Chapter 9: The First Murder After the Crossing
"Goo, wooo......"
Niu Chengzhong's subordinates, facing the end of the road, imitated birdsong of different lengths.
In the gap in the battlement, the lanterns of the night watchmen flickered, but there was no strange sound.
The fortress still resembles a giant beast napping on its stomach.
But in a moment, there was a stirring movement on the road under the city wall, followed by a few strange frog chirpings.
"Young master, our people have come in." Niu Chengzhong's subordinates couldn't hide their excitement.
Niu Chengzhong let out a heavy "um" and stepped forward to open the door.
Several black shadows quickly approached, and one of them rushed to Niu Chengzhong.
He knelt down on one knee and solemnly reported: "Young master, there are fifty brothers all the way to the city here, and the other thirty brothers have been lying on the other side of the waterway. ”
Niu Chengzhong helped him up, patted him on the shoulder, and motioned for him to lead the team from the door to assemble in the direction of the firewood house and the livestock shed, and then said to Huang Zunsu: "After the people and horses pass, I will send my relatives to take you along this road to the bottom of the city wall, where there are ropes, you have no climbing skills, my people will carry you over the city wall, you walk along the ditch to a mass grave, go straight to the southeast direction around the mass grave, and you can find the official road to Qiandun Town." Mr. Huang heard ......"
Before Niu Chengzhong could say the last sentence, a heart-rending howl suddenly came from not far away.
"Qiu Da is in charge, someone is attacking at night! The western forts, the enemy is in the western forts! ”
Niu Chengzhong shook his shoulder and rushed out of the door.
I saw that on the city wall in front of me, the bandits who were keeping vigil on the left and right of the city wall were shouting and surrounding.
Immediately, with the sound of "whooshing" bows and arrows, the bandits rushing ahead let out a scream of "ah".
But in the bandit barracks across a vegetable field from Yongdao, more bandits were awakened, and Ding Ling grabbed his knife and gun and got out of the house.
In an instant, the end of the road under the city wall was already in pieces.
Niu Chengzhong turned around and said to Huang Zunsu urgently: "This passage is abandoned, you take the two girls to avoid near the stove room first." I will take people to block Qiu Wanliang, and at that time, the bandits from all over the country will definitely gather at his house, and you may take advantage of the chaos to go out through the main gate. ”
Huang Zunsu also changed his style of scribe at this time, scooped up the hem of his robe, tied it around his waist, and asked Niu Chengzhong bluntly: "Can General Niu give Huang a short blade?" ”
Zheng Haizhu Yihao leaned in unambiguously and said, "I want it too." ”
Niu Chengzhong and Huang Zunsu looked at her at the same time, and they both sighed secretly in their hearts, this pair of masters and servants is indeed unusual, the young lady has no weakness, and the maid is even more brave and heroic with some calves.
Niu Chengzhong asked his subordinates to give Huang Zunsu a scimitar.
"Mr. Huang, this knife is held horizontally, and it cuts the enemy's throat the deepest when defending against the enemy."
He himself took out a short blade from his waist that was not so much a knife as a chisel, and handed it to Zheng Haizhu: "Girl, this knife is only an inch at the tip of the blade, and it is not easy to hurt yourself if you hold it improperly." If you are restrained by a bandit, stab him like a hairpin. ”
Zheng Haizhu took it and tucked it in a narrow sleeve pocket, which was quite obedient and safe.
Before she could say the word "Xie", Niu Chengzhong had already picked up the spear in his backhand, led the first batch of assembled soldiers, and rushed out of the stove room, while concisely stating the layout of the village and the distribution of troops.
The silver spear flickered, and the back was far away.
Zheng Haizhu listened to Niu Chengzhong's pronunciation of "reckless", "reckless", and "攮", as well as the unique tone of the responses of his subordinate soldiers, and couldn't help but think about it.
As a descendant, she is very sure that this self-proclaimed general Niu of the imperial court to suppress bandits is speaking in the Sichuan and Shu areas.
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Holding a scimitar, Huang Zunsu approached the bandit guard who had been knocked unconscious earlier, and after confirming that he was still unconscious, he found the key on the ground and locked the door of the livestock shed.
Outside, the fire was already bright, the sound of killing shook the sky, the blades slammed together, and the sharp and piercing sound pierced the night sky. Faintly, I could hear the cries of women and children, from the families of the bandits.
There are more than 400 young and strong people in the bandit village, which is equivalent to the population of soldiers owned by a "general" in the Beijing camp or border army in the Ming Dynasty, and there are bandit leaders like Qiu Wanliang, how can they be easily defeated.
Huang Zunsu blew out the oil lamp, dragged a ladder, slammed onto the roof of the stove room, and hid behind the chimney to watch.
After a while, he climbed down and said to Han Ximeng and Zheng Haizhu: "The gate of the stockade is open, but no officials and soldiers rush in, only the scattered bandit families run out, let's go." ”
The three of them rushed out, first stunned by the scene of blazing flames and swords, and then caught the bandit family members who had no weapons in their hands and fled for their lives. The three of them hurriedly left the shadows of the earthen hut and withdrew in the direction of the women's and children's procession.
Unexpectedly, when he just ran to the nearest stable, the one-eyed bandit Xu Aliu was riding his horse out, and before he could speed up, he saw Han Ximeng and Zheng Haizhu at a glance.
"Did Niu Chengzhong let you out? Lao Tzu hacked you to death first. ”
In the firelight, Xu Aliu's face was hideous, and he raised a bright and dangling splash knife, and condescendingly slashed at the back of Han Ximeng's neck.
Huang Zunsu, who had always been watching over the two women and had not taken a few steps away, as a scholar, when he arrived at this fateful moment, he was as agile as the Yuan Shen was powerful, he opened his eyes angrily, rushed up in an instant, and raised his arms.
With a "bang", the scimitar belly given by Niu Chengzhong was blocking Xu Aliu's splashing blade.
Han Ximeng was not stupid enough to freeze in place and fled like a rabbit.
Zheng Haizhu looked at it intently, and saw that Huang Zunsu's shoulders were trembling, his body was shaking, and he obviously had no fighting skills, only because he instinctively held the knife with both hands, and the grip strength was doubled, and the scimitar did not fall to the ground under the huge impact of the opponent's weapon.
Xu Aliu was stunned, and only then did he see that it was the stinky jinshi who was tied up to exchange money.
He flicked the reins of the horse, turned the horse's head, and this time aimed at Huang Zunsu.
I didn't think about it, just leaning over to the left, and before the knife flower was picked up, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in the right thigh.
Xu Aliu hissed miserably, and when he looked back, it was the maid of the Han family, who stumbled away from the horse's neck, and a short blade like an iron chisel in his hand, the tip of which was covered by blood, leaving only a piece of silver near the handle.
Damn, these two seedlings actually have something to do, and they dare to come up and fight hard!
"One-eyed dragon, my family has practiced medicine for generations, and I will not lose my head. I pierced the big blood in your legs, and the more you move, the faster you die! ”
Zheng Haizhu confronted the bandits.
She just slashed at the inside of Xu Aliu's front leg according to her common sense of human structure, and she was not sure whether she had really cut the artery.
She only knew that where people could run over horses, there was no way back in a short time, and the thought of "dying again and crossing again" lingered in her mind, and a fierce spirit emerged from her body.
The rabbit still has three points of bravery, and the courage of the rabbit makes Zheng Haizhu stab without hesitation.
Xu Aliu was stunned in pain and anger, and the other thigh was slashed by Huang Zunsu, who pounced on him.
In a hurry, he changed the knife to his left hand, waved it to protect the lower half of his body, and touched his right leg with his right hand, and sure enough, hot blood gushed out, which was by no means an ordinary external injury.
This bandit thought that he would be able to easily take the lives of a few seedlings in a moment, but he never thought that the boat would capsize in the gutter.
Xu Aliu's mind was a little blank for a while, until he heard the howl of his eldest brother Qiu Wanliang on the stone road behind him.
"Ah Liu, come and pick me up!"