Traveler Major League

Chapter 164 Ambush from All Sides
"When did it happen?" Wang Li anxiously asked the detective who came to report the news. He was sitting near the door, so when the detective came, he grabbed his arm and questioned him.

The scout was sweating and out of breath. It looked like he was running all the way, but he was panting when he heard Wang Li's question. He wanted to say something but couldn't say it. He was probably very tired. At this time, Liu Ze also walked to the door. Come, seeing this, reached out and handed over a water bowl and said, "Drink it later." He patted his back with his hand.

Tanshao took a few breaths, took the water bowl and drank it down, wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said, "Thank you, Master."

He cleared his throat, swallowed under the gaze of all the staff in the conference room, and then began to describe the military situation.

"Our squad is assigning inspection tasks in various directions in Yongxiang Town. Some militiamen came to report that Jiuxian Town was besieged by the officers and soldiers, and many people died. We went to investigate in that direction, and the distance was still five or six miles away. We found out that there were still a lot of officers and soldiers on the way, and we were afraid that we would startle the snake, so we didn't go in. The person who reported the letter said that the officers and soldiers had surrounded Jiuxian Town early in the morning."

"The officers and soldiers used the method of exchanging money and food for the Anmin talisman, and asked their families to pay money and food. If they didn't give it, they would kill them. If they gave it, they would ask for it. He just escaped from the town and risked his death to report the news, and all the cavalrymen who walked with him were killed by the cavalry, and he was the only one left."

"He said that if he sent troops there, he could still lead the way. He knows the tunnels in the town." After Tan Shao finished speaking in one breath, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. Seeing that everyone was serious, he added Said, "Some people are dead!"

"How many officers and soldiers are there?" Wang Li asked, pulling his arm again.

"The person who reported the letter said there were at least a few thousand cavalry." Tanshao looked at Wang Li and Liu Ze who were standing aside, and said in a low voice, "We can't get through."

"Brother Wang." Liu Ze looked at Wang Youyuan in the crowd, his eyes full of earnestness.

"Muzhi, what do you want me to do?" Wang Youyuan pushed aside the crowd and walked quickly towards Liu Ze.

"If there are thousands of cavalry in the officer's army, they are preparing to deal with our camp. Your cavalry company is about to move, so start now. Be sure to check the movements of these people. I will send another company of riflemen and a thousand The militiamen will meet you in the rear, and the infantry of Wang Li are under your command."

"We don't have many cavalry, we can only rely on you." Liu Ze patted Wang Youyuan on the shoulder and said in a deep voice. There are only less than [-] cavalry in the Luochuan camp, which is a huge disparity compared with the Ming army. very.

"I will not disgrace my mission." Wang Youyuan cupped his fists and said, turned around and prepared to leave with the sentry just now.

All kinds of new military situations in a short period of time, the reinforcements sent out have left, and the troops from the counties have not yet arrived, resulting in fewer and fewer manpower under his command. Liu Ze has an inexplicable feeling, just like the villain in the movie Similarly, being called back and forth by decency, this sense of crisis has always lingered in his heart, and his sense of uneasiness is overwhelming.

Listening to the assembly whistle and horses neighing in the distance outside, Liu Ze saw that the team arranged in the distance had already started to set off, and muttered in his heart: "I am the one who is upright in all-out war, why am I always being led by the nose by the officers and soldiers?" Go, it's unscientific."

"Yang Zeming, hurry up and mobilize me, and set up militia guard posts at every intersection." After muttering, Liu Ze immediately shouted again, not only to be able to fight the enemy, but at least to clear away the fog of war, so as not to be touched by others. I don't know the door yet.

People in Jiuxian town neighed wildly and made noise. Occasionally, there were cries of women, but they always stopped abruptly with the shouts of officers and soldiers, just like an ancient opera, people on stage babbling. Singing, the audience listened intermittently.

The weather is gradually getting colder, and the cloudless sun is very refreshing. Even though it has not rained for several months, there is still a small river in the boundary of Jiuxian Town that can provide drinking water, so the trees by the river It still remains green, while the surrounding mountains in the distance are all a scorched withered yellow color.

Originally, this town has not yet reached the point where it cannot survive, people should be busy with their lives, and the smoke above the town should continue to rise and drift into the sunset, but today all these things have stopped, the whole town is quiet, occasionally The corpses floating in the river foreshadowed the tragedy here, and the officers and soldiers who were supposed to protect the people became torturers instead.

Usually, when bandits and thieves come and go to rob, there will be some survivors and property left behind, but after the officers and soldiers arrive, the plundering will be more disciplined and lawless, and they can usually be searched completely. It's really bare, not a single blade of grass grows.

This old county and town is like this now, it is a true portrayal of bandits passing like combs, soldiers passing like rags, and officials passing like shaving.

Starting from the early morning, the first pretended gentleness and the later tyranny are just means, and the harvest of money and food and military spirit is the goal.

From five miles outside the town, cavalry of the officers and soldiers continued to shrink back to the town to enjoy their leisure and fun. Groups of soldiers ran around the town in search of lost property, and the corpses everywhere were unattended, because these officers and soldiers They don't plan to stay in the town for a long time at all. They all know that the purpose of coming here is to attack the Luochuan Camp. Guilty to speak of.

No matter ancient or modern, Chinese and foreign, there are very few who can achieve the military discipline of our army, and it can even be said to be the only one. This is not even possible for Liu Ze's current people's army, although he is also following this direction. But unless there is a longer time, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the current group of people. In fact, it is not bad to be able to do half of it.

A row of townspeople, both young and old, were all kneeling on the street, their hands were firmly tied behind their backs, and there were bruises on their faces. It was obvious that they had been beaten, and their bodies were covered in dust. The short cowhide straight-seam boots paced back and forth in front of the row of people, back and forth more than a dozen times, but no one dared to look up, because the few people lying in a pool of blood had already set a good example and all died.

The owner of the boots was dressed in black cloth, with a long white linen belt tied on his head, and a piece of white linen on his body as a filial dress. There were more than a dozen children holding banners beside him. This person was Wang Xing. It was only after returning here that I found my two sons and daughters, and I found out from them that he was really extinct, leaving only a dozen descendants from each house in the family.

In such a depressing environment, finally, a kneeling white-haired old man couldn't bear it anymore. Of course, he didn't dare to raise his head, and just said with a smile on his face: "Master, it's all done by old people!" I kowtow to you." As he spoke, he knocked his head on the stone slab, making a "bang bang" sound, and his eyes were covered with blood within a few strokes, but he He didn't care, he was still knocking non-stop.

"Hmph, second nephew." Wang Xing pointed to the younger generation who was holding a flag beside him and said, "Go, take a knife and kill this old thing."

The younger generation whose name was called swallowed and remained motionless, while the slightly older younger generation next to him scolded: "Didn't you watch carefully when I killed you just now? Don't you dare? Your second room's family is the only one left. I'm going to lay you down, bah, no kind!"

Unable to be provoked, the man picked up the sharp knife that was still stained with blood on the ground, and poked it at the chest of the old man who had just begged for mercy. Once, twice, and three times, blood gushed out of the wound like a fountain, splashing He was all over him, and he couldn't help but froze there, unable to hold the knife in his hand, and fell to the ground with a "clang".

"The men in our family have to avenge blood, kill these first, and then kill the old thief Liu Ze, remember?" Wang Xing pulled out his waist knife and sternly said to the younger generation.

"Remember." Seeing Wang Xing like this, they shrank back in fear, but they still answered one after another.

"Then kill!" Wang Xing nodded in satisfaction, waved his hand and said fiercely.

They had role models before them and were stimulated by hatred, and they all stepped forward with knives in their hands. After a while, amidst howls and screams, these juniors completely turned bloody, and their faces also changed. It is no longer childlike innocence, replaced by perverted cruelty.

At this time, another group of soldiers escorted over a dozen people who were tied up in a row. The legs of this group were shaking like sieves, but they knelt down beside the corpses that had just died in a row under the threat of swords and guns.

"My lord, the money and food collected today are enough for our army for [-] days." Zhang Zhicheng reported to He Huchen, this time they occupied Jiuxian Town and surrounded them.

"Let the brothers clean up and rest early tonight. We will set off overnight at Haishi tomorrow ([-] o'clock in the evening) and arrive at Daying in Luochuan County before Maoshi ([-] o'clock in the morning). This time we will catch him by surprise." He Huchen clapped his hands and said.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements now." Zhang Zhicheng turned around and left with his fists clasped. At this time, after a day of killing, there were not many people left in the whole town. As long as the remaining people were killed before the night's rest, they would be killed by bandits. Everything will be fine with me.

As soon as he left the house, he was greeted by his own soldiers: "Mr. Qian, let's go have fun too?"

Zhang Zhicheng rolled his eyes, pointed at the crying woman beside him, and laughed and cursed: "Send this little girl in, and we'll leave. Didn't the one surnamed Wang say to show respect to us? Did you send it?"

"Here it is, here it is, two gold pancakes."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhicheng nodded in satisfaction, and took the lead to walk to the courtyard not far away that was constantly making noises.

When it was getting late, Wang Li's team moved ten miles away from Jiuxian Town. Wang Youyuan, who had been waiting here for a long time, hurried up and said: "Battle Commander Wang, there are not many officers and soldiers, at most a thousand riders, and most of them are now They are all taken back to the town, and I have informed the militiamen in nearby villages and towns to guard the main roads around the town at sunset, let's fight at night."

Wang Li didn't talk nonsense, and said sincerely: "Brother Wang, listen to you, you know the situation best, and we will fight as you arrange."

"The villain knows that there is a tunnel leading to the backyard of my house." An earth-colored man said quickly, he was the only one who escaped.

Wang Youyuan glanced at the escaped man, and said impatiently: "You also want to avenge your family and neighbors, so stop lying about the military situation, and even thousands of officers and soldiers are fine horses, which almost frightened me to death. I was worried all the way for fear of being raided by the officers and soldiers."

The man smiled embarrassingly, and felt a little really sorry.

"How did you escape? Tell me in detail. What about the militiamen in your town? Why didn't you resist?" Wang Li asked. There are only two hundred riflemen, no artillery and few cavalry. It is not so easy to rely on those militiamen to encircle and wipe out this group of elite cavalry.

"If you resist, you are all dead."

"The officers and soldiers said that they would use money and grain to exchange for peace tokens for the people. I have saved some food from the previous distribution at home. After dealing with the officers and soldiers for two rounds, it was not enough. I heard that the officers and soldiers came to collect the grain again, and there were screams from the next door. When the sound came, I knew that the officers and soldiers were cheating, so I took my family through the tunnel."

"This tunnel was dug by my father. Didn't the People's Army come to make trouble a month ago, so I simply dug the tunnel under the old locust tree outside the town wall. How did I know that when I came out from there, I found that the place was full of horses and livestock. We just crawled under the horse's belly, never wanting to startle those animals. We trampled to death and injured my mother at that time, attracting the officers and soldiers to chase after me. Everyone else was hacked to death by the tree. Back to the tunnel."

"I thought that I would risk my life to spread the news of the attack of those dog officers and soldiers, so I took the risk of coming out of the tunnel again, not daring to go from the other end, so I thought about going to the second uncle's house, I know his house There is also a tunnel leading to the other side of the town, and I helped dig it."

"I set up a ladder and turned over to the next door. I heard the sound of murder in the front hall. I wanted to turn back, but my hands were sore and weak, so I hid in the bedroom of the main room. There was a bed with a roof on it. I turned over and put the house Liang was able to catch his breath overnight."

"Not long after, some officers and soldiers came to this bedroom with two women under pressure, and threatened the two women with knives to do that thing. I waited until they finished their work before finding an opportunity to leave the house and go to the street." Speaking of this, the man couldn't help crying.

"There are corpses all over the street. Fortunately, the second uncle's house is not far from my house. I walked with both hands and feet among the corpses. When I tripped, some officers and soldiers passed by, so I lay down in the pile of corpses and pretended to be dead. Fortunately, The officers and soldiers were busy looting every house, so I went to the second uncle's house and came out through the tunnel."

"I escaped the officer's army and rode, and only dared to look back on the mountain. I only felt that there were officers and soldiers everywhere in the town. I really didn't deliberately deceive me."

After hearing the man's tragedy, Wang Li patted him on the shoulder and said, "We are the people's team, and we will avenge you. What's your name?"

"Little Wang Xiuchu."

"You can follow our team from now on. After you eliminate this group of beasts, you can go to the new barracks to report and follow us to liberate all mankind." Wang Li left him alone after finishing speaking, and turned around to arrange for the attackers with Wang Youyuan. up.

Wang Xiuchu, who stayed where she was, was still thinking about Wang Li's words, "Liberate all mankind? What is it?"

From the sky, there are many people in a radius of [-] miles around Jiuxian Town. The news of the massacred village has spread to all nearby villages through the cavalry sent by Wang Youyuan. The men were all mobilized and headed towards Jiuxian Town.

(End of this chapter)