Chapter 45: The Hundred-legged Worm Dies, But Doesn't Stiffen

"Catch him! Kill me! ”

The sound of killing in the wild north of Ansan Town was loud, and Chen Ziping fled for his life in the dark night, like a lost dog, extremely embarrassed.

Behind Chen Ziping, there are more than a dozen young men of the Liu family, who are chasing after each other, eager to devour Chen Ziping alive.

"Hell! As soon as I mixed it up, I ran into these miscellaneous pieces, which was really a blood mold! ”

Chen Ziping was exhausted at this time, but there was still no pause under his feet, and he was still running forward.

"I hope those five brothers can rush back safely, otherwise the eldest brother will suffer a big loss!"

Thinking in his heart, Chen Ziping ran hard, and rushed into the dark night with a few dodges.

And more than a dozen young men of the Liu family followed closely behind, like a group of fierce dogs tracking their prey, and they also rushed into the dark night.

Northeast of Ansan Lake, the Yushan Guards camped.

Before nightfall, in order to ensure the safety of the camp, Liu Juntao deliberately asked Zhang Xiaojun to arrange enough open posts and secret posts, and spread the cordon to hundreds of steps around the camp.

At this time, the night is dark and the summer breeze is pleasant.

The whole camp has become silent, except for the guards who are on guard, most of the young men have already fallen asleep, everyone is gathered in a group to sleep, and the whole camp is in order.

Moreover, Gao Ran also led his young men to hurry up and build simple camp fortifications.

They dug two half-man-deep trenches around the camp, and collected a lot of timber to make simple horses, all of which were arranged in the middle of the two trenches, forming three simple lines of defense inside and outside.

Liu Juntao was lying in the middle of the camp, unexpectedly sleepless at this time, constantly thinking about how the next battle would go.

"If the strength of the Liu family is too bad, then there is no need to see blood, whether it is to force the Liu family to sign an alliance under the city, or to directly annex the Liu family, you can act at the opportunity."

"If the strength of the Liu family is still the same, then you have to be cautious, after all, the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and you must not let the escort team lose too much, now don't look at the escort team has more than a thousand horses, but the foundation is too shallow, a big defeat can destroy the escort team!"

Then, Liu Juntao kept thinking about various possible situations in his mind, as well as the strategies that he had the opportunity to implement, and gradually couldn't help but feel tired and fell asleep.

In the wee hours of the morning.

"Who? What people! ”

A loud shout sounded, Liu Juntao suddenly woke up, and suddenly got up and picked up the long knife beside him.

At this time, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran next to him also got up on guard, and the two of them also whispered to urge their subordinates to wake up the surrounding youths.

Seeing this, Liu Juntao took twelve guards to the south of the camp, yes

The vigilant young man asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"Mr. Qi Lian, there was movement over there just now, it seems that there are people!"

Because Liu Juntao has never had any official title before, Zhang Xiaojun and Yan Hu and others can still call Liu Juntao the eldest brother, but the rest of the young people can't be called that, so that everyone in the escort team calls Liu Juntao or something, which is very messy.

So before leaving, Liu Juntao set a name for himself as "Lian Zong" after the name of the militia group, and asked everyone in the escort team to change their names to call themselves Lian Zong.

At this time, Liu Juntao stared closely at the night in the distance, and suddenly saw a black shadow rushing out of the dense forest in the distance and running towards the escort camp.

However, Liu Juntao observed that the black shadow running over was swaying, as if he had drunk too much.

"Let's take a look at the past few people!"

Liu Juntao gave an order, and three of the guards around him rushed out and ran towards the black shadow.

"Mr. Lian! It's our brother, the brother who followed Mr. Chen to Ansan Town! ”

The three guards carried the young man back to the camp, and Liu Juntao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong!" What about Chen Ziping and the others? ”

"Mr. Lian! We found that hundreds of people from the Liu family were coming to the north, so we split up and went out of the city, wanting to come back to report the news. I met the Liu family on the way, and finally escaped back, and Chen Jiang and the rest of the brothers didn't know where they were. ”

Liu Juntao's scalp was numb when he heard this, and he immediately shouted: "Formation!" Formation! ”

Before the words fell, the young men who were scattered around the camp and were in charge of guarding ran back one after another.

Immediately afterwards, in the night around the camp, there was a continuous sound of breaking the sky, and sharp arrows were shot from all directions, and more than a dozen people were shot down in an instant!

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaojun immediately protected Liu Juntao, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Formation!" Sword and shield hand protection! ”

Gao Ran also shouted: "Raise your shield!" Raise your shield! ”

For a moment, the entire escort camp was boiling, and more than a thousand young men ran around with sharp arrows shot from all directions, quickly forming a formation in the camp.

Although everyone was frightened in the face of the sudden attack, the results of the strict training in the past were revealed, and the more than 1,000 guards were not panicked, and did not run in all directions and scatter, but formed three huge phalanxes in a very short time.

Hundreds of sword and shield bearers raised their shields one after another, protecting themselves and their companions behind them.

Liu Juntao, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran also hid in the phalanx, Zhang Xiaojun was on the left, Gao Ran was on the right, and Liu Juntao was in the center, and the three of them each entered a phalanx.

"Ahh

"Whoosh!"

The sharp arrows were still raging, and although all the guards were protected by swords and shields, there were still young men who fell to the ground with arrows, and many wounded fell to the ground wailing.

Liu Juntao was already furious at this time, staring at the outside with his eyes, eager to rush over and kill for a while.

But Liu Juntao still held back, knowing in his heart that there must be an ambush of the Liu family outside at this time, and now he leads the crowd to rush out, and he can only suffer a greater loss!

Suddenly, the archers around him stopped firing, and there was no more sound of arrows breaking through the air in the whole camp, only the wails of the wounded in the convoy.

"Protect all the brothers in your hands in the middle of the phalanx and prepare to fight!"

Liu Juntao roared and immediately pulled out his long knife.

Immediately afterwards, countless shouts of killing sounded around the camp, and young men in Liu's clothes rushed out of the night.

I saw that these young men of the Liu family crossed the first trench one after another, and then a group of several people used the blades in their hands to destroy the hastily made rejection horses. After a while, hundreds of young men of the Liu family broke through the three lines of defense of the Yushan Collective Guards and rushed into the camp.

"Fight! Kill! ”

Liu Juntao roared, and then commanded the phalanx in the middle to move forward, and at the same time, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran also led the young men of their headquarters to block the left and right sides of the camp.

"Raise your gun!"

"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”

Liu Juntao roared angrily, and hundreds of spearmen in the entire phalanx raised their spears flatly, and suddenly more than a dozen young men of the Liu family dodged and collided with them, and immediately strung on the spears like a forest, and they were angry on the spot.

"Forward!"

The phalanx composed of three hundred and dozens of young people moved forward with firm steps, and the fear that was suppressed by the rain of arrows had disappeared, and at this time, all the young people only had hatred in their hearts, and they moved forward bravely under the leadership of Liu Juntao.

"Kill them all!"

"Avenge your brothers!"

Liu Juntao led a total of young people to move forward, and only one charge defeated more than 100 young people of the Liu family in front of him.

At the same time, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran also led their young men to defeat the enemy in front of them with a single charge.

Moreover, depending on the situation, the number of young people of the Liu family who came to attack at night was only a few hundred, far less than the strength of the Yushan Guard.

Liu Juntao couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw this, he didn't expect the Liu family's night attack to be so anticlimactic, could it be that the Liu family had something to do?

Before he had time to think about it, Liu Juntao shouted loudly: "Defeat the enemy!" Catch it alive! ”

When Zhang Xiaojun heard this, he immediately shouted loudly: "Surrender and avoid death!" ”

In an instant, Zhang Xiaojun and more than 300 young men shouted loudly, and then almost all the young men of the Yushan Guards were shouting "Surrender and don't kill"!

The hundreds of young men of the Liu family had already suffered a lot of casualties at this time, some of them fled quickly, rushed directly into the night and disappeared in a blink of an eye, and the remaining more than 200 young men were blocked in the camp and could not advance or retreat.

At this time, these young men of the Liu family heard that they could live, and they surrendered without the slightest hesitation.

Looking at the messy camp, Liu Juntao breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhang Xiaojun: "Bring the sword and shield hand, go outside to see the situation, those archers can catch them alive!" ”

Zhang Xiaojun nodded, and then dispersed with more than 100 sword and shield men under his command.

Liu Juntao then asked Gao Ran to lead people to treat the wounded, and gathered more than 200 prisoners in the center of the camp to watch them.

Soon, the eastern sky showed light, and Zhang Xiaojun came back one after another, but did not catch the archers of the Liu family, and it is estimated that when the two sides were in close combat, these archers had already fled.

At this time, Gao Ran also counted the casualties in the fierce battle last night, and the Yushan Guards lost nineteen people in this battle, and there were twenty-four wounded!

The vast majority of these casualties were caused by the Liu family archers!

And the results of this battle are not small, the escort team Qingzhuang killed a total of 83 people of the Liu family, captured 242 people, and the rest of the Liu family Qingzhuang all fled, the number is estimated to be 100 people.

"Big brother, what should we do now?"

Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran were both asking.

Liu Juntao did not answer, but first went to look at the twenty-four injured young men.

Seeing that these young men were not too heavy, Liu Juntao said: "Leave thirty brothers here to take care of the wounded and take care of the prisoners." ”

Gao Ran nodded and went to make arrangements, while Zhang Xiaojun asked again: "Big brother, shall we leave for the south now?" ”

Liu Juntao pondered for a while, but said: "This is the territory of the Liu family, and our whereabouts must have been exposed in advance, so Liu Zi'an wants to defeat us by sneak attack!" ”

After speaking, Liu Juntao sneered and said: "However, last night's fierce battle was beyond my expectations, I didn't expect hundreds of Liu family horses to be so easy to fight, except for those archers who are still a little threatening, the rest of the people and horses are a rabble!" ”

Zhang Xiaojun also said: "Indeed, this is a little strange! ”

"I guess, it must be that Liu Zi'an learned the news of our southward movement and understood that he was powerless to return to the sky after the defeat, so he sent people to carry out a sneak attack and wanted to turn the tables! Moreover, it is very likely that these Liu family horses that attacked yesterday are all the horses that Liu Zi'an can mobilize! ”

"Big brother is saying that Ansan Town is an empty city now!"

Liu Juntao smiled and said, "It's possible!" So, let's go south to Ansan Town immediately! ”