stubborn thief

Bai Chaozai lay on the ground and ate a mouthful of sand.

He came from a farmer’s family in northern Shaanxi and was of the same clan as Bai Guangen. He was a man of his own in these years. In the third year of Chongzhen, Bai Guangen was defeated and returned to his hometown to recruit troops. He became a thief, and later became an official following Bai Guangen's confusion.

This name was also named after he became an official. When recruiting security, there were only three brothers left. No one knows their real names. The nicknames are too random. They are Three Harriers, Five Harriers and Six Harriers. .

The Harrier is a ferocious little bird that often glides through the air with its wings, finding its prey with a fatal blow.

There are only two kinds of people who use the Harrier as their nickname. One is the enemy of ten thousand people who are good at riding. They ride around on horses and hold long soldiers. In front of them, everyone is just a hunted chick. They have no ability, they can only hunt chicks smaller than them, and they survived by fighting hard, and they also became Harriers.

Because another characteristic of the Harrier is that it only takes [-] days after breaking its shell to become a ferocious predator that hunts alone.

They are the latter. Desperation has never been the family heritage of peasant children, but it is indeed the skill of people who have nothing. Relying on their ability to work hard, the six brothers of the Bai family are left with three Harriers named for their bravery.

After being recruited, they have an official status, and the hundred households who have sealed their wives and Yinzi can no longer be called this name. The three brothers asked their husband to rename themselves, Bai Chaozai, Bai Chaoxiang and Bai Chaochen.

Sounds like a hero with status.

Now Bai Chaozai is Hong Chengchou's supervising battalion commander, commanding 440 horse infantry, and his two younger brothers, the court minister and the courtiers, are the commander-in-chief. It's battle-tested.

But when Bai Chaozai had never seen this kind of momentum, it was earth-shattering.

The moment before, he led a strict army forward, and the troops under his command marched forward in horizontal formations. The soldiers wore black helmets with feathered feathers on their heads, and they wore earthen brass nailed cotton armor. , slanted across the tin turtle, clenched the electric gun, and was in high spirits.

These are all brand-new equipment distributed to the Governor's Standard Battalion, and the smell of oil on the electric guns has not yet dissipated.

At that moment, Bai Chaozai clearly saw Bai Guangen, the majestic general of the same clan, riding a big horse and leaning on the sword of the Ministry of Construction, and suddenly turned his head to look in their direction, showing a look of horror.

He also heard the wailing screams of a hundred ghosts behind him, and six hundred large Liu Guoneng descended from the sky with roars.

The next moment the ground shook and the mountains were shaken, the iron pillars filled with gunpowder were smashed to pieces, the sound of explosions in all directions was deafening, the fragments of arrow casings and cast iron bullets ripped through the armor and smashed the bones, and the blood mist bloomed in the smoke of gunpowder. flower.

Bai Chaozai finally came to his senses, spit out the bloody sand in his mouth, stumbled and pushed away the rushing subordinates, walking among the wriggling wounded soldiers, flipping the dead bodies one after another, and he didn't even notice the voice when he spoke. Trembling: "The Prime Minister... Courtier?"

No one could answer his call. When the wind passing through the Gobi dispelled the gunpowder smoke, the entire sandy land was dyed red, as if it had been scribbled by veterans who were not good at farming. Forty of them were destroyed, and countless howls of pain merged into a huge sound that pierced through the sky.

Hell is here.

More and more soldiers with disheveled clothes rose from the ground. Whether they were injured or not, as long as they could move, they left the battle line and fled north.

Everyone's ears were ringing from the continuous explosions, but most people's eyes were still visible, and they could see the figure of the general at the front of the front.

Bai Guangen was galloping past the front with the battle flag held high. People didn't know what he was shouting with a grim face, but they knew that the direction his flag pointed was the north, which was the direction of Ganzhou.

Bai Guangen's guts turned green with regret. He knew that the reinforcements from the Marshal's Mansion were on the way, but he still didn't set up a chariot in the south, because he didn't believe that the Marshal's Mansion could transport heavy artillery across the Qilian Mountains.

Without heavy artillery in his consciousness, he would not have the ability to launch an attack at a distance of one or two miles. Even if the cavalry assaulted, his army had enough time to turn to the formation.

It's too late to think about anything, Bai Guangen has one word in his heart: run.

He watched those iron-clad rockets fall from the sky into the army formation, and estimated the casualties of the infantry under his command. Although he looked tragic, the casualties of the army formation were not outrageous, at most [-]% of the soldiers died.

If it was in the hand-to-hand combat of the dignified formation, Bai Guangen believed that his soldiers could withstand such casualties. After all, when they were thieves in the early years, they often collapsed with four or five casualties and had to flee. .

Dead men were so normal to their officers and soldiers that in theory every officer under his command could fight until the last soldier died.

But this kind of fucking attack is unreasonable. Several horizontal teams were repeatedly bombed by rockets several times, and no one was left alive; there were also five horizontal teams that were unscathed by the ups and downs of explosions, not even a single hair was lost. More than 200 people stood on the battlefield full of corpses like fools, not even understanding what happened.

For the vast majority of the remaining horizontal teams, the officers have suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck... In each small horizontal team of more than 50 people, officers such as the captain and the deputy, and the flags, deputy flags, drums, horns, and soldiers , Sicang and other non-commissioned officers were standing together, and when a rocket fell, the backbone of the entire team was gone.

Coupled with the chaos caused by several officers like Bai Chaozai, the kinship ties that strengthened the soldiers' fighting spirit, such as fellow villagers, same clan, father and son, and brothers, became a stumbling block in maintaining the organization amid indiscriminate casualties. Bai Guangen knew very well that this No fucking fight.

Run if you can't fight.

In the face of thieves and the marshal's mansion transformed by thieves, Bai Guangen's desire to escape is much stronger than any Ming army officer. Absolutely can't be caught alive anyway.

Being alive is everything.

After all, Bai Guangen had already seen that in the dunes on the other side of the battlefield, the cavalrymen of the Marshal's Mansion, who were gearing up for their work, were already galloping on the undulating horseback with their spears and bows and arrows on their backs.

Zhang Tianlin was laughing, her smile was extremely wanton, her knees were straight, her whole body was leaning forward on the horse's back, and the Huang Fan-made straight knife in her hand threw a knife flower from the top of her head, and then she turned her wrist outward. Point the blade forward.

Behind him, the [-] horses that swept the sand and dust galloped forward, divided into ten teams, rolled down the sand dunes, and charged and trampled the chaotic infantry formation.

Like a gust of wind blowing through the land, like a blazing fire burning the wasteland, the cavalry that crashed into the front of the remnant enemy chopped down and stabbed all the moving things in front of them. back.

How dare those cavalrymen dare to fight against them, their war horses have long been foaming from the exhaustion of the pursuit, and now they are fleeing with Bai Guangen in embarrassment.

Zhang Tianlin didn't plan to chase Bai Guangen's 2000 men to death, after all, there were more than 2000 infantrymen behind him.

So I just drove out for five or six miles, and whistled to stop the pursuit of the various horse teams, released the scout cavalry to hang behind Bai Guangen's butt, and turned around to prepare to collect the weapons and war profits. .

It was the second formation of Bai Guangen's three formations. The remnants of the infantry that originally belonged to the guerrilla general Li Yun were now led by the general Liu Can.

Liu Can is the hereditary military attache of Ganzhou Wei. His father is Liu Guodong. He became a general in the late Wanli years. However, he returned to the defense for several years because of a serious illness, and he is still a general.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Gansu was a relatively peaceful place in the north, and Liu Can had not fought many battles. Not only was he a little panicked after the death of the chief, but the more than 1000 people were shrouded in fear of the death of the chief.

Originally, they ran over with their chariots and wanted to complete the encirclement.

After a short fight, Wang Zi used and went quickly. Bai Guangen pushed him to run north, and they pushed the cart to chase north.

Before he could catch up, there was a loud noise behind him like a New Year's Eve. When he turned his head, he saw Liu Guoneng smashing and blowing up allies in the sky. Looking forward, the heroic General Bai Guangen was already frightened.

Zhang Tianlin's cavalry passed by them and ignored them; the infantrymen behind them who were packing up the launch pads were only concerned with packing up their ordnance on the battlefield blown up by rockets, and no one paid any attention to them.

Liu Can didn't dare to move. There were four or five hundred cavalry around him, and he didn't dare to withdraw the car formation;

Liu Can, who had no other choice, led the army like a frightened bunny, pushing the cart and shivering in the middle of the battlefield, neither running nor staying, extremely embarrassing.

If you don't push the cart and run, you can't outrun the horse; if you don't push the cart, you'll be beaten when you run back; if you don't run, see Master Bai's smooth running style, you can still come back to save them.

There was not much time left for Liu Can to hesitate, because Zhang Tianlin soon returned with the horse team.

Liu Can glanced at the car camp, and felt that his half-life was gone. Grandma's, Zhang Tianlin was clearly killed by six hundred knights, so why did he come back with nearly two thousand knights?
He is a ghost and a ghost. He is holding a telescope in the car city to measure the strength of the enemy and the enemy. To the north are two thousand enemy cavalry returning hand in hand, surrounded by four or five hundred cavalry, and not far away, there are two or three thousand infantry wearing armor. .

Liu Can wanted to fight.

If it is a normal rogue, with a scale of four or five thousand, he thinks that there are more than [-] infantry on his side, and he has the strength to fight. After all, the rogue is only the elite team of horses.

But it’s okay if he didn’t bring his binoculars. He took a closer look and found that the infantry behind the enemy was very unusual, wearing armor and holding weapons. All kinds of high-value war profits were not looted, which made him doubt his own strength again.

At this moment, a subordinate Bai Zong reported: "Liu Master, the thief's head has entered the artillery range."

Liu Can looked at it, right? The two thieves were the leaders, one was the guy who led the cavalry into their position earlier, and the other was the cavalry general who led the cavalry to chase away Bai Guangen like a rabbit. into their car array within a mile.

And it seems that the two are quarreling, and they point to this side from time to time, not knowing what they are talking about.

Mr. Bai asked, "How about... transfer a few guns to kill them?"

Liu Can glanced at Mr. Bai and thought that it was easy for you to talk about it: "What should I do if I'm not sure?"

There is no cannon in this world that can accurately hit a person from a mile away. If it is accurate, it is easy to say that you may win if you fight with four or five thousand troops who have lost command; .

He handed the binoculars to Mr. Bai and pointed to the south: "Look, those wooden shelves and iron pipes are not accurate. Those things will fall and kill us."

The infantry to the south had already laid hundreds of launchers on the ground.

"Then... do you mean to surrender?"

Liu Can shook his head and said: "I think they want to surrender, fake surrender, they want to fight Ganzhou, we go back to defect, whatever I say, we have to confess to this thief Guangen, a fucking battle, and I sold two of my fathers. Second-rate!"

He never imagined that Zhang Tianlin and Wang Ziyong were the source of their bickering.

Wang Ziyong said that these people are good soldiers, and if they surrender, they will be of great use. There will be [-] congregations in the three robbery.

Zhang Tianlin didn't believe a word of this: "Don't tell me so much, with your style of play, it's useless to give you 1000 veterans, as if you can afford to recruit more than [-] people."

After saying that, he waved his hand and called someone, pointed at the car array and said, "Go and ask them if they will come down. If they want to come down, they will remove all their weapons and armor, and take them to the side to stand."

Of course Liu Can was willing to surrender, and it didn't take long for more than 200 soldiers to take off their armor, put down their weapons, and were taken aside, but what happened next was not what they imagined.

Zhang Tianlin's men did not have a single piece of armor and equipment left, they took all of them, and then asked them to carry the wounded soldiers to the chariot.

Liu Can was overjoyed, saying that the thieves really lacked soldiers, not even the wounded soldiers who lacked arms and legs. To be honest, even he himself felt a little like surrender.

After all, the army of the Marshal's Mansion was really nice to the soldiers. Not only did they clean up the wounded soldiers and bandage them, but they even cooked porridge with a large pot for them to eat.

But Liu Can never expected that after the meal, Zhang Tianlin rode his horse to their front, called the officers over, raised his hand and put it out: "The meal is eaten and the injury is healed, you can go back. "

"what?"

"Ah, go back and forth from where, push the car away, and go back to Ganzhou."

Zhang Tianlin seems to have a few apologies: "I am Zhang Tianlin, a general of the Grand Marshal's Palace. According to our marshal's rules, we should give you a few coins as travel expenses, but Grandpa is too shy, so he can only give you some food rations. , come back."

Liu Can was very flustered, and quickly said: "We really surrendered, the general will take us to Ganzhou."

"No one said you were a fake surrender."

Zhang Tianlin looked suspicious, looked at Liu Can, and finally waved her hand. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether it is a real surrender or a fake surrender. He can't even raise two or three thousand mouths of the surrendering soldiers and wounded soldiers. Good soldiers take care of the wounded.

He comforted: "It's okay, it will be a long time to come to Japan, maybe the next time we see you will be in Liangzhou Wei, then grandpa may have a lot of money, and he will be able to receive money if he surrenders."

Zhang Tianlin waved his hand, and Liu Can took the suspicious soldiers to push the wounded soldiers in a cart and slowly left, disappearing at the end of the Gobi.

Wang Ziyong asked, "Why, take a break and fight Liangzhou Guard?"

"Look, believe what you say, tens of thousands of elite soldiers are not enough to die."

Zhang Tianlin smiled happily, and she opened her mouth to give orders to the neighbors. Her rough voice was like sand in the desert: "The order is to start all departments, target, Suzhou!"