readx; The long night has passed, there is still a quarter of an hour to the fifth watch, the tea shed outside Chongyang Guan began to be busy as usual, these days the old man Sun got a nephew, although this nephew's honest smile made the old man Sun frightened, but he also had to admit that the arrival of this nephew did help him a lot, many things helped him properly, the old man Sun, who had worked hard for more than 20 years, felt a kind of ease for the first time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, Sun Xiaoming also brought him a lot of guests, this Sun Xiaoming is especially good at boiling a kind of bone lying, which is delicious, and there are guests who come from the city to drink his new Sun's bone soup.

If it weren't for the fact that his grandson was still in their hands, he really wanted to learn from this nephew and learn how to boil this delicious bone broth, so that he could grow his business big in the future, but the thought that he was about to flee Youzhou made his heart heavy again.

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse outside, sprinkled with silver moonlight, the night is very quiet, and as usual, more than a dozen merchants lie under his tea shed to sleep, but Old Man Sun knows that these dozen merchants are actually all the way with his nephew, I don't know when they will start.

The light in the hut is dim, the steamed buns have been steamed, and a large pot of bone broth is boiling on the stove, today's bone broth is extremely delicious, and the aroma permeates the hut, so that Old Man Sun can't help it.

He glanced at it secretly, and saw Sun Xiaoming sweeping the floor in the yard, so he slowly stepped forward, took a bowl, opened the lid of the pot, and suddenly a strong fragrance came to his face, and Old Man Sun felt that he had never tasted such a delicious thing in his life.

A black dog he raised was also hungry, rubbing desperately around his feet, whimpering and begging, Old Man Sun scooped a bowl of bone broth, and smiled at the black dog: "Let me taste it first, and I'll give you a little drink later." ”

The bone broth was hot, and he blew it, and was about to drink it, when suddenly a hand was stretched out, 'Smack! The ground slapped his soup bowl off, the bowl fell to the ground and shattered, Old Man Sun turned around in shock, only to see Sun Xiaoming holding a broom in one hand and staring at him fiercely.

Old man Sun's face was flushed, and he had a feeling that he had been caught as a thief, and his old face couldn't hold on, so he said, "This is my shop, can't I drink a sip of soup?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a wail, he lowered his head, startled, and saw his black dog lying on the ground, bleeding from his seven orifices, and he was no longer dead.

Old man Sun looked at the soup pot, with a look of fear in his eyes, and took two steps back.

Sun Xiaoming took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to him, saying, "This is my bone broth secret, you can take it!" If you want to drink it in the future, you can boil it yourself. ”

Old man Sun calmed down, he silently took the note, put it away, and picked up the body of the black dog and said, "I'll go and bury it, and I'll be back soon, they should be here soon." ”

Old man Sun picked up a hoe, pushed open the back door and went out, Sun Xiaoming sighed, bent down to put away the bowl on the ground, and went to the yard to sweep the floor.

After another moment, the door of Chongyangguan finally opened, and the carriage of more than a dozen Taoist priests drove out of the Taoist temple and drove quickly to this side, and the dozen or so merchants sleeping in the courtyard jumped up, holding packages in their hands, and ran into the darkness, and there was no longer anyone in the tea shed.

The carriage stopped on the official road, Sun Xiaoming looked at the sky, it was still early, and he had a bottom in his heart, these Taoist priests would definitely come to drink soup.

Since he boiled the bone broth, these wine and meat Taoist priests have to drink a bowl of soup almost every morning before leaving, and today will be no exception.

"It smells so good!"

The Taoist priests got out of the carriage one after another and walked up quickly, and the master Shi Chongming said with a smile: "Today's soup seems to be extraordinarily fragrant, and I can't help it." ”

"Shi Daoye, please take a seat, fellow Daoists, please take a seat, I will serve you soup immediately."

Sun Xiaoming walked quickly to the house and gave Old Man Sun a look, and Old Man Sun immediately went up to greet the soldiers, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's also come and drink a bowl of soup!" Warm up. ”

These soldiers were expressionless, looking at Old Man Sun coldly like stone people, Old Man Sun was bored, so he had to come back and shout: "Xiao Ming, just prepare for the Daoists, the military masters don't eat." ”

"I see!"

In a moment, Sun Xiaoming brought out a large plate with more than a dozen bowls of steaming bone broth and a few plates of vegetarian steamed buns.

Old man Sun's legs began to tremble, and his voice changed a little, "I'll come... Help! ”

He stepped forward to pick up the plate, but Sun Xiaoming said, "Uncle, you go to the back to find Xiao Hei, I don't know where to go?" I suspect it stole the bones. ”

"Oh!"

Old man Sun limped into the house, at this time his heart was nervous, scared, and grateful, he entered the house and opened the back door to escape, and went into the field, and ran away......

The Taoist priests did not have any precautions, they gathered in front of the two tables, sweetly drank the soup and ate steamed buns, from time to time praised the bone broth for boiling well, some of the surnames were anxious, and drank the soup to the bottom, shouting for another bowl, Sun Xiaoming saw that everyone drank the soup, he began to move to the side, and gradually walked to the corner, there is a broken bell here, Sun Xiaoming picked up the bell mallet, knocked it suddenly, and only listened to 'dang! There was a loud bang on the ground, and all the people, including the soldiers on the official road, looked at him in amazement, and at this moment, only a miserable scream was heard, and more than fifty soldiers on the official road fell to the ground one after another, and in an instant, there was no one on the horse, and in the darkness, a large group of Anxi soldiers rushed to this side.

Sun Xiaoming slowly returned to the courtyard, the Taoist priests had fallen to the ground, almost all of them were dead, the ground was full of broken dishes, Sun Xiaoming walked to the senior brother Wangchenzi, and saw that he didn't seem to be dead yet, so he took out the dagger and stabbed him twice in the heart, and Wangchenzi kicked his leg and never moved again.

Sun Xiaoming swept his eyes and beckoned to a corner: "Old man Sun, come out!" ”

I saw the old man Sun walking out tremblingly in the dark, he looked at the corpse of the Taoist priest on the ground, and fell to his knees in fright, covering his head and lying on the ground and crying: "My God! ”

At this time, dozens of soldiers rushed up and began to strip the Taoist priest's clothes, and the man who was talking to Old Man Sun quickly stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and saluted Sun Xiaoming: "Back to General Ji, all fifty-four cavalry have been killed, and none of them are alive." ”

Sun Xiaoming's real name is Ji Sheng, he is actually the leader of the First Falcon Battalion, due to the special status of the First Falcon Battalion, almost all the scouts who go out from it have to serve as captains, so Ji Sheng's military position is already a lieutenant general, he is twenty-eight years old this year, but he has an honest and honest baby face, which makes people mistakenly think that he is only sixteen or seventeen years old.

Ji Sheng nodded, he walked to the frightened old man Sun, squatted down, one of his soldiers took a bag in his hand, handed it to the old man Sun and said: "This is three hundred Anxi silver dollars, you rush to Lu County now, there is a Yuelai Inn at the gate of Dongcheng City, your wife and grandson live there, and then you quickly leave Hebei Road, go to the Jianghuai area, go there to sell bone broth well, I hope they will have goodbye in the future." ”

Old man Sun was so moved that he whimpered, and Ji Sheng helped him up and said, "Go quickly!" It's not safe here. ”

Old man Sun nodded, untied his little donkey from the side of the shop, and hurried on the road, Ji Sheng kept watching him go away, at this time, the man stepped forward and said, "General, I always feel that it is cleaner to kill him." ”

Ji Sheng said lightly: "Those who should be killed, none of them will be kept, and those who should not be killed will not be killed." ”

He waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

The soldiers had quickly packed up the corpses, more than a dozen people wore Taoist robes and made up to look like Taoist priests, and more than fifty others put on the armor of An Lushan soldiers, and the carriage started again and galloped towards the north.

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An Lushan's gunpowder factory is located in the northern suburbs of Lingyun Valley, that is, the valley where gunpowder was tested last time, two huge warehouses and more than a dozen white wooden houses have been built in the valley, in addition to a dozen Taoist priests, there are also 300 gunpowder craftsmen specially found, they prepare gunpowder here, and then make paper thunder, after nearly 20 days of hard work, has made 20,000 paper thunder.

As for the people who continue to develop new gunpowder, it is the senior brother Wangchenzi and his master Shi Chongming, but both of them have been poisoned in the tea shed.

More than a dozen Taoist priests lived in Chongyangguan, ten miles away, while 300 craftsmen lived in the adjacent barracks, because they could not work overtime at night, so there was no need to keep people in the workshop, everyone had to leave the workshop after dark, and the soldiers cleared the field, and no one was allowed to stay in the workshop.

The gunpowder factory is very strictly guarded, there is a large military camp three miles away from the left of the valley, a total of 10,000 soldiers, as long as the workshop has an accident, the army can arrive in a moment, but the army stationed in the workshop is only 500 people, all of whom are An Lushan's henchmen, this is also afraid of the secret leakage of gunpowder, the task of these 500 people is mainly to take care of craftsmen and defend the warehouse.

At this time, it is the time of the five watches, the front of the valley is crowded with craftsmen who come to work, the mouth of the valley was originally twenty zhang wide, in order to control the flow of people, now with a huge stone pile, only a two-zhang wide mouth remains, plugged in dozens of torches, the light is bright, bright as day, more than 200 soldiers are fully armed to guard the door, every craftsman in and out must be carefully searched, one by one, the progress is very slow, but not in a hurry, the workshop can not see the slightest fire, it is also dark to go in, you can only work after dawn, Every day, 300 people went in and out to search their bodies, and it took an hour each.

At the time of the fifth watch, it was the darkest hour before dawn, at this time there was the sound of horses' hooves and wheels in the distance, no one was curious, everyone knew that it was the crow Taoist priests who came, and now it was the fifth watch, they arrived on time every day, and they would never advance it.

The carriage and the cavalry of the guards were speeding towards the gate, and it was a little strange that such a fast speed would probably stop and hit people.

The captain standing at the door saw that the speed of the carriage was too fast, and he couldn't help frowning, and urged him to go forward and shout: "Slow down!" ”

The carriage stopped, only to see more than a dozen Taoist priests jump out of the carriage and blend into the crowd, the captain was about to turn around, but suddenly heard a shout in the distance: "Stop them!" Stop them! ”

The road to the gunpowder factory is a fork from the official road, the official road is five miles away, there is a sentry post there, mainly to prevent passers-by from entering the factory by mistake, there are thirty soldiers guarding, at this time thirty soldiers have all fallen to the ground and died, and not long after the carriage passed, two sentry officers arrived, they found the body of the sentry in the ravine next to them, they knew that something was wrong, and immediately chased this side.

The moment the lieutenant heard the shout, he also noticed something abnormal, there was nothing wrong with the Taoist priest sitting in the carriage, but there seemed to be more of their guards, usually there were more than fifty people, why did it seem to be a little more today.

Just when he was stunned, a wolf tooth poison arrow shot head-on, fast as lightning, before he could react, the wolf tooth poison arrow hit his throat, the captain snorted, covered his neck and turned over and fell off the horse, more than twenty steps away, Ji Sheng coldly put away his bow, and gave an order with a wave of his hand.

Arrows like rain, more than 80 arrows to the soldiers guarding the door roared away, the sudden blow caught the soldiers guarding the door off guard, have been hit by arrows and fell to the ground, the falcon battalion soldiers are extremely accurate in archery, with poisoned arrows, in an instant, two rounds of arrows shot, two hundred soldiers were shot dead more than 120 people, the Anxi army rushed up, arrows like rain, shot the soldiers who scattered and fled.

There was a big mess at the door of the workshop, but the slaughter had just begun, more than a dozen Taoist priests with sharp knives in their hands, began a crazy slaughter among three hundred craftsmen, they were the most elite soldiers of the Anxi Army, all of them were strong in martial arts, ruthless, they cooperated with tacit understanding, blocking the way to escape, just like a dozen devouring tigers, the blades flew over, cut the throat, stabbed into the heart, all of them were killed by a knife, where they passed, the corpses were all over the ground, a mess, and the screams resounded.

At the extreme of the bloody massacre at the gate, Ji Sheng led more than 20 cavalry to rush into the workshop, they carried fire oil, poured fire oil on the wooden house, set it on fire, and the fire suddenly burned, and the flames soared to the sky.

The watchtower on the hill was alarmed, and the three-note beacon fire was blazing in the night sky, warning Youzhou, and the camp three miles away was also alarmed, and the piercing alarm bell was 'dang! While! The ground resounded in the night sky, and thousands of An Lushan's Yan troops came out of the camp and rushed towards the workshop.....

The 10,000-person army responsible for defending the gunpowder workshop is also An Lushan's elite troops, the so-called elite, not only can fight on the battlefield, but also manifested in the quality of training and combat reaction in peacetime, with today's time calculation, from the alarm to the first team of soldiers rushing out of the camp, the interval will not exceed three minutes, this is also An Lushan's attention to the gunpowder factory, not only 10,000 troops are stationed, but also there are beacon towers, which can directly ask for help from the Youzhou camp.

Li Qing'an also knew that An Lushan would strictly prevent the production of fire medicines, so he sent the first falcon battalion, the most elite in Anxi, although they only had 500 people, they could meet an army of 5,000 people.

There is still a halfway of two miles away from the gunpowder factory, Qin Haiyang led four hundred Falcon Battalion soldiers to be ready for battle, they all changed to the Falcon Battalion's Mingguang armor, horizontal sword shield, each person holds a special arrow box crossbow, the arrow box crossbow has been in ancient times, ten arrows are loaded in the arrow box, you can shoot continuously, and even one shot of multiple arrows, this kind of arrow box crossbow designed by Anxi craftsmen for the use of special forces, there is not much difference in principle, the key is that the quality of workmanship is very good, the box is equipped with twenty arrows, you can shoot two arrows, ' If the engine is like thunder and lightning, one shot can even be doubled', which can completely guarantee that twenty arrows can be shot smoothly, and the effective killing range can reach one hundred and fifty steps, which can penetrate the Tang Army's Mingguang armor.

Moreover, their swords, shields, and even armor were made of Damascus iron, which was very expensive, and even their war horses were the finest Arabian horses, with excellent equipment and fierce and strong soldiers, and this army of five hundred men could be called the first battalion in the world.

The night was deep, the white moonlight shone on the earth, and the four hundred soldiers who had gone deep into the hinterland of Youzhou looked at the army surging like a wave with extraordinary calmness, and everyone's eyes showed a cruel look like a beast.

Death is not terrible for them, it is a part of their lives, but glory is all they have in life, and they are willing to defend the honor of the first scout of Anxi with their blood.

"Ready!"

Four hundred arrow boxes and crossbows were raised together, and the eight-inch-long poisoned arrows flashed with a faint green light in the cold moonlight, and the enemy army came madly, and had already entered the killing range of one hundred and fifty paces.

"Shoot!"

Qin Haiyang gave an order, and eight hundred branches broke through the sky, like a swarm of bees returning to their nests, and the cold arrows streaked across the night sky, rushing towards the Yan army rushing in a parabola.

Suddenly, a large group of soldiers tumbled and fell, a large number of dead and wounded, and the hundreds of cavalrymen who rushed to the front even turned on their backs, screaming in all directions.

"Shoot again!" Another cloud of arrows flew out of the air and shot at the enemy.....

Qin Haiyang's order was very short, the movements of the four hundred soldiers were neatly aligned, winding, aiming, triggering, the movements were done in one go, smooth as water, without the slightest hindrance, the arrow cloud shot out one by one, they retreated while shooting, controlled the horse with both legs, neatly formed the feet, and always kept a hundred paces away from the Yan army, in a short period of time, they had shot nine rounds, 7,200 poisonous arrows, within 200 steps, the corpses of the Yan army were accumulated, and more than 3,500 people had been killed.

The tragic death and strong fear made the Yan army stop the charge, the six thousand Yan army stood two hundred paces away, the formation and the four hundred Anxi cavalry confronted, the fifteen hundred crossbow soldiers stood in the front, half kneeling on the ground, waiting for the order to shoot, they were two hundred paces apart, the Yan army's crossbow arrows could not pose a threat to the four hundred Anxi soldiers at this distance.

But no one dared to rush forward anymore, even their main general Li Kezhong was unfortunately killed, everyone understands that rushing forward means death, the battlefield is very quiet, filled with a pungent smell of blood, the eyes of every Yan army soldier flashed with fear, they have never seen such a powerful army, four hundred people are like a crossbow array of four thousand people, they can actually give full play to the power of arrows and crossbows.

At this moment, an earth-shattering explosion suddenly broke out in the fire-burning gunpowder workshop, it was the warehouse where the paper thunder was stored exploded, 20,000 paper thunderbolts exploded, and in the valley, the red flames rushed into the sky thirty zhang high, and then formed a huge mushroom cloud, straight to the sky, and the violent air wave it caused leveled everything in the valley, and even the watchtower burning with beacon fire on the top of the mountain disappeared, and all the trees were swept away.

All the Yan soldiers were stunned, and most of them fell to their knees in fright, covering their ears in horror and shouting, venting the fear and pressure that their hearts could not bear, and their hearts seemed to burst.....

But the four hundred Anxi cavalry did not move at all, they were like stone sculptures, holding crossbows that had been replaced with arrow boxes, and coldly aimed at the Yan army two hundred steps away, and the huge explosion could not affect their will as hard as iron at all.

Qin Haiyang looked back, his eyes were full of worry, in the dark, he saw a hundred cavalry galloping over, Ji Sheng reported loudly: "Report to General Qin, all tasks have been successfully completed, and our army has not injured a single person." ”

When the impact of the explosion on the Yan army had not disappeared, Qin Haiyang gave the order to withdraw the army, and the five hundred cavalry galloped towards the west, they flashed like a group of ghosts flying in the middle of the moon, and disappeared into the west in an instant.

On the battlefield, only corpses were scattered all over the ground and more than 6,000 soldiers who had lost their souls.

On the official road more than ten miles away, Old Man Sun was so frightened by the explosion that he fell off the donkey, looking at the huge mushroom-shaped black smoke and the strange dark red clouds in the sky with great fear, he felt that the gate of the Netherworld was not opened by that group of people.

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(To be continued)