Chapter 80: Breaking the Army After a while, Ivanov sorted out two regiments of elite soldiers, led the Hu's army who had just turned around, and rushed towards the tiger's mouth.
We had only walked a little half way when we heard the sound of "bang bang bang bang" musket shooting.
Zhao Buhua and other personal guards who followed Hu Shen back on horseback were already following various Zhejiang army units who came to replace Hu Shen to guard the tiger's mouth. , and started fighting.
It is said that Chen Zhongzhen, who went to Dahukou to take over the defense under Shi Moyisun's order, was half the same hometown as Hu Shen.
Between them, they are still cousins who have not yet released the fifth server.
Previously, I heard that Shi Moyisun insisted that his cousin Hu Shen had gone and never returned, which inevitably caused some resistance in his heart.
So of course there was procrastination when it came to gathering troops and rushing on the road.
After finally walking along the back mountainside to the south side of Dahukou, he was about to take over the defense, but was blocked by Hu Shen's half-brother Hu Liang.
Although the latter is a concubine, he is also one of the most talented young people in the Longquan Hu family.
In the past, when I followed Hu Shen, I often drank wine with Chen Zhongzhen, Qu Han, Wang Zhang and others, and we all had quite a friendship with each other.
Therefore, when Chen Zhongzhen saw that he and his troops were blocking the mountain road leading to the position, it was hard for Chen Zhongzhen to fall out immediately.
Riding his horse, he rushed to the front of the team, raised his command arrow in the air, and shouted loudly: "Hu Laoqi, why are you so crazy?
I came to reinforce you on the order of the commander, why don't you let my people go up?"
"It's Brother Chen."
Upon hearing this, Hu Liang quickly jumped off his horse and bowed to salute.
"Why did you alert me?
My brother took people to blow up the Huai bandit's artillery.
Before leaving, he gave instructions that as long as he didn't come back, no one was allowed to enter the stronghold.
You also know his hot temper.
If I If I put you in casually, will I still be able to live after he comes back?"
When Chen Zhongzhen heard this, he immediately smiled and curled his lips, "You fart, stop fooling me.
I don't know what your brother's temper is.
I don't know who he touches, and he won't touch you.
Besides, I have an order from Marshal Shi Mo."
"No one's general can do it.
It's not like you don't know, Fourth Brother Chen, that Ye Dushi, who is next to Shi Mo Yisun, has always been at odds with my brother.
Now it seems that my brother is about to make a great achievement, he Just send someone to share a spoonful.
But Brother Chen, you are not that kind of person.
What kind of friendship do you have with my brother?
Do you think you should let the years of brotherhood go cold just for the credit of this spoonful?"
Hu Liang's lie was revealed.
It was exposed in public, but it was not embarrassing.
He bowed deeply to Chen Zhongzhen again and continued to speak like a lotus flower.
"This" Chen Zhongzhen raised his head and glanced towards the mountain for a few times, but because his position was slightly lower, his eyes could not cross the ridge at all.
The sound of suona heard in his ears clearly indicated that Hu Shen was leading his troops to fight with the Huai'an army.
Before the victory or defeat was determined, it was indeed unjust to try to steal Hu Shen's retreat.
Moreover, Shi Moyisun was just worried about the Huai bandits counterattacking and attacking the tiger's mouth.
Now it was clear that there were people from the Hu family stationed at the tiger's mouth.
He waited for a while and waited for the winner to be decided in front of the mountain before taking over the defense.
It must be too late.
Thinking of this, Chen Zhongzhen smiled slightly again, "Damn it, your boy's mouth is so good that even a dead man would turn over.
With such a good eloquence, why didn't you persuade your brother earlier and tell him not to rush out and take risks?
Are Dahai’s cannons easy to explode?
Even though you were all named Hu five hundred years ago, he wouldn’t give the cannon to your brother for nothing.”
"It's not that I didn't persuade you, Fourth Brother Chen, you don't know how badly my brother has been bullied by the man surnamed Ye in the past few days.
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Even if the brothers retreated a dozen or twenty steps back from the ridge, they would be able to Avoid the bombardment of Huai'an thieves, but It’s not like he didn’t want my brother to hide.
It’s not a descendant of his Ye family who died.
He doesn’t feel bad.
If all of us, the 10,000 descendants of the Hu family, are included, he, Ye Chen, will still be promoted to a higher position."
Hu Liang said.
Hey, complain loudly.
These words spoke to the hearts of many people.
In an instant, whispers sounded behind Chen Zhongzhen.
Similar to the Hu's army, most of these "righteous soldiers and generals" were from the Chen family, a prominent family in Chuzhou.
Either he is a descendant of the Chen family, or he is a tenant of the Chen family.
Over the years, following Chen Zhongzhen against bandits and bandits was a way of protecting his fellow villagers.
But they were dragged around Fanling to be bombed for no reason.
What was the purpose?
Chen Zhongzhen actually felt that Hu Shen's risky move was forced by Ye Chen.
But he has a relatively soft-tempered temperament and is unwilling to talk about people behind their backs.
So he frowned a few times and lowered his voice and said: "Master Ye has read a lot of sages' books, so he shouldn't be that bad-hearted.
Besides, we are staying here to guard our respective homes.
Haven't you heard that every soldier in the Huai'an Army When you get to a piece of land, you have to spread it out into acres.”
"People's hearts are separated from each other, who knows?"
Hu Liang shook his head and curled his lips disdainfully, "I have heard that every time a person slaughters a dog for justice, the person who betrays his heart will be a scholar.
As for sharing the land, it doesn't matter.
Isn't the Huai'an Army still here?
If there is someone who is awarded land based on military rank and merit, the worst case scenario is that I will go to work as a soldier to feed myself.
When the general comes out, I will at least earn thousands of acres for my family."
"Hiss" Chen Zhongzhen clearly felt that something was wrong with what the other party said, but she didn't know where to start her refutation.
Thanks to the newspapers circulating around, he had heard about all the government orders in Huaiyang.
Especially the provision of land granting based on military rank and merit that was introduced a month or two ago made him red-eyed with envy.
If the imperial court followed this method, he, Chen Zhongzhen, and the children of the Chen clan around him would be able to earn back hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land for the family.
It is enough to offset the losses caused by the apportionment of land and the reduction of rent and interest.
At first, this thought only flashed in his mind, and he suppressed it instinctively.
But at this moment, he was suddenly lifted up again, and like wildfire, it began to devour his heart.
If we continue to defend, can we defeat the Huai'an army?
To be honest, Chen Zhongzhen didn't have any hope for victory.
Butcher Zhu had a sworn feud with the Pu family in Quanzhou.
Even if Shi Mo Yisun took away Hu Dahai this time, it wouldn't be long before Xu Da, Wu Liangmou, Wu Xiyu, and even Butcher Zhu himself might commit suicide.
At that time, what should the Zhejiang army do to continue to defend, using human lives and shells to consume Hu Liang just said well, the people who died were not his Shi Mo Yisun and Ye Chen's clansmen.
Just as he was being burned out of his mind, there was suddenly another burst of violent footsteps behind him.
Qu Han, Wang Zhang, and Liu Yi, three rebel generals who had always been highly regarded by Shi Moyi Sun, also arrived with their tribesmen.
Seeing that Chen Zhongzhen's troops had not yet entered the tiger's mouth position, they were all slightly startled, and blurted out their questioning words, "Brother Chen, why are you still here?
Hurry up and take back the tiger's mouth.
Come on, don't waste your time.
Hu, Mr.
Hu "Three him, he betrayed" "Rebellion" Chen Zhongzhen was shocked and instinctively wanted to check with Hu Liang.
But Hu Liang quickly retracted his body behind the Hu family children, and at the same time opened his neck and shouted: "Brother Chen, please think carefully about what I just said.
Why should we ignore the good thing that can divide the land?"
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We have to use our heads and cannonballs to hit him hard.
If we beat Hu Dahai away, the people named Shi and Ye will be promoted to officials.
What benefits can we gain?"
After that, he led his brothers and slowly retreated behind the rocks on both sides of the mountain road.
The crossbow from the horned bow was strung up, and the cluster of arrows shone with cold light, pointing directly at the three-foot-wide path of the intestines.
"Nobody named Hu has anything interesting."
Qu Han, deputy deputy of Wanhu, didn't need to look closely to know that Chen Zhongzhen had just fallen into Hu Liang's delaying scheme.
He pulled out the steel knife from his waist and raised it above his head, "Brothers, kill me, take out the tiger's mouth and capture Hu Shen alive."
Before he could finish his sentence, at least two hundred feather arrows were shot at him.
He was so frightened that he quickly tilted his body and fell off the horse.
Then he held his head with both hands and hid it under the horse's belly.
At the same time, he screamed loudly in his mouth, "Guard against arrows, guard against cold arrows.
Shield hand, shield hand."
Quickly move your hand forward to block the arrow."
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Most of the feather arrows were stuck on the shield and failed to have any effect.
But there were also more than ten lucky ones who directly hit the chests of several soldiers, knocking the targets to the ground and wailing loudly.
"Attack, attack."
Qu Han felt a cold sweat on his forehead, took out the steel knife from behind the shield, and swung it towards the ridge with all his strength.
As soon as the feather arrow fell, the two sides completely turned against each other, and there was no longer any human relationship left.
Therefore, the two rebel generals Wang Zhang and Liu Yi also raised their steel swords one after another and sent their soldiers and horses to assist in the battle, vowing to seize the tiger's mouth before the Huai'an army came up.
Only Chen Zhongzhen, who was supposed to be the first to lead his troops into the battle, still hesitated.
He looked at Hu Liang, who was guarding both sides of the mountain road and was outnumbered.
Look at the dozens of white flags that were erected at unknown times on the Tiger's Pass position.
Pressing the handle of the knife, he sighed, "Alas"
"Big brother" Chen Zhongyi, a volunteer from the Chen family's army, saw this and rushed forward to the market.
He pulled hard on the reins of his general's war horse, "You should make a decision quickly.
If you continue to hesitate like this, no matter who wins or loses in the end, we will all No good results” "You can't win, you can't win."
Chen Zhongzhen smiled bitterly and shook his head, lost in thought.
"Hu Shen left some men at the Killing Tiger's Gate.
Although Qu Han and the others have many people, they can't attack for a while.
As long as the Huai'an army rushes up from the other side of the mountain, the outcome of this battle will be decided."
"Then let's learn from Hu Shen."
Chen Zhongyi was young and bold, stomping his feet and admonishing.
"At least stand at one end.
If you stand right, you can make some money back."
"Yes, eldest son, please hurry up and make a decision.
We will all follow you."
The other leaders of the Chen family also whispered in agreement.
As children of local tycoon families, there was no deep hatred between them and Zhu Chongjiu.
The only reason for insisting on fighting with the Huai'an army was to preserve the family's privileges and the huge amount of land in the family's hands.
According to the current policy of the Huai'an Army, it is definitely impossible to continue to have privileges, but there is a way to keep more than half of the land, and even double the original basis.
As a result, their motivation to fight was naturally weakened by more than half.
With no hope of victory, no one could afford to coexist with the position.
"Yeah."
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Facing the eager eyes of the clan members, Chen Zhongzhen opened and closed the hand on the handle of the knife repeatedly.
Hu Shen's actions were undoubtedly extremely smart.
But the kindness Shi Moyi and Sun always treated each other made him unable to let go.
After thinking about it, he finally shook his head vigorously and said, "Forget it, let's go to Longquan.
Fanling will definitely not be able to defend it.
If we defend Longquan, we can at least leave a way out for Lord Shi Moyisun."
After that, he turned his war horse to the south.
He was unwilling to attack Hu Liang, nor was he willing to return to Fanling to report his orders to Shi Moyi Sun.
He took his subordinates with him and left: