Chapter 67: A Crime Not of War
Su Jiakang also showed a hint of panic on his face when he first found out about the ambush, but in the end, he was an official who had experienced a brutal imperial examination, and he was born as a Jinshi, whether it was knowledge or calm kung fu, he was much stronger than Zeng Ziyun.
So quickly calmed down.
When he saw that Zeng Ziyun couldn't make a decision quickly, he immediately crossed Zeng Ziyun and personally ordered: "What are you still doing in a daze, don't exit the valley quickly!" ”
At this time, he was too lazy to use Wen Crepe's words, and after saying a word directly, he didn't even wait for Zeng Ziyun and the other soldiers to react, he just turned around and ran away with a few of his own personal guards.
Luo Mazi and Master Sun naturally did not lag behind, and ran away with Su Jiakang, but when they ran backwards, Master Sun was a little puzzled, when did this pseudo-Tang Dynasty become so many, there were hundreds of people in front, and hundreds of people on both sides, which added up to at least four or five hundred people.
The Ming army in the valley was in a mess at this moment, and they didn't know that at the other end of the valley, it was not the bandits of Huangzhu Mountain who blocked their way, but the people and horses of Jiguan Mountain.
And the people of Jiguan Mountain did not come to attack the officers and soldiers, but to pursue the people of Huangzhu Mountain, and yesterday the people of Huangzhu Mountain quietly withdrew.
The leader in Jiguan Mountain who used to contact Master Sun is to persuade other people to keep up with the people of Huangzhu Mountain, and see if they can find Huangzhu Mountain's lair to take revenge, well, he also said that there is a lot of food in Huangzhu Mountain, and it is enough for them to have a fat year after grabbing a handful.
Of course, he will never tell others, he is going to take the people of Jiguan Mountain to find the officers and soldiers, and then kill several other big leaders of Jiguan Mountain with the cooperation of the officers and soldiers, and then he will return to the government with the rest of the men and horses, so that he can get a position of 100 households, and he no longer has to be this frightened bandit.
It's just that he didn't expect that as soon as he met the officers and soldiers, those officers and soldiers treated them as enemies, and more importantly, the people and horses of Huangzhushan also came out from both sides to directly ambush the officers and soldiers.
This thing is a bit of a mess!
A group of bandits in Jiguan Mountain were confused, and the Ming army in the valley thought that the men and horses of Jiguan Mountain were also the men and horses of Huangzhu Mountain, and wanted to besiege them on three sides, and they would be panicking and wanted to withdraw from the valley.
Only Fang Dongquan and the people of Huangzhushan under their leadership have a clear goal, regardless of how the people from Jiguan Mountain came over, but now that the situation is so favorable to the people of Huangzhushan, they will definitely not let go of this opportunity.
Therefore, in this strategic decisive battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty to compete for the right to belong to the world and decide the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty, Qian Mengjiu, the left prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, came to the front of the battle and beat the drums for the soldiers.
The general Fang Dongquan, the general of the cavalry, the general Chen Butcher, the general of Yuwei, and the general Huang Xueren of Zhennan, they personally led the soldiers to charge!
More than 200 bandits from Huangzhu Mountain plummeted like a torrential rain, and almost instantly spread all over the mountains.
In particular, the more than 20 bandits led by Butcher Chen were like a sharp knife, like Xia Lei, violent and fast, straight into the Ming army!
After Su Jiakang ordered the withdrawal from the valley, he himself took a few guards and Master Sun and they turned around and left first, and Zeng Ziyun and a few other generals in the back had not yet reacted, and a large number of soldiers also turned around and ran away with Su Jianxian.
Although the bandits of Huangzhu Mountain have not yet rushed down from the bottom of the mountain, even the Chen butcher at the front, his pig-killing knife is still dozens of meters away from the nearest Ming soldier.
But at this moment, the Ming army has already collapsed, and some anxious soldiers even abandoned everything that could affect their escape, not to carry baggage, not to carry the baggage, as for the armor, knives and guns, these dead things were thrown down by them as soon as possible, and then ran back quickly without a body.
After all, these soldiers know very well that if you want to survive on the battlefield, especially on the collapsed battlefield, you don't need to run the fastest, but as long as you run faster than others, you can do it.
The sudden escape of the Ming army also made Fang Dongquan and them a little stunned, originally they thought that there would be a hard battle.
Qian Mengjiu even shouted the slogan of 'The rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty, fight here', and even beat the drum himself in order to boost morale.
But before the two sides could fight, the Ming army just turned around and ran away.
You must know that the number of the Ming army is twice as large as theirs, even if the Ming army does nothing and defends directly in the valley, it is one thing whether these bandits in Huangzhu Mountain can gnaw it down.
But this is just Qian Mengjiu's thoughts!
The people of Huangzhu Mountain know the whole story, and they know that the people on the other side of the valley are people from Jiguan Mountain, but the Ming army doesn't know.
From the point of view of the Ming army, what they saw was that they were caught in an ambush on three sides, and they were ambushed in a long and narrow valley.
If this one is not done well, it will be blocked in the valley, and it is not impossible that the whole army will be wiped out in the end.
Their only thought now is to escape from the valley and save their lives!
And the speed of the Ming army's escape was not satisfied, this little effort, there were already most of the centaurs running out of the valley, and by the time Butcher Chen brandished the pig-killing knife and led more than 20 bandits to rush down the valley, the Ming army was still in the valley There were only sixty or seventy people.
These dozens of people were the first Ming soldiers to enter the valley before, and were ordered by Zeng Ziyun to attack the people of Jiguan Mountain on the other side of the valley, they were in the depths of the valley, and they couldn't run out in a short time.
After Butcher Chen rushed down, he didn't care about the Ming army that had escaped from the valley, but brandished a pig-killing knife and rushed towards the remaining nearly 100 Ming troops who were blocked in the valley.
Zeng Ziyun looked at the butcher Chen who rushed over like a giant in front of him, he couldn't help it anymore, he couldn't stand up directly when his legs were weak, but fortunately, a few personal soldiers next to him saw that the opportunity was not good, and quickly supported him, which didn't let him collapse directly on the ground on the battlefield.
Relying on the support of his own soldiers, Zeng Ziyun, who barely continued to stand, was pale and trembling at this time, and the exquisite waist knife finally couldn't grasp it steadily, and fell directly to the ground, but at this time, he didn't even look at the long knife left by his father, but looked at the Chen butcher who rushed over and the more than 20 bandits under his command with a dull face.
However, although Zeng Ziyun has completely lost the courage he should have as a general, some of his personal soldiers are not so unbearable.
Six or seven personal soldiers, led by a hundred households, stood by Zeng Ziyun's side, but they drew their swords and looked around, and they were all enemy troops.
Although Fang Dongquan and Huang Xue were one step behind Butcher Chen, they also rushed down at this time, these bandits were naturally absolutely not good at fighting tough battles, but in the case that the Ming army had collapsed before they could fight, they were extremely good at fighting this kind of tailwind battle.
These two people each took a hundred people and surrounded Zeng Ziyun and his party from both sides, and many brave people had already rushed up to fight with Butcher Chen.
Of course, more people don't have the courage to rush up and fight, they just jump on the periphery to try, once the surrounded Ming army in front of them completely collapses, they will not hesitate to rush forward.
"My lord, the brothers can't hold it anymore, what should we do?" Just a few minutes later, a hundred households beside Zeng Ziyun said with a panicked face.
In just a few minutes, the people of Huangzhushan, under the leadership of more than 20 bandits such as Butcher Chen, had already killed and injured seven or eight people on the periphery of the Ming army, and the remaining Ming troops did not dare to resist at all, but kept retreating and shrinking.
In the end, the remaining sixty people gathered around Zeng Ziyun, seemingly a large number of people, but everyone was panicked.
At this time, the bandits of Huangzhushan shouted the slogan of 'those who descend will not be killed'.
When many people heard this, they threw down their weapons and fell to their knees and surrendered, shouting that a good man would spare his life and something like that, and surrender is such a thing, with the first there will be a second quickly, and with a small group there will be a large group.
In the blink of an eye, half of the more than sixty soldiers around Zeng Ziyun had surrendered!
Zeng Ziyun looked at the approaching Huangzhushan bandits, and looked at the soldiers who kept kneeling down and surrendering, and there was only one thought left in his heart: "Heaven will kill me!" ”
But even if I die, I, Zeng Ziyun, can't insult the Zeng family, and even affect the family.
Thinking of this, Zeng Ziyun said with grief and indignation: "I am trapped here today, and I will die this day, not a crime of war!" ”
Then he snatched the knife of his own soldier next to him and made a gesture to cut his neck.
However, before he grabbed the knife and wanted to wipe his neck, he first shouted Xiang Yu's famous phrase 'non-war crime', which made it clear that he was going to kill himself, so he left enough time for the soldiers around him to react.
Immediately, the soldiers around him stretched out their hands and directly snatched the long knife in Zeng Ziyun's hand.
Another soldier beside him said: "My lord, don't kill yourself!" ”
Zeng Ziyun wanted to continue to grab the knife and carry out his unsuccessful self-killing, but he was already firmly grasped by a few pro-soldiers around him, and there was still a chance to grab the knife and kill himself.
After struggling for a while, he suddenly stopped struggling, and then sat down, and stopped talking, crying like a child, crying was sad, and several soldiers around him were embarrassed.
This war, victory or defeat is a common thing, if you lose, you will die, or surrender, but what is it when you cry!
Zeng Ziyun, can he not cry?
Just when he was struggling to grab the knife and kill himself, the remaining thirty or so ordinary soldiers around him had already surrendered in one go, which was much more convenient than running away, so he threw the knife directly, and then knelt on the ground to complete the surrender ceremony.
Now there are only five or six pro-soldiers left around him!
At this time, I saw an eight-foot-tall strong man with a pig-killing knife in his hand, he put the pig-killing knife in his hand horizontally, and then shouted: "The Tang Heavenly Soldiers are here, don't wait for them to kneel down quickly!" ”