29. Kill devils
Let's go back to the night before, and talk about the sea side again.
Not to mention that the dwarf devils are all pigs, how do they know that when the villagers of Xiaolizhuang hid in the mountains, some people had already gone to Tonghai County to ask for help.
Li Aniu, a young man who ran very fast, braved the heavy rain, stepped on the muddy road, and spent nearly an hour to reach the gate of Tonghai City.
The city gate had long since been closed, and there was not a single person on the city wall except for the two sleepy guards in the cave of the city gate. If the dwarves come over at this time, Tonghai will not have any defensive ability at all, and according to the characteristics of the dwarves, it is inevitable to slaughter the city.
Li Aniu's family lives not far from the ancestral hall, and as soon as he shouted, Aniu went to the mountains with his mother on his back, and the clan elder knew that this nephew was a tendon, an only son, and a strong body, and it was best to send letters, and he could quickly call for rescue when he was far from danger.
Ah Niu kept pounding the city gates, and at the same time shouted loudly, the pirates are coming, the pirates are coming.
This is what the clan elder told him before he came, and when the city gate is closed after dark, it is generally impossible to open the city gate, unless it is the eight-hundred-mile rush in the capital.
At this time, after constantly knocking on the door, after a while, the two regiments responded in the door, and after confirming that they knew a small official in the city, they verified their identities, and then determined that Xiao Li Zhuang came to report the authenticity of the bandit robbery, and both of them were shocked.
Fortunately, during this time, the county government emphasized the matter of the bandits many times, and they knew the importance of this matter, so they quickly reported it to the lieutenant of the militia group and reported it to the county government.
When a lieutenant of the militia arrived, for fear that it was a sea bandit who had deceived the city, he confirmed it several times, and confirmed that there was only one messenger on the city wall, so he opened the door with confidence.
The lieutenant hurriedly took Ah Niu and went straight to the county office.
Wang Zhixian has not slept today, a day of heavy rain, at noon has been in a daze for a long time, at night sleepy a lot less, he is holding a book reading, and nodding from time to time, should have seen his own point of view.
When a servant came back and forth, someone reported that the bandits had come to Tonghai, and he was surprised! Tonghai is not Songjiang, not by the sea, not by the river, and it is not a particularly high-class wealthy county, what do bandits come here to rob.
Wang Zhixian kept scolding in his heart, and kept talking, "Quickly find Liu Guerrilla from the militia group, and Wang Zhutou, yes, yes, and Wu Xiancheng, hurry up and ......."
Not long after the bookstore went out, the lieutenant broke in with Ah Niu without knocking on the door.
"My lord, this is the person who reported the news from Xiao Li Zhuang, the pirates killed people and set fire to their village, and did all kinds of evil."
When Wang Zhixian carefully asked Ah Niu, he found that this was a tendon, only to know that dozens of bandits had killed their Zhuangzi and killed many people, and other people in their village had hidden, and the clan elder asked him to report for help, and the others didn't know.
Wang Zhixian didn't know much about this, Du Wei knew, he looked at Zhixian and hurriedly said.
"My lord, according to what Ah Niu said, as soon as I fell asleep, the pirates came, dozens of people came, they should be in front to explore the way, and there should be in the back. Ah Niu has been here for more than an hour, and these pirates are likely to have disembarked. ”
He paused, "My lord, maybe the bandits have already come to the county seat. ”
Wang Zhixian was shocked again, "That's not to say that we only have an hour to prepare. ”
Looking at the captain's expression, Wang Zhixian knew that he had to hurry up and prepare.
In just half an hour, not only the big and small officials in the county government knew, but even some big households knew, hiding and hiding, of course, the group members braved the rain to go to the city the fastest.
The officials also made arrangements, collecting utensils, wood, stones, and oil to defend the city, and now everyone felt the crisis, and they really worked hard.
Wang Zhixian has confidence in the defense of the county seat, and he knows that once the county seat is prepared, it will not be easy for the bandits to enter all at once.
He also adopted the same method, first of all, he arranged for people to block the south, east, and west gates with sand and stones, and the north gate with cars.
When the second son of the Lu family heard the news from the officials, although he was a little surprised, he was quite peaceful, and immediately arranged for the old and young of the family to hide in the secret room in the middle of the rockery. He also summoned some young and strong family members, some of whom guarded the house, and some of whom followed him straight to the county office. Before leaving, Lu Dagongzi told a few words, all of which were to pay attention to their own safety, no matter what the family was, they could maintain it.
Grand Prince Lu watched his younger brother walk away, thought for a while, and called a servant again, asking him to follow him to the county office, if there is anyone who goes to the countryside to report the news, he will go directly to Jijiazhuang to report to the Yuan family.
Lu Ergongzi came to the gate of the county ya, and when he saw Wang Zhixian who was arranging affairs, he hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, "My lord, there are no eggs under the so-called nest, the Lu family is not talented, and there are fifty young and strong family members, which can be sent by adults." ”
"The second son really deserves to be an example of my young talent in Tonghai, this is a feat to save me from Tonghai, and then I will give credit to the Ming Dynasty and the state, and ask for credit to the second son." Wang Zhixian looked at these people brought by the second son, and had a better idea, every big family in the city has a large number of families, if all of them are gathered, two or three thousand people will not be a problem, not to mention some bandits, they are real officials and soldiers, if they want to capture Tonghai at once, I am afraid it will not be so easy.
Wang Zhixian thought of this, and while asking the second prince to take people to the south gate to meet the governor, he hurriedly asked the county officials and other officials to go to the big households in the city to summon the young and strong families to help defend the city.
Yokoi Ichiro still didn't know that Tonghai County had been prepared, and just after the end of the day, when Wang Zhi County was borrowing from a big household, he took more than 500 people and went straight to Tonghai County taking advantage of the heavy rain and night.
To say that the dwarves are stupid people is a bit contemptuous of them, this miscellaneous army composed of gangsters and ronins is still more or less combative.
Most of the dwarves are ronins, whether they are solo or in teams, they also have their own unique tactics, especially their weapons are also very sophisticated.
Not long after Aniu went to Jijiazhuang to report the news, the offensive and defensive battle of Tonghai County began.
The pirates first rushed to the city gates, and did not care about the wood and stones thrown down from the castle towers.
If the Black Dragon King or Du Cheng were there, they would most likely have withdrawn directly, and the county town was on guard, and it was not a dream for people to want to enter it.
We say that Ichiro Yokoi is stupid, it is a kind of hope, as the leader of such a big group of dwarf ghosts in the East China Sea, although he has a violent and murderous personality, but as a leader, he still has his own ideas.
He didn't know what the situation was in the county now, but he was prepared with both hands. Is it a bandit, if you can fight it, you can fight it, and if you can't beat it, you can run, his idea is very simple.
Moreover, if you want to make a gain this time, if you want to successfully rob the wealth in Tonghai, the premise is that you can't let the officers and soldiers in the county town come out to rescue, and the best way to hit the county town first is to drag them in the city, and trapping them in the city is the best way.
Therefore, Yokoi Ichiro first sent out the most ferocious group of brothers, telling them that as long as they entered the city, all the treasures would be selected first, and he wanted to let the officers and soldiers in the county see his determination to capture the county.
This time, there was an immediate crisis in the city defense of Tonghai, whether it was a militia or a family, to put it bluntly, these are all peasants, not to mention training, they usually don't even touch knives very much, and they fight with one breath.
In these pirates' desperate tactics, the weakness of the militia was exposed at once, and they smashed down with things, which was not densely packed with pirates, and there were many things that were smashed down, but there were very few hits.
These bandits took the hooks, climbed up the city wall quickly, saw the wood and stones that had been smashed down, kicked the city wall with their feet, dodged to the side, and climbed the city wall without delay in three steps and two steps.
That is, the spears of the militia still have a little effect, and the thin knives of the family are floating when they are chopped. Often a pirate climbs up, and several regiments are involved in the surrounding area to besiege him, but he may not be able to trap it.
A pirate climbed up to the city, saw a spear stabbed, one sideways, the war knife in his hand against the wooden stick in the middle of the spear is a knife, the spear head fell to the ground with a snap, the war knife did not stop at all along the shoulder of the regiment, the regiment died on the spot before he could shout, and his body was almost split in half.
The pirates dodged two spears in succession, and with a backhand, they directly twisted the arm of a group member holding a large knife, and pushed it towards the spearman as a block.
There are such scenes everywhere on the entire city wall, not to mention that there are only more than one or two hundred attacking pirates, and in the face of hundreds of people on the city wall, they are really not left behind. The entire city gate wall is only more than three zhang wide, and more than 30 people can stand in the front row, and most of the militia members stand in the second line, mainly besieging and killing the bandits who came to the city.
The regiments with wooden blocks and stones sometimes did not hit anyone, and they were unarmed, and were often cut down by the bandits who climbed the wall. And as more and more pirates came to the wall, the exposed holes in the defense gradually increased.
The lieutenant was in a hurry, it wasn't that there were so many people on the city wall, he wanted to pile a thousand people there. At this time, Lu Ergongzi, who was standing on the side, also saw the crisis, and hurriedly said to the lieutenant that I will go, and directly rushed to the city wall with a few family members.
The second son of the Lu family is more talented in martial arts, and he studied under Nanjian Ji Changfeng.
Lu Ergongzi's sword was specially asked by Nanjian from Wudang Mountain, the reason why Nanjian became Nanjian is because of the original Nanjian Thirteen Styles, although Lu Gongzi is a rich son, but practicing kung fu, it is really unambiguous, not to mention the first among Nanjian's apprentices, it is enough to be included in the top three.
The second son went to the city with a personal guard, and things changed dramatically.
The second son didn't use a sword at this time, that kind of weapon is okay one-on-one, but it can't fight pirates.
He had a chain hammer in his left hand and a mace in his right hand, and the distance of three meters to the left and right was tightly blocked by him.
Looking at a pirate who had just emerged, the chain in his left hand was hammered into a straight line, and it smashed into the bandit's head accurately, and the pirate raised his head and planted it directly.
In just a quarter of an hour, a dozen pirates who had just climbed the city wall were cut down on the city wall.
Yokoi Ichiro took a look at the men who were besieging the city, almost an hour had passed, dozens of dead and wounded, and there was still no way to break through, looking at the dense rockfall on the city, he knew that the city should have made preparations for reorganization, and he could only take the next step.
He instructed the small leader beside him to blow the horn of the retreat.