Xu Hui picked up Han Feng and looked at Li Zhi's corpse on the side, and couldn't help but feel sad, in such a short period of time, this person said that he was gone, and it was really a human life.

Zeng Yan said: "Let's go, the thieves are still chasing after you, and everything will be talked about when you go out." So he threw away half of the spear in his hand, took out his waist knife and supported Han Feng with Xu Hui and slowly walked towards the outside of the fort, and thieves kept running in behind him, lying on the corpses of soldiers or companions to loot all available supplies......

Zeng Yan has climbed out of the pile of dead people countless times since he joined the army, and his years of military career have smoothed the fighting spirit in his heart, from the local army to the current central ace army, the military camp is full of corruption. In the battle against the Hu people outside the Saiwai, the 300,000 Great Zhou troops were almost wiped out by less than 30,000 cavalry outside the Saiwai, only because the equipment and supplies in the army were seriously insufficient, and the court officials and generals in the army deducted military salaries and equipment to fill their pockets, and the officers and soldiers who went into battle could only wear pitiful cloth armor, shivering in the ice and snow, but they did not even have a cotton coat to protect against the cold, and the limited materials that were deducted were given priority to the army with the background of the scholars, how could the army under this system defeat the cavalry outside the Saiwai like a wolf and a tiger......

Just like the chaotic situation in front of him, it seemed that Zeng Yan saw the scene of the collapse when he was fighting against Hu Qi on the cold Gobi Desert, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings, and looked at Xu Hui, this kid is too similar to his son, the eyebrows and eyes, the same timidity, the same kindness, since the first day he entered his camp, he has been extra careful, and he was going to give him food on the school field in the morning, but Liu Ce's kid stood up in advance......

Zeng Yan thought about it indiscriminately, and suddenly felt a cold killing intent coming from behind him. Years of military career made his nervous reaction faster than anyone else, and he suddenly let go of the hand holding Han Feng, and the waist knife in his left hand swirled and slashed out, but when he heard the sound of metal handover, the waist knife in his hand was shocked out by a mace......

I saw the thief giant who had been knocked to the ground standing in front of Zeng Yan with a bloody face at this moment, Zeng Yan leaned forward and grabbed his waist at the moment when the mace was swung down for the second time, and shouted: "Xiaohui, run!" Run! Then he rode on the giant man, and his fist rained down......

Seeing this, Xu Hui immediately supported Han Feng and hurriedly walked towards the outside of the fort, as long as he climbed over the earthen wall dozens of steps away, he might be able to ensure his safety...... He couldn't help but look back at Zeng Yanyan, his heart was sour, and he choked up: "Old Jia, ...... long."

Zeng Yan Yan smashed his fist at the thief giant, one punch was faster than a punch, but the thief giant man protected his head with both hands, Zeng Yan could not cause him effective damage, and the layer of iron armor on his body was even harder than a punch.

After a while, Zeng Yanyan's fist gradually weakened, and the giant man took advantage of the gap to grab his hands and turn over and press Zeng Yan under him, and he also fell with one punch after another. Zeng Yan quickly protected the head of the vital point, but the giant man's fists were as hard as a rock, and the two fists smashed the left hand that had been blocked by Yan Yan into a fracture, Zeng Yan was hard and did not say a word, when the third punch of the giant man fell, the head of the giant man was violently deviated, the giant man smashed on the ground with a punch and raised a burst of loess to fascinate his eyes, under the pain, Zeng Yan kicked his legs and borrowed the waist strength to push the giant man aside with his right hand, and the surrounding thieves surrounded him at this time......

A thief slashed at Zeng Yanyan, Zeng Yan turned around and flashed with his right armpit to clamp the blade, and then hit the thief with his left shoulder in pain, and then the armpit was loosened, and the long knife fell and caught the handle with his right hand, one slashed back, and the other two thieves who stepped forward splashed a column of blood on their chests......

Zeng Yan held the knife in his backhand like this, like a bloodied god of war, staring coldly at the large group of thieves in front of him......

"Get out of the way!" The giant man rolled up from the ground, kicked his mace, and stabbed a thief who tried to come forward again into a hedgehog, "He's mine!" ”

The surrounding thieves formed a half-circle and surrounded Zeng Yan in the middle, and the giant man brandished his mace with a solemn expression. Zeng Yan looked unfazed, and slowly raised the long knife in his hand......

"Just one move!" The giant man roared, the mace was raised above his head, and he roared and swung at Zeng Yan, who saw the tip of the knife mopping the ground, and quickly ran towards the giant man, and at the moment of the wrong body, the mace and the long knife shot at the same time, and a piercing sound of metal friction and the sound of a stone hammer hitting the bone sounded one after another.

The giant man stood in place, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, the nail leaf on his chest had disappeared from a small half-circle, and there was a crimson blood mark on his skin...... He turned around to look at Zeng Yanyan, who was also standing not far away, and there was a look of awe in his eyes......

"Don't spoil his body!" The giant man bowed slightly to Zeng Yanyan, commanded loudly, and then continued to chase and kill the remaining routs, and the surrounding thieves bypassed Zeng Yan and followed the giant man.

Zeng Yan used his last remaining strength to press the long knife into the ground, slowly leaned on the knife, laboriously felt out the cigarette stick on his waist, hung it on his mouth and opened the fire fold, brought it close to the smoke pot, after igniting it, the fire fold fell to the ground, took a deep breath, suddenly felt very choked, but he couldn't spit it out, and in the smoke, he found that the surrounding scene had changed.

He saw that his son was calling for his father, running over with a smile to let him hug, his wife was washing clothes, and saw him with a sweet smile, it was so charming in the sun, his father and mother were sitting at the dining table, the table was full of delicious food, and his father and mother were looking at him kindly, as if waiting for him to sit down, and he had taken his wife by hand and sat down at the table with his son in his arms......

"Zhen'er, Xiaohui, father, mother......" Zeng Yan finally muttered a few words, closed his eyes peacefully, and the cigarette stick in his mouth slipped silently......

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Outside the Houtu Fort, Liu Ce is like a killing machine, picking out and killing any thieves who stand in front of him, as long as he can live, Liu Ce is desperate. Seeing that Liu Ce was so crazy, the surrounding rout soldiers avoided him one after another, and only those thieves who didn't know whether they were alive or dead came up one by one to become the souls of his guns.

After running out of five or six miles in one go, Liu Ce saw a stream, so he poured it into the water desperately, and frantically poured the stream water into his mouth, and the rout soldiers who ran out together around him did the same thing......

Feeling a little suffocated, Liu Ce raised his head violently, lifted the barrel of the gun and looked around vigilantly, seeing that they were all routed soldiers, and there was no sign of thieves chasing after him, so he relaxed and found a big rock to sit down slowly. In the distance, the thick earth fort was faintly visible, and all this he had experienced a few hours ago was unforgettable for his life, and he secretly vowed that he would never live such a day again.

Looking around, there were only a few dozen soldiers, it seemed that most of the routed soldiers were still running towards Gaoyang City, but it was ridiculous that even if they fled back to Gaoyang City, what could they do, I am afraid that there would be no half of the defenders for a long time, and they still couldn't escape the end of being captured by the thieves, this thick earth fort was just a stumbling block for the thieves' army to Gaoyang City......

Liu Ce lay on the boulder and began to think about what to do next? Join the rogue? There is no way, now the thieves are just a rabble, relying on coercion to coerce the hungry people to maintain their combat strength, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be used as cannon fodder if they join themselves; Self-reliant mountains and grass for the sake of cowards? Most of the plains in this area, there is no usable natural danger, even if the self-standing mountain is not surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers and killed, it will be captured by thieves, even if neither comes to attack, starvation will be starved to death, do you want to learn from thieves to eat human flesh? Liu Ce thought he hadn't been cruel enough to do so; And continue to serve in the army? It is much less likely to be promoted in the army without a scholar background, and even if he can be appointed as an official and a half-post, there are many people in the military camp who can organize themselves, especially civilians like themselves who have no identity and no status, and they are the target of arbitrary bullying by the scholar officers; Create your own righteous army and overthrow the Great Zhou? This can only be thought about, there is no massive amount of money, food and manpower and material resources, can only be foolish dreams, thieves have been making waves for more than ten years, not only in Jingtai, Heyuan Province and other places, think about their own pockets on 7-8 taels of broken silver and dozens of copper coins, wry smile. Where do we go from here? Liu Ce was confused in his heart, after thinking about it for a long time, he felt a splitting headache, so he simply stopped thinking about it, it was superfluous to think so much now, and the most practical situation was how to get out of this province full of thieves and live, even if it was a civilian.

After resting for a while, there were bits and pieces of figures on the horizon in the distance, Liu Ce couldn't see whether it was a soldier or a thief, so he simply got up, regardless of the rest around him, he picked up his spear and continued to walk into the distance, the farther away from here, the safer it was, and several soldiers also got up and followed Liu Ce slowly.

In the evening, Liu Ce rushed to a forest and decided to rest here for the night before making plans, followed by more than a dozen defeated soldiers, of course, just along the way, each with their own battalions......

Liu Ce went to a river to fill the water bag with water, then stripped naked and went into the water to wash off the filth, and the other soldiers did the same and made a fuss in the water. Looking at his strong physique reflected in the water, there is a small thumb-sized pale red mark on his left shoulder blade, Liu Ce sincerely sighed how hard and hard the original owner of this body was, and he had the impression that he had been practicing martial arts since he was 5 years old, and he could do almost everything in sword, gun, horsemanship, archery, and continued to practice hard in the army at the age of 14, and almost day and night to the point of going mad, at the age of 17, he was selected into the subordinate legion of the Thunder Army because of his outstanding martial arts to enter the source of the river to crusade against the thieves, until he replaced this body a month ago, except for his weak personality, everything is good.

After Liu Ce finished washing, he washed the leather armor and clothes full of blood, then wrung it out and put it on directly, folded the leather armor, climbed a three-meter-high tree nearby, lay down, took out a dry food bag, took out a hardened burrito, drank cold water on the kettle, and ate it.

The sky gradually darkened, and Liu Ce felt a wave of fatigue, so he put his leather armor on himself and fell asleep in a daze......

This night, Liu Ce slept very deeply, and when he woke up, the sky was already bright, and the time should have been around 4 o'clock in the morning. Listening to the symphony formed by the combination of snoring and cicadas and the buzzing noise of mosquitoes, Liu Ce slowly climbed down the tree, put on his leather armor and boots, poured a pot of water by the river, picked up his spear and quietly walked out of the woods, and continued his escape.

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