Chapter 384: Raid on Tiancheng
The rebel new scythe that Lu Cheng mentioned earlier, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) found that it should be a hook sickle, which is a hook sickle with a slightly smaller arc after being improved, and there is no spear head.
Nowadays, there is no weapon such as "Ge", only a hook and sickle that combines a spear and a hook sickle, and the hook and sickle is directly developed from the spear, which is different from the ancient Chinese war halberd developed from Ge.
In the past, most of the scythes used in various countries were hook-shaped scythes, which were extremely rounded, and thus combined with spears to form hook scythes. The new iron sickle that the rebels equipped the peasants with was almost indistinguishable from the modern scythe, as long as it was equipped with a wooden pole, it was "ge".
The rebels had suffered a great loss in Shaoping, so they set their sights on the common people, armed with this new type of scythe and practiced it, so as to strengthen the defense ability of the cities they occupied. In addition, the cult has been brainwashing for a long time, and these peasants are extremely wary of outsiders.
The reason why there was no reaction was mostly because the common people had a low anti-reconnaissance capability for the army after putting on the makeup of the common people, and at the same time they did not find that they were carrying blades.
When they arrived outside the city of Shaoping, they found that the rebels had set up a checkpoint outside the west gate, numbering about 200 people, but all the people who wanted to go to Tiancheng, except for children and women, adults and men without exception had to be searched and checked, and they could only pass through the checkpoint by showing a sickle as evidence.
"General, what now?" Su Hong asked.
"Now that there are so many people, it's too late to hide. Let a few brothers go out and see if there are any of our people nearby. ”
Behind him is the farmland, in front of the sentry post, completely exposed to the vision of the locals, more than 100 people at this time to hide is tantamount to no silver 300 taels here, clearly tell the rebels who set up the card that they have ghosts in this group.
At a short time, the soldiers who had gone to make contact returned, and there were still four hundred-man teams that arrived nearby.
"Su Hong, I will go to entangle the sentry post later, and you will lead the remaining four hundred people to surround me from the left and right, and you are not allowed to let any of them go."
"General, this place is less than a mile away from the West Gate, and it may not be good for the rebels to find out rashly."
"A mile is only a blink of an eye, and the rebels don't have time to react before our army can kill them. Tell the brothers in the encirclement, give me some sharpness in your hands and feet. ”
"Oh......"
Bai Liyan has calculated that the current one mile is about four hundred and seventy eighty meters, the four hundred meters of track and field are all within fifty seconds, and even if the four hundred and fifty meters are within one and a half minutes, even if the rebels at the west gate find out about the situation, they will not have time to close the city gate.
Closing the city gate requires the gatekeeper to give a direct order, and even to ask the military commander, until the Ximen soldiers find an abnormal situation, and then notify the gatekeeper to come to investigate, and order the city gate to be closed, how can this time be more than five minutes, five minutes is barefoot, and you can also kill the West Gate at full speed, and you can take a breath halfway.
Of course, the reality is much more complex and cannot be generalized.
Finalizing the plan with Su Hong, Bai Liyan quickly brought more than 100 people to the rebel outpost in groups of three or five:
"Who's coming?" The centurion led by the rebels blocked the way in a Sun Guo accent, and vigilantly summoned more than 200 rebels to surround them from the left and right.
Bailiyan was not slow or sick, and said in a Xianguo accent:
"Master Jun, Xiaomin and fellow villagers woke up this morning and found that the sickle was stolen from a bastard, and they were about to go to Taishou to comment on it, and to make this military master accommodating."
"The sickle was stolen, why don't you report it to the lieutenant chief!" The rebel centurion was suspicious, already suspicious.
Baili Yan saw that the rebels at the checkpoint had gathered, and his face immediately changed:
"Hehe, the eldest man was taken away by a wolf last night, so ......"
Without waiting for the words to fall, Baili Yan's eyes quickly touched his back, and a cold light flickered, and the knife fell in his hand, and it slammed into the opponent's head with a click, and with a crisp click, the head of the rebel centurion was oblique forty-five degrees from right to left, and everything was halved.
When half of the head rolled off, the centurion, who was only half of his head, was still standing in place, constantly spurting blood from the cerebral artery in his neck until he convulsed a few times and fell straight to the ground.
When the rebels saw this scene, they were all dumbfounded, and it was estimated that they had not seen much blood, and they couldn't help but be frightened when they saw such a tragic scene at first glance, and they were stunned for a long time and did not react.
"Brothers, kill!"
Where does Baili Yan care about this, he will kill without mercy. At this time, Su Hong led more than 400 people to gather from the north and south directions, and when he saw that the sentry post was already being killed, he rolled up his sleeves and pulled out a horizontal knife and stabbed it into the sky:
"Brothers, follow me!"
More than 400 people swarmed up, and surrounded the rebel regiment of more than 200 people inside and out, and when the surrounding peasants saw this scene, someone shouted:
"Someone is rebelling, quick, copy the guy!"
Dozens of peasants took up their sickles and loaded long wooden poles, and regardless of their wives and daughters, four or five people gathered as a gang, and dozens of people rushed to the sentry post from all directions.
"General, these peasants are crazy!" Su Hong was shocked.
"Go, take the brethren to hold on, and when Ben will reach the west gate, he will meet me at once."
"No!"
The Black Turban Army equipped the peasants with a scythe, which could be used as a scythe by tying it with a long pole and tied with hemp rope, and it was extremely sharp, it could sweep and peck, but it could not be stabbed, and it could attack at a medium and long distance, and the damage was extremely great. Ge's disadvantage is that once he is rolled close by the infantry army, he will have no ability to resist.
Broke away from the brigade and went straight to the West Gate, at this time the sentry card had just opened, and the rebels on the tower of the West Gate City looked lively, but what they talked about was something else:
"Hey, guess what, this time it's the two villages fighting for land."
"It's not like it, it's all really good, it can be a big fight for the ground, and the little girl slept with it, so I did it."
"What nonsense, it's not that the two daughters-in-law of the head of the Zhao family in Guiping Village have been missing for half a year, let General Zheng get them to the brothel camp to be happy, two days ago, somehow, I lived happily for half a year, and I ended up dead, and somehow was discovered by the Zhao family, I think the Zhao family is going to rebel, otherwise where can so many people gather."
"Damn, these officials are really not a thing, just kill and bury them after playing, and make such incidents."
"What do you know, it was Shen Taishou who deliberately wanted to destroy the Zhao family, which made General Zheng kill the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family in order to provoke the Zhao family to rebel."
"In this way, Taishou has long set up a plan to kill the Zhao family."
"Not really."
The rebels chattered about the deformity of the city, completely ignoring the fact that there were about 200 men coming straight to the west gate at a flying speed.
It wasn't until Bai Liyan and the others waited for less than a hundred steps that the Ximen rebels suddenly discovered this abnormal situation:
"Look, there's a guy!"
"It's a weapon!" The sharp-eyed ones have already found that the outsiders outside the city are all stubborn.
At this time, I didn't know how to shout:
"The Zhao family has rebelled, go and inform General Fu!"
Until now, the rebels only thought that the Zhao family of the Tiancheng clan had rebelled, and instead of closing the city gate, they also mobilized people from the city to go down to the outside of the city to prepare to exterminate the Zhao family.
Baili Yan slaughtered outside the city gate, and the first burst of sporadic arrows came to the ground, and the sparse sparse piercing on the ground did not play any role. Seeing more than 300 people pouring out of the city gate, he was also taken aback:
"It's a brain show, it's funny, it's sick!"
Then I heard the rebels shouting:
"The Zhao family rebelled, they were too orderly, and they didn't care about killing!"
Baili Yan came back to his senses suddenly, and immediately ordered the army:
"Soldiers, kill me!"
No matter who rebels, attacking the city gate is looking for death.
When the enemy attacks the city gate, it is most taboo to open the city to face the battle, unless it is a special terrain like Yin Yangcheng, which can be won by snobbery in a special geographical environment, in case the city gate is broken, the safest way is still to line up in the city gate and forcibly seal the door. If you go out of the city to face the battle, you will still be attacked under the city gate, and most of the city gates will be breached.
At this time, the rebels still thought that the Xian army in civilian clothes was the Zhao family rebellion, like a wolf and a tiger pounced on Bailiyan, a moment of hand-to-hand, the sharp horizontal knife of the Xian army surprised the rebels, the bronze sword was directly cut with a knife, two hundred people were well-trained and skilled, and the rebels were cut down to the ground fifty or sixty people in the blink of an eye.
"With a sharp blade in your hand, who are you waiting for!"
The centurion led by the rebels shouted, trying to distance the two armies, but the Xian army had already penetrated the rebel crowd, and where could the rebels be allowed to leave the battle.
Bai Liyan cut down one person at this time and replied:
"Wei Xian, the pioneer general of the Xianguo Kingdom, is also, and he will not die quickly!"
"Hah!"
Baifu was shocked, hurriedly took two steps back and turned around to escape, but unexpectedly, Bailiyan jumped and stabbed him to death.
"Brothers, go into the city with Ben!"
"Kill ......"
Baili Yan took the lead, and the morale of the Xian army was greatly boosted.
At the same time, the warriors of the Feather Arrow Battalion were pouring towards the West Gate from all directions, and the rebels of the West Gate were unable to parry and quickly collapsed.
"Su Hong, where is Su Hong!"
"The last general!" Su Hong rushed to him with a rebel shield in hand.
"Go, take people up the city wall, quickly control the city wall to capture the four gates, raise the military flag of the Xian country, but anyone who dares to resist, whether it is the rebels or the people, will be killed."
"No!"
There are only 3,000 miscellaneous soldiers in the garrison of Tiancheng, and the composition is also very complicated, Sun Guoren accounts for half, and the rest are Xu State, Zhiguo, Changsun State, and Xihai Kingdom, the combat effectiveness is uneven, the equipment is extremely poor, and it is okay to deal with the common people.
The West Gate was lost, and the news reached the Taishou Mansion as soon as possible:
"My lord, my lord, the Xian army is the Xian army, and the Xian army has broken through the West Gate!"
Commander Zheng Gui rushed into the inner house in a panic, only to see that Taishou Shen Li was still slowly twisting a paintbrush stained with colored ink in his hand, and was lazily coloring the chest of the naked woman, and when he heard the news that Xianjun had killed Shen Li, he was shocked, and the colored pen in his hand shook, and suddenly fell to the ground:
"What, isn't the Zhao family rebelling?"
"Definitely not, but now that the Xian army has entered the West Gate, the Zhao family's rebellion is estimated to be soon."
"Didn't you say that five days later, Guangxin is seven hundred miles away from here, how can the Xian army be so fast, can't it fly!"