Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 47 The Night of Fire (II)
"Shangguan Chen, this... The Luchuan soldiers attacked too fiercely, and we were crushed at once. Dongge was very embarrassed by Chen Ziyu's words, and defended hesitantly. He didn't understand what kind of official Chen Ziyu was, the "Prime Minister of the Ministry of Intelligence", but he only knew that in Jiang Yugang's Ming Army, he had a lot of power and a high position, so he called him "Shangguan".
"In such a situation, we can only retreat first, and then fight." Chen Ziyu sighed, commanded a small banner and said, "You send your men to disperse and lead the militia to retreat in an orderly manner." ”
"Yes!" Xiaoqi saluted, and then began to arrange tasks for his soldiers: "Zhang Long, go to the southern intersection to meet the militia retreat!" Li Hu, go to the street clearing in the east to meet the militia retreat! ”
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"Retreat? Shangguan, there is either fire or the Luchuan army in these four places, where to retreat? Dongge asked with a puzzled expression.
"Retreat underground." Chen Ziyu waved his hand, and the two intelligence officers took the lead in holding torches and jumped from the well on the edge of the clearing where everyone had gathered.
"Underground?" Dong Ge also ran over, only to see that there was a long secret passage below, and the torch in the hand of the intelligence officer illuminated the secret passage, and the fire at the other end of the secret passage could be faintly seen.
Jiang Yu coughed and said, "This secret passage was told to me by Aouma, I didn't want to use this secret passage to save my life, but now the situation is really critical, so I can only escape first." ”
"It's still too hasty, everyone has no chance to practice, and in a day's time, they just became familiar with some swords and soldiers and went into battle recklessly, and they are indeed not the opponents of the Luchuan Army." Donggo struggled to explain. There were hundreds of people in their village, but they were about to collapse at the touch of a button, which really made him feel that he couldn't raise his head in front of the Ming army.
If it weren't for these well-equipped, well-organized Ming troops who were in this position, he really didn't feel that he still had a life to spare. The number of Luchuan soldiers attacked this time was several times that of the previous battle in Nansangzhai, and as soon as the formation of several hundred people came up, many militiamen were already timid.
"It's useless to talk too much, get ready to retreat." Jiang Yuyan patted Ah Tian on the shoulder: "You retreat with the intelligence officer who led the way in front, and leave first." ”
"What about you?" For the first time, after receiving instructions that he could leave, Ah Tian hesitated to inquire about Jiang Yugang's safety.
Jiang Yuyan saw that this girl did not leave as soon as she did before, and she felt a little moved: "I'll leave last." ”
"That's... Then I'll stay too. Ah Tianzhi said.
"What are you staying?" Jiang Yu smiled helplessly and pushed her: "When you find Li Zongqi outside, don't participate in the battle after that, and wait to do the sorting of the loot." ”
Ah Tian still turned back step by step before leaving: "You must be careful." ”
"I'll be careful." Jiang Yu waved his hand: "Let's go quickly." ”
Chen Ziyu watched the interaction between Jiang Yugang and Ah Tian from the side, but he felt a little inexplicable. He naturally didn't know that Ah Tian was actually a woman, but he suspected that Baihu was so close to this Ah Tian, could it be that he had a habit of breaking his sleeves?
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In the end, there were actually only one Xiaoqi and ten people who stayed by Jiang Yugang's side, Chen Ziyu and An Bai. The rest of the Intelligence Department and ten men from another small banner were running to guide the militia into the secret passages.
The retreat of the militia is indeed a very important matter, and only by ensuring that the withdrawn militia still retains sufficient morale can they effectively exert their strength in the subsequent battles. Otherwise, it would be too difficult to rely on only a few dozen Ming troops to fight against the eight hundred Luchuan soldiers.
Jiang Yuyan led these dozen people against the flow of people to rush out of the street, these dozen people were all veterans he had carefully selected, who had experienced countless battles, and no one fell into a panic in the face of the monstrous fire.
And the Luchuan soldiers who rushed over on the opposite side couldn't say that they weren't panicked, almost everyone's faces were full of fear of Daor, their formation was completely chaotic, countless people scrambled to run from various intersections, and some people turned around and ran directly outside the cottage, of course, these people who tried to escape outside the cottage had a serious conflict with the leaders of the army.
The appearance of Jiang Yugang and his party completely blocked the path they tried to rush into the open space near the secret passage, and the chaotic knife without discipline attacked more than a dozen people on Jiang Yugang's side with a strong desire to survive.
On one side is a calm blockade, and on the other side is a charge for survival like a headless fly, more than a dozen people on Jiang Yugang's side are like harvesting wheat to harvest the Luchuan soldiers who rushed into this road, and they fought and retreated, constantly slowly retreating towards the secret passage.
After the Luchuan soldiers' front weakened, Jiang Yuyan simply took out a free hand, took out the basket in his arms, and blew out the fourth note.
This one tone, the convention means: prepare for the counter-encirclement.
In the process of retreating, Jiang Yuyan heard the sound of responses from all over the cottage in the shouts of more than a dozen soldiers on his side and the Luchuan soldiers who were constantly rushing in.
He looked behind him, and most of the militia had long since disappeared, thinking that they had withdrawn outside the secret passage, and the sound of the sound of the sound of the response also indicated that the army outside was ready to counter the encirclement. He also made a quick decision and shouted: "We will also withdraw." ”
Immediately, everyone put away their knives and began to run to the wells in the corners one by one, and then jumped down one after another, and the Luchuan soldiers chasing behind watched them jump into the wells one by one, and were dumbfounded, and then someone reacted and shouted: "There is something strange in the well!" ”
The Luchuan soldiers chased after them again, and after the first few people jumped down nervously, they found that there was a hole in it, and it was actually a wide secret passage! No wonder the people in the cottage disappeared one by one, it turned out that they all fled into the secret passage and left!
They chased after them in a panic, and could only see the back of Jiang Yugang, who was running last. chased to the end, until Jiang Yugang jumped out of the secret passage, and failed to catch Jiang Yuran. And the real nightmare happened at this time, Jiang Yugang, who went up, suddenly leaned down and smiled, and dropped a torch.
At this time, the Luchuan soldiers who rushed into the secret passage found that the secret passage was actually full of hay that had been moved from nowhere, and the torches immediately ignited the haystack, and thick smoke and fire immediately rose up, filling the entire secret passage.
Some people were so frightened that they fell to the ground when they saw the fire in the secret passage, while others rushed to the exit of the secret passage like crazy, trying to seize the last chance to survive.
It's just that Jiang Yuyan didn't leave them a chance. He didn't even swing his sword against them again, and they were greeted by boulders rolled down by the soldiers in charge of guarding the secret passage.
Huge boulders rolled down, knocking down the Luchuan soldiers who tried to rush up and blocking the exit of the secret passage. The last way for the Luchuan soldiers to leave Nansang Village was blocked.