Under the dim sky, ten fast horses galloped across a plain with the sound of thunderous hooves, and the earth, which would have caused a burst of chickens and dogs to cry at night, was now silent, revealing a dead silence.

After some time, the sound of the horses' hooves gradually slowed down, and in a short time six fast horses stopped in front of a village, and five knights jumped down from the six fast horses, and they dismounted and led the horses slowly to the entrance of the village.

There was no moon tonight, only a little starlight shining on the bodies of these five knights, and I saw that these five knights were wearing fine and light fish-scale iron leaf armor, covered with red mandarin duck battle jackets, and holding a sturdy small round shield in their left hand. Although their appearances were different, all of them showed a vigilant look, if the Qing soldiers saw it, they could recognize at a glance that these must be the most elite of the Ming army.

Walking in front was a tall and thin man about thirty years old, tall and thin, with high and bulging cheekbones, giving people a gloomy feeling. He has a handcuff about a foot long in his right armpit, and a saber hung last night, which is 0.96 meters long and weighs nearly three catties, the handle is a combination of cast aluminum and wood, the fist guard, the scabbard, and the blade are all chrome-plated, and the handle and fist guard have copper clamping blades, which have always been the favorite of the scouts.

The man walking behind him was a burly, big man with a full face, I saw him with a calm face, leading two war horses with a mouth cage and slowly walking five or six steps away from the man at the head, if you look at it from a distance, the position where the man is standing can not only quickly support the companions in front of him when he is suddenly attacked, but also not to escape when attacked, and these few people who do not collect at night are in order between the staggered, it can be seen that they are worthy of being the elite of the Ming army.

They slowly walked to a place fifty steps outside the entrance of the village, and Ye Bushu, who was walking in front, suddenly raised his hand, and Ye Bushu, who was walking behind, suddenly stopped in unison.

The one in the middle asked in a low voice, "Fang Laosi, what's the situation!" ”

Fang Laosi, who was walking in the front, didn't look back, but said softly: "Gutou, there is a fire in the house in front!" ”

The man in the middle is Gu Chen, who served as the commander of the night army last year when Pang Gangqin was king, but at this time he was already a foreign commissioner who did not accept the night, and after listening to Fang Laosi's reminder, Gu Chen immediately lowered his voice and said: "Be alert immediately!" ”

After listening to Gu Chen's words, the four people behind him pulled out the fire hammer on their waists, and then tied their horses to a few small trees on the side of the road, and immediately touched forward.

They knew very well that the villages they had come through were empty, that there could be no exceptions in this village, the only possibility was that there was a situation here.

When he felt the distance of about twenty paces of firelight, Gu Chen, who was walking in the front at this time, had already faintly heard a burst of painful sounds coming from inside.

Gu Chen waved his hand, everyone lowered their bodies, ran to a low ditch that had dried up and squatted down, looking through the ditch, a fire was lit in front of the house, and next to the fire, there were several Qing soldiers wearing the same fiery red armor as the Ming army, and there was no other color next to the armor.

A few Qing soldiers who were in charge of letting off the wind were casually circling around the fire, and it was estimated that in their opinion, this kind of weather and place was the safest, and those cowardly Han people had long since disappeared, and even if there were people, no one would dare to approach their brave Qing warriors.

There were still two or three Qing soldiers sitting beside the fire, they had already taken off their helmets at this time, revealing their bare heads and slender pigtails behind them, and farther away from the fire, there were more than a dozen war horses tied up, they were quietly eating horse feed and drinking salt water.

It was just that in the silence, there were bursts of terrible screams from the broken house near the fire, and Gu Chen and the others knew as soon as they heard it that it must be the woman who was captured by the Tartars again.

Fang Laosi's surname was rather irritable, and he immediately looked at Gu Chen with his eyes, and the meaning was very clear, that is, he was asking him for instructions on whether he wanted to go over and kill those Qing soldiers.

Gu Chen looked at the seven or eight Qing soldiers not far away, nodded slowly, and stretched out two fingers to make a throwing gesture. Everyone understood, and immediately two people came out from behind, and slowly touched forward with the help of shadows, and when they touched a piece of ruins, they immediately hid behind the ruins.

At this time, they were still about seventeen or eighteen steps away from the Qing soldiers, and the two Ye Buhui slowly took out two black cylindrical things from the cloth bags behind them, which turned out to be two earth-shattering thunders. Immediately took out the fire fold, a night did not close the lid of the fire fold, gently blew a few times, and then the originally dim fire fold slowly lit up, the two looked at each other and nodded to each other, and at the same time put the introduction of the earth-shattering thunder to the fire fold, and then a burst of white smoke accompanied by a faint sound of "snort" came up.

The two of them didn't dare to slack off, so they quickly leaned out of the rubble and threw the earth-shattering thunder in their hands towards the fire.

Two earth-shattering thunderbolts crossed a beautiful arc in the dark night, and landed next to the Qing soldiers, making two clear "click" sounds, and the Qing soldiers turned their heads to see two black things rolling under their feet, while emitting white smoke and making a "snort" sound.

The Qing soldiers who were roasting the fire by the fire were also alert, and although they didn't know what they were when they saw these two black things, these murderous executioners had beastly intuition in their blood, and they immediately jumped up reflexively.

"Be careful!"

A Qing soldier screamed and sent out a warning signal in Manchu, and with this cry of panic, two huge explosions rang out one after another, and dozens of small iron beads placed in the earth-shattering thunder were instantly splashed around at a speed faster than the sound under the impetus of huge kinetic energy.

Although the Qing soldiers near the fire were wearing thick cotton armor, and some of them even wore three layers of heavy armor, they were still pierced into their fragile bodies by the flying explosives.

When the loud explosion was accompanied by two flashes of light, two stumbling figures stumbled out of the confused smoke.

At this time, the two Ye Bushu who were hiding behind the ruins had already rushed out, their speed was very fast, and the saber in their hands stabbed at the two Qing soldiers who had not yet woken up from the explosion, and the two Qing soldiers fell down in a slightly sore "flutter" sound.

(To be continued)