Qiming 1158

Chapter 745 Li Dao's Death
In the face of a critical situation, some people advised Zhang Xiaohu to retreat, not to confront Song Jun head-on, so as not to smash the whole family of the rebel army here, it is really not worth it.

Zhang Xiaohu thought about it, and was shaken for a while, thinking that retreating might be the best choice.

But soon, Zhang Xiaohu heard the cry of the defeated soldiers who had escaped from Luling, and learned that the Song army had carried out a large-scale massacre and looting in Luling, and destroyed Luling in seven or eighty-eight ways. Many people family died.

This made Zhang Xiaohu furious.

Zhang Xiaohu was born as a hunter, in his 30s, and made a living hunting in the mountains.

He is tall, courageous, loyal, and jealous of evil. He is very popular and has wide prestige. Generally, the villagers turn to him to preside over justice in any disputes.

This uprising was not initiated by the people of Zhang Xiaohu's hometown, but because the people in their villages had been oppressed and exploited by the government for a long time and it was unbearable. Seeing that the people around them were uprising, the people in the villages were also encouraged to rebel.

An uprising requires a leader, and a person who is convinced by everyone to lead everyone and issue orders.

So the villagers unanimously elected Zhang Xiaohu as their leader.

As soon as Zhang Xiaohu's head became hot, he became the leader of one party in accordance with the people's heart, and began to fight in the Quartet as the leader of the rebel army.

Out of the hunter's keen insight, he noticed that everyone in the rebel army was heading north to east. There were only so many places and so many people rushed over, just like the hunters who gathered together but had limited prey. conflict.

After thinking about it, he decided to go south, avoid densely populated areas, and choose places where no one went to find prey.

According to this line of thinking, he successfully conquered the Nan'an Army, successfully raised an army, defeated the Song army in many places, and developed very well.

However, the speed of the main force of the Song army going south was a bit fast, so that he did not have time to take precautions, so that he lost Luling City, and also killed a city of old and young people who were slaughtered, which made Zhang Xiaohu very sad.

Seeing that Taihe County would also be treated like this, Zhang Xiaohu's heart of helping the weak couldn't hold back.

What he rebelled against was to comply with the will of the elders in his hometown, and wanted to help everyone get rid of the extortionate and miscellaneous taxes, and not to continue to live a hard life. If he retreated here, wouldn't it mean that the murderous Song Ting would come back to rule the elders and villagers again?

Therefore, we cannot retreat, absolutely cannot retreat, we must stand here, withstand the attack of the Song army, and stick to the fruits of everyone's victory.

Soon, Zhang Xiaohu publicly stated that he wanted to defend Taihe. Many soldiers from Taihe County also supported Zhang Xiaohu and were willing to fight with him, so the decision was passed.

Considering that the Song army may be relatively strong, it may not have a good result in a head-to-head confrontation, so Zhang Xiaohu decided to evacuate the people of Taihe to Longquan to take refuge.

Zhang Xiaohu arranged for troops to help the people transfer, and stayed in Taihe County to defend against the Song army, so as to buy time for the people of Taihe County to retreat.

The guards helped the people to evacuate to Longquan, and then returned to Taihe County to help Zhang Xiaohu and others fight the Song army decisively.

Anyway, right here, Zhang Xiaohu is going to fight Song Jun to the death and never retreat.

As for the Song army, Li Dao was very happy to learn that Taihe County had the main force of the rebel army. He immediately sent his army south to Taihe County, and prepared to fight a beautiful annihilation battle in Taihe County to eliminate the main force of the rebel army. , in order to put down this great rebellion as soon as possible.

However, he soon discovered that this rebel army was not the same as the rebel army he had encountered before.

This insurgent army did not collapse at the touch of a button, and it fought more tenaciously. Not to mention Taihe County, but to say that some of the military fortresses on the hills outside the city that had the function of blocking the enemy were firmly guarded by them, and the army could not be attacked by siege.

Li Dao felt that he might have encountered the elite of the rebel army, and was even more happy. He made up his mind to destroy this elite with his own hands, so he threw himself into the most elite troops around him and stormed the army with catapults and thunderbolts.

The rebel army was gradually unable to resist, and the Song army broke through the military strongholds outside the city one after another.

On the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, the insurgent army was pushed beyond Taihe County by the Song army, and could only close the city to defend itself, and could not fight against the front.

The Song army besieged the city on three sides, leaving only the south side unencircled, but hid soldiers in ambush at the south gate, waiting for the rebel army to break out of the siege, and encircled it on all sides to eat it in one bite.

Li Dao felt that destroying the main force of the rebel army was no longer a problem.

For the rebels, the situation was really bad.

The strongholds outside the city were swept away, and they could only rely on Taihe County. The city walls of this county were only over ten feet high, and their defenses were relatively limited. It was difficult to say that they could turn the situation around.

Therefore, from that day on, Zhang Xiaohu was persuaded to retreat from the South Gate, and push it to Longquan County to join the remaining troops to fight against the Song army.

However, due to the instinct of a hunter, he felt that the reason why Song Jun left a city wall without encircling it must be because he was prepared.

So he resolutely did not leave, insisted on resisting in the city, and waited for the arrival of the receiving troops before he could retreat safely.

On the ninth day of the eighth lunar month, the whole day of offensive and defensive battles caused serious losses to the insurgents, and the few defenders were even more shaken.

The Song army used firearms such as trebuchets, crossbows, and thunderbolts to storm the city. The thunderous explosions and the strong and even irritating smoke dealt a great blow to the rebels in the city. They were beaten by the Song army several times. Attack the top of the city.

If Zhang Xiaohu hadn't personally led the most elite group of strong men to fight hard, the city would have been really difficult to defend.

At this point, Zhang Xiaohu himself was a little shaken. He felt that the decisive battle with Song Jun here was too late. If the situation could not be opened as soon as possible, they would all die here.

He began to think about the possibility of a smooth retreat, and what to do if he encountered an ambush by the Song army.

However, what he did not expect was that in the early morning of the tenth day of the eighth lunar month, the Song army camp outside Taihe County and the Song army ambush at the south gate were suddenly attacked. The attackers set fire to the camp and slashed the Song army with a knife , Song Jun was unprepared, and instantly bombed the camp and suffered a complete defeat.

There is no way for the feudal army to bomb the camp. Everyone can't deal with the bombing. The only way is to block off the part of the bombing camp with the army without bombing the camp, and wait until they kill each other and kill all their own people.

Li Dao only encountered a bombing of the battalion once in his long military career, and that bombing almost killed him, so since then he has paid special attention to this kind of thing and paid great attention to the soldiers who were usually brutally oppressed. "stress reliever".

The bombing of the camp this time was too sudden and unprepared, so that Li Dao didn't wake up when the camp was bombed, until the sound of the bombing was too loud, and the movement of Song Bing to kill each other was so loud that Li Dao was startled. Li Dao just woke up.

However, when he called the guards to inquire about the situation, he found that the barracks was already in flames, and it was too late to do anything.

Li Dao was furious and wanted to order the army to counterattack, but was blocked by his subordinates.

"General! If you don't leave, it's really too late! It's impossible to do anything, it's the best way to go!"

"I can't go! This is my last battle. I didn't lose to the golden thieves back then, how can I lose to a group of rebel thieves now!!! I won't go!!!"

Li Dao pulled out his saber with red eyes, and asked the guards to fight back with him, and launched a counter-attack against the sneak attack who was burning the barracks and slaughtering the Song army.

But their counterattack was not successful, because they quickly ran into a large group of sneak attackers. The sneak attackers saw them and immediately surrounded them with steel knives. In a chaotic battle, the guards around Li Dao were killed seven or seven. Eighty-eight, the attackers also lost a lot.

However, the sneak attackers still surrounded Li Dao. Li Dao swung his sword and fought hard, rushing from left to right, until all his subordinates were killed and did not rush out.

When he was exhausted, Li Dao was very sad. He looked around and saw that all his subordinates were killed in battle, and the corpses were on the spot. The strong smell of blood stimulated his nerves.

"I'm not reconciled!!!!"

Li Dao screamed in the sky, and he was unwilling to win in the blink of an eye.

Until the last moment of his life, he did not figure out where the sneak attackers outside the city came from.

Obviously, before the war, he had already gone out to search for the enemy for fifteen miles, and there was no enemy army within fifteen miles. What was the situation of this enemy army?
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(End of this chapter)