Chapter 37 Satisfied with the Results
Seeing an officer ascend the tower, he sneered, knowing in his heart that it was probably Xu Pingong.
took off the hard bow from his back, and in the blink of an eye, he had already pulled the string with an arrow, Xu Pingong had just stood firm, but the arrow was like having eyes, shooting straight towards him.
He was so shocked that he didn't even have the strength to take a step back, and the next second, his eyes were raised, and the arrow had already popped, and it was piercing his helmet.
Xu Pingong was so frightened that he screamed, and shouted in his mouth, "Open the door!" Open the door! Open the door! ”
Ye Fu looked at Xu Pingong's nondescript appearance in the city, and sneered.
I thought that I had to mix it like a little bit anyway, so as not to expose flaws and provoke unnecessary attacks. Who knows? He's so soft-boned!
The city gate creaked and slowly opened, and Ye Fu controlled his horse and slowly marched towards the city. Behind him, the pro-soldier banner and Lu Dingbu picked out a total of more than thirty soldiers with better riding skills who also dressed up as Tartars, and followed him closely.
Whoosh –
Ye Fu's horse head had just passed the city gate, but he was caught off guard and heard a dangerous sound.
He subconsciously drew his knife and slammed it upward, completely unprepared, but picked a vacancy.
He felt only a pain in his left arm, followed by the soft sound of an arrow piercing into his flesh.
The sudden change shocked everyone, and Lu Dingbu, who was originally lying in ambush on both sides, waiting for Ye Fu to bring almost all the cavalry to enter, suddenly broke in.
With Lu Ding's order, he rushed towards the city gate with a shout.
When the soldiers defending the city saw this, they immediately panicked and wanted to close the door, but where was the opponent of Lu Ding's victorious soldiers? However, after a brief moment of resistance, he could only hurriedly retreat. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Ding had already led people to seize the city gate. While ordering the raider to be searched, he hurriedly ran over to check on Ye Fu's injuries.
Coming to this era, it is not the first time that Ye Fu has been injured.
Not long ago, during the ambush battle with the Tartars, he was also scratched in several places by arrows fired by the Tartars during the night. In a short period of time, it only stops the bleeding, but it will not heal.
But compared to the last time, this time the injury seemed a little inexplicable.
When he was just hit by the arrow, he still wondered if Xu Pingong had improved, or if he had misunderstood him, and he actually knew that he wanted to lure the enemy deeper, capture the thief and capture the king, or something. But when Lu Ding's troops began to attack, he knew that he was thinking too much.
This is clearly a personal behavior!
The sharp pain in his arm made Ye Fu frown, and he touched it tentatively. Fortunately, the armor of the Tartar is not bad, it should be just a flesh wound. He gritted his teeth, and slowly pulled the arrow outward.
"You ...... You are not Tartars! ”
Someone has already reacted.
In addition to Ye Fu and the others, who were dressed similarly to Tartars, Lu Ding's battalion was completely dressed in ordinary battle jackets and hats, and they were the same Ming soldiers as the soldiers in the city.
Ye Fu snorted and tore off the beard that was attached to his face. stared at Xu Pingong, who was escorted down from the top of the city tower, with disdain, "Of course Lao Tzu is not a Tartar, Lao Tzu is suspicious, you are a Tartar!" In the face of the enemy, there is no fighting spirit, and the city gate is opened so widely, how different is it from surrendering to the enemy! Come on, put me down! Town! ”
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Yongdian Fort, thousands of general offices.
Ye Fu's tartar costume has been removed, and the wound on his arm has also been hastily treated, and he has changed into a Ming army uniform at this time.
The entire Yongdian Fort has been controlled by Lu Ding and his people, and the people have returned to their homes, but the grain, livestock, etc., have not been divided. After all, everyone said that they were robbed a lot, and besides, there were also military rations belonging to the Yongdian garrison. Of course, Ye Fu will not let the people starve and cause another incident. He ordered a porridge shed to be erected inside the city gates, and the leaders of the army took out the grain and cooked it into vegetable porridge, which was distributed to the people who had been robbed in the city.
And after taking care of these, the attacker had also been escorted to Ye Fu, and he and Xu Pingong were escorted and knelt together.
Ye Fu didn't pay attention to Xu Pinggong, but looked at the Confucian who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "Did you shoot that arrow at me?" ”
The Confucian priest bowed his head and did not speak.
Ye Fu smiled, waved his hand at Lu Ding, who was already angry and wanted to rush forward to beat the Confucian scholar again, and ordered: "Ask someone to bring Xu Pinzhang up and recognize these two people for me!" ”
Xu Pinzhang was frightened along the way.
He sneaked out of the city in the first place, but it was just speculation. pondering, if Xu Pingong's side has the upper hand, he will come back. If Ye Fu's side has the upper hand, he happens to be the first to take the lead, and maybe he can go further. But seeing Ye Fu defeated the Tartars and deceived into the city gate, he was simply scared to the bone at this time.
Hearing that Ye Fu wanted to see him, he hurriedly ran over.
"Come, recognize him for me." Ye Fu pointed at the Confucian scholar and asked him.
Xu Pinzhang stood beside Ye Fu, ignoring Xu Pinggong's eyes that wanted to eat people, and cautiously said to Ye Fu: "My lord, this is the dog-headed military master of the criminal general Xu Pinggong!" The surname is Xu, the name is Gao Zhuo, and the word is deep. ”
"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Xu." Ye Fu smiled, "Come, show Mr. Xu a seat." ”
Lu Ding couldn't believe his ears, but Ye Fu's order, he still didn't dare to refuse. instructed his soldiers to help Xu Gaozhuo up, and Ye Fu's personal soldiers had already moved over the stool.
Xu Gaozhuo hadn't figured out the situation at this time, but sat down, but didn't speak.
Ye Fu looked him up and down as if he didn't care, and said to him: "I don't think you are very strong, nor are you the kind that looks thin, but your body is very strong and muscular. Arm strength should be ...... Not good, right? The tartar armor is much better than the armor of our Ming Dynasty. I don't think you can shoot an arrow through it, or even hurt me. I don't know, can you shoot an arrow for me? ”
Xu Gaozhuo raised his head, glanced at Ye Fu with complicated eyes, lowered his head again, hesitated for a moment, and did not answer Ye Fu's words immediately, but asked rhetorically, "My lord, may I ask who you are?" ”
Ye Fu didn't care about his offense, glanced at Xu Pingong, and replied, "It's okay to tell you, Ye Fu will be the new guard in Sanyang." A few days ago, he sent someone to invite General Xu Qian and the officers above the general level of the fort to hold a meeting in Sanyang, but General Xu Qian did not arrive for a long time. Since Mr. Xu Qian doesn't want to see me, then I can only come to see Mr. Xu Qian in person. It's just that on the way, some small accidents happened. A group of more than 30 Tartar soldiers, escorting my people, livestock, money, food, and softness, were bumped into by me on the way back. I made a small ambush, and I found out what we Xu Qian had done. At first, I didn't believe it, so I came up with such a way to test it, who knows? Mr. Xu Qian, this person really can't stand the temptation! ”
As soon as Ye Fu said this, Xu Pingong closed his eyes, looking like he regretted that he shouldn't have been.
Xu Gaozhuo said with a smile: "It turned out to be Lord Ye, and the students thought it was a reckless bandit from somewhere, pretending to be a Tartar, and came to rob the city!" However, it is not the bandits that the students want to kill, but the Tartars! Thinking of those Tartars, they entered through the city gate in a grand manner, and swaggered to rob my Ming people. The student is a scholar, he can't put on armor, he has no power to restrain the chicken, and he can't even stop Da Ming when he sees this shame and humiliation. I wanted to take advantage of the Tartars to enter the city, kill the Tartars first, and then earn one more if I could kill more. If I am unfortunately captured, it will be considered a disgrace to the sage books I have read for so many years. But who knows, it's a joke! ”
When he said this, he could barely stop laughing, and tears came out of his eyes.
Lu Ding wanted to step forward to drink several times, but was stopped by Ye Fu.
Ye Fu quietly watched Xu Gaozhuo laugh and cry, and after a while, he heard him speak: "Jokes are jokes, after all, I have not been humiliated by the sacrifice of the city again." If the adults want to kill or chop, listen to the respect. However, when it comes to archery, in fact, the students do not have much arm strength, as adults say. It's just that there is a gadget as a support. At the beginning, it was also some of the techniques that the students saw in the book, making a shoddy small crossbow. The range is not far, but the power is still there, and the control is simple. If the adults don't dislike it, the students are willing to give it to the adults. ”
Crossbow? Or a homemade crossbow?
Ye Fu squinted his eyes and couldn't help laughing.
I thought that this scholar was just empty of courage, but who knew that he still had the ability to make his own weapons! Others may not care about his little hobby, but in Ye Fu's eyes, it is really him who has picked up a treasure.
The crossbow, as a weapon, should be said to be enduring.
The reason for this is that even in the 21st century, it is still used as a weapon in the military. Compared with modern weapons, it has no gunsmoke, no light, is not easy to expose, and its effective range is longer than that of some firearms, which allows it to survive and continue to shine in the 21st century, when firearms are prevalent.
Ye Fu must be rejoicing.
Because Xu Gaozhuo's ability to make bows and crossbows is actually not very good. Moreover, the accuracy of shooting has not been trained too well.
Otherwise, Ye Fu should really worry that his arm is still gone.
"Take it, I'll take a look." He said to his own soldiers.
The soldiers took the bow and crossbow in Xu Gaozhuo's hand, walked over and handed it to Ye Fu.
Ye Fu took the crossbow in his hand, looked at it upside down for a while, and asked for another arrow.
He was already a marksman, and after a closer look, he already knew the use of this crossbow arrow. An arrow shot out of the crossbow and out of the house. He looked at his results, but shook his head.
"It still needs to be grinded together." Ye Fu said with emotion.
No matter what kind of weapon, it takes a certain amount of time to get used to it to become proficient. The foundation of the Sharpshooter can make it easier for him to master this weapon than others, but he can't achieve satisfactory results the first time he uses it.
However, there are some things that can still be tried out based on this shot.
Ye Fu said to Xu Gaozhuo with some regret: "It seems that the effective range of this crossbow is only ten to fifteen steps, which is really close. Otherwise, you wouldn't have caused me such a small injury. ”