Chapter 60: Meritorious Service
Wu Zhifu, who was in command of the attack on the granary, was now like an ant on a hot pot, and he had a premonition that the long-haired brigade was about to enter the city. He had received a report from the townsfolk who had fled from Simon, and that Arjinga had been blocked by dozens of longhairs at the west gate, and that Simon was still in the hands of longhair. In this way, it seems that the teams supporting from the north and south are estimated to be reaching the west gate soon, and there is not much time left for him.
"You guys, let's go and see why the cannons on this wall haven't been shipped yet." Governor Wu sent someone to urge again, as long as the cannon arrived, it would not be a problem to blast open the warehouse door of this granary, and the next thing would be easy to do. He has now realized that Yong'an will be broken sooner or later, and he should not be able to survive, and burning the grain at the last moment and making the longhairs work in vain is the most important thing now.
"Bang!" The main door of the granary opened by itself, Yang Xiaoshan bravely rushed to the front with a sword in his hand, on his left was Lan Chengchun carrying a machete, and a military flag was tied behind his back, and on his right was Liang Chengfu holding a spear and a few darts in his arms in case of accidents. Behind them were fifteen Taiping brothers, some holding shields with swords in their hands, some holding spears, following closely behind, and the whole team was murderous, all of them seemed to be deadly lords.
"What's going on? How did they rush out? "Governor Wu was taken aback, he never thought that there would be such a small person with long hair, and he would dare to rush out and fight so many people with him, are they all crazy?" Kill them! Governor Wu shouted.
The surrounding Qing soldiers were stunned for a moment, but they didn't expect that Long Hair would dare to come out, and they didn't have this preparation in their hearts. Coming back to his senses at the shouts of the Wu Governor's Mansion, he surrounded him with weapons.
When the Qing soldiers were stunned, Yang Xiaoshan and the others had already left the grain depot, and the door behind them was immediately closed. At this time, they had no way to retreat, and now they had to rush up and hold the way of the Wu Governor's Mansion. And Governor Wu's Mansion was at the end of this street, only about two hundred meters away from them.
"Kill!" Yang Xiaoshan shouted, the saber shining like a sparkling wave under the strong sunlight, stabbing people dizzy. The big flag behind Lan Chengchun is waving in the wind, like a sail on the water, agitating in the wind. These dozen or so people charged one by one, making the surrounding Qing troops frightened, as if they were facing thousands of troops and horses, an unstoppable momentum.
Yang Xiaoshan is not a person who loves to play with his life, but he usually cherishes his life more. But at this moment, everything is out of the way, he knows that he is now the pillar of everyone, and everyone sees that he dares to play with his life, so they follow him, which is a trust in him. Yang Xiaoshan only now discovered that people's potential is infinite, the environment has transformed people, persecuted people, achieved people, and he is growing up little by little.
At this moment, he was like a dragon in the water, roaring angrily, slashing left and right with a sword, as fast as the wind. Wherever they were killed, the Qing soldiers fled in a hurry. Even if some dared to fight, they would only die under their own sword in three or five rounds. With his indomitable momentum, Yang Xiaoshan led the brothers into a no-man's land.
And Lan Chengchun's machete was the support behind Yang Xiaoshan, and several Qing soldiers rushed at the same time. His tiger-like knife slashed a bunch of people to pieces. His strength is amazing, and even if someone uses the weapon in his hand to block, he can't avoid his sharp edge, and he often splits with a weapon and can't resist it.
Liang Chengfu was more calm than them, his spear did not move, and he moved like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, guarding against the cold guns and knives of the Qing soldiers. He watched the six directions, listened to the eight directions, and paid special attention to the Qing soldiers who were ready to release cold arrows, once encountered, he took out a dart, and directly darts over the end of those archers.
"Not good! They came for me. Seeing the unstoppable momentum of these long hairs, Governor Wu knew that they were coming at him, and couldn't help but feel afraid, "Kill them, kill one for one hundred taels of silver, and lead one for one thousand taels of silver!" "Governor Wu raised the bounty again, this time it was really bleeding, because he felt that his life was seriously threatened.
There must be brave men under the heavy reward, money is the courage of men, and the silver spent in vain strengthens the courage of these Qing soldiers. The people who had been killed just now and fled all over gathered around again, and even those who couldn't do it again wanted to see if they could have a chance and pick up a leak or something.
The two Xiao Riding School both jumped out, one left and one right blocking Yang Xiaoshan's way. Yang Xiaoshan rushed a little fast, and opened a short distance with Lan Liang and the two behind him, and the two Xiao Riding Schools wanted to take this opportunity to besiege him. There were many high-level leaders in the Qing army, but some of them were promoted to low-level generals by virtue of their military merits, and they still had some real skills. These two Xiao Riding Schools were very keen to grasp this opportunity, and the two shots attacked at the same time, which was quite methodical, forcing Yang Xiaoshan to dodge left and right A little embarrassed.
If Yang Xiaoshan was a previous mountain, he would be invincible. But since he was threatened by his life in Wangaoling, he has been practicing martial arts hard, and his eldest brother Shi Dakai also taught him a few hands from time to time.
He used his sword to block the spears of the two Horsemen in succession, and then deftly dodged to the right of the man on his right. In this way, the Qing general on the right is in the middle of Yang Xiaoshan and the Qing general on the left, and Yang Xiaoshan does not have to face the attack of these two people at the same time. He swung his sword and stabbed several swords one after another, and the shadow of the sword was like a blooming flower, and he couldn't tell which way was real and which was virtual. The Xiao cavalry school on the right gritted his teeth and crossed the spear to block, but unfortunately the sword was empty, and the real sword came from below and picked his belly.
At this time, the Qing soldiers found that the thousand taels of silver were not so easy to take, and no matter how much money they had, they had to have their lives to take it. Yang Xiaoshan and the others were like a sword qi, they simply split through the encirclement of the Qing soldiers of the brigade, and finally rushed to the prefect of Wu.
Only then did Governor Wu realize that he was about to become the stuff of these long-haired people, and he turned his head and wanted to run. It's a pity that it's too late, Lan Chengchun slashed to death his last guard, Yang Xiaoshan stepped forward and grabbed his braids, "Lord Prefect, don't run, I have something to talk to you about." ”
Wu Zhifu has never been treated like this, anyway, he is in his sixties, and life and death are also seen, in order to leave a reputation of loyalty, he shouted horizontally by the neck: "If you want to kill, you will kill, the old man will never surrender." ”、
Yang Xiaoshan admired his backbone, "I won't kill you, you just need to let your subordinates surrender." ”
"No way, brothers, leave me alone, kill these bandits!" Governor Wu made a gesture that he was not afraid of death.
"You old thief!" Lan Chengchun was so angry that he was about to beat him.
Yang Xiaoshan stopped Lan Chengchun and smiled at Governor Wu: "Your courage is commendable, it's a pity that you have been eating the imperial court for many years, these soldiers of yours have not received any benefits from the imperial court, they don't want to die, they are still young." ”
"All the soldiers of the Qing army in Yong'an, surrender now, and I, Yang Xiaoshan, can guarantee that you will not die. If you don't surrender when you get out of here, I can't vouch for it. He wanted to stay alive and laid down his weapon and tied himself with his clothes. If you don't want to live, come and try the sword in my hand, but don't blame me for not reminding you, our brigade has broken through the West Gate and is about to come, this is your last chance to live. Yang Xiaoshan grabbed Governor Wu's mansion, blocked in front of him, and shouted to the Qing soldiers around him.
The Qing soldiers looked at each other, seeming a little hesitant. But the villagers surrendered first, they were originally hard-pulled, and they couldn't afford to give their lives for the court.
In the distance, the killing shouts of the Taiping army in the direction of the West Gate began to come, and the psychological defense line of the Qing soldiers present was finally broken, and they surrendered one by one with their heads drooping, of course, there were also those who sneaked away, Yang Xiaoshan did not stop them, as long as most of them surrendered, the situation in Yong'an was already under control of his own hands.
Yang Xiaoshan asked his subordinates to collect the weapons of the surrendered Qing soldiers and made them kneel with their backs to the road.
After a while, Lin Fengxiang's brigade arrived and saw Yang Xiaoshan's battle situation. He was overjoyed, slapped Xiaoshan on the shoulder, and praised, "Xiaoshan, you are really a god." Just such a small number of people, captured the prefect, seized so much grain and grass, and captured so many Qing soldiers. How can you make our brothers meritorious? It's all taken up by you. This was said to be complaining, but the tone was not complaining at all, but full of admiration.