Chapter 13: The Red Plum Thief Succeeds Again
Xu Xihao, the Duke of Dingguo, valued this land in western Beijing very much, so it was his third son Xu Ziguang who was sent to guard the manor.
Xu Ziguang was born in the bright city of Beijing, and was assigned to the countryside by his father, and has always complained about the sky. Although the manor is not far from the city of Beijing, the bumpy road makes him reluctant to go to the city. The robbers robbed the British Duke and the Chengguo Gong's village, but he saw a glimmer of hope, if he could keep his own village, and even catch the bandits, maybe his father would change his mind and let him return to Beijing.
He was about to send someone to invite Zhang Dingbang, the director of the British Gongzhuang Hospital, and Zhu Ping, the director of the Chengguo Gongzhuang Hospital, but he didn't expect that the two of them would arrive before they went out. It turned out that they had lost a lot of money and food, and they couldn't explain it to their master, so they went to Xu Ziguang's village to discuss countermeasures.
Xu Ziguang inquired in detail about the robbery of the two families and asked, "Did they leave any names?" ”
Zhang Dingbang and Zhu Ping shook their heads at the same time.
Xu Ziguang asked, "Then do they have any special marks on them?" ”
Zhang Dingbang thought about it carefully and said, "I saw a plum blossom embroidered on their chests. ”
Zhu Ping echoed: "Yes, red plum blossoms." ”
Xu Ziguang said: "Red plum thief." ”
Zhang Dingbang said: "When I went to Wanping County to report the case this morning, I happened to meet Brother Zhu Ping, a pair of two, and now the Hongmei thief robbed my house first, and then robbed the Zhu family. ”
Zhu Ping said: "So it's very likely that they will come to rob your village tonight." ”
Xu Ziguang said: "After they robbed the two of you, they should have gained a lot, so they have to recuperate for a while, how can they come to my village tonight?" ”
Zhang Dingbang said: "Hongmei thieves are not ordinary robbers, they are extremely greedy. Brother Zhu Ping and I were relatively close, so we suffered on the same night. And Brother Xu, your village is far away, so the Hongmei thieves didn't find you. But Brother Xu, your family has a big business, maybe you have been targeted by Hongmei thieves, and sooner or later you will come to rob you. ”
Xu Ziguang slapped the table and said, "I'm still afraid that he won't come." The ancestor King Zhongshan fought in the south and the north, and the Mongolian Tartars were killed to the head, and they fled from the wind, saying that they saw him kill the stars in the sky. Although I, Xu Ziguang, am not as good as my ancestors, I will not take a few little thieves in my eyes. ”
Zhang Dingbang and Zhu Ping clapped their hands and said: "Okay, we also brought a lot of elites to help in the battle this time, and vowed to destroy the red plum thieves in one fell swoop." ”
Then, together they discussed how to arrange the troops, who would guard the front yard and who would guard the backyard. The fly in the ointment is that the bow and crossbow are controlled weapons, and the three of them only have two bows, which are still used for hunting, and the range is too small, so most of the family members are armed with large knives and iron rods.
Zhu Cheng naturally didn't know about their secret conversation, so that night, he led Jinyiwei to be a robber in black clothes and a black scarf as originally planned.
Before entering the village, Tanmalai reported that the Dingguo Gongzhuang Courtyard seemed to be prepared.
Asking for the ball: "Childe, are we going back?" The other side has made preparations, and we have rashly attacked, and the losses are not small. ”
Zhu Cheng sneered: "The other party relies on untrained family members, and it's okay to bully civilians." We are elite soldiers in a hundred battles, how can we be bluffed by a few family members. Today, I will personally command you, and you will only have to lead the people to collect the goods. ”
Zhu Cheng led the soldiers and horses to the gate of the Dingguo Gongzhuang Courtyard. Before he could stand still, two arrows were shot from the wall, one of which hit Yuliang and the other hit Qiuqiu. Chu Liang was fine, dressed in cotton armor, and the strength of the arrow was insufficient, so he was not injured; It was miserable to beg for the ball, and the arrow hit his thigh, 2 inches into the flesh, and almost shot through it, and immediately fell to the ground and howled. Several Jinyi guards stepped forward and saved Chu Lianghe Qiuqiu, and the other Jinyi guards protected Zhu Cheng, Zhu Youzhen, and Ke Qingqing behind them.
At this time, a head poked out of the courtyard wall, it was Xu Ziguang, and he laughed and said: "Little thief, dare to go to Xu Ye's house to spread wild, I am impatient." Acquaintances, quickly tie your hands, I will spare you from death. ”
Zhu Cheng saw Chu Liang being hit by an arrow, and his eyes turned red. He usually can't see soldiers injured, let alone Chu Liang is his favorite general.
He wanted to send men to charge, but there were bows on the wall, and although there were few of them, if he stormed the courtyard, there would be casualties. After more than four years of training, these brocade guards have fully accepted his modern concept of governing the army, like a seed, which will become a towering tree in the Ming army in the future, how can he be willing to be damaged in such an inconspicuous small battle.
He regretted why he didn't bring a bow and arrows when he went out this time, if he brought a bow and arrows and shot at these family members, these rabble would have dispersed in a hurry. However, he feared that he would be recognized and cause trouble if he used his weapons, so he left all his bows and arrows in the camp.
Zhu Youzhen was so angry by Xu Ziguang's arrogant words that he took out a slingshot, picked up a stone from the ground, stretched the rubber band long, aimed at Xu Ziguang's head, and let go, with a "whoosh" sound, the stone flew towards Xu Ziguang. The slingshot was made by Zhu Cheng for Zhu Youzhen, who usually likes to use the slingshot to play with birds, but this time he went out with a special belt, and he didn't expect it to play a big role.
With an "ouch", Xu Ziguang rolled off the wall, covering his mouth and rolling on the ground without stopping. This hit was really accurate, and it hit him in the mouth, and a pair of front teeth flew apart.
Zhu Cheng's eyes lit up, there is no bow and arrow to use stones. He asked the Jinyi guard to pick up stones from the ground - of course, it was not possible to throw them directly, not far enough to reach the courtyard wall. He remembered the game "Age of Mythology" he had played in his previous life, and the output firepower of Egyptian slingers and archers was extremely close. So he asked a man in black to take off his black garment, tear it into strips, and tie it to a stone. Then the soldiers grabbed the rope, picked up the stones, aimed them at the courtyard wall and threw them inside.
The family of Chengguo Gongzhuang almost laughed and threw stones, should you be a family?
Xu Ziguang's mouth was full of blood, and he scolded: "What are you laughing at, use snacks, and when their morale is dispersed later, we will rush out." I'm going to crush all the bones of that little doll that shot me, one by one. Liu San, Zhao Dali, you shoot me, shoot one person, and reward two taels of silver! ”
Liu San and Zhao Dali responded and drew their bows and shot arrows, but unfortunately the man in black was prepared and hid out of range and threw stones, which made the financial plan of these two people fail.
After all, without training, the first batch of stones of the man in black were thrown outside the courtyard wall, but the second batch of stones was much better. I could only hear the sound of "sigh" inside the courtyard wall, Liu San and Zhao Dali half of their bodies were exposed, the target was the largest, and more than ten stones flew in, smashing their heads and bleeding, and they fell to the ground.
The family is a slave raised by the master, not a soldier in the first place, and when he sees blood, he is so frightened that he trembles, where do he dare to come out again. Xu Ziguang was coercive and tempting, but when the family saw that the man in black was attacking fiercely, where did he dare to climb the wall to guard again. At this moment, a stone flew in and smashed into Xu Ziguang's right shoulder, and his right shoulder immediately shattered and could no longer be lifted.
Xu Ziguang is a very smart person, knowing that he can't keep the courtyard, he immediately returned to the backyard and cleaned up the gold and silver.
Zhu Cheng saw that there was no resistance in the courtyard of Dingguo Gongzhuang, so he ordered the soldiers to climb over the wall and go in, but for the sake of safety, before climbing over the wall, another fire was carried out, and the stones fell into the courtyard like raindrops.
More than 30 men in black climbed over the wall and entered, but they saw dozens of family members, some holding pot lids, some holding bed boards, some hiding behind a pile of bamboo poles, and some hiding in the corner of the courtyard wall, but none of them took up arms to fight them. At that moment, the two men in black opened the door to welcome Zhu Cheng in, and the others drank Ling Jiading holding his head in his hands and squatting on the ground.
Zhu Cheng entered the courtyard and ordered people to tie up all these family members. The family in the front yard is a guardian and a thug, and his martial arts are strong, but in the face of the dense stone rain, he was frightened and arrested.
And the family in the backyard was just an ordinary servant, who didn't see the terrifying stone rain just now, and each fought with the man in black with a knife and gun.
Zhu Cheng had already solved the enemy in the front yard and stepped into the backyard. Before he could stand still, a knife was chopped down, and Zhu Cheng hurriedly raised his knife to greet him, but how could the strength of a child be compared to that of an adult, and he was about to be injured under the knife. At the critical moment, an iron rod held the broadsword.
Zhu Cheng was shocked and angry, and said, "What's the matter, even a few family members can't deal with it?" ”
The man in black said: "It's not that you can't deal with it, it's hard to capture it alive." ”
Zhu Cheng scolded: "It's really a banana and watermelon, I'm talking about trying my best, not necessarily." Don't leave your hands alone, hurry up and solve the problem! ”
The black-clothed man's stick danced like flying, and the trick could not leave the key point of the family, "dang", a stick will break the big knife and fly, the family hurriedly retreated, and the man in black stepped forward to smash the stick, hitting the head of the family, "poof", until ten thousand peach blossoms bloomed, and the dead body fell to the ground.
The family was frightened stupid by this tragic scene, several threw knives and vomited, and a few immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, of course, there were also diehards, still raising knives to resist. When the man in black saw that someone had opened the killing ring, he no longer kept his hand, and soon sent these diehards to the western sky.
The front yard and backyard are cleaned, and there are a few acquaintances, one is Zhang Dingbang, the director of the British Gongzhuang Hospital, and the other is Zhu Ping, the director of the Chengguo Gongzhuang Hospital. The two of them were so frightened that they trembled like chaff, and Zhang Dingbang once again peed his pants very uncompetitively.
searched and searched, but did not find Xu Ziguang, the son of Dingguo Gong. At this moment, Wu Huping came from the backyard, carrying a person in his hand, who was not Xu Ziguang.
Wu Huping laughed and said, "I expected you to slip away through the back door, so there was a waiting rabbit there, and I really caught you." ”
Zhu Cheng said: "Tie this culprit to a tree, whip twenty lashes first, and avenge the injured brother." ”
Zhu Cheng asked coldly, "Who shot the arrow just now?" ”
Everyone hurriedly pointed at Liu San and Zhao Dali with their hands.
Zhu Cheng walked up to Liu San, didn't speak, pulled out his waist knife, and aimed it at his neck. Liu San's head "gurgled" and rolled out a long way, and the blood in his neck rose to the sky, spraying Zhu Cheng and the people next to him.
There was silence at the scene, and everyone was stunned by this cold-blooded child.
Zhu Cheng said word by word from between his teeth: "Whoever hurts my brother will kill him!" ”
When the brocade guards heard this, their hearts were warm, tears welled up in their eyes, and they knelt down and shouted together: "My lord! ”
Zhu Cheng raised his knife and was about to cut down a murderer, when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Lead, wait a minute." ”
looked closely, but Qiu Qiu limped over.
Zhu Cheng said: "Why, you want to intercede for him." ”
"No, my lord, I want to take revenge myself by cutting down this rabbit cub." Lao Tzu has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for more than 30 years, and he has never been injured, but he almost capsized in this gutter. It's really angry to think about. ”
Zhu Cheng handed him the knife, and he picked up the knife and stabbed it at Zhao Dali's neck. After cutting it, he was still angry, and he unbuttoned his pants again, and he was soaking urine on Zhao Dali's head. It's a pity that the unlucky guy who begged for the ball accidentally urinated on the wound when he peed, and let out a ghostly scream, laughing at the people in black.
In more than ten days, Zhu Cheng led the Hongmei thieves to sweep the manor of the Duke Earl who had invaded the imperial village, making them panic all day.
Half a month later, the emperor issued a holy decree and summoned Zhu Cheng back to the palace to see the driver - these princely earls finally judged who was the red plum thief from the clues and prepared to attack Zhu Cheng.
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