Chapter 340: Victory in the First Battle
The "Great Heavenly King" Takami is sitting tall in a fairly elegant house, nibbling on chicken legs while holding a handsome young woman up and down his hands. The young woman was originally the new daughter-in-law of the family, but because she was relatively rich in the village, all the men in the family had been killed indiscriminately by Gao Jian, and the floating wealth naturally belonged to Gao Jian.
Originally, Gao Jian was very dissatisfied with not letting himself into the city, and felt that Li Zicheng, the general of the break, was too eccentric. But now that he is robbing a village alone, it feels very good, because how to distribute the things he grabbed is all up to him, and he no longer has to look at Li Zicheng's face to act.
Moreover, Li Zicheng has always had great ambitions, and recently military discipline has become stricter, and his generals are no longer allowed to kill people indiscriminately, and he has also paid considerable attention to buying the hearts of the people. But this Gao Jian is a typical scoundrel, so he is unwilling to be subject to such constraints.
This time to occupy the mountain village, Li Zicheng can't see it anyway, it is "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away". Gao Jian revealed his true form, not only killing the rich, but also unceremonious to the poor people. Anyone who has a male in the family is forcibly enlisted in the army; If there are no men, they will rob all the family wealth, and they will be called "labor army". If the people do not obey at all, they will be killed with a sword.
The people in the village were taken by his Yinwei and did not dare to disobey. In just half a day's effort, Takami's men had increased by 200 men, and the scavenged silver, copper plates, and grain had also been filled into hundreds of pockets, which made him feel very proud.
At this time, his subordinates were also scattered in the homes of the people, forcibly distributing food. It's a pity that this is also the last meal they will eat!
As he ate, Takami suddenly noticed that the wine in his glass began to tremble slightly. After all, he was a general who led the troops, and he still had some experience, so he immediately pricked up his ears and listened for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "It's the sound of horses' hooves!" All troops on alert! ”
But the thieves were scattered in the courtyards to eat, and there were very few who could hear his voice.
At this moment, the east, south, and north suddenly started to kill!
Takami pushed the young woman away, hurriedly rushed out of the door with a knife, and immediately found in horror that three teams of cavalry had already penetrated from three different directions!
Of course, the combat quality of the thieves is higher than that of the bandits, and Li Zicheng is the best among them. Like this, Gao Jian sent troops to garrison the four exits of the village, but these thieves were also eating, and they didn't pay attention to the movement nearby. By the time they spotted the enemy charge, the cavalry was already dozens of paces away!
A distance of a few dozen paces is a blink of an eye for cavalry. These three teams of cavalry are the cavalry teams in the Qin army, the south road is Li Dingguo, the north road is Li Laiheng, and the east road is led by the main general Qi Meifeng. They were all dressed in dark heavy armor, with long poles and big knives at the flat ends, lined up in three columns, crashing into the village like three torrents of steel!
The thieves were eating, and they were caught off guard, and they were too late to mount their horses and shoot arrows, so they had to raise their swords and meet them on foot. But the height of their necks was exactly the same as the height of the Qin soldiers' broadswords, and the cavalry didn't need to pick their knives at all, but just clenched their broadswords tightly, and with the help of the momentum of the war horses, they wiped them out of the thief array.
The sword light is everywhere, and the flesh and blood are flying! In an instant, the thieves guarding the entrance of the village were slaughtered. The three teams of cavalry did not stop, and killed directly from the small roads in the village, but whenever they encountered a thief, they swept past like a combine harvester.
The village was not very old, and the cavalry quickly rushed out from the other side, but turned their horses' heads and rushed back again with a shout, and in a short time they killed three in and three out.
At this time, the "Great Heavenly King" Takami also reacted. Although he didn't know the identity of this enemy army, he saw that the other party was well-trained and imposing, and he knew that he was definitely not an opponent.
The purpose of the thieves has always been to "fight if you can fight, and run away if you can't beat it", so it was natural for Takami to immediately gather his subordinates and prepare to flee. Although there were 700 of his subordinates, only 300 of them were really capable of fighting, and they had been killed by the Qin soldiers just now, and they had already lost more than half of them.
Takami thought that it was important to save his life, but he didn't care about those family members and the newly recruited thieves. When he saw that the enemy was fierce but few in number, he mounted all the remaining 150 cavalrymen. As the cavalry on the eastern route had just rushed to the west of the village, he planned to break through to the east. His elder brother Gao Jie is in the village more than ten miles to the east, and he is completely safe when he escapes there.
But before he could rush out of the village, he suddenly saw that the road ahead was completely blocked by more than ten large shields. These large shields were more than a man tall, and they were so closely packed that it was impossible to see what was going on behind them. Gao Jian's eyes were already red at this time, so he yelled: "Rush me, hit the shield!" ”
Several of the thieves immediately rushed forward and slammed into their shields. But how did they know that these shields were made of pig iron, and they were high, thick, and extremely hard. The back of each shield was also firmly held against it with a large iron spear, and the other end of the iron spear was deeply embedded in the ground. Crashing directly into it like this is tantamount to hitting the iron wall, breaking the bones and tendons of those war horses, and falling to the ground with a wail.
Before the thief could come to his senses, the archers hidden behind the shields immediately opened their bows and released their arrows. Due to the proximity and the dense ranks of the thieves, the archers did not need to aim at all, and could shoot any arrow. The streets of the village became a world of terror, full of screams and thieves who fell off their horses with blood spraying!
Takami found that he could not break through from the east road, so he had to turn to the south and north roads. But these two roads were also blocked by the shield array, and Gao Jian rushed twice, both of which were returned, but there were less than seventy people left around him.
In desperation, Gao Jian had no choice but to lead the crowd to break through to the west. In this way, he is getting farther and farther away from the army of thieves, but Gao Jian can't control it so much.
They rushed forward for a while, but they didn't see the cavalry. Seeing that he was about to rush out of the village, Gao Jian was just overjoyed, and suddenly heard a dense voice like popping beans in front of him: "Bang bang bang, bang!" ”
"It's a bird!" Takami hurriedly lowered his body and tried to avoid the projectile as much as possible. Although he was lucky not to be shot, the thieves behind him fell in large numbers, and only thirty or forty horsemen remained.
"They're too late to release birds, rush me!" Takami roared and rushed out of the village in the first place.
But what greeted Takami was another burst of gunfire! This time he was not so lucky, the war horse was hit by several buckshot bullets in the head, which broke the horse's head and burst his brain, and naturally knocked him off the horse.
Until he was firmly bound by the Qin soldiers who rushed up, Gao Jian couldn't understand: the firing speed of the bird gun was obviously very slow, how could he just shoot and be able to fire it quickly?
How did he know that this was just a "bird-gun multi-stage attack" repeatedly practiced by Qin Bing! Not to mention that he only has seventy people left, even seven hundred, he can't break through the Qin soldiers' bird formation!
Takami was captured, and the remnants of his men also lost their fighting spirit and dismounted one after another to surrender. Because they couldn't break out of the village, none of the hundreds of thieves ran away, and the Qin soldiers won the first battle!