Horse on the World

Chapter 547
Qingyang County, the only county-level government office adjacent to Minzhou and Quanzhou Zunhua, originally had a battalion of 5000 troops stationed here, belonging to the elite main force under Zhang Aimin's command, but this time because the Dingzhou army was about to After retreating, Zhang Aimin urgently needed a large number of troops to attack Yizhou. The main force of the first battalion stationed here was all transferred away, leaving only one post as a garrison.With 500 people at one post, if they lined up hand in hand, even the Qingyang city wall would not be enough to stand, which shows the weakness of the defense.

Holding the gun, Zhang Xiaohei sat huddled in the corner of the wall, with his hands folded in his sleeves, and he huddled into a ball. A fire was burning in front of him. The wind blew past, and the heat emitted by the fire was almost negligible.The barrel of the gun in his hand was like an icicle, and he sighed in his heart that it was unlucky. It was his turn to go to the city to be on duty today, but it was such a cold day. Sun, who used to occasionally go out for a walk in the past, completely went on strike today.

"Hey, I'm talking about Lao An, tell me, are we asking for trouble standing on the city wall in this cold day?" Zhang Xiaohei tried his best to get closer to the fire, and the older one The soldier said, "In the past, we were afraid that the Dingzhou army would come, and it was understandable for us to guard every day. Now that the Dingzhou army has withdrawn, our main force has also left. What's the point of standing here and blowing the wind? The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and my wife and children are still looking forward to my return to buy new year's goods? Prepare for the new year's things!"

Lao An put on a bitter face, "Little Heizi, why are we still wearing this kind of skin? Even if it's the local defense, you've been eating food for a long time, aren't you? If I want to sneak away, I don’t dare, the military law is there! Qian Shoubei is not a good man!”

"Junshou Junshang!" Zhang Xiaohei suddenly became angry, "It's such a little bit of Junshang every fucking month, and you have to peel off a layer when you are an official, Lao An, we have been neighbors with the Dingzhou Army for a while , I think you have heard some of it. What is the level of others who serve as soldiers to eat food and pay? Their lunch alone is worth ten Zhang Xiaohei. I heard that they also allocate land to soldiers, and soldiers’ families Tax payment and relief, our place is better, I really hate that Li Qing, why don’t we also get our Minzhou to go there, so that I, Zhang Xiaohei, can serve him as a soldier, at least I can do better than now!”

"Shut up, you don't want to die!" Lao An's expression changed, "Just tell me what you said, don't talk nonsense, besides, you didn't see that Li Qing has already met the wronged king We went, and the Dingzhou soldiers also withdrew, seeing that it was a rabbit’s tail, it couldn’t grow, you, I’m glad we didn’t get hugged by them, otherwise, we might lose our heads now.”

Zhang Xiaohei sniffled his nose, and sucked back the stream of tears, "What a pity, what a pity!" After saying this, he suddenly heard the faint sound of thunder, and he couldn't help but muttered again: " It’s so fucking annoying, just blowing some wind, but there’s thunder again, it looks like it’s going to rain heavily today!”

Old Anha smiled, "What nonsense are you kidding, it's winter, and there's thunder!" Before he finished speaking, his face changed a little, and he also heard a thunderous sound approaching gradually, and getting closer and closer. getting closer.

Lao An is old and has much more experience than Zhang Xiaohei. Huo Di stood up, leaned on the crenel of the city wall, and tried to look into the distance. What kind of thunder is this? This is the sound of countless cavalry galloping. , a black line is rapidly approaching here.

Lao An opened his mouth wide, his eyes were almost frozen, he raised one hand and pointed into the distance, "Cavalry, cavalry!"

Zhang Xiaohei jumped up and moved to Lao An's side, the spear in his hand fell to the ground with a clang, making a crisp sound, and within a short while, the cavalry in the distance could be clearly seen.They are no strangers to the Dingzhou military flag waving in the wind.

"Dingzhou soldiers, Dingzhou cavalry!" Zhang Xiaohei roared hoarsely. Before that, he wanted to be a Dingzhou soldier, but at this moment, he suddenly remembered that he was still a Minzhou soldier, and Dingzhou soldiers suddenly came to kill him. Even a fool knows what they are talking about.He wanted to be a Dingzhou soldier, but he never wanted to fight with Dingzhou soldiers.

"Run the alarm bell, warn the alarm!" Lao An reacted, let go of his feet and ran to the tower.

When, when, when!
The warning bell rang in an instant from the tower.

Qingyang defender Qian Lai was staying in his mansion, sipping wine with his arms around the most popular brothel sister in the county. After the Minzhou army left, he became the highest-ranking military officer in the county. The little girl who got angry everywhere suddenly became the master of the house. During this period of time, she was very high-spirited. Once the Dingzhou soldiers left Quanzhou, Minzhou was no longer threatened. The defense of this place is not only domineering, but also There is really nothing to do.

The ground trembled slightly, and the sound of thunder could be heard faintly. Qian Lai was a general after all. After a moment of stunned, he understood, and couldn't help being shocked. Holding his trousers in one hand and the knife in the other, he ran out.

"Master, come back quickly!" The girl in the room shouted loudly.

"Back to your mother!" Qian Lai's face turned pale. Hearing this voice, he didn't know how many enemies had come. He only had 500 people! 500 people!

When the disheveled Qian Lai ran up the city wall, the figures of the Dingzhou cavalry were already clearly visible. Seeing the cavalry continuously emerging from the horizon, Qian Lai's calves were weak, and he barely supported himself. He fell down, and on the city wall, the [-] local guards who heard the alarm bell rushed to the city wall, all of them were pale, and their bodies were shaking. On a piece of city wall, it is particularly eye-catching.

Zhang Xiaohei stepped back step by step. Suddenly, he threw away the gun in his hand, turned around and ran down the city, taking off his military uniform while running. Everyone was startled by his actions. After Xiao Hei took off his military uniform, he ran down the city wall with his upper body naked in the cold wind.

The money did not move.He knew in his heart that even if the marching method killed Zhang Xiaohei, the five hundred soldiers and himself were just a matter of early death or late death.

It seems that Qian Lai didn't make a sound, and one by one the soldiers started to retreat, and then followed Zhang Xiaohei's example. In an instant, on the city wall, except for Qian Lai and Lao An, five hundred soldiers dispersed at once. Armored weapons scattered around.

Guo Shanfeng led [-] cavalry, equipped according to the standard of Dingzhou cavalry, each cavalry has two horses, this kind of luxury, the whole Great Chu, except Dingzhou, has no semicolon, this is mainly because Li Qing conquered After the barbarians, the most rare resource of war horses for other forces in Dachu was the easiest for him to obtain.

The shocking effect caused by [-] horses galloping at the same time is definitely beyond the imagination of those soldiers in the Central Plains who have never seen the scene of a cavalry battle. Seeing the cavalry rolling in, let alone these miscellaneous local troops, Even the real elites will be devastated physically and mentally, just like the despair and helplessness that burst out in a person's heart when he sees a tsunami all over the sky.

"General Guo, Qingyang County is in front of us, do you want to take it down?" A sentry general ran back and reported loudly to Guo Shanfeng.

"Fuck!" Guo Shanfeng unceremoniously tapped the other party's helmet with a whip, "There are only a few hundred people left in this small county, what are we going to do with all this effort? Let's go, our target is not him, but Dong Lincheng, where there is the entire logistics base of the Minzhou Army, and a large amount of ordnance transported from Luoyang, taking him down is tantamount to gouging out the heart of that old man Tianqi! !"

"Yes!" The sentry general led the order loudly and left.

On Qingyang City, he has become a bare-handed commander, no, he still has a soldier, Qian Lai and Lao An watched the rolling cavalry pass by their city, no one raised their heads to look at them, the two slowly came back to their senses, Look at each other.

"Lao An, what do you think they mean?" Qian Lai asked.

Old An said: "It seems, it seems that their target is not us."

"How many cavalry were there in the past?"

"I don't know, at least tens of thousands!"

"How many tens of thousands?" Qian Lai shook his body, there were tens of thousands of cavalry, that is to say, the main force in Dingzhou did not withdraw to Dingzhou as mentioned above, but came to copy the old nest in Minzhou. Qingyang does not enter, although Qingyang is now an empty shell, ready to go, but they don't even bother to spend this little time, which only shows that their goal is not here at all.

They are going to fight Donglin!Qian Lai realized that Donglin had the entire logistics base for the Minzhou army. When Donglin fell, the Minzhou army cut off the logistics supply. As an officer, Qian Lai naturally knew the consequences of this incident.

"Master Guard, are we going to warn Donglin?"

Qian Lai sat down on the ground, "Warning? Do you think we can outrun those cavalry? Dingzhou cavalry, standard preparation, each with two horses!"

"Then what to do, my lord?"

"My lord, these cavalry have passed, and the infantry must be behind them. I said, Lao An, those cavalry are not interested in us, and the infantry may not be there."

Lao An shivered, "My lord, what shall we do?"

Qian Lai sniffled and thought, Damn, the adults above miscalculated again, and if Donglin fell, General Zhang Aimin's Minzhou Army would suffer a big loss. If he is still here, he is not looking for death, those cavalrymen disdain As for tidying up himself, he was tantamount to saving his life. Lao Tzu persisted until the Dingzhou cavalry passed and then ran away, which is worthy of those adults above.

"Old An, you are still loyal to me. Look, you are following me now, and we can't treat you badly. There is still one or two hundred taels of silver in the barracks. Go and get away!" Qian Lai said.

"My lord, what about you?" Lao An asked.

Qian Lai stood up, lifted his trousers, thought, the cavalry is gone, and the infantry will not arrive until a few days later, I will go back and fix the girl in the house first, and then I will quietly pack up the gold and silver, and slip away Almost also.But he said in his mouth: "This official is Qingyang's garrison, so I should stick to my post and live and die with Qingyang."

(End of this chapter)