo Heita took away ten sets of leather armor.

Immediately after the battle turned into a fierce battle, the two-shot battle resulted in winning one hundred and forty sets of leather armors in a row, and taking away one hundred and thirty sets of leather armors in the second company. At this time, Shi Dalei looked at Luo Heita who was also bruised and swollen.

Said: "Luo Heizi, the first company is more powerful than your second company, don't you accept it?"

Luo Heita looked at Shi Dalei and said: "Don't you have ten more sets of leather armor than me? Besides, your soldiers won it for you. Why are you so awesome? Not one of your one hundred and forty sets was won by yourself.

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To be continued...