Chapter 5: Chen Lin's First Battle

The original name of the three knives is not called the three knives, and the real name has long been forgotten. This was originally a slave in Xuzhou, the master was extremely harsh, and he cut the master in a rage after three knives, and since then it has been out of control. Killing people and goods, hating the rich people in the world, before he was just robbing the rich and rich businessmen, and slowly even the poor people did not let go, and the methods became more and more cruel.

There are some martial arts after three knives, and ordinary people can't resist their three knives, so they are left in the wilderness, so they are named over three knives. In addition, it is very cruel, and as time goes by, the team is getting bigger and bigger, and when they reach Runan, there are more than 400 people, most of whom are extremely vicious people. I don't know why, I entrenched myself in Savage Ridge, maybe I also value Savage Ridge across the boundaries of the three counties, and the officers and soldiers are not good at crusading.

Seeing that the grain was ripe, Guo Sandao and others were ready to move, and sent small minions to investigate for days, but they didn't want to alarm Yuan Tong, the governor of Anyang County. Yuan Tong consulted with Chen Li's county commander, got Chen Lin's plan, requisitioned horses in the county, reorganized the army, and only waited for the whereabouts of the three knives, and then killed a happy one.

The requisition of horses this time was Chen Lin's plan, and the Chen family not only sent 50 horses, but also led the troops with people and horses, led by Chen Lin. Over there, Zhang Ba heard that Chen Lin took fifty guards and wanted to suppress the bandits with the county lieutenant, and he also wanted Zhang Ting and his family to protect the courtyard. In Zhang Ba's words, how could a certain family lose Chen Lin's house. As a last resort, Zhang Ting had no choice but to ride with 50 of them.

Because the Chen family and the Zhang family are all sent to 50 troops, and are led by the young master, the cavalry of these two families is led by their own families, as long as they listen to Yuan Tong's orders, the horses recruited by other small households will be assigned by Yuan Tong to the county soldiers to ride, and naturally they are not under the command of others.

Although the Chen Mansion is big, it can raise horses but can't run horses. Therefore, the Chen family nursing home usually practices horse warfare outside the city, these days Chen Lin and Zhang Ba are also outside the city and their own nursing home to run horses, and the county lieutenant Yuan Tong also led dozens of county soldiers to practice riding, but seeing the dust, the war horse neighing, so lively.

It is understandable to say that the county lieutenant has no cavalry, and it must be known that a war horse costs eight to twelve taels of gold, and the war horse eats twice as much grain and grass as the cavalry.

However, the Chen family's annual income is more than 10,000 taels of gold, so they naturally have horses. If it weren't for the law, Old Lady Chen would have turned the courtyard into a heavy cavalry. There was an order in the Eastern Han Dynasty that the private soldiers of the scholar clan should not exceed 500, and they should not be heavy-handed, and the offender would be charged with the crime of treason.

Despite this, the equipment of the Chen Family Nursing Home is still much better than that of the county soldiers. The knife used by the county soldiers is just an ordinary simple knife, worth 800 wen a piece, but the Chen family guard made a good fifty steel-made bracelet knife, worth one or two gold. This Yuan Tong only has a steel knife, and the Chen family nursing home has one. There is no difference in armor, they are all cloth armor, the county soldiers can't afford iron armor, and the Chen family can't focus on armor.

But for more than ten days, it was only the diligent training of the three parties, but there was no trace of the three knives. On this day, Chen Lin was going to take the nursing home out of the city to practice, but before he could go out, a sergeant came to report, the county lieutenant had an order, and the people in the east of the city were gathered. When Chen Lin heard this, he was full of excitement, is it about to start, for a teenager, riding a horse and galloping on the battlefield to make contributions is the true character of a man.

Chen Lin was about to go out, but he heard Lin shouting: "My son stays, my son stays." Chen Lin hurriedly stepped forward to support his mother, and Lin said: "The sword has no eyes, how can it be good to hurt my son, if you don't go, just let the nursing home go." ”

Chen Li next to him also came out, but said: "A loving mother has many defeated children, but it is the duty of my Chen family to protect the peace of the party, my Chen family is a big clan in Anyang, and there are thieves and thieves who disturb the people's lives, and as a child of my Chen family, I can't retreat." ”

Chen Lin heard what Chen Li said, and he was also full of pride, and bowed to his parents: "The child will not dishonor the majesty of the Chen family, please be relieved by your parents, what can the little thief do to me, and the child will go." After speaking, he strode out of the door, took the reins in the hands of the nursing home, stepped on the horse, and led the 50 nursing homes to fly away. Behind him, Chen Li said bluntly: "My son has grown up." Lin's cried.

Outside the east of the city, Chen Lin led the courtyard to line up, located on the left side of the army, with 80 county cavalry in the middle, Zhang Ba 80 cavalry on the right, and 600 county soldiers in the rear of the cavalry. There are many swords and guns, the fighting spirit is everywhere, and the people and horses of the three parties gather together to distinguish between the high and the low. But seeing that everyone in the county soldiers was stunned, the Zhangjia Nursing Home was spiritual, and it could be seen that there were often * exercises, only the Chen Family Nursing Home stood next to the horse, without saying a word, and stood like a straight pine. Chen Lin turned around and looked at his own nursing home, and smiled, although the Chen family's nursing home, although he did not dare to say that he dared to defeat the regular army of the imperial court, it was not bad, and there were not many soldiers.

In front of the battle, Yuan Tong was covered in battle armor, with a sword on his waist and hips, standing on a school platform temporarily erected by the sergeant, burning incense and worshipping the heavens and the earth, and turned to shout to everyone: "Yuan has the trust of Zhao Taishou, and he is the lieutenant of Anyang County, and there are ignorant bandits, who do not want to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, and who offend our county and hurt the people of our county. ”

Chen Lin, Yuan Tong, and Zhang Ba rode together, and Chen Lin asked, "Lord Yuan, where is our army going?" ”

Zhang Ba also looked at Yuan Tong expectantly, and when Yuan Tong saw this, he had no choice but to tell the truth: "The scouts in the army have come to report, and after three swords, a group of people will go south from Savage Ridge an hour ago." ”

Chen Lin thought about it, Anyang Savage Ridge to the north and east is his county, to the west is the Zhangjia Grange Village, to the southwest is the county seat, and to the south is where the Chen family's field is located. There are three places, namely Dingwei Village, Konoha Village, and Chicken Village. Dingwei Village is further south of Xiaoji Village, so it seems that it is very likely that the three swords have gone to Konoha Village.

Thinking of this, Chen Lin thought for a moment and said to Yuan Tong: "My lord, the destination of the three knives is my Chen Family Grange, and the nearest one is Konoha Village, I expect that the target of this group of people should be in Konoha Village." If this is not the case, our cavalry went straight to Konoha Village, divided the infantry bows, and ordered them to go straight to Konoha Village and set up an ambush halfway back to Savage Ridge. The thieves are robbing grain in Konoha Village, and when they see our army coming, they will not dare to entangle for a long time, and they will return to Savage Ridge. Our cavalry only pursued in the rear, and when it retreated to the ambush of our infantry bow, it was sure to be completely annihilated by flanking the front and back.

Yuan Tong thought about it and praised it: "Although you are young, you only have the art of war, which is very good." After praising it, he said viciously: "Hmph, there are horses in between, and there are three knives ......" It seems that Yuan Tong has a lot of hatred for the three knives who escaped several times, just because of this, Yuan Tong was scolded by Zhao Taishou several times, saying that no little bandits can be exterminated.

Yuan Tong hurriedly ordered a deputy officer to lead the Bugong County soldiers to set up an ambush on the way to Konoha Village to return to Savage Ridge, but the 180 cavalry went straight to Konoha Village. But in half an hour, he saw Konoha Village from a distance, and several fires broke out, Chen Lin was a little worried about his tenant farmers when he saw this: "It must be a thief who set the fire and should be killed." ”

Zhang Ba next to him was also jealous and hateful: "You want me to go"

Yuan Tong hurriedly shouted: "Zhang Ba is in the ranks, the war is like child's play, and if you are not careful, you will lose your life." "I don't know if Yuan Tong is really strict with the army or afraid that Zhang Ba will have a case, so it is difficult to explain to Zhang Ting. Zhang Ba also retreated.

Chen Lin saw Yuan Tong pull out his saber and shouted: "All the troops draw their swords." After brushing for a while, Chen Lin did the same, raising the knife above his head. At this time, the nursing home next to him said to Chen Lin: "Young master, behind me." ”

How could Chen Lin be a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and he should not protect his own hospital, just raise his sword with his chest high, and just wait for Yuan Tong to issue the order to charge. Zhang Ba over there too, heard Zhang Ba shouting: "Don't pull me, don't stop me." "Hehe, I guess the two elders are worried.

Cavalry combat, and even more so, against horseless thieves, as long as they are good at riding and not being thrown off their horses by bumps, there is no danger. Falling to the ground in battle means losing their lives, and those who fall to the ground are trampled to death. When the number of people exceeds 10,000, there is boundless, thousands of people are crowded together, and when their eyes are red, sometimes they can't even tell the difference between friend and foe, and they only know how to cut people when they see them, and they don't have time to think, and life and death are only in a moment.

Chen Lin had no fear in his heart at this time, only to see Yuan Tong flick the knife forward, and spit out two words in his mouth: "Kill the enemy", and the county cavalry behind him started, and Chen Lin also gave orders to his own courtyard. The cavalry first walked slowly, and then slowly got up to speed, until there was no sign of the four hooves.

Chen Lin was on the horse and left and right with his own nursing home, and from a distance, he could see that the bandits in the village were loading the truck, probably robbing a lot of goods and food, and then preparing to go back. This will also be the strongman found the official cavalry, after all, the sound of horses' hooves spread for three miles.

Seeing the group of people shouting and shouting at the edge of the village near the fields, Chen Lin thought fiercely: I'm afraid, it's still too late. I vaguely saw someone riding out of the middle of the village, thinking that it was over three knives, there were not many strong men and horses, and it was not a leader who could ride a horse without three knives.

The man saw whether it was the official army or many cavalrymen, and he hurriedly greeted the minions, and he himself drove his horse to the other end. "After three swords, Yuan Wu will also come, hahahaha." Chen Lin heard a sound, which actually overshadowed the sound of horses' hooves.

I saw Yuan Tong rushing straight towards the man, and sure enough, it was three knives. The place here is small, and it is impossible to line up the 180 cavalry, so he has to line up the long snake formation, Yuan Tongjun soldiers are in front, Chen Lin is not far behind, and he also rushed to the village in an instant. The thieves were already frightened and fled in all directions.

Chen Lin rushed into the village, and the cavalry went around killing thieves, shouting everywhere. In front of Chen Lin was a strongman running in a panic, only his back was seen, but his face was not seen, and he was still holding a cloth bag in his hand during the escape, thinking that it was the goods that had been robbed.

Chen Lin was fast, caught up with the man in an instant, hit the horse and ran past the left side of the man, Chen Lin held the horse rope with his left hand, and the steel knife in his right hand copied the crescent moon, and the steel knife was cut at the back of the head, Chen Lin only felt a hand shock, and the steel knife almost flew out of his palm. He didn't look back, he didn't stop his horse, and the cavalry fought, but he couldn't stop his horse, for fear of being killed by the rear army.

The cavalry horses were fast, and in a short time they crossed the village. Chen Lin saw that Yuan Tong was about to chase after him, and hurriedly shouted: "Lord Yuan, don't worry, there are still thieves in the village." Yuan Tong returned to the horse, thinking that he remembered the ambush in front of him, if he chased too quickly and scattered the thieves, it would not be beautiful, it was better to wait for the three knives to have time to gather people, and wait for him to come back to a front and back attack, at that time, there were many people, and he would be able to wipe them all, thanks to the reminder of the Chen family boy.

Chen Lin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yuan Tong return to the horse, and Yuan Tong did not hide it: "Fortunately, you shouted to stop, and it almost broke a big deal." Chen Lin hurriedly said that it didn't matter, Chen Lin didn't move, there were few thieves in the village, and there was a county military guard to deal with it, Chen Lin just stood with Yuan Tong and watched the village.

At this time, Zhang Ba also flew over and shouted loudly: "It's happy, but it's happier than Chen Lin's fight." After speaking, he said to Chen Lin: "Chen Lin, how many people have you killed?" He stared at Chen Lin with wide eyes.

Chen Lin couldn't cry or laugh: "One person"

Zhang Ba Dale: "Hahahaha, I cut two people, but I am more powerful than you, but killing people is so simple, thanks to my father, I let the nursing home protect me." ”

Chen Lin sighed, killing people is so simple, human life is like mustard.

The cavalry gathered here, and Chen Lin saw his own courtyard and asked, "Are there any casualties?" The nursing home was moved for a while and replied, "None." Yuan Tong also counted the results of the battle, two county soldiers fell off their horses and were seriously injured, and the rest were fine, killing 94 bandits.

At this time, a middle-aged man from the village came over, dressed in a farm clothes, and came to pay a visit. Knowing that Chen Lin is the eldest young master of the Chen family, and kneeling down to bow down, Chen Lin always remembers what Grandpa said about being close to the people: "We still have to pursue the thieves, and bother the uncle to take care of the affairs of the village, and report it to the chief housekeeper truthfully in the future." ”

Chen Lin and the others left the two wounded in the village to take care of them temporarily, and then set up troops to leave, but Chen Lin didn't know that the middle-aged people behind him were moved, and the grand young master of the Chen family treated a tenant farmer so politely.

Chen Lin discussed with Yuan Tong, only shouting from a distance behind the thief, and did not rush to chase, just waiting to enter the ambush.