The nameless bridgehead, the sun is shining, the grass is green,

The long-awaited sailors did not come to join us, but they saw the charred wreckage of the ship slowly floating downstream, and the swollen and floating corpses soaked in a faint red; The soldiers and horses along the eastern coast of Zhejiang made Zhang Quan's face turn blue all of a sudden.

The little sense of accomplishment that broke the grass thief's ambush before suddenly disappeared and turned into anger and pain. Although the 1,600 sailors who went out with him only accounted for one-tenth of the amount of troops on the books, most of them were experienced veterans who were good at the water.

Now, in the upstream direction of the sweep and detour, he suddenly encountered the enemy and suffered losses, but the situation was unknown, which could not help but make him anxious and anxious.

"Why haven't you taken it down yet? And let the grass thieves in this area resist until long. ”

Then he looked at the other side of the earth, and shouted to the left and right:

"These Mingzhou regimental exercises have been running all the way, and they have attacked several bandits in a row, and they are already quite tired."

An old-looking general suddenly pleaded with his hand.

"Please also ask the commander to show a little compassion and compassion, and let people replace him and fight again."

"How can this be reasonable, now the military situation in Runzhou is urgent, but you dare to bargain with me."

When Zhang Quan heard this, he suddenly raised his whip and slammed it on the other party's head and face, and shouted angrily.

"All the regiments and town soldiers have been dispatched, and they can't take down the last bit of thieves, so how can they still have the face to plead and change hands;"

"The Wolf Mountain disciples of this formation are the last resort to prepare for the untouchable, and now that the boat soldiers are lost, they can't act rashly. If it is in vain to help Dan, who will have compassion and mercy on me? ”

"Zhang Ziqian, this is yours."

"The commander of the army has been in charge for a long time, everything has his own plans, how can you not say anything"

"You're really crazy. It's not easy to admit mistakes. ”

Then someone hurriedly stepped forward to plead for mercy, and dragged away the general who was beaten and covered in blood, and scrambled to scold.

"Come back, since you have a good word, then you will take the courage of the rear team and go to take down this remnant,"

Zhang Quan immediately shouted again to stop the general who was helped away.

"If you can't take it, don't come back, wipe your neck and save yourself from being embarrassed."

Looking at the figure of the other party who bowed his head and limped away at the moment, Zhang Quan showed a chilling sneer at the corner of his mouth.

This general, Zhang Ziqian, is a local wealthy surname and a maritime merchant family in Mingzhou; The ancestor Zhang Youxin was the head of the four major maritime merchant giants along with Li Linde, Li Churen, Li Yanxiao and others. He also personally greeted Gao Yue, the head of the Wa Kingdom who had entered the Tang Dynasty to seek Buddhism, and was famous for a while in that year.

Even if the family has been greatly defeated, it is still the local leader and the first family; Even after Zhang Quan took advantage of the situation to occupy Mingzhou, it was inevitable to use this generation to appease and encompass the place. Therefore, with the reconstruction of the Mingzhou regimental training, he also became a mountain representative of the military horses under Zhang Quan.

It's just that compared to those followers and the disciples of Wolf Mountain who fought all the way, as well as the boat soldiers and boat divisions; These regimental training soldiers who were only gathered after occupying Mingzhou for several years, and which were full of children with local tycoon surnames, were undoubtedly the existence that he needed to be treated differently;

In normal times, it is necessary to encompass, beat, and divide them in order to seek stability under the rule. However, when encountering this kind of opportunity to justifiably pull them out of the land to fight, they must drive them forward as much as possible for the sake of begging the thief, and weaken them as much as possible by the hands of the false enemy. In the future, we can ensure that the territory we occupy in Minzhou will be more and more stable.

So his erection is not mean or unkind. After all, he was already determined to take the path of Zhenhai Zhou's envoys, and once he succeeded in relieving the siege of Dantu and was rewarded by the imperial court, the value and usefulness of these local noble surnames to him would be greatly weakened, and even become a potential obstacle in a sense.

Thinking of this, Zhang Quan called another cronie to come and say;

"I will take all the horses and all the horses up the river as fast as possible, and find out where the boatmen are coming; If you encounter the enemy, don't dwell too much, just go back and report the news with all your might. ”

"No."

。。。。。

And in the bridgehead battlefield where the other side is still fighting, the situation on the part of the rebel army is a little bad. Because under the fierce attack of the official army from Mingzhou, several rebel troops that were the main force of the ambush and blocking the official army were defeated or fled one after another;

In this hasty escape, without coordination and cooperation, they left more than a group of hundreds of Taiping soldiers who were sent to assist and supervise them in the predicament of being attacked by the enemy, and they were still desperately resisting the battle surrounded by the official army.

Outside the Taiping army array, which was backed by a few vehicles, corpses and temporarily dug earth ditches with their backs to the dirt mountain, desperately resisted the Taiping army arrays that were attacking and killing in turn; There has been a circle of staggered and stacked corpses. Because the arrows they had brought with them had already been shot, they could only enter the fierce and rapid hand-to-hand encounter.

After several struggles, the soil under their feet had been softened by the blood flowing between the corpses, and they made a disturbing chirping sound like mud when they stepped on it; But this artificial mud caused a greater obstacle to the officers and troops who were attacking on their backs;

They need to work hard to maintain their balance so that they don't fall back after taking two or three steps. And when they rushed in front of the rebels, they tried to block and split the condescending swords and guns, but they were often easily unstable and fell to the ground, or were pushed, inserted and rolled down.

Because even if their array shrank under the attack of the officers and troops, they still did not let these officers and troops go to Germany to have a significant advantage. And the inner circle of the battle formation that had just been rotated was already full of wounded and soldiers who were waiting to rest.

"Big brother, I can't hold it, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive this while. It's a big loss.,I'm afraid I'm going to lose my life here.。。 ”

Wang Xiangui, who was pale and licking chapped lips, also lived with a short knife panting and pleading eyes, looking at his brother Wang Xianchao and mourning,

"Hold on, the fifth and their troops are acting on the left, and there may be a turnaround."

Wang Xianchao, who was almost sitting on the ground and couldn't get up, also tried to open his eyelids that were covered with blood, and tried to squeeze out a smile on his face with a hoarse voice.

"Why don't you run away."

There were a few new bloody wounds on his body, and Wang Xianzhi, who was grinning and bandaging the corpse, couldn't help but speak.

"Escape, how can I escape, where can I escape from here, rush to the officers and soldiers to die, if you really want to take the lead and run, it will hurt everyone, and the last bit of hope is gone."

Wang Xianchao lowered his voice and scolded, and then pleaded slowly.

"Good brother, hold on a little longer. Kill a few more to ensure that there is still a way to live. ”

At this time, the sound of arrows nailing into the cover and the screams of arrows were heard again from the periphery; And Wang Xianchao had no choice but to drag his tired and weak bodies, support each other and reluctantly stand up, and fill outwards into the fronts that had become sparse again.

After another unbearable half an hour, I looked at the officers and soldiers who were crawling all over the mud and retreating; Wang Xianchao pushed away the corpse of the enemy soldier in front of him, pulled out the short knife embedded in his head and pushed it down hard; Only then did he find that a broken arrow had been inserted in his stomach and had pierced through his lower back, bleeding from both ends of the berth; I couldn't help but get up in pain and twist my face and sit down, and I had already absorbed the blood and turned into dark brown mud.

At this moment, he looked at his younger brother with half of his folded arms and a lame leg with deep bones, and said weakly:

"This time, I'm really tired of you. If you stay in the labor force, maybe there will be. ”

"Brother."

"Big brother,"

Wang Xianzhi and Wang Xiangui couldn't help but get excited, and their expressions suddenly distorted when they touched the injury, and then they frowned bitterly

"Sensei said so, this is the path we have chosen; It's a pity that I couldn't catch up with a few more good meals. ”

"Fortunately, the fifth child is not here, maybe our family will rely on him to pass it on."

Wang Xianchao began to mumble gradually because of the excessive bleeding.

"It's getting dark, why is everything graying?"

"Brother. . . Brother, wake up. I can't sleep here.,There's really no hope.。。 ”

Wang Xiangui couldn't help but be a little panicked, and shook him with all his strength with his only remaining intact arm.

"Paint him, perhaps"

At this moment, a hand wrapped in a bandage reached out and said; But it was Wang Qiu, a temporary team who looked like he had been fished out of blood.

This is the result of him using a rope to help his lower back, and many times he went straight into it with the retreat of the officers and soldiers, and then dragged it back with the weapons and arrows he had snatched. As a result, his arms were scarred by cuts and scratches, and there was hardly a good piece of flesh wrapped in bandages, but the spines were cracked and oozing blood and black.

Subsequently, Wang Xianzhi hurriedly put a small amount of blackened ointment on the nose of Wang Xianchao, and suddenly there was a spicy and choking smell, which stimulated him to tears and sneezed several times, and suddenly from the dying weakness, he was reluctant to be energetic and uplifted.

At this time, the officers and soldiers under the mound suddenly shouted with great morale, but it was some boats coming down the river not far from the mound, although these boats were mottled and burned with scorch marks and defects.

The rebels on the mounds were in a certain silence and silence; Then Wang Qiu, who has always been silent and meaningless, couldn't help but scold at first:

", I haven't really tasted a woman yet. There's no hope now. ”

However, the cheers of these officers and soldiers soon stopped abruptly, and quickly turned into the screams of falling in the rain of arrows.

"Enemy attack."

"The boatmen are backwater"

"Hurry up."

The officers and soldiers who remained on the other side of the bank were like waking up from a dream and exploding in the noise, and quickly separated a man and horse to rush across the wooden bridge; Then, several fires and smoke and dust were close to their team's forehead, and they exploded on the bridge deck.

(End of chapter)