Horse on the World

Chapter 815 Retrieving Ying City

In Yingcheng, General Li Shanbin of the Southern Army was ordered to garrison.Li Shanbin, who was ordered to garrison Qixia Pass back then, was ordered by King Ning to stop the grain and grass transported from the Central Plains to Dingzhou. Therefore, Li Qing ordered a surprise attack on Qixia Pass. Li Shanbin was intercepted by the Dingzhou Army during his escape. However, under Li Qing's order, he escaped the catastrophe of life and death, but also because of this, Li Shanbin could not be trusted in the southern army and was rejected.Originally talented as a general, but now he lives in Yingcheng. As a garrison general in a mere small town, he has only [-] elite soldiers from the southern army, and [-] local soldiers from Yingcheng.

Although Yingcheng of Quancheng is located in an important place, the distance between the two places is not far, and compared with Quancheng, Yingcheng's status is much inferior. Therefore, Hu Zequan stationed heavy troops in Quancheng, but he did not pay enough attention to Yingcheng.Moreover, the general transfer station of the southern army's materials is also located in Quancheng.

Li Shanbin, who sat on the cold board, was not angry at all. After experiencing the scene from life to death, his temperament has changed a lot. Now his wife and children are on the kang, and they are living quite nourishingly.

"General, it's time to patrol the city!" Li Shanbin's personal guard walked into the study and bowed.

Putting down the brush in his hand, looking at the words he just wrote, Li Shanbin smiled slightly, quite proud of it. In the past few years, his writing skills have improved a lot. It seems that it has something to do with the changes in his heart over the years, and he has lost some aggressiveness. , more mellow and smooth.

While bringing armor for Li Shanbin, and helping Li Shanbin to put it on, the soldiers jokingly said: "The general's handwriting is really beautiful, much better than those of those scholars." Li Shanbin laughed, "You brat flattering me Although there are scholars whose handwriting is not as good as the master's, I'm afraid most of them are better than me."

The soldier smiled and said, "You are a general. Among the generals, who else can write better than you, the general? Even the officials in the city say that you are a Confucian general with both civil and military skills. !"

Li Shanbin shook his head and smiled: "You are wrong again. Those people said this to you just to flatter me through you. Speaking of generals, those who write well and can be called unparalleled There really is one, let alone your general and me, even 90.00% of the scholars in the world have to bow down!"

"Is there such a general?" The soldiers were stunned.

"Yes, yes. It's just a pity that I only heard his name, but not his words!" Li Shanbin looked up towards Dingzhou.He reached out and grabbed the waist knife on the table, "Let's go, let's patrol the city!"

In the middle of the winter night, the job of standing guard in the city would naturally not be done by the [-] southern soldiers in the city. Therefore, the guards on the city are all local soldiers from Yingcheng. All the elites of the Zeng clan have been taken away by Zeng Yifan, and those left behind in Liaoshen are recruited temporarily, except for some decent soldiers in Shenzhou City, Liaozhou City, and Quanzhou City. Soldiers who got up, let alone combat effectiveness, first of all, military discipline is a mess.

There was not a single soldier to be seen in the city, and most of the soldiers who were supposed to be on their posts hid in the caves of the soldiers and built fires to keep warm, and there was nothing else to be seen in the empty city except for the flickering wind lanterns.

Li Shanbin, who was walking on the top of the city, frowned. He had never imagined that these local soldiers were so poor. He had been in Yingcheng for more than ten days. Although he also summoned those local officers to apply for military discipline, at present It seems that there is basically no effect, not to mention the soldiers, even the officers have not seen the shadow.

Walking to the top of the main tower, there was still nothing left, Li Shanbin's anger was completely uncontrollable, he turned his head and said to the soldiers around him: "Beat the drums for me."

The soldiers rushed to the side of the city tower, picked up the drumsticks, and raised their hands, the sound of thumping rang through the whole city.

With the sound of drums, the top of the city suddenly exploded, and soldiers swarmed out from all the caves for hiding soldiers, some forgot to wear their helmets, and some ran out with bare hands, looking at the headless flies. These soldiers, Li Shanbin was so angry that he didn't even have the mind to get angry, "Look, these are our soldiers, tell me, if there are enemies coming, can we count on them?"

Li Shanbin looked back at the soldier, and the soldier also had a wry smile on his face, "General, these are just a group of farmers with weapons, what can you expect them to do? Fortunately, it is deep in the hinterland, safe and there will be no enemies." .”

While speaking, there were bursts of neat footsteps under the top of the city, and groups of Southern Army soldiers drove up to the top of the city, and formed a neat line under the top of the city.

Several officers strode out of the queue, looked up at the tower, and gave a military salute, "General Li, the last general has been ordered to arrive!"

Li Shanbin nodded, "Well, today is a drill, and your performance is good. I am very satisfied to be able to rush from the barracks to the top of the city within half a stick of incense."

Although a little surprised why the military exercise was held suddenly, several officers still remained expressionless, bowed and retreated.Li Shanbin looked at the other side, where there was still chaos, and several officers were yelling at the soldiers to line up, but it didn't seem to be effective.

Li Shanbin looked at this side with strict eyes, and with a wave of his hand, more than a thousand elite soldiers of the southern army let out a cry, raised their spears in their hands, and all took a step forward.

This shout was much more effective than those officers' scolding, and the chaotic crowd immediately fell silent.

"Anyone who dares to make noise again, beheaded!" Li Shanbin said coldly.The soldiers around him took a step forward and loudly repeated Li Shanbin's order.At this moment, those chaotic grassroots soldiers finally showed their fear.

"You guys still look like soldiers?" Li Shanbin yelled, "You're just a bunch of mobs, even the tortoises are more disciplined than you."

"Patrolling the city, guarding the city, where are your posts? Are you guarding the stove in the cave, drinking, eating meat, snoring and sleeping? If an enemy comes, what will happen? Do you know what will happen? You will be inexplicably ignorant Even if his head was chopped off by the enemy, he would still be a fool when he died."

There was a commotion below, and several soldiers whispered: "Where is the enemy here? It's cold, and the officials are all in the house, but let us suffer from the cold, it's unreasonable!"

"Shut up, be careful that General Li cuts off your head!" an officer shouted in a low voice.

"Come on, drag out those with disheveled armor and unarmed hands!" Li Shanbin waved his hand, and a troop of southern soldiers rushed out, rushed into the crowd opposite, and dragged about dozens of soldiers horizontally and vertically. Pull it out.

"Your heads should be beheaded, but for the first offender, each person will receive [-] military sticks, and those who dare to call out will receive an additional [-] military sticks." Li Shanbin said calmly, "From today onwards, whenever I notice someone leaving his post, Cut Wuhe."

Li Shanbin left his sleeves. Below, a southern army enforcement judge had been removed from three times, five, and two, and he fell to the ground and stabbed him.

"One, two, three, four, five!" As the stick fell, a southern soldier began to count ten to five. One person dared to call out, and he gritted his teeth to resist. After a while, several people fainted.

Less than two miles away from Yingcheng, hundreds of people including Sun Zewu were wearing white cloaks, lying on the snow without moving. From a distance, they looked like lumps of swelled snow, and it was extremely difficult to tell who they were. He was ordered to seize the gate of the city, and held it until the cavalry came behind him. The sudden sound of drums in the city surprised Sun Zewu and others. It was about rectifying military discipline, and Sun Zewu was suddenly very angry. If he didn't do it sooner or later, he would do it at this time. Isn't this adding trouble to himself?

Li Shanbin's tossing and tossing dragged the time until the second watch. He lay down in the snow, his body temperature melted the snow, the snow soaked his clothes, and he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Li Wen slowly climbed up to Sun Zewu, "General Sun, the time agreed with General Wang Yan is the third watch, and now there is only one hour left, we must act now."

Sun Zewu nodded, "General Li, I will lead Feiying to climb up and take down the city gate first, and you will arrive later."

Li Wen looked at the opposite city wall, and whispered: "This city wall is not low, and it's icy, very slippery, it's hard to climb, I'll go up first."

Sun Zewu thought for a while, "General Li's martial arts skills are not comparable to mine, so that's fine."

Li Shanbin returned to the trust station in the city full of anger, and slapped his waist knife on the big case with a slap. The enemy is coming, and there are generals Hu Zequan, Lan Yu, and Zeng Yifan in front of them with hundreds of thousands of troops, rectify military discipline, take your time, there is no need to get angry because of these things."

Li Shanbin shook his head, "I've been a soldier for half my life, this is the first time I've come across such rubbish, it's really outrageous." Picking up the pen, I wanted to write a few words and calm down. But he felt restless and irritable, unable to write at all, so he threw the pen on the desk angrily.

"General, let's burn your feet!" The soldiers came in with a pot of steaming water, "The weather in Quanzhou is really uncomfortably cold, far less warm than our south!"

Li Shanbin sat down, took off his shoes and socks, put his feet into the steaming water, took a long and comfortable breath, and was about to say something when Li Shanbin jumped up in shock from the loud shouts from outside , the foot basin was kicked over, and water splashed all over the floor.

"What's going on?" He hurriedly put on his shoes and socks, grabbed the waist knife with one hand, and rushed out of the house.

Li Wen and Sun Zewu climbed up the city first, and then dropped the hook rope, pulling dozens of Flying Eagles to the top of the city, and then hundreds of people climbed up silently one by one.

The city gate was rushed down in a moment, and when the city gate was wide open, the Yingcheng soldiers guarding the city reacted, beat the drums desperately, and flocked to the city gate, trying to control the city. This group of people of unknown origin was expelled from the door.

It's just a pity that although there are many people in the city, there is no organization, and the combat power is pitifully low. Under Li Wen's leadership, the side with fewer people will kill the side with more people to retreat step by step. Duojia, on the contrary, was driven back backwards.

(End of this chapter)