Zhang Dong, who roared past on horseback, raised his knife in his hand, and the severed head rose with the splattering blood, and then splashed on the faces of several other companions who were close at hand and had not yet reacted; However, they could only shout and exclaim in vain, and waved their jagged knives and guns at the passing figures in the air.

However, at this time, another fire horseman, who had stopped his horse again not far away, had already removed his holstered special repeater from his horse's back hook, and fired at them with a roar. The short arrows that split their heads and covered their brains were nailed to their heads, faces, chests and abdomen in an instant, and they fell to the ground one after another screaming one after another.

Although these mounted foot soldiers were not yet able to charge into battle like regular cavalry, they also practiced another set of corresponding combat methods and strategies; For example, in the stop-and-go movement on horseback, the enemy who is stretched out is shot, harassed, and suppressed.

As soon as the enemy wavered and collapsed, they would quickly dismount and pick up long knives and short grasses, and turn into infantry commandos to fight into them. And at this time, the cavalry has become a role for them to sweep and contain.

Therefore, Zhang Dong only relied on the two fires and cavalry that he brought out, swords, guns, bows and crossbows in turn, and easily killed this force of more than 100 officers and soldiers several times, and made them collapse without any damage;

In the end, when he raised the short spear on the horse's back, and provoked the fourth officer and soldier who was still calling for battle, and stepped under the horse, this rather tenacious officer army finally collapsed completely.

Then, Zhang Dong rode his horse to catch up, and struck, patted, and swept the fleeing routs with the shaft of his spear and the back of his sword, and even knocked one of them down and kicked him to the side; He also shot an officer and soldier who longed to drill in the grass with a bow on horseback, which made the rest of the defeated soldiers stop and obediently kneel and become prisoners.

It was only when he interrogated the origin of these prisoners on the spot that he learned that these officers and soldiers were actually from the territory of Yangzhou in the west, and belonged to the regimental training under the command of the state Sima and the city defense envoy Yu Xin?

And when Zhang Dong led the team to drag the horses, the more than 20 people who were tied up returned to a dirt slope near Ankang County, but Huo Ran's heart was shocked; Because, during the time when he was out to detect the enemy, the low county city wall was still surrounded by a large army that appeared out of nowhere.

You must know that the county seat itself is located in a river valley between the mountains, with tea trees, mulberry trees, tung oil trees and lacquer trees all over the mountains, surrounding a large field in the flat land of the river valley; But most of these fields have been burned and trampled.

The county seat of Ankang is just on the tributary of the Hanshui River that runs through the valley in the north-south direction, and at the same time connects the Tongzhou Road in the southwest, the Yangzhou Road in the northwest, the Shangzhou Road in the northeast and the Fangzhou Road in the east.

However, compared to Zhang Dongqian's reconnaissance of the northwest direction, Yangzhou Road, where Fangshan Pass is located, where did these enemies emerge from? You must know that in Shangzhou and Fangzhou, they are both considered the sphere of influence of the Taiping Army's garrisons, and they belong to Shanxi (South) West Road? (South) Tongzhou Road, on the other hand, is only a fairly narrow mountain road.

However, Zhang Dong didn't have the heart to think about it too much, and immediately ordered:

"Riding on the fact that the thief army has not yet discovered, everyone will wait for the rest and food on the spot, and recover some horsepower."

Then he took out the monocular that had been dispensed to him, and looked closely at the situation under the city; After half a loud breath, he sighed heavily, and said to the riders who were crouching quietly on their mounts with sugar-sweetened tea soup or wine in the kettle, munching on bean dough stuffed with fish floss and oil residue, or feeding their mounts pieces of hay:

"There are at least a dozen different flags gathered outside the city, and we can take advantage of the gap in them to rush,"

Then he drew his sword and came to the captives who were sitting on the ground with their heads bowed down, and he took the lead and slashed them with a wave of his hand; After a wave of exclamations, screams, and exclamations, he spoke to the captives who had been cut off their leashes in disbelief.

"Let's let you live, my Taiping Army is not a person who kills indiscriminately. Hurry up and go back to the village on your own. ”

"But if you see you in the battle formation next time, you don't want to be spared."

A moment later, under the cover of low mountain bags and bushes, Zhang Dong and the others, who were holding their mounts, also slowly touched the edge of the besieging brigade, and watched them push the hastily built long ladders, large rows and earth-covered carts, and began to attack the city wall.

However, when they slowly approached within forty or fifty steps of the low and dilapidated city wall, Zhang Dong secretly counted the numbers, and suddenly the entire incomplete wall seemed to wake up and come to life, and the figures got up densely and shot many arrows.

For a moment, it was like a gust of wind blowing in the uncovered wilderness under the city, and many cowering figures were shot to the ground, and the rest of the people who had not been injured or hit by arrows suddenly fell to the ground like a rice harvest that had been blown down. Others shouted and threw down the utensils in their hands and turned around and ran.

"That's when I got on my horse and rushed over."

Zhang Dong suddenly shouted out hurriedly.

In an instant, their small cavalry galloped out like arrows from a string, crossing the slightly uneven but exposed hard fields, and facing the nearest group of dozens of enemy soldiers who were flying and trampling on their backs.

But he was castrated, like a sharpened blade, and struck into another group of disorganized enemy troops, slashing and trampling them, screaming and wailing for a long time, and without looking back, he rushed into the next group of enemies again, and cut through them covered in blood; Pounce on another enemy army caught off guard.

Looking down from the city wall, it was like a beast rampage through the enemy's army, trampling out a winding blood-colored route with the flags falling one after another, and finally breaking through to the city wall.

Only then did the enemy under the city react in a chaotic manner, and wanted to encircle and intercept it in the midst of shouting and screaming, and some scattered horse teams arranged on the periphery also gathered and gathered over after hearing the news.

At this moment, the old gate, which seemed to be closed, suddenly opened in the dust, and a stream of iron flashed out; I saw them rushing forward and facing the besieging enemy who had made a hasty U-turn and turned back.

At the moment of contact, he swung a series of long knives and axes, and wantonly slashed and slashed these enemy soldiers in front of him screaming and sinking into a large area of blood; After only a few moments of devastating battle, they had already joined up with the enemy's horse team that had protruded from it.

And in a large area around them, there were no enemy troops capable of forming an existence except for the chaotic and fleeing figures; Then he slowly stepped down and retreated into the cover range of the bow and crossbow at the head of the city. They even had some spare things to start fires and threw them on the long ladders and platoons that were abandoned along the way.

And Zhang Dong, who was holding the sweaty and trembling fur, had almost lost his strength, but looked at the enemies who had resurfaced like a tide with a little regret;

It's a pity that there are still too few people who can attack this time, otherwise this temporary flanking attack that echoes inside and outside can at least shake and kill the enemy forces in this formation, and make them only defeat and regroup.

but when they retreated into the city gates, they were blocked with cross-sections; Then when the number of people was counted, it was found that the two fires and twenty-one horsemen who had attacked with him at the beginning only followed back sixteen horsemen, and there was also one person who broke his horse's hooves and fell down, so he could only give up his mount and be supported back by the soldiers who received him.

Then Zhang Dong, who couldn't help but be gloomy in his heart, was a little shocked to find that he actually came back with a few more tails, and it was the people who were taken prisoner by the officers and soldiers who were released. He couldn't help but ask.

"Why are you here? Didn't they all let them go?"

"It's really that there are no living people in the township when I go back, and I ran out to beg for food."

One of the officers and soldiers pleaded with a helpless and honest expression.

"It's to follow you all the way to the old way, and I hope to give you a way to live. As long as you can eat boiled wheat rice and salt vegetables every day, it would be good. ”

"That's right, I just need to eat and be full."

"Even if you flee back to the township, you will inevitably be arrested and join the army again, but I am afraid that you will have to suffer military law and lose your head."

The others also hurriedly echoed and nodded.

Zhang Dong couldn't help but look at it more and more surprised, the other party who looked thin and not amazing, the other party was able to rely on two heels to match the four feet of a war horse, which was also a rare talent and ability.

Then he untied the bag of dry food that was left on his saddle and threw the captive a packet of fried noodles and said:

"Send him a knife soldier, if he can survive the city, he can be put into the team for the time being."

At this time, several bursts of black smoke suddenly rose in the city, and Zhang Dong couldn't help but sigh and said:

"You're waiting for the opportunity to perform and repay."

- I'm the dividing line -

In the Gangneung Grand Seminar, a new news has once again sparked discussions among many teachers and students:

Li Siyuan of the compilation section. Something happened this time. Why was he suddenly swept out of the house?。。 Anyway, he is also a well-known scholar and division commander in Tanzhou. ”

Didn't he advocate that the governors should be treated differently in the new version of the Xiangzhou training center, so as to encourage the village sages with conscience and morality to be used by the government at all levels. So I touched the big mold. ”

"How can it be that is, it is really a thing of his own death; As everyone knows, behind the morality of these so-called village sages, there are still few things full of evil for all kinds of male thieves and prostitutes; ”

"That is, it is easy for the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to clean up the families of this generation of squires, heroes, and big families, and since then they will no longer be suffering and suffering for the people; But I don't want to have a person who is a teacher, and I am willing to advocate and show my eyes for it?"

"The Metropolitan Governor has made it very clear that the township sages and townships are willing to be on both sides of the same body, and they are both thieves of virtue who coerce public opinion to fulfill their selfish desires; If you dare to talk about Xiangxian again, please ask him to get out of here and go home to find Xiangxian as a companion."

"Fortunately, the Metropolitan Governor's Office has emphasized that it is not necessary to punish people indiscriminately because of their words; Otherwise, in the old court mansion in the past, even if it can't kill the head, it will be a major sin to break the family and be exiled for 3,000 miles. ”

"So what's the matter, now that this gentleman has been removed from public office and sent home, he will have to report it to the yamen in various places as a police effect; Don't say that the future of this life is gone, but I'm afraid that after being on the corresponding blacklist, even if my relatives want to have a career in the future, they will be looked at differently. ”

"This is a long-term punishment that is more heart-wrenching than killing people and cutting off their heads."

"That's what he deserved to be. Don't have a good life and a good future, and only when you lose your heart and go crazy will you speak for those who are suppressed and eradicated by the Metropolitan Governor's Office. ”

"This guy is in the water, if these village sages can be used in the Governor's Mansion again, then what is my generation who has been pressed because of his humble background? ."

"Do you want to obediently give up the position and authority that you have so easily won to these moths and rats who do not produce and sit and eat profit? This guy really deserves to die. ”

"According to me, it is right to investigate the relationship between his three generations and secretly collude with him, and then include the clan in the genus that will never be used."