Chapter 15: Chaos Rises
The courtyard was silent and silent.
The aroma of wine goes with the wind, and the smoke of gunpowder is wanting.
"What you said is right in this Ming Dynasty, but in my heart Tang Xidong, it is not right. It's wrong at the root. ”
Tang Xidong, who walked to the gate of the courtyard, stopped, did not look back, and said a word, the hesitation in his eyes turned into firmness.
"In addition, your father's temperament is really fierce, on the second day of going up the mountain, he committed suicide by hanging the beam, and your mother is alive and well."
"Are you saying that my father's death has nothing to do with you?"
Behind him, Kang Xuqian roared.
Tang Xidong looked up at the moon, the half-moon was hanging high, and he was cold-eyed.
"Just write it down on my head, I don't have a lot of debts."
"If you can live, I hope you can see a change in the world."
The words fell, and Tang Xidong strode out.
Behind him, Kang Xuqian laughed wildly: "You think the victory and defeat have been decided, but the show has just begun." ”
At this time, a firework plant bloomed in the sky above the city.
Outside the courtyard, Tang Xidong raised his head suddenly, covered with cold colors, and then sneered: "It's really unexpected, but, let's see." ”
Fireworks burst into the air, and the city was lit with fires.
The whole city of Binh Duong was in chaos.
It turns out that the intelligence is not really all wrong, there is a truth in the false, and there are really many hidden spies in the city.
This firework is the code for action.
The fire gradually rose, the city was noisy, the dogs barked, the chickens crowed, shouted and cried.
At the moment when the fire first broke out, a group of new troops on the street rushed to the place where the fire broke out, led by the platoon commander.
The lieutenant chief, the first chief, and the team leader worked hard for half the night, and organized everyone to start putting out the fire as soon as possible.
Pingyang City is completely chaotic, the shadows of arson everywhere, the people desperately fighting the fire, and the new army of secret agents.
Tang Xidong didn't care about it, just walked in the direction of the city gate.
Of the 10,000 new troops, Li Shangquan led half of the men and horses out of the city to rescue, while the remaining half of the new army was still arranged on the streets to prevent trouble.
The intelligence originally seemed wrong, but fortunately, Tang Xidong did not take it lightly and still left half of the new army to defend the city.
At the head of the city, the two thousand members of the Luoliangshan Company still installed the city wall, and everything in Pingyang City behind them had nothing to do with them.
Since the other party is able to attack the east and the west and attack Luoliang Mountain, it is natural that the tiger may be diverted from the mountain.
Tang Xidong couldn't see the fog clearly, but he had to make all preparations.
Maybe it won't be long before the other party will show his head.
Looking at the wilderness outside the city wall, the corner of Tang Xidong's mouth hooked a sneer.
Will there be anyone? Will it come?
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Time goes forward.
At that time, a large number of Ming troops suddenly appeared in the southwest of Luoliang Mountain, approaching Luoliang Mountain along the official road.
The sky was dark, and the Ming army tied their horses and horses, and did not light candles and touched Luoliang Mountain.
The first person dressed as a steward led the Ming army along the road.
Luoliang Mountain, everything is as usual, and he is ignorant of everything that is about to happen.
Originally, when Tang Xidong learned the information provided by Kang Xuqian, he immediately sent someone to Luoliang Mountain to report the news.
It's a pity that at this moment, the guard who reported the news was already hanging his head from the treetops of the official road, watching everything in the darkness.
And in the dense forest beside the overhanging dead trees, dense officers and soldiers lay in ambush, waiting for the arrival of their prey in the dark.
At that time, a group of officers and soldiers quietly approached the city wall of Luoliang Mountain, and another group of officers and soldiers were ambushed on the side of the official road leading to Luoliang Mountain in Pingyang City, and the guards who delivered the letter had been cut off their heads, and the letter had already been torn apart by the officers and soldiers and scattered in the wind.
Tang Xidong didn't know all this, Tang Xidong was still sitting in the room of the Intelligence Bureau waiting for Yin Shi's arrival.
The city wall of Luoliang Mountain is divided between east and west, and the official road is sandwiched in the middle.
An arch bridge is erected on the official road, connecting the east and west.
At this moment, on the city wall, the members of the 1,000th company have just changed the guard for half an hour, and the long-term calm has made Luoliang Mountain slack in the usual tranquility.
The lights illuminated the city walls, but they could not illuminate the slowly approaching brigade in the distance.
Three hundred steps away from the bridge, when the head general stretched out his hand to stop, the entire Ming army stopped instantly.
Originally, there was the sound of squeaky wheels, but now it is really quiet.
"General Zuo, the front is the cottage where the thieves are entrenched, the head of my Kangfu family has already sent a villain to find out, the thief city wall is divided into east and west city walls, and a stone arch bridge is connected in the middle, the city wall is three zhang high, there are more than 5,000 thieves in the thief's lair, and there are only 2,000 people who can fight, there are no firearms, but the opponent's crossbow is very powerful."
The steward suppressed his voice and pointed to the dark outline of the city wall in the distance.
The leading general nodded his head and looked up, he couldn't see clearly in the darkness, but the outline of the city wall and the stone bridge was still obvious, and the little fire was like a target.
"Zuo Jiajun, set up artillery, throw ropes, kill." The general pulled the horse around, glanced coldly at the three thousand soldiers behind him, and a deep voice sounded.
The wheeled carts were pushed out, lined up, and as soon as the black cloth was lifted, the swarthy muzzles of the guns were revealed, and more officers and soldiers began to rush towards the stone arch bridge.
"Load!" The heralds waved their flags, and in the darkness the firearms were busy loading iron shells.
Three hundred paces away, a tide of officers and soldiers rushed under the stone bridge.
The general stared closely, looking at the back of the soldier, his face was cold.
He is Zuo Guangxian, a guerrilla general in Shaanxi.
In April, the Shaanxi rebels were surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers, and suffered heavy casualties, and Wang Jiayin led his troops to flee to the areas of Qinshui, Yangcheng, and Zezhou in Shanxi.
Zuo Guangxian was ordered by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Suide, to cooperate with Cao Wenzhao, deputy chief soldier of Suide East Road, and Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Suide who practiced state affairs and Suide, to pursue and suppress the rebels who fled to Shanxi.
Although Zuo Guangxian was a five-rank guerrilla general, he had always been brave in battle, and he was very valued by Hong Chengchou, not only filling him with enough men, but also transferring five pieces of artillery to him, as if he was regarded by his own people.
In May, Zuo Guangxian, who was chasing Wang Jiayin's anti-army regiment, suddenly received a letter from Cao Wen and sent him to Pingyang Mansion to suppress the thieves.
and designated a steward of the Kang family of Pingyang Mansion as a guide.
If you have an order, you will obey it.
Although he didn't know what the situation of the newly emerged thieves in Pingyang Mansion was, Zuo Guangxian still put down the rebels he was chasing, arrived at the foot of Luoliang Mountain on time, and launched an attack on time.
Qinshui is located in the southwest of Pingyang Prefecture, so all the way along the official road, the Zuo army led by Zuo Guangxian appeared in the southwest of Luoliang Mountain.
The officers and soldiers rushed to the city and no longer concealed their whereabouts.
Dense footsteps suddenly appeared on the empty official road.
The members of the company on the city wall suddenly realized that something was wrong.
In an instant, a warning sounded in the city.
A torch was thrown from the city, and in the firelight, soldiers dressed as Ming soldiers were illuminated.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Someone shouted at the top of his voice, and the members of the company on the city wall woke up instantly.
At this moment, there was a loud noise in the distance, the fire was shining, and then the huge iron bullet smashed on the city wall, and the entire city wall suddenly shook, many torches fell from the wall, and the company members were even more shaky and unsteady.
After the first artillery shell was test-fired, Zuo Jiajun adjusted the angle again, and then fired a salvo of four iron bullets, smashing the city wall, smashing the battlements, smashing more than ten team members, and smashing the towers on the city wall.