There were tanks in the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 175
Need crossbowmen?
What happened, the east and west gates of Yanchang County were unguarded, and there were no resisting soldiers in the city, so where is the need for crossbowmen?
When asked about the situation, Li Chu frowned.

When the soldiers were in the south of the city, they found a few men with knives rushing out of a courtyard. They must have been awakened by the sound of cannons at the city gate, and ran out to check the situation. At this time, many men with knives rushed out of the yard, fighting with the Qilin army.

Probably did not expect that there would be so many people from the Qilin Army, and retreated into the yard after losing. There were thirty or forty men with knives and several archers in the yard, and they shot a lot of arrows from inside. Let the Qilin army be unable to attack this place for a while.

Everyone was attracted by this incident, but no one noticed that the face of the Merry Zhixian who was kneeling on the ground changed, and he pressed his head deeply on the ground.

When this happened, Li He immediately led three teams of soldiers from the quick response force to support him.

On the south side of the city, the wooden door of this courtyard is made of a kind of iron wood after some special processes, comparable to hard iron. There was no way to forcefully break in, and there were arrows thrown out of the room from time to time to harass.

When Li He rushed over with three teams of crossbowmen, the soldiers of the Fushui Army here had already cut down a big tree next to it, leaving the trunk and making it into a temporary siege fortress. With this bucket-sized tree trunk quickly crashing into the front door.

Some big men in the yard were supporting the gate with their bodies, and six or seven archers kept throwing arrows outward.

Fortunately, the soldiers outside were all equipped with iron frames, and these arrows did not cause any harm to the soldiers.

Second Master Yao looked at the door that had not been bumped against, and felt a lot of sweat in his heart.

Until now, his mind is still in a fog. What happened?

It was fine yesterday, why so many officers and soldiers rushed in all of a sudden, he didn't think that the group of people in front of him would be the bandits nearby, this is simply a joke, now in the Yanchang area, there is a bandit cottage who dares to tease him Dulongzhai?
In addition, the group of people outside were all wearing standard armor and equipment, so they could tell they were from the government at first glance, but the clothes were so strange. There were no officers and soldiers that he, Yao Laoer, had never seen in the area of ​​Yan'an Mansion.But the more officers and soldiers he had never seen before, the more uncertain he was.

Could it be that this matter has been known by the court?
Yao Laoer's back was instantly icy cold.

This is impossible, but how do the officers and soldiers explain it now? If the court didn't know, how could they send officers and soldiers from other places to encircle and suppress them? This officers and soldiers seem to be well-trained, and they should be some forbidden army stationed in other state capitals.

Yao Laoer clenched his fists, where is Sun Ren?
Where did Sun Ren go?

As the county magistrate, he didn't know such important news.

There is no news at all, there must be something about the transfer of the official army, and the spies in Yan'an will definitely send news, but the news did not come, but when the official army directly attacked.

"Hold it, stand it for me, anyone who wants to take a step back, don't blame it for acting according to the rules in the village."

Second Master Yao's face was gloomy, he couldn't understand why the officers and soldiers of the imperial court came so quickly, people were caught off guard, and they ran directly to this book, if they were not here to catch them, then something must be wrong.After roaring, he looked left and right, and quietly disappeared into the darkness.His three cronies also guarded the back door early, waiting for Yao's second child to arrive.

"Walk."

There is no longer a place to stay here, there are more and more officers and soldiers at the main gate, and it is only a matter of time before the gate is broken.

The back door leads to a corner of the south city gate. Immediately after Second Master Yao came out, he led three cronies to lean against the city wall, and quietly leaned against the west city gate by taking advantage of the concealment of the city wall.

On the side of the main gate, as the gate was pushed open, the soldiers holding the tree trunks gave way one after another. The crossbowmen had already aimed at this side. As soon as the gate opened, more than ten crossbow arrows shot in, instantly standing Several big men in front of the door were shot to the ground, and the huge impact even brought their bodies backward.

More than a dozen soldiers loaded with crossbows rushed into the yard, and shot at the big man who was still standing in the yard.

The soldiers behind also rushed in.

After a while, the yard was brought under control, and three people were caught alive, but they refused to explain anything after the interrogation, and one of them committed suicide by biting his tongue.

Li He had the two remaining people gag their mouths with clothes, and checked whether there was any poison hidden between their teeth and in their hands. He tied them all up to prevent them from committing suicide again, and then escorted the two people away. Go to Li Chu and hand it over to Li Chu.

Yanchang County Government Office.

Li Chugao sat on the seat of the magistrate, and Sun Ren, the magistrate of the romantic county, nodded and bowed to serve him.

Anyway, whatever Li Chu said, he nodded and agreed, and Li Chu said, he agreed, very simply.

This made Li Chu very curious about the origin of this guy. He could become a county magistrate at the age of 30. Although Yanchang County is a little poor, Li Chu just read a lot of information about Yanchang County and found that Yanchang County is really poor enough. OK.

The population of a county is actually just over 700 households.

Less than 700 households, what kind of concept is this?Thinking of the poor mountains and rivers here, it is understandable. This Sun Ren is also a tragedy. In this way, he should belong to a character with no background, otherwise he would not be sent to such a poor mountain valley.

From Sun Ren's mouth, I learned that Yanchang County must have more than this number of people. The main reason is that there are many fleeing households, most of them are in this deep mountain valley.

There are also many bandits here, and there are hundreds of large and small cottages hidden in the surrounding mountains.

Hearing this number, Li Chu was stunned instantly, hundreds of cottages...

When you see from the map that Yan'an Prefecture is the border of Xixia to the north, you understand.

To the northwest is Xixia.

And this is not only Xixia, but also the border of Liao Kingdom.

Although the border of the Liao Kingdom is on the east east road in the northeast, it is not far from here. Soldiers from the Liao Kingdom often rush to the Xixia border.

Rather than saying that it is the border of Xixia, it is better to say that this is a sensitive intersection area where the three kingdoms of Song, Xixia and Liao meet.

While studying the border here, Li He brought people back.

The two victims who were tied up were thrown directly into the hall of the county government.

Sun Ren's face twitched when he saw these two people.

Although the hands and feet of the two people on the ground were tied and their mouths were gagged, they could see Li Chu in front of them, and naturally saw Li Chu sitting high in the high hall, wearing a golden and bronze armor... and Sun Ren standing next to Li Chu .

The two of them stared wide-eyed in disbelief. After regaining their senses, they became agitated instantly, and stared at Sun Ren with anger in their eyes.

His body struggled constantly, and he wanted to yell out words, but he couldn't say a word.

"woo woo woo woo."

(End of this chapter)