Chapter 61
Bai Lang looked at the half-dead man called Zhang Xianzhong, sighed, went over and straightened the guy's head, "Damn it, he was too quick and too smooth. If I had known this would happen, I should have just broken his limbs! Or maybe he killed people too easily! This habit must be changed!" Bai Lang cursed, brought a horse from the side, tied Zhang Xianzhong to the saddle, and prepared to take his men back.
At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's army had not yet collapsed collectively, and most people didn't even know whether Zhang Xianzhong was dead or not. However, as Bai Lang gradually walked out, the entire Zhang Xianzhong camp began to avalanche... and as he followed the Ming army, they were killing people, and several of Zhang Xianzhong's battalions had already surrendered.
Bai Lang also caught a few officers who looked more senior on the way and asked them if the dead body on the horse was Zhang Xianzhong. All of them were shocked and quickly admitted that it was Zhang Xianzhong. Some even took the initiative to surrender to Bai Lang, who was alone... Nonsense, can someone who can break through the protection circle and drag them off the horse to identify the body in the blink of an eye under the protection of dozens of their personal soldiers be an ordinary person?
As a result, more and more people followed Bai Lang, and they took the initiative to attack their former companions, killing them more ruthlessly than the Ming army. Bai Lang was a terrifying enemy, but following him and watching him drive his horse forward from time to time and tear apart the opponents who were resisting stubbornly was really enough to inspire the courage and morale of those who surrendered.
At this time, Bai Lang was actually feeling sorry, "Damn it, the armor is broken. I was so busy enjoying it when I tore it off that I didn't pay attention. Now it's almost half broken. This is very troublesome and I need someone to repair it. The chain mail is also broken..." Bai Lang was now wearing an inner jacket and a helmet on his head, but the armor on his body had been put on another horse. Even so, the ferocity he showed could actually encourage those people - because this time they saw with their own eyes the invulnerability of this Ming general.
The weapons and strength of the ordinary soldiers were really helpless against Bai Lang's Golden Bell Cover, so they could only be easily killed. Bai Lang's hands and feet infused with true energy killed these people very easily - but Bai Lang eventually stopped killing, because he found that even if his true energy circulated endlessly, his muscles were still tired.
Although the newly surrendered guys following behind him were very brutal in killing their former companions, as if they had surrendered to him, Bai Lang still did not trust them at all, even more than he did those who followed him and were originally from Zuo Liangyu's army. Therefore, Bai Lang could not kill to the point of exhaustion, and killing these miscellaneous soldiers was not very useful for perfecting his martial arts now - perhaps he could test some of his ideas on how to kill more easily, and the biggest use was to collect the murderous aura.
"The grand and solemn atmosphere of the battle array and the killing aura are very suitable for the true meaning of the tiger form. It corresponds to the White Tiger Star Lord, and it can be regarded as the right way to cultivate the tiger form." Bai Lang thought so, and in front of him appeared the soldiers of the former left army who followed him to break through the formation. When they saw Bai Lang, the officers on horseback dismounted and bowed in front of Bai Lang's horse. This general with the flying white tiger flag had completely conquered these people in front of him.
"You and these rebels should clean up this place thoroughly. Kill those who can be killed and surrender those who are willing to surrender. Today we must completely annihilate the bandit Zhang Xianzhong's army here! By the way, you have also fought several battles with the bandit Zhang. Come and see if this is Zhang's body?"
So everyone came over to take a closer look - by the way, Bai Lang had stripped the body naked so that some of Zhang Xianzhong's trusted generals could point out some hidden features on Zhang Xianzhong when they identified the body. After these left army generals took a closer look, they said that this was indeed Zhang Xianzhong, "Could he have a substitute?" Everyone shook their heads.
"Then, the rebellion that started at the end of the Tianqi reign period has killed a major bandit leader, right?" Bai Lang said. He looked in all directions, and saw soldiers kneeling down to surrender or being killed, and people running away in the distance. "The troops in Xiangyang City have also been sent out to hunt them down," said a general. "In that case, I'll leave it to you. I'm going to rest." Bai Lang drove his horse and went to find a carriage to prepare for sleep.
He looked at his body, which was undoubtedly covered in blood. "Forget it, I can't sleep like this." So he just found a stool and sat there. Zhang Xianzhong's body was thrown aside, and no one dared to clean it up. "He's just a bandit. If things go wrong, his head might be sent to the world. It doesn't matter if it's dignified or not."
The massacre was extremely tragic. The defenders who came out of Xiangyang City watched Zhang Xianzhong's army that was besieging the city collapse one after another. They worshipped the army that rescued them as if it were gods - everyone knew what would have happened to everyone present if Xiangyang had been captured by Zhang Xianzhong... and they had also seen Zhang Xianzhong's body. The thief Zhang, who had brought harm to the world, died under the city. It goes without saying that everyone present had made a contribution.
So everyone was very happy, and Bai Lang was invited into the city. With his official position, he naturally had to take the seat of honor, not to mention the military merit of killing Zhang Xianzhong. At this age in the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials' original condescending attitude towards military generals had almost worn off - perhaps those civil officials with top abilities and high positions could still look down on military generals, but the general local civil officials had long known the rule that soldiers were kings. And Bai Lang, a brave general who was the best of the three armies, especially after hearing the descriptions of his bravery in breaking through the battle array by himself from the generals and soldiers, immediately worshipped him highly, as if he were the White Tiger Star Lord.
So Bai Lang's life was quite comfortable. A bunch of women who were searched from Zhang Xianzhong's camp, sent by wealthy merchants in the city and Prince Xiang's palace became his maids. However, they just looked at him and at most helped Bai Lang rub his back while taking a bath. Bai Lang didn't bother with these women at all. Practicing martial arts was the right way, and he couldn't afford these women at the moment.
A few days later, Governor Deng arrived in Xiangyang with the original left army that had been reorganized with great difficulty. He had already known in advance that Bai Lang had defeated Zhang Xianzhong's entire army and killed Zhang Xianzhong in battle, and he had already prepared a document to report the victory and sent it to the capital. Now he came to officially take the fruits of victory - of course, the most important thing was the body of the thief Zhang.
Bai Lang also knew who the generals under Zhang Xianzhong who were killed by him were . It turned out that the black guy was Zhang Wenxiu, whose original surname was Liu; and the one who came out of Zhang Xianzhong's tent and was killed by him was Zhang Kewang, whose original surname was Sun. Both of them were Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons. The other two adopted sons, Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi, had escaped without a trace, and they had run away with thousands of people...
