Chapter 228, the sound of the east and the west
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Perhaps it was the Mongols who stopped four miles away that they did not make too many moves, so that Lu Nianshan, who was in the border barracks, breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly sent a messenger to sneak out of the back camp and contact the government in Gansu Town, preparing to mobilize the sergeants of other guards. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
If this group of Mongols plundered the nearby villages, then he would have a chance, as long as he could take down a dozen or so Tartars, whether they were dead or alive, he would be a great achievement, and the encounters of the two battalions A and B would be able to easily cover up the past.
People are like this, there are many people who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard and cheap, Lu Nianshan is not a layman, so he is naturally ready to move. As long as he is given more than a day to go, the two groups of men and horses from the Gravel Fort and Qingfeng Valley, plus his 5,000 border soldiers, can kill these Mongols even with a sea of people, not to mention that he still has a large number of firearms.
In his opinion, this group of Mongols seemed to be dizzy, and at once they got into this place surrounded by three sides, and began to camp stupidly, so that was not to send him war exploits.
In the middle of the night when the cold wind was howling, the bonfires in the border barracks were vigorous, and teams of sergeants patrolled in a staggered manner, and dozens of fast horses and secret sentinels were sprinkled two miles outside the camp, carrying arrows to monitor the Mongols in the west.
But Lu Nianshan never expected that on this dark and frozen night, the Mongolian Tartars, who did not like to act at night according to common sense, would lead their war horses into the wilderness ditch, and went around the official road directly north of the mutant camp.
The three hundred Tartar cavalry, led by guards, dragged the tails of the horses of their companions in front of them with their hands, and forced a detour of more than a hundred miles, silently shifting their positions.
The guard team that opened the way in front of them even fired crossbows in their hands and killed a few prominent border guard secret posts, evading Lu Nianshan's detection.
When the horses' horses, wrapped in cotton cloth on their hooves, trotted closer to the border barracks less than half a mile, the dozen or so black-clothed guards who were in front had already cleared the road and pushed them to the front of the trench outside the border barracks, leaving behind hardened corpses in the grass and bushes, and the smell of blood emitted was swept away by the cold wind.
The two teams of guards disappeared into the night, and Tai Thornqi, who was riding on his horse, raised his eyes to see the fire in the barracks over there, and waved his hand with a gloomy face, and a personal guard brought two pack horses.
Two sturdy chests were strapped to the back of the pack horse, carefully untied and opened by the guards, and a white cloth lamp shone on them, and the chests were filled with neat earth-shattering thunder, but the cast-iron head showed a ring of striking red.
Five hundred incendiary bombs, distributed to these three hundred cavalry, but there are less than two people, but the power of this thing, Tai Thorn Qi Ning is not far from death.
Calling the three centurions, Tai Thorn Qi asked the guards to open the baggage, and the iron box inside contained two hundred scented pills.
"You, choose two hundred dead soldiers, prepare to storm the camp, and each of those who survive will be rewarded with a woman, two hundred taels of silver,"
"Remember, those who dare to resist will be beaten to the death, and those tents that don't move will not be moved," handed over the batch of pills to the three centurions, and Tai Thornqi left in place with a few personal guards.
This elixir, called the Explosive Pill, can allow the sergeant to quickly burst out with more than twice the force, and it lasts less than half an hour, that is, an extra hour, and then, there is no more.
These 200 Mongol soldiers who did not take the strong pill will die of exhaustion, and there is no need to fight at all, as long as they wait patiently for an hour, this raid on the border barracks will come to an end.
The Wuzi battalion is in the south of the border barracks, close to the direction of Gansu Town, and tonight is also a rumor, and in the tents of each team, everyone is waiting for the Mongol cavalry.
The military academy Shang Rong was now a regular officer, with ten teams in charge, and Wu Chang Jiang Banshuang and Yin Jian also became his left and right deputies, each commanding five fire teams.
With a small amount of powerful pills, Shang Rong's hundred-man team basically became Xiao Ye's supernumerary army, and he also quickly accumulated combat experience in Lu Nianshan's expatriate military affairs again and again.
If it weren't for the sergeants in the border barracks, most of them were from nearby forts and guard posts, and there were too many family members involved, Wang Ziliang even wanted to serve this border barracks.
In a slightly larger cowhide tent, Shang Rong, Jiang Banshuang, and Yin Jian, by the faint candlelight, sat on the soft cushion and spoke, wiping the short fire/gun in their hands; As for the firecracker distributed by Lu Nianshan, when he came out of the exercise, he took it out to stretch his hands, and everyone generally didn't want to use it, for fear of accidentally hurting himself.
"Half-double brother, how is the artillery team contacted?" Asking in a low voice, Shang Rong inserted a short gun/gun full of projectiles into his belt, and at this moment, he also wore a precious protective suit inside his battle jacket.
"Just rely on the food and salary issued by our marquis, and hold the handle in your hand," Jiang Banshuang smiled and hung a magazine on his waist, took out a thick signal gun from the package behind him, and loaded it with a projectile.
"Nuo, use this, once something starts in the barracks, come to the military tent of the chief soldier, so that you can show the way to the people outside," he handed the signal gun to Yin Jian, Jiang Banshuang watched this brother come out of the tent, and then his face was solemn.
"Brother Shang Rong, the more brothers we take away, the greater our credit, but that Lu Nianshan's personal guard can't be kept,"
"This border barracks, the bigger the movement, the more time we have to leave,"
Before he finished speaking, Shang Rong, who was sharp-eared, stood up, and there was a faint sound of a sharp gong outside, as well as bursts of explosions.
"They're here," Jiang Banshuang, who pulled out his gun, looked at Shang Rong, "Have the brothers explained it?" Don't hurt it,"
"I've already explained, tonight is a knife in the sky, no one is allowed to go out of the tent without my order, and now they are all lying inside,"
Boom, when 200 horses rushed to the trench outside the barracks, and the sergeants on duty in the camp were stunned to find that the Mongols had run in front of them, and the sergeants on patrol were immediately disorganized.
"Boom, boom," without recklessly breaking into the obstacles outside the camp, the three hundred Mongolian cavalry first threw out the three earth-shattering thunderbolts in their hands, and then the two hundred men in the lead raised their hands and swallowed the explosive pill.
"Wow, rush, rush in," under the centurion's loud shout, outside the barracks where shrapnel flew, there were war horses rushing into the messy firewood piles in the smoke and dust, and the neighing war horses crossed the trench and loaded the rough wooden camp gate at one end.
Click, poof, poof, the war horse rolling on the ground, unable to stop the red-faced Mongolian cavalry, kicked away the stirrup a few rolls, the scimitar was already in his hand, and roared and pounced on the frightened border soldiers.
At this time, the gong for the alarm had just sounded, but then it was split into two pieces by a scimitar, and it shattered together with the human belt. The Mongolian cavalry, who was holding a scimitar with a curled blade and red eyes, was transformed into an infantryman, and it was also fierce and vicious, and rushed in.
After the two hundred Mongolian cavalry who had taken the explosive pill rushed into the barracks, they rushed straight to the big tent of the Chinese army, where the lights were the brightest and became a conspicuous guiding light.
Click, click, pop, all the sergeants who dare to step forward to stop it, when they encounter this fatal slashing, it is still extremely powerful, and those who can hold on are far less than those who avoid escaping.
However, in this barracks with 5,000 border soldiers, except for the remote point of the Xuzi camp, most of the sergeants of the other four sub-battalions were alarmed, and groups of sergeants with guns and knives gradually gathered in the roar of the captain.
Only the artillery team, which was very close to the camp of the servants, basically did not move much, and the two centurion military academies who led the team also hid very wisely, this kind of hand-to-hand combat is not the strength of the artillery team.
"Boom, boom," when the Mongolian cavalry threw out the incendiary/bullet in his hand and exploded a stream of fireworks, the sergeants who were blocking outside the big tent of the Chinese army burst into chaos, and more than a dozen unlucky people who were on fire screamed and rolled desperately on the ground, and were soon burned into a mass of black slag.
Some sergeants who tried to come forward to rescue accidentally got the incendiary agent and quickly burned into torches, which made the border soldiers, who had little resistance, hula and scatter far away, and also avoided the Macitals and iron hooves of the Mongols.
A tent on fire, the firelight illuminated this military camp covering an area of 100 acres, and the soldiers who were messed up into a pot of porridge made Lu Nianshan, who was standing outside the big tent to supervise the battle, couldn't help but have a dark face.
Turning his head and looking at the five hundred lieutenants who were guarding him around him, Lu Nianshan swallowed the sullen breath in his chest, these five hundred descendants are his biggest capital, without his order, even if he is killed, he has to stand still.
"Guards, go and kill these Mongols, kill them all," with the order of Chief Officer Lu, five hundred guards drew their short guns, or took off the fires/guns on their shoulders, and under the leadership of the leader, Hula formed three rows of horizontal lines, and slowly pressed towards the crazy Mongolian cavalry.
"Shooting," "Peng, Peng Peng," the three-stage shooting fire/gun front, Lu Nianshan got it in his hand and played his real skills, splitting his head and covering his face to hit the rain of bullets, and put them on the ground together with the sergeants who were desperate with the Mongols.
The two hundred fierce Mongols, when they encountered five hundred fire/gunners, even if they took the explosive pill, it was only a blink of an eye, and more than half of them were killed and wounded, but the fire/guns in their hands also fired at the same time.
"Peng, Peng, Pengpeng," less than a hundred steps apart, two large groups of gunpowder smoke and screaming wounded people who fell to the ground made a huge barracks very lively, and blood splashed everywhere.
The Guards, who were comparable in firearms but superior in numbers, would soon be able to take out these dull-minded Mongols, but it was only a matter of time.
"Hmph, let's see if you are not afraid of death or Lao Tzu's personal guards are not afraid of death," Lu Nianshan, whose face twitched, pressed the long knife on his waist viciously, and his mood was quite better. "Smack," a slight sound in his ears made the alert old horse thief swerve and lie on the ground.
Overhead, a dazzling red light flashed, and a projectile with a dazzling glimmer hit the tent behind Lu Nianshan, and several personal guards around him immediately pulled out a short fire/gun.
"Bah, Bah, Bah," a series of crisp gunshots shot out a dense blood hole on these strong as oxen guards, and the guards who fell to the ground one after another pounced on the leader's body before they died, trying to use their bodies to block the last projectile for Lu Nianshan.
Bar ta, bar ta, Lu Nianshan, who was hiding under the corpse, saw that two sparkling earth-shattering thunderbolts fell in front of his eyes, and he couldn't help but wail, and stretched out his big hand desperately, "Ah,"
"Boom, boom," he didn't have time to pick up the earth-shattering thunder in front of him, half of Lu Nianshan's head, which was swept by the shrapnel like a gale, flew away directly and killed him on the spot.
Half an hour later, the 200 Mongolian cavalry who broke into the border barracks and attacked were all killed by the guns of the guards, but immediately, a series of rifle sounds outside the camp quickly killed these guards who were covered with gunpowder smoke.
Tai Tingqi, who was watching from afar, listened to the sparse gunshots, couldn't help but sigh secretly, ordered someone to blow the horn of the team, recalled the hundred Mongolian cavalry behind the palace, and retreated to the wild boar beach by night.
Before leaving, Tai Shuqi left a large wooden board on the official road, on which was pasted with a notice stamped by Jinong.
The so-called reason for sending troops is also to cover Xiao Ye's revenge, and the notice makes it clear in righteous words that because Shiguantun is the sphere of influence of the Mongols, it was occupied by your Ming Dynasty, so he came to warn Yunyun.
The bustle of burning in the barracks outside the city shook the already panicked Gansu Town, and on the old city walls, a team of soldiers, government officers, and sergeants from the guard post looked at the fire in the distance with their eyes on the female wall, praying that the damned Mongols would not come.
However, the fortified city in the north, the other three sides naturally had fewer manpower, Yang 18 led a team of brothers, easily climbed over the city wall, sneaked into the city, and found the hidden stake of the joint.
Just after the time of a stick of incense, the figures in Lu Nianshan's house shook, the sword flashed, and the slight sound of crossbow shooting in the cold wind made the thirty captains who were guarding the mansion fall silently in the corridors and corridors, leaving only the five captains guarding the gate.
The guard, who had changed into armor and jackets, swaggered to the gate, grabbed the lieutenant's throat with a quick choke, and dragged him into the side door and earroom; Immediately, five captains with gloomy faces and knives appeared on the steps outside the gate.
The general soldier's house, with two huge lanterns, quietly changed its temporary owner.
In the backyard study, Jiang Jie had already written a thick letter, and it happened that King Ning's foreign affairs butler came tonight, and the two sat by the charcoal basin, drinking warm wine and chatting about the Persian business.
"Brother Zhu, as long as we cut off the grain trade of Ximen Xiaoye and cut off his transactions with other merchants, within half a year, the Madao Stone Fort and Eagle Claw Fort will be our Huangshatang's territory,"
"There is still a population, we can't let the young people in the side wall be used by that bastard boy, and we must completely prevent anyone from running to work without permission,"
"The best way is to send someone to contact Jinong secretly, and if you move at the same time, it will be difficult for him Ximen Xiao to die at night,"
I have to say that if Jiang Ming had made these big moves two years ago, I am afraid that Xiao Ye could only wander to the depths of the grassland, as long as he left the contact with Shiguantun, it would be difficult to say whether he would live or die, but he said it a little late now.
"Well, His Royal Highness King Ning already knows about this kid, His Royal Highness has an order, he must arrest this fugitive, destroy his entire clan, and correct the law and discipline," the foreign affairs housekeeper was very moved by Jiang Jie's words, especially after knowing the prosperity of Xiao Ye's business, he immediately couldn't figure out his own situation.
"After dawn, when General Lu comes back, the steward will contact the supervising army, without further ado, it is better to come up with the charter as soon as possible,"
Drinking warm wine and eating refreshing sauce meat, Jiang Jie's resentment hidden at the bottom of his eyes also dissipated a lot; He still has time, he can watch this Ximen family be destroyed, and at that time, with a large reward, the prosperity of the Jiang family is just around the corner, isn't it just to find a few more young women.
Jiang Jie, who shouldered the heavy responsibility of spreading the family's bloodline, had just risen the idea of longing for it, when he heard an ordinary voice outside, and couldn't help but be a little angry, "Qi Gang, what's the matter?" ”
Unable to hear the reply of his henchmen, Jiang Jie looked at the foreign affairs housekeeper beside him suspiciously, he also had two henchmen waiting outside, and now there was no movement.
In a moment of surprise, the door was kicked open, and a figure strode in with a cold air; I didn't see the face of the person who came, but the black uniform made Jiang Jie fall to the ground with a thud.
"Jiang Qianhu, I am the commander of the guards under the Marquis of Ximen, Yang Eighteen, on the orders of the Marquis of my family. Come and say hello to you," Yang Shiba, who walked into the study, looked at Jiang Jie on the ground with a smile, this guy who was missing half of his arm, he really didn't want to do it, and he couldn't say anything on his face.
He didn't want to make a move, but the two guards who followed him stepped forward and held down the two drunken guys.
Jiang Jie, who was dragged aside by his hair, saw Yang Shibai sitting in his seat, picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of wine, and drank it.
"Which one is he?" Looking at the housekeeper of King Ning's Mansion who was still struggling on his own, Yang Shibai frowned, but Jiang Jie was stubborn and silent.
Rubbing, the guard pulled out the hunting knife, clicked and stabbed it on Jiang Jie's thigh, and pulled it out casually, and the blood was so frightened that the foreign affairs housekeeper almost fainted.
"And you know who he is?" Looking at this strange middle-aged man, Yang Shibai asked with a smile, and the guard guarding behind the butler pulled out his knife on the ground.
"I said, I said," the frightened foreign affairs butler hurriedly shouted loudly, "He is a general, a thousand households in the Gravel Fort before, and now he is the staff of Chief Officer Lu, and he is also the peripheral deacon of Ning Wangfu, and the small one is just a small deacon of Ning Wangfu,"
Hey, looking at this housekeeper who was still in high spirits just now, he was almost so frightened that he peed his pants, Jiang Jie couldn't help but sigh, endured the pain on his thigh, closed his eyes tremblingly, and let the wound suddenly burst with blood; The grievances between him and Ximen Xiaoye, he knows too well in his heart, and he can't live or die tonight.
The shouts of this foreign affairs steward could not alarm the guards outside, and it seemed that this general soldier's mansion was less auspicious.
"Poof," the foreign affairs housekeeper confessed, but still couldn't stop the guard's hunting knife, and the butler who hugged his thigh and loved to cry was snot and tears, looking strange and pitiful.
"Continued," Under the bloodstained knife, the foreign affairs housekeeper directly explained the content of Jiang Jie's letter, and even confided in Jiang Jie's identity as the deputy hall master of Huangsha Hall, but Jiang Jie's five Buddhas were out of his body.
"Four years ago, when Jiang Jie was in charge of the Thousand Households of the Gravel Castle, one of the hundred households under his command, well, his full name was Ximen Gale Wind," Speaking of this, Yang Eighteen clasped his fists with both hands and arched his hand towards the west, "How did he die?" ”
His question made Jiang Jie shudder involuntarily, and looked at the foreign affairs housekeeper with a cold gaze, this guy knows too many things.
"Four years ago?" It was so far away, the foreign affairs butler really didn't remember, and then, the hunting knife stabbed down again, piercing through the green bricks on the ground and clinging to his thigh.
"Say, maybe you can live, if you don't say it, I won't leave you the whole corpse tonight, and the commander of the Eight Pieces of Destruction will be merciful," Yang Eighteen, who was full of gloom, turned around and blocked Jiang Jie's gaze, and lowered his head to ask the housekeeper of Ning Wangfu.
"This, this," the panicked foreign affairs housekeeper, who had lived in the shade of the royal blessing since he was a child, had never seen such a formation, blinking his eyes, desperately recalling the information related to Jiang Jie.
"If you don't say yes, then it's useless, cut off his head," the foreign affairs butler, who was forced by the guard's knife, finally recalled what happened four years ago.
"No, no, I said, I said it all, spare your life, uncle," the foreign affairs housekeeper, who was roughly wrapped in a medicine belt on the wound, knelt on the ground, ignored Jiang Jie on the side, and told all the news he knew.
In fact, the matter is not complicated, Ximen Gale accidentally intercepted a private businessman, stirred up a batch of standard bows and arrows, and the sale of arrows, hindered the trade between Huangshatang and the Mongols in the steppe, and also caused a catastrophe of death.
As a member of the housekeeper of the lineage in King Ning's mansion, although this foreign affairs housekeeper did not know Jiang Jie's role in this incident, Huangshatang's strangulation of a hundred household officers was just a joke after dinner, and he naturally heard the news.
"That's it, that's it, let's talk about it, but I want to give the old man a good time," Jiang Jie, who had been silent for a long time, saw that things were about to be spit out, so he also opened his mouth, but begged for a happy death.
Hey, my Jiang family's vein is gone.
"Ximen Gale died at the hands of the Mongolian cavalry, it was the old man who arranged for him to be on duty, and it was the old man who reported his whereabouts, and the people who were secretly around him, although they were later disposed of, but the one who instructed the order, as well as the hundred households of the current gravel fort, Xu Hai, and afterwards he got a hundred taels of silver,"
Pouring beans into a bamboo tube, Jiang Jie explained the process of assassinating Simon Gale Wind, drew a delay on the confession, and was dragged out by the guards, leaving a long blood mark on the ground.
Looking at the foreign affairs housekeeper who was shrunk into a ball on the ground, Yang Shibai hesitated for a moment, put away the letter, and did not kill again, but led people to find Lu Nianshan's money cellar, cleaned it and withdrew from Gansu Town.
Before coming, Xiao Ye ordered to find out the truth, strangle the murderer, and destroy Lu Nianshan, Wang Ziliang told him to clean his hands and tails, but Xin Rulin told him not to hurt the innocent, this foreign affairs housekeeper of Ning Wangfu, he didn't know what to do, so he simply spared his life.
The explanation of the official room, that is, Xiao Ye's explanation, Xiao Ye put his power there.
It seems that he did it all, and also missed a scourge.
If Xiao Ye was there, he could only shake his head helplessly and smile bitterly, Xin Xiucai's hard work, how could he not notice it, didn't he just let the border soldiers guard Ximen Stone Fort, and he could only go west.
The gunfire in the border barracks stopped, and the raging fire lit up the entire barracks, and groups of sergeants gathered around Lu Nianshan's corpse, and Mu Ran didn't know how to deal with it. If the chief officer dies in the barracks, will they be punished? How will the next commander-in-chief treat them?
Most of these recruits who had never been on the battlefield were so panicked for a while that they had no idea. Even the remaining captains and military academies had their eyes flashing, and no one was willing to come forward to say hello.
Lu Nianshan's descendants are basically dead, and after a moment of silence in the barracks, someone quietly slipped away from time to time, and soon, "Everyone should run quickly, the Mongols may still be nearby," with a bang, a large group of people scattered in a hurry, and they quickly ran away without a trace.
Shang Rong's hundred-man team still has more than 70 people, Jiang Banshuang and Yin Jian are known for their great strength among the people, and they have some prestige, and they quickly put out the sergeants, coerced most of the gunners in the barracks, and under the guidance of the two black-clothed guards, they quickly entered the wilderness.