The sudden mutiny of more than a hundred soldiers in the front yard caught Zhu Shiyong off guard. Before he could react, the soldiers had already broken up the formation of the governor's army and knocked down five or six of his guards in an instant.
Zhu Shiyong was furious and cursed angrily. At the same time, he loudly ordered the military governor: "Hold on, don't retreat."
Although Zhu Shiyong's personal guards only had eighty people, they were several times more brave than the Xiang soldiers. They quickly reacted and formed a good formation to block the Xiang soldiers' forward momentum.
At the same time, Zhu Shiyong ordered people to mobilize two hundred troops outside to guard the siege and quickly rushed in for reinforcements.
The reinforcements arrived noisily, and everyone was dumbfounded. Why did one of their own people start fighting with their own people? Wang Dutou and Li Dutou, who led the team, hurriedly asked the familiar brothers opposite them about the reason.
"Brother Mazi, what are you doing? How did you get involved with the prefect?"
"Wang Dutou, you don't know what's going on inside. This old thief Zhu Shiyong didn't care about the lives of our brothers and killed dozens of our brothers with arrows. He also killed Zheng Dutou and Chen Dutou, and even us Commander Yang was also killed by him. This old thief has lost his mind and gone crazy. He wants to rebel and drag our brothers to hell."
"What?" Wangdu was confused when he heard this. Just when he was about to ask for a clear answer, he heard a scream, and the Mazi who was talking had his head cut off by the governor's army while he was distracted.
"Master Fu Zun, is this...?" Wang Du was dizzy and turned to Zhu Shiyong for help.
Zhu Shiyong shouted: "Don't ask anything, don't believe anything. They listened to Su Jin's temptation and defected in front of the formation, so we have to engage in military law. Wang Yaocheng, Li Du, are you also going to commit rebellion?"
Wang and Li both shook their heads and said: "How dare you do this? I don't understand the situation.\\..\\"
Zhu Shiyong nodded and said: "Okay, from now on, I will appoint you two as the chief and deputy commanders of the Baoxin Army. When the matter here is resolved, I will ask the court to formally appoint you later."
Wang Yaocheng and Li Du thanked each other, and Zhu Shiyong waved his hand and said: "Don't rush to say thank you. You two must immediately quell the rebellion, capture and kill all the rebel soldiers, and capture Su Jin and others. This is a great achievement. The imperial court will definitely approve my petition."
Wang Yaocheng and Li Du clasped their fists at the same time and said: "I am willing to die for your Excellency."
Zhu Shiyong nodded with satisfaction and said: "Leave it to you. I will lead the personal guards to withdraw from the courtyard and make room for you. You should perform well and don't let me down."
"Your Excellency, you can rest assured that you will supervise the battle outside the hospital. You will definitely live up to your humble position and honor your orders."
Wang Yaocheng and Li Du each led more than a hundred people from their respective departments to rush into the courtyard to replace Zhu Shiyong's personal guards. The guards surrounded Zhu Shiyong and exited the courtyard to supervise the battle. Although the courtyard was not small, two hundred soldiers from Wang and Li's troops poured in. After that, including Su Jin and the defecting Xiang soldiers, there were more than 300 people, and it suddenly seemed overcrowded.
The defecting soldiers were still happy that their brother soldiers came to put out the fire, but they were soon disappointed, and the disappointment quickly turned into fear. Wang Yaocheng and Li Du's soldiers came over without saying a word and raised their swords to cover them up. The two sides exchanged hands instantly.
"Damn it, Lu Ji, are you really going to kill me? Last night we were drinking and calling each other brothers, and you really put the knife at my brother to say hello; Ouch, my arm!"
"Brother, don't blame me. There is nothing I can do about it. The King of Capital issued a strict order and led people to supervise the battle from behind. I don't want to kill you, but I don't want to be beheaded by him either. Take the knife."
"You bitch, you are ruthless! Don't you know that Magistrate Zhu is going to cause a rebellion? The imperial army is almost outside the city. If you follow Magistrate Zhu and cause rebellion, you will all be executed."
"Brother, don't waste your breath. You are just saying this to coax a three-year-old child. I don't know what you think, but you actually turned your back before the battle. I think you should surrender, otherwise I'm afraid you won't be able to fall..."
Both sides are soldiers. They usually eat, sleep, gamble, and train in the same camp, and they are very familiar with each other. Now they are fighting and chatting, which is quite lively. There is no ambiguity at all. You have a sword and I have a sword.
A fierce one.
The reinforcements were outnumbered and they quickly gained the upper hand. The number of rebel soldiers dropped sharply, and thirty or forty of them were quickly put down. Fortunately, the courtyard was not large and the area for contact with the enemy was limited.
Otherwise the situation will be even worse.
Seeing that the defecting soldiers were gradually collapsing, Su Jin hurriedly shouted: "Shrink your formation and move closer to the west."
The rebel soldiers were leaderless. When they heard Su Jin's shouts from Huanghuang Ran, they seemed to be grasping at straws for life, and they all tried their best to gather to the west. Su Jin also called on everyone to protect the women and gathered to the west.
After leaving more than ten corpses behind, everyone finally gathered into a group at the west end. Only then did everyone realize Su Jin's intention. There were several large flower beds at the west end of the courtyard, which happened to form several roadblocks, but it was not so convenient for the enemy to attack;
And there are more than a dozen big trees growing there, making it even harder for the opponent to move.
The most important thing is that a fire has been raging in the main hall, and the flames have reached the roof. Everyone is leaning against the fire, not to mention there is no way to retreat, even the scorching heat of the flames is unbearable; after moving to the west end,
, to avoid the high-temperature flames, and there is an additional barrier on the north and east sides. The other party cannot deploy troops in the direction of the fire, which slightly relieves the pressure on our own stretched manpower.
Su Jin gave a loud order to allocate troops. The remaining 70 or so rebel soldiers were divided into two teams. Each team led Ma Han and others to guard the southeast side. The west side was a wall and the north side was a fire. It happened to be a good place.
Defensive terrain.
Wang Yaocheng and Li Du ordered the soldiers to attack several times, but the enemy was repulsed by the cover of trees and flower beds. Fifty or sixty people were killed and injured, and not even a single person on the enemy was injured.
The soldiers were nothing to be afraid of. What was terrible was that the six or seven big men under Su Jin were like tigers. They would kill one person in a single encounter. The person who took the attack didn't even have the strength to fight back. They were really too vicious.
Zhu Shiyong saw it clearly from a high place outside the hospital and cursed angrily: "Idiot! Idiot! Since they are cowering, why don't you let go of the arrow? Send someone to tell those two idiots."
With a word that woke up the man in his dream, Wang Yaocheng quickly ordered to stop attacking the enemy, step back twenty steps to leave a gap, and at the same time ordered fifty archers to rush to the front to bend their bows and set arrows.
Su Jin had already expected this move. When the opponent bent his bow and set an arrow, Su Jin had already quietly given the order. Everyone pulled and pulled the corpse lying in front of the formation in front of them. When Wang Yaocheng
With a wave of his arm, arrows came like a rain, and Su Jin also shouted at the same time: "Stand up the shield!" The human shield blocked the front of the team, and the arrows came fiercely, with the sound of flesh-breaking popping popping.
The human shield was densely packed with arrows, but the people behind it were unscathed.
The distance between the two sides is too close. Anyone with a little common sense knows that bows and arrows can only be fired horizontally and cannot be thrown. If the distance is farther, the bows and arrows fired at the throwing angle will naturally fall from the sky, which will be a big problem for Su Jin and others.
It is disastrous. When arrows fall from the sky, there is no way to prevent them.
Zhu Shiyong was also dumbfounded. His skinny fingers almost scratched his scalp into several deep grooves. This boy was so cunning. He could think of such a method, which was really depressing.
Zhu Shiyong lowered his head and thought hard about countermeasures. He heard a commotion in the courtyard and the panic and shouting of the soldiers. Zhu Shiyong hurriedly asked around: "What happened?"
One of the guards said with a trembling voice: "Report...report to your lord, the king was shot to death with an arrow in the head."
Zhu Shiyong said in shock: "How is it possible? Does the other party also have a bow and arrow?"
The guard said: "There is only one bow, and it uses the arrows we shot..."
Su Jin and others in the courtyard had already begun to shout loudly: "Thank you, Magistrate Zhu, for the arrows. We picked up a bow, but we didn't have any arrows. Now it's better. We got dozens of arrows for free."
Ma Han chuckled, took the arrows that everyone had pulled from the human shield, happily piled a small pile in front of him, put on the bowstring one by one, and the arrows flew towards the enemy soldiers with a scream.
, at such a close distance, there is almost no need to aim, each arrow penetrates a person's body, and there is no missed shot.
Mahan watched proudly as the crowd on the other side fled and dodged, enjoying the admiration of the soldiers around him, feeling as if he were a fairy.
Wang Chao shook his head and gave him a shock, cursing: "She soldiers are useless? Haven't you seen Zhu Shiyong standing outside and gesticulating? Do you have the ability to give him a break?"
Mahan woke up with a start and reached out to grope on the ground. He had shot more than fifty arrows in a short time, and there was not even one left. He couldn't help but regret it. Everyone looked left and right on the corpse and finally found it.
A broken arrow was found at the thigh of a corpse. Mahan quickly took it over, put on the bow string and stretched it as full as the moon. There was a "click" sound, and everyone exclaimed, and they were all dumbfounded.dd