Chapter 30: The First Battle

If you want to attack a city, you must make peace inside and out.

This is a method that any general understands, and Qi Dayong understands even more that he has done a lot of such things in the past ten years.

Qi Dayong is an escort who has followed An Dezhong for many years, and is one of the five generals that An Kangshan gave to his son.

Xuanwu Dao military rebellion An Dezhong did not let him go, and handed over the affairs of Dou County to him to do, the military rebellion was arranged by Ankang Mountain, and Dou County was the shame of An Dezhong, which was An Dezhong's value to him.

Qi Dayong is very proud of An Dezhong's attention, but he feels that this is overkill.

Dou County is too small, ten is worth one Fengcheng, and there are no soldiers and horses, only a lot of people who eat mixed rice, and there is no need to fight when the time comes, and a few people can scare them out of their guts by lighting a fire.

However, Qi Dayong still seriously prepared to attack the city, first let a group of people go in to kill people and set fires, the city was in chaos, and when the people inside ran out, they did it outside.

Of course, it is very tiring to chop too much firewood, it is impossible for them to chop them one by one, and they are scared of their courage when they chop firewood at will, so they don't need to use knives again, just drive all these firewood together and light a fire.

The place has been chosen, An Xiaoshun said that there is a porridge jar at the gate of the city, and the porridge cooked is for the people of the city to drink, and the porridge that has been drunk for so long should be used to cook porridge.

There is also that young lady Wu, the eldest prince specially told her to let her die first, and let the people of Dou County watch her die, then cook her in a porridge jar.

She has raised the people of Dou County for so long, and it is a good story to let the people of Dou County cook her.

Qi Dayong wanted to laugh wildly when he thought of this scene, but what was going on now?

Dozens of corpses were piled up in the snow, feathered arrows piercing their throats and shaking in their chests, shocked on their faces, and even a smile remaining.

It is an easy task to call the door and enter the city, who would have thought that there would be murderous intentions hidden behind those walls.

"We said that we were officers and soldiers, but none of them came out, and no one spoke, they just fired arrows, arrows." The surviving soldiers had blood trembling on their faces, "We fired arrows back, and they hid under the wall, and when we exchanged arrows, they reached out and shot arrows." ”

He couldn't get close at all, so he could barely grab the corpses of his companions and retreat.

Qi Da jumped with the flesh on his face: "They dare to kill officers and soldiers?" ”

There was anger and shock, why did Dou County dare to kill officers and soldiers? Without asking, it's like knowing who they are and why they're here.

The people of Dou County knew that there was a battle outside.

They heard the shouts, and the government did not hide it, and some officials galloped through the streets to tell them.

The stone that had been hanging over his head for many days finally fell.

The rebels are coming.

The inhabitants of the outer walls of the city gate had all moved to the inner city, and there were long huts built by merchants in the bazaar, and under the command of the chief, they lived next to each other.

Although it is not as comfortable as living at home, but now I can't take care of these little things, there are rebels outside Dou County, and life is the most important, Fengcheng was killed by rebels and many people burned the city.

In fact, this news has spread a long time ago, and the government is reporting almost every day, announcing the details of the martial arts rebellion, the ferocity and cruelty of the rebels, and the tragic situation of the people, and telling everyone that there will be rebels in Dou County, because the distance is too close, the words of the government must be reliable, and the merchants retreat to the city gate and close the entry and exit to strictly investigate.

But there is still a trace of luck in everyone's hearts, maybe the rebels will not come, not that Xuanwudao has suppressed the rebels, but the rebels are a minority.

This fluke was now shattered, and three days ago, before dawn, the lieutenants struck the gong to tell everyone that the rebels were coming, and that everyone had moved into the city.

The panic engulfed Dou County in an instant, but fortunately, after a long time of panic, they got used to it, and everyone smoothly moved the luggage that had already been packed into the inner city.

There was a battle outside, but the inner city gate was not closed, and soldiers and horses were constantly galloping past.

"Omatsu."

"Dongzi."

The people who were inquiring about the news on the street looked at the soldiers and horses passing by with horrified faces, these were basically the people of the barracks, and some acquaintances recognized them and couldn't help shouting.

"How's it going?"

"Are the rebels really coming?"

"How many people came?"

Once the people marched, the six relatives did not recognize them and did not answer them, some entered the yamen to hand over the records to the scribes, and some stepped on the city wall.

On the city wall, Young Lady Wu was surrounded by many people, and everyone looked at the sky in the distance, and the faint green smoke in the distance of the sky dispersed.

"As the letter says, more than 100 people came to call the gates, and about 700 were hidden behind them." Motoyoshi said.

"The first battle was good, under the cover of the wall, eighty people were killed on the other side, and only ten of us were wounded." One of the guards in charge of guarding the fence reported, "The injury is not serious, and it will heal in a few days." ”

This is not a loss of combat effectiveness, Li Minglou nodded, his gaze retracted and fell outside the city gate, there were no ordinary people in the outer city, only a team of officers and soldiers ran over the open space that had been cleared, and the bloodstains and scattered weapons outside the wall had not been cleaned up, but other than that, it was quiet, and there were no hidden soldiers and horses.

"Seven hundred is not a problem." Li Minglou said, "The real problem is that I don't know how many soldiers and horses will come. ”

She turned to look at the guards, her eyes falling on the master book, caught between them.

"Lord Bookkeeper, the time has come for Dou County to live and die, please spend this time with you."

When the rebels arrived in front of the city gate, the main bookkeeper who was locked up in the county government hall and was playing chess and losing red eyes was invited out, followed Li Minglou to the city gate tower, and watched the battle with his own eyes.

The master book is still trembling, he has seen the scene after Wang Zhi and Dewey were killed, but the scene of the killing is more impactful, and there is an even greater impact on this incident.

"They, yes, are the soldiers and horses of Huainan Province." He said in a trembling voice.

Why don't you insist that it is a rebel without asking, and kill if you say kill?

"They are not soldiers and horses from Huainan Province." Li Minglou said, "The sentry has been investigating for a few days, the direction they came from, their dress, their accent, and there is no news from the state capital that they will send troops and horses." ”

There are many sentinels outside Dou County, and Dou County also sent eyeliner to investigate in the state capital, and the chief secretary understood from her words, but now he is not surprised by this.

"Even if they are not soldiers and horses from Huainan Province, they are also officers and soldiers, how can you kill officers and soldiers?" He asked again in a trembling voice.

Without asking, he went down to the killer.

Obviously, those officers and soldiers didn't expect that they were laughing lightly when they approached, and whether they were from Huainan Province or not, they were all officers and soldiers who were comrades, so how could they kill them?

"That's a bit of a long story, I'll tell you slowly." Li Minglou said, "The county commander Wang Zhi and Dewey were both killed by me. ”

The master book fainted with a hiccup.

The guards held on to the old master and didn't let him fall to the ground, Li Minglou looked at the people around him: "I may have said it too fast." ”