Chapter 31 The courage of the county magistrate

Hao Yaoqi galloped his horse and looked at the city of Ye County. After looking for a while, he calmly said to the people beside him: "This dog officer seems to have some rules."

From noon to now, Hao Yaoqi led his troops to the city and attacked seven or eight times in turn, but were all driven back. For a moment, I was so angry that I felt so shameless.

The walls of Ye County are not high, and the city is not big. With five thousand soldiers and horses, attacking a city guarded by hundreds of people, it should be easy to capture it. However, Zheng Yunzhi was fully prepared for war. Outside the other three walls, there were numerous pits and pits. Only the front wall was indeed well prepared. The few squatting tiger cannons on the top of the city were too powerful. Hao Yaoqi came in a hurry this time and did not bring the cannons, not even the cannon fodder refugees.

When thieves attack a city, they often have rules. Before attacking the city, let's get some old thieves into the city to coordinate the inside and outside. If this fails, they will then drive out the homeless women and children as cannon fodder, which will damage the morale of the defenders and consume the resources of the defenders. If it fails again, we will attack by force.

Once a forceful attack fails, if it is not besieged, it will have no choice but to retreat.

But this time Hao Yaoqi came in a hurry. He originally expected that the nails he had buried in the city would make a contribution, but he didn't expect to suffer a heavy loss. As soon as he arrived, he brought people into the city from the tunnel. When dozens of people got out of the tunnel, the tunnel exploded. Then I realized that Zheng Yunzhi might have pulled out the nails in the city.

So he attacked forcefully. However, the other three walls could not form a position, so they had to attack from the front. So he was beaten back by Zheng Yunzhi time and time again, which made him furious.

But he could not make up his mind to attack in an all-out way - firstly, the military salary he coveted might not reach Ye County, and secondly, he was afraid of losses. Rogue thieves are Rogue thieves after all. For example, intruders are very powerful, claiming to be hundreds of thousands or millions, but they are all just a mob. There are not many real hardcore thieves. Even if there are break-ins, I'm afraid there are only tens of thousands of elite old thieves. Hao Yaoqi, on the other hand, had less than four thousand.

Over at Erlang Mountain, he sent two thousand people there. Among the five thousand people here, there were less than two thousand old thieves, and the remaining three thousand were ordinary bandits.

After several attacks, the more than 3,000 bandits, who were slightly better than artillery fire, had lost all morale. If they were to attack again, they would have to send in the old camp. But he couldn't bear it.

"If I had known, I would have brought in some red cannons and blasted him to death!"

A thief general said angrily: "This dog officer, when we break the city, I will cut him into pieces with a thousand swords and steal his wife, children, and children!"

At this moment, there was a commotion from behind. Hao Yaoqi looked back and saw only a slight commotion behind the army. He didn't see clearly and ignored it. Rogue thieves, riots and the like are commonplace.

But the turmoil is getting worse!

A flash of sword light pierced through the air and swept across the bandit army. At first, there were some bandits who came forward to stop them, but they all fell victim to the sword. Afterwards, no one dared to go up and die. The wolf chased by the sword light ran away, and soon the commotion spread. By the time Hao Yaoqi woke up, it was too late!

"what happened!"

Then someone came and said in horror: "A murderer has come in!"

"What kind of bullshit is this?" A thief was furious and shouted: "Master, I'll go take a look first."

Not long after, another report came: "The boss is in trouble, General Liu has been killed!"

At this time, the bandits had not yet formed an organization. There is a mess among them, either called the king, or the person in charge of the plate or the house, or this great general, that great prime minister. Any bandit can be called a general.

A guy like Hao Yaoqi has dozens of generals under his command.

But the one who just went there was a warrior beside him. He always charged into battle and was very fierce. Unexpectedly, he was killed in a blink of an eye.

Hao Yaoqi was furious: "Kill him for me!"

He chopped off the reporter with a knife and shouted: "Go quickly!"

A few thieves rushed into the already chaotic army. Hao Yaoqi hurriedly straightened up and looked around. He saw that among the chaotic army, swords flashed one after another, like lightning, and those few disappeared in the blink of an eye. Traces of the thieves!

Only then did Hao Yaoqi see Ying Yi.

I saw a tall man holding a simple knife, covered in blood, like an evil ghost from hell. Yun made his sword shine like a wheel, killing all his soldiers and horses. Not to mention killing this man, he couldn't even get close.

At this moment, a team of more than two hundred people came in from the rear.

When the two factors combined, the already panic-stricken bandit army suddenly fell into chaos!

Ying Yi moved the sword like thunder, and with one slash, there was a stabbing sound, and a white wave split through the air like silk. The white waves emptied out, like a hurricane, and the thieves stumbled around. And when the sword passes by, any bullshit will be cut in two.

Several thieves came to kill them ferociously, but he killed them all with one knife. He raised his head, and a pair of cold and bright eyes under the blood stains met Hao Yaoqi's gaze in the distance.

Ying Yi only glanced at it and ignored the person who seemed to be the leader of the bandit. He just killed in the army happily while paying attention to Zheng Liu and others who had just broken into the bandit army. Little did he know that his glance made Hao Yaoqi break into a cold sweat.

Hao Yaoqi's heart was beating wildly, and he was horrified by the indifferent eyes. He even wanted to turn around and run away, but only managed to hold it back. He was slightly relieved when he saw that the bloody man was not coming to kill him.

The rebel army was in chaos. Zheng Liu and his party broke in and encountered unprecedented obstacles. As soon as the front arrived, the rebel army seemed to retreat on its own initiative. It didn't take long to kill them all, and they were approaching the city. But no one expected that the city gate would open at this time. Zheng Yunzhi actually took the lead, raised a sword, and led 300 people to kill!

When Ying Yi took a look at the rebellious army, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, and at the same time he admired Zheng Yunzhi's courage.

He no longer hesitated and headed towards Zheng Yunzhi to kill him.

After a while, he met Zheng Yunzhi, Zheng Liu and others at the foot of the city.

Zheng Yunzhi had a messy beard, raised his sword and shouted: "Ying Yi, Zheng Liu, Zheng Jiu, do you dare to follow this county and kill again?!"

Zheng Liu and Zheng Jiu shouted loudly: "I am willing to die for the master!"

Ying Yi sighed secretly and said, "Why don't you dare!"

It's easy to kill, but the thieves are obviously a pile of paper and sand, a ragtag group. The slain wolf rushes towards the dolphin. Hao Yaoqi saw that the situation was not good and ran away. How can the rest of the thieves have any energy? The panic dissipated. Zheng Yunzhi laughed loudly and led his men to chase him for a while before returning to the military county town.

"There is nothing to worry about like a mob of thieves."

Zheng Yunzhi twirled his beard, his face flushed, and he seemed very excited. He was originally a scholar, but he never expected that he would lead troops into battle and charge into battle. How could this not make him feel emotional?

"Five thousand thieves were defeated by 500 of my men, which shows that we are powerful on the outside but weak on the inside. This time we will definitely succeed in suppressing the thieves!"

When Ying Yi heard this, he secretly felt helpless for his confidence. If the Ming Dynasty still had control, it would not be difficult to defeat the ragtag bandits. But the difficulty is that the Ming Dynasty can no longer control the situation.

For example, Zuo Liangyu and his like are more concerned about harming the people and running away than killing thieves, and they are also good at cheating their teammates.

And the problem of bandits does not lie in the large number of people. It lies in the corruption of the political situation. Otherwise, even if the suppression goes down this time, there will be another surge soon.