Chapter 508: I'm here to help

"Damn, it's too much of a deception, these birds really don't take my Fufeng garrison in their eyes" In a barracks, the commander surnamed Zhou, who belonged to Zhang Xian, was furious

"This is the third time this month. (Niu Wen ~ Net) Commander Zhou, the meaning of knowing the county, is it not to ask the manager Zhang of Fengxiang Mansion for instructions, it is not a way to do this. Every time these thieves come, they loot the village and kidnap the people, if they are left alone, it won't take next year, and the eastern part of Fengxiang will be abolished. County Lieutenant Liu said worriedly. As a county lieutenant, he was in charge of arresting bandits and maintaining law and order.

Commander Zhou was silent for a moment, and said to the two township soldiers behind County Lieutenant Liu: "How many township soldiers are there in Yidian Town?" ”

"Back to the festival level, the village soldiers are brave, plus the men who make the guns and sticks, there are more than 300 people. The town has been framed, but the other side is too large to hold on, and I am afraid that it will not last long. The soldier replied bravely.

"Commander Zhou, look at ......," County Lieutenant Liu urged again.

"Coming" Commander Zhou roared, and the soldiers outside the room heard the sound and entered. "Immediately gather the soldiers and horses and rush to the post shop town. Let the clerks in the army immediately report to the governor of the city. After speaking, he put on armor in that room, took the sword, and rushed out of the camp with the county lieutenant.

Yidian Town is located on the post road, Fengxiang Mansion in addition to the city, this post station. Therefore, there are more households than other towns, and if this place is robbed, Fufeng County will suffer huge losses.

At this time, the scorching sun was on the head, and it should have been an opportunity to hide at home and take a nap. But the post shop town has become a battlefield without a city wall, the village soldiers and strong men in the post town rely on the low earthen wall outside the town as the basis, is the size of the bow and arrow fired together outside the town, dense thieves agitated and can see that these people are by no means ordinary bandits, quite a lot of them are equipped with leather armor, although the weapons in their hands are varied, but all of them are standard. The bandits who were now attacking the town were holding their shields and reaching the gap in the earthen wall

At that gap, the local village soldiers each held spears and knives and blocked them with human walls. Behind him, the sound of gongs was loud, and strong men with weapons came one after another, and among them there were women wrapped in women, who also did not let them shave their eyebrows.

"The straight lady thief has come, brothers, resist and wait for the main army of the county town to come," a brave man with a spear shouted.

The villagers clenched their weapons tightly and stared closely at the thieves who rushed up. When the arrogant thieves swarmed in, these well-trained men stretched out their weapons to form a line of defense with intertwined teeth

There was a roar of thieves' shields, and the men behind the human wall desperately put their shoulders against the brothers in front of them, and the village soldiers with bows and arrows simply climbed to the top of the earthen wall, rounded the bowstring, and shot three or four teenagers who were only fifteen or sixteen years old, riding on the wall and firing calmly, and their skillful movements were very disproportionate to their age. When the arrow was finished, a young man snatched a simple knife and jumped off the wall, and his companion jumped down immediately afterwards, and they all the guy to kill the thief

"Bastard, who let them go down, these little cubs don't want to die," the brave head in charge of the command shouted when he saw it.

There is a way that the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, the teenagers are a little stunned, four or five people each hold a simple knife, go up is a burst of slashing, there is no fear, but these boys who do not know the height of the sky and the height of the earth obviously underestimate the strength of the other party, they are rejoicing in the first battle, and they suddenly find that there are thieves surrounded on all sides

"The second boy of the Yongtou Fan family should be rescued immediately," a villager shouted anxiously.

Yongtou took a bite in his palm, grabbed the handle of the gun, and shouted, "Brothers, go up"

"You can't get up to our manpower, as soon as you get out of town, it's over, and it's important to wait for the regular army to come," someone advised. But his voice was drowned out in the blink of an eye.

The villagers were heroic, but they clearly lacked experience in defense. Although the town is small and there are no strong fortifications, it can be dragged for a while, and it will not have a chance to be saved until the regular army of the county town arrives. What's the difference between rushing out now and sending them to death? Don't you see that the other party is several times more than you? And your simple knife and spear can be compared with other people's standard equipment?

Soon, the men who had gone to the town were forced to come back and retreat step by step. At the critical juncture, there were bursts of exclamations behind him, and the thieves had entered the town

"Brother, let the brothers be sharper." There was a group of people outside the town, a hundred and ten of them, several of whom were riding war horses and wearing iron armor, like the leaders of this gang of thieves.

"I'm afraid that there are no two Western armies in several counties, as long as we don't get close to Caobei Town, it's fine." The leader said dismissively.

Another person immediately took over: "What's the matter?" The Western Army is not as majestic as it was in the past, how majestic was the Purple Gold Tiger back then? Lianghe Shaanxi, who hears his name and doesn't fight a cold war? But isn't it a complete defeat in Dunzhou? Let's just do things, and there are people behind us. ”

After finishing speaking, seeing the fire in the town, he smiled again: "Well, yes, it's quite neat today." If the sun doesn't set, we can go back to martial arts. ”

When the leader saw it, he turned his head sideways and said, "You go and say hello, and let the little ones take everything they can take away, as long as they can stand on two feet, take them back." When it was done, a fire burned the town. ”

After a while, the town was full of exclamations, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger. In less than half a day, this post town will be burned to ruins. Most of the thieves entered the town, looted and set fires. The people who were looking for an opportunity to break through immediately fell into the siege of the thieves outside the town, and they could not escape

When several leaders of the thieves were inspecting the battle situation, a horse galloped over and shouted from afar: "Brother Fufeng County's main army has come out."

The leaders were taken aback and immediately asked, "Can you see clearly?" How many people came? ”

The thief rode to the front and gasped: "There are not many people and horses, about three or two hundred, but it is a regular army."

"Brother, this tiger can't be defeated, although the Western Army has been defeated, but it is the Western Army after all, we don't need to fight with them, just withdraw." Just persuaded the thief who was quick to solve the problem.

The bandit leader who was wearing a bent knife and iron armor thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Aren't you afraid that Lao Tzu was not the Western Army before?" Besides, since they came out, we have to bump into each other when we go back along the post road, I don't believe it, I can't fight him with eight hundred people."

At that moment, he did not listen to the advice and allowed his men to plunder the town. After about an hour, those who dared to resist in the post shop town had been killed, and the rest of the people were all captured, and they were gathered together with ropes and fled. The looted goods, food, and other supplies were also loaded into carts, and those who could not be taken were thrown into the flames.

Seeing that everything was ready, the bandit leader glanced at the fire and the town of Yidian, and then said unhurriedly: "Let's go, go back to martial arts." ”

More than 800 thieves, carrying more than a dozen truckloads of supplies and hundreds of people, traveled eastward along the post road. On the road, there is also a discussion that this trip has gained a lot, and this post town is really not as good as other places, and there is a lot of oil and water. After we go back, eighty percent of the Jurchens want to reward us.

After walking less than ten miles, they suddenly heard the sound of the horn, and the thieves were stunned at first. The Jurchens are coming? Didn't you say that Jin Jun wouldn't come forward for these things? But soon, they found out that it was not like that at all. Not far away, on the post road, a well-equipped team of men and horses has already blocked the way.

It is easy to see from their equipment that this is the regular army of Shaanxi. But when it came to seeing their strength, several of the bandits laughed. Where did the three or two hundred come from? That's clearly less than two hundred

Seeing that the other party was weak, the bandit leader who made the bent knife ordered: "Go to someone and tell them that Lao Tzu was also a Western Army in the past, and for the sake of his comrades, let them go, and let them hurry back to Fufeng County." ”

When a minion heard the sound, the horse's hooves rattled on the stones of the post road, and he ran to the front of the opponent's formation for more than ten steps, grabbed the reins, and began to shout. Hundreds of thieves watched from behind, but before they could say a few words, the minions who had gone to deliver the word suddenly fell from their horses and a soldier rushed out of the opposing formation, pulled the reins, and dragged his horse back to the battle.

The leader of the "bunch of birds" was furious. raised the bent knife in his hand, and his voice was fierce: "Brothers, go up"

There was really an order from the bandit leader who was not afraid of death, and hundreds of thieves behind him shouted in unison, each holding a weapon, and all of them rushed to the Western army of more than 100 people.

Which army did the men and horses under the command of Zhou belong to? What does the Blade Arrow Army do? In the same Hu'er army as the Feiyu Army, the troops with bows and arrows saw the thieves swarming, and the soldiers wound up their arrows and pulled them round.

Commander Zhou, who was straddled on horseback, watched coldly as the thieves were getting closer and closer, and was not in a hurry to give orders, and waited until the other party entered a hundred steps before waving his hand.

The arrows roared out, and the thieves who were running in the front row suddenly fell backwards in unison, and they had just touched the ground when the second wave of arrows came

Seeing the companions in front of them fall one after another, the thieves behind were a little frightened, and their legs involuntarily began to lose their strength. Looking around, no one flinched, and it was not easy to show timidity, so they rushed forward. The archers among them released a few arrows indiscriminately, and they didn't know if they hit the other party, anyway, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and they all ran forward.

"I don't know if I'm dead or alive, and then follow me," Commander Zhou said loudly.

The soldiers did as they were told, and after releasing the last arrow, they collected their bows, took the axes from their waists, moved their wrists, and stared at the thief who was about to rush in front of them.

Commander Zhou jumped off the horse, slapped his palm on the horse's back, and after the war horse galloped away, he drew his saber, held it with both hands, and took a few steps forward before turning around and calling: "Go." With that, his feet were like stepping on the tip of a cannon, and he ejected it quickly

More than 100 warriors roared loudly, followed the pace of the commander, and rushed forward

There was almost no stalemate in the hand-to-hand encounter, and the thieves who had been shot with bows and arrows were put down in a row like machetes and vegetables

"Brother, these birds are not the opponents of the Western Army at all" Some of the thieves who supervised the battle behind were anxious.

"Bah, the mud can't support the wall, and you have to rely on our brothers, go" made the bandit leader who bent the knife take a sip, and with a move of the knife, nearly 300 thieves behind him were dispatched. Do you know where they came from? In the past, they were all subordinate to the Youyi army under the jurisdiction of the North Shaanxi Road Recruitment Division, and if you want to go back further, that is, the Huanqing soldiers and horses trained by Quduan. When Yao Pingzhong and Zhang Jun were trapped in the mountains, they were the first Western troops to surrender. Now, they have all been incorporated into the puppet Korean army system and controlled by Zhang Jun.

It is precisely because of this background that the bandit leader is not afraid of the Tiger Army. Now that I see that the thieves who come to Zhao'an are all helping foodies, I have no choice but to do it in person.

These fierce rebels rushed up with murderous spirit, pushing and kicking, occasionally stabbing and slashing, pushing away the retreating thieves and meeting the troops commanded by Zhou.

As soon as the two sides fought, the soldiers of Fufeng immediately felt that there was a routine of this instrument and a combat formation, which was obviously after long-term training, and was by no means comparable to the rabble of thieves Of course, they would not have thought that the gang of thieves in front of them was still their comrades not long ago.

"Placing a group of flowers" Commander Zhou found out that something was wrong and hurriedly ordered. At first, he thought, isn't it just to kill a gang of thieves? This is our old business, back then, our handsome man relied on the bandits' house to clean up this group of rabble, how could he use any formation, and he would go up and cut it all indiscriminately.

The rebels, who were fighting hard, suddenly lost their goal in front of them. The soldiers of the Tiger Army shrank back, relying on each other with their companions, and the human wall that was originally blocking the road suddenly dispersed. It's just that their flower array is different from the heavy soldiers. Most of the heavy infantry are equipped with long weapons, and this formation can be divided into several layers, both inside and outside. But they can't, they can only make a circle.

But even so, the rebels still drilled in, but when they broke in, they found that there was a disaster, and they wanted to divide and surround the other party, but in fact, it was we who were divided, and the officers and soldiers of the Hu'er Army became more and more courageous, and the rebels became weaker and weaker the more they fought.

But this flower array, it's easy to get in, it's difficult to get out, there are weapons in all directions, and in the era of cold weapons, it's not difficult to set up a formation, you just call a group of illiterate and untrained farmers, and they can also discharge all kinds of big arrays according to your instructions. But the difficulty is that in actual combat, in the interweaving of blood and screams, the soldiers can still instinctively maintain their formation, and after being injured, they can make up in time. It's going to take a long and hard time of training, otherwise, don't even think about it.

The battle was quickly decided, and the bandit leaders led the minions, taking care of the head, not the tail, and running away with their heads in their arms. They left behind more than a dozen truckloads of supplies, hundreds of civilians, and captives who threw their weapons and knelt on the ground.

Commander Zhou took off his helmet, his whole body was soaked with sweat, he shook the bloody long knife in his hand, and he exhaled: "The things are returned to the people, the prisoners are escorted back to the city, Lieutenant Liang, the rest will be left to you." Brethren, return to the city and eat."

"Good brothers, hard work, after returning to the city, I should know the county and come to the labor army," Liang County Lieutenant said repeatedly. To protect the territory and the people, you have to rely on the soldiers.

The matter of Yidian Town was quickly reported to Fucheng, and Zhang Xian, the head of Fengxiang's soldiers and horses, sorted out the recent cases of Jingzhaoqun's robbery and robbery of Fengxiang and reported it to Qinzhou Shuaisi.

"Has the marshal come back?" In the yamen of Qin Feng's Jingluo Pacification Division, Zhang Qing, who was also the "supervisor of the Preparation Division" and the "Supervisor" of the Jingluo Pacification Division, asked an officer.

"I've just come back, and I'm eating tea." The adjutant replied.

Zhang Qing nodded, and walked straight into the second hall, and all the colleagues working in the hall nodded to him, and then buried themselves in the director. Zhang Qing walked into Xu Wei's office hall, and saw Zijin Hu take off his head, open his clothes, shout desperately with a fan, and drink with a teacup in one hand.

"Marshal, Fengxiang Zhang Xianlai's military newspaper." Zhang Xian stepped forward and handed the official document to the marshal.

Xu Wei put down the teacup, stretched out his hand to take it, and said, "But the Jingzhao bandits came to loot again?" ”

"Well, the post town under the rule of Fufeng was robbed, and most of the township soldiers were killed and wounded, plus the people, more than 400 people were killed. Almost half of the houses in the town were burned down, and the damage was not small. Zhang Qing said in a deep voice. However, the Fufeng garrison was blocked in the middle of the road, and won a while, cutting dozens of ranks, and killing and wounding more than 200 prisoners. ”

In the military report, in addition to reporting the accident losses, Zhang Xian also mentioned that these thieves came from the territory of Jingzhao Prefecture and rarely attacked county-level cities, mainly attacking villages and towns, mainly to rob food and population. The people in the eastern part of Fengxiang are panicking, and many people are dragging their families to the west.

It is particularly noteworthy that, according to the Fufeng garrison, some of the thieves who fought with them were obviously trained in regular military and suspected to be troops of the Xuanfu Division of Shaanxi Province. This is also corroborated by the captive's confession. They claimed to be the soldiers of the former Huanqing Shuai Division, and they voted for Jurchen with the chief, and now they were assigned by Han Chang to Liu Yu's Xuanfu Division for moderation.

Xu Wei looked at it, threw it on the table, and asked, "What did Mianzhou say?" Is there an echo? ”

"Yes, Xuanfu Si meant, or try to avoid conflicts. Xu Xuanfu promised that he would negotiate with the Shaanxi Xuanfu Division of the puppet Han in the name of the Xuanfu Division, and before that, he hoped that we would refrain from doing so. Zhang Yan replied.

"Negotiations? Could it be that we are going to beg Liu Yu and ask them to step up their efforts to send troops to exterminate the thieves in the territory? Don't hurt Feng Xiang? Fuck Liu Yu, Zhang Shen, and Zhang Jun are the bandits, who doesn't know? And let me refrain from it, how can I restrain this? Kill my people, rob my food, burn my house, and I still refrain from it? No matter how restrained it is, there is no need to do anything about this system and the pacification of Jingluo, and the people will have to drown their saliva My surname is Xu," Xu Wei said unhappily.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Qing reminded: "But Mianzhou said, try to avoid conflicts, and wait until after negotiations." Xu Xuanfu's meaning, we are not good ......"

Xu Wei shook his head resolutely: "Please ask Mianzhou, it means that we take the Xuanfu Division in our eyes, but this is a matter within the authority of the Department of Preparation, you go and call Ma Kuo and Yang Yan in." ”

Zhang Qing didn't move, and asked tentatively, "Do you really want to fight?" ”

"Nonsense, do I look like I'm joking? Since there are so many thieves in Jingzhao Mansion, there are so many that Liu Yu and Zhang Jun can't control it, as a nephew, we will suppress the bandits for Dajin Kingdom, and we will not let him pay food. Xu Wei gritted his teeth and smiled.