readx; Thankfully, the valiant soldier fired a warning shot in time, and although he fell forever, he woke up the platoon. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Zhao Daring, the platoon commander, jumped up, roared "emergency assembly", picked up the bird guns and grenades around him and rushed out.

According to the requirements of the training of the five military battalions, the emergency assembly should be completed within one minute with weapons. This is still the case in peacetime training, their platoon was originally out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and their vigilance was higher, and the soldiers were all lying in their clothes, and their weapons were within reach. As soon as the gunshots rang out, the killing sounded together, and there was no need for the platoon commander to shout, everyone knew that the enemy was rushing up. In less than half a minute, the entire platoon of fighters all entered the combat position.

The place where they were stationed was an empty house at the southernmost end of the village of Goushang, and the original owner of the house had already run away when the thieves crossed the border. In front of the house, there is a naturally formed earthen ditch, about two zhang wide and about six or seven feet deep, hence the name of the ditch village. This kind of terrain is of course conducive to the deployment of defensive positions, so Zhao Daring chose this mansion to garrison.

Zhao Daring's real name is Zhao Dan, a native of Shaanxi, and he is also the old foundation of Qin Bing. Although he is an old qualification, and he is extremely brave in battle, he really has a bad temper and is not willing to study culture well. Therefore, some of the buddies who enlisted together were promoted to company commanders or even battalion commanders, and he could only be a platoon commander. And because he was very bold, he was nicknamed "Zhao Daring".

Not long ago, he had been successful in the battle against the "sweeping king" Zhang Yichuan's bandits, leaving his troops alone to hunt down more than 30 thieves. The thief ran and found that there was only one person chasing after him, so he swooped back, trying to hack him to death with a knife in the face of the crowd. In a bloody battle, Zhao Daring actually hacked to death five or six thieves, and he was only slightly injured, so he scared the other thieves away, so that even Lu Xiangsheng knew that he was the number one in the army. However, because of violating battlefield discipline, Zhao Daring not only failed, but was punished with a fine of one month, and is in the midst of a fire. This time he came to Goushang Village, which he finally fought for, and he just wanted to make new contributions so that he could raise his eyebrows.

At this time, Zhao Daring saw that the sentry was shot to death, and the enemy who was running fast had already touched the edge of the ditch, and there were at least hundreds of them without looking closely, and I didn't know how many were in the black pressure behind him. It seems that a large army of thieves has been dispatched, and once the enemy crosses the ditch, there will be more than thirty men in his row, which is not enough for people to stuff their teeth. So he immediately made a decision and roared angrily: "One grenade per person, throw!" ”

In an instant, the sound of "whoosh" continued, and the soldiers of the whole platoon each pulled out a grenade, drew the fuse, and threw it at the most dense place of the enemy. At this time, the distance between the two sides was so close that it was not even twenty paces, and thirty grenades fell into the enemy formation accurately as if they had eyes, and exploded in an instant.

"Boom, boom, boom!" With a series of explosions, the area around the ditch suddenly turned into a living hell. The dozens of thieves who rushed to the front rushed forward desperately shouting just now, and suddenly they became a severed limb and broken arm, and the flesh and bones were broken everywhere!

And before the smoke cleared, the first salvo of birds of the officers and soldiers began. The crisp sound of gunfire rang out like a popping bean, and the lucky thieves were swept down by a dense barrage of lead bullets before they could wake up from the tremendous shock caused by the grenade explosion. In just half a minute, the outside of the ditch was full of blood, and none of the hundreds of thieves who launched the first wave of charges were spared!

The extremely fierce counterattack of the officers and soldiers made the thieves behind them terrified, and they retreated like a tide. Officers and soldiers also hurried to reload their ammunition, and there was a short gap on the battlefield. Zhao Daring took the opportunity to look at the opposite side, but because the night was too thick, he couldn't see the other party's banner clearly, and he couldn't see how many people there were. But judging from the noise of the people on the opposite side shouting and neighing horses, the number of troops is at least in the thousands, and the leader is at least a "big boss". Zhao Daring couldn't help but excitedly threw off his cotton hat, and laughed wildly: "Damn X, this time Lao Tzu is going to have a good time!" ”

Zhao Daring guessed correctly, it was none other than Zhang Yichuan, the "sweeping king" who had just been killed by the official army.

Like many bandit leaders, Zhang Yichuan is not only a native of Shaanxi, but also a member of the official army of the guard. Most of the officers and soldiers of the guard station in this era are not good at fighting, but their habits of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling are not bad, and Zhang Yichuan is the same.

At that time, there was a landlord in the Qianhu station where he was located, who specialized in usury business, and made a lot of money, and often lent money to officials and soldiers. These soldiers borrowed money and spent it, and if the court paid them on time, they could barely pay it back; The partial court often owed salaries, and the soldiers naturally could not afford to repay the usury. This rich man relied on himself to be the head of the land, and did not take the officials and soldiers seriously, and calculated the day of payment, so he sent evil slaves to force him, and those who could not afford it were beaten up. After going back and forth, these officials and soldiers hated this rich man and his evil slave to the core, and finally once they couldn't bear it anymore and beat the evil slave who started beating people to death.

Far away, not the party, the battle is cold

After hearing the news, the landlord went to the local government and put the officials and soldiers who had killed the evil slaves into prison, and they were guilty of bribery. The officials and soldiers felt that the court was unfair to them, and there was nowhere to complain, and the anger that had accumulated for a long time finally erupted like a volcano, and the whole battalion mutinied, killing thousands of households, county commanders, and land lords, robbing prisons and anti-prisons to rescue people, and became thieves from then on. And the leader of all this is Zhang Yichuan. He was ruthless, looted everywhere he went, and scraped the ground, so he got the nickname "King of Sweepers".

However, a few days ago, there was a big defeat, and Zhang Yichuan let Lu Xiangsheng kill the whole army, and he was only spared. It can be considered that "Cao Xiang" is righteous enough to take him in, otherwise the "thirteen families" will become twelve. There are no soldiers under him, and Zhang Yichuan has no right to speak.

I never thought that at the "Thirteen Families Conference" in Lingbi County, the strategy of most of the thieves going to Nanjing, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong feinting to attack Pengcheng and dragging Lu Xiangsheng was determined. All the leaders were surprised, Li Zicheng didn't say it, Zhang Xianzhong was a well-known glass monkey, how could he do such a thankless thing?

However, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong repeatedly emphasized that they were in order to oppose the overall situation and did not care about personal gains and losses. Saying this, the other leaders were embarrassed, and Lao Huihui proposed that it was more important to drag Lu Xiangsheng than to attack Nanjing, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were afraid that the troops might not be enough, so they had to add two more. In fact, he was selfish and didn't want too many people to share the big fat of Nanjing.

As a result of the discussion, Zhang Yichuan and Liu Guoneng were also arranged to feint, in the name of revenge. Because of their fiascos, these two were at the bottom of the thirteen families, so they could only reluctantly agree. What Zhang Yichuan didn't expect was that Li Zicheng took the lead and generously lent him 10,000 horses, and the rest of the leaders borrowed 1,000 from this one and 2,000 from that, and made up 20,000 for him.

Picking up such a big bargain for nothing, of course Zhang Yichuan was overjoyed, Li Zicheng asked him to take the lead, and he happily accepted the order. At this time, although the first charge failed, Zhang Yichuan didn't care, and ordered with a cruel smile: "Don't be afraid, keep rushing for me, one person and one foot, and trample them to death!" ”