Chapter 42: The Capture of the City

The wind was like a knife, and a team of the whole army appeared outside the east gate of Wancheng.

Sixteen sturdy men carried a heavy coffin that had not yet been closed, and came to Wancheng step by step, Zou Jing's face was pale, one hand on the coffin, and he walked hesitantly, behind Zou Jing, the fierce and vicious Zhou Cangzheng was eyeing him, as long as Zou Jing made a slight move, he immediately pulled out a knife and beheaded him on the spot.

Not everyone can see death as home, Li Yan is one, but Zou Jing is not, in the face of the threat of death, Zou Jing chose to surrender.

"Woo~~"

"Knock~~"

A low and loud warning horn sounded on the tower of Wancheng City, followed by the agitated drums, after the tea kung fu, the east gate of Wancheng was opened, and a team of fully armed elite officers and soldiers Hulala poured out of the city, and then quickly spread out to the two wings, and the wings of the wild goose outflanked them, surrounding the army of the soul in the center.

A member of the military general stepped forward majestically and shouted: "A certain is Zhang Xun, the captain of Nanyang, and the person who came is a common name!" ”

Zhou Cang snorted, Zou Jing had to sigh, raised his head and said, "Master Zhang, do you still know the lower officials?" ”

Zhang Xun's eyes sharpened, and when he saw that it was Zou Jing, he was suddenly surprised: "It turned out to be Lord Zou Jingzou, the lieutenant of Yuyang County, and the adults and sergeants are doing their best, but I don't know why?" ”

Zou Jing said: "Lord Zhang doesn't know, Lord Qin...... It's already heavenly. ”

"What!?" Zhang Xun was taken aback and lost his voice, "Lord Qin has returned to heaven?" ”

Zou Jing's expression was miserable, now he was coerced by the rogues, and he did such a thing to betray the court, and he didn't know what kind of punishment he would incur in the future, so he couldn't help but feel sad, and two lines of tears flowed from his eyes. Zhang Xun saw that Zou Jing looked sad and didn't seem to be fake, so he hurriedly rode forward, looked at the coffin, and saw a person lying in the coffin with a pale face, and his life was dead. Zhang Xun's face changed drastically at that time, and the servant turned over and fell off the horse, wailing and crying bitterly.

"My lord, my lord, ......"

Behind Zhang Xun, hundreds of officers and soldiers knelt down in the snow one after another, and wails rang out.

Zou Jing took a step forward, Zhou Cang followed him tightly, Zou Jing had no choice but to give up the plan to raise Zhang Xun as a warning, and sighed: "Lord Zhang's day mourns, please go back to the city to gather civil and military officials first, and go out of the city to welcome the coffin of the Lord back to the city." ”

Zhang Xun stood up with a howl and said to Zou Jing: "Lord Zou, wait a while, this official will go back to the city to gather civil and military officials." ”

After the words fell, Zhang Xun turned over his horse and galloped towards the city, and the hundreds of elite Nanyang soldiers around him also retreated into the city like a tide.

Five miles east of Wancheng City, there is a forest, and two frightened birds suddenly fluttered their wings and flew up from the forest, startling the snow all over the sky.

On the outer edge of the dense forest, Guan Hai's face was full of frost, holding a long knife in his hand to stand under a pine, and his eagle-like eyes stared at Wancheng in front of him, but when Zhou Cang slaughtered all the civil and military officials of Wancheng and occupied the east gate, Zhou Cang will lead 200 horsemen to kill like a whirlwind, and level the defenders in the city with a thunderous momentum, so as to welcome the arrival of Ma Yue's army.

In less than a meal, there was a chaotic howl in the city, under the leadership of Captain Zhang Xun and Jun Cheng, the civil and military officials who stayed in Nanyang lined up in two neat rows, slowly came out of the east gate, and greeted Qin Jie's coffin while crying, and Kankan cried to Qin Jie's coffin.

"Dang!"

Zhou Cang untied the two knives from his back, and struck each other fiercely, making a clear sound of gold and iron, and then Zhou Cang's terrible roar resounded in the sky.

"Brothers, kill the dog officials and take the city!"

"Poof!"

Zhou Cang's double knives flew over, such as cutting, poor Nanyang County Cheng Yijie civil official, who was standing at the front, was caught off guard and had his head cut off, Zhang Xun next to him was taken aback when he saw this, and he knew that it was not good, he neither dared to fight, nor dared to return to the city, and fled straight to the north of the city! Zhou Cang was ordered by Ma Yue to aim at the city of Wancheng, and he did not chase at the moment, and waved his army towards the east gate of Wancheng.

In just a moment, except for Zhang Xun, who fled in the wilderness, the unsuspecting civil and military officials of Wancheng were all killed, and Zhou Cang led this group of wolf-like rogues to rush across the drawbridge and enter the city gate, the poor officials and soldiers who defended the city did not expect such a great change at all, and the distance between the two miles was close, how could they react?

When the officers and soldiers in the city rushed to the reinforcements in a hurry, the three hundred or so people in Zhoucang had already been firmly nailed to the east gate of Wancheng like nails, and most of the military attachΓ©s who stayed in Wancheng had been killed.

The officers and soldiers defending the city launched several waves of chaotic counterattacks, all of which were repelled by Zhou Cang's army, and at this time, Guan Hai's Qingzhou battalion iron cavalry was killed in an instant, like a rolling iron stream towards Wancheng, the rumbling hooves suddenly resounded in the sky, and there was no other sound between heaven and earth.

Zhou Cang gave an order, and the rogues under his command suddenly flashed to the city gate, letting go of the passage that had just been stubbornly guarded.

"Kill!"

A tiger roared, Guan Hai's long knife swept away, and the three officers and soldiers who collided head-on had been cut into six, behind Guan Hai, 200 cavalry rogue eyes were scorching murderous, and in the terrible wolf howl, they rode their horses like crazy beasts, and the shiny saber had been raised, reflecting the dark and gloomy sky.

Half an hour later, Ma Yue led the main force of the Liukou into Wancheng, 1,000 left-behind officers and soldiers were annihilated, one fled, most of them abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and 800 Liukou captured Wancheng in Nanyang County without much effort.

"Pei Yuanshao."

"Yes."

"Immediately lead troops to guard the four gates, and prohibit all people from entering and leaving, but if anyone trespasses on the city gates, they will be beheaded indiscriminately!"

"Yes!"

"Guan Hai."

"Yes."

"Lead the Qingzhou battalion to patrol the streets immediately, and tell the whole city that everyone should stay at home, but there are those who go to the streets without permission - there will be no forgiveness!"

"Yes!"

"Zhou Cang."

"Yes."

"Stay with me in the Taishou Mansion."

"Yes!"

"The rest of the brethren, take a holiday and plunder as much as you want! One last retrial, no harm to the common people, go! ”

The rogues dispersed in a hurry, Pei Yuanshao and Guan Hai also led their own troops to leave, only Zhou Cang led 50 people still standing beside Ma Yue, Ma Yue took a deep breath of cold air, and said awe-inspiringly: "Zhou Cang, there is an extremely dangerous mission today, but it is related to the life and death of the eight hundred rogues, do you dare to go?" ”

Zhou Cang said senran: "Why don't you dare? ”

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Although there is no life, still dare to go?" ”

"Why don't you dare!"

"Good!" Ma Yue shouted, his eyes showed a look of appreciation, he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhou Cang, and said sharply, "There is a letter today, which is the handwritten hand of He Zhen, the father of the general He Jin, and a head of Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie, and a Taishou seal ribbon, you can bring a book and a printed one, and go to Luoyang in the starry night. ”

Zhou Cang said: "Obey!" ”

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Maybe you can see the general He Jin, you can tell me that you can drive 2,000 healthy horses to come within ten days, otherwise, just wait to collect the body of his old father!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhou Cang clenched his fists, turned around and walked away.

Seeing Zhou Cang's figure go away, Ma Yue felt heavy. Speaking from his heart, Ma Yue thinks that He Jin's possible surname is very small, 2,000 healthy horses is not a small number, even if He Jin is a general of the dynasty, it is not so easy to raise a sudden fear! What's more, handing over the war horse to the thief is a great rebellion, how dare he risk the condemnation of the world?

However, the fact that the surname may be small does not mean that the surname may be zero, even if there is only hope in case, Ma Yue thinks that it is worth 100% effort!

If people have no foresight, they must have near-term worries, and the current 800 Liukou seems to be beautiful, but in fact it is full of dangers.

Qin Jie is dead, the Nanyang soldiers are now leaderless, and collapse is inevitable, before the new Nanyang Taishou takes office, the eight hundred Liukou are still safe in Wancheng, but what about after that? Of course, the Han court will not sit idly by and watch Wancheng fall into the hands of thieves for a long time, and will inevitably send capable generals and elite officials and soldiers to suppress it.

Qin Jie's defeat was due to the tactics of not being familiar with the 800 Liukou, and he used the old method of dealing with the Yellow Turban thieves who were blind to the previous and only knew how to defend the city and the place to deal with Ma Yue's 800 Liukou.

However, the officials and soldiers are not fools, in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, there are many capable people in the Shi clan, or it won't be long before the officers and soldiers will be familiar with the combat methods of the Eight Hundred Liukou, and then come up with a solution to the problem.

With the strength of the opponent and the attention of the imperial court, the survival pressure faced by the Eight Hundred Liukou will only increase, and if they do not manage to improve their mobile surname, they will inevitably be trapped in a corner. And if you want to improve the mobile surname of the Eight Hundred Liukou, the most effective way is to make the Eight Hundred Liukou become a cavalry! Didn't King Chuang, the famous king of the rogue in later generations, destroy the Ming Dynasty with a uniform cavalry?

Of course, Ma Yue never wanted to overthrow the Han Dynasty, he just wanted to live well now, that's all.

ps: Dropped the third place, readers are of great help, the swordsman is naked and begging in the snow, 5555555555

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