Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Vertical and Horizontal Gallop of the Han Family's Light Cavalry
Here, when the family members of the Sun Mansion and the Ma Mansion heard that Yang Ming was in Xilin Academy, they immediately rushed over from the direction of the county government.
"Sun Gongzi, you said that Yang Thief is really inside?"
"Really, I saw it with my own eyes at the time, and there are not many people around him now, only more than a dozen gendarmes, and a few guards on duty from Xilin Academy, it is the best time to capture the Yang thief!" Sun Lian said and rolled up his sleeves excitedly: "Give me a knife, I will personally slaughter that Yang thief!" ”
"Don't, young master, you better go back first, just have the little ones here", the Sun family's family hurriedly persuaded. But Sun Lian insisted on refusing, so he grabbed a waist knife and ran over and shouted: "Yang thief! You can't run away today, hurry up and come out and surrender! Ben Gongzi may be able to keep you a whole corpse! ”
"It's okay now, it could have been a sneak attack, but it had to be attacked, although five hundred people are not a problem at all to deal with a dozen Han family troops, but wouldn't it be better to touch it in when they have no sense of prevention? In this way, it will inevitably increase the difficulty of catching thieves if the family has a chance to respond", the head of a family in Mafu shook his head a little depressedly and said: "Since your son is so brave, please ask your Sun family to take the lead, and we will deal with it later, how about it?" ”
"This is not very good", Li Gui, the head of the Sun family, saw that the Ma Fu family had a small calculation, and was about to refuse, but Sun Lian replied: "Okay, Li Gui, bring our people with me!" ”
"Young Master!" Li Gui hurriedly shouted, but at this time Sun Lian had already run over, so he had to sigh: "Alas! Then he hurriedly followed with his family.
"This Sun family is really weird, I'm afraid that others won't know that they have touched it", Yang Ming heard Sun Lian's shout and walked out, smiled and hurriedly asked the gendarmerie around him to immediately organize defense, and asked the guards on duty to immediately go and sound the alarm. Soon, dozens of guards from Xilin Academy immediately gathered, and the gendarmerie had also lined up in three columns,
"Bang bang!"
The gendarmerie was already armed with arquebuses, and as soon as they saw the Sun family's family rushing over, they immediately began to shoot.
Unfortunately, Sun Lian, who rushed to the first one, was shot several times and fell directly to the ground.
"Young Master!"
The Sun family behind him hurriedly shouted, which stunned Yang Ming upstairs, but the white smoke was too big and he couldn't see clearly, so he had to ask: "What's the matter, could it be that Sun Gongzi, who took the lead in the charge, was killed?" ”
"Yes, Childe, you better go back to the house, and when the smoke clears, these Sun family members are probably going to shoot arrows," replied Zhang Shi, the head of the gendarmerie below.
"Don't worry, Lan Guanwei's cavalry should have arrived", Yang Ming said, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside, and then he clearly heard the sound of knives slashing from outside the white mist.
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This time, Yu Dahai captured all the strong men in Taiping County to form an army of 2,000 people, and drove to Dongxiang County. But the shortage of 2,000 officers and soldiers was like locusts, and they simply gnawed the people along the road. But there is no way, the imperial court will not give him a small guard house thousands of households to allocate food and salary, he has to maintain an army of thousands of people and has to rely on robbery to achieve logistical support.
But in this way, the negative image of the official army once again set off the greatness of the Han army, and the people gradually began to change the names of thieves and officials.
Before they could start fighting with the Han army, the officers and soldiers who were covered in blood on their blades and had heads pinned to their waists became more and more ferocious in the plundering again and again. But who knows, these people were just docile peasants before they picked up the butcher's knife.
"General, the official army is now less than ten miles away from the county seat!"
Lan Guanwei nodded and said, "Explore again!" ”
"General, the official army is now less than three miles away from the county seat, and the south gate of Dongxiang County has been opened!"
"There really is a mole!" Lan Guanwei immediately stood up and ordered: "Immediately execute according to the plan, one team intercepts Yu Dahai, and the other team controls the spies and rescues Gongzi!" ”
"Yes!"
Suddenly, two hundred cavalrymen immediately stepped on their horses, brandished their scimitars like several sharp blades, and rushed down the hillside in a daze, booming, and the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked.
The terrain around Dongxiang County is open, and it is one of the few areas suitable for cavalry charges, and Yang Ming also happened to take advantage of this to let such a light cavalry of only two hundred people show its face first.
Among them, a hundred cavalry rushed directly towards Yu Dahai's official army, and these cavalrymen didn't care how many officers and soldiers there were in front of them, they directly sped up and rushed over with a overwhelming momentum, and the knife slashed directly, and soon the sound of blood could be heard.
The cavalry has always had a huge advantage in front of the infantry, and now the cavalry of the Han army has given full play to this advantage. The officers and soldiers who had accumulated their ferocity by killing the people at first all took a break, and seeing these cavalry in front of them slashing at will like a violent wind, they once again became greedy for life and afraid of death, and they kept retreating.
Yu Dahai is just a guard of a thousand households, and all the year round is a civil war, or in the mountainous eastern Sichuan region, there is not much understanding of cavalry, and there is no sense of guarding against cavalry, seeing that the hundred cavalry in front of him has signs of defeating his two thousand officers and soldiers, he had to immediately order to withdraw to the mountain.
The defending team is the commander of the Han army who has decided to defect to the imperial court, and he has been promoted to the head of the team when the Han army is expanded. He used to be just a wanderer, and then he was taken in by Hanjia Village and joined the Han army, because he learned that tens of thousands of officials and troops of the imperial court came to suppress him, and he was worried that the Han army would not be able to resist and was successfully rebelled by Guan Zhen, of course, the direct cause was because Guan Zhen dedicated his twenty-eight sister to this Hongshu.
Hong Shu was reminiscing about the tricks in the room of the Guan family's sister last night, when he saw a large group of cavalry rushing over, and it was Lan Guanwei who led the team, so frightened that he hurriedly stood up: "Cavalry? How did they get here? ”
"Quick, close the gates!"
"Team Zheng, not an official army, is the cavalry brothers of the first battalion, the horses under them are really tall", the soldiers of the Han family army below did not know that their team was already betraying the enemy, and after a busy reminder, they simply opened the city gate wider, and even put down the suspension bridge.
"You", there are no private soldiers in the Han army, because from the army commander to the general, they are all appointed by the military government, and the promotion is not the final decision of the officers below, so Hong Shu, who is the head of the team, does not have much appeal, so he can't stop the soldiers under his command, so he has to watch the cavalry rush in, and quickly control himself and his fourth team.
The other soldiers of the fourth team, who were still in the dark, were surprised to see the cavalry surrounding them, and some of them were even angry: "What are you doing here! ”
Seeing this, Hong Shu immediately bit back and shouted: "Not good, brothers, these cavalry have taken refuge in the imperial court, let's drive them out of the city!" ”
"Okay, you Hongshu, you are the wicked person who sues first", Lan Guanwei shouted and said: "All the brothers of the fourth team listen, your team is the real traitor, I am here today on the order of Gongzi to capture him has nothing to do with you, as long as you immediately lay down your arms and do not follow Hongshu as a traitor, Gongzi said that he will not blame you." ”
"What, Team Hong is actually a traitor?"
Many of the people in the fourth team were shocked, but they all obediently put down their weapons, because Lan Guanwei had already taken out the special seal of Gongzi. All the leaders of the fourth team are veterans of the Han army, and their reverence for Yang Ming is much higher than that of Hong Shu, and as soon as Hong Shu is revealed, he will only be captured.
After capturing the spy Hong Shu, Lan Guanwei immediately temporarily appointed Shi Chang, an old villager from Hanjia Village, as the new team of the fourth team to guard the city, and he immediately entered the county seat as fast as the wind.
"Brother Guan Wei, the son is in Xilin Academy, and the families of Sun Mansion and Ma Mansion are besieging Xilin Academy, you hurry up!"
A certain soldier of the gendarmerie who was in charge of answering saw Lan Guanwei's cavalry rushing over and immediately shouted loudly, and Lan Guanwei immediately changed his direction when he heard the news and went straight to Xilin Academy.