Chapter 48: The Pursuit

"Let's ...... first, and then rest for ......."

Liu Gao was dressed roughly, holding on to the trunk of a big tree, and his tired waist couldn't stand up.

An hour ago, he still had more than 200 old bandits under him, and he was a powerful force in the Juzhou territory.

And now, not only did he escape in embarrassment, but there were only 2 cronies and bandits left around him.

As a former officer of the official army, Liu Gao had far more experience in escaping for his life than his subordinates, and just now when he saw Xu Jiajun moving out a strange-looking piece of wood on the flank, he instinctively felt that the situation was not quite right.

As soon as the wooden cannon fired, behind the whole army, Liu Gao, who was still loudly encouraging the bandits to continue attacking, did not say a word, turned around and fled.

This time he came out to ambush the Xu family, in order to improve the success rate and reduce the possibility of exposure, Liu Gao didn't even bring a new bandit, and all the more than 200 people were old bandits.

As a result, before I could make contact with the other party, almost 50 people fell here! Not to mention that they are just bandits now, even if the real Great Zhou official army comes, they can't afford this proportion of casualties.

Therefore, as soon as he saw that the subordinates in front of him were knocked down again, Liu Gao immediately realized: defeated!

As soon as the leader fled, the rest of the matter became logical, and the peasants of the Xu family cheered and waved all kinds of farm tools and weapons, and began to chase and kill the bandits who had fled in the wilderness.

A strong old bandit ran desperately, but the other bandits in front of him blocked his way, this old bandit was ruthless, and pushed down the partner who bragged with him last night that he was going to Xu's house to rob the girls, and then raised his big foot and stepped directly on the man's face and continued to move forward.

A militiaman from behind rushed up and slashed at the back of the head of the fallen bandit with a scythe.......

The strong bandit in front of him didn't get far either, and he didn't have time to pay attention to his feet in a hurry, and he tripped over something that I don't know if it was a man or a stone or a tree root, and the bandit was covered in blood, and his limbs were used together, and he crawled forward while wailing, obviously terrified to the extreme.

Behind him, a militiaman caught the padded jacket on his body, ran over in three steps and two steps, and slammed the wooden spear in his hand on the bandit's back, beating him into a large zigzag and lying on the ground.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! The bandit screamed bitterly, but the militia turned a deaf ear, and he aimed the sharpened end of his wooden spear at the bandit's head and stabbed it hard.

The pleas for mercy stopped abruptly, and the militia began to pick up the thick padded jackets on the bandits in a happy mood.

I have to admit that the peasants, who are usually honest and dutiful, are no less ferocious and bloodthirsty than the most violent bandits, once the situation is suitable.

Liu Gao didn't dare to stop because he knew this very well, he knew that the peasants under the mountain had already hated him, and it was possible for him to be torn to pieces directly if he fell into the hands of the peasants.

However, if you can meet someone like the Lord of Xujiabao, you can try to surrender, if you can't meet it, then you can only escape.

Fortunately, it should be safe now, the militia are chasing and killing the bandits behind, once one is caught, it will not give up if the last piece of cloth on the bandit is not snatched, which will delay them for a long time, and it will give Liu Gao a good chance to escape - he doesn't need to run to the enemy, as long as he can outrun other bandits.

"it!" Liu Gao lightly hammered his lower back, and said breathlessly: "When did the soldiers of the Xu family become so strong?" ”

Even without mentioning the two inexplicable thunderbolts, the militia of the Xu family gathered 7 or 8 ten people to form a battle formation in the time that they rushed through a short distance of 50 steps! What's even more exaggerated is that there are only more than 200 people in that camp in total!

According to this ratio, those people in the formation should be all the soldiers in the camp, that is to say, when they were raided, almost none of the soldiers of the Xu family had the slightest hesitation and gathered as quickly as possible!

In Liu Gao's consciousness, this is a level that only real officers and soldiers have—not every army has it, at least not under his own subordinates when he was an officer and soldier.

"Boss, let's run away." A cronie and bandit who followed him persuaded breathlessly: "Go back to the village first, there are still some old brothers there, we are not afraid of the Xu family, if we are caught up in this wilderness, it will be all over!" ”

"!" Liu Gao scolded angrily: "The old brothers are almost dead, and they still can't hold it when they go back!" ”

The situation in his own cottage, of course, he knows very well, there are still more than 30 old bandits and 500 new bandits, and he may be able to survive in the face of weak enemies in peacetime, and now at the foot of the mountain is the murderous Xu Jiajun, Liu Gao has no confidence to hold the cottage at all.

What's more, the Xu family has already invited the next two bombs, who knows if they can invite them again and split the wall?

"Don't be in a hurry, let me think about it carefully, I will definitely be able to come up with a way to save our lives!"

Liu Gao confidently promised:

"You guys have some brave reputation, as long as you meet someone who can speak, his Xu family will definitely recruit our ......."

Before the words fell, another cronie bandit pointed to the distance and shouted: "Cavalry! ”

Liu Gao looked back in surprise, under the bright moonlight, more than a dozen figures on horseback appeared in the shadows, and a big man led by him, wearing bright silver armor and holding a long knife in his hand, was running quickly towards this side.

Liu Gao couldn't help but exclaim: "When did the Xu family have cavalry?" ”

In fact, it was not cavalry, there were less than ten people in the Xu family who could really fight on horseback, and there were not as many war horses captured by Xu Shiyang.

However, the cavalry infantry who got on the horse and hurried and dismounted to fight were not as demanding as the cavalry, so they could still get together a dozen or twenty - and they were all concentrated under the command of Luan Tingyu and Sun Li, two brothers with high martial arts.

Xu Shiyang ordered someone to find them to come over to support, originally intending that the three of them could ride horses to form a cavalry team, but he didn't expect that the two of them would bring 20 strong militiamen on pack horses!

This is just a huge surprise, with these twenty people, Xu Shiyang even wanted to try a pocket version of the cavalry blitzkrieg, so he chased the tail of the bandit rout and rushed into Liu Gao's cottage.

This plan was strongly supported by Luan Tingyu and Sun Li, both of them felt that this thing was feasible, even if they couldn't rush in one go, they were all riding horses, and the bandits couldn't catch up, as long as they shook each other's defenses, and when it dawned tomorrow, the large army would catch up, maybe one day they would be able to break through the wall!

So the lord of the Three Castles, with 20 horseback militiamen, did not wait for the infantry to keep up (they were all collecting booty, and now they could not keep up at all), nor did they stop and slash and kill the fleeing enemy, but kept an eye on the bandits who fled the fastest.

And the fastest escape among the bandits was Liu Gao himself.