Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 55 Attack and Kill
Most of the bandit leaders are from the grassroots and have not received special training. In addition, they have a large number of families and families, and they can fight wherever they go, so they have never paid much attention to camping. Only Zhang Xianzhong, a thief from the official army First of all, I paid more attention to camping just now.

Ma Shizhong's troops who attacked Chuzhou City were basically undefended with their backs in the direction of Hezhou. Lu Xiangtong wore the robes from the corpses of the culprits, and sent a few people to report to the camp with the captured horses, and then brought Zhao Yong and other seven people. Arrived at the camp of thieves.

There are all kinds of tents, wooden sheds, and grass nests all over the periphery of the thief camp. The thieves who did not participate in the siege were either blowing nonsense in groups of three or five, or a few people raised a fire to roast all kinds of food. Food, almost everyone turned a blind eye to Lu Xiang and this team of cavalry. Occasionally curious people saw the blood on their robes, and they just thought it was stained by going out to plunder and kill again.

Lu Xiang rode swaggeringly with them all the way, but continued to walk for a while, and found that the attire of the thieves became more and more formal, and there were many thieves patrolling in teams of ten. The wide eaves were pulled down, covering most of the face, and the team continued to move forward. Zhao Yong, who was riding beside him, looked around and suddenly coughed lightly. Lu Xiangtong followed his eyes and saw hundreds of steps away to the right. There was a large tent, surrounded by a few small tents, and there were no buildings. In front of the big tent, there were two bandit soldiers with long knives. Lu Xiangtong knew that there must be bandits inside. The leader, so he took the lead in urging his horse to go to the big tent.

As the distance to the big tent got closer, there were vague sounds of yelling and shouting from several tents around, mixed with the sound of some people laughing wildly and some scolding their mothers. No one cared about the movement of several war horses marching.

Two thieves guarding in front of the tent found Lu Xiangtong and the others. At this time, they were only a few dozen steps away from the big tent. One of the thieves held his knife handle and asked, "Stop! Whose subordinates are you?"

Zhao Yong replied with a northwestern accent while riding his horse: "We are a cavalry team scouting horses, and there is a military intelligence report to the chief!"
The two thieves became alert, drew their knives and continued to shout: "Get off the horse!"

Lu Xiang raised his hand at the same time, and everyone reined in their horses and turned over. Zhao Yong laughed and scolded: "You grandson, what are you afraid of in your own camp?" He said as he walked towards the big tent. The three of them stayed beside the horses, and the rest of them follow behind.

The movement here did not attract the attention of the thieves in the surrounding tents. Although the rest of the thieves were large in number, they were obviously used to the situation of scouting horses and reporting military information, so they didn't look this way. The most important thing was that no one would have thought Someone pretended to be someone, and there has never been an incident where officers and soldiers pretended to be thieves and broke into the camp.

When the two sides were only a few steps away, Li Shitou and others behind Lu Xiangtong jumped out suddenly, raised their arms, and several hatchets flew out of their hands, hitting the necks and faces of the two thieves in the blink of an eye, and their voices were heard. Nothing came out, and he fell straight to the ground.

Zhao Yong and others quickly stepped forward to drag the corpse into the big tent, and Lu Xiangtong rushed into the tent with both swords and right axes.

Ma Shizhong had just finished venting on the beautiful woman, and was lying on the couch in the back tent with his eyes closed, allowing the woman to pinch his head to sober him up. When he heard the soldiers shouting and asking, he managed to open his scarlet eyes, His mind was dazed thinking about who was coming, and then the soldiers yelled for the second time, and then there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. He got off his horse and realized something was wrong. He jumped up from the couch and ran barefoot to the shelf where the long knife was hung. He took off the scabbard and drew out the long knife. But the big tent is made of thick cowhide, which is very tough, and when it was cut off with a knife, it only cracked a small hole.

At this time, the beautiful woman on the couch suddenly shouted: "Inside!" Ma Shizhong, furious, turned around and came to the couch, raised his knife and slashed down, the woman who had been snatched was decapitated immediately. place.

In just a few breaths, Lu Xiangtong heard the sound and opened the curtain and barged in. The distance between the two was only a few steps. Ma Shizhong stepped forward and was about to raise his knife to chop. The blade of the ax hit the shoulder of Ma Shizhong's right hand holding the knife. Under severe pain, Ma Shizhong yelled, and the long knife fell to the ground. The lower abdomen, and then pulled down along the trend, Ma Shizhong let out a howl that did not sound like a human voice, and fell to his knees in pain, holding the blade tightly with both hands, blood mixed with colorful intestines poured out of his stomach, and his lower body was also excrement and urine All came out, a stench filled the tent immediately, Lu Xiangtong drew back the knife, then raised the knife and slashed, Ma Shizhong's head flew up, this murderous and vicious gangster finally got what he deserved fate.

The woman's yell and Ma Shizhong's screams finally alarmed the money-playing soldiers around. Dozens of thieves rushed out of several tents with weapons in hand, and quickly surrounded Ma Shizhong's big tent. Zhao Yong He opened the curtain and rushed in, anxiously said: "Boss! Hurry up!"

Lu Xiangtong bent down and pulled out the hatchet embedded in the corpse, stuck it in his waist, looked at the dead woman on the couch, and shook his head regretfully. what happened.

The two came to the big tent, and the other six people were already fighting fiercely outside the tent with the thieves who rushed over. The two took out a well-stringed hand crossbow from under their robes and ran out of the tent. Li Shitou and another officer were already injured. , Lu Xiangtong shot a brave thief with a hand crossbow, then smashed the crossbow at the thief, drew out the hatchet and threw it, hitting a thief in the chest, the thief screamed and fell to the ground, Lu Xiangtong shouted: "Go to the horse side!"

Zhao Yong also killed and wounded two people one after another. Everyone rushed to the horse and got on the horse. Ma Shizhong's soldiers didn't know what was going on in the tent, and they didn't know whether their leader was dead or alive. What was even more confusing was who this group of people was. They didn't figure it out, and Lu Xiang and the others were extremely brave, so they didn't try their best to stop them. When the officers and soldiers cleared the door of the big tent, dozens of people rushed to check it, and a large group of thieves began to gather here.

After they got on their horses, they turned their heads and tried their best to urge the horses to flee to the outside of the camp. When the speed of the horses was raised, the thieves in the tent ran out one after another. Some people cried loudly, some shouted that the chieftain was dead, and several people ran to the tent, pulled out their horses and started chasing after them.

Lu Xiang and the others urged their horses to run wildly. The thieves outside the camp didn't know what happened, they only saw a few horses running past in front of them, and a puff of smoke was rolled up. Before the dust was cleared, dozens of horses galloped past. , Immediately the knight brandished his weapon and roared again and again, beating his horse desperately to catch up.

Baqi ran out of the bandit camp without hindrance. Lu Xiangtong was at the rear. He turned his head to look back from time to time. The bandits he was chasing were about [-] paces away. Normally, they would not be able to catch up with such a distance. , but after all, they left the big camp and walked dozens of miles away, and encountered a small-scale fight in the middle, which caused a lot of horsepower loss, and there were two injured comrades in arms, and the handling of the horses was not as good as usual; He has been in a state of rest, and his horsepower has not been damaged at all. If he continues like this, he will be overtaken after running for more than ten miles.

Lu Xiangtong was secretly anxious, but he couldn't think of any solution for a while. After all, there was too much difference in the number of people. Even if eight people were all bearded and tailed, they would not be able to beat the dozens of cavalry behind. Divide up and continue to catch up.

In about a quarter of an hour, they ran to the woods where they intercepted and killed the thieves and Tanma. The distance between the two sides had been shortened to within a hundred steps. The injured Li Shitou and the other Yebushou finally couldn't hold on anymore. Shi Shi was stabbed in the lower abdomen. Although the padded armor under the robe took off most of the damage, he still got a cut, and before he had time to cover the wound, the blood had already stained the hem of the robe red under the jolt of the horse galloping at high speed. Under the condition of excessive blood loss, his complexion was terribly pale, and he was also in a dazed state.

The situation of another wounded man, Zhao Goudan, was not much better. His right shoulder was crushed by the thief's hammer, and his entire arm was already hanging down. The time is also at the end of the battle.

The speed of the horses on both sides has slowed down a lot, and their respective mounts are already dripping with sweat, but the thieves still persist in chasing them, determined to kill them all.

Zhao Yong slowed down his horse a little and fell behind, turned sideways and shouted at Lu Xiangtong: "Boss! You run first with the stones and dog eggs, and Shuanzhu and I stay behind for a while! Otherwise, no one can run !"

Lu Xiangtong roared: "You take the wounded away! I will stay!"

Zhao Yong shouted at Zhao Shuanzhu and others in front: "Shuanzhu! Let's die here today!" Then he drew a short blade from his boot and stabbed it into the ass of Lu Xiangtong's war horse. Under the pain, huge energy burst out in an instant, and they rushed out at a sudden speed. Zhao Shuanzhu and others also acted according to the law, and the horses of the two wounded also rushed forward.

Lu Xiangtong burst into tears, unable to turn around, and Zhao Yong laughed loudly in his ears: "Boss! Don't forget to burn some money and food!"

Just when Zhao Yong and the others slowed down their horses and prepared to meet the enemy, a red shadow suddenly appeared on the edge of the sky, moving fast towards them. Lu Xiangtong quickly reacted, their reinforcements arrived, and he turned his head wildly Roar: "Reinforcements are coming! Run!".

(End of this chapter)