On the 14th day of July, at the beginning of Mao (5 a.m.), the waning moon in the sky has not yet disappeared, and the sparse stars still try their best to burst out with light, and a trace of white fish belly appears in the communication between heaven and earth.

Five miles away from the west water gate of Bianliang, a warship was moored alone on the water surface. The lights on the ship were lighted, and the patrol soldiers' armor shining and the faint black light of musket barrels could be seen from time to time. This was a bright whistle. On the top of a mound covered with weeds and shrubs two miles away from the shore, there were still ambushing high and low whistle.

The hunters' bright and secret whistle are divided into two shifts day and night. The day and night whistle are fine and the day lurking in the secret whistle are the most difficult ones. The night is the night of the secret whistle: flies and mosquitoes bite, insects and ants crawl, and the long night is too long, and the eyes cannot be instant.

It is so hard to keep guarding the night of a secret sentry, of course, we cannot always let a group of people work, and we have to take turns to come. According to regulations, except for the hunting soldiers leader Zhang Rui, the leader of the hunting soldiers, who must personally guard the army leader and command the hunting soldiers, and do not participate in the night of the secret sentry. No one can do except the people. However, considering that Zhao Yan's image and identity were to be borrowed, Di Lie personally approved that Zhao Yan would only guard the day and night and be exempted from guarding the secret sentry.

However, Zhao Jian refused, saying that as a member of the hunting soldier, he dared not make an exception; as a hunting soldier, he must set an example. Therefore, from the 14th day of July to the 14th day of July, the fourth person of Zhao Jian was responsible for the guard.

The fourth hunter was eleven, with five people living in high places, divided into two observation points, east and west, each equipped with a telescope; six people hiding at the intersection, south and north, lurking at the intersection to intercept and interrogate the visitor at any time. Because the lurking hunter once used a disguise similar to "Geely Suit" and was in the dark night, even if he walked in front of him, it was difficult to find it, and it could be called hidden.

Of course, such a good lurking effect comes from the strict self-discipline and self-sacrifice of the hunters. Zhao Jian can be said to have a deep feeling about this.

Staying up late is pretty good. When fighting with eyelids, you can use a kettle you carry with you, dip it in a cloth towel, rub your face and apply your eyes to excite itchy. The most annoying thing is the almost omnipresent unknown insects, which keep crawling on your body, making it feel itchy and uncomfortable. You can also drill into your ears and noses, biting any exposed skin... Even if you apply the deworming powder configured by the traditional Chinese medicine practitioners of the Tianzhu Army, it will not be so uncomfortable and can only endure it...

The long night is long and my thoughts are flying. Zhao Jian is not a person who is easily distracted. The most important thing in shooting is to concentrate. His shooting results are good, so his concentration is naturally not bad. However, this is Tokyo, and it is the old capital that has been separated for more than a year! The past is like a snake's heart-sucking, and encounters are like this young man who has experienced ups and downs, facing this imperial capital that has left fifteen years of life marks. How could he remain indifferent?

Is the imperial city still complete? Is the Longde Hall (where Huizong lives) safe? Is the Chuigong Hall (where Qinzong asks the political office) still there? Is the Prime Minister's Mansion? Is the residence of his own...

The past is vivid in my mind. Zhao Jian's eyes were blurred in all the honors and disgraces of yesterday, and he almost cried out. He finally calmed down and clenched his fists tightly. Wait, one day, I will enter Bianliang from Nanxun Gate with my head openly!

The moment before dawn is the most tiring.

Zhao Yan, who had been guarding all night, was covered with only his eyes and ten fingers. While pinching the flesh on his legs through thick cloth trousers, trying his best to stay awake. While forcing his swollen and sore eyes to watch in front of the telescope - hold on for another half an hour and stand on the last shift. This is what Zhao Yan thought at this time.

Standing guard is lonely. Staying at night is depressed, and lurking is difficult... But God also leaves opportunities for those who are always prepared.

It seemed that someone was shaking from afar. Zhao Yan was stunned, afraid that he would be dazzled, so he closed his eyes for a while, rubbed them again, and then turned his eyes to the eyepiece - scared! In just a while, there were already figures in the camera... I can't make a mistake, someone really came, and they were still in a group, and they were still before dawn.

Zhao Jian immediately ruled out that Zong Ying sent someone or Fu Xuan came back - Zong Ze passed away, and the Tianzhu Army sent Fu Xuan as the representative of the memorial service. In terms of position, Fu Xuan could barely be considered qualified, and there was no other suitable candidate.

Fu Xuan has been in the city for two days and has not returned. However, no matter whether Zong Ying sent people or Fu Xuan returned, he would not choose this time, because all the gates of Bianliang City have not reached the opening moment - for a local who has lived in Tokyo for fifteen years, he can confirm this without listening to the sound of the bangzi, just based on his feelings.

So, is it that the Hebei rebels came? Although it was too early, it was not impossible. Although the plan to go north to Liaozhou and enter Taiyuan, four full days have passed, and the Fourteen Forts of Hebei rebels are still slowly organizing and preparing... How fast can you expect a so-called army that brings family and takes military camps as their families? According to the military leader's estimate, these nearly 500,000 rebel refugees can complete all mobilization and preparations within ten days and officially set off to the north. This is a good idea.

During this period, the rebel army had various problems of all sizes, and needed to verify the opinions of the military leader. Therefore, in recent days, the two sides have sent people to each other to communicate. So, what important things are there to send people so early? Moreover, so many people have been dispatched.

"Zhao Shi, there is something wrong!" The observation point on the west side also sent someone to report.

"I saw that there were many people coming, but my friends and enemies were unknown." Zhao Jian calmly ordered, "Send a signal to the brothers lurking under the hills, and ask them to send someone to go to the survey- Remember, be alert! Bianliang City has not been peaceful these days."

"clear!"

Soon, a black shadow flashed out of the grass under the hills. After removing the disguise, he ran out of the valley entrance and walked forward along the avenue to greet him.

Zhao Jian kept following the figure of the hunter with a telescope. Just as the hunter got closer and closer to the person who came and was about to come in contact, a ray of red light shone out from the sky, and the morning light shone on the earth - this light reflected the shimmering armor leaves on the body of the visitor, and the blade half-sheathed out of the sheath at the waist.

Zhao Jian's body, which was originally squatting, jumped up, and a sharp sound came from his mouth: "Fire a gun! Warning!"

"Bang!" The gunshot sounded, but it was not the lurking hunter who was in charge of the order, but the hunter who went to survey the situation suddenly realized something was wrong when he was twenty or thirty steps away from the opponent. He shot and killed an enemy who was about to shoot an arrow. He ran away with a sound.

The harsh gunshots and the screams of being shot, all the enemies who were attacking were stunned. With such a stunned kung fu, the hunting soldiers had already run away. When the enemy came to their senses, they all set their bows and arrows, and when they shot them out, they could no longer catch up with the hunting soldiers.

The enemy cursed loudly in chaos. He held swords and guns, arched with bows and crossbows, and chased forward with a loud bang. As soon as he was chasing under the hills, the hunters drilled into the grass, and there was no trace. The enemy was about to split several people and rushed into the grass to continue to search. Suddenly, a dense roar like firecrackers sounded in the grass. But there were white smoke rising from the grass. The stems were thrown away, and four or five people in the crowded team of the enemy howled and fell, covering the wounds that were gushing and bleeding, rolling all over the ground, but the screams became weaker and weaker until they stopped...

The enemy was extremely frightened and angry, shouting loudly, letting a row of licensed soldiers stand in front of him. The general in the lead pointed at the smoke and shouted: "The thief was mysterious and used the sound of cannons to attack, but in fact he attacked with arrows... the archers fired arrows at the smoke."

At least twenty archers came to the enemy, and shot two rounds of arrows at the top of the mound and the bottom of the slope, but they were like mud cows entering the sea. They couldn't respond at all. However, after the general's distortion and explanation, most of the attackers' terror was removed and they regained their fighting spirit.

The military general said that firecrackers were scary in the grass, and then used a slingshot - of course, it was not the kind of small slingshot that children played with, but the shape was similar to a short bow, but not the archery, but the standard slingshot that fired iron or mud bombs. This slingshot was rarely used in the army because the range was not as far away. However, after the military general said that the military general had a poor vision, it was really similar. However, no matter how good the military general had imagined the next strike, it could not be explained-

In the other grasses, Xu Huhu threw out seven or eight black iron bullets - well. They were indeed iron bullets, but they were not fired with slingshots, and there was also a slingshot burning...

These attackers were all soldiers who passed through the battle formation, and they wouldn't say what their combat effectiveness were. At least they had a sharper sense of danger than ordinary people. With the thunderbolt landing point as the center, the attackers subconsciously retreated and gave way to circles of open space.

Zhao Jian saw this scene through the grass gap, shook his head, and wanted to tell the other party that the avoidance action was not correct, and the correct way should be to lie down; in addition, the space range given out was not enough, and it was far from reaching a safe distance...

Boom boom boom boom!

The explosion caused a bloody storm. Although the attacker's armor and side cards were well protected, his limbs and faces were still unavoidable. More than ten people fell down, and his face was bleeding.

I originally wanted to attack my opponent, but unexpectedly I was ambushed by my opponent. Especially the waves of strange weapons, I couldn't resist it. The leading general was blown up by the screams and screams around me, and all kinds of chaos. When I was in a dilemma, the steps ahead were rumbling, and a team of fully armed soldiers came trotting in neat steps.

The army of about twenty people stopped when they were seventy steps away from the attacker. Each of them held an iron pipe in his hand, as if they were tinkering with something. After tilting, twenty people were divided into three groups, holding the pipe and advancing until they were close to fifty steps away. Then they half-kneeled in the front row, with a low body in the middle, and a straight back row, aiming the iron pipe at the attacker.

The attacking enemy was not slow to react. The remaining dozen archers snatched out, opened their bows and raised their arrows, and shot them out in the air.

At a distance of fifty steps, at least seven dou of bow power is required to have the ability to break armor. Less than half of these dozen bowmen used seven dou and eight dou bows. As a result, more than ten arrows were shot out, either lost or blocked by the armor. Several arrows with strong bow power were actually bounced away by the opponent's strange iron hat. Only one arrow really played the trick, and shot a half-kneel soldier's thigh. What made the attacker frightened was that the soldier who was caught in the arrow only shook slightly, but could not hold on, and even without saying a word. He just pulled the board machine under the command of the general on the side.

Twenty whistling projectiles finally made the attackers figure it out. It turned out that this projectile was from this, and it had nothing to do with firecrackers, slingshots, etc. But it was a good idea. Once I figured it out, I suddenly lost my courage - what kind of weapon this was, it was so weird and terrifying. I made loud noises, sprayed fireworks, and shot projectiles, and continued...

The archer among the attackers was beaten into a bloody man and sieve immediately. Then another round of thunderbolt bombs fell down, and the center blossomed... The cross-serial attacks of the frontal musket and flanking bombs finally collapsed the morale of the attackers - you, you specially chose the most sleepy moment before dawn to launch a sneak attack. As a result, as soon as you came over, you didn't even see the shadow of the ship, and you were beaten to death by rounds of long-range attacks.

Who attacked whom?

"Retreat! Retreat!" The general shouted and was the first to scatter his feet. The remaining soldiers ran back like a tide, throwing weapons, bows, arrows, helmets and so on.

"The enemy has retreated." Zhao Jian let out a long sigh and wiped a cold sweat. It's so mysterious. There are as many as 70 or 80 attackers, and the equipment quality is quite good. If it weren't for the timely interception and the use of geographical barriers to retreat, but instead letting them rush onto the ship, it would be both scattered and close at the time, and the muskets and thunderbolts could not exert their power, and that would be a big fun.

Zhao Jian was hesitating that the guards were mainly tight, but he still chased them and attacked them hard, but a familiar voice came from his ear: "Zhao Shi, you're doing a good job."

Zhao Jian turned around in surprise: "Military Master, you... you are actually commanding two hunting soldiers personally! Where is that commander?"

Di Lie was wearing field equipment, carrying a gun box, and holding two hand knives in his hand. He was stance to fight hand-to-hand at any time. However, the attacker was more fragile than he expected. Under the attack of medium and long-range fire, he collapsed directly and did not stand the moment of fighting hand-to-hand.

Di Lie laughed, lifted his knife and pointed to the east: "That's not."

Zhao Jian looked at the point of his sword, but saw Zhang Rui leading a hunting soldier to penetrate from another hill to the front, then rushed out of the slanting slam, and rushed into the chaotic enemy. He slapped a row of guns and knocked down seven or eight people, and then waited for the enemy to run nearly ten steps, he drew out the eagle-billed gun, knocked down five or six people, and finally ignited the thunder bombs one after another... After a series of explosions, eleven hunters pulled out their hand knife and short axe, holding a side card in one hand, and rushed into the enemy group like a tiger. At this time, there were less than twenty enemies who could stand intact. And there were less than twenty remaining people, but they still had no fighting spirit, and they were scattered like birds and beasts in all directions...

At the end of the battle, Chaoyang had just jumped out of the ground, illuminating the bloody ground, with strands of hot air swelling.

A total of 80 enemies were attacked. Except for less than ten people who escaped, the rest were either killed, injured or captured, which was basically wiped out by the entire army. The hunters were injured by three people, all of which were injured by arrows. One of them was shot in the thigh, slightly severe, and the rest were slightly injured.

After interrogation, the prisoners confessed that they were all the personal soldiers who were left by Du Chong, who was the one who stayed in Tokyo. They came from Huazhou and rested for a night in Liuzhong Village outside Wansheng Town, less than 20 miles away. They set off before dawn. They planned to kill their opponents and caught them off guard, but unexpectedly, they were the ones who caught them off guard...

"Du Chong has taken action." Di Lie's face was cold, he thought for a moment, and quickly issued an order, "Tell the accountant immediately, let him know the idea of ​​notifying Brigade Commander Fu and all the leaders, and leave the city immediately... Zhao Yan!"

"arrive!"

"You immediately bring a hunting soldier to Wanshengmen and take back Brigade Commander Fu. Then, use the fastest speed to return to the village with Wang Shan and other leaders. Use your identity to urge Wang Shan to be prepared for response, and at the same time remind him to pay attention to Liu Zhong's problems. If necessary, take the initiative first and get rid of Liu Zhong!"
Chapter completed!