Chapter 52: Reward
"Could it be that the Ming army is a suspicious soldier and wants to lure our army out of the city?"
Lu Gongming couldn't tell if there were only so many people in the Ming army, anyway, it looked a little wrong, but it was a matter of Deqing's gains and losses and his own life, and he, the magistrate who didn't care about the soldiers, didn't dare to make up his mind, so he looked at Zhang Dade and pointed to what the other party could see to solve his doubts.
Zhang Dade ignored him, but tilted his head and asked Mr. Qian, Tang Sanshui: "Which soldiers and horses are the Taiping Battalion?" β
"I don't know, I've never heard that the army has this battalion head."
Tang Sanshui opened his mouth and thought carefully about the heads of the camps of the Ming army in Guangdong, the governor's, the governor's, the princes of the country, and the marquis, counting dozens of soldiers and horses of all sizes of the water division, but I haven't heard of any of them playing the banner of this Taiping camp.
Zhang Dade glanced at Lu Gongming, and then lowered his voice and said, "But Li Dingguo's command?" β
"No, definitely not!"
Tang Sanshui was very sure of this, because the big western thieves under Li Dingguo had not heard of the construction of a separate camp head, and only those miscellaneous armies would build this camp head and that camp head indiscriminately.
"It's not Li Dingguo's."
Zhang Dade breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it was not Li Dingguo's soldiers, then there was no need to be afraid of them. Just thinking about whether to take someone out to fight and probe the bottom, Tang Sanshui pointed at those Ming soldiers in surprise and shouted: "My lord, braids, braids!" β
Plait?
When everyone heard the sound, they were all stunned, it turned out that many soldiers in the Ming army still had braids on the back of their heads!
Is this the Ming Army or our own people in the Green Battalion?
Zhang Dade touched his forehead and really couldn't figure it out, if you are a Ming army, you shouldn't have braids, if you are a Qing army, what are you doing in Ming army's clothes? If the army wants to disguise the Qing army to deceive the city, he shaved his hair, but then he should also change his clothes, otherwise how can you deceive the city? If you pretend to be the Ming army, but you haven't received a notice from above, what the hell is going on?
Just as he was confused, Tang Sanshui shouted again: "My lord, the other party has sent someone over!" β
Well?
Zhang Dade raised his eyes and saw that there was indeed a person on the opposite side riding a horse to hit the city wall. Seeing that the two soldiers were about to release arrows when they raised their bows, they hurriedly shouted: "Don't release arrows, let him come and hear something." β
Hearing this, the soldiers hurriedly put down their bows.
The man who came on horseback was also smart, stopped his horse out of the range of the bow and arrow, and then shouted at the head of the city at the top of his voice: "Zhang Mazi, do you still recognize your grandfather Shao?" β
Zhang Dade was so familiar with this voice, and subconsciously looked at it, and suddenly became angry: Isn't the person in the city Shao Jiugong who told him to suffer two losses back then!
"Bastard!"
Zhang Dade opened his mouth and scolded, but he was stunned after scolding, because he remembered that this Shao Jiugong didn't follow Kong Guoliang in Luoding City, why did Kong Guoliang die, he didn't die, and he was still a Ming army?
Shao Jiugong answered this question for him, and he shouted under the city: "I, Shao Jiugong, have returned to the city anyway, Zhang Mazi, I have dedicated the city to the acquaintance, I will say a few good words to my boss for you, and ensure that you are still a garrison, if you don't know each other, my army will take your dog's life when it enters the city!" β
"Just because of you, you want to take down my Deqing City?"
Zhang Dade didn't laugh angrily, it wasn't for him to trust the army, Hugh Ming's army was in front of the one hundred and ten people, even if there were one or two thousand more people, and he didn't want to take Deqing City, besides, these Ming troops didn't even have the tools to attack the city, what to take to attack the city? This sounds like a scare thing, it's a fart!
Looking at the braid on the back of Shao Jiugong's head, Zhang Dade snorted secretly, but he understood why these Ming soldiers had braids, it seemed that Shao Jiugong secretly communicated with the Ming army against the water, because of the haste of the incident, so this braid has not been able to be cut off.
"My Taiping camp is all elite, everyone is one as ten, Hugh said that your little Deqing City, even Zhaoqing Mansion, we dare to go for a walk!"
Shao Jiugong came to be a bait, but not to attack the city, seeing that Zhang Mazi did not move, he was anxious, lest this guy really planned to wait for the Taiping camp to attack the city, so he excitedly said: "Zhang Mazi, I could kill you back then, and now I can also beat you to kneel and beg for mercy, if you don't believe it, you can bring someone out to compare with your grandfather Shao, and shrink in the city to count a ball!" β
According to Shao Jiugong's impression, this Zhang Dade is a rough man, a rough man, he can't stand the excitement, he will definitely bring someone out to fight to the death without saying a word. But there was no movement at all on the city, staring at the city gate for a long time, and I didn't see the angry Zhang Dade rushing out with his troops.
What's going on?
It's self-defeating, is that pockmarked really going to be unable to defend it?
Zhou Shixiang glanced at Shao Jiugong under the city, thinking about what to do if Zhang Dade really didn't come out. But he did not know that there was someone pointing at him at the head of the city.
Pointing to Zhou Shixiang is the longevity of Chengwu in Deqing County, who has been watching from the city, which will tell Lu Gongming about him.
"My lord, why does that person look familiar?"
"Which one?" Lu Gongming didn't know what Wu Changshou was talking about.
Wu Changshou pointed to Zhou Shixiang who was riding on a horse: "That's the one riding a green horse." β
Lu Gongming squinted, and after a moment, he let out a "Huh?" "Strange, why does this person look a little familiar?" β
"Do you remember the arrest document sent by Guangzhou a few days ago?" Wu Changshou reminded.
After this reminder, Lu Gongming suddenly remembered who the person looked like, glanced at the person again, and nodded: "It's indeed a little similar." β
Shao Jiugong under the city was still scolding, but Zhang Dade was too lazy to answer, and asked him to scold for a while: Lao Tzu is so easy to fall for your agitation, so haven't the Three Kingdoms in the past two years been in vain! When you scold enough, you think that Lao Tzu will not go out, and Lao Tzu will go out again, but he will not follow you! If I catch you this time, I will definitely skin you alive, the turtle son!
When I turned around and saw Lu Gongming and Wu Changshou Shinto, what did they say that they didn't look like, I couldn't help but feel strange, and pouted and asked, "Who is it like?" β
Lu Gongming didn't hide it from him, and asked him, "Do you know General You Yunlong?" β
Zhang Dade said frankly: "General You is a popular man under the prince, and he is also an old acquaintance with General Xu, how can I not recognize him?" β
Lu Gongming said: "Then the adult must know about what happened to the general in Xinhui." β
"Of course I know, what, what are you talking about?" Zhang Dade became more and more puzzled, and he didn't know what kind of medicine Lu Gongming sold in the gourd.
Lu Gongming also didn't sell Guanzi, and said: "After the general was killed, the county received an arrest document from the provincial capital, which said that the person who killed the general was Xinhui Xiucai Zhou Shixiang, and the local government invited someone who was familiar with him to draw the appearance of Zhou Shixiang, because he was a Xiucai killing official, so the lower official was more impressed, and looked at it a few more times, just looked at the person riding a green horse on the opposite side and felt that this person was very similar to Zhou Shixiang, but I don't know if it is. β
"Which one?" Zhang Dade also looked over, quite curious about what the Xiucai who killed You Yunlong looked like.
Wu Changshou hurriedly identified him: "It's the one who rides the green horse!" β
Zhang Dade glanced at it a few times, retracted his head, and instructed Wu Changshou: "Go and take the portrait for the official to see." β
Wu Changshou glanced at Lu Gongming, who nodded, and was busy getting the portrait.
Wu Changshou went to get the portrait, but Lu Gongming remembered something and said to Zhang Dade: "My lord, after the general was killed, the king of Pingnan was furious, and personally awarded a reward, and the person who captured and killed Zhou Shixiang was promoted to two levels, and the reward was one hundred taels of silver, which is not low. β
Hearing this, Zhang Dade's eyes suddenly protruded: "And this good thing?" β
The garrison is a five-rank military attachΓ©, with a head pressed by the commander, the general soldier, the deputy general, the staff general, the guerrilla, and the capital division, and the bottom is the thousand generals and generals, if you are promoted to two levels, you can be a guerrilla, that is a military attache from the third grade. In the past, you have to go up to the next level, but you have to rely on your combat merits to ascend, and the size of each level of combat merits is different, so it is extremely difficult to go up.
Zhang Dade, who has been a garrison for more than three years, has not been able to be promoted to the capital, but now he only needs to capture and kill a showman to be a guerrilla, and he is immediately moved.
Tang Sanshui and the others are also warm-hearted, it's a good thing, those who see it have a share, if the garrison adults are guerrillas, they can also follow a liter.
Seeing that these Qiu Ba's eyes were about to fall out when they stared at the outside of the city, Lu Gongming's heart sank, and he regretted talking too much, but he didn't know how to take back his words.
After a long time, Wu Changshou took the portrait over, Zhang Dade couldn't wait to spread it out in his hand, Tang Sanshui and they all surrounded him, even Lu Gongming didn't care about being reserved, the probe took a closer look, and before he could see it clearly, he heard the sound of "horn", Zhang Dade slapped the portrait fiercely, and shouted happily: "It's this kid, it's this kid!" Brothers, copy the guy, capture this person, and get promoted to get rich with Lao Tzu! β
"Copy the guy, get promoted and get rich!"
With a hula, Tang Sanshui and the others drew their swords and ran down the city.
Broken!
Lu Gongming saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Don't be impulsive, we don't know the details of the Ming army, don't go out lightly!" In case of a trick, Deqing will be over! β
Zhang Dade, who was eager to be promoted, did not reply: "Lord Lu, don't worry, I will only take my cronies to catch that Xiucai, if the Ming army really has a large team of people in ambush, I will turn back." As he spoke, he led his men down the tower, and Zhang Luo led the horses to order the troops.
Lu Gongming couldn't stop it, for fear that the Ming army outside really had a large team of backup, Zhang Dade was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, but fortunately Wu Changshou didn't panic, and reminded him to immediately send a messenger to organize the young and strong in the city to go to the city, in case they were ambushed by the Ming army, the burden of defending the city would fall on this young man.
Just when Zhou Shixiang's patience was about to run out, wondering whether to collect the troops first, the city gate suddenly opened, and then he saw a few Qing generals on horseback rushing out first, followed by a green banner, under which were dense green battalion soldiers carrying spears.
"Zhang Mazi, you finally fell for me!"
Shao Jiugong laughed, and was about to turn back and run after hitting the horse, but found that Zhang Dade did not bring someone to rush at him, but rushed straight to the back, and couldn't help but be stunned: Zhang Mazi, you are blind, Lao Tzu is here, Lao Tzu is here! β