The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 40 Casualties
Huang Han didn't think that the four severely injured Jiannu would defeat more than [-] Ming troops, and he didn't return to his horse to help in the battle, because he found a cavalry of Jiannu running towards the entrance of the village.

He hastily shot arrows to stop the Jiannu. The fleeing enemy soldiers had already prepared themselves, and they kept their short bodies close to the horses and protected their bodies with leather shields.

He shot two arrows in a row but failed to hit Jiannu, and stuck on the leather shield. Huang Han gave up and continued to shoot arrows, and chased after him with his horse.

He didn't plan to shoot the enemy's horse, because shooting the horse's butt would stimulate the horse to run faster. If the slave escaped, not only would he not be able to calmly search for the loot, but it would also cause the people of this village to suffer crazy revenge from the Hou Jin army.

Seeing that the enemy was about to rush out of the village, Huang Han felt a little anxious. He clamped the spurs on the heel of the cowhide boots on the horse's belly, causing the horse to suffer pain and spread its hooves forward with a loud sound.

At this moment, a commoner ran out from the stabbing, and he swung a door bar and smashed it head-on at Jian Nu's head. The incident happened suddenly, and Jian Nu only had time to tilt his head, and was hit firmly by the bar. On the shoulders, this sudden force was very strong, and he directly knocked Jiannu off his horse.

The man with blood-red eyes was still relentless, and he swung the door lever one after another to hit Jiannu, and he did not know how many times he smashed it. The man sat down on the ground and howled like a wolf when he lost his force.

At this time, a Ming soldier was heard shouting: "Everyone, be careful, there are hidden arrows."

It turned out that a Jiannu who entered the common people’s house and rummaged through boxes and cabinets found that he was under attack. He hid in the house and shot cold arrows. One arrow was enough to kill him.

Several Ming soldiers were not slow to react, and they took their positions and began to shoot at each other. A small flag officer named Yuan Siming jumped off his horse, brandished a machete and held a leather shield, and rushed towards the door. Then four more Ming soldiers also took off their leather shields. Shield followed.

The Ming army who were shooting at each other kept firing arrows into the house to provide cover for the attacking Paoze. After a while, they heard screams from inside. The Jiannu vest and a banner accomplice who shot the arrows were hacked to death. It's warped.

Yang Hanwei Xiaoqi, who was in charge of blocking the entrance of the village in the east, successfully shot and killed a Jiannu infantry who was trying to escape from here. Huang Sifang Xiaoqi, who went to the west of the village to intercept the enemy, only shot and killed one bannerman. He and three bannermen were beheaded by them.

At this time, everyone in the whole village knew that the Ming army that often wandered around came to fight and rescue everyone.

The young and strong ordinary people were even more unwilling to wait for death. They attacked the two frightened banner men with their guns.

The last Jiannu was besieged by dozens of ordinary people in a courtyard. Five Han men and women had already been killed by him.

The excited people don't know who was the first to pick up the bricks and start throwing them, and then they crackled like hailstones. He couldn't keep his head, and was soon beaten to pieces by the crowd of ordinary people.

The Ming army wiped out all the Houjin bandits and won a complete victory. Three of them were killed and four were seriously injured.

Without exception, the seriously wounded and the dead were Ming soldiers without fine armor and helmets with visors.

The bloody facts in actual combat once again reminded Huang Han of the importance of cold weapons and war equipment.

There are also some soldiers who were slightly injured, and several servants were hit by arrows in their vital parts, but the combination of iron armor and cotton armor, which is both rigid and soft, provided better protection for the soldiers. These attacks that would have been fatal are now only given to them. Just a little skin trauma.

After Wang Zhanpeng took Huang Chunsheng and others to disinfect and bandage the wounded, they found that many ordinary people were also injured, and they took the initiative to carefully treat the wounds for the ordinary people.

Because the Ming army appeared in time, Jiannu had not yet finished looting the captured Han people and property and burned the village to the ground.

Therefore, this village is quite lucky. Although it suffered more than a hundred casualties, it finally kept its home and property, but I don't know if there are other post-Golden troops coming again?

Huang Han asked Yang Jian to ask the village chief why he didn't follow the advice to prepare for the Jin army's looting, and asked Yang Jian to tell the villagers that Jiannu would appear at any time, and they had better go to the mountains to hide.

After a while, the village head brought several elders to thank the Ming army for their rescue, and offered 200 taels of silver to chat with each other, and some pigs and sheep came. Han didn't accept it hypocritically.

He once again reminded the village chief to make early preparations. The Jin Army may do evil in Yongping Mansion for several months. Wangjiatun is too close to the official road, so it is not easy to preserve it.

When Jiannu attacked the village, three members of the village chief’s family were killed. His stomach was full of regrets, because the Ming army had informed them three days ago that they would take strict precautions against the looting by the Jin army, and asked the villagers to go up the mountain and into the forest to escape.

After discussing with several clan elders, the village chief decided to wait and see after the new year, but who knew that the slaves would be killed before the new year was over.

In the past few days, Huang Han and his team wandered around the four villages to get familiar with the terrain. At the same time, he asked Song Pengfei to inform the villages not far from the official road or with convenient transportation, and told the people to avoid the looting by the Jin army.

The people in some villages believed it and hid in the dense forests and hills. Some villages still have a fluke mentality, but after what happened today, if there are any nearby villages that have not been harmed by the Hou Jin army, they will surely take action.

Huang Han harvested the spoils, and when he cut off the head of the Jin army and was about to leave, the village chief and several clan elders came again.

They solemnly handed over the matter to Huang Han's ten strong men, and told Huang Han that these young men were all skilled men, and that their relatives were harmed by the Tartars, and they voluntarily followed the adults to join the army to kill the enemy.

Huang Han looked at these ten people, and found that the man who almost smashed Jiannu with a door bar at the entrance of the village so that he couldn't even harvest his head was among them. He approached him and asked:
"What's your name, how old are you this year, can you ride a horse and shoot arrows?"

The man saluted respectfully and said: "My lord, the younger one's name is Wang Zhicheng, 25 years old this year. The younger one can ride a horse but not shoot arrows, but the younger one knows how to spear."

At this time, the village head interrupted and said: "This young man is one of the best heroes in our village. He was the one who took the lead in attacking Hou Jinjun today. His mother-in-law and aunt were shot to death by Jiannu, and his son was trampled to death by a horse. He was able to get away, hugged Jiannu's leg tightly, and was killed in the end."

Obviously, this is another man who suffers from bitterness and deep hatred. Huang Han welcomes such people who take the initiative to join the team.

(End of this chapter)