Chapter 40: Casualties

Huang Han did not think that the four heavily damaged Jiannu would defeat more than 20 Ming troops, so he did not return to his horse to help the battle, because he found that a horse Jiannu was running towards the entrance of the village.

He hurriedly shot arrows to stop the Jiannu, and the fleeing enemy army was already on guard, and he leaned close to the war horse to protect his body with a leather shield.

After shooting two arrows in a row, they failed to hit Jiannu and stuck them in the leather shield, Huang Han gave up continuing to shoot arrows and chased after him.

He was not prepared to shoot the enemy's war horse, because shooting the horse's butt would stimulate the war horse to run faster, and if he escaped by Jiannu, he would not only be unable to calmly search for the spoils, but also cause the people of this village to suffer the crazy revenge of the Houjin army.

Seeing that the enemy was about to run out of the village, Huang Han was a little anxious, and he slammed the spurs on the heel of the horse's belly cowhide combat boots, causing the war horse to suffer pain, and raised his four hooves and rushed forward.

At this moment, a common man ran out of the oblique stab, he brandished a door pole and smashed it head-on on Jiannu's head, the incident happened suddenly, the Jiannu only had time to deviate his head, and was smashed on the shoulder by a pole, this time the strength was very strong, and he directly knocked Jiannu off the horse.

The blood-red man still didn't give up, and he waved the door pole one after another to smash Jiannu, and he didn't know how many times he smashed it, until he broke off the force, and the man sat on the ground and howled like a wolf.

At this time, I heard a Ming soldier shouting: "Everyone be careful, there are hidden arrows." ”

It turned out to be a Jiannu who entered the people's homes and rummaged through the cabinets found that he was attacked, hid in the house and shot cold arrows outside, and a Ming soldier was shot in the face, fortunately he was one of the ten people who obtained iron armor and iron mask armor equipment, otherwise this arrow was enough to kill him.

Several Ming soldiers were not slow to react, and they began to shoot at each other from their respective positions, and a small flag officer named Yuan Siming jumped off his war horse and rushed to the door with a machete and a leather shield, and then four more Ming soldiers also took off their leather shields and followed in.

The Ming army who shot at each other still kept putting arrows into the house to provide cover for the attacking robes, and after a while, I heard screams from inside, and the Jiannu waistcoat and a Qiding accomplice who released the arrows were cut down with seven or eight knives.

Yang Hanwei Xiaoqi, who was responsible for blocking the entrance of the village in the east, successfully shot and killed a Jiannu infantry who tried to escape from here, and Huang Sifang Xiaoqi, who went to the west of the village to intercept the enemy, only shot one bannerman.

At this time, the whole village knew that the Ming army that often wandered around the neighborhood came to fight Houjin army to rescue everyone.

The young and strong people refused to stand still, they attacked the two already frightened bannermen, and did not care about them to beg for mercy until they were beaten to the point of inhuman form.

The last Jiannu was surrounded by dozens of ordinary people in a courtyard, and there were already five Han men and women who had been killed by him, and the weapon in the hand of the trapped beast was a short-handled battle axe, and the common people could not get close for a while.

The excited people don't know who was the first to pick up the bricks and start throwing them, and then they crackled like falling hailstones, even if Jiannu had strong armor on his body, he couldn't withstand the brick rain attack, and he couldn't protect his head after being accidentally blinded, and he was soon beaten by the people who rushed up.

The Ming army completely annihilated these Houjin bandits, and the Jin bandits won a complete victory, killing three of them and seriously wounding four of them.

The seriously wounded and the dead, without exception, were Ming troops without elite armor and helmet equipment with visor armor.

The bloody facts in actual combat once again reminded Huang Han of the importance of cold weapons and war equipment.

There were also some warriors who were slightly wounded, and several of them were shot in vital parts, but the combination of iron and cotton armor provided better protection for the warriors, and these wouldn't have been fatal now brought only a few skin wounds.

After Wang Zhanpeng took Huang Chunsheng and a few people to disinfect and bandage the wounded, they found that many ordinary people were also injured, and they took the initiative to carefully treat the wounds for the people.

Due to the timely appearance of the Ming army, Jiannu had not yet completed the looting, bringing the captured Han people and property and burning the village.

Therefore, this village is quite lucky, although it has suffered more than 100 casualties, and finally saved its home and property, but I don't know if there are other Houjin troops coming back?

Huang Han asked Yang Jian to ask the village chief why he didn't heed the advice and prepare for the raids of the Jin army, and asked Yang Jian to tell the villagers that Jiannu would appear at any time, and asked them to go to the mountains to take refuge.

After a while, the village chief took a few clan elders to thank the Ming army for coming to the rescue, offering two hundred taels of silver to talk about the heart, and also rushed to a few pigs and sheep.

He once again reminded the village chief to prepare early, the Houjin army may be evil in Yongping Mansion for a few months, and Wangjiatun is too close to the official road, so it is not easy to preserve.

Jiannu attacked the village, and three members of the village chief's family were killed, and his intestines were all repentant, because three days ago, the Ming army informed them to take strict precautions and the Jin army ransacked them, and asked the villagers to go up the mountain and into the forest to hide.

After discussing with several clan elders, the village chief decided to take a look at the New Year, who knew that Jiannu would be killed before the end of the year.

In the past few days, Huang Han led the team to wander around the four towns and eight soils to familiarize themselves with the terrain, and at the same time, asked Song Pengfei to notify a few villages not far from the official road or convenient transportation, and told the people to avoid the looting of the Houjin army.

The people of some villages believed it and hid in the dense forests and hills, and some villages still have a fluke mentality, but after today's incident, if there are still villages nearby that have not been harmed by the Houjin army, they will presumably take action.

Huang Han harvested the spoils of war and cut off the head of the Houjin army and was about to leave, when the village chief and several clan elders came again.

They solemnly handed over the matter to Huang Han to ten strong men, and told Huang Han that these descendants were all people with some skills, and they all had relatives who were plagued by the Tartars, and they volunteered to follow the adults to join the army to kill the enemy.

Huang Han looked at the ten people, and found that the man who almost smashed Jiannu with a door pole at the entrance of the village to the point that he couldn't even harvest his head was also among them, and approached him and asked:

"What's your name, how old are you this year, and can you ride a horse and shoot arrows?"

The man respectfully saluted and said: "Back to my lord, the little one is named Wang Zhicheng and is twenty-five years old this year, the little one can ride a horse and can't shoot arrows, but the little one can shoot guns. ”

At this time, the village chief interjected: "This posterity is one of the best heroes in our Zhuangzi, and he is the first to do it with the Houjin Army today, his mother-in-law was shot to death by Jiannu, and his son was also trampled to death by a horse, and his wife was holding Jiannu's leg in order to let him get out, and finally he was killed." ”

Obviously, this is another bitter and vengeful man, and such a person takes the initiative to join the team, and Huang Han is the most welcome.