Chapter 370: Meeting on a Narrow Road
Let's say that Sun Chuanting received Du Wenhuan, the forward general, and learned that there was a thief army at the end of the mountain road thirty miles ahead, blocking the passage, and he groaned for a while, and said categorically: "The brave wins when the narrow road meets!" The big husband has made great achievements, right now! ”
After saying this, Sun Chuanting looked at the generals who followed him one by one, and then said: "Who is willing to make this first contribution and dare to be the vanguard of the army?" ”
Sun Chuanting himself is a Jinshi from the Zhenwu Wei military household in Daizhou, Shanxi, and he has long been familiar with the topography and landforms in the northern part of Shanxi. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, it depends on who is more determined and whose striker is sharper.
After saying this, Sun Chuanting looked at the generals on the left and right.
Du Wenhuan has just lost a game, and now he is covered in injuries, so it is naturally not suitable to charge forward again.
However, at this time, seeing Sun Chuanting looking over, several other generals of Yansui Town, including Du Wenhuan, clasped their fists together and said, "The last general's wish!" ”
After listening to what his subordinates said, Sun Chuanting looked at one of the stout men with a scruffy beard, in his forties, and a scar on his face, and said, "Liu Honglie! Take Rube as the vanguard! Speed Belt Squad opens the way for the army! ”
Liu Honglie, after Sun Chuanting arrived in Yansui Town, promoted from the bottom of the Chinese army guerrillas, under the command of Sun Chuanting now, the most fierce as fire, fierce and fierce, his 300 Chinese army is the most elite part of Yansui Town.
At this time, after listening to Sun Chuanting's order, Liu Honglie immediately bowed to Sun Chuanting, and struck the iron armor on his chest with an iron whip in his right hand to show the order, and then turned around and shouted: "My lord has an order, with the Chinese army as the vanguard, all cheer up with Lao Tzu, and rush with Lao Tzu!" ”
After saying this, Liu Honglie inserted the iron whip in his hand back into the saddle pocket on the left side of the saddle, took out a three-eyed gun from the other side, and led his three hundred horses to gallop towards the front of the mountain road!
As soon as Liu Honglie's troops left, Sun Chuanting put the defeated soldiers who fled back under Du Wenhuan together, and then gave an order, took all the remaining cavalry, and followed the attack.
The rumbling sound of horses' hooves was like a muffled thunder from the sky, and it instantly resounded on the mountain road, and it was heard far away along the mountain road.
At the end of the mountain road, Li Zicheng's general camp at the exit of this valley successfully blocked the Ming army Du Wenhuan's department, after a small victory, Li Zicheng sent people to Jingle County to report the news, and at the same time let his fierce general Liu Fangliang lead hundreds of thieves to chase the valley for a while.
If Liu Fangliang's subordinates were all cavalry, then Du Wenhuan might have been defeated even worse, but although the current thief army has robbed a lot of things, including the ordnance and materials hoarded in Yongning Prefecture, the cavalry is not something that can be owned in an instant.
Even if Gao Yingxiang's camp is an old battalion, after fighting for so long, the cavalry under his command is only seven or eight hundred horses.
For them, the thieves, there are more than 10,000 people in the entire camp, and among them, the ones who are really reliable and can stay by their side at critical moments to save their lives are the elite cavalry of these old battalions.
Because Liu Guoneng led his cronies to break away from the camp and stand on his own, Gao Yingxiang also had a certain crisis, and successively promoted a group of new and old generals who fought hard and were obedient, such as the old subordinates He Yilong, Liu Xiyao, He Jin, and the new generals Li Zicheng and Lin Yangyang, etc., so that they could bring one under their own king, relying on this method, it was regarded as stabilizing the situation of breaking into the camp after Liu Guoneng led people to escape.
However, no matter how generous Gao Yingxiang is, he will not give the old part of the horse thief he relied on to others, because this is the capital of his life.
Therefore, all the cavalry who broke into the camp now are in the hands of Gao Yingxiang's old Chinese army battalion.
As for Li Zicheng's battalion, it is even a "child soldier", except for Liu Fangliang and Li Guo, the two right-hand men, they were all recruited from among the chaotic people who came from Shanxi after entering Shanxi, and a considerable part of them were the remaining teenagers selected by others.
This is also where Li Zicheng is different from other bandit leaders, others pick the prime of life in their thirties and forties, while he takes Liu Fangliang and Li Guo to pick the remaining fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers who are less than twenty years old.
Liu Guoneng's departure and Lin Cheng's self-reliance made Li Zicheng quickly realize that he had to have a group of trustworthy subordinates who belonged to him completely.
This kind of person can't be found from among the old thieves, so he can only recruit new people by himself and then slowly cultivate them.
This is where his "child soldier" breaks into the camp.
Li Zicheng took this battalion of young generals, stationed at the exit of the valley leading to Jingle in Lan County, and unexpectedly ambushed Du Wenhuan.
Let's say that Liu Fangliang was ordered to take hundreds of children and soldiers to chase in the direction of Du Wenhuan's escape, and along the way, he killed the wounded and straddled Ming soldiers one by one, and snatched their knives, guns, armor, clothes, hats, shoes and other items, including those horses that did not flee after the death of their masters.
In this way, while letting people deliver the loot back, they chased forward with their heads bored, hoping to harvest more loot, and chased them for miles in a daze.
Just as Liu Fangliang was walking farther and farther, hesitating in his heart whether to go back, he suddenly faintly heard another rumbling sound from the other end of the mountain road.
"It's cavalry!"
Liu Fangliang quickly reacted. This is the Ming army has come back again!
After Liu Fangliang came to his senses, he immediately ordered the child soldiers under his command: "The dog officers and soldiers are here again!" Retreat! ”
As he spoke, the sound of horses' hooves became clearer in the distance.
At this time, although Liu Fangliang was very brave, but as a general with troops, he had not yet grown into a brave and warlike general under Li Zicheng.
He didn't care about setting up obstacles to block the road, or even if he left some people to block the cavalry, he didn't care about it at this time, and after giving an order, he led the people and ran back.
However, how can a person's two legs outrun a war horse?!
After a while, Liu Fangliang heard a huge roar behind him, and he was afraid that thousands of cavalry would gallop over!
Seeing that it was not far from the exit of the valley, and the terrain was already slightly open, Liu Fangliang suddenly realized that if he continued to run like this, not only would he be dead, but I was afraid that the camp outside the exit would also be crushed in one fell swoop!
If you stop it yourself, you may have time to save your life.
As soon as he thought of this, Liu Fangliang, who was originally running in front, quickly set his steps, stood still, turned around, and stopped his subordinates who were running back with a horizontal knife.
"Stop it! If you don't want to die, stop the fuck! ”
Liu Fangliang shouted loudly and stopped the fleeing team, a teenage minion who didn't hear the greeting was even more cut off by him with a knife in both hands, and cut it in half!
Seeing Liu Fangliang killing like a god, blocking the middle of the road with a knife, the minions of the children's battalion who fled back in a panic quickly stabilized their position.
There were those with swords, those with spears, and those with bows and arrows.
Just a few hundred people blocked the entire road.
As soon as he stood his ground, he heard the sound of horses' hooves approaching a short distance ahead.
Liu Fangliang stood behind the formation and loudly encouraged morale.
"Brethren, these dog officers and soldiers are nothing remarkable! The boys didn't just beat them! Lao Tzu has already asked people to ask for help, and the brothers have withstood this wave, and we will be able to win! ”
As soon as the words fell, Liu Honglie appeared on the mountain road first, and without saying a word, he rushed straight into the chaotic thief formation where Liu Fangliang was!
Hundreds of steps away, someone on Liu Fangliang's side had already shot the arrow in his hand, which happened to fall not far in front of Liu Honglie's horse, Liu Fangliang also knew that he couldn't restrain it, so in a hurry, he simply shouted: "Pull the bow and release the arrow!" ”
In an instant, the sound of "whooshing" came from Liu Fangliang's side, and hundreds of arrows of different shapes and lengths flew forward.
Then there was a clanging sound from the sound of the opponent's horses' hooves, and there was also a faint sound of some cavalrymen being hit by arrows, and the neighing of horses being hit by arrows.
Liu Honglie, who led the troops to the front, naturally knew that someone under his command had been hit by an arrow, but in the face of the thief formation, he was not afraid, and continued to keep the speed of the horse and rammed forward!
Hundreds of arrows flew from the opposite side, and most of the arrows shot directly this time hit the iron armor of the Ming cavalry, and once again made a clanging sound.
Liu Honglie, who rushed to the front, was also hit by three arrows in the chest.
However, except for the three consecutive "dang dang" sounds, the three arrows placed on his chest did not cause him any injuries!
Rushing through the second round of arrow rain, Liu Honglie shouted: "It's now!" ”
Following Liu Honglie's more than a dozen officers and soldiers who rushed to the front, each of them had a three-eyed gun, and when he heard Liu Honglie's order, he immediately aimed at the thief formation dozens of steps away, and the flint in his hand hit the anvil above the medicine pool, drawing a string of sparks, and the sparks fell into the medicine pool, first a puff of white smoke rose up, followed by a burst of "bang bang bang"!
There was an immediate wail in the thief array, and as the minions in front of them fell to the ground, the entire thief array instantly loosened and scattered.
Liu Honglie took the lead, quickly withdrew the three-eyed gun, grabbed the four-foot iron whip in the saddle bag in his hand, and rushed into the thief formation with a roar!