Late Tang

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Li Cunxiao led the Chinese army to kill them fiercely. Before the follow-up infantry of the bandit army caught up, he quickly wiped out the remaining cavalry who had been beaten by throwing spears, and then did not continue to attack the bandit army as Zhu Wen had guessed. , but quickly turned back and withdrew to the position of the Chinese army.

Cai Wenqiu, the general of the bandit army, was stunned by Li Cunxiao's attack, and as soon as he approached the enemy, the two hundred cavalry of the front army were gone.These two hundred cavalry are the elite of his elite. Although he has three thousand soldiers and horses under his command, only this cavalry is his treasure.But now, it's gone as soon as it's shot.

After taking this blow, Cai Wenqiu finally realized that the army of more than a thousand soldiers on the opposite side was not easy to deal with.However, Cai Wenqiu did not retreat. Although he was not one of Wang Xianzhi's top ten votes handsome, he was also an old brother who followed Wang Xianzhi in the early years.Now he is also newly promoted as a military envoy with three thousand soldiers under his command.Besides, there were police in Yucheng, so he had to help.

Gritting his teeth, Cai Wenqiu directly ordered to launch the most common and best move of grass bandits, crowd tactics.Directly ordered [-] soldiers and horses, followed by [-] refugees with sharpened sticks.

The 8000 people swarmed up, it was like a flood that broke the embankment.

This time, Zhu Wen's left wing also began to engage in battle, and countless bandit troops came to fight.

Zhu Wengao shouted: "The archer shoots the arrow, the spearman throws the spear, and the sword and shield hand follow me!"

The chaotic battle began, and the recruits on the left shouted to embolden themselves, and rushed up one after another with their weapons raised.He saw a familiar recruit of the team, the guy who was drinking with him in the camp last night, just jumped up and stabbed a bandit to death with a spear, but he himself was chopped off half of his head with a knife.Another guy who also drank with yesterday was pierced by several spears and poked five or six holes in his body.

This guy Zhu Zhen performed well, he had cut down two bandits in a row, while Zhu Cun pierced a bandit with his flag gun.

At this time, a sudden shower of arrows rained from the top of his head, and he didn't have time to see where the arrows came from, but the arrows did not distinguish between enemy and friend at this time.Falling from the sky, both sides of the melee were within range of him.Zhu Wen quickly raised the round shield in his hand and hid underneath.

Zhu Wen hid under the shield, just in time to see Li Cunxiao riding that tall horse and leading his troops to charge towards him again, causing the bandit army around him to keep retreating.At this time, a tall spearman rushed towards Li Cunxiao stupidly, but was cut off half of his head by Li Cunxiao's iron lance.Li Cunxiao didn't stop, and directly stabbed the other enemy's throat with the tail of the lance, and the bandit fell to the ground unwillingly.

Li Cunxiao waved his horse, swept across thousands of troops, and let out a frightening cry.

At this time, Zhu Wen avoided the arrow rain, and jumped off the earth wall to rush into the enemy's formation. The fortifications they worked so hard to build were indeed useful, but facing the enemy army like a tide, the effect was limited.

A thieves stabbed at his chest with a spear in his hand. Zhu Wen waved his spear and blocked the spear. The man jumped back, ready to do it again, but Zhu Wen followed up with a blow that swept away thousands of troops and hit the man. Sweeping him to the ground with both legs, he stabbed him with a long spear, directly stabbing him to the ground.Zhu Zhen was surrounded by three thieves. Zhu Wen went to stab one of them to death with a single shot, but instead of drawing his gun, he drew his knife and stabbed the other in the back.Taking advantage of the situation, Zhu Zhen slashed at the man's neck and chopped off his head.

A brother from the auxiliary army fell beside him, lying limply on the ground, a spear was inserted into his back and protruded from his abdomen.The man was hopeless, but when Zhu Wen saw a thief with a knife running over to cut off his head, he roared angrily and rushed over.

The opponent raised a knife to fight, he was a tall and thin man, he was wearing a red iron armor and an iron helmet, and he even wore a pair of arm armor on his hand.Zhu Wen aimed at his neck and tried to chop it off, but was blocked by that guy with a knife.

"Die!" the man screamed.

Zhu Wen fought with him several times in a row, but was not as strong as him, so he had to circle around him, slashing at his face continuously with his knife.

"Go to hell!" the man shouted, jumping up and attacking.

Zhu Wen hastily raised his shield and received the blow. The shield burst open with a bang, and the shattered pieces of wood scattered from his hands.The man roared and slashed again, Zhu Wen was forced to block it a few times, his mouth was bleeding from the shock, and he was dizzy.

The man smiled at Zhu Wen, and slashed at him fiercely with a knife.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a person rushed from behind him and slashed at his calf with a knife. The man fell to his knees with a scream, and Zhu Wen jumped up and slashed down with his knife, chopping off his head.

"It's you who is going to die!" Zhu Wen said viciously, only then did he look up and see that it was his elder brother Zhu Cun who had just saved his life.

Zhu Cun was also covered in blood at this time, and he couldn't figure out who it was.The team of swordsmen he commanded had already been disrupted at this time.Two hundred or so people, being attacked by thousands of people, have already become a melee.

"Thieves join the army, dare to kill my brother, take your life!" A voice shouted loudly from behind, riding a big horse, rushing towards him.

The two brothers raised their swords to fight together, and the general immediately swept away with a horse spear, Zhu Wenwen and Zhu Cun were both knocked down, but luckily they were wearing armor.There was a burst of violent explosion, and the knife in his hand was immediately dropped.He wanted to reach out to pick it up, but the horse's iron hooves had already rumbled over.

After a dizzying collision, Zhu Wen was directly knocked out by the war horse. He wanted to stand up, but his whole body was in pain, and he felt that the whole world was shaking.The general who knocked him into the air galloped over again, with the horse in his hand already raised high.

The war horse was getting bigger and bigger in the eyes, Zhu Wen's hands were numb, the tiger's mouth was still bleeding, his eyes were dizzy, and his vision was blurred.There was a sad smile on his face, and he was going to die here today.

The horse's hooves of the war horse were already very close to him, and the next moment the general's horse lance didn't pierce his body, the iron hoof of the war horse could trample him to death.

Suddenly, the war horse noticed the miserable scream, and the front knee suddenly softened, and the whole horse fell forward.

The horse fell to the ground with a bang, and slid for a certain distance, kicking up a burst of dust, and finally stopped less than half a foot away from Zhu Wen.

When he came back to his senses and wiped the dust off his face, he saw that the incomparable horse had stepped into a pit, and the horse stumbled and fell down.And that general, at this moment, happened to be crushed under the horse by the war horse. The incident happened suddenly, and he was crushed before he could take off his pedal. One foot was pinned down, and the other hand was also twisted strangely.

Zhu Wen shook his head, touched his own knife from the ground, and the bandit general shouted weakly: "I surrender, I surrender!"

Zhu Wen first picked up the horse lance that had fallen on the ground, and holding the heavy horse lance, Zhu Wen's dizzy head seemed to wake up a little bit.He turned around and saw that Zhu Zhen was helping his second elder brother Zhu Cun to come over.

The battle seemed to be coming to an end, and on his left flank, there were not many living people to be seen except for the corpses scattered all over the place.

A group of crows hovered in the sky, landing and pecking from time to time.

Seeing his puzzled look, Zhu Zhen wiped the blood stains on his face, and said to him with a smile: "Commander Wang and Commander Gao have just led their troops to support, and they have killed the enemy without courage. , and now the bandits are fleeing south."

Zhu Wen chuckled, and turned his head to look at the guy who was still pressed on the horse.

"I accept your surrender, now, report your name!"

"Everyone in the grass army knows that Cai Wenqiu is the envoy of soldiers and horses," Cai Wenqiu, who dismounted from the horse, replied helplessly, enduring the severe pain.

The three of them were sitting on the pile of corpses, gasping for breath. At this moment, there was a sound of horseshoes, and Li Cunxiao led a group of cavalry past.Looking at the appearance of the three of them, he laughed and said: "Looking at your appearance, you won't die for a while. Boy, it's good, you can persist until now.

Zhu Wen stretched out his hand and pointed at the horse, "Report to the commander, we have captured a prisoner who claims to be a grass thief, and everyone knows the soldier and horse envoy Cai Wenqiu."

Cai Wenqiu shouted from his horse: "I'm not a prisoner, I'm just joining the battle."

Li Cunxiao sent several people to rescue Cai Wenzhou from the horse, and after confirming that he was the leader of the bandit army, he couldn't help laughing.At this time, the trumpet sounded again, but it came from the north.

When the bandit reinforcements from the north of Yucheng arrived, Li Cunxiao got on his horse and said to Zhu Wen, "I will go to the north, and I will leave the battlefield here to you to clean up. You did a good job this time, and you will be indispensable to command everyone later." After finishing speaking, The horse galloped past, and the real soldiers followed closely behind.The afternoon sun shone on the tips of the spears, and the red banners of the auxiliary armies flew overhead.

The thief army in the southeast, the main general was captured, the elite cavalry was wiped out, and the main infantry was also defeated. They had just been completely disintegrated under the command of several fierce generals, like snow under the sun.

Zhu Wen felt that his whole body was swollen and painful, as if he had fallen apart.There was nothing else he could do at this time, he, Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun were looking for their subordinates together.Many of them were found among the dead. Of the 50 people in our team, only [-] survived in the end, and a few of them were seriously injured and became disabled with missing arms and legs.

A dozen or so people rummaged through the pile of dead people, and finally found about a hundred of them alive, and more than 20 of them were seriously injured.But more corpses were found. In this battle, 1000 of them intercepted here, more than 30 were seriously injured, more than 300 were killed in battle, and almost everyone left was injured.Casualties and casualties reached more than [-]%, an extremely high number.

They killed nearly 1000 people, but they also killed a lot of grass thieves. The grass thieves left more than 1000 corpses on the battlefield, and hundreds of others were injured and had no time to escape.Although the more than 1000 men are not all the records of their two battalions, it is really remarkable that their [-] men can hold back so many bandit troops, and finally insist on coming to the other battalions to help.

"What about all these people?" Zhu Zhen pointed to the wounded captives of the thieves. There were more than 100 of them. At this time, their weapons were disarmed, and they were either squatting or lying on the ground.

Zhu Wen looked back at himself and the others, all of them were wounded, and many more had become cold corpses lying on the ground.Unable to control the anger in my heart, "Kill!"

"Okay!" Zhu Zhen jumped up immediately, without any hesitation, she led a group of people to pull the prisoner aside and beheaded her.There were bursts of screams and begging for mercy, but Zhu Wen was not moved at all.Since you dared to rebel at the beginning, you must be prepared to be beheaded today.

After a long time, the river beach calmed down, and there was a strong smell of blood in the air.

Zhu Zhen was covered in blood, as if soaked in blood, she walked over with a knife full of gaps. "Third brother, cut them all down, not one left!"

Zhu Cun also came over at this time, carrying a big bag, and threw it in front of them.

"what is this?"

"The property found from the corpse of the thief."

Zhu Wen looked down and saw that there were many things.He nodded, "Divide the things equally among the surviving brothers."

"All divided?" Zhu Cun was a little surprised.

"It's all divided." Zhu Wen said lightly.

The belongings were divided, and each of the more than a hundred survivors on the battlefield got a share.Everyone was very happy and praised Zhu Wen.After that, Zhu Wen commanded to cut off the heads of the bandit soldiers, and then he cut off the heads and prepared to take them back to ask for credit. The headless corpses were thrown directly into the river.

After packing everything up, it was almost dusk, and Zhu Wen asked people to temporarily pile up the preparations on the battlefield, and come back to pick them up later.Then he returned to Yucheng with those wounded, and Yucheng had completely fallen into the hands of the auxiliary army at this time.Liu Xun and the others had just defeated the thousands of grass thieves who had come to aid from the north, and they had just returned to the city at this time.

"A beautiful victory!" Seeing Zhu Wen who came back, Liu Xun smiled and said to him, "You fought well today."

Zhu Wen was excited for a while, feeling flattered.Hastily said: "This is due to the good command of several yamen, we just did our job well."

"Doing your duty, you can't block the attack of more than a thousand thieves with more than two hundred people, and it is impossible to capture a general of the grass thieves alive. In today's battle, the leader of the Zhu team should make a great contribution and look back. , I will personally ask the Marshal for your credit."

Zhu Wen was very excited, and quickly knelt down: "Thank you for the promotion from the yamen, I will never forget my job."

"Where are those prisoners?" Liu Xun asked with a smile.

"The subordinates killed them."

The atmosphere in the air suddenly became depressed and dull, Liu Xun's black pupils stared at him, and the smile on his face suddenly turned cold, which made him tremble a little.

"Who told you to kill the prisoners?" Liu Xun's deep voice sounded.

An ominous premonition rose in Zhu Wen's heart, and he stammered: "No...no one, I just thought..."

"Bang!" Liu Xun slapped the table and shouted angrily, "How dare you kill the captive without saying a word? Who gave you the courage? How many captives did you kill?"

"More than 100." Zhu Wen said with his head down.

"How many are 100?"

Zhu Wen turned his head to look at Zhu Zhen. Zhu Zhen was also terrified at this time, her face was pale, she lowered her head and said to Zhu Wen, "180 seven."

Liu Xun had already heard the number, and his face became even more ugly.

"180 seven, Zhu Wen, you are so courageous, you dare to decide without authorization, kill 180 seven people, it is simply against the sky, do you still have military discipline in your eyes? Come, someone, take Zhu Wen down." Liu Looking for a big drink.

Zhu Zhen and the others all changed their faces, no one expected such a result.Quickly knelt down to beg for mercy, Liu Xun was unmoved, and said in a deep voice: "If you didn't think about your achievements today in killing the enemy and captives, you will be beheaded right now. Now, I will temporarily confine you and imprison you. How to deal with it will be handed over to the commander in chief. Come and detain the three of them together." (To be continued.)