Volume 1 Chapter 18: Arson
Someone must have set it on fire.
Ling Jingyang instantly had dozens of hostile thoughts in his mind, and he asked Lao Mantou and Dong Daqi to lead the war horse out, but the fire was sudden and rapid, and Dong Daqi and Lao Mantou were forced to not get close to the inn by the fire.
There are still many people in the inn, and they didn't have time to rush out, so they died in the fire, the city was full of people who lost order, and there were some soldiers of the Dashun Army who were helping to extinguish the fire, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and there were more and more firefighting soldiers, Ling Jingyang was in the crowd and saw Li Daoli with his subordinates commanding the firefighting.
Li Daoli ran back and forth, Ling Jingyang instantly understood that there must be potential danger in this fire, he looked at the crowd coming and going on the street, and suddenly thought that this was a good time to assassinate.
Who has the most assassination value in the city, isn't it Li Daoli, Li Daoli is the main general of Zhuozhou City, kill him, the entire Zhuozhou City will lose order, and the reinforcements of the Dashun army will not be able to supply and rest.
He said to Lao Mantou and the others: "You come with me." ”
He took his subordinates and ran in the direction of Li Daoli, suddenly, a cold light shot out from the crowd, Ling Jingyang only felt the sound of breaking the air in the air, and then looked in the direction of Li Daoli, Li Daoli's left side of the soldier fell to the ground and died.
Li Daoli was busy fighting the fire, he couldn't bear it, and he couldn't accept that a large number of people in Zhuozhou City died because of the fire in the city, especially those who took refuge in the city to escape the military disaster, and they were buried in the fire like this, his heart hurts!
Another arrow flew in, this time the target was directly aimed at Li Daoli's forehead, and it happened that one of Li Daoli's own soldiers ran over and reported to him that a large number of people had gathered in the east of the city and asked to leave the city.
After the soldier finished saying the last word, an arrow came out of his right chest, and his body fell limply, and Li Daoli shouted, there is an assassin.
The nearby soldiers hurriedly came over to protect him, but Ling Jingyang rushed here with dozens of vanguard soldiers at this time.
Li Daoli and his subordinates happened to see Ling Jingyang and others coming, and they mistakenly thought that Ling Jingyang and others were assassins, and pulled out their weapons and rushed over to engage Ling Jingyang and others in close combat.
This is a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, his own people beat his own people, Ling Jingyang watched Li Daoli personally soldiers, slashing and killing the vanguard soldiers with weapons, one of the two groups of people was holding a life-saving mentality, and the other side was killing the enemy with enthusiasm, one took a look at the face.
The vanguard soldiers and horses were cut down by Li Daoli's own soldiers seven or eight people, and Ling Jingyang shouted loudly: "Your own people, don't beat your own people, we are here to protect Captain Li." ”
But no one paid attention to him, Li Rufeng's subordinates were cut and killed several people, angry he led his subordinates to launch a counterattack, his subordinates were all Ming border troops, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
Because the city has lost order, many people in the city have lost their minds due to the fire, and they have rampaged through the city in groups, and there are also young people who have robbed the city.
Ling Jingyang was resisting a personal soldier to slash and kill, and was suddenly dispersed by a large group of people, not only him and the vanguard army, but Li Daoli and his subordinates were also scattered by the crowd.
Ling Jingyang was rushed into an alley by the crowd, he scolded himself in his heart for being inexperienced, and he was kind enough to help Li Daoli, but he was misunderstood, or he was too anxious.
After the generals and soldiers were rushed away by the crowd, they had no ability to continue fighting, Ling Jingyang finally walked out of the alley, and it happened that a general of the Dashun Army was pushed in by a group of people, and Ling Jingyang hurriedly made way for the crowd to go into the alley, so as to alleviate the crowd.
The general of the Dashun army was taken by the crowd to the depths of the alley, Ling Jingyang looked sideways, it turned out to be Li Daoli, he was strong, but in front of the rolling crowd, there was no ability to resist, Ling Jingyang was busy stepping forward, but suddenly saw a person in the crowd carrying a bright iron knife and walking towards Li Daoli.
Regardless of the danger, Ling Jingyang angrily plunged into the crowd and dared to go in the direction of Li Daoli, he wanted to protect Li Daoli before the assassin could make a move.
At this time, Li Daoli was also powerless, these docile people were so terrible to go crazy, and the energy was so huge, he was wrapped in a big man and a rough man, and he was forced to go with the flow.
He didn't know that danger was coming, the assassin in the crowd was getting closer and closer to him, and there was only an old man between him, the assassin suddenly burst out, and the big knife cut the old man who was standing between the two of them in two, and the next second the big knife slashed at Li Daoli's neck.
The speed of the assassin was so fast that Li Daoli didn't have time to react, so he had to watch the big knife slash at his neck.
Seeing that the corpse was about to be killed, Ling Jingyang slapped his horse and killed, twisted the assassin's blade with a longbow, shook it hard, and the big knife flew out, Li Daoli finally had a chance to fight back, and smashed his fist at the assassin, the assassin was very agile, and he gave up and continued to assassinate when he missed the blow, and disappeared in the crowd.
Li Daoli also knew that he had misunderstood Ling Jingyang and wanted to apologize to Ling Jingyang, but he was swept away by the crowd, and Ling Jingyang also kept following behind to prevent other assassins from assassinating Li Daoli.
Fortunately, after the crowd rushed to the depths of the alley, the intensity slowed down, and Li Daoli could finally get out of the crowd, Ling Jingyang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his hand and dragged him out of the crowd.
The two fingers touched, and two more assassins came out of the crowd, these two used very ordinary waist knives, one attacked Li Daoli's head, and the other attacked Ling Jingyang's abdomen, both of which were deadly killing moves.
Li Daoli was angry that these assassins were despicable and shameless, and in order to assassinate him, he actually set fire to the city, burning and injuring innocent people, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and his anger turned into infinite combat power.
Before the assassin could stand up, Li Daoli's whole body jumped up and smashed his tall body on the assassin, almost breaking the assassin's ribs.
The other assassin was very powerful, and he fought back and forth with Ling Jingyang, and once almost slit Ling Jingyang's throat, and Ling Jingyang was forced to retreat while fighting, barely avoiding the assassin's assassination.
Over there, Li Daoli had already scrapped the assassin's hands and legs, and saw that Ling Jingyang was beaten in embarrassment, so he came over to help, he thought that two would fight one, and it would be easy, but he didn't expect this assassin to be so good at kung fu, with one enemy and two not falling behind, and Li Daoli was also cut off in the arm, Ling Jingyang became more and more afraid the more he was beaten, why is this assassin so powerful?
Because many of his nirvana moves were resolved by the assassins one by one, and he was forced to hurry by the assassins, after Li Daoli was cut off on the arm, he shouted for his own soldiers to help.
A nearby sentry soldier heard the shouts and hurried to support, these soldiers of the Dashun Army were not Assassin opponents one-on-one, but they were better than the number of people.
The assassin was unable to continue to assassinate Li Daoli, so he slashed hard, pushing Li Daoli and Ling Jingyang away, and then flew up the wall, jumped on the wall and climbed over the wall.
When Li Daoli's subordinates arrived, Li Daoli ordered another Assassin to be brought to the barracks, and his subordinates stepped forward to drag the Assassin away, only to find that the Assassin had bitten his tongue and killed himself.
Li Daoli looked at the suicide assassin with a blue face, forced him to regain his composure, and ordered the whole army to open the city gate and let the people in the city go out of the city to avoid the fire, and he led the main force to hunt down the assassin in the city.
"Captain, the fire in this city is fierce, it is not suitable to continue to hunt down the assassins in the city, and since this assassin can sneak into the city, he can also blend out of the city, and the last general thinks that the general should also go out of the city to appease the soldiers and civilians outside the city."
Ling Jingyang repeatedly dissuaded Li Daoli not to interfere with the assassins in the city, but to go outside the city to rectify the ranks and settle the people, Li Daoli did not agree at first, but Ling Jingyang did not give up, and finally he suddenly figured it out, nodded violently, and whispered softly to a soldier, telling all his subordinates to stop fighting with the vanguard army.
Then he solemnly apologized to Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang shrugged his shoulders and expressed understanding, and the two walked out of the alley together.
As soon as they got out of the alley, they saw the old steamed buns, Chongzhen and others looked for Ling Jingyang behind the alley, and when they saw Ling Jingyang and Li Daoli coming out together, they hurriedly stepped forward to protect Ling Jingyang.
Ling Jingyang comforted his subordinates with kind words, telling them that they had cleared up the misunderstanding with Li Duwei, and the old steamed buns and others were relieved, and after a while, the remnants of the vanguard army came to converge, and there were more than 20 people left in the team of dozens of people, but almost none of Ling Jingyang's subordinates died.
Dong Daqi and the four Ming troops were scattered by the people in the first wave of melee, and they did not fight with Li Daoli's subordinates, but half of Li Rufeng's subordinates died in the battle, and Li Rufeng's heart was very painful.
Li Daoli was also in pain and anger, Li Rufeng's subordinates were strong in combat, and they actually killed more than 20 subordinates in the melee, but they couldn't continue to fight with Li Rufeng, knocking out their teeth and swallowing them in their stomachs.
The people evacuated the people in the city, and Li Daoli also strengthened his defenses, and more than 100 shield soldiers protected him, and the assassins could no longer find a chance to assassinate him.
Before dawn, all the soldiers and civilians in the city withdrew to the outside of the city, and there was a rumor outside the city, and some people spread rumors in the crowd, saying that the imperial court soldiers and horses were about to recover Zhuozhou City, and they wanted to kill all the soldiers and civilians who surrendered to Dashun in the city, and some people said that it was Jiannu who entered the pass, and burned and plundered in the pass.
All kinds of gossip are full of the army and the people, Li Daoli spent a lot of energy, and finally let thousands of soldiers and civilians settle down, Ling Jingyang did not take his subordinates to cooperate with the defenders of Zhuozhou City, he hurriedly went to rescue the war horse, without the war horse, the group could not arrive in Baoding City in time, it was a capital crime to delay the army's trip.
After Li Daoli pacified the army and civilians, he found fifty war horses from his subordinates and gave them to Ling Jingyang, who only had more than 20 subordinates left, and he didn't need these more war horses.
Li Daoli had to let him bring it, Ling Jingyang refused so many war horses, and when the two were polite, Zhang Shun came with his subordinates, and he looked at Zhuozhou City incredulously, which was burned into ruins by a fire, and had lost its stronghold, and could not let the reinforcements rest here.
He came to Li Daoli, indicating that he was ordered by the right mighty general to come to clear the assassins from the capital to Baoding, Li Daoli raised his eyes and said, "Right mighty general? ”
Zhang Shun hurriedly told him that Li Daowei had been promoted to the right mighty general of the middle battalion, leading the soldiers and horses of the headquarters and the soldiers and horses of Zhuozhou City, Li Daoli had a trace of joy in his eyes, Li Daowei was his own brother, his brother was promoted, and of course his younger brother was happy.
He asked, "You came to Zhuozhou City to purge the assassins??" ”
"Lord Qiyu, General Li asked the last general to arrive in Zhuozhou City, and together with the adults' soldiers and horses, he cleared the assassins, and escorted General Zhang Ding to Baoding Mansion smoothly."
Li Daoli snorted coldly and scolded: "These damn assassins, they burned Zhuozhou City last night and tried to assassinate me, fortunately, Ling Sentinel always drew a knife to help, otherwise what you see today is my headless corpse." ”
He praised Ling Jingyang in front of Zhang Shun and gave Ling Jingyang face, Ling Jingyang bowed his head respectfully and said that this was what it should be, and Zhang Shun also hurriedly said that Ling Jingyang was just doing his duty.
Zhuozhou City was destroyed by fire, and the assassins were also lurking among the people, Ling Jingyang thought that Zhuozhou City was not safe, not only Zhuozhou City was not safe, but there might be assassins in the vicinity, and he suggested that after Li Daoli sent supplies to Li Daowei, let the army not stop, and go directly to Baoding City through Zhuozhou City.
"It's okay, Lao Tzu has been fighting on the battlefield for more than ten years, and it is the first time that he has been attacked by assassins, so if you don't cut these assassins, I'm really sorry for the brothers who died in the battle last night."
Li Daoli admired Ling Jingyang's spirit very much, and his skills were also good, so he mentioned it to Zhang Shun again, and Zhang Shun led the troops to Baoding Mansion to report, and asked Ling Jingyang to stay and eliminate the assassins with him.
Zhang Shun's face was embarrassed, although Li Daoli was Li Daowei's brother, but Ling Jingyang was ordered to go to Baoding Mansion, and he did not dare to change Ling Jingyang's military order on his own.
Ling Jingyang also didn't want to go to the front line of Baoding Mansion, there were more Dashun troops there, and there were many surrendered Ming troops, there would always be people who knew Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, it was better to fight the enemy with Li Daoli in the small city of Zhuozhou.
"I don't embarrass you, didn't my brother ask you to eliminate the assassins?"
Zhang Shun nodded hurriedly, Li Daoli waved his hand, and more than twenty subordinates walked out of the crowd.
These are all my subordinates, and if they have good legs, I will replenish the soldiers and horses to the chief of the sentinel, and let them go with the chief of the sentry to clear the assassins, and then go to Baoding Mansion to report, is this good? ”