Chapter Eighty-Five: A Familiar Back
Li Rujing was taken aback, looked back at the blind man, and saw that he was still lazy, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Blind man, don't you kill people?" ”。
The blind man held a longbow in one hand and carelessly picked at his nostrils with the other, towards Nunu's mouth not far away.
Li Rujing looked fixedly, the black shadow that fell down stood up again, under the light of the lamp, the man held the feather arrow stuck in his shoulder with one hand, supported the ground with the other, and looked at the blind man with a pair of eyes full of resentment.
Hit by an arrow in the right shoulder, there is no way to fire a cold arrow for the time being.
Liao Jinda's whole body swelled with a chill, if Zhu Ping'an hadn't stopped the arrow with great speed just now, I am afraid that he would already be a dead man. It seems that there is something wrong with this Dechang.
"Take him down to the official!" Liao Jinda ordered loudly. The soldiers and young men of the brigade rushed forward to capture this person, but before they got close, more than a dozen figures jumped down from the wall, brandishing long knives, jumping into the crowd, killing and slashing, and Liao Jinda's team was suddenly in chaos and withdrew like a tide.
Zhu Ping'an shook his head, turned around and glanced at Cheng Zhen, Cheng Zhen waved his hand, and the more than 150 soldiers who followed immediately formed a formation, rode a high-headed horse, and slowly squeezed towards the wall.
The soldiers and the people scattered from the gaps in the cavalry array to the rear, looking at their companions who had not had time to flee in shock, and were slashed to the ground cleanly by those men in black. The cavalry formation slowly narrowed the gap and looked coldly at the enemy in front of them.
Zhang Ergou came to Zhu Ping'an's side, "My lord." These people use Shun knives, the same as Fengyang's Tartars, but these people are not like Tartars, they advance and retreat in an orderly manner, and their kung fu is like that of our Ming army! It's weird! ”
"Is it the second tartar?" Wang Jinfa next to him interjected.
The so-called two Tartars, refers to the Han army banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the old slave chief Nurhachi slaughtered millions of Han people in Liaodong outside the Guan, and when it came to Huang Taiji's generation, he found that it was really not a way to kill like this. So he began to select Han scum to enter the court as officials, and conscripted the Han people from Liaodong and the Ming Dynasty to surrender into the army. The Han Army Banner was established. With the cyan Daxu as the banner, it is called the Han Army Flag. Later, it was expanded to two flags, and then it was expanded to four flags, after the Qing army entered the customs. It was unified and reorganized into the Eight Banners of the Han Army. And gradually replaced the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners to enter the south of the Yangtze River. The main force of the resistance of the Ming army.
These people were called "two tartars" by the Ming military and civilians, and there were many famous two tartars, and later Hong Chengchou and now Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, etc., who are quite trusted by Huang Taiji, are among them.
Zhu Ping'an snorted. "It doesn't matter what kind of tartar he is, as long as he does things for the Manchu Qing, he doesn't want to live!" After speaking, he waved his hand.
The more than 20 cavalrymen in the front row immediately raised their arms in unison, and held a small crossbow with both hands, and three crossbow arrows with cold light were stuck on the full spring of the crossbow.
As soon as Zhu Ping'an's hand fell, dozens of crossbow arrows quickly shot through the barrier of the air towards the more than ten black-clothed men.
More than a dozen men wielding steel knives to kill the men, only let out a series of screams one after another, and then they were directly shot to the ground, several people who were not yet angry rolled in the pile of corpses and wailed, Liao Jinda's hand tightly grasped the reins of the horse, and his face suddenly turned pale.
At this time, Diao Gui in the courtyard was even more anxious. Seeing that the Manchu army has arrived in Qizhou, he can attack Dingzhou in the blink of an eye, and he can finally entrust this burden on his body. Doing this every day, being caught is the crime of the Nine Clans, Diao Gui feels a lot of pressure. I always thought that as soon as the Qing army entered the city and swept away the grain that had been piled up for half a year, I could take a breath, and by the way, I could sneak to the capital unconsciously to see the concubine and the child I had just given birth there.
Fan Yongdou, the head of the Fan family, is thoughtful, all the shopkeepers in the outer room who are like Diao Gui, and the family members must stay in the Shanxi general number, under the pretext that the general number will take care of them, so as to avoid the worries of the shopkeepers, but in fact, they are not hostages. But this is a job of losing his head, no one can guarantee that there will be no mistakes, in order to leave a root for the old Diao family, Diao Gui spent a lot of money, secretly found a girl from Jiangnan, accepted him as a concubine, and gave birth to a son.
Who knows, this looks like it is about to be done, but this incident happened, and Liao Jinda actually led a large team of people to come to the door. Diao Gui suddenly felt that things were not good.
This Liao Jinda is not very old, but he is a difficult character, he has just taken office, he looks like he doesn't eat soft and hard, but he is also in charge of prison and public security, so that these days, the purchase has to be cautious, and now he comes to the door in the middle of the night, not to drink tea and chat.
Now Diao Gui is in a dilemma, not to mention whether he can get out of the city, but the many grains hidden in this house is a big problem, stay, that is the real evidence of the crime, a fire, the Manchu Qing will definitely be annoyed and angry, this adjacent dozen cities, the scale of the business in the Dingzhou capital city is larger, and the grain stored is also more, once they are burned, the Manchu army will immediately fall into the dilemma of having no food available, and when the time comes, not only the Ming army will find themselves, but the Qing soldiers may not give up.
Diao Guiyi sent three carrier pigeons in a row, asking for help from the Qing army in Qizhou, hoping that they could get closer to Dingzhou as much as possible, but he also understood that there was still a distance of more than 150 miles between Qizhou and Dingzhou, and when the Qing army arrived here, I was afraid that the daylily would be cold.
But Diao Gui really doesn't want to sit still, right now, there is no need to ask, the surrounding area must be surrounded by officials and soldiers, and it is impossible to kill it from the front. Fortunately, Diao Gui was also a rainy day at the beginning, and built this firm tall and sturdy, and there were 100 strong men in the business, all of whom were life-threatening fighters on the rivers and lakes, and spent a lot of money to raise them.
And when I was ordered to rush to the pass, I also dispatched hundreds of warriors of the Han army banner to accompany me, just in case, now there are more than 100 people hiding in this Dechang, plus the Dechang's own manpower, the total number is nearly 300 people, the weapons and armor in the business are readily available, as well as countless gold, silver, grain and grass, if you can hold on for one or two days, there may not be no chance of escape!
Besides, there is a tunnel in the backyard, which is his last retreat, and he really can't hold it, so he escapes from the tunnel, finds a hidden place in this city to hide, and insists until the Qing soldiers break the city, and he can also take advantage of the chaos to escape, and go directly to the capital to pick up the beautiful concubine and beloved son, and then he can get out of the sea of suffering and enjoy wealth and prosperity.
Thinking of this, Diao Gui ordered his subordinates to climb the wall to defend desperately, and at the same time secretly glanced at several henchmen, who immediately surrounded him and slowly pushed Diao Gui to the side of the road leading to the back house.
Just stood still, but saw a big hole suddenly appear out of thin air at the gate, a five-inch thick iron-clad wooden door, like a paper paste, the firelight accompanied by sawdust and broken iron sheets splashed around, this is the ear but a thunderclap exploded, a black thing swept down a large piece of the family and warriors standing in the courtyard, and the severed limbs and stumps fell like rain.
After a while, some people in the courtyard came to their senses and howled miserably, "Oh no, the officers and soldiers have used artillery!" ”
This shout woke up everyone who was in a state of shock, Diao Gui was shocked to the ground by a huge wave of air, seeing this situation, he knew that the general trend was irreversible, and he never dreamed that Liao Jinda, a scholar, would be so ruthless, in order to break through this mansion, he actually mobilized artillery to come, so close to the distance, a solid cannonball flew out, even if this mansion is strong, what can be used to resist it?
Without waiting for Diao Gui to issue a new order, the two broken gates had been knocked down, and the Ming officers and soldiers with knives and weapons swarmed in.
These officers and soldiers are definitely not soldiers in Dingzhou City, looking at this bright armor, sharp blades and terrifying murderous aura, compared to those veteran soldiers of border towns who have been in battle for a long time, the warriors of the family in the Han army banner in the business name are simply some underage children in front of them. What kind of armor they are wearing, the whole is covered by iron sheets, and the knives and guns are cut down, at best, it is just a white dot and a white line, when has there been so many tiger and wolf divisions in the Ming army.
The henchmen saw that the shape was not good, and pulled Diao Gui to run to the backyard, Diao Gui was only sober at this time, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Fire prevention, fire prevention, the granary must be burned!" ”
Ning Wan's Han army banner soldiers sent by me were finally a little brave, and they had also been on the battlefield, and they hurriedly divided most of them to desperately block the progress of the official army, and the other small number of people took torches and stepped on the full corpses and ran towards the granary in the side yard without their lives.
"Stop them! Can't let them light the fire! Zhu Ping'an was excited and hurriedly ordered.
Before the words fell, the blind man and Cheng Zhen and others behind him had already shot out several feather arrows in a row, and the running Han army banner soldiers suddenly fell a few, and the rest didn't even look back, just ran for their lives.
Li Rujing threw down the longbow, jumped on the wall one by one, ran a few steps along the green tiles at the head of the wall, twisted his body and jumped into the courtyard, just behind the non-commissioned officers who were blocking the officers and soldiers, and then grabbed the dead vine of a century-old tree in the courtyard, swung with the trend, flew directly more than a foot high, and fell lightly in front of a few people who were running wildly with torches in their hands.
"Good skills!" Zhu Ping'an saw Li Rujing's figure at a glance, and couldn't help but applaud. But he didn't notice the blind man next to him, his eyes slowly opened, looking at Li Rujing's figure, but he revealed a complicated look.
Li Rujing cut down several soldiers who had no way to escape to the ground like chopping melons and vegetables, and kicked the torches into the pool in the courtyard one by one.
Zhu Ping'an was stunned for a moment, touched his chin, looked at Cheng Zhen and Hong Fatzi who were proud not far away, and muttered involuntarily: "Strange, why does this person's skills have a familiar feeling, could it be that I have seen it somewhere?" (To be continued......)