Chapter 3 (18) Suppression of Bandits (Part 4)
It is said that it is a five-mile mountain road, but in fact, there is no road at all since the black pine top was laid, and there is only a stream that has dried up for I don't know how many years. The riverbed, which is entrenched in a few black lying cow stones, is covered with large and small gray-white pebbles, like a ribbon wrapped around the foot of the mountain, winding all the way to the west, like a road sign to guide the direction of Dujiadian. Shang Cheng saw that the soldiers were still in a single row as if they were walking on the mountain road, and they circled around the riverbed like snakes, hurried a few steps to catch up with Jin Xi, and ordered: "You take Suza, lead ten people to go first, and strive to get to Dujiadian before the You Jiama team!" Camera act! ”
"Yes! Obey orders! ”
"Remember, you have to be fast! The sooner the better! ”
"I understand!"
Jin Xi casually ordered ten strong border soldiers, and with a "light forward", the ten people all threw off the bags of clear water gourd dry food, and each followed him in a hurry with his weapons.
Shang Cheng took Jin Xi's position and walked in front of the team, and he could see that the edge of the mountain in front of him suddenly opened up, and he knew that the mountain road had come to an end, and he could see the bandits' lair Dujiadian out of this ditch, and when he was thinking about how to hide the whereabouts of the team and how to communicate with Sun Zhongshan, he saw a figure suddenly appear at the mouth of the ditch, stumbling over, and dozens of steps away, the knife in his hand had pointed in the direction of Dujiadian and shouted: "Hurry up...... Fast! Adults ...... quickly."
Shang Cheng's heart tightened, knowing that things had changed again, so he took two quick steps to meet him, and shouted: "What are you panicking about!" To be clear, how about the front? Is Sun Whistle there? Did the Golden Whistle get in touch with them? ”
The soldiers over there had blood stains on their faces and bodies, and the knives in their hands also had a few curled blades, and they responded with a breath: "Sun Whistle missed." We are already in the same place with Sun Whistle. Still fighting. There are many bandits, and there are two yellow crossbows. Golden Whistle has been wounded......"
Shang Cheng's gaze suddenly converged into a line, staring at the soldier steadily. He has seen the power of the yellow crossbow a few times, and it is definitely the most terrifying individual weapon in this era, it can penetrate the iron armor within fifty meters, and it can enter the wood for three points at a distance of one hundred meters, but because the production process is complex and easy to damage, it is not installed. But he never thought that such a thing would be in the hands of bandits! He interrupted the soldier's words and asked, "Have they retreated?" "Now it doesn't matter whether you take the walled gate or not, the bandits have a yellow crossbow in their hands, even if Sun Zhongshan captures the walled gate, it is impossible to defend it! The key now is whether Sun Zhongshan will decide to withdraw first, so as not to let the border soldiers and villagers give up their lives in vain!
"Retreat...... Retreated. The bandits also caught up,...... There were seventy or eighty people, and the people around us were fighting! ”
Hearing that Sun Zhongshan did not come with the bandits, Shang Cheng quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard that the bandits dared to chase out of the village to besiege, a heart suddenly mentioned that there were only thirty soldiers on both sides of Jin Xi Sun Zhongshan combined, counting the children of the Guan family You family sent out of the family is only in their early fifties, and there must have been casualties when they seized the gate of the village, and now they are besieged by bandits who have twice the number of people. What is even more terrifying is that the border army has suffered a loss in numbers, and if there were no more than these 30 soldiers...... the word "failure" immediately flashed in his mind. In addition to worrying, he was also a little ashamed, one by one, the bandits dared to send so many people out to besiege Sun Zhongshan's department, aren't they afraid that the border army is attacking the east and the west?
Many thoughts turned in his mind in an instant, but the man did not pause, and led the people out of the mountain road first, and saw a group of people a mile away tightly surrounding under a mountain cliff, shouting and killing with knives and guns, and the sound of thumping weapons came from time to time. He immediately ordered: "The whole team! Get ready for battle! In an instant, more than seventy people immediately lined up their formations according to Woosh. He said to Qian Laosan: "You bring five tithes, and plug in to cut off the back road of the bandits!" Be quick! ”
Qian Lao sa smiled and said, "Don't worry, my lord! He turned around and pulled out his knife and pointed in the direction of the store. Follow me! He led fifty men and jumped down the half-man-high dirt road, and walked in a circle through the bare fields to the back of the bandits.
Shang Cheng tore off his waist knife and threw it on the ground, took a straight knife from a border soldier beside him, raised the knife and shouted: "Up!" ”
The bandits besieging Sun Zhongshan and Jin Whistle had already seen the new reinforcements of the border army, and they were also panicked, and then they calmed down again for a while, and then a group of sixteen or seventeen people, led by a small leader, came to intercept them with murderous violence. As soon as the two collided, the little leader was smashed on the shoulder by Shang Cheng's knife, his body leaned back and his feet were weak, Zhao Shishi had already straightened up and poked the knife straight into his chest, his hand shook and the knife turned and dragged again, and a puddle of blood immediately spurted out of the wound on the jacket that was pierced.
Seeing that a dozen or so people were slaughtered by Shang Cheng and them in less than a moment, and seeing a group of people going around in circles to copy their own back roads, some of the bandits shouted, and the bandits withdrew the siege of Sun Zhongshan and ran in the direction of the stockade. Qian Laosan's people hadn't been outflanked yet, so they only intercepted a few slow-running guys in a hurry, and surrounded them with a knife and spear, and in the blink of an eye, there were a few more bloody corpses on the ground. Half of Qian Laosan's face was already splashed with specks of blood, and his thin monkey-like lonely face was even more hideous, and he looked around with a knife, and immediately roared: "Chase!" Break through Dujiadian and exterminate the bandits, it's now! "Now is the best time to break the village, one side army has joined forces, the number is not weaker than the bandits who only dropped twenty or thirty corpses, just released the siege of Sun Zhongshan, the momentum is much stronger than the bandits, plus the bandit leader is absolutely impossible to intercept so many bandits outside the village, as long as he is entangled with the bandits outside the village, he will not worry about not being able to eat the shop!
He brought a lot of soldiers, and the sparse bandit guards couldn't resist it at all. These bandits had no intention of fighting, and when they saw that the gate of the village had been slowly closed in the sound of the creaking wooden door, they shouted in unison, and most of them scattered and fled for their lives. The remaining bandits didn't even have room to resist, and they were all chopped to the ground by the border army.
Seeing that the border army was getting closer and closer to the gate of the village, and the speed at which the gate was closing was getting more and more blocking, a wounded bandit dragged his legs into the crack of the door, and held the door with both hands to drill into the village, but he was caught between the two doors and could not move. A bandit inside chopped off his two palms with a few swipes, and when he wanted to kick him out of the crack in the door, Qian Laosan had already arrived, and he put the knife straight into the crack of the door, and the bandit who attacked his brother just now immediately grabbed his bloody chest and fell down.
"Grab the gate! Desperate to grab it! Qian Laosan roared, carrying a knife and slashing in the cracks of the walled gate, his shoulders against the soles of the walled gates and desperately straining......
At this time, Sun Zhongshan had already brought more than 20 people who were mixed with blood to greet Shang Cheng, and he immediately said without a greeting: "My lord, order, let Qian Ershao retreat!" "Sun Zhongshan caught up and dissuaded." Let the old money come down! Bandits have crossbow arrows! ”
Before Shang Cheng could give an order, he saw a row of people standing on the wall of the wall, a few feathered arrows, crossbow arrows and a few spears heading straight towards the twenty or thirty border troops gathered at the gate of the wall, and seven or eight of the border troops fell in an instant, and they were immediately in a panic. Immediately afterwards, the bandits cheered: "The great master's ability!" Good skills! One arrow and the result is that dog officer! ”
Qian Laosan died in battle? Shang Cheng stared at the black rough man on the wall with red eyes, and burst out a sentence from between his teeth: "Let them all withdraw!" ”
…… Qian Laosan is fine. Until Shang Cheng asked them all to withdraw, he had been standing in the innermost part of the gate to grab the gate, where there was a dead end, and the bow and crossbow and spear could not hurt him at all. He was not injured during the evacuation, and the two feathered arrows were shot at his vest, both of which were blocked by iron plates attached to his leather armor. Not only was he fine, but he also carried a wounded soldier back and knew how his thin body carried out the wounded soldier who was a head taller than him.
At the foot of the cliff, Shang Cheng gathered three officers and Guan Xuan together to discuss a way to break the village.
Before discussing, Shang Cheng first asked Sun Zhongshan why he would act rashly when he was unprepared? Could it be that Sun Zhongshan thought differently from him, and didn't think about doing it again when he left Dujiadian tomorrow?
"It's not that we want to do it, it's that we were betrayed by that Lu Gongzi. Fuck it! Sun Zhongshan suddenly scolded a foul word, "I didn't see it before, and I thought that it was impossible for the Xuntian Lu family to do this kind of thing, who knew that the son of the Lu family was very familiar with the bandits, if it weren't for his pretentiousness of digging his nose and rubbing his eyes at the gate of the village, how could the bandits suspect us?" We were also unlucky to arrive home, bandits searched for goods, and the first bag was knives and spears! He slapped his thigh hard, sighed and said, "What's even more damn unfortunate is that there are words of border army on the knives and guns!" ”
Sun Zhongshan didn't say anything about the next thing, Shang Cheng could also guess that it was eleven and eleven Sun Zhongshan saw that the bandits had a yellow crossbow in their hands, and he knew that it was simply wishful thinking to seize the gate with his little people, so he immediately ordered to retreat, but he was glued by the bandits again, if Jin Xi hadn't arrived in time, there would have been almost no living people in the You family's horse team. Even if he retreated quickly, the horse team lost almost one side of the manpower......
Shang Cheng nodded, not dwelling on this topic anymore. He told everyone about the determination he had just made: it is impossible to withdraw from the army now; Not to mention that retreating would make the bandits more arrogant, just the more than 30 corpses of soldiers lying in front of the gate of the village, he could not make the decision to withdraw immediately. Even if he retreated, he would have to retrieve the body first, even if the price he paid for it was heavier.
Since it can't be withdrawn, then it can only be fought, and it must be fought quickly, the side army is lightly armed, everyone only carries the minimum amount of clear water flour cakes, and the raw cloth and red wound medicine have been exhausted......
"Now it's up to all of us to come up with a quick solution." Shang Cheng said, "We must do everything we can to break the village." I'm going to kill this and break through the sky! This time, I can't let him run anymore! ”