Chapter 160: Slippery Road in the Rain, Safety First (Monthly Pass, Monthly Pass)
Contrary to Duolong and Geng Zhongming's expectations, without waiting for Geng Zhongjin to come to the door to use the plan, a small leader of the Ming army guarding Mubao brought a few people to kowtow to the acting king and the king overseer.
Of course, the acting king is not allowed to see, how noble is the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty? How can a sesame-sized flag always be qualified to visit? Being able to kowtow to Inspector Wang Yongji is already a blessing that has been cultivated for eight lifetimes.
It is Geng Zhongming himself who pretends to be Wang Yongji, his image is very good, tall and mighty, his skin is very white, his beard is also very long, and he has a momentum that has lived in people for a long time. is really Wang Yongji is here, and he doesn't have such a demeanor as him.
When the junior officer of the Ming army saw him, where would he suspect fraud? At that time, he knelt down for the fake Wang Yongji in the muddy water, and said in a flattering tone while kowtowing: "Little Tian Gui, please say hello to the superintendent." The overseer worked hard all the way, and the small wooden fort garrisoned was quite simple, and he asked the superintendent and the prince to move into the house to rest, and when the pontoon bridge was completely repaired, the small one escorted him across the river......"
"What? What did you say? Geng Zhongming interrupted, "The pontoon bridge is damaged? How did you do it? ”
Tian Gui, it was that Tian Xiucai who saw the fake Wang Yongji angry, and kowtowed again and again: "The superintendent is not strange, he is all harmed by this heavy rain..... As soon as the flood rushed, the pontoon bridge was damaged in many places, and the small ones were already being repaired. ”
"Can't go at all?" Geng Zhongming asked hurriedly.
"You can walk," Tian Xiucai said, "but the road is slippery in the rain, and the bridge deck is damaged in many places, so the small ones can naturally walk, but the superintendent and the prince ......."
"The prince can't go, what can't the official go?" Geng Zhongming waved his hand, "Lead the way, this official still has important matters to report to the emperor!" ”
"The little one will lead the way for the overseer." Tian Xiucai didn't talk nonsense, stood up and beckoned a few soldiers who came with him, and led the way together.
Geng Zhongming and Duolong glanced at each other, both of them couldn't suppress their pride. With a little trickery, they outwitted a pontoon bridge! Even if this resourcefulness is not as good as Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it will not be much worse than Xu Shu.
At that moment, the two of them didn't suspect anything, so they ordered Geng Zhongjin to be in front, Duolong in the center, Geng Zhongming to press back, and went towards the pontoon bridge together. Seeing that he was in front of the wooden fort gate of the pontoon bridge, Tian Xiucai, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped and said to Geng Zhongjin behind him: "This general, please get off the horse and walk." ”
"Dismount?" Geng Zhongjin was stunned, "Why did you get off the horse?" ”
"The general doesn't know," Tian Xiucai said with a smile, "The road is slippery in the rain, and the pontoon bridge is damaged, and it keeps swaying, if you ride it, it is easy to slip, and it will be bad if you fall into the water." ”
"Oh." Geng Zhongjin was right when he thought about it, he was still wearing armor! It's going to fall into the water, and it's not going to float.
Thinking of this, he not only got off the horse himself, but also asked people to inform Geng Zhongming and Duolong, and they also got off the horse and crossed the bridge on foot - there are thousands of roads in this area, and safety is the first!
When the horse was restrained and Tian Xiucai entered the wooden fort, the rain had stopped, a bright moon appeared in the night sky, and many torches were lit on the wooden fort and the pontoon bridge. Geng Zhongjin suddenly found that there was no one stationed in the wooden fort, and it was an empty fort.
"What about people?" Geng Zhongjin asked.
"They were all sent to repair the bridge by the little one," Tian Xiucai said with a smile, "In addition, today is a good day for the Chitose Lord to accept the daughter of the Wu family as a talented person, and he has been given wine and food, and the brothers who are okay are drinking in the fortress in the south!" ”
Heaven help the Great Clear!
Geng Zhongjin was overjoyed when he heard this, the candles in the cave room on the side of the Zhu thief, and the generals were all drunk, just so that the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty could capture it in one fell swoop! Once the Zhu thief father and son are captured, Zhu Ming's world will be over, and the Great Qing Kingdom will be able to pass on the Central Plains next! He Geng Zhong Jinli will be a hero at that time, how can he grow a few "futures", right?
Thinking of this, Geng Zhongjin lost the last bit of vigilance in his mind, led the horse, and happily followed Tian Xiucai to the pontoon bridge. The pontoon seems to have been repaired, no one is working on the bridge, and it is also very stable and completely ridable. However, Geng Zhongjin didn't get on the horse either, so it's not a big mistake to be careful.
Tian Xiucai deliberately slowed down, walked side by side with Geng Zhongjin across the war horse, and looked at Geng Zhongjin's head with the corner of his eye as he walked. Geng Zhongjin wore a helmet and tucked his braids into the helmet. But if you look closely, you can still see the problem - the braids of Manchurians now are money rat tails, not the moon heads that are common in later TV dramas. Only a handful of hair on the back of the head was braided. In other words, most of the hair on the head is shaved clean, which means that it looks very clean, and there is no messy hair peeking out from the edge of the helmet.
That's right, it's a tartar! After Tian Xiucai finally recognized that Geng Zhongjin was a Tartar, he suddenly exclaimed: "Ah! Why do you have braids? ”
Braids falling out?
Geng Zhongjin subconsciously reached out to touch the back of his head, only to find that there was no at all.
"No, it didn't fall out, are you mistaken, I hid it well......" He didn't feel right when he said this, and just wanted to pull out a knife to cut someone, there was already a sound of "poof, poof" falling into the water in his ears.
Geng Zhongjin looked around, only to find that the small officer of the Ming army named Tian Gui and the Ming soldiers who followed Tian Gui had jumped into the Wei River.
What's going on? found out that he was a soldier of the Eight Banners, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into the water in fear? These Ming troops are also too useless!
Geng Zhong Jingang wanted to give the order to quickly cross the pontoon bridge, when a crackling sound suddenly came from the wooden fort on the south side, followed by the sound of "moo" cows and hooves of "deserved".
Geng Zhongjin hurriedly turned his head to look, and saw several frightened bulls, running along the pontoon bridge with four hooves, and behind the bulls, there was also a long line of spearmen!
"Spear! Spears up! Geng Zhongjin knew that he didn't have time to get on the horse and retreated. If all the men he was carrying were on horseback, he might be able to retreat quickly with his great horsemanship. But now that everyone dismounts and walks, they are all wearing armor and carrying long-handled weapons, where is it so easy to get on the horse? So I can only set up a spear and block those wild bulls.
But where would Tian Xiucai and Yu Daren give him such an opportunity? That Yu Daren waited for Tian Xiucai to lead the Tartar to a distance less than twenty steps away from the pontoon bridge Nanbao before lighting the firecrackers to drive away the wild cattle (the firecrackers were sent down by Zhu Cihong, and the cattle were used to pull the boat, if the pontoon bridge was dismantled, the boat would be pulled away by the ox), so there was no time for Geng Zhongjin's men to raise their guns in a formation.
Geng Zhongjin also knew that it was too late, so while shouting, his body retreated straight back, and while retreating, he grabbed the Zhenghuang Banner Han soldiers under his command and pushed them forward, wanting them to resist.
But on the narrow pontoon bridge, how could the soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner Han Army, who had no time to form a formation, stop a few crazy bulls? Without waiting for the horns of the brute bull tied with the knife to come up, the Han soldiers who were blocking the front had already fallen into the water in a hurry to dodge.
But they all fell into the Wei River wearing cloth iron armor and cotton armor...... When I just went down, I could still flutter a few times, and then the cotton armor was full of water, and it sank to the bottom, and the human body that had exhausted its strength sank to the bottom. And their horses were not controlled by their masters, and they were all frightened, and they either jumped into the water of the Wei River, or they turned around and ran away, colliding with the panicked soldiers of the Zhenghuangqi Han Army. The scene was chaotic, the screams of people, the neighing of war horses, the screams of startled bulls, or the shouts of Yu Daren's subordinates, and the sound of falling into the water were mixed together.
The entire pontoon bridge suddenly became the scene of a terrible traffic accident!
Geng Zhongjin, who was desperately retreating, finally caught up with the frightened bull, and seeing that the sharp knife on the horn of the bull was about to stab up, he had no choice but to dodge regardless of everything, and was forced to the edge of the pontoon, and when he was trying to stabilize his body, the pontoon began to shake violently!
It turns out that the rope that ties the pontoon bridge on the south bank of the Wei River has been cut!
These Geng Zhongjin couldn't stabilize their bodies anymore, and they desperately waved their arms and planted them in the water of the Weihe River...... He's wearing long iron armor! Dozens of pounds of wrought iron are pressed on the body, what is the way to live?
The founding hero did not become a hero, but became a drowned water ghost!