Traveler Major League

Chapter 69 Entering Yijun County
August [-]st Almanac: The owner of Xin Bu He Sauce does not taste you, does not entertain guests, gets drunk and sits mad.

Just now, it was the darkest time before dawn. On the tower of the east gate of Yijun County, the flames of several torches swayed in the cool morning breeze. This was specially arranged by the county magistrate, and the whole city was lit up every night. Not affixed to prevent disturbance by rioters.

A few dogs barking suddenly came from the grass market in the distance, from far to near, and finally stopped abruptly.

Faced with this abnormal situation, none of the soldiers on the top of the city raised their heads to check.

Curtains made of thatch blocked the wind, and the soldiers hid behind the piles at the top of the city to catch up on the wind. He sniffed, turned around and went back to sleep.

As the only way to connect the Guanzhong Plain and the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, although Yijun County has a small population, it has a large number of guards. However, because of the encirclement and suppression of Liu Ze, the only people left now are Minzhuang newly signed by the county magistrate. And the old and weak guards.

Wang Shanbao followed closely behind Liu Ze, crossing Caishenmiao Lane from the grass market outside the south gate, and lurked to the grain market and carbon market at the gate of the city. This is a permanent place in the county to facilitate people's transactions. It was demolished to prevent the enemy from joining the enemy, but in the years without war for many years, although the county magistrate had the intention, it was impossible to forcibly demolish it against the will of the majority, so it has been kept until now.

Liu Ze and his group started from Wuli Town the day before yesterday, and arrived at the outskirts of Yijun County yesterday. It will take another day for the large troops with various village soldiers as the main body to arrive. The carefully selected [-] great young men were incorporated into Liu Ze's direct troops, expanding to four full companies.

This is Liu Ze's sincere support in exchange for bloody battles. Instead of group resistance, there is only enthusiasm for entering the county to open warehouses and release food.

The equipment at this time is even more different than before.The remaining veterans have become officers and non-commissioned officers one after another, equipped with cloth face armor, and used military equipment for weapons. Of course, shields and javelins are still accompanied by ordinary infantry. In addition to cold weapons, three tiger squatting guns have been added. , Francois, and more arquebuses, among other miscellaneous things.

Of course, there was an element of risk involved in this sneak attack. Although it was said at the mobilization meeting before the battle that the Ming army had been completely wiped out, no one can guarantee whether there were any remaining Ming troops who ran back to the city to warn. Therefore, Liu Ze They only edited and repaired for one day, and came in a hurry the next day.

Liu Ze stretched out his head from the corner to look at the city gate, waved his hand, and Wang Shanbao immediately whispered to the back: "Go!"

The fifty most elite soldiers wore double cloth face armor and quietly lifted the extended ladder against the city wall. The head and feet of the ladder were wrapped in linen to prevent any noise. In the mouth, everyone silently climbed the ladder to the top of the city.

At night, it was still quiet, with the wind blowing all around, whistling, and the soldiers on the top of the city also fell asleep at this time, they leaned together, talked in sleep, and didn't pay attention at all A few black shadows sprang out from the top of the city.

The first one to go up was Boss Zhang who was the most injured in the ambush before. Although he escaped his life first in the massacre, but when he heard that Liu Ze was recruiting troops, he changed his usual and actively asked to join, and he even brought his nephew Zhang Gou'er with him. .

Although outside he said that he was avenging the villagers, but when Zhang Gouer asked him in private, Zhang Boss laughed and said: "I have also been a frontier soldier. This Yijun County only has that number of troops. The remaining cats and dogs It was all hemp stalks that arrived at the door, and couldn't stand the push. Seeing that the vice president of the guard in Yijun County was killed, and dozens of soldiers who were like dragons and tigers were also dead, that's not like foxes and wolves. Let's go, the crow follows Lao Diao, and follows Liu Ze to the county town to get some money, then he will be ashamed of his fate to escape with great difficulty."

He patted his chest and said that he was a veteran, his eyes were very poisonous, so he took a few young people from the village to join the army, and his nephew Zhang Gou'er also complained in private with a few friends of the same age. He squats like a tiger and wants to let off a cannon, but he ran away without farting. If it weren't for the cleverness of these boys, they would have been sitting on the legs of the table, croaking!
Although Boss Zhang was unreliable when he was older, he still cared about his own life very much. At least his killing skills were not yet trendy. He tiptoed two steps from the battlement to the flat ground, He took the knife out of his mouth, stood on tiptoe like a big horse monkey, and swayed to the shack on the top of the city in a few strokes. There were a few soft "poofs", which didn't spread a few steps away in the quiet morning.

Holding the waist knife that was still bleeding, Boss Zhang stretched out his head from the shack to look around, waved to the soldiers who came up one by one, pointed to the city gate tower with his left hand, and then pointed to the city gate hole below. .

Half of them were divided into two groups to attack together, and the sound of dense footsteps woke up the lazy patrol soldiers who were hiding in the corner. Five or six Ming troops were also dealt with several times by the people's army rushing over.

Dozens of Ming soldiers resting in the city gate sheltered from the wind hadn’t come to their senses yet, and nearly half of them were killed by the people’s army who rushed down. Their screams and wailing woke up the guarding Ming soldiers, and the Ming soldiers made noise Noisily drew out his saber to resist, but Boss Zhang took the lead and only attacked but not defended, slashing with all his strength with the saber in both hands.

With a knife to seal his throat, the Ming army's body turned half a circle backwards, and blood sprayed to the right and rear along the body rotation, while the other Ming army hiding behind him who wanted to attack suddenly was sprayed with blood in the face, and then he died. The right hand holding the knife was cut off by the following knife, and Boss Zhang took advantage of the opportunity to lift up. The blade slashed across the iron throat guard of the Ming army, sparking a spark, and continued to lift up from the chin to the nose, and from the From the nose to the eye sockets, the broken teeth flew up with a smear of blood red, and fell down and hit the iron helmet, making a tinkling sound.

The Ming soldiers behind were all frightened, and they threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender. Boss Zhang waved his waist knife to stop the slaughter of his comrades, and ordered to the Ming soldiers: "Forgive you not to die, hurry to move the city gate bolts, We are going to come to the city to open warehouses and release food to help the people! Don’t think twice!" As he spoke, he kicked a few times at the Ming army who still didn’t understand the situation, and the dozen or so people trembled in fright , Hastily opened the city gate as ordered.

It didn't take long for Liu Ze to lead the team into the city like a tide. After a while, the tide divided into multiple strands, and the largest strand rushed along the East Street to the county government treasury. Three groups rushed to the other three city gates, and the rest rushed to the Bell Tower, Sanguan Temple and other key intersections to establish blockade positions.

This is Yijun County!

(End of this chapter)