The other generals secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the name Yang Guozhu shouted, and were glad to escape the disaster.

General Zhang, whose name was called, suddenly darkened his face and said bitterly: "General, the ability of the last general is limited, and he is afraid he will be unable to defeat the bandit in front of him."

"What? Do you want to disobey the military order?" Yang Guozhu looked at the other party coldly.

General Zhang shrank his neck and said hurriedly: "The General dares not, I just hope that the General can send more troops to the General, so that the General will be somewhat sure."

Seeing that I couldn't escape, I wanted to ask for more troops.

"General Zhang, General Zhang only lets you drag the rioters down, and you have no requirement to defeat the rioters immediately. How many soldiers can be used?" The general next to him said.

Although the remaining generals did not speak, their attitude on their faces was very obvious, and they were unwilling to take too many soldiers away.

The reason why I didn't want to give this General Zhang too many soldiers was not because these people had personal grudges with him, but once he took too many soldiers, another general would naturally need to follow him to fight.

The troops of the three major camps of the official army were not opponents of the bandits. Even if one or two camps were added to him, it would be useless. It would only cause other generals to lose their troops in vain and would also take over them.

"Since General Wu thinks that a battalion of troops is enough, you might as well go." General Zhang said to another general who spoke before.

The general Wu who was mentioned choked.

"Okay, stop arguing." Yang Guozhu scolded, stopped the quarrels of several generals, and immediately said, "I will allow you to bring a thousand defeated soldiers to fight together. There is only one requirement for you. Be sure to hold back the rioters until the arrival of the Xuanfu soldiers."

The General Zhang looked bitter.

Knowing that he couldn't escape, he had to respond: "I will obey the order."

The defeated soldiers gathered in the camp in the rear had already been brought to the battlefield. General Zhang led his personal soldiers and his camp to approach the bandits in front.

"General, what if General Zhang can't stop him?" Xue Mu asked in a low voice.

Yang Guozhu said coldly: "Then send another battalion of troops. I don't believe in the tens of thousands of troops, and I can't stop the thousands of troops of the rioters."

When the generals next to him heard this, they knew that Yang Guozhu had made up his mind. At this moment, they only hoped that General Zhang who had left could stop the bandits, and at the same time they hoped that Wang Bao's reinforcements would arrive sooner.

Yang Guozhu did not look at the generals around him, and picked up the single-channel telescope and looked at the battlefield.

The elite of the official army is the personal soldiers of each family. A general like him has seven or eight hundred personal soldiers around him. Even if there are not so many generals from other families, two or three hundred personal soldiers should have.

All the personal soldiers and soldiers had a total of two or three thousand people, which was the basis for the official army.

As for ordinary camp soldiers, they belong to the court's soldiers and horses, and they don't feel sorry for many of them. If they die, they can still ask the court for money and food to recruit soldiers and horses.

After a round of artillery bombardment, almost one-quarter of the archers of the official army were damaged.

Hundreds of archers suddenly lost much less. More importantly, many archers were scared away when they saw the tragic situation of their companions being killed by cannons.

"Don't run, don't run. All archers are moving forward and attacking the bandits in front." General Zhang, who rushed over, shouted loudly to order the archers who were already panicked to attack.

But these archers were scared to death long ago and were reluctant to listen to him. Many archers ran back without looking back.

"Kill those archers who escaped for me." General Zhang saw the archers running back, and he was furious and pointed at the archers who were running away in front.

Several personal soldiers rushed over on horseback.

When he came closer, he slashed at the archer who was running for his life.

Several archers who were running for their lives were killed on the spot.

Seeing this, the remaining archers were frightened, stopped escaping, and looked at General Zhang not far away with a nervous look on his face.

The personal soldiers who killed several archers did not return immediately, but blocked the archers' way to escape to the camp and pointed at the archers in front of them with the tip of the blood-dripping knife.

General Zhang said, "I will go with you to face the bandits ahead. Now I will order you to return immediately and use the bows and arrows in your hands to shoot the bandits ahead."

A team of personal soldiers forced forward, forcing these archers who wanted to escape had to change their direction and face the bandits ahead again.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The cannon sounded again, and the targets of the bombardment were still the archers.

After one round of shelling, at least dozens of archers died under the shelling.

General Zhang, who followed behind with his troops, shrank his neck, glad that he was not too close to the archer, otherwise he would have become the target of the shelling.

Many of the personal soldiers and servants can ride and shoot.

They followed the archer. Once they found that an archer wanted to escape, they didn't need to chase him. They shot an arrow on the back of the horse and shot an arrow at the archer who was running for life.

After shooting and killing several archers, the archers' team was once again blasted down.

Some archers stopped running away when they saw that they were running away. They could only continue to be bombarded by gunfire. They began to rush towards the tiger flag formation ahead, hoping to run faster and not be targeted by the cannons of the bandits.

An archer ran forward, and even the other archers around him followed. Finally, all the archers ran away.

The General Zhang who was following behind him hesitated for a moment.

In the end, he still had no courage to follow, but sent the battalions under his command to follow the archers, while he and his personal soldiers stayed at the end to press the formation.

The sound of cannons kept ringing.

Because the archers ran away, they were much closer to the tiger flag army formation in front of them, and the target of the shelling was replaced by the battalion soldiers following the archers.

Thousands of battalions were killed and injured under artillery.

Compared with the huge number of battalions, such a small number of casualties can be withstood for the time being, especially those who are far from the shelling down point, which does not feel much about shelling.

Only those battalions whose companions died under artillery attacks will be severely affected.

The archers were killed and injured under the shelling, which made the archers even more convinced that it was correct to run, but right in front of them was the military formation of the bandits.

Therefore, the archers of the official army stopped at about a hundred steps away from the Tiger Flag Army formation.

The generals next to them all lowered their heads.

Most of these people were the chief generals of a certain battalion. At this time, a battalion of troops was sent to fight against the military formation of the rioters head-on, and they obviously could not take advantage.

After all, the number of soldiers and horses in the border army is not as large as that of these rioters in front of them.

When Yang Guozhu saw that no one came forward to ask for the fight, his face darkened.

His eyes were on the generals around him.

Finally, he said, "General Zhang, you have the opportunity to make contributions. Be sure to delay the rioters."
Chapter completed!