"Captain Zhang, you can't do it, you can't do it!" On the official road twenty miles away from Doujiabao, Xia Juncai, the inspector of Qingmazhai, begged while wiping the cold sweat on his face, "Hu Han are messing around here.
The folk customs are strong and fierce. The people mistakenly believed the rumors and thought that the officers and soldiers were coming to seize livestock and food, so they gathered together to seek self-protection. It took the officials ten days and a half to appease them and let them distinguish right from wrong...
"
Two hundred steps behind him, thousands of men from different fortresses held up bows, arrows, swords and spears, blocking the official road.
Several leading clan leaders, all wearing scarlet cloaks, stood side by side in the center of the large group of people, holding long spears and looking angry.
Behind the clan leaders, there were more than 300 well-armed strong men. All of them were eight feet tall, wearing black leather armor and fox fur hats, riding tall horses, with weapons in their hands reflecting the cold sun!
"You call this self-protection?" Zhang Huan looked down at Inspector Xia and asked with a sneer, "Apart from raising the flag of rebellion, what else do they lack? Besides, I am here to hunt down the gangsters who attacked the military camp last night and killed my brother.
Come on, we didn’t pick up a grain of rice or a sheep along the way, so why should they listen to rumors?”
"This, this, they, they were deceived by the gangsters. They were deceived by the gangsters. Please give me some time, give me some time to explain." Inspector Xia Juncai also knew that his reason just now was not valid.
. However, he couldn't bear to see the situation getting out of control, so he continued to wipe his hands in cold sweat and begged Zhang Huan not to launch an attack.
Within his jurisdiction, there are Red Lotus cultists operating openly, and he has known about this for a long time.
Many of the archers and village warriors under his command believed in Our Lady of the Red Lotus, and he actually knew this very well.
In a land with exhausted frontiers, culture and education have not flourished since ancient times. There are many people who believe in Zoroastrianism, Wong Tai Sin, Second Sister Hu (Fox), Cang Lang and White Deer.
Even if a certain stone on the mountain has a strange appearance, some people will burn incense and pray for it.
Under such circumstances, Xia Juncai thinks that if there are more people who believe in Our Lady of the Red Lotus, it is not worth making a fuss about. What's more, his duty is to hunt down rapists and thieves, crack down on smuggling, and maintain public order. He has no control over what the people believe or not.
What.
However, if the followers of the Red Lotus Sect had a direct conflict with the officers and soldiers today, the nature of the conflict would completely change.
Even if the officers and soldiers succeeded in defeating the Red Lotus cultists, he would not be able to escape the responsibility of "local dissatisfaction" or even "failure to report what he knew" after his inspection.
And if the officers and soldiers were defeated by the Red Lotus cultists, the trouble would be even greater. The Red Lotus cultists who found that the Song Dynasty officers and soldiers were vulnerable would definitely take advantage of the situation and sweep across the prefectures and counties.
By then, during his summer inspection, he would only have two choices: die in battle or become a thief.
Therefore, from his point of view, the best solution is for him to step in as the mediator and for both parties to take a step back.
In this way, Zhang Huan and others do not have to risk the entire army being annihilated. The followers of the Red Lotus Sect and the young men who were incited from various forts do not have to go to the dark side.
As for Zhang Huan's request, it is actually easy to solve. It is nothing more than a matter of face.
The private cells of each fort must contain disobedient tribesmen or tenants who cannot repay their debts. The fort owners could chop off a few heads and hand them over, so that Zhang Huan could regain his face and return home satisfied.
However, Zhang Huan regarded his "good intentions" as "donkey's liver and lungs".
Before he could finish his words, the latter had already sneered and waved, "Forget it, you are also a local official, so Zhang has to give him this little face. Come, light some incense, and let Xia Xingjian mediate. One stick
Within a few hours, Zhang will see the gangster who killed my brother yesterday."
"Captain Zhang, have mercy! Captain Zhang, together with the swords and soldiers, the situation will become even more difficult to deal with!" That Xia Juncai is a ninth-grade sesame official. How could he have such great prestige and power that the heads of the various forts are in the same place?
Will you accept Zhang Huan's request within the stick of incense? Therefore, you didn't dare to leave at all, you just continued to stop in front of Zhang Huan's horse and bowed repeatedly.
"Dismount, put on your armor and form a formation. When the time is up, listen to the drums of the Chinese army and take action immediately!" Zhang Huan refused to talk nonsense with him at all. He withdrew an order flag and raised it high above his head.
"Yes!" Dutou Liu Hong, Chu Guang, Gao Anshi and others agreed in unison. Immediately, they led their subordinates and jumped off their mounts. They took off various armors from the spare saddles and quickly put them on.
Before the stick of incense burned out, the soldiers had already finished cleaning up. Immediately, special auxiliary soldiers pulled all the horses aside. The soldiers quickly formed an array on the spot.
They were not cavalry, but except for a few scouts, the rest were all mounted infantry!
In the team, Han Qing was stunned when he saw it.
In the memory of the former owner of the body, there is a lot of knowledge about the battle formations of the Song Dynasty. However, since time travel, he has no interest in "reviewing" at all, and he can't understand the use of those complicated battle formations!
But at this moment, when he saw three hundred soldiers arrayed in armor before his eyes, he suddenly realized how wrong his original idea was.
I saw that the three hundred soldiers were divided into at least five branches.
Some of the tallest and strongest long-axe soldiers were arranged in a long triangle at the front of the military formation. Everyone was wearing iron helmets and iron face guards. They looked like dozens of steel fortresses with legs.
More than forty spearmen wearing wide-brimmed helmets were divided into two teams on the left and right, forming a swallow-tail shape, connected at the two bottom corners of the triangular array.
Immediately behind the bottom of the triangular battle formation were more than thirty crossbowmen, wearing leather helmets and holding a six-foot-tall crossbow in their hands.
After the crossbowmen team, there are the archers, who are the largest in number, accounting for more than half of the entire team. Their clothes are also the simplest, with only a wide-brimmed helmet and a leather vest with exposed arms.
After the archers, there is a group of strong men with iron helmets on their heads, wearing leather armor, holding leather shields and long knives. There are only about thirty people in number, but they reveal the most murderous intent, which makes onlookers no matter how far apart they are.
You can all feel it.
…
Zhang Huan himself jumped on a four-wheeled vehicle driven by human power.
On the body of the car, there are two large drums set up high.
Next to the drum, several battle flags fluttered in the wind, making hunting sounds.
"Inspector Han, get on the bus with me and see how the brothers can defeat the thief!" Zhang Huanxin grabbed the drumstick, turned his head and extended an invitation to Han Qing.
"Me? Okay!" Han Qingzheng didn't know where to stop. He was stunned for a moment, then agreed and jumped up.
Standing next to Zhang Huan, he saw the situation on the battlefield more clearly.
Opposite the young men who were incited by the Red Lotus Sect, there was obvious commotion in the team.
Some people were pushing each other and retreating slowly, some were looking around for opportunities to escape, and some were holding spears, pitchforks and other objects and arguing with the backbone of the team.
The clan leaders wearing scarlet cloaks were clearly divided into two groups. One group had already tilted their mounts and looked ready to leave at any time. The other group raised their weapons and gestured at those who were about to leave.
Only the more than three hundred black-armored men behind the clan leaders remained calm. One by one, they leveled their weapons, pressed forward, and tightened the reins of their horses. As soon as a real leader in the team gave the order, they immediately
Launch a charge.
Is there any chance of winning between 300 infantry and 300 cavalry? Han Qing quickly compared the actual combatants on both sides in his mind, and frowned tightly without realizing it.
After his military service expired in his previous life, he did not enter the military academy, so before retiring, he only learned basic tactics such as fire cover and team coordination. He had no chance to dabble in large-scale battle command.
Therefore, when looking at the situation between the enemy and ourselves, he could only make a simple comparison of the number of soldiers, and knew nothing about anything else.
According to the history of street stalls seen on the Internet in my previous life, the infantry of the Song Dynasty faced the cavalry, but they could only be beaten. If they lost, they would not even have a chance to escape!
While he was feeling uneasy, he saw Xia Juncai, the inspector of Qingmazhai, rushing towards him again, grabbing the edge of the four-wheeled drum cart with both hands, and threatening loudly: "Captain Zhang, are you really going to provoke a civil uprising? What if there is a danger around you?"
The people all rose up after hearing the news, you, you definitely can't bear it!"
"If Zhang can't take the responsibility, of course there will be someone who can!" Zhang Huan glanced down at the other party, waved his hand with a sneer, "Come here, please inspect Xia and step aside!"
"Yes!" Several auxiliary soldiers quickly stepped forward and dragged Xia Xinggang aside, preventing him from getting close to the drum truck. Zhang Huan, on the other hand, took another look at the burned incense sticks and took a deep breath.
, raised the drumstick and hit the drum head hard, "Dong dong, dong dong, dong dong..."
In an instant, thunderous drums sounded, echoing throughout the fields along the autumn wind.
The sun in the sky dimmed instantly, and dark clouds rolled in, covering everyone's heads.
