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But what they are facing at the moment is a soldier who has been training for two years.

All the members were wearing leather armor and cotton clothes, and the spearmen and wolf soldiers were hiding behind the sword and shield hands.Not only is it covered by a wooden shield, but the wolf's whisk can also withstand part of the bow and arrow.

Finally, Huang Yao had reached the other side of the road and started to march forward.

As for Jiang Dashan, he was still on the detour. Once he arrived at the position, he would be able to encircle the officers and soldiers on three sides.

"kill!"

Yang Jiamo made a decisive decision. Before the rebels closed in, they all rushed towards Li Zheng, wanting to destroy all the rebels first.

These servants have no formation at all. They are cavalrymen and have not been trained in infantry formation.

That is to rely on the whole body to wear armor and charge forward with a waist knife.

Their waist knives are also different, lighter and thinner than infantry sabers, which are used to hunt down defeated soldiers on horseback.

"Wolf whisk!"

The three-meter-long wolf whisk constituted the first barrier.

The servants, with their left arms protecting their necks and faces, rushed into the wolf trap like that.This kind of magic weapon against light infantry, when encountering armored soldiers, its power is greatly reduced, and it was quickly killed by the servants.

"Raise the gun!"

The spearman began to stab wildly, and the rattan player also hid behind the shield, drew out his waist knife and slashed at the enemies who rushed in.

The servant who ran the fastest had a long spear on his chest and abdomen. After the point of the spear pierced through the cotton armor, he was successfully blocked by the chain mail, and he was still rushing forward with a knife.Zhao Han's subordinates are all ordinary long spears. To face this kind of armored soldiers, they have to use special armor-piercing line guns, but they have higher requirements for casting technology.

"Poke the calf!"

Li Zheng roared.

Lined with chain mail, covering only the crotch.The outer cotton armor battle skirt is basically above the knees, which not only reduces weight, but also makes it easier to get on and off the horse.

The spearmen switched to poking their calves one after another, but the leather armor facing them couldn't stop them, and more than 20 servants were poked down one after another.

But more and more servants rushed up, and their bodies almost hit the shield.They also had no way to strike, they didn't know where to swing their knives, so they could only use the force of the collision to try to break up the shield formation.

The servants' weapons are not for attacking fortifications, that kind of saber is thin and light.

Yang Jiamo's mind went blank. When plundering the countryside, due to the poor terrain, the servants could not give full play to their advantages.But here is the streets and alleys, hundreds of armored elites can't beat the same number of rebels?

In Yang Jiamo's established impression, he should be crushed immediately!

Seeing Huang Yao leading troops to attack behind him, he was about to be attacked from both sides.Yang Jiamo couldn't care less about his servants anymore, he turned around and rushed to the base of the city, looked at the county magistrate with resentment, and quickly sat down in the basket.

If this bastard magistrate and these city guards opened the city gate immediately, Yang Jiamo and his servants would all be able to enter.

Even if they went around to the East City Gate later, they could still enter the city. How could the rebels be able to get in because the armored elites blocked the entrance?

Seeing that Yang Jiamo ran away hanging from the basket, Fei Yinggong was afraid that the officers and soldiers would not understand, so he immediately shouted in Mandarin: "The thief has escaped, the thief has escaped!"

Because the two sides were fighting together, a thousand archers did not dare to shoot any more arrows. At this moment, they followed Fei Yinggong and shouted: "The thief has fled, the thief has fled!"

It's just that the mandarin is not standard enough, with a strong Jiangxi accent.

But that was enough. The generals of their own side fled, and they had to face pincer attacks from both front and back. These servants lost all fighting spirit in an instant, and put down their weapons one after another to beg for surrender.

Only two officers who ran fast were also hung up in baskets.

There are only two family servants that I have saved for more than ten years, and Yang Jiamo's heart is bleeding.He looked at Zhixian viciously: "You are fine, fine, fine!"

Xie Longwen bit the bullet and argued: "The rebels are too close, if they open the city gate, the rebels will definitely take the opportunity to kill them."

"Kill your mother!"

Yang Jiamo grabbed Xie Longwen's lapel, "I am blocked by hundreds of soldiers at the city gate, how could I be killed by rebels!"

Xie Longwen was a serious Jinshi, and at this moment he was also angry: "I have the responsibility to guard the land, and no mistakes are allowed."

If it wasn't for the fact that the other party was a civil servant, Yang Jiamo would have wanted to throw this guy down.

A seventh-rank civil servant is also a civil servant.

Since he couldn't vent his anger with the magistrate, Yang Jiamo could only take out his bow and arrow, aim condescendingly, and shoot at Li Zheng who was receiving the soldiers.

call out!

Li Zheng fell down in response, and the soldiers around him panicked, dragging them to retreat a long way.

The arrow pierced through Li Zheng's left cheek, and two of his back molars were shot off, and it just wobbled into his face.

Yang Jiamo turned around and aimed at Huang Yao on the other side. He shoots a lot of arrows in the streets, but it is very easy to aim at the target in the city.Huang Yao subconsciously raised his arm to block the arrow, and was shot in the left arm by an arrow, and quickly hid behind the wooden shield.

This product is really a sharpshooter!

Fei Yinggong stepped forward a few steps, mixed with the spearmen, and quickly returned an arrow.

The shot was right, but it was a pity that it got stuck on the cotton armor, making it difficult to cause damage to Yang Jiamo.

Xie Longwen felt that it was effective, and asked, "Why doesn't the general continue to shoot?"

Yang Jiamo didn't bother to answer, he just stepped back and said, "Think about how to defend the city!"

Xie Longwen was silent, full of resentment in his heart, if Yang Jiamo hadn't plundered the rebels' territory, how could these rebels come to besiege the city?

The servants outside the city were ordered to take off their armor and weapons, and then they were escorted outside the moat and tied up.

Hundreds of sets of iron armor and cotton armor!

This kind of chain armor, to be precise, is a chain armor. It is called "steel wire chain armor" in "Wu Bei Zhi", and it is called "chain mail" in North Korea and the Qing Dynasty.

As early as the mid-Ming Dynasty, there was already wrought iron wire drawing technology.

Fei Yinggong looked at the armor all over the floor, and instantly became jealous, and wanted to go back and ask Zhao Han for a pair.

On the banks of the Gan River, the navy of Gujianshan did not fight seriously at all.

After he unloaded the soldiers at the pier, he turned around and surrounded the officers and soldiers ships.After the siege, it was found that not only the guards on the ship had run away, but even the boatmen had been oiled, leaving only three empty boats by the river.

Not counting an empty boat, most of the money and food that was full were snatched from the gentry's house!

Soon, Gu Jianshan received the news, and he immediately dispatched sailors to carry the captured armor and weapons outside the city.

Surrounding Fengcheng County.

Chapter 178 [Encircling Wei and Rescuing Zhao]

There were originally hundreds of guard soldiers brought by Yang Jiamo to plunder, but most of them fled back home in the chaos.

There were only dozens of people, who belonged to Nanchang Wei, and ran back to report the letter one after another.

Seven of the first batch went back, and they ran for their lives from the middle of the afternoon until late at night.On the way, they were tired and hungry, killed and expelled the people in the dark, ate something and lay down on the bed to rest.

By the evening of the next day, the city gates of Nanchang were almost closed, and the seven people finally rushed back to Nanchangwei.

In fact, there was a merchant ship from Fengcheng Wharf that day, spreading the news to Nanchang.However, no details were provided. These guard soldiers fled back and were immediately taken to see Governor Li Maofang by the commander of Nanchang Guard.

Li Maofang asked: "Why was Mr. Yang chased to Fengcheng?"

A guard soldier replied: "Mr. Yang took us to the countryside to suppress the bandits, and ransacked the houses of some landlords who were thieves. Those landlords have a lot of money and food in their homes, and they haven't finished moving for two hours..."

"To shut up!"

Li Maofang was furious, and urged: "Tell me about the war, it's no problem how to rob the gentry."

The soldier of the guard quickly said: "We were moving things, and two or three thousand rebels came to kill us. Mr. Yang won the battle first, and chased and killed the rebels. The rebels ran so fast that they couldn't catch up The troops can be withdrawn. As soon as Chief Yang withdrew, the rebels came back, and the sailors who dragged the rebels arrived. General Yang disembarked outside Fengcheng County and led the troops into the city."

"Fleeing into the city?" Li Maofang asked.

"I didn't see clearly." The soldiers of the guard shook their heads. They only cared about running for their lives, and they didn't dare to approach the county town, so they didn't know what was going on there.

Li Maofang asked again: "Why didn't you go to the city with Mr. Yang?"

The soldiers of the guard were weeping: "At that time, we were rushing to get off the boat. Mr. Yang was afraid that he would not be able to run fast, so he asked his servants to kill our Jiangxi local soldiers, saying that they blocked his way to get off the boat. We were not beaten away by the rebels, but by Mr. Yang. The servants of the town were killed and scattered."

Li Maofang was speechless for a moment, he could imagine how embarrassed Yang Jiamo was at that time.

When Yang Jiamo fought in the north, he always left his infantry behind.To put it bluntly, it is to let the infantry stop the enemy, and lead the servants to ride on horseback.But when he arrived in Jiangxi, he couldn't ride a horse, and his servant was wearing iron armor, so he couldn't run even if he wanted to.

Dong Xiangheng, a military officer in Jiangzhou, is training the navy at Poyang Lake.

Li Maofang sent someone to summon Dong Xiangheng, and at the same time invited officials from the Third Division of Jiangxi to discuss matters.

Ding Kuichu, the Zuo Buzheng envoy, was the one who asked for money but not his life. In the end, he surrendered and his whole family was killed.

Right chief envoy Zhang Bingwen, this man died a heroic death in history.

He was the Zuobu political envoy of Shandong at that time, and the Tartars entered the pass to attack Jinan.The eunuch stood up high and held heavy soldiers in his hands, and shrank in Linqing, not daring to move.Zu Broadband came with reinforcements, but waited and hesitated, afraid of the enemy and dared not fight.

Zhang Bingwen mobilized the people in the city and defended the city for half a month, but the city gate was breached on the second day of the Lunar New Year.He also led the people to engage in street fighting with the Tartars. He was outnumbered and killed by an arrow.A total of more than ten of his wives, concubines and maids threw themselves into the lake.

The Jiangxi procurator is called Wu Shiliang, and he is 85 years old this year. This old man was only 69 years old when he was awarded a Jinshi.Historically, he also donated 10 taels of silver to recruit soldiers for the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty. He was 97 years old when he resigned and returned home due to illness.

The Jiangxi capital is temporarily vacant. He died of illness some time ago, and the court has not yet made a new appointment.

"The rebels attacked Fengcheng, and General Yang was besieged in the city," Li Maofang sighed, "Let's talk about it, should we send reinforcements?"

Ding Kuichu quickly said: "Don't fall into the trick of the rebels to divert the tiger away from the mountain. What if we rescue and the rebels attack Nanchang?"

Zhang Bingwen asked: "How many soldiers are available in Jiangxi?"

Li Maofang replied: "There are only one or two thousand soldiers who can fight, and the rest are newly trained soldiers. The navy has suffered heavy losses in the summer, and I am afraid that they are not the opponents of the anti-thief sailors. Yang Zongzhen has hundreds of soldiers." The elite are all warriors from the north."

"Only one or two thousand soldiers to fight?" Ding Kuichu was so startled that his back felt cold.

Li Maofang sighed: "There are more than 1 recruits, and they have only been trained for two or three months. The Luling Zhao bandits are notorious, and these recruits may not dare to fight with them."

Zhang Bingwen suddenly said: "Zhang Yinggao, the magistrate of Guangxin, has [-] powerful soldiers in his hands, and he is currently suppressing bandits in Nanfeng County. You can order him to send troops to attack Jishui, and go straight to the rear of the Zhao bandit. This will have a miraculous effect of besieging Wei and saving Zhao."

"This plan is feasible," Li Maofang asked Wu Shiliang again, "What is the old man's idea?"

Wu Shiliang, 85 years old, seemed to be falling asleep while sitting there. He half-closed his eyes and said, "When we find out the truth, are the hundreds of soldiers in Yang Zongzhen's hands still there? If they are, Fengcheng County will save them." If they are not there, it is useless to save them. Those hundreds of soldiers are the key, they are the only elite soldiers in Jiangxi! Without those soldiers, Nanchang is in the pocket of the rebels. When they are taken away, it depends on It's just Zhao thief's mood."

This truth made everyone speechless for a moment.

"Ah!"

Zhang Bingwen suddenly slapped the table: "Yang Jiamo is a good-looking thief, he ran to the rebels' territory to plunder, and made the situation like this!"

At this moment, there was a governor's attendant standing at the door.

"Commander, there is an urgent military situation."

"Come in."

The attendant bowed into the room, bowed his hands to everyone, and said: "Fengcheng County has a messenger to report, and a gentleman named Wang Tingshi is asking to see him."

"Bring them all in," Li Maofang said.

Not long after, Wang Tingshi and the messenger entered the room together, and all the officials stood up and bowed to each other.

Wang Ting tried to return the salute, and said excitedly: "My lords, I heard that the rebels have besieged Fengcheng, and my Wang family business is all in Nanchang. I ask the governor and your lords for permission. I will pay to recruit two thousand soldiers to defend Nanchang city."

Everyone was overjoyed.

Li Maofang took Wang Tingshi's hand and said: "With the help of the public, Nanchang will have no worries."

Wang Tingshi said awe-inspiringly: "Defending the homeland is just my duty."

Although Wang Tingshi was dismissed from office and lived at leisure, he was a local gentry and was willing to recruit two thousand soldiers to help fight the war. He was immediately regarded by many officials as his own.

For such an important meeting, Wang Tingshi stayed and listened directly.

Li Maofang asked the messenger, "How did you leave the city?"

The courier replied: "The magistrate rewarded 20 taels of silver, and sent more than a dozen messengers to go out of the city in baskets at night. The villain didn't know about the other couriers. The villain swam quietly across the moat and went to the riverside day and night. It took five qian silver to come to Nanchang by boat."

"Is Mr. Yang's servant still there?" Wu Shiliang asked suddenly.

The courier replied: "It's a bit damaged, and there are three or four hundred left."

The courier handed over the letter, and the officials checked it carefully, and it was indeed the seal of the magistrate of Fengcheng.

The messenger knelt down and kowtowed: "Masters, please send troops to rescue Fengcheng!"

……

Fengcheng County, city tower.

Yang Jiamo, the commander-in-chief, and Xie Longwen, the county magistrate, sat in the tower facing each other to eat.

No matter what kind of enmity there is, they are all grasshoppers on the same rope, and they have temporarily reached a cooperation.

How to cooperate?