Chapter 4: The First Battle (Part II)

Liu Xia led the team to wait quietly on the side of the courtyard, the rain had stopped at this time, but the stream formed by the flow of water on the ground was still flowing slowly, and there was still blood red in it......

The Manchu Tartars standing guard outside the door were changed once, at this time the sky was already dark, there was no light in the night sky, the dark clouds covered the moon and stars tightly, the screams of the women in the room never stopped, and every time the sound made the soldiers like fire, very angry, if it were not for Liu Xia's order, they might have rushed in and killed these Tartars.

Liu Xia saw that the time was almost up, squinted at the Tartar at the door and sneered, "Everyone is ready for battle, bring me a bow." After Liu Xia finished speaking, a soldier handed the bow and arrow in his hand to Liu Xia, Liu Xia looked at the tartar standing guard, and his heart was also angry, took the bow, and aimed at the tartar.

There is a light shining on the place where the Tartar is standing, although it is not very bright, and even a little dim, but Liu Xia and others are enough to see people clearly, which gives Liu Xia a good opportunity to start, Liu Xia took the bow in his hand, and then pulled out an arrow with one hand, aimed at the throat of the Tartar, and then shot with a "whoosh", and accurately shot the Tartar's neck, which was originally picking at the jewelry he had robbed, fell slowly under Liu Xia's bow and arrow, without shouting a little sound, only to see his eyes wide, may not believe it at all, Someone actually killed himself, they said that they came to stand guard, but in fact, no one took it seriously, in their opinion, the people in this city have been frightened, where is there anyone who can resist with them.

"General, it's so powerful, one arrow hit the vital point, and the Tartar died without even reacting"

"Of course, that's a general, of course it's powerful."

"If only I had such great archery"

"It's just you, I don't look at you like that, I can only play with a big knife"

"I'll only play with a big knife, how can I drop, you still can't"

Liu Xia, as a family of generals, is naturally quite good at this bow and arrow, plus Liu Xia often fights with his father, and he has a lot of practical experience in his kung fu, Liu Xia has a high attainment in weapons such as swords, guns, swords, and bows.

"Brothers, pay attention, lift your spirits, now we can't make the slightest mistake, okay, let's go" Liu Xia returned the bow and arrow to the archer, and then said to the soldiers. After listening to Liu Xia's words, these soldiers stopped shouting and cheered up, because they knew that they could not be the slightest slack at this time, otherwise their lives might be gone.

Liu Xia led two squadrons of thirty people and walked towards the gate of the courtyard, although the Tartar who was standing guard at the door was killed by Liu Xia with an arrow, but because he did not shout when he died, he did not alert the Tartars in the house, they did not know that the danger was coming, the door of the courtyard was only a faint light, and the door of the house was half-hidden, so the Tartars who entered the house from this door would not know.

But the main thing is that these Tartars are too arrogant and arrogant, and they take themselves too seriously, thinking that no one dares to provoke them, even if they don't stand guard, they are still comfortable and do what they should do. It is precisely because of their arrogance that Liu Xia was given such a good opportunity.

They crept into the courtyard, there was no light, no one, but under the light of the house, they could still faintly see the road. From the window of the room, from the outside, you can see the image of the person inside, the man's lewd laughter, rude movements, and the woman's constant twisting and resisting appearance under her.

Liu Xia walked to the window of the room, then poked open a small opening, observed the situation inside, and saw that there were fourteen big men inside, among which five Tartars were holding five beautiful Han women in bed to fight, and the remaining nine big men formed a large table, on which there was a lot of wine and meat. At this time, they were drinking, and each of them was holding two snatched women in their arms.

On the right side of the room is a kitchen, at this time there are six Han women cooking in the kitchen, and four or five Han men are boiling pots with their heads down, without a bit of vindictiveness.

The kitchen was full of all kinds of meat that the Tartars snatched from everywhere, chickens, ducks and fish, as well as some precious medicinal materials, Liu Xia and others drooled when they saw it, Liu Xia understood the situation in the house, retreated, and then said to everyone carefully: "Now there are fourteen enemies in the house, all of them are not alert, we can now attack them unprepared, kill them all, at this time there are a lot of delicacies in the house, wait for us to win, everyone, let go of the food!" After Liu Xia said this, everyone felt that their stomachs were hungry, and they swallowed their saliva one by one, and their eyes looked at the room more gloomy, and there was more wolfishness.

Then Liu Xia began to deploy troops, after the investigation just now, Liu Xia felt that the way he just deployed was a little inadequate, now the Tartars and the Han people in the house are gathered together, if the arrows are likely not to hurt the Tartars, but let these Tartars have a vigilance, and there are very few archers with bows and arrows, only four, these are not much of a threat at all.

Liu Xia recalled some of the situation in his mind, and found that the Tartars in the house were all naked, and the weapons and armor were not around at all, and it was just the time for a sneak attack.

"Now change the combat policy, the archers are waiting outside to prevent the Tartars from escaping and escaping, at this time, these Tartars must not be allowed to escape, they must be killed, and Liu Xia is not worried that their screams will attract more Tartars, because at this time in the night sky, there are still screams from one place to another from time to time.

In addition to the four archers, the other six archers were also holding big knives, and followed Liu Xia and the others to rush into the house. There are two areas in the house, one is the west, there are five big men in it, and the hall in the middle, there are nine big men in it, at this time Liu Xia has twenty-six soldiers in his hands, ten of them go to the west room, and then Liu Xia takes another sixteen people plus himself A total of seventeen people to kill those nine people, when these Tartars are drunk and have no weapons, if they can't be defeated, Liu Xia doesn't say anything, and directly cuts himself.

After the deployment, a group of twenty-seven people, marching towards the house, Liu Xia pushed them away, these Tartars didn't know what the situation was, when they were trapped, they went up directly and cut down one, and then ten people rushed into the West House under the leadership of Wang Shishi, and the West House also remembered the woman's screams and the roar of those Tartars.

Liu Dazhuang brought people up to kill these Tartars, and at this time, the Tartars and those Han women all reacted, and the Tartars were furious, they didn't expect that there were still Han people who dared to kill them.

The Han woman screamed in fright and ran around, Liu Xia and the others didn't care about the Han woman, everyone picked up the knife and slashed at the Tartar, one of them seemed to be the most powerful Tartar of the leader, realized the danger, and was the first to react, and when the knife did not cut on themselves, they overturned the table, and everyone hurriedly retreated.

However, at this time, all the other Tartars were already dead, and several screams were heard in the Westhouse at this time. When Liu Xia and the others were hiding from the big table, the Tartar didn't care about getting dressed, and hurriedly ran outside, the Tartar just ran out, thinking that he had escaped, but he didn't expect that the four archers who were outside at this time to prevent the Tartar from escaping, saw the Tartar escape, so he hurriedly shot at the Tartar, and the four arrows were immediately inserted into the Tartar, and the Tartar fell in unwillingness.

At this time, all the Tartars had been killed, Liu Xia ordered people to sort out the corpses of these Tartars, and pull off the weapons and leather armor, those Han women and men were also gathered by Liu Xia, only to see them trembling and looking at Liu Xia and others, they didn't know who these people were, at this time they were already very afraid of everything in their hearts.

Liu Xia said: "Don't be afraid, we are the Ming army, we will not hurt you, you don't have to be oppressed by those Tartars now, now you can find a safe place to hide, after you hide for a few days, find a chance to escape from the city, at this time the city wall of Yangzhou City, full of broken holes, want to get out, it is also very easy."

These people looked at Liu Xia and the others blankly, they didn't make any moves, they might not dare to believe it, even if they did, they didn't expect these Ming troops to do anything.

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After Liu Xia occupied this courtyard, he immediately ordered people to go to the kitchen to cook the meat, and then ate it, they had not eaten a good meal for several days, and they were all hungry, and now they had to eat and drink enough, and prepare for a more severe battle.

This time, a total of fifteen good knives, fifteen bows, and a number of arrows were harvested, and now there was no shortage of bows and arrows in Liu Xia's team, these bows were much better than the bows held by his subordinates, Liu Xia immediately asked them to equip, plus the previous four, now there are a total of nineteen bows, and the soldiers who can shoot arrows in the team are basically equipped.

Then Liu Xia divided the best knives of the tartars, and now their knives are all damaged and several of them are unusable.

This Tartar's knife is just right.

Liu Xia took all the gold, silver, jewelry, and property that the fifteen Tartars had robbed, after all, it would be useful in the future, and if there was no property, many things could not be done, and he would have pulled up a big team in the future. Liu Xia would not make the same mistake as the Tartar, and immediately ordered the four soldiers to guard the gate, and let them wear the clothes of the Tartar, although they were unwilling, but they knew Liu Xia's thoughts, for the sake of everyone's lives, these four people finally put on the clothes of the Tartar.

The night was getting deeper, the screams were gradually gone, and everything was rare and calm.

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