Under night, the officers and soldiers formed a long line on the mountain road and were inevitably surrounded and intercepted.
Most of the bandit soldiers blocked the road in front, and Wang Wenxiu's elite troops pursued them behind. A whistle was blown in the middle, and Feng Yu's elite troops all stood up, running around on the hillside and in the fields, shooting arrows, and tearing apart the formation of the army.
Liu Chengzong did not participate in the pursuit. He led the Han brothers and other officers and soldiers to stop on the hillside behind the rebels. He waited for the officers and soldiers to disperse, and used precise shooting to kill single enemy soldiers.
This was what he thought when he saw the officers and soldiers who asked him to shoot arrows in the face in front of the battle.
He plans to build a team of sharpshooters in the future. They will be well-fed and hone their skills in peacetime, and then disperse to join the front team during wartime, specializing in hunting flag-raising flag officers and squad leaders, and dismantling the enemy's will from the grassroots level.
Not long after, scattered officers and soldiers rushed out of the formation, but before they could reach them, they asked Feng Yu's men to cut off the troops on the road. Some were pushed to the ground and surrendered, while others resisted and were killed. p>
The terrain outside the village was not suitable for the large troops to spread out, and soon the officers and soldiers were divided again, and they clashed one after another. They were then stopped and intercepted by the bandits coming from all over.
Some fought to the death and refused to surrender, some fled in all directions after being defeated, and some dropped their weapons and surrendered in the middle of the fight. When asked what was going on, they had no strength left.
And there are many people like this, they are all hard-core, but this day is too long for them.
From Jiulian Mountain to Jiapao Mountain, and then through the forty miles of mountains, the soldiers were already exhausted. Before they had time to rest, they were attacked repeatedly by the bandit soldiers. The strength of the crossbow was nothing more than this.
It's okay to stand in formation to resist the attack of the bandits, but if you really run and fight against Liu Chengzong's soldiers, both sides are strong soldiers with strong armor. Except for using armor-piercing arrows, it is difficult to kill each other.
But it gets boring after a while.
At this moment, a team of more than ten people finally broke through the siege and escaped to the official road on the hillside at the foot of Liu Chengzong.
It was dark and windy at night, and they couldn't see the identity of the person coming. They only knew that the pursuers behind this group were coming in a hurry, and they fled in a panic, but they still formed a formation. Liu Chengzong estimated that there were officers inside.
He and the Han brothers looked at each other: "The general who breaks through, beat him to death."
The three of them just estimated the position of their faces, drew their bows, and started fighting. Several other servants were led by Zhong Bao and ran down the hillside to stop them.
Liu Chengzong wanted to recruit and surrender the border troops, but he just had to think about the generals in the army.
Ordinary frontier troops have little food and clothing. They send troops to cut off a few heads to improve their lives and gain some morale. After the war, they are still worse off than dead.
Maybe my father and mother have already starved to death, and my wife and children have been sold long ago, so there is nothing to worry about.
Saying that you can have enough to eat is still very tempting to the officers and soldiers who have lost their will to fight. Anyway, there is no hope of improving their lives there. With the rebels, at least they can have a few full meals before they die. But for any officer whose rank exceeds that of General Bai, there is basically no hope of being surrendered unless the surrendered general himself made a fatal mistake. Liu Chengzong thought very clearly about this.
Who told him that he didn’t even have a piece of land?
The family members of the surrendered generals cannot be protected, there is no possibility of promotion or promotion, and there is no hope of honoring the ancestors.
On the contrary, defecting to the rebel army will harm your family, lose your official position and salary, and even if your ancestor knows it, he will jump out of the coffin to kill him.
Even if you die in battle, you can still get a pension.
In a different place, if Liu Chengzong was a general in the imperial court and wanted to rebel, he would secretly contact the rebels. If he didn't want to rebel, he would rather die in battle than to surrender in front of the battle to a rebel who would be gone.
The three of them fired a few arrows and shot two of them down. Then Zhong Bao led people with swords, shields, spears and spears to block the way.
The fight only lasted a moment, and no one was sure who was shot down, causing the army team that rushed out to collapse in an instant.
Liu Chengzong heard someone shouting: "The general is dead!"
The three of them were overjoyed, but they looked at each other in confusion, not even knowing who shot the arrow.
Liu Chengzong shouted on the slope: "Your general is dead, why don't you surrender? There is a way to survive if you put down your weapons, but you will die if you fight stubbornly!"
As soon as these words came out, the remaining eight or nine border troops looked at me and I looked at you. Starting from the first one who put down his weapons, several of them put down their weapons one after another, making a ping-pong sound.
Only one person could not make up his mind with his sword in his hand, and he dared to rush towards Zhong Bao while shouting loudly.
However, he couldn't touch Zhong Bao at all, so he was stabbed in the throat by the eight-foot spear.
He died in a moment.
After they all put down their weapons, Liu Chengzong jumped down from the slope, pointed at the corpse and asked: "Who is your general and what is his name?"
One of the soldiers pointed to a corpse on the ground with an arrow in the throat and said, "The general is Liu Guozhen, the Qian Commander of the Shenmu Camp."
Liu Chengzong saw the huge wound caused by the arrow and smiled at the Han brothers: "Look whose arrow made a great contribution."
At first he wondered if he had shot the enemy general, but he did not have such an arrow.
The two brothers pulled out the arrow and looked at it. The elder patted the younger and said, "General, this is my brother's arrow."
"Okay, let's leave it to Shiyou. Let's recruit them to surrender. It will be impressive!"
Han Shiyou smiled, clasped his fists and accepted the order, raised his legs and ran towards the village.
Liu Chengzong then asked about the prisoners: "Your general is an officer of Shenmu Camp, how could he get involved with Li Bei?"
He knew in Shenmu Camp that the general was Ai Wannian from the Mizhi Ai family.
Jiang Bing explained: "General Li had no troops when he took office, and when it was time to use troops, he borrowed one from Shenmu Camp. We are all soldiers of Shenmu Camp, and General Fierce also borrowed it to be the commander-in-chief."
Liu Chengzong asked curiously: "The two tiger generals are also here?"
There are very few people with the surname Meng, and even fewer soldiers. At least in Liu Chengzong's mind, there is only one general with the surname Meng in Yansui Town who is as fierce as a tiger.
"General Tiger did not come, only General Fierce and General Li were stationed in Hequ."
After asking for some information from the surrendered soldiers, Liu Chengzong asked people to collect the weapons of the surrendered soldiers and led a team to the village to see.
As they were walking, Zhong Bao came over with a three-eyed gun: "General, look, it was probably this thing that injured my brother."
Three-eyed guns are not uncommon in Shaanxi.
Cao Yao used to use the old gun, and Liu Chengzong also played it, but when I hold this gun in my hand, I obviously feel that it is much finer in workmanship and longer.
The barrel of Cao Yao's cannon was a foot long, and the barrel of this one was three inches longer than that one.
Then Liu Chengzong looked at the medicine pot again. The regulations were different from Cao Yao's. The amount of medicine and the weight of the bullets had changed. It had obviously been modified.
He said to Zhong Bao: "Take a torch and light it up."
With the light, the inscriptions on the gun can be clearly seen. In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, the Yulin Guard System was established, and the craftsman who made it was named Zhang Qile.
New this year.
Liu Chengzong pointed to the inscription and said: "This craftsman must have good skills in making guns."
The family is prosperous, and the birth of a boy has made his father happy at least seven times. If the family exchanges production experience, the technical difficulties that may be encountered can be overcome.
The barrel of the blunderbuss was longer, and the body of the blunderbuss was naturally heavier. Liu Chengzong weighed it, handed it back to Zhong Bao, and asked, "Are you good at using firearms? Forget it if you can't. Go back to Commander Cao."
With the general dead and surrounded, the remaining frontier troops quickly surrendered. Even those few who resisted were no match for Liu Chengzong's frontier troops.
But what surprised Liu Chengzong was that after the war, the bandit soldiers, who numbered a hundred people, were busy collecting their own corpses. Those who didn't do this would sit in the fields to rest, but no one took off the armor of the frontier soldiers.
After asking, I found out that the Sky Monkey had previously given an order not to allow them to touch the corpses of the border soldiers.
This is amazing.
In Liu Chengzong's knowledge, I am afraid that of all the thieves he has met, even including Gao Yingxiang, none has the control power of the Sky Monkey: "Where is your leader?"
As he was standing at the entrance of the village asking, he saw Sky Monkey leading a group of people not far away. When they met, he hugged him hard and said, "We have won the battle."
Liu Chengzong asked curiously: "You, are you taking off your armor?"
Of course he was not talking about armor, but the monkey taking a bath.
Not only did I wash myself clean, but I also changed into clean clothes.
The Heavenly Monkey Zhang turned his hand in front of him, raised his thumb and said, "How? Did you just realize today that I, Liu Jiusi, am also a handsome young man?"
He laughed loudly as he said it, and then he said seriously: "Not only did I take a bath, but I also ate half a catty of meat and drank two bowls of wine. I am a serious soldier of the border army, and I am always beaten by Li Bei."
We went to the desert outside the Great Wall, and no one told me that you would come over. If you go to see your parents, don’t be too cowardly."
After saying that, the monkey in the sky shook his head and said: "I was already lining up here, and I didn't know you were coming. If I had known, I wouldn't have taken a shower."
These words made Liu Chengzong feel funny at first, but then he thought about it carefully and couldn’t laugh anymore.
Among all the leaders, he is probably the only one qualified to consider how to annihilate the army.
He sent someone to casually ask the Heavenly Monkey to stop the army, and the Heavenly Monkey was ready to be completely annihilated or even killed.
This tragic reality made him laugh dryly, change the subject and ask: "How are your casualties?"
"I haven't calculated everything yet. I was just trying to find you about this matter. Can you get the medicine in Yan'an City? More than forty people have been killed on my side..."
Just as he was talking, a little thief ran over and said something in the ear of the Sky Monkey. The Sky Monkey raised his head and said: "Now there are more than 60 people killed in the battle and more than 300 injured. If we have medicine, half of them will die."
Anyone who is injured will die."
Liu Chengzong was amazed by it, what a talent!
Forty plus twenty mouths is enough.
This matter is very simple for those who have read books and those who have money and often go to the market. But the monkey in the sky has never read books and is still very poor.
How to describe the poverty of the Sky Monkey? It looks like it looks poor.
In Cao Yao's words: "This person can't even give him money when he goes to the city to drink."
If you don’t give me money, if the shopkeeper is kind, you might be fine.
Otherwise, if he stood at the counter like this and slapped fifty Tongbao coins, the shopkeeper would dare to report to the official that the money came from an improper source.
He can actually calculate so quickly.
Then Liu Chengzong realized that this guy was a gambler.
This topic was heavy, and Liu Chengzong sighed: "There are heavy casualties."
"Just look at it, there is no other way." The monkey in the sky was not sad about this. He shook his head and said: "If they didn't follow me, they wouldn't be alive today. I treated them well when they were alive. Even if they die, it will be their fate."
...How are your casualties?"
"One is dead and sixteen are injured. Two of them may not be able to survive."
Liu Chengzong's words made the monkey in the sky tilt his head and stretch his neck, squinting his eyes with a very puzzling expression: "Three people, what do you have to be sad about when three people die? You have a look of regret on your face, but I advise you to look at it more openly!"
Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "The dead one is called a piece of meat. Just a few days ago, I robbed Prince Qing Zhuangzi's cargo convoy to Gansu. The Zhuang Shang Banner Army who surrendered didn't want to follow me. He said Luocao was a piece of meat under my hand.
, I just called him this casually, and we still don’t know what his name was, so he disappeared.”
"It seems that it's not good to have elite soldiers. Everyone knows them."
The monkey in the sky answered: "I'm different. I only care about their food and drink. I don't know them. I will know them after they die. I will dig graves and take care of the parents and children left behind."
Seeing that the topic was becoming more serious, Liu Chengzong wanted to talk happily and asked: "I asked your people why you ordered them not to touch the corpses and trophies of the border troops."
"I'm waiting for you to share. Why else? Your people are so powerful. If you don't want to share, how can you let me share?"
The monkey in the sky looked like "you don't seem very smart", rubbed his hands and said: "Tell me, how do you plan to divide it?"
Liu Chengzong really didn’t expect it.
He felt that there were many monkeys in the sky, and they indeed contributed a lot. If there were not thirty monkeys who took turns attacking, this battle would not be so easy for them.
"Since you let me divide it, my men are powerful and your men contribute more. I don't think it's better than this. Let's divide it equally. My soldiers have to fill the quiver. You pick the rest first, and the rest belongs to me.
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When Liu Chengzong said this, he only said half of his words. He said: "But the more than 300 surrendered troops are all mine... It's not that I won't give it to you, I'm afraid they will turn around and kill you to take credit."
Weapons and armor, in Liu Chengzong's opinion, are things that the monkeys in the sky urgently need.
His people are very obedient, which is the repayment of the peasant army's kindness to the monkeys in the sky. The leader and the thieves and soldiers are all good people, and only good people can survive if they have soldiers and armor.
In Shaanxi these days, everyone is used to life and death. It can be seen that there is still a long distance between being used to life and death of strangers and being used to life and death in blood.
For Jiang Bing, the ignorant and simple kindness of the Sky Monkey cannot be suppressed.
On the other hand, for Liu Chengzong, soldiers and armor were not the most important thing in his heart.
The five sentinel soldiers have already been armed, not to mention that there are no mules in the mule camp now. Even if he is given all the soldiers and armor, his men will not have any.
What he lacks is talents, those who have mastered combat skills and are familiar with military affairs.
Although he also needs to guard against surrendering troops, the threat to him from these people is not as great as that to the Sky Monkey.
"Give..." The monkey in the sky was overjoyed and couldn't speak smoothly. He repeated the movement of hugging his chest with his hands: "Give me half, seriously?"
He clapped loudly and came closer: "I'll give you all the surrendered troops. You are much more generous than King Hengtian and King Gaochuang. I originally thought you would give me money. Don't worry, you are so generous. I will never take it seriously."
Pick everything away!"
The conscience of heaven and earth, Heavenly Monkey never expected Liu Chengzong to give so much.
There are also a bunch of elite soldiers and generals from Li Bei in the valley to the east. The Sky Monkeys fight to the death in this battle, which is their duty as fellow bandits.
These days, apart from Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, and Zuo Guazi, who was defeated by the army, who else has the strength to defeat the army, and who can defeat the army and obtain good weapons and armor?
Who is not short of soldiers and armor?
He asked Liu Chengzong to divide, just to try and see what he could divide and how much he could divide.
There were more than 300 casualties, so it would be considered righteous to be able to give thirty collars to the armor.
Just a second before Liu Chengzong said it was a tie, Liu Jiusi was still thinking in his mind that if he was given one or two hundred taels of silver, he would simply go back to Yanzhou and defend the Qingyang Guard Banner Army there instead of following them.
Played.
But... Liu Chengzong gave too much.
The next second the Sky Monkey started licking, stretched out his hand and slashed in front of his face: "Give the order, General Liu, what do you want the brothers to do next!"