Chapter 400: The Fortress Falls
Guangwu, who didn't sleep at all, was awakened by a terrible shout. In fact, the squad leader's alarm could not be transmitted here at all, let alone the strict doors and windows.
But Guangwu was still frightened and suddenly sat up, picked up the big knife at the head of the bed and jumped to the ground.
Listen carefully, except for the sound of the debris of the water bowl that he took to the ground, there was no movement, Guangwu thought he had heard it wrong, and shook his head, this must have been his mistake, and he was nervous, what else could this tightly guarded Chen Jiabao miss?
I was about to lie down on the bed and stare again for a while, and then I could go on patrol again.
Suddenly, there was a clear sound of fighting in the back mountain, and the sound became louder and louder, until the entire Chenjiabao became a sensation.
Guangwu was stunned for a moment, his head was buzzing a lot, or there was a problem in the back mountain. However, on the cliffs of the back mountain, I also put five squads to guard it strictly, why was it broken without even calling the police?
However, now is not the time to think about this matter, it is imperative to quickly organize people to rescue the back mountain, and the reason why I say support is because Guangwu firmly believes that his brothers who are guarding the main road in the back mountain will resolutely persist until the arrival of his brigade.
Rushed to the yard, there were already many resting brothers in the yard with guns in the whole team, although they got up in a hurry, none of the brothers panicked, at this time, they had already sorted out their clothes and armor, and the whole team reported the number.
"Hurry, hurry, you don't have to report the number, hurry up and follow me to the back village." Guangwu didn't look at how many people rushed out, and with a wave of his hand, he was the first to rush out of the courtyard gate and run to the back village.
Those brothers no longer reported the number according to the military regulations, and rushed directly to the street with the captain and rushed to the back village.
The situation in Houzhai is much more serious than Guangwu imagined, the official army not only gushed out in the dark, as if endlessly, under the leadership of the traitor, in the blink of an eye, it drowned the squad guarding the key crossing, the five elm sprays did not play any role at all, and were pushed down by the officers and soldiers on the side of the road, and the officers and soldiers who occupied the crossing were killed into Chenjiabao like a tide.
"Didn't you say okay? Didn't you say you wouldn't kill anyone? Daqing and a few brothers who had broken into the army jumped at the crossing, scolded angrily, argued, but no one paid attention to them, under the stimulus of Zhou Ji's promise to seize Chenjiabao and exempt each person from ten acres of land, those township warriors rushed into Chenjiabao with red eyes and shouting.
"Didn't you say okay, don't kill people-" Daqing was already exhausted, but he also knew that his wish was shattered, and the promise of the eldest lord was no longer valid, looking at the slowly rising tongue of fire, as well as the screams of the villagers in Chenjiabao, and the cries of women and children, he collapsed on the cold land, the land was really cold, and the cold almost coagulated his blood.
The more than 100 soldiers on Chenjiabao who were on vigil were stunned by the accident that had just appeared, but it was only a brief moment, and then they began to charge towards this gap.
But everyone has a section of the city wall to defend, no one dares to go out, in case everyone rushes to the back mountain, and they have become an undefended area here, and the officers and soldiers who may be ambushed take the opportunity to climb the city, then their own sin can be great, so almost all the squads choose to leave the deputy captain with half of the men and horses to hold the position, and the team leader takes five people to reinforce the back mountain, which has a taboo - adding fuel tactics.
When the six brothers closest to the back mountain rushed up, they saw the black pressure of the boundless officers and soldiers, the eyes of those officers and soldiers were like hungry wolves, in the blazing fire, full of desire and greed, brandishing the swords and guns in their hands and rushing towards the castle, there were so many enemies, it was not these six people who could stop them at all. Not to mention leaving them a chance to form a gunline.
If you can't block it, you have to block it, and if you can't form a gun formation, then you will fight separately.
The squad leader shouted without hesitation, "Brothers, for the fathers and elders behind you—"
The five brothers shouted together: "Fight to the death, don't retreat, kill—"
After speaking, like a moth, they rushed into the enemy group that was several times more than them, dozens of times, maybe hundreds of times more than them.
The squad leader and his five brothers rushed into the enemy formation, and in the blink of an eye, they were drowned in the sea of knives and guns, and before the squad leader could swing the spear, he had already been stabbed more than a dozen times in his body, and he was chopped into meat sauce in the blink of an eye.
A signer cut off the still intact head of the squad leader with a knife, held it high, and howled wildly with blood on his face, "I got it, I got five taels of silver, I got five thousand eldest sons, can I marry a daughter-in-law?" ”
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, go into battle to fight, behead a head, and have a reward of five taels of silver, which is for the people, five taels of silver do not know how much, what it looks like, but five thousand copper coins are a bunch of bosses. That's the reward for marrying a beautiful Mizhi aunt.
Just when this signing was the envy of everyone, another team of six brothers came over.
The scene is still the same, shouting slogans for the father and old behind him, throwing himself into the huge sea of enemies like moths to fire, and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
These signatories are already crazy, and when they see the thieves rushing up, it is like seeing countless copper riches, scrambling to kill them.
After repeating this, they began to hesitate and began to not understand, they had not heard that these thieves had a reward for military salaries, so why did they just go out of their way to seek death?
Some of the signatories who are fighting at the forefront can get the opportunity to cut off the head of the thief, but many more people do not have such good luck and opportunity, and I don't know who shouted: "Rush into the house, the house is full of thieves." ”
When greed takes possession of a man's heart, the sheep will become hungry wolves, and when human nature is distorted, man will become the most cruel beast of all creatures, and they will wield swords and spears against people like him, and they will kill people like them and their brothers.
A group of people who had already gone crazy kicked open the door of the nearest house, and met a man who rushed out with a gun in his hand, and looked at each other in two faces, both of them were stunned, but the man from the Zhuang household reacted quickly, and according to the steps of the exercise, he strode out with his front legs, put the gun into his arms, and then exhaled and said: "Kill-" A shot stabbed out.
Although this shot did not have the momentum of the spearmen, it was also vigorous, and the sign Ding in front of him was busy blocking with the big knife in his hand, but it only blocked the spear, and the spear went straight into the chest of the brother next to him.
There was a scream, a poop of blood donations, and the sign fell down with a bang.
The spear was quickly withdrawn, but with the retraction of the spear, the man also saw his own result, a fresh life, a living person fell to the ground in his own moment, struggled a few times and died, this shock, for an honest farmer, absolutely incomprehensible.
I was stunned for a moment, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, where can you still be allowed to have a moment of distraction, only this moment, several big knives have been cut on this man's body, when the man fell to the ground, he saw countless big feet stepping on him, rushing into his house, where there are his wives and children.
But in an instant, I felt a pain in my neck, and my head was harvested as a reward.
With the screams of women and the cries of children in the house, and bursts of beast-like grins, the oil lamp that had just been lit in the house suddenly went out, but then a burst of smoke came out of the house, instantly igniting the dry thatch, and for a while, everyone rose up, and in an instant illuminated half of Chenjiabao.
After a thrilling scream in the room, several burning men burst out of the door, rolling on the ground a few times before never moving again.
At this time, the one who followed them, who was spared because of his slow legs, looked at his companion who had fallen to the ground, then at his brother who had been stabbed to death, and saw that there was no one on the left and right, gritted his teeth, and greedily cut off the head of his companion.
A head of 5,000 wen, this is a fortune, a huge wealth.
More and more courtyard doors were smashed open, and more and more grass houses were engulfed in flames, and the flames and blood once again spurred the outlaws to kill, making the killing unstoppable.
Zhou Ji was complacent behind the army, and after successfully sneaking into the checkpoint at the intersection of Chenjiabao, he also saw a thief who was not afraid of death, he really couldn't believe it, this was the original Suide signing Ding who dispersed in a hurry with 5,000 pairs of people and 300 a few months ago, is this still the same group? How did they become warriors in a short period of time, as well as those people who resisted stubbornly in the fire, yes, those people, they were still disheveled, still ragged, but whether it was men, the elderly or children, they all joined the army of resistance, is this the grass people who obediently knelt on the side of the road as long as the government officials stopped drinking, stretched their necks and waited for their heads to be cut off? If it really is, then how did Lu Shi achieve it? If a flock of panicked sheep could be trained into such tigers in just less than five months, then Lu Shi's methods would be even more terrifying. This person must not stay, if he can't be used by the court, he must do everything possible to kill him and remove this great trouble for the court.
At that time, when he saw his signing and military men rushing to the houses everywhere, Zhou Ji also wanted to stop this kind of massacre of the people, because Qi Jiguang's art of war strictly forbade treating the people like this.
But when he saw those people rising up to resist, Zhou Ji hesitated, and his raised hand couldn't be put down for a long time, at this time, Qianhu ran to Zhou Ji's side, knowing Zhou Ji's thoughts, and whispered in Zhou Ji's ear: "My lord, Ci is not in charge of the army, stopping the killing of his brothers at this time is a huge blow to the morale of the army." ”
"But—" Zhou Ji still hesitated.
"My lord, those people are all holding knives, guns, and kitchen knives against us, once they stop slashing, they will immediately gather into a group, look at how many people are thieves in this Chenjiabao? Once they are gathered, our thousand men will have no chance of taking the fortress again. ”
Yes, looking at the people who have changed from sheep to tigers, thieves, Zhou Ji can only put down his hand.
Well, since you dare to resist the officers and soldiers, let the officers and soldiers kill them all.
When Guangwu rushed to Chenjiabao with reinforcements, Chenjiabao had lost most of it, and everything was irretrievable.