Chapter 26: Murder with a Knife (6)
Zhang Jinxian looked forward to it, and the reinforcements he had been looking forward to were surrounded by another group of nearly 1,000 people in Chengzhong, Ansai County, and the person who summoned this group of refugees was He Ergou, the head of Zhenbeibao Banner.
A few days ago, He Ergou was ordered by Liu Renyu to change his appearance and look for homeless people near Ansai County, looking for nearly 1,000 people. These thousands of homeless people were attracted by the conscience porridge cooked by He Ergou's subordinates, and the so-called conscience porridge refers to the fact that the rice grains are connected and sticky, and the chopsticks are not poured on it.
When the homeless people fought for me, and even did not hesitate to fight to fight for porridge, He Ergou's words made the eyes of these homeless people who had been gloomy because of extreme hunger for many days suddenly brightened, and He Ergou said: "You follow me to have porridge to eat, and follow me to Ansai County, where you have meat to eat." ”
"Come with you, don't lie to you." The reactions of the displaced people to hearing this sentence were mixed, but the number of times this sentence appeared was the most.
So these homeless people who fantasized about eating meat were all taken by He Ergou to Chengwai in Ansai County.
When the gatekeeper of the city saw the many ill-intentioned homeless people approaching, he was so frightened that he woke up from his wine, and he hurriedly ordered the gate to be closed, and warned the county magistrate.
The Ansai county commander listened to the alarm, and naturally asked the county garrison to gather people, catch some Ding Zhuang, and then set the standard of rewards and punishments, and drive them to defend the city.
If you say why the county order is so, this is because of the salary of the county guards, the county magistrate ate half of it, and the garrison ate half of the half, and the result is that the 500 soldiers in the book are actually the 20 families of the garrison, in addition, all of them are old and weak, and there are less than 200 people.
Fortunately, the displaced people outside the city are just clamoring and besieging the city, and their mood is quite stable, and Ansai is okay for the time being.
The scene of the siege of the displaced people, the messenger who was nicknamed Caoshangfei saw it very clearly, and knew that Zhangjiabao was not saved, he thought about it for a while, and felt that returning to Zhangjiabao was basically equivalent to suicide, so he turned his horse and left, and went to the south, apparently to find a new owner.
But he said that Zhang Jinxian, the left reinforcements did not arrive, and the right reinforcements still did not arrive, but the attack of Wang Scorpion's department was as tight as a burst.
"Everyone rush side by side, as long as we go to the city and open the city gates, we can live." A homeless young man carrying a ladder shouted.
It is better to hold back the fear, stimulate the potential of life, burn the small universe, and run under the city wall at the fastest speed in life, which is a greater safety factor.
The defenders on the wall of Zhangjiabao fought continuously, and the tiger squat cannon was fired continuously, and the hot hands were hot and had to be cooled; The archer's arm was so numb that he couldn't open his bow, and the firecrackers were killed and wounded by the archers who followed the homeless people to the city.
In the case of the dumb fire of the long-range strike weapons, the men and horses of the Hutou Zhai Avalanche Mountain Artillery Division, which were following behind the displaced people, kept bending their bows and firing arrows, shooting the defenders on the wall.
By this time, the casualties of the defenders of Zhangjiapu had increased sharply.
"Ah," a scream sounded, and a Zhangjiabao tenant fell to the ground with an arrow in his throat, first holding the shaft of the arrow and convulsing, and then a large pool of dark red blood was left in the blink of an eye.
Another tenant next to him saw it, and his heart was quite frightened, even the hand holding the knife was shaking, he subconsciously looked back, and saw that the head of the village was not there, so he immediately dropped the barge knife in his hand and ran towards the stairs.
"Don't fight, don't fight, go home, hide at home and don't come out. E's just a hard-working tenant, why fight to the death for Master Zhang for no reason. He was still babbling to himself, and ran to the top of the stairs.
As he was about to run down the stairs, the head of the village that had overseen them came up from under the stairs and saw the tenant.
"What are you doing?" The head of the village asked.
"Go home, your family is poor, and you are not afraid of thieves coming to search." Only then did the tenant feel that poverty was also an advantage.
"Steward Zhang has an order, and those who retreat die, aren't you afraid?" The head of the village said.
"Hey, I know, but it's going to pass, do you dare to kill you?" The tenant seemed to have eaten the head of the village and did not dare to start.
"Even if you're powerful, you don't dare, but," said this, a look of unbearability appeared on the head of the village.
"But what .......," the tenant had just finished speaking, and his eyes went dark, and then he didn't know anything.
But it was the king who slashed the tenant who tried to escape with a single knife, and then he cut off the head of the tenant, held it in his hand, and said to the guards of the city who were still watching: "This no egg wants to run, and it was chopped off by a knife, and when you want to run, you can think clearly, whether the knife is fast, or your legs and feet are fast." ”
The tenants, who had been a little shaken by the sharp increase in casualties, looked at the heads that were still dripping blood, and they all shuddered, put away the idea of escaping, and continued to fight.
The ladder was erected, fell, erected again, fell down again, and after a long attack, finally a few homeless people climbed up to the top of the city, those tenants who defended the city, usually repaired the earth, relying on the city wall to throw stones, but face-to-face fighting with people was completely inadequate, and those homeless people also temporarily changed careers, and made a cameo appearance as a soldier.
So, what was supposed to be a fierce battle on the battlefield turned out to be like this, a homeless and a tenant did not use their blades to cut each other at all, they threw their blades aside, scuffled together with their own care, tore each other's hair, and fought back and forth with a king's eight punches, and the fight was extremely lively.
Another outcast, holding a tenant by the leg of his hand, went forward and backward, and the tenant was dragged up and down and shouted, "Fuck me, let go." ”
Seeing such a funny scene, the sergeant of Zhenbeibao, who had been watching the battle from the side, laughed, and they all thought it was too interesting.
Perhaps because he couldn't get used to such an unserious way of fighting, Lin Jiaotou, who was beside Zhang Jinxian, confessed his guilt, and led the 30 most elite family members in Zhangjiabao to rush to the gap with knives, guns and sticks.
When the head of the Lin sect and his subordinates arrived, the homeless people were chopped to the ground in the blink of an eye and died on the spot. And all the displaced people in that gap were killed.
After Lin Jiaotou and his subordinates cleaned up this gap, they hurried to the next gap to act as firefighters. Before the bandits of Hutou Village went to the city, the city wall was not lost.
At this moment, the rushing car, which had been lagging behind due to its huge size, finally reached the city gate.
The special golden soup that has been boiled for ten miles in the windward smell has finally found a place to use, this primitive rushing car has no cover plate on it, the golden soup goes down, only the hot push cart of the homeless people skin and flesh separation, blisters are clustered, wailing endlessly.
After pouring this pot of golden soup, the defenders of Zhangjiabao on the city tower continued to hit the homeless people pushing the cart with stones.
These homeless people desperately pushed the cart to the cave of the city gate, and when the first half of the cart entered the door hole, the defenders on the city wall could not reach it, so they had to let the homeless people hit the city gate.
Zhang Jinxian heard the report that the thief army was hitting the city gate, and suddenly remembered that he forgot to fill the hole in the city gate.
"But how is this good?" When Zhang Jinxian was annoyed by himself, he suddenly remembered a plan, and he said to Zhang Congxun, who came to report the news: "You hurry up and bring people to prepare more firewood, fill them in the holes of the city gates, and pour kerosene on them. ”
Zhang Congxun responded with a "yes," and then led people to carry firewood in the firewood pile to the door.
After continuous impact, the wooden door of Zhangjiabao was knocked open a gap with a "click", allowing two or three people to pass through, those bandits who had been following the homeless people, seeing the opportunity to squeeze into the door, but they approached the crack in the door, looked inside, only to find that there was a pile of firewood one person high in front of them, in addition, there was a strong smell of kerosene.
When these bandits were stunned, Zhang Congxun threw a torch on the firewood, and the firewood and kerosene burned extremely vigorously in a very short time.
With such a fierce fire, how dare the bandits rush in again, they had no choice but to retreat.
In this way, if you want to conquer Zhangjiabao in a short time, the only way to go is to storm the city wall.
By this time, Zhangjiabao's military strength had been squeezed out, and the long-distance attacks of the tenants who were usually negligent in training were acceptable, and the close-range fighting was really a layman, and it was not helpful at all.
There are only 30 family members in the hands of Lin Jiaotou, and the 20 nursing homes in Wang Yidao's hands are still a little capable, and they can fight for a while.
Zhang Jinxian was already anxious like an ant on a hot pot at this time, the reinforcements did not arrive, the military strength in the fort was exhausted, and the morale was low, I really didn't know how long I could hold it.
He was wandering around himself, the bandits of Hutou Village came with knives to cover and kill, and the archers among the bandits suppressed under the city, and when they saw the outcrop and wanted to throw stones, they were killed with an arrow and wounded. The defenders on the wall had no choice but to look in the direction of the ladder and throw stones by feeling, in which case the hit rate can be imagined.
The skills of the bandits are not comparable to that of the homeless, and after a short time, the vigorous bandits will be killed on the city wall, and the tenants are not the opponents of the professional bandits, and they will not meet a few times, but all the tenants who touch the bandits will be cut down with a knife, without exception.
It is only the family members led by Lin Jiaotou that can kill and injure each other with the bandits, among them, Lin Jiaotou's martial arts are the highest and the most killed.
Lin Jiaotou led his men to kill and kill, and there were more and more bandits who came up, and gradually felt that he could not support it, so he called Wang Yidao to help, Wang Yidao saw that the city wall was full of dangers, and he couldn't care about the task of supervision, so he took his subordinates to kill the enemy side by side with Lin Jiaotou.
The defenders on the city wall couldn't support it, and they were scared to be killed, but only because there was a war team that they barely escaped.
"Wang Dadao didn't look at us anymore, everyone run!" A tenant shouted, and the tenants on the wall responded and ran down the city wall from all stairs, and the morale of Zhangjiabao immediately collapsed.
Zhang Jinxian, who had been supervising the battle on the city wall, saw that the tenants were running, and he panicked for a while, and he hurriedly fled with a few henchmen.
Lin Jiaotou and Wang Yidao, who had been fighting with the bandits, saw that Zhang Jinxian had run away, so they naturally had no fighting spirit, but they really couldn't get out, so they had to fight hard while retreating under the city wall.
A hundred steps away, Li Jiye, who had been watching the battle, said to Liu Baichuan: "The wall of Zhangjiabao is so tall, and there are artillery cheers, but it is not helpful for Ding Zhuang, who wants to defend the city, so he died so many people and scattered." Hey, my lord looked down on them and sent you to blow up the city walls, but now I don't need them. ”
"Hehe, the adults called us to come, let's come, whether we can use it or not, it also depends on the ability of Hutou Village, if they don't help, we don't want to go, anyway, it's always good to be careful." Okay, let's not talk about it, let's talk to the king scorpion, let's go to the city, lest these wicked men rise up to kill and burn down the warehouses where food and goods are hoarded, then we will wait to be punished by Lord Liu. ”
Okay, Li Jiye answered first, and then said to Wang Scorpion: "The big boss, Zhangjiabao is broken, we will enter the city, remember, the children's jade silk is for you to take, the Zhangjia mansion, and the warehouse in the fort will be taken care of by us first, and when we finish counting the collection in the fort, we will divide you into forty percent according to the agreement." Also, Lord Liu asked for a person named Zhang Huairen, No, this is his portrait. ”
The king took the portrait, handed it to his subordinates, told him to take it down and circulate it, and then gave a short and powerful answer: "It's up to you." ”
"Okay, sons, follow me into Zhangjiabao." Liu Baichuan said.
"Yes," everyone agreed, and then ran to Zhangjiabao.
The men of the miner banner have been mining all year round, and their bodies and bones are hard, coupled with the hellish training on Liu Renyu's infantry drill, the kung fu of killing people is not bad, and it is not trivial for such a powerful sergeant to go to Zhangjiabao to kill a few remnants of the defeated generals.
When the artillery flag joined the battle group, the defenders of Zhangjiabao on the city wall had already fled, and then the Hutou Mountain and the artillery flag alliance only needed to clear the remnants of the enemy.
As soon as the city wall was broken, Zhangjiabao was already in the pocket of the coalition army!