Volume 2 Chapter 19 Breaking the City Gate
"The word forbearance is high, the word forbearance is high, there is a knife on the head of the word forbearance, and the anger can't bear to cause trouble...... Jiang Gong can endure fishing and live to eighty and then protect ...... Han Xin can endure the crotch, once the hero of the world is thrown ...... There are also ancients who can't bear it, and it is difficult to protect their lives from disasters, Pang Juan can't bear to move arrows, and he puts Yin Cao in front of Ma Ling Road...... The overlord couldn't bear to die in Wujiang, the famous Jizi threw it together, Li Bai couldn't bear to be greedy for wine, and died in the heart of the river, Luo Cheng couldn't bear to shoot arrows, and the dying horse stepped on the silt river bridge, Lu Bu couldn't bear the mink Zen play, the white door threw the head in front of him, Zhou Yu couldn't bear to breathe three times, and died to the point of Baqiu and Xiao Qiao......"
In the backyard of the Furong Town stronghold of the Heaven and Earth Society, Hong Wending is doing his daily homework again, but in the past few days, he has one more study subject, that is, he recites "Song of Hundred Ninjas" while standing on one leg. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Xiao Peng glanced at Hong Xiguan speechlessly, and said, "Second brother, Wen Ding is still so young, as for it? I think Wen Ding knows how to measure, why do you still need you to teach him the word 'forbearance'?"
Hong Xiguan shook his head slightly, "I know that Wending is more sensible than ordinary children, but children are always children, just like a blank piece of paper, if you don't write on it, you will always be a blank piece of paper, and Wending is not born to know." Now that we are dying, we need to endure what ordinary people can't endure, so that we can live longer. ”
Xiao Peng stopped talking, maybe Hong Xiguan was right, if he didn't say anything else, just said that he himself had lived to be in his nineties when he was the enemy of the whole country, and he had to say that his way of saving his life was indeed very powerful.
"Senior Brother Hong, I'm back. A familiar voice suddenly came from the front yard, Xiao Peng and Hong Xiguan glanced at each other, got up at the same time, and entered the hall just in time to meet the young man who went out to deliver the letter.
"Senior Brother Hong, I handed over the letter to Brother Xiyan, and he asked you to meet in Majiazhuang Luxiang Garden on the eighteenth day of the winter month to discuss the matter of relocating Wending. ”
Hong Xiguan's face was overjoyed, and he hugged his fists and said, "Thank you, brother, thank you." ”
"Hehe, my own brother, if you don't work hard, it's good to be able to help your senior brother. The young man said politely, and then his face turned pale, and he said: "But senior brother, I'm afraid there is still some trouble for you to go out of the city, I don't know why at the gate of the city, many officers and soldiers have been added, and the people who enter and leave the town are strictly checked, and now the portraits of you and Brother Xiao are posted everywhere outside, and the officers and soldiers have been patrolling non-stop for twelve hours, so you have to be careful." ”
Hong Xiguan's face sank when he heard this, and said: "It should be the officers and soldiers who encircled and suppressed us who reported the situation, the imperial court imposed martial law on the entire Dengfeng County, and it is indeed a bit troublesome, it seems that this road is destined to be bloody." ”
Xiao Peng nodded and said, "In this case, then we will wait until the city gate is closed at night before we set off, at the moment before the city gate closes, the officers and soldiers are the most lax, we will kill him by surprise, as long as we rush out of the city gate." ”
"That's all there is to it. Hong Xiguan nodded and said to the young man, "Brother, please prepare two horses for us." ”
The young man's face was shocked when he heard this, and he showed a look of embarrassment, "Senior Brother Hong, we only have one horse here, and as you know, we are lurking here, and we don't dare to make too many moves, so we usually have to do some small work outside, barely able to make a living, and we don't have extra money to buy horses." ”
Xiao Peng smiled slightly, took out a stack of silver tickets from his clothes, and said: "The brothers are willing to be poor for the great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Peng admires it very much, fortunately, I don't have anything else, there is still some silver in this money, and the big brother accepts this money, so that the brothers don't usually live so hard, and it can be regarded as my dedication to the cause of the Heaven and Earth Society!"
"This ......" The young man looked over and saw that the face value of each silver ticket was one thousand taels, and the stack in Xiao Peng's hand had at least four or five tickets, and his eyes were wide at the moment, but he didn't dare to reach out to take it for a while, and turned to look at Hong Xiguan.
Seeing this, Hong Xiguan smiled slightly and said, "Take it! The third brother is not an outsider, and we can even trust each other's lives, so why should we take it to heart." ”
"In this way, my brother accepted it with a cheeky face, thank you Brother Xiao, the matter of buying a horse is on me. ”
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The golden wuxi falls, and night falls.
One of the generals guarding the city gate looked at the sky and commanded his soldiers: "Close the city gate." ”
"Gurgle, cluck, cluck, ......"
"Hey, where did the sound of horses' hooves come from?"
"It looks like someone is galloping on horseback. ”
"Who is so bold as to dare to ride a horse in the city?"
The soldiers talked so much that they forgot to close the city gate. The general seemed to have thought of something, his face changed greatly, and he shouted angrily: "Close the city gate quickly, the sword and shield soldiers stand shields, and the archers prepare, it is Hong ......"
"Whew...... Poof......"
"Uh...... Splendid...... Official ......"
Before he finished speaking, an arrow flew from nowhere and inserted into his collarbone, which Xiao Peng was not used to riding and shooting, this arrow was originally going to shoot him in the throat, but the result was a little lower, but even so, he couldn't live.
The officers and men at the gate of the city finally saw the enemy clearly, and on the widest street in the middle of the town, two large and one small, three men and two horsemen, were galloping at the speed of a cavalry charge, one of them holding a silver spear in one hand, and firmly grasping the reins in the other, and in front of him, there was a doll of eight or nine years old, also holding a slightly shorter silver spear in his hand.
The other was carrying a longbow and another strangely shaped and metallic bow in his hand, and the horse's back was covered with quivers.
"Quick, close the gates, the sword and shield soldiers will stand in shields, the archers will release arrows, and the pikemen will form a formation. "The general battle was killed, and the other officers and soldiers did not become chaotic or even dispersed as Xiao Peng imagined, but quickly formed a military formation under the command of their respective commanders and commanders, although there were only more than 100 people, but they were also very weathered, showing the military quality of the regular army.
The government already knew that there was a sharpshooter beside Hong Xiguan, so how could he not make targeted arrangements, and the soldiers and horses who came out to search for the thieves this time were all equipped with swords and shields.
"Hmph, do you think this will stop us? Second brother, slow down your horse and don't crash into it directly. Xiao Peng snorted coldly and reminded Hong Xiguan next to him. At the same time, four alloy arrows appeared between their fingers.
"Woo Woo ......"
"Ah......h
"Be careful, the shield can't block the opponent's arrows, rush over, and surround and kill. ”
Xiao Peng shot out five waves of multiple arrows in one go, and the shield array at the city gate was suddenly broken, and the soldiers who went to close the city gate were naturally given priority, so no one dared to close the city gate again.
Alloy arrows basically penetrate the shield first, and then kill two people in a row before they run out of strength. Since the shield has a much higher defense than the door panel, it is unlikely that one arrow will pierce three people like before.
Of course, it is much better to have a shield than not to have a shield, and without a shield, it is possible to pierce four or five people with one arrow. After all, the weight and mass of arrows are much higher than bullets, and the kinetic energy brought out is also greater, many bullets can not do, but arrows can do it, the speed and power of ordinary firearm bullets are constant, while the power of bows and arrows varies from person to person.
At that moment, more than 100 officers and soldiers picked up the shields that fell to the ground, and the remaining sword and shield soldiers threw away the Pu knife in their other hand, grabbed the edge of the shield with both hands, stacked the shield in two, and rushed towards Xiao Peng and Hong Xiguan in front.
In this way, it is much better, Xiao Peng's alloy arrows can no longer completely penetrate the stacked shields, and the arrows can only pass through about half of them each time before they are stuck, because the soldiers holding the shield have their hands straight, and the length of the arrows through the shield is not as long as the soldiers' arms, so the arrows cannot hurt the soldiers behind the shield at all.
Seeing that the shield could not be worn through the overlapping shield, Xiao Peng no longer senselessly consumed alloy arrows, but replaced them with iron-tire bows and ordinary arrows, and attacked the legs of the soldiers or shield-wielding soldiers who did not have shields to cover them.
The soldier who was hit by an arrow in both legs fell, and the soldier behind him would take the shield and continue to rush forward, I have to say that the fighting will of the regular army is indeed different from the military quality, and the Qing soldiers were still very effective in the early Qing Dynasty.