The thieves and horses came like a tidal wave, and in an instant, the new army's military formation was scattered, exhausted, and they could no longer maintain their combat strength after suffering heavy casualties. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the chaos, Tang Tingcao, Tang Yanji, and Tang Zhengjing didn't care about the corpse of fellow villager Tang Yanfu, so they only hurriedly took their own packages, mixed with more than a dozen new troops, and desperately broke through the encirclement.

They desperately rushed to kill, at this time the enemy and the enemy were mixed, the organization of the thieves was not high, many of them were still chaotic and hungry people, although there were many people, but there were many vacancies, the possibility of highlighting the encirclement was not impossible, and the terrible thing was their horsemen.

Historically, the invasion of the army was the practice of "the city is about to fall, the infantry is surrounded by 10,000 people, and the horsemen are patrolling, and no one is spared", and often none of the people who are besieged can escape from the city.

Tang Tingcao and the others saw the brothers in the camp, many of them even killed the thieves in front of them, but one by one the thieves with fast knives and bows and arrows galloped over, but they fell one after another, they were invincible, but they ran in a scattered manner, and they were often not the opponents of these horse armies.

This is also the reason why Cao Bianjiao did not dare to let the infantry disperse and break through earlier, the infantry on the plain encountered the cavalry, and there was no array, the end was often very terrible, and the human legs could not escape the pursuit of the horse legs.

The people around him kept being separated, and they met new brothers, and then they were separated, and Tang Tingxu and the three of them ran to the end, and some of the new troops around them were no longer the original group of people.

After another wave of fighting, Tang Tingcao painfully discovered that Tang Zhengjing, the coal black, was also gone.

Da Da Da ......

The sound of horses' hooves kept ringing, and thieves rode all over the field. The Ming troops who have been chasing and killing these breakthroughs, as well as their foot soldiers and hungry people, although the east is a piece of the west, but the black and oppressive crowd, as long as they find that there are officers and soldiers who have broken through somewhere, they are rushing up in groups, shouting and chasing.

Many Ming troops were unable to stand out, and finally had to fall to the ground, resigned to fate, and some others. Amidst the shouts of surrender all around. Whimpered and threw away his weapon, fell to the ground, and the moment he broke out, many people lost their faith. Only numb waiting for their fate.

Perhaps Tang Tingcao and the others fled in the direction of Haozhou. Intercepted thieves and thieves. It was not as dense as the Chao Xia Yi side, and I don't know how long it took to rush and kill, and the flow of people in front of me became more and more sparse. After fleeing for a few miles, there was a forest in front of them, and the tall wild grass around them was higher than a human waist, Tang Tingcao and others were overjoyed, desperately breaking away from a wave of foot thieves chasing behind them, and got into the woods, and a few spearmen were ambushed.

The wave of thieves outside arrived, and in the shouting, about a hundred thieves got in, and several spearmen suddenly exploded, stabbing several people to death one after another, frightening these thieves to shout and scream, and hurriedly escaped out of the woods, and the rest of the people hesitated for a while, and finally did not chase in, only put a fire outside, shouted, and chased the Ming army in other directions.

Tang Tingcao and others did not dare to stay longer, slightly hidden in the forest for a while, and ran outside, on the way, there were people separated, occasionally some Ming troops merged, they kept hiding, by the river, in the grass, in the woods, are the places where they are hiding, the less the thief infantry, but when hiding, the sound of their deadly horses' hooves still rings in the ears from time to time, out of the range of the public foot soldiers, on the plains, as many thieves and horsemen are raging.

From time to time, they hid in a ruin, which was originally a village, but now only the ruined houses and broken walls remain, only on the collapsed archway at the entrance of the village, you can vaguely see the three big characters of Da Zhuzhuang.

They hid in the Dragon King Temple in the northwest of the village, where only the ruins and broken tiles remained, and the sound of the hooves of the thieves continued, and the search team ran past the village one after another, and everyone was secretly anxious.

At this time, there were about seven people around Tang Tingxu, including him, three firearms, three spears, and a waist knife, and the waist knife was a firecracker, but when did he have it, the firearm in his hand was gone.

The seven people also belong to Yutian Town and Zunhua Town, and they also belong to different department heads, but the military position is the highest in Tang Tingxu, the first chief, and everyone subconsciously looks at him as the head of the horse.

At this time, everyone's face was sallow, and there were many wounds on everyone's body, and the long-term bleeding made their bodies weaker and weaker, Tang Yanji's left shoulder and back were slashed by a thief, and the bandaged wound belt was already soaked in blood, and he was even unconscious for a while just now, and he woke up feeling very thirsty in his throat.

But he was silent, holding the spear tightly in one hand, and trembling in the other hand to touch his coconut scoop, but he couldn't hand it to his lips, or Tang Tingcao helped, only drank a few sips of water, and then took out the dry and hard cooked horse meat from his arms, and chewed it vigorously.

The people around him were also silently eating fried rice and horse meat, but Tang Tingcao opened his mouth, but he felt that his voice was very hoarse: "I have already touched it just now...... Not far to the west of the village, there is a river, which is about 100 steps wide...... But the water is very deep, and it is not easy to wade through it, but if you want to stay away from the thieves, you have to take a lot of detours......"

There was still silence around him, for a long time, the firearm soldier with the waist knife spoke, his voice was blurred, but it was because he lost too much blood and was too tired: "Whatever Tang Jiachang says, do it...... To be honest, if you can live until now, you have already earned it, so I hope that the handsome man can escape, so that my father can also get a pension......"

Tang Tingcao checked his firecracker, blew the firerope up again, and said, "Okay, then cross the river......"

The remaining two firecrackers also prepared, and when they were hiding, they extinguished the fireropes, but when they got up from the hiding place, they were in danger, holding an empty gun, and they did not have any sense of security, so the firelight made the thieves see it, and they couldn't care about it.

Everyone was about to act, and Tang Yanji, who swallowed the horse meat in his mouth with all his might, suddenly said: "A thief is coming!" ”

Everyone was startled, and then they heard the sound of hooves, and they saw more than a dozen horsemen coming straight to the ruins from the east, and one of them stopped and touched the ground, and his voice could be heard from afar: "...... Donkey balls, there are blood stains, there must be officers and soldiers on the Zhuang side......"

There seems to be a Shanxi accent sounding: "Foreheads, catch a few alive, King Chuang must be happy to see it......"

They drew their quick knives one after another, and rode towards this side, and what was even more terrifying was that these thieves rode not far behind. There was also a large group of thieves rushing at the foot soldiers, and I am afraid that there would be no less than three or four hundred people.

"Let's go, go to the river!"

Tang Tingcao's seven people hurriedly rushed out of the broken temple and rushed to the river, the thieves behind cheered, and those thieves also sped up their pace and caught up.

"Stepping on ......"

The sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground was like a heavy drum, and the thieves rode a dozen fast horses, and they were already around. Tang Tingcao slammed backwards. With a loud bang, with the white smoke coming out of the gun, a thief fell down in pain. Moans of pain on the ground.

Beside him, Tang Yanji also stabbed with a fierce spear. A long knife swept through the air. Blood splattered, and a thief was stabbed off his horse from the side.

There were also two rings, and one of the guns struck the first-class thief in the chest. One of them was the horse that had struck the thief, and the horse neighed and ran away at a faster speed.

The whistling sound of breaking the air, a javelin was thrown, and the soldier who hit the thief's chest could not dodge, and was pierced into the chest by the javelin, and came out of the body, and a thief rode a fast horse next to another gunner, and the gunner wanted to raise the empty gun in his hand to block, but he lost too much blood, and he was already weak, and the thief's saber slashed through his neck, and a large area of blood gushed out.

However, as soon as the two sides came into contact, four or five of the dozen rogue thieves fell, and even if there were only three or four people left on the side of the Ming army, they did not dare to approach from afar, only took out their bows and arrows, and from time to time they shot an arrow, or threw a javelin or something.

Many of the foot thieves in the rear also hesitated to slow down, and they were really afraid of these new troops, whether they were riding or wandering camps.

They only surrendered from afar, but when Tang Tingcao and others fled, they pursued them tightly, and the rest of the thieves and horsemen, or controlled the horses and immediately followed, or rushed to the rear of the thieves, shouting and urging behind.

The footsteps were as heavy as a thousand pounds, Tang Tingcao and several people stumbled, and there was already a pikeman who fell to the ground and died of exhaustion, seeing that there were only three Ming troops left, and the sound of surrender in the rear was even louder.

"Brothers of the new army, surrender, King Chuang will not kill you."

"yes, I won't kill you."

Another person shouted: "They are all children of poor families, why bother to work for the unTaoist government?" ”

The firecracker with the waist knife followed behind Tang Tingcao, listening, his eyes flashed with a divine light, and he panted: "Surrender? As an officer and soldier, how can a certain family surrender to the thieves? ”

He shouted: "I'd rather die than surrender to a thief!" ”

He didn't want to run anymore, raised the waist knife in his hand, and suddenly turned around and rushed forward, and in the blink of an eye, he was drowned in the crowd of thieves.

Tang Tingcao bit his lower lip, he gritted his teeth, pulled Tang Yanji to just run, ran desperately, the fire gun in his hand, the previous thieves chased closer, and swept away, although they were forced to follow, the fire gun was scattered and could not be used, so it had to be discarded.

He took Tang Yanji's hand and saw that the river was almost there, but there was a ditch in front of him, the terrain on the other side of the canal was much higher than this side, and there were originally a few planks on the canal, which had long been broken and impassable at this time, and this side was overgrown with weeds and thorns, leading to the river, and there was only this road.

The thieves in the rear shouted and shouted even more annoyed and urgent, especially those thieves, who originally had some cat play rat thoughts, but did not want to run to this kind of place, this kind of terrain, all the people were crowded together, and it was impossible to scatter and outflank, seeing that the two new armies were about to run, they accelerated to catch up.

"Go up!"

Tang Tingcao used a lot of force, supported Tang Yanji's body to the top of the ditch, and said in a low voice: "Forgive my brother for not taking care of you." ”

As soon as he turned around, he violently pulled out the package wrapped around his waist, and a 10,000-strong enemy appeared in his hand, which used the new gunpowder formula of the Jingbian Army, which was powerful, and the fire fold in his hand shook again, and he brought together the 10,000-strong enemy, and the primer was ignited immediately, and sparks were everywhere.

The large group of thieves who rushed to the front immediately paused, their faces were all snow-white, and their eyes were staring at the ten thousand enemies in Tang Tingxu's hands, and many of them couldn't help but retreat, or wanted to hide behind their companions' bodies.

Tang Tingcao quietly looked at the thief in front of him, his mother, his little sister, his younger brother, and his pregnant wife, scene by scene, swept through his heart, and finally froze in Mr. 's words, echoing like Hong Zhong Dalu: "The body is endless, and the spirit is immortal." ”

Tang Tingcao shouted: "Long live Daming!" ”

Rushing into the crowd like that, 10,000 enemies exploded violently, and blood mist and white smoke rose up.

"Brother Tingcao......"

Tang Yanji cried, he ran desperately, forgot everything, and fell. He got up again, was hit by another arrow in his back, and continued to charge, roaring, and jumping into the river......

Many years later, several stories of the Ming army are still spread in this area, I don't know when, a temple appeared by the river, and villagers or nearby people came to offer incense. The temple is not big. Sometimes the incense is stronger, sometimes it is lighter, but the incense is kept alive.

……

The vast plains are littered with layers of corpses. These dead bodies belong to the Ming army. There are those who break into the army. There are also all kinds of dead horse stumps and broken shield cart equipment in the Gezuo and other camps. The broken banner weapons and so on have been soaked in blood.

The blood mixed with the soil turned into a dark red stream, like an earthworm that kept meandering and crawling, and the blood from the dead annihilated the combat boots under the feet of Li Zicheng and others, who kept turning around the battlefield, looking at the soldiers in the camp, searching back and forth on the battlefield full of dead corpses, collecting the wounded of the Ming army, as well as weapons and ammunition.

The strong combat effectiveness of the new army left a deep impression on Li Zicheng and others, so all families and battalions hoped to recruit some new troops who could not escape, and even the wounded rushed to ask for them.

For this reason, they transferred the precious doctors in the army to treat the wounded soldiers of the Ming army who looked numb, and enjoyed the same treatment as the old battalion of horsemen in the battalion.

Although these wounded were all silent, they did not say that they would surrender, nor did they say that they would not surrender, but Li Zicheng and others did not mind, although they did not understand their loyalty in their hearts, but they all thought that when the battle was fought, the new army had done its best, and it was a matter of course to survive and change the door.

In the usual Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying's ranks, the main force was the same as "Yihan Surrender", and many of the generals of the camp were part of the official army, so Li Zicheng and others believed that these wounded soldiers would surrender in the end.

There is also the new army's firecracker, which is also what everyone desires, in the past, after breaking into the camp and fighting, it was the horse and mule first, the bow and lead gun were second, the coin silk was second, and the pearl and jade were the next, this time it was the first firecracker, and the thieves searched all over the field, Li Zicheng gave a strict order, and those who dared to hide the fire guns and parts privately were killed!

Everyone turned around, and the situation on the battlefield made everyone feel cold.

Zuojin Wang He Jin sighed: "Lao Tzu has seen too many dead people, but this is the first time I have seen such a tragic battle." ”

As he spoke, he had a smile on his face.

From the beginning of the war to the end, although there were many casualties among the families, most of the dead were worthless hungry people, and there was also an infantry consumed as cannon fodder.

Niu Jinxing looked at it, with a look of relief on his face, he stroked his beard and said: "It's a pity that the body of Jing Nanbo of Ming Ting has not been found, and Cao Bianjiao may have escaped." ”

Ge Liyan scolded angrily: "It's all to blame on that royal courtier, who rushed in at the last moment, Cao Bianjiao may have been picked up by him." ”

Everyone in the camp frowned slightly, He Yilong is this to blame Li Guo for not blocking effectively?

Li Zicheng smiled and said: "It's okay, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen's new army in the second town were destroyed, even if they fled with the remnants, there is no need to worry." ”

Everyone walked, and finally stopped in a place, this place of cascading corpses, in the middle of the corpses, a general holding a big knife, angry eyes, countless wounds on the body, but still kept the body unfalling, a wounded war horse wailed, with its head to wipe the corpse, the horse was repeatedly scarred, trembling, and could not live when he saw it.

Someone in the camp thought that this would be a corpse, and said: "It is Sun Xie Zhong, the deputy general of the new military camp in Zunhua Town, I didn't expect to die here." ”

Everyone in the camp sighed: "It's a pity that a good man is not worth it." ”

He Jin stared at the horse, shook his head and said, "It's a pity that it's a good horse." ”

Suddenly, a body in the pile of corpses moved, and then a Ming army slowly got up, this person was covered with blood, and even a pair of eyeballs were red when he turned around, he first glanced to the side a few times, and when he saw the corpse of Vice General Sun, he wailed loudly a few times, and then raised the waist knife in his hand vigorously.

He looked at the people in front of him with great hatred, his lips were overflowing with blood, staggering, and trying to stand firm, he ho-ho sounded in his mouth, but he couldn't spit out a complete sentence, and everyone only vaguely heard the words "kill the thief......" in it.

A guard beside Li Zicheng stepped forward, and he said loudly: "Brother." Come down, follow the king, there is a future. ”

The Ming army roared, and suddenly rushed towards the guard, the guard easily got out of the way, and then slashed through the throat of the Ming army, scolding and coming back: "I don't know how to lift!" ”

Everyone in the camp commented: "Stupid, don't want to have a chance to live." ”

Sun Kewang and He Yilong beside him talked and laughed loudly, but Li Dingguo next to him exhaled heavily and turned his head.

At this time, there were pond horses galloping. He shouted, "Report to the king." In the Guandi Temple over there in Lijialou, the brothers are surrounded by brothers, as if there is a big official in it. ”

Li Zicheng and others became interested. said, "Go and see." ”

……

The temple is quite large. But very shabby. Ventilation leaks everywhere, even the door plaque is gone, this village is located in Xiayi and Yongcheng traffic point. Originally, it was very prosperous, and it can be seen from the fact that there are seven or eight large and small temples inside and outside the village, and it is impossible to build so many temples without certain financial resources.

But everything came to naught, the entire village became a ruined wall, and the purlins of the Guandi Temple in front of him were also so rotten that they were about to collapse.

"Fuck you, scoundrel."

A strong black soldier had just killed a thief, and there seemed to be some movement in the hole in the wall on the left.

The soldier was still looking out the window, but his eyes were purring to the extreme, and he slammed the fire hammer, the heavy crest, and struck the thief's head, and all kinds of skull parts flew everywhere, sandwiching the muffled howl of pain from the outside.

The thieves outside no longer dared to try to attack, but they were surrounded by groups outside, constantly calling for surrender, and occasionally threatened: "If you don't surrender again, you will set fire." ”

"Follow the king to fight the world, don't work for the unTaoist government!"

"No Daoist Government ......"

The new military camp in Yutian Town comforted Xiao Mingfeng and muttered: "The government has no way, is it good to break into thieves?" ”

He looked at the temple, more than 20 wounded soldiers, they were lying exhausted, they could move, there were not a few, the thieves outside threw rats, and they didn't attack, but there was always a time when they lost their patience, they really wanted to attack, they wouldn't care about human life, how could they fall into the hands of thieves?

Looking at the firewood and grass everywhere in the temple, he made up his mind.

He looked at everyone in the temple and spoke slowly, he was seriously injured, and it was difficult to even speak, he tried his best to say: "You have fought so far, all of you are worthy of your heart, Xiao does not want to surrender to the thief, nor does he want to fall into the hands of the thief, and he is determined to set fire to the temple to fulfill his loyalty!" Now is to stay or surrender, and let the monarchs decide for themselves. ”

The temple was quiet for a while, a few Ming soldiers slowly crawled out, and the rest of the people just watched numbly, after those few people went out, there was a commotion and joy outside, and the sound of surrender was even louder.

Looking at the rest of the people in the temple, Xiao Mingfeng was relieved and grieved, he saw the black and strong soldier limping over, sitting beside him honestly and unceremoniously, and said with a smile: "I don't know my brother's surname yet." ”

The black strong soldier said: "Lao Tzu's name is Tang Zhengzheng, and my fellow villagers call me Coal Black." ”

Xiao Mingfeng said: "Isn't the little brother afraid? ”

Tang Zhengcheng said: "I was originally afraid, but with so many people accompanying me, when I saw Lord Yan, Lao Tzu was not afraid." ”

Xiao Mingfeng laughed: "Yes, yes, with all the loyal and brave soldiers to accompany you, Huangquan Road is not lonely." ”

He took out his fire fold, blew it violently, and threw it into the pile of firewood and grass under him, and immediately the dry firewood and grass crackled and burned.

Xiao Mingfeng laughed and shouted: "The eldest husband is shrouded in horse leather, he died on the battlefield, he died as he deserved, hurry up!" ”

He sang loudly: "The emperor is the emperor, and the Yu Tang is far away." Heqing Haiyan, Wufu Minkang. Weijiayi fang, De was ...... by Rong Qiang"

In the raging fire, everyone in the temple sang along with him, and the bigger the fire, the whole temple was finally shrouded in fireworks.

The thieves besieging outside watched all this in amazement, and many of them almost jumped out of their hearts, and they watched the temple crackle and burn until the flames rose to the sky and the smoke billowed out, and they just watched stupidly, not knowing how to move......

After hearing about the incident, Xiao Mingfeng commanded the same knowledge, gave the funeral, and Shiyin commanded the affairs, and the edict said: "Loyal ministers and martyrs should enjoy the temple to sacrifice them, and the loyal martyrs are attached to them." ”

……

Li Zicheng and the others paused suddenly, and just when they arrived, they saw such a tragic scene, Li Zicheng's face turned pale, and he muttered: "New army, new army of the imperial court......"

He shouted, "Why don't you come down? ”

He Yilong also exclaimed: "Crazy, Cao Bianjiao's subordinates, as many madmen." ”

Ma Shouying's face turned pale and muttered: "Fortunately, they have been destroyed, if they are in Kaifeng, there is no need to fight this battle." ”

Li Dingguo clenched his fists tightly, and for the first time felt that he had joined the army with his father-in-law, and after so many years, he didn't know whether it was right or wrong.

The generals of the camp were standing on horses, all of them were cold, and at this moment, another Tangma came over and reported loudly: "I have caught Yang Shaofan, the deputy general of the new army in Yutian Town." (To be continued.) )