Gu Dingtian was always restless this day, because the talisman he begged for in Beiwudang Mountain was gone.

He had killed too much, and the amulet had been kept in a small leather pouch and hung around his neck day and night.

But when I woke up this morning, the leather bag was gone.

Gu Dingtian turned the entire military camp upside down, and tortured everyone who had been close to his camp tent, but he didn't find the talisman.

He always had a vague feeling that something bad must have happened.

In the evening, when he saw several fast horses galloping from the north and entering Xue Dongting's camp, his face couldn't help but change greatly.

Something happened in the East Village.

Sure enough, Xue Dongting soon summoned several of them from Lan County to the camp to discuss matters, and when everyone arrived, the first thing Xue Dongting said was "The 10,000 army of the prince of the North Road has been defeated, and the Qin thieves have gone south from the area of the Xiaoliang River, and I am afraid that they have now arrived in the East Village." ”

Hearing the news, the faces of everyone present changed greatly, and the timid even sat on the ground and couldn't say a word.

"Please ask Lord Xue to return to the army to recover the East Village and eliminate the Qin thieves."

Gu Dingtian knelt down on one knee without hesitation and pleaded towards Xue Dongting.

Several other gentlemen came back to their senses, and they also knelt down one after another, begging Xue Dongting to return to Binglan County immediately to eliminate the Qin thieves.

Lan County is their old nest, and if they enter Lan County surnamed Qin, won't they want to be as ruined as the Lou Fu Meng family and the Jing You Du family?

Xue Dongting, who was sitting at the top, also had an ugly face, frowned and thought for a long time, and then said slowly, "Everyone, we are now suffering from enemies on both sides, and it is difficult to protect ourselves, and the matter of recovering the East Village may not work." ”

"Your Excellency." Gu Dingtian's face changed again, "The Qin thief's strength is only eight hundred, we can leave a force to continue to guard the Hongsha Ridge, stop the enemy army of the Wolf Head Ridge from going north, and then divide the troops back to the East Village, only three thousand soldiers and horses can recover and eliminate the Qin thief." ”

Xue Dongting rubbed his temples and said, "Ancient brother, although the Qin thieves have few soldiers, they are all elite soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles, and there are several fierce generals under his command who are enemies, and the most important thing is that he has more than a dozen artillery pieces, one of which is a Hongyi cannon is very powerful, even if we have the advantage of troops, I am afraid that we will not be able to get benefits." ”

"My lord, what if he has artillery? I waited for him to rush up, but he couldn't fire a few shots. ”

"He has more than a dozen artillery pieces, and one shot is enough for all the villagers who have been trained to flee in all directions."

"Your Excellency...... Otherwise, the adults only need to transfer 1,000 soldiers and horses to support Gu, Gu and the old men led the township to kill back, and at noon tomorrow, the head of the Qin thief will be brought to see the adult. ”

"This ......"

Xue Dongting pondered for a moment, and finally nodded, "Let's do it, this official will send a guerrilla General Mo to lead a thousand soldiers and horses, and return to Dongcun with you to eliminate the Qin thieves." ”

"Thank you, sir."

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Liu Youzhu had already learned the news of Qin Chuan's attack on Dongcun.

He also expected that Gu Dingtian and the others would inevitably return to the army to recover the East Village.

At the third watch of the night, Liu Youzhu's 1,000 Guan Emperor troops wrapped their horseshoes, carried the rafts tied in advance, and quietly pushed a few artillery pieces down the Wolf Head Ridge and forced towards the Longquan River.

Before reaching the shore, the whistle of the Ming army on the opposite bank sounded rapidly.

"Shoot and fire and force the river."

Liu Youzhu immediately made a decision, and took the lead in carrying a raft to the shore with several Guan Emperor troops and pushing it into the river.

Several cannons were immediately fixed on the shore, and tongues of fire erupted towards the opposite bank.

By the light of the fire, Liu Youzhu found that there were twice as many Ming sentinels on the other side as in the previous two nights, and there were three Ming sentinels a few zhang away.

They met no resistance, and the sentries were running to the west without their lives, and the sound of people neighing suddenly sounded on the originally dark red sand ridge, and then the dense torches were lit, and they moved in a chaotic way along the ridge of the mountain to the west.

Liu Youzhu suddenly realized that the Ming army was pulling out the camp in the dark and wanted to sneak away from the west.

Listening to the chaotic noises, and then looking at the number of torches, the Ming army on the Hongsha Ridge was less than half of the previous two days, at most only more than 2,000 people.

The remaining half should have gone north overnight to regain East Village.

"Hurry up, push the raft into the river, tie it tightly, and hurry across the river to chase and kill those bitches."

Li Dingliang was so anxious that he ran back and forth by the river, helping Emperor Guan's army push the raft in.

The Ming army is fleeing, he has to catch up and intercept the Ming army's baggage, there are at least a few hundred stones of grain, as well as mules, horses, carts, tents, etc., these are all strategic materials.

Then, he had to pursue the Xiangyong of Lan County, and attack the big boss from both sides, blocking Gu Dingtian and others on the edge of the Lan River, and killing them all.

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At the fifth watch, on the edge of the Lan River, an army was marching quickly along the Lan River by the light of the stars, quietly heading north.

There was no one in the procession to speak, only the sound of chaotic footsteps, the low neighing of the chewing horses, and the muffled snort of the hapless ghost who could not see the road clearly and fell to the ground during the night.

In the middle of the team, Feng Yilong firmly held Feng Shisanying's arm in his hand, lowered his head, and looked at the road without saying a word.

"Big brother, why don't we go to the front? Walking ahead, you can see the person surnamed Qin, I heard that those masters have already raised his head to two thousand taels of silver, if we slaughter the surname Qin, won't we be able to make a lot of silver? ”

Feng Shisanying on the side lowered his voice and said to the eldest brother who had been protecting him.

Feng Yilong turned his head, looked at his younger brother who was still immature under the starlight, and said in a solemn whisper, "Thirteen, listen well, when the fight starts for a while, if there is a sound behind you, you will follow your seventh brother and eleventh brother to the west, don't get separated, remember?" ”

Feng Shisanying was a little puzzled, "Big brother, are we going to run?" ”

"That's right, if we are attacked on both sides, we will immediately run to the mountain beam to the west and make a detour back to Chijian Ridge."

"However, there are only 800 people surnamed Qin, even if the group of people from Wolf Head Ridge chase after them, there will be less than 2,000 people together, and we have an army of 3,600."

"Thirteen, you remember, marching and fighting pay attention to a breath, no matter how many people there are, all brothers must have the same breath, just like people, the breath is stable, the breath is strong, you can move forward, the breath is chaotic, then it is not far from death."

"Although there are a lot of us, they are all crooked melons and cracked dates, they can't be twisted together, and they are not the same, Zhang Shijing of the Zhang family has long wanted to run back to the county seat to defend the city, because their Zhang family's family business is in the city, and the surname Qin can't rob their family."

"That guerrilla general also wanted to run away a long time ago, because Xue Dongting should have run to the west by this time, and the rest of the masters also wanted to run home a long time ago, and hid in the county town with their families and money and food."

"Three thousand six hundred people, only Gu Dingtian and those masters who are close to the East Village who really want to fight to the death, combined, I'm afraid it's less than one thousand and five, can such a battle still be fought?"

Feng Shisanying frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head, "If you can't fight, you have to lose if you fight." ”

"So, we have to think of a way out, once you are attacked on both sides, you will run with Brother Seven and Brother Eleven, remember?"

"Big brother, what about you?"

"Big brother will also go with you, just a little bit back."

"Big brother, I want to go with you."

"Don't mess around, or the eldest brother won't take you out next time."

"......"

As soon as Feng Shisanying spoke, there was a sudden loud "boom" in his ears, and he saw a scarlet tongue of fire erupting from a mountain beam in the north.

"The seventh, the eleventh, the thirteenth."

Feng Yilong pulled out his long knife and blocked in front of Feng Shisan.

The two men behind him also left and right, firmly protecting Feng Shisan in the middle.

Soon a series of loud noises rang out on the mountain beam, and the scarlet tongues of fire looked particularly strange in the night sky.

The Ming army and the Xiangyong Guardians were already in chaos, with exclamations and reprimands everywhere, as well as screams that resounded through the night sky, mixed with those tongues of fire, like eighteenth layers of purgatory.

Gu Dingtian, who took the lead, and an old man named Liu Dedao waved a horsewhip and desperately scolded them, so that the two nursing homes at the front barely calmed down, and then climbed the mountain beam to the west and killed along the mountain beam towards the place where the tongue of fire was sprayed in the north.

The guards of the other families and the 1,000 Ming troops of the guerrilla general followed them in a chaotic manner after half a ring, but no one dared to run too fast, only shouted and cheered behind.

Soon the mountain beam rang out again with a volley of guns, and then one of the largest cannons roared loudly, and countless tiny Martian pear blossoms rained down on the Gu Family Courtyard that rushed to the front.

The vast majority of the Gu family's courtyards were strong bandits under Gu Dingtian's command, and their combat power was much stronger than that of other families' courtyards, but now they were like cutting wheat, and they fell in large areas.

The Liu family's nursing home also died a lot, and the remaining ghosts ran back howling, causing chaos in the other nursing homes and the Ming army behind.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the south, followed by a burst of shouts of killing.

"Seventh, eleven, take thirteen first."

Feng Yilong pushed Feng Shisanying to the two men beside him.

The two men immediately took Feng Shisanying on their horses and led dozens of horsemen to climb the mountain beam in the west.

Feng Yilong quickly gathered the nearby Feng family brothers, and followed the other two hundred horsemen up the mountain beam.

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