Chapter 64 The world is unpredictable

(First a chapter of 4,000 words, and then update the second chapter at noon! Red ticket!)

The soldiers of the Xing Tianjun ran out of breath and sweated profusely. When they learned that the officers and troops were rushing in the direction of a Zhuangzi, Xiao Tianjian ordered the artillery and soldiers to slow down the march in the back, and left Feng Gouzi's outpost to protect them from them, and he He personally led the soldiers and the new barracks, went into battle lightly, only carried his own weapons, and began to chase the officers who had been found at the speed of the march.

When he saw that the flag of the officer army had appeared in front of him, Xiao Tianjian finally breathed a long sigh of relief, gasped, and shouted to the soldiers behind him, "Add more strength!" The officers can't run away! Stop them and don't let them enter the village! As long as you kill them, the big guys can have a good rest!"

Unlike the marching on drums in the past, this is their first rapid march since the founding of the army, and it is no longer possible to control their marching speed with the sound of drums.

Everyone ran on foot and marched at a high speed of nearly seven or eight miles in a row. Everyone was tired with crooked armor. On one side, they were running and discarded armor, and on the other side, they were chasing and discarded armor. However, at least they finally caught up with the officers and soldiers on the road and did not let them escape to the village in front.

The disadvantage of Xing Tianjun is that his ability to attack is not strong. Once the officers and soldiers are allowed to escape into that village, then their trip will be in vain. Although it is not as difficult as attacking Longzhou City with the ability of Xing Tianjun, even if they fight down this Zhuangzi, I'm afraid The price to be paid is much higher than that of the field.

When they fought against Lijiazhuang, they spent a few days and paid the price of more than 100 people killed in battle before they invaded Lijiazhuang. It was still based on the fact that they had disintegrated Zhuang Ding's morale in advance, and they dealt with Zhuang Ding Xiangyong of Lijiazhuang.

Today, what they are going to deal with is a well-trained officer and army under the command of He Renlong. If they are allowed to enter the village to control Zhuangzi, he can directly go back to the house and go to the camp outside Longzhou City, so he can't see the fat in his mouth run away like this, so he risks to order his men. He will move forward lightly, and there will be an urgent march with a large load.

Fortunately, before Xing Tianjun became an army, Xiao Tianjian paid great attention to the physical training of the soldiers and generals. It was almost a three-kilometer to five-kilometer cross-country run every morning, which was not for nothing.

When they began to march in a hurry today, the results of the previous drills appeared, and the leggings assigned to the generals also showed superiority. Running all the way down, there were very few soldiers who fell out of the Xingtian Army. In order to catch up with the officers and the army, these fallen soldiers were ordered to slow down and the artillery behind them. The team and the troops converged, and then slowly came. In this way, the speed of their march was more than doubled, and finally they caught up with them before the officers fled into Zhuangzi.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers had given up and continued to run away, Xiao Tianjian was relieved. The other party was obviously also very experienced. He knew that if he continued to run like this, he was afraid that he would run and collapse without waiting for them to escape into Zhuangzi. Instead of being chased by the Xing Tianjun, it was better to stop on the spot and seize the terrain and let go. So Xiao Tianjian shouted, "All of them are! Slow down! Start lining up!"

After receiving this order, Xing Tianjun, who had already run into a long snake array, slowed down one after another, opened his mouth one by one, gasped quickly, and began to gather together under the command of their respective officers, gradually adjusting his breathing to make his body slow. Recover.

The marching drum once again sounded in their queue, but this time it was fast and then slow, gradually adjusting the rhythm, so that the array of Xing Tianjun began to restore order after a period of rapid speed, and gathered together, making the array become neat and thick until they reached the officers. Under the occupied mound, when it was still about 200 steps away from the officers and soldiers, Xiao Tianjian's cry sounded in the team: "Stop moving forward!"

After the drummer who hit the marching drum hit two accents in a row, the drum stopped abruptly, and Xing Tianjun's team also roared and stopped together, and there was a sound of broken steps to adjust the formation, and soon calmed down.

At this time, the officers and soldiers on the mound were still busy arranging the array. The officers shouted and scolded for a moment. The auxiliary soldiers were still in a panic to arrange some barracks and refuse horses with ready-made tools in front of their hands. He Fang looked at the thief army from far to near, and his eyes were almost stared out of his eyes.

He has never seen an army like the thief army in front of him recover from the long snake array of the urgent march into a dense phalanx in such a short time. Xing Tianjun's performance was almost beyond his ability to understand. He couldn't figure out how this thief army did this, let alone think of the thief. After a long and urgent march, why did the army calm down so quickly? No one fell to the ground and gasped.

Look at the officers and soldiers behind him who once made He Renlong proud. How far they have run, and they are not rushing on their way like the thief army below. Many people are already lying on the ground at this time, gasping like a broken bellows.

Only this was just above, and the height of the two armies suddenly appeared, and He Fang's heart suddenly sank. He finally understood why Huang Qiang was almost killed by this thief army on the Dashi Bridge.

So far, among the armies he has seen, except for the 3,000 Guanning iron riders under Cao Wenzhao's command, which can be compared with this criminal army, it has not been found that the quality of a soldier and horse can catch up with the quality of the thief army in front of him. How long will it take to train such a soldier and horse? He Fang's heart tightened and cried secretly.

It can't be a thieves who just became an army in Yanyang! If he wants to train such a soldier and horse and give it to him, he thinks that it will take him at least three years to reach this level, which also needs to fully ensure the supply of grain and salary of soldiers. If not, even if he is given ten years, I'm afraid he will not be able to practice such a performance. The soldiers are coming.

"Stand up for me! Hurry up! If anyone doesn't get up again, cut him off!" After such a comparison, He Fang became nervous, but on the other hand, he felt that his face was lightless, so he turned around and shouted at his men who were still messing behind him.

The officers waved the whips and beat the paralyzed soldiers sitting on the ground. The officers and soldiers stood up cursingly and grabbed the weapons before arranging the array.

Xiao Tianjian let the sweat flow down his neck into his clothes. He took the rein from the iron head, turned over the saddle and jumped on the war horse. He took a few deep breaths of air and gradually slowed down the beating heart. He was covered with more than 30 catties of scales on his body and ran all the way with his men. He was not tired. That's fake, but he has gained good physical strength through exercise since he was a teenager, and now he has finally played an advantage, so that he can recover quickly after he stops running.

But after all, his situation is more special. For his subordinates, although they have kept up with the pace of the urgent march, their physical consumption is still very large. They stand in the team one by one, gasping like a bellows, sweating out of sweat pores like a spring, and their clothes on their bodies are also It was soaked in sweat and stuck to the body.

"Sit down, everyone rest for a quarter of an hour! Drink some water!" Xiao Tianjian looked at the group of officers and soldiers who were still lining up on the mound and waved his hand to the generals behind him.

With a crash, the neat Xingtian army's phalanx was like a low tide. They sat down together, leaving only those flag bearers with gun flags and Shichangs standing in the battle, so that the soldiers could also see their positions after sitting down.

Everyone immediately took off the bamboo tube with clean water from their waist or the water bag sewn with cowhide and drank it. However, Xing Tianjun also had requirements in this regard. After the urgent march, he could not drink a lot of water. He could only drink some to avoid water poisoning. These things were forced by Xiao Tianjian. Go, otherwise, just this rush march can turn over a large group of people by drinking water.

Xiao Tianjian also took off the cowhide water bag at his waist, took a few sips, and moistened his throat. After a while, he swallowed it. The burning feeling in his mouth was finally much better. He looked at the officer on the mound again, and his violent heartbeat began to calm down slowly.

"sent someone over! Tell these officers and soldiers that they have no way to go! It's better for them to surrender now. We will never kill and surrender! As long as they put down their weapons and hand over their armor, stay if they are willing to go with us, and those who don't want to go with us, we will give them travel information and let them go home! I will give them a stick of time to think about it. If they are obsessed, then don't blame us for being rude! At that time, they will regret it!" Adhering to the principle of salute before soldiers, Xiao Tianjian ordered Tietou that before noon, He Renlong sent someone to persuade Xiao Tianjian to surrender. Before night, Xiao Tianjian sent someone to surrender to the officers and soldiers. It was really impermanent!

Tietou nodded and stretched out his hand and nodded a personal guard. He didn't even say a word. The personal guard nodded and stroked his chest. He immediately turned over his horse and held a small flag to urge the horse to rush towards the army occupying the mound.

As soon as the officers and soldiers saw that the thief army had taken action, they sent a thief to them. As soon as He Fang waved his hand, several archers put an arrow at the bottom of the mound together. Several arrows crossed the air and fell under the mound, forming a line under the mound, which was a warning that the enemy should not approach. Before.

The personal guard pulled the rein of the horse in the position of these arrows, turned the flagpole in his hand to the ground, and shouted on his back to the mound, "We General Xiao said! I advise you to give up your arms and surrender as soon as possible! You have no way to go! Our Xing Tianjun is not easy to kill. Anyone who surrenders will never kill. Those who are willing to work with us can stay. If you don't want to stay, our General Xiao will pay the Sichuan road fee and allow you to return to your hometown! I hope the officers and soldiers can take care of themselves and don't work for the government anymore! Our general will give you time to consider a piece of incense. After a piece of incense, if you don't surrender, we will launch an attack! Don't miss this opportunity!"

The officers and soldiers on the mountain suddenly got up slightly, because they also had two eyes. They saw that the thieves who caught up were all soldiers and generals. Just now, their gathering the array made a chill in many people's hearts. They knew that today they had encountered a terrible one. Opponent.

People have the instinct to survive. Many of them are soldiers, but they don't come to be loyal to the royal family, and most people just want to make a living. In the first few years, there was a drought in Shaanxi, and many people had no food to eat and starve to death. Some people went to become thieves and rely on family robbery to survive, while others left home and threw themselves into it. The officers and soldiers eat food. Over the years, they have followed He Renlong to fight in the north and killed a lot of people. But today, they are a little afraid, because they have heard the news of Huang Qiang's team. Even Huang Qiang's team was almost defeated by this thief army, so they didn't have the confidence when they first fought. .

When they heard the conditions of the thief army, some timid people began to come alive and whispered in the battle, making a buzzing sound.

After hearing this, He Fang suddenly became angry. He was He Renlong's distant nephew. He followed He Renlong as a soldier for many years before he got into this boss. He relied on his military achievements. He didn't know how much blood he had in his hands and let him surrender. It was simply a joke. He didn't believe that the thief army would keep him from killing, and Let him go back!

What's more, the thief obviously looked down on him and the officers and soldiers under him at all. His tone seemed that He Fang's officers and soldiers were simply the pork on their chopping board of the thief's army, allowing them to deal with it as they wanted, which made He Fang feel a strong sense of humiliation. Although he admitted that the thief army did perform extraordinary, it did not mean that his officers and soldiers had to be captured in the face of them. After all, He Fang was also a general under He Renlong. How could he feel embarrassed to be looked down on by these thieves so much?

So without saying a word, he took off the strong bow of one stone and two buckets he used to from behind the saddle, reached out and pulled out an arrow branch from the quiver, put on the string, staggered his legs and stood firmly. As soon as he twisted his waist, he only heard a creak, and pulled the hard bow to a full moon. As soon as he aimed slightly, he immediately loosened the bow string. .

Hearing the sound of the bow string, he shot the arrow out, fell down to the mound, and flew straight to the chest of the thief who came to persuade him to surrender.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian's voice fell, he saw a sharp arrow flying out of the army and came straight to him. He was suddenly shocked. He leaned over and fell on the horse's neck. The sharp arrow flew over his shoulder and almost hit him. In the forerunner's heart, he was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat, and he rushed to Xing Tianjun's army.

Xiao Tianjian clenched his fist and sneered, "If you don't drink a toast, then let them see the power of our Xing Tianjun! ......”