Wang Dan and Zhao Zhijin were surrounded by fifty-six chariot men, and the two of them were even held around their necks with short knives, surrounded by those from the Zhao Jiabao convoy, and they pulled out their knives to surround these people.

Zhao Zhijin hurriedly shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, you are on that road, our Zhaojiabao has not offended anyone?"

A man walked up to Zhao Zhijin and took out a gold token, and said to him: "Then there is Zhang Duzhong, the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Wei Qianhu, who was ordered by the Ming Emperor to summon Mr. Zhao to lead his militia into the customs to protect my Ming Dynasty." ”

"Ahh The two people who were holding the knife exclaimed, they didn't expect to be approached by the Jinyi guard so soon.

Before Wang Dan could speak, he saw Zhao Zhijin rushing to say: "I, the owner of the castle, is just a false name for everyone to love, if I go to live in the customs, of course I can't ask for it, but the villagers of Zhaojiabao don't know whether they are willing or not." ”

Zhang Qianzhong said with a smile: "The Lord of Zhao Bao can be their head, there must be something outstanding, as long as you announce in front of everyone that you will enter the customs and become the people under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, I believe that no one dares to disobey." ”

Zhao Zhijin had to laugh dryly, and at this time, the people of Zhaojiabao also found that something was wrong and blew the horn.

Wang Dan's eyes kept turning, looking at these legendary brocade guards, and thought to himself: "Do these brocade guards look similar to ordinary people?" ”

When everyone was at a stalemate, the gate of the Zhaojiabao city wall opened, and twenty heavily armored soldiers with steel shields in their left hands and steel spears in their right hands approached here in formation.

Their shields were painted with strange cross-shaped patterns, and they were clad in strange armor that the brocade guards had never seen before, and behind them were a large number of militiamen with wooden shields and wooden guns.

These Zhaojiabao people walked in a neat step and quickly surrounded the confronting Jinyi guards.

The Jinyi guards were surprised that there was such a civilian armed force in Liaodong.

A man in a masked helmet shouted, "Let the castle master go." The same roar rang out from the people around him.

The brocade guards were shocked, and it was very powerful for so many people to shout in unison.

Zhang Qianzhong shouted loudly: "Do you Diao people want to rebel? We are here on the orders of the Ming Emperor to invite the lord of Zhao Bao and all the people of the fort to return to live in the pass. But the voice was drowned out in the roar of the Zhaojiabao people.

Zhao Zhijin shouted to the Jinyi guards who held him hostage: "Let go of me first, let me persuade them." ”

The Jinyi guard who was holding the knife was already trembling with fright, and when he heard Zhao Zhijin's words, he let go of the knife before Zhang Qianzhong gave the order.

Zhang Qianzhong glared at this subordinate fiercely, walked up to Zhao Zhijin and shouted to him: "Lord Zhao had better cooperate with us, otherwise it will not sound good to be rebellious." ”

Zhao Zhijin laughed a few times and walked straight forward and shouted to the enthusiastic Zhaojiabao people: "Everyone listen to me." ”

"Bell, bell." The head of Zhaojiabao suddenly sounded the alarm again.

The noisy crowd fell silent. Everyone looked at the city for some reason, Zhao Zhijin stopped talking before he started, and then everyone vaguely heard the sentry shouting: "The Tartars are coming, the Tartars are coming." ”

The Jinyi guards were so frightened that they couldn't hold their knives steadily, and Zhang Quanzhong put the knife on Zhao Zhijin's neck and shouted: "Send us into the fort quickly, otherwise you will be a collaborator." ”

All the people of Zhaojiabao looked at these brocade guards with disdain, and the people were silently surrounding these usually high-ranking officials, and as the sound of the Tartars' crazy shouting got closer and closer, the earth seemed to tremble under the iron hooves of the Tartars.

The trembling under his feet became more and more intense, and the brocade guards had already begun to scold the people of Zhaojiabao for being crazy. And Zhang Qianzhong suddenly thought in fear, "If the people of this fort are the people of the Tartars at all, then I am afraid that I and my fifty-five subordinates?"

At this time, the surrounding armed farmers automatically lined up in a strange shield phalanx of hundreds to protect everyone, and the few warriors wearing heavy strange armor also raised their weapons and aimed at the brocade guards.

Zhang Quanzhong breathed a sigh of relief to see that these people were not on the Tartar side, and for those peasants who dared to face the Tartars with wooden shields and wooden guns, he would not believe that such a militia would win in the field.

The Jinyi guards couldn't help but look into the distance in fright, the weapons couldn't be taken well, Zhang Qianzhong sighed, the actual situation of the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin, no Ming Dynasty yamen would be clearer than the Jinyi guard.

Looking at the mound in the distance, countless groups of demons suddenly appeared, and the figures of ghosts crying wolves and howling. Zhang Duzhong ordered his subordinates to let go of Wang Dan and Zhao Zhijin, and said politely to Zhao Zhijin: "Lord Zhao Castle, please forgive me for my recklessness, just now this official made this test because he was not sure whether Zhao Castle Lord's people were still loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Now it seems that you are indeed a militia fighting Tartars, and it is too dangerous outside the city, so we might as well enter the fort and be peaceful. ”

Zhao Zhijin also said with a smile on his face: "Of course, of course." "After Jin Yiwei let go of Wang Dan and Zhao Zhijin. He and Wang Dan were protected by soldiers in pure steel armor and returned to the city, and about twenty teams of wooden shield phalanxes outside also began to retreat slowly and orderly in an orderly manner.

The Jinyi guards hurried back to the door wall, and when they entered the gate, they suddenly heard the sound of a brief hurricane flying overhead. Looking up, he saw countless arrows fired from the wall of Zhaojiabao, and the arrow wall formed by them in the air flew into the distance.

The shadow cast by the sunlight on the arrow wall formed a long black shadow that moved quickly on the ground, and when the black shadow merged with the arrow wall, a large dense bamboo forest growing on the flesh and blood of the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners appeared on that ground.

After the last time the Tartars attacked, Zhao Jiabao urgently made many strong bows, which were already effective in piercing the armor of the Tartars.

The shocked Jinyi guards didn't know how to enter Zhaojia Fort, only to see the wooden shield infantry defending outside the fort calmly retreating to the castle guard, which made them even more helpless that they were in at least 10,000 wooden shield infantry, and they were still using knives on the throat of their castle master just now!

After a short understanding, it turned out that when Wang Dan led the convoy into the customs to buy grain, Artiman listened to the opinions of the villagers who had been plagued by the Tartars for a long time, and thought that these robbers with long braids would come at any time, so he mobilized all the nearly 150,000 Zhaojiabao people to urgently build a guard wall covering the newly reclaimed farmland overnight, and inspired by the slogan of living a good new life, this huge guard wall was miraculously built in a few days, and the arrow tower is now being built.

Wang Dan ordered more than 50 guards to drive the carriage to the main city of Zhaojiabao, the grain was put into storage, and the iron ore was handed over to the blacksmiths. And let the blacksmiths make iron spears and iron shields as quickly as possible, and the iron armor will be rebuilt later.

The Tartars were frightened by the arrow array just now and retreated into the distance, and the guards safely withdrew into the wall, and as the gate of the wall closed, sixteen tall figures in the distance rode towards Wang Dan.

The sixteen heavily armed knights on dragon elephant horses galloped like steel behemoths. The earth shook slightly, and an unridden dragon elephant followed their mount.

In the chorus cheers of the people of Zhaojiabao, the fifty-six brocade guards were frightened to see these sixteen knights stop in front of Wang Dan, and neatly performed a ceremony with their right hand clenched into a fist in their hearts at the young man they thought was the castle lord's assistant just now, while the old man who was suspected of being the castle lord stood respectfully and solemnly beside him.

"Congratulations on your safe return, now Zhaojiabao's 3,000 guards plus 8,000 reserve infantry are waiting for your command, we believe that you will be able to defeat the enemy." Resarit's voice rang out among the sixteen identical knights.

Wang Dan walked towards the dragon elephant war horse, and felt a lot more relieved when he touched this tall and powerful partner in heavy armor.

"Your Excellency, please put on your armor. Caitlyn pulled out the full suit of Kaysa from the back of her horse.

Wang Dan nodded, and immediately put on the plate armor. When he took out the bag of the sword of the king from under the saddle of the temporary horse, an exclamation suddenly sounded around him, and when he looked up, he saw that the rain of arrows was falling rapidly, and Wang dared to subconsciously block the door with his helmet.

With a "ding" sound, Wang Dan felt that the helmet sank, and then someone around him soon put a steel shield on top of Wang Dan's head to block flying arrows.

In Zhaojiabao, a vast wooden plank suddenly appeared, and the rain of arrows was nailed to it, and it seemed that there was no intention of stopping.

Wang Dan looked at an arrow tightly nailed to his helmet and said worriedly, "It seems that this time the Tartar will not be so easy to drive away. "Immediately pull out the arrow, put on the helmet, and brave the rain of arrows under the cover of the steel shield to walk to an arrow tower. Sixteen warriors followed closely.

When climbing the arrow tower, the Tartar's arrows kept pouring in from a very small shooting hole, and the arrow tower from time to time let out the screams of the guards who were shot by the arrows, and when they walked up to the arrow tower, they found that the arrow rain in the sky was like locusts flying in the sky, and five or six all-steel armored soldiers were busy holding shields in front of Wang Dan. "Dingding, ding......" The sound of arrow rain and steel shield colliding is endless.

Wang Dan saw through the gap in the shield that there were about a few thousand Qing cavalry lined up outside, and several long columns were running quickly, firing arrows at Zhaojiabao while riding horses.

Resarit shouted to Wang Dan amid the fierce metal clashes, "My lord, we must hurry up and fight back, otherwise the soldiers will be even more afraid." ”

Wang Dan saw that the guards around him were holding bows and arrows, but they didn't dare to get up and fight back, and Zhaojiabao's side was gradually suppressed. Feeling that it was impossible to go on like this, he hurriedly took off the elven war bow on his back and shot at the Qing army, and the sixteen warriors also took out the strong bow specially made by the blacksmith to shoot back at the Qing army.

Qing troops were constantly shot off their horses. The commander of the Qing army also found that the counterattack of an arrow tower was very fierce, so he adjusted the target slightly, and countless arrows flew towards the kings, and the sound of metal colliding sounded like the start of the Grimm cannon.

The steel shield infantry was hit by the rain of arrows and couldn't help pushing back, Wang Dan and the sixteen warriors immediately hid in the tower as soon as they realized that the situation was wrong, and when they turned around, they saw the arrow rain group surging like a flood tide, and the screams of the life-seeking were rattling, and then look at the several infantry guarding Wang Dan were shot miserably, especially the heavy steel shield seemed to grow a whole long wooden plank out of plain white.

Wang Dan's hands trembled in fright, is this the Eight Banners Soldier Archery in the Cold Weapon Era?

After a while, the angry tide of arrow rain began to turn into a small stream, and Wang Dan saw through the shooting hole that the Zhaojiabao guards took advantage of the Qing soldiers' attention to focus on this arrow tower and counterattacked, and many people who could bow and arrow also fought on the wall, and finally brought the crisis back.

Wang Dan saw that the arrows were not so dense and shouted and rushed to the top of the tower, pulled the bow to shoot arrows at the Qing soldiers, sixteen warriors followed, the people of Zhaojiabao saw the castle lord adventuring the battle and cheered, Zhaojiabao's arrow array continued to strengthen, the Qing soldiers were finally defeated, but there were still a hundred elite cavalry flexibly to the wall to shoot arrows, and Zhaojiabao's arrows were difficult to shoot them.

The battle was suspended, and Resarit said to Wang Dan: "My lord, please be careful of your own safety, with the combat power of these bandits, you can become a fierce opponent of the elite cavalry archers of Kujit." ”

Wang Dan shot an arrow to take down a Qing cavalryman, and then used the elven war bow to pull away the cold arrows that came from it, and said to Resarit: "They are indeed the greatest enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and they are extremely cruel to the common people, so our resistance represents justice." ”

Niza leaned over and said, "I can't imagine that there would be an army in this world that slaughters civilians like this except for those brainless dark cultists in Calradia. ”

Mathilde looked at it very carefully, and said for a long time: "I don't think they are Nords, we Nords will not stop fighting for the land given by God, because God has given us the right to fight." But as soon as she finished speaking, she felt the hostility from her companions, and looked left and right with a weak heart.

As expected, the fifteen knight companions stared at him coldly, and even though they could feel their displeasure through the helmet, the native inhabitants of Calradia were hostile to the overseas Nords who had forcibly seized the land uninvited.

The Zhaojiapu people finally drove the Qing soldiers to the distance with dense arrows, and the Qing army quickly cut down trees and camped, apparently preparing to besiege Zhaojiabao for a long time.

Bhandak looked at the large military camp that was being built quickly, and finally reported to Wang Dan: "My lord, the enemy on the opposite side seems to be battlefield experts, and the erected camp is very suitable for attack and defense, and this military camp is definitely a large camp that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, are they just the enemy's vanguard!"

Resarit muttered, "It's a big military camp, I'm afraid there will be at least 50,000 people." ”

When Wang Dan heard this, he hated his decision to stay, where to go, even if it was better to live in seclusion in a remote water town in the south of the Yangtze River than to live desperately here!

Resarit pleaded with Wang Dan, "My lord, I beg you to let me go and gather all the combatants, and I will urgently train before the battle." ”

Wang Dan muttered a little dejectedly, "Training, what can you do with training?"

Resarit shouted, "Training will strengthen the fighting skills of our soldiers, and give these poor peasant recruits who are forced to take up arms a better chance of survival, and they also have a strong will to survive, please look at the people below." ”

Wang Dan unconsciously looked at the fort, but saw more than 20,000 Zhaojiabao people neatly arranged in the open space behind the wall, and more people were coming, among them there were many old people and children, their expressions were so resolute, with a desire for life to look up at Wang Dan, because they knew that once Zhaojiabao was breached, the only thing waiting for them would be to be tragically slaughtered, so they all had to come and obey the command of Wang Dan, the castle master, and firmly follow the castle lord to fight, which was their only hope.

On the vacant ground not far away, there were more than 300 corpses of the guards who died in the battle with the Qing soldiers in the archery array, and these people, who could only be regarded as militiamen, were pierced through their bodies by two or three or more sharp arrows, looking hideous and terrifying, their families were crying and shouting on the side, and everyone in Zhaojiabao was sad.

Resarit whispered to Wang Dan: "My lord, can you bear to watch these people who desire the right to live give up on themselves and let others kill?"

Wang Dan looked at these ancients hundreds of years ago, maybe one of them was still his own or someone he knew had an ancestor in the Ming Dynasty! Suddenly feeling that there was some mission on his body calling, his confused eyes gradually became firm, and he nodded to Resari and motioned for him to do something, and then turned to look at the Qing army camp in the distance, and at the same time, the earth-shattering shouts and formations sounded in Zhaojiabao, and Wang Dan clenched his fists. (To be continued......)