Chapter 136: Only Bloody Battle to the End
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The pirates disembarked one after another, and finally assembled on the dock to form a line.
After resting for a while, Zheng Balang didn't say anything, and after scanning the group of thieves, he said lightly: "Take the fort city, women can play, and according to the old rules, after all the captured slaves are sold, half of them will be divided equally by everyone!" ”
A simple sentence is worth a thousand words, and the pirates are suddenly full of emotion and enthusiasm.
"Let's go!"
Zheng Balang transferred all of them ashore, and only the crew of each ship was left on the eighteen boats. There are nearly 500 crew members of the eighteen ships, but these crew members are not as good as the pirates who went ashore, these crew members were also pirates before, but now most of them are old, weak and disabled, and after fighting hard, they retired to become a crew member, which can be regarded as a trick that Zheng Balang is very popular with.
Wang Fu and Zhang An also took nearly 200 family guards to act together, except for more than 20 family members brought by Wang Fu, the rest were the Wang family's guards for business all over the island. These people are usually relatively secretive, and they are not from the Wang family on the surface. Wang Fu was very serious about this operation, although Zheng Balang almost poured out of the nest and brought thousands of pirates ashore at one time. But he still used all the power he could use, in order to be foolproof.
Compared to the pirates, the equipment of these more than 200 family guards is very good. All of them were equipped with the weapons and armor that the Wang family had secretly hoarded on the island, and the two hundred family guards were all wearing armor, light and light iron armor with bronze scarlets. They were also well armed, with sharp horizontal knives, longbows, round shields, eight-foot spears, and two pots of arrows. It was even equipped with a hundred crossbows and twenty heavy crossbows.
The guards, together with the pirates, make a judgment. Although the pirates are in disarray, and they don't have uniform clothing, they have a fierce momentum. Compared to the wild pirates, the guards wore uniform blue clothes. With sophisticated and uniform equipment. But they are obviously a little less imposing.
The guards and pirates are always timid when they walk together, and it feels like a dog and a wolf go hand in hand. In that way, the pirates who provoked him laughed all the way, but Wang Fuqi's face was extremely blue. Especially Zheng Balang's nonchalant smile made the flame rise in his heart.
The night is cold and the north wind is howling.
A group of horses and horses quietly walked forward against the cold wind. Because Zhang An said in advance that he had inquired about the situation in the fort city in the evening, Zheng Balang didn't even bother to send the scouts to explore the way, and directly rushed to the fort city with a large number of men. It was only two or three miles from Shikou Wharf to Fort City, and in their opinion, this was just a charge distance, and there was no need to be so troublesome at all.
The morale of the pirates was high all the way. There are some who are impatient to burn and loot immediately. In comparison, the 200 Jiading guards were much worse, and the cold wind blew along the way, which made these people demoralized, and they began to drag after walking a few hundred steps. In particular, these people were covered with iron armor, bronze helmets, and leather shields, which were heavy and heavy. The full set of equipment adds up to dozens of pounds. All of them are complaining. They participated in this battle, and Wang Fu did not announce any reward. Therefore, they are all bitter and tired.
Wang Fu looked at this, his face turned blue with anger, and he kept kicking and hitting those cowards. It's just that these people are wearing armor, and they are not afraid of whipping, let alone just scolding. In the end, Zhang An reminded him and asked him to promise a reward. There will be brave men under the heavy reward, Wang Fu promised everyone that after the war, each person would be paid consistently, and after cutting off an enemy's head could be exchanged for two pieces of money, those guards immediately became energetic.
Two or three miles away, more than 1,000 people and horses soon arrived in the dark.
Zheng Balang paused the group, carefully observing the castle in the dark night. Everything is as Zhang An said, the whole castle is quiet, and there are four tented underground camps outside the castle. The west and north cities of the castle were quietly dark, but the south and east cities could be seen with many torches, and from time to time there were patrols with torches passing by.
"Where's the gap?"
"It's on the west wall, not far from the west gate, there are three openings, all of which are only a dozen steps apart." Zhang An pointed to the black castle and said in a suppressed voice.
Wang Fu said on the side: "Do you want to divide your troops to attack those four camps?" ”
Zheng Balang shook his head, "The information we have is that Li Jing and those officers are in the city, and the barracks of those soldiers are also in the city. The barracks outside the city are inhabited by the families of ordinary soldiers, and we don't have to worry about these people. We will first attack the castle with all our strength and control Li Jing and the soldiers inside, and then the ordinary people in the camp fence outside the city will naturally have to fall into our hands. Pass the order down and raid immediately. Wang Jiangtou, after attacking the city in a while, you take your people and I to the town general's mansion as soon as possible to arrest Li Jing. ”
"Okay."
With a wave of his hand, Zheng Balang was the first to rush to the castle.
In the West City, at this time, there were already dense swords and soldiers, and ambushes were everywhere.
"Come, come!" Li Shugen ran to Li Jing's side from the front. "Here, there are thousands of people, it seems that Team Qiu saw it right, it is really not the original five hundred, at least one thousand."
Everyone was shocked, and Liu Chengzong scolded: "That girl took our 3,000 yuan of intelligence money, and kept saying that there were 500 pirates." But now that the fuck has come to more than a thousand, isn't this fucking a pit person? ”
Li Jing's face was also pale, and all the previous battle plans were formulated by the number of attacking pirates with only five hundred. There were not many soldiers and horses in the city, so he also transferred Lin Wei and Lin Wu to the outside of the city and took away more than 300 soldiers and horses. Now there are only more than 1,000 people in the city, including the auxiliary troops and logistics troops. But now there are more than 1,000 pirates, can these soldiers and pirates in Shamen Town fight one-to-one?
At this moment, Li Jing's mind thought about various possibilities, and it was even possible that he would fail this battle.
"General, what should we do now, the thief army is here with more than a thousand people, and we can't beat it." Wang Shi said worriedly on the side.
Li Jing suddenly raised a foot and kicked Wang Shi down, and shouted softly: "So far, no matter what, there is only a bloody battle to the end." No matter who anyone dares to say defeat, they will be dealt with according to the military law for the crime of disrupting the army's heart. ”
The more this time, the more important the morale of the army becomes. Although Xiao Shi did not mean to disturb the hearts of the army, his words played this role. If Li Jing doesn't control it, there is no need to fight this battle, the pirates haven't come up yet, and everyone thinks that they can't win the battle, then the result will definitely be a loss.
"When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! Fight with them! Li Jing snorted coldly.
Those soldiers who were still worried about the strength of the pirates couldn't help but be infected by Li Jing's words at this time, and their arrogance gradually rose. Li Jing pulled out his long sword in his hand, glanced at the soldiers in front of him, and said loudly: "Don't forget everyone's identity, what are we?" We are soldiers, and soldiers are to defend our homes and country. Look behind you, and behind you are your fathers, sisters, wives and children. If you retreat and run away, what will happen to our parents, brothers, sisters, wives and children? Who will protect them? Only us and the sword in our hands! ”
"Fight with them!" Wang Shi got up from the ground, his teeth clenching his lower lip tightly, blood flowing out. He felt guilty for his cowardice just now, and at this moment he wanted to rush out of the city immediately to fight the thieves and wash away this shame with blood.
Li Jing grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back, and shouted angrily: "Calm down, go back and take your team." ”
Seeing the pirates rushing forward quickly, Li Jing hurriedly ordered everyone to retreat.
"Ready, ready to fight!"
Li Jing was fully armed, still wearing the same red lacquer mountain armor with phoenix wings. There was a horizontal sword stuck in his waist, and a seven-foot sword on his back. He did not take a lance, but an ancestral horned bow, and carried three pots and ninety arrows.
Zhang Chengzong, the head of the family, wore the set of mountain armor that Li Jing rewarded him, with a horizontal knife at his waist and a steel whip in his hand. Liu Shouqian was wearing a set of mountain armor copied from the mansion in the castle, holding a copper mace in his hand, and also wearing a horizontal knife at his waist. The flower monk Xuancheng also participated in the ambush tonight, and he held the golden hoop and the black iron rod by Li Jing's side. When the war was approaching, he sat on the ground and folded together and recited the scriptures.
The pirates came very quickly, and as soon as they approached the city, they immediately split into three groups. Rushing towards the three gaps that had already been optimistic about the city, it was like three waves, passing through the gap in the embankment.
Silently, the pirates' vanguard had already passed through the gap without encountering the slightest obstacle. Zhang An, who led the way in front, was full of joy on his face, it was too smooth, it was even smoother than expected. From the beginning to the end, there was no accident at all, and it had already touched the city. The pirate leader who served as the vanguard, Huang Yu, was also full of excitement, and he once followed the one-eyed Jiao ashore to ransack many villages. Especially after going to Liaodong later, in the Liaodong area, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty has already been unable to govern, but the Bohai State can be based but does not dare. However, Silla was afraid of the Balhae Kingdom, and did not dare to extend its power to Liaodong, and the Khitan continued to expand eastward, but it stopped at Liaoxi. In that part of Liaoxi, it has long been a place where there are no four things, and there are fortress dock walls everywhere.
Those forts are very similar to the forts on Salmon Island, and the outside is as hard as a turtle shell, which is extremely headache-inducing. But once they find a way to get into the city, no matter how strong the fortress is, it can only be the object of their robbery and adultery. His feet were already standing inside the castle of Salmon Island, and it seemed to him that the castle belonged to them.
Thinking of this, the eyes of the yellow croaker were full of excitement about being raped and plundered. After a long winter in Duli Town, except for the half-dead women in the village, he can't remember how long he hasn't played with fresh women. (To be continued.) )