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Chapter 440 Kill the officers and soldiers, eat meat and drink tonight?

On the 13th day of December in the [-]th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, outside the west gate of Fumi County, Kaifeng, Henan.

Li Jiyu's camp was set up in a dilapidated temple five miles northwest of the city. The temple took up quite a large area, but it was full of famine and generally in disrepair. Fortunately, the houses and palaces in the temple were still intact.

After this group of Dengfeng thieves captured Dengfeng County, their power grew instantly. They not only recruited the hungry people around Dengfeng to join them, but also absorbed the thieves, deserters, local ruffians, etc. from the surrounding bandit dens.

It has grown to tens of thousands of people, and even colluded with the trespasser Li Zicheng, intending to cause chaos in Henan. Now, taking the opportunity of the trespassers to besiege Luoyang, they came to attack Mi County.

Li Jiyu was originally a farmer in Mogou Village, Tangzhuang, Dengfeng County. His family has been farming for generations. He also studied for a few years when he was young. Later, he dropped out of school due to poverty and worked as a farmer at home.

Mogou Village is only [-] miles away from Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain, and there are many folk martial arts practitioners. Li Jiyu also practiced martial arts since he was young, and even went to Shaolin Temple to study, so he is proficient in martial arts.

This Li Jiyu is quite famous, and he has kind thoughts in his heart. He often stands out for the poor people and is very popular.

In August of the 13th year of Chongzhen, the government servants of Dengfeng County went to Mogou Village to force food collection, and their attitude was very fierce. Inspired by righteous indignation, Li Jiyu beat the government servants and led the people to the city to ask for food tax exemption. Li Jiyu was put in shackles and tied to the leg of a stone lion in front of the yamen to "show the public".

Fortunately, the righteous people rescued Li Jiyu. After returning home, Li Jiyu tore off his red cloth quilt, ran up the Jianshan Mountain, set up an uprising flag, and began to recruit troops. Soon the team grew to 5 to [-] people.New Asia

In the past, Dengfeng County was raided. Yan Tinghui and Dianshi Wang Dabi, the magistrate of the county, were publicly tried outside the Yimen Gate of the county government office, and their heads were beheaded for public display.

Early this morning, Li Jiyu fed the horses and thieves, but did not give food to the hungry people. He said that whenever Mi County was raided, the hungry people would eat together.

Under his encouragement, nearly [-] hungry people rushed to the west gate wall of Dengfeng County like crazy. Facing these desperate hungry people, the young and strong soldiers in Dengfeng City who had been guarding the city for three days were exhausted. The city is broken.

Li Jiyu was urging all the thieves and hungry people under his command to step up their attack on the city, when he suddenly saw a commotion on the city wall, and then all the hungry people climbed up the city, and the city gate was opened.

At this point in the battle, he no longer needs to command. The hungry people are as docile and cowardly as sheep in front of this group of bandits, but to the people in Mi County, they are as fierce and terrifying as jackals and tigers.

Li Jiyu really never thought that Mi County would be breached like this. He was in no hurry to stop those hungry people entering the city like wolves and tigers. Seeing this situation, he could only shout loudly: "Ji Zhiying, lead a team into the city quickly, protect Go to the treasury. Hurry up!"

A horse thief with a helmet on and his armour, rode out in response to the sound, and led a group of bandits to the west gate of Mi County.

Li Jiyuce shook his head immediately, and told the horse thief beside him, "You two hurry up and see what's going on in the north and south."

The two horse thieves led the order to run out, and saw the two horse thieves from the north galloping in a panic, yelling at this side from a distance, but they were covered by the wind, and they couldn't hear it. real.

Li Jiyu felt something strange, and hurriedly ordered the horse thieves around him: "Quickly, form an formation, go to a few people, prevent them from entering the city, and quickly form an formation!"

Fortunately, his reaction was fast enough. Nearly [-] horse thieves gathered around him and quickly formed a formation, while dozens of horse thieves rushed out of the formation to prevent those infantry thieves and hungry people from entering the city.

Li Jiyu has more than [-] horse thieves here, and the first team that followed Ji Zhiying into the city just now has about [-] more horses, and now there are more than [-] horse thieves, their combat strength is extremely strong.

In addition, there are nearly 3000 thieves on his side, and the three-day siege did not cause much damage. After all, the hungry people are the main force of the thieves attacking the city. Now there are more than 1000 thieves outside the city gate who have not entered the city, and they have been driven by horse thieves Form a loose battle formation at the gate of the city.

Li Jiyu saw from a distance about [-] paces behind the two horse thieves in the north, there was billowing smoke and dust, and there was the faint sound of galloping horses trampling the ground. Standby."

All the horse thieves followed behind Li Jiyu, rode their horses quickly to the back of the formation, and formed a four-row line. Although the formation was a little loose, it was also very powerful.

Before Li Jiyu rode into the formation, there was a thousand-man bandit formation in the middle, and a group of nearly [-] hungry people on each side gathered together, not forming a formation. After all, they had not been strictly drilled, and how could they get together in a panic? Into battle formation.

At this moment, the two horse thieves had also rushed back to the front of the formation, shouting: "Li Shuai, the officer army, all his mother's cavalry, come rushing..."

Li Jiyu was so angry that he waved the long knife in his hand and shouted: "Mother, don't panic, how many officers and soldiers are here, but you can see clearly?"

"It seems that there are almost three to five hundred riders..."

Li Jiyu scolded loudly: "Bear-like, there are only three to five hundred officers and soldiers, so panic."

He turned around and encouraged: "Pass the order down, kill the officers and soldiers, everyone will eat meat and drink tonight!"

The horse thieves roared enthusiastically, and even the thieves and hungry people in front were very excited. They couldn't eat enough food a few times on weekdays, let alone meat and wine, even if it was a few steamed buns , They can all fight with their lives.

Their morale soared for a while, whether they were thieves or hungry people, they all roared and howled. Although the battle formation formed was not strict, it was much tighter, and everyone clenched their knives, guns, sticks, shovels and pickaxes tightly. Rake.

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Zhang Guangda, Su Laohu, Mo Zhigen and others separated from Zhang Cheng on the road outside the north gate of Mixian County, and ran forward for a certain distance before stopping. Su Laohu and others led Mengqi to be in charge of guarding.

Zhang Guangda directed the heavy knights to put on iron armor one after another, and added armor to the horses, and then began to form the team. At this time, more than a dozen horse thieves rushed to this side.

Mo Zhigen hurriedly led Mengqi under his command to meet them. They were good at riding and shooting, especially Mo Zhigen was the best among them, known as the "Condor Hand" who could bend a bow and shoot eagles!
He rode his horse and rushed to the front with a bow and an arrow in hand. When he was less than sixty steps away from the horse thief, he shot an arrow, and the horse thief who was the first to rush on the opposite side fell off his horse.

The rest of the horse thieves were startled, although they were also very strong, but after all, the mob has always been a habit of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, now seeing the officers and soldiers on the other side so brave, they immediately shouted and turned the horse's head, and ran away.

Mo Zhigen led all the horse thieves to chase after them. Behind the horse thieves was a burst of riding and shooting. The arrows flew randomly. Several horse thieves were shot and fell off their horses, but two horsemen still fled far away.

(End of this chapter)