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Chapter 365 The First Battle of the Ax Gang

In a modern farm tool factory, salesman Li Xin casually opened a new farm tool store on Pinxixi.

The owner of this store is his big customer, and for the sake of momentum, he bought [-] axes from him in one go.And after hearing the other party talk about the Spring Festival, the shopkeeper will post the link, a firewood one-handed ax for nine yuan and free shipping, and is going to rush to the top of the agricultural tools category in one go. At that time, other agricultural tools will be purchased from him.

Li Xin sighed with emotion, thinking in his mind: after the new year, should we go to pay this client a new year's greetings.

Yunshang County.

Lei Hu tightened his torn jacket tightly, holding a brand new one-handed ax one and a half feet long in his arms.He wiped the soup from the corner of his mouth, and tried his best to recall the taste of the meal he ate in front of the prefect's mansion just now.

He was the first man who said he was going to kill the barbarians.

The grain obtained from the barbarians' grain store was indeed not much, only enough to feed a few thousand people for a day or two.He didn't eat well for the meal just now, he actually ate one of the three palm-sized pancakes mixed with chaff, and hid the other two in his arms.

He was full of the rice soup provided by the prefect's mansion.

Lei Hu's home is very dilapidated.As soon as he entered, his wife stepped forward and grabbed him.

"His father, have you signed up?" The woman's voice trembled.

Lei Hu responded with a muffled voice.

The woman seemed to want to cry but didn't dare to cry. She turned her head and picked up her four-year-old son, and finally asked a question.

"Can it be done?"

Lei Hu didn't say anything, just took out two pancakes and stuffed them for his wife.

The woman was probably very hungry, so she hurriedly took a bite, chewed it finely, and then fed it to the baby in her arms.The child fell asleep from hunger, until his mother fed half of the cake, and his little face became rosy.

The woman ate the little cake left by the child with water, and then put the last piece of cake into her husband's hand.

"Why?! You keep it, the eunuch will take care of food on the road!"

But the woman said: "If you don't come back, we're all going to die. Do you still care about this meal? I know this is what you should eat. If you're hungry, you won't have the strength to fight, and you won't be able to run for a long time. His father, you Just keep it to yourself. Ah!"

Lei Hu kept silent, put the pancake next to his body, sat at home until midnight, and finally got up and walked to the door.

"You two, wait for me to come back! The prefect is right. If we go and destroy the Mulet tribe, other tribes will be afraid of us! Only by robbing the Mulet tribe's cattle and sheep can the people of our city survive. Until spring!"

"Father, you. Take care~!" The woman's words were out of tune, and she was trying not to let herself cry.

"Don't worry, I can come back!" Before going out, Lei Hu turned around and said, "At least I will get you some clothes when you come back, so don't live in summer clothes and hug the quilt all day long."

After finishing speaking, Lei Hu left, and the woman covered her mouth and began to cry.

There are many people like Lei Hu on the street, all carrying axes and walking towards the prefect's mansion.

Some families were crying, but the men hopped out and joined the ax-wielding crowd.

Lei Hu went to the ground and found a brick crack.

There is a crooked symbol he carved on the crack of the brick. This is the location that the centurion pointed out to him when he signed up.

Because he had killed wolves in the mountains, all ten members of his group elected him to be the head of the ten men.

When he arrived, seven or eight people from his group had already arrived.

Everyone was silent, standing in a circle with their arms folded.

It wasn't until the last two people arrived that Lei Hu nodded and went to find the centurion himself.

Starting from the desert, Zhang Zhe moved more than 23 axes in a total of 400 days.

But what he didn't expect was that there were 640 people who signed up to fight with him.

In other words, all the men of the right age in Yunshang County are here!
Fortunately, more than 200 weapons were seized on the road, and the bow and crossbow were divided, which was just enough.

Zhang Zhe could only change his plan and assign [-] soldiers to serve as centurion and deputy centurion.

Geng Liang, Xie Lun and Gao Deshu each lead a thousand-man team.As for the remaining thousand-man team, I acted as the commander-in-chief as the reserve team, and Zhang Sanqi was the deputy commander-in-chief, who was actually in charge of Zhang Sanqi.

The rest of the more than 500 people were all the best in horseback riding. They all rode on the horses brought by Zhang Zhe, led by Qianxiu, and were responsible for defending Zhang Zhe.

The grain confiscated from the Daniu’s grain store was made into cakes by the women in the city. Each man had three pieces and two torches on his body. return.

Lei Hu quickly took back ten gowns from the centurion, the kind worn around the neck, blue ones.

Everyone put it on, and soon the surrounding area became a blue ocean of water, and the spirit really rose.

There was also a curious person who knew how to read and asked someone else.

"Uncle, what does it mean that XXX noodles are written on this gown? Come back to eat noodles after winning the battle?"

"To eat noodles, it means that we go out to get something to eat!"

It was Zhang Zhe's idea to go out of the city overnight to carry out night raids.

During the day and against Mullert's five hundred horses, they will lose!

Under the blessing of torches, when fighting in the dark, people often can only observe the situation around them, and it is most advantageous to have more people to attack.

Over the past few days, Zhang Zhe had discovered the location of Muller's special department. It was on the grassland 53 miles northwest of Yunshang County.

Their reconnaissance cavalry have always been sent out in a more northwest direction, and they have no intention of guarding against Yunshang County.

There is also a barbarian shop in the city, but this is from another tribe.

The citizens of Yunshang County subconsciously avoided these people, so they only knew that the new Central Plains prefect had killed the people from Mu Le's special department.They are going to send a letter to their tribe first tomorrow, and listen to what their King Khan has to say.

But they didn't expect that when they were sleeping soundly, Zhang Zhe took people out of the city overnight, and even the Central Plains servants in their shop were hiding it from them.

Just after all the Ax Gang left the city, there was still no movement in this barbarian shop.

Ganxiu took a hundred knights in blue coats and waited around the barbarian's shop for another incense stick.Seeing that no one had gone out to report the news, he led his horses out of the city to chase after the large army.

These days, Zhang Zhe has been planning to attack Mueller's special department at night.

Zhang Sanqi had already used gold to talk to a Khan steward from Muller's special department.

A bunch of presents were sent here for one thing: it was too cold in the city, and Governor Zhang was going to go to the woods near Mu Le's department to gather some firewood.

The gift is delivered, and things will be easy to handle.

Zhang Zhe invited a hundred county residents to collect firewood in the forest every day. In order to facilitate transportation, he piled up all the firewood in piles and prepared to move them back with carts and horses for the last time.

After more than ten days, more than 20 firewood piles along the way have been piled up.

Not long after the men from Yunshang County left the city, the team scattered and scattered, and then a fire ignited in the distance.

The centurion began to shout: "Go to the place where there is a fire!"

When they came to the fire, they found that another fire was burning in the field a few miles away, so they warmed their hands and continued to move forward.

Passing by the No.11 fire, the centurion began to organize the team. Everyone drank some water and ate a cake, and rested for a quarter of an hour before moving forward.The next thousand-man team came here and did the same thing.

At the second-to-last fire, the centurion told everyone that the shit must be liberated.And at the last fire, everyone was asked to eat the last two pies.

Everyone was very silent along the way.

The men in Yunshang County set off at about twelve o'clock in the evening, and it was already around four o'clock in the morning when they arrived at the grove not far from Mueller's Department.

There are many people who have broken their feet, but they didn't say a word, and their lives were lost. Do you still care about this?

Zhang Zhe took more than 500 cavalry and hid in the front of the grove early.

"Fortunately, it is winter and there are not many birds. The remaining birds in the woods have been hunted down by the hunters of Muller's special department. Otherwise, the night birds will not return to the forest. Everyone knows that there is a problem here," Zhang Zhe said in a low voice. Talk to distract yourself from nervousness, "Sanqi, are you sure about your news?"

Zhang Sanqi, who was playing with Wu Renji, was also sweating.

"That's right, the horses in their tribe are raised together at night after winter, so that the horses are kept warm, and they are not afraid of wolves sneaking in and biting the horses."

Wu Renji has already arrived at the sky above Mueller's headquarters, and the night vision screen clearly shows everything in the tribe.

This is a tribe of nearly 2000 people. After deducting the old, weak, girls and children, the combat power of the whole tribe is about 600 to [-].According to Zhang Sanqi's information, King Mulet Khan alone owned more than [-] sheep, [-] horses, and hundreds of cows.

There are two modes of night vision and thermal imaging on Wurenji. Zhang Sanqi skillfully switched them. After half an hour of investigation, Wurenji’s battery started to alarm. Only then did Zhang Zhe and Zhang Sanqi confirm that everyone in the tribe was dead. In their respective tents, there was no ambush in the tribe.

The only obstacle in front of them now is the tribe's wall.

Mueller's department cut down a small half of the forest and built a wall to surround their wintering place.This wooden wall is about one person tall, but it may be because of the species of this forest, the thickest wood is only two or three inches thick, and most of the wood is more than one inch thick.

"Go ahead!"

Zhang Zhe knew that he couldn't hesitate at this moment, and he couldn't be afraid just because of a wooden wall, so he took the lead in riding on the horse.

One by one torches were lit in the woods, and all the riders surrounded Zhang Zhe, and then began to accelerate towards the camp.

The vibrating sound of five hundred war horses galloping immediately woke up many Mulet people from their sleep.

However, the first reaction of many people after being awakened was: Is the tribe's stables broken?
There were also vigilant people who had no time to put on their clothes, and ran out of the tent barefoot with their knives in hand.

The huge wooden wall shattered, and four or five blindfolded horses slammed into the weak wooden wall. The one-inch-thick wooden wall was smashed into a gap of three or four feet in an instant.

The leading horse that hit the wall screamed and slid a long way on the grass, and then fell heavily on the ground. The several knights on the horses were all wearing several thick jackets, and when the horses fell to the ground, they used their backs to hold them back. Rolled out by himself.

Then five hundred war horses surrounded Zhang Zhe and rushed in from the gap.

These 500 people are good horse herders all the year round, and their riding skills are no worse than those of the barbarians. They hold a machete or an ax in one hand, and hold a torch in the other.

A horseman with an axe, who often loses his weapon in the first attack, appears smoother after switching to a torch.

Those on foot also charged.

Lei Hu ran at the front, holding the one-handed ax tightly in his hand. Behind him, the 4000 people holding torches rushed out of the grove in a disorderly manner.

What left wing, right wing, reserves, no one cares about that.

At first, people followed their centurion, but after running for a while, they found that their team followed the wrong centurion. After running for a while, the ten-man team also dispersed. No matter, anyway, they were surrounded by blue jackets and covered their heads. Just rush.

Zhang Zhe's original plan was that after rushing into the camp, he would lead 100 people to the stables, while Ganxiu would lead 100 people to the king's tent.But when he rushed to the stables, there were only more than 30 people left around him, and those guys on horseback were enthusiastic about killing people and setting fires.

As long as a person escaped from the nearby tent, someone would gallop after him. As long as there was a tent that was not lit, they would run over and burn it with a torch.

The only thing Zhang Zhe was lucky about was that more than a dozen soldiers and old horsemen were still by his side.

The people in the stables reacted the fastest, and four or five horses had rushed out of the stables.Zhang Zhe didn't even think about it, so he raised his hand and hit the hand crossbow, and went to the sky.But then more than a dozen hand crossbows around him fired, and all of them achieved results.

Three of the four riders were shot dead, and one's horse was shot down, and the rider broke his neck at that time.

When the last empty horse was about to pass by them, the whip in the hand of the old horseman suddenly flung out, entangled the man hidden on the other side of the saddle, and pulled the horse off.

Some horsemen from Yunshang County who followed immediately stepped on their horses.

The young men in Yunshang County were much better at equestrian than Zhang Zhe and his soldiers. They hung one end of the rope on the wooden wall near the horse pen, and then galloped, pulling down the wooden wall.

At this time, the old horse and seven or eight people also drove out hundreds of war horses. These horse herdsmen were really powerful, and after a few whistles, the horses ran obediently outside the wooden wall.

When the 60-year-old King Mulet Khan was awakened by his servants, his king's tent had already been set on fire.

Ganxiu killed the two guards neatly, and rushed in with his men.

The old man panicked and crawled out naked from behind the king's tent.

When he saw that the whole tribe had been engulfed in flames, the old man was filled with grief and anger.

who?who is it? !Dare to attack his tribe!
"Father Khan, let's go!" Old Khan saw with his own eyes that not far away, his son was knocked down by several war horses, and then several war horses "passed" by his son.

The old Khan, who was extremely sad and angry, suddenly raised his arms and shouted: "Brave Mulet, fight the enemy~! Their number is not as many as our men! Fight, fight to the death!"

Several members who had just gathered heard Lao Khan's call, and also tried their best to lean towards this side.

Shocking shouts of killing came from outside the tribe, and the old man looked out of the wooden wall with shudders.The whole field was full of people holding torches, desperately rushing to the wooden wall, some rushed in through the gap, and some directly knocked down the wooden wall due to the large number of people.

Everyone was wearing blue war robes, holding shining axes in their hands.

When you meet your own clansmen, you just go down with an axe.

As soon as Lei Hu rushed into the tribe, he saw a naked old barbarian yelling, and several barbarians gathered around him.

"Kill him!" An idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

Just do it!Lei Hu swung the ax fiercely, and flew out towards the old man.

In the noise, no one heard the sound of the ax breaking the wind.

"Pfft~!" The ax directly split his forehead, and the old man fell down in a daze.

Several tribes dispersed immediately.

Soon, the Ax Gang with more than 4000 people was crowded with tribes with less than 2000 people.

(End of this chapter)