The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

After learning about Huang Zhong's plight, Ye Tianlong quickly organized a supply team to deliver supplies to Huang Zhong and the others. At the same time, he also summoned the civil and military ministers in Beijing and held a meeting, mainly to address these issues. The ministers introduced the situation of the Bai Mulin case in detail, so as to reassure them and tell them that as long as they did not commit crimes, nothing would happen.

To be honest, Ye Tianlong felt that the salary he paid to these civil and military ministers was already very high, no worse than during the Song Dynasty. However, some officials, despite receiving so much salary, were still not satisfied and had to find ways to make money.

In the second half of the meeting, Ye Tianlong discussed with everyone who should fill the huge official gap that emerged after this major case.

This can be said to be a re-dividing of the cake. This is a good thing. Officials from any faction are very active and want to win more official positions for their faction, even those in the eighth and ninth ranks. The competition is also very fierce.

Because in the Qinglong Empire, the boundary between officials and officials has been completely broken. Even if you start as a junior official, you can still be promoted to a serious official as long as you perform well. Compared with officials, officials are paid more generously. That’s all.

While the court of the Qinglong Empire was quarreling over the vacant official positions, five four-wheeled carriages were slowly advancing on a road near Constantinople. Because of the hot weather, the person in charge The militiamen driving the carriages were all sweating profusely from the heat. The carriages were not pulled by packhorses, but by mules. Because of the hot weather, many of the packhorses were unwilling to move. Only the docile mules were still useful. In order to pull these carriages loaded with various supplies, there were as many as four mules pulling the carriages in front.

"Damn! It's so hot today. I really can't stand it anymore. I have to take off my armor to cool down!" Under the scorching sun, a soldier complained while taking off his cloth armor. Coming down, as the armor was taken off, a burst of sultry water vapor was immediately released from it, making the soldier feel much more comfortable. Then the soldier took off his shirt, leaving his upper body bare, letting the high temperature evaporate the sweat on his body, giving him a cool feeling.

"Zhou Gong, put on your armor, be careful if you encounter an enemy sneak attack! And there are women here! You look so ugly shirtless!" The commander on a carriage behind him said to him. . The woman he mentioned was a female soldier in their squad, named Jiang Jundi. She was one of the first people from the Song Dynasty to migrate to Ye Tianlong's territory in the Kingdom of Nord with Zhang Shun and the others. At that time, Ye Tianlong had a limited population in his territory, so In addition to men, many women in their prime also

Facing the long persuasion, the soldier fanned himself with the palm of his hand and replied with a playful smile: "Boss, you are too cautious. The comrades in the rear and the front have already cleared this area." We have done this several times, how could there be an enemy showing up to attack us!"

However, as if to slap him in the face, just when Zhou Gong finished speaking, dozens of arrows were suddenly shot out from the woods on the left side of the road. Because Zhou Gong was not wearing armor, he was easy to bully at first sight. , so at least seven or eight arrows were directed at him. Although Zhou Gong tried his best to dodge, he was still hit by an arrow in his left arm, which made him howl like a ghost. Another militiaman beside him pushed him out of the carriage, and he jumped down and hid on the right side of the carriage, relying on the carriage to block the rain of arrows fired by the enemy.

These Qinglong Empire's carriages are also made of steel plates, so ordinary arrows cannot penetrate them at all, they can only hit them and splash out a few sparks.

Other soldiers also hid on the right side of the carriage and began to reload the flintlock rifles in their hands. It can be said that everyone was surprised by this attack. After all, what they escorted was not a precious material, just a few carts of watermelons. They were said to be watermelons, but in fact, the watermelons of this period were not as big or as sweet as later ones. Even the pulp still has a slight bitter taste. The only constant is that the water content is also very high. It is often used as a special fruit to replenish water, so the watermelon of this period is actually more appropriately called water melon. Because they were escorting these low-valued watermelons, and they were walking through an area that had been cleared several times by front-line troops, most of the soldiers were actually like Zhou Gong, thinking that this would just be an ordinary and peaceful trip. There would be no accidents in the escort mission, but unfortunately, this really happened.

When the enemy's arrow density began to drop rapidly, Chief Ouyang quickly stuck his head out to check the situation and found that many enemies had already rushed out of the woods. They were all infantry. As for the archers, they were all hiding in the woods behind. It was difficult for Ouyang Chao to see clearly the positions of these guys for a while. In desperation, he could only raise his hand and shoot at the fastest enemy with a rifle. He fired a shot, and then didn't check to see if he had hit. Instead, he quickly retracted behind the carriage and reloaded the flintlock rifle.

While loading ammunition, Ouyang Chao also quickly explained the current situation to his soldiers. According to his observation just now, there are about seventy or eighty enemy infantry alone, and judging from the density of the arrow rain just now, Judging from this, there should be forty or fifty enemy archers, with a total strength of more than a hundred, ten times as many as their ten-man team. Fortunately, the enemies seemed to be equipped with cold weapons, and there were not many people wearing armor. They should not be the enemy's elite troops, otherwise this battle would really be unwinnable.

While Commander Ouyang Chao was introducing the situation to his men, more than a dozen arrows and javelins flew past the carriage, making everyone no longer dare to stick their heads out to fight back and observe the enemy's situation.

"How many more grenades are there?" Chief Ouyang Chao felt that this was not the solution. The enemy infantry was getting closer and closer. Once they rushed in front of them and started a hand-to-hand combat, our own firearms advantage would no longer be able to be used. Therefore, Ouyang Chao wanted to throw the grenade and rely on the smoke and dust raised by the explosion to disrupt the sight of the enemy archers, giving them a chance to fire back.

"There are three left!" After checking, the female soldier named Jiang Jundi replied to Chief Ouyang Chao.

Hearing that there were only three grenades left, Ouyang Chao covered his head and sighed helplessly. Because it was too difficult to transport ammunition from the rear to the front, all the troops were basically in a state of shortage of ammunition now, and their militia force also did not Exception, in terms of bullets, because the flintlock rifle fires very slowly, each of them still has more than 20 rounds. However, grenades are very fast to use, so now the entire team only has three left. . This battle may not be enough.

After taking a grenade, Ouyang Chao asked a soldier next to him to help him carry a steel shield to block the arrows. Then he stood up and stuck his head out from behind the carriage and pointed the grenade at the enemy infantry. Throw it in the direction.

Those enemies had already seen the various firearms of the Qinglong Empire. When they saw the grenades flying, they were frightened and fled. However, as the grenades exploded violently, two enemy infantrymen were still injured.

As the explosion sounded, Ouyang Chao and the others stood up, picked up their rifles, and shot at the enemy infantry.

At this time, a large amount of dust and gravel were blown up by the grenades. The field of vision of the enemy archers was greatly affected. In order to avoid accidental damage, these archers did not dare to continue firing arrows for a while.