Chapter Eighty-Eight: Niutou Mountain Lifts the Siege

Everyone in Yaogang was so busy with this wedding ceremony that they all ignored one thing, that is, there was no news from Yan Xing in Niutou Mountain. Zhang Zhimu personally arranged for Li Zhi to go to the Huiyou Building to greet him. Zhang Zhimu deduced that Yan Xing must not come, because there were many people at this time, and he was too eye-catching to come here, which was not good for everyone. But he would have said it in other ways. Zhang Zhimu guessed correctly, when Zhang Zhimu entered the cave room to spend the Spring Festival. The people from Niutou Mountain came, and it was everyone's acquaintance Li Kui who came. But this Li Kui is not He Xilai.

Actually, Li Kui and the others had already arrived, but seeing that there were too many people here, they didn't dare to come in during the day. When it got dark, he came to the kiln gang and sent a pair of codes with the sentry, explaining that he wanted to see Chen Yufeng. He knew that Zhang Zhimu got married today, so it was convenient to find Chen Yufeng first.

As soon as Chen Yufeng heard that Li Kui was coming, he said in his heart that this kid was really bold, and he dared to come to drink the wedding wine, so he hurriedly greeted him. But before he got close to Li Kui, Chen Yufeng smelled a strong smell of blood on Li Kui's body and knew that something was going to happen.

Letting Li Kui into the house, Li Kui sighed and said, "Brother Chen, hurry up and save Niutou Mountain, it's too late if you don't go." Chen Yufeng said: "Don't worry, brother speaks slowly. ”

Niutoushan really had an accident this time.

There was a group of more than 2,000 bandits, optimistic about the geographical location of Niutou Mountain, because it guarded the trade route leading to Kill Hukou, and it was close to Tatar (Mongolia), and the officials and soldiers did not come to suppress it.

This group of bandits used to be a group of horse bandits, and later defected to Li Zicheng, but in Li Zicheng's army, they couldn't endure those hardships, repeatedly violated military regulations, and were punished many times. The leader of this gang of bandits was angry, and he pulled out the team as bandits again. Li Zicheng sent troops to chase and kill for a while, and there were still more than 2,000 people left in this gang of bandits.

These people had nowhere else to go, so they crossed the Yellow River from Shaanxi to Shanxi. They have a lot of brains and know they have to have a nest of their own. Looking around, I found that Niutou Mountain was very suitable. I have been sending people to observe and understand Niutou Mountain nearby, and I also caught two little minions who went out of Niutou Mountain, and learned about the basic situation of Niutou Mountain. Knowing that this cottage that the officers and troops can't defeat, you have to outwit it, otherwise you won't have a chance of winning if you attack hard.

Coincidentally, the spies sent out came to report that a team of people from Niutou Mountain had left the stockade. Let the little minions who were caught listen to the situation, and dress up according to the people who came out of Niutou Mountain. The little minion said that the one who took the lead was Yan Xing, the big boss.

Because there is not much food in the village now, Yan Xing and Li Kui personally led the team out to get food.

As soon as the bandit leader heard that it was really a godsend, he took the captured little minions to deceive the gate of the village, and led people to kill them into the village, and the minions in the village were usually careless, knowing that the bandits around them, who were not moved by Niutou Mountain, the officials and soldiers had already been bought, and there was no need to worry, and there was no need to worry about food and clothing here, and they were lazy and unprepared at all. It was killed all at once. There are a total of three walled gates in this Niutou Mountain, these bandits have been trained in the army after all, not a simple rabble, kill the first walled gate and go directly to the second walled gate, occupy the second walled gate, and rush to the third walled gate, fortunately, the sound of rushing and killing woke up the guards of the third walled gate and the three masters who stayed at home. By the time the three masters arrived at the third gate, the situation was already very critical. The three masters know that if the third gate is missed, Niutou Mountain will be completely finished. Seeing that the brothers guarding the gate were fighting with the attacking bandits, and the attackers were gathering more and more, the gate could not be closed at all. The attackers also understood that if the defenders were allowed to close the gate, it would be troublesome to attack again, so they rushed up desperately. At this time, the three masters were really anxious, and ordered to take out all the ** brought back from the kiln, and ordered a team of minions to say that after the ** was blown up in a while, they immediately rushed down to close the gate of the village. Then he shouted at the brethren who were fighting, "I'm sorry brethren. As he spoke, he took the lead and threw the lit ** at the crowd in the melee. After a boom and explosion, there was silence. Both sides of the melee were riddled with casualties. Although those bandits have been in battle for a long time, they have experienced the explosion of this thing, not to mention the explosion, the sound of the explosion is scared to death, and those who are not dead are lying on the ground and dare not move. The three masters took advantage of the smoke to lead people to rush down and close the gate of the village.

Because there were too many people fighting together in front of the walled gate, there were too many people killed and injured in this explosion. Both sides of the war were also shocked by this bloody scene.

At this time, the three masters who found that the situation was not good, had already sent a few people to go out from the dark passage and ride fast horses to chase the big masters. After the people left, the three masters took a look at the brothers who guarded the third gate, and there were only more than 400 people left. In this inner village, there are only a small number of family members of the leaders, and most of the soldiers and female dependents are in the stockade between the first gate and the second gate. It stopped for a long time, and waited for the attackers to clear out all the resistance outside before starting the second attack. However, due to the condescending nature of the three walled gates, the attack was not successful. At this time, the bandits below, changed their tactics and began to persuade them to surrender.

No drop.

Later, every time the bandits persuaded them, they tied up ten captured family members, and if they did not surrender, they killed all the people who were tied up in front of the soldiers guarding the village. The three masters know that more people will die if they surrender. Gritting his teeth, he ordered the people guarding the stockade not to look at it.

In this way, he insisted on one day and two nights, and the big boss led more than 500 people back, and saw that the gate of the village could not enter, so he took people into the inner village from the secret passage of the back mountain. When they saw the three masters, several people wanted to cry without tears. At this time, the bandits attacking below found that there were many people on the wall, and felt that something was wrong. The prisoners were interrogated to find out that the stockade had a back door. judged that it must be the return of the big boss of Niutou Mountain. However, when the people under the mountain thought about it, whoever came back was already gone, and they had no power to return to the sky. Ordered to send people to seal the secret gate of the back mountain, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. Trap them to death. After the big boss came back, he found that the secret door behind him was sealed, and he knew that the situation was not good, because the inner village was on high ground and there was no water source, and there were nearly a thousand people here. There is no way, now there is no rescue outside and no food and grass inside, it is called every day, and the earth is not spiritual. This lasted for another two days, and when it didn't work, Xiurong Feige came to report, saying that Zhang Zhimu was getting married, and invited everyone to drink the wedding wine.

Only then did Yan Xing know that Zhang Zhimu had returned from the south. It's a lifesaver. However, after a discussion of several masters on Niutou Mountain, they felt that Zhang Zhimu and they were just such people, and it was okay to take care of the family, there were more than 2,000 people under this mountain, all of whom were bandits who could fight and were accustomed to fighting, what could they do. In the end, Yan Xing said: "I think Zhang Zhimu is by no means an idle person, as long as we can deliver the letter to him, he may come up with a way to break the siege, and we have no other hope." I had to give it a try. Now the problem is that we can't get out, the pigeons are down the hill and there is no way to send the letter out. Li Kui said: "I see that the mountain is very careless now, the two gates are not closed during the day, I took a few people to take advantage of their inattention, and rushed out on horseback." Yan Xing thought that there was no other way, so he asked Li Kui to pick thirty people, two for each of them. Ready in front of the walled gate, suddenly opened the walled gate, Li Kui took the lead, led people all the way out, and when he ran out of the walled gate, there were only ten people left out of the thirty people, and almost everyone was injured, but fortunately, Ma Lianqun followed out together.

They changed horses and ran to the kiln in one go.

At this time, Chen Yufeng showed the demeanor of a general. The first one arranged for the other brothers in Niutoushan to come in overnight and tie up their horses, change their clothes, and make arrangements for good food and drink. Then immediately called the cadres together for a meeting, and after introducing the situation to everyone, Chen Yufeng said: "Now the situation is extremely critical, Niutoushan must be rescued, and Zhimu is also like this." Because Yan Xing is not only our friend, we all take other people's bronze medals. Now that people are in trouble, we can't ignore it. Besides, even for our own trade route, we must also take action, otherwise Niutou Mountain will be occupied by others, and this trade route will be difficult to walk. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "I can't bother Mr. Zhang now." "Everyone was delighted when they heard it.

Chen Yufeng said: "Zhimu has too much heart for our kiln. Today, no matter what, we have to worry about him. We don't have to tell him about it. Let him finish the marriage well. After speaking, Chen Yufeng turned his head to Li Zhi and said: "As soon as Xiurong City opens tomorrow morning, I will go to the city to inform the people of Niutoushan, and the flying pigeon will pass on the book, telling Niutoushan that the rescue has arrived, hold on." "He didn't tell everyone how to contact the people of Niutoushan. But Li Zhi understood in his heart. Li Zhi nodded "yes".

Chen Yufeng said again: "Tomorrow you can do whatever you need to do here, and the three-day drama will be sung; The three-day flowing water mat was opened. Nothing can be seen as unusual. Yan Boju and Lu Chengxiang are in charge of this matter. Li Wei stayed in charge of the house. Liu Yun, Li Jing, Fan Chengkun, and Liu Chenghuang led a team with me to rescue Niutou Mountain. It just so happens that Fan Chengkun's thirty people are training here, and we will go to one hundred people with them. Counting the horses brought by Li Kui, we have no problem getting together a hundred horses. What kind of training is not as good as going to the battlefield, and the comparison of real swords and guns comes faster. Everyone brought a musket, **. In addition, bring a bow and crossbow, and bring explosive mines and fire oil mines. Now go back and get ready, and we must leave before dawn. ”

Everyone immediately split up and got ready to go. As soon as the brothers who had drunk enough wine and slept soundly heard that there was a situation, they all immediately woke up and were immediately refreshed, and it seems that the training during this period was still very effective.

Everyone was dressed neatly, led their horses, and quietly left the kiln. Away from the kiln, everyone got on the horse together. Due to the urgency of the matter, everyone was desperately on the road, only when the horse was tired, he took a rest, and ran all day, rested for a few hours in the evening, and fed the horse. People rested for a while, Chen Yufeng shouted everyone up, and ran wildly, and when it was almost dawn, he finally came to Niutou Mountain. At this time, all the bandits who attacked Niutou Mountain entered the stockade, learned the lesson of Li Kui's rush out, closed the gate of the village, and hung the suspension bridge in front of the gate. Chen Yufeng arranged for everyone to rest in the woods, and he, Liu Yun and Li Kui came to the woods in front of the gate to watch the gate. Chen Yufeng asked Li Kui, can there be other places in the gate of the village that can go up? Liu Kui said: "No, if there was such a place, we would have blocked it a long time ago." Chen Yufeng said: "If we don't attack hard enough during the day, let's find a way tonight." Now go back. ”

Back in the woods, Chen Yufeng said, "Now, the bandits haven't noticed that we're coming. All the energy was spent on the siege of the inner village. It is estimated that the inner village is no problem now, and it is still in the hands of the big boss. Tonight, we want to contact the big bosses to act together. Li Kui led your men and sent Liu Chenghuang with twenty brothers to cooperate with you, enter the stockade through the secret gate in the back mountain, and inform the big boss that they heard that we had attacked, and they also launched an attack together. There won't be too many people blocking the door in the back mountain, so it should be no problem to clean them up. It is better not to use muskets. So as not to startle the snake. During the day, everyone rested in the woods. ”

Li Zhi, who stayed in Yaogang, was afraid of delaying things, so he personally led people into Xiurong City. Come to the Huiyou Tea House and tell me about the situation. How dare the people in the teahouse slack off, for the sake of insurance, they released two carrier pigeons.

The big boss who was trapped in the inner village received a letter from a carrier pigeon in the afternoon. The big boss was very happy, he didn't expect the rescue to arrive so soon.

As soon as it got dark, Liu Kui and Liu Chenghuang took people and set off to the back mountain. They quietly touched the secret door in the back mountain, in front of the secret door there are more than 50 bandits guarding the door, because the secret door is not big, no matter how many people you have in it, if you want to come out, you have to come out one by one, so you come out one, facing fifty people, so the people inside can't rush out, these people are very careless. They all sat boredly around a few campfires on the ground. Liu Chenghuang and Li Kui had a brief discussion, and then they carried out a surprise attack. Liu Chenghuang and Li Kui led the brothers, and suddenly rushed into the crowd of bandits, and there was a burst of indiscriminate slashing, and many bandits were cut down before they could stand up. Just paid the price of a few minor injuries, and the bandits who watched the gate in the back mountains were solved. Leaving ten guards behind, Liu Chenghuang and Li Kui led people to enter the inner village through the secret gate. Yan Xing, the big boss, happily shook Liu Chenghuang's hand and said thank you.

Here, Chen Yufeng waited until it was dark, leaving some people to watch the horses. Chen Yufeng and Li Jing took a few people trained by Li Jing to quietly climb through the ditch in front of the wall, and came to the wall, Chen Yufeng and Li Jing quietly climbed up along the wall, and the two of them quietly solved the two sentries closest to them, and followed the arrow stacks of the wall, and came to the other two sentries, one by one, and quietly put the sentries down. In this way, the ten sentinels standing guard on the wall, after a while, were all put down, and then Li Jing put down a rope, and ten people under the wall came up along the rope. The people who came to the city wall put down the drawbridge creaky together, and at this time, Chen Yufeng saw that the secrecy work was done very well, and the people in the village did not notice that the wall had been occupied. Chen Yufeng stopped Li Jing, who was about to go down to open the gate of the wall, and motioned to get a few more ropes to throw down, so that more people could come to the wall. Let the newcomer bring some more rope, so that the master's speed is much faster, and slowly the bow and crossbow are also hoisted. Finally, in the middle of the night, the people came up.

At this time, Chen Yufeng asked everyone to hang the suspension bridge again, and Chen Yufeng said: "In this way, none of the bandits who come in can escape." ”。

Looking into the wall from the wall, between the first wall and the second wall, there are rows of torches inserted everywhere, and tents are neatly arranged, which looks well-trained. Chen Yufeng ordered the gun to be loaded and the arquebus to be ignited. The crossbow mine aimed at the tent in the distance, and the first target was the big tent, with fire oil bombs and then explosives. Fry it with ** in the near distance. The people lining the wall are roughly assigned the attack area, so as to avoid dead spots and repeated attacks.

Just listened to Chen Yufeng's "ignition", and the crossbow mines on the wall of the wall were launched first, and dozens of ** were also thrown in. There were a few oil mines that really shot very accurately, and they all pierced into the tent and exploded, and the oil ignited the big tent at once, and the people running out of the big tent were also covered in fire, and then the explosion sound of "boom" was one after another, and there were fires and explosions everywhere. The crossbow mines were aimed at those distant ** targets that could not be thrown, and the tents in the distance were also blown over and ignited one by one. The tents in the entire camp were set on fire in a few moments.

These bandits who were dreaming of it at first thought that it was thunder in the sky. But immediately I felt that something was wrong, and this thunder fell on my side. If it wasn't blown up directly, the fire would have burned after a while. When I ran out of the tent, the scene in front of me was even more terrifying, with explosions and fires everywhere, almost like the end of the world. There is no choice but to run around.

Because it was night and the crowd was dense, those who were hit and injured were trampled to death by each other. There were miserable cries everywhere. The suffocating air was mixed with the smell of hot meat, and the camp became a living hell.

Chen Yufeng ordered the musket solid bullet to fire freely. Now it's good, as long as there are moving targets in the firelight, they have become live targets, and after a burst of fierce gunfire, there are not many moving targets, and slowly the gunshots will occasionally sound.

Those living bandits know that as long as they stand up, they will be hit soon, but if they don't stand up, they will be burned to death in a while, and some of them really can't stand up and run, but several bullets will hit him at the same time. Chen Yufeng said to Liu Yun: "It seems that the results of the training during this period are good, and the marksmanship is good. Liu Yun said: "Actual combat is the best examination room to test training results." At this time, he heard the sound of shouting and killing from the inner village, and Chen Yufeng knew that it was Yan Xing, the big boss, who cooperated with the counterattack.