Chapter XVII

The wedding of the big cow came to an end, Wu Zhi chose a spacious courtyard to send to the big cow as a gift, the big cow also couldn't refuse, this wedding opened the eyes of everyone in the samurai, all kinds of gifts purchased from the daimyo's house were placed in the small courtyard full of dignified, embroidered silk, gold and silver jewelry, and ruyi jade saw that the tenant farmers smashed their tongues, each sighed, the big cow is really a good fate, how come we don't have such a good sister?

The moon is on the west mountain, the night is low, Wu Zhi and Jin Lian, Zhu'er admires the moon in the backyard, some fresh melons and fruits are placed on the stone table, Zhu'er spreads thick felt next to the stone table, and the three of them sit on the felt.

Wu Zhi sighed: "Da Niu is much easier than I did. ”

Zhu'er stuck out her tongue and said, "How can my brother compare with the master?" The emperor's wedding came to join in the fun. ”

Jin Lian smiled: "Da Niu's wedding is a prince." ”

Zhu'er looked at Wu Zhi's eyes full of gratitude: "Thank you, master, Zhu'er really doesn't know how to repay the master." ”

Jin Lian smiled beside her: "It's not easy to repay your master?" Make a promise! ”

Zhu'er blushed and bowed her head silently.

Wu Zhi glared at Jin Lian, several girls love to tease Zhu'er the most, just make fun of Zhu'er if they have nothing to do, look at Zhu'er's small body shrinking there, her face is full of shyness, and she is funny in her heart, every time Zhu'er's reaction is like this, no wonder people love to tease her.

Jin Lian suddenly said: "How have you learned Zhu'er's massage skills?" Today's master is tired, Zhu'er still doesn't give your master a massage? ”

Zhu'er: "Huh? An exclamation, I didn't expect that Mrs. would know about learning massage, Wu Zhi also looked unnatural, remembering the taste of Zhu'er massaging herself when she was in the Ye family in Jiangnan, and she really missed it, these days are busy, and I don't have the opportunity to enjoy that kind of gentleness anymore, but listening to the ridicule in Jin Lian's tone, Wu Zhi couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.

Jin Lian looked at the two of them with a smile. Before I could say more, suddenly, an arrow sounded outside, followed by the bell and drums, and it was the alarm bell in Zhuangzi.

Wu Zhi was stunned, Huo got up, "I'll take a look!" ”

Zhu'er was also surprised: "It's Liao?" ”

Wu Zhi shook his head: "I don't know!" As he spoke, Jin Lian and Zhu'er followed behind him, walking a few steps. A little maid ran in from outside, and said hurriedly: "Master, Zhuang Ding came to report and found a large team of Liao people!" ”

Wu Zhi nodded slightly, and went out of the backyard, and the villagers who were waiting outside to do something greeted him and said, "Master." Liao dog attacked, Lin Jiaotou led people to arrange defenses, and sent the little ones to report the news! ”

Wu Zhi said: "How many people are there in Liaogou?" ”

The villager said: "It's far away, and you can't see it clearly." ”

Wu Zhi sighed, and there were sentry spies for dozens of miles near Wujiazhuang. Patrolling day and night, there is an alarm bell every few miles, and the Liao soldiers must have been found by the sentinels in the distance to ring the bell to warn, and the alarm bell rang in turn. It was spread all the way to Zhuangzi, at this time, I was afraid that the Liao people were still more than ten miles away, and it was night, so I couldn't see how many enemies there were.

Wu Zhi said to Jin Lian and Zhu'er behind him: "You guys are waiting here!" ”

Jin Lian suddenly grabbed Wu Zhidi's sleeve: "Jin Lian is going!" Zhu'er also nodded vigorously.

Wu Zhi was stunned, seeing Jin Lian's resolute expression, he nodded and said, "Okay, follow me!" Jin Lian smiled happily. Xianggong can rest assured. ”

The group went out of the village, at this time in the village, a mess, from time to time someone exclaimed, next to the Zhuang Ding saw Wu Zhi displeased, hurriedly said: "Master, these noisy must be new to the village......"

Looking at the villagers with knives and guns running past from time to time on both sides and rushing towards the village wall, most of them looked calm, did not see the slightest panic, and did not make a fuss. Just silently hurrying, Wu Zhi nodded, the effect of Lin Chong's training was still good, but those new tenant farmers were messy, which was annoying.

"Go to the big cow and inform him, and say that I have commanded the land, be his bridegroom, and do not go to fight and kill!" Wu Zhi suddenly remembered the newlywed Yan'er's big cow. There was a Zhuang Ding next to him, and he hurriedly ran towards the courtyard of Da Niu.

The walls of Wujiazhuang are naturally not as good as those of important towns such as Yingzhou, but how can the huge amount of money allocated by Wuzhi be idle? White stone as the base, blue brick for the base of a few feet thick wall to protect the Wujiazhuang tightly, can barely be called the city wall, the village gate thick copper nail wrapping, the giant wood of the door is more expensive Lin Chong a lot of hard work, at this time three sides of the village gate, are assigned to the strong township soldiers guarded, so as not to have Liao people in the Zhuangzi to make a detailed response, and sent more than a dozen teams of township soldiers to patrol around in the Zhuangzi to prevent someone from fishing in troubled waters, creating chaos.

On the city wall, behind the brick stacks, the villagers or villagers wore soft armor, held simple swords, or heavily armored spears, and hundreds of archers and three hundred crossbowmen with divine arms were also lined up, looking into the distance with vigilant faces.

The horse's hooves roared in the distance, and after a while, a large black shadow surged over, and the ground was clear under the moonlight, all of them were Liao cavalry in black helmets and black armor, it seemed that there were thousands of people, and they stopped far away from the range of the bow and arrow of Wujiazhuang, and the brigade stopped a few hundred steps away from the south gate, and there were more than 100 horsemen hovering at the east gate and the west gate, thinking that it was to prevent the people in Zhuangzi from rushing out. It is also said that if someone in the village breaks through from those two gates, and there are more than 100 horsemen entangled, the brigade will have time to rush over and kill the Song people who broke through.

Lin Chong assigned good manpower, although the Liao people seemed to be going to attack the south gate, but the west gate and the east gate could not be slack, after all, the Liao cavalry was highly mobile, and it was not impossible to suddenly attack the east gate and the west gate, although there was no gate in the north, a hundred people were also sent to guard to prevent the Liao people from using any tricks.

After the distribution was completed, Lin Chong looked at the Liao cavalry not far from the city, and felt uneasy in his heart, it was not unclear that he had never seen such a battle, but now that the prince is in Zhuangzi, the stakes are too big, and the prince must not have any mistakes!

Turning his head to look at the Zhuangke Township soldiers around him, he sighed, I don't know how many good men have bled to their deaths after this battle. Just as he sighed, he suddenly saw your king Shi Shiran ascending the city wall, and the princess followed him closely, Lin Chong was startled and hurriedly greeted him: "Master, let's take my wife back to the house quickly!" ”

Wu Zhi patted the armor on Lin Chong's body, "It's quite majestic!" ”

Lin Chong said helplessly: "Master......"

Wu Zhi waved his hand: "No need to say it!" Looking back at Jin Lian, Jin Lian bit her lip and said, "Jin Lian is not afraid!" ”

Wu Zhi smiled at her encouragingly, and pointed to the black Liao cavalry under the city: "But the local chicken tile dog, and see how the prime minister slaughters the chicken and kills the dog!" Cook for the Golden Lotus! ”

Jin Lian smiled and nodded, snuggling up to Wu Zhi's side, in this murderous battlefield, she felt indescribably happy, she finally walked into another world of Xianggong. ##εœ¨θΏ™δΈͺδΈ–η•Œηš„η›Έε…¬, is still so arrogant, facing countless hideous barbarians, it is no different from facing the dozen or so splashes in Yanggu City, and even the tone of ridicule is the same.

Wu Zhi turned his head to look at the Liao cavalry under the city, and said with a smile: "The Liao people still dare to provoke? ”

Lin Chong shook his head, also a little inexplicable.

However, Wu Zhi remembered in a blink of an eye that he had been captured by himself, the uncle of the Liao Emperor, King Ye Luchun, this guy was not a simple person, since he stayed behind for Nanjing, the Liao State. He was unwilling to be captured by himself, and it was inevitable to retaliate, so he naturally did not dare to blatantly attack the northern state capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

Wu Zhi only guessed half right, Ye Luchun did have a desire for revenge, but the most important thing was to create a border conflict. Let the Song army press the border, so that the Liao Tianzuo Emperor will take the power of the soldiers and horses in the south of the Liao State into his hands, and then think of easing the relationship with the Song people, and not attacking the Song State Mansion is to avoid the Song Emperor being annoyed and angry, and not separating life and death with the Liao State. And Wujiazhuang repeatedly defeated the Liao people and plundered, which also made the Liao people hate the root of their teeth, so he was naturally the best target, according to his understanding of the Song people. It will never be because of a Zhuangzi and the Liao State on the border, and it can only be a lose-lose situation. It is to only send a few thousand military horses, and it is good to have something to say about negotiating with the Song State at that time, and it is a big deal to find a few scapegoats. Speaking of which, now the Liao State Nanjing Guards and the Great Song Dynasty Beijing Guards are all madmen with their own small calculations, I really don't know what these two people will toss the Liao-Song relationship into?

In the Liao cavalry, a pair of eyes were staring coldly at Wu Zhi. It was Xiao Tiancheng, the commander of the Liao people at this time.

Xiao Tiancheng stared at Wu Zhi, that face, he will never forget for the rest of his life, attacking Wujiazhuang is a strategy set by Emperor Uncle Yeluchun a long time ago, and Xiao Tiancheng is responsible for the specific implementation, so as to hit and uproot Wujiazhuang.

Xiao Tiancheng has been busy exploring news these days, making cavalry to attack the city, and also practicing wooden soldiers, after all, the Song Dynasty can only use cavalry to fight quickly. It is impossible to send an infantry army to attack the city, and it is not ready, and the news came from the Liao people who mixed into the Wujiazhuang, and the mysterious owner of the Wujiazhuang suddenly came back to attend a certain tenant farm wedding, and after the news came back, he lost contact with the fine work, thinking that the Wujiazhuang was tightly checked, and he could no longer send information. hh

Thinking of scaring himself into escaping and making himself suffer from the fact that he was addicted to his mother, the lord of the Zhuang Zhuang Dynasty, Liu Xiao Tiancheng's heart immediately became hot, and he didn't know that Wujiazhuang understood that she was in the middle of the night after all, and he was chasing thousands of Song soldiers on light horses, so naturally he didn't see Wu Zhi.

After receiving the news, Xiao Tiancheng hurriedly arranged, afraid that the big enemy would leave Wujiazhuang, and on the third day after receiving the message, tonight, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and led thousands of Liao cavalry elites to pounce on Wujiazhuang.

Looking at the majestic Wuzhi at the head of the city, Xiao Tiancheng sneered in his heart, the shame you gave me will be returned a hundred times tonight!

With Xiao Tiancheng's whistle, Liao Cai suddenly separated left and right, and ran out of eight horses, the horses and horses were wrapped in heavy armor, a person and a horse only showed a pair of eyes, eight horses left and right, in the middle is a few zhang long, a few feet thick wood, thick rope binding, eight knights each holding one end of the rope, shouting, vicious to the south gate, the archers on the city wall fired arrows together, clanging loudly, it was impossible to shoot the opponent's iron armor, after all, the number of crossbow arrows in the arm of the god arm is limited, it can be said to be precious, Naturally, you can't shoot at eight people indiscriminately, so this round of bows and arrows is done by light archers.

The eight knights ran to dozens of steps away from the village gate, and the crotch horses stopped together, and the rope in the hands of the eight knights was loosened, and the wood flew into the village gate with huge inertia, and the wood full of iron nails and the village door slammed together, making a loud "bang" sound, and the ground seemed to shake a few times, at this time the eight horses had turned around and ran back, and the wood was rolling on the ground and was dragged back to the camp by the knight, but it turned out that the rope that threw out the wood was removed, and there was a long rope in the knight's hand. From the charge to the return, the whole set of movements is extremely beautiful, without any mud and water, and it is obvious that it has been trained hundreds of times.

Wu Zhi looked at Lin Chong, Lin Chong knew what Wu Zhi meant, and said with a wry smile: "I think it's a new way for the Liao cavalry to attack the city, specifically to deal with our Zhuangzi." ”

Wu Zhi asked, "How many times can Zhuangmen withstand such a forceful impact?" ”

Lin Chong said: "My subordinates don't dare to speculate. ”

At this time, the eight-iron cavalry rushed over again, and the light archers got Lin Chong's order, no longer wasting arrows, and retreated one after another.

Lin Chong waved his hand. The villagers next to him waved the flag a few times, and the eight iron horsemen were rushing in a hurry, and suddenly a whistling sound sounded in the air, and a horse neighed, and the eight people and the horse were shot like hedgehogs, and fell to the ground with a bang, and rolled together with the wood, and suddenly the flesh and blood were blurred, and the wolf was a mess.

On the city wall, Jin Lian exclaimed "ah". Hiding in Wu Zhi's arms, Wu Zhi smiled and hugged her: "Scared? ”

Jin Lian said softly: "With the Xianggong here, Jin Lian is not afraid of anything!" ”

Wu Zhi saw that the battlefield was becoming more and more tragic, and was about to persuade her to go back to the house with Zhu'er, when she suddenly heard the arrows roaring through the air, Wu Zhi subconsciously pulled Jin Lian to the side. A carved arrow flew past the two of them, and the strength was extremely strong, if it weren't for Wu Zhi's quick opportunity, he was afraid that Jin Lian would be shot through.

Jin Lian didn't understand that she had already walked around from the ghost gate, so she asked harshly, "What's wrong?" ”

Wu Zhi looked back at Shonai. The bow and arrow were shot from Zhuangzi, and the Liao people were still far away from Zhuangzi, even if there was an archer who suddenly cast cold arrows, it was impossible to shoot so far.

Over there, eight more cavalry ran out of the Liao team. It was clear that he was going to use up the crossbow arrows of the god arm, but Wu Zhi no longer paid attention to the battlefield, but looked at a few villagers and a man in black fighting in front of a house near the city gate. The man in black was very strong, and the sword in his hand flashed, cutting down a villager soldier and retreating.

Wu Zhi snorted coldly: "Don't let him die too happily!" Beside him, two guards jumped down and chased at the man in black.

Turning his head to Shi Xiu, he said, "Send Mrs. back to the house and protect Mrs. Safety." Shi Xiu looked at Liao Qi in the distance. Seeing Wu Zhi's eyes glaring, he stuck out his tongue in fright, and hurriedly ordered the guards to escort Jin Lian and others to the entrance of the city wall

Jin Lian knew that she would distract Xiang Gong here, so she only turned around and left, looking at the back of Xiang Gong standing on the city wall, Jin Lian'er was intoxicated for a while, and turned her head to look, Zhu'er was also looking at Wu Zhi's back in a daze.

The Liao people have already had the seventh round of impact, and the forty-eight corpses have been replaced with more than 1,000 crossbow arrows from the divine arm crossbow, and Mangosteen has died as it deserves. Lin Chong waved his hand, and the Divine Arm Crossbow stopped shooting, it is not a way to go on like this, if the Divine Arm Crossbow is exhausted, after the city gate is breached, it will block the impact of the opponent's iron cavalry.

Xiao Tiancheng sneered over there, the crossbow arrows are about to run out? There are 160 dead soldiers on his side, that is, he can launch 20 rounds of attacks, these dead soldiers are selected from death row, and they will die sooner or later anyway, there may be a way to survive for the army, and the family has a generous reward, why not? If it weren't for his haste, the dead would have practiced more, and no matter how many crossbows and arrows he was told, it would not be enough to use his mouth

Without the deterrence of the divine arm crossbow, the Eight Dead Soldiers launched a charge again and again, bombarding the village gate as much as they wanted, if it weren't for the fact that the village gate was thick enough and the falling door wood was strong enough, I was afraid that it would have been smashed into pieces. Xiao Tiancheng couldn't help but be secretly surprised, he couldn't imagine that the other party's village was so hard.

Lin Chong frowned and thought about a way to get out of trouble, and suddenly walked to Wu Zhi's side: "Master, you and Mrs. go first!" ”

Wu Zhi smiled: "How to go?" ”

Lin Chong said: "Kill from the east gate, the subordinates will take the village soldiers and villagers to entangle the Liao cavalry, and the lord and wife will take the guards to leave on fast horses." ”

Wu Zhi patted him on the shoulder: "You, you, exchange thousands of lives for my safety?" Have you forgotten what I said to you before? ”

Lin Chong hurriedly said: "The master can not think about himself, what about the lady?" ”

"She will live and die with me." Wu Zhi said casually, as if he was saying something that was justified.

Lin Chong was stunned for a moment, unable to speak.

Wu Zhi suddenly smiled again: "What? Do you think the samurai village will be broken today? ”

Lin Chong listened to the impact of "bang bang" and sighed: "My subordinates really can't think of a way!" ”

Wu Zhi looked at Liao Qi in the distance, and suddenly said, "Use the Divine Arm Crossbow!" ”

Lin Chong was surprised: "But if the village gate is breached, how to stop the enemy army?" ”

Wu Zhi didn't answer, and said lightly: "Use the Divine Arm Crossbow!" ”

Lin Chong didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly waved his hand, and ordered the flag of the township soldiers to flip for a while, and the divine arm crossbow fired a volley, and the eight iron horsemen under the village gate became hedgehogs again.

Wu Zhi shook his head and said, "This kind of iron armor used for siege is not inferior to our step armor?" ”

Lin Chong said: "The protective effect is naturally good, but it is too cumbersome, ordinary war horses can't be carried at all, more than twice the weight of infantry armor, and the Liao people have been equipped with infantry." Finally eliminated, I didn't expect it to be used here. ”

Wu Zhi nodded, if it wasn't bulky, the Liao people had a lot of equipment, and it would be really a headache.

The eight horsemen over there charged again, but before they could get close to the front, they were shot over, Wu Zhi laughed: "Look! How enjoyable is this! It's too embarrassing to let these miscellaneous pieces bang on the door! ”

Lin Chong smiled, and finally couldn't help asking, "Master is not afraid of running out of crossbow arrows?" ”

Wu Zhi said: "Of course I'm afraid! ”

Lin Chong was puzzled: "Then why?" …… Yes! …… Does the lord have a good plan? ”

Wu Zhi looked at Lin Chong, who was delighted, and was a little sneering: "What good plan can I think of now?" ”

Lin Chong opened his mouth and stammered: "This ......" was stunned for a while. sighed in his heart, just do it, no matter what, even if you fight for your life, you have to protect the prince and the princess.

Wu Zhi smiled: "It's just a gamble!" ”

"Bet?" Lin Chong said in surprise.

Wu Zhi said: "Yes, it's a bet, I want to see how many ironclad dead soldiers he has!" ”

Lin Chong nodded silently. This is a big gamble, if you win, the martial arts village will be unscathed, if you lose, go to the martial arts village of the god arm crossbow. It is absolutely impossible to block the impact of the opponent's thousands of iron horses. What if you don't gamble? Let the Liao people break through the city gate, seven or eight times out of ten will still lose, but with the cover of the divine arm crossbow, he may take advantage of the chaos to escort the prince and princess away.

Wu Zhi suddenly sighed. Angry: "Speaking of gambling. I think of a friend who likes to gamble the most, and even treats life as a gamble, and now that I think about it, it is understandable, there will always be times when people have to gamble......"

The two of them had their own concerns, and watched silently and silently as each other's dead soldiers charged again and again. The crossbow arrows of the god's arm crossbow on the city wall gradually thinned out, and I think there are already crossbowmen who have run out of arrows.

Lin Chong has already let go of his heart, since he has arrived at this step of the field, it is useless to worry, and when the time comes, he will fight to the death, and he will protect the prince and princess.

Wu Zhi looked at the eight knights who rushed over, "Nineteenth team!" ”

After the arrows, seven of the eight knights dismounted, but one knight kept his horse and galloped forward, reaching the gate of the village more than ten steps. The horse stopped, circled, and ran back, the knight seemed to be ready to be a hedgehog, and when the horse ran back to his own formation, he exclaimed violently, and his voice was indescribably surprised.

Xiao Tian's heart, which had sunk to the bottom, jumped to his throat suddenly, the other party had no crossbow arrows? This is the nineteenth team of dead soldiers, that is to say, Xiao Tiancheng has the last team of dead soldiers left in his hand, Xiao Tiancheng knows that Wujiazhuang has a divine arm crossbow, but if he wants a small local village soldier, how many forbidden army equipment can he have, and he wants to bribe the senior officials of the Song Army to get a hundred pairs of heads, as for the crossbow arrows, there will not be many crossbow arrows, and if there are more, who will take the responsibility?

Xiao Tian thought that ten teams of dead soldiers were enough to consume the opponent's crossbow arrows. After all, the crossbow shoots at the cavalry in the charge, and only by taking the method of dense arrow rain, less than a hundred crossbowmen will not be able to shoot down all the eight cavalry in the charge, and the deterrence of the crossbow soldiers is to use the rain of arrows to deal with the charge of the large army, and it will be embarrassing for several enemies, especially when the crossbow arrows are insufficient.

Who knew that the opponent's crossbow arrows seemed to be endless, and by the time the eighteenth team of dead soldiers was shot into hedgehogs, Xiao Tiancheng was already desperate, just thinking that this time he had planted another big heel and sent the lives of more than a hundred dead soldiers in vain, suddenly the willows and flowers were bright, and the opponent's crossbow arrows were insufficient.

Xiao Tiancheng whistled, more than 100 horsemen from the outpost of the cavalry brigade suddenly rushed towards Zhuangmen, the crossbowmen of the divine arm were not able to react, and subconsciously shot out the crossbow arrows in their hands, and the light archers also shot a round of arrow rain, Lin Chong wanted to stop it was too late, and the hundred-man team dropped dozens of lives and retreated one after another. This attack on Xiao Tiancheng was completely successful, and after this round of attacks, the only crossbow arrows of the Divine Arm Crossbowmen were also consumed, and there were only a dozen people and one or two crossbow arrows.

Lin Chong sighed again and again, in the end, it is not as good as the forbidden army Cui Lian, such a small trap will also be tricked, regretting that it is useless, the twentieth team of dead soldiers ran out of the Liao team, it seems that these eight dead soldiers also know that nothing can pose a threat to them, and they screamed strangely, and called out and charged towards the Nanzhuang Gate of Wujiazhuang.

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