CHAPTER XLIV
Shinji Sakaki finally began to move towards Tangqu County, where his soldiers had already paved the way for him.
There are still earth-shattering shouts and killings around, but they are all familiar Jing language, and occasionally a few stunned ears will rush out, but they will soon be killed on the ground, and then chopped into meat by the swarming Jing soldiers.
When the spies under his command came to report that more than 20 Zheng cavalry had appeared ten miles away on the left, Shinji Sakaki didn't care at all, in fact, no one cared.
Everyone was busy killing the county town of Guqu, where there were gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, and good-looking and strong women, which of these was not better than these dozens of horseshoe.
The general in charge of the perimeter defense and vigilance didn't pay attention to it at all, and Fan Zuo didn't bother to take care of it after hearing that the incoming enemy didn't have a set of iron armor, Zheng Jun's city defense camp was a scum, otherwise would the Dajing Iron Army be able to advance hundreds of miles so easily? So they casually sent more than 100 people to block it, several times the enemy's strength, and with their understanding of Zheng Jun, this was enough.
Indeed, Ma Bu and the others have leather armor straight knives, at most two or three step bows, and the standard urban defense battalion configuration.
But even the weakest ant has sharp teeth.
What's more, it is the prodigal son who turned back and was not ready to go back alive and more than twenty dead soldiers.
A farmer with a hoe is not terrible, but when the farmer has his family behind him, he becomes the bravest and most respectable warrior.
More than 20 horsemen, with the momentum of moving forward and breaking through the cauldron and sinking the boat, scattered the more than 100 Jing troops who came to block it, and then raised the speed of their horses again without hesitation in the direction of the encirclement.
The battlefield was full of chaotic Jing soldiers, which gave Ma Bu and others the opportunity to create miracles.
The group did not encounter much resistance, and they rushed to the vicinity of the main general of the Jing army, and were found to be abnormal by a pheasant cavalry less than a mile away.
Jing Jun was shocked, and the general Qiao Yasuchun was even more confused.
Confused is confused, things still have to be done.
With a wave of his hand, a team of pheasant cavalry rushed forward with a roar.
It is simply unreasonable to miss such a good meritorious opportunity to fight more and less.
"Brothers, it's time to wash away my shame, and tell them below, our ancestors are right, kill them!"
The knight behind him shouted in response and rushed into the cavalry.
The same morale is like a rainbow, and death is like home, but these brave people and Xiao Zhoujun are completely two extremely different endings.
The leather armor was easily cut in front of Jing Dao, and then the sharp blade broke through the clothing, and this last layer of protection broke through the flesh, and the blood instantly stained the edge.
After just one hedge, there were less than ten of the nearly thirty people, including Ma Bu Ma Liu, and each of those who fell down had several bloody wounds on their bodies.
The war horse stayed in place, helpless and confused, looking around, bowing his head and arching his horse with the horse's mouth, unable to stand up again.
Qiao Kang Chun Yile, this group of Zheng Jun is a little interesting, with a wave of his big hand, another team of pheasant cavalry rushed out: "I don't believe that you can still rush up, let's die!" ”
Ma Bu turned his head to look behind him, there were only six or seven people who could still follow him, almost all of them were injured, that is, Ma Liu was also missing half an arm, at this moment his face was pale and leaned over the war horse, biting the reins in his mouth, and after seeing Ma Bu's eyes, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a smile, while holding the long knife in his right hand and pointing forward.
Ma Bu's eyes were slightly moist, he remembered that when he used to be in the army, he was surrounded by such robes, most of them died in a foreign land, and if they were lucky, they only brought back a handful of ashes, and how many are still alive now?
Why should you let you waste the place where the brothers of Lao Tzu guarded with their lives!
Ma Bu's eyes burst with fire and water, and the belief in his heart gradually became indestructible in the collision of speed and wind.
"Brigade rate, the old horse is late! Kill! ”
Except for Ma Liu, no one in the knights behind him knew who Ma Bu's brigade rate was, and only a few of the thousands of people in the entire brigade survived, and they watched their brigade rate being beheaded by the enemy.
Now the scenes are coming to mind again.
These damn aliens.
The horse roared and rushed forward, towards the enemy rider who was dozens of times his size.
A cruel smile appeared at the corner of Qiao Yasujun's mouth, and he couldn't help himself.
The few remaining Zheng soldiers were completely out of his interest, and the contents inside the curtain had been dismantled, after all, the city was about to be conquered.
The horse steps to block the fatal knife with a knife, and the two horses staggered back with a split, feeling the huge force in their hands, and earning another one.
It's a pity that there is no longer a Zheng soldier still on the horse behind him, and in his eyes, the last robe Ze is unwilling to fall off the horse, and at this time they are only less than 100 meters away from the enemy's encirclement.
"Ah~~~"
Suddenly, the horse let out a furious roar, and directly in front of him, the banner symbolizing the location of the enemy's commander revealed its true face, and there was the shadow of the enemy's commander in it except for the busy soldiers.
Ma Bu was not reconciled, and a spear took advantage of this gap to pierce his heart.
No one knew that such a tragic and tragic raid had happened here, and no one knew that the despair of these twenty or so soldiers of the Zheng Army's city defense battalion who had shed blood before their deaths were like an inconspicuous wave in the sea, and the ripples that splashed quickly disappeared in everyone's memory.
In the city, Shao Zhenxiong gathered hundreds of soldiers and withdrew to the inner city, but both the military and the people's hearts had been completely dispersed, Wang Yuanchong ran around, and his hoarse voice could only barely be maintained, and many soldiers showed a confused look in their eyes.
Guqu County really did its best, and in the past few days, almost all the elite soldiers have been killed in the face of the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and most of the current officers are temporarily promoted from the city defense battalion and the wounded soldiers.
Moreover, there was a great shortage of supplies in the city, and too much food and armor were lost in a hurry, and basically all of them became the trophies of the Jingren, and the only good news was that most of the people were withdrawn.
However, it has only exacerbated the food burden.
Wang Yuanchong was so sad that he almost turned into a bald man.
Tens of thousands of people crowded into the inner city seemed crowded, and the oppressive atmosphere in turn contributed to the spread of panic.
Wang Yuanchong found Shao Zhenxiong and asked, "Commander Shao, our grain can't last for a few days, what should we do?" ”
Shao Zhenxiong was silent after hearing this.
"The old man just sent someone to count it, the inventory of arrows is less than three thousand, the number of straight knives is less than a hundred, and the other armor and equipment are completely empty, in this case, Jing Ren is afraid that it will not be long to stop, can we wait for reinforcements and horses?"
"Reinforcements?" Shao Zhenxiong smiled bitterly: "It's not a secret to Wang Xianzun, the reinforcements can't wait, Huizhou is lost too quickly, even if it takes a few days to set off from Pingjing City at the fastest speed, and we are not the highest priority here, the imperial court will definitely try to protect the first line of Qingcheng, as for us here, alas~"
"What if so?" Wang Yuanchong said urgently.
"Pick the best guys to break through."
Wang Yuanchong was stunned and said: "Break through? How many layers of certainty does the enemy have in ten thousand times? ”
Shao Zhenxiong replied: "There is no floor, but we have to do everything we can to let Qingcheng County and Pingjing City know about this matter, I'm afraid that Qingcheng County has been lost now." ”
"Probably not, Qingcheng County's urban defense is far from being comparable to Guqu, and there are more than 100,000 young people in Qingcheng County, the two battalions of Huizhou Weijia and B are there, and there is also the Kuilong Soldier's Mansion, so there will be no loss."
Shao Zhenxiong said again: "Prepare for the worst, without further ado, immediately select competent people, gather all the horses, and if you can rush out one by one, Qingcheng County and Pingjing City will send people." ”
Wang Yuanchong asked, "What about the people in this city?" ”
Shao Zhenxiong closed his eyes in pain and replied, "Our sin! There is only one death! These tens of thousands of living beings can only resign themselves to fate. ”
"Shao Zhenxiong, do you know what you were talking about just now? There are not ten or a hundred of the people of this city! ”
"It's tens of thousands!"
"Wang County Order!"
Shao Zhenxiong stared at Wang Yuanchong like a wounded beast.
"Ten people are not people? Hundred people are not people? Could it be that only you, Wang Yuanchong, the parent official, know that there are tens of thousands of people here? ”
"Lao Tzu also knows that this is tens of thousands of lives!"
"Outside, just outside, in the past few days, more than 3,900 of Lao Tzu's 4,200 brothers have been killed in battle, and the corpses of 2,000 people are on the city wall of this Guqu County, in the alleys of the city, not a single of them has run, not a single deserter!"
"The brothers of the entire T-shaped camp didn't even leave any roots for the sake of Da Zheng and Zhangnan County!"
Shao Zhenxiong continued to roar with tears in his eyes: "Do you think Lao Tzu doesn't want to keep it? ”
"Do you think Lao Tzu doesn't want to avenge his brothers? Is there even one of them who is a bad seed? ”
"This city is full of life is the time that my brothers have exchanged their lives for, do you think Lao Tzu wants them to die in vain? Do you think Lao Tzu looks good at the messy Yasukuni military flags floating on the head of Guqu County? ”
"Wang County ordered you to go out and have a look now, how to defend this inner city?"
"We have no food in our hands, no bows and crossbows, no more knives and guns, no more armor, and more than 3,000 people in my T-shaped battalion and the city defense battalion can now hold less than 500 knives, not to mention the inner city, even this county guard can't hold it."
"There are tens of thousands of people in the city, but who are they, old and weak, women and children, do you let them fight with Jingren with knives?"
"We don't have reinforcements, Wang County Order! Not a single one! Even if you can't kill this Guqu County within half an hour, you can't do it, Wang County Order, do you understand? ”
Wang Yuanchong hung his arms weakly and sat there, tears flowed down so abruptly, this man who had never shed tears could no longer restrain himself at this moment.
"But how many can you run like this, what about those old people, what about children, and some pregnant women! What to do! ”
Shao Zhenxiong wiped his tears, exhaled deeply, walked to Wang Yuanchong and squatted down and said: "Wang Xianzun, the strong man has a broken arm and a glimmer of life, now the enemy army at the north gate is the least, I can still gather a hundred cavalry, when the city gate is opened and killed directly, the people follow, it can only be so, but the cavalry can only hold on to a cup of tea time, otherwise it is easy to be surrounded by the Jing army, after a cup of tea, the cavalry must go to report the news, and must not let Qingcheng County and the capital of peace become deaf and blind, Even if Qingcheng County is lost, it must be ensured that the capital knows the current situation, as for tens of thousands of people, some people will definitely survive, as for how much they can live, it depends on their fate, it is better than throwing them all here! ”
Wang Yuanchong raised his head and asked weakly: "General Shao, you give the old man a heartfelt word, how many tens of thousands of people can live if this happens?" ”
Shao Zhenxiong lowered his head and did not speak.
"Half?"
"Thirty thousand?"
Wang Yuanchong tightly tugged on Shao Zhenxiong's armor and cried: "What about 10,000 people? ”
"Five thousand, even if it's five thousand, you can't let the people of Guqu go extinct!"
Shao Zhenxiong held Wang Yuanchong's hand and put it down, and said lightly: "Wang Xianzun, I can only guarantee that I and the remaining brothers of my T-shaped battalion will definitely not live, and from today onwards, the Huizhou Wei T-shaped battalion will be removed." ”
"General Shao!" Wang Yuanchong's eyes were wet again.
"Wang County Zun is going to be like this, the five battalions of Huizhou Wei are nearly 30,000 horses, the B battalion and the C battalion are estimated to be over, and the pressure on Qingcheng County in charge of the A battalion must not be small, I Huizhou Wei is planted this time, but I believe that every brother of Huizhou Wei has done his best, we must always be worthy of this armor on our bodies, how can a soldier not die when he encounters this kind of thing?"
"County Zun, let's go, there will always be some people who bear this infamy, it's you and me."
Wang Yuanchong stood up and said with a smile: "Let's go!" ”