Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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"Brother Kong, get out of the way, Brother Jiang Zhong is here!" Jiao Ting heard a burst of footsteps coming from behind, looked back, and immediately pulled Kong Yanzhou to the side.

I saw Jiang Menshen wearing heavy armor and holding a hammer in his hand, rushing into the gate of Qianzhai first.Behind him, a group of strong men with a height of seven or eight feet, all wearing heavy armor, holding large shields and long spears, poured into the gate of the village with heavy steps.

These strong men, headed by Xu Hu, are many of Jiang Menshen's apprentices and are his most elite fighters.In order to bring their heavy armor and large shield up the mountain, Ximen Qing used a lot of horses.Fortunately, 200 robbers were killed outside Yuejiazhuang, and more than [-] new horses got used to the mountain road of Mushan, which solved a lot of troubles for Ximenqing.

Ximenqing let Jiang Menshen and his men wear heavy armor as the main force to fight, also in order to minimize the casualties of his soldiers and defeat the Moushan robbers more easily.

Sure enough, when Jiang Menshen rushed into the village like a steel monster and advanced forward with the heavy armored infantry, the bandits who stood in front of them were smashed to pieces.The little ones who ran slowly were thrown to the ground by the spears of the heavy armored infantry, and then trampled mercilessly by countless big feet wearing iron boots, reduced to human-shaped meatloaf.

The little minions standing in front of Jiang Menshen were even more pitiful. They were smashed to bloody flesh by him.

"Father and mother too! Monsters are coming! Run~"

"Run! Run! Don't get in the way! Ah~~"

"Small surrender! Little ah~ah~~"

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The young men in Qianzhai were killed by Jiang Menshen, some fled back desperately, and some kneeled and surrendered spinelessly.

It's a pity that Jiang Menshen is a rough man, and Ximen Qing didn't instill in him the humanitarianism of later generations.This fellow treated the robbers who knelt and surrendered in a simple and rude manner, and directly smashed their heads with a hammer.

The only thing that made Jiang Menshen feel inconvenient was that because he was too tall, after the robbers knelt down, Jiang Menshen had to swing the hammer lower in his hand to blow their heads off.Or those robbers who fled standing up are more in line with Jiang Menshen's wishes. The height of these heads is just right for knocking!

The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, Xu Hu and other disciples of Jiang Menshen followed suit, killing the bandits around him, regardless of whether he surrendered or not.

I remember that the official Ximen Qing said that the Moushan bandits are heinous villains whose hands are stained with the blood of the people, and they don't need prisoners in this battle!

"Don't be afraid, little ones! Hold on! Hold on to me! The Great Walled Lord is coming!" Ma Fang was still encouraging the bandits to counterattack.However, as more and more heavy armored infantry poured into the cottage, Ma Fang was also frightened and lost the confidence to fight against Jiang Menshen and others.Seeing that the momentum was not right, some of Ma Fang's confidantes also quietly turned around and ran away.

Jiang Menshen saw Ma Fang who was commanding the robbers, and immediately swung his hammer to kill Ma Fang.At this time, Kong Yanzhou shouted from the side: "Brother Jiang, leave Ma Fang's head to my brother and I will get it!"

After the heavy armored infantry broke into the village, Jiao Ting and Kong Yanzhou also led their men to fight alongside Jiang Menshen, advancing side by side with the heavy armored infantry.Kong Yanzhou saw Jiang Menshen staring at Ma Fang, and hurriedly shouted at him.

Ma Fang was not a fool either, he heard Kong Yanzhou's voice, and knew that the heroes on the opposite side were going to kill him.Now that the young men under his command have collapsed and fled, and they don't listen to his command, how can Ma Fang stay here to die?

Ma Fang still yelled "Little ones hold on", but he turned around and ran towards the back village.This guy is worthy of being the second leader of the Mou Shan Dazhai, with high abilities, he moves like a rabbit when he runs away, leaving the young people around him beyond the reach.

Just as Ma Fang ran past the Juyi Hall and before he entered the Houzhai, he heard the sound of horseshoes coming from the Houzhai.Looking up, I saw Liu He, the master of the village, wearing armor all over his body, riding a tall horse, and came out with a mountain-breaking ax in his hand.

Chapter 3 and Five

Behind Liu He, the lord of the great village, there were more than [-] horse-riding robbers in full armor.These people are all Liu He's confidantes, who defected from the Volcanic Army with Liu He and came to Mushan Luocao.

Liu He was able to firmly sit on the top spot in Moushan, and he was able to cross Xiangzhou, Weizhou and other surrounding counties because he had dozens of powerful cavalry soldiers who were once frontier troops.

In the past, when encountering government troops from various states and counties, Liu He led dozens of his confidantes to charge on horseback, and they were able to kill and scatter trash government troops ten times their own.The officers and troops of the surrounding states and counties had suffered several defeats at Liu He's place, and they no longer dared to confront the Mushan bandit head-on.

After Liu He knew that someone was attacking his stronghold, he didn't panic, but relied on the armored cavalry with dozens of people under his command.In Liu He's view, as long as he gathers his men together and launches a violent charge, he can defeat the native chickens and dogs at the gate of the village who have never seen a real border war.

Today's victory still belongs to me, Moushan Dazhai, and to me, "Bumping the Mountain Bear" Liu He!

"Second brother, where are you going?" Liu He, riding on the horse, saw Ma Fang running away in a hurry, and yelled at him angrily.

Seeing Liu He's whole team coming, Ma Fang hurriedly moved aside, and replied to Liu He, "Brother! There are too many enemies in the front village. I'll go back to the back village to gather troops!"

Liu He had already charged forward, so he didn't even bother to stop and ask Ma Fang carefully.He turned his head and shouted at Ma Fang: "I'm going to kill those birdmen! You gather your brothers to catch up and kill them, and none of the enemies on this mountain will let go!"

"Brother, go quickly, brother, I will come when I am young!" Ma Fang responded loudly to Liu He.

After all the cavalry led by Liu He rushed past him, Ma Fang ran to Houzhai, gathered more than a dozen of his confidantes who had just run away, opened the gate of Houzhai, and said to the young men in Houzhai: "The Qianzhai is now fighting to the death. The owner of the village asked me to wait behind the enemy and launch a surprise attack. Anyone who is willing to follow my Ma Fang can go together!"

"Second leader, I'll go with you!"

"I'm going too!"

The twenty or thirty bandits who had fled back from the former stronghold suddenly became full of courage, and wanted to follow the second leader, Ma Fang, to copy the enemy's rear.

The remaining robbers in Houzhai went in without knowing it, and were confused for a while.They received the order from the chief of the village to follow the cavalry of the chief of the village to rush forward to the stockade, but the two leaders wanted to take a detour?

Most of the robbers in the back village followed the leader of the big village. After hesitating for a while, they still took knives and guns to kill the front village.

With a sneer in his heart, Ma Fang led thirty or forty bandit minions out of the Houzhai gate, and ran down the mountain along the mountain path.

Ma Fang knew that the Mushan Village was over after seeing the hundreds of heavy armored infantry of Jiang Menshen.The other party didn't know who was sacred, and he obviously came prepared.The terrain in this cottage is narrow, not on a plain, and there is no room for maneuver. With the dozens of armored heavy cavalry of the elder brother Liu He, they are by no means the opponents of those heavy infantry. This cottage cannot be defended!

Although Ma Fang knew that there was no victory today, but he didn't remind Liu He, the chief of the village.Because he knew that only when the head of the village led people to a bloody battle with the incoming enemy would he have a chance to escape from this mountain.

That Kong Yanzhou didn't know what was wrong with him, as soon as they met today, he clamored to take his life.Ma Fang knew that he was being watched by Kong Yanzhou and others, and it was impossible to survive if he surrendered, so he had to leave this mountain as soon as possible, go west to Taihang Mountain, and join other cottages.

Now those who follow Ma Fang down the mountain are all young men who have lost the courage to resist after the robbery in the former village. They all know that the second leader is going to escape, and they all feel that they are missing two legs. Following the two leading horses, they ran wildly down the mountain, hoping to escape from this fight.

Comparing the two, the second leader is more resourceful!In the future, I will follow the second leader to mess around in the rivers and lakes!

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In the front village of Mou Mountain, after Jiang Menshen smashed the head of a robber with a hammer, he heard the sound of horseshoes coming from the front.Kong Yanzhou once said that Liu He, the owner of the great village, had dozens of heavy cavalry guarding his house.Jiang Menshen knew that the bandit's heavy cavalry must have come to kill him.

"The cavalry is coming! Formation! Formation!" Jiang Menshen shouted.

Xu Hu and other disciples of Jiang Menshen immediately restrained his subordinates, lined up in a tight formation, and erected the big shields in front, back, left, and right. There were people holding shields even above their heads, which was tightly covered.

Long spears protruded from the gaps left by the large shield, pointing obliquely at the sky with cold light, forming a forest of spears.

Facing the coming heavy cavalry, Jiang Menshen used his adept spiked tortoise armor array again.

Kong Yanzhou, Jiao Ting and the others had nothing to use, so they simply retreated to the back of Jiang Menshen's formation, took bows and arrows from the reserve infantry, and prepared to cooperate with Jiang Menshen to fight.

When "Bumping the Mountain Bear" Liu He came to Qianzhai aggressively, he was suddenly dumbfounded.I saw that the small valley between the two peaks was densely packed with hundreds of spearmen with large shields and heavy armor. The thorny tortoise shell formation tightly blocked the valley, and there was no gap for the cavalry to bypass the flanks to attack.

This thorny tortoise shell is more terrifying than the mountain, and there is only one word of death when it hits it. Even Liu He, the famous "mountain bumping bear" did not dare to go straight forward.

However, Liu He's heavy cavalry troop ran over from Houzhai to gain momentum. Now that they are at the fastest time in Qianzhai, how can they hold back their horses for a while?

Liu He pulled on the rein with his brute strength, and stopped abruptly in front of Jiang Menshen's formation.But those of his subordinates did not have his abilities, they all passed Liu He in exclamation, and bumped into Jiang Menshen's tortoise shell formation.

The momentum of dozens of war horses is not small, but the heavy infantry tortoise armor formation, which has been tempered by the violent attacks of Luan Tingyu, Hu Sanniang, Ximen Qing and others for a long time, unexpectedly withstood the impact of these war horses.

In front of the tortoise shell formation, a group of people turned their backs on their backs, and the neighing of the horses mixed with the screams of the robbers before they died, which made the young men who came up from the back village tremble with fear, and fell into panic and confusion.

"Ah~~" Liu He screamed, staring at the scene in front of him with red eyes.

Just in this charge, almost all the dozens of old heavy cavalry brothers Liu He was proud of were killed on the armored formation, leaving only a dozen or so guards by his side.

Some brothers hit the iron armor formation head-on, and were pierced by the guns; The spear propped on the top was stabbed to death, and the body was still hanging in the air; some brothers fell off the horse while reining in, and were trampled underfoot by the armored heavy infantry who advanced with shouts, dying.

Liu He looked back and saw that the morale of the dozens of young men following behind was low and they were about to collapse.