One hundred and forty-nine chapters

Sun Jie also looked stupid.

On the way to lead Ma Qiancheng to Nanjin Pass, I was still thinking about it, surveying the terrain of the battlefield, and bringing a few generals, can I bring thousands of subordinates? But the eldest brother came all the way to help him, and he was someone else's own soldier, so he couldn't bear it. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the gate, Brother Ma raised his head and glanced at the gate a few times, and with a wave of his hand, there was a bang, and these white-pole brothers rushed up with a roar!

There were no battlefield preparations, no siege equipment, no division of labor...... Even, there was not even the indispensable pre-war "full meal", just like that, just like that, just rushed up in a daze!

And then there is the rain of arrows, and the walls are full of people!

And then ...... It was less than half an hour before the full battle, and the door was opened from the inside - the Nanjin Pass, which had been blocked for more than half a year, was broken like this!

Sun Jie, who looked like he was in a dream, almost pinched himself to verify it, and hurriedly asked the guards to gallop back to the south to give an order: the army should urgently assemble and immediately enter the pass to prevent Zhang Hu from counterattacking by Baoning! Although he gave the order and had full confidence in his troops, Sun Jie knew very well in his heart that it would be impossible without more than half an hour - it would take a long time for a few battalions scattered in the southern county town to assemble, put on armor, and form a whole team, and then drive over, maybe it would take more than an hour, after all, he wore dozens of catties of iron, and he couldn't run if he wanted to!

What can I do during this time? Baoning and Nanjin Pass are only separated by the Jialing River, no one knows whether the thieves have built a pontoon bridge, in case there is a bridge, Zhang thieves come to counterattack, Brother Ma has just fought a group of brothers can withstand the strength of the reinforcements? Thinking of this, Sun Jie gritted his teeth secretly: Let's fight, it's really not good, let yourself and the guards guard the gate, and let Erlei snatch the eldest brother back to the camp no matter what......

Unexpectedly, following Brother Ma to the wall, the situation in front of him once again made the young chief officer stupid on the spot for the second time in just one hour!

There really is an improvised pontoon bridge in the river: dozens of small boats are connected horizontally, with wooden planks on them. However, the deserters of Nanjin Pass have cut the ropes on the other side, and the south side of their side is still tied to the shore, and the section near the north side of Baoning has been washed up by the river to the center of the river - Zhang Thief's possible counterattack is obviously not to worry.

What surprised Sun Jie was not the pontoon bridge, but the group of white pole soldiers of Ma Qiancheng: at this moment, half of them were already in the river, screaming and carrying floats and sinking!

Oh well, to be exact, they are forcibly crossing the Jialing River!

I saw that the white-pole soldiers on the shore tacitly arranged their spears on the ground one by one, put more than a dozen of them, and pierced each of them with two spears from the intervals of the iron rings, and the spears and hooks of each other bit the iron rings, and tied a few hemp ropes to the joints, and then set up a boxy shelf. Then he took off the rattan armor wrapped around his body and spread it on the shelf, threw a few rattan cards, and a raft was set up in front of him - not even time for a cup of tea! Immediately a few people dragged the raft into the river, each raft with a few three or four people, more than five or six people, except for one person standing on the raft with a few foot bows - the bowstring must be absolutely waterproof, otherwise it will be wasted - everyone else is lying on both sides and paddling with their hands, and those with good water nature simply jump directly into the river, while swimming in the water, while pushing the raft to force the crossing!

Because the broken pontoon bridge was floating in the river, the white pole soldiers were crossing the river in the west. Some rafts were washed up by the turbulent river and leaned against the pontoon bridge, seeing that they would not be able to cross for a while, the white-pole soldiers in the water and on the raft simply worked together to drag the boat, and it seemed that they were going to re-build the pontoon bridge - well, at this time, it was not Sun Jie who should worry about the other party's rapid deployment of troops through the pontoon bridge, but Zhang Hu!

The sparse feathered arrows shot at the opposite city were ignored by the white-pole soldiers, of course, at best, there were dozens of archers, and the killing effect was extremely limited.

Boryeong City is already in turmoil. Needless to say, Wu Dazhuang, who had just been stabbed to death, even Sun Jie, who had been in battle for a long time, was overwhelmed by the scene in front of him, not to mention the ordinary soldiers on the wall of Baoning - such a siege method, such a forcible crossing method, not to mention that everyone has never seen it, it is simply unheard of!

Fortunately, the city gate official was more clever, and when he found that the situation was wrong, he immediately closed the city gate, and locked the Nanjin Pass guards who ran behind and didn't have time to escape back to the city......

However, there is one thing that the city gate officer obviously does not know: when the white pole soldiers enter the city, they almost never have to go through the city gate!

Hearing that there was a strong enemy in Shaanxi, Fang Ge brought two battalions stationed at Tieshan Pass and Liangshan Pass to guard the nest of Lizhou Wei a few days ago. Because a Nanjin Pass blocked Sun Jie for more than half a year, and there were people in Baoning City, the 8,000 auxiliary soldiers who had just been reorganized, Zhang Hu also asked Fang Ge to take away 5,000, and now stationed in Baoning are 1,500 soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers from Zhang Hu's headquarters. The four battalions of Zhang Hu's headquarters totaled 2,000 people, and one battalion and 1,000 auxiliaries in Nanjin Guanfang - there was no need to count on it at this time.

Hearing that there was a large group of mountain ghost-like guys who appeared out of nowhere crossing the river and climbing the wall, Zhang Hu ordered the war auxiliaries scattered in the city to gather urgently, and he and Niu Youtian ran to the south wall in a hurry, and they didn't even have time to put on their armor. Panting and rushing to the head of the city, he bumped into Wang Biao and Li Song, who were in charge of the defense of Nanjin Pass, - probably not adapted to the hot environment of Sichuan, Wang Biao has been sick and crooked for a while, Li Song accompanied him into the city to see Langzhong, but at this time, the dog officers and soldiers invited a group of mountain spirits and wild monsters from somewhere to fight!

Li Song took off a few iron helmets from the heads of the recruits guarding the wall, and after a few people went on top, they braved the wall to shoot more and more dense feather arrows to look at them, and saw despair in each other's eyes - most of the soldiers and auxiliaries were scattered in the Langzhong City of Nuoda, and there were everywhere in the southeast, northwest, and north, and it was not only impossible to complete the assembly of armor for a while, but it was also impossible to restore the system! In this era, the reason why the imperial court clearly stipulated that all officers and soldiers were not allowed to enter the city unless it was urgently necessary and there was a formal order from a higher civil official, and the violators were guilty of rebellion: at this time, the scale of the city was limited, there could be no large open space such as modern squares and parks, and the roads were also very narrow, and the troops entering the city had no place to live unless they were scattered in the homes of the people! And scattered in the homes of the people—remember, one of the main sources of the army was the exiles who were recruited into the army, and the others were not necessarily good people—and thousands of such fellows poured in and scattered everywhere...... There is a high probability, there is no need to wait for the enemy to attack, this city is almost unwanted!

Many of Zhang Hu's subordinates followed him into exile for thousands of miles and died for a lifetime, and when he was a border army before, he didn't even enter the small broken county town of Biansai, so it was easy to run to the bustling mansion, where would he let go of such an opportunity to enjoy happiness? Not to mention ordinary soldiers, in a hurry, even the officers didn't know where to do anything lacking morality, how could they assemble and prepare for war? And at this time, the expectations of the people are also unbelievably low - you must know that the grandfather carried a three-foot sword to drive out the Tartars, and the troops under his command killed people and set fires, and robbed and raped the same! What did the grandfather who loves the people like a son do? Grandpa Tai gave three orders: no arson, no murder for no reason (emphasis added), women who were robbed of the camp, and separation of married and unmarried - after a few days (continue to focus on it), those who have husbands and family members can be taken back, and what should I do if no one receives them...... Well, Grandpa Tai didn't say it, you can do it yourself, you know!

This kind of "benevolent government" has won the heartfelt gratitude of all the people in the occupied areas!

Run, there is no other choice, you may not be able to run away if you delay it for a while! In the distance, people were already rushing up from the city walls, and the terrified defenders were not so much blocking as covering themselves, and everyone was using all their strength to delay the inevitable death.

Zhang Hu and Niu Youtian and other backbones are all from the horse team, the horse is ready-made, in the chaos, several people got on the horse, and went straight out of the north gate under the escort of each person's personal guard. Cangxi is a small county town and can't defend it, first run there to rectify the escaped soldiers, and then continue to go north to find Fang Ge to meet and then make plans - it's just that I don't know if Fang Ge can block the strong enemy in the north, in case of defeat, the dog officers and soldiers will attack from the north and south, then it will be all over!

The ravaged people of Boryeong City were already numb. Every day, the kings who lived in their homes were carefully served, and day and night, as long as the kings were in the mood, they would drag their ladies into the house—at first the women would struggle to dodge, and after a long time, they knew that nothing could be changed except for a beating, or that their husbands and children would take their lives in vain, and as long as the kings signaled, they would obediently go in on their own...... When these two or two or three kings are tired of living and leave, there will be kings who are tired of living in other places to move in...... Days like this seem to be endless. The only good thing is to distribute grain, and the kings will go out every few days, and sometimes they will even take the people to the grain depot to get some rice and beans, and wait for them to eat, there will always be some left in the pot, and they will be able to eat most of the full.

However, hearing the cries and shouts of killing from all over the city, the people once again fell into boundless fear: although they had been humiliated, they had gradually become accustomed to such a life that was humiliating than ants. The old kings have run away, and the new kings don't know what means they are going to use to vent their desires to themselves! The people have summed up the experience: the most terrible thing is that when the city was first breached, the soldiers who killed the red-eyed soldiers had just escaped death, and some of them had lost their relatives and friends forever not long ago, and they would regard all struggles, even symbolic hiding, as a threat, and would not hesitate to eliminate them with bloodstained steel knives in their hands! Only when they slowly calm down from the madness of excitement, anger, and fear can they regain half their lives, and then it will be another cycle of miserable life.

The people huddled at home finally saw the white-pole soldiers through the cracks in the windows: dark skin, lean, short but powerful figures, sunken eyes, bloodstains on their bodies, strangely shaped weapons in their hands, and completely incomprehensible language...... The fear that came up from the bottom of their hearts almost crushed them to complete collapse.

However, the people were wrong. Although in real history, "freezing to death without demolishing houses, starving to death without looting" is just a myth, the military discipline of the white pole soldiers does have a considerable reputation. Well, to be exact, it's just that for the people, they didn't do less to grab supplies and water with friendly troops, fight for water or something, and they didn't do less - it was Qin Liangyu, according to the military book of the marriage, who formulated relatively strict military discipline for the white pole soldiers, which was stronger than almost all the regular armies of the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Jie changed the order from guarding the pass to entering the city, and an hour later his troops finally stepped on the pontoon bridge that had just been repaired by the brothers of the white pole soldiers and drove into Boryeong City. Ma Qiancheng patted Sun Jie on the shoulder: "Brother, come on to clean up the bandits, brother, my people can't speak a few words of Chinese, they only know that the enemy wearing armor and holding a knife on the opposite side of the battlefield is indistinguishable among the people." ”

Sun Jie clenched his fists heavily: "Okay, big brother." You take the brothers to rest first, and then let's drink! ”

Sun Jie knew that he had ushered in a bumper harvest: occupying the city so quickly, Zhang Thief had no time to take away the food and the arsenal materials that the soldiers regarded as their second life, well, and the treasury silver.

When order was slowly restored in the city, Sun Jie and Ma Qiancheng came to the treasury side by side, and the young chief military officer said to his eldest brother Ma sincerely: "Big brother, don't be polite to your brothers, the grain, silver, and armament are all here, you teach the brothers to take them." ”

Ma Qiancheng smiled: "Okay." I'll take some grain, I'll take 30,000 taels of silver, one hundred taels for each brother who died in battle, and three or five taels for the others. Don't be polite to your brother, I'll take some pig iron bowstrings in the arsenal, and I can't use anything else, your weapons brother's soldiers won't use it, and the iron armor is even more cumbersome, and it's convenient to climb the mountain or my brother's rattan armor. ”

Sun Jie was moved again, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, Ma Qiancheng slammed his fist on the shoulder again: "It's still the same sentence, where can the word brother only be said in his mouth!" Brother is a good man who stands up to the sky, don't do this! Last night's drink was not enjoyable, let's do it again tonight. The military situation is like fire, tomorrow you go to chase the thief, and my brother goes home. Wait for you to kill the thief, come to my brother and have a drink! ”

Sun Jie nodded: "I'll allocate a thousand auxiliary soldiers to my brother to transport food." ”

Ma Qiancheng waved his hand: "No need, no need!" You don't see that my brother is a little smaller than your Han soldiers, but he climbs mountains and mountains, and his endurance is very good. Then he lowered his voice and whispered in Sun Jie's ear, "You don't know, back then, when Pingbanzhou was in turmoil, your sister-in-law's five hundred dowry soldiers were 'wrapped in grain' - her loyal soldiers could carry grain when they fought in battle, and if the soldiers of her brother's family moved grain to their own house, they couldn't bear it, wouldn't she be laughed to death!" Hahahaha. ”

That being said, Zhang Hu and the others all ran from the official road, and more than 200 large and small ships anchored on the outskirts of the city were all captured by Sun Jie, and the next day, Sun Jie still forcibly gave Ma Qian dozens of ships.

What neither of them expected was that as soon as Boryeong parted, the brothers became forever. Ma Qiancheng was falsely accused of rebellion soon after, and Sun Jie's good future was almost ruined.

The reason for this is because of this great victory!

Off topic. Soon after, in Boryeong, which had slowly restored order and vitality, another monstrous tragedy quietly occurred one after another: for several months, all the babies born in Boryeong Province were drowned by their families, and none of them were spared. Because, they are all "thieves". Some of them happened right under the nose of the government, but no one cared about it: this kind of behavior was the unanimous consensus of the government and the people in this era, and it was not changed until the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations - in the Manchu Dynasty, women who became humiliated must commit suicide! Omit a few words!