The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

"Master Su, you know that I am impatient, and my endurance is very limited. If you continue to be a coward, don't blame me for not giving you a way out." Seeing that there was no movement from Su Jin for a long time, Zhang Yaozuo was a little annoyed.

Su Jin thought for a while, stood up and stood on the top of the sandbag fortification and said loudly: "Zhang Yaozuo, I'm already in your pocket, what's your hurry? Before you give up, let me say goodbye to my family and friends? "

Zhang Yaozuo laughed and said: "Why are you saying goodbye? Anyway, if you go to Beijing together and go to prison together, how can you not have a chance to meet? I understand, you want to delay the time and let your family sneak away, right? Tell you, don't You're thinking about it, we know you're going to escape from the sea, let me tell you, Master Han Jiang and the Zhejiang Navy warship are already waiting for you on the sea, even if you escape from the sea, so what? Do you want to die in the sea? ?”

Su Jin smiled and said: "You have prepared well. I am afraid that the emperor ordered you to prepare a few months ago. It really took great pains."

Zhang Yaozuo reprimanded: "That's because you have evil intentions, you should reflect on yourself."

Su Jin sneered and said: "I don't want to quarrel with you idiot, I just need a stick of incense time to explain the funeral, if you can't wait, you can attack immediately, if you think Pin can let me go with a dozen catapults You're too naive to catch him without a fight; but I'm willing to give up resistance after a stick of incense, because I don't want to implicate too many people, so you can decide for yourself."

Su Jin jumped off the sandbag and hid behind the fortifications. Zhang Yaozuo really wanted to order the catapults and bed crossbows to bombard him, but he was worried that it would really anger Su Jin and make him desperate. Big, the [-] soldiers and horses led by himself have killed and injured more than [-] after several rounds of charges, and the casualties of the excuses in the north should not be small. If Su Jin resists desperately, the [-] imperial guards will probably have to pay half of the price to succeed. ;If you use [-] elite imperial guards to deal with Su Jin's [-] private soldiers and beat them like this, you will definitely be denounced as a capable person. Can't do anything.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yaozuo ordered the left and right guards: "Strictly monitor the movement on the other side, and don't let them withdraw secretly."

More than a dozen personal guards each searched for the top of the houses on both sides of the street to hide and monitor. From a distance, there was no movement in the enemy's fortifications. Rows of firearms were lying on the edge of the fortifications and waiting, and they had no intention of retreating.

Time passed slowly, and the time for one stick of incense was up soon. Zhang Yaozuo shouted loudly: "Su Jin, the time for one stick of incense is up. It's time for you to fulfill your promise. I have done my best to you."

Su Jin laughed loudly: "What promise?"

Zhang Yaozuo scolded angrily: "Don't you cry when you see the coffin? Originally, you could still see the emperor alive. Maybe the emperor will remember your old love and forgive your capital crime. Now you don't even have the last chance. I will Cutting off your head with your own hands, killing your whole family and all your accomplices, this is the end of teasing this official."

Su Jin shouted: "Dog thief, do you think that I am as stupid as a pig like you? You have no intention of keeping alive at all. What kind of promises are you talking about to you people? Zhang Yaozuo, I didn't want to kill you at first , but you really pissed me off, I decided to take your dog's life before leaving, and let you know the end of offending me, Su Jin; whether I am the prime minister of the court or a commoner, you will have to live again if you want to fight me 1000 years."

Zhang Yaozuo stomped his feet and cursed, and repeatedly ordered the catapult to attack, but found that the soldiers around him were all staring at the sky in a daze, their faces full of panic; Zhang Yaozuo cursed: "Why are you so dumb? Why don't you hurry up?"

The personal guards pointed at the air and stammered, "Master, what do you think is that?"

Zhang Yaozuo squinted his eyes and turned his head to look at the eastern sky. Goosebumps appeared all over his body. The sky towards the pier was filled with dozens of strange things, big and small, on top of which was a bulging giant. The ball, and the big bamboo basket hanging below, there are still figures shaking inside.

"What is it?" Zhang Yaozuo called out.

"It seems to be...it seems to be a thing called a hot air balloon invented by Mr. Su." A personal guard shouted.

"What's that for?"

"I heard from the veterans who came back from the Northern Expedition that Lord Su used this weapon when he attacked the Linhuang Mansion of the Liao Kingdom. He flew over the Linhuang Mansion and dropped a lot of kerosene. The burned Linhuang Mansion almost turned into white ground."

Zhang Yaozuo's face turned pale, and he suddenly shouted: "Shoot the arrows, shoot them down, and the bed crossbow, aim at those ghosts and shoot them down."

Thousands of arrows shot towards the sky, but it is a pity that the height of the hot air balloon is too high, suspended in the air where the feather arrows can't reach, like a cloud of black clouds, the bed crossbow is too bulky, it is not right The targeted hot air balloon has already moved, and the seven or eight soldiers who operated were sweating profusely but failed to shoot a single hot air balloon.

Su Jin's voice sounded in the distance: "Brothers in the imperial army, I, Su Jin, don't want to hurt your lives, but I choose to save myself. You will withdraw from the battlefield immediately, and you still have a chance to survive. Otherwise, you can't blame me, Su Jin, for not thinking of your compatriots." The friendship is over, and the speed of wanting to survive should be faster."

Everyone was still hesitating, and in a moment a huge hot air balloon flew over the street, and an ugly man on it yelled like thunder in midair: "Throw oil on fire, burn these grandchildren to death." [

As soon as the words fell, a skin bag full of kerosene and ignited fell from the sky, and then burst into a large piece of fire in mid-air and fell on the ground. The imperial army fell from it, and suddenly there was a bang, a pile of raging fire burst out, and the soldiers of the imperial army exploded like a pot The people dodged one after another, and then dropped packs of kerosene bags into the crowd of soldiers of the Imperial Army on the ground. The sky over the entire street seemed to be on fire, and the soldiers on the ground could avoid it everywhere. The crowded market is full of flames, everyone is crying and calling their mothers and fleeing in all directions, but unfortunately there is nowhere to go under the cover of the sky fire, the house is on fire and cannot enter, and there are people on fire all around, as far as the eyes can see, The touch of the hands is burning with fire.

After the first batch of hot air balloons passed by, the ground has become a fiery hell, and the second batch of more than a dozen small hot air balloons came to the sky. This time, what they dropped was not fuel bags, but iron balls the size of fists. , After the iron balls emitting green smoke fell to the ground, there was a sudden explosion of earth-shattering roars, and the iron balls burst apart, and flesh and blood flew everywhere within a few feet of the explosion, and the lasing barbed wire and iron eggs The people affected have been beaten into a sieve, and the scene is unbearable.

Only then did the soldiers of the Imperial Army understand that Su Jin’s warning just now was not false. When Su Jin warned them just now, many people still sneered at them. Now it’s too late to regret it. People began to flee in all directions. Those who fled to the east were sniped fiercely by the gunmen of the Fire Gun Battalion. They could only flee to the west. Many people took off their burning armor and lost their heavy shield weapons. The battlefield of fire and gunpowder smoke is their only thought, and there is simply eighteen layers of hell.

Zhang Yaozuo hid under a low wall and watched all this blankly. He suddenly understood how ridiculous he was in Su Jin's eyes. Zhang Yaozuo felt deep despair. With these firearms and weird gadgets, it would be easy for Su Jin to seize the throne by force. He deserved his own bad luck. He insisted on messing with Su Jin. Obviously, he became the master of Su Jin's new weapon. The first victim.

"My lord... run away, run away quickly." The guard huddled beside him tremblingly and shouted.

"Alright...where are you going to run?" Zhang Yaozuo's face was pale, his lips were dry, and he looked around wildly, all he could see was rain of fire and explosions.

"There seems to be an alley over there. Let's run there. I remember that there is a forest at the end. We can hide in the forest and maybe we can escape."

"Then what are you waiting for, quickly lead the way."

Several personal guards rushed towards the back alleyway, Zhang Yaozuo followed closely behind, with one foot deep and one shallow foot, and when they reached the entrance of the alley, Zhang Yaozuo staggered and fell to the ground, at the same time there was a "clang" Then, an iron ball fell from the sky beside Zhang Yaozuo's head. Zhang Yaozuo's canthus was completely cracked, and he stared at the iron ball whirling around on the ground emitting green smoke.

"Help me!" Zhang Yaozuo suddenly came to his senses and shouted.

Several personal guards stopped and turned around, looked at the smoking iron ball beside Zhang Yaozuo's head, glanced at each other, suddenly shouted at the same time, and rushed into the alley at a faster speed, Zhang Yaozuo cursed: " I'm going to kill your entire clan, you bastards, I'm going to..."

"Boom..." After the loud noise, half of his head was blasted into the air. Zhang Yaozuo had the honor of becoming the first senior official to die from a grenade in history, which is enough to go down in history.