Chapter 36: Outwitting Peking (4)
A rebel picked up a pearl in the grass on the side of the road, shook it in the moonlight, and saw that the pearl emitted a crystal halo under the refraction of the moonlight, and couldn't help but shout: "I have picked up the pearl, I-" Before he could express the joy in his heart, he felt a sharp pain in his back, and then fell limply to the ground. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Behind this rebel, a thorn tower man with a bloodstained war knife looked at the Han rebel who was killed by himself, and said coldly: "Die, these treasures are mine." ”
The rebels not far away couldn't help but be furious when they saw this scene, since these Thorn Tower people came to Beiping, their life has become very miserable, the Thorn Tower people occupy their barracks, drive them to camp in the wilderness, and the Thorn Tower people eat meat and drink a lot, and have to let them serve as the men who make fires and cook. Now, because of a pearl, the Thorn Ta has slashed the butcher's knife at one of them!
Dozens of rebels surrounded the Thorn Tower man who had killed their comrades, their eyes filled with endless coldness and hatred.
"What do you want to do?" said the Thorn Towerman, grimaceous.
I don't know who was the first to shout: "Kill him!" Dozens of rebels shouted: "Kill him, kill him!!" Then, they swarmed up and cut the stabbing towers in the middle into more than a dozen pieces.
The chaos was ignited in an instant, and the dozens of rebels drew their swords and killed people, like a fuse, quickly burning to the entire military formation. The two thousand rebels could no longer suppress the anger in their hearts, and they drew their weapons and slashed at the thorn towers beside them. Naturally, the Thorn Tower people were not to be outdone, not to mention, these fierce Thorn Tower people didn't take Zou Yue's rebels in their eyes at all, how could they tolerate it?
Timanda looked at Zou Yue with a pale face, and her voice was full of anger: "Zou Taishou, what does this mean?" Zou Yue also rebuked with a calm face: "What do you mean? You connived at your subordinates to kill my soldiers, and I want to ask you what you mean? Don't forget, you Assassin Tower people want to annex Youzhou, and you can't do it without my help!"
Just as Timanda and Zou Yue were arguing, bursts of shouts of killing suddenly sounded from all directions. Yuan Qi's cold voice sounded: "Dog eats dog, it's really wonderful." It's a pity that I'm not interested in seeing your ugly faces, let go of the arrows!"
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A series of bowstring vibrating, and one by one, lit rockets were shot into the night sky, shooting with pulsing flames towards the baggage abandoned by the enemy earlier. It turned out that the grain that Yuan Qi ordered his subordinates to deliberately discard was all used by Xun Luo, using the kung fu of fighting under the city of Beiping, Xun Luo and Tian Mou led five hundred soldiers to sprinkle the burning knife wine carried by the army on the flammable baggage, and then Xun Luo and Tian Mou acted separately, Xun Luo gathered all the military salaries in the army and threw them on the side of the road, while Tian Mou led a part of the soldiers along the road and kept pouring burning knives and wine on the grass and trees that were easy to catch fire.
The rocket carried the tail flame and fell from the air to the middle of the baggage, and the flammable items such as grain, cloth bags, and forage soaked in spirits were instantly ignited by the rocket, and the flames rose rapidly. There were also some Thorn Tower Cavalry guarding the baggage, who were shot by rockets, and the cotton clothes on their bodies were ignited, and these Thorn Tower Cavalry who were hit by arrows panicked, knocked down the wine jar that had not yet been opened, and spilled the wine from burning knives, burning these Thorn Tower Cavalry with arrows into burning people, and even making the fire more intense.
Seeing that the back road was lit by the enemy army, Timanda realized that her back road had been cut off, and now the only people she could rely on were those men in front of her who still had money in their hands. As a result, Timanda shouted, "Get on the horse, get on the horse, and get ready to fight!" However, Timanda apparently ignored the lethality of money, or rather, he did not have the ability to perceive people's hearts like Yuan Qi.
A large part of the Thorn Tower cavalry who heard Timanda's shout still stood in place in a daze, and the first thing they thought of was not to get on their horses and kill the enemy, but to desperately stuff the belongings in their hands into their arms. In these years, the soldiers did not have much oil and water, whether it was the Han army, the Thorn Tower, or the Xin barbarians, the soldiers could only rely on the meager salary every month to survive. Suddenly, he saw so many belongings, and these belongings were snatched in his own hands, who would be willing to let go easily? In this way, thousands of people died in the fire because of their greed for money.
On a slightly higher Qiu slope behind Yuan Qi, nearly 1,000 Youzhou troops kept shooting at the scattered Thorn Tower people, and all the trench barricades were opened, and nearly 1,000 soldiers then retreated to Beiping City one after another.
Simply dealt with the spread of the fire, Timanda hurriedly gathered hundreds of personal guards, "command the army, pursue Yuan Qi", tens of thousands of thorns and more than 1,000 Beiping soldiers, and launched another round of pursuit, it can be said that the more frustrated the more courageous, on the way to pursue, Beiping Taishou Zou Yue unfortunately fell into the trench, was stabbed into a kebab by the bamboo thorns inside...
And Yuan Qi has successfully entered Beiping City with the remaining troops, so far, Beiping City has been taken, and the offensive and defensive momentum has also changed.
When Timanda rushed to the city of Beiping with a large group of men and horses, Yuan Qi was taking a bow at him on the city tower, and before he could shout, three arrows had already shot into his throat with this whistling sound.
With the arrows of Yuan Qi shooting, the arrows in the sky at the head of the city shot down like locusts, there were not many arrows carried by the army, but after entering the city, there was a ready-made supply of ordnance, and a large number of ordnance to defend the city leaned down. The Beiping soldiers and the Thorn Tower soldiers scattered and fled in all directions after losing the commanders of both sides, and no longer had the courage to attack.
Seeing that the battle was completely over, Xun Luo came to Yuan Qi's side, and just wanted to speak, he suddenly felt the subtle changes in Yuan Qi, and couldn't help but pause, looking at Yuan Qi in a daze. Yuan Qi smiled and asked, "What's the matter, doesn't Xun Luo know so-and-so?"
Xun Luo came back to his senses, his face was full of excitement and joy, and he bowed to Yuan Qi to the ground: "I am fortunate to be able to serve under the lord in this life, and today I have to see the lord reborn, and I am infinitely happy in my heart, and I hope the lord will forgive me for a moment." ”
Yuan Qi turned over and dismounted, helped Xun Luo up, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Xun Luo really understands XX's thoughts." The two looked at each other and laughed.
After laughing, Xun Luo remembered the matter and said to Yuan Qi: "Lord, I cleaned up the battlefield and found Zou Yue's body, how should I deal with it?"
The smile on Yuan Qi's face gradually turned cold, and he said indifferently: "Zou Yue, as a Han minister, has committed a traitorous act against the Han Dynasty, and his heart can be punished! Pass on my order, send his head back to Jijun, inform my father, hang Zou Yue's head in the city of Jijun, and expose it to the sun for three days, so as to set an example!"
Listening to Yuan Qi's ruthless order, Xun Luo not only did not dissuade him, but felt that it should be so. Naturally, traitors will end up being traitors.
After conveying Yuan Qi's order, Xun Luo said: "My lord, now that the soldiers of Beiping County are leaderless and panicked, our army has quickly incorporated them and used them for city defense to prevent the Thorn Tower army from attacking. ”
"That's great!" said Yuan Qi.