Outside the west gate, bare, wild, and miles near the city, there are barren grasslands. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the sun was fierce, and only the grass was dazzling, like waves.

In the wilderness in front of the West Gate, some sentry riders were chasing, stirring up large clouds of smoke and dust.

"Whoosh!"

A thief rode past from about ten paces away, and when the four hooves of the war horse stepped over the weeds, an arrow whistled towards Qian Sanniang.

"Tuk!" With a sound, Qian Sanniang's left hand next to the card blocked, and the arrow feather trembled lightly on the card.

"Bang-" The three-eyed flint Xin'an handcuff in her right hand snapped, and the fierce fire burst out, and the billowing smoke filled with it.

The thief screamed, and a mist of blood splattered on his chest on the left side.

Even though he was dressed in iron-clad armor, the distance was still pierced, and he rolled off his horse with a scream, and his heavy body fell on the grass, raising a lot of dust.

"Sigh Rhythm-" Qian Sanniang's snow-hoofed rouge horse under her crotch let out an impassioned neigh, and her front hooves were raised high, and the black cloak that stirred her up also fluttered high.

At this time, Qian Sanniang was still gray felt, cotton armor, and a pair of sentry team equipment, on the horse, extremely vigorous.

At the same time, she was double-inserted on her back, but she was a bow and arrow.

Generally at this time, the double insertion, that is, the combined name of the bow and quiver, has a strap tie, or tied or hung on the belt. At this time, the military habit is basically to hang an arrow bag on the right side of the body and a bow bag on the left side. Of course, there are also people who are accustomed to carrying their quivers on their backs, or bows and quivers on their backs.

Because Yang He prefers the traditional bow and arrow in one bag, that is, the strong bow and the strong arrow are combined in one bag, and then carried behind him, attracting everyone in the army to follow suit.

Qian Sanniang is the same, her quiver part is still a squeezed quiver, the arrow is stuffed inside, and no matter how bumpy it is on the horse, it will not fall.

However, her bow and quiver were hung from the saddle, and she was equipped with two handcuffs and a heavy sword at her waist.

She has a talent for handguns, and although she is galloping, she still has six rounds of ammunition and four hits.

Then, when the handcuff was finished, she tucked the handcuff back into the holster at her waist, and drew her bow and light arrows. The riding bow was not very powerful, and the thieves on the opposite side had cotton armor, but she still shot a thief under the horse, and wounded the thief's horse.

Finally, she pulled out her mace and swung it, and her mace was inserted into the socket behind the saddle, which was made of high-friction leather suede to prevent slipping, and there was a tie in the middle of the mace shaft that could be hung on a hook outside the socket.

At this time, there are a variety of ways to put long weapons on the shelf, there are horizontal victory hooks, vertical plugs, many people also set up shelves in front of the saddle, and the long soldiers can be placed horizontally, or placed diagonally in front of the front, and the weapons can be copied up at any time to fight.

Qian Sanniang's mace likes to be inserted vertically behind the saddle, and at this time it is drawn and wielded, and it is invincible.

In the sun, only her black cloak could be seen fluttering.

"Good!"

There was thunder of joy on the polder wall, and many social and military officials in the city saw the Xin'an Army fighting for the first time, especially Qian Sanniang's battle, and they were all amazed and discussed.

Gao Qifeng, the magistrate of the county standing next to Yang He, couldn't help but admire: "It's really a heroine." ”

Today, when the Xin'an army sentry hurriedly came to report, the thieves brigade was coming to Suining, and some rogue sentry horses were galloping, and the gongs of the alarm sounded everywhere in the city, and the officials went to the wall one after another.

Yang He also urgently notified the Sui River side to remove the pontoon bridge to prevent the thieves from crossing the Sui River, and even to the Yellow River.

At the same time, he climbed the tower of the polder wall of the West Gate and looked at the scene outside the West Gate.

Because of the temporary thieves and sentry riders operating outside the west gate, all the officials gathered here, such as Liu Zunhe, the county Cheng who arranged to defend the north gate, Zheng Shixin, the chief bookkeeper who defended the east gate, and Wei Kungang, who was originally guarding the south gate, died and was defended by Gao Qifeng, the county governor.

All the officials looked at it one after another, as well as Han Daxia who defended the Ximen Wei Wall, Zhang Songtao, a Chinese officer, Chen Qiuao, the captain of the guard, Zhou Mingyuan, the head office of the reserve team, and others here.

At the beginning of the day, a group of thieves and sentry suddenly rushed to the west gate and swaggered to snoop.

They were more than 100 paces away from the low wall, and farther away from the polder wall, and the marksmen could not drive them away, so Yang He sent the cavalry out to expel them.

Qian Sanniang volunteered to lead more than 20 cavalry divisions and cavalry, each of whom was equipped with three-eyed flint Xin'an handcuffs, and cotton armor, inlaid iron cotton armor and other equipment.

But their bows pose little threat to everyone, and Qian Sanniang and others have sharp handcuffs, as long as they hit the enemy, the middle ones will either die or be injured.

Not long after the struggle, thirty or forty thieves fell a dozen sentry horses, and only some were slightly wounded, and some were shot in their horses.

Such a comparison of results made the remaining thieves panic and retreat one after another, causing the polder wall to cheer even louder.

Then Yang He saw Qian Sanniang, Li Ruwan and others happily running back to the earthen wall, all holding some horses and booty in their hands.

Yang He's eyes couldn't help but turn on Qian Sanniang, especially her devil figure and long legs, now Xin'anzhuang is stable, but there is another problem that comes to the surface, that is, his heirs.

This problem is unprecedented in this era.

In fact, some time ago, Qi Youxin, Yan Dezheng and others all mentioned this issue explicitly or implicitly.

And look at his Yang He's age, he is nineteen years old this year, which is considered young in later generations, and many people in their thirties and forties still call themselves teenagers, and they are reluctant to get married, but in this era, the age is not too young, and they will definitely get married next year at the latest.

With his pride in Yang He, he doesn't care about the need for women to expand his power, he is a free man, no one can force him, just choose the woman he likes.

However, at this time, Daming's woman basically did not suit his appetite, especially her breasts and buttocks, which made Yang He frown extremely much.

Looking at it, there is only ......

Suddenly, Yang He's eyes froze, and as soon as the gang of thieves retreated, he saw a few miles southwest of the city, followed by smoke and dust, and in the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, dozens of rogue horses appeared in everyone's sight.

When they were two hundred paces away, they joined the thieves who had been defeated and pointed at the polder.

The sound of hooves did not stop, the rumbling of horses' hooves sounded, and more than a hundred horsemen rushed forward, and when they ran to the sight of the west gate, they scattered and separated, let out a strange cry, and began to run around the city.

The sound of hooves was chaotic, the drums were drumming, and the heavy pressure spread, and the faces of Gao Qifeng and the others in the county magistrate instantly turned pale.

This is the thief, who is getting more and more elite, and now the officers and soldiers rarely dare to go out of the city to fight the thieves in the field.

Yang He's face was still expressionless, he looked at it from a distance, and those rogues and horses were all skilled, with arrogant expressions, and an indescribable anger.

They all seem to be wearing coarse felt cloaks and felt hats, but their costumes are blue and red, clearly distinguishing the camps.

Yang He guessed that the blue should be Li Zicheng's subordinates, and the red should be Luo Rucai's subordinates.

He counted the thieves outside the city, and before he could count the number of people, he heard the roar of hooves, the smoke and dust, and at least hundreds of thieves galloping towards him.

They shrieked, split into more bands, and ran around the city, spying on the defenses of the four gates.

At last the sound of hooves rang out, and the dust stirred up covered the earth, and I am afraid that a thousand thieves rushed over.

Behind them was a vast sea of people, looming in the smoke and dust, and the black pressure of the banner was like a tumbling dark cloud.

……

Yang He looked around, the officials looked very solemn, and he looked at the polder wall under the city tower, the tall and very thick sack basket stretched the wall, regardless of the battlement wall The mouth of the battlement is tightly covered, which can be very good against artillery and bullets.

At the earthen ramparts at the mouths of each battlement, many of them have squatting shooting holes, there are also standing lookout holes, and some of the lookout gaps left on purpose, at this time, the two general soldiers guarding the wall are hundreds, and the social soldiers gathered here as a reserve team, they have looked from the gaps and the lookout holes.

Seeing the might of the thieves, not to mention the pale faces of many social soldiers, even many soldiers made heavy breathing sounds.

The momentum of the thieves is indeed a bit scary.

Yang He looked out of the polder wall again, fifty steps below the wall, Minister Yang, who was in charge of the defense of the earthen wall, was looking at the lookout hole, and Han Guan'er and Luo Xianjue stood beside him, looking at the outside of the wall continuously.

Then behind the two earthen walls, a general soldier and two general killer soldiers sat quietly, and many people couldn't help but secretly look out of the shooting hole.

The cavalry sentinels gathered behind the second earthen wall, and they were all silent, and even Qian Sanniang and Li Ruwan stopped talking.

The psychological pressure caused by the arrival of the thief brigade is indeed extraordinary, but after surviving this battle, Yang He believes that the team under his command will become more and more brave and mature.

Seeing that there were more and more thieves, some thieves and horsemen were screaming, and even running into the earthen wall a hundred paces away to peep, Yang He frowned, but still resisted the idea of letting the cavalry go out and expel him.

The sentinel team was not effective in fighting, but the cavalry team was originally fifty horsemen, and some time ago they were killed or wounded, and now there are only forty horsemen who can fight, and there are still fewer cavalry personnel, and it is too difficult to make special supplements, and the rogue horse team outside is at least more than 1,000 horsemen.

Now the cavalry team throws out, but it is just a loss in vain.

Yang Liu's heart was quite stressed, as far as he could see, there were so many rogue horse teams, and they didn't know how many of their foot soldiers were hungry.

It's not good.

……

Hoofs rumbled, smoke billowed up.

Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Wang Long and other drama thieves galloped on the official road, and at least 200 elite horsemen followed behind them, and the horses' hooves hit the ground, which was a loud sound.

They rushed to the south of the city, along both sides of the official road, full of lakes and river forks, mud and reeds, it was indeed a bad place.

Even a few miles away from the south of the city, there is a small village called Yuzhuang not far from the left side of the official road, the village is not big, less than a mile in circumference, but it lives in the middle of a reed pond, and a small dirt road that can only walk one person winds into the village.

In the past, this kind of small village was the target of the righteous army's focus on grain, but looking at this kind of terrain, Li Guo and others could only let it go.

They approached the south of the city again, and there were large ponds everywhere, with dense reeds and grass on the edges, and the official road winded between the ponds, and then led to the polder.

Look outside the gate, there are only a few houses, the scenery is extremely depressed, and people go to the empty building earlier at this time.

Li Guo and the others frowned, although they didn't look close to the polder wall, and they didn't see the defense over there, but they definitely had artillery on the wall.

If such a road is attacked, it can only be crowded together, and they will hit it with artillery......

After discussing for a while, Li Guo and the others decided to take a look at the east gate and north gate of Suining City first, and then go around to the west gate.

The thieves turned two miles outside the south gate, turned to the east gate, and barely found a small dirt road around the city, with potholes, and accidentally appeared in front of a lake and reeds.

They went around and around, and it was easy to go around to the southeast of the city, and there were also polders here, and there was Caozhuang Pu on the official road leading to Suqian, and there were some low houses on both sides of the road, which were probably sixty or seventy steps long.

But except for these people who went to the empty buildings and the houses not far from the polder, the rest of the place is still muddy lakes, dense ponds, sparse wheat fields and vegetable fields, east and west.

Li Guo and the others were still frowning, with such a terrain, how could they display their crowd tactics?

The defenders of the city are a little more powerful, just look at the official road line, if a husband is a pass, ten thousand people will not open.

They went around again, and turned to the east gate, and there were a few closed houses, shops, tea shops, etc., but ......

Look at the north gate again, there is no room empty, only the water and reeds are in the sky, and occasionally you can see some temples.

Wang Lung couldn't help but scold angrily: "What the hell is the place? Donkey ball, the local county magistrate is really derelict in his duty, he should be caught and killed! ”

Finally, they moved to the west of the city, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, this place is good.

……

With a loud noise, the thieves gathered more and more, and the mighty sea of people spread.

In particular, they marched out in all directions, and the sentry patrolled all over the west of the city.

There are a lot of abandoned fields and abandoned villages here, they want to detect clearly, can there be ambushes of Suining Xiangyong hidden between these abandoned villages?

Yes, we have to search for it!

Like the Qing army, the Liukou paid great attention to the sentinel matters, especially Zhang Xianzhong's team: "Every time you set up camp, you will send horses, and you will be a detective from all directions." One mile and one dial, until 200 miles away, there is a police to know. ”

They also had to spy on the place, where they could camp and where they could get water to drink.

This side is a barren wilderness, the ground is dry, there are few rivers and lakes, and only ten miles away, there is a rather large river.

This 15,000-strong army needs a lot of water, and where to set up camp is very important.

When the thief brigade was in an uproar, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Wang Long and others approached the polder wall of the West Gate.

They rushed over and saw that there was a mountain and river shrine one mile away from the polder, so they climbed the altar one after another to look.

They rode their horses and stood on their horses, constantly looking and observing over the polder.