When the Taiping army at the head of the city heard the sound of the siren from a distant whistle, they could only see the situation of the northern camp of the city and the enemy army from the north beginning to engage the battle. However, these enemy troops with the Li Zi General Banner and the Xuan-colored Horizontal Banner sneaked over from the two preset pontoon bridges on the north bank of the Liuyang River, which flowed from east to west, taking advantage of the fog that had not yet dissipated in the early morning.

Looking down from the top of the city at this moment, one can see that these officers and soldiers have easily penetrated the sentry posts and little resistance of the outer front; The thousands of other rebels who were being trained in the camp in the north of the city were just a snowdrift that looked like they had been smashed open by stones, and under the attack of the strong and sudden advance from outside, it was already a wave of wolves and rats, and the people were turned on their backs.

And Li Hanzhi, the chief general of this official army, also rode on horseback and sneered at all this, and felt a bit arbitrary and arrogant in his heart. What kind of rebel army, but a group of chickens and dogs or a rabble, with a little means, completely manifests its original form; still dares to pretend to be the teacher of righteousness in heaven, isn't the biggest truth in this troubled world whose swords and guns are sharper, and whose soldiers are fierce and ruthless enough;

"Let Erlang work harder, and take down the camp of the grass thieves in the east of the city in one go."

He stabbed the air diagonally in his hand, and said to the subordinates and his followers who were neatly draped on the left and right and stood by on their horses

"Let's let these thieves have a good look at my Hanoi athletes' skills."

The left and right also responded in unison, and then turned into countless scattered and scattered billowing smoke and dust.

It was only before turning the horse's head that he looked at the city gates that did not move no matter how desperately the defeated army slammed them, and the city towers that seemed to be frightened without much noise, and the horses that galloped away with a little regret.

He was originally from Xiangcheng, Chenzhou, and he can also be regarded as an old acquaintance of the righteous army. The ancestors were all farmers. Since childhood, he has been agile and powerful. Later, he became a monk, but because of his scoundrel behavior and ugly appearance, there was no place for him wherever he went. Therefore, he destroyed the monk's clothes, threw pots and bowls, and began to do the outlaw business of robbers.

In his early years, he once joined the early Wang Xianzhi-Huang Chao Army to loot together, and slowly became the leader of a faction. After Wang Xianzhi died and the Huangchao army crossed the river, Li Hanzhi took the opportunity to lead his troops out of the Huangchao and returned to the Tang court with Bi Shiduo and others. It is also one of the culprits and accomplices of the destruction of the rear wing of the Huangchao Rebels and the slaughter of the rear team of the old and weak.

Therefore, Gao Yu, who was the envoy of the Zhenhai Festival at the time, recommended him as the assassin of Gwangju, which can be regarded as an official status. However, before he could settle down here, the following year, in the neighboring Shouzhou (now Shou County, Anhui Province), the butcher Wang Xu and his brother-in-law Liu Xingquan rebelled; He also accepted the appointment of Qin Zongquan, a rebel general in Caizhou, who had assassinated Shi Zili, and joined forces to attack Gwangju, where he was located.

Li Han first arrived and the foundation was unstable, he was independent under the two attacks, and then the city was lost and had to lead the crowd to flee, so he went to his hometown Xiangcheng to regroup, and attached to the local Heyang Festival to make Zhuge Shuang. Zhuge Shuang then named him the assassin of Huaizhou (now Jiaozuo, Henan) after the newly recovered.

Later, the grass thieves went out of the mountains and broke Tanzhou in World War II and went down to Jiangling, Shannan Jiedu made Liu Jurong prepare for the battle in Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and the imperial court sent troops and horses from all walks of life to help; As a vassal under Zhuge Shuang, he was also assigned to Liu Jurong's command by the officers and soldiers who rushed to the aid along with several other routes. Now, as one of the partial divisions sent by Liu Jurong to attack Jiangling in the south, he is also the main contributor to the recovery of Fuzhou.

Because he was a monk in his early years, and he was also a member of the imperial court from the grass thief anyway, he soon had a not very respectful "Monk Li" alias in the Shannan Army, and he recently began to be compared with the "virtual monk" outside the southern thief ridge. This made him a little angry and a little helpless. After all, he is just a guest army under the fence, and he has the experience and background of backing from the grass thief.

So if he wants to get ahead, he has to be more adventurous and desperate than others. You must know that under the command of Liu Jieshuai in Shannan, in addition to the tens of thousands of elite battalion soldiers, there are still seven or eight soldiers of various colors who are listening.

Compared with the high-spirited Shence soldiers from Gyeonggi, or the local several states in Shannan to unite the children, the Huangzhou guards who moved to Jiangxi to defend the defense; He, the Huaizhou soldier from Henan, is just one of several guest troops, and he is not very conspicuous in it. Even after conquering Fuzhou, in addition to some of the rewards that were deducted, he only got the right to live in a small town.

He is naturally unwilling to accept the status quo, but fortunately, the opportunity clan lives up to the people who have their intentions and preparations; During this period of time, the Hunan Observation Envoy was also a troubled period in the territory, and all the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods came out together to compete for the current situation and seize territory.

First, Zhou Yueliu, a rebel from the official army of Langzhou, went to Shaozhou, broke through Shaoyang City and expelled the assassin Xu Hao. Then there was the defeated Jingnan general Lei Man, who led the remnants of the rebellion and broke through Langzhou, resulting in the death of the assassin Shi Cui Zhu. Then the barbarians of Shimen recruited people to attack Lizhou, and Lu Zimu, who acted as the governor of the state, died.

In addition, Chen Yanqian, a local tyrant in Guiyang, broke through Chenzhou, causing the assassin Dong Yue to die; It can be said that the imperial court killed four more assassins or state-level vassals in one go, and also lost the vast majority of areas under the rule of the Hunan Observation Envoy that had not yet fallen.

As a result, the territory of Hunan today has also become a situation in which the remnants of the official army with strongholds, the rebels fleeing in all directions, the rebel army stationed at important points along the river, and the local soil regiments that have seen the cracks and needles, and the various forces have risen up one after another

Therefore, if he can open up a situation in Tanzhou, then it is not impossible to use this as a basis to be promoted to temporarily replace the assassination history of a large state. Compared with Huaizhou, which was devastated by the original poor people, or Jianli County, where the household registration was almost empty, it was much more comfortable and useful.

You must know that the local grass thief leaders He Junhou, He Huaizhong, Liu Huaizhang and others who were entrenched in Tanzhou were just small leaders in the Henan Army back then; He also knows a little bit about how much quality and confidence he has, and it is completely worth his risk. In addition, he had heard the news that someone wanted to do it anyway in the camp, which made him even more determined this time.

After all, as long as they don't turn against the water and change their banners for a day, they will still be those grass thieves who can't kill enough for a day, and no one can do anything wrong with them to conquer and recover them; What's more, even among the officials and soldiers, is there still a lack of all kinds of invasion and killing? Whether it is between the North Ya and the South Division, or between the Chinese army and the foreign army, or between the town army and the tooth soldiers, only the victors who stand out will not be punished and guilty.

However, the rout of the rebel army in the north of the city still provided some kind of limited buffer; As the so-called thousands of pigs scattered around, even if people can't catch them, and when they run around and block the road, it takes some slashing effort to break out of the aisle.

So they swept down the wall like a torrent to the camp on the east side of the city, where most of the rebels had been stirred and gathered to meet them; However, these other rebel armies, which were also reorganized, were not able to hold out for long under the alternating impact of the surging enemy and the rout of the fleeing ghosts, and they were scattered again.

Li Hanzhi, who was on standby and vigilant with the horse team, couldn't help but rub the handle of the whip and showed a certain calm smile.

But when rushing to the back of the camp, the accident still happened. It is like rushing down after a torrential rain, and encountering a hard rock under the floating soil and gravel, in the moment of contact, many figures are completely exposed in the rout with the people who are all on their backs and even being picked up and lifted up.

Zhang Dong, the former officer and soldier of Guilin and now the commander of the first brigade of the second regiment of the new third battalion of the Taiping Army, was also among them and burst out with the greatest strength and blood to fight against it. Faced with the fierce enemy hidden in the rout, these Taiping soldiers only had time to form an irregular shield formation, and when they fired a round of crossbows, they had to throw them on the mud floor, and draw their swords and spears to tear and fight with them.

In just a dozen breaths of his face, he had already broken a short spear in his hand, cut two horizontal knives, and the skin-inlaid iron-edged cards in his left and right squares were also chopped to pieces; The leather helmet he was wearing was picked up and flew away, leaving only a gap on his forehead that left a blood line to cover the corner of his left eye.

And the pacesetters beside him had become sparse and thin, almost overlapping corpses or wounded men rolling to the ground groaning and hissing; However, more spear shafts stretched out from behind him, and in an instant, they poked head-on at the officers and soldiers who had densely pounced into the line, like springs in the array that had been suppressed to the extreme, pushing their figures to overturn and knock them out.

In the face of a series of customary tactics that the officers and soldiers are good at, such as rushing into formation, crashing away, wedged, and killing and scattering, these grass thieves actually resisted and withstood without moving, and also carried out a short counterattack with spare strength; This could not help but cause the officers and men who had killed the momentum to break through the bamboo, and suddenly there was a certain obvious gap in psychology and action, and they were stunned and sluggish for a while.

And Zhang Dong rolled to the ground with the momentum, and let more spear tips and wooden poles stretch out behind him, as well as crossbows and hard bows that had been wound up in the gap between the crowd; All I could hear was the staggered swinging, stabbing, striking, and rubbing of countless poles, the clatter of the crossbows, and the humming and thumping of the iron arm's hard bow; and the rapid screams and mournful wails in the array of oncoming officers and soldiers, forming a bloody death sonata.

And in the trickle and small strands of blood dripping from the dense pole above his head, Zhang Dong, who was rolling on the ground, also propped his knife forward with his elbow, and then quickly cut his eyes and hands at the calves and ankles of those wearing black boots and black trophies trampled in the smoke and dust. Suddenly, like a domino that had been knocked down out of thin air, there was no longer a figure that could stand in front of the enemy's position within a dozen or so steps of Zhang Dong's roll.

As an experienced soldier of the Long March, he didn't even need to bother to cut them, but only cut them along the inertial hanging knife of the rolling body, and the tendons and tendons that these boots could not protect were just fine; It is very fast because of the efficiency of backing. But Zhang Dong, who attracted the attention of the enemy, also paid the price, and in an instant, several hooks and spear tips were aimed at his falling body, and they stabbed and killed him.

Tried to burst the liver, and then there was a change

(End of chapter)