Chapter 512: Reinforcements Arrive (Medium)
Everything is Wu Yong's strategy to break the city, in order to complete Chao Gai's wish and break through Dongping City as soon as possible, Wu Yong used this trick to make people pretend to be reinforcements to deceive the city gate.
Originally, in his calculations, as soon as the so-called reinforcements arrived, the officers and soldiers in the city would inevitably open the city to welcome them with joy, so that the troops in the camp could take the opportunity to enter and occupy the city gates. But Pang Xu was much more cautious than he thought, and he didn't hit the plan, so he could only continue the trick, he sent troops to pretend to intercept, and then let the "reinforcements" break through and rush to the city.
At this time, the defenders finally got into the trap and opened the west gate to welcome them into the city. At this moment, Wu Yong, who was in the barracks, had already shown a satisfied smile: "Heavenly King, the little brother has finally lived up to the trust, Dongping has been broken by our army, and he will soon be able to bring out the thieves who injured you......"
At this time, the Liangshan army at the west gate was already roaring like a wild beast with fangs, waving the weapons in their hands and rushing towards the city. What they want to do is not only to occupy this city, but also to capture those people in the government, they have even given birth to the desire to slaughter the city and loot to avenge the king.
When he saw countless Liang Shanjun tearing off their disguises and roaring and rushing in, the expectant smile on Cheng Wanli's face had instantly solidified, but he couldn't even move a step because his legs were weak. Horror and regret continued to hit his heart, making the gray-haired Dongping Taishou feel as if he was ten years old in the blink of an eye.
The subordinates who came with him were already panicked at this time, and seeing the hideous-looking thieves coming, they immediately made the most direct choice, not to meet the past and prevent the enemy from entering the city, but to quickly turn around and flee to the city, but to throw their own guards in front of the door.
Liang Shanjun soon rushed to Cheng Wanli, who was still standing there, and a minion didn't say a word, he raised his knife and wanted to kill him, but was quickly stopped by a person next to him: "This is an official, take him and hand him over to the military advisor to deal with!" As he spoke, he stepped forward and kicked Cheng Taishou to the ground, and before he could react to the pain, he was already pressed down and tied up.
During this period, other people continued to pour in, and the city was already full of exclamations, and from time to time there were sounds of breaking doors and screams, and it should be that the people of the Liangshan Army began to search the whole city unscrupulously.
Pang Xu, who was at the head of the city on the other side, was also so anxious that after seeing this terrifying scene, he immediately shouted: "Brothers, this Dongping is our home, and we must not let the Liangshan thieves destroy our home!" Go, if it's a gentleman, kill it with me and drive the thieves out of Dongping! ”
He did not think of running away, not only because, as he said, this was their home, and there were still families left in the city, but also because if the city fell and the people suffered, the guilt of these soldiers would be very heavy, and they would still be dead. So at this time, there were only two roads in front of Pang Xu and them, either to beat them out of the city before the Liangshan army brutalized the people, or to die.
Encouraged by it, the hundreds of officers and soldiers at the head of the city finally mustered up the last bit of courage, and they all rushed straight down the city with a shout, rushing towards the west. Soon, the two sides met head-on on the long street connecting the east and west, and without any nonsense, the two groups of men and horses were already fighting head-on, and they were engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Although the Dongping defenders were not bad, they were not strong enough after all, and a few hundred people were obviously at a disadvantage against one or two thousand people, coupled with the fact that their spiritual pillar Dong Ping was not at the scene, which made them show defeat soon after the confrontation with the enemy, and there were constantly people retreating and falling, and they could not resist the fierce impact of the Liangshan army that was as violent as a beast.
"Kill!" Pang Xu was desperate at this time, roaring angrily and swinging his knife to slash, while slashing the two minions in front of him, he was pierced through his thigh with a spear by Ruan Xiaowu, who was killed from the oblique stab, and he was about to fall to the ground with a stumbling foot.
He knew very well that if he fell in such a scuffle, it would mean death, so he gritted his teeth and slammed his knife on the ground, and wanted to get up and fight again. But Ruan Xiaowu, who succeeded in one move, would not give him such a chance, just at the moment when he shook his body and didn't get up, the other party had already rushed up with an arrow, raised his foot and kicked him heavily in the chest, kicking Pang Xu's body horizontally, spurting blood from his mouth, and slamming heavily on the two subordinates behind him who wanted to come forward to rescue, and the three of them immediately became rolling gourds.
Just as Ruan Xiaowu stepped forward and was about to assassinate all three of them, Ruan Xiaoer next to him suddenly shouted: "Slow, I have an impression of this person." Yesterday, it was he who shot that arrow that injured the King of Heaven! Don't kill him now, take him out, and take his heart and liver to drink for the king of heaven to suppress the shock! Although it happened suddenly yesterday, Ruan Xiaoer still remembered the appearance of the murderer who hid behind and released cold arrows, and at this time, he recognized the person at a glance.
Hearing this, Ruan Xiaowu's face was even more murderous, his hands kept moving, and the two pops had killed the two officers and soldiers in front of him, and then with a wave of his hand, the spear shaft smashed into Pang Xu's face, and he who had just heard this and tried to commit suicide with a knife was stunned.
As Pang Xu fainted, the officers and soldiers no longer had the ability to resist, and they immediately screamed in surprise and scattered as birds and beasts, and rushed away. In this regard, Liang Shanjun was not in a hurry to chase and kill, but kept approaching the city, and sent men into the shops and alleys along the street, trying to force the people of the city out of the house, so as to facilitate their next actions.
At this time, Dongping City had completely fallen into the hands of the Liangshan army, and the life and death of the people in the city were only between the thoughts of these people.
But obviously, because of the disadvantages and damage of the siege in the past few days, coupled with Chao Gai's serious injuries, the Liangshan army has completely rampage. Not only those minions have begun to invade people's homes and kill and plunder, but even some leaders are also constantly creating killings, which is obviously beyond the expectations of Wu Yong and Zhensanshan Huangxin, who led the army into the city this time.
After a few screams, the red-haired ghost Liu Tang slashed to death a soldier who fell behind with two knives, then sneered and pounced on a shop on the side, slammed open the door of the store with a few bangs, dragged a shivering man to the side of the street, and said to Huang Xin, who was still commanding the soldiers and horses to occupy the whole city: "Old Huang, what else is this, wouldn't it be good to kill everyone?" As he spoke, he raised his knife and beheaded the innocent man who was still begging, and then tried to turn around and drag the other people out of it.
"Brother Liu Tang can't ......" Seeing him so nonsense, Huang Xin suddenly became a little anxious, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Our cottage has always talked about doing the right thing for heaven, but we can't kill innocents indiscriminately. It is natural for you to kill the officers and soldiers, but you can kill the people......"
"How can you be so! We are robbers, why can't we kill people? And they also seriously injured the king this time, if they don't kill a few people at this time, if something like this happens in the future, what if they hurt Brother Gongming? ”
These words made Huang Xin stunned, and it was really difficult to answer. He was actually very aware of the dissatisfaction contained in the other party's words, thinking that he didn't take it to heart because he hurt Chao Tianwang, and if it was Song Jiang who was hurt, he wouldn't be so calm. In fact, Chao Gai's cronies in the cottage have always been a little suspicious of those who go up the mountain in the back, and those who have a close relationship with Song Jiang, but they can tolerate it before, but this accident has made it possible to stimulate this contradiction.
This was obviously not the result that Huang Xin was willing to see, so after being stunned for a while, he could only sigh and no longer persuade him. Now, they can only let these guys burn in the city and vent their anger in their hearts. It's just that in this way, the little reputation that Liang Shanbo easily created under Song Gongming's hard work will be completely ruined.
Taking advantage of his hesitation, Liu Tang unceremoniously re-entered the store, directly drove out a few people who were hiding in it, and then killed them all in front of everyone with a knife.
Such cruel methods made Huang Xin tired of seeing him for a while, and also made many of his cronies frown. You must know that Huang Xin was also a military attache of the imperial court before he joined Liangshan, even if he had been on the mountain for a few years, he still hadn't gotten used to these bandit-like practices.
At this time, the killing was not only in front of him, but there were also screams from other places, obviously Liu Tang's continuous killing of innocent people was going on, which made Huang Xin unconsciously begin to reflect on whether all this he did was right or wrong, and whether he should stay in Liangshan or not......
But soon, he put these strange thoughts aside again, and quickly turned back to his cronies and said, "You two will go out of the city to meet the military advisor, and let him quickly lead the troops into the city." Now the only one who can stop them from killing innocents indiscriminately is the military division. ”
Indeed, only Wu Yong, the old man who followed Chao Gai and them to Liangshan, could suppress these red-eyed guys in front of him.
But just as the two subordinates whispered and were about to turn around and leave the city, there was a sudden rush of dangdang outside the city, which came from afar, and it made the Liangshan thieves who were killing and looting in the city stunned, and all the movements in their hands stopped: "This is ...... A signal for Mingjin to withdraw his troops? ”
Everyone had expressions of disbelief, how could this be? Obviously, we have won a big victory, Dongping City has been broken by us, and now is a good time to take revenge, why did you suddenly let everyone retreat?
Everyone in the Liangshan army who didn't know why hesitated, and finally some smart people ran to the city wall to see what was going on. And at this look, these people immediately shouted in shock: "It's not good, get out of the city quickly, there are officers and soldiers who have attacked our army's camp!" ”
When these words were passed down, even Huang Xin couldn't believe his ears, how could an official army suddenly kill behind his own and attack the big battalion?