Chapter 245: The Child Army
Today, the warm sun is shining, the sky is clear, and the vision is also extremely good, Chang Yu went up to the city and looked into the distance, and saw that there were several bandits galloping on horseback outside the moat in the west of the city, ranging from dozens of people per share.
And these scouts were extremely arrogant, relying on the trench outside the moat to cross the river and scold the officers and soldiers patrolling.
The officers and men took bows and arrows, but they avoided them far away.
Seeing that the thief was thin and well-ridden, Chang Yu was shocked in his heart: The child army!
In addition to the combat power of the old battalion of his descendants, the thieves' subordinates also have a powerful team, which is also a strange soldier, that is, the children's army.
The Children's Army is selected and trained from orphans or refugees, generally between the ages of thirteen and fourteen to seventeen, and its founder should be Zhang Nai, that is, Li Shuangxi!
Zhang Nai was born in the Boy Scouts, joined the thief army when he was very young, followed Li Zicheng, when Li Zicheng was abused by Sun Chuanting, only eighteen horses escaped, one of them was Zhang Nai, and the youngest one, and was later adopted by Li Zicheng as an adopted son and renamed Li Shuangxi.
The children's army was established under his proposal by Li Zicheng's authorization, in order to cultivate and train, Li Zicheng implemented the adoption of the son system, that is, let his elite soldiers adopt righteous sons, each elite soldier can adopt twenty, and the child soldiers will slowly become a strange soldier under the training of these elite soldiers.
These child soldiers were used by Li Zicheng to attack the city, logistics, patrol, patrol and agitation, spy intelligence, whenever the attack on the city was not confronted by the officers and soldiers, they sent the child soldiers to form a commando to charge into battle or pick up the city, digging the wall, historical records, when the thief army besieged the city of Beijing, it was these child soldiers who climbed the wall from the northeast of the city and took the lead in attacking it, and the officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion who defended the city at that time turned their heads and ran away in fear.
To put it simply, child soldiers are young children, but they have always been multi-purpose cavalry, and can even be said to be special forces.
And some of the child soldiers have been fighting for many years, and they are all veterans of the battlefield, although they are still in the children's barracks, they are actually young and strong.
The Children's Army has two mountains, one is Zhang Nai, and the other is Li Laiheng!
Because Zhang Nai was an adult, he began to mix in the big field and was in charge of the grain officer and deputy general.
Therefore, the children's army established by him was gradually handed over to Li Guo's righteous son Li Laiheng.
It's a pity that Li Laiheng just emerged, and when he didn't shine brightly, he was stabbed to death by Chang Yu sneaking into the military camp, and the leader of the rebel army who had fought with the Qing army for many years in the Southern Ming Dynasty in history received a boxed lunch in advance.
Damn, nemesis!
Looking at the arrogant children's army galloping under the city, Chang Yu scolded in his heart.
The reason why it is said to be a sworn enemy is because according to historical records, after the thieves broke through the capital, they entered the palace, and these children's soldiers did not cause any evil, one of which was to abuse the eunuchs in the palace.
It is said that tens of thousands of eunuchs in the palace were chased and beaten by these children's army, killed and injured countless times, and they were caught and beaten and humiliated when they had nothing to do, and many palace maids were also humiliated.
Lao Tzu crossed over and became a eunuch leader, could it be that God asked me to clean up these rabbit cubs for those eunuchs who were tortured to death.
Chang Yu turned on his horse and walked along the city wall towards the north.
When I went to the northwest corner, I took a look, and sure enough, there were many children in the north of the city, and they were even more arrogant, running straight to the moat to provoke the officers and soldiers on the other side.
Because of the time relationship, the trench fortifications outside the city are mainly in the south city and the most perfect, there are two or three in the east of the city, only one in the west of the city by the Fen River, and the north of the city as a rear position is not half, just a moat nearly 20 meters wide.
Yesterday, the thief army rushed for 100 miles, regardless of the fatigue of people and horses, in order to hit Chang Yu's momentum, they started battles one after another, and even attacked the South Gate trench position overnight.
However, in front of him, the children were scouting in all directions, obviously Li Zicheng didn't want Chang Yu to lie down in the sun, and he had to tense his nerves at all times.
"My lord, do you want to send troops to kill these thieves?" asked He Chengxin, who was on duty in the city.
"Inform Niu Yong in the city, if you want to play, you can play with them, and if you don't want to play, just watch these two dogs bark, and you should watch the big show."
He Chengxin immediately sent someone to deliver the message, and then looked at Chang Yu with a heavy face and asked: "My lord, the thieves are besieging the city, and depending on the situation, the thieves are going to transfer troops to besiege each gate."
Chang Yu nodded slightly: "This is inevitable, he held his breath yesterday to fight with me, and his anger disappeared in one night, and he got something, the next step is of course to divide the troops and attack each gate, at least to contain our troops, but the governor concluded that he would have no worries today, so let him have a good time."
"Are you so sure?" He Chengxin was a little unconvinced.
Chang Yu smiled faintly: "First, he wants to take a breath, he has come all the way to toss for another day, and the soldiers are tired." Second, he has to prepare for the siege guys, and thirdly, he is waiting for me to give him a reaction."
What reaction did you give him? He Chengxin was confused again, but seeing Chang Yu's expression, he didn't want to talk to him about this topic anymore, so he didn't ask again.
"Your bow looks like a hard bow, take a look" Chang Yu's eyes fell on a personal soldier behind He Chengxin, and saw that he was carrying a big bow.
"Lord Hui, this is a two-stone bow" The strong man held the bow forward.
"Heh, I'm still a master" Chang Yu took the hard bow and tried the bowstring in his hand.
Suddenly, there was a loud shout, the bowstring was full of moon, and this hard bow was pulled away by him, which shocked He Chengxin, it turned out that he not only knew how to fight, but also had such great strength.
"Factory Governor has good strength" The archer couldn't help but applaud, he was a master of archery, of course, he could pull it away, but seeing Chang Yu's expression so relaxed, he fell for a while.
"Can you shoot the thieves in the city?" Chang Yu asked as he reached out and threw the bow to him.
The archer looked at the more than ten child soldiers outside the city and frowned, shook his head lightly, and said, "I'm afraid I can't do it."
The moat in the north of the city is more than a mile away from the city wall in a straight line, that is, about 500 meters.
The range of the bow and arrow is far less than this, and the ancients described a person as good at archery, usually called a hundred steps through Yang!
That is to say, the effective killing distance of the bow and arrow is within 100 steps (60 to 80 meters), which is equivalent to within 100 meters, but the range of the bow and arrow is generally only 150 meters.
However, as a strong bow like a two-stone bow, the range can reach up to 300 meters, but the killing distance is within 200 meters.
Farther away, you have to use a strong crossbow or a car crossbow.
Of course, these are talking about straight-line distances, you must know that at this time, Chang Yu is on the city wall of more than ten meters, and it is not impossible for the Ershi bow to hit those thieves outside the moat under the city with an arc shot, at least the range can be reached, but the accuracy depends on the level of the archers.
"Show a hand" Chang Yu smiled faintly, the archer nodded lightly, and then took the bow and pulled the string, holding his breath, the arrow pointed straight at the sky.
With a whoosh, the arrow feathers pierced through the air, and a black line could be vaguely seen reaching into the sky, gradually disappearing.
Chang Yu squinted at the more than ten child soldiers who were still shouting in the moat, and silently thought in his heart, giving him a straight head door!
As soon as my mind passed, I saw one of the children and soldiers suddenly fall off the horse, and the rest of the people were frightened and scattered!
"Good archery!" Chang Yu couldn't help but applaud
"Fluke!" The archer smiled silly
"What's your name?" Chang Yu was excited, Li Zicheng was shot blind when he was in Kaifeng Ximen to supervise the war, but he was already under the city at that time, and the distance was not as far as now.
"Humble and tenacious," the archer hurriedly said.
"I'll mess with Ben Du in the future" Chang Yu laughed, patted Guan Ren on the shoulder and said, "Awesome! ”
"Master Xie Chang Tuo" was overjoyed, turned his head to look at He Chengxin, He Chengxin was embarrassed and echoed Chang Yu with a smile: "It's really good swordsmanship" But are you robbing people in front of me like this......
It was already noon, Niu Yong still didn't hold back, and sent some men and horses to cross the river and play the game of 'come, chase me, catch up with me, let you hehehe'.
This kind of petty fight is not at all watchable compared to yesterday, and it has not attracted much onlookers, and even the soldiers in the city are too lazy to look around.
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