Chapter 600: The Bloody Battle of Xiangzhou Four
readx; Ah Jiegu has always looked down on the Han people, and even more down on the civil officials of the Han people, he did not dismount, and said coldly: "We are!" ā
Zhang Xun hurriedly smiled and said: "The general and the brothers have come all the way from afar, I have been entrusted by the elders of the county to send sheep wine to reward you, there are many thieves in this area, and I will ask the officers and soldiers to protect the villagers in the future." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
As he spoke, Zhang Xun took out a box, stepped forward and handed it to Ah Jiegu with both hands, and said in a low voice: "This is a meeting gift from the thirty major households in Yu County to the general, please smile." ā
Ah Jiegu took the box, and suddenly felt his hand sink, the box almost fell to the ground, it was so heavy, he opened the wooden box, and saw that it was covered with yellow and clear gold bars, and he checked it with his hand, at least two hundred taels.
Ah Jie's eyes were crooked with a smile, due to the war, the price of gold and silver in Hebei Province skyrocketed, the black market has reached one or two gold for forty yuan, this box of gold bars is worth eight thousand yuan, they robbed all the way, and the money obtained is only five or six hundred, this meeting gift, the weight is not light!
"Zhang Taishou is too polite, since I have been appointed as the envoy of Yizhou, I will naturally protect the people and crack down on bandits, please rest assured that the fathers and villagers of Yuxian County will rest assured."
Ah Jiegu understood in his heart that Zhang Xun stopped himself on the road, called Qianjun, in fact, to tell himself which people gave heavy gifts, don't scratch it, but for the sake of this box of gold, he can listen to it.
Ah Jiegu put the wooden box into his horse bag, turned around and waved his hand: "Everyone get off the horse and rest, let's get ready for lunch!" ā
In fact, when Ah Jiegu set off, Li Huaixian told him that King Yan had just raised his army, and the situation in Hebei was unstable, so he should not come outside, restrain military discipline, and not be careless, and take it lightly.
Of course, Ah Jiegu agreed, but what did he do when he came out? Isn't it a joke to let him restrain military discipline? Shi Siming and Cai Xide can slaughter the city, he saw with his own eyes that cartloads of wealth and women were transported to the Khitan, but it was not his turn at all, why could others rob and destroy silver, but he wanted to restrain military discipline?
As soon as he got out of Youzhou City, he threw Li Huaixian's advice out of the clouds, out of the boundary of Youzhou, he began to plunder, he himself didn't know how many women he played, gradually, like sheep-like Han people made him unguarded, more importantly, he looked down on the Han people in his bones, he thought that the Han people were sheep, even if they resisted, they were arched like a flock of sheep, the so-called Anxiang regiment organized by Zhang Xun was a group of rabble, he only needed to send fifty people, he could kill them into a river of blood, he despised it in his bones, This is also the mentality of all grassland Hu people, they are vassals of the Tang Dynasty, surrender on the surface, but hate the Tang Dynasty in their hearts, and treat the Han people as sheep, sooner or later it will be their meal, not to mention that this is their doorstep, who will live impatiently.
There is another important reason, even An Lushan doesn't know that there is a scout team of the Anxi Army active in their hinterland, and they all think that the destruction of Li Qincuo's 20,000 pioneers was caused by Guo Ziyi's army.
Zhang Xun and Ji Sheng took advantage of each other's mentality of thinking that they were worry-free at home and set a trap.
Six hundred cavalrymen dismounted one after another, and more than 20 cavalrymen couldn't help but go to the carriage, wanting to pick a few beautiful women to make fire, but in front of Zhang Xun, Ah Jiegu didn't want to do too much, so he stepped forward and scolded: "The most important thing for cavalry is war horses, if you don't go to find water to feed the horses, what are you talking about here?" ā
The cavalry were so frightened that they went to find water, and Zhang Xun laughed secretly in his heart, in fact, where did he have so much gold, but two hundred taels of copper bars were plated with a layer of gold.
Zhang Touring gave an order, and more than a dozen men immediately removed the sheep wine from the carriage, found a flat dry land, chopped wood and lit the fire, and the action was very swift, and soon they lit a bunch of blazing bonfires, and they killed and skinned the sheep, washed the mutton in the river next to it, and grilled it on the fire.
The soldiers had already smelled the aroma of wine, and they stepped forward to carry the wine, and the rich aroma of the wine made them salivate, and many people took out their bowls and poured the wine to drink, but Ah Jiegu roared angrily: "Stop!" ā
Everyone was stunned, Ah Jiegu took out a silver chopstick from the horse bag, slowly stepped forward, carefully looked at the wine jar, he immediately picked a few jars, patted open the mud, opened the lid, and used the silver chopsticks to reach in to investigate, he pulled out the silver chopsticks, looked at the sun, the silver chopsticks did not change color, and he opened the other wine jars, and it was fine.
But Ah Jiegu was extremely suspicious, and he was still not at ease, so he ordered: "Open all the wine jars, and test them one by one." ā
Ji Sheng, who was roasting sheep, secretly sneered, could they find out their poisoning methods?
All the wine jars have been tried, all of them are non-toxic, Ah Jiegu finally nodded, and the army immediately poured wine impatiently and drank it, and the strong aroma of wine made them applaud.
Ah Jiegu stepped forward and smiled at Zhang Xun and said, "The military regulations are like this, please forgive Zhang Taishou!" ā
"Where! Where! The general leads the troops cautiously, it is the blessing of the county, come, please sit down! ā
"Don't you have a drink?"
Zhang Xun waved his hand and smiled apologetically: "I have a hidden illness and can't drink, so let's accompany the general to eat some mutton!" ā
The bonfire was vigorous, the raging flames were two feet high, more than a dozen entourages were busy killing sheep and slaughtering sheep, there were already seven or eight sheep roasted on the fire, the fat was overflowing, and there was a crackling sound, and a baby-faced teenager was in charge of seasoning, he was naturally Ji Sheng.
Ji Sheng is a member of the Han Dynasty of Broken Leaves, he was a member of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and he is also the descendant of the eighteen generals who escorted the crown princess to flee to Broken Leaves, and his grandfather Ji Longfei is also one of the members of the Hidden Dragon Society, and now Ji Quan, who is responsible for contacting the Great Food in the Hidden Dragon Society, is his cousin.
Although Ji Sheng did not enter the Hidden Dragon Society, he was selected into the first scout camp in Anxi, and gradually stood out and became the leader of the scout camp, and was finally promoted to the leader of the first scout camp.
Ji Sheng has received special training in the Han and Tang Dynasties since he was a child, including poisoning, makeup, language, cooking, etc., so that he not only has superb martial arts, but also has special talents that ordinary scout soldiers do not have, almost everyone can roast mutton, but Ji Sheng will configure a barbecue sauce, he uses a brush to dip the sauce and constantly brush the sauce on each roast sheep, so that the mutton has a special fragrance, and it is very tempting.
Most of the six hundred Yan troops were Hu soldiers, and roasting sheep and eating sheep was commonplace for them, but they had never smelled such fragrant roast mutton, they gathered one after another, and while drinking, they stared at Ji Sheng and brushed the mutton.
Soon, a sheep had been roasted for seven or eight minutes, and Ji Sheng handed the roast sheep rack to the soldiers and said with a smile: "You can enjoy it!" ā
The soldiers were overjoyed and pulled out their daggers to cut the meat and eat it.
"Wait!"
Ah Jiegu squeezed into the crowd, he picked up the sauce bucket and sniffed it, and asked Ji Sheng sharply, "What is this?" ā
Ji Sheng was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, Zhang Xun walked up and said with a smile: "General, this kid is very honest, he is a native of our county, he went to Taiyuan to help the cook a few years ago, and learned a good skill of barbecue, this time he came back to visit his parents." ā
Zhang Xun said to Ji Sheng gently: "Don't be afraid, just tell the general honestly." ā
Ji Sheng took out a bag from the side, opened it and stammered, "This is me... Brought from Taiyuan Wine Shop... sauces, mash them into minced ... Just mix the water. ā
Ah Jiegu saw that there were some bark, grass seeds, grass fruits and the like, and he hadn't seen them either, so he grabbed a handful and smelled it, it tasted the same as the sauce, but he was still not at ease, and pointed to the sauce and said, "You take a sip." ā
Ji Sheng scooped a spoonful with a spoon and ate it in one bite, Ah Jiegu stared at him for a long time, finally nodded, cut off another piece of mutton, handed it to him, and said with a sinister smile: "This is a reward for you, eat it!" ā
Ji Sheng took the mutton and ate it in small bites, Ah Jiegu was completely relieved, and waved his hand: "It's okay!" ā
The soldiers, who had been waiting impatiently, saw that he had answered, and rushed up to grab the mutton, and in a moment a whole roasted lamb was snatched up.....
The sheep began to be roasted one after another, and the six hundred soldiers, divided into groups of more than sixty, gathered together to drink wine and eat meat, and made a loud noise, many of whom drank the wine, and began to look at the carriage in a daze, and some people brought some meat to the woman and the coachman.
Zhang Xun also cut a plate of meat, sat next to Ah Jiegu, and chatted with him about the incorporation of the Anxiang League while taking a small bite of meat.
"General Ah Jiegu, what I am most concerned about is the treatment of the soldiers after they are recruited, can they really be the same as the Yan army?"
Ah Jiegu grinned, he pointed to the dozens of carriages behind him: "Don't worry about Taishou, have you seen it, the carriages are full of ordnance and armor, the regular Yan army, it's just infantry, I'll never treat my subordinates badly, I eat meat and drink wine, and the brothers have a share." ā
"Huh! It can be seen that General Ah Jiegu has the demeanor of a famous general. ā
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This lunch was eaten for more than an hour, nearly a hundred jars of wine and more than 60 roast sheep were swept away by the soldiers, strange things happened at this time, the soldiers were very drunk, many people lay on the ground and fell asleep, even if the others did not fall asleep, they were so drunk that they could not even walk, it can be said that as long as the people who ate meat and drank wine, basically none of them were clear, they were all drunk and fell to the ground, and even Ah Jiegu also fell asleep on the big rock.
Zhang Xun has left under the pretext, although Ji Sheng and his subordinates also eat meat and drink, and pretend to be drunk one by one, but they are all sane, the problem is in the barbecue sauce, it is indeed non-toxic, but it contains a very powerful drug ingredient, although a small amount of food will not be overturned, but after drinking, it can increase the degree of drunkenness, and the alcohol concentration in the wine is also very high, Anxi Jun learned a distillation method from the West, which is used to extract high-concentration alcohol, which is used to treat wounded soldiers and disinfect, but the alcohol content of Zhongyuan wine is very low, These soldiers suddenly drank this high-concentration wine, coupled with the stimulation of barbecue sauce, no matter how large the amount of alcohol was, they could not withstand the strength of the alcohol, and almost all of them fell to the ground drunk.
But Ji Sheng and the others took antidote medicine in advance, plus they drank very little, and even many people just drank water at all, so naturally they were fine.
At this time, a petite figure quickly ran from the woods in the distance, it was the female soldier Xiao Xie, she saw that the ground was full of drunken soldiers, she couldn't help frowning, kicked a soldier hard, and stepped forward to report to Ji Shengyu: "Ji Tou, our five secret sentinels have been killed by us." ā
Ji Sheng nodded, he looked around again, basically all of them were overturned, even dozens of coachmen were drunk, and there were several carriages of the abducted women, and no one made up their minds, indicating that all of them were gone, he sneered, and then turned around and ordered: "You can do it!" ā
More than a dozen of his men jumped up, pulled out the extremely sharp dagger used to slaughter sheep, touched the soldiers one by one, cut the throat of each soldier, the action was clean and ruthless, and killed with a knife, in less than a quarter of an hour, 625 Yan soldiers were all killed like killed chickens, including the leader A Jie, who was also chopped off by Xiao Xie with a knife.
Blood flowed all over the ground, the smell of wine and pungent blood filled the air, dozens of women locked in the carriage witnessed this bloody scene, many people screamed in fright, at this time, a ringing arrow shot into the air, in the air 'snapped' a crisp sound, exploded.
After a while, I saw the soldiers of the Anxiang Regiment rushing out of the woods, there were as many as a thousand people, and the person at the head was the county lieutenant Cui Anshi, he rushed to the front with a knife, and looked around, only to see that the ground was full of dead bodies, and there was no living mouth that could let him start, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said to Ji Sheng: "Does General Ji want us to be porters?" ā
Ji Sheng smiled and replied: "Originally, I wanted to leave it for you to practice courage, but the brothers are really itchy, so I will do it for you, next time!" I'll leave it to you. ā
Cui Anshi had no choice but to shout to his soldiers: "Take everything you can take away and bury the body." ā
The soldiers immediately got busy, stripped off the armor of the dead bodies, packed up the ordnance, gathered the horses, several soldiers released the captive women, the women cried and cried, some women rushed up, kicked and beat the dead soldiers, most of them were ruined, had to go to the county first, dozens of coachmen were woken up by cold water, they were frightened, and kowtowed again and again to beg for mercy, saying that they were also forced to come, and did not do anything hurtful to the heavens and reason, Ji Sheng ordered them to drive the carriage and go to the county seat.
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At the gate of the county, Zhang Xun has been waiting for a long time, this big victory, so that he is full of confidence in Ji Sheng, seeing the triumphant return of the warriors, Zhang Xun stepped forward to congratulate: "General Ji is worthy of being the first scout general, the shot is extraordinary, congratulations on the victory!" ā
Ji Sheng also smiled: "Didn't Zhang Xianling also participate?" If it weren't for Zhang County's order to go, how would Hu Jiang be willing to drink our wine and eat our meat? ā
The two laughed together, and at this time, the people of the city came out of the city to greet them, and groups of children jumped and jumped, and the scene was grand and enthusiastic.
Zhang Xun and Ji Sheng walked aside to discuss the next countermeasures, the two sat on the boulder, Zhang Xun looked at the jubilant people, sighed and said: "Six hundred Yan troops were killed, Li Huaixian is willing to give up, not to say that the army is coming, we may be able to retreat, but these innocent people will not escape death, I am worried!" ā
Ji Sheng also knew that the city of Luxian was dilapidated and difficult to resist the Yan army's siege, so he thought about it repeatedly on the way, and had an idea in his heart, he took out a map, spread it on the stone, and said with a smile: "Zhang County Order might as well listen to my thoughts." ā
Zhang Xun was overjoyed, it turned out that Ji Sheng already had an idea, and he hurriedly stepped forward.
Ji Sheng pointed to the south not far from the map and said: "This is Tangxing County, next to it is the water town Zeguo, a radius of hundreds of miles, I once sent someone to investigate, there are dense reeds, it is very easy to hide, we might as well move everyone to Tangxing County, if the Yan army comes to attack, everyone will hide in Zeguo, how about Zhang County?" ā
Zhang Xun pondered for a moment and said: "I'm worried that An Lushan's army will attack, it's winter again, the water surface is frozen, if tens of thousands of people come to attack, everyone still can't escape." ā
"Zhang Xianling rest assured, Tangxing County is in Mozhou, Li Huaixian does not dare to send a large army to leave Youzhou, he can't afford to bear the crime, at most send five or six thousand people to kill, I think we can deal with it as long as we make full use of the geographical advantages."
Zhang Xun resolutely made up his mind, "Okay! We are ready to evacuate now. ā
At this time, Ji Sheng suddenly remembered something, and said: "There is no month, Li Huaixian's army can't find our whereabouts, I still have a task to complete in the past few days, Zhang County Ling can lead people to evacuate first, and at the latest ten days later, I will rush to Tangxing County and Zhang County to meet." ā
Zhang Xun nodded, "Then you want me to send someone to help you?" ā
Ji Sheng smiled slightly and said: "There are not many soldiers, only my twenty-one subordinates are enough!" ā
An hour later, more than 10,000 people in the county began to evacuate south, and Ji Sheng took his twenty-one men and galloped north to complete another more important mission.
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(To be continued)