Shi Jincai saw that his old horse was getting slower and slower, he was very anxious, but there was no other way. If he gave the old horse another knife, the old horse would definitely fall down and not get up, so he could only use the whip.

But after running for a while, he saw the sentry in front of him, and he saw that it was the team of the rebels. Although these people wore the robes and armor of the officers and soldiers, they were dressed in a chaotic manner. Some wore armor on their upper bodies, but they did not have their skirts or boots underneath. Some wore helmets, while others carried a cloth towel.

He glanced back, Li Yan and the others were still more than a hundred steps away from him. So he tore a piece of white cloth from his underwear, and while waving it, he shouted: "Officers, there are officers and soldiers behind!" ”

When the sentries of the rebel army saw Shi Jincai waving a white cloth, they all pulled out their weapons and prepared to fight. 、

Shi Jincai was scared and useless, so he could only continue to run forward. He still continued to shout: "There are officers and soldiers behind, and the officers and soldiers are coming!" ”

The sentry of the rebel army finally heard Shi Jincai's shout clearly, and at the same time, they also saw Li Yan and them. They found that there were only six or seven cavalrymen, and they had eleven. Although there were many of them, they were all veterans of the battlefield, and they still sent one person back to report the news, and the others were ready to go up and destroy those officers and soldiers.

When Shi Jincai ran to the righteous army, he reminded loudly: "Hurry up, they are very powerful!" I have important information, and if I want to meet with the general, I can give it to Mr. Liu. ”

When the leader of the sentry heard Shi Jincai's words, he knew that Shi Jincai was not pretending. Now people in Henan call Li Zicheng "King Chuang", and Liu Zongmin's "general whistle" title can only be called by the old brothers.

"You go first, we'll block you." The leader said.

Shi Jincai jumped off the old horse and said, "Give me a horse, my horse will not work." ”

The leader turned around and ordered, and a person handed over an empty horse to Shi Jincai, which they used to transfer, after all, it was a sentry, and under any circumstances, one person had to be able to run back to report the news.

"You're not opponents, let's go together." Shi Jin got on the horse, glanced back at Li Yan and them, and said, "They have been running for a long time, and they can't catch up with us." ”

The leader sneered and said: "Lao Tzu rebelled from Shaanxi, and fought all the way to the south and the north, except for Zu Kuan's Liaodong cavalry, Lao Tzu did not accept anyone." ”

Shi Jincai didn't persuade again, he hit the horse and left immediately, running in the direction of Kaifeng.

"Cowardice!" The leader said disdainfully. Then he commanded: "Go up and cut them down!" ”

"Cut them down!" The sentinels roared, and then began to pound the horse's belly vigorously, allowing the horse to run in the shortest possible time. At this time, they were less than a hundred paces away from those officers.

As early as after seeing the thief's sentry, Li Yan instructed his personal soldiers to prepare. As his own soldiers, the shooting skills of the handcuffs naturally had to be mastered, and they were trained even earlier than the cavalry. They were also equipped with the same equipment as the cavalry, each with four handcuffs, two ammunition boxes, a steel whip, and a one-handed long knife.

At this time, each of Li Yan's personal soldiers checked a handcuff, they lowered their waists, held the steel whip on their left hand, and waited to get close to the right distance. And Li Yan has already checked the two handcuffs at this time, this time he came out in a hurry, and he didn't bring a horse bow, otherwise it would be much simpler than the current handcuffs, there is no need to prepare at all, and he can also release arrows continuously.

The two sides kept approaching, and the thieves' sentry would not immediately release arrows, but just rushed towards Li Yan and them with weapons such as big knives and bones.

When the two sides were more than 20 steps apart, Li Yan shouted loudly: "Fight!" After that, he raised his right hand first, struck the iron with Sakashita, and immediately shot.

There was a "bang" of gunshots, and the leader of the thieves who was running at the front was hit. Before the leader could see what kind of weapon was being used on the other side, he was cut a large hole in his chest by the lead bullet, and flew straight backwards and landed on the ground.

After that, Li Yan quickly let go of the handcuff in his right hand and grabbed the steel whip on the saddle, and at the same time fired the handcuff in his left hand, and knocked a thief off the horse.

"Bang", "bang" gunshots rang out one after another, but not everyone could hit the target. In this round of shooting, only six rogues were solved. In other words, only four of Li Yan's six personal soldiers hit the target.

But for the rogues, this already makes them scared. Before they started to charge and kill, and they didn't see the officers and soldiers stretching their bows and arrows, they were already six people less. Moreover, the sound of "bang" and "bang", as well as the fire and smoke, made their horses also frightened and began to run in other directions.

Li Yan and the others rushed over with a steel whip, no matter whether the opponent was blocking or attacking, they all smashed at the enemy fiercely. This ferocious style of play made the remaining thieves panic, and they all blocked with their knives. But the energy formed by the weight and speed of the steel whip was not something that could be stopped by the knife in their hands. Even if they could block it, when the officers and soldiers who came from behind attacked for the second time, they had no power to fight back.

In just one round, Li Yan and the others eliminated all these thieves, and one of them was slightly injured. Fortunately, they were all wearing chain mail, or his arms would have been cut off.

Li Yan picked up the binoculars and looked at Shi Jincai, who had already run away in front of him, and the thief barracks in the distance. Reluctantly ordered: "Quickly, solve the undead ones, put away the war horses, and then let's go back." ”

Except for the soldiers who were wounded in the arm, the other soldiers went to check on the thieves who had just fallen off their horses. Li Yan meant to keep his tactics as secret as possible, after all, he had not been used on a large scale, and he had not caused major damage to the enemy, so if the enemy knew about it and began to study the way to crack it, then he would suffer too much.

And Shi Jincai knows whether this tactic is not sure. Although the training of the cavalry is carried out at the ** training ground outside the city, it is possible to know that with the relationship between Shi Jincai and Li Mu and Bai Shixiong.

After the soldiers were all dealt with, they left immediately with nine horses, and one of them ran too far, and Li Yan did not let them chase them. Because a group of cavalry came out of the camp of thieves in the distance, at least more than thirty horsemen, and the seven of them could not deal with it.

Fortunately, the thieves' barracks were not close to them, more than a mile, and after they desperately whipped their horses, they finally distanced themselves from the thieves' cavalry. Although they had captured war horses, they were not familiar with the temperament of these horses, and they did not dare to change horses rashly, so they could only let their sweaty war horses continue to carry them for their lives.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the sky to get completely dark, and the thieves' cavalry didn't chase far, so at this time Li Yan asked his soldiers to slow down. After that, they marched slowly all the way, and did not return to Qixian until the ugly time.

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