Chapter Ninety-Nine: Du Hongzhang
Zhang Yunchang, the commander of the surrender army, was nervous in his heart, and if the soldiers and horses in the city were really killed, he dared to guarantee that the 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command would be scattered before the battle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
How could he not know the soldiers and horses he brought, there is nothing to say about bullying the common people, if he goes into battle to kill the enemy and fight a good battle, it is estimated that there is not much of a problem, and the loot is even more indomitable, but if you really want to fight with Du Chongwei's elite soldiers, it is absolutely impossible.
Cheng German army Du Chongwei has 30,000 soldiers and horses, of which 20,000 are his elite, and the other 10,000 can only be regarded as miscellaneous soldiers with a name, at the beginning of the war, Du Chongwei gathered the elite soldiers into the city of Zhenzhou, and only the 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers stationed in the towns on all sides, including Zhaozhou. And the 1,000 troops led by him Zhang Yunchang were part of the 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers.
It is precisely because of this that Yang Guangyuan will take the important places around Zhenzhou so easily, almost bloodlessly.
Others don't know how powerful the elite soldiers under Du Chongwei are, how could he, Zhang Yunchang, not know that in terms of strength, the 20,000 elite soldiers in the city are enough to be worth 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers. With only a thousand soldiers under him, Du Chongwei only needs to send hundreds of elite soldiers to kill others on their backs.
Zhang Yunchang peeked at both sides, secretly wondering which direction he should flee if his soldiers and horses were scattered. However, the Captain Zhou next to him is a very troublesome matter, this Captain Zhou, is Yang Shuai's personal soldiers, said that he came to protect him, the ghost knows, in fact, it is the prison army that was sent, if he finds that he is the slightest bit wrong, this Captain Zhou will first cut off his Zhang Yunchang's head.
Du Shuai in the city didn't seem to have the intention of sending troops to meet the battle, and let his soldiers shout and scold under the city, but he was indifferent, it seems that Du Chongwei really didn't have the courage to fight with Yang Shuai.
It's no wonder that Yang Shuai has 30,000 elite soldiers, and there are Khitans in the back, Du Chongwei ate leopard gall before he dared to fight with Yang Shuai, even if he was lucky enough to defeat Yang Shuai, it didn't work well, and the Khitans were brought in.
Zhang Yunchang's courage gradually grew, this is the time to employ people, if he performs well and falls into the eyes of Yang Shuai, his future promotion will be much easier.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yunchang's heart was hot, and he stepped forward, pointed the dragon steel gun in his hand to the city tower, and shouted: "Du Hongzhang, you rabbit cub, your father is a rabbit, and the child is so useless. ā
The soldiers in the city rioted.
Seeing that Zhang Yunchang was so powerful and insulting Du Shuai, the generals at the head of the South Gate City turned blue with anger and asked for battle.
"Please fight, what kind of battle?" Du Hongzhang, the guard of the south gate, said angrily, "My father strictly ordered that you are not allowed to go to war, don't you know? When you go to war, I don't know how many elite horsemen are ambushed in the enemy's camp, what should I do if I take advantage of the time to go out to take the city? Who can bear the responsibility for the loss of the city gate?"
Seeing Du Hongzhang say this, the generals lowered their heads one after another, but they couldn't swallow the wretched breath in their hearts.
Zhang Yunchang was triumphant under the city tower, when he was full of ambition, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, at first Zhang Yunchang didn't care too much, only as a contact messenger sent later, and didn't care too much, and listened to the sound of the horse's hooves getting more and more urgent, but it seemed to be galloping at full speed, without slowing down at all, the heart was strange, looking back, only to see a slip of dust, more than ten cavalry came not good, already more than 30 zhang away from him, the steel knife in his hand held the knife flower to kill and pounced on him!
"Enemy attack!" Zhang Yunchang's heart suddenly sank to the bottom of the water, "Turn around, line up, meet the enemy!" Zhang Yunchang turned back to the horse's head, slapped his soldiers who were still stunned with the barrel of his gun, and shouted loudly.
As soon as the words fell, the more than ten people rushed to the front, and Li Fengyun took the lead, knocking away two soldiers who were still stupid in front of his horse, and chopping off the head of another confused soldier with a wave of his hand.
Zhang Yunchang also wanted to escape, but where could he escape? The dozen or so horsemen rushed towards him at full speed, and several brave soldiers tried to stop them, but in the blink of an eye, they were knocked away or knocked to the ground. Even if he escapes, he can't escape, not to mention that there is a Captain Zhou by his side, but I am afraid that before he turns around, Captain Zhou will cut off his head first.
As soon as he gritted his teeth, Zhang Yunchang relented and shouted: "Rush me!" With a few cronies, he stepped forward to meet the battle.
In cavalry battles, the first is speed, and the fast ones have a great advantage; the second is the formation coordination, the formation is neat, and the probability of survival with tacit understanding will be much greater; and the third is martial arts and horsemanship.
In terms of martial arts, Zhang Yunchang's kung fu is not bad, and he can barely make a few moves with a third-rate master, but the formation coordination is much worse, as for the speed, there is no at all. It can be said that the disadvantage is exhausted, seeing the black knife in Li Fengyun's hand slashing towards him, he raised his gun and wanted to hold it, how did he know that Li Fengyun's knife could not be stopped.
only heard a "click", the coiled dragon gun was broken into two, Zhang Yunchang secretly screamed badly, when he wanted to dodge, he didn't care, he only felt a cold neck, the whole world rolled up, and vaguely a headless corpse fell under the horse, and then the earth rushed head-on, and an iron hoof stepped on his head.
Those few guards fought in a hurry, and they could withstand Li Fengyun's gang of evil slashes, and they didn't even have a chance to escape, and they fell off their horses one by one, although the captain Zhou tried his best to fight to the death, how could his strength be too different from Dian Kui, and he was also cut into two with a knife, so far, there is no one general on horseback in this thousand descending army.
Seventeen people crisscrossed in the crowd, coming and going like flying, even though the soldiers had the intention to resist, but the formation was chaotic, and whoever wanted to turn back to resist could only leave a corpse. In a short time, more than 40 soldiers were killed, and on Li Fengyun's side, only four black-clothed guards were slightly injured.
Seeing this situation, how could those soldiers dare to fight again with this group of evil wolves, scatter in a hurry, scatter and flee, only hating their father and mother for having two legs!
Dispersed the soldiers blocking the city gate, Li Fengyun came to the south gate, looked up, and saw a red handsome flag at the head of the city waving in the wind, and couldn't help but be happy in his heart, according to the agreement with the nineteenth, if Du Ruyue and everyone entered the city safely, the red handsome flag would be raised at the four city heads, obviously, Du Ruyue had entered the city safely.
Li Fengyun was about to speak, but when he heard a "whoosh", a sharp arrow shot in front of the horse, which made the horse "kick and kick" and retreat three steps in a row. When he looked up, he saw a human head poking out of the city, and asked in a loud voice, "Who are you, why don't you leave quickly?"
Li Fengyun replied loudly: "Brother above, my name is Li Fengyun, and I am a friend of Miss Ruyue, quickly open the city gate and let us in." ā
The man hesitated for a moment and said loudly, "Wait, I went to ask the young marshal!"
Li Fengyun looked back at Yang Guangyuan's camp, secretly anxious in his heart, faintly there was already the sound of rumbling horses' hooves rushing towards this side, obviously, Yang Guangyuan's soldiers and horses had discovered that there was fraud on the seventeenth side.
Yang Guangyuan's camp is set up three miles away, if he didn't find that there is a problem at the city gate, then it is strange, I am afraid that at this time he is mobilizing troops and horses, in addition, those scattered foot soldiers are also two hundred zhang away to rectify the formation, obviously seeing that they are few, they want to kill in one fell swoop, and make up for the merits. Although the combat strength of these people is weak, there are many of them, there are nearly a thousand people, and if these 1,000 foot soldiers in a good formation pounce on them, they are afraid that it will be difficult for them to get out.
"Open the city gate quickly!" Li Fengyun shouted.
At this time, many people appeared at the head of the city, the first of which was a general in his twenties and thirties, who shouted loudly when he heard this: "Who are you who dare to roar under the city of Zhenzhou?"
Li Fengyun forcibly endured the anger in the center and replied loudly: "My name is Li Fengyun, I am a friend of Miss Ruyue, and I am also her sworn brother. Li Fengyun pointed at Mo lightly, "This one is her eldest brother." Open the gates quickly, it'll be too late if you don't open them!"
"Bold fanatic!" exclaimed the general in the city, "Is the name of the sister of the house so that you reckless man can scream nonsense? Get out of the way, if you don't get out of the way, don't blame the general for letting go of the arrows!"
Hearing this, Li Fengyun and the others couldn't help but be stunned. What the hell is going on, the guards in this city don't seem to admit this matter at all, could it be that Nineteen didn't report the matter? No, even if Nineteen didn't say it, how could Du Ruyue not say it? Moreover, how could the soldiers in the city cooperate with them and pretend to clear the city gate this night?
Moreover, the red handsome flag was hung on the head of the city, which also showed that they had already known the situation, how could the guards of the south gate not know.
At this time, a black-clothed guard took out a waist card from his arms and said loudly: "The eldest prince, the villain is the black-clothed guard Shi Chang 385, this is a small waist card, they are indeed friends of the second lady, please open the city gate quickly." ā
There was a commotion at the city gate, Du Hongzhang glanced left and right, and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up, in case they are sent by Yang Guangyuan to cheat the city, who can afford this responsibility?"
"Young marshal," said one of the generals, Shi Li, "there is still an urn city inside the city gate, so it is better to put them into the urn city first, and then find out the truth." If you don't open the city gate, I'm afraid it will be too late. ā
Someone else shouted: "I have seen them kill dozens of people with our own eyes, how can we know the enemy's internal response?"
Du Hongzhang sneered and said, "Is it up to me to decide the south gate, or is it up to you to make the decision? Those who were killed were just rebel generals, how could Yang Guangyuan take them seriously? Killing dozens of rebels and opening my city gate by fraud is a very cost-effective strategy."
The walls of the urn city are much lower, and those with higher martial arts can jump on the city wall on horses, since they dare to come to the city, they must have extraordinary martial arts, if they rush to the city wall, the enemy army takes the opportunity to attack the city, how to deal with it?"
Everyone was speechless for a moment.
Everyone was talking above, Li Fengyun heard it clearly under the city, endured his anger, pointed at 385 and shouted: "Listen to the people above, what kind of spies are we to deceive the city, even if you don't believe my words, will these twelve black-clothed guards also be fake?"
"What black-clothed guards, General Ben has never known any black-clothed guards. Du Hongzhang shouted, "Even if there are really any black-clothed guards, what can the waist card prove? Can't it be picked up? Ben Jiang Nian You did kill some rebel generals, and I don't have the same knowledge as you for the time being, get out of the way quickly, if you don't get out of the way, Hugh blames the general's ruthless subordinates, come here, bow and arrow waiting!"
Although the soldiers on the city wall knew that the dozen or so horsemen under the city were unlikely to be the Yang army who deceived the city, since Du Hongzhang had given the order, he had to sigh secretly, spread his bow and arrows, and aimed them at everyone.
Someone couldn't bear it, and persuaded loudly: "Everyone, let's go quickly, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave when the enemy army comes, the stakes are very high, and the south gate will not be opened." ā
Li Fengyun was furious and wanted to rush up to split the city gate, but was stopped by Mo Qingyan, sighed lightly, and Mo said lightly: "Let's go! Their cavalry has come!"
"Alas!" Li Fengyun sighed heavily, looked at the cavalry that appeared in the east, and said, "Brothers, it's me Li Fengyun who has caused you to run for your life!"
Everyone turned their horses' heads and fled west with Li Fengyun.