Chapter 80: Breaking the Army (II)

A moment later, Ivanov sorted out two more regiments of elite soldiers, and rushed to the mouth of the tiger with the Hu family army that had just been reversed. After walking for a short time, I heard the sound of musket shooting, and Zhao Buhua, who followed Hu Shen back on horseback, and other personal guards had already fought with the various departments of the Zhejiang army who came to replace Hu Shen's guards to fight the tiger's mouth.

It is said that Chen Zhongzhen, who was ordered by Shi Mo Yisun to go to fight Hukou to take over the defense, and Hu Shen can be regarded as half of the same countrymen. Between each other, they are still cousins who have not come out of five suits. I heard that Shi Mo Yisun insisted that his cousin Hu Shen had gone and never returned, and there was inevitably some resistance in his heart. So when gathering soldiers and horses and hurrying, of course, it was also procrastinating.

finally walked along the back mountainside to the south side of the tiger's mouth, and was about to take over the defense, but was blocked by Hu Shen's half-brother Hu Liang.

Although the latter is a concubine, he is also a young talent in the Longquan Hu family. In the past, with Hu Shen, he drank flower wine with Chen Zhongzhen, Qu Han, Wang Zhang and others, and they all had a good friendship with each other. Therefore, when Chen Zhongzhen saw that he led his soldiers and horses to block the mountain road leading to the position, it was not good to turn his face immediately. Riding a horse and rushing to the front of the team, he raised the arrow into the air, and shouted loudly: "Hu Laoqi, what are you crazy about?" Lao Tzu came to reinforce you on the order of the commander, why didn't you let Lao Tzu's people go up?! ”

"Yikes! It's Fourth Brother Chen! When Hu Liang heard this, he quickly jumped down and bowed down. What alarmed you? My brother took someone to blow up the thief's artillery, and before leaving, he had an order that as long as he did not come back, no one was allowed to enter the village. You also know his fiery temper, if I just let you in, when he comes back, will I still have to live? ”

When Chen Zhongzhen heard this, he immediately smiled and pouted, "Fart!" Do you fool people less for me? I don't know what kind of character your brother is? He won't move you! Besides, Lao Tzu also received the order of Marshal Shi Mo! ”

"No one's orders will come true. Fourth Brother Chen, it's not that you don't know that the Ye Du matter around Shi Mo Yisun has always been at odds with my brother. Seeing that my brother was about to make a shocking achievement, he hurriedly sent someone to share a spoonful. But Fourth Brother Chen, you are not that kind of person, what kind of friendship do you have with my brother, can you be guilty of taking credit for this spoon and coldly dividing the brotherhood for many years? Hu Liang's lies were exposed in public, but he was not embarrassed. He gave a deep salute to Chen Zhongzhen and continued to speak of lotus flowers.

"This" Chen Zhongzhen raised his head and glanced at the front of the mountain a few times, but because of his slightly low position, his gaze could not climb over the ridge at all. And the sound of suona in his ears clearly indicates that Hu Shenzheng is leading his soldiers and horses to fight with the Huai'an army. Before the victory or defeat was distinguished, he went to copy Hu Shen's back road, which was indeed not so righteous. Besides, Shi Mo Yisun was just worried that the Huai thief would counterattack and fight the tiger's mouth, and now there were clearly people from the Hu family stationed in the tiger's mouth, so he would wait for a while, and then take over the defense after the victory and defeat were separated in front of the mountain, it must be too late.

Thinking of this, Chen Zhongzhen smiled slightly, "Grandma, you kid's mouth, dead people can say that they have turned over." With such good eloquence, why didn't you persuade your brother not to rush out and take risks? Is Hu Dahai's cannon easy to blow up? Although you were all surnamed Hu five hundred years ago, he would not give the cannon to your brother for nothing! ”

"It's not that I didn't persuade you, Fourth Brother Chen, you don't know how badly my brother has been bullied by the surnamed Ye in the past few days! Obviously, if he retreated more than ten or twenty steps back from the ridge, he would be able to avoid the bombardment of the Huai'an thieves, but he didn't let my brother hide. Dare to love, it is not the children of his Ye family who die, he is not distressed. Fill in all our 10,000 Hu family children, and he, Ye Chen, will still be added to the ranks! Hu Liang grinned and complained loudly.

This is said in the hearts of many people. In an instant, a whisper sounded behind Chen Zhongzhen. Similar to the Hu family, most of these "volunteer soldiers" were born in the Chen family. Either for the children of the Chen surname, or for the Chen family's Zhuang Ke tenants. Over the years, he has followed Chen Zhongzhen to fight against bandits, which can be regarded as to protect his father and fellow villagers. But for no reason, he was dragged to the area of Fanling to be bombed, what is the picture?

In Chen Zhongzhen's heart, he actually felt that Hu Shen's risky attack was forced by Ye Chen. But he has a relatively soft temperament and is unwilling to talk about people behind his back. Therefore, he frowned a few times, lowered his voice and said, "Lord Ye has read a belly of sage books, and his heart should not be so bad. Besides, we are staying here to guard our respective homes. Haven't you heard? Every time the Huai'an army arrives at a place, it has to be divided into acres! ”

"People's hearts are separated from their bellies, who knows!" Hu Liang shook his head and pouted disdainfully, "I've heard that every time you slaughter dogs, most of them are scholars." As for the apportionment into the acre, it doesn't matter. Isn't there still a field awarded by the Huai'an Army according to military positions and military merits? It's a big deal that Lao Tzu will go to be a soldier to eat food, and when he comes out as a general, he will have to earn back thousands of acres for his family! ”

"Hiss——!" Chen Zhongzhen obviously felt that the other party's words were wrong, but she didn't know where to refute them. Thanks to the newspapers circulating around, he has heard of all the decrees in Huaiyang. In particular, the article that was introduced a month or two ago to confer fields according to military rank and military merit simply made his eyes red with envy. If the imperial court also follows this method, he, Chen Zhongzhen and these Chen family children around him, will be able to earn back hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land for the family. It is enough to compensate for the losses caused by the apportionment of acres and rent reduction and interest reduction!

At first, this thought just flashed in his heart, and he instinctively suppressed it. And at this moment, he was suddenly lifted up again, but like wildfire, it began to devour his heart. If you continue to defend to the death, will you be able to defeat the Huai'an army? To be honest, Chen Zhongzhen had no hope of victory. That Zhu butcher and the Quanzhou Pu family have a common enmity, even if Shi Mo Yisun consumes Hu Dahai this time, it won't be long before Xu Da, Wu Liangmou, Wu Xuyu, and even Zhu Butcher himself may be killed in person. At that time, what should the Zhejiang army do? Continue to defend to the death, using human lives to fight with shells? Hu Liang said it well just now, it was not his Shi Mo Yisun and Ye Chen's clansmen who died.

Just as he was being burned to the ground, there was a sudden sound of violent footsteps behind him. Qu Han, Wang Zhang, and Liu Yi, three volunteer generals who were usually highly regarded by Shi Moyi and Sun, also arrived with their own clansmen. Seeing that Chen Zhongzhen's department had not yet entered the position of fighting the tiger's mouth, he was slightly stunned, and blurted out the words of questioning, "Fourth Brother Chen, why are you still here?" Hurry up and recapture the tiger's mouth, hurry, don't delay the effort! Hu, Hu Laosan, he, he's backwater! ”

"Anti-water?!" Chen Zhongzhen was taken aback, and instinctively wanted to find Hu Liang to verify. saw that Hu Liang quickly shrank his body behind the Hu family's disciples, and at the same time ripped his neck and shouted, "Fourth Brother Chen, you think carefully about what I said just now." If we don't do the good things that can divide the land, why do we have to take our heads and shells on top of them? Beat away Hu Dahai, the surname Shi and the surname Ye are added to the official and entered the knighthood, what benefits can we get?! ”

After that, he took his brothers and slowly retreated behind the rocks on both sides of the mountain road. The horned bow and crossbow were wound, and the arrows that flashed with cold light pointed straight at the three-foot-wide sheep intestine path.

"The surname Hu doesn't have a good thing!" Qu Han, the deputy of the volunteer army, didn't need to look closely, and he knew that Chen Zhongzhen had fallen for Hu Liang's delaying plan just now. He pulled out the steel knife at his waist and raised it above his head, "Brothers, kill me, take down the tiger's mouth, and capture Hu Shen alive!" Ah——!h ”

Before he could finish his sentence, at least more than two hundred feathered arrows shot at him. Frightened, he quickly tilted his body, fell off the horse, and then held his head in his hands, hid under the horse's belly, and at the same time neighed loudly in his mouth, "Defend against arrows, protect me from cold arrows!" Shieldman, shieldbearer hurry up to block the arrows! ”

"Bang bang, bang bang!" A shield soldier had already stepped forward desperately to protect his man and his mount. Causes most of the feathered arrows to be stuck in the shield, making them useless. But there were also more than a dozen lucky ones who directly hit several soldiers in the chest, knocking their targets to the ground and wailing loudly.

"Attack, attack!" Qu Han held on to a cold sweat, poked out a steel knife from behind the shield, and swung it vigorously towards the ridge.

As soon as the feather arrow fell, the two sides completely turned their faces, and there was no one to talk about. Therefore, Wang Zhang and Liu Yi, the two volunteer generals, also raised their steel swords one after another, and sent their soldiers to help in the battle, vowing to seize the tiger's mouth before the Huai'an army came up.

Only Chen Zhongzhen, who was supposed to lead his troops into battle first, was still a little hesitant. Look at Hu Liang, who was guarding on both sides of the mountain road, outnumbered. Look at the dozens of white flags erected on the Hukou position, I don't know when. Pressing the handle of the knife with his hand, he sighed, "Alas——! ”

"Big brother!" Seeing this scene, Chen Zhongyi, a volunteer soldier of the Chen family's army, rushed forward and pulled the reins of his general's war horse hard, "You should make a quick decision." If we hesitate like this, no matter who wins or loses in the end, we won't have a good result! ”

"You can't win, you can't win!" Chen Zhongzhen shook her head with a wry smile, lost her soul. "Hu Shen left people in the mouth of the tiger, and although Qu Han and they were numerous, they couldn't attack it for a while. As long as the Huai'an army rushes up from the other side of the mountain, the end of this battle is decided! ”

"Then let's learn from Hu Shen!" Chen Zhongyi was young and bold, and stomped his feet to admonish. "It's good to stand at one end, if you stand right, you can get some money back!"

"Yes, eldest prince, hurry up and make a decision! We're all following you! The rest of the Chen family leaders also echoed in low voices.

As the children of the local gentry, they originally had no deep hatred with Zhu Chongjiu. The only reason to insist on fighting with the Huai'an army is just to keep the family's privileges and the huge amount of land in the hands of the family. According to the current policy of the Huai'an Army, it is certainly impossible to continue to have privileges, but there is a way to keep more than half of the land, and even double the original basis. As a result, their motivation to fight will naturally be weakened by more than half, and when there is no hope of victory, no one can afford to have the mind of coexisting with the position.

"Huh!?" Facing the eager gaze of the children of the clan, Chen Zhongzhen pressed the hand on the handle of the knife and opened and closed it repeatedly. Hu Shen's actions are undoubtedly extremely smart. But Shi Moyi's kindness to Sun Pingping made him unable to give up. After thinking about it, he finally shook his head vigorously, "Forget it, let's go to Longquan." Fan Ling will definitely not be able to hold it, let's defend Longquan, and we can leave a way back for Lord Shi Mo Yisun! ”

With that, he turned his horse south. Neither refused to attack Hu Liang, nor did he return to Fanling to surrender his life to Shi Moyisun. Take your subordinates and go!