The battle continued, and the battlefield situation at this time was like a one-sided situation, although Xiao Yi's side was still defending at a disadvantage, there were no casualties, but on the horse thief's side, as soon as someone approached Xiao Yi's circle formation, even if they were not poked to death by the officers and soldiers in front, they would be poked to death by the spears on both sides, and it was impossible to prevent it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After a long time, there was a corpse left next to Xiao Yi's formation, but he still couldn't break through Xiao Yi's formation. The horse thieves are not as brave as they were at the beginning, their daring to fight and kill is based on winning, and the horse thieves are still a gang of rogues to put it bluntly.

You can only win the battle, and once you have a little setback, your confidence will be frustrated, and you will slowly collapse.

Wang Dashan looked at the horse thieves who were slowly retreating, and yelled angrily, "Don't retreat!" How can they still defeat those few people? Zhou Wang was also holding the saber and slowly retreating, even a blind person could see that they had lost the current situation.

They were besieged on all sides, and the number of people attacking in each place was very small, and now all sides were routed, except for the more numerous frontal faces and forty or fifty horse thieves. When the official army returns to attack, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape.

Moreover, as soon as Wang Dashan died, he was the commander of the horse team, and Zhou Wangzao was the death of Wang Dashan, who wished he had been riding on his head all day. At this time, when the time came, Zhou Wang's eyes rolled, and Zhou Wang found his two cronies and quietly retreated.

Wang Dashan didn't know these things, he just didn't believe that he was defeated, he thought that there was still a chance, and rushed forward with a roar, in fact, except for a dozen diehards who followed him, the rest of the people were hesitating or running away, and the horse thief was gone.

Xiao Yi saw that the time had come, put back the tiger spear, drew out the shiny Qi family knife, raised the knife and turned around and yelled, "Brothers, follow me to kill the thief!" ”

Shi Gang and the others all shouted, "Kill the thief!" "Kill the thief!"

As soon as Wang Zheng came out of the customs, he was fast, listening to the shouting and killing sound getting closer and closer, getting weaker and weaker, Wang Zheng was anxious. Isn't it that the officers and soldiers have been defeated again?

When Wang Zheng arrived with a team of five hundred horses, he found such a scene, although the surroundings were dim, the battle group could see clearly. There were dozens of corpses of horse thieves all over the ground, one person took the lead, more than 40 horses, and hundreds of horse thieves were killed.

Immediately, Wang Zheng raised his knife and shouted, "Punish the thief!" ”

Then more than 500 horses roared and rushed over.

Wang Dashan heard the rumbling sound of the horses and was shocked, "What, the official army actually went out to reinforce the customs?" Look around, look around! A die-hard horse thief beside him said, "Great commander, run quickly, there are four or five hundred of these officers and horses, and the deputy commander has a brother who has seen him run away." ”

Wang Dashan was angry, "This kid, when Lao Tzu goes back, he will not pick his skin." ”

"Hey! Horse thief, your grandfather Shi Gang is waiting for you! Shi Gang had been staring at Wang Dashan for a long time, and knew that this was the leader of the horse thieves.

Wang Dashan is full of heart and gall, this person actually insults me so much! How could he bear it, regardless of those three-seven-twenty-one, he rushed up to Shi Gang. A few die-hard horse thieves around him couldn't stop him, and when he saw the officers and soldiers rushing over, they all gritted their teeth and turned around to run.

Huang Yang and a few people were going to go up to help Shi Gang, Xiao Yi and his party surrounded them inside, stopped Huang Yang and a few people, and when Wang Zheng led the army to come, he saw the people who surrounded the circle, and they also came on horseback, and watched the fight between Shi Gang and Wang Dashan in the circle quite interestingly.

"Who's the leader?" Wang Zheng asked

"I am, the villain Xiao Yi, who has seen the general." Xiao Yi stepped forward and said respectfully.

Wang Zheng glanced at Xiao Yi, this is the team officer who led forty people to defeat more than 100 horse thieves? He was young and asked, "Xiao Yi?" Why are you fighting horse thieves in this wilderness? ”

Xiao Yigang was about to reply, but he heard the surrounding onlookers shouting, "Okay! "Hit!"

Xiao Yi and Wang Zheng both looked at each other sideways, but Wang Zheng laughed out loud, but saw that Shi Gang and Wang Dashan actually beat their horses and scuffled together, and their weapons were thrown.

"Haha, how did these two people fight? Are they all your men? Wang Zheng didn't see where Wang Dashan was because of the dark night and Wang Dashan's position, and he didn't know that Wang Dashan was the leader of this group of horse thieves.

Xiao Yi saw that Wang Zheng didn't seem to recognize Wang Dashan, and replied, "Yes, my subordinates scuffled over some trivial matters." ”

Wang Zheng said with a smile, "Haha, Xiao Yi, I see that you and others are only forty in this battle, but they have defeated more than 100 horse thieves, and it is conservatively estimated that more than 50 will be killed, I will report it for you, and follow me into the customs first." He glanced back at Xiao Yi again, and said with a smile, "That's right, let your two men go back to the bed!" Ha ha. ”

After Xiao Yi thanked him, he walked to Wang Dayong's side and said in a low voice, "You guys hurry up and work with Lao Shi to restrain this horse thief, and if you faint, take it into the customs." ”

Shi Lu, Wang Dayong and Huang Yang heard Xiao Yi's conversation just now, and they all understood Xiao Yi's approach, and hurriedly stepped forward to lead someone to grab Shi Gang, Wang Dayong quietly whispered a few words to Shi Gang, while Shi Lu quietly went around behind Wang Dashan with the help of Huang Yang and Liu Tong, went down with a stick, and knocked him unconscious directly.

Xiao Yi replied with consideration, this Wang Dashan is obviously a good man, although he is a horse thief now, but if he can be subdued for his own use, he can be a fierce man, and it will be of great benefit to him in the future. Besides, even if this guy's temperament is difficult to change and he can't be subdued, Xiao can kill and bury him quietly without anyone noticing.

Subsequently, after Xiao Yi and the others chased and killed the fleeing horse thieves, they were counted after the war.

In this battle, a total of 54 horse thieves were beheaded, more than 40 horses, weapons and armor were not counted, and these horse thieves robbed the township all the year round, and they had a lot of money left, and everyone had quietly obtained some silver money from this group of horse thieves.

Although Xiao Yi saw it, he didn't stop it. Some of these brothers even go out with their families to follow them, and this little thing can be done by turning a blind eye to this little thing, but there is no need to be too strict

It is now the end of Chongzhen's second year, and it is winter, even if he arrives there, he must first buy winter clothes for his subordinates, so that they can eat and wear without worry, and then do other things.

If he could, Xiao also wanted to build a tunpu to reclaim farmland before the beginning of spring next year, but these would require a lot of money. And the biggest cost is to build a fort, land can be free of money, but up to the site selection, manpower, craftsmen, down to stone, forage, cattle, sheep and horses and the like need money.

And he still only has 300 silver Lu Xiangsheng as a gift, and now there is a perennial drought in all parts of the nine sides, plus the thieves who have risen in Shanxi and Shaanxi not long ago, whether it is the price of rice and noodles or the price of cattle and sheep, they are rising rapidly.

Xiao also knows, in the early Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy three stone of rice, some time ago, Xiao also asked the locals roughly in the Zhuangzi at the foot of Dafang Mountain, a bucket of rice needs five taels of silver, and one stone of rice needs fifty taels of silver.

Xiao Yi sighed, not wanting to rise like this now. Now I need money everywhere, but I'm still a poor ghost. Now I can only earn some silver money by killing some bandits, and now I have beheaded fifty-four, but I can exchange it for more than one hundred and fifty taels of silver.

This is also a lot of income, looking at these hideous heads that are still dripping with blood, Xiao Yi is a little relieved, these are the start-up funds for his future fort.

"Xiao Yi, why are you sighing? Isn't it already victorious? Wang Zheng heard Xiao Yi sighing, so he asked.

Xiao Yi didn't want to think about things in his heart, and he didn't pay attention to the sigh but was heard by him, this Wang Zheng's ears are still bright enough. Because it was inconvenient to salute on the horse, Xiao Yi just hugged his fists and said, "Lord Hui Shen, I thought of guarding the Jingshi with Lord Lu Xiangsheng some time ago, and I couldn't help but sigh. ”

"Oh?"

After Wang Zheng heard this, he looked at Xiao Yi carefully, didn't want this person to participate in the Battle of Jingshi? Asked with interest, "Xiao Yi, are you still fighting with Lord Lu Xiangsheng?" I don't know what the situation of the Beijing division is at this time, but some time ago, I heard the emperor's edict ordering all parts of the country to enter the king of Beijing. ”

Xiao Yi nodded and said, "Inspector Yuan led the Guanning Iron Cavalry to defeat Jiannu under the Guangqu Gate, and I and Lord Lu Xiangsheng, as well as Lord Fu Yingkui, the commander of the Beijing camp, and many Qinwang troops guarded the Desheng Gate, and when I left, the Houjin soldiers had already retreated." ”

Wang Zheng laughed after hearing this, and had already noticed the shiny knife in Xiao Yi's hand, so he asked, "It is worthy of being able to defeat twice as many horse thieves, but the one in my brother's hand is the Qi family knife?" After hearing this, Wang Zheng was greatly impressed in his heart, fighting in the capital in blood, and seeing the knife in Xiao Yi's hand, he couldn't help but be more impressed by Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yiyan said, "It was given by an old man, and the old man was the officer of Qi Ye's sword team." ”

Wang Zheng sighed in his heart, this Xiao Yizhen is respectable in the next life.

After a while, while everyone was talking and laughing, Ma Shuikou arrived. Wang Zheng looked ahead and said to Xiao Yi, "It's time to pass, my brother is sorry for Bai Ri's subordinates for their obstruction." ”

Xiao Yi hurriedly waved his hand, "Liu Jiang is also an unintentional mistake, and he is responsible, compared to Xiao Yi's past when he saw those officers who didn't know how to manage things and only wanted to have fun, it was a world of difference." ”

Wang Zheng was happy to hear this, and when the group walked to the closed door, he yelled, "I'm back, open the door!" ”

The thick city gate of Mashuikou finally opened slowly to Xiao Yi and his party.