A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 880

(Huguo Zhenren, Weixian Xiaobing Shuyou, I rarely chat in groups now. In fact, unless I talk to the editor about something, I basically don’t use Q, and I basically don’t use the two Weibo. I used to like to use it, but I found it easy I am addicted, and most book friends will ask about the plot and other things, and it is not good not to answer, so I don’t use it at all. But I still thank the book friends for their enthusiasm.)
Chaozong Bridge is 40 miles away from Changping City. It is more than 15 feet long and 50 meters wide. The bridge has seven holes and more than [-] pairs of stone railings.The location is important, and together with Lugou Bridge and Yongtong Bridge (Bali Bridge), it is also known as the three major bridges of Gongwei Jingshi.

At this time, the sound of fighting around this famous stone bridge was loud, and countless thieves wearing uniforms with the word "Shun" rushed towards the bridge. They crowded together and slashed at each other. He jumped into the river from both sides of the bridge and swam desperately to the opposite bank.

The area around Chaozong Bridge was crowded with people, and as far as the eye could see, there was still a tidal wave of broken soldiers coming from behind. These people almost ran for half an hour, and they were all out of breath.But they didn't dare to stay, because not far from them, the mighty Jingbian army cavalry was chasing them.

"My mother's legs, you get out of the way."

"Grandma, you're out of luck."

"Ah, your mother's foot, you cut me off, you come here, are you raised by someone?"

"Ah... Cao Nunniang, you wait for me..."

Shouts, screams, howls, roars, and panic from near the bridge deck, all kinds of Shandong Pass sounded together, and all kinds of routs cursed, crowded, and scrambled, just wanting to pass through Chaozong Bridge. Flee in the direction of the capital.

Many of them were rout soldiers in the front line. Once the army was defeated, they quickly ran towards the capital, and then ran desperately for an hour, more than half an hour, and ran for [-] miles in one breath, and ran to Chaozong Bridge.

Some people passed by by chance, but because the fleeing horse team also swarmed in, they trampled all the way, leaving many corpses on the bridgehead, and more people fled behind, causing traffic jams soon.

In the midst of the crowd, suddenly another large group of horses charged straight forward, knocking down everyone on the bridge without politeness, and the sound of bones breaking into pieces was accompanied by earth-shattering howls.Under the hooves of the horses, I don't know how many rout soldiers were trampled into piles of bloody and bloody pieces.

In the midst of howling, a broken soldier suddenly got up howling, he was just knocked out alive by a horse, and he was still dizzy when he got up, how could he swallow this breath?

Looking at the figure on the horse in front of him, a look of madness flashed in his eyes, he grabbed the spear beside him and threw it.In the fierce howl, the figure was pierced straight through by the spear, leading him to roll off the horse.

Zhang Siyi spurted out blood in one breath. He rolled down from his horse and struggled to get up. In front of him was a white marble stele with a chi head and a square seat. Three characters, and the words Wanli four years.

He tried his best to hold on to the stele and tried to stand up. What a disaster, why is there a spear coming from behind?who is it?I'm going to kill him.

Zhang Siyi thought fiercely, another mouthful of blood suddenly spewed out, and the white marble tablet was blood-red, Liu Zeqing's capable general died just like that.

Liu Zeqing rushed with his relatives and family members, regardless of how many soldiers of his own side were trampled to death along the way, and no matter how many cavalry soldiers fell behind along the way, they rushed all the way, rushed across Chaozong Bridge, and about a mile to the south was the Shahe River shop.

There used to be a shop here, but because it was located on an important traffic road, Chaozong Bridge and Anji Bridge were built in the Zhengtong year, and Shahedian developed into a famous town with sprawling shops and constant traffic of business travelers and vendors.

However, at this time, Shahedian was in a mess everywhere, with merchants and residents constantly throwing beds and tables into the street, door panels blocking the avenue, many men and women lying on the roof and throwing tiles and stones at the broken soldiers passing by, and some brave people gathered in groups The team rushed forward to attack.

Liu Zeqing and others didn't care about it, and the defeated soldiers who passed by didn't dare to stay, they all ran away with their heads in their hands.

They rushed through the streets of Shahedian in a hurry. On the way, more than a dozen people were stumbled by the beds and door panels on the street, and many people were beaten to death by bricks and tiles thrown from both sides, but they just covered their faces. Hold your head and run desperately.

They dare not stop, if they stop, they will definitely not be able to return to the capital.

Thinking back to the day when I went to Changzhou in high spirits, everyone did not expect such a day to come.

Not far southeast of Shahedian is Gonghua City, about three miles away from Chaozong Bridge. At this time, Ma Huabao, another capable general of Liu Zeqing, was already waiting outside the west gate "Weimomen".Compared with Qiu Lei, Liu Zeqing is obviously much more flexible in mind. From the capital to Changping, many important places along the way are controlled by him.

It is not because of the significance of military strategy, but because of the control of the key points of transportation, business travel is controlled, and taxes and dividends are collected at the time of travel.

This is also the ability Liu Zeqing acquired after he was stationed in Linqing. He also attaches great importance to the significance of this road. In his hands, the oil and water will not be much less than Linqing Water Transport.

Therefore, Liu Zeqing arranged for his confidant Ma Huabao to be stationed in Gonghua City early on to guard the two main points of Chaozong Bridge and Anji Bridge in order to collect taxes.

Many of their generals are like this. They are not good at fighting, but they are good at doing business.

Ma Huabao led [-] troops to guard Gonghua City, and his family's cavalry team was [-]. They controlled this main road, and they did a lot of harm to business travelers in villages and towns along the way.But for Liu Zeqing, he had no intention of planting willows and willows, and finally someone responded, took a breather, and changed horses.

Ma Huabao was also shocked when he heard the news of the general's defeat in Changping. He proposed to collect the defeated soldiers, stick to Gonghua City, and immediately send elites to defend Chaozong Bridge.At the same time, he asked the capital for an emergency, so he might be able to persevere.

But how could Liu Zeqing still have the will to fight?Under the city of Changping, he had already been killed by the "Jingbian Army Cavalry", and his soul was terrified. He just wanted to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible. Whatever Chaozong Bridge or Gonghua City, go to hell!

Hearing the clatter of hoofbeats behind him again, he looked back and saw a mass of black cavalrymen chasing along the official road. From a distance, he could see their gold-rimmed banner and their red livery wrapped in gold.They galloped along the official road like a tide, seemingly not paying much attention to the scattered and fleeing infantry, but when they saw a cavalry team, they would definitely give chase.

If Liu Zeqing and the others gave up their horses at this time and ran into the field like those rout soldiers, they might be able to get away with it, but with his status, how could he run around like a pawn?And who knows what happened afterwards?
Seeing that the pursuers were only a li or two away from our side, and Ma Huabao was still talking, Liu Zeqing said casually, "You stay and end the queen."

Then he rode his horse, and quickly ran away without a trace. The horse flower leopard took the order, and he was about to spread out along the official road. Unexpectedly, when he turned his head, the infantry under his command had already dispersed. There were only dozens of horsemen left, and the rest were chasing after him. Marshal Liu has gone.

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Beside the Anji Bridge, the warmer the weather, the more green willows are singing on the branches.In the past, here was the "Anji Spring Stream", one of the "Eight Views of Yanping", where geese sang and flew, fishing boats passed by, pedestrians and horses on the bridge converged and shuttled, and it was bustling.

With a "bang" sound from the bowstring, Ma Huabao rolled off his horse, clutching his throat and struggling desperately.

Before he was hit by this deadly arrow, he was actually hit by many sharp arrows, and one even pierced his lung.The blood flowed up the trachea, choking his mouth, making him unable to speak at all.

Coupled with this arrow, the thick figure of the horse flower leopard crashed to the ground.

Gao Jie put away his bow, his nephew Li Benshen probed his head and asked, "Are you dead?"

The Chinese army beside him, Hu Maozhen, said: "It should be... dead."

Li Chengdong, one of his troops, sneered, jumped off the horse, took a hatchet from the saddle, and strode to the side of the horse flower leopard.Seeing that he was still clutching his throat desperately, a large stream of blood gushed out of his mouth, his eyes were wide open, just looking at himself.

Li Chengdong chopped off Ma Huabao's head with a sharp axe. He suddenly raised his head high, and the surrounding knights cheered and roared.

Gao Jie breathed out, and he looked around. The bandit cavalry intercepted by Anji Bridge were basically wiped out. Wails could be heard in the distance. Groups of Anji villagers waved harpoons, hoes, and sticks, Chasing those rout soldiers.

Then they cheered, apparently finding something from the pocket of the bandit who was killed.

The thieves fled all the way and were attacked by the villagers along the way. At first they just wanted revenge, but as they collected a lot from the thieves, more and more people joined. money means.

The thieves have searched a lot in the past month. Maybe the officers will not put all their wealth on them, but ordinary soldiers will.Therefore, after killing a bandit soldier, sometimes even more than a dozen taels of silver can be obtained from them, which becomes a walking pocket for a while, and the more people attack them.

However, Anji Village is considered a large village. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was still a desolate area. There were only a few families along the Nansha River, and they lived by fishing.But after the Second Bridge was built, benefiting from the favorable location, Anji Village has a tendency to develop into a town, with dense houses along both sides of the bridge.

Looking at these villagers, Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen and others licked their tongues, feeling a little itchy in their hearts.

Gao Jie said: "Okay, everyone dismounts, brothers rest for a while, and chase after a while."

Seeing everyone's expressions, he warned again: "I repeat, you must strictly observe military discipline, and you must not harass and loot the people, otherwise, before I lose my head, I will definitely unscrew that Qiu Ba's head."

Everyone got off their horses as they said, and chased and killed the thief for nearly thirty miles. It is true that the people and horses were quite exhausted, and they understood Gao Jie's warning.

Not to mention that Marshal You repeatedly emphasized before dispatching troops that military discipline must be strictly observed, otherwise don't blame him for being ruthless, even Yang Qi, the general soldier of Lanzhou not long ago, and his three sons' heads are also lessons from the past.A chief soldier would kill as soon as he said, and they dared not challenge the majestic precepts set by the marshal.

Moreover, the capture of Changping has already achieved great success, and the rewards after the war will certainly not be small. Even if these horse soldiers were hunted down, each of them had secretly made a small fortune.

Although the horses and other heavy weapons had to be handed over, no one would say anything about the search and confiscation of the treasures of the dead bandit soldiers. Anyway, most of them were in Changping City, and the Jingbian Army took over at the time of the transfer.

"This is fighting!"

Li Chengdong hung Ma Huabao's head on his saddle, and he lay down on the ground with a contented sigh.

……

The sound of horseshoes was as dense as a shower, hundreds of horses were running ahead, and thousands of horses were chasing behind.

Liu Zeqing tried his best to urge the horses, but he turned his head and groaned secretly. In addition to the "Jingbian Army Cavalry Team" that was chasing closely behind, they also split up two groups of elite cavalry to outflank them from both wings.Liu Zeqing had no choice but to whip the horse under his crotch hard. He didn't care about that much. If the horse ran to death, it would run to death.

At this time, Liu Zeqing and others were galloping on the plain between Anji Bridge and Danerling. When passing by Shi Gezhuang on the side of the official road earlier, he met Qiu Lei, the general who was also fleeing for his life in a panic. Suddenly, Shi Gezhuang The squire led the dead to attack them, and Qiu Lei and others dispersed with him.

The sound of swords clashing continuously came from behind, accompanied by shouts, groans, shouts, and screams, Liu Zeqing was terrified in his heart, he didn't dare to turn his head back, and just rode his horse desperately.Finally, he saw a stretch of mountains ahead.

The altitude is not high, but it is quite generous. It is seven or eight miles long from east to west, and three or four miles wide from north to south. Sparse trees, wild grass and loess, this is Daerling.

In fact, the official name is Tangjialing, but the folks said that Taijun She of the Song Dynasty once looked north from Wang'er Mountain, hoping to see the scene of his son fighting, but the sight was blocked by the mountains, so the folks named it Dan'erling.

There is an emergency shop here, which is one of the eight shops in Changping, and a Yandun, which is used to call the police. There is a town called Tangjialing shop along the official road on the mountain.

Although the mountains were in sight, Liu Zeqing didn't dare to enter the town again because of the many experiences ahead. He suddenly left the official road and rode his horse into the mountains.He ran in a hurry, and he didn't care how many people followed him.

Finally, Liu Zeqing ran across the ridge, and there seemed to be no pursuers behind.

His mind was slightly relaxed, but he still didn't dare to stop, he continued to beat the horse, and ran to Qinghedian ten miles away.

With the neighing of a horse, one rider slowly appeared on the mountain, and then more and more, slowly covering the slope.Chen Yongfu rode quietly on his horse, watching the thieves fleeing desperately in the field in front of them. If they ran like this, even if they reached the capital, their horses would be useless.

He looked around, and looked far away. He saw Qinghedian, Fuhai, and Dongshengling.

Thirty miles away from those places is the Deshengmen of the capital.

Near noon, Liu Zeqing rushed into the Desheng Gate. At this time, there were only a hundred or so riders around him, and there were some Qiu Lei's family cavalry among them.

(End of this chapter)