Chapter 254: Poets in the Army
"General, it looks like the defenders of Jiangning City!"
Through the faint moonlight, Wu Zheng still recognized the identities of the dead bodies that were thrown from the city tower. His eyes were faint, and after taking a deep breath, he said to Duan Peng beside him.
"Hmm!" Duan Peng nodded, his face calm.
For Duan Peng, who has been on the battlefield, he is used to seeing the sea of corpses and blood, and life and death have long been downplayed. At this time, although he knew that those corpses were Jiang Ning's defenders, he was only a little uncomfortable in his heart, and he didn't show much anger.
After all, the lives of dozens of soldiers, if they can be exchanged for the victory of the entire battle, they are worth it.
At this time, the city gate had been opened, and the black and oppressed warriors rushed out from the city gate. Duan Peng made a rough estimate, it should be around a thousand.
Oh, a thousand people. No wonder the scholar wanted to let himself lead troops to encircle and suppress him.
"Kill my Sergeant of the Great Zhou, these Dongying people deserve to die!" Wu Zheng raised his head and glanced at the corpses that had been thrown off the city wall one after another, as well as the large number of black-clothed warriors who poured out of the city gate, lowered their heads, and said indifferently while wiping the steel knife.
The angry tone seemed to be talking to himself, but it seemed to be asking Duan Peng.
"It's damn it!" Duan Peng stretched his legs, patted his somewhat numb legs with his hand, and said in a calm tone: "However, those thieves are even more damned!" It's hard to guard against thieves! Duan Peng indifferently glanced at the solemn city wall in the night, and sighed in a somewhat faint tone: "The big rat in the warehouse is in charge of the dynasty, and he should regret dying before the battle!" Loyal to peace with all his heart, he has no choice but to become a river chief! Oh, these bastards! ”
reminds me that in the court now, An Jiaquan leans towards the government and the opposition and frames Zhongliang. The border is unstable and the displaced people are lost. Duan Peng thought of those brothers who fought on the battlefield with the Eighth Prince and shrouded in horse leather, and couldn't help sighing for a while, shaking his head helplessly.
"Huh?" Hearing that the general was actually chanting poetry, Wu Zheng couldn't help but turn his head, groped his chin, and looked at Lord Duan in front of him, who was worried about the country and the people.
It seems that for so many years, adults don't seem to be people who worry about the country and the people.
"What's wrong?" Finding the strange gaze of Ai Jiang beside him, Duan Peng coughed, turned his head, looked at Wu Zheng, glared, and asked with some dissatisfaction.
"Can you recite poetry?" Wu Zheng's expression was very strange, as if he was trying his best to suppress his smile.
"Not like?" Duan Peng stretched out his arms, circled in place, turned his head, and looked at Wu Zhengdao: "Before I joined the army, I was a scholar of the Jinshi and the first, didn't you see it?" ”
"I see!" Wu Zheng saw that the adults showed themselves like this, coughed, and nodded solemnly.
"Good eyesight!" Duan Peng smiled happily and nodded in praise.
"Zhongjinshi, I spent a lot of money!" Wu Zheng looked up and down, the adult with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, nodded and suddenly asked.
"Grass!" Duan Peng was stunned, and then furious.
"The rat in the warehouse is in charge of the dynasty, and he should regret that he died before the battle. Loyal to peace with all his heart, he has no choice but to become a river chief! Seeing that the adult's face was not good, Wu Zheng hurriedly coughed, recited the poem of the adult just now, nodded, and praised it with understanding: "Good literary style!" ”
Duan Peng: "......"
...... "How many people fell from the wall?" After being silent for a long time, Duan Peng suddenly asked.
"Thirteen!" Wu Zheng has been tapping and remembers it clearly. Listening to the adult's question, he said it by the way.
"The old rule, ten to one!" Duan Peng nodded, his tone as if he was talking about a gambling game. After thinking about it, he glanced at Wu Zhenghou beside him, and said, "No problem, right?" ”
"No problem!" After Wu Zheng nodded briskly, he turned his head and looked at Master Duan: "Then, my brothers and I, let's go and prepare first!" ”
"Be careful!" Duan Peng waved his hand and let Wu Zheng leave.
"Fleshy!"
The night sky was once again obscured by clouds, and the moon, which looked like a white spot in the sky, was completely obscured by the clouds. Between heaven and earth, it was pitch black. On a night like lacquer and ink, I can't distinguish my five fingers when I reach out.
In his ears, the wind blew through the swordsmen, and they whimpered. And the howl of the cold wind howling through the trees.
Wu Zheng bent over and walked through the trench. Every time he walked past a soldier, he would raise his foot and kick the leg of the fellows who were sleeping in the trench with their waist knives in their arms.
The soldier who was reminded, rubbed his eyes. I saw the bent over, familiar back in front of me. Hehe smiled, quickly got up, carried the waist knife, and followed the person in front of him.
kicked all the way, and in a short time, a team of 100 people had gathered behind him.
"Old rules, let's take the lead and block the city gates. Veterans take care of the recruits, take care of them! Also, put the highlight of the move, don't be cut off by someone. I don't want to support your wives and children! After Wu Zheng gathered this group of people around him, after briefly arranging the combat mission, he raised his head, took a deep look at the new faces of the camp beside him, and nodded to them with a slight smile. Then he looked away and said to the veterans with a face full of vicissitudes and perseverance.
"Haha!" The veterans laughed, but the recruits were a little overwhelmed, looking at each other and looking at each other.
Wu Zheng walked up to a young man of about sixteen years old, stretched out his hand to straighten his helmet for him, then patted him on the shoulder, turned around, and jumped out of the trench first.
Behind him, more than 100 soldiers, after pulling out their belts, tightly tied their waist knives to their wrists, followed the boss, and rushed out.
Behind them, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Jiangsu Coastal Defense Army stood up one after another, touched their chests with one hand, and watched these people leave.
…… In the city, the noisy shouts of killing have gradually disappeared.
In its place, there was a deathly silence. The streets were as dark as ink, and there was a strong smell of blood. On both sides of the street, the doors of the shops have long been closed, the cold wind is blowing, and the flags hanging on the doors are whirring.
The streets, empty. On the smooth bluestone pavement, there was only the shocking corpse that fell on the side of the road.
"Grass!" The officer of the Jiangning garrison, who was in charge of counting the battlefield and encircling and suppressing the remnants of the bandits in the city, walked up to a pile of corpses, bent down and looked at it in turn, most of them were his own people.
Most of these people were pierced to death by meteor darts, and some were directly hacked to death by katanas. The death was extremely tragic.
When the Dongying people broke through the siege, they broke out in fierce trembling with the Jiangning garrison guarding the periphery of the encirclement.
Although, before the war, the military adviser reminded many times that the combat effectiveness of the Dongying people should not be underestimated. However, as a general, there is still some disapproval in my heart.
After all, 10,000 against 1,000 is a sure thing. No one would have imagined how things could make a difference. Could it be that the more than 1,000 Dongying warriors would still transform into a law?
However, at the moment of the hand-to-hand. The general, suddenly, found out that he was wrong.
It's just a face-to-face with a hundred-person squad on the other side. The battle loss rate of your own vanguard is as high as 70%, and only a few people on the other side are slightly injured.
After several stalemates and conflicts, the battle loss rate of their own side is getting higher and higher. The general, looking at the black-clothed samurai who had been impaled through their bodies, screaming and wielding the Toei katana, couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle.
Since the soldiers joined the army, they have never seen such a formation. When I saw those Dongying people, I attacked like crazy. I can't help but be afraid.
If you are scared, the formation will naturally be chaotic. The more than 200 Dongying warriors, at the cost of losing less than 50 people, simply broke through the encirclement and fled to the east.
Just as the general was angrily slapping his deserters, the herald hurried on horseback.
The order of the corps was brief: pursue, but not engage.
What does that mean?
The general was curious, and turned his head to ask, only to find that the herald had already left.
Pursuit, no engagement?
Could it be that you just let those dogs go?
Fuck, I haven't been so angry yet?
The general's angry slash slashed at the stone, and with a snap, sparks splashed everywhere, and the blade instantly broke into two.
"General, what should I do?" Seeing that the general was so angry and there were bold soldiers, he cautiously walked over and asked.
The general lowered his head and thought for a while, and after his eyes flickered for a moment, he smiled cruelly: "The general will not be subject to the military order outside!" ”
Turning his head, he looked at the terrified soldiers in front of him, and shouted coldly: "What else can you do, chase, chase up, hack those dogs, and avenge your brothers!" ”
At the sound of an order, hundreds of troops under his command followed him directly, searching along the way, while chasing towards the east.
When he chased him until he was not far from the east gate, the general found that the soldiers who were responsible for the defense of the east gate had suffered heavy casualties. For a moment, his mouth full of steel teeth was crushed, and his eyes were spewing fire. roared: "Damn, Lao Tzu is going to chop him alive!" ”
The soldiers had long forgotten the timidity in their hearts as they saw them all the way, and at this time, they were full of fighting spirit, and they screamed, and rushed towards the east gate with the general.
However, when I arrived at the east gate, I found that the city gate, which was still open just now, was squeaked back at this time.
"Open the door and let Lao Tzu out!" The general slammed the gate with all his might, slamming it frantically, roaring with rage.
"Damn, let the boys out, grass!" Then, the soldiers who rushed towards roared in unison.
The gates were slammed and staggered. At the gate of the city, the crowd was in a hurry, and the soldiers drew their knives and slashed at the gate, as if a conflict was about to break out.
"Brothers of the Jiangning garrison, please don't be impatient!" On the city gate, several soldiers leaned out, glanced at the hundreds of soldiers gathered at the city gate, looked at each other, turned their heads, and shouted towards the city gate.
"The outside of the city has been taken over by our Jiangsu coastal defense army, don't worry, none of the Dongying people can escape!"
Jiangsu Coastal Defense Army?
Hearing the people above say that they were from the coastal defense army, the general was stunned for a moment.
Of course, he had heard of the daimyo of the Coastal Defense. If it is necessary to select the elite of the elite among the troops in the south of the Yangtze River, it must be the Jiangsu Coastal Defense Army.
These people, as soon as they joined the army, began rigorous training. Moreover, they will join the actual battle at any time.
It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the Jiangsu Coastal Defense Army is completely fought with one knife and one gun.
Hearing these people say that they belong to the coastal defense army, the general couldn't help but be surprised.
When did they come?
……
(To be continued)