Chapter 97 Low-intensity War

The problem was that the horse thief outside did not expect that he thought that if the village gate was opened, the village would collapse. However, with two consecutive attacks, none of the eight horse thieves came back. The horse thiefs rushed in the front were the most brave desperate among the horse thieves.

The horses I rode were good horses and used good weapons. When I was sharing the spoils, I took more than others. When I passed through villages and villages, I encountered some patrols to protect the courtyards. These horse thieves rushed side by side and basically broke up. I didn’t expect to meet such a stubborn enemy in Xiazhuang.

The third wave of horse thieves who were about to follow the village did not dare to move, so they directly pulled their horses back outside, and collided with their companions, which made them extremely chaotic.

For Li Meng and Ma Gang, this was a great luck. The other party actually left him with the whole team of time to fight against the horse thieves in the village of Xiazhuang. Although the horses could not move on a large scale, they were also stuck in this street and collided with the other party head-on.

The dead salt dick and horse thief were just crossing the street, blood was flowing all over the ground, and the blood gradually spread out. Many salt dicks who had just been trained but had never seen life and death were pale and forced to not vomit. At this time, the hard and rigorous training played a role. Although everyone was not feeling well, they still maintained the posture of lifting the spear flat or tilted, paying attention to their position in the queue.

Li Meng took a deep breath, looked at the scene and knew that this was a life-and-death situation. If he was not careful, this salt peddler team would probably collapse. Then everything he did in this era would probably disappear.

Seeing that the formation was sorted out, Li Meng shouted the order:

"Line in line, exit the village gate, and arrange in front of the deep ditch!"

Ma Gang walked silently next to Li Meng with a spear in his hand. The two of them were now in the second row of the team. The soldiers in the first row were simply aligned. Someone whispered a one, two or three steps, and the team began to walk outside the village gate.

The horse thieves outside were also hesitating. Xiazhuang was a very wealthy place around Gaomi County. After opening this farm, the gold and silver population and even horses would be greatly supplemented. Who would have thought that the Zhuang Ding here would be so difficult. As soon as he got up, a few of the most cruel and fierce brothers died inside. Such a piece of fat was on his mouth, and the village gate had already been opened. It would be a pity not to beat him down.

While hesitating, he heard neat footsteps. A group of people whispered to the outside from the suspension bridge.

The horse thieves were after all, and their first reaction was not to rush up and catch Yanding off guard, but a group of people hurriedly pulled back and pushed them out for nearly a hundred steps. Only then did they stabilize. They watched the salt thieves line up in a row in a daze.

The salted men's clothes were coarse cloth and short-padded clothes, holding a spear in their hands. They were all from peasants and military families. They looked very simple and looked like Zhuang Ding Minzhuang.

The observation and hesitation of these horse thieves made 400 Li Meng's salt dicks line up the line outside the deep ditch of the fortress. Li Meng and Ma Gang each stood on the left and right heads of the first row.

The leader of the horse thief was indeed a little confused. Seeing the posture of the Zhuang Ding in front of him was very different than what he had encountered before. He couldn't understand the difference. After the Yan Ding team was put together, the few confidants at the side felt confident and smiled and said:

"The boss, it's hard to eat these local buns in the village. They fight with us in the field on this plain, and a few shocks will collapse. This time we have to eat a fat man. After opening this village, we will go back to Cao County."

Compared to the silence of the salt dicks, the horse thief's confidence became more and more powerful. I don't know who led the lead. He shouted loudly, and a group of people screamed and became more and more excited.

Just now, several horse thieves led by the horse thief drove their men forward, and they followed behind...

All the actions of the horse thieves can basically be observed. From the beginning of being confused and quiet, to the later mood gradually rising, the clamoring sounds became louder and louder, and when the sound was almost at its peak, most of the horse thieves there drove the horses and rushed towards this side.

The square formation of twenty times twenty times twenty, every soldier felt much more stable in his heart. The thick square formation was surrounded by his partners. Although the salt dicks in the first row had to face the enemy directly, their left and right heads were the leaders, and the leaders were all at the front line. What else could the people below say?

The horse thieves didn't care about horse speed at the beginning. At the beginning, they rushed forward desperately. When they rushed into the salting array for about fifty steps, the horse's sprinting speed had slowed down slightly.

At about 40 steps, about 30 steps, Ma Gang, who was standing on the right, opened his bow and arrow, and made his posture full. With a "buzzing" sound, the bow and arrow flew out quickly. There was a huge crowd of horse thieves on the opposite side, and they didn't even have to look for the target. They could only hear a scream, and someone had already fallen from the horse.

But the horse thieves had already rushed up. Even if someone fell to the ground, they could not hold back the horse. The rushing momentum did not weaken at all. Ma Gang over there had already hit the second arrow.

Twenty steps, with a loud bang, a short musket held in Li Meng's hand was fired. This was the one he seized from the King of Jinyiwei Wang Baihu. Such a self-defense weapon was naturally carried on his body. The distance between twenty steps, the short gun also had enough power.

A horse thief screamed and landed on the ground. The loud sound of the musket frightened the horses. It was obvious that some horses were about to run to the side, but they were forced to control them back.

After Ma Gang's second arrow was shot out, the horse thief was still coming. At this time, it would take time to pick up the spear, two arrows and one shot, such weak long-range firepower, but they treated the horse thief, and could clearly feel that the horse thief rushed forward a little slower, and avoided the direction of Li Meng and Ma Gang.

The slower horse thieves lost their impact. Each horse and the horse knight faced more than four spears. The Salt Team stood extremely closely in the front four rows, just to make the spears pierce as far as possible.

I saw that the spears in the front rows stretched out and contracted. In each movement, there were horse thieves and horses sneering to the ground, and the battles were always carried out very quickly. After the last wave of horse thieves who could not stop the horse, they put their bodies on the spear, and the bodies of more than forty horse thieves fell down in front of Yanding's array.

However, the salt diners were not injured or killed. Although the fierce battle just now was tense, the morale of the salt diners was also exaggerated, and their originally pale faces and firm eyes were replaced.

After this wave of attacks, the queue was quickly aligned under the command of leaders at all levels. More than 30% of the horse thieves were killed and injured, scattered far apart with fear.

Li Meng raised the spear in his hand with one arm, swung it towards the front with a large amplitude, and shouted loudly:

"Go ahead, keep strides!"

The salt dicks of the Salt Ding team all agreed loudly. It is probably not an exaggeration to describe them as rainbows at this time. Although people, horses and corpses are everywhere in front of them, they still move forward according to the pace of daily practice.

The four hundred people on this side were uniformly moved. In the eyes of the horse thieves on the opposite side, the mountain-like aura was simply coming to the face. Some horses could not control themselves and ran to the back. They ran alone. The mob of the horse thieves could no longer be restrained. They exploded, and the thieves who came in a fierce manner dispersed in all directions.

At this time, I finally had a sigh of relief...

When the sun was about to set, the Zhuangren who was dispersed by the horse thieves during the day had not yet returned completely. There were crying in Xiazhuang. There were not many people who died, less than twenty people, although everyone knew that if the horse thief rushed into Xiazhuang, it would probably be a problem for these people to die.

Li Meng has been staying outside. He watched his soldiers clean the battlefield and gained a lot. The interception of these horse thieves was obviously carried with him. The casualties and injuries also contained 500 taels of gold and silver on them. But he saw that there were old blood stains on the gold and silver. Some gold and silver blocks were directly crushed by certain jewelry. It can be seen how the source of these gold and silver was.

There are nine horses to ride, which is a rare spoil. The salt dicks searched carefully on the battlefield and piled up the spoils they searched in front of Li Meng. No one hid their own personal information, because everyone knows that the salt dick team will not tolerate private embezzlement of spoils, but they are also extremely generous in the distribution of spoils.

Li Meng sat on a dead horse, and he was also a little tired. This time, the bandits were invited to suppress them from tight to loose, and then from loose to tight, and began to treat them carefully. In the middle, he knew that the other party was giving away the credit for free, but who thought that in the end, the real and ferocious horse thief rushed over.

If I hadn't been preparing according to the routine of the upcoming regular battle, and every detail would have been unremitting, I would probably have become a dead soul under the sword of a horse thief.

But looking at the salt dicks walking in front of him, Li Meng also felt quite happy. Seeing the transformation of these young people who have experienced the tempering of blood and fire, each of them has less youthfulness and more calmness.

While looking at it, Ma Gang walked up to him and reported:

"There are still more than a dozen horse thieves who are seriously injured and not dead. What do you think of the problem?"
Chapter completed!