Chapter 31: The Scarlet Night (2)
"Your Highness, what now?"
Seeing the chaotic situation in front of him, Li Hong hurriedly asked Li Ye for advice.
At this time, Chengdu Street is completely different from half an hour ago. Half an hour ago, Chengdu had a strong festive atmosphere, and the streets were very lively; Now Chengdu, especially in the west and north of the city, although it is also very lively, but this excitement is not liked.
Originally, it was the Shangyuan Festival, but suddenly a large number of troops began to loot shops and slaughter tourists. The former bustle is gone, replaced by chaos and panic, full of panicked tourists and the indiscriminate soldiers who occasionally rush into the shops along the streets.
Seeing this kind of scene, Li Ye was also a little puzzled, how could there be a chaotic army?
"Quickly move closer to the carriage position, and then go back to the palace and gather your own soldiers."
Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Ye immediately made a decision. Although there are more than a dozen pro-soldiers around him, there are also nearly ten ordinary people who are powerless, and because they are traveling and playing, these pro-soldiers only bring easy-to-carry obstacle knives to defend themselves, who would have thought that there would be a mutiny of the troops on the Yuan Festival, and there would be no sign at all.
At this time, Li Ye can only find a way to find a safe place, there is no doubt that going back to the palace is the best way, there are more than 200 personal soldiers in the palace, not to mention others, but the defense is still possible, it is much better than being on this street.
"Yes!"
Li Ye, Princess Anhua and others were protected by a group of personal soldiers to break through in the direction of the carriage and join the personal soldiers there. However, Li Ye and his group of more than 20 people, although the street was very chaotic, but their group of people still had a big goal, and soon a group of rebels who snatched a lot of property from the store targeted this group of 'big fish', and rushed over with knives and guns.
Just as Princess Anhua and Princess Changning and others screamed, Li Hong, Liu Kui and others rushed out with most of their own soldiers roaring. Although the barrier knife was at a loss in the battle at this time, Li Hong and Liu Kui were like two fierce tigers, quickly killing the two rebels at the front, provoking the horizontal knives and spears on the ground.
Although the two have known each other for a short time, they have a very tacit understanding, and with mutual cooperation, the two stabbed left and right, like killing the gods, and in an instant, seven or eight rebels fell. Other pro-soldiers also picked up the knives and guns in the fallen rebels, and also joined the battle group, cooperating with Li Hong and the others, who rushed left and right, and quickly killed more than a dozen rebels.
The remaining rebels, seeing that the group of people in front of them were extremely brave and unstoppable, immediately screamed in fright, and then turned around and ran.
Seeing the fleeing rebels, Li Ye picked up a horizontal knife. Although Li Ye will also make a horse lance, but the horse lance is a precious thing, generally matched with the cavalry, the chaotic soldiers in front of him are obviously the yellow-headed army, there are not many cavalry, naturally there is no horse lance. And for Li Ye, the horizontal knife is more convenient.
"Zhang Wei, hold this knife and hold it steady!"
Li Ye picked up an ordinary barrier knife and handed it to Zhang Wei, the other party was a man, and among these eunuchs, not all of them were powerless, and that weapon was also good for self-defense. Zhang Wei's face turned pale when he saw the blood-stained barrier knife in his hand, but under Li Ye's gaze, he still took the barrier knife, and then plucked up the courage to look around.
"Your Highness, you can walk from here, the restaurant over there has a back door that leads directly to the place where the carriage is parked."
Li Ye looked up and found fierce shouts of killing coming from the street in the distance, thinking that it should be a battle between the rebels and the rebel army. Looking at this situation, they don't want to go there, haven't they seen so many panicked civilians fleeing from there? But that street happened to be a necessary road, just in front of Li Ye and his party.
Fortunately, there are locals in Li Ye's personal soldiers who are familiar with the terrain here. Li Ye did not hesitate, and immediately rushed towards the restaurant on the right with a group of people. Under the guidance of the soldiers who were familiar with the terrain, more than a dozen wounded soldiers escorted Li Ye and his party all the way, and the pedestrians hiding on both sides saw this group of people with knives, and fled in all directions screaming in fright.
However, the restaurant that the pro-soldier said, Li Ye was stunned, he didn't expect it to be Tianxiangju, he didn't expect to go around in such a big circle, and finally returned here.
However, Li Ye did not hesitate and stepped into the door of Tianxiangju again. The previously high-end, atmospheric, and high-grade Tianxiangju was in a mess at this time, with tables and benches scattered on the ground, and even people lying in pools of blood, no different from hell.
"Your Highness, go from this way!"
Just as the group entered the backyard, a scream came, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone.
As soon as the door to the backyard opened, the first thing that came into everyone's eyes was a group of soldiers with weapons, followed by a few familiar figures.
Those familiar figures are not others, among them is the woman in red from Tianxiangju before, the other party is still dressed in red, but now it doesn't feel amazing, because the red clothes are stained with blood, and the whole person does not have the same look as before, his face is like white paper, and he is trembling there.
There are also two figures that are also very familiar, it is Sun Mei and Liu Chenyan who are dressed as men. Sun Mei was similar to the woman in red, her face was pale, but Liu Chenyan was holding a horizontal knife in her hand, and there was still blood left on the horizontal knife. This is surprising, I didn't expect this weak girl to be able to pick up the horizontal knife used by people in the army, and it didn't look very difficult.
In addition to the three women, there were four men, and among them was a fat man. This fat man is dressed in brocade, although he is old, he is not very old, at most he is in his 20s, but at this time he is scared enough, not much better than Sun Mei and the woman in red. The remaining three men should be domestic servants, except for one who was seriously injured and fell to the ground, the remaining two did not have weapons in their hands, but wooden sticks, after all, the horizontal knife is a thing in the army, how can ordinary people have it, as for the handle in Liu Chenyan's hand, it was robbed.
The situation of these four men and three women is very bad, they should be more than these few people, Li Ye also saw several familiar figures lying in a pool of blood in the courtyard, including a steward of Tianxiangju, and the guy who deceived Princess Changning at the door of the store. However, most of these people fell to the ground, and their lives and deaths were unknown.
On the other side, there is a yellow handkerchief on his head, as if he is an officer and soldier of the yellow-headed army. It's just that these yellow-headed soldiers have a strip of cloth tied to their arms, judging from the previous situation, this should be a rebellious soldier, because the rebels who robbed and killed people before also had similar strips of cloth tied to their arms. The reason why it was determined that these people were rebellious soldiers was because Li Ye also found that these people had a lot of money on them, and there were a lot of money and goods scattered on the ground.
"This son, save us, He is willing to thank him with a lot of money!"
The appearance of Li Ye and his entourage made the two groups of people in the backyard can't help but look over, especially Sun Mei, Liu Chenyan and the woman in red.
He Dong hadn't seen Li Ye, but he saw that Li Ye had a lot of armed servants around him, which made him see the hope of living, but if he knew that he had made Li Ye sad in order not to offend Chen Hu before, would he have opened his mouth to ask for help.
Li Ye saw this situation, especially the familiar people among several people, although he had an unpleasant quarrel with the woman in red, but he was not so bad that he would not be saved. Thinking of this, Li Ye motioned to Li Hong and Liu Kui next to him and asked them to prepare to do it.
The reason why Li Ye decided to take care of this matter was mainly because there were not many chaotic soldiers in front of him, only 9 people, 3 of whom fell to the ground, and only 6 people stood up, and two of these 6 people were injured.
The 6 rebels didn't expect that there would be any extraneous branches, and if the number of people who came was small, they would leave each other behind, but seeing that there were more than a dozen murderous servants in this line of more than 20 people, they all cheered up and held the weapons in their hands tightly.
However, this group of rebels was also afraid of Li Ye and the others to make a move, and one of the lean men saw that Li Ye was the person in charge of this group of people, so he said from afar, "The Yellow Head Army is dealing with the traitor's comrades, don't meddle in your affairs, otherwise it will be a rebellion." ”
Fellow traitors? Hearing this, not only Li Ye was stunned, but Li Hong and others were also a little surprised, they really knew how to make excuses, and they also shouted to catch the thief.
However, although he knew that these people in front of him were rebellious soldiers, he had to stabilize them first, Li Hong put away the horizontal knife in his hand, stood up and said loudly, "We are just ordinary people who are hiding from the rebellious soldiers, and we don't want to meddle in things." ”
"That's the best!"
Hearing Li Hong's words, several people on Sun Mei's side couldn't help but be anxious, and she said loudly, "This son, don't believe their nonsense. They are the rebels, we are just ordinary merchants and tourists, but they rush in and rob the property, and kill people, and these unarmed people on the ground are the ones they kill. ”
The fat man also hurriedly said, "As long as this son rescues him today, a few of us are willing to give ten thousand gold... No, 100,000 gold thanks. ”
The ten thousand gold that this fat man said was naturally not 10,000 taels of gold, but 10,000 yuan. And 100,000 gold is 100,000 yuan. This fat man is not the person in charge, so naturally he can't come up with so much money, but his family has money, Sun Mei and Liu Chenyan are also the daughters of their respective families, and there is no problem for the three families to make up 100,000 yuan.
Hearing that these people in front of him were willing to take 100,000 gold to thank him, Li Ye couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, all the net worth of his prince didn't add up to so much money, and this fat man casually took out 100,000 gold.
Although Li Ye wanted to save people, he and the others were ten steps away from the fat man, in case these chaotic soldiers and dogs jumped off the wall in a hurry, the fat man was very likely to have an accident.
Thinking of this, Li Ye had a way, signaling Li Hong to retreat, he put away the horizontal knife in his hand, took a few steps forward with Li Hong and Liu Kui, and then said, "It turned out to be an official army." We are just borrowing the road, and we don't want to make extraneous branches, and I hope that a few officials will make it convenient. ”