Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 201 Huguang is not bright, the ruthless man Wang Zhi

Huguang, Anlu Prefecture.

Due to the death of Li Hu, the guard of one hundred Jinyi families under the governor of Huguang, Wang Zhi, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, was ordered to lead a thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to Huguang to suppress the rebels.

But just after the team arrived in Huguang, this incident that shocked the court was declared broken.

It was verified by local officials in Huguang that this incident was done by a group of bandits named Guo Shanlong.Now it has been wiped out by the army led by Huguang General Soldier, and the leader of the bandit, Guoshanlong, was beheaded on the spot by the officers and soldiers.

Wang Zhi knew that this was definitely not the whole truth, but he also knew that things should not be rushed. After all, those who dared to attack the governor's guard were definitely not ordinary people.

Now Huguang insists that it was the dead Guoshanlong. Even if the imperial court doubts this conclusion, he or the governor of Huguang, Liu Zhong, must verify the matter.

It is undoubtedly a kind of torture for a team of 1000 people to march in such hot weather.

Since Wang Zhi came here as an imperial envoy this time, the prefectures and counties he passed needed to provide supplies so that they would not have to suffer from hunger.It's just that Huguang is not a prosperous southeast after all, so the distance between prefectures and counties is too far, so it is often necessary to eat and sleep overnight.

"Hurry up, everyone! After crossing this bridge, the frontier of Anlu is in front of us. When we arrive at Anlu City, we can have a good rest!" Shenjiwei Qianhu Li Wei looked at the map and drew a picture to the soldiers. Cake Road.

The team has been camping in the wild for several days, and now they know that they will be able to go to the city to rest soon, especially because many young soldiers have that hobby, which leads to a significant increase in marching speed.

The suspension bridge in front seems to be newly built. Although it looks very strong, the bridge deck is more than ten meters away from the river below, so it is very scary.

Wang Zhi rode behind the team, took out a pen and wrote on the paper fan: "The slaves and servants have entered Anlu, and the scenery along the way is very beautiful, but unfortunately there is no ink in their belly. The world is known as Wang Yue's poems and essays." I think he must have written a lot of poems during his exile in Anlu, and he will collect Wang Yue's old works for His Majesty, and if he finds a good sentence, he will borrow flowers and present it to His Majesty!"

Just after writing the last stroke, the suspension bridge in front suddenly burst into flames, crackling with oil stains.

"Someone set fire to the bridge, get off the bridge!"

"There must be fraud here, everyone be on alert!"

"Enemy attack, enemy attack, quickly protect the guard!"

……

This team did not expect to be attacked at all. Faced with this sudden situation, especially with a large number of arrows flying from the hillside, the team behind them suddenly became chaotic.

Due to the fire on the bridge deck, as the ropes of the suspension bridge were burnt by the fire, the soldiers and horses who were too late to leave the bridge deck roared, and then fell like dumplings into the river below.

The rolling river, now falling from here, I am afraid it will be more or less ominous.

One thousand Shenji Battalion soldiers were divided into two parts by the Broken Bridge, the front was the [-] elite troops led by Shenji Guard Qianhu Li Wei, and the rear was the [-] troops led by Wang Zhi.

This was undoubtedly a premeditated operation. Through the Broken Bridge, the soldiers of the Qianshenji Battalion were divided into two groups that could not take care of both the head and the tail. Now it was Wang Zhi, a small force that was attacked.

"Damn it? Where did the bandits come from?"

Shenjiwei Qianhu Li Wei saw Wang Zhi's side being attacked across the broken bridge. Although he was very anxious, he couldn't return to help now, so he could only watch his subordinates fall down one after another in resentment.

call out!call out!call out!
A large group of masked men appeared on the hillside, and immediately shot and killed the [-] divine machine warriors who stayed here, and arrows fell from the sky like raindrops.

puff!puff!puff!
The team of the Shenji Battalion was already in chaos, and most of them left here were gunners.Since it just rained last night, they didn't load ammunition at all, and they became living targets at this moment.

Ah!
A little leader of the Shenji Camp couldn't avoid it, and was shot in the thigh by an arrow. Just as he yelled, an arrow shot through his heart from behind, and he fell to the ground immediately.

Wang Zhi's reaction was quite astute. When an arrow shot across his cheek, he dropped the paper fan and pen in his hand, turned over from the horse and fled immediately.

Fortunately, he escaped faster. His imperial envoy was being taken care of by the archers. A large number of arrows flew from the position just now, and his mount fell into a pool of blood within a few steps.

It's just that dozens of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who didn't shoot in time, fell to the ground before they could fight back. Many people lay on the ground and groaned in pain.

"Is this crazy? Is this still Daming?"

"Damn it, these people deserve to be cut to death!"

"We are imperial guards, do you want to ransack your family and exterminate your family?"

……

Facing the arrows flying all over the sky, the soldiers of Nanjing Shenji Camp couldn't believe their eyes. They hid behind trees or climbed onto the grass. One general couldn't help shouting towards the hillside.

There are imperial envoys here, and they are a dignified imperial envoy guard, but this group of masked men dared to attack them, the world seemed to have gone crazy.

The arrows were ruthless, and still fell like raindrops, but they didn't stop because they revealed their status as imperial envoys.

puff!puff!puff!
Because the ground here is relatively flat, and the surrounding villagers gather firewood diligently here, there are not many obstacles here at all, causing the exposed soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to fall to the ground one after another.

Wang Zhi hid behind a big rock, looking at the fallen subordinates, but gritted his teeth with hatred, couldn't help but wonder if this was Huguang of Daming?

In fact, he was still careless, after all, Huguang was Daming's territory.

Even if some unjust judges and gentry dared to attack the governor's team with only a few more than 100 people, the death of Liu Zhong would bring an abrupt end to the imperial court's plan to clear Zhang Tianmu, so this group really had reason to take this risk.

But it never occurred to him that he led a whole thousand god machine battalion, and this group of people would dare to ambush him. This group of people is simply ignoring the court.

"kill!"

There were at least a thousand ambush soldiers on the hillside. Under the cover of arrows, hundreds of masked men with knives rushed down suddenly, screaming to kill.

puff!puff!puff!
Wang Zhi was unable to react in time to the masked man who was suddenly killed. The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were hiding in the trees in front were killed first, and the killing methods of this group seemed very sophisticated.

boom! boom! boom!
The Nanjing Shenji Battalion led by Wang Zhi found that this group of people was rushing towards them, but they had already loaded their ammunition, so they raised their firecrackers and pulled the triggers to fight back.

puff!puff!puff!
The masked men who charged down could not avoid it, and the front row assaulters were shot and fell down one after another.

Ah!
A masked man's face was smashed by lead bullets, and he immediately covered his face and rolled on the ground.

The Nanjing Shenji Battalion actually has a very strong combat power. If it hadn't been caught in a trap and cut into two sections, if the elites led by Li Wei, the commander of the Shenji Battalion, were here, they would definitely be able to counter-kill this group of masked men .

It's just that there is no if in the world. Although they have an improved version of the three-eyed gun, they are still at a disadvantage in numbers, and now the enemy has been killed.

"Kill this dead eunuch, Ben...Ben is the head of the family with a hundred taels of silver and a top card in the brothel!" A burly man with a long knife in his hand offered a reward.

boom!
As soon as the words fell, a gunshot suddenly sounded from the tree.

At some point, a thin monkey-like young man was already hiding in the canopy of the tree, and when the leader offered a reward, he lightly pulled the trigger.

puff!
The leader fell to the ground in response, with a bullet hole between his eyebrows.

"thousand……"

"Big boss!"

"Thousands... master master!"

……

The masked people around saw the leader was shot and fell to the ground, so Dang even surrounded him in panic.

"Retreat!" Wang Zhi realized that it wasn't bandits who were shot by the little monkey just now. This group of masked men with sophisticated weapons and combat effectiveness were clearly the guards, so Dang even chose to retreat tunnel.

While fleeing, he suddenly noticed an arrow stuck in the grass, and took the arrow with him.

"Brothers, don't let them escape, we want to avenge the boss!" The masked man over there saw that Wang Zhi was about to evacuate, and immediately a leader stood up and directed.

call out!call out!call out!
The archers in the rear seemed to be well-trained. After seeing that the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion had been exposed, Dang even shot and killed them one after another.

puff!puff!puff!
Due to the sweltering weather and the fact that this mission was carried out in the hinterland of Daming, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were unwilling to wear armor, but at this moment they fell to the ground like live targets.

boom! boom! boom!
When the Shenji Battalion ran away, they did not forget to fight back against the deserters.

Wang Zhi had never fought such an embarrassing battle, and when he saw that the remaining 200 people had lost more than half, he immediately gritted his teeth with hatred.

puff!puff!puff!
It wasn't all the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who fell down. As the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion kept shooting back, many masked men who chased them fell to the ground and groaned in pain.

It's just that the masked man has the upper hand in the number of people after all, and the number of people in the Shenji Battalion is too small, so the lethality of the improved version of the three-eyed firecracker in his hand is greatly reduced.

"Mr. Wang, I would like to serve you again in my next life!" After Li Hao decided to use the terrain, he said bluntly and sincerely to Wang.

Wang Zhi got on the horse and saw that his subordinates who were loyal to him were about to die here. He secretly vowed in his heart that all those who were chasing and killing and those behind the scenes would go to hell.

The sound of Li Hao's tragic death was heard within a short distance. The speed of the pursuers was much faster than expected. These masked men were definitely not bandits.

It can be said that the sky is not broken, Wang Zhi, when he fled to the mountain ahead, there was an old abandoned bridge in front of the road, and the old bridge was paved with wooden planks by broken firewood men to pass through.

Wang Zhi led the remaining troops to abandon their horses and cross the bridge, and rushed to destroy the bridge before the pursuers arrived.

Although he escaped from Shengtian, he didn't feel the slightest joy. Of the [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion under his command, only the last few dozen remnants remained.

Wang Zhi officially led the army at the age of 16, and took control of the West Factory at a young age. As a result, he was ambushed by his own people in the territory of Ming Dynasty, and his subordinates loyal to him died in battle. thing.

"An Luwei, if I don't kill you, you swear you won't be a human being!" Wang Zhi tightly gripped the arrow he picked up from the battlefield, but he gritted his teeth with hatred.

It was supposed to take a day and a half, but Wang Zhi and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion rushed on the road full of anger, and arrived in Anlu City early the next morning.

"What? You were attacked?" Liu Zhong said angrily when he learned that Wang Zhi's [-] Shenji Battalion soldiers were attacked in the border of Anlu Prefecture.

In fact, the situation he encountered last time was even more dangerous than Liu Zhong's. At that time, Li Hu, who was also from a hundred households in brocade clothes, risked his life to lead him out of the siege, relying on the river crossing boat to escape the pursuit.

However, the scale he encountered at that time was also much smaller. At that time, he led more than 100 guards, but only nearly 300 people were encountered.

Of course, he actually couldn't tell how many people came from the other party at that time. In short, he felt very panicked at that time, and even suspected that he was going to die there.

"Although you are the garrison of Nanjing, you have no control over the boundaries of Huguang, and have no right to count our Anluwei soldiers! Your Majesty's wedding is coming soon, and I heard that Xishan Jinfeng, my commander has assigned all the Anluwei soldiers to arrest Jin Feng, can you take this responsibility?" Wang Zhi approached Sun Long, the commander of Anluwei, and wanted to thoroughly investigate the soldiers of Anluwei, but he was sternly rejected by the commander Sun Long.

Sun Long, the Commander of Anluwei, was a fat middle-aged boy with small eyes and a ruffian air about him. He didn't look like a general leading an army at all.

It's just that this is a common thing in the Ming army. Like many hereditary martial arts, the local guards also have many hereditary commanders, Tongzhi, thousands of households and hundreds of households.

These people can justifiably become high-ranking guard commanders just by relying on their bloodlines, plus a few more years of qualifications and luck.

Liu Zhong faintly smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air, and now that Sun Long used this name, it was really hard to force Sun Long to recall An Luwei, so he couldn't help turning his head to look at Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi knew that the attack had something to do with An Luwei, and now he had to quickly find out the situation of their lack of personnel, so as to use this as a breakthrough to find out the people behind the scenes to pay for the lives of the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who died in battle, and to serve His Majesty Find out the cancer in Huguang.

Facing the commander's obstruction, Wang Zhi said coldly: "Isn't this imperial envoy discussing with you, and immediately follow the order of the miscellaneous family, otherwise you can't bear the consequences?"

"Don't use your identity to suppress this Commander! I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, this Commander has someone in the court, if you dare to prevent this Commander from catching the golden phoenix for His Majesty, you will wait to go back and be your Fengluan..." Sun Long snorted coldly, but threatened Wang Zhi completely.

boom!
A young monkey-like young man had raised his firecracker at some point, and with a loud bang, a puff of blue smoke burst out from the muzzle of the gun.

puff!
Sun Long, the commander of An Luwei who was still arrogant just now, stared at the lead bullets that suddenly flew in disbelief, but felt his head exploded suddenly.

what?
Seeing Sun Long lying on his back in a pool of blood after being shot, Liu Zhong couldn't help swallowing secretly, but looked at this ruthless man in shock.

(End of this chapter)