The sun was very hot, and there was an obvious burning sensation on his face and neck. The sweat in his hair slowly condensed into a large drop, dripped from his forehead, and accidentally seeped into the corners of his eyes. Zhang Ning felt a stinging pain in his eyes and had to squint.
Keep your eyes on the mountains.
At Wei Bin's instruction, a man held an umbrella and covered Zhang Ning's head. Zhang Ning turned around and saw the soldiers on the grass were sweating and frowning, so he pushed the man holding the umbrella away. At this moment, Zhang Ning just
I realized that the cyan clothes customized for the army were not suitable in summer. Dark materials easily absorb heat, and it would be a pain for everyone to stand in the sun.
I'm afraid most people don't want to stand here and waste time. It's just because Wei Bin's suggestions were not adopted, so no one said anything anymore. Zhang Ning realized that he was very authoritative among this group of people, and this authority was not
What Monk Yao granted him was that he had been providing soldiers' wages and supplies for the army for two months, and commanding everyone to train together; otherwise, just having military power may not necessarily convince the people.
He had been in the sun for a long time, his mind was dizzy, and his body felt weak. This was probably a symptom of lack of outdoor exercise. He rarely did any physical work.
The surroundings were quiet, except for the occasional cough or two, and the snorts coming out of the horse's nostrils. Zhang Ning stood on the ground dizzy and had almost forgotten his intentions. His only expectation was the irregular bursts of coldness.
The wind is indeed very helpful when it blows on the body. In a daze, a scene emerged in his mind, as if he was standing boredly singing the national anthem and saluting a flag with his head raised and paying attention to a flag. His only expectation was that some time many years ago
I wonder if the flag will stop right on top of the pole when I finish singing.
At this moment, he finally saw movement above. The thieves scattered everywhere began to gather and walked down the slope one after another. Zhang Ning exhaled when he saw this. It seemed that things would finally be saved.
There were also whispers in the queue in the open space, and the lifeless atmosphere finally gained a little more vitality.
Zhang Ning cleared his throat and said loudly: "Each team will retreat another one hundred and fifty steps and wait for all the thieves to be counted."
The team immediately began to move. The road on the mountain was narrow, and it would be beneficial to the battle if they were blocked at the intersection. The thieves would not be able to unite; but if their way was blocked, they might return to the top of the mountain.
Wei Bin said from the side: "It seems that these bandits are desperate and want to come down and fight us."
Zhang Ning, who felt like he was about to be cooked, forced a smile: "This is what we are waiting for."
After a long time, more than a hundred bandits came down one after another. There was not much difference in the number of the two sides, but there was a big difference in the momentum of the two sides. Zhang Ning's side wore uniform clothes and iron helmets, and the formation was strict and orderly; the bandits' side was swarming without any team.
It can be said that the clothing and weapons are also of various lengths, and some are even bare-chested to deliberately expose their muscles. Upon seeing this, Zhang Ning said that the military training queue training is still useful, at least it can be presentable in a battle, otherwise it will really happen.
Got into a group fight.
Seeing that the situation was almost over, Zhang Ning ordered: "Advance forward to within the shooting range."
Wei Bin then shouted: "Let's go... together."
This shout made Zhang Ning couldn't help but smile knowingly. Look at this mountainous area, with the same flowers, plants and trees like the sun, and suddenly heard "walking together", who can tell whether it was hundreds of years ago or hundreds of years later?
As the team moved forward, the people on both sides were about two hundred steps apart, and the noise on the other side could be heard clearly. The thieves were cursing Cao, motherfucker, and the words were poured into their ears from time to time. After a while, that
The gang members took long and short weapons and rushed towards them in a swarm with ferocious looks. Perhaps they saw that the soldiers' weapons were ironwood sticks, and they didn't know what they were.
Wei Bin, who was riding slowly behind on horseback, saw this and shouted: "Stand still! Prepare to fire a volley!"
All the processes have been repeated countless times by everyone. The troops stood still and formed a square formation with six columns in depth. The first row knelt half-kneeling and raised their muskets. The second row stood and also raised their guns to aim.
Everyone just stood and waited. The flag officer in front was afraid that something might happen to the people in their first actual combat, so he shouted: "No one is allowed to fire without hearing the order!"
"Drive!" Wei Bin rode his horse and rushed to the side of the team, pulled out his saber from his waist, and pointed the saber in the direction where the thieves were coming. Everyone held their breath. They saw the bandits in front holding out their chests and dragging their machetes.
He came in long strides, and within a hundred steps he started running, screaming.
Wei Bin shouted: "Let go!" Suddenly there was a loud "crackling" sound, white smoke rose, and screams started. As soon as the first burst of gunfire stopped, those standing in the second row also opened fire, and the thieves over there
The shouts and shouts were so loud that it was difficult to see the situation clearly under the smoke. I could only hear Wei Bin’s shout, “Change the team and get ready.” The people in the team moved around in an orderly manner, and then they heard the sound of “rustling”, indicating that they were changing to the back.
People are busy cleaning the barrel of the gun with a cleaning rod.
Zhang Ning saw that the volley was successful and the thieves were instantly scattered. He immediately ordered the cavalry to attack. The spearmen pursued and shot freely. In front of the team was a field covered with weeds. Short Shu horse cavalry rushed in from both sides. This wave of
The cavalry had little momentum and the road was not easy to walk, but they still ran very fast on four legs. The infantry phalanx also dispersed after giving the order. People scrambled to run forward, and "pop, pop, pop" could be heard in the smoke.
Irregular gunfire.
This battle lasted for a day and a night, but the outcome was determined in less than a stick of incense after the confrontation. People and horses were running around at the foot of the mountain, and smoke was rising. Most of the bandits turned around and ran up the mountain after being frightened by the chaotic and terrifying atmosphere.
But the road was narrow, and the hillside was even more difficult to walk on. During the long and crowded climb up, it became a live target for muskets. There were corpses lying everywhere on the hillside. People who couldn't squeeze up the hill ran around from the side and were chased by horse soldiers.
He went up, died to the death, knelt down and surrendered, and almost didn't run away.
Those who were not killed were frightened and surrendered, and the battle ended. Zhang Ning ordered the troops to be counted, and there were no casualties. After gathering, he mobilized troops to go up the mountain to clean up the bandit stronghold and move down the valuable loot.
Wei Bin, who has a rather serious Chinese character and a face, also smiled brightly: "The rabble is vulnerable to a single attack. Your Excellency is truly a military genius."
Zhang Ning wiped his forehead with his sleeve and replied calmly: "We will definitely win this battle from the beginning. The difficulty is just how to prevent the thief from escaping."
The troops successively brought down a lot of things from the mountain. Many bandits had robbed gold, silver, jewelry, silk, valuable toys, and some food that had not been burned. In addition, the group actually held more than a dozen people in custody.
The young woman comes down.
Because the soldiers were all selected from several villages in Fengxia Mountain, women would be recognized if they were from the village. Zhang Ning then ordered the women he knew to be released on the spot and ordered them to go home with the army. The rest
Those who were probably robbed from the Tujia and Miao villages, or possibly robbed during the trip, were temporarily taken into custody and brought back to the village to inquire about their origins and then dispose of them.
There were more than thirty bandits who had surrendered. They were surrounded by everyone. Wei Bin yelled for someone to bring ropes to tie them up. Zhang Ning rode over and said, "It's hot in the summer, and the dead have to be buried. Take the prisoners with them."
Dig a pit. First cut off the head of the corpse and transport it back, then bury the body."
The soldiers understood and transported dozens of heads back in vehicles so that they could show off their martial arts skills to the villagers and avenge the massacred villagers in Fengshan. The men were carrying knives to chop off heads and move the bodies. The women were frightened when they saw this scene.
Their faces were pale, and some even screamed from time to time, which made the men laugh.
More than thirty prisoners quickly dug a big pit, and the headless corpses were thrown into the pit one after another, and then covered with earth and buried hastily. After the work was done, everyone tied up the prisoners with ropes to avoid causing trouble on the road.
The sun hadn't set yet. Zhang Ning was covered in sweat and stood waiting in the open space. He blurted out a little impatiently in a daze: "These prisoners are all guilty of death anyway. Kill them on the spot and behead them to avoid trouble."
After hearing this, Yao Erlang and Lao Xu next to him turned to look at Zhang Ning. Only then did he realize that what he said seemed too cold-blooded. He also realized that he didn't feel anything when he thought like this in his heart... He shouldn't be a diligent and polite person.
Scholar?
The first time I killed Peng Tianheng, who deserved his crime, I felt like I was sleepwalking. Then I wiped out Wu Yong and the two, which was also very stressful. Now when I order to kill a group of bandits in ragged clothes and put down their weapons, I am already numb and no longer as frightened as before.
of tension.
Wei Bin was also a little surprised when he heard Zhang Ning's words, but he also thought that Zhang Ning's words were reasonable, so he ordered the nearby soldiers to execute the prisoners on the spot beside the pit. The heavily armed soldiers received the order, and some of the muskets had their ammunition loaded.
Before they were fired, they just shot at the prisoners randomly. After the war, there was no need to bother taking out the ammunition. Some bandits were not killed by the bullets and were screaming on the ground. Others were not hit. The soldiers drew their swords.
, heads were cut off regardless of life or death, the scene was brutal and bloody, not much better than the situation when Fengshan was massacred.
Zhang Ning watched silently. These soldiers were all villagers. Most of them must have killed people for the first time today, but it seemed that there was nothing unusual about the people. He thought to himself, as expected, the seriousness of killings, the most important thing is that the photos were taken in
The restriction of social order of "killing for life", if you don't have to take responsibility, for example, if you are ordered to kill on the battlefield, everyone will not be very hypocritical.
The artillery was still on the mountain, and people had to get it down after the battle. They struggled for a long time to clean up the aftermath. By the time it was done, the sun had already set in the west on the top of the mountain. So Zhang Ning and others discussed it and found that everything was done, so they sent someone to ride back to report the victory.
, a large number of people will camp and rest in the camp built last night.
As soon as the sun goes down, the heat goes away very quickly. The temperature difference between day and night in the southwest mountainous area far away from the coast is huge. Next to the camp is a large pit where more than a hundred headless corpses are buried. There are also many heads on the vehicles in the camp, and the smell of gunpowder smoke and
The smell of blood did not completely dissipate, and a stench gradually filled the air at night.
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