Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 201 A thunder on the ground
"My lord, I think we're missing something." Yu Meiguang scolded Jiao Conghu just now, and now she is a little embarrassed to speak: "We have an agreement with Tan Lu, and we will meet in Puran Town tomorrow." He reminded.
"That's right! We have to inform us quickly, otherwise it will be a shame to say that the people of Meigang have missed the deadline!" Zhu Desheng slapped his thigh.
"No, this one is secondary!" Liang Mingshan immediately said, "My lord, I think we should send someone over the mountain to report to the main force and tell them that half of the enemies in Dongxiang are blocked by us.
As long as the army comes and flanks them, they can be wiped out in this valley. This is much better than attacking the city and fighting in the streets, which not only solves our difficulties, but also greatly weakens the strength of the Dongxiang defenders. I think Tan Lu will understand the beauty of this place!"
"I see!" Jiao Conghu immediately got up: "All departments, immediately select forty of each squadron with good feet and hand them over to the leaders of the army, and the rest immediately set off to run towards Chaijiashan!"
When you join the army, you will let the inspectors report to the police station, they are familiar with the location and path, and they know how to take the path and avoid the enemy brigade."
"Okay, I got it!"
After a while, some people below stood in a line alone under the shouts of the inspectors, and the rest of the people picked up their luggage and got up, and trotted in the direction of Chaijiashan.
Liang Mingshan quickly moved in the direction of the police station with more than 100 selected people, three catapults and baggage wagons.
In the Jiangshan Army, Yan Yan is proud enough, not only is he undefeated like a stick of incense, but he can suddenly appear in the weakest position of the opponent with his riding skills at the key points of the battle, so he is deeply loved by the Yang family's father and son.
In this battle of Fuzhou, Yang He originally wanted him to go several times, but Yang Xing never let go. This time, he was also sent out to ask him to suddenly burrow into the deep pool of Meigang to stir up a good stir, and prepare for the recapture of Anren in the future.
It was indeed not up to expectations, Yan Yan rushed all the way with more than 2,500 troops, and the spies of the Military Intelligence Section and the Intelligence Section along the way either did not find them, or they found out before they had time to send the news to the rear.
Yan Yan's movements were very fast, and he finished the two-day journey of others.
The main point was that the whole team was lightly armed, carrying only four days' rations, no more baggage, and he also had a horse team of more than 50 people to open the way in front of him, slaughtering civilians he saw along the way to cover up the news.
The reason why Jiao Conghu discovered his whereabouts was because this unit entered the boundary of Meigang last night and set up camp, and was discovered by the patrolling Xiangyong.
After the inspectors of the police station went to check overnight, they immediately sent someone to deliver the report, and not long after they came out, they encountered the militia team who had gone out to rest on the side of Dongjiadian Road.
To say that it is dangerous, if it weren't for the fact that there is a police station here, and if it wasn't for the patrolling Xiangyong, then the two teams would probably collide face to face!
Liang Mingshan stepped into the courtyard of the police station and saw that it was already full of war readiness. The townsmen all went up to the wall, wiping their knives and guns and checking the bowstrings behind the breastwork and the battlements.
There is a rejecting horse at the door, and there is a spear cart inside the door (similar to the knife cart, which is used to block the door for defense, and the wheelbarrow is modified). Inspector Zhang came up first, and then Inspector Mei also came.
"The situation is urgent, three things: first, someone needs to send a message to the main force, which of you two goes? Second, send the villagers to protect the catapult and go around to the other side of the lake to hide; Third, the baggage wagons must be properly protected." Liang Mingshan did not drag the mud and water at all, and spoke concisely and to the point.
"I'm going to deliver the letter, I'm a local, I know the road very well and can ride a horse, I can walk the mountain road very fast, and I'm outside the mountain at noon!" Mei Patrol took the initiative to say.
Liang Mingshan prepared to set up an ambush here, half of the enemy in Dongxiang was here, and the main force was invited to come to reinforce the meaning of the word.
Inspector Zhang ordered someone to move away first, refuse the horse, and let the carriage enter the hospital. "This yard doesn't look big, can you fit it?" Liang Mingshan asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, there is a courtyard behind you! It was originally our inspection and guest residence, and there was a kitchen. The carriage came in and picked it up, and the mules and horses were led to the backyard so that they could be put down!"
Seeing that Zhang Patrol has been in mind
There are a few things, Liang Mingshan nodded, asked him to call two people with good feet and familiar roads to lure the enemy, and then took out a horse from the trough to ride it himself, and then took these more than 100 people to the front.
Yan Yan's vanguard leader is two people, one is called Half Ear, as the name suggests, this person has one ear that was cut off half of it during the brawl back then, which shows how brave and ruthless he is.
Another nickname is "One Piece of Iron", and he doesn't know the name himself, but everyone calls him Iron Man. This "piece of iron" has been looking for ore seedlings in the mountains with his master since he was a child, and he claims to be able to sniff out the buried location and how many ores are buried with his nose.
Because the official army accidentally killed his master during the rebellion, this person joined the Jiangshan Army to take revenge. But there is no end to the fighting, a piece of iron is very melancholy, drunk on the knees of beautiful women all day long, and drinks himself out of a rosacea.
However, because he is literate and can use his brain, Yan Yan ordered him to assist Ban Ear to save this guy from blindly making sex nonsense.
The knight in front suddenly came back and reported that there were more than a hundred villagers coming this way, and one of them was riding a horse! The half-ear who was bored looking at the mountain immediately came to his senses: "Horseback riding? Do you really see it?"
"Nature!" Tanma was a little unhappy: "Wearing a robe and hanging a sword, it's quite magnificent."
"Isn't he a big official?" As he spoke, he reached out and took off his riding spear. An iron walking beside him hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade: "Don't worry, the situation is unknown, let's still investigate."
"What is there to hesitate about? Assemble the horse team, let's go and arrest the official for trial. But it's boring, even if this guy comes to relieve his boredom!" After Ban Er finished speaking, he took the horse and ran away with the horse.
"Heyββ! An iron cai screamed, knowing that it was useless, so he had to shake his head and command the team to hurry up. He is a general who usually does not ride a horse, and besides, the two of them can't both go to play lively, so leave the people and horses alone.
An iron had to lead people behind and chase it slowly. When he ran out for a mile, he suddenly saw the horse come back by himself. "Huh, so fast? Someone caught it?" An iron heart was surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab the bridle and asked.
"Ahem, scratch a fart!" Dejectedly, Tanma reported, "Chief, go and see, that gang is not easy to mess with, and some of them have bows. I couldn't wait for the way, and a dozen brothers were killed and wounded, and the half-eared leader was killed by an arrow from the official!"
"What? Half of the ear is dead?" A piece of iron can be frightened this time, he is the deputy vanguard, the commander is dead, the team can't stop or retreat, and the corpse must be snatched back! "You just ran back like this, and no one grabbed it?" He asked.
"Arrows rain down, who dares to step forward?" Tanma smiled bitterly. It's too demoralizing. A piece of iron had no choice but to grit his teeth and order the team to speed forward, while telling the archers to prepare for battle immediately.
After running half a mile further, he saw nearly ten corpses hanging on the hillside at the bend, and the soldier cursed. An iron is also a little angry, whether these people cut off people's heads, or strip them naked, why are you hanging people?
I can't hide it now, and the soldiers who are behind have already seen it all. The rest of the team carefully searched the surroundings as they dismantled the corpses.
There was a lot of angry scolding around, all of which were about repaying the blood debt and taking revenge for the slaughter. An iron heart thinks that this time is broken, he just can't chase it, and the crowd is angry.
He sent someone to report on the one hand, and reorganized the team on the other hand, chasing it if he wanted to, fortunately, the opponent was so many hundred people, let's be careful.
After chasing for another mile, he suddenly saw a large group of people sitting or lying on the ground resting on a gentle slope.
Before a piece of iron could speak, Ban'er's subordinates couldn't hold back and rushed forward with shouting and killing, so angry that he couldn't hold back his stomp and shout.
Hurriedly called someone to pull over the mount, and took the headquarters to catch up, but saw the people in front of him retreating like a tide, and hurriedly dodged half the way.
An iron stood up from the saddle and looked at it, and found that there were indeed two dozen archers on the opponent's side, especially the "official" who was riding on his horse and shooting quickly and accurately.
There were already twenty people on the ground in front of them. An iron had to call the sword and shield hand to step forward, and then forced it step by step. When the other party saw this, he didn't shoot, and shouted something,
Turn around and run.
"Stop chasing!" An iron stopped the crowd, and he pointed with his whip on his horse: "Isn't it enough to eat a loss? Look ahead!" Everyone looked intently, and then they found that a mile away on the right hand, there was a small fortress on the hillside.
"Hmph, these people must have fled into that fortress, so I'll go up and surround it. Aren't they going to run? Once in the stockade, I'll see where I can go!"
As soon as the people rushed forward to take battle down the hillside, a piece of iron called the two small leaders to each lead a team to attack. At first, everything went well, but suddenly there was a scream from the mountain, and the soldiers fell to the ground.
One of the little leaders limped down, grinning and crying that the "unkillable thieves" had sprinkled thistles on the hillside, as well as beast traps and a pit with bamboo stakes buried underneath.
"Seven dead, and more than a dozen wounded!" He was so hurt that tears came out of his eyes.
"Rubbish!" An iron heart cursed. He ordered people to cut down more than 20 bamboo shoots (branches with bamboo leaves) and asked them to be sent up, and the people who walked in front of the team swept the ground with this thing, and sure enough, the casualties were much smaller.
Seeing this, the defenders above drew their bows and shot arrows, focusing on those bandits with bamboo shoots, but the effect was limited. Later, everyone stopped wasting no more arrows, and the speed of the attackers increased significantly, and in a short time they were close to the wall.
At this time, an iron found a problem, this fortress is built on a gently sloping hillock, seemingly harmless, but in fact quite tricky.
It was very difficult for his people to stand on it, and his physical strength began to decline significantly due to the back attack.
After thinking about it, he decided to send people to cut down the bamboo around and make many long ladders and put them on the ground, so that when the brothers attacked, they could easily get up and advance and retreat directly on the ladders when they were lying down.
Replenished manpower to attack again, there was no movement on the wall, and everyone was wondering if Mo slipped away from behind? Just pondering, a bamboo whistle sounded, and the chain flail and bow and crossbow on the wall were knocked down on the face.
An iron cries are not good, and the archers are hurriedly called to come forward to take cover, but the archers are not accustomed to standing on the slope and shooting on their backs, and there are many arrows flying in the sky, but the accuracy is much worse.
The soldier who was climbing the bamboo ladder to the wall fell down with a crackle, and he felt pain when he saw an iron.
At this time, Yan Yan arrived with the rear team. "What's the situation, there are a lot of dead and wounded before this reaches Meigang?" Yan Yan looked a little annoyed.
"General, some of the starters wounded our brothers, and even half of their ears and heads were cut off. The men took refuge in the stockade, and they were so angry that they besieged and attacked." An iron reported.
"Half of the ears are dead?" Yan Yan was taken aback.
"Exactly, I was killed by an arrow from an official on horseback!"
"Where's the officer on horseback?" Yan Yan suddenly became interested.
"Right behind this wall!"
"Hey, fuck it!" Yan Yan thought to himself that the biggest official in Meigang was the inspection envoy of the inspection sub-department, and he was also an official from Jiupin. If he is caught or killed by chance here, then Meigang is at his fingertips, and it will save a lot of trouble!
"In that case, you can't let him run. Three hundred more will be sought, and the rest will rest on the spot." He planned to take the little stockade and leave.
Who knew that this fortress was very tenacious, Yan Yan increased the number of people attacking to eight hundred, and the fortress still stood still. He was a little annoyed, so he asked someone to find a rough log to make a ramshell, and arranged for thirty strong men to rush forward under the cover of shields.
Sure enough, after more than 20 dead and wounded people moved away from the horses, the thick wooden gate crumbled under the impact of the strong men. At this moment, someone from above suddenly shouted, "Hide!" Then something black fell from above.
With a loud bang, a ball of fire exploded among the strong men. When the smoke cleared, the men either fell to the ground and did not move, or their heads were broken and bleeding and they could not stand steadily, and the ground was covered with blood and severed limbs.
"Heaven-shattering thunder, how can they have sky-shattering thunder?" Yan Yan shouted angrily.
This kind of thing is usually used by the government when guarding the city, and ordinary people will not have it in their hands. If there were only some stubborn villagers inside, they wouldn't have this kind of weapon in their hands
Right!
"Bang, bang, bang......" explosions came one after another, but it was not from the battlefield in front of him, Yan Yan held on to the small tree beside him in horror and looked at the team he brought, which was already turning on his back.
The bombed Jiangshan Army was completely chaotic, and the organization was running around, some people were holding the wounds that had been blown up and howling, and some were staring blankly at the corpses everywhere, not knowing what to do.
The earth-shattering thunder threw a total of three rounds, and then when people's eardrums were shaken and "buzzed", they saw flags and people holding weapons pouring out of Chaijia Mountain behind them.
When those militiamen and the villagers who served as auxiliary soldiers saw the tragic appearance of these Jiangshan troops being beaten, they immediately poured out endless courage and confidence.
The Governors and Inspectors repeated the merit reward loudly, inspiring them to leap out of their hiding places and rush down the hill before anyone else could rush towards the "merit bounty" that was all over the ground.