Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 123 Aftershock (7)

When the moon and stars were thin, Xia Hao's team of 2000 people groped their way to the gate of Cangzhou City.A small group of troops was sent out to investigate, but they found that the gate of the city was unguarded, so they came back and reported to Xia Hao.

"Hey! No one is guarding the city gate, hurry up and attack..." Xia Hao was overjoyed when he heard that, and hurriedly urged his men to attack the city.

"Master, don't..."

Xia Hao turned his head and looked unhappy. It turned out to be Uncle Zhang again. Xia Hao said, "What? Are you scared?"

"Master, there is no one guarding the city gate, I'm afraid there may be fraud..." Uncle Zhang expressed his worries.

"Who will guard the city gate in the middle of the night? If it's me, I won't guard it either." Xia Hao returned.

Hearing this, Uncle Zhang broke into a cold sweat, thinking that you must have slept with your concubine in your arms, but the soldiers are not like that.But he couldn't refute anymore, so he kept silent and kept hinting that he should be more careful.Once you find something wrong, run away immediately.

"Big fellows, rush in for me, and after you get in, let you rob!" Xia Hao encouraged the crowd and launched the final mobilization, and the crowd started to get excited and scream.Uncle Zhang was shocked when he heard this, not because he was afraid that his minions would be discovered by the guards in the city, but because he was worried about Xia Hao's morale-boosting words.

Looting in the city is easy to say, but most of the shops in the city are shops of various aristocratic families. The 2000 people under him can't tell right from wrong. With this looting, the Xia family will lose their foothold in Cangzhou!In other words, regardless of success or failure in this siege, the Xia family will be expelled from Cangzhou!

What he said, the water he poured, Xia Hao's words had already spread to everyone present, and Uncle Zhang didn't even think about being able to persuade him to come back.There is only one voice in his heart calling: go, go, go early, good morning!

"Let's go!" Xia Hao shouted, looking at Cangzhou City, which was close in front of him, as if it had already been captured.

"Wow..." 2000 private soldiers rushed towards the gate of the city.Only some of Uncle Zhang's cronies were left, and some smarter people were only willing to walk slowly, falling at the end of the team.Uncle Zhang was still debating whether to go or not. He wanted to see the battle situation at the gate of the city before talking.

Very smooth...

There is no moat in Cangzhou City, and the crowd rushed directly to the entrance of the city, hacking with knives and axes.The city gate is made of thick wood, not very strong, and no one is guarding it. Compared with other siege battles, the gate of Cangzhou City collapsed almost instantly.

The crowd poured into Cangzhou City, Xia Hao was overjoyed, opened the small bottle in his hand, poured it into his mouth, and tapped it hard with his fingers.Then Xia Hao rode his horse, knocked away his soldiers, and went straight across Cangnan Street.And at the moment when the city gate collapsed, Uncle Zhang took advantage of the moonlight to see what was behind the gate, turned around and left.

Why?There is only one gate!
There are generally three gates, or at least two.As we all know, there is a short alley at the city gate, with one front and one back, one inside and one outside, and two gates.Conditional, there is an iron gate in the middle.But now only one door is closed, and the other two are open. What does it mean?
It means that the people in the city don't want to defend the city at all, leaving this inner door open, is it a treat?No!It's the posture of inviting you into the urn, closing the door and beating the dog!

Uncle Zhang is a veteran, and his military literacy is quite good. He saw through this situation at a glance, so he turned around and left.It is impossible for anyone who enters the city to come out...

The rest of the people are different. They planed food from the soil, and they went to the mountains to become bandits after natural and man-made disasters. Most of them didn't even know their identity as private soldiers.With Cangzhou City without protection in front of him, how could he think about anything else?
Not to mention Xia Hao, a second-hand guy, riding a big horse, crossing Cangnan Street without looking sideways, at a speed that no one can match.

Most of the people entered Cangzhou City. Although the moon was brighter, it was dark night after all. They had never been in Cangzhou City before, and they were unfamiliar with the place, so they ran around like headless chickens for a while.

Soon, they noticed a lot of dry horse grass piled up on the street. Just when they were puzzled, there was a "bang", the inner gate of the city gate was closed, and the city was full of people.

"Ambush!" Everyone didn't understand, and a voice yelled out.Before everyone had time to react, the sound of bows and arrows piercing through the air came from their ears:
"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

Many people also appeared on the roofs on both sides of the street. When they met each other, they directly shot bows and arrows.Hundreds of minions fell in response. In the chaos, many horses and grass on the street were overturned. The archers on the roof turned their bows and arrows into fire arrows, and shot them one round. In the blink of an eye, the whole street became A sea of ​​fire.

All the people in the sea of ​​fire struggled and fled. Those burned by the fire rolled on the ground, and some started to fight back.However, the flames were bright, and the people were like live targets in the spacious street. Before they could draw their swords out, hundreds of people were shot by arrows and fell to the ground.

The horse grass was dry and burned quickly, and after setting two hundred private soldiers on fire, it also faded away.As a result, more than [-] people lost their fighting ability, and the remaining private soldiers retreated to the gate of the city together, and were greeted by bows and arrows on the gate.

Then, officers and soldiers from all directions rushed out together, and the hand-to-hand combat began!
Outside the gate of the governor's mansion, Xia Hao came galloping alone. He got off the horse and rubbed the caterpillars in his lower body that had been hardened by the drugs.

Xia Hao walked towards the gate, and three soldiers jumped out beside him. They couldn't help but say that once the stinky socks were stuffed and a set of sacks, Xia Hao was tied up and sent to Xu Qing in a short while.

In fact, Xu Qing knew all about the movements of the family's private soldiers, even without Huang Shimei's reminder, the dark river would still find out.

So Xu Qing purposely set up camp thirty miles away from Lu Jing's ambush site, cooked two meals at night, ate one meal, slept and rested, and kept warm for the other meal.Get up in the middle of the night, eat another meal, and rush back to Cangzhou City Xingye to wait for Xia Hao's army.

Feint a shot, and then turn the ambush into an ambush, and turn the disadvantage into an advantage.The horse grass that was placed early is also prepared for this.Everything had been arranged during Xu Qing's "hibernation" a few days ago. It can be said that one day after the aristocratic families joined forces to destroy it, they had already fallen into the big bag arranged by Xu Qing.

What the prey sees is often what the planner wants him to see.

"Woooooooo..."

Xia Hao fainted from the stinky socks, and woke up again, writhing in the sack like a frightened centipede.Of course, it is also possible that Xia Hao could not bear the stimulation of the medicine and writhed...

After untying the sack, Xia Hao's blood-red eyes were revealed, seeing Xu Qing wearing a crimson suit, he immediately said angrily: "Xu Qing, let me go quickly, and send me to your woman, otherwise..."

"Otherwise what?"

"I'm not the only one enjoying the women in your family. There are 2000 people waiting outside!" Xia Hao said viciously.

"Hmm..." Xu Qing was not irritated by these words, on the contrary, the more he looked at Xia Hao, the more cute he felt, what a big golden mountain!You know, the last time Xu Qing kidnapped Xia Hao, he made a huge sum of money, and the Xia family almost squeezed it out. This time, squeeze it again?It's impossible for the Xia family to only have that bit of background, doesn't he have an old man who went to Shandong to be the governor?
"You, aren't you afraid?" Seeing Xu Qing's eager eyes, Xia Hao thought that Xu Qing was going to "extort something" from him, but Xia Hao was not disappointed. Instead, his lower abdomen became hot, and finally the last line of defense collapsed: "Xu Qing Inspector, I didn’t expect... well, I misunderstood you, I told the outsiders to leave..."

"...Xu Inspector, you must be gentle..."

"Eh..." Xu Qing was shocked, and woke up from his thoughts: "Master Xia, how much do you think your head is worth?"

Huh?This seems familiar, a month ago...

"You!" Xia Hao felt resentment in his heart again after hearing this, he suffered for a month, wasn't it all thanks to the previous kidnapping?
"You are the one from before, aren't you?"

Xu Qing smiled and did not answer, expressing his acquiescence. Before Xia Hao could speak again, he ordered his subordinates to say: "This kid took medicine, find it on him, and feed him all..."

"No, no, I will die, how can you take me as a hostage when I am dead?!"

Xu Qing smiled badly, and continued to order: "East Lane Wang Erniang's family has a sow, which has grown grass, and has not found a breeding pig. Bring it here, and accompany Mr. Xia..."

"I'm going to kill you!" Xia Hao rushed straight at Xu Qing, but how could he hurt Xu Qing, Xu Qing kicked him away and walked out.Soon, a fat and fat pig was brought over.At the beginning, Xia Hao could still be heard cursing, but after a while, the sound of heavy breathing and Hua Zhu grunting slowly came out.

Xu Qing went to Cangnan Street.

On both sides of Cangnan Street, almost all the residents were scared to death.They were sleeping soundly, but they were suddenly awakened. At first they thought that bandits had entered the city, and hurriedly hid in their small house. Later, they thought that the water had run out, and prayed that their house would not be burned down.Afterwards, all I could hear were shouts of beating and killing outside the door, dying or living...

After about an hour, the door became quiet again, only the sound of horseshoes and corpses being dragged... Who won?They didn't know, didn't dare to look at it, covered their faces, and called to God.

The sound of horseshoes is naturally from Xu Qing's team.

"Reporting to the governor, two thousand enemies were killed in this battle, and five hundred were killed or injured. The wounded have been healed, and two hundred brothers died."

"According to the quota pension..."

Where there is war, there will be casualties, which cannot be avoided or stopped.If you really want to stop this kind of casualties, the only way is to pay more casualties.Alas, kindness does not command soldiers, what Xu Qing can do is to deal with the aftermath.

"Here!"

At the junction of Haixing County and Cang County, in the mountain depression where the ambush was buried, the news that Xu Qing fled without fighting spread throughout the ambush, and everyone relaxed.Someone patted the shoulder of the person next to him to celebrate, but the person next to him cursed, "How dare you touch me?"

"I, what am I doing to you!"

"You try to move my finger again?"

"Just try it, move it, what's wrong with you?"

"Hey, brothers, this kid dares to touch me!"

"Copy guy!"

……

For the coalition of the aristocratic clans, the ambush formation suddenly became chaotic. At first, they were divided into two sides to fight, and then there were three dozen, four dozen, until mixed chaos.

Lu Jing couldn't stop it, and knew that the situation was over, so he returned to the county government office, rolled up the money, rubbed the soles of his feet with oil, and fled...

(End of this chapter)