Tang Qi Tan

On the banks of the Rhone River on the outskirts of the provincial capital, green fields stretch as far as the eye can see, and the blue sky always meets the horizon.The country estates that dot the plain of the Livron valley look, from a distance, like groves surrounding the city.

As the scorching sun spread its scorching light on the fields, the sound of large and small cornets also urged the Lombard soldiers who were resting in the village houses to come out in twos and threes.Some even lazily kicked the owner who was hiding in the barn.

Then, disheveled, they saw their sergeant, squadron leader, battalion leader, and deputy company commander; it was a strong man with a thick beard and hair and a square face; The bloody horsewhip looked at his subordinates coldly.

After the two blood-stained corpses were brought up, the soldiers who were still busy pulling and tying their trouser pockets, buzzing like mosquitoes and flies in summer, suddenly fell silent. And looked at the dead comrade in surprise.

You must know that since they were ordered to go deep into the countryside to collect food and fodder, these soldiers from Lombard have completely let go of their restraints and indulged in a lot of fun.However, since last week, a soldier has disappeared every night.

Those who went on patrol in different parts of the neighborhood, if they only set out in groups of two or three, never turned back.In the morning, their bodies were found in a field, next to a patio, or in a ditch.

Their horses also fell on the road with their legs stretched out, and their necks were cut open.Such assassinations seemed to be carried out by some of the same people, but the Lombards had no way of solving the case on the spot.They can't even find useful clues and traces.

Then some soldiers felt angry and ashamed.Many men in the village were hanged for a simple report, and the women were also detained by them. They had threatened the children before, but they still didn't find out.

To this day, two Lombard soldiers who had been stabbed in the stomach have been found three miles apart in this village.One of them died, still holding his bloody saber in his hand.It can be seen that he has fought and tried his best to defend himself.

Therefore, the handsome deputy company commander was both angry and pleased.Because the murderer who has been hiding in the dark has finally revealed his clues.Following the mobilized Lombard soldiers, there was an uproar in the noise that disturbed the village.

In the end, among the men, women, old and children who were driven to the grain drying ground, among the low-pitched mourning and sobbing; a man with a head covered in blood was mixed up by two thick and thick Lombard soldiers, and then A bucket of cold water was splashed on my face and I woke up immediately.

This is a short and thin man with a curved spine, and his two big hands are as hard and thick as crab claws.The gray and white messy hair is so sparse that the scalp can be seen everywhere, and the blue veins all over the face meander all the way to the back of the head; it looks ugly and stubborn as a rock.

And when the Lombards found him, he was fainting among the inconspicuous piles of straw outside the village; although he tried his best to hide himself before he passed out; found him.

"Who is this!" The expressionless deputy company commander suddenly pointed the blood-stained horsewhip at Bencun, who was dressed in the most neat and tidy clothes, but was disgraced and wrinkled and frowning because of the violent driving of the Lombards. long. "you say!"

"He..." The village chief, whose face was full of wrinkles, looked at his family members who were targeted by the sword with tears in his eyes, and hesitated for a moment before saying, "It's Father Milong; he lives outside the village. Forester, a former soldier of the kingdom."

"..." The deputy company commander couldn't help but suddenly realized when he heard the words, and then turned cold and glanced at the villagers left and right, baring his teeth cruelly and said: "Then what about his family, all the relatives related to him?"

"It's all gone..." The elderly village chief said in a daze: "Since the army of the Western Empire passed by here half a month ago, the whole family has disappeared... Father Milong followed suit. Missing, everyone thought he was dead..."

"Even if this is the case, it will not relieve you of the crime of hiding and sheltering the murderer." However, the deputy company commander interrupted him impatiently: "The murderer must pay the price, and he must be punished as an accomplice. Come here! One shot..."

The next moment, I saw an orderly who was full of travel and dust, and suddenly came at a gallop; the moment he arrived in front of them, he fell off his horse and shouted hissingly: "Emergency, the domestic army's payment and supply brigade is in Mombo There was an attack near the town;”

"According to the order of the head of Mienu, all the nearby companies that have received the news must go to support as soon as possible; otherwise, all honors and military positions will be deprived..."

Immediately, under the influence of the military salary related to the vital interests, the half of the Lombard regiment scattered in several nearby villages could not help but hurriedly gathered together; most of the heads and equipment were hastily gathered, and Start without stopping.

Afterwards, the Lombard soldiers who were left behind to carry out the punishment did not hesitate to tie up the dying Father Miron behind his back and hang him under a thick old tree at the entrance of the village; He stroked his exposed belly.

This originated from the ancient Roman era, when the army severely punished spies and traitors, known as the "blood eagle" chest dissection.While taking out the liver and intestines as well as possible, we must also try our best to ensure that the other party is alive and die slowly in the greatest pain.

However, at the next moment, the sharp dagger barely scratched the opponent's belly; suddenly the dying father Miron suddenly struggled to clamp the neck of this Lombard executioner with his legs, and looked at the opponent's face full of shock There was a sudden twist in his expression...

The next moment, the other stunned Lombard soldiers couldn't help roaring and yelling, drawing their knives and spears and pounced on them; seeing Father Miron, who was hanging in the air, had turned around and grabbed the fallen dagger with his feet, and cut it upside down. Freed from the shackles of the rope, he tumbled to the ground.

At this time, the villagers present just woke up like a dream, and ran away screaming and screaming.Then another Lombard soldier who was closest to him screamed; it was Miron's father who got up again, and fell to the ground with a throwing dagger in the middle of his eye socket.

Then, Father Miron, who grabbed another pitchfork and forced another Lombard soldier back again, shouted again: "What are you all waiting for, are you going to let these beasts succeed, and then go back and kill the remaining soldiers in the village one by one?" the next man?"

As soon as these words came out, the remaining ten or so Lombard soldiers were shocked on the spot, and they couldn't help turning their heads to look at the villagers who were hiding in all directions; but they were unexpectedly stabbed in the thigh of one of them by Miron's father with a pitchfork Inside; screaming blood gushing down to the ground.

Only then did the others wake up in alarm, and surrounded the only man under the tree, Father Miron, who had the ability to resist; then a Lombard soldier walked a few steps, and was hit by a stone on his helmet suddenly with a bang, and couldn't help but He shook his head and turned around.

But he saw a boy with freckles standing on the top of the haystack with an angry face; then, he couldn't help roaring angrily: "Puppy, I'm going to kill you..." Then, another bigger stone A piece fell on his shoulder, but others did it too.

The Lombard soldier standing at the outermost edge roared and rushed towards the haystack where the freckled boy was hiding, and stabbed with a hooked spear; however, it was in vain.Then the flower pot that was dropped from above his head suddenly hit his head with a bang and shattered.

And following the moment when the Lombard soldier was knocked down, it seemed that some kind of invisible prelude was kicked off; when those Lombard soldiers knocked off Papa Miron's pitchfork and forced him to the tree again, While chasing and stabbing full of jokes, he suddenly found that he was also surrounded by villagers with unkind faces, holding flails and pickaxes.

At the same time as these remaining Lombard soldiers were under siege, the two brigades led by the deputy company commander also rushed to the vicinity of Mombo Town, where the transport brigade was attacked; but the horizon was seen from a distance Burning smoke and screaming.

However, when they dropped their redundant burdens again, they hurriedly caught up with the smoke column; at the intersection under the outer slope of a small town, all they saw were overturned carriages scattered all over the ground and scattered piles of supplies. corpses, but the sound of fighting and the enemies are gone.

The next moment, there was a burst of fierce cannon fire from the direction of the town, and many dark trajectories were suddenly drawn in the air. According to the preset approximate shooting range and benchmarks, they bombarded these Lombard soldiers who gathered chaotically. , tore open several fragmented bloody gaps.

Then, amid a burst of intense and short trumpets, many soldiers in blue robes and chain shirts with knives and guns suddenly appeared from the grass below the river bank on the side of the intersection, roaring and rushing forward.And just as these Lombard soldiers who were attacked hurriedly turned around to fight.

On the top of the other side of their slope, rows of firecrackers and crossbows were gradually revealed, condescending and shooting densely at the rear of the Lombard army, immediately causing more chaos and death; at this time, the trumpets The sound resounded in the wilderness again.

But along the outer wall of the town, smoke and dust billowed out in groups of cavalrymen. They took two teams of oriental-style cavalry in iron scale armor as the vanguard, like the wings of a flying bird, outflanking and penetrating straight in. The relatively loose and weak wings of the Lombard army,

It also made these soldiers who had been attacked on many sides begin to show obvious collapse and wavering, and even turned into a trend of spontaneously fleeing in groups of three or four in the direction they came from...

Just under Jiang Tian's command, many free troops surrounded the provincial capital of Livron, with several road hubs extending in all directions, arranged ambush circles and local cordon lines according to local conditions, launched multi-point siege and reinforcements, and eliminated and defeated the enemy in the provincial capital as much as possible At the same time as foreign aid.

He himself sneaked into the provincial capital of Livron quietly, and met people who were insiders and spies.