Chapter XXVII
People have thought about war 10,000 times in their hearts, made 10,000 mental preparations, and when war comes, they will still be like headless flies scurrying around.
In the middle of the month of the garrison station, all the members of the station relied on the stagecoach to learn equestrianism, and they would definitely be pushed down to fight on horseback, but it was no longer a problem to walk and pac the horse. Hearing the police of the hundred households, Chen Mu didn't say a word and opened the stable and ordered everyone to carry knives and guns, and Wei Balang, the only one who couldn't ride a horse, was taken by Chen Mu to Fu Yuan, who had the best riding skills, and went straight to Qingyuan City to ride a horse and gallop.
After being worshiped by the post guard Ke Ze'er and others for a month's meal, Chen Mu did not forget them, but even if they went to Qingyuan, they might not be able to enter the city, so he asked Ke Ze'er to take the soap officials in the post station, the Guan family's father and son, and others to bring enough dry food and water bladders to eat for a few days and climb down the ladder into the cave.
After going up, put the ladder away, not to mention anything else, being on the wall of the dense forest, even if Qingyuan City falls, the Japanese may not be able to find it.
Chen Mu was in a hurry, only anxious for military orders, the transmission of information was too slow, in the face of the enemy army attacking from nowhere, and he could not entrust the friendly army with low morale at all, his personal talent could play a very little role in the war, and he had to enter the city as soon as possible.
But Chen Mu also knows that the Zhuding under his command is different, they act according to their own faces, and they are their backbone. On the other hand, their anxiety and fear came from their family members who stayed in Baihusuo, and dozens of unarmed Yu Ding under his banner.
Horses are a good thing and shorten their travel time. Chen Mu has not been back to Qingyuan these days, and he still clearly remembers that they walked for half a day to arrive on the day they arrived at Anyuan Post Station, and on the return journey, it only took half an hour for five horses and six people.
Along the way, there was chaos everywhere, a team of military households were in a hurry under the leadership of the small flag or the general flag, Yu Ding, who was dressed as a farmer, stood on the side of the road and his face was full of words at a loss, and even some people knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to the sky, but they didn't know that the sky didn't save everyone to save themselves.
Approaching the fork in the road to Qingyuan City and the Hundred Households, Bai Qi rode his horse far away, and when he got closer, he opened his hand to urge Chen Mu and the others to pull the horse, "Chen Xiaoqi, what about the flag behind your back?" Leave that alone! Quick, Baihu has been waiting for you for a long time, follow me into the city! ”
Chen Mu looked around, although people were flustered, it was obvious that the would-be robbers had not yet hit Qingyuan City. He couldn't trust the army of this era, and even if he was one of them, what worried him the most was that he was late, and the pirates were wreaking havoc outside the city, and they would not be able to enter the city at that time, and it seemed that no matter whether they fought or fled, it seemed that they would not end well.
"Okay, 100 households have already entered the city?"
"Thousands of households have been instructed to make the adults convene to the city to discuss matters, the Japanese are already very close, let's go quickly!"
Bai Qi was more anxious than Chen Mu, and was about to walk towards Qingyuanwei with the reins, Chen Mu was about to ride the horse, but the reins were pulled by Shao Tingda, and he turned his head and saw his cousin's face covered with beads of sweat, and he was a little trembling when he spoke, "Brother Mu, my wife and children are still in the hundred households!" ”
Shao Tingda's family of eight, Zheng Cong's family of nine, and Fu Yuan's family of four are all in 100 households. Now if you say that if they enter Qingyuan City, they will enter Qingyuan City, how to enter?
Shao Tingda and Zheng Cong were talking nonsense, Chen Mu looked embarrassed, he wanted to let Bai Qi enter Qingyuan City, but he was afraid of military law. Military law is not a joke between brothers, nor is it the emotional interests he uses to restrain his subordinates. The military law is that Bai Yuanjie hangs the old cripple with his mouth, and it is the feather arrow that Chen Guan shoots from behind in a blink of an eye in a cowardly battle, which is not close to people, let him enter Qingyuan, he can't wait.
"What else is Xiaoqi rubbing!" Bai Qi turned his head and said sharply: "Yu Ding is faster than you, Baihu has already asked us to send them into the city, hurry up!" ”
After explaining this sentence clearly, Chen Mu no longer had any doubts, and rode his horse to follow Bai Qi towards the city.
When he arrived at the city gate, he checked his identity, and then he entered the city and lined up under the city walls. Left and right, there are hundreds of Bai Yuanjie's subordinates everywhere, and at a cursory glance, dozens of people are familiar old faces, they are closest to the east gate, guarding the city wall. Farther away, there are also some familiar faces, guarding the left side of the east gate of nearly three or four hundred military households are their banner army of thousands of households in Qingcheng.
The east gate is their defense area, and Bai Yuanjie of Baihu is obviously the general of Qianhu's subordinates, just like Chen Mu's status under Bai Yuanjie's subordinates. This is actually a pretty hellish thing, they are the most capable of commanding their subordinates, otherwise they will not guard the east gate that is the first to be rushed by the enemy, and Bai Yuanjie is the closest to the city gate in the East Gate garrison, and Chen Xiaoqi is the closest to the east gate of Bai Yuanjie's subordinates.
Chen Mu didn't think there was anything to be honored about, on the contrary, their little flag was the most dangerous!
Hell yes! How could it be such a coincidence?
In the chaotic waiting, more and more military households rushed into the city from all over the city, and in just half an hour, five or six hundred people gathered under the east city wall, which was almost all the troops under the thousand households. Two exaggerated Saimen knife carts were pushed to both sides of the city gate and placed obliquely, Chen Mu was closest to the city gate, and he could hear the huge sound of the winch iron lock colliding on the city tower, when the sound stopped abruptly, the Qingyuan City Suspension Bridge had been pulled up, and then the heavy sound rumbled down in the city gate hole, Shao Tingda said that it was the huge sound of the iron hanging door falling.
As if facing a great enemy, this made Chen Mu and his Zhu Ding look at each other, Chen Mu swallowed his saliva with some difficulty, but his throat was already very dry, and he asked in a low voice: "How many widows are there?" ”
No one can answer.
Even the Saimen knife cart has been moved out, and the commander is ready to break the city?
It didn't take long for more than ten horsemen to run through the Phoenix Street of Qingyuan City with more than 100 foot banner troops behind them, and a few horsemen near the city gate came out of it, and then saw Bai Yuanjie, who was gloomy in iron armor and with a long knife, leading several Bai family soldiers to walk in a hurry, sweeping Chen Mu when he nodded, and then asked Bai Qi with a calm face: "Is Wang Zongqi still sick?" ”
Without waiting for Bai Qi to answer, Bai Yuanjie took a deep breath and said hatefully: "Forget him if he dies!" ”
"Qingyuan Gorge can't stop it, he, Zhang Yongshou, can stop it, hell! For this reason, the five thousand households of Qing, Nan, Shao, Lian, and Bin, did not want to guard Qingyuan. As he spoke, he saw two Saimen knife carts next to him, and he was even more angry, "Take them all!" Fuck these wretches, scared like this by a hundred and ten pirates? ”
Bai Yuanjie lost his temper at the bottom of the city, and then ordered people to take away the Saimen knife cart, lit Chen Mu and the other two small flags, and waved his hand: "Don't stand down, let your sergeants sharpen their knives and put gunpowder on them under the city, and go to the city with Bai to see thousands of households." They don't want it in thousands of households, and they still want it in Bai's hundred households, so that the widows and cubs pee, how will Bai do things in the yamen of hundreds of households in the future! ”