"Brother Chen, wake up, wake up!" Li Qiu shook Li Xinchen anxiously.

Li Xinchen fell asleep in a daze, opened his eyes and yawned: "What's wrong?" ”

After last night's exhaustion, coupled with his preoccupation on sentry, Li Xinchen was actually exhausted for a long time, and after waking up Li Qiu, Li Xinchen leaned against the wall and fell asleep. By the time he regained consciousness, it was already dawn, and if it weren't for Li Qiu's hard awakening, I'm afraid he would have been able to sleep until dawn the next day.

"Someone, someone's coming!" Li Qiu said a little anxiously.

Hearing this, Li Xinchen also struck a stir, and hurriedly sat up: "Someone? Who, where, how many? Have you ever seen your face? ”

was smashed by Li Xinchen's cannon-like question, Li Qiu helplessly dragged Li Xinchen up: "I didn't see it clearly, but there are a lot of people, and it seems to be two groups of people, one group is running in front, one group is chasing behind, and the group of people in the back seems to have horses, what a big posture!" ”

"Got a horse? Mo is not a cavalryman? Li Xinchen frowned, "That's it, it's useless to think nonsense here, let's go, let's go and see where the sacredness is." ”

It doesn't seem that the village has been abandoned for a long time, and it is already near the official road, so it is reasonable for someone to come at this time. However, according to Li Qiu's description, these two groups of people don't seem to be easy to deal with, since there are horses, then nine times out of ten they are armies. It is impossible for bandits in the mountains to have horses, and even if they do, they are generally used to carry goods.

Since it is an army, if it is the Nanchen army they want to find, then thank God, if it is the army of the Northern Zhou Dynasty that comes on the contrary, then Li Xinchen can only consider himself unlucky, hoping that the two of them are hiding here and will not be discovered.

Without waiting for Li Xinchen and Li Qiu to go out, the grass kept shaking, and the wild dogs that had threatened them at night were flying between the grasses, and there was no longer the queue of last night, and these people who were obviously rushing over made the wild dogs feel scared.

"These beasts, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, are really first-class." Li Xinchen couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

And Li Qiu looked at Li Xinchen with a wry smile: "Brother Chen, are you still in the mood to care about these damn wild dogs at this time?" If it weren't for them yesterday, we wouldn't have met these two groups of people today, and if they were friends or foes, wouldn't they have died without a place to be buried. ”

"Buried in the belly of a dog, although it is not a place to die, but the dog is going to die after all, so you don't have to worry about having no place to bury." Li Xinchen joked that he knew very well that he had to try to calm himself down at this time.

The two teams of people Li Qiu said were getting closer and closer, and the group in front of them looked quite embarrassed, and most of them were dressed as civilians, but they were all holding guys in their hands. Seeing this group of people, Li Xinchen guessed their identities, which were no different from the bandits he dealt with last night, and this was probably another group of bandits.

The ranks that followed were much more neat, all dressed in silver and bright armor, with several cavalry galloping in front and a large group of foot soldiers behind, and one banner after another waving their banners, which was very mighty. Although Li Xinchen couldn't see what was written on the flag, there was no doubt that this group of men and horses was an army.

In addition, he learned that most of the bandits in this vicinity were bought by the Northern Zhou Dynasty to make trouble for Nan Chen, so Li Xinchen could already guess that the army behind him was Nan Chen's team nine times out of ten, and it was either in charge of sentry or in charge of clearing out the bandits.

I didn't expect to meet the main owner so soon, and God blesses me.

Dense arrows whistled over the heads of the men in front, and people kept falling to the ground, but the people behind were still running forward desperately.

Li Qiu couldn't help but exclaim, but was immediately held down by Li Xinchen: "Don't scream!" ”

Li Qiu stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes, although it was not the first time he had experienced a killing scene, but after all, the battle last night was in the dark night, and compared to a knife and a shot in the dark, it was obvious that the scene of such a chase and killing now shocked him more.

On a red flag embroidered with floral patterns, the flag flutters in the wind.

Li Xinchen's hand holding Li Qiu's sleeve finally slowly let go.

According to the theory of the end of the five virtues, each dynasty in China is actually because of the five elements that they believe in, the Han is the fire virtue, according to the principle of the five virtues, the Eastern and Western Jin dynasties are white, replacing the Liu Song of the Eastern Jin Dynasty as the water virtue, and the black is still black; The Southern Qi who replaced Liu Song were Mude and Shang Qing; The Southern Liang who replaced the Southern Qi Dynasty was still Mude because it was the Southern Qi clan; Nan Chen, who replaced Nan Liang, naturally changed to Huo De and Shang Chi according to the theory of "wood makes fire".

Therefore, the flag should be red.

(Author's note: As for why it is the same red flag as the previous book, it can only be said to be a coincidence.) ）

Compared with the reasonable, well-founded and orderly Southern Dynasties, the Northern Dynasties were more chaotic, and the sixteen regimes were each other, each with its own color and virtue, and in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was Mude and Shangqing, because the banner of the Northern Zhou army should be cyan.

So this is why Li Xinchen finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the red flag. The general of Nan Chen, who led the team behind, did not have a name embroidered on the flag, but the pattern on the flag was slightly different from that of the rest of the flags, and a touch of variegated color was added to it, indicating that his status in the Nan Chen army was not high, and he should only be a building master (also known as a general, with a command of less than 500 troops, similar to a centurion, a capital head, and a nine-pin).

"Brother Chen, what kind of people are these, it's really a big posture." Li Qiu looked at Li Xinchen in some surprise, such a big battle was really a bit shocking for him who grew up in the mountain village, "According to this posture, the group in front of him can't hold out for long." ”

"Catch it alive!" Shouts were faintly heard behind, and the few bandit leaders who were running in front stopped and looked back, obviously knowing that they had no way to compete with the enemy on horseback, shouting loudly for their subordinates to stay behind and stop the enemy.

The dozen or so thieves who followed them were obviously silent for a moment, but they gritted their teeth and turned to rush towards the approaching cavalry. And the Nan Chen team that rushed up quickly obviously didn't expect that these enemies who were like lost dogs were still in the mood to fight back, and the cavalry they rushed in front and the foot soldiers behind were suddenly cut off, and there was no way to catch up with the bandit leaders who fled in front for a while.

The bandit leader ran through the grass with one foot deep and one foot shallow, trying to use the ruins to block them, but a thunderclap fell from the sky, completely blocking their way.

"Oh, bold thief, where to run!"