Chapter 16: The Scorched Earth
Just when Zhang Xun could almost touch Frost Tea, Frost Tree actually fell to the ground, Zhang Xun hurriedly stepped forward to help Frost Blossom, but his action aroused the vigilance of the government soldiers.
The escorted soldier immediately took a step, raised his knife behind Shuang Di, and pointed at Zhang Xun with the tip of his knife and scolded, "Don't move!" ”
Zhang Xun spread his hands, slowly moved his body back, and then retreated back to his original place.
Frost staggered to her feet, but at this moment, she suddenly turned around and tried her best to scatter the dust she had picked up when she fell down to the soldiers behind her.
The eyes of the soldiers of the house were confused, and they were panicked for a while, and they were about to slash with the sword, and they were about to hurt the frost, and between the lightning and flint, I saw Zhang Xun rushing forward with an arrow step, grasping the blade, and then pulling back hard, snatching the blade of the soldier from him. Zhang Xun's hand was bleeding, but he didn't care about the severe pain, held the hilt of the knife, and reflexively killed the Nafu soldiers.
At the same time, Gong Wanran also rushed up and kicked another escorted soldier to the ground. Immediately afterwards, Gong Huiran picked up the saber he threw before, stepped forward, and protected the three of them with Zhang Xun.
Seeing this, Li Shi didn't care about anything else, and beckoned his subordinates to step forward together. The government soldiers surrounded and killed, and the two hurriedly resisted the government soldiers and protected the three of them to evacuate backwards.
Zhang Xun and Gong Huang slashed sideways, resisting with all their might, and for a while the government soldiers couldn't get close, seeing that Zhang Xun and the others were about to withdraw from the alley, they didn't expect that Changjiao suddenly led people to appear on the retreat road, and together with the government soldiers who pressed forward, they were completely surrounded.
"Zhang Xun! Now I'll see where you're going! Li Shi was triumphant and commanded his subordinates to surround Zhang Xun and the others.
At this moment, only to hear the sound of "whoosh", an arrow whistled, in the middle of the long horn facing the door, the long horn fell to the ground in response, the others did not react, but another arrow came, another soldier was hit by an arrow in the chest, fell to the ground and died.
Not far away, Winter Tooth rode his horse, and he opened his bow again and again, killing several people in a blink of an eye. More than a dozen villagers followed, armed with ordnance.
It turned out that Dongya immediately rang the bell to wake up the villagers according to Zhang Xun's instructions, and then went to the horse farm to snatch the horses, and went to the warehouse to take out the weapons seized a few days ago.
Dongya led the villagers to rush into the alley, Zhang Xun and Gong Huiran also broke out, and in a blink of an eye, Li Shi's encirclement was torn apart, and Li Shi had to retreat to the other side of the ancestral hall.
When Wintertooth rescues the villagers who are tied to the ground and gives them weapons, the villagers are furious, and they are like warriors.
At this time, there were more than 20 people on Zhang Xun's side, and Li Shi's side, counting the newly rescued prisoners, a total of more than 40 people, and the two sides were facing each other, and the fight was about to break out.
"So you're not dead!" Li Shi pointed at Winter Tooth and scolded.
"Dog officer! You colluded with the bandits and killed Brother Ji Zheng on the way! You don't have to die well! Winter Ya scolded.
"Hmph, this Qingmen is really, how can I still let you run?"
"Aoto?" Zhang Xun wondered.
"Hahaha! It's the double knife man who escaped, if he hadn't arrived in Changyi County a few hours earlier than Ji Zheng, we really wouldn't have been able to plan so thoroughly. ”
Winter Ya said excitedly: "Yes! It's that Qingmen who arrested me and Brother Ji Zheng, if it weren't for Brother Ji Zheng's life to save me, I wouldn't have been able to rush to the village to report the news, but I don't know how Brother Ji Zhengge is now......"
"Haha, Qingmen is a ruthless character, if Ji Zheng doesn't make trouble, hehe, he's making such a fuss, even if Qingmen doesn't kill him, he has to cut off his hands and feet, haha, pitiful, pitiful!" Li Shi laughed.
Zhang Xun pointed at Li Shi and said, "If Ji Zheng has three longs and two shorts, I will definitely not let you go!" ”
"Hahaha, you love to let go! That letter or something, I see, may not be true. Even if it's true, I don't bother to care, and I'll find a way to solve the troubles in the future. Today, I'm going to cut through the mess and kill all of you, leaving no one behind! Hehe! Brothers! Give it to me! Kill one person and reward five taels! ”
With Li Shi's order, more than forty people rushed forward together.
"Folks! Fight with them! Zhang Xun knew that there was no other way but to fight to the death at this time, so he took the lead and rushed forward.
"Fight! Kill! The villagers had long forgotten what fear was, and rushed forward with Zhang Xun.
Although the villagers were brave and fearless, they did not have any martial arts after all, and they were outnumbered, and they were about to be slaughtered.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Xun hurriedly shouted to the rest of the people: "Get on the horse!" Fast! Winter teeth! You take the lead in breaking through! ”
"Yes!"
So, Winter Tooth took the lead on the horse, turned the horse's head, and rushed in the direction of the outside of the village, and the two government soldiers surrounded him from the side, trying to block the way, only to see Winter Fang stand up and open his bow, and put two arrows in a row, shooting the two government soldiers to the ground, and then he rode his horse forward and rushed out of a bloody road.
Gong Wan covered Mr. Yan and Purple Kite on their horses, and then, he picked up Frost and stepped on the horse. At this time, a government soldier swung his sword and slashed at Frost Di, and Gong Hui Ran quickly blocked it with a horizontal sword to protect Frost Di, and then slashed the Nafu soldier with a shock of his wrist.
"Xiao Xun! Come on! Gong Hui turned around and shouted to Zhang Xun.
"You go first! Fast! Zhang Xun and the last two villagers fought and retreated, and they seized the opportunity to quickly mount their horses and prepare to flee the village. However, at this moment, I saw a row of arrows whistling, Zhang Xun subconsciously waved his knife to block, and bounced away the arrows that shot at the front door.
"Huh!" Zhang Xun sighed, he didn't have time to be sad, and immediately caught up with Gong Wanran and rushed out of the village.
"Chase! The rest of these heads are fifty taels each! Chase me! Li Shi shouted.
The government soldiers scrambled for the remaining horses, and rushed to chase Zhang Xun and the others.
Seeing this, Zhang Xun immediately shouted to Dongya: "Can't let them catch up!" Winter teeth! Shoot your horse with arrows! Fast! ”
"Yes!" Winter Ya turned the horse's head again and retreated to Zhang Xun's side, he quickly released his arrows, only shooting the horses, and in the blink of an eye, several horses were shot to the ground before they could catch up.
Seeing that the beaked duck was about to fly away, Li Shi was impatient, pointed to Zhang Xun who was far away, and ordered: "Release the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”
The soldiers quickly stepped forward, raised their longbows, and threw them at Zhang Xun and the others.
"Run! Fast! They let go of the arrows! Zhang Xun shouted loudly.
As soon as the words fell, a rain of arrows fell from the sky, and Gong Wanran hurriedly leaned down and protected the frost under him.
Fortunately, Zhang Xun and the others have already run dozens of feet away, and the probability of this kind of shooting is not large.
After the rain of arrows, Zhang Xun and Gong Wanran were safe and sound, but they didn't expect to run a few more steps, but the purple kite suddenly fell off the horse's back and fell heavily to the ground.
"Phew!" Mr. Juan hurriedly stopped, turned over and dismounted, he strode forward, picked up the purple kite, and shouted in a panic: "Purple kite! Purple kite! It doesn't matter! ”
Purple Kite endured the pain, grabbed Mr. Yan's hand tightly, and said weakly: "Huan Che, I'm fine." ”
Gong Wanran immediately turned over and dismounted, and ran to check on Purple Kite's injuries, while Zhang Xun and Dongya stepped forward to cover. Seeing that her grandmother's chest was covered with blood, Frosty grabbed her grandmother's sleeve and cried bitterly, but the purple kite smiled and soothed Frosty.
Gong Wanran frowned, and said to Mr. Yan: "The position of the arrow of the Purple Kite Master is similar to the position of the arrow I hit a few days ago, fortunately, it is more outer, and it does not hurt the internal organs, but the master is very old, and he must take the arrow for treatment as soon as possible, and he must not rush again." ”
Mr. Juan held the hand of the purple kite, looked at her affectionately, was silent for a moment, raised his head and said to Gong Wanran: "Let's go, take Shuangdi to find her father, Yu Suming, who is the county lieutenant in Gusu." ”
"How?!" Although Gong Wanran didn't know what to do, he instinctively objected, and he was unwilling to leave Mr. Yan and Uncle Purple Kite.
"Hey, go ahead, Li Zida is my old department in the end, maybe he can let the two of us live for the sake of the old love."
"But......" Gong Wanran wanted to retort, but he knew that what Mr. Ji said was right. For now, this is the only option.
At this time, Li Shi had already led his troops to kill, and he was close at hand in a blink of an eye.
"Let's go, I'll stay with Purple Kite."
The purple kite was speechless in pain, but she still looked at Gong Wan and nodded.
"Hmm!" Gong Wan saluted heavily, then picked up the painful frost and turned over on his horse.
"Xiao Xun! Winter teeth! Let's go! Fast! ”
"But ......" Winter Ya pointed to Mr. Juan and Purple Kite, anxious like ants on a hot pot.
Zhang Xun grabbed Dongya and shook his head helplessly.
Afterwards, the three of them immediately saluted Mr. Kui, "Mr. Tuo, Uncle Purple Kite, take care!" ”
"Go ahead." Mr. Yan smiled.
"Drive!"
The four people and three horses galloped towards the outside of the village, and Shuang Di turned around to look at her grandparents, already crying into tears.
The arrow wound had long since cracked, and the blood stained the long breast, but the pain was less than one-ten-thousandth of the grief in his heart. There was nothing he could do about it, and Frost's tears wet his sleeves, but he could only hold Frost close to his chest, holding the reins with one hand and caressing Frost with the other.
In the blink of an eye, they had already run out of Yiyang Village, with a faint morning light in front of them and a scorched fire behind them.