Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 119 Professional Night Attack
"General, report from the east. 5000 enemy troops have been annihilated, 439 people have died in battle, and 1790 people have been injured regardless of severity." Jia Yucun temporarily finished the work of supervising the manufacture of ordnance, and temporarily left Xijin to cross to the high platform of the Chinese army. .

"Understood, the cremation of the war dead should be temporarily stored in Cheng'en Temple in Jinling. I remember that there is only one old monk left? Let's change it to the Martyr's Temple. The heroic spirit who protects the country lives here on his behalf, presumably the Buddha. I will also understand. I will send a letter to Luoyang. After the war is over, I will bring the pension and silver rewards and send them back to my hometown. By the way, as the coach, I will pay 5 taels privately, and the royal family will pay 15 taels, so that each person will get more 20 taels of silver.

Those who were injured, according to the severity of the injury, followed the old practice of Jiangnan Daying, and then all of them were treated with good medicine.Seriously wounded and dying are treated as death in battle.People with disabilities are given priority in the local garrison"

Jia Hun talked about the pension to Jia Yucun tirelessly.

"General, is it too much? You don't have that much salary?" Jia Yucun looked at Jia Hun with a troubled expression.

Jia Hun stared at Jia Yucun and smiled.

"Why are you pretending to be confused in front of me?"

"Is this not very good?" Jia Yucun pretended to hesitate.

"Pretend again and I'll send you to the Xuanwei Division of Eight Hundred Dadian!"

"No, no, student understands, student understands!" The name that frightened countless civil servants scared Jia Yucun down the high platform, and limped away towards Xijin Ferry as if fleeing. .

"General, this is Mr. Yucun." The soldiers were a little puzzled.

"This guy is too thoughtful. He knows where the money comes from, but he doesn't want to say it himself. He wants me to be the so-called mastermind first, so that even if he is caught in the future, it can be said that I coerced him. "

Take a sip of tea.

"With this kind of magnanimity, this person is really not worth relying on."

"Where did the money come from?" As Jia Hun's absolute confidantes, more than 200 soldiers, who could almost be regarded as family servants, could naturally participate in Jia Hun's affairs.After all, Jia Hun's interests are their interests.

"How many Jiangnan aristocratic families do you think will become extinct in this slave change?"

Jia Hun tilted his head and looked at the soldiers.

"This general, as far as I know, this family is not so easy to destroy, right? Not to mention those big families that have really spread thousands of people and have business all over the country. Let's just say that the upstart Hu family, a cloth merchant, There is also a clansman from the official to the Langzhong in the court, so the money should belong to him no matter how you look at it?"

Some of the guards couldn't believe it.

"But what if the money is so much that the two majesties are also greedy? For example, be conservative, 5000 million taels of silver?"

"Hiss—that Hu Lang died in a terrible way."

"Yes, yes, on weekdays, with the protection of the big group of the Jiangnan Department, it is natural to keep the family business. The family can use resources to support their own people to gain a firm foothold in the court, and only by supporting each other can they go further and further. But now that their family is gone, what qualifications do they have to hold such a large amount of wealth, who are like rootless duckweed?"

Jia Hun turned his head and looked at Zhenjiang City, wondering what he was thinking.

This group of aristocratic families who escaped the war, after all, did not escape the sins they made.
. . . . . .

Snapped!
A large head was smashed into pieces by a solid iron rod, and the white and red ones were scattered all over the ground, even splashing on the faces of the people around.

Before the people around him could vomit it out, the iron rod swept across his waist with a single blow. He who was wearing iron armor never thought that he would be able to try the feeling of vacating in his lifetime. The shattered internal organs mixed with the vomit in his stomach sprayed After going out, the person spun and fell to the ground, twitched a few times and then became silent.

"What is the origin of this general!"

Under the city of Danyang, the commander-in-chief of the Bailian Sect in Shandong looked at the fierce man who broke into his army and was getting closer and closer to him.

It's strange, seeing the [-] troops coming to attack the city, the defenders here not only did not surrender, but rushed out of the city under the leadership of a giant man!

The giant man was eight feet tall, with a waist width of ten girths. He was wearing bright light armor, and he rushed forward with an iron rod that looked heavy at first glance. When he smashed it, his own shield hand was shocked to death on the spot. A gap appeared in the army formation in an instant, the giant man took the opportunity to swing the iron rod twice at the gap, smashed many people to death and widened the gap, and charged into the formation without looking back.

The Qi army who followed behind was not idle either, and rushed in from the gap following the giant man. It didn't take long for his front army to be divided into two sections!

Seeing that the 2000 people in the former army will lose their lives!

"Withdraw! Withdraw! Run north to the Yellow Ruins!"

Seeing that the giant man was about to rush towards him, the chief soldier hurriedly shouted to the surroundings.

After hearing the order from the general town, the rear army and the left army were the first to withdraw from the battlefield, followed by the middle army and the right army.

There were only two thousand households in the front army, and even a thousand households in armor were trapped on the battlefield by the Qi army, unable to advance or retreat.

"Who are you? Why haven't I heard of you in Jiangnan? You are Danyang's defense, right? With your martial arts, you should be the defense of Qucai. Why don't you bring your subordinates to join me, Bailian."

"Zhiniang thief, Da Qi Pingliang of the Sa family, voted for the Niaobailian sect! Don't get off the horse and die!" Lu Da shouted loudly, kicked his right leg and accelerated towards the Shandong general who stayed where he was. He was about to hit him with a stick, and the Shandong General Soldier screamed in fright, and hurriedly fled towards the large army that he was leaving.

There was a murderer chasing after him, and even though everyone was exhausted to the limit, they did not give up trying to survive, and frantically squeezed their bodies and ran to the north.

After chasing for another two miles, Naruda gradually slowed down and finally stopped on the same spot.

"Bah, what is it!"

Curling his lips in disdain, Lu Da walked back holding the henna stick.

My task is to guard Danyang.

The Grand Canal meanders through and nourishes the ancient city for thousands of years, and connects the southern counties of Jintan and Liyang through the Danjin Licao River.
Let the three cities unite as neighbors with a strip of water, guarding the thoroughfare between Changzhen and guarding the gates of Wuyue.

The original plan was to connect Zhenjiang, Danyang, Jintan, Liyang, Langxi, and Xuancheng to form a base with Jinling as the core to defend and counterattack the White Lotus Sect to the southeast, but who would have imagined that the main force of the White Lotus Sect would be in Zhenjiang, the effect of this defensive circle has been greatly reduced.

It is still useful, for example, it can block the road of the Zhenjiang White Lotus Sect going south, preventing them from joining forces with the second main force of the White Lotus Sect in Hangzhou.
As for why the area to the east of Taihu Lake is ignored
There are too many big families there, more than Jinling, and the number of slaves is too large to be guarded against.

Anyway, Jia Hun had already ordered the Neihe Navy and Donghai Navy to block the river and coastline.If they wanted to cross the river, they had to take Xijindu, where Jia Hun was stationed, or take Jinling to get the nearby Yanziji, or take Dangtu and take Caishiji.

In short, Lu Da couldn't leave Danyang with an army of thousands of people. If a large army of the White Lotus Sect came here to capture Danyang during his pursuit, then this line of defense would completely collapse.

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"Whoa, hurry up, go and see how many brothers have come back!"

In Huangxu Village, the Shandong Commander-in-Chief who had fled here was gathering troops.

"Master, our remaining five thousand households have all arrived, that's it."

"Come on, I can hold on." The chief soldier took a deep breath, mentally preparing himself for heavy losses.

"Yes, sir, the loss of five thousand households is not small. Now there are only more than 800 and less than 4000 people left."

Just like that, a thousand households were gone!
Even the commander-in-chief who was getting ready was blinded, and spit out a mouthful of black blood with a muffled grunt.

Although the lost people also included those who were scattered and lost their way or fled out of fear, but these people can be regarded as the most loyal elite of the Holy Cult!

"Pfft! Ahhhh!! Luda, I have nothing to do with you!"

The general soldier rushed into a private house, and soon, there were screams of women in the private house. The screams lasted for nearly two quarters of an hour.

After a while, the chief soldier, who was neatly dressed and only had disheveled hair, walked out of the civilian house.

"Go and throw that piece of rotten meat on the ground, bad luck!"

"Yes! Master, dinner is ready, do you want to set it up now?"

"Show!" The refreshed commander looked up at the sky, listened carefully, and could even hear screams coming from all directions.

Everyone has just lost the battle, and it is time to vent.

Folks of the Yellow Ruins, for the sake of the great cause of the Holy Cult, in order to create a Buddhist kingdom on earth, I can only wrong you for the time being.
"Hey, what did you make so delicious?"

. . . . . .

"My lord, a lot of flames have been seen in the direction of the Yellow Ruins, and it seems that there are large troops stationed here!"

In the mountain village not far from the Yellow Ruins, Yang Zhibu, the Suzaku iron cavalry, is stationed here.

After disembarking from Yangzhong yesterday, they dispersed into three-person teams and began to search southward for possible traces of the White Lotus Cult Army.

After spending a day and a half to eliminate almost all the White Lotus Sect forces from Yangzhong to Changzhou, Yang Zhi decided to search back.

Starting from Changzhou at around [-]:[-] p.m., they searched westward, but found no useful information. Until the evening, they found traces of the army crossing the south of the river in Xinfeng Town.
Braving the darkness and tracking along the canal to the mountains, the team that dispersed discovered abnormal fire in Huangxu, eight miles away in the northeast.

"Yellow Ruins? Map!"

The soldiers took out a map and put it in front of Yang Zhi.

"Their traces are heading towards Danyang, right?"

"Yes, the enemy army that the brothers are investigating is heading south along the canal."

"The Danyang guard, I remember, is Uncle Pingliang?"

"Uncle Pingliang is guarding Danyang."

"Understood, this is because I have never fought against Danyang, and was driven away by Uncle Pingliang, and retreated to Huangxu. What time is it?"

"It's two quarters to Xu time."

Yang Zhi nodded and said nothing more.

There is still a quarter of an hour before the end of this round of investigation. After the troops are regrouped, take a rest and sneak attack on the Yellow Ruins at night!

. . . . . .

When it was two quarters of an hour before Chou, Yang Zhibu had almost had a rest.

Skillfully and quickly put on each other's equipment, the army gathered in the open space at the entrance of the village.

Then wrap the hooves of the war horses with cloth and hold small wooden sticks in their mouths.

All the villages along the canal from Xinfeng Town to the south were massacred by the gang of white lotus thieves who had no conscience. All the livestock were also slaughtered, and this year's new rice was nowhere to be found.

Everything that could be taken away was taken away.

Yang Zhi took the iron helmet held by the soldiers, shook his head, and found that there was no discomfort, so he stepped on the wooden pier and got on the horse.

"Brothers have also seen it. The Bailian thief slaughtered the village and wiped out the family. He has no conscience! It must be wiped out in one battle, and the evil will be wiped out! Drive!"

After speaking, Yang Zhi turned his horse's head and galloped towards the northeast.
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The white lotus thieves, who were full of food and drink and had a good time, fell into a deep sleep.

In the past two days since I left the city, I have killed people, moved supplies, and been chased by others like a dog for two miles. It is really exhausting.

Even the sentries were too sleepy.

Even the vibrations caused by a large number of galloping horses failed to wake them up.

"No one came out? Burn down the house!"

According to what happened to those villages before, Huang Xu was probably slaughtered by the Bailian thief. Although it was a bit disrespectful, things were indeed much easier.

Following the great general Jia Hun on the grassland, the Suzaku cavalry, who were extremely experienced in night raids, immediately slowed down their horses, pulled out the torch wrapped in the saddle, and unwrapped the oil paper wrapped outside, a smell of tung oil hit their brows.

The knight just frowned, and printed the torch in his hand on the torch.

The road at the entrance of the village was as bright as day in an instant.

"burn!"

Yang Zhi took the lead, holding the torch to the right and igniting the window paper of a private house. The windows that had been greasy for a long time burst into flames, and the fierce burning flames even went straight to the roof, igniting the thatch.

The hooves of the horses have reached their ears. If they can't get up, they will be too ashamed of the title of elite!
"Enemy attack! Fire!"

The white lotus thieves who woke up showed their elite qualities. They didn't bother to put on their outer robes, but directly hung the wooden breastplate on their bodies. Open the door and window and rush out
He was knocked back again by the galloping horse.

Where are the cavalry?Aren't they confronting the leader and the others in Zhenjiang?
The chief soldier who was also awakened quickly dressed neatly and slipped out from the back door of the mansion, and rushed towards the northernmost private house with his own soldiers.

There is the last full-armor Qianhu stationed there.

It has to be said that the landlords in the south of the Yangtze River have become lawless.

As one landlord's compound was breached, they discovered one after another in secret warehouses——

Paper armor, leather armor, wooden block armor, bamboo slice armor, and several iron armors that are said to be from the early Liang period hundreds of years ago.
Even the heavy infantry armor of the early years of Daqi was discovered
There are nearly a hundred iron armors and paper armors, and the number of wood armors and bamboo armors that give psychological comfort is more than a thousand!
Damn it, I'm afraid that there are not as many styles in the armor list of Qi Ting's military department as they found!
How can it be hidden like this?

But this is also a good thing, those armors were equipped by the general army and distributed to several other thousand households.

Hearing this voice, the people who came were definitely cavalrymen!
The cavalry can only rely on the streets and alleys to run and fight street battles!
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