Chapter 22: The Cavalry Strikes
Zhang Tianci left, and Xiao Feng was helped to the bed by Qiaoqiao in a daze. Xiao Feng opened his eyes, and a cute little girl in front of him was shaking and shaking, Xiao Feng smiled.
"Mengyu, did you fail the exam, I'm afraid that your mother will say you, and come to me to help you intercede?"
Qiaoqiao was very surprised, she didn't know who Mengyu was, she didn't know why she was taking the exam, and she didn't know why her mother wanted to talk about herself.
"No, Mengyu, didn't you grow up and go to college? Am I dreaming? ”
The panicked Qiaoqiao hurriedly ran away, found Qiaoniang over, and said that the master was talking nonsense. Qiao Niang knew that Xiao Feng was drunk, and he was very drunk.
In his previous life, Xiao Feng drank a lot of alcohol in order to do business, so he still drinks according to his old habits today. I can't imagine that this body is still a chick who has never drunk alcohol.
No matter how much you can drink, there is no one who is not drunk when you drink for the first time.
Qiao Niang hurriedly helped Xiao Feng to sit up and fed him sobering soup. It's not okay to lie down and feed, it's easy to choke to death if you don't do it, this kind of common sense, women are born without a teacher. Even Jin Lian asked Da Lang to drink medicine, and she knew to shout: "Da Lang, get up and drink medicine." ”
Xiao Feng suddenly, it seemed that he had finished negotiating another contract, and forcibly sent away the staggering customers, and returned to his home, only having time to say: "Wife, I'm back." "Just lying on the couch.
Then his wife would help him up and give him vinegar and all the sobering pills she had heard she could buy.
That's when he feels like it's all worth it.
Xiao Feng hugged his wife's waist in a daze: "Daughter-in-law, thank you, I miss you so much......"
Then he was thrown on the bed in a panic, and the soup was spilled, but he was already asleep, and he knew nothing.
Qiaoqiao found that after her mother came out of the medicine after feeding the master, her face was very red, and she was still very panicked, and she couldn't help but panic.
"Mother, is the master sick, you see he has been talking nonsense!"
Qiaoqiao never knew that people could get drunk like this, although Xiao Wannian never left his wine, but the amount of alcohol and wine were much better than Xiao Feng, and the most he could do when he was drunk was to practice knives in the yard and never talk nonsense. So she thought Xiao Feng was sick.
"Mother? What happened to you? ”
"Huh? Ah, it's okay, the old man is not sick, he is just drunk. Maybe it's another dream. ”
Qiao Niang was flustered, the old man was usually very decent, and he was never intentionally frivolous. Besides, he is so young, even if he has ideas, it is impossible for him to be a woman in her thirties. It is still possible to say that Qiaoqiao will grow up for a few more years......
Outside the city of Datong, Tatar soldiers were burning, killing and looting. Their killing and robbery were skillful, and the killings were basically old people and children, while the young and middle-aged people, both men and women, were bound up and taken prisoners, and were escorted by a small group of cavalry to retreat first.
Slaves, who were hard currency among the tribes, were strong male slaves and beautiful female slaves, both of whom were of considerable value and were as significant as the looted goods.
At this time, Dong Yang, the deputy commander of the border city of Datong, looked far away, but could only see the occasional column of smoke, and could not see where the enemy was. He gritted his teeth empty, but he did not dare to go out of the city to save the people.
Naturally, the outside of the city are all civilians, and the rich people will not live outside the city, they are all inside Datong City. If they are more successful and have more money, they will move closer to the capital. Those civilians, knowing that they could be captured by the raiding Tatars at any time outside the city, had to live hard.
Here, after all, there are no taxes to pay, and there is even free land. This was all exchanged for their lives by the imperial court. Leave here, and they will become beggars and outcasts. Therefore, they gambled with their lives, betting that the Tatars would not come, betting that they would be able to hide in the city or in the mountains in time when the Tatars arrived.
Of course, most of the time, they can win a bet, but if they lose once, they are finished. Or die on the spot, or become a slave, in fact, it may be better to die on the spot.
Seven days ago, Dong Yang followed Jiang Han out of the city once, trying to protect more people from entering the city. But they were ambushed, and Jiang Han saw that he had no hope of breaking through, so he ordered Dong Yang, who still had a chance to retreat, to lead his troops back to the city and hold out.
The conscience of heaven and earth is not that the soldiers are not desperate, but there are too few cavalry, and the infantry fights the cavalry, that is, they fill with their lives.
There were more than 100 muskets issued by the Shenji Battalion, but that thing could only be fired once, and it was too late to hit a second shot when facing the cavalry of the brigade, that is, it played a role in deterring the other party. If Datong's cavalry could be the same as the Tatars, this account would not be so bad!
A group of people was desperately running towards the city gate, and they were the third group. Before, they had hidden in the surrounding mountains, but now that the Tatars had taken control of the perimeter, they began to search the mountains, and some of the people were frightened and descended from various paths, hoping to storm into the city.
There was no shadow of Tatar cavalry behind the people, but this does not tell the story. The human eye is limited, and even the best lookout can only see a few miles away. And a few miles is almost a blink of an eye distance for cavalry.
The captain of the City Gate team was looking at Dong Yang, waiting for his decision. Dong Yang understood that if the city gate was to be opened, the cavalry must be ready to charge. The city gate is opened, and if the enemy rushes over, the cavalry must go out to resist and slow down the enemy's speed, so as to cooperate with the artillery bows and crossbows on the city wall to defend the city and ensure that the city gate has time to close.
But that also meant that the cavalry leaving the city could be wiped out. The gates will not be opened again unless the enemy retreats.
Dong Yang smiled, revealing two big tiger teeth: "Herald, go and inform the chief soldier, just say that Dong Yang led the cavalry out of the city." "Jiang Han is dead, he is the supreme commander of this border city. The commander-in-chief did not give the order that the whole army was not allowed to leave the city, and he had the right to make his own judgment.
The border city is the auxiliary of the main city, and the commanders who can guard the border city are basically the henchmen of the general army, and they have a certain tacit understanding with the general army. But he had to tell the chief soldier that if he couldn't come back, he had to send someone to take his place at once.
Dong Yang began to put on his armor, got on his horse, and carried a big knife. He thought about it for a while, and hung the waist knife that Jiang Han gave him on his body. Usually he doesn't carry a waist knife, he thinks that the cavalry rushes into battle, and the big knife is lost, what is the use of a waist knife. Jiang Han gave him a handful, but he didn't want to take it.
But the day before yesterday, he saw that Jiang Han's big knife was knocked out, and the horse was also knocked down. Jiang Han stood on the ground like that, and several Tatars who wanted to capture him alive were hacked to death by him with his waist knife. Finally his leg was pierced by the spear, and when he fell to the ground, he slashed his waist knife across his neck and laughed wildly.
It turns out that this is how the waist knife is used. Dong Yang was thinking of this sentence at the moment he fled, and he didn't know why. When his old friend died in front of him, he didn't shed a single tear, and he didn't even feel too sad.
Behind him the 1,000 cavalrymen, all in armor, had finished marching in the city gates. The soldiers on the lookout at the head of the city shouted: "The people still have five hundred paces, and there are no Tatar cavalry in the distance!" ”
Dong Yang raised the big knife and pointed in the direction outside the city gate.
"Open the door! Cavalry strikes! ”