Among the four brothers, his father loves him the most, but he is also the least trustworthy. It was not easy for Lou Shifan to obtain military power this time. He was determined to show his abilities to the two brothers!
The eldest brother is wise and strategic, and the second brother is skilled in martial arts.
Seeing that my father has announced that after conquering Shangrao, he will establish the so-called Great King of Chu, and in the future he will also conquer Raozhou, Fuzhou, Nanchang Prefecture... and rely on the dangers of mountains, rivers and lakes to split the land!
At that time, whoever has the greatest merit, great ability, and many subordinates will definitely be the prince!
But if there is no military exploits, there will be no thoughts at all. Thinking of this, he turned around and found a confidant among the many mournful faces.
"Go and scold the formation! Tell those little bastard officers, soldiers and regiment trainers that I am waiting for them on the bridge to take charge of the regiment or the leader.
Mom, what's the point of catching me off guard with a few muskets? Come out and fight alone! "
The confidant's expression was dull for a moment, and his facial muscles trembled a few times: "Third Marshal, you are a noble man of gold, how can you personally engage in gambling and fighting? This, this, this is too risky."
"Yes, Third Young Marshal, if we don't get angry with him, we probably won't dare to come down if we look at how they formed a stronghold.
Just go back and mobilize troops to the old commander. The loss of 300 people is nothing. "Someone else advised.
"Don't persuade me, I've made up my mind!" Lou Shifan sneered: "If we don't get it back today, how can we still have morale?"
After he finished speaking, he looked at everyone: "Aren't you afraid of them? Not even one of you is willing to challenge them?"
These words immediately angered the two of them. One was named Zhang Tang and the other was named Zhang Zuan. They were cousins. They used to work in the mine and had done some things to protect the weak. They had some prestige among the crowd, so they were beaten by Lou. He was promoted to be a shed owner from time to time.
Later, when Lou was involved in the rebellion, the two of them accompanied him, and he was the first to attack Chaoyang, so he became the commander of the sentry.
At this time, he stood up and said: "You can't let the officers and soldiers look down on me. Others are unwilling to go. My brother will go with the Third Marshal!"
Lou Shifan was overjoyed. The two of them prepared and protected Lou Shifan on horseback to the bridge.
Zhang Tang then stepped forward and shouted: "Hey! Listen to the truth! Someone from the team or the leader who is not afraid of death will come forward and come to Grandpa to die!"
The members of the rear camp who were collecting corpses and cleaning the battlefield were startled when they saw it. Someone straightened up and shouted from afar: "That man, please tell me clearly, which leader are you looking for? What's the important matter?"
"It's no big deal, I'm here to challenge you!"
"Challenge? Then come and fight!" Upon hearing this, several members of the regiment quickly grabbed their weapons and gathered together, making a small golden flower array.
Another member of the group not far away shouted: "You are mistaken. He said the challenge was not for us, but for a one-on-one fight with our leader!"
"And the leader? Who is he? Is he still worthy of Yingzheng?" someone said disdainfully.
"Hey, don't worry about him." Another person said: "If he wants to find the leader, just go and call him. If Yingzheng hacks him to death, he will have nothing to say, right?"
After saying that, he shouted: "Wait!" and then walked quickly towards the mountain.
Li Dan asked about the enemy's battle losses and then asked about his own casualties. After learning that four people were dead and more than twenty injured, he ordered Master Ba to quickly dispose of the dead and wounded properly and evacuate them.
Then arrange for one Wu Zhenfu and two others to escort the prisoners to the Xishan prisoner camp. He also discussed with General Sheng the allocation and use of the more than a thousand migrant workers who had just arrived in Xishan.
His initial idea was to send 100 migrant workers to the foot of the mountain to reinforce the Banqiao so that four-wheeled carriages could pass through it, and 600 people to help build barracks on the left, while the rest came to Nanshan to help reinforce and build fortifications.
The right battalion carried most of the prisoners and collected and transported sediment by the Mayan River, or cut bamboo and wood building materials to supply the construction site.
"It seems that we still need to build a wall. After all, the bamboo fence can only be used as temporary protection during the march. It's just a hasty battle today, it won't last long."
Li Dan said: "In wartime, once the fence falls, our military disadvantage will be revealed.
Sheng Huai'en twisted his beard and looked up at the sky worriedly: "But, it's such a gloomy day that I don't know when it will rain.
If it takes three sunny days to make mud bricks, how can we have time to wait? "
"Using bamboo tendons to ram the construction method!" Li Dan took out the schematic diagram he drew to explain to everyone.
Suddenly they heard shouting down the slope. Everyone looked up and saw a corps commander running towards the second gate. He was panting and saying something to Song Xiaoniu who was coming up to him more than ten steps away. He turned back with a strange face.
"What's going on?" Li Dan had noticed that the flower horse had returned to the bridge.
"Shang Shanda, defense, the thief brought two people back and said they wanted to challenge.
They keep asking us to send a team or leader out to meet with them, saying they want to challenge the courageous and courageous men here. "Song Xiaoniu reported with his hands crossed.
"Discourteous!" Sheng Huaien said angrily: "Does this guy think there is no one waiting for me? I'll go meet him in person!" He started to go down the mountain.
Li Dan and others hurriedly stopped him and persuaded him: "Why do you need to be angry, sir? You don't need to do this kind of thing yourself, not to mention they don't deserve it!"
At this time, Tan Zhongxiao couldn't help but say: "The people who came to report are my brothers in the camp. What will my brothers think if I don't go? Everyone, please sit here for a while. I will go down and take his head!" After that, he called for people. Get your own plain knife.
"Wait a minute!" Yang Yi stopped him and said, "There are three people coming. It would be unfair for us to only go with one. It would be better to go with three people."
In this way, two people were holding the line for Tanying to prevent the thief from making some destructive moves. "
Li Dan looked at Sheng Huaien, saw him nodding, and said, "That makes sense, so which brother is willing to help Tan Yingzheng?"
Before he finished speaking, several hands were raised. Li Dan knew that Gu Da and Yang Yi were good people and had high prestige, but their actual martial arts skills were mediocre. After some thought, he said:
"Lao Gu, Xiao Yi, you two are the chief officers of this position, and you are not allowed to leave. The Slender King's arm is just right, so I don't trust you to go. It's better for Brother Liu and Xianfu to go."
The two were overjoyed, and after bowing, they went down the mountain with their weapons in hand. Kuroki was disappointed, biting his beard and thinking about it, clasped his fists and said, "I am willing to fight for the three of them inside the formation gate."
"One person is not enough." Li Dan smiled, but he was still very alert to the other party's sudden challenge:
"Brother Niu, you go too. You two will bring an infantryman and an archer, and then pull back everyone outside the second gate.
The guy suddenly raised a challenge. Although we are not afraid of him, we must be wary of anything weird inside. "The two of them took the order, jumped up and clicked two coins, and quickly caught up.
By the way, Tan Zhongxiao and the others came down and stood still, looking towards the opposite side.
At this time, they were standing outside the first gate. Thirty steps back was an uphill slope, and there was an open plain about a hundred and fifty steps ahead.
Toudaozha was still lying on the ground, and there were still many corpses scattered around. Tanzhong Xiao ordered the people to move the corpses away to make a clear space, and then pointed the tip of the knife at the corpses in a demonstration and shouted to the opposite side.
: "You have left quite a few corpses here. It doesn't matter if there are three more of you. Which one comes first?"
"Stop talking nonsense and tell me your name!" Zhang Tang was impatient.
"After the Geyang regiment training, we camped in Zhengtan Zhongxiao. My dear, you don't have to be polite, just call us 'Yinshan Taisui'."
"Bah!" Zhang Tang scolded: "I don't know whether to live or die, but I still have to pretend to be loud and noisy here. Come and die in front of grandpa!" He said and rushed forward with a gold ax with a tiger's head.
The shape of a yue is like an axe, but it is wider. The two ends are like crescent moons and can have a longer blade.
Because it is made of all metal and is thicker and heavier than a sword, it is difficult for non-strong men to use it. After the Tang Dynasty, it was rarely used by soldiers except for the dependent troops.
Zhangtang found this weapon from nowhere. He probably thought it was handy or suited him, so he always proudly carried it on his shoulders, attracting a lot of attention from the people around him.
However, he has never used it to kill an enemy before the battle. "Today I'm going to sacrifice your slender body to eat meat!" He thought like this and accelerated his steps.
"Stand still, boy, let's use Zhang Tang's move to split Huashan!" He said, swinging the chiseled gold ax and slashing at the silk in the pool. The crescent blade of this ax is two feet long, and it comes with the sound of wind in an instant.
Tan Zhongxiao could tell by looking at his weapons and posture that this guy had some strength. But because I had never seen a weapon like this before, I really didn’t know what it was called, and I couldn’t guess what moves my opponent would use.
When I saw him slashing it straight down, I realized that the move of this thing was similar to that of a long-handled axe!
If the opponent slashes hard, you may suffer a loss if you block directly. Tan Zhongxiao had fought with axe-wielders in the past and knew not to gamble on strength like that.
He made a false block with his sword, stepped sideways and pushed away, defusing his attack with skill.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when his opponent was flying into the air and had not yet withdrawn his weapon, Zhang Tang turned his hand to lift his armpit. Zhang Tang hurriedly stepped back and used the handshake (a metal hoop for the hand to grasp) on the yue pole to knock the blade away, then stepped forward and used the left and right sides of the yue's spine. The right and middle roads kept hitting Tanzhong Xiao.
This is called the Three Questions of Tiangang. If an ordinary person can't resist it, they will either retreat continuously and show flaws, or it will be difficult to catch the following moves once their strength and will are exhausted.
However, Tan Zhongxiao refused to fight him head-on and dodged repeatedly. Zhang Tang was so angry that he yelled: "Coward, don't hide if you have the guts!"
"Nonsense! How can you be so unreasonable in the world if you want to kill someone but don't allow others to hide?" The more Tan Zhongxiao smiled, the more annoyed Zhang Tang became, and he kept firing the weapons in his hands one after another.
When Lou Shifan on horseback saw this, he knew something was wrong. The enemy general was smart and knew that Zhang Tang's heavy weapons would consume his strength. He hurriedly ordered Zhang Zuan: "You go up, and your elder brother comes down to take a breather!"
Zhang Zuan then came up with a spear and shouted: "Brother, drink some water and let me meet him!" As he said this, he forced Tan Zhongxiao with his spear. Zhang Tang took two breaths to regain his composure and retreated to the shade of a tree to watch the battle. .
Needless to say, I was sweating profusely after wielding this ax for a while. Looking at Zhang Zuan again, he kept an eye on Tan Zhongxiao's vital points and shot his spear from left to right.
His spear was ten feet long, and the spearhead was flickering, but Zhang Zuan held the spear shaft in his hand and drew a line, revealing a hundred flowers.
Tan Zhongxiao didn't dare to be careless at all, knowing that this person must have been practicing spear training for more than three or five years, so he used his sword to protect his body tightly to prevent his opponent from discovering any flaws.
Everyone watching the battle could see that Tan Zhongxiao was agile in body and solid in chassis skills, but he was only one inch long and one inch strong. It was not a problem to always be so clumsy. How could he defeat the opponent?
Later, Liu Er became a little anxious: "I'll go up. If they can replace me, of course it's okay!"
Zhao Jingzi grabbed him and said, "It's early. Tan Yingzheng hasn't used all his strength yet. Why are you going up to make trouble at this time?"
"You say he can win? But why do I think he's being forced into a dilemma?"
"Stop talking and look."
Liu Hongsheng turned around and looked over, and suddenly saw a flaw in Tan Zhongxiao, Zhang Zuan shouted: "Go!" and stabbed out with a spear.
Tan Zhongxiao fell backward, and before he could withdraw the spear from above, he rolled a few times with the knife, then raised the knife to knock the gun shaft, and then swept the blade across.
Lou Shifan and Zhang Tang both shouted "No!" but it was too late. Zhang Zuan yelled "Oh!" and fell to the ground holding his legs.
Zhang Tang suddenly became anxious and shouted: "Don't hurt my brother!" He rushed over again holding a big ax.
The crocodile carp in the pond jumped up, but ignored Zhang Zuan on the ground. He jumped to the side and rushed in. The light of the sword passed under Zhang Tang's chest, and then a wild horse stood up with its mane parted, and the sword fell from his hand. Cut into the back of the neck.
"Click" sound. The blood sprayed all over Zhang Zuan's head and face.
Tan Zhongxiao walked up to him and Zhang Zuan slapped his upper and lower teeth: "Hero, spare your life!"
"His name is Zhang Tang, then who are you?"
"Little man Zhang Zuan, that's my cousin."
Tan Zhongxiao nodded: "I said, don't kill unknown people. Since you have a name, you happen to be with your cousin on the road." As soon as he finished speaking, he slashed Zhang Zuan's throat with a knife.
Then without looking at the body, he turned around and asked with a smile: "You are the only one left on horseback. It is your choice to run away or die!"
At this time, cheers came one after another from the mountain behind: "Tan Ying is so powerful! Well done to the rear camp! We will win!"
