Chapter 261 Dilemma

"Good knife, good knife!" An Yunao's eyes were shining, and he couldn't put it down, holding Yang Zuo's knife and looking at it over and over again, his mouth full of praise.

An Yunao is a nobleman who is a beneficiary, of course, he knows Chinese characters, and he can recognize the word "luxury" at a glance when the blade is close to the inscription of the sword. "Where's the head?" The love of the martial nation for the blade of the divine soldier is engraved into the bones, An Yunao asked in his mouth, and his eyes still did not leave the knife.

"The man was a warrior who was seriously wounded and killed two brothers in a row...... So we didn't cut the head. Miao Bing replied, while looking at Leader An worriedly, and then turned his gaze to the knife, and regretted his momentary brain short-circuit: Whatever it is, wouldn't it be good to take it for yourself first, this is good, nine times out of ten, Leader An also took a fancy to this treasure knife!

"Stop! Wait and light the fire later, and drag the corpse out. Hearing this, An Yunao raised his head sharply and said hurriedly, and then hurriedly added, "This is a knife of extravagance." It is impossible for the extravagant rebel to guard the watchtower by himself, and the thief said that it is not good that he is his son and nephew, and he should be one of the rebels, so drag the body over! ”

Noticing Miao Bing's depressed appearance, An Yunao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Don't be sad, don't talk about you, even the general, even our commander can't keep this knife." The knife of the head of the rebellion and the golden seal of the flag must be sent to the emperor of the Ming Kingdom in Beijing to report the victory, and no one can keep it. Ben will reward you with twenty taels of silver first, your luck has arrived, if you really beheaded which one of the rebels, you will wait for the future to splash the sky and be rich! Ben will still be able to get some light. ”

As he spoke, Yang Zuo's body was carried over. An Yunao was a little confused: "Are you sure it's him?" ”

"Of course it's him! The hole in your heart after you look at it didn't give me a shot! Hearing that there were twenty taels of silver, Miao Bing was immediately happy, but when An Yunao asked like this, he immediately became nervous again, thinking that Couldn't it be that Leader An wanted to deduct the silver back for an excuse? felt aggrieved in his heart, and hurriedly argued in his mouth.

"This is a little difficult...... An Yunao didn't look up, he looked down at Yang Zuo's face, "Dressing up is indeed a seedling, and there is no doubt that the hands and feet are seedlings, but that face is clearly the face of a Han person!" When the head is cut off, which one dares to say that this is a rebellious nephew? Of course An Yunao has heard of Yang Zuo, but "if it is not my race, its heart must be different" is the ghost of the Han people, and the simple Miao people in the Yongning army regard it as a member of their own clan, and not many people will deliberately emphasize his bloodline - it is too normal for Miao people to take a Han surname, so except for those who have seen me, no one knows that the famous Miao general Yang Zuo is actually of Han blood.

In this era when there were no cameras, identification was a big problem: wanted criminals in important Han towns often had the term "picture drawing", and the painter only sketched the main characteristics of the suspect according to the description of the person concerned (such as where there is a mole and where there is a scar, etc.), as for whether it looks like it...... Have you seen ancient figure paintings? Is there anyone who looks like that, you yourself say - you know, what you can see is often Tang Bohu's "Lady Picture" kind of famous masterpieces, the famous Tang Yin can paint people like that, ordinary painters can draw according to the description of others, you can figure it out yourself! Even the waist card of the forbidden army in Gyeonggi can only describe the appearance with words such as "yellow face and few beards" for checking. The identification of officials and dignitaries is mainly supported by the seals they carry, such as the "micro-service private interview" of senior officials who like to talk about few real things in the story: pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger was deliberately arrested by a corrupt official, and then openly took out the official seal in the county hall and roared "Take this dog material down to the official", the greedy county official was so frightened on the spot that the onlookers knelt down with tears and tears to thank Lord Qingtian...... As for ordinary people, etc., it can only be identified by familiar people.

The guys in the watchtower must know who this is. However, the thieves on the first and second floors are all dead. An Yunao stopped the arson, and picked some good subordinates to go up to the second floor to guard and want to capture a few prisoners for interrogation. After waiting for a long time, the people above just didn't come down, and the thick hardwood cover was pressed by the big stone or something, and the bottom couldn't be opened. Isn't it just taking advantage of the extravagance to appear incompetent? Leader An decided to throw the problem of identifying himself to Sun Jie - the knife was there anyway, and whether he could see the corpse or not, he would always be a rebel! So he ordered someone to transport the knife back to Sun Jie's camp in the rear along with Yang Zuo's body, and then continued to prepare for arson.

If this job is today, any middle school student can do more with half the effort - boys have played the game of small basins and firecrackers: as long as there are no gaps, a small firecracker can blow up the metal basin buckled on it a few feet high, isn't this building an enlarged version? Only need to transport one or two hundred catties of gunpowder into it, block several windows to create a closed space, and half of the watchtower can fly into the sky when it is blown up. It's a pity that in this era, the principle of the explosion, including Sun Jie, doesn't understand, let alone An Yunao, everyone believes that saltpeter pure yang is dry and fierce next to this set of yin and yang five elements. Explosion of a gunpowder pack...... Well, in fact, it is a deflagration that burns much faster than ordinary wood, and the power is much smaller than that of a "real explosion".

Since the enemy above couldn't survive or die, An Yunao began to pile firewood on the second floor, and in order to help burn, he also stuffed a lot of gunpowder bags - sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal, these things are not valuable, Liu Tieniu brought a lot, and there are ...... in the army The fire was lit, and everyone watched the excitement from a safe distance. Unexpectedly, I just saw a red light coming out of the window, a few loud noises, a lot of black smoke came out, and the fire was extinguished again! Leader An was stunned, and thought that the enemy used some demon method, but in the end, Liu Tieniu looked out of the doorway, so the artillery commander, who didn't understand the principle of explosion at all, was ashamed to give a lesson to An Yunao, who was even more black-eyed: "General An, your people are piling firewood on the gunpowder pack, right?" That's not going to blow out the fire! Pile up the firewood and sprinkle it with gunpowder, so that it will be good to burn......"

At this moment, the Miao soldiers upstairs heard such a big movement below, and they were even afraid of burning and exploding, so they opened the floor and rushed down. Fortunately, when An Yunao's soldiers went to the building to transport firewood, they thought that the door of the building was too obstructive and simply demolished, otherwise if they closed it from the inside again, would they have to toss it again from the beginning? Seeing that there was movement in the building, the Abe soldiers swarmed up again, and the fried cans and oil cans were thrown into the door hole and bombed indiscriminately, and the defenders who were not killed on the spot ran back to the building again, and the head of Anbu continued to direct people to stuff firewood into the building and sprinkle gunpowder...... Busy until the sky was dark, the watchtower was finally burned into a big torch by An Liu and the two.

It took a whole day to completely uproot this watchtower. However, it was much stronger than the first time: more than a dozen people were slightly injured, and only one died: two were hacked to death by Yang Zuo, and the other was stabbed down by the Miao soldiers who rushed down for the second time, and he also beheaded a big leader of the rebels. An Yunao is full of confidence, the experience of defeating the enemy is all exchanged for blood and human life, and the exchange ratio between the enemy and us has increased from twenty to one to one, and only then did he fight two battles! As long as you are careful in the future, this kind of battle is no more dangerous than hunting in the mountains! Sure enough, the battles in the next few days confirmed Leader An's judgment.

During the day, watching the black smoke rising from the distant mountains and the flickering fires in the night getting closer and closer, and the rumbling cannons with the echoes of the mountains becoming clearer and clearer, Yu Chongming had a premonition that something was wrong.

He knew that those pillars of smoke were one after another sturdy watchtowers that he had placed great hopes on and that he had thought that sooner or later Sun Jie's teeth would collapse; But he didn't know how these watchtowers could have fallen at an incredible rate, two or three a day, and even turned into torches that lit up the night sky. He knew that this speed meant that the Ming army did not suffer any losses in attacking the watchtower, and what shocked him the most was the news he had just received: Sun Jie's Han army did not participate in the battle to attack the watchtower - such a miraculous victory was actually the result of An Yunao's group of Zhenxiong miscellaneous soldiers!

Whether it is An Yunao or Zhenxiong's rabble, Luxury Chongming has never paid attention to it, and King Luxury believes that even if the strength is twice as large as his own, he will never be able to stop a charge from the Yongning Army - how did this group of waste wood suddenly become so powerful?

Two days ago, the watchtower guarded by Yang Zuo, the farthest away from Jidou Village, was lost that night, and Yu Chongming woke up for no reason, and he seemed to see a faint red light in the sky in the dark mountain night. Although the people around him said that they couldn't see it, Hao Chongming still sent five reconnaissance teams one after another...... However, these people were like mud cows into the sea, and it was only when two of them escaped back with their wounds, bringing him the almost unbelievable bad news.

This team is the largest, there are eight in total, and they are all good hunters. According to those who fled back, after setting off for more than half a day, when it was estimated that they would have climbed over two or three more hills and almost approached the hidden piles of the Ming army, the captain divided everyone into two groups, the front and back, and touched forward separately. Not long after the first group left, the second group, which was resting, heard the screams and fights of their companions not far in front, that is, the time of a cup of tea, and everything fell silent - obviously, the Ming army also sent a vigilant team, and the ambush range was much larger than expected, not only the number of people was overwhelming, but they were also experienced hunters, so they could make the companions of the first group step into the ambush circle unguarded and were caught off guard. Because the most important task is to spy on the military situation, there must be at least a dozen or more people on the other side to listen to the movement, and it is in vain for four people to rush over, and the captain gestures to order everyone to hide well, and wait for the night to touch it while it is dark.

When the sky was completely dark, several people crept forward, and deliberately avoided the mountain road that the other party must have set up an ambush, and it was estimated that they had crossed the Ming army's cordon and were about to breathe a sigh of relief, when someone stepped on the iron clamp of the beast. With the scream of the shin being pinched, dozens or hundreds of torches were lit up one after another, and everyone found that there was more than one warning ring of the Ming army! On the way to escape, the captain stepped on the thistle, so he simply shouted and attracted most of the ambush soldiers, until he was hacked to death with a knife. Fortunately, it was dark night, and the two survivors fought hard to get into the depths of the dense forest with one or two bamboo arrows each, and finally picked up half a life...... The next day, when they hid on the hill during the day, they saw the shocking tactics of the Ming army using artillery to lift the top of the bomb canister to clear the field and finally pile up the firewood to burn the building, and also recognized that most of the attacking troops were Zhenxiong native soldiers.

The shock in Luxe Chongming's heart was much greater than that of An Bangyan and others: others were just shocked that An Yunao's combat strength seemed to have skyrocketed overnight and the watchtowers were vulnerable, but Luxury Chongming, who had rich battlefield experience, thought further: according to the accounts of the scouts who escaped, the four people in the first group were all hacked and killed before they could confess, and the captain who was limp and couldn't escape also didn't leave a mouth...... An Yunao obviously didn't plan to arrest any prisoners for interrogation at all! Even disdainful of such things as interrogating the enemy only means that the Ming army has already considered itself a sure victory, and is steadily pushing the battle line towards itself according to the predetermined plan, until it launches a thunderous blow that will determine the outcome of the first battle!