Chapter 18 The Fall of Suizhou

Deng Liang was grabbed by the collar, and suddenly raised his voice and shouted, "The Chu army didn't plan to encircle Taizhou at all, they were attacking the west, and now several small cities around it, including our Suizhou, have all sent reinforcements over, the city is empty, and every city has people who should work together, hahahaha, Suizhou is already weak, and it has long been fallen now" I'm afraid the people below can't hear it, Deng Liang shouted out this sentence with the loudest voice, his expression was already crazy, today he is dead anyway, it is better to say these words and be happy.

One sentence made all the soldiers boil, just when everyone was talking about it, I don't know if what Deng Liang said was true or false, a messenger ran up to the high platform and sent two notes to the four generals, these are the two flying pigeon biography just received, after reading the words on the note, General Ning, the general of the Zhanzi battalion, yelled, rushed over, grabbed Deng Liang, who was kneeling on the ground, and threw it into the hot cauldron with his back , The screams immediately came from the pot, Deng Liang's hands were tied behind his back, he couldn't climb, he could only stretch out his head and desperately want to turn out of the pot, the soldiers who hated so much that their teeth were about to be crushed rushed forward, and pushed Deng Liang into the pot with the handle of the knife and the gun, and suddenly the high platform was in chaos, and the soldiers under the stage kept rushing up to the high platform, eager to eat Deng Liang's meat, some of the soldiers below stood in disbelief, and some looked around at a loss, they more or less have family members and relatives living in Suizhou City with the army, if what Deng Liang said is true, I am afraid that at this time it has been more than auspicious。

Ma Xiao, who was standing in the audience, saw several generals leaving the high platform with black faces, and knew that this Deng Liang was not lying, I am afraid that what the two notes said was the destruction of Suizhou City, but he had already lost his relatives, and it didn't matter to him whether Suizhou City was broken or not.

Just when the reinforcements were in chaos, the city of Suizhou, which was hundreds of miles away, became a purgatory on earth, the east, south and west gates were wide open, and the city was full of black-clothed cavalry and foot soldiers of Chuguo, and the already small Pei army was divided and surrounded at several points, and the war became a one-sided massacre, whether it was a resisting soldier or a miscellaneous servant, The old and weak, women and children, all who could be killed, the younger women and women were pressed into the corners by the crazy soldiers to commit violence, the siege began at night, without any warning, the three gates were suddenly opened, and countless soldiers quickly poured into the city, and in a few hours the resistance and organization of the Pei army collapsed, and the munitions and barracks in the city were ablaze, and everywhere there were cries of pleading and the madness of killing.

In front of an old shop on Chengzheng Street in Suizhou, a Chu State foot soldier with scattered hair and blood sprayed on his clothes and armor is standing in front of a wooden table, a thick machete is chopping at the corner of the table, there are seven or eight heads on the table, and they all look like teenagers, Chu Guobing is holding a piece of silk cloth in his left hand at this time, on which is painted a half-length human face, and his right hand is carrying a young man's head and comparing it with the portrait, looking back and forth a few times, and muttering in his mouth, "No, no, the eyes are not like So he left his head still on the street, only to see that five or six teenagers' heads had been thrown in a mess on the street, and then he grabbed a head on the table and compared, "No, no, the nose is different。。。。。。

In this way, after comparing all the heads on the table, he didn't find any of the same, and in a fit of rage, he threw the last one directly out of more than 20 zhang away, and launched a rush on the street, "His grandmother's, where is Lao Tzu's three thousand taels of silver?

The same thing happened in all corners of the fallen Suizhou City, most of the Chu soldiers held paper or silk cloth in their hands, on which were painted the head of a young man, although the painting method is very different, but if you look closely, they are the same person, these Chu soldiers are killing people while comparing with the portrait in their hands, but they don't seem to have found the right person.

If Ma Xiao saw these portraits, he would definitely recognize that this was the same as the portrait he saw from Chu Bing's bag on the night of the night attack, but if anyone who knew Ma Xiao saw this portrait, he would be surprised, because the portrait was not painted by anyone else, it was this Peijun's leader, a ten-year-old doll with no milk teeth faded - Ma Xiao Shiye, and his head was worth three thousand taels of silver.

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The stupid Ma Xiao didn't understand his situation at all now, because he was hiding in the corner and happily gnawing on venison, this venison was only eaten by the generals, and they couldn't see it in the room. Five catties of venison and ten taels of silver as a reward, knowing that he can't finish eating, and afraid of taking it back to make people worry, he simply did Dong in the woods to invite Wei Chao to eat wine, Wei Chao was a middle-aged man with few words, and he usually looked cold, but the army was hard, drinking wine and eating meat was not available every day, especially now when he went out to fight, drinking in private was subject to military law, and he finally had the opportunity to drink wine, and he was not polite, he sat opposite Ma Xiao and ate it, like two hungry wolves, five catties of venison and two people ate a fine light in the time of incense, and Ma Xiao was not satisfied after eating, holding the jar and licking the soup above, Wei Chao laughed and finally ate and drank enough, there was also a liter of rice wine left next to it, and Ma Xiao wanted to take it back to honor his "senior brother" gang boss. Satisfied, patted the bulging belly, and sighed, I really enjoyed it!

"Your doll life is hard, I watched you get captured from Stone City, and you survived two battles" Wei Chao picked up the shield and javelin on the ground and got up to leave.

Ma Xiao quickly stood up and said, "Brother Wei, can I ask you something?"

Wei Chao glanced at Ma Xiao and said, "What's the matter?"

"I've seen you kill people with this mark a few times, so prestigious, can you teach me to throw this mark?" Ma Xiao asked as he looked at the javelin behind Wei Chao.

Wei Chao smiled slightly, removed the round shield and javelin and replied, "This is not a mark for hunting rabbits in your village, it is called a shuttle gun in the army, and it is also called a javelin" Saying that, Wei Chao pulled out a piece from the round shield and showed it to the horse, it turned out that there was a groove in the round shield, which could be convenient for holding the round shield and could also be used to install the javelin.

Ma Xiao took the javelin and kept rubbing it in his hand, this javelin is extremely exquisite, people can't put it down, the standard is about seven feet long, weighs about eleven or twelve pounds, it is indeed much larger than the standard used by the hunters in the village, the head of the axle is made of jet-black steel, more than a foot long, extremely sharp, the benchmark is made of unknown wood, smooth and straight, very weighty, the middle and the tail of the dart are wrapped with copper wire copper hoop, just one hand can hold, looking at such a beautiful javelin, Ma Xiao finally knew why Wei Chao could use him to penetrate the enemy's body, it was simply a killing weapon。

"The bidding gun is a patient job, you can't enter the door without practicing for three or five years, if you want to be like me, you can lift your hair within fifty steps, wear your chest and see through your head, you have to practice for ten years" With a little wine, talking about his proud javelin, Wei Chao changed his usual indifferent expression, and was a little proud.

Ma Xiaoyi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he could penetrate his chest and head in fifty steps, he was a hero, "Brother Wei, I want to learn! I want to learn!".

"Haha, you can't learn for nothing."

"Oh, all the money here belongs to you," Ma Xiao hurriedly took out the reward silver he had just handed out and handed it to Wei Chao.

Wei Chao was not polite, put it away, did not speak, pulled out his waist knife and walked around the woods, his eyes looked back and forth in the branches, Ma Xiao didn't know what he wanted to do, he could only follow behind, at this time the military camp not far away suddenly became agitated, as if something had happened, Ma Xiao trotted to the edge of the woods and looked at it and returned to Wei Chao, only to see that he had an extra straight branch in his hand, and was cleaning up the excess branches on it with a waist knife, Ma Xiao came to the front and said: "It seems that something happened in the camp, I see a lot of people making trouble"

"Don't worry about it, the generals are taking care of their family affairs, they may march a little later this afternoon, and we will be in Taizhou City in three days," Wei Chao said as he repaired the branches.

"Isn't Taizhou all right, aren't we going back to save Suizhou?" Ma Xiao asked in surprise, since he already knew that Taizhou was besieged, why didn't he return to Suizhou quickly, aren't many people's families in the army in Suizhou, and even the families of the generals are in the city.

"Hmph, what do you doll, it's a drop in the bucket for us to go back to Suizhou, and if we go back, we will die, and the grain and grass are almost exhausted, and it is the best policy to continue to go to Taizhou" Wei Chao's movements in his hands were very quick, a benchmark had already seen the prototype, and after half a pillar of incense, the noise in the barracks gradually became smaller, and the branch in Wei Chao's hand also became a javelin, and the head of the spear was not wrapped in iron tufts, but the branches were sharpened. Ma Xiao took the wooden stick, and it felt lighter than the javelin used by Wei Chao in his hand, but it was also quite weighty.

"In the future, you will use this wooden stick to practice" Wei Chao said that he held up one of his javelins with one hand, turned sideways, took a small step with his left foot in front and his right foot behind, the head of the mark was slightly upward, and after a glance at Ma Xiao, his body suddenly moved, and the javelin flew out with a "whoosh" sound, and inserted it into a tree trunk in the distance through the woods.

Ma Xiao's eyes were full of surprise, this Wei Chao looked at the average figure, not like a powerful person, why could he throw the javelin so far, hurriedly took a big stride and counted while running, ran to the tree It was exactly seventy-eight steps, looked up and saw that the entire head of the axe had not entered the trunk, and he hurriedly pulled out the javelin inserted into the tree, but even tried a few times, so that the strength to eat milk could not be pulled out.

Wei Chao walked over slowly, held the pole with both hands, and as soon as he pressed the trunk with his left foot, the javelin was pulled out, and he smiled proudly at the horse, he was also drunk and excited today, he didn't expect him to be able to throw so far. Then Wei Chao began to teach Ma Xiao the basic movements of throwing the javelin, how to stand, how to grasp the pole, how to mobilize the limbs to transmit the strength of the soles of the feet to the arms through the waist and abdomen and back, Ma Xiao used to think that the strength of the bidding arm is large, after Wei Chao's guidance, only to know that this simple action can be big, if you want to throw the javelin far and powerfully, you must use the correct throwing action and fully mobilize the strength of the whole body, and even accurately grasp the timing of the javelin.

In this way, the two practiced in the woods for more than an hour, Wei Chao explained carefully, Ma Xiao carefully understood, just found a little sense of strength, the military camp suddenly blew the marching horn, the two quickly packed up and ran back to the army, just returned to the camp Ma Xiao was startled, only to see that the original high platform had been trampled down, more than a dozen wooden stakes were erected on the ground, each stake was tied to a soldier, and the rope was tied around the neck, and these soldiers were hanged to death by the rope. The originally restless barracks became unusually quiet at the moment, and everyone was packing their bags, some with resentment on their faces, others with sadness and tears.