Late Tang

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After the night of the twelfth lunar month, the warmth left by the sunlight during the day has long been blown away by the cold wind.Li Jing was clad in a cold iron armor, standing on the wall of the village, opened his mouth and blew two balls of white steam on his hands, then took the bow string and restringed the horn bow without any haste.

On the village wall, the torches of pine grease were beeping loudly, and one after another the torches were inserted all over the village wall, illuminating the entrance of the village like daytime.Lin Wei was the commander of Beicuntou, loudly instructing the soldiers of Zuo Yidu to put up their bowstrings and prepare their feathers and arrows.Fortunately, Li Jing has always asked his soldiers to carry weapons no matter where they go.Today Zuo Yidu's subordinates came to pay homage to Li Jing's birthday, but they did not forget to bring horizontal knives, spears, bows and arrows.Although everyone drank a lot of wine just now, they all splashed cold water on their faces at this time, and followed Lin Wei's instructions seriously, stepping on the ladder to climb up to various important positions on the village wall.

Lin Wuze and Wang Zhong brought a team of troops and more than two hundred of their brothers and relatives to guard the east gate. Fortunately, those people from Zuoyidu brought about six hundred young and strong people here today. There are no weapons, but temporarily holding a pole, a wooden pole, and a wooden spear are quite powerful.In addition, Li Jing also temporarily seconded the guards of the officials and gentry. Those with knives were sent to the village wall, and those with only sticks were also assigned under the village wall as a reserve team.

In addition, Li Jing immediately asked Cui Decheng from Chishan Town to send six people divided into three groups to ride back to Chishan Town to move reinforcements. Even other villagers and women Li Jing also mobilized to boil water under the village wall. Burn oil, burn oil, and carry some stones and wood over, and be fully prepared.

Today, I was shocked three times a day. Although I was a little frightened the first two times, it was later confirmed that the guests who came were all birthday guests.But this time, there will be no more false alarms.

Li Jing, General Cui Zhen, ten generals Song Xi, and the county magistrate Huangfu Zheng all stood on the village wall. Under the night, just in front of Wangli Village, a fire dragon was winding towards it.The countless torches appeared more clearly in the wilderness, as if the countless stars in the sky were reflected in the wilderness at night.

Soon, the countless torches had reached a hundred steps in front of the village.With the light of the fire, Li Jing and others clearly saw the face of this uninvited team.I saw that there were thousands of people, forming a sea of ​​people at the head of the North Village of Wangli Village.Under the torches, Li Jing could clearly see that there were old people and children coming, and most of them were young and strong men and women dressed in tatters and in various styles with hungry faces.

These people are genuine refugees and hungry people. Apart from the numbness and hungry eyes on their faces, there is nothing threatening about them.But on both sides of these people, there are men in their [-]s and [-]s riding war horses, rough horses, and even mules and donkeys.These people are obviously the bandits mentioned by the people who came to report earlier. They all hold various weapons in their hands, some with horizontal knives, some with spears, some with spears, and some with long sticks , only a few still carry bows and arrows.

In addition to these dozens of 'knights' riding horses and donkeys who were obviously the main force of bandits, there were about a hundred infantrymen with knives, guns and sticks behind the dense mass of refugees.These people are not all young and strong like those 'cavalrymen', but mainly young and old, and there are even teenagers with gray hair and no horse height.Except for the weapons in their hands, these people had no armor at all, and they didn't even see a shield.

The walking thieves held their weapons and kept making all kinds of strange screams, waving their weapons and bringing the hungry people closer to Wangli Village.The thieves and bandits riding horses and donkeys only ran back and forth on both sides, and no one was allowed to escape.Those hungry people also saw the high village wall of Wangli Village, and the rows of guards on the wall under the light of the torches, and even saw some wearing bright armor and official uniforms. .Looking at the dazzling weapons, many refugees began to cry and refused to move forward.

They were originally hungry people from all over Wendeng County. They heard that a man from Wangli Village had become a general in the past few days and came back to celebrate his mother's birthday.I also heard that the general was very generous, saying that he saw many hungry people on the way home that day, so he took food and distributed it to everyone, and finally took them all in.Upon hearing the news, the starving people who were already half-starved came to Wangli Village from all directions.

It's just that they never expected that as early as a few days ago, a group of bandits came to Shizigou near Chishan, with a number of more than one hundred people.These bandits are all bandits along the coast of Wendeng County. They also heard that Li Jing returned home rich and honored, and the goods he brought back to the village amounted to twenty carts. They also heard that these days, Wangli Village eats meat every day. drink wine.These bandits couldn't bear the temptation, so they invited several nearby villages to join hands in this deal, and robbed Wangli Village.

The five villages teamed up to gather 150 people, and they quietly rushed towards Chishan.When we arrived at Shizigou, we just heard that the officials and gentry of Wendeng County were going to pay homage to Mother Li's birthday and were preparing gifts.As soon as the bandit headed heard the news, he simply hid in Shizigou for the time being, hoping to wipe out everyone on Mother Li's birthday.Later, some bandits suggested that Wangli Village was too close to Chishan Town, and they were afraid that they would not be able to take Wangli Village for a while, but would be bitten by soldiers and horses of Chishan Town instead.Then a bandit suggested that many refugees were heading to Chishan after hearing the news.It is proposed to surround all the refugees who come, and then they will go to Wangli Village together, and use these refugees as cannon fodder.After a few days, the bandits actually kidnapped nearly a thousand refugees.

Li Jing has been carefully watching the formation of the bandits, seeing that although the bandits have engulfed thousands of refugees, they are only foolishly preparing to attack the back of the North Village Gate.But his mind was already settled, and he hurriedly said to General Cui Zhen and Song Ten Generals: "I see that although there are many thieves, they are disorderly. In my opinion, I plan to put all the best soldiers here, and put the young and strong Send to the east gate. We first send some village men Qingzhuang to the wall of the village, so that the thieves don’t know who we are. Then we ambush all the archers under the wall, and gather all the mules, horses and donkeys as surprise soldiers. Wait for the thieves to deceive me and lure them to the wall When going down, let all the archers attack suddenly, and only attack the thieves on horseback. After the thieves are in chaos, they will open the village gate and ride out on horseback. I see that the thieves are only more than a hundred, as long as they kill a group of thieves, they will surely break through. If you run away with courage, the rest of the refugees, although there are many, don't need to be afraid!"

Both Song Wenwen and Cui Zhenjiang are of higher rank than Li Jing, but today they are guests and Li Jing is the master, and although there are many young and strong in the village, the most important ones that can be used are Li Jing's hundred subordinates.So Song Wenwen and Cui Zhenjiang were very straightforward, and they didn't mean to replace the gangrene with the blister.

"It's just thieves and bandits and some refugees who came here under coercion. They must not have expected that Ji Yu has a hundred well-equipped subordinates here. Just fight as you want, and we will guard the battle for you."

Li Jing mobilized 300 shooters who were good at bows and archers and divided them into [-] teams. It was stipulated that every three people formed a small team. After he gave the shooting order, each three-person team aimed at a target and shot together.And let them shoot those riding horses exclusively, and not those refugees.All these people bowed their bows, with their arrows at their sides, bent over the wall and waited for orders.Behind these archers, Li Jing specially selected [-] young men from the young and strong men they brought to stand behind them with long poles, pot covers, and large wooden boards.Just wait for the refugees to come up and deal with them with long poles.

In addition, Li Jing, the commander of the city, was handed over to Song Xi and General Cui Zhen, and he, Lin Wei, Lin Wu, Wang Zhong and Xiao Shitou and other 50 cavalrymen formed a team of cavalry to bring the village's war horses, draft horses, and guests His horse is also temporarily borrowed.There were still a lot of horses left, and Han Zhi, who volunteered to join the war, led the [-] servants of the Han family and [-] servants from other officials and gentry who could ride horses and fight.

Seeing Li Jing and the others in the village who were ready to go, the county magistrate Huangfu who had already retreated to the ladder with only half of his head exposed sighed: "General Li is really a lion and a rabbit, just like this, let alone the city!" There are only hundreds of bandits outside, and even if there are really thousands of bandits, they will return home without a feather."

However, General Cui Zhen was still very interested in drinking the altar wine with Song Xi. He swallowed the wine in his mouth and wiped the wine from his mouth. After closing the village gate, it is actually more comfortable for everyone to sit behind the wall, listen to the opera, drink and drink. At most one hour, my soldiers and horses from Chishan Town can kill them, and by then, the thousand thieves who come here will not be enough to kill. "

Li Jing's arrangement is indeed a bit like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. At the gate of the East Village, Li Jing, Lin Wei, Wang Zhong, and Lin Wu are all fully armed and holding spears.According to the plan, after a while the archers launched the first wave of attacks, Li Jing and the others led fifty riders out of the east gate, went around behind the bandits and strangled the bandits who were driving the refugees.When the thieves are in chaos, then Han Zhi will lead fifty riders to open the north gate and go out.At that time, the two teams of cavalry flanked the bandits and defeated the bandits in one battle.

Beside Li Jing, his wife Wang Guiniang and Wan'er were standing next to Li Jing, caressing his armor, and looking at Li Jing worriedly.The two women were just country women. They heard that thousands of gangsters had come, and they already felt their legs were weak and their feet were trembling.Although the husband looked relaxed, they were still full of worry.Several times I wanted to persuade Li Jing not to go out in person, but I couldn't get the words out.

Both Li's mother and Xiao Han's were persuaded to stay at home. Although they were also full of worries, Li Jing's heart was full of expectations.This battle is just as Cui Decheng said, but it is the same if it is not fought.It's so close to Chishan Town, as long as you stay there, once the Chishan Army arrives in an hour, everything will be fine.But Li Jing was not willing to do this, and even said that this battle was what he was looking forward to.

There can be rewards for fighting, but Li Jing did not fight this battle for military rewards.

He fought this battle for the purpose of reviewing, not only to review Zuo Yidu's soldiers who had been trained for more than a month, but also to use this battle to review those young men who wanted to join Shamen Town.For Li Jing, it is impossible for him to accept all the young men who came to join the army. In this case, let him use this battle to review those young men, let the battle eliminate those who are not suitable, and let the battle choose the most suitable ones. The recruits who followed him to Salmon Town.

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