"Well……"
A cold light flashed, a wisp of blood splattered into the darkness, and several yamen runners collapsed to the ground.
Blood was like spring water, and in just a few breaths, the tiles on the city tower were dyed red.
"who?"
Even though someone was keen to react and noticed an abnormality, he was still unable to turn things around. Before he could shout loudly, he saw a big sword falling down and his body and head separated!
In the darkness, a strong man with a bare chest and breasts exposed appeared with a big sword on his neck. Behind him, several men holding short swords were searching carefully on the city tower.
"No need to look for it. All the soldiers and generals in the city were transferred by the Jinyiwei. Go and open the city gate!"
"yes!"
Soon, several men rushed down the city tower, and accompanied by a creaking and creaking friction, the already old city gate was slowly opened.
Under the flames, a middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt appeared on the horse's back. Although he looked powerless, the hundreds of people behind him were honest and did not dare to move at all. His eyes were full of awe when he looked at the man.
This person is naturally Tang Liancheng, the head of the Qi Meng, the head of the White Lotus Sect.
"Send people to guard the city gates first, don't let them escape!"
"yes!"
Immediately, my subordinates took the order and several teams were separated.
At the same time, a large group of people also entered the city gate, stepped on the main street in the city, and rushed away in the darkness.
At this moment, the house was still brightly lit, and dozens of soldiers holding muskets in the yard stood neatly, and there were several tiger squatting cannons neatly arranged in a row. Li Xiu stood in the first place, with a long sword on his waist, holding the hilt in his hand, and closing his eyes to rest.
"Brother Xiu, Brother Xiu! Some bandits have attacked into the city!"
The gate of the courtyard was pushed open roughly, and a panic sound came into his ears. Li Xiu slowly opened his eyes, and a gloomy look appeared between his eyebrows.
"Here's here!"
Li Xiu had many speculations before that the White Lotus Church directly attacked the city, and perhaps it would unite several groups of bandits around him.
After completely uncovering the new book of Ji Xiao, Qi Jiguang's experience in commanding troops and governing the army, this premonition was even stronger.
Although he was determined to rectify the defense of Shanyin City and guard against the White Lotus thieves, he had too few troops in his hands. Even if he added the Jinyiwei in his headquarters, he would have only a hundred people.
Although Shanyin City is not big, it also has four gates and the wall surrounding the entire county town. More than a hundred people, even if they are all sprinkled, they will not have any effect.
Not to mention, this era is not simply ancient time and space, but also martial arts. For those who have mastered martial arts, the low city wall of Shanyin County is nothing.
It’s better to concentrate the power that can be called in your hand and pinch it into a fist. When necessary, you can punch it out and make a stable blow.
For this reason, he specially transferred all the useful firearms from the county government arsenal, and selected half of the pretty good elites from the group of inspectors. In addition, half of the Jinyiwei under his command, he mixed a team of pure firearms.
After all, compared with the martial arts practitioners of the White Lotus Sect, his subordinates did not have any advantage in small-scale battles. Even with the qualities of those inspectors, it is possible that they would be defeated at once!
But the firearms are different. Whether it is a head-on battle or unexpected, in the complex terrain in the city, it can be called ace under multiple shooting!
But the time was too short, and Li Xiu didn't have time to train a lot. Fortunately, the Jinyiwei under his command were all elite soldiers, and there shouldn't be much problem with them as the backbone vanguard.
The thief broke through the city, and the courtyard was silent. Subconsciously, everyone looked at Li Xiu, who was standing first.
"Xu Feng!"
When the voice sounded, Erwazi was also stunned. Although everyone except Li Xiu called him this name, it was the first time that Brother Xiu called him his real name.
Soon, he reacted, stepped out, clasped his fists and responded: "I'm here!"
"I ordered you to lead the team to stay in the yard and guard the White Lotus thief!"
"Subordinate to obey the order!"
Giving Erwazi an encouraging look, Li Xiu then looked at the soldiers standing in the yard.
Bang!
A dull sound rang in the yard, and a wooden box filled with silver ingots was carried to everyone.
This scene immediately caused a commotion in the yard. Without saying a word, Li Xiu waved his hand and two young men from the Jinyiwei carried wooden boxes and distributed silver one by one.
Such an act was even more unstable and commotion. For these poor military households, they had never encountered such a beautiful thing that they could not even think about!
Looking at the hot eyes of the soldiers, Li Xiu felt very confident. He should be strict in his military administration and be constrained by rules and discipline.
But now, there is no time or condition for him to tell any rules and discipline. The only thing he can do now is to use wealth to determine the morale of the army.
As long as the morale of the army is settled, everything else will be easy to say.
Of course, he could lead the army to attack without hesitation, but in that case, the soldiers would have no intention of fighting and were strong in the enemy, and the result would be very obvious.
"Okay, don't be like you haven't seen the world!"
"Do I, Li Xiu, have no such credibility?"
"How could it be? I believe that sir, I personally paid me money before!"
"Yes, last time I was rewarded twenty taels by the Lord, two heads!"
A joke made Ben's extremely depressing and solemn atmosphere ease a lot.
"I have rewarded all the money, do you want more?"
After a few jokes, Li Xiu suddenly asked.
"think!"
The soldiers were stunned and shouted in unison.
"good!"
Li Xiu waved his hand again and brought up three more wooden boxes.
The wooden box was opened, and silver ingots were neatly placed in the wooden box, just like that, naked in front of the soldiers.
"The money is all here. Next, it depends on whether you have the ability to get it!"
"You also heard that thieves entered the city..."
Speaking of this, Li Xiu looked around at everyone, and as expected, there were still many people who were frightened.
But he suddenly smiled: "This group of thieves are the White Lotus thieves who were beaten to tears by us at the City God Temple that night!"
"There is nothing to be afraid of. My promise is still valid. Behead one person, reward ten taels of silver, behead two people, reward twenty taels of silver, and no cap will be left! Of course, if anyone of you has the ability, you can take away all these boxes of silver!"
As soon as this said, many soldiers suddenly laughed. Li Xiu naturally didn't care about anything. He waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and said, "I don't say that much. If anyone unfortunately dies in battle, I will give you a lot of money to your family."
"But ugly words are ahead. If anyone dares to retreat in the face of trouble, my knife will not be able to kill anyone!"
Chapter completed!