Chapter 97 Pan Lin, You Deserve to Die

Jinmao shouted in various dialects for half an hour, his voice became hoarse, but no one came forward.

But more and more people came, and soon there were more than five thousand people, and they were still gathering!

The two sides were too far apart for Jin Mao to see clearly, but he became alert and sneered, "I just think this matter is not that simple."

He quickly disappeared into the army, and as he walked, he ordered his men to beat drums and send the message: "Prepare for battle."

Jin Mao had been prepared for this sudden change, and a circle of donkey carts led by He Qi surrounded the camp to form a barrier.

In the middle were 800 fully armed men led by Jin Mao, and in the innermost were 1,000 men led by He Qi who were putting on armor.

In order to cook and appease the mountain people who came to surrender, He Qi and others needed to carry food and fodder, bury the pots and cook, so they did not wear armor.

The four teams going out would go into the mountains and forests, so they did not need to bring bows and crossbows. This resulted in Jin Mao's 800 men having more than 600 archers and crossbowmen, but less than 200 heavily armed shield soldiers.

Heavy shield soldiers are all elite.

The archers were all from the Baiyue and Han people who were good at shooting. Among them, more than 400 archers used bamboo and wooden arrows, while 200 crossbowmen used painted iron-headed arrows.

Due to the lack of iron, the crossbowmen did not have many iron-headed arrows, so Jin Mao arranged them to shoot from behind and wait until the enemy got closer before shooting.

Archers arrange three stages of projectiles, so that they can achieve continuous long-range attacks.

Finally, heavily-armored shield soldiers were stationed outside to serve as a barrier.

Even so, if it was an ordinary Shanyue, eight hundred people could easily deal with it, but there must be someone in command on the opposite side, which would be a bit dangerous.

Sure enough, before He Qi and others had finished dressing, a horn sounded from the opposite hill.

Led by several strong men who obviously did not look like Shanyue, six or seven thousand Shanyue came from all directions.

If you look down from above, you can see the flow of people forming seven or eight arrows shooting towards the Jinmao Camp.

"Archers ready!"

Jin Mao shouted and beat the drum: "One shot, release!"

"Boom boom!" The war drums beat twice more.

"First shot, load. Second shot, fire. Third shot, get ready!"

"Boom boom boom!"

In just over ten seconds, three shots were fired, one shot was loaded, and a new round of long-range shooting began again.

Jin Mao stood on the high platform and turned his head, and could already see the ferocious face of the leader.

The drumbeat changed again.

"Crossbowman shoots straight!"

"Archers free fire!"

“Swoosh, swoosh, puff, puff.”

The man leading the charge fell to the ground, the enemy's momentum faltered, and screams rang out.

"Ahhh!"

In addition, there was a constant rain of arrows overhead.

The next moment, the entire formation collapsed instantly, and the Baiyue mountain people fled in all directions.

Jin Mao was still beating the drum, the crossbowmen were loading a new round of crossbow arrows, and the archers were calling out the names of the fleeing Shanyue people one by one according to their personal preferences.

The heavily armored shield soldier looked disappointed.

"duo~"

The horn sounded again, followed by the sound of horse hooves!
The Shanyue who were fleeing to the west suddenly dispersed to both sides, and a cavalry of a hundred men suddenly appeared.

Jin Mao paused suddenly, the drumbeat changed, the archers stopped shooting, loaded arrows and stood by, and the heavy infantry moved forward five steps.

"drink!"

Two hundred men thrust their iron shields into the ground together, three-quarters of the way down.

Jin Mao then turned his head, and when he saw the cavalry equipment, he exclaimed in surprise: "Elite cavalry!?"

It is hard to imagine that in this remote mountainous area, there is a hundred-man elite cavalry wearing horse armor!
And judging from his appearance, he doesn't seem to be a beginner like Jin Mao's men.

"Yuzhang County Luo Family!"

Jinmao immediately understood who was behind the plot.

The Yuzhang Luo family is descended from "Mr. Hongya" Luo Zhu. The name of Yuzhang County originated from the fact that Luo Zhu planted a lot of Yuzhang trees (now camphor trees).

The Luo family is an absolutely prominent family in Yuzhang County, so it is not surprising that they have such strength.

What’s strange is that Jin Mao didn’t offend the Luo family, so why did the other party go crazy and want to kill him?

These thoughts only lasted for a moment, and Jin Mao could no longer be distracted. This was his first time facing cavalry, and he had to give it his all.

Since Jinmao camped in a wide area, this gave the cavalry enough distance to charge.

However, Jin Mao did not order the archers to shoot, but beat the drum to give the order, and ordered someone to tell He Qixian to take people with spears to defend behind the heavy shield soldiers.

Heavy shield soldiers with spears can effectively restrain cavalry charges. It all depends on which side is tougher.

"Rumble"

Amid the sound of horse hooves, the cavalry launched an attack and were about to charge into the battle line.

Jin Mao was surprised at first, then delighted.

No matter how panicked the archers below were, Jin Mao refused to order them to shoot.

Jin Mao didn't start beating the drum until He Qi's men wearing half armor stood behind the shield soldiers with spears and lances.

However, this time it was not a projectile, but a flat shot!

Three hundred steps!
Don't move.

Two hundred steps!
preparation.

One hundred steps!

"Archers volley!"

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh", white and yellow bamboo and wooden arrows shot densely at the cavalry.

I saw the cavalry in the front row take out a large iron shield from the horse with both hands and hold it up.

With a "ding-dong" sound, all the bamboo and wooden arrows were blocked, and only a few unlucky ones fell off their horses. "

At this moment, Jin Mao's heartbeat surged, and it felt like it was going to jump out of his throat. He didn't even beat the drum, but took out the loud speaker and shouted, "Crossbowmen, shoot the horse's legs!"

Fifty steps!
While the messenger was still delivering the message, the crossbowmen began to panic.

Thirty steps!
Some crossbowmen responded, but their crossbow arrows only knocked down a dozen horses.

Ten steps!

Now you don’t have to aim, just shoot straight!

Unfortunately, there were less than twenty crossbowmen who could hold out until this time to take action.

Even though the enemy's cavalry was missing nearly forty horses, they still had more than sixty.

"boom!"

The heavily armored shield soldiers collided with the cavalry, and Jin Mao witnessed for the first time the real chaos of people and horses.

The first two rows of more than a dozen cavalry were strung together like a gourd, and the back row rushed up to continue attacking the shield soldiers. This time it was the turn of the heavy shield soldiers to lose manpower, and a gap was created by the cavalry, and the crossbowmen's position was crushed with overwhelming force.

However, the other party was not trying to kill the enemy, their goal was very clear.

Seeing that the remaining twenty or thirty riders were about to rush to Jin Mao, He Qi and the rest of the men suddenly rushed out from behind Jin Mao and scrambled to jump towards the cavalry.

Some were hugging people, some were breaking horses' legs, some were chopping from the air.

In the blink of an eye, only a dozen horses were left, walking around the platform to both sides, taking away some people along the way.

"God is mighty!"

"My lord is mighty!"

When everything was settled, everyone saw that the man on the platform was calm and composed in the face of danger.

Even when the knife was almost in front of him, he didn't move at all!
Who else can be such a brave lord?
The actual situation was that Jin Mao was so frightened that his legs went weak and he couldn't walk. His face was expressionless with fear. He almost wet his pants like He Wei.

Fortunately, the crisis came and went quickly.

In the blink of an eye, the cavalry was completely wiped out.

Jinmao heard cheers before he could even react, and he couldn't move at all.

He lowered his head and took a deep breath, trying to calm his voice and ordered: "Clean up the battlefield."

"Yes!" He Qi took the order and went down. He was not hurt much when he was splitting a horse's legs just now, but he missed the scene of Jin Mao's mighty power. He couldn't help but imagine it secretly.

Half an hour later.

Jinmao returned to normal and the number of enemies was counted.

One hundred and one enemies were killed, not a single one was left alive, and not a single one escaped from the battlefield.

They are all dead soldiers!
However, He Qi cleverly caught a young man in fancy clothes who kept shouting that he wanted Jin Mao dead.

"You know that I am the governor of Yuzhang County appointed by the court. Attacking me is tantamount to rebellion. I will confiscate my property and exterminate my clan!"

Frightened by Jin Mao, the boy burst into tears and confessed everything.

It turned out that the young man was the eldest son of the Luo family, and it was he who ordered the cavalry to launch a desperate charge. However, when the time came, he retreated and hid.

If you want to talk about the reason for killing Jin Mao, it was because Jin Mao took the blame for Pan Lin.

At the beginning, when Pan Lin was wreaking havoc in Yuzhang County, he happened to meet the Luo family on a trip.

The boy's mother was very pretty. Pan Lin was attracted by her beauty and wanted to force her, but the mother would rather die than obey. In the end, Pan Lin tortured and killed the whole family.

At that time, the boy happened to be defecating in the wild and luckily survived. From where he was hiding, he happened to hear the argument between Pan Lin and the second team, and realized that it was Jin Mao who was behind all this.

So, the young man secretly vowed to kill Jin Mao and avenge his family!

Not long ago, someone happened to tell him that a riot broke out in the Shanyue settlement and Jin Mao would definitely come to quell the rebellion.

He also provided the boy with various kinds of help along the way, so that the boy finally stood in front of Jin Mao.

As for who these people are, the young man doesn't know, but Jin Mao knows that they are basically the big families or even the prominent families of Yuzhang, no doubt about it.

After getting the information he wanted, Jin Mao ordered his men to end the boy's life.

I originally thought that the matter in Yuzhang County could be easily resolved, but now it seems that things are not that simple.

Again, compared to Wu County, Yuzhang County is more important.

Jin Mao immediately ordered someone to tell Xi Zhicai that the plan had changed.

"Pan Lin, you deserve to die!"

If you regret it, you can't let him go!
Seeing the people below leading the lost war horses, Jin Mao asked and found out that there were only about thirty horses left in good condition, and the others were either disabled or dead.

"Let's kill the horses with injured legs." Jin Mao gave the order with a painful look in his eyes: "Give everyone an extra meal tonight!"

Unfortunately, the soldiers were in low spirits. Being able to eat meat was certainly a good thing, but the death of a comrade was the first time for many of them, and they were unable to get over it for a while.

Jin Mao silently said in his heart: "Pan Lin, you really deserve to die!"

What made him even more sad was that 231 of our men were killed, half of whom were archers, 410 were seriously injured, and countless were slightly injured.

Even though he was prepared, Jin Mao still didn't expect the power of the heavy cavalry charge to be so huge.

This is the heaviest loss we have suffered in more than two years!
"Pan Lin, you really deserve to die!"

Jin Mao was almost feeling resentful. With so many casualties, the compensation would be a huge expense, and he still had to pay off previous debts.

At this moment, he could not help but make up his mind: "No matter whether it is useful or not, I can't let him go, at least he can't leave alive!"

Without the mastermind behind the scenes, the next two days went smoothly, and the four teams sent out gathered more than 30,000 people.

There are not many left. Jinmao eliminated nearly two thousand people two days ago. In addition to the previous riots, there are probably about 10,000 to 20,000 people left with nowhere to go. They will naturally gather again.

However, there was no sign of Lanzhi and the female soldiers, so Jinmao no longer hoped that they were still alive and just assumed that the female soldiers' attempt had failed.

The original intention of establishing the female army was simply because there were few troops under his command, and there would be no one to look after the house when he went out to fight, so he wanted to form a female army with low consumption and the ability to guard the house.

Nowadays, the number and combat effectiveness of male troops have increased, so female troops are not so important.

...

Nanchang County, Yuzhang Prefecture
The time came to December 1st.

Since late November, the Luo family in Nanchang has been in a state of panic.

My own eldest son wants to kill the governor of this county. Whether this succeeds or not, it will be a disaster that will lead to the extinction of our clan.

However, just as the young master of the Luo family had someone to help him, the other branches of the Luo family were also restrained by others and were unable to effectively prevent their young master from doing stupid things.

Now that the disaster has happened, the Luo family can only pray to God to keep Jinmao safe.

Otherwise, the Luo family of more than a thousand people would be exterminated!
On that day, the various branches of the Luo family were still holding a meeting to decide what to do.

Suddenly, a servant stumbled in, shouting, "The governor of Yuzhang is not dead! He is leading his army to attack us!"

The first sentence made everyone in the Luo family happy, but the second sentence made them tremble with fear.

Without a leader, no one can make decisions.

After much discussion, they still couldn't come up with a charter.

It was not until Jin Mao entered the city, accompanied by the magistrate of Nanchang County, and came to question him that the Luo family hurriedly went out to greet him.

the other side.

Jin Mao didn't originally come here to call for punishment. Since he had promised the person, even if the person died, Jin Mao would not break his promise.

Unexpectedly, the Luo family was very sincere and insisted that Jinmao accept the gift before they would feel at ease.

The gift was quite substantial, including five thousand shi of grain, five hundred sets of armor, three hundred bows, two hundred crossbows, and fifty war horses.

There were also two thousand slaves, but Jin Mao didn't want them.

Since only one family is so rich, Jinmao really wants to know whether the other two families are also so rich.

At the same time, I was even more curious about how the former Yuzhang County prefect was defeated. How could he, with such a good foundation, be defeated by Pan Lin's mob?
However, things are not that simple.

The Luo family's ancestors were famous officials during the reign of Emperor Liu Bang. They accumulated so much wealth after going through the Han Dynasty. Even if the other two families had some, they did not have much.

Seeing the Luo family's sincerity, Jin Mao publicly stated: "The Luo family is truly a good citizen of Nanchang City."

Only then did everyone in the Luo family breathe a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)