When the disciples of Shuangliu Zhuang saw that Lu Xiong, who was highly skilled in spearmanship and had always been highly regarded by Wang Kong, Zheng Shou and others, was defeated by the bandit general, he had to escape back to Zhuangzi in embarrassment under the protection of Zhao Heng and others. They looked at each other for a moment, eyes wide.
The look of fear is still strong.
After discovering the strength of the bandit army, Lu Xiong fled back to the village in embarrassment. He was ashamed and felt that the chance of escorting Wang Xuan to escape was slim, and he felt deeply powerless.
His personal death was not a big deal, but Shuangliuzhuang was captured by the bandit army. How could he face Wang Zhen under Jiuquan?
"..." Seeing Lu Xiong climb up the wall, Wang Xuan didn't ask him to speak, and said with firm eyes, "I will not bring shame to my father and ancestors, and the bloody wall is the best place for me, Wang Xuan, to end up!" Again
Looking at the frightened disciples in the village, he said in a loud voice, "Those who are not willing to fight for their lives with the thieves have the right to leave. Wang Xuan will not have any resentment. After the thieves invade the village, you can go and beg for your lives."
That’s it!”
No matter how weak and timid the children of Shuangliuzhuang were, how could they have the nerve to abandon Wang Xuan at this time? They all shouted together: "But fight for your life with the thief!"
Zhao Heng took a soft bow and handed it to Lu Xiong.
Lu Xiong pushed Zhao Heng away angrily and said in a deep voice: "Bring me a hard bow!"
The bandit army was large and had been planned for a long time. Lu Xiong could no longer think too much. At this time, he could not care about the consumption of energy. He just wanted to kill a few more bandit soldiers before dying from exhaustion.
Lu Xiong stood with a Zhe wood step and a bow. Zhao Heng and others were strong in strength. Dozens of villagers gathered around Wang Xuan, vowing to fight to the death with the rebels. However, there were too few veterans who had experienced bloody battles on the battlefield. The only comfort was that
, maybe they just didn’t break up in front of the thieves who came in a hurry.
The bandits came well prepared. Even if they were led by brave generals like Jiang Ang, they did not dare to evacuate the village when they saw veteran generals like Lu Xiong sitting in the village. On the one hand, they summoned more bandit troops, and on the other hand, they broke into the village.
The people outside the village took off door panels to serve as large shields, tied bamboo and wood into crude ladders, and marched step by step towards the towering wall of Shuangliuzhuang.
In addition to the two arch bridges in the north and east, the bandit army also mobilized more than a dozen boats from the periphery and placed them across the ditch to form more channels to directly attack under the village wall.
Zhuang Ding shoots each other.
The children of Shuangliuzhuang once again had the awakening to fight to the death against the rebels, but they usually despised the martial arts of riding, archery, boxing, and kicking, and were too lazy to do autumn exercises and winter training. At this time, they had experienced years of looting prefectures and counties, and many fierce battles with officers and soldiers.
Comparing thieves and soldiers, the difference is immediately apparent.
Except for Lu Xiong and others, the disciples of Shuangliuzhuang all hold soft-tip bows, but even so, there are very few who can draw the full string.
At first he was brave, but he was reckless. He stood at the crenel and fired at the thieves without giving way. After four or five people were shot dead, the rest hid behind the parapet and did not dare to show their heads. They just fired arrows randomly, which could not threaten the thieves at all.
military.
If it weren't for Lu Xiong and others who made the rebels a little afraid and didn't dare to directly attack the wall, who would dare to pat their chests and say that Shuangliuzhuang can hold on for a stick of incense without being breached.
Seeing more and more rebels approaching the wall of the village in an orderly manner, and there were rebels running behind them carrying simple ladders, Lu Xiong couldn't help but feel despair in his heart.
"Master Lu, there seems to be someone coming to help over there!"
At this age, Lu Xiong's eyes were not as sharp as those of Zhao Heng and others, and he was highly focused on staring at the thieves on the left and right sides of the wooden bridge, looking for opportunities to shoot bows and arrows. After Zhao Heng reminded him, he discovered that there was a small group of people coming from the Han Dynasty.
Heading towards Sichuan City.
"It must be Magistrate Yin who heard that Xuan'er was here and sent someone to help!" Wang Wenchong raised his head and looked over. He guessed that the person who came was Yin Yaozhi, Magistrate of Hanchuan County, who sent for help, but he was not very interested.
Hanchuan City is only more than twenty miles away from Shuangliuzhuang. Looking closely, Wang Wenchong can barely make out that there are only fifty or sixty reinforcements in the small group of reinforcements fourteen to five miles away, and they are coming along the road between Hanchuan City and Shuangliuzhuang.
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"How can this little manpower be used? Yin Yaozhi must be pretending to avoid having trouble explaining to Wang Xuan's father!" Someone immediately couldn't help complaining.
Wang Wenchong waved his hands in frustration and told people around him not to complain.
The war in Huainan has ended, but Jianghuai, Jinghu and other places have entered the flood season. The areas east of Huaiyang Mountain and south of the river have been seriously affected by floods. The soldiers and horses reinforcing Huainan on Jinghu North Road have not yet returned.
At this time, the entire Ezhou Prefecture's garrison was limited, and the prefectural city only had two to three thousand garrison troops.
The bandit army suddenly launched a surprise attack, and Hanchuan City had no time to recruit rural soldiers to help defend it. There were only three to four hundred sword archers in the city to guard against the bandit bandits. With this manpower, the hope of defending Hanchuan City was extremely slim. Wang Wenchong was very frustrated, but he
How many troops and horses can Yin Yaozhi be expected to send to help?
Yin Yaozhi can send fifty or sixty men out of the city, which is enough to match them.
However, the fifty or sixty men and horses were indeed too few. Not to mention killing the rebels and entering Shuangliuzhuang to help defend, it would not be of much use to contain the enemy forces on the periphery.
The thieves noticed this group of people fighting along the road earlier than they did, but hundreds of thieves went to the other end of the road with the intention of intercepting them. It is hard to imagine that the reinforcements could get a good end. Maybe the reinforcements were just
Show your attitude, and after some contact with the rebels, you will withdraw to Hanchuan City?
"Grandpa Lu, is there any way to stop the troops from Hanchuan, Jiangxia and other cities from coming to help?" Wang Xuan looked at Lu Xiong and asked, "The bandit army has a very secret plan. Maybe it's not just Shuangliuzhuang, but also Hanchuan City."
Come!"
Lu Xiong was suddenly startled and realized that the thieves were swarming in. He had no plan to safely escort Wang Xuan to escape, but he did not think deeply about the true intention of the thieves.
However, even if they realize that the bandit army has far-reaching plans at this time, what can they do?
They had no chance to escort Wang Xuan out safely. Is there any way to send people to Hanchuan? Jiangxia sent a message to Xiaoling Qianchapu or Jianghan Waterway to hide a larger-scale ambush.
"No, this team did not come from Hanchuan City..." Lu Xiong's eyes were not as sharp as those of Zhao Heng and others, but his knowledge and eyesight were far beyond the reach of Zhao Heng, Wang Wenchong and others, and he quickly saw that
The special thing about squad reinforcements.
Most areas in Hanchuan County are low-lying. Between Shuangliuzhuang and Hanchuan City, even if the waterlogging is not serious, most of the fields have been soaked by rain for days and are extremely soft.
What really allows people and horses to pass quickly is the avenue between Shuangliuzhuang and Hanchuan City, which is less than three feet wide.
This group of cavalry coming from the direction of Hanchuan City seems to be small in number and not very fast, but because it is far enough away, Lu Xiong can feel the shock of this group of cavalry as a whole.
You can even feel a kind of murderous aura rushing towards you.
"This team is the vanguard selected by Chushan. It has passed through Hanchuan for some reason! Shuangliuzhuang may be able to rescue the siege!" Lu Xiong's skinny wrist almost broke the bow arm. He suppressed the shock in his heart and shouted in a low voice.
"How is it possible?" Wang Wenchong asked in confusion, "How can Mr. Lu see things clearly from such a distance?"
"I can't see the faces or the armor clearly, but except for Chushan's vanguard army, no troops in Jingxiang can have such momentum?" Lu Xiong said.
"Momentum?" Wang Wenchong asked confused.
Lu Xiong didn't know how to explain this feeling to Wang Wenchong, who had been a government official for half his life and had never been in the army. He said to Zhao Heng and others, "The elites from Chushan are coming to help. Don't panic, everyone, be prepared to welcome Chu
Prepare for the mountain army to enter the village!"
"Could it be Xu Huai?" Wang Xuan asked with a trembling voice.
"Silly boy, Xu Huai is busy with military affairs, how can he easily leave Chushan? This vanguard team is probably involved in military affairs. Passing by Hanchuan, he saw the bandits raiding Shuangliuzhuang and came here to help." Lu Xiong
Little did he know that Xu Huai was passing through Hanchuan on his way to Jianye, Mian Sheng, and laughed at Wang Xuan's wishful thinking.
"With this small amount of manpower, can they kill the bandit army and enter Shuangliu Village to help defend it?" Zhao Heng could see some bright spots, but he still felt that the reinforcements were too few and could not solve any problem.
Wang Wenchong and others were both looking forward to it but deeply afraid of being disappointed. When the enemy troops outside the village stopped attacking, they all looked eagerly at the direction of the Chushan Army's reinforcements.
The number of thieves who disembarked from the ferry exceeded 3,000. The number of thieves approaching Shuangliu Village was less than a thousand. More thieves had already organized themselves into formation and were preparing to advance towards Hanchuan City.
The hundreds of thieves who formed an interception formation along the Chi Road were originally the vanguard used to attack Hanchuan City. Not only were they more densely armored, with more sophisticated swords, shields, and spears, but the interception formation was also larger than imagined.
is much stricter.
They are not like lake bandits, but more like well-drilled elite soldiers - from this point, we can also see that the bandit army has a very secret plan and a deep intention this time.
Everyone, including Lu Xiong, thought that the support cavalry would rely on the mobility of the war horses to bypass the elite thieves who were intercepting them. After leaving Chidao, although the fields were soft, the mobility of the war cavalry was still far from walking barefoot.
An army of thieves can reach it.
Everyone hoped that the reinforcement cavalry could bypass the blockade and interception of the bandit army and enter Shuangliu Village to join them. With the fifty or six hundred battle elites from Chushan, and mobilizing all men, women, and children in the village, Wang Wenchong felt that it was possible to defend Shuangliu Village.
However, the support cavalry did not intend to detour and guerrilla. Instead, they separated into three teams along the Chi Road to form three small wedge-shaped formations and went directly to intercept the rebels.
Lu Xiong and the others were so far apart that they couldn't see the details of the bloody fight. They felt that the Chushan reinforcements, a group of ten cavalrymen, were like three sharp blades.
Like a thick formation of thieves, they were quickly dismembered - wherever they passed, crops that looked like well-trained thieves were harvested by sharp sickles fell down piece by piece.
"Oh my God, are these reinforcements, or are they coming from heaven?" Wang Wenchong almost groaned. He grabbed Lu Xiong's hand casually and asked, "How can the Chushan Army be so strong?"
"Girl Xuan, maybe you are right!" Lu Xiong said tremblingly.
Chushan's selected vanguard army is strong, but it is not that strong.
Unless there are several powerful generals in these forty or fifty riders who can hold Jiang Ang steady, they can be so sharp and tear apart the rebel army's battle formation like a boning knife piercing flesh...
