Nanming Engineer

Chapter 36 Qing Army or Ming Army
"I said, Counselor, can this mouse tail be removed? It drags behind the head like a hanged ghost. It's so annoying!" Li Tingyu complained.

"Of course." Wang Huan said with a smile, reached behind Li Tingyu's head, and pulled off the braid glued to the back of his head: "Now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to dress up and play tricks."

Li Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief, took the braids and threw them on the ground in disgust, stomped on them a few times, and said angrily, "It's not tiring for these Tartars to wear such long braids every day. If it was me, I would kill them." I won’t do it anymore!”

Seeing that Li Tingyu had gone to disguise, the other people behind him immediately followed suit and tore off the braids sticking to the back of their heads. There was still a trace of blood on the root, and it was stuck to the head. It was very uncomfortable, and everyone wanted to tear it off.

As soon as the braids were removed, everyone felt their bodies loosened, as if a mountain had been removed, and their spirits were refreshed.

Li Tingyu pulled out the long knife at his waist with a "wow!", pointed excitedly at Wang Tao and others who were struggling to climb up the steps, and shouted: "Okay! Brothers, let's rush down together and kill these licking tartars!" You little coward, show them how powerful the Ming army is!"

Everyone responded with "Aw!", eighteen people picked up their spears, stood beside Li Tingyu, and instantly lined up in two rows, with nine people in the first row and ten people in the second row, standing shoulder to shoulder, blocking the way up the mountain. On the stone path, the point of the gun pointed forward, and the shining blade blocked the way of Wang Tao and others.

Compared with these soldiers, Wang Huan was much shorter. Nineteen strong men lined up airtight, like two rows of walls in front of them, blocking the stone road tightly.Wang Huan couldn't get in, so he took a dagger to the left and glanced at the right, trying to find a gap to stand in the queue, but finally found that there was no place for him to stand, so he could only stand behind and shout Zhuangzhuang Momentum.

Li Tingyu didn't even notice that Wang Huan behind him was trying to join the fighting formation. He was looking at Wang Tao's group of people who were climbing the stone steps in a panic, and laughed.

"Bold water thief, dare to openly kill people and fight privately, is there any law? Stop everything and catch them without a fight!"

Li Tingyu stood in the middle of the queue and shouted majestically, uprightly.The people next to me felt a little embarrassed. Sir, have you forgotten where this place is?This is a den of water thieves. If you come here to talk about the king's laws, isn't that playing the harp to an ox?

Wang Tao, who was running wildly on the trail with his head down, looked up when he heard the sound. He was shocked to see a spear formation pointed at him. The spears were ready to go. It seemed that if he took one step forward, he would be stabbed with more than a dozen bloody holes.

"Master Tu, it's me, Wang Tao!" Wang Tao endured the severe pain in his arm and had to stand on his feet, staying at a distance from the spear. He shouted eagerly: "The rebels are fierce and the common people can't resist it. Please Sir, please give me a helping hand quickly!"

"What?" Li Tingyu pretended to be surprised: "It's actually Chief Wang! Come here quickly, I'll protect you."

The gun array swayed slightly and separated to the left and right, revealing a gap in the middle, which could allow two people to pass through. Wang Tao and others were overjoyed and rushed over in a hurry. The pursuers behind them were already close at hand. If they didn't get in, they would die.

When passing by Li Tingyu, Wang Tao gratefully bent down towards Li Tingyu to express his gratitude. When he raised his head again, he glanced and was surprised to see a cold light coming down. Before he could see what it was, his perspective changed and his head froze. flew up.

Li Tingyu moved his hand, and the spear array standing in two rows also stabbed out. The dozen or so water thieves crowded together were strung together like candied haws. Almost every spear pierced through several bodies. There were repeated rings, and the tip of the spear splattered blood all over the stone steps.

Wang Tao's head was lifted by the knife, flew far away, landed on the stone steps, and then rolled down the stone steps like a ball, just at the feet of Zu Tianci who was chasing him, his eyes were still open on, staring wide-eyed in disbelief. .

"Second Master, this looks like the head of the First Master!" the sharp-eyed water thief exclaimed. Although the head was covered in blood, its outline had not changed, and anyone familiar with it could tell it apart at a glance.

Zu Tianci stretched out his feet and fiddled with the head on the ground, and then looked up, just in time to see Li Tingyu's stabbing kick kicking over the headless corpse that was spraying blood mist from its neck.

"Brother, it seems that the Qing dog killed the head!" Zu Bian shouted, his tone full of surprise, he chased after Zu Tianci, and the scene on the hill was clearly visible.

"What's going on? How could this happen!" Zu Tianci was a little confused. He paused and hesitated, not knowing whether to rush forward or stay where he was. He originally led people to chase Wang Tao, but now Wang Tao was killed first. , the murderers were the Qing soldiers who came to recruit people. This turn of events was so unexpected that it was almost unbelievable.

Watching the Qing soldiers on the top of the mountain kicking off the dozens of corpses strung on spears one by one and continuing to form a spear formation, Zu Tianci felt a trance in his head and his IQ was a little insufficient.

A group of people just stood on the stone steps in a daze. The people behind didn't know what happened. Seeing that the front suddenly stopped moving, they didn't know why, and they crowded into a group. Hundreds of people just piled up at the bottom of the hill, unable to advance or retreat. Not retreating, messed up.

At this moment, a water thief came rushing from the east of the island, shouting in panic as he ran: "There are officers and soldiers coming to the island! Officials and soldiers are coming to the island!"

The size of Mudun Island is several miles to the left and right, and the terrain is not wide. However, due to the uneven terrain, the field of vision is not wide. Only the top of the highest hill on the island can have a bird's-eye view of the entire island. Those above were Li Tingyu, Wang Huan and others, so Zu Tianci and other water thieves had no idea that someone had sneaked ashore on the other side of the island.

Hearing the shout of the messenger, Zu Tianci woke up like a dream, kicked the head of the person under his feet into the air, gritted his teeth and said: "Oh no, we were fooled! It's fake to clear up the dog, and it's true to take the opportunity to encircle and suppress it. Yes, we were all fooled!"

The hearts of the people around were cold. After fighting for a long time, it turned out that they had been tricked by others. This is a good move. The people on the island killed each other, and there were less than 1000 people left. The Qing soldiers came prepared. And waiting for work with leisure, how can we fight this battle?
Zu Bian grabbed the water thief who reported the news and asked with a distorted face: "How many Qing soldiers are there? Are there any reinforcements from them on the lake?"

The person who reported the letter was originally full of panic, but after hearing the question from Zu Bian, his face became blank again, and he stammered: "No, it's not Qing soldiers, they are soldiers from the tank boat, all of them are dressed in bright clothes. The military uniforms of the Ming Dynasty are all Ming Dynasty officials.”

As soon as these words came out, Zu Tianci and Zu Bian were stupefied again, they glanced at the small hill at the same time, and they were showing off their power there, weren't they the Qing soldiers who came to recruit security?Why is there a Ming army on the boat?The people on the boat and the people on the mountain came together. When did the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army have such a good relationship with the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty that they could take the same boat?
Zu Tianci grabbed the water thief who reported the letter, stared and asked: "Did you see clearly? Is it the Ming army or the Qing dog?"

"It's definitely the Ming army, there is no braid on the back of the head, you gouged out my eyes if you misunderstood the second leader!" The water thief who reported the letter swore.

Zu Tianci let go of his hand and began to be in a daze.

"Brother, something seems wrong here!" Zu Bian judged.

"Bullshit! Of course it's not right!" Zu Tianci roared angrily, staring at Xiao Shangang with big eyes, he vaguely felt that he seemed to be in the way of others from the beginning of this matter.

(End of this chapter)