Chapter 50: The Fourth King of the First Century

On the frontal battlefield, the battle is fierce, and on the southern slope of Da Hyeon, the fierce fighting of the squad is not weaker than the front.

It's just that, in terms of scale, it's several orders of magnitude less.

Kong Youde didn't have time to pay attention to this place at all, so he transferred most of his soldiers to the north and resisted stubbornly. There were no more than a thousand soldiers left, and they were scattered.

Qin Meng joined the other two teams of people and didn't find Ma Bao. didn't have time to think about it, Qin Meng pointed his hand and said, "If you see that pavilion, our goal is there." Kill with me. ”

Qin Meng didn't have time to pay attention to what kind of pavilion it was, what he paid attention to was a big banner on the top of the pavilion, on which was written the word "hole". Maybe it's where Kong Youde's big tent is. And this pavilion is nothing else, it is the pavilion where the Fallen Tears Monument is located.

Yanggong Temple is a landmark building on Da Hyeon Mountain, it seems that when it is built now, it faces Xiangyang City, it may not be the tallest building on Da Shou Peak, but it must be the most conspicuous building, even if it is on the upper floor of Xiangyang City, when the weather is fine, it is also clearly visible.

Kong Youde placed the tent here, and it is also a matter of course.

The people brought by Qin Meng were all elites selected from the whole army, and although the number was small, they were all extremely fierce. Kong Youde didn't have enough people left behind, and he was immediately defeated, but after a while, he occupied this place, and with Qin Meng's sword, he cut down the flagpole. He frowned and said, "Did you bring a flag?" ”

Everyone shook their heads.

Qin Meng's eyes rolled, and he immediately slashed a large piece of tent with a knife, which was irregular in shape. Then he cut off the arm of a corpse with a knife, and then held the forearm, used it as a pen, and wrote a big "Xia" on this rag.

Qin Meng never knew calligraphy. Most of what he learned from Zhang Xuan was the art of war, marching and fighting.

Qin Meng's words are just for people to see clearly, so much that they don't even think about it, and people's arms are not brushes, and the words written are naturally a lot of problems, and there are a lot of blood retention in many places, as if they are swallowing ink, and they can only roughly identify the word "Xia".

But the murderous aura in which the blood was raging burst out without reservation.

Qin Meng immediately ordered someone to hang the banner high, and then shouted together: "Da Xian Mountain has fallen, Kong Youde is dead." ”

"Da Xian Mountain has descended, and Kong Youde has died."

More than a thousand shouted together, and the sound suddenly suppressed the other noises, and spread throughout the battlefield.

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but shake his body when he saw that bloody banner from a distance, in fact, he had not slept for several days, tense his nerves to the extreme. Zhang Xuan didn't think that his body was actually a little unbearable.

"Good, good, good." Zhang Xuan said three good words in a row, and immediately said: "Pass the order, cut the hole and the virtuous, promote the third level, be named the marquis, and reward ten thousand gold." ”

"Promoted to three levels, made a marquis, and rewarded with 10,000 catties." The guards around Zhang Xuan shouted together.

To be honest, in the title system of Great Xia, the marquis is not the top title, but it is not bad. Zhang Xuan is just a duke, the marquis is only one place lower than Zhang Xuan, and the marquis named in Luo Rucai's enthronement ceremony adds up to only a few dozen.

It's too tempting for a junior officer.

For a while, all the soldiers seemed to be crazy, and without Zhang Xuan's supervision, they didn't even want their lives one by one, and rushed towards the mountain.

And at this moment, it is Kong Youde himself who feels the most difficult.

Kong Youde looked back and saw the bloody battle flag. Suddenly, his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted to the ground, and immediately looked into the distance to see where the reinforcements were, and there was a rumbling cannon sound in the distance, Kong Youde immediately knew that Duoduo was fighting against the Xia army under Xiangyang City.

And when I looked west, directly in the hillside forest, countless people and horses were fighting, and they had long been entangled together. I couldn't go up the mountain for a while.

Kong Youde suddenly had a premonition in his heart: "This Da Xian Mountain is probably my burial place." ”

When death came, Kong Youde was so virtuous that he was not too afraid. The generals who have really fought on the battlefield, in fact, there are really few who are afraid of death, because death is the most common thing on the battlefield, and if you see more, you will not be afraid. But there is one thing that makes Kong Youde depressed and puzzled.

"What are those things that detonate gunpowder?"

If this question is not clear, Kong Youde has a feeling of being blind.

However, the current situation, Kong Youde can see it clearly, and Kong Youde and other people in the army can also see it clearly. Of course, there were some people who were ready to escort Kong Youde to fight to the end, but many more soldiers collapsed, and some surrendered before the battle.

However, the Xia army was not surrendered at all.

As mentioned before, surrender is also a technical job. In the case of both sides killing red eyes, don't think about surrendering, the opposite person will definitely deal with you neatly. Xia Jun did the same. Such a cruel approach naturally provoked some Qing troops to resist, but the collapse of the Qing army was irreversible, and more Qing soldiers chose to find a place to run quickly.

After all, this battle was fought in the mountains.

Although the mountain is not too high and not too rugged, there are still many places where people can be hidden.

The Qing army dispersed, and the small team fled, and there may be some possibility of escape.

Xia Jun did not pay attention to these fleeing soldiers, but bit Kong Youde to the death, and almost all of them were attracted by the bounty of being promoted to three levels, being named a marquis, and a bounty of ten thousand gold. It can be said that that little soldier was fortunate enough to take Kong Youde's head and immediately became a member of the Great Xia Honor.

For a while, the men and horses led by Qin Meng also arrived, and the situation became even more complicated.

This time to attack the mountain, Zhang Xuan selected the best of the best to select the soldiers, this method cannot be said to be bad, but there is a sequelae, that is, the elites of each department are selected from each department, and none of them has a fixed authority.

Who is not a celebrity in front of his own general, he is a person with a backer, who is afraid of whom?

When Zhang Xuan offered such a big reward, it was natural that everyone was vying for the lead, and for a while they even forgot about their official positions, anyway, it was temporary, and after this battle, it would still be restored.

However, Kong Youde was surrounded in the middle, and Kong Youde said: "I am the king of the Qing Dynasty, take me to see Zheng Guogong." ”

Kong Youde still has a glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that he can survive, whether he is a prisoner or a guest, it is best to be redeemed by the Qing army.

But as soon as Kong Youde admitted his identity, everyone's eyes turned red. I don't know who shouted, "Cut him." ”

In an instant, countless people moved, and Kong Youde was chopped to pieces without even saying a word. At least when Zhang Xuan saw it, he was already in a big way.

Zhang Xuan looked at Kong Youde, who was pieced together.

Kong Youde's head, hands, legs, and torso were cut off from the middle of the waist, a total of seven or eight pieces, and there was a lot of blood, Zhang Xuan couldn't see Kong Youde's true face clearly, Zhang Xuan said secretly: "I should have thought of it a long time ago." ”

Zhang Xuan thought back, he knew that when he set the reward, Kong Youde was already a dead man, and he could only be a dead man. Because Zhang Xuan didn't say how to capture Kong Youde alive, in order to ensure everyone's reward, he naturally wanted to send Kong Youde to die.

Zhang Xuan didn't have the heart to delve into anything, looking at the five people who took Kong Youde's body, Qin Meng was also among them, and the rest were all officers. Zhang Xuan naturally knew that there were some of them, but he also knew that when the water was clear, there would be no fish. Just like Xiang Yu's death, it was an officer who captured Xiang Yu's corpse, and no soldier could see it.

Zhang Xuan said: "You are just a reward, and you will do it with your compatriots. Violation of military law. However, I will not pursue your efforts and hearts, and this time the reward will be shared with you. ”

Immediately, Zhang Xuan arranged for the five of them to seal their sons separately. Then the promotion, the reward, one by one, these things are just a later story, Zhang Xuan didn't have the heart to pay much attention, what he paid attention to was the movement of the Qing army.

At this moment, the movement of the Qing army is very obvious, that is, it is ready to retreat.

Obviously, Duoduo saw that Da Xian Mountain had fallen, the situation had changed too much, and the morale of all the Xia troops was high, and it was not the time to fight for a while, so he had to make other arrangements.