Chapter 303: The Loser's Counterattack
Whether in ancient times or in later generations, the violent part of the state is powerful enough to be looked up to.
Even if Fang La has been raising the anti-flag for four or five years, and he has been confronting the imperial court for four or five years, those sectarians under his command have also experienced many battles with the imperial court, and their combat effectiveness has improved almost geometrically compared to the beginning, but in the face of the established officials and troops, they are still not opponents.
Not to mention, the daily training of the officers and soldiers, compared with those who explore on their own, the officers and soldiers should be more scientific and targeted, just the equipment on the body, has formed a decisive impact on the strength of both sides, when fighting, those armor on the body, can give more protection to the officers and soldiers, the sharp blade in the hand, can greatly improve their lethality, but those sect members, with just a blood.
It is said that it is poor and rich in martial arts, in ancient times, practicing martial arts is actually a very luxurious thing, the cost is huge, whether it is eating and drinking on weekdays, or the silver money needed to build a blade, it is not a small amount, and most people, on weekdays, are running around for life, they can't eat enough, where do they have the spare energy to learn what martial arts, so ordinary people, basically have a crop style, even if they go to the battlefield, they only rely on instinct to fight, they don't know, how to force more effective, they don't know, where to attack the enemy, they don't know how to effectively dodge when the enemy is attacking towards them, a qiē, only instinct.
But the officers and the army are not together. Whether it is the Fifth Army or the local Xiang Army. On weekdays, there are special instructors to teach martial arts, and their combat effectiveness is naturally much higher than that of those civilians. What's more, in the event of a war, those untrained sect members will only rush forward in a swarm, and there is no formation at all, even if there are talents like Fang Qi Buddha and Yan Yan in the sect, they have been training the sect members, but the formation they formed was after fighting with the officials and troops to the white-hot Cheng Dù. It's basically hard to keep going.
At this time, those sect members led by Fang Qifo were no exception, although there were fierce generals like Fang Qifo who could write and martial arts, but in the face of the strong combat effectiveness of the town navy, especially the salvo of crossbow arrows that could be called covering the sky and the sun, they were finally defeated, and after more than three hours of fierce battles, which changed hands many times, in the end. The Manichaean team, after throwing down more than a thousand corpses, was driven out of the city of Hangzhou.
Although there were casualties on the side of the official army, they were compared to the Manichaean side. It was really nothing, and after driving the Manichaean thieves out of the city gate, the heavy city gate in the south of Hangzhou City was suddenly tightly closed. And the officers and soldiers who had just experienced a battle couldn't care about the deep exhaustion that had gone deep into their bones. Immediately hurriedly climbed to the top of the city wall, looking condescendingly at the situation below.
After driving the Manichaean ranks out of the city gates. Although with the protection of this high wall, generally speaking, there should be no danger, but what happened tonight still sounded a warning bell for them, who knows if there are still Manichaean cultists lurking in the city now.
Even in the past, the city of Hangzhou had always done a very good job of eliminating Manichaeans, but after what had just happened, even Bai Qing did not dare to guarantee how many thieves were lurking in the city now, so what they had to do now was to strengthen their vigilance and not give the thieves any chance to take advantage of it.
Carefully admonished Commander Sun again, of course, Bai Qing also believed that if something like this happened tonight, even if he didn't say it, he would be in good spirits tonight, but he still took the trouble to emphasize it again, not only that, after leaving from the south city gate, he also turned around all the four gates of Hangzhou City with Xi Xingwen and Tangtai Dragon Dance, and confirmed that all the city gates had been guarded by heavy troops, and then parted ways with Xi Xingwen, Then he went to the house with the dragon dance.
After returning to the house, Master Li and Li Qingzhao, seeing that Bai Qing had returned safe and sound, the heart that was originally hanging suddenly let go, and they didn't care that there were still Tantai Dragon Dance and Di Xiaobai by their side, and the two of them almost pounced on Bai Qing's body one after the other, and then sobbed, obviously, almost the whole night, the two of them spent the whole night in fear, lest something happen to Bai Qing.
And the dragon dance also keenly felt that when she saw Bai Qing's figure appear in the field of vision, Di Xiaobai, who had been standing at the door, also had a relieved look in her eyes, although she didn't express anything like Master Li and them, but her gaze has not left him since Bai Qing came back.
Outside the city of Hangzhou, Fang Qifo, Fang Baihua and Yan Yan stood not far from the city wall, looking at the city gate tightly closed in front, the brightly lit scene above the city gate, and vaguely could still see that the dense figures behind the city wall were looking at them condescendingly, with a look of tigerishness.
The so-called plan is in the people, the success is in the sky, the original plan they made is very thorough, the idea is also very bold, it can be said that it is unexpected, if it is not for a small soldier defending the city, the impromptu intuition, forcing them to attack in a hurry before they are fully prepared, now they are likely to have occupied the second half of Hangzhou City.
But there are not so many things in life, but, no matter what, now they have failed, even if they have masters like Fang Qifo and Fang Baihua, and there are twelve gods like Gao Keli, as well as twenty-four partial generals like Yao Yi and Xue Dounan, they can be described as strong soldiers, but they still failed to achieve the expected goal.
And Yan Yan knew very well in his heart that the guards of Hangzhou City tonight must be heavily guarded, even if he is unwilling now, it will be useless, even if he gathers a team, but if he wants to launch another attack tonight, I am afraid it will be useless, they themselves lack blades and siege equipment, and in this night, it is just to increase casualties, and it will not have any effect.
Thinking of this, whether it was Fang Qifo, or Funeral Words, or Fang Baihua, they all sighed silently.
At present, there is already a trend of losing all the games by accident.
"Uncle Seven, in my opinion, let's still find a way to tell those brothers who have sneaked into the city, and after we leave, we will try our best to cause some chaos in the city, whether it is killing people or preventing fire, no matter what method is used, we must let the city cause chaos for me!" After pondering for a moment, Fu Yan said in a deep voice to Fang Qifo.
"Do you want to ......" Hearing the words of the martyrdom, Fang Qifo suddenly couldn't help frowning, and said to the funeral words with some hesitation, at the end, he thought about it and said: "We just came out, after what happened just now, I'm afraid the city is also heavily guarded, and letting them make trouble at this time is not equivalent to forcing them to throw themselves into the net!" ”
"Seventh uncle, what you said is, I don't know, this is forcing them to expose themselves, but there is no way, since this strategy of attacking the city at night is no longer useful, we have to find another way, but the most important thing is that we must not let the city be too peaceful, we must let it be chaotic, otherwise, if we want to capture Hangzhou City, it is tantamount to a fool's dream! So, even if they die for the cause of the Holy Religion! Yan Yan said to Fang Qifo as if he were explaining, but when he spoke, his young face still had a somewhat grim look.
Hearing the words of the martyrdom, Fang Qifo suddenly fell silent, although emotionally suing him that it was really against his own heart to do so, but intellectually speaking, the plan of the martyrdom was undoubtedly the most correct at this time, so even if he couldn't bear it anymore, Fang Qifo only hesitated slightly, and then nodded in agreement.
As for Fang Baihua, compared to Fang Qifo, Fang Baihua was more rational, and she had already approved of him in her heart after she said her thoughts.
However, looking at the corpses of the sect members that were left along the way, Fang Baihua, Fang Qifo and Fu Yan, they all felt a little concerned in their hearts, and the other sect members also had a feeling of sadness for the dead rabbit and the fox.
However, under the watchful eyes of those crossbowmen on the city tower, they did not have the courage to snatch these corpses back, and after hesitating for a long time, Fang Qifo and the others led the rest of the team and disappeared into the night.
Seeing the backs of those thieves disappear into the distance, but those officers and soldiers still didn't dare to have any careless thoughts, they stood on the city tower all night, and they didn't even dare to doze off.
In the second half of the night, just as Bai Qing was worried, the Manichaean sect members who had infiltrated the city and lurked in the city, after receiving the order from the Seven Buddhas, although they had doubts and incomprehension in their hearts about this order that was tantamount to making them kill themselves, but after being brainwashed by the Holy Sect, they would thoroughly carry out all the orders from the sect, even if it was obviously contrary to their own intentions.
I have to say that the number of cultists lurking in the city this time is really quite a lot, there are as many as seventy or eighty people, and after receiving the order, these seventy or eighty people don't even need to divide the labor at all, so they directly went out of the place where they were hiding, took the things they needed to create chaos, and went out of the door.
As the first scream sounded in the city, it didn't take much time, and the screams sounded one after another, attracting all the officials and soldiers on the street, and then, in their gaze, the first fire also appeared, and then, it didn't take long for the entire Hangzhou to suddenly burst into flames.
"Let's go out of the water!" The miserable shouts made the entire city of Hangzhou fall into panic......
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