Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 60

"General, aren't we going to destroy the bandits' nests in the mountains first?" Qin Qiong asked.

"Capture the thief first and capture the king first, let's take Qingyang Villa first."

Qin Qiong was a little anxious, "But there is no evidence that Wang Bo is related to Zhishilang."

"But there is no evidence to prove that Wang Bo has nothing to do with these thieves. On the contrary, I have enough arguments to deduce that Wang Bo is involved in this case, so we must act first and not let them run away. "

"General!"

Zhang Xutuo turned his head and looked at Qin Qiong, "Needless to say, wait for the villa to be surrounded, and if it is found out that Wang Bozhen has nothing to do with this matter, then I will naturally not wrong him."

Luo Chengce immediately took a few steps forward, stretched out his hand to pull Qin Qiong, and expressed his cousin with his eyes that there is no need to argue at this time.After all, he is also clear about Zhang Xutuo's behavior, this is not the kind of person who kills the good and pretends to be meritorious.Even if the siege of the village is ordered now, random killings will inevitably occur.

Six hundred county soldiers and tigers attacked the manor.

Suddenly, Zhang Xutuo's expression changed.

"General?"

Luo Cheng also saw something was wrong.

"Don't you think this Qingyang Villa is too quiet?"

"Yes, it's a little bit." After Zhang Xutuo's reminder, Luo Cheng also came to his senses. They came here the day before yesterday. At that time, there was still a big funeral here, and there were no less than a thousand people in the manor.

Even after two days, the condolence guests leave, but the master and servant of the village are still there.

As far as he knew, there were no less than a hundred people in Qingyang Villa.

"If Wang Bo really has no problem, then Qingyang Villa shouldn't be so quiet at this time. He has a problem, a big problem." Zhang Xutuo narrowed his eyes slightly, but there was a twinkle in those eyes. Murderous, this is his serious expression.

A horse gallops up.

"General, something is wrong in the villa."

The person who came was Jia Runpu.

"What did you find?"

"The doors of the villa are closed, but I can hear the sound of footsteps inside, mixed with the sound of horseshoes, and the sound of oracle bone swords."

As a veteran who has fought with Zhang Xutuo for many years, Jia Runpu has rich experience even though he has a broken arm.Not only can he judge the number of soldiers and horses on the road based on the smoke and dust, but he can even judge whether there is a large army moving nearby by listening to the vibration of the ground with his ear on the ground. He can even infer the number of small groups of enemy troops. It can distinguish whether it is infantry or cavalry, light cavalry or heavy cavalry.

He rode his horse around the villa just now, and already discovered many problems.

"There are horse thieves in the villa, and there are a lot of them. They seem to want to break out. I guess they must pretend to keep the door behind closed doors first, and then when we attack the village from all directions, they suddenly open a door and head in one direction. escape."

"Then which direction do you think they will break through?" Zhang Xutuo asked.

"It must be the south, and you can enter the mountains not far away. Changbai Mountain is high in mountains and densely forested, and there are their bandits inside. Once they enter the forest, it is not easy to chase them down." Luo Cheng answered quickly.

Zhang Xutuo nodded.

"A group of thieves in the district also want to play this trick with a certain person."

"General, do you want to adjust the deployment?" Luo Cheng asked again.

Zhang Xutuo glanced at Qin Qiong. At this time, Qin Qiong was a little dazed. He actually knew that Wang Bo had nothing to do with this matter after the attack, but he never said this in the county, even just now. , are still trying to excuse Wang Bo.

But now, it's all useless.

"Luo Cheng, there is no need to adjust the deployment. It's just a group of thieves. The plan remains unchanged. Let the three regiments of county soldiers go to surround the village, and we will wait here for the thieves to jump over the wall."

Zhang Xutuo is very confident, because besides the three regiments of [-] county soldiers, he also has fifty cavalry around him, and those fifty cavalry are his personal guards. They are well-trained and have actual combat experience, and they are stronger than those county soldiers. Many, in addition to these fifty riders, there are also eight people from Luo Cheng who have just captured and killed eighteen bandits.

With these more than fifty people, they are actually able to deal with the bandits in the village. After all, there can't be too many bandits hiding in the village.

Bringing so many county soldiers here is just an actual combat training.

Zhang Xutuo drew out the bow at his waist, and set the bow with an arrow, a Ming Dy pierced into the sky with a sharp whistling sound.

He didn't need to sound the flag, but directly issued the order with the sound of the arrow.

As soon as the beeping sounded, it was the general attack of the whole army!

The brigade of county soldiers rushed forward holding large wooden shields covered with cowhide, followed by groups of county soldiers holding bows and crossbows.On both sides are county soldiers holding horizontal knives and small shields, and a little behind are county soldiers holding spears.

These county soldiers have a clear division of labor and tacit cooperation, which is the result of Zhang Xutuo's hard training during this period of time.

After all, the manor is just a manor, not a castle or a fortress, neither a moat nor a moat, not even a high wall.

There is only a stream around the village, and a wall of earthen village no more than seven feet away.

Under the protection of the large shield, the county soldiers quickly came to the village wall, but there was no response from inside the wall.

Luo Cheng held the military flag high and stood behind Zhang Xutuo, but his eyes were fixed on the wall of the village.

Close, close again.

Still no response.

The shield soldiers had already arrived at the city, and they didn't encounter the slightest expected attack along the way.

The officers leading the team were experienced and quickly issued new orders.

Several county soldiers with swords and shields came to the wall and began to build a ladder, ready to climb over the wall and open the door.

After the ladder was set up, a sword and shield soldier had just climbed onto the top of the wall when he saw a spear approaching him. He dodged in a hurry and fell down.

"There are thieves!"

The sword and shield soldiers were still in panic.

Almost at the same time, several gates of Qingyang Villa opened, and groups of people rushed out from inside.

Some of them had knives, some forks, and even some women and children.

"Raise the shield and meet the enemy!"

the officer shouted.

A look of pain appeared on Qin Qiong's face.

"General, those women and children are innocent!"

Zhang Xutuo was unmoved, "They are innocent if they don't come out to fight, but they choose to rush out like this, no matter whether they are coerced or active, as long as they threaten my subordinates, then No one is innocent!"

"Qin Qiong, you care too much about your friendship with Wang Bo. Take a good look here. These county soldiers under my command, none of them are other people's fathers, husbands, and sons, and none of them are fresh and alive. Which one of them has no family? If they die here, don't you think my heart won't hurt?"

"General, the bandits are about to break through." Luo Cheng reminded Zhang Xutuo.

"We've been waiting for them for a long time!"

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, about [-] riders rushed out of the south gate of the village, and they galloped out wielding ring swords and spears.

Obviously, they used the former Zhuangzhong people to attract the attention of the county soldiers. At this time, they wanted to use the speed of the horse to break out of the encirclement and escape unexpectedly.

"Jun Cheng, the leader is Wang Bo!"

Luo Cheng saw Wang Bo at a glance. Qin Qiong had friendship with Wang Bo, but Luo Cheng didn't have him. He came to Wang's house, but he almost died when he returned home. He remembered this grudge.

Jia Runpu drew his sword in his hand, and laughed, "Deputy Luo, my brother was in a hurry to go back to the county, but I couldn't catch up with you to fight the enemy side by side. It's my brother's fault. Today, you are here holding the flag to watch the battle , let my brother kill them for you!"

Zhang Xutuo nodded at him, Jia Runpu clamped his horse's belly and shouted, "Follow me!"

Immediately, a group of ten riders followed closely behind, galloping wildly, rushing towards Wang Bo and other thirty riders!
"Juncheng, is it enough for Captain Jia to bring only ten riders?"

"Enough!" Zhang Xutuo laughed.

(End of this chapter)