Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

That Bai Sheng accompanied the crowd down the city, walked a few steps on the street, suddenly slipped under the eaves, and went through a small door.

Lin Chong happened to see it and yelled "No!"

Before Chao Gai and Liu Tang could react, they asked, "Brother Bai Sheng, where are you going?"

At this moment, a sound of gongs and drums was heard, and from the houses on both sides of the street, many torches were suddenly thrown onto the street. There were many lanterns raised by bamboo poles all around, illuminating the area around the north gate city wall like daylight. .

"We've been tricked! Let's go!" Li Jun was a smart man, he realized it immediately, and ran back with Li Li, Mu Hong, and Mu Chun.

Just at this moment, there was a loud noise of killing all around, and an unknown number of archers were ambushed in the buildings on both sides, and they shot down the bows and arrows like raindrops.

The sergeants brought by Song Jiang and Chao Gai this time, in addition to more than a hundred young men from Liangshan, there are forty or fifty Huo family who are farmers from Mujiazhuang and Li Jun who sell smuggled salt.About a hundred people followed into the city.Caught off guard, 30 to [-] people had already been shot down, and there was a burst of screams.

Li Jun ran back with his men and within a few steps, he was shot back by a shower of arrows, leaving several corpses on the street. "Xiao Zheban" Mu Chun's martial arts skills were poor, the knife in his hand was a little slow to dial the arrow, and he was hit by two arrows in the leg.Thanks to Mu Hong and Li Jun covering him on both sides and dragging him back, he was not shot dead on the spot.

Li Jun ran back and yelled at Chao Gai and Song Jiang: "There are archers on the city wall, we can't retreat!"

Song Jiang had never experienced such a battle scene before, he was frightened for a while, and shouted there: "How did Brother Bai Sheng betray us? Are all the brothers going to die here today?"

That "White Rat" Bai Sheng has always been Chao Gai's younger brother. Although he was a traitor once, Chao Gai still took good care of him, allowing him to sit on the mountain with no ability.Unexpectedly, Bai Sheng became a traitor again today, and led everyone into a trap. Chao Gai was almost pissed off by him.

Hearing Song Jiang's dejected words at this moment, Chao Gai was so angry that he dialed the incoming arrows and shouted loudly: "Brothers, don't panic! The officers and soldiers are all paper, only dare to hide." Shoot arrows in the dark, dare not confront us! All the brothers follow me to the north gate, we seize the city gate, and kill the generals to go out. There are still brothers from the Ruan family waiting for us outside!"

After saying this, Chao Gai rushed to the north gate first, and Liu Tang followed closely behind him, wielding a knife.Everyone shouted, covering Song Jiang, and rushed to the north gate behind Chao Gai.

It's a pity that Chao Gai and his gang of robbers didn't bring shields when they came, and it's hard to cover them all with just weapons in their hands and arrows.Before rushing to the north gate, more than [-] people were shot down.

"I can't rush through like this, tear down the door panel!" "Leopard Head" Lin Chong suddenly had an idea, he slanted into a roof, and kicked open two closed wooden doors.

All the robbers came to their senses and flocked to the shops on both sides of the street to tear down the door panels and use them as wooden shields.

After a while, all the thieves gathered together holding the door panel, covered their whole bodies, and rushed towards the north gate again.

Ximen Qing was currently wearing a helmet and armor, with two knives on his waist, standing with Huang Wenbing on a tall building in his mansion, commanding the archers to shoot and kill the Liangshan bandits. Seeing that they had a countermeasure, he sighed: "The robbers There are also talents among them! It seems that bows and arrows are not very lethal to them, so order the whole army to attack."

Following Ximen Qing's order, a sergeant behind him blew the charge horn.

Jiao Ting, Jiang Zhong and Hong Zhen, who were lying in ambush in several nearby alleys, immediately ordered their soldiers to attack the north gate when they heard the sound of the horn.

Chao Gai, Song Jiang and other robbers left many corpses along the way. When they reached the North Gate, there were only less than 50 people left. Mu Chun and Li Li were wounded by arrows and had lost their combat effectiveness.The sound of killing was heard all around, and the five hundred soldiers commanded by Ximen Qing had already surrounded from three directions: east, south, and west.

Liu Tang stood in front of the crowd and shouted violently, "Here is the hero of Liangshanbo! Those who are dying will come up!"

Ximen Qing also came out of Huang Wenbing's mansion at this time, leading a group of people to stand behind the sergeants on the North Street. Hearing Liu Tang's threatening roar, he almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

Liu Tang is also a guy with well-developed limbs and a simple mind.Nicknamed "Red-haired ghost", this guy has an ugly appearance and a savage nature. He boasted that with a gun in his hand, he would not be afraid of 2000 troops in front of him.His voice might be useful to those unprepared and demoralized officers and soldiers if they were used in the Jiangzhou robbing the law field, but shouting it out at this time is just a stern voice, just to strengthen oneself.

At this time, the five hundred sergeants were prepared to fight, and in the first round of bow and arrow attacks, they shot to death most of the Liangshan bandits' half-horsemen. It was the time when their morale was high, how could they be intimidated by his dying screams?

The "red-haired ghost" Liu Tang stood up to show his courage at this time, but it made him a target of public criticism, and he saw ten or twenty long spears poking at him at the same time.Liu Tang frantically flicked left and right to block, but still couldn't cover well, and was shot in the thigh.If Lin Chong hadn't come out and snatched a long spear to help him defuse the attacks of the others, Liu Tang would have been stabbed to death on the ground.

Li Jun and Mu Hong pulled Liu Tang into the city gate, allowing him to save his life temporarily.Lin Chong also retreated back, commanding the robbers under his command to set up the door panel, firmly resisting the surrounding officers and soldiers.

Chao Gai, Song Jiang and his gang were trapped and died under the north gate of the Wuwei Army.

2Chapter 17 The turtle in the urn ran away

Lin Chong deserved to be the spear instructor of the 80 Imperial Guards in Tokyo. After he grabbed a long spear, he stood guard outside the city gate, dancing the spear in his hand up and down, repelling several attacks by the officers and soldiers.

Lin Chong's appearance was noticed by a person, he shouted loudly, and was about to go out to fight Lin Chong, but was hugged by a person behind him.

The person who was going to confront Lin Chong was none other than the coach Hong Zhenhong.After being defeated by Lin Chong in Chai Jinzhuang, he has been enduring the humiliation and hiding in his hometown in Yanggu County to practice martial arts hard, in order to be able to compete with Lin Chong one day and avenge his past.Seeing that Lin Chong was still rampant at this moment, the head coach Hong couldn't bear it anymore, he couldn't help but stepped forward and shot Lin Chong into a transparent hole.

Coach Hong was held back by someone, feeling displeased, and was about to turn around to see who was so bold, when someone said in his ear: "Brother Hong, don't be impulsive, and you don't have to rush to defeat that Lin Chong."

Coach Hong heard Ximen Qing's voice, and when he looked back, it was indeed Ximen Qing who hugged him around the waist.Instructor Hong said, "Brother Ximen, why don't you avenge your revenge? You promised brother that you would help me find that Lin Chong to avenge my revenge. Now the opportunity is at hand, why did brother stop brother?"

Ximenqing knew in his heart that although Instructor Hong had been practicing martial arts diligently for the past few years, he was still slightly inferior every time he competed with his brother-in-law Luan Tingyu in the school field.Luan Tingyu's martial arts should be almost the same as Lin Chong's. From this, it can be deduced that the head coach Hong is not Lin Chong's opponent alone.

People like Chao Gai, Song Jiang, and Lin Chong have become soft-shelled turtles, and their demise is imminent.Ximen Qing didn't want his brothers to rush forward to fight the trapped beasts like Lin Chong and Liu Tang.In Ximenqing's mind, the lives of Jiao Ting, Jiang Zhong, and Hong Zhen are more valuable than Lin Chong and the others. Only when the winning chance is sure, the fool sent his generals to fight alone!

Ximen Qing thought that he had [-] officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army in his hands, and he only needed to let his brothers supervise the battle at the back, and he could kill all these Liangshan robbers with crowd tactics.

Ximen Qing had already sent someone to deliver an order to Jiang Zhong and Jiao Ting not to allow them to rush forward, and now, he deliberately came to restrain Hong Zhen himself because he saw Lin Chong appearing.

In the original history, when Jiangzhou robbed the court, Lin Chong did not follow.However, because Ximenqing wiped out the Qingzhou bandit gang who was about to join Liangshan, Liang Shanbo's strength was greatly weakened, so Chao Gai, who had no generals under his command, brought Lin Chong to Jiangzhou this time.History has undergone some changes due to the influence of Ximen Qing.

Facing the resentful coach Hong who wanted to fight Lin Chong desperately, Ximen Qing had no choice but to persuade him with kind words.Ximen Qing told Jiaotou Hong that these Liangshan robbers who are now surrounded by the tower of the North Gate are doing their last desperate fight.At this time, they are like mad dogs, who want to bite people before they die. Should people go to bite it at this time?

Seeing that Instructor Hong calmed down a little after listening to his words, Ximen Qing promised to Instructor Hong that as long as Instructor Hong stayed here to supervise the battle, he would definitely defeat the group of Liangshan bandits and lead the bandit leader "Leopard Head". Lin Chong left it to Coach Hong to defeat.

Hearing Ximen Qing's words, Hong Jiaotou couldn't go against Ximen Qing's intention anymore, so he put away the spear in his hand, commanded more than 100 sergeants under him to form a spear formation, and moved forward slowly.

Ximen Qing stood behind Teacher Hong, with a smug smile on his face.Hehehe~ Brother Hong Zhen, brother did not lie to you, he will definitely hand over Lin Chong, who is still breathing, to you later.As for how many arms and legs Lin Chong has left, I can't guarantee my brother in the chaos!

Under the supervision and encouragement of Ximen Qing and others, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army rushed forward from three sides with long spears. Even though the Liangshan Bandit Gate had a temporary shield wall made of wooden door panels, they were knocked to the ground one by one.That "Leopard Head" Lin Chong was also exhausted and unable to support himself after several counterattacks.Under the command of Ximen Qing and the others, all the soldiers of the officers and soldiers fired at each other. Lin Chong was not well protected and was shot in the shoulder.

"Brother, it's urgent! Brother, I can't take it anymore." Lin Chong said, clutching his bleeding shoulder, retreating to Chao Gai.

Chao Gai and Liu Tang were chopping the iron chains that locked the city gate with their knives and axes, trying to open the gate and escape.It's a pity that Ximen Qing and the others had already done their tricks in advance and replaced a few thick iron chains. Chao Gai and others hacked several knives and axes but failed to break the iron chains.

Seeing that Lin Chong was injured and retreated, Li Jun and Mu Hong looked at each other, their faces turned blue and white, no one dared to go out to be a hero, and they were secretly annoyed, regretting whether they should have listened to Song Jiang's words and came to attack this Wuwei military.

That fellow Song Jiang squeezed out a few more tears, and hid in the crowd howled dryly: "My life has been so miserable! Is the sky going to kill me, Song Jiang? I killed all my brothers!"

Chao Gai was really worried, he yelled wildly, and suddenly swung his ax and slashed heavily on the city gate.There was only a "click" sound, and the thick city gate was cut open by Chao Gai.

Seeing this, Chao Gai slashed at the city gate frantically, saw sawdust flying around, and there were more and more gaps in the city gate.

Inside the city gate, under the siege of the officers and soldiers, another 20 young men of the Liangshan bandits were killed. It seemed that there were not enough manpower to support the shield wall.

Seeing this, Ximenqing was about to launch a general attack, but he heard a loud noise in the city gate, and then, the robbers who were still struggling for the last time ran out of the city gate cheering.

"Chase! Chase quickly!" Seeing that Chao Gai and Song Jiang had escaped from the city, Ximen Qing, Jiang Zhong and others hurriedly ordered the soldiers to chase after them.

Unexpectedly, this group of robbers could break through the city gate and escape from the city, Ximen Qing was also shocked.I thought that there was a loophole in the siege that I thought was a sure thing, and now the military exploits have to be distributed to the soldiers and horses.

"Straight mother thief! What's the matter? Why don't you chase him out of the city?" Jiang Menshen, who was fully armored, shouted at the sergeants gathered at the gate of the city.

"General, there is a big man blocking the exit, brothers can't get through!" The soldiers complained in disorder.

Jiang Menshen was much taller than everyone else. Hearing this, he probed into the city gate and saw the situation inside the city gate.

Under the light of the fire, one could see a purple-black broad face with a cinnabar mark on his sideburns. A big black man with yellow hair was holding a long knife in his hand and was blocking a hole in the city gate.

It turned out that the iron chains of the city gate were still locked, and the city gate was not opened. Some of the Liangshan robbers accidentally dug a hole in the city gate that only allowed two people to pass side by side, and escaped from the hole. .This big black man must be the one who stays behind.

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