Chapter 687 Revenge
More than a hundred enemy soldiers rushed to the top of the earthen city. The defenders tried their best to drive them away. The two sides fought in a narrow area. Many times, they couldn't even use weapons, so they just used their fists and even their teeth...
Zheng Zhong arrived with his men. He looked at the enemies and ours mixed together and gritted his teeth, "Shoot!"
"Captain!" The men were stunned for a moment. Zheng Zhong turned around, his eyes full of madness, "Shoot!"
"Fire arrows!"
Arrows rained down, and more than ten people from both the enemy and our side fell.
"The Ming army is crazy." someone shouted.
"The defenders...are vulnerable!" Lin Siyuan had already reached the city. He didn't need to command such a small-scale battle, so someone advised, "Captain, be careful of stray arrows."
"The Khan said that the Emperor is reorganizing the army. We must have a clear idea of how the reorganization is going." Lin Siyuan carefully watched the Ming army's response on the top of the city.
"Didn't they say it was just the Beijing guards?" said the civil servant accompanying the army.
"The Beijing Guards have been rebuilt. Shouldn't the Ming troops in the nine borders be panicked? The Khan said that the Ming troops in Datong and Xuanfu have also been reorganized, especially Zhang Da, who is a direct descendant of Jiang Qingzhi. Jiang Qingzhi presided over the purge of the Beijing Guards, and Zhang Da then took action in Datong. Look, the Ming army has counterattacked, and they are more willing to fight than before."
Li Zhi personally arrived with the last reserve troops, and he rushed to the front with a long knife in his hand.
"That's the guard, kill him!" someone from the enemy shouted.
Several enemy soldiers rushed towards Li Zhi, and Li Zhi laughed wildly: "Come, Grandpa will take you to the west!"
Dangdang Dangdang!
Li Zhi rushed over, blocked the knife, and then beheaded the enemy with one blow. Then, without waiting for the follow-up enemy soldiers to come up, he pounced on them, holding the knife with both hands, and chopped off their heads.
clang!
The enemy's long sword was chopped off, and Li Zhi's sword went down. He didn't even look at the man and rushed forward.
The enemy soldier behind him slowly knelt down, with a blood line appearing on his forehead. Blood continued to seep out of the blood line and then gushed out violently.
"kill!"
Li Zhi killed the last enemy soldier on the top of the city wall and turned around to take a look.
"Captain, face south!" Zheng Zhong limped over. Li Zhi glanced at his thigh, which was now stained red with blood. "Can you still kill the enemy?"
Zheng Zhong grinned. "Yes!"
"Follow me!"
Li Zhi led his men to rush southward. Zheng Zhong picked up a spear and used it to fight. Despite his limping leg, he was not slow at all.
The enemy forces were strong and kept coming, and the two of them kept providing support everywhere...
When there were only a dozen people left behind him, the sound of a bugle was heard from the enemy army.
Dangdang Dangdang!
The enemy troops retreated like a tide.
Zheng Zhong sat down, but he accidentally sat in a pool of blood. He ignored the uncomfortable feeling and panted, "Captain, the enemy should not retreat."
Li Zhi walked to the front of the city wall, and an enemy general rode towards him, surrounded by dozens of cavalrymen.
"We need a prisoner." Lin Siyuan said, "It would be best if it was a guard."
He needed to know the movements of the Ming army and their alertness. If he could learn about the situation of the Ming reinforcements, it would be a pleasant surprise.
So after seeing that the defenders had suffered heavy losses, Lin Siyuan suddenly sounded the horn.
Li Zhi stood on the top of the city wall, with his long sword sticking on the ground. More than ten soldiers carried the basket to the top of the city wall.
"Man! Eat!"
“It’s all meat!”
Li Zhi picked up a piece of meat and took a big bite.
It's horse meat!
He took out the letter from his arms, took a last look at it, slowly tore it into pieces, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it along with the horse meat.
At the foot of the city, Lin Siyuan said, "You have held off the army for half an hour, you should be proud of yourself. Open the gate and surrender, and I will give you the dignity and treatment of a warrior. Your official position will remain the same, you will still be a thousand households, and I will reward you with 20 households of slaves."
Li Zhi swallowed the horse meat, grunted a few times, and tore off another large piece of horse meat, chewing hard.
Everyone on the city wall was eating meat like crazy.
"It's a pity there is no wine." Wang Shen said regretfully as he sat on the top of the city wall.
meat!
Finished!
Li Zhi took a few gulps of water and asked, "Brothers, are you full?"
"I am full."
"Then... it's time to get going!" Li Zhi looked at Lin Siyuan, coughed a few times, and then...
"He... tui!"
He spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.
Li Siyuan sighed, "Try to catch them alive."
"Siege!"
The enemy swarmed forward again.
"Qianhu!"
"Qianhu, save me!"
A quarter of an hour later, the city walls were full of enemy troops.
Li Zhi and Zheng Zhong stood back to back. Most of their subordinates died in the battle, and those who survived by chance became prisoners.
The gate of the village was opened. Lin Siyuan looked at the captured women and frowned slightly. The civil servant beside him said, "The warriors need rewards."
Lin Siyuan said: "The enemy's head is the best reward."
He shook his head, turned around and walked slowly up.
There were corpses everywhere on the city wall, and blood was flowing down the steps, being sucked all the way.
Lin Siyuan's shoes stepped on it, making a puffing sound.
"Commander-in-chief!" A general came over, "There are only two generals left."
Lin Siyuan walked to a place five steps away from Li Zhi and the others and stood still. He said calmly: "For the last time, die or surrender."
"Fire arrows!"
The general behind him shouted, and the archer hiding behind him immediately shot arrows, hitting Li Zhi and Zheng Zhong's arms and legs.
The long sword fell to the ground and the enemy rushed over.
"Qianhu!"
Zheng Zhong was knocked down and struggled frantically.
Li Zhi picked up the long knife with his left hand, hacked at a man with all his might, and was then stabbed.
He staggered back, leaning against the top of the city wall. Seeing Zheng Zhong pinned down by an enemy soldier, he shouted hoarsely, "Bite him to death! Bite him to death!"
Zheng Zhong subconsciously opened his mouth and bit the enemy's throat.
The enemy soldier raised his head in pain, his throat was bitten through. Amid the screams, another enemy soldier hit Zheng Zhong on the forehead. Zheng Zhong's eyes were red, and he shook his head vigorously...
Zheng Zhong pulled hard and pulled out the enemy's throat. He struggled to stand up.
look around.
Blood was dripping from the throat in his mouth, and the enemy soldiers on the ground were like fish that had come ashore, holding their throats and bouncing around.
No one came forward.
Zheng Zhong chewed subconsciously.
He picked up the long sword, and another enemy soldier was frightened by his appearance and retreated repeatedly.
Lin Siyuan sighed: "This reminds me of the Ming army in its early years. They were so brave back then."
"Governor." The civil servant felt that he should not enhance his opponent's prestige.
Lin Siyuan said: "Do it!"
More than a dozen enemy soldiers rushed forward.
After a fierce fight, Li Zhi and Zheng Zhong were seriously injured and captured.
The two were tied up and lying on the top of the city wall.
"Qian Hu, save the slaves!"
On the only street, several women were screaming...
Li Zhi panted. There was a cut in his abdomen, and his internal organs could be vaguely seen. "Let those women go."
"How many troops did the capital send?" Lin Siyuan's voice was calm.
"Let them go!" Li Zhi raised his head and saw the women. The enemy troops were lined up...
"Let them go!"
"Tell me, how many troops did the capital send? Who is leading the army?" Lin Siyuan stretched out his hand, and someone handed him a long knife. He stabbed Li Zhi in the thigh.
There was a cut on his abdomen, so torture was not an option, and he had to get a confession in time.
On the other side, Zheng Zhong was already dying.
"Those are women!" Li Zhi murmured, "Let them go!"
"You bastard!" Lin Siyuan suddenly became furious. "Speak! Otherwise I will drag you to death!"
Li Zhi looked at him and suddenly smiled, "The leader is Long Wilbur."
"How many troops?" Lin Siyuan was overjoyed.
"The leader is Chang Wei Bo." Blood kept flowing out of the corners of Li Zhi's mouth. "You have forgotten Chang Wei Bo's words... If you kill one of my men, I will... kill ten of your men."
“You bastard!” Lin Siyuan swung his knife and cut off Li Zhi’s left foot. Li Zhi howled miserably, then said in a hoarse voice: “When two armies fight, each has its own destiny in terms of casualties. But you shouldn’t insult women. Chang Wei Bo will avenge them. Grandpa dares to bet that Chang Wei Bo will kill you and pile your corpses into a mountain, just like the Jingguan outside Datong City…”
"Drag them to death!" Lin Siyu threw down the long knife and said coldly.
Li Zhi and Zheng Zhong were dragged out of the city, their horses were in position, and the enemy soldiers on horseback grinned and raised their whips.
"To speak or not to speak!" the civil servant asked with a sneer.
"You...what's your name?" Li Zhi asked with difficulty, lying on the ground.
The civil servant said calmly: "I am Chen Meng."
"Chen Meng." Li Zhi looked at him, digging his hands on the ground, "Zheng Zhong!"
"Qian Hu!" Zheng Zhong, who was dying, suddenly looked up.
"Your kid... will have a bright future."
"Yes."
"They are indeed warriors." Chen Meng praised: "Then, let's help them!"
“Qian Hu, your family’s debts…” Zheng Zhong laughed, “Even in the underground, you are still a ghost that owes debts.”
"I..." Li Zhigang opened his mouth, the warhorse neighed, and began to speed up, dragging the two of them.
"what!"
A trail of blood was left behind them as they howled miserably.
Gradually the bloodstains faded and the internal organs were dragged out.
"The debt... has been paid off." Li Zhi's eyes gradually lost their luster.
In the village, the women stared at the sky blankly.
"What a damn world..." a woman murmured, then suddenly raised her head, bit the enemy's cheek, and bit it hard.
"what!"
"Kill this bitch!"
……
The enemy troops went away.
After an unknown amount of time, a head slowly popped out of the pigsty.
The pig had been slaughtered earlier and the smell inside was terrible, so the enemy just took a quick look and left.
Qin Er's face was full of fear. He was the cook in the village. After the enemy broke into the city, he hid under the pigsty and escaped by luck.
He looked around, made sure there was no one around, then walked out carefully.
On the only street, several naked women were lying there. Some had their abdomens cut open, while others had been beheaded with their heads rolling to the side.
Qin Er walked over and looked at the head.
Isn’t that Zhang who I once teased?
He looked at the pile of corpses on the top of the city wall and slowly knelt down.
"Qianhu!"
"brothers!"
Hot tears slid down Qin Er's face, "I swear, I will definitely... avenge you!"
Da da da!
The sound of horse hooves came from outside the village. Qin Er turned around and wanted to run, but after thinking about it, he picked up the long knife, wiped away his tears, stood on the street, and waited quietly.
"Captain, Changxin Village has been captured. I think everyone is dead."
More than a hundred riders rushed into the camp. The leading captain saw Qin Er and said, "Chen Ji, captain of the Tiger Guard Left Guard, is here. Who are you?"
Looking at the familiar armor, Qin Er's lips trembled.
"Changxin Village's chef Qin Er is here!"
(End of this chapter)
