Chapter 277

In Sangong Village, Dabie Mountain, Zhang Xianzhong woke up from his sleep, it can be said that he had a nightmare, dreaming that Cheng Shijie stepped on his head, making him unable to breathe.

When Zhang Xianzhong's head was completely sober, he felt that something was wrong.

Zhang Xianzhong can also be regarded as a senior rogue. Since the end of the apocalypse, the whole territory of Shaanxi has been plagued by famines, serious drought and insect plagues have occurred, and the seedlings have withered and scorched, and starvation has spread all over the wilderness. The peasants could not survive, so they had to take risks. Peasant revolts first broke out in northern Shaanxi, and soon became a prairie fire.

Zhang Xianzhong was originally a native of Liushujian Fort in Dingbian County, studied when he was young, and later joined the army. Because of the violation of the law, the main general Chen Hongfan saw his strange appearance, pleaded with the general soldier Wang Wei for it, beat a hundred military sticks to remove the name, and since then he has been in the countryside.

When he was in the countryside, Zhang Xianzhong was long and thin and had a slightly yellow face, one foot six inches, and he was a strong and fruitful man, and was called 'Yellow Tiger' among people. In the third year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong integrated the eighteen villages in Dingbian, responded to Wang Jiayin and other riots, and called himself the "Eight Kings".

From Chongzhen for three years, until now, he has been around Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, but instead of being exterminated, he has become more and more happy, and he has become more and more troublesome. The army he led with the Dingbian Eighteen Villages as the foundation has strong internal cohesion and brave combat, and has always been the elite of the Liukou army.

Later, Gao Yingxiang became the leader of the world's righteous army, and Zhang Xianzhong directly entered Fengyang, famous in heaven, and his power grew stronger and stronger. However, when Zhang Xianzhong began to point the finger at Macheng, he began to run into trouble. In the battle of Heshun Village, he was defeated by Cheng Shijie's 6,000 elite Ning Navy cavalry, and now he finally escaped to the territory of Susong, but the problem is that this cottage is so rich.

As Lao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching: "Woe, blessing depends, blessing, misfortune lurks" Although the materials seized in Sangongzhai are more than those seized in an ordinary county town or even a state town. But the problem is that these materials include canned meat, sugar, salt beans, and wine. There was wheat, and there was rice, and there was jerky.

The extremely tired troops, when they encountered so many supplies, they naturally ate and drank a meal, and when Zhang Xianzhong got up, the entire huge camp was almost drunk. A small number of rogues who are still sober are also venting their primitive animal desires.

"King!"

"King!"

Wherever Zhang Xianzhong passed, all the rogues saluted one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong asked: "We are not familiar with the place here, have we arranged a sentinel?" Don't capsize in the gutter! ”

"King, don't worry, it's already arranged!"

One of the generals under Zhang Xianzhong's command, Guoshan Hu, said: "King, if you want to touch our camp, unless they turn into flies and fly in, they will definitely be discovered by our people." ”

Listening to the report of the mountain tiger, Zhang Xianzhong did not feel at ease, but felt a sudden burst in his heart for no reason, and his heart beat faster.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong came to a smell of boiled meat.

Looking in the direction of the fragrance, however, the source of the meat aroma is not in Sangong Village.

Don't think how majestic the Liukou is, in fact, most people can't eat enough, even if they can barely fill their stomachs, the food is not good, the nest head made of bran and wild vegetables is the staple food, if you can get a little beans and add a little salt to cook, it is a good meal, there is no oil and water in the stomach.

Of course, the leader level not only has meat to eat, but also wine to drink, and their treatment is actually better than that of ordinary landlords, just like Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army, even if he doesn't rob Sangong Village, he still has a certain amount of meat and wine, including rice and flour.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the piles of bonfires in the distance, looked at Zi Jinxing and said, "You have good eyesight, look at how many of them there are?" ”

Purple Venus looked at the piles and counted the bonfires, counting several times but not counting clearly. He sighed and said, "I'm afraid there are a lot of troops, there must be several thousand." ”

Zhang Xianzhong asked, "How many thousand?" Three thousand or five thousand? ”

Zi Jinxing shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's more than that!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong took a breath of cool air. The officers and soldiers came silently, so many people, trouble!

At this moment, a loud bang was heard in the distance, and an orange-red fireball rose into the air. Several rogues were blown to a bloody pulp, and two wounded people lay on the ground and screamed.

"What's going on?"

Zhang Xianzhong walked in the direction of the explosion. I saw a girl with more than a dozen absentees, holding an iron horn, and scolded Zhang Xianzhong: "My aunt and grandmother are here, come and beat me!" ”

"Little girl, don't call now, there will be a chance for you to call!"

"You're out to beat us! You bastards, a bunch of shrunken turtles, are less daring than your mother-in-law! Go back to your hometown and gnaw the bark as soon as possible, you still want to rebel with such guts? I'm not afraid to make people laugh off their big teeth! ”

In the face of the little girl's scolding, these rogues were naturally not to be outdone, and scolded back one after another: "Don't run away!" ”

"Don't run, you're stupid!"

"We don't bully more with less, let's go head-to-head!"

"I'm fourteen years old this year, and I'm a fourteen-year-old girl alone, do you want face?"

"Lao Tzu beat the three of you one by one, come here!"

"You've got a kind of coming!"

It's night now, most of the rogues are actually malnourished, and there is no way to fight at night, even Zhang Xianzhong has a slight night blindness, not to mention other people.

Zhang Xianzhong is not stupid, he naturally knows that there must be an ambush around these dozen little girls, and the two sides scolded each other in the air, but no one made a move.

About three miles away from the front of Sangong Village, this is the camp of the Ning Navy.

In front of a bonfire in the camp, Sun Kewang looked at the camp of the Liukou and said with a sigh of relief: "It can be regarded as catching them!" ”

"It's a pity that Lao Yuan's artillery didn't keep up, otherwise, as soon as dozens of cannons bombarded, he would be called the Eight Kings, and he would immediately become the Eight Kings of Death!"

Zhao Wencai smiled lightly: "Fortunately, a good meal is not afraid of being late!" ”

Sun Kewang looked at Zhao Wencai and said: "General Zhao, in my opinion, there is no need to wait until dawn tomorrow, now I will launch an attack with me, tear a hole in their camp, you lead the cavalry to rush in, and one guy can defeat them!" ”

"Inappropriate!"

Zhao Wencai said with a solemn face: "Our marshal has always been the most disgusted with generals who disregard the lives of soldiers, if I dare to do this, even if the marshal doesn't unscrew my head, he will have to take my military uniform!" ”

Meng En looked at Sun Kewang and said, "It's a good thing to have a sharp spirit, but you can't just rely on a sharp spirit to rush into the middle of the enemy without a head or a brain!" ”

Sun Kewang actually didn't feel at ease with Zhao Wencai, of course, he also knew that Meng En was different from Zhao Wencai, and Zhao Wencai, like himself, was born in the army. And Meng En is Cheng Shijie's old descendant.

Sun Kewang dared to pit Zhao Wencai, but he did not dare to be presumptuous to Meng En. He looked at Meng En and said, "Then, according to General Meng's opinion, what should we do now?" ”

Meng En smiled faintly and said: "Tomorrow the fifth watch cooks, the sixth watch cooks, and the whole army will press on at sunrise to force the rogues to fight a decisive battle with us!" These rabbles are no match for us in any case, and they can be completely defeated with just one battle! ”

Sun Kewang groaned slightly, nodded and said: "The heavy sword has no edge, it is not skillful, wonderful!" ”

Although Meng En was prepared to face Zhang Xianzhong in a dignified manner, in fact, this was not really fair, but to take advantage of the equipment advantage of the Ning Navy, as well as the long-range advantage. Although the infantry units under Meng En's command did not have long-range artillery, they still had support firepower and Francophone artillery, and the firepower was much more fierce than that of cavalry.

"I hope that tomorrow I can complete the battle, so that I can free up my hands to support Luzon."

In the night breeze, Meng En looked at Sangong Village and said with a worried face: "I don't know what happened to Luzon, it is said that the Spaniards are back!" ”

Zhao Wencai frowned and asked, "What's the matter, did the Guards Division receive the order to go to Luzon?" ”

"The General Staff plans to adopt a rotation system, and each of our soldiers who can fight in the Ning Navy will go to Luzon to carry out a one-year combat mission, and our Guards Division is also among them, not only the Guards Division, but even the troops of Wusongkou and Dayuan are also in rotation!"

Zhao Wencai sighed and said, "It seems that the situation in Luzon is not optimistic!" ”

"What, the situation in Luzon is very good, it's just that the marshal wants to use the natives of Luzon to train troops!" Meng En said with a smile: "Our Ning Navy has developed too fast, and there are still many soldiers who have been soldiers for two or three years, and they haven't had a chance to see blood!" ”

After a day's journey, the Ning Navy soldiers were already hungry and destroyed the food with amazing efficiency, and then fell asleep. Recharge your batteries and get ready for tomorrow's battle.

Early the next morning, all the rogues crawled out of their beds. They slept very unsteadily last night, in addition to the harassment of the young men of Sangong Village, it was more because they learned that the Ning Navy of the brigade had called, and it was only two or three miles away from them, who could still sleep?

You must know that the Ning Navy fought in Heshun, and he had already beaten Zhang Xianzhong's rogue to the shadow in his heart, the kind of gunfire like popping beans, and the artillery like a fire dragon, it was simply their nightmare. They got up early and leaned on the fence to look into the distance, wanting to see what was going on.

Two miles away, directly ahead, the cavalry of the Ning Navy was forming a team, and in front of the cavalry formation, more than 200 carts, these carts were either Thunderbolt vehicles, or Fire Dragon II launch vehicles, and some ammunition supply vehicles, which were preparing to fire.

Zhang Xianzhong had already seen the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Ning Navy, and in the face of the thunderbolts and rocket artillery of the Ning Navy, he no longer had the will to resist.

"Grab a few people and ask, how many roads are there in this village!"

The mountain tiger said: "The king, I have asked a long time ago, there are three roads in total, and the road in front of us can lead to the county seat, but now we can't go, it is blocked by their cavalry!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong asked directly: "What about the other way?" ”

"It's leading to the pier, the road is in good condition and it's very wide!"

"Then we ......"

When Zhang Xianzhong came to the south gate of Sangong Village, two miles away in front of the south gate at this time, the infantry of the Ning Navy was also in the whole team, and then discharged at one time, and the front was dozens of Franc machine guns, and then dozens of thunderbolt vehicles, as well as a defensive line lined up with baggage vehicles.

On the front line of this chariot formation, there is a steel jungle of pikemen, if the enemy rushes head-on, they will not hesitate to meet and intercept, the pikemen rely on the shield wall to form a formidable forest of guns, coupled with the rain of bullets poured by the musketeers, to ensure that the enemy who charges the battle will not be able to eat and walk.

Liukou looked at all this in amazement, isn't it, it's going to start early in the morning? You're so positive, we haven't even eaten breakfast yet!

Zhang Xianzhong was already very desperate at this time, and in the midst of many leaders' kicks and blows, the rogues picked up the guys, stuffed something into their mouths indiscriminately, and then drove out of the camp in a mess, preparing to fight.

They still don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourds of the officers and soldiers, but since the officers and soldiers have already put on a posture of starting a fight, they can only accompany them.

The infantry of the Ning Navy advanced at a constant pace of eighty-eight paces per minute, very rhythmic, and the most terrible thing was their silence, thousands of people marching at the same time, not a single person spoke, not even the horses barked, and the eardrums were filled with their neat and powerful footsteps, as well as the light and rhythmic drumbeat.

Thousands of people marched to the beat of the marching drum. Getting closer, the rogues were surprised to see that these officers and soldiers were all dressed in black robes, wearing oval spired steel helmets, and on the steel helmets, blood-red helmets danced in the morning breeze, like jumping blood-devouring elves.

Not only that, but all of them are wearing iron armor, and as far as the eye can see, it is simply a sea of metal!

The leaders looked at each other in shock, what kind of army is this, how can it have such sophisticated equipment? If it is said that the cavalry is well equipped, this is understandable After all, there are few cavalry in the Ming Dynasty, and every cavalry is a baby pimple.

But the problem is that infantry is a cheap type of soldier, and if you are issued with a spear or a knife, you are a soldier, and as long as there is food, there are as many soldiers as there are. When Zhang Xianzhong fought Fengyang, there were only more than 54,000 old battalion men and horses around him, however, after fighting Fengyang, his troops skyrocketed by two or three times.

If it weren't for the fact that there were too many people and not enough food to feed, Zhang Xianzhong could have expanded his troops to hundreds of thousands at any time.

Now Ninghai's rangers had opened their power guard, pressing towards their flanks and expelling their scouts. In the scout battle, the gap between the two sides was vividly reflected, in the sound of a three-foot-three-inch long composite bow, the old battalion rangers who brandished their scimitars to pounce on and fight with the scouts of the Ning Navy fell from their horses one after another.

Although these rogues are brave and skillful in bow and horse, but the Ning Navy is rich and rich, Sun Chengzong also used his influence to screen elite knights from the border army, and now the Ning Navy cavalry, there are many guys who are knights with superb riding skills, these guys have not learned to walk before they learn to ride horses, and they have dealt with nomads on horseback since they were children.

Zhang Xianzhong looked a little distressed, these cavalry are the elite of his lineage, and it is up to them to dominate the world, but now it is good, the elite he has painstakingly cultivated makes the other party a rabbit, and he is very happy to shoot an arrow.

There's no way around it now.

"Where's the third way?"

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong's words fell, Zi Jinxing said with a surprised face: "King, what do you mean......"

"I mean, this battle can't be fought!"

Now the artillery of the Ning Navy has not fired, the Thunderbolt has not fired, they have killed and injured more than 300 people, but the Ning Navy has not killed or injured a single person, how can this battle be fought?

With a record of more than 300 to zero, if you continue to fight, you will have a hole in your head.

"The opposite side is completely a rabble, we can defeat them with a single charge, I really don't know why General Zhao refuses to let us go to the battle!"

The cavalry shouted, "Yes, why don't you let us go?" This is a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions! ”

Qiao Siniang said: "Let you go, of course there is a chance to defeat the rogues in one fell swoop, but the question is, how many people do you plan to lose?" Two hundred? Or three hundred? ”

"There are no immortals in war!"

Qiao Siniang said: "Of course there will be deaths in the war, but we must also try to kill as few people as possible, the head is not a leek, it can grow out if it is cut off, who is not raised by a father?" ”

Qiao Siniang trained people to be the first to go, and the Zhongning naval cavalry closed their mouths and did not complain anymore.

"Come back, according to the stockade!"

"King, as long as we retreat, their cannons will come up, so how can we fight?"

"Let you go back, just go back, less fucking nonsense!"

Zhang Xianzhong made a retreat gesture towards the leader of his henchmen, and the leaders of the Liukou instantly understood, and they all found their substitutes for the dead ghosts and patted each other's shoulders: "Boy, I have always been optimistic about you, fight this battle well, how will it be in the future!" ”

A group of unknown rogues began to retreat in front of the wall, in all fairness, the wall of the Sangong Village was built quite well, most of them were made of stones, there was no way, don't look at Monk Peng's war, but the most mining, he himself was a miner, and after making money from the phosphate mine, he rebuilt the village.

Seeing that the crowd retreated to the stockade, the Zhongning naval cavalry was so angry that they scolded their mothers.

"It's all cowardice!"

"It's kind of fighting grandpa!"

"Damn, are you a man?"

Without going out of the field battle in the walled city, the cavalry had almost no credit, and these credits would be taken by the artillery of the Ning Navy, and the cavalry felt that the beaked duck flew.

Zhang Xianzhong came to the back mountain of Sangong Village, looking at the so-called road in the back mountain, he felt a tingling scalp, this so-called road, almost a 70-degree angle, this is a steep slope.

"How's this going?"

"Go down the rope ladder!"

Several rogue took the rope ladder and lowered it down the mountain, and before they came down, there were bursts of cannon sound behind them, Ning Haijun found that the rogue retreated to the cottage, naturally he would not be polite, the cavalry's fire dragon out of the water two rocket shells, Franc machine artillery, cannonballs smashed towards the three bow village like no money.

Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly climbed down the mountain.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Rocket shells and shells fell in the Three Bow Village, and as long as one shell fell to the ground, it would make several or more than a dozen rogue people fly sideways.

At this moment, a rogue leader grabbed a miner from Sangongzhai who was so frightened that he hugged his head and cried, his original intention was to use this kind of miner as a meat shield, however, more and more rogue koku reacted, and they grabbed the miner who did not have time to kill as a meat shield.

It's not that Zhang Xianzhong is benevolent, every time they go to a place, they will coerce the local people to join, these more than 4,000 miners, as many as 1,500 or 600 young and strong, for Zhang Xianzhong, this is a fresh blood.

A celebrity Kou, escorting the miners, as well as the miners' families, women, children and children, pushed them to the wall of Sangong Village.

Sun Xiucai looked at this scene and hurriedly said to Meng En: "General Meng, don't fight, those are all our people!" ”

"Your people?"

"Stop firing!"

As the fire stopped, the smoke was blown away by the wind, and the dense crowds of miners and their families could be seen on the walls of the village.

"These shitty rogues!"

Meng En is also very embarrassed now, if it is other Ming troops, they will not care about the deaths and injuries of the people, as long as they annihilate the Liukou, for them, it is a great achievement, even if there are no ordinary people, some of them will kill the good and take the risk. But the Ning Navy is different, and the Ning Navy has always adhered to the purpose of fewer dead people.

If Meng En didn't owe the indiscriminate, a bombardment, even if he won the war, he would be punished.

Meng En said: "Let them surrender, General Ben will keep them from dying, if they don't surrender, General Ben will make them regret coming to this world!" ”

Let go of these rogues, this does not exist, even if he is punished desperately, Meng En will annihilate these rogues.

Sun Xiucai stepped forward to negotiate with Liukou, and at this time, Zhang Xianzhong had just arrived at the foot of the mountain.

He listened to the sound of artillery on the top of the cottage stop, and knew that the brothers on the mountain were either dead or surrendered to the Ning Navy.

"That's too fast, isn't it?"

Zhang Xianzhong breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the biggest benefit of these wastes was to win him time to escape, but when Zhang Xianzhong looked around, there were less than two thousand people around him.

But he has been the worst since he started the army. After all, in this time and space, he hadn't met Qin Liangyu yet, and he hadn't been cleaned up.

"King, what should we do now?"

"Find a place to rest first, hide from the limelight for a while, and after a while, I will take you to the state and hit the mansion, eat and drink spicy!"

Just before Zhang Xianzhong's words fell.

"Whew!"

A sharp whistle suddenly sounded, and a crossbow arrow about a foot long burst through the air, hitting the temple of Purple Venus, piercing the entire cranial cavity, entering and exiting on the left, and the strong impact knocked him over.

Almost at the same time, there was a loud trembling sound on the mountain road, crossbow arrows rained down, and the thieves of Zhang Xianzhong's troops who were proud were hit by arrows one after another, and once they were hit by arrows, they were all pierced in front of each other, and the screams on the mountain road were loud, and the officers and soldiers who walked in front turned over on their backs, and they were killed and wounded.

Guo Hushan was shocked and shouted: "There is an ambush!" There was ......"

However, the word "ambush" just reached the tip of his tongue, and was dragged by Zhang Xianzhong violently, blocking in front of him, and then, a crossbow arrow hit his forehead, straight through the back of his head, and the arrow protruded from the back of his head with brain pulp and blood.

Zhang Xianzhong gasped when he saw it, what a terrible crossbow!

A round of crossbow arrows came, and more than 200 old thieves in Zhang Xianzhong's department were shot over, and they were completely messed up. Let them bully those outcasts, of course, they are unstoppable, but let them fight with the same well-equipped army, they will not hesitate to throw down their weapons and scatter their feet, and the fool will go up and play for his life!

Now that they have been ambushed by Sun Kewang's department, more than 200 people have been shot down in one face, and if they don't urinate, it will be a great miracle. The timid ones lay on the ground trembling all over, and the clever ones threw away the booty in their hands and fled, while some of the rogue leaders roared loudly, trying to organize these uncompetitive subordinates to fight their way out.

The mountain road is so big, so many people are in a mess, naturally they are crowded together, no one can move, and for a time the screams, screams, and curses are endless, and they are extremely embarrassed.

The second round of crossbow bolts soon came again. The powerful crossbows equipped by this gang of old thieves who ambushed them were not only extremely lethal, but a row of crossbow arrows swept by, and this gang of rogues was shot over by more than a hundred people, almost without a false occurrence. At this time, those rogues were already broken, and many of them even knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, shouting, "Grandpa spares his life, grandpa spares his life, we surrender!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong yelled: "Who is it? , hiding the head and showing the tail, what kind of ability? ”

Crossbow, although it is destined to be eliminated, but the problem is that these craftsmen who made crossbows in the Ming Dynasty are not reconciled, they have improved the crossbow of the Ning Navy several times, and now the range has reached three hundred and forty steps, it is very difficult to pull such a strong crossbow, but due to the installation of a very cleverly designed pulley group, it is not much more difficult to pull it apart than to pull a strong bow.

The most amazing thing is that its arrow groove has also been modified into a magazine device, this device is made of white iron sheet, which is equipped with ten crossbow arrows, pressing the spring at the bottom, and after shooting one, the spring will automatically push the next one into the arrow groove, the archer only needs to open the crossbow to launch, eliminating a series of actions such as taking arrows from the quiver and embedding the arrow groove, the firing process is greatly simplified, and the rate of fire has increased greatly, from the original two to three arrows per minute to an average of four arrows per minute, and the sharp-handed archers can even shoot five arrows a minute.

"Father-in-law, don't come unharmed!"

When Sun Kewang appeared on the avenue, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes instantly turned red: "It's you rebel!" ”

Sun Kewang looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said: "I haven't seen you for many days, father-in-law, you want to kill your child!" ”

In order to avoid being shot, the rogues around Zhang Xianzhong dropped their weapons one after another.

Sun Kewang walked towards Zhang Xianzhong step by step.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at his former son, and now he has become very nervous: "What are you going to do?" ”

"Borrow something from your father-in-law!"

"What's that?"

Sun Kewang said with a serious face: "I hope that I have now taken refuge in Cheng Dashuai and become the commander of the handsome guard, but I hope that I have no merit and is worthy of this position of commander, so I hope that I want to borrow my father-in-law's head!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong stared at Sun Kewang with a sneer: "You dare to kill me?" Aren't you afraid that Cheng Shijie is afraid of repeating the mistakes of being a father? Think about it, is it better to kill your father, or to send your father to Cheng Dashuai! ”

"Send it to the marshal, the marshal doesn't dare to protect you, you have made a big mistake, you dug up the imperial tomb, once you send it to the capital, you will have to be delayed, why bother?"

(End of chapter)