Chapter 136 Only the bloody battle to the end
The pirates disembarked one after another and finally gathered in line on the dock.
After a while of rest, Zheng Balang didn't say much. After glanced at the thieves, he said lightly: "Take the castle city, the woman will join the rank of the house. According to the old rules, after all the captured slaves are sold, half of them will be divided equally by everyone!"
A simple sentence is better than a thousand words, and the pirates are suddenly filled with enthusiasm and their blood is boiling.
"Set off!"
Zheng Balang transferred all the crews of each ship to the shore, and only the crew members of each ship were left on the eighteen ships. Nearly five hundred crew members of the eighteen ships were enrolled, but these crew members were not as good as pirates who came ashore. These crew members were also pirates before, but now they are mostly old and weak and disabled. After they can't fight, they retreated to become crew members, which is also a trick that Zheng Balang was very interested in.
Wang Fu and Zhang An also took nearly 200 guards to act together. Except for more than 20 servants brought by Wang Fu, the rest were guards of the Wang family's business in various parts of the island. These intakes are usually more secretive, and on the surface they are not the Wang family's entry. Wang Fu was very serious about this action. Although Zheng Balang almost came out in full swing and brought thousands of pirates ashore at one time, he still used all the power he could use in order to be foolproof.
Compared with the pirates, the equipment of these more than 200 guards was very good. They were all equipped with weapons and armor secretly stored on the island by the Wang family. The guards of the 200 guards entered the armor, lighter iron armor and bronze zippers. Their weapons were also very good, with sharp horizontal swords, long bows, round shields, eight-foot spears, and two pots of arrows. They were even equipped with one hundred crossbow tools and twenty Fuyuan heavy crossbows.
The guards were together with the pirates, and they were judged immediately. Although the pirates were in a mess and had no uniform clothing, they had a fierce momentum. Compared with those pirates full of wildness, although the guards were wearing uniform green clothes and holding uniform equipment, they obviously lacked some momentum.
When the guards walked with the pirates, they were always afraid of their hands and feet, and they felt that the local dogs and wild wolves were running side by side. In this way, the pirates made the pirates laugh all the way, but made Wang Fuqi's face extremely blue. Especially Zheng Balang's faint smile made his heart even more ignorant.
It's chilly at night and the north wind is howling.
The crowd of horses walked quietly in the cold wind. Because Zhang An said in advance that he had inquired about the situation of the castle city in the evening, Zheng Balang was too lazy to send the scouts out to explore the way, so he entered the team and headed forward to the castle city. It was only two or three miles from Shikou Wharf to the castle city. In their opinion, this was just a charge distance, and there was no need to be so troublesome.
The pirates were full of morale, and they were eager to burn, kill and loot immediately. In contrast, the 200 guards were much worse. The cold wind blew along the way, which made these people feel sluggish. After walking a few hundred steps, they started to drag. Especially these people were covered with iron armor, copper helmets, and leather shields, which were both heavy and heavy. The whole set of equipment weighed dozens of pounds, and they were all complaining. When they participated in this battle, Wang Fu did not announce any reward, so they all complained about being tired.
Wang Fu looked at this, his face turned blue and he kept kicking and hitting the cowards. However, these people were wearing armor, and they were not afraid even if they whipped it up, let alone just scolding. In the end, Zhang An reminded him to promise him a reward. There must be a brave man under the heavy reward. Wang Fu promised everyone that after the war, every time he paid for money, and after cutting off an enemy's head, he could exchange for two coins of money, the guards immediately became vigilant.
After a journey of two or three miles, more than a thousand horses arrived soon after reaching the dark side.
Zheng Balang paused the team and carefully observed the castle in the night. Everything was as Zhang An said. The whole castle was quiet, and there were four tents-built camps outside the castle. The west and north cities of the castle were quietly dark. On the contrary, there were many torches inserted all over the South and East cities, and patrols with torches passed by from time to time.
"Where is the gap?"
"Just on the west wall, not far from the west gate, there are three gaps, only a dozen steps apart." Zhang An pointed to the black castle and said in a suppressed voice.
Wang Fu said on the side: "Do you want to divide your troops to attack those four camps?"
Zheng Balang shook his head, "The news we have is that Li Jing and the officers are all in the city, and the other soldiers' barracks are also in the city. The outside camps of the city are all the families of ordinary soldiers, so we don't have to worry about these entry. We will attack the castle with all our strength and control Li Jing and the soldiers inside. At that time, the ordinary people in the outside camps of the city will naturally fall into our hands. Pass the orders and immediately raid. The head of the king, after the attack into the city, you will take your in and I to the town general's mansion as soon as possible and capture Li Jing."
"good."
Zheng Balang waved his hand and rushed to the castle first.
In the west city, there were already secret swords and weapons, and four ambushing troops were deployed.
"Come on, come on!" Li Shugen rushed from the front and ran to Li Jing's side. "Come on, there are a thousand numbers entering the horse. It seems that what Team Leader Qiu saw is correct. It is indeed not the original five hundred, at least one thousand."
Everyone was shocked and Liu Chengzong cursed: "That woman took our 3,000 intelligence fee and kept saying that the pirates had entered five hundred. But now he has more than one thousand numbers. Wouldn't this damn trick him into it?"
Li Jing was also very sarcastic. All the previous battle plans were formulated by only 500 pirates. There were not many soldiers in the city, so he transferred Lin Wei and Lin Wu to the outside of the city and took away more than 300 soldiers. Now, the city has all the auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers, but there are only more than 1,000 pirates. Now there are more than 1,000 pirates. Can these soldiers in Shamen Town fight one-to-one?
At this moment, Li Jing thought about various possibilities in his mind, and it was even possible that he would fail this battle this time.
"General, what should I do now? More than a thousand thieves have come, and we can't defeat them." Wang Shi said worriedly.
Li Jing suddenly raised his foot and kicked Wang Shi down, shouting softly: "At this point, no matter what, there is only a bloody battle to the end. No matter what, no matter what, you dare to give up the loser, and deal with it according to the military law."
The more this time, the morale of the army becomes more important. Although Xiao Shitou did not mean to disrupt the morale of the army, his words played this role. If Li Jing did not control it, there was no need to fight this battle, and the pirates had not come up yet, and all the incomings felt that they could not win, and then the result would definitely be a loss.
"The brave ones win when they meet on a narrow road! Fight with them!" Li Jing shouted coldly.
The soldiers who were originally worried about the pirates were also insulted by Li Jing's words at this time, and their heroic spirit gradually increased. Li Jing drew out his long sword in his hand, glanced at the soldiers in front of him, and shouted: "Don't forget everyone's identity, what are we? We are the army, and the army is to defend our country. Looking back at you, behind you are your father, sister, wife and children. If you retreat and escape, what should we do if our parents, brothers, sisters, wives and children? Who will protect them? Only us and the sword in our hands!"
"Fight with them!" Wang Shi got up from the ground, his teeth tightly bit his lower lip, and blood flowed out. He felt guilty for his timidity just now, and at this moment he wanted to rush out of the city to fight the thief in blood and use blood to wash away the shame.
Li Jing pulled his collar and pulled him back, shouting angrily: "Calm down and go back and lead your team."
Seeing the pirates rushing forward quickly, Li Jing quickly ordered the crowd to retreat.
"Everyone is here and prepare to fight!"
Li Jing was fully armed, and he was still the red lacquer mountain armor and a phoenix-winged horned horn. He had a horizontal knife inserted on his waist and a seven-foot sword on his back. Instead of holding a long spear, he took the ancestral horn bow and carried three pots and ninety arrows.
The servant Zhang Chengzong wore the set of mountain armor that Li Jing gave him, with a horizontal knife on his waist and a steel whip on his hand. Liu Shouqian wore a set of mountain armor that he copied out of Fengming's mansion in the castle, holding a copper mace in his hand and a horizontal knife on his waist. The monk Hua Xuancheng also participated in the ambush tonight. He held the golden hoop and black iron rod in his hand and stood close beside Li Jing. The war was about to come, and he sat cross-legged on the ground and bowed in his mouth, reciting the scriptures.
The pirates came very quickly. As soon as they approached the city, they immediately divided into three strands. They rushed towards the three gaps that had long been optimistic about, like three waves passing through the gap in the collapsed dike.
Silently, the pirate's forward had already passed through the gap without encountering any obstacle. Zhang An, who was leading the way, looked very happy, and it was even smoother than expected. He actually had no accident from beginning to end, and he had already touched the city. Huang Yu, the leader of the pirate, was also full of excitement. He had followed the one-eyed dragon to raid many villages. Especially after going to Liaodong, the area around Liaodong, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had already existed and could not be governed, but the Bohai Kingdom could take control but did not dare. Silla was afraid of the Bohai Kingdom and did not dare to extend his power to Liaodong. The Khitan continued to expand eastward, but stopped in western Liaoning. In the western Liaoning area, it had long become a place with no control, and there were fortresses and walls everywhere.
Those fortresses are very similar to the fortresses on Shaman Island. The outside is as hard as a turtle shell, which is extremely a headache. But once you find a way to get into the city, no matter how strong the fortress is, it will be the object of their magic robbery. His feet are already standing in Shaman Island castle. In his opinion, the castle already belongs to them.
Chapter completed!