And behind him, there were only dozens of cavalrymen riding the same style. After the cavalry came the infantry who also held weapons and wore armor.
Seeing the situation here, the bandit couldn't help but said to Guo Shizhang who was leaving the city, "Guo Shizhang, what do you mean?"
Guo Shizhang did not respond. Instead, it was only after the hundred or so soldiers left the city that the city gate behind them closed again.
Looking at the door that was closed again, the bandit still didn't understand.
It's just that he couldn't understand why Guo Shizhang, who just said he wanted to surrender, suddenly changed his mind just after going downstairs.
And most importantly. At first he thought that since Guo Shizhang dared to fight, there must be a thousand soldiers hidden in the city no matter what.
However, when these one hundred soldiers appeared at the city gate, he almost felt that all this seemed ridiculous.
"Guo Shizhang, you sent a hundred soldiers to challenge, you are probably out of your mind!" Because of this, even when the bandit leader saw Guo Shizhang coming to challenge, his tone was filled with indifferent ridicule. mean.
However, after Guo Shizhang came down, he stopped the chatty side he had just been at the top of the city.
Now he was facing the bandit leader and he didn't want to say any nonsense. After all, in order to delay time in the city just now, he felt that he had spent half his life talking nonsense.
At the same time, I saw him swiping his Huajian directly forward and saying "Kill!"
As soon as he issued the order with a killing intent, the bandit leader realized that the other party seemed to be serious, and judging from the state of the soldiers, they seemed to be very brave. After Guo Shizhang's killing order, As soon as they landed, they immediately rushed forward.
Suddenly, the two thousand bandits were shocked by the bravery of the one hundred soldiers.
Even in their first confrontation, this group of people was so frightened that they even wanted to retreat. Therefore, in their first confrontation, the bandits still felt like they had failed in the first battle.
Seeing this situation, the bandit leader finally realized something.
Then he immediately said to the others, "Are you all tuberculosis? They only have about a hundred people, but we have more than two thousand people! Could it be that our two thousand people can't defeat their one hundred people?" ?」
Facing the reprimand of the bandit leader, the bandits who had originally retreated finally came to their senses, and then they finally began to prepare to regain their ground.
However, at this moment, not far away, shouts of killing suddenly came from all over the mountains and plains.
At this time, the sky had turned gloomy, and the dust rolled up by the horse hooves made it difficult for the bandit leaders to see how many people were outflanking them from both sides.
At the same time, the hundred or so people who were fighting head-on were already exhausted in this one-to-many battle. However, when they heard the cry of killing, they felt their morale was boosted! Guo Shizhang, who was on the horse, raised his arms and shouted, "Soldiers! Yunzhou reinforcements are coming! Everyone, kill me!"
His shout was not only heard by the hundred or so soldiers in the melee, but also the bandits who only heard Guo Shizhang's words.
In an instant, all the people in the audience had pale faces.
The name of the Yunzhou Frontier Army is loud. These two thousand people are looking for death if they confront the Yunzhou Frontier Army.
And the bandit leader finally understood why Guo Shizhang dared to fight with a hundred or two thousand of them. He must have been sure that Yunzhou had reinforcements that could deal with their rabble.
Once he realized this, even the bandit leader had no intention of dealing with others at this moment. He only looked fiercely at the group of men who had been scared out of their wits when they heard that Yunzhou reinforcements were coming.
Let alone letting them deal with these hundreds of people at this moment, they just trampled to death many of their own people just to escape for their lives.
The bandit leader saw that the situation was over, and he was also afraid of the Yunzhou border troops, so when all his men retreated, he simply waved his hand and said, "Everyone, retreat with me!"
With the order from the bandit leader, other bandits will follow suit
Running faster.
The bandit leader watched the group of bandits retreat without any emotion in his heart.
As these bandits only care about escaping for their lives, they will naturally not care about these hostages.
And Guo Shizhang laughed sincerely when he saw them scrambling and being defeated.
Then, when the people around him wanted to chase the group of people, he took the initiative and said, "Don't chase the poor bandits! Everyone, come back!"
Although there were still people who wanted to chase them, they also remembered Guo Shizhang's words, so after killing some bandits hanging behind them, they naturally stopped chasing those bandits.
When the soldiers on the city tower saw the defeat of the bandits, they naturally cheered loudly to the soldiers guarding the city downstairs and shouted, "We won! The bandits have escaped! Open the city gate to welcome the king's division!"
As soon as they heard the cheers from the tower, the people below the tower immediately opened the city gate again.
At this time, not only the outer city gate was opened, but the inner city gate was also completely opened.
Even the wealthy businessmen and people in the city spontaneously prepared fine wine and food to welcome the Yunzhou border troops. Those wealthy businessmen naturally wanted to curry favor with the border troops, and by the way, they wanted to flatter Magistrate Guo, and they were the people in the city. I also just want to have a glimpse of the Yunzhou frontier army.
At the stall where the people in the city were waiting, Guo Shizhang finally saw Yan Ziqing and Luo Jingshan riding tall horses.
The two men arrived from two places at the same time, and the cavalry behind them were also soldiers and ordinary infantry from the original cavalry battalion in the city.
When the three armies came together, they were all their own people. Now the three armies combined only have about 300 people.
The soldiers who followed Guo Shizhang and were waiting to join the Yunzhou border army were still confused when they saw the familiar army.
There were even those who were slower in thinking and took the initiative to ask, "Sir, where are the Yunzhou border troops? Why didn't we see them?"
Guo Shizhang looked at the two of them and smiled. Then he pointed at Luo Jingshan and Yan Ziqing and said, "This is the Yunzhou border army I call."
Those who are smart at this time don’t understand what they see in this situation. In other words, there is no Yunzhou border army coming to help at all. The so-called illusion of Yunzhou border army coming to help is just created by Luo Jingshan and Yan Ziqing with these two hundred soldiers. The illusion comes out.
If the bandits were a little more courageous and their acting skills were a little worse, all three hundred of them might fail here.
But now that they have won, this means that they made the right move.
Although Guo Shizhang reunited with the three of them, he had no intention of telling them more. After all, they only scared off the enemy, rather than actually destroying it.
When the bandits come to their senses, they might come back, and what he has to do now is to calm down the people who were just kidnapped by the bandits before they come to their senses. He just wants to He said in a voice, "Fellow fellow villagers, today's disaster was unexpected by me. I made you suffer. Now I don't know when they will come back again, so I have to ensure your safety before that. You should hurry up and follow me into Leiyang City to avoid trouble!"
After listening to Guo Shizhang's words, those villagers who did not escape or be carried away naturally followed Guo Shizhang's arrangement and went to Leiyang City.
Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of this group of people, Guo Shizhang and his group of three hundred people only took the initiative to stay behind.
With Guo Shizhang and the others at the bottom, everyone naturally felt at ease.
But when this group of villagers wearing ragged clothes walked into the city, the people in the city who were waiting for the arrival of the border troops just stared with big eyes.
Obviously, they still haven't understood how the Yunzhou frontier army, who they thought was wise and powerful, became this group of shabby villagers in rags, who looked no different from themselves.
Even the existence of this group of people is worse than myself.
Therefore, when the wine was served and the banquet was served, there was no movement. The welcome ceremony actually fell into a strange silence.
After a long time, people watched, when all the villagers who had been taken hostage by the bandits entered the inner city, they saw a group of soldiers with tall heads and horses at the bottom.
The person leading the attack was none other than Guo Shizhang.
Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They just thought in their hearts that the Yunzhou border army was indeed their protector.
Maybe their county magistrates are getting along with each other.
Therefore, after Guo Shizhang came in, they immediately began to cheer loudly.
Some people even took the initiative to hand over wine and food.
However, this cheer was only short-lived. When they waited eagerly for their soldiers to finish walking, until the last soldier walked into the inner city from the Wengcheng, until the gate of the outer city was re-closed, they did not wait until their eyes were full. Yunzhou frontier army.
For a moment, the audience fell into an eerie silence.
Some people couldn't help but proactively asked the soldiers who took their big bowls to drink on the roadside and asked, "Why haven't you seen the Yunzhou border troops?"
Upon hearing the inquiries from passers-by on the road, the soldier first took a swig of wine, then wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and then said to the other party, "Don't mention it. There are no Yunzhou border troops at the moment. I just said there were border troops." The army is a statement made up by the Lord in order to boost morale and scare the bandits. As for the so-called border troops who came to help just now, they are actually our own people. They are only led by Lord Yan and the eldest son of the Luo family. It creates the illusion that border troops are coming for reinforcements.”
Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly became enlightened.
Although the soldier only spoke a few words, everyone still heard Guo Shizhang's courage and strategy from his few words.
You must know that Leiyang City is located on an important transportation road and has always been a battleground for military strategists. Therefore, the people here often encounter disasters caused by weapons.
They have encountered loyal and patriotic officials who refused to surrender and starved many people to death. They have also encountered two ministers who took the initiative to open the city to surrender when the enemy invaded.
Although Qingliu died for his country, he also gained a reputation that will last forever.
