Zhang Dong, who rode his horse and whizzed by, raised his knife and dropped his hand. The severed head rose with the splash of blood and splashed on the faces of the other companions who were close at hand and could not react; however, they could only yell in vain. He exclaimed, with jagged knives and spears in his hands waving at the passing figures of the horses and horses in the empty space.
However, at this time, the other horse-riding pawn again stopped not far away. He had already removed the special reambow with a leather case from the horseback hook, and shot them quickly. The screaming short arrow was nailed to their heads, faces, chest and abdomen in an instant, and they fell to the ground one after another with screams.
Although these riding pawns are still unable to charge like regular pawns, they have also learned another set of corresponding combat methods and strategies; Enemies at a distance are harassed and suppressed by shooting.
Once the enemy is shaken and collapsed, they will quickly dismount the horse and pick up the long swords and short grasses, and become a commando-type combat team to enter it. At this time, the pawns became the role of plundering and restraining them.
Therefore, Zhang Dong only relied on the combined use of the two firemen, knives, guns, bows and crossbows that he brought out, and easily pierced through this group of more than a hundred officers and soldiers several times, and made them uncomfortable without any damage;
In the end, when he pushed the short spear on the horseback, the fourth officer who was still calling for fierce warfare was raised horizontally and stepped underneath the horse. This group of fairly tenacious officers and soldiers finally made it through. collapsed.
Then, Zhang Dong rode a horse to chase forward, tapped, slapped, and swept across the broken soldiers who fled with the spear and the back of the knife. He even knocked one person down and flew to the side with his horseback; he was on horseback again. Shangzhang bow shot to death an officer who wanted to drill in the grass, and this caused the rest of the defeated soldiers to stop and kneel down obediently as prisoners.
Only by interrogating the origins of these prisoners on the spot did he know that these officers and soldiers were actually from the western territory of Yangzhou, and belonged to the regiment trained by Zhou Sima and the city defense envoy
However, when Zhang Dong led the team behind the horse behind the more than 20 hand-held captures, and returned to a soil slope near Ankang County, Huo Ran was surprised; because he went out to detect During the period of the enemy's situation, the low county wall was still surrounded by a brigade that did not know where it had emerged.
You must know that Ankang County itself is located in a valley between the mountains. Tea trees, mulberry trees, tung oil trees and sumac trees all over the mountains surround the large fields in the flat land of the river valley; but most of these fields have been burned and trampled on. Up.
Ankang County is just on the Hanshui tributary that passes through the valley in the north-south direction. At the same time, it connects Tongzhou Road to the southwest, Yangzhou Road to the northwest, Shangzhou Road to the northeast, and Fangzhou Road to the east.
However, in contrast to Zhang Dong's forward reconnaissance to the northwest, Yangzhou Road where Fangshan Pass is located, where did these enemies emerge from? Want to know that the territory of Shangzhou and Fangzhou are both regarded as the sphere of influence of the Taiping Army garrison, and they belong to the Shan (South) West Road? (South) Tongzhou Road, there is only a fairly narrow mountain road.
However, Zhang Dong didn't think much about it and immediately commanded:
"Riding the thief army hasn't found it yet, everyone waits to rest and eat on the spot, recover some horsepower, and then talk..."
Then he took out the allotted one-eye long tube lens and carefully observed the situation in the city; after a long time, he breathed heavily and swallowed the sweetened tea soup or wine in the kettle while quietly squatting on the mounts. The riders who chewed on the bean dough stuffed with fish floss and oil residue, or fed the mounts with hay, said:
"At least a dozen different flags have gathered outside the city, and we can take advantage of the gaps among them to rush,"
Then, he drew his knife again and came to the dejected prisoners who were sitting on the ground. He took the lead and quickly waved and cut them down. After exclaiming, screaming, and exclaiming for mercy, he confronted those who had been incredibly cut off the tow rope. Captured Road.
"Let's leave your life alone. My Taiping Army is not a wild and bloodthirsty... Hurry up and go back to the village to settle down by yourself..."
"But if I see you on the battlefield the next time, I don't want to be merciful..."
After a while, under the cover of low mountains and bushes, Zhang Dong and others, who were holding their mounts, also slowly touched the edge of the besieged brigade's horses, and watched them push the hastily built long ladder and large The carts platooned and covered with soil began to attack the city wall.
However, when Zhang Dong silently counted the numbers, they slowly approached within forty or fifty steps outside the low and broken city wall. Suddenly, the entire mutilated wall seemed to wake up and come to life. Get up intensively, and shoot many arrows.
For a while, it was like a gust of wind blowing in the uncovered wilderness of the city, and many figures cringing forward were shot down to the ground. The rest of the people who were not injured or hit by arrows seemed to be blown. The fallen rice grains suddenly prostrated and fell to the ground. Some people yelled and threw down the utensils in their hands, turned and ran.
"At this moment, mount up and rush over..."
Zhang Dong suddenly shouted out.
Suddenly, their little cavalry squad flew out like an arrow from the string, and crossed the slightly uneven but exposed hard field, and would lean against the nearest dozens of enemy soldiers. Fly, kick and scatter.
However, the castration was unabated like a sharpened sharp blade, and he rushed into another chaotic enemy army. After slashing and stomping and screaming and wailing, he rushed again without looking back. The enemy entered the next battle, bloody penetration and cutting from it; it rushed to another enemy that was caught off guard.
Looking down from the city wall, it was as if a beast rushed into the group of enemy troops again. Following the falling flags one after another, it stepped on a tortuous blood-colored route, and finally rushed towards the city wall.
Only then did the enemy under the city react in a mess, and wanted to encircle and intercept amidst the shouts and screams, some scattered horse teams arranged on the periphery also gathered and gathered after hearing the news.
At this moment, the old city gate that seemed to be tightly closed suddenly opened in the dust, and a flashing iron stream came out; I saw them rushing forward and rushing toward those who hurriedly turned and turned back. Siege enemy.
At the moment of contact, they swung a series of long knives and axe, and these face-to-face enemy soldiers screamed and screamed into a large bloody area; after only a few moments of fighting, they had already fought with the enemy. The horse teams that came out of it converged and made a place.
And in a large area around them, except for the messy figures running away, there were no enemy troops capable of forming an organizational existence; then they slowly stepped down and retreated alternately into the protection range of the city-head bow and crossbow. They even have surplus objects to start the fire, thrown on the long ladders and rows abandoned along the way.
And Zhang Dong, who was holding his sweaty and trembling fur, and who had almost lost his power on his mount, looked at the enemies who were coming up again like tide rolls with a little regret;
It is a pity that there are still too few manpower to attack this time. Otherwise, this temporary attack from inside and outside can at least shake and disperse the enemy army, and it can only be defeated and reorganized.
It was only after retreating into the city gate that it was blocked with a cross; when the number of people was counted, it was discovered that the two fires and 21 horses who had attacked with him at the beginning only followed back with 16 horses. In addition, another man broke his horse hoof and fell off. Can only abandon the mount and be supported by the supporting soldiers.
Then Zhang Dong couldn't help feeling sad, but he was a little surprised to find that he had come back with a few more tails, and he was actually the prisoners of the officers and soldiers who had been released. He couldn't help but asked in surprise.
"Why are you here... haven't you all let go?"
"There are really no people alive when I go back to the village. I ran out to beg for food."
One of the military prisoners pleaded with a helpless and simple expression.
"So I followed you all the way along with you, hoping to give you a way to survive... As long as you can eat cooked wheat rice and salted vegetables every day..."
"That's the case, I just have to eat a full meal..."
"Even if you fled back to your hometown, you will inevitably be arrested and join the army again. I'm afraid you will have to use military methods and lose your head..."
Others also nodded quickly in agreement.
Zhang Dong couldn't help but looked more and more surprised. The opponent, who looked thin and not amazing, could actually rely on two heels to get on the four feet of the horse. This is also a rare talent and ability.
Then he took off the remaining dry food bag on his saddle and threw a bag of dried noodles to the prisoner:
"Send him a swordsman. If you can survive in the city, you can put it in the team for the time being..."
At this time, several bursts of black smoke suddenly rose up in the city, and Zhang Dong couldn't help sighing:
"You are waiting for the opportunity to perform and repay."
—I am the dividing line —
In the large workshop in Jiangling, a new news once again triggered a lot of discussions between teachers and students:
"Li Siyuan of the Compilation Department. What happened this time... Why was he suddenly swept out of the house... Anyway, he is also a small famous scholar and teacher in the land of Tanzhou..."
"Isn't he in the new workshop in Xiangzhou, advocating that the chief governor should be treated differently, so as to encourage the conscientious and moral wise villagers to be used by all levels of government... So he was in trouble..."
"It's unreasonable, it's really a mortal thing; I don't know that behind the so-called virtuous virtues, there are few things that are full of male thieves and female prostitutes;"
"That is, it was so easy for the Metropolitan Government to clean up the subordinates of this generation of squires, tycoons, and large households. Since then, they have ceased to be civil misery and adversity; but they don't want to have people who are worthy of others, and are willing to advocate for them What?"
"The chief governor has already said very clearly. Xiangxian Xiangyuan wishes to have both sides of the same body, and both are the big thief of virtue who entraps the will of the people in order to achieve selfish desires; whoever dares to talk about Xiangxian again on the day, ask him to go home and find the town. Good companions are ready"
"Fortunately, the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion has emphasized that it does not impose abusive punishment on people because of their words; otherwise, if they are placed in the old government of the past, even if they are not enough to decapitate, it would be a major crime of exile for three thousand miles. what.."
"What's the matter? Right now, after this monarch is removed from public office and sent home, he has to be notified in local government offices as a police effect; not to mention that the future of this life is gone, I am afraid that after he is on the corresponding blacklist, he will even have relatives in the future. People who want to have an official career have to be treated with a different eye..."
"This is a long-term punishment that is more crippling than killing and beheading..."
"That's what he deserves to ask for himself.. Don't have a good life and future. Only when you get lost will you speak for those who are suppressed and eradicated by the Metropolitan Government..."
"This fellow has a brain drained. If these village wise men can be used to great effect in the Dudu's mansion again, then what is my generation who is too cold to be able to get ahead because of my cold background..."
"Do you have to obediently give up the position and authority that you have so easily obtained, and hand in hand to these non-productive moths and rats who sit and eat; this is really damn..."
"According to me, it is necessary to check his secret connection with the three generations, and then list the clan as a genus that will never be used..." (End of this chapter)