stubborn thief

Chapter 121 Strange request [Please order first! ! ! 】

Whizzing!

The two brothers of the Han family stood at the front of the line, drawing their bows and releasing their arrows.

The two best cavalry archers released precise feather arrows towards the entrance of the village in a foot shooting posture.

With an interval of more than thirty steps, the two men drew their bows and released arrows, and the village entrance let out muffled groans and screams, but then two officers and soldiers with feathered arrows pierced their bodies reluctantly released arrows.

It is difficult to shoot accurately at night, and it depends on luck whether you can shoot people over. Sometimes it is really hard to hit people on the armor but not knock them down.

Dodo!

Facing the arrows shot by the officers and soldiers, the Han brothers did not dodge or evade. Beside them were also Liu Chengzong's servants, two Zhong brothers with fourth-class military honors, and they stood in front of them with square shields. , Prevent the front tightly.

Liu Chengzong shook his head and sighed in the middle of the team. He has good shooting skills, but he is still a little worse than the Han brothers. He knows how difficult such shooting skills are in the dark.

Two accurate and powerful archers can make the army even more powerful.

The four skilled servants advanced forward, and the four whistlers followed suit, and quickly advanced to twenty steps.

"Chuan, the outpost takes three steps and one arrow."

Liu Chengzong held a bow in his hand, and this distance was enough for people to see the figures of the officers and soldiers in the village under the moonlight and firelight.

The people walked twenty or thirty steps against the rain of arrows. Even though their cotton armor was good, a few people were hit by arrows. Now they were suppressing their anger and just waiting for this order.

Almost at the same time as the order was conveyed, the frontier soldiers unanimously drew their bows and shot arrows at the figure that was faintly visible at the entrance of the village.

There are also some people who are blocked behind the human wall because of the narrow road, and they want to shoot arrows through the cracks while standing on tiptoe.

A row of feathered arrows shot out, and the officer with several arrows pierced his body was finally shot in the cheek, and fell down screaming.

Another person was just targeted by Han Shipan, but he glanced at the fallen comrade, turned around and ran towards the north.

So far, there is no enemy who dares to shoot arrows at them at the entrance of the east village.

The four frontmen picked up their pace, and the speed of the whole team also increased. They crossed the first narrow ditch, and soon crossed the second one, until they rushed into the village with their legs.

As soon as he entered the village, Zhong Hu, who was walking in the front with a shield, stepped back and shouted, "Leopard, retreat!"

But it was too late to say the words, a series of bang bang sounded almost simultaneously on both sides, and gunpowder smoke filled the entrance of the village.

It's a firecracker!
Zhong Hu, who was walking in the front, couldn't dodge in time, several lead pellets penetrated the long card and hit him in an instant, rolling on the ground with a muffled sound.

Zhong Bao's condition was a little better, he walked forward more slowly, and the lead ball passed by and flew obliquely towards the sky. Seeing this scene, his eyes were tearing apart, and he hid behind the long card and shouted: "Brother!"

Liu Chengzong was even more furious, just now he was two steps away from death, and shouted loudly: "Two whistles to the left and right, go up to Feifeng!"

There was a response from the formation, and within a short while, there were two muffled bang bang bangs, and two small cylinders flew into the sky, falling parabolically and hitting the village.

A moment later, there was a loud explosion in the village, and people screamed and struggled endlessly.

Liu Chengzong said: "Let's say, the rear sentry dragged the wounded soldiers, and the remaining three sentries entered the village to separate the formation!"

He thought to himself, this broken cannon was fired once in the hands of the officers and soldiers, and it fell into his hands at the same rate of fire.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Three whistles marched forward, before rushing into the village, another bang exploded. The flying cannon was not broken, but the line of medicine was a little longer. The officers and soldiers had already avoided it, and the explosion in the village was almost Nothing happens.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the subordinates of the third sentry rushed into the village, and the two sentries lined up north and south, holding bows and arrows to attack the attacking officers and soldiers, separating the ranks of officers and troops stationed in the village from the middle.

"Keep in formation, don't mess up!"

Liu Chengzong stood at the entrance of the village. Wang Wenxiu from the rear post and Yang Yao from the front post formed three horizontal formations to seal the village.

Feng Ru's left post was scattered, and a group of four pulled the wounded frontier soldiers out of the village, and at the same time filled them in with new ones to maintain the front line.

Zhong Hu, who was shot, was dragged down. Liu Chengzong grabbed a torch and shone it on him. At a glance, he could see three holes were punched in the cotton armor, and the iron arm tie on his left arm was also dented. His arm was oozing blood.

He hurriedly asked: "How is it?"

Zhong Hu was still awake, his eyeballs were red with pain, trembling and breathing in, he shook his head and said, "I'm fine, my body is fine, my hand and arm slipped."

Hearing what he said, Liu Chengzong took a closer look at the cotton armor on his body and heaved a sigh of relief.

Several lead particles broke through the outer fabric of the cotton armor, but after penetrating through the fabric layer, they couldn't make any further progress. They were all blocked by the iron armor.

On the contrary, his left arm was hit by several firecrackers at close range while supporting the wooden shield.

But this is enough to make people feel lucky, Liu Chengzong held his left hand and smiled: "Yanshuiguan saved you, you take it down quickly, connect your arms... Hey, you are so lucky!"

If they hadn't obtained a large amount of armor from the officers and soldiers at Yanshui Pass, and the supplies and sergeants were equipped with enough good armor pieces, Zhong Hu's life would have been lost in this round of salvo alone.

The fighting in the village was still going on, and Wang Wenxiu's troops had lined up to advance southward, and he used his five teams in batches.

The three teams stood firm on the front line, and the two teams of 20 people on the left and right rushed to the two wings under the leadership of the captain, quickly occupied the houses on both sides, climbed up the ridge of the roof, stepped on the tiles and shot the enemy with strong bows.

In the north, Yang Yao's troops directly divided into five teams, and moved forward in five columns. Those who encountered obstacles in the middle were killed on the spot.

Wait for the teams on both sides to complete the outflank, and then join forces to attack.

The four frontier guards cooperated very tacitly. Two sentries were the main attack, one sentry was ready, and the other sentry sent the wounded soldiers back on the spot.

It really made Liu Chengzong enjoy the general feeling of being a master.

Arranging thousands of people before and after Jiapao Mountain is not as comfortable as dispatching these 500 people.

In the dark village, both the enemy and us are in the dark, and within ten steps of the enemy, we will shoot both bows and guns, and then fight with each other.

No one has a gun, and this is when his men have the most advantage.

Of course, even with small field artillery, he would not suffer from these four whistles. If the officers and soldiers could bring artillery over, so could they.

They have never been short of small field artillery, but have always been short of field heavy artillery weighing more than five hundred catties.

After a while, Gao Xian's soldiers ran over and said: "General, the outpost commander Yang sent a message that the generals of the official army are not in the north, but they can be defeated with one blow!"

Not to the north, then to the south.

"Go and tell Chief Yang to hold on. If the north collapses, the south will try to break through. Let Chief Wang prepare to pursue and Chief Gao to support the North and South at any time. Feng Ru and Wei Qian'er will lead the troops with me. Go to the southern mountain road to set up defenses, and intercept and invite the officers and troops along the way."

After finishing speaking, Liu Chengzong raised his hand again and said: "Send someone to find Shangtian Monkey, and ask him to find me four hundred mules and pull them over."

The two generals took orders and delivered orders to each other.

At the same time, some frontier soldiers ran to Tianhou to report the situation on the north and south sides, and asked him to order his troops to respond.

Liu Chengzong led his people to move to the entrance of the village in the south. The battle here was obviously more fierce. Many leaders of Shangtian Monkey's subordinates occupied the fields, and the headquarters regrouped again and again to launch attacks on the village.

The subordinates of the Monkey King are far better at carrying out orders than they look.

But they are indeed too weak in strength, and they are unable to break through the defense line of the officers and soldiers every time they attack, so that the so-called impact is just standing twenty or thirty steps away and firing arrows and crossbows.

Originally, it was not easy to hit in the dark, and it was also limited by the lack of strength of one's own bow and crossbow, and the armor protection of the officers and soldiers was too complete. As a result, even if the officers and soldiers were shot, it was easy to hurt them, but it was difficult to lose their combat effectiveness quickly.

Once two or three people are hit by arrows, the whole team will withdraw.

The insufficient physical strength of the soldiers was consumed between advancing and retreating.

Liu Chengzong formed a team outside the village, let the Tang soldiers stand in place, and the left sentry guards stepped forward to pick one person, two groups, and then organized according to the left sentry, a team of 40 people combined command, and the detachment set up an ambush in the south of the village.

In fact, the so-called ambush is neither subtle nor subtle.

In the field outside the village, except for the bonfire set up by the officers and soldiers thirty paces from the entrance of the village, and the torches held high by the Heavenly Monkey Department, everything else is dark and blind.

Forty or fifty steps away from the entrance of the village, there is only moonlight shining on the ground outside, and you can't see anything if you go far away, let alone scatter, if you don't hit your own head, you are lucky.

Liu Chengzong said to Feng Ru and Wei Qian'er: "Sooner or later, the enemy army will not be able to hold on, and they will disperse when they run out. Let the subordinates remember that if they disperse and pursue, they can only be divided into two people. When they see the single one, kill them. The password... ...Grandpa is here, why don't you come down early."

Wei Qian'er had never been a soldier before, but now he has the benefit of the frontier army organization. Seeing that Liu Chengzong wanted to disperse the troops and invite them to attack, he worried: "General, if you disperse, can we beat the officers and soldiers?"

"Good question!"

Liu Chengzong has always believed that as a leader, he can know nothing, but he must know his parents' shortcomings.

He knew his own people very well, so he said with a smile: "This is the opportunity I have always wanted to create. Fighting on all sides is the most suitable for us. You think, the officers and soldiers are strong in restraint, and we are also restrained. More than four hundred against four More than a hundred, forgive whoever wins and who loses, the loss will not be small."

Wei Qian'er nodded when he heard the words, and then he heard Liu Chengzong continue: "If you can fight without restraint with restraint, you will surely win, but it is too difficult to create in the dark night, chasing the enemy army, and you can barely create it if you lose restraint." .”

In fact, Liu Chengzong also wanted to create a situation in which the officers and soldiers had no organization and his people still formed an formation, but this was really too difficult, and it was only possible if they were blocked on both sides of the village.

But if the officers and soldiers are blocked in the village, even if there is a brief period of chaos, everyone will soon follow their generals, and it is inevitable that they will still enter the stage of desperate struggle.

"There is no restraint, and they are all frontier soldiers. How do you judge whether you win or lose? See who eats more dry food." When Liu Chengzong said this, the corners of his mouth could not help but rise: "We eat more dry food."

The officers and soldiers in the south of the village were attacked by the enemy, and the bandit soldiers who charged into the village soon discovered that the enemy's ability to resist them had become stronger.

At this time, the gunmen did not return, but one of them leaped out with his sword raised, and challenged the bandits surrounded by the bonfire: "Only you bandits, can anyone shoot me in the foot?"

Liu Chengzong knew very well that it was because the officers and soldiers in the village were under too much pressure in the north and couldn't hold on anymore, so he ran to the south to call for battle, trying to overwhelm and deter the bandits in terms of morale, so as to create favorable conditions for their assault.

He said to the left and right: "Let the teams prepare, they are about to rush out."

At the same time, the two bandits in front really cursed and shot arrows at the officer.

The officers and soldiers were also very courageous, they just stood motionless at a distance of more than [-] steps, and behind them were a few guns holding three-eyed guns to protect them from a distance, and the distance was very precise.

As long as the thieves crossed the bonfire, they would reach the distance where the three-eyed gun could kill a person.

But beyond the distance of the bonfire, the bandits scattered with bows and arrows, far less accurate than the three-eyed blunderbuss.

Not to mention, this officer's uniform has really arrived, and there is really no one who can shoot him in the foot.

Seeing Liu Chengzong's hands itchy, he said to Zhong Bao: "Do you dare to carry the shield to protect me?"

Zhong Bao's elder brother was injured just now, but this guy was not afraid at all, he raised his long shield and said: "Go, general, why don't you dare!"

The two of them walked to the bandits behind the bonfire, and the officers and soldiers were still shouting and mocking at the front. Liu Chengzong took out an arrow, stretched the bow with his thumb, and shouted: "Look!"

After being released, the officer was also defenseless, still standing still, the feather arrow was nailed into his soap boot every thirty steps, the pain made the man scream out on the spot.

But this painful cry was directly suppressed by the applause from the bandits.

What Liu Chengzong didn't expect was that this officer was really a man, and the arrow in his foot was still shooting fiercely.

He also couldn't see who was on the other side of the bonfire who shot the arrow. He only knew that his mission was to destroy the morale of the bandit soldiers, so he endured the pain and cursed: "Which bastard shoots Grandpa, he has the ability to hit me in the face!"

Good guy!
Very strange request!
He had never heard of such an exorbitant request.

Immediately, he took out another arrow, took two steps forward, pulled it full and let it go, the arrow nailed the man's nose, and he screamed and fell to the ground covering his face.

The thieves all around once again cheered more enthusiastically than before, Liu Chengzong looked at the bow and chuckled lightly. Doesn't it mean that if he is full and has hands?

Although it boosted the morale of the bandit soldiers a little, Liu Chengzong did not take it lightly. He said to the leader of the bandit centurion: "Let people back off, and the officers and soldiers will fire gunners."

He also backed away under the cover of Zhong Bao, and just a few steps back, he saw two rows of one-eyed and three-eyed musketeers walking out, the front half kneeling, the back standing, and releasing two rows of muskets under the ribs. Lead, the entrance of the village was full of gunpowder for a while.

At that moment, Zhong Bao's long shield was hit by at least seven or eight lead metals, making tinky noises one after another.

But fortunately, they were farther away this time, and the officers and soldiers fought again with two or three scatterers stuffed into a barrel, and the power failed to penetrate the shield.

After that, a row of officers and soldiers armed with eight-foot short spears came out of the gunpowder smoke shouting and charging, and most of the officers and soldiers rushed out in formation behind them.

The army is about to break through!

While retreating, Liu Chengzong shot down a spearman with his bow and arrow, and the brothers of the Han family on the slope also came to support them. The two walked fast, and the strong bow in their hands kept shooting down three of them in a blink of an eye.

The five teams of soldiers lying around also launched an invitation to attack the officers and soldiers almost at the same time.

　Two updates today, and Chapter 2

　　
　
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