310, where is the end of the day and twilight (2)
"Hurry, hurry!"
Liu Zeqing didn't say anything, but his actions of constantly raising the whip made his diehard cronies who followed him understand what he was thinking.
Yan Jizu is a civil official, and he will take a sedan chair from Yan'zhou to Caozhou, and the speed will not be too fast, but because of the close distance, if Liu Zeqing is not fast, he will not be able to return to the nest before Yan Jizu.
But a man can stay up without sleep, but a horse can't, and every once in a while he has to give the horse a rest, feed him some water and forage, and regain his leg strength. If he dies of exhaustion halfway through, his speed will be even slower.
"Where is this?" Looking at the faint mountains and forests ahead, Liu Zeqing turned around and asked.
"Master, there is Liangshan in front."
"Liangshan?"
Liu Zeqing sighed, arriving at Liangshan means that the journey is more than halfway, and it is not far from Caozhou. He looked at the sky, it was getting late, and it was time for the horses to rest again.
"Take a break in the front village to see if there is any water nearby, and everyone can eat something." He looked around, then pointed to a cooking smoke: "That village doesn't seem to be big, clean up." ”
He came with him the most loyal of his household, and these men obeyed him, and no one but him did anything. They have not done much to rob houses and houses, so when they heard Liu Zeqing say this, they knew what he meant, cheered, and rushed towards the village.
The village is not big, just a small mountain village with more than 20 families. Liu Zeqing's subordinates were divided into two groups, one group of more than 100 horsemen patrolling the village to prevent anyone from escaping, and the other group rushed into the village and began to kill on a large scale. Originally, it was dinner time in the village, and the laborers dragged their tired bodies back to their homes to enjoy the warmth of home, but with the invasion of these robbers, the originally peaceful village suddenly became a bloody killing field.
This is also Liu Zeqing's original intention, if he wants to rest in this village for a while, he will definitely not allow any more living people, so as not to leak the news. As for what happens after that, he can only take one step at a time to see.
In Caozhou, he had done such a thing of destroying the village, and these people were all familiar with it, but after a moment's effort, the whole village was quiet again, only the pungent smell of blood lingered on the tip of people's noses, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Liu Zeqing likes this smell.
He is actually a very cowardly person, and the more cowardly he is, the more he has to hide his cowardice and humility with ferocity. His boots stepped on the blood-soaked ground, looking at the crooked corpses, and listening to the cries of the women who were enduring the atrocities, Liu Zeqing felt that his heart seemed to be much less uneasy.
"Go and make it clear to the brothers, after playing, don't stay alive, let's stay here for the night, and tomorrow as long as the sky is bright, we will go immediately!"
After giving the order to exterminate the mouth, Liu Zeqing broke into the largest house in the village, only to see that his subordinates were already inside, and a woman knelt on the ground and trembled. He was very satisfied, his subordinates were quite sensible, and knew that he would keep the most beautiful.
He grabbed the woman by the hair and dragged her to the back room, where she cried out in pain, but the sound was of no use except to provoke his tyranny.
Liu Zeqing threw the woman on the bed, tore her clothes apart, and in the twilight, two white and smooth legs were exposed. Liu Zeqing scolded, untied his underwear, and was about to press it, but at this moment, he heard a strange sound.
Screams!
Liu Zeqing was stunned for a moment, this was the man's scream, not killing the woman after the incident. He was now a frightened bird, so he first wondered if the officers and soldiers were chasing him, but then he wondered if any villagers who were hiding had been found and killed.
"Let's see what's going on!" He asked as he pulled up his pants and looked out.
After a while, someone came to report: "I killed a person hiding in the latrine." ”
"Death thieves are cunning." Liu Zeqing scolded, and then threw himself at the woman on the bed again.
But this time, as soon as he unbuttoned his shirt, he heard another scream outside. Liu Zeqing scolded angrily: "Let you do it cleanly, why are there so many fish that have slipped through the net?" ”
Before the words fell, another scream sounded, Liu Zeqing realized that something was wrong, but this voice was a little familiar, it should be one of his personal soldiers!
"There are thieves, there are thieves!"
Liu Zeqing got up, put on his clothes again, kicked the woman on the bed over, took out a knife from the side and was about to chop it down, but a personal soldier outside broke in, and shouted in panic: "Master, master, there are hundreds of people outside!" ”
"Who are they?"
Liu Zeqing was calm, but he didn't care about killing the woman on the bed, he asked.
"It looks like a group of villagers."
"These, wait for me to go out and have a look."
Liu Zeqing was quite surprised in his heart, how could hundreds of villagers come to this nameless village at this time. If it was just a villager, he had nothing to fear, the nearly 200 horsemen who came with him were all elite in the army, and it was a trivial matter to kill and disperse a few hundred villagers.
What's more, he is still wearing the skin of officers and soldiers, and those villagers are afraid of officers and soldiers, and he may be able to scare them away.
He went out, and in the process, he heard the sound of killing and screaming. The ferocity of the villagers was beyond his imagination, and in just a few moments, his own soldiers were forced to retreat into the village. Hearing his call, his soldiers gathered from all sides, and the villagers also surrounded them.
"Who are you who dare to kill officials and rebel?" One of Liu Zeqing's personal soldiers asked sharply.
"Kill the officer? You dog thieves, you ruined this well-born village like this, and you still say that you are officials? The villagers were stunned at first, but then someone scolded sharply: "You must be ringing horses, brothers, kill Xiangma, and send their dog heads to the official in exchange for a reward!" ”
"Exactly, exactly, what Brother Mingshan said is that we will also come back today to be officers and soldiers and catch the ringing horses!"
When Liu Zeqing heard this, his heart moved, he took two steps forward, and said loudly: "This official is the mountain's eastern chief soldier Liu Zeqing is also, catch the ringing horse here, wait for the roar to gather in one place, there is no doubt that it will be the ringing horse, seeing the official, don't hurry up and arrest it!" ”
As soon as the name "Liu Zeqing" came out, those villagers dressed up quieted down.
Liu Zeqing was secretly angry in his heart, he originally wanted to hide his whereabouts and rest here for the night, so he killed people. Now in order to get rid of these nosy villagers, they have to take the initiative to leak their whereabouts, the other party has three or four hundred young people, and each has a knife soldier, it is impossible to kill all of them.
"Sword-wielding soldiers?"
Suddenly, Liu Zeqing realized that something was wrong, the swords and soldiers in the hands of these villagers were too neat, and no one had a dung fork, hoe, wooden stick or anything like that they should be holding, but all of them were knives and guns, and some even had firearms in their hands!
Ordinary villagers, just some scattered weapons, how can they all have them?
As soon as this doubt surfaced, Liu Zeqing's body involuntarily retreated, and among the villagers, there was also a burst of wild laughter.
"Sure enough, Liu Zeqing, the dog official, is here!"
"Brother Niu, Lao Niu, Liu Ze is halal, come on!"
The sound of gossip and commotion rang out, and the crowd was divided left and right, and then twenty horsemen came out from behind the crowd.
The leader, riding a tall horse, with a black helmet on his head, dressed in green, the mask on the black helmet was down, and a long knife was in his hand.
This image, even if Liu Zeqing has never seen it, has heard it from the mouth of a storyteller who has gone wild.
After the Chu'zhou Campaign, Mazi Liu Jingting personally went to Chu'zhou, visited the local people who had experienced the war, traced back from Chu'zhou to Lu'zhou, and created a commentary "Chu'zhou Biography", in which the ups and downs are exciting, is the section of "The Bull Demon King broke the bridge and lost blood, and the two swords flattened the sand and fell geese", which took a lot of space to describe how the two brave generals under Yu Guozhen, Qi Niu and Tian Boguang, killed the enemy in thousands of troops.
Among them, there are naturally seven falsehoods and three truths, and there are exaggerations everywhere, but today's Ming Dynasty is the time when the civic culture is prosperous, not only the big cities like Nan'Beijing and Yang'zhou, but also a small place like Caozhou, and there are many places to have fun. As soon as this "Chu'zhou Biography" came out, it was circulated everywhere, Liu Zeqing heard it twice, although he was disdainful of the content of praising Yu Guozhen and his family guards, but he still remembered several of the characters.
"Qi Niu?" He hissed.
With such a big size, only Qi Niu!
"Officer Dog, I actually recognize Brother Niu, haha, my eyes are not completely blind!"
"Humph!" Qi Niu snorted coldly, the smell of blood in the village made his blood rise with irritability, which was the reaction he would have when he wanted to let go. Under Yu Guozhen's education, there is a concept deeply rooted in his heart.
Kill to stop killing, fight violence with violence!
Yu Guozhen...... Yu puppy, this is Yu puppy's trick! ”
At this moment, Liu Zeqing finally figured it out. Unknowingly, he got into Yu Guozhen's arrangement, and every step he made was the result of Yu Guozhen's inducement!
From the moment his nephew Liu Zhixuan offended Yu Guozhen, Yu Guozhen had already had a murderous heart for him. Previously, all kinds of suspicions were set up in order to let him get out of his old nest Caozhou first, and then leave his two thousand guards!
And in the southern city of Ji'an, the various changes of Yan Jizu and Zhang Bingwen, the proclamations all over the street, and the news from the governor's mansion...... It turned out that Yu Guozhen was remotely controlled?
"Liu Zeqing, you smell the remnants of the incense sect!" Qi Niu snorted, and the long knife pointed away: "Give death!" ”
"Kill, kill, kill them!" Liu Zeqing shouted loudly.
His own soldiers rushed forward against Qi Niu, and Qi Niu was the arrow, and the twenty horsemen and guards all put down their armor, and they began to speed up. The scimitar reflected the glow of the sunset in the twilight, and though it had not yet struck the enemy, it was already stained with blood.
Li Qingshan and Li Mingshan held their breath and watched Qi Niu rush out.
They also fought with men, whether they were officers and soldiers, or horses, but they had never seen such cavalry.
As soon as he went forward, with the determination to sweep everything, with twenty horses, he broke through among more than 100 enemies!
Everywhere they went, they were devastated, the blood waves were divided, and the hedgehogs gathered together, and Liu Zeqing, who was known as the elite guard, collapsed in one of their charges!
(To be continued)