Chapter 24, A Tooth for a Tooth
Yang Peng suffered a big loss last time, and now that he has a flintlock pistol, he wants to avenge the last blood feud, Yang Peng plans to take some more people to Yingzhou's Qianjin Village, "I don't think so!" Zhang Xiang immediately objected: "Although there are fewer people in the second class, the remaining seven people are all good men." If we mix them with sand, it is likely to backfire. ”
"That'll do!" Yang Peng felt that what Zhang Xiang said made sense: "Damn, Lao Tzu has fewer guns now, I'm really sad." Zhang Xiang said with a smile: "Speaking of crossbows, this time, in addition to the six bows and crossbows that you split and smashed one machine crossbow, we also captured thirty-eight spears and one machine crossbow. The arrow will not work, just enough for the capital, and it will not go in or out. ”
"Big brother, you're not right, right? You have destroyed more than 40 Khitans, not to mention, the arrows have not decreased, are you not satisfied? Yang Peng then said solemnly: "Big brother, have you found it?" I have carefully looked at the Khitans who were killed, and almost all of them appeared in the final hand-to-hand combat. In other words, in the process of launching a confrontation, both sides are basically wasting bows and arrows. Do you know what this means? ”
"Naturally, the brothers are not calm enough." Zhang Xiang nodded: "As far as archery is concerned, we are similar to the Khitans, so we don't suffer a loss in shooting." If we can calm down and the brothers are more mature, in that situation of absolute geographical advantage, we should take down half of the enemy with the two sides shooting. If that were the case, the outcome would be completely different! ”
"Big brother is right, the focus of future training is to learn the lessons of this time." Yang Peng said in a deep voice: "I was on the other side for a while, and our four machine crossbows almost couldn't suppress the other party's two machine crossbows. We were condescending at the time, this is the gap, and we need to pay enough attention to it! "You don't have to worry about the big things, the next training, with the experience and lessons of these battles, I will arrange it." Zhang Xiang waved his hand: "After this vicious battle, I believe that the brothers will mature." You just have to think about how to use them well, and you don't care about the rest. ”
After the two brothers talked for a long time on a snowy night this time, setting the tone for the future development of the Great Song hoe team, Yang Peng's attention had been turned elsewhere. The Khitan army came to the end of the boundary to "capture the old man", and then followed and used a latent way to give Yang Peng a "fake idiot". then used the veterans in the Khitan to make a "Li Dai Taozhuang". Its real purpose is to lure the snake out of the hole!
It's a pity that the Khitan people were negligent, and they were ambushed by Zhang Xiang and others, stealing chickens and rice, and finally fled in embarrassment. Looking back now, although there is some afterthought, Yang Peng feels that he can't see it that way. The Khitans are cunning and cunning, and they must not be taken lightly. In his own opinion, Zhang Xiang and the others all looked down on the Khitans, and always felt that the Khitans were stupid pigs, which made Yang Peng almost fall for it.
Although this time broke a conspiracy of the Khitans, the Khitans couldn't make a plan, and they definitely couldn't give up, and they didn't know what other demon moths they could make. "Okay, Khitan dog, Lao Tzu admits that you are treacherous enough!" Yang Peng squatted on the stool alone, looked at a few broken maps on the desktop, and kept muttering: "You fucking Khitan dog, you dare to dig Lao Tzu's nest!" Play the art of war with Lao Tzu, then play and see! What did Yang Peng say? The enemy is stationed in us! ”
Yang Peng felt that he had caught something, and he felt very vague. "The enemy is stationed and we are harassing" is easy to say, but how to disturb the law is a big problem. "Hahaha!" Thinking of the smugness, Yang Peng laughed: "You gave Lao Tzu a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, okay, Lao Tzu will give you a trick to 'scratch the itch through the shoes'!" "I was played several times by the Khitans in a row, causing more than 20 brothers to be killed and injured, and almost fell into a situation from which I could never recover. After Yang Peng handed over the training task to Zhang Xiang, he began to lick his wounds, and he always wondered about giving the Khitans a blow.
Yang Peng felt: In this situation, the New Year has just ended, and the smoke of the war has not yet dissipated, and the Khitans must not have imagined that they would act so soon! "Shi Liancheng, inform Zhan Jinguo to come to me!" Yang Peng's right fist hit his left palm, and he finally made up his mind! In less than three minutes, Zhan Jinguo had already run over: "What's the matter with my eldest brother?" ”
Yang Peng pretended to stare at the map, and said without raising his head: "You take a few brothers to Qianjinzhai New District to take a look around the situation over there." In addition, there were too many brothers and sick brothers in the previous two classes, and they needed to recuperate for a while, so I wanted to see what kind of bear your class was. How, dare to go? "You're all right!" Zhan Jinguo turned around and was about to leave. "Wait, do you know what you're going to do, just running out in a panic?" Only then did Yang Peng raise his head, stare at Zhan Jinguo and say, "Lao Tzu is asking you to go to reconnoitre, not to let you stab the hornet's nest." Take two people with you, go and go back quickly. If you make a mistake again this time, then you can do it yourself. Roll the calves! ”
After Zhan Jinguo left, Yang Peng began to pick up the available people in his hands: 17 people in the first shift, 9 people in the communication squad were intact, 7 people were not injured in the second shift, and 10 people were not injured in the third shift, a total of 43 people. None of the soldiers recruited now dare to use it, because these people have not seen blood yet, and they are afraid that they will get out of control all of a sudden, so it is better to use the previous group of people to be reliable, because this time it is deep behind enemy lines, and Yang Peng does not dare to take risks.
Three days later, Zhan Jinguo brought back relevant information: "There are two leading guys in the Khitan Ya Service Branch: Ye Youzhi, the head of a hundred households, Dutou Xi Benlang, plus a foreman of the Great Song Dynasty. There are a total of 25 Khitan soldiers and 12 people in Pu Wenxiao's nursing home. There is a machine crossbow at the gate of the Yamen, which is usually guarded by four Khitans; Two nursing homes, mainly responsible for checking the entry and exit of people. The third house has a crossbow on the top of the watchtower, which is responsible for monitoring the internal security of the entire servant. ”
Similar to what we learned last time, the situation did not change much, and Yang Peng immediately convened an operational meeting. After a brief report of the situation, Yang Peng directly issued a combat order: "Brothers, the Khitan dog dares to come to the door, and I need to teach them a lesson and let them know that this is the land of the Great Song Dynasty." Now I order: The brothers who were not injured in the second and third squads, plus the communication squad, immediately went to the front line of Xintun, with Cheng Shijie as the commander-in-chief, to monitor the guy from the Hundred Households Team. If he dares to come out, give him a head-on blow halfway. ”
"Zhang Xiang stayed at the base camp of Hope Village to take care of the seriously injured and our workshops. Zhan Jinguo led a group of brothers with flintlock pistols and rushed to the Qianjinzhai New District with me, preparing to raid the Khitan officials. Everyone was asked to bring a crossbow, and this time we didn't have a crossbow, and now with a flintlock pistol, those crossbows are not very useful. Let's leave tonight, so let's split up and get ready to go. ”
Revisiting the old land, there is no change in Qianjinzhai New District, what has changed is Yang Peng and them, because he is full of murderous energy. Zhan Jinguo followed closely behind him, and he could feel a cold aura of death. According to the route of the reconnaissance in advance, Zhan Jinguo led the team around a large circle and entered from the southeast corner of the Qianjinzhai New District at about three o'clock in the afternoon. Because the houses of the Khitan nobles of the Khitan iron mine are being built here, and only half of them have been repaired at present. Because of the Chinese New Year, those who are engaged in construction have gone back on vacation, and the site is empty.
The brothers stayed in these half-pulled houses, and it was not suitable for action in broad daylight. However, Yang Peng and Zhan Jinguo were not idle, they were dressed in civilian clothes, hid their crossbows and began to wander around the entire Qianjinzhai New District. The last time he came over, Yang Peng didn't show up on the street, and ended up getting lost. If Zhao Jinxi hadn't saved his life, the consequences would have been really unpredictable.
Qianjinzhai New District, according to the Khitan plan, should have ten main streets in the east-west and north-south directions. The Khitan people didn't learn Chinese well, so they took the names of "Several Ways". Qianjinzhai New Area is naturally one road, two roads, and ten roads. This is all fucking nonsense, can it be called a street if it doesn't work?
Of course, there are not so many passes in the Qianjinzhai New Area, but it starts from the Khitan Yamen and gradually radiates out to the south. At the intersection of Yong'an Street, there is a place called Yong'an Terrace. It connects a southeast-running street and is divided into two sections. The northwest section close to the Khitan Yamen is called Pingkangli, and the southeast section is called Xinyang Street. The Khitan Yamen is located in the central area, and this Xinyang Street is just connected to the village area that is being built.
Yang Peng concentrated the future battle area in the southeast of Qianjinzhai, just because this is where the Khitan nobles live, even if a few are injured by mistake, there are no good people among the Khitans, and they deserve to be unlucky. With Zhanjin Guo around, he slowly came to the area of Yong'an Terrace, and saw the Khitan Yamen from a distance. Yang Peng arrived here a year ago without carefully surveying the surrounding terrain. Today, from a distance, the Khitan Yamen belongs to an independent area, surrounded by small alleys separated from other buildings, which looks similar to the fire escape reserved now.
Diagonally opposite the Khitan Yamen, there is a large building that has been half built, and like the village group, there is now not a single worker. By asking passers-by, Yang Peng learned that it was a place for nobles to watch plays. "Let's go over there!" Yang Peng commanded in a low voice, turned around and got into the small alley. Ten minutes later, the two men finally got into the construction site. Then climbed to the top along the scaffolding, and the Khitan Yamen on the opposite side was already in full view.
"Jin Guo, you go back now, bring the brothers here in batches, and let everyone see the environment here and recognize the way. Don't run around and lose people when the time comes. After Zhan Jinguo left, Yang Peng took a closer look around the Khitan Yamen, and began to plan the next action plan in his heart.
Yang Peng is in a position now, and he can condescendingly put the flintlock pistol into the Khitan Yamen. But it was full of buildings, and the machine crossbow had no lethal power, except for causing panic among the Khitans, it didn't have much effect. However, if you use a flintlock pistol to control it here and accurately penetrate the fortifications at the gate, you can defeat the four Khitans inside, rendering the two machine crossbows useless.
If you want to completely paralyze the Khitan Yamen of the Khitans, you must attack it and eradicate all the Yeyu Youzhi, Xibenlang and the lackey Puwenxiao. Creating a short-term vacuum, this can keep the Khitans busy for a while. However, there are three difficulties in achieving this:
First of all, they must destroy the crossbow in the Khitan, and they must not let him exert his firepower to support all corners of the Khitan officials. Secondly, open the passage at the entrance of the yamen to create conditions for attacking the enemy inside. This problem is mainly the crossbow in the gate fortification. The third is the problem of being outnumbered, because there are 25 Khitan soldiers, plus 12 people in the Puwen Filial Piety Nursing Academy, which together is twice the size of Yang Peng's team.
Yang Peng looked at the layout inside the yamen and deliberated on a possible course of action. As his eyes swept to the northeast corner, Yang Peng suddenly remembered that the last time he was found by the Khitan crossbow on duty in that place, he was soon chased by a group of Khitans and ran around the street.
Desperately mobilize brain cells, carefully recall everything that happened that night, and the route of his escape. Yang Peng began to return to the position of the gate of the Yamen, and then moved with the route pursued by the Khitans, and finally returned to the northeast corner, which was the starting point of Yang Peng's escape.
Thirty meters, the Khitan people rushed out of the gate, and if they wanted to turn into the alley in the northeast corner, they needed to go through a short detour of about 30 meters on the side of the big theater.
"Well, that's the only place you can take advantage of!" Yang Peng muttered, his eyes returned to the position of the gate of the Yamen, and then moved to the left, there was the "Kelai Xian" inn where Yang Peng had stayed, and it was also the closest place to the gate of the Yamen.
At this moment, a relatively stable action plan began to form in Yang Peng's mind. The sky had slowly darkened, and the first batch of team members and machine gun squads led by Zhan Jinguo, a total of nine people, had already rushed to the first floor of the aristocratic theater. "Zhan Jinguo, Yin Mingde, the two of you come with me!" Yang Peng arranged the team members in a dark corner, and then led the two of them to climb to the top of the aristocratic theater and said: "Jin Guo, look, the first building on the left side of the yamen is a brothel, and here is the Kelai Xian Inn. It is only 100 meters away from the gate of the Yamen, that is, about 30 zhang. There are nine people left, you don't need to bring it to me, and then we have to go separately. ”
Zhan Jinguo looked at the survey terrain, and Yang Peng said to Yin Mingde again: "Have you seen the watchtower inside the yamen?" The two crossbows you knocked out with your flintlock pistol have two main missions. It is to use a flintlock pistol to suppress the crossbow in the watchtower, and the second is to use a flintlock pistol to stare at the thirty meters around the corner below. As soon as the Khitans appear here, they will beat Lao Tzu hard! ”
Yin Mingde got Yang Peng's order, so he hurriedly went downstairs to find his other two assistants. Because their flintlock pistols need to be positioned immediately, and the flintlock pistols and ammunition boxes must be in place immediately, and when it gets dark, nothing can be seen. It's not good to make small moves under the noses of the enemy, with lanterns and torches.
"Do you see clearly?" Yang Peng saw Zhan Jinguo put down the flintlock pistol in his hand, and then asked, "Do you remember the route in and out?" Zhan Jinguo nodded and said, "The terrain of that place is very simple, it is only a few hundred meters away from the West Gate, and retreat is not a problem." I took people from the southeast corner to the southwest corner and then arrived at the Kelai Cyclamen Inn, which took about an hour. Big brother, do you mean to let me attack the gate of the yamen directly? ”
"I didn't let you attack the gate of the yamen directly!" Yang Peng waved his hand and said, "You lead the remaining nine people, and you must arrive on time after nightfall on the west side of the Kelai Xian Inn and hide it." Once there is a fight here, the Khitan soldiers may send reinforcements, but you don't care. Your task is that once the Khitan reinforcements are dispatched, you will use the fastest action to knock out the crossbow position at the gate of the Yamen. ”
"And then?" Zhan Jinguo listened inexplicably: "I'm still watching dryly, the same as last time?" Yang Peng shook his head and said: "After you defeat the enemy's crossbow position, quickly move the enemy's crossbow and arrow box, and continue to hide in the shadows opposite the gate of the yamen." As long as reinforcements come out, you don't care. You should know their total strength, right? When did you think there was no one in the police station, you rushed in with someone, understand? What Lao Tzu wants is the heads of Ye Yu Zhi, Xi Ben Lang and Pu Wen Xiao, can you do it? ”
Only then did Zhan Jinguo know that he had occupied the entire Yamen, so he shouted in a low voice: "Don't worry, big brother, I promise to complete the task!" "What I just said is just my own inference. What exactly should be done when the time comes, you have to be flexible! Yang Peng made a final admonition: "If you don't accept the orders of the monarch outside, adapt measures to local conditions, and adapt to changes, that's what a front-line commander must do." Go ahead and hope you don't let me down! ”
For this brother who is usually muffled, but is actually a leopard character, Yang Peng is really helpless. After being punished for disobeying military orders last time, Yang Peng was worried about turning Zhan Jinguo into a wooden man. If it's always rigid dogma, it's a complete end.
It's a pity that this guy rarely studies the word "proportion", and he has never scrutinized when he should be cautious and meticulous, and when he should ignore it and take the initiative to attack. For now, Zhan Jinguo is a very good captain. If you ask him to pin his head to his trouser belt and lead a few brothers on a desperate raid, he won't let you down. But what Yang Peng needs now is not this kind of captain, but a general who can take charge like Zhang Xiang.
If you want to be the captain, the more than 40 brothers under Yang Peng can all be captains now, and they will definitely be at the forefront at any time. However, a team can't all be captains, and Yang Peng doesn't want to be a battalion commander for the rest of his life!
In this operation, Cheng Shijie was put in charge of the commander-in-chief on one side, and Zhang Xiang was left in Hope Village to watch the family, and Yang Peng deliberately wanted to train the team. The outcome of the battle is still secondary, and the growth of the team is the most concerned issue for Yang Peng.
Zhan Jinguo's face was gloomy, and Yang Peng turned his gaze to another very optimistic brother: "Yin Mingde, come here!" "Big brother, our flintlock brothers are already in place, what else do you have to order?" Yin Mingde usually doesn't have much to say, but compared to Zhan Jinguo, he seems much calmer.
"Two machine crossbows, you hand them over to Xiang Danian and Fan Longtao to be in charge, and then transfer the two brothers from below as assistants!" Yang Peng shook his head and said, "Your mission tonight is not to use a crossbow, but to lead the remaining four infantry brothers to fight!" ”
"You let Fan Longtao bring a flintlock pistol down, and there is a flintlock pistol on it to stare at the Khitan people inside the watchtower." Yang Peng said as he went downstairs: "Hurry down, I have something to say!" After coming to the first floor, Yang Peng said to Yin Mingde: "Take out a few shooting holes on this wall facing the street." The flintlock pistol was arranged in the middle, and the other four brothers were separated on either side to take care of the protection. As soon as the Khitans came, everyone first shot him together, and then the flintlock pistol began to shoot and began to roll call. Your flintlock pistol is to provide fire support to your brothers. ”
"Yes, that's no problem." Yin Mingde was a little puzzled: "What are you doing?" Don't you command us? "Isn't Lao Tzu directing you now?" Yang Peng stared at Yin Mingde fiercely: "What do you care about Lao Tzu?" Quickly organize the brothers to enter the combat position and dig out the shooting hole, but do not remove the bricks for the time being, it is enough to leave an observation hole. Don't you want to ask me, I'll go and bring you the Khitans! ”
Throwing the crossbow to Yin Mingde, Yang Peng disappeared into the darkness with a dodge. I just asked casually, and I was taught such a big lesson! This big brother, it's getting harder and harder to serve now! Yin Mingde didn't know what Yang Peng wanted to do, so he kept muttering: "You said that if you bring the Khitan people here, can you bring them over?" Are you the commander of the Khitans? ”
When Yang Peng came out of the construction site, it was already about nine o'clock in the evening. Following the last course of action, he still jumped over the ridge and went straight to the place in the northeast corner of the yamen. However, he already knew that the barbed wire fence above the fence was connected to the bell, so he naturally could not repeat the mistake of the past. Coming to the base of the wall, Yang Peng turned over and took out two bricks, which he had brought with him from the construction site just now. When the two bricks touched, they had become four.
Sou! Half of the brick flew to the top of the fence, smashed against the barbed wire and fell down. Jingle bell - sure enough, the barbed wire was subjected to an external force, and the bell rang immediately.
Whoosh, the remaining three bricks flew to the barbed wire, and the alarm bell was loud for a while, and it became especially crisp at night!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Khitans' crossbow on duty finally couldn't bear it anymore, and they fired several points in a row, hitting the wall with sparks. Yang Peng was worried that he would not be able to mobilize the enemy, so he retrieved four bricks and threw them at the barbed wire fence without stopping. The bell kept ringing, and I don't know how many people were attacking the barbed wire.
Whoosh whoosh -
The crossbow on duty of the Khitans had changed its shooting method and directly turned into crazy shooting, and the top of the wall in the northeast corner was suddenly thrown into chaos. When the sound of the crossbow stopped, Yang Peng knew that the opponent's arrow fight had been finished. Looking at the barbed wire fence on the wall, a gap has been made. But this gap is not big enough, and it can only drill a cat.
If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.