【1968】Training troops, fighting in front of the village (7)
"Hanxuan Building? Where?"
"I don't know. I only know that the owner of the building is a woman, and her surname seems to be Gu."
"Your surname is Gu?" Ma Xiaoquan narrowed his eyes slightly and chuckled, "Gu Qingmei...hehe..."
"Sir, do you...do you know the owner of Hanxuan Building?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "I'm not familiar with it, but I've seen it before. Haha, I didn't expect her to change the name of the club to Hanxuan Tower? That's fine, at least for now. Okay, leave your sister's affairs to me. I'll do it again."
I ask you, are you willing to obey me?"
The prisoner thought for a while, then knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowed and said, "I am willing~"
"Very good, then I also need you to show off. It won't be long before the guard of this stronghold will come. When the time comes, you can take the head from his neck."
"Me? Me?"
"That's right, it's you. Why, are you afraid or unwilling?"
"Small...small..."
"Don't worry, you still have a chance to think about it carefully. Come here and untie him." Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand, and his subordinates immediately untied him.
"Well, you are free. You can go or stay. Of course, if you resist, you know the result... If you stay, I hope to see what I want to see. Do you understand?
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"Understood, sir~"
Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand, indicating that he should go down and think for himself. The prisoner nodded and bowed to retreat.
The two team captains came up and said worriedly: "Sir... that person is half a Jurchen after all. What if..."
Ma Xiaoquan rolled his eyes and asked: "If this is the case, then Mangui is still a Mongolian. Why don't you dare to say Mangui? Okay, I have my own sense of responsibility. You guys have done what you should do for me."
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"Yes~~"
...
Late at night, the stronghold was pitch dark.
As early as when he entered the stronghold, Ma Xiaoquan arranged for everyone to extinguish all the torches in the stronghold, leaving only a few scattered small oil lamps for decoration.
After all, before Ma Xiaoquan entered the stronghold, there were only three people inside. According to common sense, the light was also weak.
The supplies in the stronghold are very rich, especially fur coats and clothing. There are so many prepared, and more than 80 people each get one piece, so there is still a surplus.
With the fur coats and coats protecting them from the cold, and the stoves in the stronghold, the soldiers instantly felt very happy.
"Okay, don't be lazy. Your Majesty has given orders. I'm afraid the guards at the stronghold will come back tonight. They must be tired from running back and forth. We can easily kill them by then."
"knew!"
...
Sure enough, just before dawn, the soldiers in charge of the reconnaissance sent back the news that the defender of the stronghold had returned with his troops.
Ma Xiaoquan rested beautifully on the bed for two hours and felt refreshed.
At this time, he was looking far away from the watchtower of the stronghold.
"Well, it's interesting. It looks like it's coming. Are you all ready?" Ma Xiaoquan shouted down.
"My lord, everything is ready~" the soldier under the watchtower replied.
"Okay~ Remember, don't use thunderbolts yet, and don't use them. The enemy is outside and we are inside. Shoot for me."
"yes!"
...
On the other side, the guard general rode back angrily. When he was still three miles away from the stronghold, he asked his men to stop and take a rest.
After running back and forth all night, the men were actually very tired. As soon as they could take a break, they staggered one by one.
"Go, send someone to explore the road and see if anyone has entered the stronghold. Well, be careful~"
"Yes!" A spy mounted his horse and rushed towards the stronghold.
After a while, the spy arrived at the door of the stronghold and saw that the door was closed. The spy shouted in the tribal language: "Where are the people, where are the people..."
Ma Xiaoquan led a group of soldiers and hid quietly throughout the stronghold, with the prisoner squatting next to him.
"Okay, now it's time for you to show off~" Ma Xiaoquan looked at the prisoner.
The prisoner swallowed and seemed to be hesitant.
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Hey, what should I say? If you think you are a Jurchen, I won't say anything. Then go out and tell that person that I am inside, and ask him to go back and report to the guard, and we will fight.
Let's go~" After saying that, without waiting for the prisoner to hesitate, Ma Xiaoquan kicked him out.
The prisoner staggered and finally stopped. He turned to look at Ma Xiaoquan in the darkness. The prisoner pursed his lips, gritted his teeth, and walked towards the gate.
"I'm here, I'm here..." The prisoner shouted in the Jurchen language and responded to the Jurchens at the door.
"Oh, it's you~" By the light of the torch, the Jurchen at the door saw the prisoner's face and asked, "Where are the other two people? Where are they?"
"Oh, they are both still sleeping. They are really embarrassing. I really want to stab them to death."
"Forget it, forget it~ By the way, isn't that Ma Xiaoquan here?"
The prisoner shook his head and said, "No, I haven't seen him yet!"
"Then have you seen the cavalry sent by General Batu?"
The prisoner asked back: "Didn't they pass by us at first and say they were going to intercept and kill Ma Xiaoquan? Why, they finished intercepting and killing him?"
"Oh, they didn't come back either, so where did they go?"
The prisoner said: "Can you come in? Let's have a drink. It's rare that the general is not here."
The Jurchen outside the door snorted coldly: "You are a Han bastard, are you worthy of drinking with me? Get out of here, you... Okay, I will go back and report to the general that you are here, just wait."
Damn it, bastard!"
The prisoner's face changed slightly. In the darkness, he clenched his fists tightly, and deep hatred surged in his heart.
"Well, go ahead and tell the general that I'm here and everything is safe. Let the general come in directly~"
"Okay, bastard, haha..."
...
The Jurchen outside the door turned his horse and left.
The prisoner inside the door took a deep breath.
"Pa~~" Ma Xiaoquan walked up to the prisoner, patted his shoulder gently and said, "What were you two talking about just now? I think you... didn't betray me, right?"
The prisoner looked at Ma Xiaoquan and suddenly knelt down with a thud: "Sir, I didn't betray you, I didn't~"
Ma Xiaoquan helped him up and said with a smile: "I know you didn't betray me. I can tell from your eyes. I just ask you, when will they come?"
"Well, they should be back soon. Sir, how should we deal with them?"
"It's easy to talk about. Come on, if this is the case, then you should also participate properly~" Ma Xiaoquan said, hugging the prisoner.
...
The sky gradually grew brighter, and the last oil lamp in the stronghold was blown out because of dawn.
Not far away, the sound of horse hooves sounded, getting louder and louder.
The soldiers in the stronghold held the longbows in their hands tightly, and the bowstrings were already half full.
Ma Xiaoquan squinted his eyes and measured the distance between the two parties. When he was sure that they were about to enter the range of the bow and arrow, he raised his right hand.
Everyone drew their long bows, and the bow strings were fully drawn. The arrows on the long bows were already aimed at the stronghold cavalry running straight ahead.
The stronghold guard squinted his eyes and saw the stronghold, as if seeing his long-lost daughter-in-law. He laughed and said: "Although this trip was in vain, that fool Ma Xiaoquan didn't come, haha...
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Just when the guard of the stronghold was feeling proud, one of his subordinates suddenly pointed at the sky and said, "General, why are there so many black spots?"
The stronghold guard raised his head, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he quickly bowed and shouted: "No, hurry up, avoid, avoid~"
Although the reaction was not slow, the speed of the bow and arrow attack was too fast. Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the arrows falling from the sky fell like raindrops.
There were screams one after another, and the sound of people falling off horses was heard.
Because the stronghold guard reacted in advance and evaded in time, he was not seriously injured, but his mount was shot in the head and could no longer be ridden.
However, this round of volleys reduced his original team of about fifty people to more than half.
"Damn it, didn't you say it was safe? Why would someone shoot at us? Who is it? Who is it?" the stronghold guard roared and looked at the spies who had come back to report.
The spy was holding half of his body under the horse's back, with one foot still hanging on the buckle, his eyes rolled upward, and an arrow hit his throat without any bias. The guard cursed him, and he had already
Can't hear it anymore.
"Damn~~" The stronghold guard's eyes turned red, he pulled out the saber from his waist and roared: "Brothers, follow me and charge, charge~~Kill that bastard Ma Xiaoquan~~"
The remaining Jurchen soldiers seemed to have been given blood, shouting unknown clan languages in their mouths, and rushed towards the stronghold.
Inside the stronghold, Ma Xiaoquan saw their bravery and fearlessness and said: "Courage is worthy of respect, but the brain is not very bright. Give me my order and prepare for the second wave of volleys! Don't listen to my order, just shoot me."
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The soldiers were ordered to unfurl their bows and set arrows, aiming at the Jurchen army rushing forward. Their eyes narrowed slightly, and the banging sound of the bowstrings kept ringing.
Ma Xiaoquan shouted: "Leave that guard to me and shoot the rest to death!"
After another salvo...
Of the Jurchen team of twenty-five or six people, only one guard was left.
The door of the stronghold suddenly opened, and Ma Xiaoquan walked out, followed by the prisoners.
The guard wanted to run, but the moment he saw the prisoner, he stopped.
"It's you, it's you who betrayed us! You bastard!" the guard yelled angrily.
The prisoner gritted his teeth and responded: "I'm not a bastard!"
"Hmph, you are just a bastard born from a strong Jurchen woman who is a violent Han woman. A bastard is just a bastard, a Han dog that has not been raised well!"