Chapter 4: Interception

Ulai rode a horse and walked at the forefront of the team, he was the Paishku (leader) of the subordinate of the Zhenglan Banner Mang Gurtai, and this time he entered the customs with the banner master and participated in several battles. With the severed head, he was promoted from the reward of Paishku to Pashku, which can be regarded as getting ahead. Now that the large-scale battle has ended, all the field troops of the Ming army have been annihilated or defeated by the Houjin army, and the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty only dare to retreat in the city, close the city gate, and rely on the tall and strong city walls to save their lives, although most of these cities will eventually be broken by the Houjin army, but at least they can survive for a while.

Without the protection of the field troops, the people of the Ming Dynasty outside the city could only be like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, allowing the Houjin soldiers to plunder them, without the ability to resist. The large villages and tunpu had been plundered, and the frightened people fled to remote places, which brought some search difficulties to the captivity of the Houjin soldiers. This time, Ulai led the team out to hunt, and after a few days, he only harvested more than 1,000 captives, of course, all strong men, strong women, and relatively large children, who would be taken to Jianzhou as slaves. As for the old and young children, they are useless, naturally they are all cut with a knife, and they are not counted in the harvest.

Ulai clamped the horse sitting down with his legs, and the horse struggled, spread its hooves and walked forward a few steps, and a cool wind blew on his face, making Ulai feel inexplicably comfortable in his heart. He remembered that when he was a child, his mother tied him to a horse and let him train him in the skill of riding a horse; remembered that he was only a few years old, carrying a long horn bow that was taller than his body, and practiced opening the bow with all his strength; remembered that he took the flag test for the first time, and at a young age, he opened the bow of the ten forces, got the identity of the infantry armor, and ate the military salary. Over the years, he has been fighting bravely, and has won many victories before the battle, but Tiancong Khan (Huang Taiji) suppressed the Zhenglan Banner, and he stayed in the position of Paishku for several years, and has not been able to rise. This time, Tiancong Khan led the Eight Banners to enter the customs battle, and broke through the Great Wall for the first time to attack the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and the reward was naturally more generous, and he was finally promoted.

In addition to the reward, Ulai's own private captivity was not small. At this moment, he was carrying dozens of taels of silver in his bag on horseback, as well as some jewels and jade jewelry. Although according to the regulations of the army, the looted property must be handed over and distributed by the officials and banner owners, but for these silver stolen by fighting with their lives, they make a little money privately, what can the officials say, it is not to earn a blind eye, Ulai, as the leader of this hunting operation, is the same for the people below.

There were also many women captured in this raid, and a few of them were outstanding. As the commander who led the team, Wu Lai naturally couldn't take off his pants in the field like those foot armor and vests, but he knew those beautiful women, and others didn't dare to move, so when he returned to the camp and picked a few to give to Shangguan, the rest should be enjoyed by himself.

But what he saw in front of him interrupted his thoughts.

Ulai saw an ironclad car appear in the field in the distance, rushing quickly in his direction.

What kind of car is this? Why is there no mule or horse in front of the car? Why can you run so fast?

Urai was a little suspicious of his eyes and jerked at the reins of his mount.

Yang Ming drove the Humvee from the field to the official road, and rushed straight towards the huge team opposite, getting closer and closer. Yang Ming saw that the team stopped, and the middle and rear parts of the team could not adapt to the sudden stop of the front team, and there was a commotion, and some prisoners tried to get out of the team to see what was happening in front, which attracted a burst of scolding and whipping from Houjin Ranger.

Continue to drive forward until less than 200 steps away from the team (one step in the Ming Dynasty is about 1.5 meters, and 200 steps is about 300 meters), Yang Ming stopped the car.

"You sit down, don't come out." Yang Mingchong smiled at Wang Cheng next to him, got out of the car with a rifle on his back, took a few steps forward, and stood in front of the Humvee with his legs crossed.

The effective range of the HK416 rifle is 600 meters, and the shooting accuracy can be maintained to the maximum extent at a distance of 300 to 400 meters, and the bows and arrows used by the Jin soldiers are usually only lethal at a distance of 70 meters.

In addition to the rifle, Yang Ming also carries a Glock 19 pistol, which is the latest fifth-generation gun model, which is based on the famous fourth-generation gun model, and the shape of the firing pin safety has been greatly improved, changing from cylindrical to ramp, making the firing more crisp, smooth and supple. The bottom of the pistol's grip is slightly raised outwards to form a flare at the mouth of the magazine compartment, and the slope of the inner processing makes the insertion of the magazine faster and easier. The much-maligned finger slots on the grip have been eliminated to make the gun more suitable for the shape of the hand. The Glock pistol is not a standard pistol issued by the army, this pistol was purchased by Yang Ming himself, which is very common in the army, and some people even use their own privately purchased gun models.

Yang Ming's shooting rank in the army is Expert, which is the highest of the three levels, above SharpShooter. The lower of the three classes is the Marksman, which is about 300 meters away from the Marksman. When you get a sharpshooter's salary, you get a raise, which is also one of the purposes for soldiers to practice their shooting skills.

Ulai looked at the man standing in front of the ironclad car from a distance, and felt a trace of inexplicable unease in his heart. Since entering the fortress, Ulai has seen all kinds of Han people, from beggars in rags, to farmers in linen short clothes, literati in green robes and square scarves, soldiers in iron armor, and even dignitaries with python robes and jade belts, but he has never seen the man's outfit in front of the ironclad car - yellow-green block mottled clothes, which feels like the color of the transition from desert wilderness to jungle (the US military OCP composite camouflage, the first equipment of the troops stationed in Afghanistan), wearing a strangely shaped helmet on his head, and a short gun seems to be carried behind his shoulders. His boots are also like nothing he's seen before, I can't tell what they are, but they feel extra light and strong.

But there is no doubt that this is a martial artist, and from a distance of two hundred steps, Ulai can feel the majesty and murderous aura contained in the other party.

"You two, go over and have a look." Ulai commanded to the left and right, "It's better to catch it alive." ”

Yang Ming saw that in the opposite team, two Houjin soldiers rushed out on horseback, the horses' hooves were sonorous, and the dirt and dust on the road flew with the sound of the horses' hooves.

There were only two horses, and there was no need to use a rifle to block the shooting, Yang Ming stroked his right hand to his waist and held the Glock 19 in the holster.

Later, the Jin soldiers gradually approached, and the two horses rushed to a place more than ten steps in front of Yang Ming, before they pulled the reins violently, the war horse neighed and raised its head, and the two front hooves took off and stopped.

The two Houjin soldiers on the horse were dressed in leather armor, which was densely decorated with iron round nails, with sabers and quivers hanging from their waists, and their heads were bare, and they dragged their pigtails with money rats behind them.

"What kind of cattle are you driving?" A Houjin soldier looked Yang Ming up and down, with a fierce look, and his two black and white eyes were rolling slightly.

"Cattle?" Yang Ming immediately understood, "Oh, I'm driving an iron donkey." ”

"Barbarian, don't talk nonsense, this is obviously an iron car." Another Houjin soldier chimed in, and he seemed a little smug at what he had seen.

"Yes, it's an iron car, it's an iron car." Yang Ming said angrily.

"Listen, barbarian, drive your iron car with grandpa, and let us adults give you an adoption." After that, Jin Bing's eyes didn't roll, but he stared at the jeep behind Yang Ming tightly, which scared Wang Cheng in the car for a while.

Hou Jin claimed that accepting people as adopters was one level higher than the "treatment" of being arrested as a slave.

"Who are you on your team?" Yang Ming didn't answer the Houjin soldier, but asked him.

"They're all captured brutes." That Hou Jin Bing spoke well, and he could actually understand what Yang Ming was asking.

"What are you going to do with it?"

Hou Jin Bing looked at Yang Ming, with a strange look on his face, and a pair of eyes rolled again.

"What? Haha, the man farms and works, and the woman - haha......"

The two Houjin soldiers glanced at each other, raised their heads and laughed.

"Leave those people behind, and you go!" Yang Ming lowered his face and said fiercely.

Hou Jin Bing was stunned, as if he was a little confused for a while, the eyes of the two stared at Yang Ming, and the muscles on his face began to writhe, looking particularly hideous.

"Barbarian, die!" The Houjin soldier, whose eyes were less black and white, drew his waist knife and rushed towards Yang Ming on horseback, and another Houjin soldier also pulled his knife and followed.

Yang Ming turned sideways, pulled out his pistol, and shot twice in a row while holding the gun with both hands. The bullet hit the chest, and the two Houjin soldiers rolled off their horses without snorting, and the sabers in their hands fell to the ground, and the two horses lost their owners, stopped running, and spun in place.

Inserting the Glock 19 back into the holster, Yang Ming looked back at Wang Cheng, who was so surprised in the Humvee that he couldn't close his mouth, and smiled and made a silent hand gesture.

There was a commotion in the ranks two hundred paces away, and those Houjin soldiers shouted something, and people and horses crowded around.

Twenty horsemen marched out and began to put on heavy armor.