Chapter 3: Bloodthirsty Beasts
After a night of fighting, the Jingnan army in front of Shifeng City was killed, and the commander of the Jingnan army fled in a hurry with a cadre of officers and close attendants. After Wei Zeng's victorious return, the light of the sky had already appeared on the horizon, although the north wind was still cold, but the dark clouds were not so dense.
The four thousand rebels attacked in the dark and did not suffer too many casualties, and now they were all holding the booty, and their faces were all elated. It turns out that the Jingnan army is not invincible, and it turns out that we can also drive those jackals away if we have never had the opportunity to escape. The morale of the rebels was high.
In the middle of the night, Wei Zhen heard shouts of killing outside the city, got dressed and came to the city wall, looking at the vast night. The north wind was howling and it was very cold, but Yuzhen ignored it and stood on the city wall all night.
Qi Weilun and Sajiali persuaded a few words, but seeing that Wei Zhen just shook his head and said nothing, he didn't say anything more.
The light of day was revealed, and a group of people and horses on the horizon walked towards Stone Wind City. The first person rode the captured BMW, and the blood-stained clothes were the same person who Weizhen had been waiting for all night. The defenders of Shifeng City also saw Wei Zeng bring people back, and shouted loudly in the city to welcome Wei Zeng's return. The rebels under the city also responded one after another, and it was not lively for a while.
Wei Zhen ran down from the city and ran out of the city gate to Wei Zeng.
Wei Zeng saw Wei Zhen come out, and he also drove a BMW to greet him.
"Welcome to the victorious return of my husband, I don't know what is good for my husband." Wei Zhen held back his excitement and saluted Wei Zeng.
"Zhen'er, I'm worried about you. I didn't say goodbye to you before, just because I didn't think it was necessary, but now that the Jingnan army has been defeated, we are finally safe. Wei Zeng dismounted and hugged Wei Zhen in his arms.
"I know, I understand, no one understands you better than I do. Do whatever you do, I will always support you. Wei Zhen said affectionately in Wei Zeng's arms.
"Your hands are so cold, you shouldn't have stood on the city wall all night." Wei Zeng held Wei Zhen's very cold hand and said with some distress.
"I couldn't sleep last night, and I'm going to be the first to welcome you back victorious." Wei Zhen hugged Wei Zeng and said with a smile.
"Zhen'er didn't let you enjoy a day of happiness when she married me, but let you suffer with me, Wei Zeng is ashamed of you. But in the future, everything I Wei Zeng will share with you, and I won't let you suffer a little more grievances. Wei Zeng said.
"I don't have anything more to ask for from being by your side all the time." Wei Zhen said.
"Zhen'er, come with me into the city, and you will have a share of all this glory." Wei Zeng said and hugged Wei Zhen on the horse, and the two rode towards Shifeng City.
"Long live the general, long live the lady!" When all the soldiers saw the two riding into the city, they all cheered.
Weizhen looked around, and being admired by thousands of people made Weizhen very useful. Of course, being able to accompany Wei Zeng all the time is the greatest wish in her heart.
Wei Zengzhi was complacent, and he was optimistic about the future after a big victory. When he saw Qi Weilun and Sagargé, he dismounted and met each other.
"Wei Zeng, you are so majestic, but how should you thank me for helping you defend the city." Sagaree said with a smile.
"Miss Sa's favor, Wei Zeng is here to thank you. If Miss Sa has anything to do for me, I will not refuse. Wei Zeng said solemnly.
"I'm going to start a new life here, give me a team of people, and I'll let the people of the Central Plains see the style of the Valkyries." Sagart said to herself.
"Okay, I will definitely meet Miss Sa's request in the future." Wei Zeng said angrily.
"After this great victory, the hearts of the people in Stone Wind City are available, and we must take the opportunity to consolidate the results of the battle so that we can deal with the enemies who will attack in the future." Qi Weilun was washed away by the victory, and said happily to Wei Zeng.
"Big brother said well, let's go in and discuss it well, and we must take this opportunity to completely defeat the Jingnan army." After Wei Zeng finished speaking, he and Qi Weilun went to the City Lord's Mansion to discuss important matters.
The remnants of the Jingnan army fled back to the main camp, and the main force was shocked to hear the news of the defeat of the advance team, so they stopped their march for a while and hurriedly discussed countermeasures.
The Jing Nanjun originally thought that this counterinsurgency was just a piece of fat meat that reached the mouth, but they didn't expect that there were bone spurs in the fat meat, and the Jing Nanjun who planned to eat a lot of food was bleeding all over their mouths.
The people of the Jingnan army were first surprised, and then became very angry, and after a little discussion, they decided to wash Yanbei in blood, so that no one could live for the traitors who collaborated with the enemy.
The Jingnan army originally wanted to rush to Shifeng City as soon as possible, but they didn't take into account the surrounding villages and county towns along the way, but now in order to take revenge, the Jingnan army swept all the way, and smoke rose everywhere they went. Those who could run had already run before the Jingnan army came, and after the Jingnan army drove the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled to one place, they were all killed. As a result, the pace of the Jingnan army slowed down.
The Jingnan army is accustomed to being powerful and blessed on weekdays, where has it encountered any real opponents, and it is impossible to say that it is not afraid after experiencing a big defeat. However, the Jingnan army was accustomed to arrogance on weekdays, and became a little ferocious in the face of blows, and fear turned into blood, intending to increase confidence in victory through killing.
Asked to stop them from doing so, but was slapped to the ground by the angry commander of the Jing Yan Army. The Jing Yan army, which was mad with anger, no longer cared about the so-called court magnates.
"It's all crazy, it's all crazy, how can this be. If you don't kill and seek revenge on the rebels in Shifeng City, why do you want to slaughter Yanbei. Isn't this forcing people to rebel? No one dared to rebel before, just because of the long-term prestige of the Jingnan army; Now that there is a new defeat, the people's will has turned, and if you do this, I am afraid that there will be no corpses in the future. Seeing the crazy appearance of Jing Nanjun, he left here with his servants, and left these words before leaving.
"If the heavens want to die, they must first make them mad and deranged. Now that the Jingnan Army is doing this, I am afraid that it will arouse great public resentment, and we can no longer stay in Yanbei. Hurry up and take your wife back, and we'll go to Jingshi's relatives. Asked, out of the camp of the Jingnan army, and said to the servant.
"The Jing Nanjun didn't do this before, and nothing happened. There shouldn't be anything now, why should those untouchable lords care about life and death. The servant was puzzled.
"It's not something you can understand. Those untouchables are very afraid of things on weekdays, so naturally they will not resist the Jingnan army. Now it's different, the Jingnan army has just been defeated, and the people of Yanbei already know that the Jingnan army is not invincible, so it will inevitably arouse public resentment. Although the water is weak, the flooding of the rivers is also unstoppable. Those traitors in Stone Wind City are not to be feared, but if these untouchables are forced to the side of the traitors, not to mention the Jingnan Army, even the Iron Blood Army will suffer heavy losses when they come. After asking, he found his family and went to Jingshi.
"A scholar is a scholar, the same timid and afraid of things. Only by being scared will we not have an accident. All the soldiers followed me to Stone Wind City, and there were no chickens and dogs left wherever they went. The commander of the Jingnan Army was a little angry when he saw that he was gone, but he was so clean that he was so clean that he insisted on leading the army to kill.
Gu Chayi led two hundred light cavalry to and fro on the Yanbei Plain, and Gu Chayi originally planned to take the opportunity to burn the grain and grass of the Jingnan army, so that the Jingnan army could retreat. But now the Jingnan army has been prepared, and there are a large number of men and horses to protect the heavy grain and grass, and Gu Cha has tried several times but has not succeeded.
Gu Chayi attacked several scattered groups of Jingnan soldiers, attracted the attention of the Jingnan army, and successfully covered Wei Zeng's sneak attack. But now that Gu Cha has made a mistake, just killing some scattered soldiers is completely skin wounded for the Jingnan army, and attacking the main force of the enemy, just 200 people, is also a fool's dream.
Gu Chayi was thinking about what to do next, when he suddenly saw thick black smoke rising in front of him, so he asked the people around him, "We didn't send people over there, why is there a big fire over there." ”
"Commander Qiyu, we really didn't send people anywhere, I don't know what happened over there."
"Let's go, go over and have a look." As soon as Gu Cha said this, he led the people to rush away.
I saw a group of Jingnan troops enter a village, and after looting the property, they began to set fire to the village.
When the Jingnan army saw Gu Chayi leading the crowd to come, they recognized that this was the group of traitors who had been attacking the scattered soldiers, and immediately threw down their belongings and fired arrows to summon the arrival of a large army.
Seeing this, Gu Cha was furious and led two hundred knights to kill him, attacking crossbows, sabers and spears, and killing these Jingnan troops in a moment. However, there were several more black smoke in the four fields, and it was obvious that more than one village had been attacked by the Jing Yan army.
Gu Cha remembered the tragic situation of seeing the slaughter of the four counties in Yanbei a few years ago, and his pores were terrified for a while; Seeing the surrounding peasants full of sadness, kneeling on the ground and crying, Gu Cha was also very unbearable.
At this time, a group of cavalry killed this village, and it turned out that the Jingnan army had assembled a light cavalry force of 500 people in order to deal with Gu Chayi, and this force chased after him when he saw the signal.
"You rabbits are jumping up and down, and I'll see where you run this time."
"You wolf cubs, don't you know anything but kill, you are even more evil than robbers."
"The boy is dying, and Hugh is going to talk nonsense. If you speak for these people, then they must be with you. It seems that we didn't kill the wrong one, but even if we did, what if we did? You still want to avenge them, but you can't. ”
"Today I will avenge them!" As he spoke, Gu Cha shot an arrow at the man.
The man was on guard, and immediately took his bow and arrows with a shield.
When the 200 soldiers fired an arrow, they fired a volley together, and then dropped their bows and crossbows and followed the Gucha to the enemy's horse.
The horses of the Jingnan army were hit with bows and crossbows, and they panicked for a while, and some of them were killed and fell off their horses. But after all, the enemy army was twice as large as Gu Cha's horse team, and after a little panic, they fought with Gu Cha Yi's horse team.
Gu Cha took the opponent's commander directly with a spear, and the other commander's commander also brandished his iron bone and smashed it at Gu Chayi. The two phases were staggered, and the enemy's commander's shield was pierced by Gu Chayi, and when Gu Chayi's war horse was also smashed to the ground by Iron Guduo, he fell to the ground and died.
"Is that all the kid can do? It seems that victory came too easily. The enemy commander endured the pain of bleeding from his wounds, and struck Gu Chayi with his iron bones.
"Don't be too happy, the winner hasn't been decided yet!" As soon as Gucha rolled over and got up, he stabbed the horse in the head with a shot, and the horse took a few steps back with the enemy general.
Gu Cha took advantage of the other party's instability, and stabbed the other party from his horse with another shot.
The enemy commander got up in pain and killed Gu Chayi like crazy, but saw Gu Cha bend his bow and arrows and aim at himself.
"Not good!" The enemy commander secretly said and hurriedly dodged, but the second arrow came, and the person finally had no way to dodge, and was killed by Gu Cha's arrows one by one.
"Beware, Commander"
When Gu Cha turned around, he saw that one of his own people used his body to block the stabbing horse lance. It turned out that an enemy knight attacked from behind when Gu Cha shot and killed the enemy commander.
Gu Cha was shocked, and hurriedly bent his bow and shot an arrow, killing this person, looking at the rebel knight who died to protect himself, his eyes were a little moist.
At this time, the surrounding villagers were armed with rudimentary weapons and assisted Gu Chayi's horse team to expel the Jing Yan army. Seeing that the commander was killed, and the villagers were also very scary, they retreated.
"Uncle, what are your plans in the future?" After the first battle, Gu Cha said to an old man who had just helped with a cane.
"What else can we do? We have already offended the Jingnan army, and we can't go on here. We plan to try our luck in Kanbei and Yaodong, which are still stable, and maybe there is a way to live. The old man said on crutches as he looked around at the burning houses.
"Guanbei and Yaodong are too far away, and there are many thieves along the way. Our rebel army has recently defeated the Jingnan army in Shifeng City, so why don't you go to Shifeng City to hide. Gu Cha said as soon as he heard this.
"What, you defeated the Jingnan Army!" The old man was surprised, and the surrounding villagers were also in an uproar.
"yes, just a few days ago, didn't you know?" Gu Chayi said.
"Righteous soldiers, we are willing to follow you to defeat the Jingnan army, we want to take revenge!" The villagers shouted angrily.
"You're not leaving?"
"If we don't leave, we won't leave, we also want to kill the Jingnan Army to take revenge."
"Aren't you afraid?"
"Before, there was only one dead end, and we didn't dare to resist. Now we're fighting with them. ”