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Chapter 453
Guarding the east gate of Yanshi City is a group of local old thieves from Henan. Six to seven hundred of them had gathered together to rob houses for many years. .

Originally, he wanted to follow Chuang Wang to do the big bandit business and plunder a few more big cities to make a fortune, so he was not happy to stay in the small city of Yanshi, and he always wanted to go to Luoyang in his heart.

The leader of the bandits is called a bowl of meat. It is said that he was originally a servant of a certain place. After he went to urge food and returned, he missed a bowl of meat when discussing merits. After killing the county magistrate, he became a bandit from then on.

On the top of the city, he saw the officers and soldiers rushing down below with bright armor, excellent weapons, and a well-organized array, and he was already timid, but he also knew that the military orders of King Chuang were extremely strict, and if he retreated without a fight, he would certainly not be able to escape the guilt .

In desperation, they had no choice but to yell and order their subordinates to strictly defend. There were originally four small cannons on the Dongcheng side, which were fired by the captured former city guards. There were heavy casualties, so they didn't dare to fire any more cannons.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I will throw all the logs and stones down, and I must not let the bandits go to the city."

A bowl of meat yelled orders, he waved a big knife in his hand, and roared angrily, all the thieves turned around under his intimidation, picked up big logs, stones, and big bricks and threw them down the city.

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Li Erdan, a sword and shield soldier from the first team and first armor of the second bureau of the right division, is wearing a fine iron armor. He is holding a shield and is advancing quickly on the long ladder. During this time, bows and arrows are flying. He only uses the shield to protect his face, and he is not afraid. , the foot is not stopping at all.

Suddenly, a big log was lifted by the bandits and quickly slid down the long ladder. Although Li Erdan was anxious, he was not in a panic. He hurriedly stood firm on the long ladder and leaned his body tightly against the ladder.

At the same time, the upper edge of the shield in the left hand is also close to the long ladder and slightly raised, the lower edge is slightly raised, with the waist knife in his mouth, and the right hand is grasping the long ladder.

"Hi ha!"

The moment the big tree rolled down, he raised the shield in his left hand, raised the big tree and flew over his head, and fell to the left under the city with a "boom".

Li Erdan didn't stop even more. He endured the numbness and pain in his left arm, held on to the long ladder with his right hand, and ran up to the top of the wall in a few steps, holding his shield in front to protect his body. On the top of the city.

With a sound of "Boom", it hit a bandit's shield, knocking the bandit back. Li Erdan pressed the shield with his left hand down on the bandit's body, taking advantage of the momentum, his body rolled forward again. lock up.

At the same time, his right hand was also holding the waist knife, and he saw a long spear stabbing towards him. He had no time to dodge, so he had to face the spear with his body that had just stood up. Suddenly, a stream of bright red blood leaked from the wound.

"kill……"

Enduring the severe pain, Li Erdan swung the waist knife in his right hand and slashed at the bandit's neck. The knife cut across, blood spattered, the bandit lost his strength and rolled into the city before he could howl.

"Kill...kill the thief..."

As more and more officers and soldiers entered the city, the city wall was already in a state of melee. These bandits usually had some ability to bully the hungry people and the local defenders.

But what I encountered today was the elite of the Ming Dynasty frontier army. Not only were they excellent in armor and weapons, what's more, Zhang Cheng also promised him a heavy reward. The army is increasing.

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Zhang Chengfang and Zhang Jintai each led more than a dozen healthy soldiers from the boy battalion and rushed towards the south gate of Yanshi. They were all dressed in leather armor, and they ran very nimbly and lightly. Each of them had hooks wrapped around their arms.

They carried leather shields on their backs, with knives, hatchets and other short soldiers stuck in them. Zhang Chengfang still had a short dagger in his mouth. They just ran forward without saying a word.

Separated on the left and right sides of the south gate, they are almost clinging to the city wall and swinging the hook locks vigorously. On the ramparts.

The two sides were fighting in a scuffle at the moment, and the attention of the city guards was also attracted by the soldiers who climbed the long ladders and climbed up the city. They didn't notice the boy battalion soldiers who climbed the city like little monkeys for a moment.

Zhang Cheng saw in the binoculars that these children were vigorously and lightly climbing up the hook locks, just like little monkeys, and they climbed to the city wall within a few strokes. They yelled loudly and used their strength to turn over. On the wall.

He put down the binoculars and said to Wang Yuanjing who was beside him: "These children are not bad, not only are they not afraid, they are also very agile, each of them is as brave as a young tiger out of the cage!"

Wang Yuanjing also put down the binoculars at this time, and said: "The children like Cheng Fang respect the commander in chief as if they were their fathers. They often think that there is nothing to repay them. When they practice on weekdays, they refuse to put up any more energy. Today is the day." Please order to ascend the city, naturally everyone will strive to be the first.”

He paused for a moment, then said again: "Yanshi City has been recovered, but a lot of young men have been hurt."

Zhang Cheng looked at the battlefield in front of him, and said softly to Wang Yuanjing: "In troubled times, the only way to survive is to die. What I can do is to make these good men die worthy and worthwhile." .”

He turned his head to stare at Wang Yuanjing, and said again: "As the saying goes, 'kindness does not command soldiers', if they were born in a peaceful and prosperous age, I would make these good sons rich and noble forever,
But now they are born in troubled times, I can only guarantee that they will not die in vain, their death can be exchanged for their family's stable life, food, clothing and worry-free! "

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Xu Ritai, the magistrate of Yanshi County, Bai Shilu, the magistrate, and Liu Heng, the admonisher, were dragged out and beheaded in front of the county yamen after the bandit leader Yuan Zongdi broke through the city.

Now that there are no officials in the city to preside over the overall situation, Zhang Cheng's camp is set up in the county government. He ordered Zhang Guodong to lead the left and right parts of the infantry camp to be stationed by the Luoshui River in the south of the city, and the middle part and various cavalry troops to be stationed in the city.

Not far from the county government office is the county traditional Chinese medical center, where the wounded during the siege were treated in the medical center. The sergeants and cavalry in the middle of the infantry battalion were patrolling the city, continuing to search for those hidden bandits and maintain the city's security forces. Law and order should not only prevent the rogues in the city from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, but also prevent the soldiers from disobeying military orders and wantonly disturbing the people.

In the county office, the battle situation of all parties has also been reported one after another.

In this battle, although not many were captured, the enemy was killed heavily. Nearly a thousand thieves were killed in the attack on the city and inside the city.

They were driven all the way by the Mongolian cavalry led by Su Laohu and Mo Zhigen, and they entered the preset ambush location. More than a thousand cavalry rushed to kill them and killed nearly a thousand bandits.

Only Gu Dacheng escaped with a few riders and ran back to Luoyang. The rest of the bandits scattered and fled. They all hid in the surrounding valleys. Only 600 to [-] bandits were captured, and they were all detained outside the city. Zhang Guodong led the camp Two officers and soldiers guarded the place.

On Zhang Cheng's side, only 17 people were killed in battle, and only more than [-] people were injured, and most of them were minor injuries that were not fatal.

(End of this chapter)