Chapter 296: The Tiger drives the Sheep and the Mysterious Allusion

There is a wooden pier on this side of the ferry. Other places are low inlet slopes. People living outside the city near the river, many of them are fetching water by the Yellow River, and they go down here to fetch water.

More than ten steps away from the river bank, the river water was not too deep. Chen Liujing was naked, wearing only a pair of cloth pants, and holding a spear in his hand. He grew up by the beach since he was a child and fluttered in the water for many years. The water quality was really good, and he soon arrived at the shore.

At present, the water on the river bank was full of burning ships. From which ships were jumping down like dumplings, the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army in Jiaozhou took off their armor and all the extra things, and followed them without hesitation with their weapons.

There were floating burning objects everywhere on the river surface, and the ships burning with raging fires, this area was extremely hot. The soldiers who jumped into the water were burned by the flames accidentally, but the Yanzhou army still had red eyes and swam desperately towards the river.

Several rounds of firearm bombardment and small cannons mounted on several ships were not ineffective. Although the bandits were surrounded by the river, they found that most of the refugees and soldiers were still one or two steps away from the river.

After all, it was close, and Chen Liuzi was lucky. He arrived at a place where he could stand in just a few strokes. The weapons thrown and shot by the refugees and soldiers on the shore did not hurt him.

Seeing Chen Liu, who was naked with his eyes, rushed up from the river with his spear, many people subconsciously retreated, but those who did not retreat did not react.

As a general who led troops on one side, Chen Liu is now like a madman, completely disregarding the rules of training and training. His eyes were just staring at the refugees and bandits in front of him. The refugees at the front reacted and waved their weapons to kill Chen Liuzi.

Chen Liu didn't care about flat hands, exerting force with one foot in front, and directly exerted force with one arm, stabbed the spear in his hand straight out. The man in front was holding a big knife in his hand. The spear in Chen Liu's hand was as loud as lightning, and it pierced directly into his chest with a "puff". Before the rioters could make a scream, the spear was still pulled back, and the pressure in his chest suddenly found a hole.

A stream of blood suddenly ejaculated, and the man let out a scream and threw himself to the ground. When he heard this scream, the rest of the people who were already a little afraid of Chen Liu, who was a ferocious god, were suddenly slow. At this time, Chen Liu had already handled the spear with both hands, took it back half a foot, and shouted loudly again.

, and pierced between the chest and abdomen of the man next to him, and the two of them screamed and fell down as soon as they met.

Most of the weapons used by these bandits are waist knives and hatches, and a large number of people hold sharpened wooden sticks, many of them do not even have this one. Even if these weapons are erected, the length of the weapons is far inferior to that of the spear. The unfamiliar wielding and chopping movements are even more difficult to compare to the trained stabbing.

As soon as they met, two people fell down. The number of refugees and rioters far exceeded that. Chen Liu went ashore to assassinate two, but three of them still bullied them in front of him. At this distance, Chen Liu could use the attack method to beat him with a spear, and his waist knife was already thrown on the ship.

At the beginning, there were soldiers rushing up to resist, but the refugees and rioters who rushed up to resist were killed by Chen Liu and his men.

During the battle, bloody courage is of course important, but the skills of fighting are the capital to save lives. I found that they could not resist and scared away the courageous refugees and soldiers retreated all the way.

The scene on the field was very interesting. Several small teams of officers and soldiers, who were at a completely disadvantage, chased far more enemies than theirs on the battlefield, but these enemies were chased and fled in a panic and completely messed up.

There were crying and yelling everywhere, and the entire battlefield was overwhelmed by the personal soldiers under Chen Liuhe.

The Kaifeng city gate has not been open for a long time, because there are always large groups of bandits outside the city. The one who organized a guard to guard the city on the city wall. When Chen Yongfu went to Nanyang Prefecture, he thought that there would be no need for too many troops to defend here. Who would have thought that when things came, there would be less than 150 officers and soldiers who could gather together.

The leader who assisted the general to defend the city was the leader of the guards of the Zhou royal palace, and the other was the head of the guards of the governor's yamen. These people did not know the defense of the big city at all. The reason why these days were able to support it was because the King of Zhou gave out a large reward of gold and silver, and the other was that the bandits who wanted to attack the city were too useless.

But no matter how useless the bandits are, there are tens of thousands of people. Before going to the city every day, these military generals responsible for defending the city had to say goodbye to their families, thinking that this was gone forever.

Looking at the city walls, there were so many people under the city, shouting and killing the city. Although there was no real harm, it was really scary.

But the sudden appearance today made them even more shocked. A large number of bandits rushed to the riverside, and then from the height of the observation tower on the city wall, someone saw a huge fleet on the surface of the Yellow River. Reinforcements must have come. This news made everyone ecstatic.

But then, the bandits crowded at the ferry of the Yellow River and those where they could land, poured a basin of cold water on the head of the city. Then they saw the ships on the river igniting a raging fire, which made the defenders on the city even more discouraged.

Just as they were about to give up their hope, the battlefield suddenly became in chaos, and the shouts of killing were rising and falling. There were a large number of houses and courtyards under Kaifeng City. Although "Song Jiang" Song Dagang demolished a group of them because of siege, the area under Kaifeng City was still like a village and town.

Not long after, the people in the city saw countless people rushing in the streets of the villages and towns below the city. Only then did the people in the city see clearly the officers and soldiers following behind.

Chen Liu rushed too hard, and the spear in his hand was broken, so he simply picked up a big knife on the ground. The efficiency of this big knife is not as good as the spear and axe gun, but no one can compare to the pleasure of slashing. Chen Liu's naked upper body was covered with blood, and his whole body was dyed red, as if he was a bloody man.

At this time, Chen Liu was already the fierce god on the battlefield. When he rushed there, the refugees and bandits there fled in scattered areas.

Several times he rushed too fast and almost rushed into the other party's brigade alone. By the last time, the personal guards around him really didn't dare to let go. Several people hugged Chen Liu and stopped Chen Liu, who was about to kill madly.

The large number of people on the ship had already been arranged by the river, the musketeers were already in place, and the cannons were also dragging them with mules and horses.

Chen Liu, calmed down, knew that he had won the battle completely, and the rest was only pursuit. From beginning to end, the famous "Song Jiang" thieves on the ground in Henan could never organize a slightly decent counterattack. The army of more than 10,000 people was violently attacked by the Jiaozhou Camp and completely collapsed.

The infantry platoon began to enter the battlefield with the rhythm of drums. After the musketeers outside the spear platoons fired the first round of muskets behind the bandits, the battle could be said to be over.

The bandits who started to escape were completely in chaos, and everyone ran around like headless flies, and trampling and killing each other began to appear.

Originally, the personal guards of the Yanzhou Army were worried that Chen Liu would continue to pursue him, but in such a chaotic situation, the Yanzhou Army's troops were easily in chaos, but Chen Liu, who was sure, was not so anxious. In this situation, it was just necessary to let the infantry team slowly press over. It doesn't matter whether they kill the enemy or not. If you maintain such pressure, the bandits themselves will completely disintegrate.

Looking at the sudden outbreak of chaos below, everyone from the officers to the civilians in the city was stunned and extremely frightened.

That guy was the first to react. Looking at the chaos below, he said to himself in a daze on the city:

"Is this arranging border soldiers to rescue? The court... the court's great grace!"

He thought that if he killed the lower body so fiercely, there were only nine elite soldiers in the world, but the next time he always pulled over someone beside him and shouted fiercely:

"Go and tell other city gates quickly. No matter what the people below say or do, no one should open the door."

The person he grabbed was a yamen runner from Kaifeng Prefecture. He was a little confused when he heard this and said intermittently:

"......The one below...the one below isn't reinforcements?"

The guard leader of the Henan Governor's yamen also reacted and shouted:

"You can't let them enter the city. If you let this army enter the city, it will probably be even worse than those thieves entering the city. Don't you know what the soldiers of Zuo Liangyu, the general of Nanyang, look like?"

After saying that, the leader of the guard also shouted with the people around him. When everyone thought of all the rumors about Zuo Liangyu, they all shuddered and hurried to other city gates to report.

After the infantry platoon of the Yanzhou Army in Jiaozhou was suppressed by the large area of ​​civilian houses, it stopped. Chen Liu had already been included in the array. When he arrived here, the road began to be narrow and complicated, and it was obviously not suitable for the brigade to enter. After the orders were spread at the first level, the soldiers began to become a squad of fifty people, with spearmen and musketeers mixed together, and under the leadership of the officers, they entered this area to eliminate the remaining enemies.

It is not clear what the city wall is going on here, and there are no residual enemies. Once the dispersed refugees and rioters have no combat power, they are just walking corpses waiting to be slaughtered.

The soldiers of the Yanzhou Army had just turned into a small team and entered the residential area under the city. Suddenly, agitation occurred on a large mansion on the east side, and hundreds of cavalry rushed out.

These hundreds of cavalry were definitely not the horse teams of Jiaozhou Camp, but the Yanzhou army did not take into account either. The distance between the two sides was too far, and there were a large number of chaotic thieves in the middle to stop them.

Speaking of which, the refugees and bandits were so chaotic that it was also an obstacle to the hundreds of cavalry that suddenly rushed out. From the surprise shouts of those people: "The boss and the leader, you can know that these hundreds of cavalry are probably the core troops of "Song Jiang" Song Dagang, and each horse is filled with a bulging pocket.

There were so many people below without horses, but among the hundreds of cavalry there were hundreds of horses carrying pockets. The hundreds of cavalry were not ruthless at all to their own people who were surrounding them. I don’t know who started the first, and the horseman slashed down with a long sword and axe.

"If you pass the order, you must restrain the teams from acting rashly or chasing them. Just clear away the remaining enemies near the city gate."

Chen Liu found a piece of clean cloth at some point, wiping the blood on his body, and while talking to the messengers beside him, he looked at the cavalry not far away and breathed a sigh of regret.

"Don't worry, anyone who blocks the road will just greet him with a knife and an axe, and take these things to enjoy the happiness of the Taiping area in Jiangnan!!"

Song Dagang shouted at the beginning of his voice. The refugees and soldiers who called him "the leader" and "the boss" were of no value in his eyes. They were just cannon fodder that could be collected at any time in Henan.

What he felt most distressed about now was the gold, silver and treasures he had not had time to sort out and took away, and the two beautiful women he had not taken away. It was really bloody in his heart.

Looking closely at the hundreds of cavalrymen of Song Dagang, in addition to those wrapped pack horses, there were even two women struggling on their backs. Although Song Dagang had also been an officer and soldier, his behavior was still the same as those bandits back then.

The refugees outside were in chaos, and the bandits could not withstand the sudden rush of their own people. Everyone could only run to both sides to avoid this inexplicable killing.

These hundreds of cavalry were actually leaving like this. Although Chen Liu's Yanzhou army was oppressed enough, they left a hole on both sides. There were more than one million refugees in Henan, but as long as these refugees were a bunch of loose sand, they would never become a threat, and they could not kill them all.

Give them enough shock to make these people collapse from Kaifeng City. This is enough. As for the escaped cavalry, naturally someone will go to cook.

Song Dagang was also alert. On the way out, he learned that many of the officers and soldiers who came to suppress the thieves outside had Shandong accents. This news made him so scared that he didn't dare to go nearby to gather the defeated soldiers, and even dared not stay near Kaifeng for too long.

Running to the south, heading north and west are dilapidated places. Only by running to the south and entering the Taiping Territory of Nanzhili or Jiangxi, it will be safe.

Song Dagang was frightened and ran all the way, not considering things like Gu Ximali. He ran for three hours and had more than a dozen horses foaming at the mouth and died halfway through the way. This was the slowdown.

As he saw that he had arrived at the boundary of Xincheng on the south side of Kaifeng City, there was a flat horse here, and Wang Hai led more than 1,200 cavalrymen to wait at the intersection here.

When the soldiers in charge of the lookout warning were going to report, Wang Hai was lying on the ground, holding a grass stalk in his mouth. He listened to the report from his subordinates, and was extremely excited. He turned over and jumped up from the ground and said repeatedly:

"Hurry up that brand, it's rare for us adults to have such a good interest!"

The other party came to rescue Kaifeng City on the river and ran out of Kaifeng City. It should be safe. Song Dagang and his men were relieved. Not long after running, they saw a pole erected on the side of the road. There was a sign hanging high on the pole with three big words written on it.

However, what is Song Dagang's origin? He doesn't recognize the words on it. Looking at the pole standing suddenly on the roadside, I felt something was wrong, but I was still confused. The horse team was still moving slowly, so I turned around and shouted loudly:

"Brothers, who knows the words on it?"

Some of his hundreds of close-fitting cavalrymen had been to private schools for a few days, but they rarely knew each other. After thinking about it for a while, they whispered in a low voice:

"The head of the family has too many strokes in the front, and I don't recognize the small ones. The two words in the back should be the children and grandchildren and the sinkholes!"

Song Dagang was still confused, spitting on the ground, and cursing:

"I don't know who it is, I'm doing this mysterious thing..."

Just as I was talking, I heard the rustling sounds on both sides of the road. I was about to react, but I saw a large number of soldiers in civilian clothes still appeared on both sides, holding swords, guns and firearms in my hands.

Seeing the dress of these soldiers, Song Dagang was devastated. The appearance of these soldiers finally confirmed his unknown prediction. What he feared the most was what he came, how could he chased him here?

"Song Jiang! This is the place where you are buried!!"

Wang Hai shouted at the top of his voice not far away. His shouting was actually an order. The soldiers on both sides had already loaded their ammunition. After the order, the roar started to roar. Song Dagang was dressed and the orders he had just given, which all meant that he was the leader.

Dozens of muskets were almost aimed at this person, and the official road was not wide. Even the standard muskets of Jiaozhou Camp could be accurate. Song Da was about to open his mouth, but no one could hear what he was saying. He was immediately beaten to the point of bleeding mist and fell down from the horse.

The remaining people had no intention of resisting. Most of them came from Shandong. Naturally, they knew the power of Jiaozhou Camp. Seeing the leader being killed, their fighting spirit was immediately gone. Fortunately, at this time, someone shouted:

"Dropping off the horse and kneeling down and not killing!"

The horses could not run anymore, and the long spears and firearms on both sides were pressing up again, and cavalrymen were intercepting them in front and behind. If they did not surrender, they would have to wait to die. The remaining horse thieves dismounted and knelt on the ground one after another, throwing their weapons aside.

Wang Hai rubbed his hands excitedly there, and said with a smile to his opponent:

"This time it's a great success. Send someone to tell the adults guarding the east intersection, saying that Song Jiang has been smashed!!"

A personal soldier agreed and led several cavalrymen to gallop eastward.

By the way, the three words written on the sign are "Liaoerwa". Li Meng has read the book "Water Margin" and clearly remembers that the last time the name is "Song Gongming's God Gathering Liaoerwa

Emperor Huizong dreamed of wandering in Liangshanpo, and this "Liierwa" and the nickname "Song Jiang" of the bandit leader Song Dagang happened to be in conflict. Liaoerwa is the place where Song Jiang's soul returns.

It is rare to see Li Meng making such jokes. This is also a rare allusion that Li Meng knew in this era. Li Meng did not find any difficulty in defeating the bandit bandit bandit "Song Jiang". What is more difficult is that it is not very important to catch or kill the bandit leader. It is simply a must-pass way to judge two paths.

Half of them and Wang Hai were waiting for the rabbit. Chen Liu was best able to kill in the battle formation. If this person ran out, it would depend on who could block it. He agreed with Wang Hai that when anyone saw Song Dagang coming, he would hang out a sign of "Lianerwa". Unfortunately, although Song Dagang called himself "Song Jiang", he couldn't even recognize the three words "Liuerwa". Li Meng's joke was a charming look for the blind man.

We arrived at the bank of the Yellow River in the morning. When it was almost dark, almost all the bandits surrounding Kaifeng City were cleared. Of course, after crossing the river to the death, there was no battle worth talking about. The Yanzhou army led by Chen Liu almost patrolled around Kaifeng City in a marching manner.
To be continued...