Verse 26: A Stronger Heart
On the evening of December 11, the Red Mountain Army and the Left Army of Blue Horse Qin Kemu engaged in battle in Huaiting City, and the people of Huaiting City also participated in the street fighting. For a time, the Blue Horse people were overwhelmed by more than 60,000 Huaiting people and nearly 5,000 Red Mountain Army, the main general Kuriyalu was beheaded by the East Gate Snow Owl, Liu Qingshan opened the West City Gate, the Blue Horse Rout Army flocked to the West City like a headless fly, the Red Mountain Army stood on the city tower and frantically shot the fleeing Blue Horse soldiers with bows and arrows, and the Blue Horse People fled to the west without dying in the rain of arrows, Liu Shan led the army to chase all the way out of the city, and the hair was hung at the head of the city with the 'Yang Cannon' Sanhua's in the moat of Xicheng arranged a blue sea of death, the number of blue horses nearly 10,000 troops escaped was only 1000, and then Liu Qingshan personally led nearly 500 cavalry along the way to chase and kill, the blue horse Huriye Department, this flooded on the horse, conquered Luoshui, and pried open the strong army of Huang Yao's north gate, almost completely wiped out, and only a few people fled back to Luoshui afterwards.
Feng Sibao still feels that he is dreaming, Huaiting has actually become a veritable fortified city after the flood of Fujiang, which is not at all something that an army of less than 20,000 like him can conquer, but he is now standing on the streets of Huaiting, which is occupied by the Blue Horse people. It's a bit like sleepwalking!
"But General Feng in person!" Huo Wuxiang saluted Feng Sibao not far away.
took back his hysteria, and Feng Sibao also returned the salute to the fire.
Looking at the army behind Huo Wuxiang, because the Red Mountain Army had just entered the imperial system, the military uniforms had not yet been unified, there were cyan Luoshui garrison uniforms, there were cotton uniforms that the empire transported to Hongshan some time ago, civilians dressed up, there were soft helmet uniforms that snatched the blue horse people, and the blue horse garrison uniforms of the Luoshui surrendered to the Blue Horse Anyway Army, and all kinds of them did not look like a strong army. But Feng Sibao knew that this was a strong army. Not to mention the neat pace of this army, the controlled blocking position of the entire street, and the distance of the troops when they marched. It is to rely on the natural danger formed by the Fujiang River and the Luohe River-Huaiting City, which was defeated in less than an hour. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a bag to pick up things. If you don't have a little actual combat power, you will be a surprise attack, more than 10,000 garrisons, or the famous Nusi Left Army of Blue Horse, you can fight!
"The general is?" Feng Sibao responded politely.
Huo Wuxiang came to Feng Sibao's approach, "The last general of the Hongshan Army is partial to Huo Wuxiang, I have seen the general!" He said and saluted Feng Sibao.
The two were greeting each other, and Ren Tang came over on horseback, and from time to time there were blue horse soldiers on the nearby street who were found and killed by civilians. Following Rentang was the bow battalion of the Red Mountain Army, which was stained with wool belts.
Some of the uniforms of the original garrison of the soldiers of the bow battalion have faded and turned white, and the soldiers are uniformly issued with 'Sanhua' one-handed crossbows. This army gave Feng Sibao a special feeling. The array of soldiers is not neat at all, it looks loose and exaggerated, the entire battalion is more than 800 people, unlike the Hongshan Army in front, the team is noisy and noisy, these 800 people, without momentum, seem unusually quiet. But every soldier has a temperament, which is sometimes very much like a hunter in the dark night, yes a hunter, a temperament of silence, wit, tenacity, and tenacity.
Feng Sibao noticed the 'three flowers' in the hands of the soldiers.
"Old man, 400 meters accurate, one-handed crossbow machine!" Ren Tang got off the horse and walked in front of Feng Sibao, patted Feng Sibao on the shoulder and smiled as a reminder.
Feng Sibao nodded, indicating that he understood.
The soldiers of the first bow battalion of the Ren Tang Dynasty waved their hands: "Come here!" β
The soldier ran over and gave a military salute, "Sir!" β
"Show him your crossbow!"
The soldier hesitated, but still handed the crossbow machine to Feng Sibao.
Feng Sibao played with the 'Sanhua', the black crossbow body, the front section of the crossbow machine is expected to be mountainous, there is a distance scale, the elasticity is very good, any soldier can pull apart, different from the bow and arrow and the string traction of the traditional crossbow machine, the 'Sanhua' is a bolt-pull mechanical control, which is more convenient to shoot, and you don't need to rely on hand control when shooting, just pull the trigger. "Good stuff!" Feng Sibao touched the crossbow machine and said with emotion.
"Chief, I'm leaving!" The soldier pointed to the crossbow machine in Feng Sibao's hand a little apprehensively, reminding Ren Tang.
The soldier of the Ren Tang Dynasty kicked "How old is it!" It's as if you ran away with your three flowers! βγ
"Huh!" Feng Sibao smiled and handed the crossbow to the soldier.
The soldier took the crossbow machine, touched his head and smiled embarrassedly at Feng Sibao, and ran towards the bow camp array.
It wasn't until the night that Liu Qingshan and Su Ping returned to Huaiting City with their cavalry, and Feng Sibao and Rentang, who had been waiting in Huaiting County, greeted them.
Next, Feng Sibao and Liu Qingshan discussed the specific deployment situation of Huaiting City, and after they arranged for their subordinates to enter the defense area, it was already late at night.
The next day, the news of Huai Ting's recovery swept through Huang Yao's entire territory like a gust of wind. Huang Yonglie, who was in the pole, received the battle report sent by Feng Sibao, and the whole person was stunned for a while, before ordering someone to immediately send the news of Huai Ting's recovery and the total annihilation of the left army of Lan Ma Nusi to the entire territory of Huang Yao.
Kyoto Huang Lingshou looked at the news in his hand, and his heart was indescribably comfortable, and he prepared a sedan chair to enter the palace to see him. After receiving the news, Ma Sihai of the military department issued a death order to the Henan Army and the Qidong Army stationed in the south. Zuo Prime Minister Situ Jian met with the Eastern Alliance, and for the first time rejected the Eastern Alliance's proposal to increase grain procurement with a tough attitude.
On December 13, on Huang Yao's official roads, the news of 800 miles of expedited war horses was endless, and all military stations and post stations were active for a while.
On the 14th, the Holy Capital Empire increased its troops to the occupied Huang Yao Good Hope City. The Blue Ma Xihai cavalry increased troops to Luoqing, Feishui, and Yahai. At the same time, the Crazy Dragon Cave Infantry Group stationed in Lanma was deployed along the Luoqing line on all fronts.
In all the cities and cities in Huang Yao's territory, there was talk of the news that Huang Biao's army and the Hongshan army had recovered Huaiting and annihilated the left army of Lanma Nusi.
"Liu Qingshan, do you know! Only 500 people were brought! Only 500 people! γγγγγβ
"Scared! The 500 people are still counting the people who followed behind, in fact, Liu Qingshan led the 200 people to attack Huai Ting! β
"Who is Liu Qingshan!"
"You don't even know that! Liu Qingshan was cultivated by the empire, didn't he say that he took refuge in the blue people some time ago! That's a ruse! Do you understand the scheme? β
"Who is it?"
"A waist of 1 meter thick, 9 feet high, and a face like a heavy jujube! Holding a golden knife the size of a doorγγγγγγ"
"What! I heard that he is a handsome talent in Beicheng, why do you say this, why is it becoming more and more like the door god at the door! β
For a while, in the streets and alleys of Huang Yao, similar discussions like this can be said to be everywhere.
On December 16, the Red Mountain Army returned to the Red Mountain camp from Xizha. Rentang did not return to Huang Biaojun, and also returned with Liu Qingshan. Rentang's return to the Red Mountain camp is what Huang Shuai meant. After looking at the Hongshan 'Yang Gun', 'Yang Cannon', 'Sanhua', and 'Protector' given by Rentang, Huang Shuai couldn't calm down anymore. Immediately afterwards, the Red Mountain Army regained Huaiting.
Huang Biao's army is a mixed corps, which is Huang Yao's largest corps, with a total number of 360,000. It is stationed in the province of Gongzi all the year round, and is stationed on the 2,000-mile border between Gongzi and the Longxiang Empire. Most of the troops are mountain heavy infantry, and the armor worn by the soldiers is more than 40 catties, which makes Huang Biaojun very embarrassed in the preparation of the troops, and it is almost the strength of Huang Yao to form such a heavy infantry that is good at strength. Look at the 'protector' again, it is not weaker than the heavy armor on the soldiers in terms of defense, but it weighs less than a catty. This is terrifying, think about it, with an inner armor like 'Protector', how much will the soldier's combat effectiveness increase? Huang Shuai didn't dare to think about it, and he couldn't think of it.
How much impact the heavy march and the lightly armed march have on the combat effectiveness of the army, Huang Yonglie himself knows too well. If the mountain heavy infantry of the Huang Biao Army was equipped with the 'Protector', he would dare to fight the Red Clay Holy Guard Brigade of the Wind and Snow Empire.
Look at the 'Sanhua' again, a kind of pull-spring crossbow bolt, pull the trigger to shoot, the accuracy is that people who have never touched a crossbow arrow can also operate, and more importantly, the effective range of 400 meters!
Not to mention the power of 'Yang Gun' and 'Yang Cannon'.
Hearing that Rentang said that the Hongshan Army and the Imperial Military Department had signed an armament order, Huang Yonglie asked Feng Sibao to tell Rentang the meaning of ordering Hongshan equipment on the day Rentang entered Huaiting. Huang Yonglie wrote at the end of the letter: "It must be finalized! Certain! βγ
The dog was in Liu Qingshan, and they returned to Luoqing after they returned to Hongshan. Luoqing was the first capital in the northern part of the Huang Yao Empire, and now it has been occupied by the Blue Horse people, and the streets are full of Blue Horse and half-orc soldiers. Along with the dogs, there were Monta, Dongmen Xue and five orc companions, during which two of them returned to the Blue Horse via Luo Qing to visit their families, and also reported to Monta and their families that they were safe.
This time I came to Luoqing mainly to transform the wind stone of the smelting furnace, and the itinerary was basically smooth, the wind stone they had already set in the Luoqing auction house, just waiting for the auction house to prepare the goods and leave, the Blue Horse military was too lazy to pay attention to this kind of stone used in the people.
Just when the dog was waiting for the auction house to prepare the goods, the dog they met a person, this person Dongmen Xue knew, who was a wanted criminal in the empire for many years, surnamed Huang and named Dou Jin. Huang Doujin was originally a relative of Huang Yao's royal family, responsible for managing grain commerce and trade in the imperial capital, and was accepted and interrogated by the Third Inspection Department for huge corruption, and then sent to the Imperial Foreign Affairs Office of the Zongren Mansion. Huang Doojin's family bought off the prison and escaped without the guards paying attention. Huang Doujin did not leave Kyoto in time, and slaughtered him and more than 100 members of his family at the Liuhai Mansion of the then head of the household department that night, and then disappeared as if Huang Yao had disappeared.
When Dongmen Xue saw Huang Doujin, she had murderous thoughts, the daughter of the former Imperial Hubu Shangshu, and she was a good friend, and the two of them were called Shuangjiao in the Academy of Literature at that time. Her friend also died in the massacre of Huang Doujin that night, and Dongmen Xue secretly decided that if she met this Huang Doujin in her lifetime, she would definitely seek justice for her friend.
Subsequently, Dongmen Xue asked the dog to go shopping by herself, and told her that if she couldn't go back to the post station today, she told the dog not to wait for her, and left Luo Qing when the auction house arranged the goods.
Dog and Monta wandered around Luoqing Street for a while, and when they felt tired, they went back to the inn.
Three days passed, and the auction house prepared 1,000 square meters of wind stones and asked the dogs to go over to press the goods. The dog went to the auction house, and after paying the balance, he was ready to go back to Red Mountain. But the auction house didn't worry about him as a child, and asked him to pay the shipping fee before he was willing to leave. After all, for something like the Wind Stone, the cost of escort is more than ten times higher than that of the goods. The dog didn't grind, and now the most important thing in Hongshan is money, and after paying the freight, the dog and they will carry the goods to the direction of Luoshui.
The two-mile-long transport team looked mighty, and after a day's walk, the convoy camped in a small village called Shan'er Tree. The winter nights were particularly long, and the dog looked at the village not far away, and he knew that less than 10 miles to the east of the village, there was a small village called Luocaopo, which was his hometown.
I wonder if there is anyone in the village now? The figures of the villagers flashed through his mind one by one from time to time, his father's unsmiling and loving face, and his mother making pheasant stewed potatoesγγγ hey! That damn massacre.
The night was already deep, and the dog had already entered a delusional state.
"Rustling, squirming," the dog heard a sound not far from him, a tiptoeing sound as a large group of men approached. His cultivation is not very high now, but in terms of perception, even Su Ping is not necessarily as strong as him.
"Who!" The dog stood up and shouted.
"Thieves! Alert," shouted the captain of the convoy almost at the same time as the dogs.
In their sleep, the escort team, like a swarm of stabbed wasps, began to wake up one after another, and then held bayonets and machetes in their hands, and looked around the black hole vigilantly.
"The brethren have cut down, and this grain and goods are our land! Cut γγγ"
A broad-shouldered, bearded, bearded man was the first to rush towards the convoy.
Monta, who was not far from the dog, flipped over in front of the dog and drew his saber. At this time, the big man was already less than 10 meters away from the dog, and Monta jumped up and stood up in front of the dog.
"Huh" machete slashed towards Monta's front door, and Monta raised the knife in his right hand to greet him, "Bang".
The dog passed between Monta's legs in a moment of collision between the two knives, and his right hand clawed at the crotch of the other's pants. "Ahh With the other party's miserable howl, the body involuntarily bent downward, and the dog blocked the other tall thin man who slashed the knife towards Monta in an instant, and with full strength, he slammed his body down and then hit the thin man, "Squirt!" Bang dang! The thin man was hit by the dog, and the dog used the sinking body in the mountain that Su Ping gave him, and his strength was naturally extraordinary. The other party was obviously also a first-class martial arts monk, and immediately got up from the ground after being hit by a dog.
At this time, Monta had already taken the first one to rush at the head, and the blood spurted out of Lao Gao, and there was a bloody breath in the air.
When the thin man saw the stout man who had fallen to the ground, he cried loudly, "Brother! Then he rushed towards Monta. The dog was also entangled by a bandit with a bayonet gun, the bayonet bandit is higher than the two people's cultivation, there is a second-level cultivation of force, the dog feels that there is a burning gas in his body at this time, and he is bumping everywhere, but he can't find an outlet to vent, flashing the stabbing gun, the dog is smooth after a momentary step, the dog is a seven-year-old child, the height is not as high as the other party's thigh, squatting and walking, the other party is even more unprepared, in a blink of an eye to the other party's thigh heel, the dog elbow, hit the opponent's thigh.
The whole body of the bayonet bandit froze, and he immediately stabilized his body.
At this time, the dog saw that the thin man of the half-orc Monta had been mad and slashed at him, followed by another man with a stick next to him. Seeing that Monta only had the power to parry, and had no ability to fight back, the situation was very critical. The dog remembered that Monta had carried himself back again and again after he passed out from practice, and his big innocent eyes, shy smile, and serious explanation of the work to the workers of the Dream Factory, his heart was like a fire about to erupt. Rushing towards the soles of the feet, and then the right leg slashed towards the sky, I felt that the blood of the whole person was about to be drained by the soles of the feet, the ground supported by the left foot began to sink, and the left foot came from a sharp pain, and the dog's mind was full of Monta's smile, as well as Monta's innocent, bright, serious, and dull eyes.
"Huh" finally when the dog was about to lose support, Guantian was used by the dog, and saw the dog like a black lightning, flying directly from the air to the left side of the thin man two meters away, "Spray!" With a muffled sound, I saw the thin man's head fly out, and then the dog's right foot lightning swept through the sky, and the whole person floated in the air to the right side of the thin man. The dog landed, clawed the corner of a bandit besieging Monta, forcefully carried the blood and qi between his hands and feet, hugged the other party with both hands, and threw the bayonet bandit who had just recovered with a push mountain.
"Huh ~ spray" The bandit who was thrown out by the dog hit the bayonet bandit's arms, and the bayonet bandit hit a horse and threw the bandit out in his arms, and saw blood flowing down from the head of the bayonet bandit.
Before the other party could come to his senses, the dog moved to the front of the stabbing bandit in an instant, and it was a broken flower in his hand, these days the dog practiced the most to the broken flower, and there was already a feeling of great success, and he saw that the clothes on the chest of the stinger bandit were torn apart by the broken flowers, and the half-orc has now freed his hands and feet, and pounced on the stinger bandit, and when the other party dodged the dog's blow, he couldn't help but hold the stinger bandit with both hands, and kept shouting at the dog "Quick!" Fight four (death) and escape (him)! βγ The dog dodged out with an instant step after using the broken flower again, and he also knew that the broken flower would not cause much damage to the other party, at best, it would only make the other party suffer a little injury, after all, his current strength is relatively small, and all he can hurt depends on speed. For this kind of cultivated monk, if you can't hurt him, the best way is to avoid it in time.
Seeing Monta hugging each other, the dog was about to rush up, but was entangled by several bandits who rushed over again, and the dog was already feeling a little weak at this time, and the speed was obviously not as fast as just now.
The dog dodged the cleaver cut by a bandit, and wanted to help Monta, who was holding the bayonet bandit and shaking desperately, another bandit rushed over, but fortunately, these people were not monks, and the speed was not too fast, as long as the dog was careful, it was easy to dodge. Several escorts of the transport team also rushed over at this time, resisting the bandits who rushed over, and the dog came to Monta in a few moments, and saw Monta hugging each other, and his mouth kept shouting, "Quick, (get) can four (die) him!" The bayonet bandit in Monta's arms was bleeding from the corners of his mouth, he was already dead and could not die again.
The dog yells at Monta, who is shaking and shaking the bandits, "He's dead"
Monta was stopped by the dog, looked at the bandit in his arms, pushed it away with his hand, and said, "Hey! How four (dead) nag! Then he looked at the dog with a very innocent look.
The number of bandits is very large, it is estimated that some homeless homeless people after the invasion of the blue horse, they have become bandits without food or drink, and they do not have much combat power, after the escort team reacts, they basically can't get to the convoy, and there are several places where the bandits rushed to the front of the escort car, and they dispersed after seeing the stones of the whole vehicle.
The bandits came and went as fast as they could, and in less than an hour, there were only corpses left in the camp and the men and horses of the escort team.
The escort team also suffered heavy casualties, more than 50 people were killed in this melee, the captain Liu Shangchun pacified the remaining soldiers in the camp, walked towards the dog, he saw the dog and the bandit fighting, when the bandit rushed over, he was most worried about the gold owner, but he didn't expect that the dog that was not up to his waist could fight like this.
Liu Shangchun is also a monk, and his cultivation is level 6 with force, and no bandits are willing to pay for their lives to fight for a stone like this, probably at night, and the bandits think it is food.
Liu Shangchun said to the dog with a little flattery: "Little brother! I didn't see it! βγ
The dog smiled and touched the back of his head, but did not answer.
The two of them were polite to each other again, and when Liu Shangchun left, the dog called the half-orc Monta and gave Liu Shangchun 10 gold coins to comfort the dead escort team. Liu Shangchun took the gold coins and returned to the team with gratitude, after all, this kind of pension depends on the employer's heart, some of the picks are not given to you, you don't have a dime, but people gave 10 gold coins! Liu Shang Chunzhi has never seen so many pensions since he started pressing goods. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the goods he went away are relatively cheap, where to put the cultivation, high-grade goods, like him, the sixth level of force will not be able to receive it at all.
The dog felt the blood three miles away, and he broke through! When the bandits attacked, the dog was worried about Monta, regardless of the danger, he used the Guantian method, and by chance, he really asked him to break away the three miles of acupoints.
Qi and blood run between the hands and feet, the whole body is warm, thinking back to the battle just now, the dog has not had time to digest some things for a while, and the usual practice is not the same, the first thing needed in the battle is courage, wit, and understandingγγγ these things cannot be cultivated, thinking about the scene just now, the dog knows that if you want to become a master, some things are impossible to reach that height only by cultivating, and you must have actual combat to accumulate them, just take today's battle as an example, he needs to experience a lot, This kind of experience has nothing to do with the realm of cultivation, but it is of great help to the understanding and use of power.
The dog looked at the village at night in the distance, and thought of Luocaopopo, Hongshan, Monta, Su Ping, Liu Qingshan, Ding Haiγγγγγγ people will be bound by some things, these things will slowly dissolve in your emotions and blood, and finally become a part of your life, and guarding these things itself is the protection of your own life.
Dogs really want to be stronger, and that is a desire to cherish after loss.
It seems that in the future, we can't just do penance! I want to be strong.