Chapter 1140: Advance and Advance
Chapter 1140: Advance and Advance
"What are you doing to me?" Fu An looked at the dozen soldiers kneeling on the ground begging for surrender, and remained silent.
He knew that the enemy troops in the area of Fengdu Ancient City had been mobilized frequently recently, but he didn't know that a group of Di people had arrived and were speaking the authentic Guanzhong Di language, but with a little Shu accent mixed in.
Looking at his own soldiers, they were also Di people, and they spoke Guanzhong dialect. This was really...
In the end, Fu An had nothing to say and could only utter a few words: "The emperor is so powerful!"
Isn't it! The Di people of the six counties went south to Shu and established the Cheng Kingdom. Then another group of Di people were moved to Hebei and then conscripted to fight. The two sides met in Fengdu.
The only difference is that the people of Chengguo are already the second generation, and their accents are a bit like those of Shu people. But what is the difference between Fu An and others?
After he took office as the magistrate of Linjiang County, most of the local people fled, and the emperor ordered the conscription of 2,000 Di people from Fangtou to come here, with Fu An as the county magistrate, and to settle and farm. In the next generation, they will definitely become different from those who stayed in Hebei.
"Interrogate him carefully." Fu An gave an order, then climbed up a tree and looked ahead.
There were screams behind him, but he remained indifferent. The three words "interrogate him thoroughly" already described his intention.
Ahead is a stone path that winds and twists its way into the mountains.
Fu An had sent people in disguise to investigate before. The path was about one or two miles long, smooth and smooth like a sweep of grass, with green cypresses lining both sides of the path, perhaps tens of thousands of them. Muntjacs roamed in the woods and were not afraid of people at all.
There are more than ten old cypresses in a place in the mountain, and it is said that they are all thousand-year-old. There is a temple built there, named "Xiandu Temple", which is made of a mixture of bricks, stones and wood, and is quite sturdy.
After Cheng's army occupied this place, they expanded the periphery and transformed Xiandu Temple into a military camp, stationing more than a thousand soldiers as an outpost base to defend against the Liang army. The ancient city of Hanfengdu was just over a hundred miles southwest of Linjiang.
The battle has already begun.
There were more than a hundred Di soldiers at the foot of the mountain, who set up fences to block the road. They were defeated in one fell swoop by the Di soldiers brought by Fu An. More than thirty of them were beheaded on the spot, more than ten were captured, and the rest all fled back up the mountain.
The battle on the stone path had already begun. Not only the Di people participated in the attack, but also hundreds of soldiers from the Zuo Jinwu Guard's Pingqiu Longxiang Mansion, who arrived the fastest.
Fu An could see clearly from the tree that those government soldiers were very fierce. They arrived first after being attacked from behind, and rushed to the front of the Di soldiers in Linjiang County and directly engaged in battle with Cheng’s army.
"Use the few to defeat the many, go into battle!" Feng Bachi, deputy general of Pingqiu Longxiang Prefecture, raised his thick-backed machete and shouted loudly.
"Go to battle!" Hundreds of soldiers cheered in unison, and the sound spread far along the stone path.
While cheering, they also moved quickly. Seven or eight people stepped forward and threw a round of javelins with all their might.
The sound of "whoosh" breaking through the air was endless, followed by screams one after another.
The javelin pierced through the wooden shield and stabbed deep into the chest of the soldier. Almost instantly, the shield bearers in the front row fell to the ground.
"Kill!" More than ten people came forward.
They were wearing heavy armor and had ferocious faces. They had completely given up on defense, and holding heavy swords, axes, and wooden clubs in their hands, they charged directly into the crowd of soldiers.
More than a dozen archers went around the woods on both sides of the stone path and shot at the enemy from the flanks.
Without any warm-up or nonsense, the battle started instantly and became intense from the very beginning.
Feng Bachi held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, muttered a few words "bastard", and then rushed forward.
The Cheng soldiers were unable to withstand the fierce attack of the Chenliu soldiers at all. They were like a group of ants that were huddled together and scattered instantly when they were doused with hot water.
"You thief, give me your head!" Feng Bachi roared as he approached a thief soldier.
The other party was short and stocky, holding a spear.
Feng Bachi was taller than him, and he had to use a sword and shield to fight against the gun, which was actually very dangerous. However, he did not feel nervous at all, because he had encountered this kind of situation many times.
In the chaotic and noisy battlefield, he approached leisurely while provoking with words.
The opponent was very young, probably not even twenty years old, and the spear in his hand was shaking back and forth, as if he was hesitating about where to stab. Provoked by Feng Bashi, he chose to stab his thigh directly.
"Bang!" Feng Bachi was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He blocked and pressed with the wooden shield, without stopping, and rushed forward.
The spearman felt a huge force in his hand. When he was about to pull back, he saw the opponent rushing in front of him like a leopard and chopped down with a machete. The pain penetrated deep into his bone marrow, and he fell to the ground with a black vision.
The whole process seems complicated, but in fact it is just a single encounter, which can determine life or death.
This is the value of veterans!
Especially in this kind of terrain where it is difficult to deploy troops, the requirements for the soldiers' personal martial arts and experience are infinitely magnified. It is really difficult to kill a veteran who has experienced many battles.
On the contrary, when a large army is engaged in a field battle, a veteran soldier who has fought many battles may be directly killed and wounded by a rain of arrows and will not have a chance to display his abilities.
Feng Bachi killed one man without any excitement, and killed another soldier.
This person had already become timid and turned to escape into the forest on the left.
Although Feng Bachi was not young anymore, he was able to walk briskly while holding Han when he was injured, so he was no different now. He took two steps at a time, chased the enemy soldier from behind, and chopped him down with his sword.
The enemy soldier was hit in the calf and fell to the ground screaming.
Feng Bashi stepped on his right hand and slashed his neck with a knife, causing blood to gushed out.
His comrades passed by him and rushed straight up the stone path.
Feng Ba Chi was about to rush forward, but he stumbled. It turned out that the stone steps were covered with blood, and he almost slipped. He sighed that he was getting old, and rushed up the mountain like a tiger.
Fu An got down from the tree and called out to the soldiers from Linjiang County to follow and clear out the remaining enemies that were defeated by the government soldiers one by one.
I could see clearly from the tree just now that the soldiers of the Zuo Jinwu Guard are all elite and experienced.
You can practice martial arts, but you can’t gain experience in facing an enemy.
When you see this old soldier who has fought his way out of a pile of dead bodies, you feel like you have no idea where to start, but he has already thought of several ways to kill you.
Some of the moves were figured out by himself, and some were even learned from killed enemies, because he had suffered losses from this move before but luckily survived.
If such a person committed a crime, three or five militiamen would not be able to subdue him. But if he was given a bow, a spear, armor, and a horse, he could even fight back and forth among the militiamen.
There were only people like this when the country was founded!
The soldiers from Linjiang County held spears and tried to maintain a relatively tight formation as they walked up the stone steps slowly and steadily.
Occasionally, when encountering a few remaining enemies, I would shoot them with bows from a distance and stab them with spears if they were close, and then I would push them all the way forward.
After walking for a few miles, we encountered the second obstacle set up by the enemy.
There were corpses everywhere in front of the wooden fence. Most of them were adult soldiers, with only a few bodies of government soldiers. There were also some wounded government soldiers who were either lying or sitting, grimacing. Fu An sent people to pick them up one by one and carry them down the mountain. It was very important to control the battlefield, because at least half of the wounded soldiers could return to the team.
After walking another hundred steps, the sound of killing in front gradually became louder.
Fu An ordered the drums to be beaten, and the soldiers from Linjiang County immediately became nervous, quickened their pace, and rushed up the stone steps.
After walking a few dozen steps, the road ahead suddenly opened up.
When Fu An looked around, he saw that the antlers of the deer in front of the adult village had been chopped off and fell to the ground, and the gate was shaking under the drag of the rope.
Archers from both sides shot at each other at close range. The enemy soldiers, although in a dominant position, were shot so hard that they could not even raise their heads.
This is the difference in archery skills. There is no other way but to practice.
You eat plenty of meat and fish, have strong arms and waist, and have money to buy bow tips, bowstrings, and arrows. If you practice diligently and practice more, you will naturally become stronger. Otherwise, you will not be able to beat others. This is actually a very simple truth.
While I was thinking, I heard a loud "bang" and the door fell to the ground, splashing a large amount of smoke and dust.
"Kill!" The soldiers shouted in unison, stepped on the fallen door panels and rushed in, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the remaining troops in the village.
Fu An watched from afar and saw that Cheng's army seemed to have lost their nerve and had completely lost their will to fight. Except for a few who were still resisting, most of them fled out the back door and ran deep into the mountains and forests.
Inside the Xiandu Temple, Feng Bachi was panting and chasing the enemy soldiers and killing them non-stop.
After killing an enemy soldier in the corridor, he chased another one and rushed into the main hall.
This man was also only about twenty years old. He ran, cried, and circled around the statue to avoid Feng Bachi.
After seeing another blood-soaked soldier coming from the front, he retreated in a daze. Feng Ba Chi slashed at his head with his sword, almost splitting his neck in half.
Blood gushed out and the enemy fell to the ground with a bang.
Feng Bachi stepped on the man's hand, and seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he quickly searched the enemy's bodies and got a dozen five-zhu coins, which he put into his arms, then picked up his sword and shield and chased after the enemy.
The statue has been stained red with blood, and as the blood flows down, it looks like two lines of blood and tears, but no one knows for whom it is flowing.
Not long after, soldiers from Linjiang County entered Xiandu Temple one after another, and the battle was over at this time.
In this battle, 900 soldiers of the Pingqiu Longxiang Prefecture of the Left Jinwu Guard defeated more than 1,300 soldiers in front of them, beheaded more than 400 people, captured 500 people, and the rest were scattered.
There is no doubt that this was a "battlefield" in which the few defeated the many, and more than 40% of the enemies were captured and killed, which was considered "the greatest gain".
If he gets five merit promotions in battle, he can be promoted to the rank of Flying Cavalry Captain (seventh grade) just from this battle, and be eligible to occupy five hectares of land.
Of course, just being qualified but having the money to buy it or being able to buy it is another matter.
But no matter what, some wealthy merchants are not qualified to occupy land. If the soldiers are willing to leave their children and travel far away from home, it is not difficult to buy land in places with fewer people and more land. It depends on whether you are willing to do so.
Knowing the benefits of fighting hard and knowing why to fight is already beyond most armies.
After capturing Xiandu Temple, the Pingqiu soldiers did not stop.
On November 25, the unit marched two miles westward and stormed Fengdu City (also known as Pingdu City), but failed. They then surrounded it and built siege equipment.
Encouraged by this, the soldiers of Linjiang County marched bravely westward, thwarting the landing attempt of the Chengjun navy at Jinxiuzhou and effectively guarding the flank of the government troops.
A few days later, the main force of the Zuo Jinwu Guard arrived and the siege officially began.
Behind them, the Black Lancer Army, the Silver Spear Army, and various auxiliary troops were coming like a tide, unstoppable.
Some impatient people even crossed Fengdu and advanced towards Zhi County (now Fuling).
The news quickly spread to Brazil.
Li Shou, the general of Chengguo's expedition to the east and the military commander of Ba, Baxi and Fuling counties, immediately became nervous when he heard this.
(End of this chapter)