Six miles away from Yushan, Li Xiucheng led the army to launch a pursuit as usual.

Three thousand elites, like a tiger out of a cage, fierce and powerful.

Where the army had run, dust was splashed and the roar was deafening. Li Xiucheng rode a horse, wore a helmet and armor, carried a sword at his waist, and also carried a gun in his hand, running in the front. Three thousand elites followed behind Li Xiucheng, running at an unabated speed, as energetic as if they had been drugged.

Li Xiucheng looked into the distance, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a cruel smile appeared on his face.

This time, Wu Qigong will be hit hard again.

"Da! Da!! ”

A black war horse galloped over, and the general in the army ran to Li Xiucheng's side and said loudly: "General, I have been chasing for four hours today, it's time to stop and rest." ”

According to the past practice, it would definitely not take more than four hours to catch up with Wu Qigong.

Because four hours was enough to approach Wu Qigong's soldiers, Li Xiucheng had no intention of destroying Wu Qigong for the time being. Today, Li Xiucheng didn't say a word and didn't give orders, and the soldiers in the army couldn't figure it out. Therefore, some generals rode their horses to Li Xiucheng's side and reminded Li Xiucheng to stop and rest.

Li Xiucheng's eyes were still staring at the direction of Wu Qigong's escape, shook his head and said: "This time, don't stop and rest, accelerate forward, and kill Wu Qigong after catching up!" ”

"Yes!"

When the general received the order, not only did he not get angry because he didn't stop to rest, but his eyes shone brightly, and his eyes flashed with a faint green light like a wolf. In the past, when the army chased Wu Qigong, in fact, it could catch up every time, but every time he was about to catch up, Li Xiucheng always ordered to stop the pursuit, and then set up camp to rest.

Every time he threw away the meat that reached his mouth, the generals and soldiers in the army felt pity and wanted to take Wu Qigong in one go. Li Xiucheng ordered to continue the pursuit, and the general happily passed the order.

The order was heard, and the three thousand elites burst out with cheers that resounded through the heavens and the earth.

A wolf-like ferocity suddenly popped out.

These 3,000 soldiers are like tigers, leopards, and lions that have been locked in an iron cage, and they can only drool when they see the prey outside the cage, but they can't rush out of the cage to catch the prey. The cage opened, and the anger in the hearts of the three thousand soldiers suddenly tilted out, and a stirring excitement spread in the hearts of each soldier.

Even though these soldiers had been running for several hours, they did not feel tired, but the wind was blowing under their feet, and they were eager to catch up with Wu Qigong's army immediately.

……

Two miles away from the foot of Yushan Mountain, a thousand soldiers led by Wu Qili stopped.

Wu Qigong and Li Xiu exchanged hands several times, and gradually figured out each other's habits.

After nearly four hours of chase each time, Li Xiucheng's soldiers would stop. When Wu Qigong came to this conclusion, he did not dare to stop immediately once or twice at first, because Wu Qigong was afraid that Li Xiucheng would retreat and then suddenly attack. However, every time he stopped and did not pursue, Wu Qigong gradually relaxed, and lost the vigilance he had at the beginning.

Of the thousands of soldiers, Wu Qigong only let a dozen or so soldiers stand guard, and the rest of the soldiers rested when they should rest, and played when they should play, without the slightest concern for the safety of the army.

No, the whole army stopped to rest, and only a dozen soldiers who were tired like dogs stood guard.

One by one the soldiers fell to the ground, and some of them sat on the ground, hunched backs, heads bowed, and resting their heads on their knees; Some soldiers simply lay on the ground, their hands outstretched, and posed in a large font, completely unguarded; Other soldiers sat on the ground gasping for air, apparently from the exhaustion of the previous run......

Not only the soldiers, but even Wu Qigong got off his horse, found a big tree next to the road, sat down against the trunk, and rested against the big tree. From the beginning of his escape, Wu Qigong was so tired that he couldn't stand it, not only physically, but also mentally.

"Purr! Snore!! ”

After a while, Wu Qigong actually snored and fell asleep directly.

The appearance of the army is no longer an army.

If Qi Shan saw Wu Qigong leading troops like this, he would definitely be so angry that he would come back to life and scold him when he died. However, this is already a fact and cannot be changed.

At some point, there was a shout of killing in the distance, and the ground shook.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack !!"

"The bandits are coming, the bandits are coming."

……

A heart-rending and fearful cry suddenly rang out, and the sentry soldiers spread their feet and ran forward. Wu Qigong slept very deeply, and did not hear the shouts of the soldiers, but was slapped on the shoulder, and then woke up suddenly, and heard the panicked shouts of the soldiers, Wu Qigong stood up suddenly.

Looking up, a group of black bandits rushed over, showing sharp and sharp fangs like tigers and wolves. Wu Qigong was so frightened that he trembled in his heart, but his feet didn't stop, he quickly threw off his feet and ran to the side of the war horse, and shouted: "The bandits are coming, run away, flee to the mountains and forests!" ”

"Drive!!"

Wu Qigong slapped the horse's buttocks, only to hear a crisp snap, the war horse was in pain, shook off its four hooves and ran towards the mountain. The rest of the generals and soldiers all got up in one go, picked up their weapons and ran towards the mountains and forests.

However, Li Xiucheng came too fast after all, and he caught Wu Qigong off guard. Li Xiucheng didn't wait for Wu Qigong to escape with the soldiers, rode his horse to the side of the road, and shouted: "Foreign guns, shoot!" ”

The words fell, and the running soldiers stopped.

Among them, the soldiers at the front stood in a line, raising their guns and aiming at the fleeing Manchu soldiers.

"Bang! Bang!!! ”

A barrage of gunfire rang out, and bullets were fired forward.

A dense stream of bullets hit the fleeing soldiers, making a popping sound and shooting into the soldiers' bodies. In an instant, a terrible scream sounded on the official road. Li Xiucheng rode on a horse, watching the Manchu soldiers fall to the ground, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes flashed with coldness, but he was extremely happy in his heart.

As soon as the soldiers in the first row fired, they immediately retreated and reloaded.

The soldiers of the second and third platoons made up and fired again.

In this seamless cycle, countless Manchu soldiers were shot in the blink of an eye.

As far as the eye could see, corpses fell to the ground, blood flowing all over the ground, staining the official road red, and the blood seeping into the road turned the color of the ground into a dark purple. Under the pressure of the Taiping army's firepower, the soldiers of the Jiangbei battalion seemed to have two hot wheels on their legs, running fast, and rushing forward with a breath even if they were tired.

It's a pity that the soldiers under Li Xiucheng's command did not reload their bullets quickly. The soldiers launched wave after wave of shooting, but Wu Qigong still led the soldiers to quickly run out of the distance of the bullets.

Shooting is useless, and the only way is to catch up and fight.

ps: One of the three watches, I overslept today, sorry!