"The thief's offensive has actually... slowed down?"
Di Meng, who was in the Yuanyang Formation, was surprised to find that the attack of these remnants of thieves who had always been stubbornly resisting and wanted to break through this street had actually slowed down.
When he was in a state of shock and uncertainty, he actually saw a group of people approaching the young master who was captured by him in a surprise attack, and then slowly began to retreat. A thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "No, the thief is going to run away!"
The original mission given by His Highness was to "annihilate the entire bandit army." Although something changed, the thief actually obtained heavy armor and was so brave that he had no choice but to change His Highness's strategy, changing "ambush" to "face to face on Pishi Street, dragging the battle into a melee." .
But Di Meng also knew how difficult it was to fish out these Zhang Chen remnants hiding in the shadows. His Highness finally managed to lure out these rats from the shadows on New Year's Eve by using the entire Suzhou government as bait. If we let these people escape safely, it will be difficult to fish them out again!
"The guy in the silver armor is the leader of the thieves! Gentlemen, rush over and take his head!" Di Meng shouted while unfurling his bow and arrow. Although it is now impossible to completely annihilate the enemy, at least the leader of the thieves cannot be allowed to hide in the shadows again.
That young guy must be one of Zhang Shicheng's sons. As long as he is killed, these dead soldiers will be leaderless. At worst, we can take care of things later!
There was a "chi" sound as a sharp arrow shot through the air, and Di Meng shot an arrow straight into Zhang Ren's back heart. However, there were too many people guarding Zhang Ren, so the arrow was in vain. Di Meng abandoned his bow and held his sword, and wanted to lead his soldiers to catch up. However, the heavy-armored general who had been entangled with him in the oblique stab led people to meet him again: "Where are you going, little baby? Let's continue with your grandfather. Have fun!”
"Dang!" The two sabers connected, and Di Meng's mouth trembled. This warrior had been fighting fiercely in heavy armor for so long, and he should have been exhausted. Unexpectedly, he could exert such great power!
"General Di!" Suzhou Wei Cao Yuan led a group of men and horses to come closer and intercepted Zong Laosan who looked like a madman and was slashing at Di Meng and his party with a knife: "These people are from behind! General Di, chase after him quickly. ! Don’t let the leader of the thieves escape!”
Di Meng nodded his thanks and led Wu Wangwei forward to press him with all his strength.
The situation was urgent, and there was no need for formations. Two groups of people continued to rush forward with brute force, while the other group struggled to stop them with their flesh and blood bodies. Pishi Street was originally the battlefield chosen by Di Meng. The reason was that the street was long and difficult to break through, which would help stop the rebels.
But now that the bandit army wanted to run away and he wanted to chase, the original advantage suddenly turned into a disadvantage. The narrow Pishi Street became the biggest help for Zong Laosan and his party to stop the Ming army. The two armies were huddled together, and for a while no one could do anything to the other. Casualties on both sides also increased sharply.
But the rebel army was small after all. Under the fierce attack of the Ming army regardless of the cost, a mere hundred people would soon be killed or injured. In the end, the remaining ten or so people were still guarding the middle of the street. Zong Laosan, who was wearing heavy armor, was covered in blood and was panting while leaning on the ground with a knife.
Seeing such a warrior for the first time on the battlefield, the Ming army was frightened and did not dare to step forward.
"Ha, haha...you wait...you have already lost...death is imminent..."
When Zong Laosan was dying, he still laughed loudly. At this time, he was covered with wounds, and blood was flowing out from the gaps in his armor: no matter how thick the infantry armor on his body was, it could not stop the continuous fighting with such intensity. At this time, he was even more attacked by the wolves of the Ming army. The dental stick beat him to pieces.
"Fire the arrow!"
Suzhou Wei Cao Yuan gave an order, and several archers opened their bows together, shooting dozens of people to death under the rain of arrows.
"...There are such brave generals among the thieves!" Di Meng couldn't hide the shock in his heart.
Cao Yuan turned his head and glanced at Di Meng, but didn't say much after all. "General Di, the leader of the thief has already disappeared."
"Listening to what the big man said before he died, those people had a plan, I'm afraid it wasn't just a simple withdrawal."
"Perhaps, we took another route to attack the reserve warehouse. What will happen next? Should we go back to defend the reserve warehouse?"
Di Meng glanced at Cao Yuan and knew that he was so enthusiastic about hunting down Zhang Chen's remnants, and he was determined to use this opportunity to clear his past. I admire Zhu Su's judgment even more. These surrendered troops who were suspected of being Zhang Shicheng's subordinates are indeed more dedicated than anyone else.
After thinking about it for a while, he shook his head and said, "No need. This place and the Golden Mother Bridge are the only access points to the reserve warehouse. Those thieves might even kill us suddenly to get back to us."
"It would be safer for us to stay here. What does General Cao think?"
"But..." Cao Yuan hesitated. "If the thief swam around the Golden Mother Bridge and prepared the warehouse, but was unprepared..."
"I was worried about the urgent situation just now. I have asked an adult who is in charge of the government office to go to Suzhou Weizhong to bring reinforcements. I think by now, that adult should lead the people to guard in the reserve warehouse." Di fiercely.
"Sir?" Cao Yuan was stunned. Aren't all the adults in the Suzhou government office dragged to the west of the city for a banquet by His Highness the Fifth Prince?
If the level is not enough, Suzhou Guards will definitely not send troops rashly, but who else can be in this government office?
Cao Yuan was puzzled.
…
"Young Master, Young Master!"
"I've been waiting!"
In the cold river water, a wet figure who looked like a "water ghost" climbed onto the shore. He turned around and dragged another shivering "water ghost" to the shore. He stretched out his hands to smooth out the wetness for him, and said in his tone: There’s no shortage of excitement.
"Uncle Ma, I'm so cold..." The person he dragged up was naturally Zhang Shicheng's son Zhang Ren. In order to swim, he had naturally thrown away all his heavy armor. Even the eye-catching dragon-embroidered battle robe he wore underneath was thrown away by Ma Fengsun. At this time, he was only wearing his inner clothes, trembling and dejected as he said: "These smart dogs... actually made this prince so embarrassed..."
Ma Fengsun sighed in his heart. At this time, the young master only cared about whether he was in embarrassment or not. The shouts of killing on the other side of the river gradually subsided, and he did not care about the safety of Zong Laosan who was behind him... Thinking of Zong Laosan, Ma Fengsun suddenly felt a surge of sadness in his heart.
But now, he had no choice but to hold back his sadness and advised Zhang Ren: "Young Master, there is no need to be disappointed. It is said that the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy."
"As long as this reserve warehouse is burned, it will be our victory. Since we are the victors, it doesn't matter whether we are in embarrassment or not."
"Now that the warehouse is in front of us, as long as the young master gives the order, we can hope to regain King Cheng's former power..."
"Yes, you're right..." Zhang Ren gritted his teeth, and the dejection in his eyes turned into overwhelming hatred. Hundreds of dead soldiers in the river with knives in their mouths had all reached the shore at this time. Zhang Ren looked back and saw a dense crowd behind Yuexia, and he regained some of the noble pride of Prince Cheng.
"Push it to me!"
"There is no one left in this courtyard to guard. I want to take a look."
"How else can Ming Gou stop me!"
At this point, there is no need to hide anymore. A group of dead soldiers with fierce eyes held the knives in their mouths and rushed towards the door of the reserve warehouse. The courtyard door they faced was silent, like a stone beast squatting in the dark night, quiet and strange.
"Come in and set fire to it, kill me!"
After a group of dead soldiers kicked hard in turn, the rotten courtyard door suddenly opened. It was concluded that there was no one else here, and Zhang Ren rushed to the front alone.
"Set fire! Hurry and set fire!" Ma Fengsun was also ecstatic, it was just as he expected! He hurriedly ordered his soldiers to die.
A group of people squatted down and hurriedly took out fire starters from their close-fitting oilcloth bags. Suddenly there was a rapid banging sound, and a rain of arrows splashed down on the heads of the remnants of the Zhang family. This group of people had already taken off their leather armor in order to swim in the water. Now they thought that something big was about to happen and they were not prepared at all. How could they withstand this hail of arrows?
After a series of screams, hundreds of unsuspecting dead soldiers were instantly killed in half.
"Ah!" Zhang Ren, who was at the forefront, was also shot in the shoulder by an arrow. How had he ever experienced such pain? He couldn't help but fell to the ground and shouted.
While crying out in pain, he still did not forget to question Ma Fengsun loudly: "Uncle Ma! Didn't you say there must be no one here!"
At this time, Ma Fengsun also felt cold in his heart. How can it be? There is actually an ambush here?
impossible! At this time, Suzhou Mansion should be leaderless. How could anyone mobilize so many archers and soldiers?
I saw countless torches lighting up in front of me, and in the darkness, another army appeared in front of me. An old man in the lead yelled:
"Thieves! How dare you cause trouble here!"
"I, Ru Taisu, have been waiting here for you for a long time!"
(End of chapter)
