In the end, the officers and soldiers who have experienced the tempering of the war, after a little panic, they immediately calmed down, a dozen or so battalion longbowmen who served as guards quickly climbed to the fence, pulled bows and arrows, there was no cover in front of the camp, the line of sight was excellent, there was no cloud, and there was no trace of wind, the sharp arrows of the battalion army steadily drilled into the crowd of the righteous army, and shot the several volunteers who rushed to the front to the ground, although they did not have the accuracy of a hundred steps Yang, but compared to the new soldiers' egg-like righteous archers, it was not a star and a half, after a few rounds of shooting, More than a dozen volunteers had fallen on the way to the charge, screaming again and again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Before this, no one in the rebel army had really seen how lethal the dense arrow rain would be, and the rebels were full of excitement about the battle, including Zhao Bantou, who led the team, involuntarily stopped after seeing the ghost crying wolf, and looked at the brother lying on his body and wailing, at a loss.

At this time, the commotion in the front camp soon spread to the rear camp, and Qian Chengqian Qianhu, who was staying in the camp, also came out of the warm-up tent while wearing battle armor, shouting, "Where did the enemy come from? ”

Someone ran to him and pointed to the camp in front of him, "Report, Qian Qianhu, about 100 bandits are attacking the front village"

A battalion soldier handed a thick-backed machete to Qian Qianhu, and Qian Cheng took the knife, "Don't panic, a group of grass robbers also want to shake the tree, hateful, pass the order, without the military order of this Qianhu, no one is allowed to fight, just shoot with a bow and crossbow."

The sergeant was ordered to go, Qian Qianhu strode towards the front village, his steps were steady, his expression was calm, and he did not have the slightest panic, at first glance, he was a person who had experienced strong winds and waves, and he didn't take this group of 'bandits' who could only rob homes and houses in his eyes.

As Zhao Bantou had a few more volunteers around him who fell to the ground with arrows, he gradually woke up from his stunned state, looked around, but he didn't expect that the righteous army had fallen before he rushed to the camp gate, many people moved backwards in panic, and some people couldn't even hold the knife, Zhao Bantou saw this situation and went on like this, even if he rushed to the camp gate, there were few people, this was just a feint, it was not worth adding more casualties, so he shouted, "Retreat, retreat, retreat"

With the attack and retreat of Zhao Bantou, most of the battalion troops resting in the shade of the rear camp concentrated on the front camp, and the leader of the rebel army saw that the opportunity was coming, and also led people to beat drums and shout in the forest, and shot arrows into the camp indiscriminately.

Qian Cheng was supervising the battle in the front camp, and suddenly heard the sound of drums and horns in the back camp, and exclaimed, "It's not good, the sound is attacking the west, fast, divide the troops to fight, Huang Baihu, you take a team of people to guard the rear camp, you must hold it"

The battalion army that had just arrived from the rear camp to the front camp turned around and returned to the back camp to help the rear camp, Qian Qianhu hurriedly transferred half of the archers in the front village, at this time he felt the shortage of manpower, but the army was basically transferred by General Zhang, and there were more than 100 people in the whole military camp, and it was difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice.

Zhao Bantou, who was lying in the open space outside the front camp far away, gradually calmed down, comforted the righteous army who was almost frightened, thinking about Li Zhong's previous arrangement, an attack alone is definitely not enough to attract the attention of the other party, at this time he saw that the arrows of the battalion army were slightly weaker, so he got up from the ground again, this time he learned smartly, the teacher of war is always on the real battlefield, he scattered all the rebels, dozens of volunteer troops almost pulled into a battle line as wide as the fence of the front camp, and rushed around the zigzag route to the camp gate.

Due to the poor defense of the battalion army, more than 10 volunteers have climbed and advanced to the main camp, and as soon as they entered, they happened to encounter the battalion troops who rushed to hear the sound, and the two sides fought together.

With the battle in the front and rear camps, Li Zhong, who was quietly ambushed on the side, saw that the old subordinate Qian Cheng had almost sent all the people who could hold knives, and there were only a few sentries on the side looking around in a panic, at this time it was the only opportunity to break through the camp, if it was slow, I was afraid that the two suspicious soldiers would die, and it would be all abandoned at that time.

Li Zhong crouched in the grass, waved his hand to the pre-arranged rebels, and saw more than a dozen rebels with long ropes in their hands quickly rushing out of the grass, running outside the camp fence, and throwing the long rope in his hand onto the wooden fence

Dozens of volunteers rushed over together, and more than a dozen pairs of hands were working together on each rope.

"Pull!" Li Zhong drank.

As everyone worked together, they heard the sound of wood breaking, and the wooden fence that was more than two people high was broken on the ground.

As soon as the wooden fence fell, the five battalions guarding it threw their spears together, and the three volunteers fell in response.

"Zuozhai is in a hurry! The five battalion soldiers threw their spears and ran to the front camp, shouting loudly as they ran.

Li Zhong jumped up from the grass, drew his bow and arrows, and the arrow moved with one of the battalion soldiers, and with the sound of a string, the man fell in response.

Li Zhong threw down his bow and arrows, drew the war knife at his waist, and shouted, "Kill, only take the back camp"

Li Zhong took the lead and rushed into the barracks with murderous spirit, and the inspired rebels refused to be left behind, and rushed in with him one by one.

The battalion guard Qian Cheng resisted the enemy before and after, and the flank was lost, where did he still have soldiers available, and personally led a dozen or so personal soldiers to run towards the rear camp with the most fierce shouting and killing.

At this time, the battalion of the rear camp had been attacked by Li Zhong and the leader of the righteous army with people in two places, and most of them had fallen in a panic, and the rest of the people had no fighting spirit, so they turned around and fled for their lives towards the front camp.

Before Qian Cheng arrived at the rear camp to support the battle, he saw the soldiers guarding the rear camp running to the front camp in embarrassment, followed by hundreds of 'bandits', which made Qian Cheng no longer able to command in an orderly manner, and after cutting down a few 'bandits' who rushed to the front, he also turned around and ran towards the front camp.

Zhao Bantou had just rushed to the gate of the camp when he saw the gate of the camp suddenly open, and a team of officers and soldiers came out of it.

At this time, Qian Cheng saw that the general trend had gone, so he could only abandon the camp and leave, waiting for General Zhang's army to find a way to recapture it, and he only took less than forty soldiers with him in this battle.

After Qian Cheng led the remnants of the army to run away, Zhao Bantou returned to the camp gate with people, and Li Zhong also ran out of the camp at this time.

Li Zhong asked, "What about people?" ”

"Ran over there," Zhao Bantou pointed in the direction where the battalion had fled.

"Yes! Just let them report the news" Li Zhong nodded, "Quick, Zhao Bantou, you take someone to bring the injured and killed brothers, and I will go to search Zhang Rake's house, and dare to leave here before his army returns."

Zhao Bantou looked at the dead corpses everywhere with palpitations, and swallowed his saliva, "Yes, general, you are really like a god with soldiers, and Leader Zhou is also heroic, compared to Zhao, he is self-conscious."

Li Zhong pulled down the mask on his face, patted the back of Zhao Bantou's shoulder, and said with a smile, "The first time I went to the battlefield, I was so scared that I couldn't even walk, and I found that I peed a crotch after the battle, it's rare that you can have such a performance today, it's good to be alive, Leader Zhou is not as lucky as you."

Zhao Bantou hurriedly said, "He, what's wrong with him?" ”

"Killed ......"

At the same time that the camp was breached, Zhang Rake's cavalry had already thrown off their hooves and charged towards Ling Dan and the others.

The sound of horses' hooves shaking the earth also disappeared in the hearts of the bandits, and everyone looked at the row of cavalry in horror, the momentum was enough to engulf all the forces that dared to block, and the high-held war knife on the horseback seemed to have cut into everyone's neck, and before Ling Dan could give the order, many people turned around and ran towards the mountain, and for a while, you pushed me.

Ling Dan threw the spear in his hand at the horses, turned his head and shouted, "Retreat"

Even though the mountain is not far away, but the two-legged war horse can't outrun the galloping war horse, and before all the bandits can escape into the mountain, the cavalry has already followed, and the more than ten bandits who fell behind were knocked to the ground by the war horse in a blink of an eye, and they were trampled to a blur of flesh and blood.

The woods were densely wooded, and there were large protruding rocks everywhere, and as soon as the horses entered, they lost their advantage, and the well-trained cavalry stopped only outside the forest, turned around, and regrouped outside the forest, ready to give another assault to the bandits who might rush out.

At this time, the bandits panicked, more than a hundred people, running all over the mountains, and Ling Dan only followed a few of the most loyal people around him.

Zhang Rake saw some scenes, only then did a smile unfold on his face, the bandits had already dispersed, it was the best time to kill one by one, he was about to wave his hand to let the whole army attack, but saw a fast horse in the direction of the camp was kicking up a burst of dust and galloping over.

Immediately jumped off the bloodstained battalion army, and knelt in front of Zhang Rake's horse with his fists folded, "Report, general, the camp was besieged by thousands of bandits, and Qian Qianhu couldn't resist it, so he only escaped with thirty-seven people."

Zhang Rake was stunned when he heard this.

The military situation has obvious retribution, and it is only money that has become a reason to make one's own failure.

Zhang Rake jumped off the horse, grabbed the collar of the messenger from the ground, and roared hoarsely with saliva, "Thousands of bandits? Did it come from heaven? Qian Cheng, where is Qian Cheng, I'm going to pull out his skin, come here, pull him down and cut him down"

The two relatives rushed over together, grabbed the informant's arm, and before he could open his mouth to beg for mercy, he had already beheaded Yu Jun on the spot, and his head rolled down at the feet of Zhang Rake.

Zhang Rake raised his foot and stepped on the dead head, and shouted, "The whole army is back to the camp, and it must be taken back"

The reason why Zhang Rake cares so much about the gains and losses of the camp, in addition to the reputation, is more important than the previous from Anqing to Susong, he did everything possible to get the money he snatched along the way, but all the money he snatched was piled up in the barracks, not only that, but also the nearly 100,000 taels of military expenses allocated by the imperial court were also among them, if all of them were lost, not to mention that they could not explain to the emperor, I am afraid that these subordinates may mutiny.

Zhang Rake could no longer care about the bandits who fled into the mountains, and the army hurled towards the barracks, ignoring even the dead and wounded soldiers on the ground, allowing them to wail helplessly in the grass and die.

The retreat of the battalion did not make the bandits who were alive in the dead have any cheerful feeling, because under the impact of the cavalry just now, all the bandits were rushed to pieces, running all over the mountains, and when they really couldn't run, they stopped to catch their breath only to find that they had run away with everyone, surrounded only by the shadows of the trees and the chirping of birds, these people who ran away, did not dare to call their companions loudly, let alone go back to their nests, had to wander aimlessly in the mountains, and ran desperately for most of the day, these people were really tired and hungry, They walked down the mountain from all directions of the mountain, and when they met their lost companions on the way, they went together, and some bandits with a little more number of bandits in order to fill their stomachs, they started the idea of the villages outside the mountain, and made the villages around the mountains like chickens and dogs.

Those bandits with a smaller number of people attacked the passing traders and pedestrians, and did not hurt anyone, but only grabbed some food, and became a real unorganized and undisciplined bandits.

Ling Dan and a few bandits also ran away with everyone, when she found that there were no pursuers behind her, she was already in the depths of the vast mountain, after hiding for a while, she discussed with everyone, and decided to return the same way, to find the lost brothers back, and regain a foothold on a different mountain, but when she returned to the foot of the mountain where the corpses were strewn, she found that the brothers had disappeared, and even the officers and soldiers had run away without a trace, so Ling Dan took a dozen or so people who followed her and dug two big pits. The bodies of the brothers and officers and soldiers who died in the war were buried, and when all this was dealt with, there was no brother to find back, and she had nothing to do at this time, so she had to go back to the calf collar, and there was no one on the calf collar, Ling Dan, who was sad and lost, sighed, went down the mountain, and disappeared into the mountains for hundreds of miles.

At this time, Lu Fei was taking King Ning to ride a fast horse towards the calf collar, and halfway through, he saw King Ning's family coming over, and the two sides stopped the horse.

The general of the family hugged his fist towards King Ning and said, "Report, King Ning, the battalion army under the calf ridge has returned to the camp, and there are only hundreds of corpses under the calf ridge now."

Lu Fei was anxious and shouted, "What about the green-shirted man?" ”

The general shook his head, "I don't know any green-shirted men in the bottom, but no woman was found among the corpses, and if they weren't captured by the battalion army, they escaped."

Lu Fei breathed a sigh of relief, as long as people don't die, there is always hope for life, he regretted and said to King Ning, "King Ning, don't go, it's too late"

King Ning didn't care about the life or death of the bandits at all, he just wanted to prevent Zhang Rake from succeeding in this battle, as long as Zhang Rake returned in vain in this battle, then he would be one and the same, but now he didn't expect the war to end so soon, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

At this moment, another general ran over, "Report, King Ning, the battalion was broken by bandits, and the guard Qian Cheng only brought a few dozen people to break out of the siege."

Hearing this, King Ning's eyes lit up, "How is this possible?" A group of bandits also has this ability"

The person who came said again, "This matter is true, now the bandits who broke through the camp have retreated, and when they left, they also set a fire and set the camp on fire, King Ning, you see" He turned around and pointed to the black smoke in the distance.

When King Ning saw the black smoke rushing to the sky, he was happy in his heart, and said secretly: Zhang Rake, whether you killed Steward Hu for self-protection or for another reason, you are doomed to death in this sentence.

In King Ning's understanding, Zhang Razi's killing of Steward Hu is likely to be related to the bribes that have been escorted to the capital over the years, and many people have already known about the bribery of silver.

Lu Fei saw the black smoke, the people were secretly happy, he knew that this was the result of Zhao Bantou saying that he moved Li Zhong, Li Zhongzheng deserved to be a brave and resourceful general, so it seems that Zhang Razi's retreat from the army was not because of his success, but because he went back to rescue the camp, and Ling Dan should have fled into the mountains again.

King Ning said, "Lu Zhixian, what are you going to do now?" ”

Lu Fei thought about it, it's not okay to go back to the county government now, Zhang Rake saw that the camp was burned, and he must retaliate desperately, only to blame Li Zhong for doing too much, completely angering Zhang Rake, if he wants to retaliate, where will he start? That must have killed the dead like a mountain of Susong, Lu Fei had heard that when Zhang Razi was in vain in suppressing bandits a few years ago, he insisted on killing the people of several villages as bandits, and it was hard to guarantee that he would not be able to do it this time, the most important thing at the moment was to stabilize Zhang Razi.

So Lu Fei said, "King Ning, Zhang Rake has lost face this time, don't you want to comfort him?" ”

King Ning laughed when he heard this, he immediately understood that he should go to appease him, but don't make any radical moves, Su Song is in chaos is a big bad thing for King Ning, but King Ning also found an unusual look on Lu Fei's face, it is said that the officers and soldiers were robbed by bandits and rebels under his rule, in addition to Zhang Rake to be punished, he, the magistrate, also has a responsibility that cannot be shirked, but now Lu Fei does not see a trace of uneasiness and surprise on his face at all.

"Okay, I'll go to his camp for a while, but, Lu Zhixian, how did this king find out that you seem to know about this, I am not surprised at all" King Ning said with some suspicion.

Lu Fei said with a smile, "Zhang Rake has done a lot of evil, and he was attacked behind his back, this is a reasonable thing, what is there to make a fuss about, sooner or later, I am not happy."

Ning Wang Yin smiled, "This is not something that a county magistrate can say, the imperial army is a battalion robbed by the bandits under your rule, so you are not afraid of being affected."

Lu Fei pinched the horse's belly, walked to King Ning's side and said with a smile, "King Ning, I think you would prefer to see Zhang Rake die without a place to be buried, otherwise who will bear the responsibility of Jiangjiazhuang's extermination of the village, and who will admit the matter of his battalion secretly transporting silver to the capital, can you see Zhang Rake gaining power?" Why should I, a little magistrate, bother with this heart?"

King Ning's face sank when he heard this, he didn't expect Lu Fei to be able to see through these things, now that the window paper has been pierced, there is no need to hide anything, he said with bad intentions, "Since you can see this, aren't you afraid that I will get rid of you too?" It's not a good thing that people are too smart."

Lu Fei was not afraid at all, "Afraid, why should I be afraid, I know what these things can do, people are soft-spoken, even if these big things come out of my mouth, I am afraid that no one in the court will believe it, not to mention that I have never thought of being an enemy of King Ning, if King Ning can afford it, Xiaozhi County is willing to be in the same boat with you"

King Ning was shocked again, he would never have thought that Lu Fei would be able to say what was in his heart so unabashedly, it was obvious that Lu Fei's words were his true thoughts, at least the sentence that he had never thought of being an enemy of himself was true, looking at the entire Tang Dynasty, who would dare to be an enemy of himself.

King Ning laughed, "Okay, talk quickly, this king is very interested in you, after this is over, this king will definitely talk to you about the wine and talk about this year-old friend, ah, haha"

Lu Fei bowed his head on horseback and arched his hand, "Then please ask King Ning to present the matter of Zhang Rake's troubles in Susong City to Emperor Ming earlier."

Ning Wang said, "What do you want him to do?" ”

Lu Fei said, "There is no need for this kind of person to live in the world anymore, he should be buried for Steward Hu."

King Ning laughed, "I didn't see it, Lu Zhixian still has this kind of murderous intent, but what you think is too simple, he is a guard of the mansion, and it is not so easy to get his life."

Lu Fei was a little unwilling, "It's up to the sky to make things happen, it's up to people to make things, in order to return Susong to a complete calm, it's better for King Ning to act earlier."

King Ning shook his horsewhip and ran towards Zhang Rake's camp, and at the same time shouted on his horse, "Within three or five miles, the holy decree will arrive, you can do your own thing with peace of mind."

Lu Fei looked at King Ning's distant back, and his heart swelled with unease, why did King Ning help him so much, what was his purpose? It is impossible to suspect that Zhang Rake will leak the bribe, is there any unsightly idea in this?

Lu Fei couldn't think of it, shook his head, turned the horse's head, and ran in the direction of the county seat.

Zhang Rake stood in front of the blazing barracks, not moving for a long time, Qian Cheng lay on the side and kept kowtowing, muttering in his mouth, "The last general is derelict in his duties, please spare the general's life......"

At this time, more than a dozen battalions rushed out of the fire, and their beards and hair were burned to the ground.

"What's the matter, is the money and food still there?" Zhang Rake asked these people who rushed out.

"General Hui, I've looked for it everywhere, but I haven't found it, I guess all of them have fallen into the hands of 'bandits'"

"Ahh Zhang rake shouted.

When the subordinates heard this, they exchanged their heads for a while, now it's okay, they have fought for a long time, not to mention the reward, and even the military salary has no hope.

"You, there are not enough successes, more than failures, what is the use of me leaving you" Zhang Rake kicked Qian Cheng over, scolded, and pulled out the war knife of the pro-soldier on the side to cut it.

Qian Cheng, who fell to the ground, begged for mercy again and again, "General, there are many bandits, and there are only one hundred and ten old and weak people in the hands of the last general, so I ask the general to give the last general a chance, and the last general will definitely recover the money and food and kill this group of bandits who dare to rob my camp."

Zhang Rake stepped forward and stepped on his chest, gritting his teeth and saying, "Fart, bandits robbing the camp?" How do you ask General Ben to write a military report to the imperial court, my dignified battalion army let a group of land bandits rob the camp, will the emperor believe it? ”

Before Qian Cheng could speak again, Zhang Rake's knife had already pierced his chest, and Qian Cheng convulsed for a while, dying on the spot.

After killing Qian Cheng, Zhang Rake turned over on his horse, raised the bloody knife in his hand, and shouted in front of the whole army, "Find, give it to General Ben to find, even if you want to turn Su Song over, you have to find these people."