From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 446

As night fell, Zhou Yuan met with the gangsters with five thousand taels of silver.

They were obviously in a much better mood after receiving the silver. Although they were a little sad, this money could indeed allow them to live for a long time, which was a difficult amount to earn in the gang.

Zhou Yuan gave them plenty of time to make jokes, and then finally said: "Now you have two choices. First, take the money and leave Xiangzhou. Second, work with me tomorrow."

"Half a day, I think you have thought it through. Those who want to join the battle tomorrow, stand up, and the others sit down."

Everyone looked at each other, and then nine people stood up one after another.

After about ten breaths, three more people stood up, a total of twelve people.

Zhou Yuan looked at them and said in a deep voice: "Have you thought about it?"

One of the strong men laughed and said: "I have thought about it, let's do it. I have no future in this life. I know some martial arts, but I haven't made any career. I am a casual person. I won't achieve much in this life. Kill a few foreign bandits, so that I can brag to my son in the future."

Don't raise the flag, man.

Zhou Yuan reminded him secretly in his heart, and then looked at the others.

These people have their own reasons. Some people think that the foreign bandits are too cruel and can't bear to see them slaughtering their fellow countrymen in Dajin.

Some people, like the strong man, are purely full of passion and want to do something shocking.

There is another type of people whose purpose is very simple: "Sir, although I don't know who you are, you must be a big shot if you can mobilize the palace soldiers of the Southern Prince's Palace."

"I want to follow you, sir. I am not afraid of going through fire and water, but I am afraid of being poor."

The last old man said: "Nothing else, the greatest heroes serve the country and the people."

Zhou Yuan took a deep breath, clasped his fists to the remaining people sitting on the ground and said: "Heroes, you have helped me do things, and I have fulfilled my promise and paid you. From now on, we have a long way to go in the rivers and lakes, and we will meet again."

"Others, follow me. I, Zhou Yuan, have no other skills, but I still have the ability to fight."

He strode out, and twelve people from the rivers and lakes followed him behind him.

Then four more people came out soon, caught up with him, and shouted loudly: "Zhongwu Hou, the four of us brothers will also follow you."

Zhou Yuan looked back and couldn't help wondering.

The man grinned and said, "We are from the Central Plains, we escaped here, and we were planning to go home after this job..."

"Before, I didn't know the identity of the Zhongwu Marquis, so I didn't dare to follow him at the risk of my life. Now I'm not afraid anymore."

Zhou Yuan couldn't help laughing and said, "People from the Central Plains? People from the Central Plains may not have a good impression of me, Zhou Yuan."

The man said in a deep voice, "I received a letter from home. Now the land has been redistributed, taxes have been exempted, and the house has been repaired. It's all thanks to Lord Deng and Lord Zhou."

"We brothers are not good at talking, but anyway, this life is handed over to the Zhongwu Marquis. I hope the Marquis doesn't mind."

The four looked at each other, knelt down directly, and kowtowed three times to Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan helped them up, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Thank you, it's you who reminded me... I also have my glory."

"Let's go! Go to the Xunnan Palace! Meet up with the palace soldiers! Tonight, we will practice tomorrow's ambush tactics in detail!"

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Time is very tight, but tomorrow's battle plan needs to be carefully deployed. Once there is a mistake, it will cause huge casualties and even affect the entire battle situation.

He had already given a detailed lesson to the palace soldiers in the afternoon, and he had to continue the class tonight, and he must make sure that everyone understands their mission.

Until late at night, when Zhou Yuan finished his course, all the palace soldiers went out and ambushed in the right place.

Zhou Yuan personally took charge and commanded to ensure that the ambush plan would not go wrong.

Zhuang Xuansu, Guan Caixi and Princess Qinshui also wanted to follow, but they were scolded by Zhou Yuan, and then they stayed at home honestly.

Chu Feifan protected Zhou Yuan closely to prevent other mistakes.

In the early morning, the sun rose from the end of the sky and earth, illuminating the sea.

Under the morning glow, the ironclad ship rumbled and approached the dock.

Teams of Portuguese soldiers came down and divided into three groups, heading in the east-west direction.

Three middle-aged men lurked on one side of the dock. After careful observation, one of them stood up and left quietly.

He quickly rushed into an abandoned house and whispered, "Boss, there are only about a thousand people coming today, and there are still five hundred armed teams, and they are also invading in three batches."

Guan Lu nodded and quickly went to the center of the city and came to the command center where Zhou Yuan was.

"Sir, the situation is not unexpected. The enemy's infantry is following this way."

"It is a team of about four hundred people, more than one hundred armed soldiers, and more than two hundred sword-wielding infantry."

"Due to the success of the first two robberies, their team is not strict and there is noSome soldiers even wore no armor. "

At this point, Guan Lu was silent for a moment before he said, "Wearing armor makes it difficult for them to rape women."

Zhou Yuan had no expression on his face, but said in a deep voice, "Pass the order down, the battle is about to begin, be prepared, and follow orders."

"Yes."

The commander of the palace soldiers and two deputy generals went down to pass the order, and Zhou Yuan leaned out of the window and saw teams of Portuguese soldiers striding over.

They had indeed relaxed their vigilance. For them, Xiangzhou, which did not resist, was really nothing to worry about.

This area was a block they had already looted. Every house was empty, and the door was not closed. Naturally, they would not think that there were people hiding on the second floor.

They were heading towards the north of the city, which they had not yet invaded.

But when they came to a crossroads, accompanied by a loud noise, red flares bloomed in the air.

Zhou Yuan immediately stood up and roared, "Kill! "

There are a thousand soldiers ambushed here, all on the second floor of the abandoned house, and they rushed out from all directions when they heard the order.

At the crossroads, there were soldiers everywhere.

The Portuguese roared and chattered.

One of them, a red-bearded man wearing exquisite armor, drew a half-sword from his waist and shouted loudly.

The team of four hundred people quickly formed a camp, and the soldiers wearing armor and holding swords surrounded the spearmen.

The spearmen lit the fire line and started shooting.

Zhou Yuan roared: "Shield! The shieldmen go in front! Rush forward as fast as possible! "

The soldiers of the Xunnan Palace held trapezoidal paulownia shields, which were wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, just enough to cover their bodies.

They lined up in two rows, leaning against each other closely, and kept rushing forward.

The guns fired, but almost all of them hit the shields. Occasionally, a few people were shot and fell to the ground, and the shieldmen in the second row immediately filled in.

"They have finished one round! Twenty breaths! Kill them!"

The leader of the palace soldiers roared, and a thousand soldiers kept approaching.

But at this moment, gunshots still rang out, and seven or eight soldiers fell to the ground in an instant.

Zhou Yuan shouted: "It's a flintlock rifle, don't worry, they don't have many flintlock rifles!"

Everyone's eyes were red, and their anger soared, but although they were close to the opponent, the second round of firearms had already arrived.

The quality of the palace soldiers was not very high, and their speed of forming a team was too slow. In this round, nearly half of the shieldmen fell.

After the shieldmen in the back row filled in, the leader of the palace soldiers had already roared: "Archers! Come on!"

There are only more than a hundred archers in the entire Xunnan Palace. This thing is too scarce, and now almost all of them are used.

More than a hundred arrows were shot, but the effect was not very good, because they could not break the opponent's armor.

But fortunately, the archers shot more frequently, and twenty breaths were enough for them to shoot three rounds.

When the opponent dodged, the palace soldiers finally approached.

The left deputy general held a long spear and shouted: "Brothers, follow me and stab them!"

Among the palace soldiers, there were only about four hundred spearmen, and all of them were used at this moment. Following the remaining shieldmen, they finally killed into the camp of the Portuguese.

The leader of the palace soldiers said: "Quick! Be quick! Kill their spearmen first! Don't let them shoot close!"

At the same time, a scout ran over quickly and said hurriedly: "Sir, the other two teams of foreign pirates have come to support this place, and they are very fast. "

Zhou Yuan nodded without saying anything.

He looked at the crossroads, where the soldiers fell one by one, and the foreign pirates also began to suffer casualties. He knew that this battle was basically a sure win.