Along the way, I only saw roadside stalls busy packing up things, and from time to time someone screamed and scurried all over the street, but I didn't see a single bandit.

When I arrived at the West Gate, I found that a skirmish had broken out, but the number of people was not very large, and the number of people on both sides combined was about four or five hundred.

Lin Feng sat on horseback and saw Zhao Xingjie wearing an official robe and holding a long sword, directing his subordinates to attack from time to time. The scene was chaotic like a peasant riot, and some of the officials did not know where to find a hoe to go into battle without the killing stick in their hands. And the dress of a group of people is even more bizarre, the bandits' clothing is not uniform, and now the armor of the soldiers guarding the city is added, and the costumes of different colors of each yamen are all kinds of clothing and armor on the scene.

Looking at the officials who occasionally ran from behind or on both sides to reinforce them, Lin Feng casually pulled out the saber on his war horse, turned over and dismounted, and rushed into the crowd quickly.

In terms of the battle situation in the whole scene, it is actually Zhao Xingjie who has an advantage in this aspect, and the equipment of the hundred soldiers defending the city is not comparable to those bandits. It's just that the number of bandits is too large, and they are all murderous masters without blinking, and now that it is basically a four-to-one numerical advantage, it is only a matter of time before Zhao Xingjie is defeated here.

Lin Feng slashed at the back of a thief with his left hand, and then bent down, and the fish intestine sword in his right hand slashed at the calf muscles of the other two, and at the same time, the three of them lost their combat effectiveness.

After Lin Feng kicked down five or six people, he walked to Zhao Xingjie's side and shouted at him, "Brother-in-law! It's not a thing to go on like this! We have too few people! ”

"Huh? But it can't be helped! South! Withstand the onslaught from the south! Zhao Xingjie replied to Lin Feng's words while brandishing his long sword to direct the defense of his subordinates.

Lin Feng watched one person after another fall, and frowned, although the equipment and skills of the soldiers defending the city were keeping up, but this was simply a defense without a formation, the most important thing was that defense meant defending to the death, as long as it was attacked by the wheels of the opponent's bandits, all the death was the only outcome in the end!

"Brother-in-law! It can't go on like this! The best defense is offense! We can't just stick to it like that! After Lin Feng threw the saber he had brought from his war horse at a bandit, he turned his head and shouted at Zhao Xingjie.

"Then what do you say! I know what you said! But how do we attack now! After Zhao Xingjie glanced at the battle situation, he asked Lin Feng rhetorically.

"In this way, brother-in-law, let's withdraw! Leave the whole West City to them! Let's go back and sort out the personnel, reorganize the formation, and break them with cavalry! ”

"No! If we retreat, it is equivalent to giving up the people of Xicheng! Absolutely not! Zhao Xingjie shook his head and resolutely denied.

"Brother-in-law! If you don't give up on the people of the West City now, we will all die in half an hour, and the people of the whole city will suffer! If we move quickly, they won't be able to occupy Xicheng at all, and we will be able to successfully counterattack! Listen to me! This is the only possible successful decision we can make right now! ”

Zhao Xingjie looked at the battlefield of the fight blankly, and after a while, he gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and shouted with a wave of his hand: "Withdraw!" Withdraw to the center of the city! Give up the West Side! ”

As soon as Zhao Xingjie's order was shouted, a large number of officials began to throw away the weapons in their hands and began to flee backwards, some of them ran to wherever they went, and some of them escaped into a dead end, and were finally killed by the bandits.

"Kaede! This is a big retreat! You see, now, I can't even see anyone, I don't know where to run! Zhao Xingjie retreated, looking at the people around him and said to Lin Feng.

"Don't worry, brother-in-law! Even if the counterattack is not successful, we can still get out of the city! If it was the situation just now, we would have been holding on to it, and in the end there was only one possibility, that is, to be surrounded by Qi San's people, and then killed! Lin Feng glanced at the thirty or so people who followed around, and sighed secretly in his heart, he didn't expect this kind of army to run away as soon as he retreated, Lin Feng's understanding was to retreat for a while, and then look for a more suitable time to attack to counterattack and win.

A group of people ran to the center of the city without stopping, Lin Feng looked back, and did not find the chasing soldiers of the bandits, but many houses had already been on fire.

"Brother-in-law, it's okay, when I went just now, I already found that most of the people in Xicheng have been evacuated, even in this situation, the loss has been minimized!" Lin Feng looked at Zhao Xingjie, who was staring at Xicheng in a daze, and comforted him.

"Hey! What now? Zhao Xingjie looked at the circle of people around him, among whom there were many wounded soldiers.

Lin Feng also looked back, and then asked at them, "Brothers, do you have any relatives living in Xicheng?" ”

"Yes, my brother-in-law's family lives in Xicheng, and I didn't have time to see if they were still there just now!" A soldier who had received two stabs in his left arm looked at Lin Feng and replied.

Lin Feng saw that there were several other people who also wanted to speak, so he stretched out his hand and waved, stopping them and saying, "Okay, you don't have to say it!" I know it, even if you don't have close relatives living in Xicheng, then there should be some distant relatives, friends or something, right? Now the bandits are burning and looting in Xicheng, what do you say we should be soldiers! As he spoke, Lin Feng's voice became louder, and the last sentence was already shouted.

"Kill back!" "Kill them all!" "Drive them out of the city!" A group of people shouted with their weapons in indignation, and several of them had already moved, carrying their weapons and about to walk towards Xicheng.

"Wait! A few and more! Lin Feng hurriedly stopped them, then raised his hand behind them, signaling them to retreat before saying: "Listen to me, now the enemy is outnumbered, although we are retreating now, but it is not a failure, but a strategy I discussed with Lord Zhao, now we have let Xicheng out, the bandits have been divided into small units to burn and loot in various places, and if we gather into a relatively large number of troops now and break them all, then it will not be difficult for us to win!" ”

"You said it simply, if you run into a large army of bandits, wouldn't it be a sheep in the mouth of a tiger!" A person who looked like a representative of the negative faction questioned Lin Feng.

Lin Feng smiled slightly after hearing this, stretched out his finger and pointed in the direction of Xicheng and explained: "Now the bandits have been looting property everywhere, and they are not even riding horses now, they are all holding a bunch of property, not even weapons!" Then Lin Feng gestured to the surrounding circle of people and said, "There are thirty or forty of us present, if we face two hundred bandits without weapons and horses, do you think we will lose?" Besides, the current bandits are estimated to have been divided into small teams of several people to rob! ”