Chapter Seventy-Nine: Troubled Times Are Coming, Bandits Are Rampant

(Ask for red tickets, ask for collections)

"Li Jing has fled to the Eastern Capital, what should we do?"

Chen Que'er urged the mount to stick to Li Xian's big black horse and asked.

Li Xian said: "I promised He Ruo Chongshan to help him take revenge, and the eldest husband will be difficult to chase after no matter how many horses he says, so let's go to He Ruo Chongshan first, and then think about how to help him take revenge." Zhang Jin said that this person I know, it is said that the favorite thing is to eat people's hearts? I just don't know, I can't swallow my heart and stuff it into his own mouth. ”

Chen Que'er said: "I don't know this person very well, my eldest brother and I have never heard of such a number one person when we were rampant on the ground in Hedong, and I don't know why it suddenly appeared, it is said that he occupies Juluze, and his subordinates have more than 10,000 people." But in my opinion, it's just a rabble. ”

He thought for a while and said: "But Sun Anzu is not a small person, it is said that when the Great Sui destroyed Nan Chen, he was still a school captain, and he worked under the handsome Gao Ying. It seems that someone was greedy for the military exploits of General Nan Chen, and in a fit of anger, he took off his official skin and went home to do some small business. It's just that this person is quite righteous, so he has some popularity in the rivers and lakes. I heard that he was framed by the county order of the dog for stealing a sheep, and in a fit of anger, he slaughtered the county order and pulled the flag to rebel, and the surname Suo gave himself a sheep toucher, but his subordinates called him a general. ”

Li Xian knew this person, and Sun Anzu could be said to be one of the first people to raise the anti-flag at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Although his fame is not as great as that of Shandong Zhishilang Wang Bo, it is worth mentioning that without him, perhaps Dou Jiande would have had a lot of twists and turns when he moved things later. It was under the banner of avenging Sun Anzu that Dou Jiande incorporated most of Sun Anzu's subordinates before he gradually gained a firm foothold in Gaojibo.

As the two of them were talking, they suddenly saw a burst of smoke rising in front of them. This place is more than 300 miles away from Youzhou, and it is not particularly far from Gaojibo. He Ruozhongshan said that if he entered the customs, he would wait for them in a place called Maoshan Village, which was about 100 miles away from Gaojibo. Li Xian and the others inquired all the way and knew that there were no more than dozens of miles away from Maoshan Village.

"Let's go! Let's see what's going on up ahead. ”

Li Xian patted the big black horse's ass and ran out first. The rest of the people followed behind Li Xian, and everyone climbed a high slope to look up, only to see a small village about three miles ahead, and the smoke came out of the village. In the distance, you can see a figure flickering in the village, extremely noisy, so far away, you can vaguely hear the sound of chickens and dogs barking.

"It's like bandits are attacking that village."

The iron wolf put his hand on the pergola and looked forward, and said to Li Xian sideways.

Why is it that after only seven years of great cause, the world has become like this?

Although Li Xian knows some of the history of this era, he is not very clear. In his impression, the banditry of the Great Sui seemed to have gradually erupted after Yang Guang's first expedition to Goguryeo. He didn't expect that now that the Great Sui was powerful and the ruling power of the government was still stable, how could there be bandits who dared to blatantly attack the village in broad daylight.

"There are not many people, it should not exceed three hundred."

Chao Qiuge looked at it carefully and said, "Do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

Chen Que'er said: "Isn't it...... The people of Heruo Heavy Mountain? ”

Li Xian urged the horse to rush forward, and when the voice came out, he was already more than ten meters away: "I haven't heard that Sun Anzu's people are ruining the people!" ”

Everyone no longer hesitated, urging the horse to follow Li Xian and rush over.

The closer we got to the village, the clearer the screams from the village became. Men, women, and children, I don't know how many people are wailing for help. A few hundred meters away, it was already clear that many bandits were wielding sticks and crude spears, beating and killing villagers. Seeing that the bandits are very messy, but each person wraps a gray cloth on his head as a symbol of identity for each other. The weapons in their hands were also a mess, and even a decent horizontal knife was rare. Some villagers rushed out of the streets and alleys to call for help, but were chased by the bandits from behind and stabbed to death with a crude spear with an iron spear on an ash pole.

A bandit, standing on the earthen wall at the edge of the village, lifted a baby that had been snatched up in the air, laughed wildly and threw it down. In an instant, the baby's crying came to an abrupt end. The bandit didn't seem to be able to get enough of it, picking up the baby's corpse with his spear and waving it in the sky, laughing as he whirled.

Suddenly, he saw a small cavalry speeding in the distance. He was stunned for a moment, and then shouted loudly: "There are officers and soldiers!" ”

Because they were in a hurry, Li Xian and the others did not put on armor. The reason why the bandit shouted with certainty that there were officers and soldiers was because there were very few horses among the bandits. In particular, those people were riding tall horses, and there were hardly a dozen serious war horses in the bandit dens in the vicinity. Even the people's own angry horses or mules were mostly requisitioned by the government to transport supplies to Liaodong. War horses are in the Central Plains, and they are originally scarce.

Even if there are tens of thousands of people under the sheep man who occupied Gao Jibo a while ago, there are not even a hundred cavalry, and most of them are horses and mules that can't run fast. So the bandit was sure that the guys who came on horseback were definitely not his own people.

"They have no combat power to speak of!"

The Iron Wolf said loudly, "Not even a guard, let alone a scout ranger!" Their weapons were so disorganized that not even one of them was wearing leather armor. ”

Li Xian hummed and shouted, "Kill it!" ”

Everyone responded and took out the repeater given by Luo Yi.

Li Xian knew that such a bandit had no combat power at all, let alone something terrible. In the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were countless rebel armies, large and small, and almost no one won the battle with the Great Sui official army in the early days. No matter how many of them are, they won't be able to become a climate. For example, in a history that Li Xian knew, the old general Zhang Xutuo, the general of Qi County, once had the feat of intimidating 20,000 bandits with four people and not daring to move forward. And the defeat of tens of thousands of bandits by hundreds of officers and soldiers abounded in the last years of the Great Sui.

Of course, even Zhang Xutuo himself still doesn't know that he will be able to make such a crazy move two years later.

As the baby-slaughtering bandit shouted, the village fell silent for a moment, and then a riot erupted. Some of the bandits shouted for escape, while the villagers cried out for help as if they saw hope.

A leader-like bandit climbed the earthen wall, looked at Li Xian and them, and then shouted, "What the hell are you afraid of!" There are few of them! Archers, archers, where the fuck are they dead! Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

This person seemed to be quite intimidating, and after he shouted, the bandits calmed down a little, and a dozen archers, who were not even equipped with the cheapest cotton armor, ran over, pulled out their homemade bamboo bows, and shot at Li Xian and them with rough feather arrows. The scattered feather arrows don't have any accuracy, and even the strength is so ridiculous.

More than a dozen arrows, but most of them were blown by the wind and shot in the air, only one arrow blind cat hit the dead mouse's luck and flew in front of Li Xian, Li Xian slightly sideways to let the soft feather arrow over. Looking at the distance, he couldn't help but not give an order.

"These idiots!"

Chao Qiuge scolded with a smile: "A hundred steps away to start firing arrows, even those broken things in their hands can also be called bows?" What a laugh out of people's big teeth! ”

It's no wonder that Chao Qiuge looks down on those bandits, the bamboo bow in their hands doesn't have enough strength at all, even if the feather arrow can barely fly out a hundred and ten steps away crookedly, it has already lost its strength. Even if Li Xian didn't hide just now, he was afraid that the arrow would cut him through an inconspicuous small hole at most.

"Shoot! Hurry up! What the fuck are you guys who haven't eaten enough! ”

The leader of the bandits shouted, snatched a bamboo bow, mounted an arrow and shot it at Li Xian, but his archery skills were even more unreliable, the arrow swayed like a paper airplane and fell far away, and it didn't even fly out fifty steps before it fell.

"Gather the damn together, the cavalry is most afraid of spears, stab them to death!"

When the leader of the bandits saw that the feather arrows were ineffective, he immediately shouted loudly for his hands to go into battle. Li Xian and the others didn't expect that the bandits actually knew a little bit about how to use troops, but it was obvious that it was too late to remember the spear formation to block the cavalry when they reached a distance of fifty paces. Moreover, even if they could line up, they wouldn't be able to stop Li Xian and their eighteen murderous fierce knights.

"Crossbow, shoot!"

Li Xian shouted loudly, and then shot the first feather arrow. He didn't have a repeater, but he had a two-stone hard bow made by the Great Sui Seiko. It stands to reason that Li Xian could shoot an arrow from a distance of 120 paces, and the reason why he waited until he was 50 paces away to shoot the first arrow was because his arrow represented a signal of slaughter.

The leader of the bandits, who was still waving his arms, only felt that his eyes were dark, and he did not react in the slightest, and a feathered arrow hit his eye socket, and the arrow shattered an eyeball with a pop and pierced deep into his brain. He stiffened against the earthen wall, and then slowly fell backwards.

As Li Xian's first arrow was fired, the horse thieves who rushed over with Li Xian as the arrow swallowtail pulled the crossbow one after another. In the sudden sound, countless crossbow arrows poured down in an instant.

In front of the crossbow refined by the Great Sui, those bandits without protective gear were simply like grass targets. Their thin clothes could not stop the sharp crossbow arrows, and the gun array they hastily formed was immediately torn off a layer of fiercely. The first two rows of bandits fell like weeds cut by a scythe, and the wails of the arrow-struck were infinitely amplified and resounded through the sky.

In just one volley, at least thirty or forty bandits were knocked to the ground. The gun array, which had not yet taken shape, was destroyed, and the bandits behind immediately blew up the nest.

"They have repeaters! It's the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion! ”

At the mention of the word government soldiers, those bandits were as afraid as if they had seen demons and monsters. Most of them were frightened by an irresponsible cry from their companions, and immediately turned around and ran.

Li Xian shot three arrows, accurately shot the three bandits to death, and immediately changed the black knife in his hand, stretched out the knife and pointed forward, the big black horse chirped twice, and rushed towards the densest place in the crowd.

Iron wolf, Chao Qiu Song, Luo Fu and a few of them who are good at using the long lance followed Li Xian's side and protected his left and right.

As the big black horse jumped high and smashed into the crowd, four or five long lance poisonous dragons stabbed the bandits who were blocking in front to the ground. The bandits provoked by the lance were not yet dead, and they could still let out a terrible and desperate wail after the bullet was in the air.

Li Xian lowered his body and stretched out the black knife flatly.

With the help of the big black horse's usual surname, the black knife also seemed to let out a moan of excitement when it came into contact with the first person. The blade slashed the man's throat with ease, and blood spurted out like a waterfall. And in his desperate gaze, the young man on the black horse had already removed half of his companion's shoulder with another sword.

The teenager took the lead.

Murderous like hemp.