ps: Please recommend, please collect, please recommend, please collect.
************************************************
"Water! Water! Liu Meng, hold on. The knockout drug. Water! Water!" Qin Mu's voice was so urgent and chaotic that Liu Meng had no idea what he was saying. He just focused on using his fists and feet to block those men.
Qin Mu was still drunk and his movements were clumsy, but at this desperate moment his speed was extremely fast. He picked up two large bowls from the ground, rushed to the lotus pot, and using both hands, scooped up two bowls of water from the lotus pot and poured them forcefully on the face of the unconscious soldier on the ground.
Wow! The soldier who had not been awakened by shaking with hands was awakened by the cold water.
Qin Mu was anxious and happy to see that this move was effective. He shouted to Liu Meng who was blocking the gate of the courtyard: "Liu Meng, hold on, you will be fine soon. The brothers are awake. Hold on for a while, we will chop him up..." While shouting, he kicked the two soldiers who had just woken up, "Hurry up, get up, hurry up, take weapons and help Liu Meng, quickly!"
The two soldiers who had just woken up were still a little dazed. After being kicked and yelled at by Qin Mu, they finally woke up completely. Qin Mu had already rushed towards the lotus tank again;
Liu Meng was roaring like thunder and blocking the gate of the courtyard. The two soldiers didn't have time to think and forced themselves up. One of them picked up a chair and rushed directly to the gate to join the battle, while the other ran back into the house to look for weapons.
Qin Mu was excited and nervous at this moment, with his hair disheveled. Like a madman, he kept scooping water from the lotus pond and pouring it on the unconscious soldier, yelling, "Get up quickly, quickly! Take up your weapons and fight, quickly! You! You! Help save people, quickly..."
His hands moved quickly, and water splashed in the courtyard, making a rustling sound, just like the Dai people celebrating the Water-Splashing Festival. As he splashed the water desperately, unconscious soldiers on the ground kept waking up. At Qin Mu's roar, more and more waking soldiers either picked up weapons to join the battle, or picked up large bowls and wine jars to help scoop water to save people.
This moment was a matter of life and death, because the Ganzhou defenders had already rushed to the archway across the courtyard. If the rescued soldiers had not desperately joined the resistance, the Ganzhou defenders outside would have rushed in.
Liu Meng received weapons from the awakened soldiers. As soon as he got the giant mace in his hand, he couldn't help but raise his head and roar "Ah!" All the depression just now seemed to be vented in this roar;
He poured all his strength into his arm and swung the stick down quickly, not only breaking all the spears that were thrust in from outside the courtyard, but also the remaining power of the wolf's fangs. Bang! With a loud bang, the archway was smashed, and a large area of the blue brick archway was smashed down by two feet square. At that moment, the bricks and stones fell down with a crash, and yellow dust flew. The astonishing momentum was like the power of breaking a monument and splitting a stone.
"Shoot, shoot, rush in, rush in!" Outside the archway, Yang Tinglin was also shouting loudly.
Under his command, teams of Ganzhou defenders surrounded the East Cross Courtyard and fought hard to seize the cross-courtyard archway. A series of "bang! bang!" bowstring sounds were heard, and twenty or thirty powerful arrows shot out violently;
Liu Meng hid beside the archway, picked up a table, and roared as he blocked the archway. The table was immediately filled with arrows, and the soldiers who rushed in were knocked down by the table and fell into a ball.
Probably because of the drugs, the soldiers who had just woken up in the courtyard had weak hands and feet, not as fierce and good at fighting as before. Qin Mu soon discovered this problem. It was obviously unwise to organize people to rush out now. "Quick, everyone, use tables and benches to block the hospital door, block it first, quickly!"
Now the only correct thing to do was to stop the enemy's attack first, wait for the one hundred soldiers to recover, and then rush out. After hearing Qin Mu's roar, Li Shi and others threw tables, benches and other things at the archway across the courtyard, and soon blocked the archway. The two sides continued to stab or shoot arrows across the obstacle. This naturally did not have much lethality, but they finally succeeded in blocking the Ganzhou defenders outside the courtyard.
Seeing that they could not rush through the archway, Yang Tinglin ordered his men to fetch ladders. The courtyard wall was only six or seven feet high, and the soldiers could easily climb up the wall. Fortunately, there were not many ladders that could be found in a hurry. "Quick, use the bamboo poles to poke." At Qin Mu's shouting, the soldiers took over several bamboo poles piled in a corner of the courtyard. Two people worked together to pick up one, and as soon as a figure appeared on the top of the wall, they would immediately poke it with the bamboo pole. Several Ganzhou soldiers who had just climbed up the wall were poked off the wall before they could be shot with arrows, and fell to the ground.
The two bowls in Qin Mu's hand were useless, so he threw them out of the courtyard wall. He immediately heard a snap and a scream of "Ah!". With a strange look on his face, he reacted and immediately ordered: "Quick, quick, smash the wine jars, bowls and bricks on the ground. Smash them."
The soldiers immediately picked up things in the courtyard, no matter what they were, and threw them out over the courtyard wall. This would not cause many casualties to the Ganzhou army outside the courtyard, but it would at least hinder their attack. If they could delay them for one minute, the soldiers in the courtyard would get one minute to recover, and every minute was precious.
After a fierce attack, Qin Mu immediately ordered his soldiers to hide against the wall. As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate. The Ganzhou soldiers outside the courtyard immediately retaliated with a rain of arrows. The arrows kept coming in, and the ground inside the courtyard suddenly looked like it was covered with thorns...
Yang Tinglin was worried about alerting Qin Mu beforehand, so he was not well prepared. In his opinion, as long as he could stun the 100 soldiers Qin Mu brought with him and kill three or two of Qin Mu, it would not be difficult to capture him. If Qin Mu had not received a warning from Sima An, Yang Tinglin would have achieved his goal.
But the development of the matter was beyond Yang Tinglin's expectations, and the problem of insufficient preparation beforehand became apparent at this moment, so that he was blocked outside the cross-courtyard and could not attack for a while.
Seeing that the two sides were in a stalemate, the centurion Huang Danian who led the troops suggested to Yang Tinglin: "Your Excellency, the 100 soldiers Qin Mu brought are all fierce soldiers. Once the effect of the medicine wears off, it will be difficult to stop them. Your Excellency, the best way now is to use fire attack. If you can't burn them to death, you must force them out."
Huang Danian's move was indeed vicious enough. The entire East Cross Courtyard covered less than two acres. Once he used fire attack, Qin Mu and others would probably become roasted rats.
Yang Tinglin hesitated for a moment. To be honest, he needed to arrange this operation, but he had no intention of taking Qin Mu's life. His purpose was only to seize his military power.
"Your Majesty, we can't wait any longer. If Qin Mu escapes, everything will be over!"
***
When the riot broke out, Sima An did not flee with the panicked crowd, but took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and went out through the side door to the backyard alone.
He had followed Yang Tinglin for more than ten years and knew him very well. Yang Tinglin was a man of great integrity and uprightness. He was a die-hard loyal person. In a peaceful era, such a person would surely be a loyal minister.
However, in Sima An's view, the Ming Dynasty was clearly on the verge of collapse. When a person like Yang Tinglin encountered a turbulent time of dynasty change, there was usually only one outcome: martyrdom for the country.
Because a loyal and upright person like Yang Tinglin would never stand idly by when seeing the country's fall. He would definitely stand up to protect the old dynasty and would not abandon his integrity and change sides. However, like Wen Tianxiang, he was not good at military affairs, so the fate of such a person was almost certain.
Sima An had followed Yang Tinglin for many years and was highly respected. He did not want Yang Tinglin to have such an ending, and was even more unwilling to follow Yang Tinglin into a dead end;
He had carefully analyzed Qin Mu these days. Qin Mu was good at taking advantage of the situation. He was a small magistrate who took up the post alone. In a short period of time, he actually controlled most of the military forces in Ganzhou. This was not something that could be achieved by luck alone.
Qin Mu had a clear understanding of the situation in the world. He had his own troops and was independent, but he was not in a hurry to take the lead. Instead, he focused on developing his own strength.
Qin Mu has the courage to fight to the death. Once he sets his sights on something, he dares to fight to the death and attack with all his strength. The last time he led 3,000 untrained militiamen to attack Ma Yongzhen was proof of this.
Qin Mu was good at adapting his work and not sticking to old rules. His just-right "land reform" policy not only won the enthusiastic support of the lower-class people, but also left room for officials, gentry and wealthy families. Once his power develops in the future, he will be able to have the best of both worlds.
Qin Mu was good at disguise. He wore the cloak of a scholar and acted like a hero, which was fundamentally different from the crude and unruly nature of Li Zicheng and others.
Although he also had some domineering behavior, such as leading his troops straight into Nanchang to rescue Li Xiangjun, but his portrayal of "a rage for a beauty" made many people think that he was a loyal and righteous person with flesh and blood. In short, his various disguises made it easy for him to attract talented people to join him.
In Sima An's opinion, Qin Mu already had the potential to become a hero in troubled times, but he also carried a mysterious aura of "heaven's destiny". Hearing the voice of heaven in front of the Huichang Altar and obtaining magic weapons in the Zhoutian Salt Pond were already known to everyone in southern Jiangxi, and many people privately associated Qin Mu with a real dragon.
This time he gave Qin Mu a "hangover remedy", not on impulse, nor did he want to betray Yang Tinglin, he hoped to tie Yang Tinglin and Qin Mu together;
Yang Tinglin is stubborn and loyal, which is his shortcoming as well as his advantage. Once Yang Tinglin and Qin Mu can be successfully tied together, Yang Tinglin will become the most ideal banner for Qin Mu, which is very beneficial to Qin Mu.
If an upright person like Yang Tinglin is willing to work with Qin Mu, Qin Mu will be able to recruit talents with twice the result with half the effort in the future, and others will have fewer psychological barriers when joining Qin Mu.
From the moment he prescribed the "hangover cure", Sima An had actually already joined Qin Mu. Seeing that Yang Tinglin and Qin Mu had already met at war, Sima An really didn't want to see this result;
Sima An knew very well that there was only one person who could reconcile the relationship between Yang Tinglin and Qin Mu, so he went straight to the backyard.
...