golden scales

"Brother Lin, those Jian slaves are indeed outraged, and even God can't help but thunder and beat them!"

In the valley not sixty steps away from the river bank, several heads poked out of the edge of the ditch, staring at several Qing soldiers on the bank.

The person who spoke was 24 to [-] years old, but his face looked quite mature, and he had already grown a ring of beards.

"That's the officers and soldiers from the east firing cannons." Brother Lin whispered, "It's a good opportunity."

After listening to Brother Lin's words, the bearded man turned his head and said to the people behind: "String the bow, put the arrow in the crossbow, ready to do it!"

When the strong men behind heard the words, they all checked their bows, crossbows and long knives, gearing up.

"When the first cannon fires, we will charge forward. There are twenty cannons in total. When the cannons stop, if we go thirty paces, we'll fuck the mother. If we don't go thirty paces, we'll go Withdraw." Brother Lin turned his head and said: "They are all cavalry soldiers, as long as we spread out and run into the mountains, they won't be able to catch up."

"Brother Lin, what if the fight stops on the other side of the river?" asked the bearded beard.

"The officers and soldiers are testing the cannons," Brother Lin said. "The cannons will not be very accurate if they exceed 250 paces. If you want to fight across the river, it is not impossible...it is impossible at all."

"Oh...then what if they don't try after all?" asked the bearded beard.

"No, because the artillery is not accurate, so we have to hit all the points that can be hit, and we will know how to hit it when we fight. This is the first round of test guns, and there is still more to come." Brother Lin replied.

"Brother Lin, you really know everything!" the bearded man admired sincerely.

"I also learned it later." Brother Lin sighed.

……

Kong Youde stood on the bank of the river, although he did not believe that the artillery of the Ming army could cross the river, but the power of the twenty cannons one by one was still startling him, and his body bent unconsciously.He quickly stood up straight and looked around quietly, for fear that his embarrassing scene would be seen by the guards.

luckily.These Geshhas were even more embarrassed than him, and the two Manchurians even fell to the ground, not caring about others at all.

Compared with the Han army who dealt with artillery all day long, the Manchus are more afraid of artillery.

"They are testing a cannon." Kong Youde stood up straight and said, "Look, we will count when we cross the river."

Kong Youde pretended to be relaxed, and the other guards naturally relaxed a lot too.However, his heart was getting heavier and heavier.The Yellow River is swiftly flowing.It is not easy to cross the river even in leisure time, not to mention braving the artillery of the Ming army to forcibly cross the river.If you choose a place with a narrow river, it will be completely covered by artillery.If you choose a place with a wide river surface, you will become a target once you get on the boat.

This battle is not easy to fight!

——I'm afraid we can only spend more time, send more scouts to find out the situation of the Ming army's river defense, and find a place where there is no Ming army artillery to cross the river.

Kong Youde thought to himself.

……

Boom boom boom!

The burning speed of the matchlock is uncontrollable.The gunners of the Ming army fired almost at the same time, but the firing speed of the artillery was different.

With the sound of the second round of artillery, the eight strong men in Guanzhong who were ambushing in the ditch each held a bow and crossbow, and rushed towards the Qing soldiers sixty steps away.

There were as many as ten Qing soldiers in total.And there were five of them in iron armor, and each of them had a horse.If there was a head-on conflict between the two sides, the Qing soldiers would undoubtedly have the absolute advantage. The superiority of the cavalry over the infantry alone would have killed all these Guanzhong men in civilian clothes.

Now the Qing soldiers were all standing under their horses, and all the horses were three or five steps away from them, gnawing on the tender shoots emerging from the cracks in the rocks.The Qing soldiers also faced the big river, watching the water column caused by the shell falling into the water, and all the attention was attracted by the artillery.

The men in Guanzhong did their calculations mentally but ran thirty steps within a few seconds of the cannon firing.Surprisingly, Qing Bing did not notice the crisis behind him.They were naturally overjoyed, and rushed towards the unsuspecting Qing army at a faster speed.

The lingering sound of the roar of the artillery echoed in Kong Youde's ears.He raised his hand and dug his ears.Feeling a bit swollen in the head, he said to the left and right: "The artillery of the Ming army is quite powerful..." Just halfway through the speech, the sense of sudden warning signs that had been practiced on the battlefield for many years, looked sideways, and there was someone holding a bow The crossbow ran towards him.

"Kill!" Kong Youde took the lead in roaring violently, preemptively taking away the courage of the enemy.

The Qing soldiers who were awakened were also elites who had survived hundreds of battles.They all pulled out the knives in their waists.

"Shoot!" Lin Tao stopped, holding a strong bow, and aimed at Kong Youde.

Although Kong Youde was dressed as an armored soldier, his "kill" just now was too much to attract people's hatred.These Guanzhong men are not the first time to engage in this kind of blood-licking business, and they have formed a tacit understanding long ago.They work in pairs.Aiming at the four armored soldiers, he shot the arrow in his hand.

At a distance of less than thirty steps, ordinary people can only see the outline of the face of the person facing them, but these hunters who hunt in the mountains all year round can shoot through the eyes of foxes and wild deer without hurting their fur.

Kong Youde saw the cold light on the arrow approaching, he fell sideways, the three-edged arrow drew a bloodstain on his face, and flew over.Before Kong Youde felt lucky, he felt a shock in his neck and his whole body was pushed back.It wasn't until he fell to the ground that he felt the pain was unbearable. It turned out that a crossbow arrow pierced the side of his neck.

He looked in the direction of the arrow, and saw a young man with a beard staring into his eyes. He immediately threw away the crossbow in his hand, pulled out his saber from his waist, and fought towards the Qing soldiers who rushed up. .Then, a piece of darkness blinded his eyes, and he could no longer see the world.

Kong Youde and two Manchurian Zhenyi were shot dead before the battle, and another armored soldier injured his thigh.The only remaining armored soldier rushed two steps, and found that no one was following behind him. Then he saw three strong men with long knives in their hands screaming and killing him. His knees softened and he knelt down on the ground, shouting: "Strong man! Forgive me!"

Seeing the death of the commander in chief, the other Qing soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy, according to the military laws of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, even if they fled back, they all shouted: "The strong man, spare your life! We are all Han Chinese, please spare us!"

The bearded man was originally rushing to the front, but when he saw these Qing soldiers surrendering, he was both surprised and puzzled, so he abruptly stopped in his tracks.

"Throw away the weapons and armor!" Brother Lin stepped forward quickly, pointing the long knife in the armored soldier's face.

Several other people also put on bows and crossbows again, and pointed at the surrendered Qing soldiers from afar.

"Brother, they surrendered because they still have so many people. I'm afraid it's a fraud!" the bearded man said.

"Don't dare! Don't dare!" Those Qing soldiers have already shouted: "If you kill my family leader, I will die even if I escape back. I am willing to go up the mountain with the strong men!"

"Want to go up the mountain with us?" Seeing that the armored soldier really took off his armor and threw away his weapon, Brother Lin sneered and said, "Please answer Grandpa's question first, if you lie to me, you will be chopped down with a knife!"

"Never dare to lie." Those Qing soldiers shouted.

Brother Lin first ordered people to tie up the seven Qing soldiers who surrendered in twos and threes.Only then did he ask: "Which one is the head of your family? Who is the last name, and what is the official position!"

The seven people scrambled to identify Kong Youde, and said the Manchurian names of the two real barbarians.

When the bearded man heard that the person he shot was the obedient king Kong Youde, he was overjoyed immediately, but suppressed his voice, and said: "Brother, this Kong Youde is the prince of the Tartars, how could he only bring such a few people with him, dressed in small soldiers?" The Yijia came to patrol the river? They must be lying!"

"A strong man's clear lesson!" The armored soldier who was stripped naked said quickly: "My lord... bah! It's Kong thief! Kong thief doesn't believe anyone. You have to personally explore all terrains and enemy situations. From north to south, he is the most That's it. The villain will never dare to lie to grandpa!"

"As his servants, don't you want to avenge him?" Brother Lin was also puzzled.

"Grandfather Mingjian," Qing Bing put on a sad face, "We are not his servants!"

"Dare to lie to your grandfather!" The beard suddenly burst out, and the long knife pierced through the air, and immediately chopped off the Qing soldier's head.

The blood from the neck was sprayed a foot high.It sprinkled down like rain, and fell all over the faces of those Qing soldiers.Still steaming.

The other Qing soldiers had never seen anyone who could turn their faces faster than a book, they screamed in fright, two of them even peed on their pants, and there was a smell of urine in the air.

"Hey!" Brother Lin stepped forward and stretched his beard, and said loudly on purpose: "Since these people want to surrender to us, why should we kill people?"

"Brother! I didn't want to kill him. Who told him to deceive me so far!" With a pair of wolf-like eyes, he glanced at the other Qing soldiers and said viciously: "Kong thief is also the prince of the Tartars. He has fought for many years. He came out to explore the terrain without bringing his cronies and servants with him!"

"Grandpa Rong Bing!" the armored soldier cried, "It's really wronged! Now the court is suspicious of the Han people. Even the Han army can't help being suspicious. Prince Su, Bah, and the leader of the Tartars, Hauge, ordered that all the Han army and the generals of the green battalion If you want to go out of the camp, you must not bring your cronies with you, and you have to go to his tent to take two Manchurian real barbarians as surveillance. It is to prevent us Han people from fleeing to Ming Dynasty." He was afraid that these people were rebels, so he quickly added: " and Dashun."

The bearded man was excited, and said to Brother Lin: "Brother, it seems that the Tartars themselves have gotten into a mess first."

"There are few Tartars, and we Han people are many, how can there be any reason to use less to resist more? They will retreat sooner or later." Brother Lin's eyes lit up, and he said: "If we Han people are united and don't kill each other, these How can the Tartars be so domineering in the pass!"

"Brother, I've finished my question, what should I do with these people?" Another strong man asked.

Brother Lin walked up to Kong Youde, took a closer look, shook his head and said, "Tsk tsk, if he was wearing the armor of Lord Jiannu, he would not have been shot to death." The armor of a senior general of Jiannu can cover the whole body including the neck They are all protected, and it is indeed not easy to be shot to death by cold arrows.

"It's fate, traitors are not easy to do." Brother Lin held the exposed shaft of the arrow, stirred it vigorously, and then pulled out the arrow, making sure that Kong Youde was too dead to die.He untied the belt of the iron armor, stripped off all of Kong Youde's clothes and pants, only found a money bag containing a gold ingot, and nothing else.

"Why don't you even have a badge or a seal?" Brother Lin asked the Qing soldiers: "But it's on you?"

Those soldiers of the Qing Dynasty knew that this man was the real king, they listened to him very kindly, and cooperated with each other, they hurriedly said: "According to the military law, these things cannot be taken out of the barracks."

"Then if he meets other Qing soldiers and doesn't know him, how can he prove his identity?" Brother Lin asked.

"There are passwords and reply orders every day, so as to distinguish ourselves from the enemy."

"The scouts go out for a few days, how do they identify the enemy?" Brother Lin felt more and more strange.Although he knew that waist cards were unreliable, and better craftsmen would do as much as they could, but he wasn't even worthy of a waist card. Isn't that a joke?

"Tanma only surveys the enemy's situation and terrain, nothing else. They do have badges. But no one will ask them for it." The Qing soldier said: "Now Shaanxi is in the hands of the Tartars, and they are not afraid of the spies of the Ming army. .”

"Brother, this is just right for us!" the bearded beard said happily: "As long as we wear the armor of the Tartars, we can run outside in a fair manner, and we don't need to hide in the ravines and shoot cold arrows!"

Brother Lin was much more stable, and said: "Let them take off their clothes. Do a search."

Several brothers immediately stepped forward and stripped off the clothes of these Qing soldiers, but they did not find the Tartar's badge.In the eyes of people with some military common sense, this is simply unbelievable.But let's think about it from another angle: the difference between the Han and Tatars lies in the hair, which can be said to be clear at a glance.The Han people would rather die than shave their heads, so they can know they are their own people when they see money rat tails, and those who see full hair are smart people, so why bother to make waist cards?

Besides, various armies in Shaanxi are now mixed, including the Green Battalion, the Han Army, and the Manchu Eight Banners.The characters are different from each other, and most of them are illiterate. Wouldn't it be winking for the blind to make a waist card?

"Okay!" Big Brother Lin laughed loudly: "The Tartars are so light on the enemy and slack, their destruction is imminent!" He paused, his eyes swept across the Qing soldiers' faces, and said, "Grandpa's temple is too small to accommodate so many people, so we just Take three, you decide on your own. The dead ones will be regarded as voters.” Finished.He stepped forward and opened the ropes of the Qing soldiers, allowing them to catch each other and fight each other.

These Qing soldiers were also unambiguous.Seeing that there were three places, they immediately started fighting naked.They had no weapons, so they could only use fists, choke necks, and kicks in the vagina, doing whatever they could to survive.

The bearded man held a crossbow, slowly approached Brother Lin, and whispered: "Brother, do you really want to keep three?"

Brother Lin said coldly: "The rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry. Let them kill them first. Wouldn't it be easier for us to do it after killing them?"

"Brother is so cunning!" the bearded man admired again.

"Soldiers, deceitful ways." Brother Lin sighed as he spoke, and turned his head to look at the east bank, with mixed emotions in his heart.

Not for a while.The Qing soldiers finally made a decision about life and death, and the three Qing soldiers who survived finally had no good flesh all over their bodies, full of tooth marks and scratches.But looking at the lying corpses, they were also satisfied.

In troubled times, what is worth less than human life?What is more valuable than your own life?

"Grandpa!" A Qing soldier panted, "We still can't pretend to be Tartars, look, this hair..."

The bearded man reached out his hand to touch his head, sneered, and was about to speak, but Brother Lin suddenly said: "Put on your clothes, go make a hole in the river, and throw the body away." He knelt down and threw Kong Youde He cut off his head, found a piece of clothes, wrapped it up, walked to the horse, and hung it beside the saddle.

The three Qing soldiers obediently dragged the corpse to the frozen river, stomped away the melting ice layer without much effort, and threw the corpse down.

When they finished their work, they thought they would just follow these bandits and join the group, but what was waiting for them was a row of arrows.Soon, their bodies also chased their companions south from the ice hole.

Everyone was hunters in this mountain, and it was only a trivial matter to avoid the Qing army from outside, so they quickly returned to the village from the mountain road with these ten war horses.Two of them even erased the traces along the way, no matter whether it was the hoof prints or the broken dead branches, no detail was missed.

When everyone entered the forest, the Qing army would never even try to find them.

The eight of them walked around in the forest several times, and finally came to a canyon that only one person could pass through.

A bird cry came from the canyon, which made everyone smile.

This is a signal from the secret whistle above, if everything is safe, there is no need to reply.If someone hangs their tail behind them, they respond with birdsong, and then lure the tailer into this deadly place to kill them.

Passing through the canyon is a mountain depression, which is about a hundred acres in size, lined with thatched huts.There is a small river flowing in this mountain depression, and the land is fertile. The cold wind is blocked by the surrounding hills and cannot invade. At this time, a thin layer of tender green can already be seen.

It is simply a paradise.

"Brother Lin, Brother Zhao!" A slender figure galloped from the cliff, rushed into the team, and threw himself into the arms of the bearded man.

"What a big horse! Give me a ride!" The boy looked at the taller horse with bright eyes.

The bearded boy picked up the young man, put him on the horse easily, and said intimidatingly: "You have left your post without permission again, you should be executed according to the military law!"

The young man smiled and said, "I'm not on duty today, I'm waiting for you above. How many tartars have you killed today?"

"Ten!" The bearded man said triumphantly, "There is also a Tartar prince!"

The young man didn't doubt the bearded words, and said happily: "Today I shot the red heart thirty times, father said that I will soon be able to go with you to kill the Tartars!"

"Killing Tartars requires not only good marksmanship, but also fast running." Brother Lin turned around and said with a smile, "We usually run when we see Tartars."

There are more than 20 families in this village, and the total number of men, women, children and children is no more than 86 people.Although they are basically hunters, there are only eight experienced old hunters who are really skilled in archery.When they encountered the Qing army alone, or the horse scouts and ambush soldiers in twos and threes, they attacked and killed them secretly.If you encounter a team of Qing troops, you can only run away.

This time too, originally they were about to flee when they saw these ten Qing cavalry soldiers.Unexpectedly, the Ming army on the east bank fired artillery and attracted the attention of the Qing soldiers, so they seized the opportunity to make a bold move, and came back with a complete victory without any damage, which is considered auspicious.

Back in the village, Brother Lin first broke the gold into small pieces and gave them to the village chief to buy food and agricultural tools needed in the village.After everyone else had gone back and said hello to their families, they called them together again and announced, "I want to take this thief's head to the east of the river." faster!

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