Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 383 Choking You To Death!
A sharp, wire-like scream broke the silence at the gate of the city, and the bird on the branch trembled in fright, almost falling from the tree: "Yang Menglong!!!"

Yang Menglong looked back with sleepy eyes, and couldn't help being shocked: My god, I saw the blood vessels on Gao Qiqian's neck protruding like big earthworms, baring his teeth and claws, as if a single needle would heal It exploded, and blood spurted wildly!The muscles of the dead eunuch's cheeks were completely twisted and hung up, his squinting eyes almost popped out of their sockets, coupled with the sauce-purple complexion, the bristling hair, and those pair of eyes The sharp claws opened, the venomous gaze, as terrifying as you want, as long as a little blood is stained on the corners of his mouth and nails, it will be more than enough to pull him into a horror movie!Yang Menglong was terrified, and called: "Elder-in-law, you... what's wrong with you? Are you sick?"

Gao Qiqian's throat was slightly sweet, no good, this kid was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood!His voice was high-pitched and sharp: "Come here! Take this madman down!"

Wu Sangui shouted: "Take it! Take it!"

More than a dozen members of the Wu family, Ding Li, drew their knives out of their sheaths, rushing forward to grab them.Who knew that Cao Jun would stand in front of Yang Menglong with a stride, with his horizontal knife out of its sheath, his expression gloomy: "I see who dares to touch a single hair of my lord!"

Wu Sangui's face became more and more gloomy: "Cao, you dare to disobey the order of the army!"

Cao Jun said coldly: "Which military discipline has my lord violated? Even if you kill a chicken, you have to have a reason? Besides, did you take my lord if you want?"

Gao Qiqian's whole body twitched like an epileptic seizure, screaming wildly: "Take it together! Take it down together!"

Cao Jun sneered: "Eunuch Gao, I'm afraid you won't be able to take it down!"

With a bang, thousands of archers appeared on the city wall. A strong crossbow had already been opened, and the frighteningly sharp arrowheads had already been inserted into the arrow slots, pointing straight at the Guan Ning army below the city, with a cold and addictive feeling. The breath of blood swept across the city, causing the entire Guan Ning army to change their faces in horror.The most frightening thing was that they heard the clang of armor and the ground trembled slightly. Hundreds of hoplites rushed out of the city gate like a group of tanks. Hundreds of giant axes were carried on their shoulders. Only Yang Menglong As soon as an order is given, it will be chopped down without mercy, causing Guan Ning's army to be killed and injured everywhere!Surrounded by powerful crossbows, the soldiers are majestic and murderous. Facing such battles, Gao Qiqian couldn't help but his liver and gallbladder were torn apart, and he almost didn't pee.He inspected the corpses of the rebels shot to death by the powerful crossbows of the Heluo New Army in the Battle of Shahe, and found that most of them were shot in the neck and chest, and most of them were shot in the chest. Passing through the chest, piercing the heart or the lungs, and penetrating the spine, the rebels who were hit by the arrows often lost consciousness before they fell to the ground. He didn't want to use his body to taste the feeling of being pierced by those terrible three-edged arrowheads !Eunuch Gao's voice trembled slightly: "Yang...General Yang, do you want to rebel!?"

Yang Menglong stared at Wu Sangui and Gao Qiqian, for a moment he really wanted to order arrows to shoot them into hedgehogs!These two bastards, one teamed up with Yang Sichang in the winter of the 11th year of Chongzhen, repeatedly weakened Lu Xiangsheng's troops, and prevented the states and counties from providing food and grass to the Tianxiong Army. In the end, Lu Xiangsheng took thousands of old and weak soldiers to Julu. All were killed in battle, but the dead eunuch didn't say anything, and fled away with tens of thousands of elite soldiers when he learned that Lu Xiangsheng had died in battle; the other opened the Shanhaiguan Pass, led the Manchus to invade Beijing, destroyed the Dashun regime, and became the most vicious manchurian His minions chased and killed the small Nanming government all the way, from Jiangnan to Burma!These two bastards are wasting air alive, it's better to let them die early!But he can only think about it this way, if Gao Qiqian is really killed, he will completely tear his face with Chongzhen, and he will not be able to become a traitor of the Ming Dynasty.Although he didn't care about being a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, he never thought about making a movie with the Ming army and indirectly helping the bandits and slaves... Forget it, bear with it for now, and settle the matter of Dengzhou, and then we can do it later. Find a way to clean up you!Thinking of this, he forcefully suppressed the murderous intent in his chest, and sternly shouted: "Who told you to show your weapons? Put them away!"

Cao Jun said: "Obey!" With a clang, he retracted the knife and put it back into its sheath.The archers on the city wall also put away their crossbows, but only the hundred hoplites were still standing there like a wall, which made people feel a lot of pressure.

Guan Ningjun breathed a sigh of relief.The murderous intent of the Heluo new army is too strong, and it is not an easy task to confront such a murderous army.

Yang Menglong rushed up and cupped his hands, and said: "Master Supervisor, the general doesn't understand what mistake he has made, yet he is so angry that he wants to take down the general as soon as we meet!"

Gao Qiqian is no longer as domineering as before, but his attitude is still tough: "You have no military discipline and act without authorization. You will be punished according to crime!"

Yang Menglong looked innocent: "The last general has no military discipline? I don't know which military discipline the last general has violated? Did he run away from the battle or avoid the battle because he was afraid of the enemy, or did he kill good people and take credit for his merits, and plundered the countryside?"

Gao Qiqian opened his mouth, and suddenly realized that his reason was untenable.The discipline of the new army in Heluo is too strict. The common faults of the Ming army, such as looting the village, killing good men, and humiliating women, are all insulated from them, fearing the enemy and avoiding war?Funk?As soon as people see the enemy army, their eyes turn green like blood from a chicken, okay?If the Heluo new army feared the enemy and avoided fighting, there would be no such troubles!

Wu Sangui called: "You ignored the military order of the supervising army and attacked Dengzhou without authorization, which almost ruined the overall plan. Is it reasonable?"

Yang Menglong asked: "Did the supervising army issue an order that the Heluo new army is not allowed to intercept the rebels retreating to Dengzhou, and is not allowed to attack Dengzhou?"

Gao Qiqian was speechless again...he had never given such an order.At that time, the Ming army was singing triumphant songs and winning every victory. He woke up from his dream with a smile and completely forgot about the thorn in the side of the Heluo New Army. He never gave them a formal military order at all.His original intention was to suppress the Heluo New Army and prevent them from stealing all the limelight. Unexpectedly, the Heluo New Army changed hands and used their subjective initiative to defeat Dengzhou!If Yang Menglong had to be charged with a crime, it would be to lay down Dengzhou without telling himself, but is this crime valid?

Yang Menglong said: "Since the Heluo New Army was not ordered not to attack Dengzhou, then we did not violate the military law. Why arrest me?"

Gao Qiqian gritted his teeth again, and said, "What a sharp mouth! Our family doesn't care about you. Tell me, where are the thieves like Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Li Jiuzheng?"

Yang Menglong said: "The ball is dead, the ball is dead!"

Gao Qiqian asked: "How did you die?"

Yang Menglong looked at him as if he were an idiot: "How did he die? Of course he was killed by the general!"

Gao Qiqian asked anxiously: "Where is the leader?"

Yang Menglong said slowly: "It has been marinated with lime and sent to the capital by sea boat to report victory."

Gao Qiqian was so angry that he said, "You didn't discuss such an important matter with our family. You...you..."

Yang Menglong looked aggrieved: "I have been in Dengzhou for more than ten days, and my father-in-law hasn't come here. I thought my father-in-law was busy with other things. I can't bother my father-in-law with such trivial matters, so I have to make my own decisions."

Gao Qiqian was so angry that he almost didn't vomit blood.He knew that he had been defeated this time, the dignified supervising army, his subordinates captured the rebel's lair for more than ten days, and all the heads of the rebel generals were sent to the capital to ask for credit, yet he still didn't know anything, what should the emperor think of him ?What should the courtiers think of him?After such a long period of painstaking planning, bloody battles, and hard work, in the end, this bastard was disturbed, how could he not be angry!He didn't understand why Yang Menglong had such deep hostility towards him from the very beginning. Yang Menglong's actions had completely enraged him, so he gave Yang Menglong a fierce look with resentful eyes, and grinned: "General Yang, You have done a good job, very good! Our family remembers you, let's go!" Not even entering the city, he turned his horse's head and galloped away.Wu Sangui looked displeased, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to take the thousand Guanning iron cavalry and followed Gao Qiqian away in despair.

Yang Menglong smiled like a pistachio, and yelled at them with his hands clasped like a trumpet: "Hey, Mr. Supervisor, go to the city and have a cup of tea before leaving... Are you leaving now? It's really embarrassing... Watch the road carefully , but don’t fall into the pit and fall to your death!”

Heluo Xinjun and Zhejun showed appalling expressions, and turned their heads away in unison, not daring to let Yang Menglong see the smile on their mouths.Gao Qiqian is really capable, so he didn't get pissed off!

When Guan Ning's army had gone far, Wu Sheng and Lei Shisheng appeared from behind the city gate, looking at the smoke and dust raised by Guan Ning's iron cavalry, feeling a little worried.Lei Shisheng said to Yang Menglong not without reproach: "Master Yang, you have completely fallen out with Lord Supervisor this time! This will not do you any good!"

Yang Menglong snorted: "What can he do to me!?"

Wu Sheng said: "Of course he can't do anything to you, general, but it's inevitable to speak ill of you in front of the emperor. If the group is light, the feathers will sink the boat, and the mouth will make gold, and the accumulation will destroy the bones. The emperor treats you again." No matter how much you trust, you can't stand him slandering you every day!"

Yang Menglong said indifferently: "If those of us who fought on the battlefield, the leader who has survived a hundred battles is not as trusted by the emperor as an ignorant villain, it will be a very sad thing, not only our sorrow, but also our sorrow. It's the emperor, it's the sorrow of the whole country... Well, let's not talk about this, the Sichuan Army, Zhejiang Army, and Lu Army should also arrive, let's think about how to draw people from among them!"

He wasn't worried at all that Gao Qi would report himself in front of Chongzhen, and he wasn't even worried that Chongzhen would be suspicious of him, or that he didn't care.This guy always has a contemptuous attitude towards some existing rules and unspoken rules that everyone must abide by, which makes people speechless.

As Yang Menglong expected, two days later, all the Ming troops who had reacted swarmed towards Dengzhou City, screaming and swarming into the city to collect property wantonly, just like a group of hungry wolves breaking into a pigsty.Dengzhou City, which Yang Menglong and others have searched once, is about to suffer another crime. Those Ming soldiers have a great appetite, and the 50 taels that Yang Menglong left for them can't feed them. The Ming army searched for silver from door to door, furniture, books, food, wood... even pots and pans, clothes, shoes and socks, farm tools and washbasins, as long as they can be used, they want everything, even window paper and wallpaper. You have to peel it off and stuff it into your own baggage.More than once, Yang Menglong saw several soldiers of the Sichuan Army fight over a half-worn undershirt, and he was annoyed, ridiculous and sad at the same time.The evil deeds of these guys snatching spoils are certainly contemptible, but think about it, they walked hundreds or even thousands of miles to Shandong to participate in the war with food, hunger, and meals. There was no reward, no compensation for casualties, Even if they win, they may not be able to get rewards from the court. If they don't take advantage of the victory to get as much loot as possible, they will fight this battle for nothing, and the hardships along the way will be for nothing. If it is you, what would you do?
Although a lot of property can still be searched from Dengzhou City, there are too many Ming troops rushing over. Although they have already scraped off the land by three feet, there are still many unlucky people who have nothing and nothing arrive.No way, who told them that they have no strength?If you don't have strength, you can't occupy those relatively affluent areas. You can only search in places where there is not much oil and water. It is strange to collect any property.Needless to say, these Ming troops were very frustrated, and the battle was considered useless, and they had to wait for the court's reward!However, they don't have any hope for this, let alone whether there is a reward, even if there is, how much can be distributed to them under the layers of exploitation?What a pity!

In fact, there is no need to be depressed, because good luck is about to wave to them.

(End of this chapter)