stubborn thief

Chapter 84
In an army battle, personal force and will to fight cannot turn the tide of the battle.

As long as you panic enough, even a foot-deep river can drown a person.

Under the great rout, even the dozens of people with the best equipment and morale could not resist.

He could only follow the routed soldiers and the chasing soldiers at the western foot of Phoenix Mountain, and fled in a panic.

The sound of the strings burst out, and the arrows shot, and the chasing flag troops who were robbing the grain were shot down.

Amidst the sound of horses' hooves, Liu Chengzong picked up the children on the ground and placed them on the horse's back, urging the woman, "I don't care about the food, let's go!"

The woman struggled to get up, gritted her teeth and ran forward, her footsteps getting heavier and heavier, and she didn't even have the strength to respond.

Liu Chengzong looked back at the chasing soldiers, and let out another arrow. His forearm was shaking when he pulled the bow, and he knew that the shot was not accurate.

He said anxiously to the woman: "Run for a while, you can enter the mountain ahead, you go into the mountain to hide and don't come out!"

After all, Liu Chengzong couldn't care less about this side, and like a firefighting captain, he encouraged the hungry and tired soldiers behind him, and at the same time persuaded them to put down some food to slow down the enemy's speed.

In the end, I met a man who could ride a horse and gave up the horse.

With him taking the lead, many sergeants on horses also turned back and gave up their mules and horses to women and children who could not run.

While blocking the enemy with bows and crossbows, they ran for their lives frantically.

Even so, there are still many people who are left behind by the official army to catch up.

Liu Chengzong ran desperately, and Liu Chengzu also ran wildly on the other side.

"Quick, quick, don't fall behind! Quick!"

On the official road at the foot of the mountain, which could only accommodate three people side by side, the frontier army, the soldiers from the Heilong Mountain village, and the thieves and pawns on the waist of the tiger formed two teams and ran fast with their weapons.

They moved very fast, and there were many who couldn't keep up and walked to the wasteland on the other side of the ditch beside the road, and continued to move forward with weapons.

On the official road, he pulled out his tail that was meandering for four or five miles.

Every once in a while, the frontier soldiers on horseback gathered them up, took a breath along the road, and continued on their way.

Liu Chengzu was leading the horse at the front of the team, and he was so anxious.

Plans never keep up with changes.

Yan'anwei reacted too quickly, and Liu Chengzong did not evacuate according to the original route.

When Liu Chengzu got the news, it was too late, and he had to choose another route. The ambush position he had prepared earlier was completely abolished.

Don't mention how anxious you are.

Running all the way to the northern foot of Phoenix Mountain, I saw smoke billowing from the foothills of the west.

Liu Chengzu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The situation of the defeated soldiers was not as bad as he had imagined.

There were even two battalions in front, led by the leader in the front, and guarded by the leader in the back, except that they were too tired to speak, and there was basically no chaos.

The situation in the back was not so good, but they also had their own leaders to lead.

But following Liu Chengzu's brows, he frowned again. The soldiers are in good condition, but what about the generals?

Liu Chengzong, Cao Yao, Li Wanqing, the big leaders in the team, and even Cheng Yun, he didn't see any of them.

In an instant, thousands of terrifying guesses flashed through his heart, making Liu Chengzu furious.

Then, he saw his father.

Master Liu rode a small donkey, surrounded by Cai Zhongpan and a few fugitives in plain prison uniforms.

The little black donkey's hooves dipped all the way, and swayed Mr. Liu on his back, and ran very happily.

"Big, where's my brother?"

Master Liu had already vomited on the back of the donkey once, and threw up the porridge he drank in the morning. When he saw Liu Chengzu, he was so excited that he couldn't speak at all, so he could only turn around and pointed to the back.

The crowd of Wuyangyang ran past him, Liu Chengzu looked behind him, and could only see the layers of heads.

Without an order, Liu Chengzu pointed it out, and the border troops who followed him understood what it meant.

People gave way to the officials, the horse team led the horse formation in the wasteland by the roadside, and the swordsman and spearmen also commanded the following team to prepare for counterattack.

There were also a few Heilongshan peasants who carried hoes and shovels on their shoulders to dig soil on the spot, and built a small soil slope for their ball-gushing guns to support and release.

A few other people followed the hungry people and ran over to gather them up.

Master Liu finally came to his senses at this moment, and he was able to speak a little, so he hurriedly said to Liu Chengzu: "Chengzu, there are four to five hundred people chasing them, and they have also fallen behind, and Zhang Xiong is also behind."

Speaking of this, Liu Xiangyu showed a ruthless expression: "Beat him to death for my father!"

Liu Chengzu was stunned for a moment by his father's words, thinking what did Chengzong do in the city today, it seemed that his father had changed.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Xiangyu nodded his head and said, "This is the end of the matter, there is no way out."

This has nothing to do with personal honor or disgrace. Two generations of the family have studied hard for 20 years, but they were forced into nothingness by this health official making a fuss.

How could Liu Xiangyu not hate him.

Liu Chengzu saw his brother.

At the end of the team, the most dangerous place for the entire team.

Liu Chengzong, Cao Yao, Li Wanqing, Gao Xian, Feng Keng and others were all there. They protected the weakest hungry people and fought against the most vicious officials.

Then run away.

But as soon as they run, there will be starving people overtaken and killed.

It was hard to see frail women, children and old people in the team.

The chasing team of the official army was also stretched very long.

Seeing this scene, Liu Chengzu immediately ordered the horsemen to mount and the brigade advanced.

That small cannon is no longer the key to victory, the new force is!

In the sound of trotting horses' hooves, Liu Chengzong saw his brother and more than ten horses rushing from the fields and river beaches.

This scene made him go weak and almost made him slump to the ground in relief.

Fortunately, there is still anger in his heart.

At this time, he looked embarrassed, the hair scarf fell off at some point, and his hair was disheveled.

When crossing the river, his head was smashed by the stone shot by the tiger squatting gun, and he was covered in blood and sweat, and there was mud that came from nowhere.

The leather belt around his waist didn't know when to fall when he was running away, the bow quiver and the scabbard disappeared without a trace.

The horsemen released arrows from the flanks, and instantly shot over several chasing soldiers at the forefront.

Then someone rushed up the official road with a line gun, stabbed a guard on the loess mountain, threw the line gun, jumped off the horse and drew a knife, then cut.

Before the war horse took two steps, the reins were grabbed by Liu Chengzong, who was running back.

Liu Chengzong raised his sword and said, "Brother, Zhang Xiong's bastard is right behind, chasing me for ten miles because of the crowd like a rabbit!"

Liu Chengzu saw that he was in a state of embarrassment, he held his bow and said, "Can you still fight?"

"Yes! Behead his dog in one round!"

Liu Chengzong supported the horse and changed his sitting position, looked back at the cavalry, and heard Liu Chengzu say: "Go and take his life!"

The cavalry from Yuhebao responded in unison, urging the horses to gallop and attack. Wherever they passed, the flag troops of the Weisuo who were fighting for the profit were panicked and fled.

Zhang Xiongshang urged his soldiers to continue the pursuit. The more he chased him, the more afraid he became.

Liu's father and son are much harder to mess with than he thought.

If I had known that they were both thieves and bandits, they would even dare to rob the city. Zhang Xiong would rather go to corrupt those squires who are officials elsewhere and dare not provoke Heilongshan!
The more so, the less he dared to tell Liu Chengzong to run away.

Otherwise, there is such a person drilling in the mountains, he will never have peace!
But the flag army could not walk when they saw the food, not to mention that their physical fitness had reached the limit, and they had no strength or motivation to continue to pursue.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of hooves coming from the front.

In just a moment, Zhang Xiong's head stood up, and he instinctively pulled his legs back and ran.

A feather arrow shot quickly, and it was nailed to his turned back. The nail-piercing cone arrow penetrated the nail plate and pierced his back.

But where is the pain at this time?Jumped over the road and grabbed the food bag and fled.

At this moment, he heard a roar that sounded like a ghost: "Zhang——xiong——!"

In a hurry, he only had time to turn half of his head, and the clear sound of the knife flashed in his ears, and he felt a chill in his neck, his eyes first fluttered upwards, and then fell down after a somersault.

In mid-air, he saw his headless body still running.

There is also a cavalryman with hair, with a blood-stained back in a chain armor.

The cavalry was a young man, with hatred and disdain on his face, he raised his arms to shake off the blood on the goose-winged sword.

Then his head slammed heavily on the grain bag, and that was the last scene he saw in this life.

(End of this chapter)