Ping An Biography

The sun is very hot, and there is an obvious burning sensation on the face and neck.The sweat in the hair slowly condensed into a large drop, dripped down from the forehead, and inadvertently seeped into the corners of the eyes. Zhang Ning only felt a sharp pain in the eyes, so he could only squint and stare at the mountain.

Under Wei Bin's instruction, a man took an umbrella and covered Zhang Ning's head.Zhang Ning turned his head and saw the sweaty and frowning soldiers on the grass, so he pushed the man holding the umbrella away.It was at this moment that Zhang Ning realized that the blue clothes ordered for the army were not suitable for summer. The dark material easily absorbed heat, and it was a pain for everyone to stand under the sun.

I'm afraid that most people don't want to stand here and waste time. It's just because Wei Bin's suggestion was not adopted, so no one spoke anymore.Zhang Ning realized that he was very authoritative among this group of people. This kind of authority was not given by Monk Yao, but that he had been providing the army with salaries and supplies for two months, and commanding everyone to train together; otherwise, he just had military power. , is not necessarily convincing.

He has been in the sun for a long time, his mind has been dizzy, and his body also feels weak.This is probably a symptom of lack of outdoor exercise, and he hardly does physical work at ordinary times.

The surroundings were very quiet, with occasional coughing or two, and a snort from the horse's nostrils.Zhang Ning stood on the ground dizzy and almost forgot his intentions. The only expectation was the irregular cool wind, which was really beneficial when it blew on his body.In a trance, a scene appeared in his mind, as if at some time many years ago, he stood and sang the national anthem in boredom and looked up at a flag. The only expectation was to think about the flag when the song was over Will it stop right at the top of the pole.

At this moment, I finally saw movement from above, and the scattered thieves began to gather, walking down the slope one after another.Seeing this, Zhang Ning let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that he could finally save trouble.

There were also whispered discussions in the queue on the open space, and the lifeless atmosphere finally became a little more energetic.

Zhang Ning cleared his throat and said loudly: "The teams will take another 150 steps back and wait for the thieves to come down."

Immediately the line began to move.The roads on the mountain are narrow, and if they are blocked at the intersection, it will be beneficial to the battle, and the thieves will not be able to form a group; but in this way, they may return to the top of the mountain if their way is blocked.

Wei Bin said from the side: "It seems that these bandits are desperate and want to come down and fight us."

Zhang Ning, who felt that he was about to be familiar with the sun, forced a smile: "This is what we are waiting for."

After a long time, more than a hundred bandits came down one after another. There was not much difference in the number of the two sides, but there was a big difference in the momentum between the two sides.Zhang Ning's side wore uniform clothes and iron helmets, and the formation was strict and orderly; the bandits' side was swarmed with no team at all, and they wore various weapons of different lengths, and some of them were bare-armed and deliberately showing their muscles.Upon seeing this, Zhang Ning thought that the military training set of queue training was still useful, at least he could look decent when facing each other, otherwise it would really be a gang fight.

Seeing that the situation was almost over, Zhang Ning ordered: "Move forward to within the range."

Wei Bin shouted: "Let's go together..."

Zhang Ning couldn't help but smile knowingly at this shout. Look at this mountainous area, where there are flowers, plants and trees like the sun, and when he suddenly hears "walking in unison", who can tell whether it was hundreds of years ago or hundreds of years later?

When the team moved forward, the distance between the people on both sides was about two hundred steps, and the noise from the opposite side could be heard clearly.After a while, the group of people took long and short weapons and rushed towards them in a fierce swarm.Maybe they saw that the weapons of the soldiers were iron and wood sticks, but they didn't know what they were.

Seeing this, Wei Bin, who was riding a horse and walking slowly, shouted: "Stop! Get ready!"

All kinds of processes were practiced countless times by everyone. The soldiers stood still and stood in a square formation six rows deep. The first row half-kneeled and raised their muskets horizontally, while the second row stood and raised their guns to aim. People just stand and wait. \\.. \\The chief banner officer in front was afraid that there would be accidents in the first actual battle, so he shouted there: "No one is allowed to fire without hearing the order!"

"Drive!" Wei Bin rode his horse and rushed to the side of the team, pulled out his saber from his waist, and raised the knife to point in the direction where the thief was rushing. Everyone held their breath.I saw the bandits in front striding forward with their chests straight and dragging their machetes, and within a hundred steps they began to run screaming.

Wei Bin yelled: "Let go!" Suddenly there was a loud "cracking", white smoke rose, and screams arose.The first burst of gunfire had just stopped, and those standing in the second row also opened fire. The thieves shouted loudly, and the situation was unclear under the smog. Only Wei Bin yelled, "Change team and get ready." The crowd moved around in an orderly manner, and then heard the sound of "rustling", it was the people in the back who were busy cleaning the barrel with a cleaning rod.

Zhang Ning saw that the Qi shot was successful, and the thieves scattered and collapsed in an instant. He immediately ordered the horsemen to attack, and the spearmen chased forward to kill you.In front of the team was a barren field full of weeds, and short Shu horse cavalry rushed in from both sides. This cavalry had no momentum, and the road was not easy to walk, but they still ran fast on four legs.The infantry phalanx also dispersed after an order, and people rushed to run forward, and there were irregular gunshots in the smoke.

This battle dragged on for a day and a night, but the result was doomed within less than a stick of incense after the match.At the foot of the mountain, people and horses were running around, and gunpowder smoke was flying. Most of the bandits turned around and ran up the mountain after being frightened by the chaotic and terrifying atmosphere. But the road was narrow, and the hillside beside the road was even more difficult to walk. Living targets, corpses lying everywhere on the hillside.The people who couldn't squeeze up the mountain ran around from the side, and were chased by the horse soldiers. Those who died, or those who knelt and surrendered, almost didn't run away.

Those who were not killed were later frightened into surrendering, and the battle was over.Zhang Ning ordered an inventory of troops and zero casualties.After the assembly, troops were dispatched up the mountain to clean up the bandit villages, and the valuable trophies were moved down.

Wei Bin, who had a rather serious Chinese face, also beamed: "The mob is vulnerable, Your Excellency is really a genius at running an army."

Zhang Ning wiped his forehead with his sleeve, and replied calmly: "This battle will definitely be won from the beginning. The difficulty is nothing more than how to prevent the thieves from escaping."

The army moved many things down from the mountain one after another, many bandits looted | gold and silver, jewelry, silk, valuable playthings, and some food that had not been burned.In addition, the gang actually detained more than a dozen young women.

Because the soldiers were selected from several villages in Fengxia Mountain, if the woman was from the village, she would be recognized.Zhang Ning then ordered the women he knew to be released on the spot and ordered them to go home with the army.The remaining ones were probably robbed from the Tujia and Miao villages, or some were robbed during the journey, so they were temporarily guarded and brought back to the village to inquire about the source before disposing of them.

There were more than [-] bandits who surrendered and were surrounded by everyone. Wei Bin yelled for someone to tie them with rope.Zhang Ning rode over and said, "It's hot in summer, and the dead will be buried. Take the captives to dig a hole. First, chop off the head of the corpse and transport it back, and bury the body."

The army understood that by transporting dozens of heads back by car, they could show off their martial arts to the villagers and avenge the villagers who were slaughtered in Fengshan.They beheaded people with knives and moved the corpses. Seeing this scene, the women turned pale with fright, and some even screamed from time to time, which made the men laugh out loud.

More than 30 captives quickly dug a big hole, and the headless bodies were thrown into the hole one after another, and then buried in a hasty way.After finishing their work, they tied up the captives with ropes so as not to cause trouble on the road.

Before the sun set, Zhang Ning was covered in sweat, standing in the open space and waiting, blurting impatiently in a daze, "These captives are capital crimes anyway, so kill them and cut off their heads on the spot to avoid trouble."

After hearing this, Yao Erlang and Lao Xu turned their heads to look at Zhang Ning. Only then did he realize that what he said seemed too cold-blooded, and he realized that he didn't feel anything when he thought this way...I shouldn't be a hardworking and polite person Scholar?

For the first time, killing Peng Tianheng, who deserved what he deserved, was like sleepwalking; afterward, killing Wu Yong and Wu Yong was also very stressful.Now when he ordered to kill a group of bandits in ragged clothes and put down their weapons, he was already numb, and he no longer felt the nervousness that he had feared back then.

Wei Bin was also a little surprised when he heard Zhang Ning's words, but he also thought that Zhang Ning's words were reasonable, so he called the nearby soldiers to execute the prisoners on the spot by the pit.The fully armed soldiers received orders, and some of the muskets had their ammunition loaded but failed to shoot out, just to throw a mess at the captives, so there was no need to bother to take out the ammunition after the battle.Some bandits were shot and survived, screaming on the ground, while others were not shot, the soldiers drew their knives and cut off their heads no matter if they were dead or alive. The scene was brutal and bloody, not much better than when Fengshan was slaughtered .

Zhang Ning watched silently. These soldiers were all villagers. Most of them must have killed people for the first time today, but it seemed that there was nothing unusual about them.He thought to himself, sure enough, the seriousness of murder is mainly due to the restriction of the social order of "killing for life". If you don't have to be responsible, such as being ordered to massacre on the battlefield, everyone is not very hypocritical.

The artillery was still on the mountain, and people had to get it down after the war. After a long time of tossing about the aftermath, the sun was already setting on the top of the mountain by the time it was cleaned up.So after discussing with Zhang Ning and others, the left and right sides were done, so they sent someone to ride back to report the victory, and a large group of people will camp and rest in the camp built last night.

When the sun goes down, the heat goes away very quickly, and the temperature difference between day and night is very large in the southwest mountainous area far from the coast.Next to the camp was a large pit where more than 100 headless corpses were buried. There were still many heads on the vehicles in the camp. The smell of gunpowder smoke and blood had not completely dissipated. At night, a stench gradually filled the air.