Protracted warfare is to use every means to delay time and wait for reinforcements.

On this day, from morning to evening, exhausted, when the sun set, the last group of horse bandits were killed, and Twilight lay in the pile of corpses.

"At night, we pretend to be corpses." Twilight Road.

Kill for a day and a night, there is still a day and a night to wait for reinforcements, they can't continue to kill like this, there are more than 5,000 soldiers and horses in the bandit village, and the tactics of the sea of people can trap them to death, and they can't afford to fight again today.

can only go sideways, mixed in the pile of corpses, and some people are outdated and cold knives.

"Give." Zhang Tong leaned over and handed a piece of pancake to Twilight, seeing that she took it, he didn't even have the strength to speak and get up, so he just lay in the pile of corpses and bit the dry pancake, and swallowed it without a few bites. He frowned, her face had long been covered with blood and the yellow sand of the northwest, and only a pair of cold eyes were exposed.

"Why bother? Why did you come to this barracks? From the day he broke her daughter, he had always had this question in his heart.

She bit into the pancake, and he waited for a long time, thinking that she would not speak, but he still waited for her to speak, although there was only one sentence, "My father was killed by the powerful." ”

Chapter Tong was slightly stunned, so?

She disguised herself as a man and entered the military camp, marching thousands of miles with the northwest, in order to make military achievements and seek a future, and one day avenge her father?

The evening in the northwest is different from the south of the Yangtze River, even if the sun is full of sky, it is also the yellow sand of the earthen wall, and every evening, it can be seen that people's hearts are sad. The girl lying in the corpse mountain, her eyes are clear, and she does not see sadness, but this corpse mountain, this alone sticks to it, which only makes people's hearts more sad.

The woman obeys her father at home, marries her husband, her father goes, there should be no brother at home, there is nothing to rely on, avenging her father has become the reason for her to go down, enter the military camp, and practice like the sons of this world, march, eat brown rice, live in the camp tent, sleep on straw mats, just to go to that high place one day, and get revenge.

But has she thought about it? Is it so easy to stay in that high place? If she really makes meritorious service and is awarded, she will have to hide her identity as a woman for the rest of her life and not expose it. Otherwise, it will be a defilement of the barracks, a disaster for the dynasty, and a great crime of deception!

Either one is a capital offense!

She did such a dangerous thing, did she think about the future?

Zhang Tong only felt that his heart was inexplicably blocked, so he asked for a piece of pancake, chewed it twice and swallowed it in his stomach, and the dry cake made his throat hurt.

Twilight closed her eyes, bathed in the sunset, blowing the northwest wind, except for the smell of blood and burnt in the wind, which made her want to sleep a little bit.

Zhang Tong looked at her, and then looked at the intersection of the village road covered with the corpses of horse bandits, did not rest, only stepped on the corpse under his feet, walked in front of her, turned his back to her, and faced the entrance of the village.

Twilight Qing smelled the smell of sweat and blood blowing through the sleeves of his clothes, opened his eyes, and saw the person in front of him standing in the mountain of corpses, bathing in the sunset, and his back suddenly felt tall.

"Let's rest for a while, there isn't much time for us to rest." She said.

"You think I'm tired? Hum! Men's bodies are always stronger than women's. He snorted, and the tall back suddenly became childish.

"Well, it's better to be reckless than a woman."

Zhang Tong frowned and turned around, "How can there be such a ...... of you in the world?"

He wanted to say, he didn't know what to do, but he was stunned when the words came to his mouth. There was a light smile on her lips, it was a face full of blood and yellow sand, she couldn't see her face clearly, but the smile was warmer than the sunset.

"Rest." She spoke again, and said no more.

I could still feel someone's eyes fall on her face, and after a long time, I heard someone sitting down.

Zhang Tong didn't lie down, only sat cross-legged, still with his back to Twilight, looking at the entrance of the village.

The rest time is always short, but this time it seems to be a little longer than the day. They had killed so many people that they couldn't remember how many, but there was no place to stay on the village road, and there were corpses everywhere. One day and one night, such a record, Xu was shocked by the bandits, and the frenzied influx during the day sank down in the evening.

When they came again, it was already dark, and there were not many people, about 100 people.

More than 100 people gathered at the entrance of the village, the fire oil in all parts of the village had been burned out, the roofs, yards, cowsheds, and haystacks were smoking everywhere, and the moonlight hung on the branches, shining on the corpses paved on the village road, making the hearts of those who saw it hairy.

The horse bandits did not dare to enter for a while, day and night, except for last night, today alone, they came five groups of people, only a few fled back for help, and most of them left their lives in the village. The anger of the big boss was unquellable, and a group of people were sent to the village, and in the evening, no one in the village was willing to come, and they quarreled for a long time before such a few people came.

The brothers were angry and fearful of the number of lives lost in the stockade.

The mountain of corpses in this village has become a silent deterrent.

The horse bandit at the head glanced at the village, and saw that the village was like a dead village, the doors and windows of every house were closed, there were no lights, no human voices were heard, and the wind was blowing, only the smell of blood and burnt. I couldn't tell where the five were hiding, and how many were still alive.

The horse bandit's eyes flashed slightly, and he pointed his long knife into the village, "Kill Lao Tzu door to door!" ”

More than 100 people shouted in unison, and in the pile of corpses on the village road, some people sighed silently, and then stood up.

These horse bandits are not stupid, it is not feasible to pretend to be a corpse and draw a cold knife, it seems that they still have to fight.

The horse bandit who led the group saw Twilight Qing and Zhang Tong who got up from the corpse pile, and sneered, "Hiding in the corpse pile, you are really a bad seed!" ”

"If you don't breed or not, you can try it and find out." Zhang Tong snorted coldly.

"Humph! It's been a day since you killed, and with just the two of you, you think you can kill so many brothers from Lao Tzu? Joke! The horse bandit snorted as well.

"Who said it was just the two of them? Lao Tzu and the two are not people? At this time, Lu Da's voice came from behind the village road, and he walked out with Lao Xiong and stood beside Dusk Qing and Zhang Tong. The two of them were on the road over there, when they heard a horse bandit entering the village, and after waiting for a while, they didn't see anyone rushing in, thinking that Xu was surrounded by Dusk Qing and Zhang Tong, so the two hurried over.

The horse bandit narrowed his eyes, waited for a while, and when he saw that no one came again, he smiled and said, "Four, it seems that one of you has died." ”

Han Qichu has been in the village chief's house and has not been in the battle, but no one stupidly told the enemy about this matter, Du Qing only snorted and said lightly: "Well, five people, four came, which is equivalent to one death." It's good to do the math, and if you don't be a horse bandit in the future, you can be a settler. ”

The bandit's face darkened, and the fool couldn't hear the mockery in her words.

Lu Da, Lao Xiong and Zhang Tong laughed, Lu Da pointed to the corpse mountain under his feet, and laughed: "That's not possible!" Your kid is so exalted that he wants to be a settler, and he has to count how many of them died. ”

Lao Xiong and Zhang Tong laughed again, the moonlight was shining, the corpses were all over the ground, and the four of them stood on the corpse mountain, bloody and desolate, lonely and desolate, but they laughed a little bloody.

The laughter spread far and wide, scattered in the night sky of the small village with the wind, which made people's hearts warm and also drowned out the eager knocking on the door behind the village.

In the courtyard of the last row of earthen houses in the village, there are two figures, one is rickety, it seems to be an old man in the night, and the other is thin and sven, knocking on the door but urgently, and the speed of speech is very fast, "Fellow, we are the soldiers of the Northwest Army, trapped in the village, fighting bloodily for a day and night, the reinforcements will arrive tomorrow evening, we are only four people, alone, exhausted, I hope that the strong men in the village will help each other to fight against the horse bandits!" ”

Han Qichu banged on the door, there was a fire burning in his heart, he looked at the four horse bandits at the house of the village chief's father and son, listened to the sound of killing outside, and calculated that there were at least five groups of people, and the two groups last night were full of body and were not too tired. But from dawn to evening, he kept killing five bandits, presumably wounded and exhausted.

After another day and a night, he thought they might not be able to.

He couldn't watch them die, he could only do what he could to the last of his ability.

However, the door was closed, and there seemed to be no one in the room, and there was no sound.

Han Qichu stood outside the door and glanced at the village chief.

The old man trembled and stepped forward and knocked on the door, "Boss of the Li family, open the door quickly, it is indeed the soldiers of the Northwest Army who are fighting ahead!" The lieutenant general of the Northwest Army is among them! ”

The door was still closed, and there was no sound in the house, Han Qichu waited for a while, turned around and left the courtyard, and went to the next one.

"Fellow, we are the soldiers of the Northwest Army, trapped in the village, fighting bloodily for a day and night, the reinforcements will arrive tomorrow evening, we are only four people, alone, exhausted, I hope that the strong men in the village will help each other and fight against the horse bandits!"

The door was also shut, and no one answered.

The old man hurriedly stepped forward again and lobbied, "Ma Sanjia, quickly call your man to come out, it is indeed the soldiers of the Northwest Army who are fighting in front!" Deputy ...... of the Northwest Army"

Han Qichu didn't wait for him to finish, turned around and went to the next house.

Knock on the door, ask for help, one by one.

"Fellow, we are the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Army......"

"Fellow, we are the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Army......"

The west wind howls and cuts over the walls of the house, and the desolate whistle speaks of indifference and desolation.

No one opened the door, the patron saint of the people of the northwest, and the people of the northwest they guarded were shut out of the door this night, and there was no life left.

Han Qichu stood at the end of the village, looking at the village road where the corpses were lying in ambush, looking at a row of closed house doors, looking up to the sky and smiling.

The village chief cowered and moved, cautiously looked at Han Qichu, and said, "This, this general, this can't be blamed on the people in our village, the big guys have been scared by horse bandits for most of the year......

"Afraid?" Han Qichu sneered, "It's because you're afraid that you helped the horse bandits kidnap and rob passers-by, how many innocent people have you harmed?" I could have returned to the camp last night, but I was afraid that the people in the village would be slaughtered after leaving, so I stayed alone! One day and one night, kill and repel seven horse bandits, and protect no one in your village! It wasn't until the night when you were desperate that you came to ask for asylum, and you waited! ”

"Afraid? Could it be that the soldiers of our Northwest Army are cast of iron and bronze, not flesh and blood? Do we wait for my family to have no wife and children, and I am willing to die in a foreign land? ”

"Huh! Killing Hu Lu outside the gate, suppressing bandits outside the gate, thinking that it was me who was protecting the people, but it turned out to be just a village of cold-blooded people! ”

"That's it, the blood of the Northwest boy is just like this, I am afraid of death, you wait and wait at home, I will go to find my comrades in the army, tonight I will die in battle, and I will be with my comrades!"

Han Qichu walked outside the courtyard, picked up a knife from the side of a corpse, looked up to the sky and took a deep breath of the night breeze in the northwest, his mood was uneasy, his tone was no longer turbulent, and he only said: "The reinforcements will arrive tomorrow evening, if you can live until then, Han has only one thing to ask for - I heard that every family in the village has the immortal tablet of the Northwest Army, smash it, there is no need to serve it again!" ”

With that, he walked to the end of the village, and the door of the courtyard behind him suddenly creaked and opened.

The door opened quietly, but the footsteps of the man who came out were deep and powerful, he was carrying a hoe on his shoulder, the moonlight shone on his face, dark and red, and shouted at Han Qichu: "Who said that the men in the northwest are bloodless?" Why are you so impatient? If the light is blind, you will be scolded for looking for a hoe at home! The men in our village are bloodless, I'll let you see tonight! ”

The people in the village work in the fields every day, how can they not know where to put the hoe? This excuse was too clumsy, Han Qichu turned around, but saw the doors of a row of village houses opening one after another, and the men who came out of it were holding firewood knives and axes, carrying hoes and nail rakes, all panting and shouting at him.

"Whether the men in our village are bloody or not, I'll let you see tonight!"

"Our own village, we guard it ourselves!"

A group of men went out of their doors, and in the window, the women held their children and looked at them with tears, knowing that their men would never come back, but they still gritted their teeth and endured it, and no one dissuaded them.

The men rushed to the village road, and when they saw the tragic scene of corpses lying on the ground in the night, they gasped. They knew that there were people fighting horse bandits in the village, but they didn't know that they were soldiers of the Northwest Army, and they didn't know that there were only five of them. One day and night, they hid at home, never knowing how to hold on outside, and at this moment they walked out of the house, and saw the tragedy on the ground, and the blood in their chests couldn't help but churn.

"Kill the horse bandits! Protect my Northwest soldiers! I don't know who shouted, everyone shouted and shouted, holding firewood knives, axes, hoes, nails, and rakes, and Wu Yang walked out of the intersection at the end of the village, ran to the road ahead, and knocked on the door from house to house.

The door opened, and twenty or thirty men came out, and forty or fifty people poured into the village houses on the road ahead.

Han Qichu stood at the end of the village, looking at this scene, he took a deep breath, and suddenly felt that the weight on his shoulders was a little lighter.

But before he could finish his long breath, he frowned, and turned his head to look at the road in front of the village, where rows of village houses blocked the way, and he couldn't see the situation on the road, but listened carefully, and the more he listened, the tighter his brow wrinkled.

It's so quiet!

The shouts of the villagers made the road as silent as death, and it made people feel uneasy.

Since the horse bandits are here, there should be a sound of fighting over there, how can it ...... Didn't hear?

Han Qichu felt inexplicably uneasy, he strode towards the head of the village with a knife, turned the end of the village, the wind blew from behind him, he swept over the terrain in the village at a glance, and suddenly stopped! The map of the village that I drew last night came to my mind, and I thought about the situation of today's battle.

One day and night, seven groups of horse bandits came, and all of them were killed and retreated, and hundreds of them were killed and wounded. If he was the head of the village, he would not have sent people to his death, but would have tried every means to find out the people hiding in the village, and then take advantage of the darkness of the night......

Han Qichu suddenly went to the village wall in front of him, no, it was not the village wall, although the wall was low, the horse could cross it, but people couldn't.

So......

He swept the topographical map of the village in his mind again, and suddenly turned around and looked at the back of Shangyu Village, which was sitting quietly in the dark night, and his face changed suddenly!

"Not good! And ...... "He wanted to stop the villagers from going forward, but he saw that the men of the village had turned the road and rushed to the road in front of the village."

Han Qichu had no choice but to run over.

The hour went backwards, and when Han Qichu knocked on the door door to ask for help, on the road in Qiantou Village, more than 100 horse bandits and Lu Da and others looked at each other across most of the village road.

The horse bandit at the head asked, "What are your identities?" ”

Lu Da touched his chin, "Lao Tzu's face, it seems that not many people know him after shaving." ”

He looked depressed, and Lao Xiong laughed: "It's hard to go back, even the general can't recognize the general." ”

"That's a good idea! If the general can eat deflated on Lao Tzu's hands, Lao Tzu and his beard are worth shaving! ”

The night was dark, and even though the moonlight was shining, it was still impossible to distinguish people's faces. The horse bandit couldn't tell who Lu Da was for a while, but he heard from Lao Xiong's words that he was actually the general of the Northwest Army, and he couldn't help but be shocked. The horse bandits behind them also exclaimed, and some people unconsciously retreated.

No wonder these people killed like a god, five people killed seven of them, it turned out to be the Northwest Army!

The horse bandit headed by him turned around and glanced at his subordinates fiercely, and a group of horse bandits were suddenly shocked and did not dare to retreat. Only then did he turn his head and sneered: "Lao Tzu said that who is so bold and dares to go against our village, it turns out to be a rabbit cub of the Northwest Army!" ”

"Bunny?" The old bear grinded his teeth with hatred, "Don't work on the skin, compare with the knife in your hand, see who can kill whom, and you will know who is the rabbit cub!" ”

"It's you who must be lying down! Kill so many of our brothers, you are also at the end of your rope, right? Do you still want to go back to see Yuan Xiu'er? When you die, go to him. The horse bandit at the head laughed, and the people behind him also laughed.

Lu Da and Lao Xiong's faces sank, Zhang Tong stood beside the two of them, blocking Twilight Qing behind him, Twilight Qing was not strong, so he simply avoided behind the three of them, and whispered to the three of them: "Something is wrong, he seems to be delaying time." ”

The three of them were stunned, Lu Da and Lao Xiong were actually delaying time, the reinforcements would arrive tomorrow evening, they still had a day and night to hold on, and both of them were injured at this moment, it was rare that this group of horse bandits was not in a hurry to kill, they were not in a hurry, and it didn't take much to fight with their mouths, so they took this opportunity to recuperate their spirits and fight again at night.

The two of them deliberately delayed time, so they didn't find out that the horse bandit also had this purpose, and after being reminded by Dusk Qingyi, the two couldn't help but sink in their hearts.

Why do horse bandits stall? At this moment, the four of them did not disperse as they did during the day, but gathered together, if there was an ambush at this time......

Lu Da's face changed suddenly, and he was about to take action, when he suddenly heard someone shouting behind the village!

"Kill the horse bandits! Protect my Northwest soldiers! ”

The four of them were stunned, and they all looked back at the village road behind them, and the horse bandits also looked over. After only a moment's work, the commotion behind him was like a tide, and then I saw more than 50 middle-aged men in the village rushing over with firewood knives, axes, hoes, nails, rakes and other things shouting slogans. The houses in the front yard close to Lu Da and the others heard the shouting, and they all opened the door, and several men also joined in with farm tools, and a group of people rushed from the back to the front, blocking the four of them behind!

The road in the village is narrow, and more than 50 people surrounded Lu Da, Lao Xiong, Zhang Tong and Duqing for several layers, and the four of them stood on the corpse mountain.

Stay to guard the village, because they are the Northwest Army, they have no more thoughts, and they don't think about anything in return. After a day and night of fighting, all four of them were injured, Lu Da was stabbed three times, Lao Xiong was also stabbed three times, and Twilight Qing and Zhang Tong were each stabbed twice, in addition to these knife wounds, the four of them had countless bumps and bruises. Bloody perseverance, waiting for reinforcements, never thought that the reinforcements had not arrived, and waited for the protection of the villagers.

This scar, this moment suddenly feels worthwhile! The blood flowing on his body seemed to be hot at this moment.

At this time, Han Qichu ran over from behind, and when he saw that the four of them were really together, his face became even heavier, and he came behind Lu Da and said in a low voice: "General Lu, this group of horse bandits is not quite right, I am afraid that there is an ambush!" There may be archers in the direction of Xia Yu Village! ”

During the day, the horse bandits always came to find someone to kill, but they didn't expect that the five people in the village could kill them many times, and each time they thought they could kill them, and each time they were defeated, and at night they finally wanted to change their strategy. Their men did not dare to rush over and kill, most likely because there were archers behind them, so they delayed far away in order not to be shot. Judging from the topography of the village, it will only take some time to surround from Xiayu Village.

Lu Dafang also felt that something was wrong, and when he heard what Han Qichu said, his face sank. He turned his head to look in the direction of Yu Village, the night was dark, the village house blocked his vision, and the shouts of the villagers made him unable to hear whether there was anyone in the direction there, so he couldn't judge how far the horse bandits' archers were from here, so he had to race against time, and immediately said: "Everyone be quiet!" Lao Tzu is the deputy general of the Northwest Army, Lu Da, the horse bandit is strong, since you are willing to follow Lao Tzu to kill the horse bandits, you will listen to Lao Tzu's military orders as soon as you are ready! Lao Tzu now orders you to go to the nearest courtyard, enter the house and close the door, and hide! Fast! ”

Lu Da didn't tell the villagers about the archers, if he said this at this time, the villagers would definitely be in chaos, and they would run around without listening to the command, and more people would die.

But he didn't know what to say, and the men in the village were all inexplicable, "General, we have all come out, why do you ask us to hide back again?" ”

"This is Lao Tzu's military order, do you listen to it? If you don't listen, don't follow Lao Tzu to kill bandits! Lu shouted angrily.

The face of the horse bandit in front of him changed, and he stared at Lu Da in horror - is he? No wonder!

When the hundreds of people behind him heard the name of Lu Da, they all showed frightened looks, and the person who was the leader anxiously glanced at the direction of Xia Yu Village, did the people come too slowly? Why hasn't it arrived yet!

Such a rare opportunity to bring Lu Da and a few people together, the man immediately said: "Can you go?" Sue sù you, Lao Tzu's archers will be here soon! You're all going to be shot into a hornet's nest tonight! ”

"Tsk!" Rudden was annoyed.

Sure enough, when the villagers heard this, they immediately calmed down, and their blood was poured with cold water on their heads, and they quickly panicked.

Relying on a little bit of blood, it is one thing to help the Northwest Army kill horse bandits, and it is another thing to be surrounded and killed by archers. Killing horse bandits, they can do their part, and when they meet archers, they only have the fate of being slaughtered.

Actually, no one is really afraid of death.

"Come in and hide! Fast! Lu Da immediately ordered again.

This time, the villagers obeyed, and Yiluda's words poured into the nearest courtyards.

The horse bandit led by the leader looked anxiously at Xiayu Village, and when he saw that there was no movement, he shouted to the people behind him, "Think beautiful!" Brothers, they are all injured, they can't last long, let's kill Lao Tzu first! ”

That being said, but if they surrounded it, if the archers came, how could they guarantee that they would not be killed by mistake?

The horse bandits were a little hesitant, and when the villagers heard this, they rushed to the courtyard more urgently, and Lu Da took the four of them to block the front, in case the horse bandits suddenly killed and injured the villagers.

It was this chaotic moment of hesitation, evasion, and precaution that there was a whistling sound in the night wind!

The heavy arrows are as urgent as the wind and waves, and there is a roar under the moon!

Lu Dawu's heart was stunned, and he looked up!

I saw an arrow by the moon, with the power of a thousand jun, breaking the gale in the northwest, shattering the moonlight, and coming over the head!

The horse bandits were all happy, and the leader looked up and smiled, "Our people are ......."

Burst!

Before the words fell, the blood flowers exploded in the night, the horse bandit's neck was still up, and the throat was shot through a blood hole, black and filled with wind, and the string of horse bandits behind them all leaned back, their faces opened a hole, and the blood flowers exploded like flying stars, and the wind brought out by the arrow swept down more than 100 horse bandits!

No one counted how many people had been killed by the arrow, and the bandits who had fallen to the ground all looked up and stared blankly ahead.

The five of Lu Da turned around!

The war horse raised its hooves and neighed, alone in the moonlight, red robe and silver armor, black hair and snow crown, holding the Xuantian bow of the divine arm, eyebrows like a galaxy, and a body of moonlight, like the god of war descending from the sky!

The man rode the horse, the horse did not fall, the three arrows in his hand had been fired, galloping through the air, swallowing thousands of miles everywhere, the universe was broken, the people were silent, and the blood was like splashing.

More than 100 horse bandits fell to the ground, the rumbling of horse hooves behind the man shook like rolling thunder, the war horses, military uniforms, and the road jumped over the village wall, standing behind the man, the military appearance was neat, the armor reflected the cold moonlight, and the majestic and heroic spirit shook the village.

Northwest Army, fine cavalry!

Lu Da and Lao Xiong showed ecstasy on their faces, looked at the man who was sitting on the divine horse like a god of war, and shouted together: "General?!" ”

General!

Come, Commander of the Northwest Army!

Yuan Xiu!