Chapter Seventy-Three: Soldiers Descend on the City
Yingshang Xian is not far from Yingzhou City, that is, almost a hundred miles away, and if you walk, you can reach Yingzhou City from Yingshang in two days. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Therefore, the state city still attaches great importance to Yingshang Xian City, and after the officers and soldiers of Yingshang Xian were defeated by robbers at the end of last month, the state city sent hundreds of officers and soldiers to be stationed in Yingshang Xian City.
However, although there is a detachment of officers and soldiers stationed in Yingshang, the panic atmosphere of the people in Yingshang has not been reduced in the slightest, after all, the current officers and soldiers are all virtuous, and they have not heard the voice of soldiers for decades, and they have long been corrupted to the bones, where can they still fight.
For example, the officers and soldiers from this state city, except for bullying the common people in the county seat, they didn't even dare to go out of the city gate. The day before yesterday, there was even a group of robbers who brazenly passed under the noses of this group of officers and soldiers, but even so, that group of officers and soldiers from the state city still did not dare to go out of the city to fight the robbers.
The officers and soldiers are so cowardly and incompetent, how can the people in the county not panic.
But it is precisely because of this that Liu Futong dared to be so blatant, gathering all the White Lotus army in Liu Xiao Town, without worrying that the government would find out. After all, under Liu Futong's series of blows, the officers and soldiers on Yingshang would not dare to go out of the city now.
In the early morning of the second day, the officers and soldiers stationed in Yingshangxian vaguely heard a sound of oath-taking shouts from the direction of Liu Xiao Town, you must know that Liu Xiao Town is more than ten miles away from the county seat, and this voice can be transmitted from Liu Xiao Town to the county seat, so how many people must shout together to make such an earth-shattering sound.
Especially at this juncture, so many people gathered in Liu Xiaozhen at once, it must be the rhythm of an accident.
So the deputy Qianhu from the state city immediately sent two bold officers and soldiers to ride fast horses to Liu Xiao Town to investigate and see what was going on.
About half an hour later, an officer and soldier rode home, and when they approached the county seat, the officer and soldier shouted while riding his horse: "Urgent report, urgent report, the White Lotus Cult gathers a crowd to make a riot, the White Lotus Cult gathers a crowd to make a riot......
The people and officers and soldiers at the city gate were also taken aback when they heard this, and then the people poured into the county town as if they were fleeing, and the officers and soldiers defending the city closed the city gate as soon as the people entered. At this time, Deputy Yue Qianhu, who was in charge of the officers and soldiers, had also heard the news and rushed over, and after coming, he didn't care about anything else, but went straight to the officer and soldier who went to inquire about the news and asked, "Tell me clearly, what happened to Liu Xiaozhen?" ”
The officer and soldier's face turned pale at this time, not only because he was frightened, but because of other willingness, but when he heard the question of Lord Deputy Qianhu, he still hurriedly replied with a sad face: "My lord, it's not good, the White Lotus Sect has gathered a crowd in Liu Xiao Town to make trouble, and there are thousands of people, and they are killing us." ”
Hearing his words, the officers and soldiers around Deputy Yue Qianhu suddenly seemed to have exploded, and they all exclaimed: "What, thousands of people, they are still killing us, so what can we do, we have less than four hundred brothers in total." ”
However, before those officers and soldiers could start to discuss, Deputy Yue Qianhu shouted loudly: "Shut up the labor and management, and don't blame the labor and management for being polite." ”
When the officers and soldiers heard Deputy Yue's words, they immediately closed their mouths and didn't dare to say more, but although they didn't say anything, their eyes still showed fear. And Deputy Yue Qianhu didn't have time to pay attention to these at this time, but turned his head and asked the officer and soldier again: "What you said is true, there are really so many people in the White Lotus Sect?" ”
When the officer and soldier heard this question, he cried again and said: "It's true, my lord, the stone egg was killed by them, if the villain didn't run fast, the villain also died, and now they have called the county seat, what should we do, sir?" ”
Hearing this, Deputy Yue Qianhu was also a little panicked, after all, if there were really thousands of people, how could he resist with such a small number of people in his hands. But although he panicked, he couldn't show it, after all, he was the main general, if he panicked, wouldn't the officers and soldiers below be even more panicked.
So he still pretended to be calm and said: "Don't be afraid, it's just a few mud legs, what is there to worry about." Seeing him like this, the officers and soldiers below were really a little relieved, and then they saw him and asked the officers and soldiers, "Can you still ride a horse now?" ”
When the officer and soldier heard this, they nodded and said, "The villain can still ride a horse." ”
When Deputy Yue Qianhu heard this, he gave the officer and soldier a sign, and said to him: "Very good, this is my token, you take it and immediately go to the state city to move the rescue troops, it is best to move all the officers and soldiers of the state city, understand?" ”
At this time, the officer and soldier also took the sign with both hands and said, "The villain understands. ”
Then Deputy Yue Qianhu selected three people who could ride horses from his own personal guards and asked them to go with the officer and soldier who was holding the token.
After the four of them rode away, Deputy Yue Qianhu shouted at all the officers and soldiers gathered around him: "What are you still doing here, everyone take their weapons and give me the city wall." ”
Hearing Deputy Yue's roar, the officials of the hundred households also immediately called their subordinates, and then this group of officers and soldiers took their weapons in a hurry and climbed the city wall.
Seeing that his subordinates had all gone up to the city wall, Deputy Yue Qianhu turned to one of his guards and said, "You go to the county government immediately now and find the county Yin and the county." Tell them that the White Lotus Rebellion has been killed, let them maintain order in the city, and arrange some people to defend the city with us, as long as we can hold on to the reinforcements in the state capital, then we will win this battle. ”
When the guard heard this, he said "obey" and immediately rushed to the county office.
After watching the guards leave, Deputy Yue Qianhu turned his gaze to the city wall again, spat at the mouth and scolded: "Gouri's, this year, everyone dares to dare to rebel, and he dares to attack the county seat after fooling a group of mud legs, and he doesn't want to think about how your sect leader died." ”
While scolding, Deputy Yue Qianhu also walked up to the city wall surrounded by the guards around him.
However, after about two quarters of an hour, this self-confident Yue Deputy Qianhu was dumbfounded. This is a group of mud legs, and the government soldiers in the Runing Wanhu Mansion are probably like this. Yue Deputy Qianhu on the city wall, looking at the nearly 3,000 backbone of the White Lotus Sect outside the city wearing White Lotus Sect uniforms and holding weapons, it was as if there were thousands of grass and mud horses galloping in their hearts.
The current Deputy Yue Qianhu is really angry, but it is not angry with the White Lotus Sect, but with the anger of the officer and soldier who went to find out the news. You gouri, and you don't make it clear, you Ma knew that it was such a person who came to attack the county seat, and you ran away long ago, and Nima moved some rescuers.
It's good now, can I still wait for the help to come?
Looking at the murderous and neat queue of three thousand White Lotus Sect bandits outside the city, for some reason, Deputy Yue Qianhu suddenly had a feeling of weakness in his legs and feet.
And even Deputy Yue Qianhu is like this, not to mention other officers and soldiers. Some of them were timid, and when they saw such a big battle outside the city, they couldn't even hold the weapons in their hands, let alone wait to fight with this group of White Lotus bandits.
Watching the officers and soldiers outside the city get closer and closer step by step, the pressure on the officers and soldiers defending the city on the city wall is also increasing. When the three thousand White Lotus bandits walked only one mile away from the city wall, they shouted as if they were demonstrating: "Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
The officers and soldiers on the city wall were so frightened that even the bold ones were frightened, and those who were timid were even so frightened that they collapsed to the ground and couldn't stand up.
And the county Yin and Jian County beside Deputy Yue Qianhu did not perform much better than those officers and soldiers. Especially which Semu Jian County, who was so frightened that he even scared out of his urine, Deputy Yue Qianhu asked about the smell of urine beside him, and his face showed an undisguised expression of disgust.
And the "strong" county magistrate, after being picked up by the subordinate next to him, he couldn't see any shame on his face, but shouted to the subordinate next to him with a frightened face: "Don't hurry up and help Lord Ben down, Lord Ben wants to go back to the house, Lord Ben wants to go back to the house." ”
As he spoke, he got down the city wall and left with the support of three or four sturdy subordinates, as for why he had to be supported by subordinates, it was because this Semu Jian County's weak legs would not leave.
If it was before, County Yin would have been so happy to die when he saw Jian County eating like this, but now he couldn't laugh at all. I saw that his face was pale, and his lips trembled and he said to Deputy Yue Qianhu next to him: "Yue Qianhu, the White Lotus bandits are menacing, this... How can this be? ”
When Yue Qianhu heard this, he also scolded in his heart: "How is it good, how can labor and management know how to be good." ”
But this Deputy Yue Qianhu still said as calmly as possible: "Now I can only defend to the death, delay time, and wait for reinforcements from the state city." ”
Hearing Deputy Yue Qianhu say this, the county Yin continued: "Then please leave it to Yue Qianhu here, and the civil official will not be here to trouble Yue Qianhu." After speaking, he didn't wait for Deputy Yue Qianhu to pick up the stubble, greeted the trembling officials around him, and went down the city wall in three steps and two steps.
Looking at the county Yin who was walking like flying down the city wall, Deputy Yue's expression was like eating Xiang, but he didn't have time to scold this group of Wang Badan, who were greedy for life and afraid of death, because the three thousand White Lotus bandits outside the city had already begun to act.