Poor Family Chapter 821

  Chapter 821 Win a game first

Wang Gui led 3,000 cavalrymen to the south along the old official road more than a dozen miles away. When they reached the west of Wangting Town, the 3,000 cavalrymen took out the horseshoe bag and wrapped the four hooves of the horse. It is made of cloth, and its main function is not to silence the sound, but to keep the horse's four hooves warm when the horse passes through the ice of the big river in winter. superior.

The three thousand cavalry slowed down, the hoofbeats were low, and they moved eastward in the darkness without a sound. About a quarter of an hour before the fourth watch, the three thousand cavalry entered a forest. The enemy's barracks, the outline of an army barracks can be faintly seen under the hazy moonlight.

The cavalry stopped moving, and hid in the woods quietly waiting for the signal to attack. Just like the information brought by the scouts, this new army of 30,000 people was completely unaware that the danger was approaching quietly. Dozens of sentinels were deployed two or three hundred paces away from the camp. When the cavalry entered the woods, they accidentally disturbed the old birds, but they did not arouse the vigilance of the distant sentries.

Wangting Town is a large town with a population of more than 300 households. With a long street as the central axis, there are dense shops, taverns, inns, and foot shops on both sides. There are also residents in the town, and several households belong to large families. It covers an area of ​​more than ten acres.

  Wangting Town is also prospered because of the canal. Although the Jin soldiers invaded in the past two years, the northern canal has declined a lot, but Jiangnan has not been greatly affected, and business is still very prosperous.

  The camp of the Jiangnan New Army is stationed in the west of Wangting Town, less than a hundred steps away from the backyard wall of the largest family in Wangting Town.

  At the fourth watch, Zhang Shun led a dozen of his subordinates into a large family. The owner of this family was doing business in Suzhou. This was his ancestral house. No one lived in the mansion, only an old couple who looked after the house.

  The old couple had been sent to the inn by the soldiers ahead of time, and there was no one else in the house. Zhang Shun went straight to the back house. He was also a little anxious. It was already the agreed fourth watch time, and the action had not yet started.

   "General, use rockets!" one of his subordinates whispered.

  Using rockets is fast, but the effect is not very good. Although Zhang Shun is impatient, he also has his own style of doing things. Zhang Shun shook his head, "We should follow the plan and act now!"

  Zhang Shun led his men over the wall and quickly approached the barracks. When they approached the nearest large tent, they suddenly heard someone talking. Zhang Shun waved his hand, and everyone quickly hid behind the large tent.

  Zhang Shun slowly probed, only to find two soldiers sitting and chatting under the big tent. It seemed that the patrolling soldiers were hiding here to be lazy, but they didn't dare to really sleep, so they chatted here.

  Zhang Shun turned his head to wink at his subordinates, and moved his mouth, meaning to let the soldiers catch him alive.

   Several subordinates understood, they bypassed both sides of the tent, worked together, pushed the two patrol soldiers to the ground, and dragged them into the tent.

   After a while, a subordinate came forward to report, "I have already asked, and the patrol password is 'safe and sound'."

  Zhang Shun nodded. Now that you have the password, everyone should pretend to be a patrol soldier when encountering a situation! "

  Everyone split up and acted immediately. They all carried torches and torches. Soon, fires broke out everywhere in the barracks. Some soldiers noticed the abnormality and immediately sounded the alarm bell, 'Dang! when! when! ' The alarm bells rang loudly.

Wang Gui led 3,000 cavalrymen to wait in the woods far away. The fourth watch had passed, and he was a little anxious. wait.

  At this time, a soldier shouted in a low voice: "General, it's on fire!"

  Wang Gui also saw it. He saw several fires ignited in the camp in the distance, and they had already become one. Under such circumstances, the barracks must be in chaos. Wang Gui was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "Attack!"

  'Woo—' the low horn sounded immediately.

The cavalry had already taken off the soft cloth covering the horseshoes, one by one, eager to try. When the horn blew, three thousand cavalry rushed out together, like a river bursting its embankment, rushing rapidly, or like thunder exploding on the ground, rumbling to the ground. Kill the barracks two miles away.

At this time, there was great chaos in the barracks. Thirty thousand soldiers were scared out of their wits by the raging fire in the barracks, and fled to the outside of the barracks. He didn't even wear shoes, let alone wear armor and helmets and carry weapons.

  When many soldiers rejoiced that they escaped from the barracks, 3,000 cavalry from the Jingzhao Army arrived, and the soldiers scattered and fled. Wang Gui shouted: "Those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will be killed!"

  The cavalry also shouted: "Those who surrender will not die!"

   Thirty thousand soldiers came to their senses one after another, knelt down and raised their hands to surrender. For a while, the surrenderers were kneeling all over the wilderness.

  At this time, Wang Gui suddenly saw a general on horseback fleeing northward with dozens of people in a hurry. Wang Gui was overjoyed, and immediately urged his horse to catch up.

The escaped general was Zhu Hongliang, the leading general who led the army to the north this time. Zhu Hongliang was only in his twenties. He was the cousin of Empress Zhu. make.

  Although Zhu Hongliang was inexperienced, he was also clever. Seeing that the situation was not good, he hurriedly fled northward with his own soldiers, but Wang Gui led more than a hundred cavalry to chase after him within a mile.

   "The enemy will stop leaving, but the head will stay!"

  Wang Gui shouted, swung his knife and charged forward.

  Zhu Hongliang knew that he could not escape, so he turned his horse's head, shouted, and stabbed Wang Gui with his gun.

Seeing that his spear was weak, Wang Gui couldn't help but sneered in his heart. With a loud roar, he slashed at the waist with a knife. The knife was fierce and fast like lightning. fly.

  Zhu Hongliang's shoulder was almost broken, he yelled, fell off his horse and fled, Wang Gui pushed him with the back of his knife, immediately swept him off his horse, and shouted: "Tie me up!"

  The soldiers behind rushed up, pushed Zhu Hongliang down and tied him up. Seeing that there was no way to escape, Zhu Hongliang's personal soldiers also knelt down and surrendered.

  In this battle, the 3,000 cavalry of the Jingzhao Army wiped out more than 2,000 enemies and captured 23,000 people. They only slightly injured more than a dozen people, and no one was killed.

  At noon that day, Li Yanqing led his army to Wuxi County, and more than 20,000 prisoners of war who were escorted from Wangting Town arrived in Wuxi County an hour earlier.

  Most of the prisoners had neither armor nor weapons, and sat on the ground anxiously, surrounded by three thousand cavalry guarding them. At this moment, someone shouted, "Stand up, all!"

The prisoners of war got up one after another and lined up in dozens of rows. I saw a young general wearing a golden helmet riding forward in the cavalry guard of the brigade. Is the clan prince.

At this time, a high platform was built by soldiers with wooden boxes, Li Yanqing got off his horse and walked directly onto the high platform, he glanced at the more than 20,000 prisoners of war below, and said slowly: "Maybe many of you don't know why you were arrested? I tell you, you have participated in the conspiracy!"

  The prisoners of war below were in an uproar, and several soldiers shouted anxiously: "When recruiting, they said they were going to the capital to serve the king. How did it become a rebellion?"

   "That's right! We went to the capital to serve as the king, didn't we think about rebelling?" the prisoners of war shouted.

   "Quiet!" Wang Gui roared, and everyone fell silent.

Only then did Li Yanqing continue: "I am Li Yanqing, the court captain. Maybe some of you have heard of it, and it doesn't matter if you haven't, but let me tell you that I am the chief general guarding the capital. I have already withdrawn to the north, and there is no need for King Qin at this time, but there are people in Hangzhou who have ulterior motives and want to take advantage of the opportunity of the imperial court's first war to rebel, and I was sent by the imperial court to quell the rebellion."

  Li Yanqing didn't finish his words, and the prisoners below were already boiling. Needless to say, Li Yanqing, everyone in the world knew about the rebellion from his mouth, and more than 20,000 prisoners of war were convinced.

   Many prisoners of war shouted: "We don't want to rebel, we have been deceived, Li Taiwei please forgive us!"

  More and more soldiers pleaded loudly, Li Yanqing waved his hand, the soldiers gradually stopped shouting and became quiet again.

"Now you have two paths, the first path, I can let you go back to your hometown, but the government will have a record of your participation in the rebellion, and you will be higher than others in taxes and labor in the future; the second path, you join my The army, participate in the quelling of the rebellion, and make meritorious deeds, you can choose one of these two paths!"

  (end of this chapter)

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