Chapter 90 Killing Thieves' Garden Night
Deng Gui, who was a martial artist, had extraordinary insights on how to defend the Huaiyuan military camp and the street market, and even the subtle tactical arrangements. Moreover, there are people like Wang Bing and Lu Xiong.
Xu Huai simply pretended to be stupid and sat aside to eat meat and drink, listening to them explaining to many thugs. Yin Peng was eager to make a name for himself and listened very seriously. In addition, he used to hear Xu Wuliang talking about the camp, and his foundation was much better than Zheng Butcher, Chen Gui and other thugs.
Of course, Wang Xuan and Tian Yanyan were present, and the ruffians pretended to listen seriously.
After Lu Xiong, he saw Xu Huai put the knife bow in the corner of the wall, picked up the longbow and tried the string: "Brother Xu is born with courage, maybe this longbow is still a little light, right?"
"It's light, but I wish I could tie the two bows together." Xu Huai said in an inward voice.
"Xu Huai's strength can really pull two hard bows at the same time?" Deng Gui asked hesitantly.
Of course Deng Gui could understand Lu Xiong's voice-over.
Guo Caoling was assassinated and died. The swords, bows, guns, spears and armor he carried were still kept in the inspection office for sealing. He had thought about sending these to prefectures and counties before, but Cheng Lunying and Chen Shi disagreed and could only wait for Guo Caoling's family to come and take them away in the future.
Now that he knew that Xu Huai was most likely to be the one who assassinated Guo Caoling, he also used Guo Caoling's knife bow to him, he was worried that this would further anger the Guo clan and the master behind Guo Caoling?
Xu Huai gave Deng Gui a blank look and disdained to pay attention to his words.
"The Guanyue Bow can be used to give Brother Xu a try!" Jin Longquan suggested without any scruples.
Deng Gui hesitated for a while, thinking that it was at a critical moment. If he didn't even dare to call Guo Caoling's military armor, why would he talk about power?
He nodded and signaled that Jin Longquan personally took people to bring all the soldiers and armors sealed by Guo Caoling in the military camp.
In addition to Guo Caoling's military armor, Deng Gui also asked Jin Longquan to get more spears and wooden shields came over. He could not ask Xu Huai to take these spoils to fight to the death. The inspection department did not even provide the most basic shields.
Although the inspection department has a certain number of soldiers and armor, Guo Caoling has included many craftsmen in the past two days. The construction of spears and wooden shields is the most convenient, and it can still be fully supplied.
At that moment, he took out two cents of money and asked the butcher Zheng to prepare more wine and meat, and asked the thugs to sit down and have a drink together.
When Mu Dun took out the spear from the military camp, put it down, and did not do any drills. Xu Huai led the horse and took the slightly drunk people to the streets, and walked out of the streets in a mess. Lu Xiong was going to act with Xu Huai, but Xu Huai winked and told him to stay.
The inspectors and military soldiers did not discuss the military camp, and more than 2,000 people were left in the streets and failed to leave. In fact, there was no shortage of young and strong people. What they lacked was the courage to fight against the brutal bandits.
If Lu Xiong accompanied him tonight, even if he came back from hunting three or five heads, the people would only think that Lu Xiong was a top-notch and powerful person who came from Bianjing with Wang Bing. It is normal that he can kill three or five thieves in the night battle. It is far from being brave in the market, and it does not help the courage of the common people in the market to grow.
Xu Huai and his thugs have always been despised by the people of the streets. Only when they see that they can kill thieves will the people feel that they can do it, and thieves and bandits are not afraid of them.
In addition, it is not really impossible to take time to practice. Xu Huai knew that the courage in these ruffians was half ignorant and arrogant, and half was born from drinking and half drunk.
If they really need to practice until midnight, they will wake up and realize the danger of the night battle between the military formation. I am afraid that most of them will have to give up. How can they still have the momentum to win the lead?
The sky became dark and the stars and moon shone brightly, but everyone could see clearly that the way to advance eastward.
The so-called ignorant is fearless. Yin Peng knows the military formation a little. When he sees Zheng butcher, Chen Gui and the thugs move eastward along the road, with a arrogant and relaxed expression like a night tour. He secretly feels that the enemy cavalry is coming over. I am afraid that with a charge, these people will be scared to piss around and run away, thus completely exposing their backs to the swords and guns of the thief cavalry, and letting them slaughter like chopping melons and vegetables.
Yin Peng urged the horse tightly, approached Xu Huai's side, and asked in a low voice: "Can this work?"
If Chen Zixiao or Zhong Changqing and other thieves led more than a hundred horse soldiers under Yingzi's mouth, Xu Huai had the courage to take risks and would not dare to take the risk of playing such a flower job. But at this time Pan Chenghu was in Yingzi's mouth, the situation would be different.
Pan Chenghu suffered a great loss of carelessness in Lutai Village. It was not counted if he lost his nest. More than 300 bandits accumulated over ten years, and in the end, only 3040 people left to escape with him. He was actually a frightened bird.
In Zhongjiazhuang, Xu Huai saw Pan Chenghu leading his troops to fight very cautiously and conservatively, and the provocations in the afternoon later proved this.
They are now carelessly provoking with dozens of ruffians, and they look like traps. Pan Chenghu really dares to come over with a few elite elites, and Xu Huai will look up to him from now on.
And if Pan Chenghu only dared to drive the newly-entered bandits to come and test, what would Xu Huai be afraid of?
If you take a step back, even if Pan Chenghu is much more powerful than he expected, he really dares to lead the elite troops to cover up and kill them. Many ruffians will be defeated at once. Night battles will make it easier for everyone to escape with their heads in their arms and a few more people can survive.
Unlike the bright daylight, new bandits can also ride horses on rugged slopes. Once many rookies are defeated, it is almost impossible to escape the hunt of enemy cavalry with their legs.
Xu Huai himself could only rely on the night to avoid being surrounded and killed by thieves on the rugged slopes without the chance to escape.
Life is a gamble!
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When Pan Chenghu entered the night, he did not take all his troops back to Yingzizhu. Xu Huai and his team went east for about four miles, and a team of cavalry was blocking the way ahead.
Xu Huai rode his horse to the slope next to him. Yin Peng was sweating profusely and was in a mess. He was a little panicked when facing the enemy. He barely formed a formation on the dirt road more than two meters wide and the ditch land on both sides.
At this time, I didn't dare to expect all the scoundrels to advance and retreat freely. Yin Peng followed Lu Xiong's method and shouted loudly, causing everyone to insert the wooden shield diagonally, while the spear in his hand pressed against the ground, leaning against the wooden shield, pointing obliquely in front of him. Everyone squatted as low as possible and hid under the wooden shield to avoid being exposed to the range where the enemy's cavalry was shooting.
Wang Bing just dipped this tactical action with wine and wrote and painted on the table, but not many people heard it in his mind. Fortunately, Yin Peng was a brave man, and even if he was separated from Xu Huai, he was quite convinced by all the ruffians.
Another thing is Zheng butcher, Chen Gui, who helped him to restrain everyone from forming a formation on the spot, and there is no big problem.
The key is that the number of people is limited and you can take care of them.
No matter how cautious Pan Chenghu was, his subordinates could not be able to keep their anger. Soon several riders came to the team with bows and crossbows.
The shadows are everywhere, and no matter how bright the stars and moon are, Xu Huai cannot face two or three hundred steps away, but the approaching posture of these six riders and horses is not like a veteran.
It is obvious that these new students were introduced to tentatively approaching, and it is completely unsatisfactory to consume them.
Xu Huai held back and held Guanyue bow horizontally on the saddle. He watched the six cavalry slowly approaching seventy or eighty steps, and then shot at him.
The hunting bow is small and soft, and it will only have a certain penetrating lethality within thirty or fifty steps. These riders rushed to shoot arrows outside seventy or eighty steps, and shot them in front of the shield formation. They hit the wooden shield and were knocked down.
Yin Peng kept suppressing the excited ruffian, and ordered them not to move around.
There were also two people trying to raise the wooden shield to retaliate. Yin Peng was afraid that he would lack prestige and violent suppression would cause a stir, so he could only hold these two impulsive guys tightly.
Judging from these details, Yin Peng usually looks quite impatient, but when he is in battle, he is more calm than most people. With Yin Peng with Zheng Butcher and Chen Gui's help to restrain the spoils, Xu Huai relaxed and tried the bowstring of the moon bow. It was really much harder than the common step bow. If he wanted to pull the horse's back, he might have to pull the muscles in his arms and muscles in two or three times. He had to get off the horse and use the strength of his waist and legs to be able to retract and relax.
Of course, the six or seven cavalry soldiers were just outside the seventy or eighty steps, and Xu Huai only needed to pull the Guanyue Bow in half.
Xu Huai was not familiar with the nature of the bow, and the stability of the archery with a half-string on the horse was much worse. He shot four arrows and missed it, causing the enemy to rush into the slope and wanted to shoot him around.
Xu Huai hung the moon bow back into the saddle, replaced it with the long bow of Zhemu, and shot four arrows in a row. In the flash of lightning, he shot two thieves and fell off the horse. Xu Huai drove the horse forward again, and the remaining four thieves were frightened and fled in panic.
"Chen Gui, bring someone here to cut your head and wait for you to get back to exchange for rewards!" Xu Huai shouted.
It was so moist at this time that Xu Huai could even send someone else to do the rough work of cutting his head.
Chen Gui jumped over with a man, happily picked up two long swords like iron pieces, cut off the heads of the two thieves, and picked up two hunting bows, and took a horse back.
At night, the thief cavalry never came in again, and Xu Huai could not really take these thiefs too far away from the street market. When it was late at night, he took two thief soldiers' heads and left.
Zhu Ba returned with Yaowu and Yangwei, of course he didn't want to disperse. He ran to Zheng Butcher's butcher shop to drink and eat meat, and they were all very good at singing to attract more people. This time Xu Huai really called Tian Yanyan and five girls over and sang some meat songs to cheer them up.
Deng Gui paid a full reward on the spot with Longquan, Xu Huai shared the money according to his merits, and he received ten guans himself, Yin Peng, Zheng Butcher, and Chen Gui each received three guans, and two guans of money to eat meat and drink wine. Their spoils were all the same, which made the audience extremely jealous.
Deng Gui, Wang Bing, Lu Xiong and others did not return to the military camp to rest. They took Jin Longquan, Tang Tiande and others to stay in the market, teaching the people how to make roadblocks such as horse-rejecting and antlers. At the same time, they organized people to dig trenches and block most of the alleys entering and leaving the market. At the same time, they also lifted off the resting thatched roofs and pushed down some houses to form fire belts to prevent the bandits from setting fire to the market...
Chapter completed!