A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 417 The Death of the Giant Bandit
"Rush over, rush over!"

Zhang Xianzhong tried his best to drive the horse, but his horse was frightened and circled in place, not obeying the command at all.

There was another sound of firing guns on the hillside, and large puffs of white smoke filled the air. More thieves and soldiers fell to the ground, screaming and neighing.Especially those frightened, shot horses, running and jumping, adding to the chaos on the road.

All of a sudden, these fleeing thieves were stunned. The power of the Shunxiang army's bird guns was beyond everyone's expectations. It was so powerful from such a far away place.Not to mention the thieves, but the horses under them, they have never seen such a world, even Zhang Xianzhong's horses were startled suddenly.

The firecrackers on the hillside fired at each level in a leisurely manner. All the firecrackers remembered the appearance of the thief, with long bodies, yellow faces and long beards.

Because the thieves below didn't have a flag, they were in a mess, and they couldn't find them for a while, but everyone saw a few women among the thieves, and remembered that the thieves had wives and concubines who were captured in Xiangyang. Maybe they had been rescued. Right there, many people greeted that side with their guns. In the confusion, Zhang Xianzhong's military advisor Pan Duao and others were shot and fell off their horses.

At this time, the corpses of the horses and horses on the official road fell to the ground, and many of the dedicated horse teams rushed up, unable to control their own horses, and tripped over the dead horses and wounded horses in front.Many people saw that the situation was not good, and those who were smarter did not run on the official road, but pulled their horses and fled into the nearby wheat field.

Gao Shiyin's binoculars kept watching the situation on the official road. He sent out an order, and the deputy chief executive by the side of the canal attacked.Seeing the flag over there, he immediately led four hundred infantrymen, and from a little above the wheat field, brandishing steel knives, they rushed towards the official road.

Finally, all the thieves recovered from the attack, and saw the cavalry from the upper right rolling towards them, and everyone exclaimed: "There is a cavalry, the cavalry of officers and soldiers is coming."

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's horse finally obeyed the command, and suddenly fell down, and another heavy blow was thrown outside Xiangyang City. It is unknown how many people were killed or injured.Moreover, the blunderbusses of the Shunxiang Army kept ringing, and every time the blunderbusses sounded, some men and horses couldn't stop falling down.

Look at the cavalry of the Shun Township Army on the upper right, and there are still pursuers behind. Zhang Xianzhong broke out fiercely: "Rush over, and want Lao Tzu's head, it is not so easy!"

"Rush over, rush over!"

The thieves roared, at the critical moment of life and death, their ruthlessness also broke out, they are all fine cavalry dedicated to the camp, they are old in battle, not those hungry soldiers who have never seen the world.

They crowded around Zhang Xianzhong and behind him, as well as adopted sons Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu and others, they all roared, mobilized their horses, and rushed forward desperately.

The gunmen of the Shun Township Army on the mountain also spotted them, shouting one by one: "There is the thief, there is the thief!"

"shooting!"

The sound of platooning guns roared again, Zhang Xianzhong was in front of and behind, a large group of people fell to the ground, the special department general Bai Wenxuan and adopted son Liu Wenxiu were shot, they fell off the horse unbelievably, struggling on the ground clutching their wounds.

Zhang Xianzhong turned his head and shouted: "My son..."

Sun Kewang shouted: "Father, let's go."

A large group of people surrounded each other, desperately rushing out of the range of the Shunxiang army.

Liu Wenxiu struggled to his knees, surrounded by corpses of soldiers and horses, and wounded moaning in pain. Blood was flowing everywhere on the road. He looked at the direction Zhang Xianzhong was leaving, and murmured, "Father... let's go!" , don't come back..."

Suddenly his eyes widened, and not far from the right front, the vice president of Renbu had led the cavalry to roll over, and soon engulfed Zhang Xianzhong and others.

Liu Wenxiu fell to the ground in despair, and before losing consciousness, he seemed to hear a roar from the hillside: "All the firecrackers get on their horses and pursue!"

He also faintly heard the sound of horseshoes behind him, probably the pursuers from Xiangyang City had arrived...

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"Hey, I'm a white-haired man giving away a black-haired man. I came to fight Xiangyang, but I turned into this bird. Xiao Wang'er, Yichun, tell me, why did you become like this?"

Zhang Xianzhong was riding on the horse, and said somewhat disheartened.

In the cavalry battle just now, I don't know how many subordinates died or collapsed, especially the generals Ma Wu and Wang Xingguo, who were known as the king of the world and the three kites, died one after another, which continued to deal a heavy blow to Zhang Xianzhong.At this time, there were less than three hundred horses following behind, and everyone was still panicking.

Counting the two adopted sons and several generals, this trip to Xiangyang can be said to be a heavy loss.

Lost this elite, I don't know if I can get back up in the future.

At this time, the people had just passed a place called Fenghuang Village, the pursuit of the soldiers was a bit slow, and all the horses were foaming at the crotch, so they could only ride the horses slowly, otherwise the horses would run away to death, and everyone would never want to go back to Yicheng.

After hearing Zhang Xianzhong's words, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were speechless. Li Dingguo was said to be brave and resourceful, while Sun Kewang had a rough appearance, but a delicate person. However, they didn't know why this war became like this.

Today's blow was unimaginably large to everyone. It is really unimaginable that there are officers and soldiers to assist in such a surprise attack, and there is also an ambush army.

Moreover, this battle seemed to have been planned for a long time, and the other party knew him very well, as if he was watching every move he made.

Everyone has a creepy feeling, as if there is an extremely terrifying enemy, who has been watching him for a long time, and has been spying in the sky, just waiting for himself to fall into the trap, otherwise how to explain all this?
Zhang Xianzhong shook his head: "Okay, it's fine if you don't talk about it. If you don't talk about you, I can't figure it out."

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang shouted together: "Father handsome!"

Zhang Xianzhong waved his hands, let out a long breath, and looked at the sky: "I suddenly don't want to do it anymore, this rebellion is really not so easy to create. Otherwise, there are a lot of gold and silver in our camp, and there are cashmere goods Donkeys and horses, we will wait for your confidantes to carry the gold and silver cashmere goods, and go to Nanjing to be a customer of the cashmere goods, enjoy the wealth and honor, and enjoy the rest of your life, okay?"

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang looked at each other in dismay, both of them persuaded: "Small setbacks, why should my father be so disheartened?"

Zhang Xianzhong suddenly laughed loudly: "Just kidding, just kidding, my father has been doing rebellious work all his life, if he is a good person, he won't be used to it."

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong, like Li Zicheng, is a man of resolute temperament. When he suddenly encounters a power that is not human, he will inevitably feel frustrated.However, he soon recovered, Gu Pan Zixiong, a person with ups and downs, has his own extraordinary.

At this time, everyone walked to the Huangjiawan area, and saw that there were rocks everywhere in the mountains and forests beside the official road, and there was another area suitable for ambushes.

Zhang Xianzhong raised his horsewhip and said with a smile: "Isn't there another ambush here? If so, then Wang Dou is really a god. Our father has never been able to figure it out. Then how did Wang Dou know that I am coming to Xiangyang? If he is Coincidence, so what..."

Before he finished speaking, there were a few slaps, and several puffs of blood mist shot out from his chest, and his chest and back were pierced.Zhang Xianzhong looked down at his chest with an expression of disbelief. He struggled to cover the wound, but hot blood continued to overflow from his fingers, no matter how he covered it, it was useless.

The sound of Lumi's blunderbuss sounded again, and several sharp flashes of fire flashed behind a rock in the forest, knocking Zhang Xianzhong away.

He fell under the horse, and died of exhaustion, but his bull's eyes were still wide open.

"No!"

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang yelled terribly.

The sudden change also stunned the remaining thieves, looking at Zhang Xianzhong's body on the ground, everyone stammered: "Great... Marshal..."

Suddenly someone screamed loudly: "There is an ambush!"

Li Dingguo and the others looked in surprise, and as expected, there appeared on the mountainside densely packed Shunxiang army bird gunners, holding thick bird guns, just aiming at them indifferently.Looking again, there is smoke and dust billowing ahead, and how many cavalrymen are rushing from the corner.

"Flee separately!"

All the thieves scattered with a blast, Zhang Xianzhong was dead, everyone didn't have the heart to go all out, and only one escaped.Only a small number of people gathered around Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang. The commander is dead, and the future of the camp depends on the two young commanders.

"Go to Yanjiawan, go into the mountains!"

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang made a decisive decision and never followed the official path again, lest there would be an ambush.

Sun Kewang charged forward with his horse, grabbed the reins of Zhang Xianzhong's black-oiled hussar, and galloped quickly.

Li Dingguo also rushed out, and when he passed Zhang Xianzhong's corpse, he grabbed the corpse's belt suddenly: "We must take away the body of the commander-in-chief."

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a volley of firecrackers was fired from the mountain, and hundreds of blunderbusses struck fiercely, and all the thieves and horses down the mountain fell down a large area. Li Dingguo's horse was shot and rolled into the dust.He quickly jumped onto another empty horse, but at this moment he didn't care about Zhang Xianzhong's body, he just followed Sun Kewang and others on the horse and galloped towards the distant mountains opposite.

Li Dingguo ran wildly all the way, looking back constantly, looking at the place where his father's marshal remained, his tears welled up: "Wang Dou, I will definitely take revenge!"

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"Is the thief dead?"

The spearmen and soldiers at the foot of the mountain rode strong horses and kept chasing and killing the remaining thieves who fled in all directions.

Wen Fangliang led everyone from the Qian headquarters to hurry down the mountain. Behind them, groups of soldiers from their own troops also rushed down the mountain with guns in their hands. Everyone's faces were full of expectations.

Finally came to Zhang Xianzhong's corpse, everyone surrounded and watched, Wen Fangliang looked carefully, the more he looked, the brighter his eyes became: "It's a thief, long body, a little thin, yellow face, long beard, especially this long beard, it must be a thief undoubtedly."

He laughed loudly: "It is indeed offering a thief!"

The surrounding soldiers cheered: "The thief is dead, the thief is dead!"

At this time Gao Shiyin and Li Guangheng led the army to arrive, and the soldiers under their command were also elated when they heard the cheers.

Gao Shiyin and Li Guangheng squeezed in and carefully looked at Zhang Xianzhong's body. Gao Shiyin had a complicated expression on his face: "Old Wen, you took advantage of me."

Wen Fangliang put his arms around Gao Shiyin's shoulder affectionately: "Old Gao, killing the thief is not the work of my department alone, everyone has a share."

He put his arms around Li Guangheng's shoulders again: "Old Li's side also made great achievements through hard work."

Gao Shiyin's expression softened slightly, while Li Guangheng was not used to Wen Fangliang's intimacy. He took Wen Fangliang's hand away and said, "They all work for the general, why should they be divided between each other?"

His expression became serious, and he said: "There are still some rogues fleeing outside, they must be wiped out, otherwise they will become a disaster."

Wen Fangliang also turned serious, and said: "It seems that a few leaders who contributed to the camp have escaped. If we don't catch them, there will be serious troubles in the future."

Several people discussed for a while, and they all decided to send people to report the victory to the general first. They will continue to suppress the enemy in the wild, and after killing all the thieves, they will return to the general to claim the victory.

(End of this chapter)