Chapter 13: The Great Victory on the Plains
Speaking at both ends, Yuan Shikai took the seal of the governor of Shandong, and his ambition swelled up like blowing up a balloon, and summoned Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Xu Shichang, Cao Kun and other Beiyang heavy generals to kill Shandong, the striker Yuan Shidun arrived in Jingxian County, and met two suspicious and sneaky masters, and brought them to ask, it was Lu Changyi, the prefect of Jinan who escaped, and Jiang Kai, the prefect of Pingyuan, who wept bitterly, and told how Zhang Huen, the monster, killed the official and saved the thief, Yuan Shidun did not think so, and only asked:
"Where's Yuxian?"
The two looked at each other, to be honest, the two of them escaped suddenly, and they really didn't pay attention to the whereabouts of their bosses, but they didn't know that Yuxian was a very bold guy, and he couldn't go back anyway, so he simply didn't escape, but sat in Jinan Mansion, made a hero post, and invited the boxers to gather and prepare to go north to Beijing to petition, saying that it was a petition, but in fact, it was also a two-sided idea, if Gongsun Xianshi could really win the Qing court, he would fall into the name of an uprising from the dragon, if the immortal master did not give strength, Liang Reverse could become bigger, he would be coerced by the boxers Qingjun side; If they don't give up, at least there is still a spectrum to coerce the people to protect themselves and take the line of the alliance leader.
"I don't know, I'm afraid I fell into the hands of boxers."
Yuan Shidun was speechless for a while, anyway, Yuxian was also a laid-off goods, so he only took the two of them to rush to the army and came to the plain together. Yuan Shidun is known as a general, is Yuan Shikai's own brother, some time ago to Shandong to suppress the red light, because of arrogance, but was beaten a big defeat and returned, and then covered up the defeat and made contributions, was impeached and dismissed.
Now I came with an old grudge, where would I care what invulnerability, grabbed the two of them and inquired about the gathering of the bandits in the plains, where did the two guys who only cared about fleeing for their lives know what the situation was, only opened their mouths and said nonsense, for a while they said that there were millions of bandits, and for a while they said that the bandits invited the twelve heavenly monarchs, and laid down the twelve heavenly gods. Yuan Shidun, who listened, wanted to mention and kick them to death.
However, just in case, the two thousand iron horsemen came to Santang Township, which was less than thirty miles away from the plain, and did not leave, but only sent a few scouts to inquire about the situation.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the scouts came back to report that there were indeed a lot of bandits in Pingyuan County, but as soon as they saw the cavalry, they shouted, "The official army is here!" "In a hurry, even the bandits guarding the city gate ran away, and if it weren't for the fear of the enemy's setup, the scouts really wanted to ride their horses into the city to find out.
Yuan Shidun laughed, his thousands of bandits are indeed not afraid, if you lead a team of elites to steal the city gate first, and then the army enters, you can make an immortal achievement. Yuan Shidun had this intention, and he was scolded by his brother for a bloody defeat, and today is the opportunity to turn over.
So Yuan Shidun, who was hot and excited, immediately rewarded the death squad, and gathered three hundred elites, all of whom were lightly dressed and long knives, and were skilled, and went to Pingyuan County to discredit. The fire turned over and burned the city gate of Pingyuan County, Zhao Sanduo had no intention of staying in the plains, but sent a dozen boxers to patrol the city gate with torches and big knives, once they found the Qing soldiers, they immediately notified everywhere, everyone pack up those belongings and retreat, tonight, I have seen the Qing soldiers scouting, without Zhao Sanduo's command, Zhang Huenhu's angry boxers were shocked, and several door masters were also disagreeable, so they pulled their subordinates out of the plain, and hid near to see how the main force of the vermilion lantern and the immortal master resisted Yuan Shidun's cavalry.
When the 300 death squad came to the north gate of the plain, and saw that there was no one, I don't know if the boxers had played an empty city plan, they picked out a few bold ones and touched them, and came back a quarter of an hour later to report that there was indeed no one, and the 300 people occupied the north gate and sent someone to notify the army to come.
"A bunch of gutless bandits!"
Yuan Shidun heard the report, immediately led the cavalry to the plain, not half an hour, the cavalry entered the north gate, pretending to shout and kill is also majestic, shocking those people who were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe all trembling, can only chant to the shrine at home Oh Mita.
Tianjin Simen retreated to the northeast corner of the plain and opened the formation, although this is Zhao Sanduo's old territory, dare not bring too many brothers over, but rely on their waterway to come over the five thousand brothers, if the old fist can not carry the cavalry vanguard, they Tianjin four gates can kill a back horse gun, this is also helpless, if the foot soldiers carry the cavalry, is the plan can not escape the cavalry to cover the killing, simply wait for the cavalry and the old fist boxers to kill both defeats, and then do the things of the séance soldiers that day, I can't say that I can still sell a face, so that the old fist brothers can take refuge in it, isn't it beautiful.
As for the so-called immortal master, they were automatically ignored by Cao Futian and Zhang Decheng, and Zhu Honglan, who originally planned to unify the Yihe Fist, couldn't control them, so he could only let the big and small boxers leave, and he took 98 boxers to guard the compound, everyone sharpened their knives and waited for the Qing soldiers to come to the door.
Zhang Kelan took the lead in entering the city, and before the knife was unsheathed, he caught dozens of boxers who fled randomly, and the boxers took Zhang Kelan to the county office, only to see that the scene was like Shura Hell, and what kind of immortal master appeared under the question, and the magic was boundless ghost nonsense, Zhang Kelan was too lazy to get tired of them, and cut off their heads with a knife, cut off the head on Zhao Sanduo's corpse, and ran to invite merit, afraid of an ambush, he called someone to shout:
"Listen to the boxers inside, the vanguard under the command of General Yuan of Beiyang in the Qing Dynasty has arrived, and those who know each other throw away their weapons and come out to surrender! Or they will not die here, and those who have lost their way can also be released home. ”
Then I heard a loud laugh inside, and a childish voice shouted:
"Listen to the Qinggou outside, Taishang Laojun sat down and the senior brother of the Divine Fist and the five hundred senior brothers of the Divine Fist have been waiting for a long time, even if there is a lifeless Qinggou who comes in, it is not good to taste the divine sword of the senior brother!"
Zhang Kelan and his subordinates are embarrassed, they have never seen anyone who wants to die, and they have never seen anyone who plays with their lives like this. There must be a cat in this compound, but the three hundred cavalry did not dare to attack without authorization, who knows how many people are hidden inside?
"What's going on?"
Yuan Shidun led the team to Zhang Kelan, listened to Zhang Kelan's narration, asked the archers to go uproom to observe, and after a while, the archers came to the room and whispered in Yuan Shidun's ear, and Yuan Shidun hit Zhang Kelan dizzy with a scraper in his ear.
"Bastard, there are less than 100 people in it, scare you like this, and go in and take down these traitors!"
Zhang Kelan was slapped for no reason, he was so angry in his heart, and shouted at the moment:
"Give it to me, chop all those eight lambs into meat sauce for me!"
"Give me up, up, up!"
A team of 100 people dismounted, rushed in with knives, only to hear the shouts of killing inside, Zhang Kelan was afraid of the enemy's trap, so he simply sent all the remaining 200 people in, even if there was a trap, the 100 people in front should be enough to fill it.
Yuan Shidun listened to the shouting and killing sound inside getting smaller and smaller, and gradually only the voice of praying for mercy remained, and his heart was relieved, he thought that this Zhang Crane was a villain who could only slap the horse, but he didn't expect that he still had some ability, and he had quelled the bandit in less than ten breaths, and this person could be used.
Looking at Lu Changyi and Jiang Kai who were standing beside him expressionlessly, Yuan Shidun deliberately dropped the face of these two former officials, thinking that when they were in Senluo Palace, in order to grab merit, these two people wanted no food, no salary, and only some old, weak, sick and disabled people, but they were fed up with the anger of these two people, and pointed to the cavalry guarding the gate of the courtyard with his hand:
"What do you two adults think of my son?"
"All are heroes, all are heroes!"
"Hahaha。。。。。。"
Yuan Shidun's wild laughter was interrupted by an embarrassed figure, only to see the originally majestic Qianzong Zhang Kelan dragging a tattered cotton armor, covered in blood, walked out, crossed the threshold with his head to the ground, muttering something in his mouth, "Buddha bless, Buddha bless!" ”
"Mr. Zhang Qian~~~~~~"
Yuan Shidun dragged out his voice, and when he saw that he still didn't answer, he got off the horse, drew his saber, stood in front of Zhang Kelan, and shouted loudly:
"Zhang Kelan, the commander of the forward cavalry battalion of the right army of the Great Qing Dynasty!"
Zhang Kelan came to his senses with a cold shiver, and immediately knelt down on one knee and said:
"Humble duty!"
"What's going on inside?"
Zhang Kelan seemed to have gone through an extremely terrible process, and returned to his previous trembling, trembling and said:
"He's a demon, he's invulnerable。。。。。。"
"Poof!"
Yuan Shidun cut off Zhang Kelan's head with a knife, looked around, raised his knife and shouted:
"Zhang Kelan's gobs confuse the public, and if he wants to disturb the hearts of our army, he should be beheaded! And there are so many people who say this! Where is Mr. Li Qian? ”
Li Deyu, who had a bitter melon face, stepped forward and made a thousand, cursing Yuan Shidun in his heart for giving birth to his son without a puppy, and he usually has a lot of filial piety, so he still wants me to go through the ghost gate today?
"Let you lead the soldiers of your headquarters to rush to the first formation!"
"Mr. Zhao Qian, you rush to the second formation!"
"Mr. Liu Qian, lead the soldiers of the headquarters to the room and shoot me with a bow!"
"See!"
As everyone knows, Yuan Shidun's heart is dripping blood, it is the elite cavalry trained by his brother's small station, and it is also a strong soldier in the Qing Dynasty, and now he has lost 300 people in the battle for unknown reasons, how should he explain to his brother?
"Kill!"
The pigtailed soldiers shouted slogans and rushed into the compound, the first to enter the outer courtyard is a courtyard of 50 meters long and wide, a blue-robed Taoist sits at the stone table in the courtyard and closes his eyes to recuperate, and the hundred names and boxers stand behind him, everyone has a red cloth wrapped in their heads, shirtless, and their clothes are tied between the waists of their trousers, each column of ten people, the first two columns hold wooden poles and red tassel guns, the middle two columns hold skulls and broadswords, and the last two columns hold horn bows, and there are more than 20 people standing on the porch of the atrium, holding bird guns and rifles in their hands and aiming at the door.
The first 300 people lay on the ground, and more died under the bow and arrow projectiles, so the corpses piled up at the wall were the most, almost becoming a low wall, and the Qing soldiers who broke in did not bring long soldiers, and they could not cross the low wall for a while, and became the target of the bow and arrow birds.
The screams of "ahhhhh
"Definitely!"
As soon as the blue-robed Taoist slapped the stone table, a wave of air jumped from the stone table to the bottom of the stone table, blowing towards the pigtail soldiers like the wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and the pigtail soldiers were immediately suppressed by a force and couldn't move.
Vermilion Lantern shouted:
"Kill!"
He and the monk Xincheng have always been in the lead, and the two of them led eighteen boxers with spears and rushed towards the Qing soldiers who stepped over.
The spear rushed over, hanging up half of the twenty-two, and the broadsword soldiers who rushed behind immediately cut down the rest.
"Quick, rush over to me, don't let their spearmen form formation!"
The leader of the shed rushed over the low wall, and slashed the back of a boxer who was running back, and the boxer stumbled and fell to the ground, and the boxer's companion turned around with a red eye, and turned around with a loud curse, and stabbed the spear at the head of the shed, and the head of the shed skillfully unloaded the knife, took the spear aside, and slashed back at the boxer's neck. I saw the boxer lying in the pile of corpses with his neck covered, and before the head of the shed could happily cut off people's heads, he heard the blue-robed Taoist shout:
"The light shines!"
It was like a rising sun appeared overhead, blinding the eyes of all the Qing soldiers present, and the head of the shed only felt a pain in his body, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the two boxers who had been hacked to death by him were resurrected in full condition, and by the way, he drew out the spear that had been pierced into his stomach and ran back.
"Invulnerable, back to life, old gentleman bless!"
The boxers rose up and began to scream, and the first team of Qing soldiers over there was hiding in the corner, pulling up a dead body and covering itself, not moving at all.
Liu Chaoxuan climbed up the house with 200 archers, looked at the front yard that was in full swing, and didn't care about injuring friendly soldiers by mistake, so he ordered to release arrows.
"Ahh
A boxer who was dodging the attack of the Qing army was suddenly shot in the head by an arrow, and fell straight down, Zhang Huen connected his ten fingers, and the archers climbed down the wall one after another like dumplings, and the sincere monk saw that the arrow rain had decreased a lot, and announced a Buddha horn, and stepped on the pillar with a ring knife to fly to the house, a few steps and a leap jumped to the roof on the opposite side like a big bird, like a tiger into the flock, the ring knife in the moonlight through the cold light brush to the ground, the Qing army on the tile house into a mess, Some fell directly from above, and some jumped off by themselves, and the sound of oops was endless.
"His grandmother's, Lao Tzu is gone!"
Most of the Qing soldiers who were shot down collapsed first, and the rear team was calling a few henchmen to draw knives and cut down Li Deyu's personal guards, leading dozens of people in the team to escape from the courtyard, and Zhao Hu, the general manager of Qian, who was guarding the door, immediately led the second formation of three hundred people to rush in, and just rushed under the first entrance wall, he saw Li Deyu with a feather arrow on his shoulder and was helped by the guards.
"Huzi!"
Li Deyu and Zhao Hu are fellow villagers, and they grew up playing with mud together, and these two battalions of cavalry are both Shanxi villagers, so he grabbed Zhao Hu's arm without suspicion and shouted:
"Yuan Shidun is going to destroy our Shanxi soldiers, Liu Chaoxuan's teeth are vigorously throwing arrows on the heads of the brothers, knowing that we are Rong Zhongtang's people and still slaughtering like this, it seems that we have become Rong Zhongtang's abandoned sons!"
Zhao Hu was not used to Yuan Shidun's approach, Zhang Kelan, Li Deyu, and Zhao Hu were the thousand generals who trained the army when Rong Lu was the governor of Zhili, and later returned to Yuan Shikai's small station to train the army, and he was not allowed to be promoted, and his resentment was already great.
Zhao Hu recalled the brothers who were about to rush into the compound, and only told people to hide in Zhaobi and shout loudly.
"For the sake of today, what can I do?"
"Kill Yuan Shidun, throw yourself into Yihe Fist!"
"Is there anything going on?"
"There is a head, there is a big head, you listen to me。。。。。。"
The sincere monk drove all the archers out of the room with a sword, Liu Chaoxuan resisted desperately, but he was kicked off the roof and fell into a well. Yuan Shidun found the sincere monk standing on the tile house, and ordered He Gui, the general manager of Qian, to take people to capture the monk, leaving only more than 30 people with personal guards, and suddenly heard that hundreds of people shouted in the compound, "The general is mighty!" Yuan Shidun laughed and lined up his own soldiers, walked forward, and was ready to praise Zhao and Li, and when he got closer, he said with a smile:
"The two generals are invited to get up quickly, and when I report to my brother, I can ensure that the two generals receive the position of standard!"
Zhao and Li got up and let Yuan Shidun go to his side, and when Yuan Shidun stepped forward to investigate the criminals, they heard Zhao Hu behind him shouting loudly:
"Brother does not disgrace his mission, and dedicates Yuan Shidun's head to Senior Brother Zhu!"
He only heard this sentence in its entirety, and the next moment his head fell to the ground.
"Kill!"
Zhu Hongdeng led the crowd to kill together with Zhao and Li's people, and dispersed He Gui's department, Yuan Shidun's personal guards also wanted to rob the body, but they were all hacked to death by the boxers, and when Zhu Honglan led the people to kill the north gate, he saw Wang Liyan, Zhu Denghong and others leading the new boxers to pour into the plain city from all directions, and the battalion of men and horses that was originally guarding the north gate had already been overwhelmed by the flow of people who were brave in the boxers.
Zhang Huen's mental power was a little overwhelmed, in addition to walking to a place to treat people with holy light, he was too lazy to chase and kill those cavalrymen who had become white, but his approach immediately attracted the attention of the boxers, only to see that no matter how many injuries he had, as long as there was still a breath, when Gongsun Immortal Master came over, his right hand was stretched, and after a burst of white light, the man stood up alive and thanked the Immortal Master for his recreation.
Tianjin Simen, who was originally going to enter the city to pick up leaks, met Ni Zanqing and Liu Chengxiang in the county government, both sides were very embarrassed, they didn't expect the vermilion lantern to play so well, not only killed Yuan Shidun, but also received Yan Shuqin's old fist and old department, and the power swelled to 200,000 people at once, and there was also the help of the immortal master, what else is there to fight, the leader of the six gates sat in the hall of the county government, pinched his nose and recognized Zhu Honglan as the senior brother, and the senior brother of the Zhu Honglan was also interested, worshiped Zhang Huen as the master, and gave the title "Ruling the Eight Directions and Sweeping the ** Gongsun Emperor". Zhang Huen didn't care much about this kind of fame, but the leaders of the eight sects all recognized him as the master, so he hung up the false name of an honorary senior brother, and a few people together, worshiping Liang Qichao as the military advisor to coordinate the overall situation, at first Liang Qichao was unwilling, but he couldn't stand the coercion and temptation, and the righteousness of the Qing monarch, so he could only comply.
While letting Zhu Honglan collect the boxers to slowly go to Beijing, while taking Hannah to Texas first, Yuan Shikai's army of 50,000 has already passed Cangzhou, and it will arrive in Texas in a few days, Zhu Honglan has the backing of Gongsun Immortal, and he is also emboldened, and refuses to withdraw Gao Tang's suggestion, 1152
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