Chapter 159 Hexi Village Outpost 1

Li Shuanzhu stood on the Zhuangmen of Hexi Village and looked into the north road outside the village. He saw a group of flags and soldiers gradually appear on the road of Zhuangbei. His eyes began to become fierce and shouted in a low voice, "Start loading!"

A group of fire gun hands stood on the wall of Zhuang, immediately put down the bird gun on his shoulder, took out the paper shell bullet from the leather box at his waist, began to bite open the wax paper shell, and poured the gunpowder into the gun tube...

The speed of the officers and soldiers still came beyond Li Shuanzhu's expectations. Originally, he thought that Qinyang's officers and soldiers would not rise up until two or three days later. In that case, he would have more time to prepare for the battle.

Since he got the news from Feng Gouzi, he began to speed up the construction of the wall of Hexi Village, and took people to dig a trench outside the village, so that the excavated earth and stone built a low wall outside the trench, forming a ring fortification outside the village. After finishing this, he took people outside the village wall again. Dig a deep trench to enhance the defense ability of Hexi Village.

Judging from the news sent by Feng Gouzi, the number of officers and soldiers gathered in the direction of Qinyang this time exceeded 3,000, but his men only have 400 troops, and the military strength of the two sides is very different. Therefore, even if the Xingtian army is very brave and good at fighting, it is impossible for him to risk taking these 400 soldiers out of the village to fight head-on. The number of officers and soldiers is seven or eight times more than theirs, so he can only use Hexi Village as a stronghold to prevent these officers and soldiers from entering Yangcheng.

At present, Xiao Tianjian led Yan Chongxi and Luo Li's two sentries to Yuanqu County. He and Zhao Er donkey and Jiang Cheng were the only three sentries left in Yangcheng. This time, the officers and soldiers entered Yangcheng in three ways. Except for some of Shi Ran's scouts and more than a thousand new recruits from Liu Bao in Dongye Town, he can't expect anyone to help him again. Therefore, he can only rely on the 400 soldiers at hand to block the officers and soldiers coming from Qinyang. Otherwise, once they break through the pass of Hexi Village and go straight into the boundary of Yangcheng, their hard work for more than half a year may be in vain. Not to mention that the summer grain can't be collected, the local people must not know that they will also How many were killed.

Therefore, even if there is a great difference between him and the officers and the army, his sentry can't take half a step back. Only by supporting Xiao Tianjian and leading his troops to help can he solve this problem.

However, even so, Li Shuanzhu is not afraid. After all, his generals are all tough soldiers who have been rigorously trained. Compared with ordinary officers and soldiers, villagers, they are not of a grade at all. What's more, he has more than a hundred birds in his hand, as well as several small Fran machines and three nine-headed birds. With this Guys, if this officer wants to break through Hexi Village and rush into the boundary of Yangcheng, it is impossible not to kill 8,000 people!

Moreover, what Li Shuanzhu is more confident about is the will of his soldiers and generals. After more than a year of following Xiao Tianjian, all of his new and old subordinates are beaten like iron. There are few people who are greedy and afraid of death. Xiao Tianjian always tells them that soldiers are fine but not many, and Xing Tian The elite military route has made them not suffer losses no matter who they are facing for more than a year. Xing Tianjun has already formed this psychological advantage, and they don't know what fear is at all.

In the morning, when the scouts reported that the officers and soldiers had set out from Qinshui County and rushed straight to Hexi Village, Li Shuanzhu asked the subordinates who were under construction outside the village to finish the work, returned to the village to rest, and invited all kinds of royal objects they had prepared these days to fight. Prepare.

And Qinshui County to Hexi Village is only more than ten miles away. Xing Tianjun often sent troops to rob large households in Qinshui County before and after the Spring Festival, which made everyone in danger to the local large households in Qinshui County and was destroyed by Xing Tianjun. Because of the matter of Xing Tianjun, a group of officials in Qinshui County have long been unable to sleep and eat for this, only I'm afraid that Qinshui County will also become the next Yangcheng County, so this time when Wu Yong ordered the third way to enter Yangcheng, Qinshui County reacted most quickly. In addition to quickly summoning thousands of villagers in the local area, it also organized 10,000 taels of salary and a lot of grain for the officers and soldiers to punish the day. The army carried out the advance and suppress.

In this way, the officers and soldiers gathered in Qinshui County had nothing to say, so after getting enough money, they sent troops to attack Yangcheng County.

There is only one road from Qinshui County to Yangcheng County, and the rest are some narrow country roads, which can't let a large number of officers and soldiers pass at all. Therefore, if they want to enter the boundary of Yangcheng, they must pass through Hexi Village, which is located next to the road.

Originally, when the officers and soldiers gathered in Qinshui County, they gathered directly in the south of the county, so as soon as the officers and soldiers set out, it didn't take long to arrive at Hexi Village.

They also know the situation about the officers and soldiers of Hexi Village who came here to attack the Xingtian Army this time. They know that Hexi Village has long been a garrison of the Xingtian Army and sent troops of the Xingtian Army to garrison, so before departure, they had already sent several agents to inquire about the defense of Hexi Village.

Although some of these detailed spies were arrested, some people still ran back to the Qinshui officer's military camp and told the situation here to the general in charge of the army. This time, it was a guard surnamed Xu who was responsible for the commanding the attack of the Xingtian army in Qinshui County. After learning that there were only 400 people left to guard Hexi Village. On the right, he suddenly became happy. He also heard of the power of the Xing Tianjun. More than two months ago, in the first battle of Beiliu, the Xing Tianjun defeated Niu Tai's 4,000 soldiers and horses by 2,000 people. The officers and soldiers killed were scattered. Niu Tai also escaped back and was arrested and executed. Originally, he was afraid of the attack on Xing Tianjun this time. But when he heard the news, he was immediately relieved. Three thousand to four hundred, and most of his hands were still officers and soldiers. Thinking about it with his buttocks, he could also guess who was strong and who was weak. If three thousand people could not beat Zhuangzi, who was guarded by 400 thieves, then there was no need for him to go down again.

So after finding out the strength of the garrison of Hexi Village, he no longer delayed and immediately rushed to Hexi Village. Before noon, the officers and soldiers entered outside Hexi Village.

At this time, Xu Jianshi stopped and looked at Hexi Village. Although this place guarded the road from Yangcheng to Qinshui, Hexi Village was just a small village after all. The wall of the village was neither high nor solid. The thieves only guarded the place with this. It only built a low wall outside the village, which was not easy to defend at all. It is difficult to attack. Such a Zhuangzi is everywhere in the surrounding area and other places. Usually, it can prevent dozens or hundreds of thieves to attack Zhuangzi, and it is absolutely difficult to stop the siege of the army.

And Xing Tianjun only wanted to prevent the officers and soldiers from passing through. Obviously, he looked down on the officers and soldiers too much, so this Xu Jushi was more confident. He immediately took the soldiers and horses, and the generals who came everywhere under his command attracted them in front of him and asked them. He said, "You have also seen the situation here. I don't know who is willing to take the lead and capture this village?"

All the officers who came with the army also looked at the situation in Xihe Village and couldn't help but feel a little happy. They felt that such a village was not a problem for them to take this place.

So a Mr. Qian immediately punched Xu and said loudly, "I want to talk to Xu, Ma is willing to lead the troops to pull out this village!" Open the way for adults!"

Xu Yi took a look. Ma Chengliang is a Qianzong of Fushanwei. He brought a battalion of soldiers and horses this time, with a total of about 500 people. In the current situation, it is already valuable for a thousand households to mobilise 500 soldiers and generals. Normally, a hundred households There should be 112 soldiers, and a thousand households control ten hundred households. If it is full, there should be 1,120 soldiers. However, at present, among the guards, there are many deserters. In a thousand households like Mr. Ma Qian, it is quite good to mobilize two or three hundred people, but Mr. Ma Qian has transferred 500 at once. Soldiers, it can be seen that this person is more or less good at controlling troops.

So Xu Yi nodded and said, "Since Ma Qian always has this ambition, I am here to wait for the good news. Come on, beat the drum to cheer for Mr. Ma Qian. I hope that Mr. Ma Qian will achieve success in the battle and don't fall the prestige of our officers and soldiers! In addition, the general's cannon was placed in front of the army and fired a cannon to bombard the thief army!"

After listening to this, Mr. Ma Qian immediately walked to his team with his head up and pulled out his waist knife. The soldiers shouted, "Brothers, it's time to use you today. You have also got the soldiers're supposed to receive. Now don't pretend to be a grandson!" Shangfeng said that this time, when he entered Yangcheng to suppress the bandits, he killed one thief and rewarded five taels of silver. These thieves are fat and oily. Kill the thief with me!"

After listening to Mr. Ma Qian's encouragement, hundreds of his men were also interested, so they shook their arms and shouted one after another: "Kill the thief! Kill the thief..."

After the sound of the war drums, Mr. Ma Qian led his 500 soldiers, shouted and carried some ladders, holding shields, and rushed to Hexi Village.

Li Shuanzhu always stood on the wall of Zhuang and watched the situation of the officers and soldiers. This flag of the officers and soldiers was mixed. Obviously, it was not from the officers and soldiers from one place, but by several officers and soldiers. The equipment situation was also very ordinary. There were only three medium-sized Fran machine guns and several tiger squatting guns, and it was obviously not fully utilized. It was just scattered and carried out of the army. Chen Bu was outside the village. After all, the range of the tiger squat gun was limited. The officers had to carry these tiger squat guns only 60 or 70 steps away from the low wall outside the village. It was set up there. A group of gunners were busy and began to load it. It seemed that they planned to open the way with cannons and forcibly attack the village.

And there were 500 generals among the officers and soldiers, who lined up in front of the battle, and in a short time, they made a shout of killing thieves and rushed towards Zhuangzi.

Li Shuanzhu showed a ferocious smile at the corners of his mouth and immediately shouted, "Brothers, these officers and soldiers are so much that they underestimate our Xing Tianjun so much. Give them some strength!"