Chapter 258: Captured Alive
When Yang Tingjian learned that the pirate Liu Xiang had landed with 20,000 pirates and was attacking Tongzhou, he immediately ordered the Haimen guards located between Tongzhou and Haimen to immediately send troops to reinforce Tongzhou.
It's also lucky, isn't Yangzhou now engaged in land inventory? Didn't Yang Tingjian send people to rectify the guard? Chen Ergou happened to take more than 1,000 people to rectify the guard in Haimen Guard, Chen Ergou had just finished redistributing the land in the guard, and was about to go to Haimen County to check the land.
A telegram was sent by Tongzhou Kuaima, Yang Tingjian ordered Chen Ergou to immediately lead troops to reinforce Tongzhou, Chen Ergou received the order, immediately let the 1,000 people of the Haimen guard rush to Haimen County to guard, and he took 1,000 tiger troops, plus four Shenwei artillery, and hurried to Tongzhou, fifty miles away.
The military discipline and good food of the Tiger Ben Army made Chen Ergou and their marching speed extremely fast, almost non-stop, and they finally entered Tongzhou City before the pirates, and the small Tongzhou City was immediately surrounded by 20,000 pirates.
Although these pirates are strong in individual combat, their discipline is much worse; After the 20,000 pirates arrived in Tongzhou, they didn't even have a basic formation, Liu Xiang saw that the gate of Tongzhou was closed, and there were some soldiers and civilians defending the city.
Liu Xiang could only temporarily surround Tongzhou, and then began to camp, there was no time to attack the city in the afternoon, and there was no siege at night, Liu Xiang planned to let his sons and daughters rest well, and take Tongzhou City tomorrow in one go.
It was this half-day and night-long time that made Liu Xiang lose a chance, and even escaping became impossible.
Yangzhou is more than 150 kilometers away from Tongzhou, and Yang Tingjian immediately led the cavalry division of the Huben Army from Yangzhou after Liu Xiang led the pirates to land, and the cavalry division was fully equipped with a gallop at a speed of 40 per hour. That's already a slower pace.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Yang Tingjian rushed to a place fifty miles away from Tongzhou, and after several hours of continuous travel, everyone was relatively tired, so Yang Tingjian rested here until seven o'clock the next day.
When Yang Tingjian rushed to the outside of Tongzhou City, the morning sun had just risen. I didn't encounter any pirate scouts along the way, probably because there weren't many pirate cavalry, but the vigilance was so lax that it was a complete act of death.
After Yang Tingjian arrived twenty miles away from Tongzhou, he still didn't even see a pirate patrol, the pirates mainly fought at sea, and there was basically no cavalry, but Liu Xiang also received a flying pigeon from Qian Xiangsheng in Yangzhou, indicating that Yangzhou Mansion did not have the ability to rescue Tongzhou. So it's very safe to attack the state.
This is the difference between a pirate and a regular army, such an army is a rabble, and it is really unreasonable if it does not perish.
Yang Tingjian immediately divided his troops into two parts, one part was led by Mu Chengfeng to copy the back road of the pirates, Yang Tingjian did not plan to let go of a pirate, it was impossible to kill, and recruiting was Yang Tingjian's need.
The cavalry of the Tiger Army split into two in an instant, and the two groups of men and horses launched a charge towards their respective targets. Yang Tingjian took four thousand iron horsemen like a sharp sword out of the sheath, piercing the heart of the pirate.
Liu Xiang under the city was commanding the most powerful Japanese to attack the city at this time. Countless flying claws grabbed the city wall, the martial arts of the Japanese were climbing up at a rapid pace, and the occasional Ming on the city wall was also desperately resisting, and a thousand tiger soldiers were defending the city, which was still very powerful.
But Liu Xiang relied on his strength and attacked from all sides. This can make the more than 1,000 tiger army in Tongzhou City busy, each city wall is three miles long, and only 250 tiger army defends. Among the countless pirates, he could find a lot that no one defended, and then climb the city wall, and Chen Ergou could only control the section of the four city gates in this way. Then organize four hundred mobile forces to rush back and forth on the four city walls.
But there are too many pirates, although the pirates are not the opponent of the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army, a rush to kill, will kill the pirates who climbed the city wall, but the Tiger Ben Army is wearing thirty-five pounds of plate armor, plus weapons, are almost fifty pounds, an hour of rushing and killing, let the Tiger Ben Army be tired and out of breath, this Tongzhou is dangerous.
Suddenly, several fierce horse hooves sounded, the earth-shattering sound of horse hooves, almost made Liu Xiang and the pirates unable to stand, and at the same time there were countless shouts of killing, this is the arrival of reinforcements from the official army, and the pirates and pirates who attacked the attached city had to temporarily stop this attack, this sudden sound of horse hooves and shouts of killing, finally made Tongzhou City temporarily safe.
Yang Tingjian led thousands of cavalry to charge at the pirates under Tongzhou City like a tide. The three hundred guards led by Yang Tingjian rushed to the front, and they took advantage of the short time when the pirates were chaotic to enter the pirate alert team like lightning.
"Sweeping a Thousand Armies"
"Splitting Huashan"
"Dead Tree Waist"
Everywhere Yang Tingjian's Mo knife went, flesh and blood flew sideways, limbs and arms were broken, and the head was in a different place, and the pirate alert team that killed directly rushed to the wolf, and the army was broken, and the pirates who fled in all directions only hated their parents for giving birth to two legs less.
Yang Tingjian's goal was to find Liu Xiang, looking at a handsome flag standing not far from Tongzhou City from a distance, Yang Tingjian thought to himself, "I finally found you, I hope you can take over the halberd of this young master."
It is estimated that no one in the world can withstand Yang Tingjian's Mo knife, not that Yang Tingjian's martial arts are invincible in the world, that is nonsense, "Breaking the Eight Blades" can be regarded as superior martial arts, but it is by no means invincible martial arts, there is no invincible martial arts in the world, the invincible is the sharpness of the Mo knife, the sharpening of steel like mud is coupled with the speed of the thunder sweat blood BMW, the super defense of the armor against the flow of arrows, and the high-voltage electric rod, which caused the myth of Yang Tingjian's invincibility.
Hundreds of Japanese robbers blocked Yang Tingjian's way with Japanese knives, and Yang Tingjian was certainly not afraid. Cone formation, Yang Tingjian is the head of the gun, Ben Lei Ma took Yang Tingjian to rush into the Japanese knife formation, there is no need for Yang Tingjian to lift the Mo knife to cut, and the Mo knife can be rushed forward, and the Japanese who were swept by the Mo knife are all in a different place, and they died on the spot, and the pro-soldiers behind naturally know how to cover Yang Tingjian, and the duty of the pro-soldiers is to protect their own commanders on the battlefield.
The knife formation composed of hundreds of Japanese robbers broke as soon as they poked like paper, and Yang Tingjian ignored the scattered and fleeing Japanese robbers, and continued to go straight to the handsome banner five hundred meters away.
Liu Xiang under the handsome flag didn't look good, the real widow with superb martial arts, couldn't even withstand a round charge of the official army, quickly led a horse, and climbed up tremblingly, this murderous demon without blinking, now felt that his legs trembled, he couldn't use his strength at all, he couldn't climb the horse, and the result was that he climbed on the war horse with the help of his own soldiers and began to run away for his life.
Liu Xiang's war horse didn't know where it came from, and it was not Ben Lei's opponent at all, so he was caught up by Yang Tingjian when he ran out of three miles;
"Where to escape, surrender quickly, spare your life."
"Ahh ......" (To be continued......)