Chapter Five: Burning the Plains (Part II)

Soon, when this team, which was nominally the Shandong Han Army, but had actually been reorganized into the left wing of the Great Song Zhongwu Army, all entered the garrison, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, their large camp was not a regular circle or square, but along the local garrison barracks, surrounded them. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In this way, when it came to dinner, those Hebei Han soldiers had already begun to get food, and they had to wait for the arrangements in the city, and even the slightest difference between the same sergeants would arouse dissatisfaction, not to mention that they had been marching for a long time, and at first smell the smell of cooking smoke, they didn't need to agitate, and immediately gathered in twos and threes, and approached the other party's camp.

The so-called 'soldiers eat food', food is the first thing, especially more than 700 years ago when cold weapons were in power, food and salary was the biggest factor in the army mutiny, when these hungry men stared at the food in their bowls, these garrisons immediately felt a threat.

Yidu City is separated from the front line by a Henan Xingzhongshu Province, no one would have expected that the Song people might come over, so the camp will not be arranged very tightly, after all, what they have to deal with is just bandits and the like in the territory, slowly, I don't know which leader is the leader, a large group of Shandong Han troops crossed those fences that fell down as soon as they were pushed, and directly entered their camp.

"What are you doing, trespassing into the camp and trying to rebel?" A thousand households didn't realize what was going on at all, and instinctively pouted a sentence in his mouth, and he was still holding a big bowl in his hand, and suddenly there was a flower in front of him, and the big bowl was snatched up at once.

"Damn, Lao Tzu is working hard in the front, he is about to run out of food, and he is so hungry that his chest is close to his back, but you strangers are eating meat here, eating the meat of our villagers, and rebelling?" Qi Baozhu sneered, and splashed the bowl of broth on his face, and before the other party could scream in pain, the long knife on his waist was already out of the sheath, and a big human head flew up with blood, and fell to the ground together with the broth.

"Lao Tzu is going to rebel, brothers, against his mother." In the stunned expressions of the local garrison, countless figures rushed in, and the sergeants who were still in shock were put to the ground one by one, but they were not only defenseless, but even the weapons were not around because they wanted to serve food, and when the only people tried to resist and were killed on the spot, the team of nearly 5,000 in the camp became prisoners at the feet of the people in an instant.

"Brothers, you're welcome, it's easy to work when you're full."

The food was ready-made, and he didn't need to say anything, and all the sergeants began to grab the cooked food, and without the container, they took the pocket on their head and put it upside down in their hands, took a steamed bun, and put a bag of porridge and rice, and ate it like that.

Qi Baozhu's face did not have much joy of success, there were only about 5,000 foot soldiers here, which meant that there were more than 2,000 people guarding the city, although the number was small, but if they reacted in time and blocked the city gate, if they wanted to enter, they had to fight a hard siege battle, which was by no means the original intention of this trip.

He walked to the side of the stockade and began to discuss the next move with the people behind him: "That old boy is very vigilant, not only has he left people to defend the city, but even the cavalry is gone, we must fight quickly and take Yidu City in order to deal with the counterattack of the Yuan people." ”

"Say, how?"

"There are at least 2,000 people in the city, and most of the movements here can't be hidden from them, let's think about things more deeply now, try to make them think that it is a mutiny in the army, Yidu City is too big, and we don't have cavalry, so we can't completely cover it, as long as the people who escape think so, things are still in the plan."

"You mean? Jinan. ”

"Exactly, there are no less than 10,000 soldiers in Jinan, rather than letting them defend the city, it is better to think of a transfer, preferably with that cavalry."

A sergeant-like man thought for a while, took out a square box from his waist, pressed it a few times, and saw a red light on the surface of the box, which slowly turned into a green light, he put the box on his cheek, and just started the conversation.

"Old Five, where is that Mongolian cavalry?"

"Boss, they have just entered Laiwu County, and depending on the situation, they are planning to spend the night here." Qi Baozhu was stunned by his words, Laiwu County is only half a day's journey away, if the matter is urgent, they will rush overnight, and they will almost be able to reach Yidu City tomorrow morning, but everything, how did the other party know.

"Got it, you continue to stare to death with a certain person, pay close attention to the direction of the official road, and if there is a messenger from Yidu, cut it off for Lao Tzu."

Qi Baozhu understood what he meant, if you want to deal with the enemy from Jinan, you must first make this cavalry army unable to come back for the time being, there is only one official road from Yidu to Laiwu, if you keep an eye on it, it is still feasible to cut off this line alone.

"If that's the case, we might as well open the net, focusing on the south gate, as long as this road is blocked, if the city wants to send people out, it can only go to Jinan."

"That's it, I'll send a signal to Sister Pheasant, you have to be faster here, you don't have to leave someone to guard it, and let the people behind take over these captives."

Anyone else? Qi Baozhu's heart was suddenly shocked, it turned out that people were not without a backhand, no wonder they would let this newly descended army return to Shandong, not even mixed with sand, he suddenly thought that Yizhou can be in the hands of others, and his relatives will certainly not be an exception, that seemingly delicate little lady, what she sent was not only a gift, but also a faint warning, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"Lao Qi, why are you stunned, a good future is right under your nose, are you so happy?" The other party showed him a smile that seemed to be not smiling, which immediately made him restrain his mind.

"That is, the thought of being able to enter Yidu City right away, making those old boys worse than dead, was so excited that I couldn't sleep."

"So what are you waiting for?"

The two of them snorted each other, they all acted tacitly, the movement under the city was not small, naturally they could not escape the eyes and ears of the defenders at the head of the city, the sky had gradually darkened, in case something happened to the camp, it would be difficult to clean up, therefore, the guard quickly asked people to go to the comfort department to report the news while ordering vigilance, as for the city gate has been closed early in the morning.

The hall of the city's consolation department was brightly lit, and Sageth sat behind the big desk, closing his eyes and recuperating, and when he heard the news from the defenders, his eyes flashed with different colors, but the first thing he asked about was the side matter.

"After you arranged the camp, did you send food?"

In his mind, the reason that can cause a commotion is nothing more than this, it is dinner time, those Han troops who came from afar must not have eaten, if everyone does not have it, now there is no one side, so it doesn't attract everyone's attention?

Sure enough, several subordinate officials looked at each other, and they all showed a look of embarrassment: "Time is too tight, and there is not much grain in the treasury, and the lower officials and others are planning to think about ideas elsewhere, but how can it be so fast." ”

This answer is as he expected, the so-called other places are just to close the position, but he is the consolation envoy who cannot manage all the places, where the grain has its own special person to watch, and those people don't even dare to provoke him easily, as soon as he thinks of it, it will be two big, and the matter has to be solved.

"Go and urge them, tell them that if something goes wrong, the official will definitely report it." After speaking, he suddenly thought of something: "Mao Zhang, why hasn't he come yet." ”

"Mao Wanhu is mostly calming down this matter, besides, the city gate at this moment may not be able to be opened, do you want me to wait to say hello."

It should be this reason, Saggis was about to nod his head, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and the tone of his words changed suddenly: "Go and tell all the city gates that no one is allowed to enter the city tonight, and let Mao Zhang come to see me again tomorrow." ”

Compared with the hustle and bustle of the eastern part of the city, the south gate was somewhat calm, and the calm was broken by the sound of horses' hooves, and when they reached the bottom of the drawbridge, a clerk-like official reined in his horse and shouted a word towards the city.

"According to the order of Si Jun, tens of thousands of households General Mao are invited to see, and they will not open the door quickly."

Hearing the shouting, the thousands of households guarding the city who were patrolling the city tower did not dare to slack off, ordered someone to light a torch, and took a look at the fire, the official who shouted was indeed from the Xuanwei Division, but what made him a little puzzled was that how could there be so many people behind him, and it was estimated that there would be hundreds, and when he was hesitating, the shouts below rang out again.

"This decree was issued by the consolation envoy himself, and if the time is missed, can you afford it?"

At this time, the chaos in the east of the city has not yet been transmitted, for his words, the guard will know, because when out of the city, this person is from his south gate, more than a hundred people, say less and say more, and never put it in his heart, thinking of this, he waved his arm, the drawbridge was slowly lowered, almost at the same time, two extremely heavy iron-clad gates were slowly pushed open.

Under the leadership of the scribe, Mao Zhang led people to step on the suspension bridge, his face did not have the slightest expression, but his heart was boiling as if a pot was boiling, there was his family inside, what would happen next, he didn't even dare to think about it.

The suspension bridge spans the moat, but dozens of steps wide, less than 20 steps away in the past is the city gate, the city gate hole is less than ten steps deep, the whole journey is less than 100 steps, and for Mao Zhang, it is like thousands of miles away, the closer it is, the more nervous he is, writing the palm of the horsewhip, sweating incessantly, crossing the suspension bridge from the horse can even see the face of the gate guard.

At this moment a horse came galloping through the streets of the city, and the men on the horses looked dressed in the same way as the scribes who led the way in their group, but their expressions were very anxious, and when they saw that the gate before them was wide open, he had not yet fallen off his horse, and he shouted loudly.

"The envoy has an order, no one is allowed to enter the city tonight, and everyone should leave as soon as possible."

As soon as these words came out, not only did they hear it clearly, but even the guards on the city tower were stunned, and they really couldn't figure out why the Xuanwei Division would change the order every day, isn't it embarrassing for them.

I can't figure it out, since there is a new order, it has to be implemented, he stretched out his hand again, ready to order someone to close the city gate, and among the horse teams that had crossed the suspension bridge, there was an immediate reaction, and the two horses flashed out from Mao Zhang's left and right, and the direction was not to go back, but to accelerate towards the open city gate.

With a "snort", a dark feathered arrow shot out of the horse's back, and plunged straight into the mouth of the shouting scribe, interrupting the rest of his words, and the man shook the horse for a while, and fell headlong with an expression of disbelief.

"Don't make mistakes, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding." The scribe who took them into the city was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, and he tried to stop it again and again, but the cold light on his neck suddenly appeared, and he looked back in amazement, Mao Zhang's dead-like face was as cold as ice in a winter night.

"There is an ambush in the city, and they want to capture us and others, brothers, follow so-and-so!"

Mao Zhang pulled the long knife back, no longer looking at the blood-spurting figure, raised the knife and shouted, and hundreds of horsemen began to accelerate with him, following the two horses in front.

At the same time, the two horsemen who had rushed through the city gate ran up the street without stopping, and the first one made a great turn at the street entrance, the farrier and the bluestone slab rubbed dazzling sparks, the horse's body just hit horizontally, and the riding bow in his hand immediately took two feather arrows, and the arrow that flashed with a ghostly light pointed obliquely upward, and his cold eyes were like a pool of autumn water, staring in the direction of the city tower.

"Oh no, stop them quickly......" The guard's reaction was not slow, as soon as the incident happened, he pulled out his feet and spared the city tower, preparing to organize people to intercept it, as for how to deal with it afterwards, it was not his turn to worry about a small thousand households, but just showed his head, and the complete words were not spoken, a penetrating chill suddenly soaked into his mind, and the strong wind came to his face with a sharp whistling, he didn't even have time to make a dodge action, the iron armor on his chest was vigorously drilled away, and he subconsciously lowered his head, The two feathered arrows were inserted into it almost simultaneously, with only a small section of the shaft exposed.

"Signal them to enter the city."

A successful blow, the pheasant slave will ride the bow on his back, a flick of his feet, the big gun hanging on the hook in his hand, his legs clamp the belly of the horse, the horse neighed, turned around and rushed to the team of foot soldiers who rushed over, the big gun in her hand like an eye, a cloud of light and shadow in the darkness covered the whole body, when the invincible, the foot soldiers who had finally gathered together had not yet formed a formation, they screamed and fell, the rest of them scattered and fled when they saw this, she was waiting to urge the horse to accelerate, but the halter was pulled by someone, The pheasant turned his head in annoyance, and met a pair of uncompromising eyes.

"You are now the leader, and you cannot rob the brothers of their lives."

"Master, I forgot."

She stuck out her tongue a little embarrassed, which made Zheng Deyan angry and funny.

Behind their group, there was a large group of foot soldiers hidden in the dark, receiving the news from the radio, the foot soldiers immediately launched an action, and when the south gate guards were cleaned up, under the gaze of the pheasant slave and others, a team of foot soldiers rushed into Yidu City with neat steps, while chasing the rout, from several directions towards the center of the charge in the city, the Yuan people's Shandong East and West Road Propaganda Division outflanked the past.

There are 15,000 foot soldiers who entered the city, and the rest are all in the camp in the east of the city, after they solved the five thousand Hebei Han troops stationed here, they quietly waited for the movement from the direction of the east gate, and unexpectedly, a thousand households stationed at the east gate were surrounded by foot soldiers who suddenly attacked from the city, and soon collapsed into an army, with the addition of the new force in the direction of the east gate, the complete city defense of Yidu has collapsed, and the 25,000 foot soldiers not only took over the city defense, but also surrounded the neighborhood near the Xuanwei Division.

Sageth did not flee from the city at the first time, in his mind, this was just a mutiny, he was confident that as long as the other party was given the food they needed, he would be able to solve the incident smoothly, and the Xuanwei Division gathered most of the defeated soldiers in the city, and from their mouths, there was any kind of news, and it was difficult to argue whether it was true or false for a while.

Therefore, although the government was surrounded by a large army, and the streets were full of Han soldiers with real swords and guns, everyone in the courtyard wall was terrified, and he was not much afraid, as a vassal, abandoning the city and fleeing was not much better than dying in battle, as long as the other party did not really intend to make trouble, there may not be a trace of turnaround.

With this thought, he immediately stood on the wall and shouted, hoping to talk to the other party's commander Mao Zhang, this request made the people outside cry and laugh, even Mao Zhang himself was ridiculous, he was not as effective as an ordinary commander in talking here, what can be talked about with him.

"I didn't expect this old man to be quite tough, and he was still putting on his shelf to pay a big man." Qi Baozhu joked with a smile, which immediately attracted everyone's echo.

The pheasant slave who was surrounded by them, looking at the tall courtyard wall, was a little distracted, but she didn't expect that in just a few months, everything in the plan became a reality, for the more than a thousand remnants of the soldiers, she had no interest in the slightest, and she didn't have any interest in the old man in their mouths, but now her identity is different, and she can no longer act rashly, this kind of change makes her unable to adapt for a while, how can she become a qualified decision-maker.

"Lady, according to what I said, it's better to set it on fire, when they can't think of it, they won't be able to do it, and the left and right are the houses of the Tartars, and they will be burned clean."

"Burned?" The pheasant slave shook his head: "Now it is not the Tartar's mansion, burn it, and my Laoshzi Xuanfu envoy will have nowhere to stay." ”

"Ahem, the lady is right, now Yidu City is ours, we can't waste it casually, then or, the last general will lead someone to attack it and capture the old boy to see you?" Qi Baozhu is happy, and he looks flattering.

"Didn't he ask General Mao to meet him, and someone told them that the old man didn't want to talk? Open the door and come out, and then say, only one pillar of incense, and after an hour, the killing will be in. ”

Is that okay? Everyone was a little confused, knowing that the people outside had bad intentions, no one would be stupid enough to open the door and automatically dedicate themselves, but her words were orders, Qi Baozhu immediately found a few loud voices and spread the meaning in.

Hearing this, all the people around Sagis had the same idea, and they could barely stand through a courtyard wall, and once they opened the door, they were not yet slaughtered, but he himself listened quietly for a while, and suddenly made an extremely surprising decision.

"Open the door, and the official will do as they wish, but I want to see what these people have to say when they see the official."

"How can the ambassador personally take risks, why don't you let the lower officials and others talk."

Sageth shook his head: "The matter is so big, you come forward, it will only cause more suspicion, I have made up my mind, open the door." ”

Obviously, even the initiator Pheasant Slave didn't expect that in less than half a pillar of incense, the two tall doors of the mansion would really open, and under the surprised gaze of everyone, an old man with a foreign face walked out, seemingly blind to the full of swords and guns, and came directly to the front of the formation.

"Where is Mao Wanhu, the official is Sajith, if there is any grievance, he can only come through the channel."

Of course Mao Zhang didn't dare to answer, Qi Baozhu and the others looked at the little girl with a kind of worship, the pheasant slave was stunned for a while, and sighed in a low voice: "This old man is quite hard." ”

Seeing everyone's stupid appearance, he couldn't help urging: "What are you waiting for, waiting for dawn." ”

Qi Baozhu woke up like a dream, and with an order, the brigade of foot soldiers unceremoniously rushed into the mansion, shouting: "Those who abandon weapons will not be killed!" ”。

As for the old man who was surrounded by them, he was immediately thrown to the ground and tied up by several personal soldiers, and when the pheasant slave walked past him with everyone, he shouted on the ground: "Mao Zhang, Your Majesty treats you well, and it is not too late to rein in the precipice at this time." ”

The pheasant slave seemed to be a little unbearable when he heard this, stopped, squatted down in front of him, and said softly: "It's late, he is actually my prisoner just like you." ”

Listening to this woman's voice, which was very different from the Chinese dialect of the North, Sageth was like a thunderbolt, and the corners of his mouth trembled for a long time and he couldn't say a complete sentence.

"You...... Who are you...... Song people! ”