Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 14 The He Family Manor ([-])

five quarters of the unitary hour
It's getting late, dusk is setting

Girl Song Qianru's boudoir

"Those rebels are here, I want you to take a horse-drawn carriage through the back door and detour to the county town to avoid disaster."

"This time, we may never meet again. Your father and I may die here."

"If I survive by chance, you can..."

"Okay, okay..."

Old Master He tried to persuade the young girl Song Qianru to go to Le'an County, but the girl just played a song with killing intent, which made Old Master He helpless.

He didn't want to do anything coercive to the girl, because he loved the girl's beauty, so he wanted to win her heart even more.

The door of the girl's boudoir was closed again, and Old Master He left with a sigh, leaving behind a sad figure.

"Why is the teacher so kind? My daughter was lonely and arrogant since she was a child. Why should she feel sorry for her? The teacher forced her..."

"Shut up! She is not only your daughter, but also my beloved. Besides, I have read the books of sages, how can I do such a forced thing? Then I and those country folks who don't understand the way of a sage What's the difference? Ziming, don't say such things in the future!"

"Yes Yes!"

As soon as he left the house, the student and father-in-law Song Cha suggested to Old Master He to use force on Song Qianru, first conquering her body, and then slowly conquering her heart.

But what kind of person is Mr. He, who claims to be a saint in the world, how can he act like a villain?So he immediately reprimanded his student and father-in-law.

After some reprimands, Old Master He took Song Cha to the wall of the manor. Looking outside the manor, the dark crowd under the sunset couldn't help trembling, and asked Song Cha in the rosy wind: "This is you The 900 people mentioned earlier?"

"Eh..." Song Cha on the side didn't know how to answer. When the Song family was breached, the Jiaodong rebels really only had 900 people, but he didn't expect that in just one month, they would become what they are today. It looks like there are nearly 2000 people.

Between two people talking...

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

More than 1000 rebels rushed towards the manor, like a raging tide, trying to sweep and sink the lonely boat of He Family Manor.

"Let the arrow!" "Let the arrow!" "Let everyone shoot the arrow together!"

Old Master He, who had no combat experience, was taken aback. He skipped over the instructor and started micro-manipulating the archer troops himself.

The instructor, who was originally given command authority, suddenly looked ugly, but he couldn't say anything. He just looked around the manor and began to think about where it would be more convenient to escape.

Although the imperial court banned private Tibetan crossbows, light and heavy armor (light armor exiled or executed, heavy armor exterminated the nine tribes), war horses, and horse lances, it did not prohibit the use of bows, spears, ordinary horses as a means of transportation, and status symbols. Luxurious horses, so tyrants often prepare a lot of weapons such as bows and arrows in their manors, mainly to prevent troubles from tenant farmers, and by the way, guard against bandits who rob houses.

call out!
Whoosh!
Dozens of arrows were shot at the crowd, but because the distance was too far, all the arrows fell on the grass without hitting a single person.

And when the archers were ready to shoot the next round of arrows again, the rebels advanced a lot of steps, getting closer and closer to the manor.

The rebels have a loose lineup, charging like a group of hooligans without thinking. At this time, if there is an elite heavy cavalry, it doesn't take a lot, even if there are only fifty cavalry. escape.

But it is a pity that in the Central Plains, it is a felony to tame war horses privately, and possession of heavy armor is a felony among the felonies of destroying the nine clans!

Therefore, the He family can only deal with these rebels with bows and spears.

"The first team is ready to shoot arrows!"

"The second team is on standby to replenish arrows!"

"Get ready—let it go!"

At this time, it is the coach who commands the archer troops.

He didn't ask everyone to shoot arrows together like his employer, Mr. He. Instead, he divided the archers into two columns, and the two columns fired arrows in turn. When one column fired arrows, the other column could prepare arrows. Ensuring that the rain of arrows will not have a too long pause period can largely prevent the rebels from charging faster due to the long pause period of the rain of arrows.

After all, Old Master He is old and weak, so after the micro-management error just now, he returned the command to the coach.

call out!call out!
Whoosh! ——

"what!!!"

"Uh--"

"what--"

Seven or eight rebels were shot by arrows, and two rebel soldiers were killed on the spot.

"The second team is ready to shoot arrows!"

"The first team is on standby to replenish arrows!"

"Get ready—let it go!"

call out!call out!call out!
Whoosh!
"what--"

"help me!"

The instructor holds two command flags, red and blue. When the red flag points to the front, the first team shoots arrows. When the blue flag points to the front, the second team shoots arrows. In this way, the two archers are commanded to kill and wound the rebels in an orderly manner. .

As a former military officer of the imperial court, although he has retired for several years, the coach thinks that it is not a big problem to command the two or three hundred township braves.

But it is obviously unreliable to rely on these archers to shoot arrows to kill all the rebels. From ancient times to the present, no army can be killed by bows and arrows.

The biggest function of bows and arrows is to prevent the enemy from charging, and to destroy the enemy's original neat formation, making it full of loopholes, and then our own troops take the opportunity to crush the enemy's incomplete formation with a complete formation. It uses long-range damage to attack the morale of the enemy soldiers. When the morale of the enemy soldiers collapses, their overall combat effectiveness will instantly drop to an extremely low level, and the entire army formation will also be scattered. Charging and chasing, at the very rare moment when the enemy's psychological defense line collapsed, it gave the enemy a huge pressure like Mount Tai.

With such cooperation, the enemy army would instantly collapse and either just run for their lives and become lambs to be slaughtered by cavalry and chariots, or kneel down and surrender on the spot.

Of course, the above tactical cooperation only exists in the fantasy of the coach, and it is impossible to see it in the Hejia Manor.

Firstly, they don’t have so many weapons and equipment and troops; secondly, they haven’t had much training, and their combat effectiveness and discipline are only slightly higher than those of farmers, and they don’t know how to cooperate with each other; thirdly, they are still hungry Stomach, there is no motivation to fight to the death for the He family.

Under the command of the coach, the archers of the He family shot two more rounds of arrows, and the rebels finally rushed to the wall of the He family manor.

The city wall of the He Family Manor is about ten feet high, which is the height of two adult men. Although it is far inferior to those cities, it is enough to defend against bandits and tenant farmers. After all, who would have thought that thousands of rebels would go deep into the city? In the enemy's territory, instead of attacking counties and county towns, it is only for attacking a manor.

Those rebel soldiers didn't even have a ladder, only the hundreds of people who rushed to the front were armed with wooden spears and wooden shields to prevent He Jiayong from rushing out to fight in close combat. The remaining rebel soldiers each carried a The cloth bag filled with sand is put down at the foot of the city wall, and then withdrawn to continue carrying.

In this way, the sandbags under the city wall are almost as high as the city wall.

The coach of Xiangyong had no choice but to command more than 100 Xiangyongs to rush out of the manor to fight the unarmed rebel soldiers carrying sandbags and prevent them from continuing to pile sandbags at the foot of the city wall, but these Xiangyongs were quickly arrested with wooden spears and wooden shields The hundreds of rebel soldiers were defeated, and more than 100 Xiangyongs fled back to the manor after five of them died, and closed the gate of the manor again.

"Cover them back!"

"The first team and the second team are ready to shoot arrows together!"

"Ready! Shoot!"

Due to the urgency of the situation, this time, the coach of Xiangyong pointed the red and blue flags at the gate of the manor at the same time, and let the two archers shoot arrows at the same time.

"what--"

"puff!--"

"what!!!"

Some rebel soldiers who wanted to take the opportunity to rush into the gate of the manor were shot back by the archer troops on the city wall commanded by the instructor. Relying on the cover of the archer troops, more than 100 township warriors fled back to the manor in a hurry. The four Xiangyongs ran too slowly and were left outside the manor before they could reach the manor in time. In the end, they were besieged by rebel soldiers and their heads were chopped off on the spot. Old Master He on the city wall was so frightened that he closed his eyes and dared not look again.

As for the rest of the Xiangyong who escaped by chance, although they recovered one life, they had no courage. Everyone was shaking, their eyes were black, and their legs were weak, sitting on the ground to rest, because of fear and hunger. I have no strength in my stomach.

(End of this chapter)