When Liu Jun received Zhao Cheng's urgent letter, the hundreds of bandits who fled from Hutou Fort were defeated and the fleeing cavalry ran into trouble. As soon as Ma Shoucheng died, they fled in embarrassment, leaving behind the rest of their companions, these people even had a reserve horse, but when they fled, they refused to take it out to those companions who did not have horses, one more reserve horse, and when they escaped, they had one more chance, and these old thieves were more ruthless and ruthless than one at a critical time.

With one man and two horses, they did escape from Tiger Head Fort smoothly.

It turned out that these people were going to go back to Gwangju, Henan Province first, and then back to Yinghuo Laoying. This adds up to more than 200 cavalry, all of which are riding good horses, all the way fast horses and whips, not giving the horses half time to rest, fortunately, they have prepared horses, and after running for a while, they will change to reserve horses, so that the other horse can rest a little.

The horses' hooves were like a fierce rainstorm in the morning wilderness, and a few pairs of frightened eyes appeared from time to time in some of the ruined villages along the roadside, and the villagers, who had just been plundered a few days earlier, hid behind their empty houses full of terror and resentment.

Ma Shoucheng's artillery supervisor Zhang Shousheng rode a black horse with a mouth outside, and his heart was very heavy. Although with his position as the commander-in-chief, he finally escaped with Ma Shoucheng's own soldiers, but the entire battalion of more than 3,000 people is now left with less than 300 people around him.

Although he escaped from the city of Tiger Head Fort, he didn't know how to explain it when he returned. Zhang Shousheng knows a lot about the old Hui Ma Shouying, this person usually has a smiling face, but he is an absolutely ruthless person, quite cunning and insidious. This time his brother died, and so did his nephew, and an elite battalion was almost completely lost, and when they returned, they would not have good fruit to eat.

"Can't go back." Zhang Shousheng made up his mind in his heart. "We can't go back, we can't just go back." Zhang Shousheng stopped fighting horses and stopped Ma Shoucheng's pro-soldier management team Li Yong.

"Manager Zhang, what are your plans?" Li Yong was also confused along the way, he was more afraid than Zhang Shousheng, he was Ma Shoucheng's personal soldier management team, but Zhang Shoucheng died, but he went back intact, and he could have a good one.

Zhang Shousheng and Li Yong are completely different from each other, Li Yong and Ma Shoucheng are fellow villagers, and they were authentic hunters in their early years, and they were poor. Later, he rebelled with Ma Shoucheng and others, so he also won the trust of Ma Shoucheng, from the personal guard to the personal guard management team. And Zhang Shousheng is completely different, he turned out to be an officer, although he was a junior officer at the head of the army, but he was an officer anyway, but he was later captured by Ma Shoucheng, so he simply became a thief, because of his proficiency in artillery, he became Ma Shoucheng's artillery master step by step.

Because of this unique ability, he is usually appreciated by Ma Shoucheng, and he mixes well. But now that Ma Shoucheng is dead, or dead under his artillery, Lao Huihui will definitely not let go of himself.

"We can't just go back like this, Team Li."

Li Yong also reined in his horse, "But where else can we go?" ”

"Go to Huang'an." Zhang Shousheng gritted his teeth and said. Now Huang Ancheng also has a team of his own soldiers and horses attacking, and it is also the men and horses of the fifth battalion of Huizuo, but it is not the battalion head of Lao Huihui, but the subordinates raised by King Lin in troubled times.

Although the five battalions on the left side are united, the leaders of the five tribes are usually on an equal footing, not a relationship between the upper and lower commanders, but more of an alliance nature. In fact, each battalion of the fifth battalion on the left belongs to each other, and they do not interfere with each other. Zhang Shousheng was afraid that he would come back and kill him when he went back, so he wanted to find a way out.

"Now there is a battalion of people in Huang'an, it is the soldiers and horses of Lin Sizu, the son of the king of troubled times, let's go to Huang'an and ask Lin Sizu to take him in."

Li Yong hesitated a little, "Lin Sizu is willing to take us in and shelter us?" ”

"We have hundreds of riders here, and we deserve his protection."

"Then go and try it, if it doesn't work, let's just join the official army and be recruited." Li Yong was so frightened in his heart that he even said the words of being recruited.

The two finally decided to go to Huang'an first. Even if Lin Yangsheng is unwilling to take them in, then they go to Huang An to help together, which can be regarded as an opportunity to find something to make up for their mistakes.

In the afternoon, they turned their horses' heads and turned westward, heading for Huang'an.

Soon after, they arrived near the Taiping Tuchenggang, but were suddenly and unexpectedly ambushed.

A group of cavalry running in front suddenly lost their horses' long hooves, and the horses neighed, and suddenly people turned on their backs.

"There's a trip!" A cavalryman saw it clearly, and hurriedly stopped the warhorse.

Before the words fell, countless arrows suddenly shot out from the woods on both sides of the road, and many people fell from their horses.

"Kill the thief!"

There were people in the forest who shouted, and there was a shout of killing, and a team of people came out of the forest.

Zhang Shousheng turned his horse's head and wanted to run back, but there was also a shout of killing from behind, and a large group of people rushed from behind with knives and guns.

Hundreds of thieves are surrounded by ambushes!

"Rush over!" Seeing that there was nowhere to retreat, Li Yong waved his sword again and again to block several incoming arrows and shouted to his subordinates.

It's a pity that they were ambushed and caught off guard, and at this time they happened to be in a narrow place, with a road in the middle, dense forests on both sides, surrounded by all sides, and the cavalry could not rush up at all, and they lost their most powerful advantage. They rode on horses, wielding spears and swords, slashing left and right, trying to fight their way out.

But the ambushers are also very brave, especially since they have a lot of bows and arrows, and even worse, there are a lot of guns and artillery.

There was a loud "boom", a tiger squatting cannon was under the tree on the side of the road, and the cannon was fired at them closely, and a large piece of small lead bullets sprayed out, and several knights were suddenly knocked down with men and horses, and blood flowed all over the ground, and it was impossible to distinguish the blood of people and horses.

Explosions rang out from time to time, and quite a few cavalry and horses were hit.

Zhang Shousheng quickly looked around, and found that the number of people who ambushed them was not superior, the number was about the same as them, only about three or four hundred, but they occupied the favorable terrain, and fired with longbows, muskets and artillery, plus the front and rear roads were blocked, their cavalry could not give full play to their advantages, and instead became rakes of bows and arrows and firearms on horses.

He searched the battlefield and soon found what he was looking for.

Under a tree on the left, a small group of men rode on horseback, but they did not participate in the attack. One of them was obviously the commander of the ambushers, and someone next to him was holding a red and blue order flag, waving it from time to time, and passing orders to the ambushers around him through the flag.

"Li Guan's team, over there, that's the commander, kill them, you can break through the formation." Zhang Shousheng shouted.

With his guidance, Li Yong also discovered those people.

He shouted, "Come with me." ”

Li Yong led dozens of horsemen straight to kill over there, rampage all the way.

"Oh no, the thieves are eyeing us, Childe quickly withdraw." A knight in iron armor also noticed the movement of the bandits, and anxiously shouted to a young man beside him.

"What are you afraid of, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will flood the earth. Ben Gongzi's personal army obeyed the order and intercepted them. "The young man was dressed in silver armor and silver cloak, wearing a silver helmet, he was extremely young and handsome, and he was not afraid of the thieves who came straight forward, and he did not care about the advice of the generals around him, but wanted to fight the thieves head-on.

A team of personal soldiers stepped forward to meet the battle, and the two teams of cavalry collided fiercely. Li Yong and others have been on the battlefield for a long time, although they are the generals of the defeated army, but at this time, they are fighting the trapped beasts, but they are becoming more and more fierce. The two sides exchanged swords and battles, and the gunners and archers behind were unable to support.

After fighting for a while, Li Yong and his gang fought with the ferocity of those outlaws, coupled with rich experience in battle formations, and fought more and more advantageously, while those personal soldiers who could not get the support of artillery and bows and arrows were defeated and retreated, and more than a dozen had fallen in a blink of an eye.

The pro-team team couldn't hold on any longer, and began to scatter and flee, Li Yong did not pursue, but just rode his horse and roared towards the young man.

"Childe, let's go!"

"I'm not leaving, I'm going to fight the dog thieves."

The handsome son still refused to retreat, and the family slashed the back of the horse with a knife, and the horse galloped wildly under the pain. "Son, let's go, I'll come to the palace."

Ambush warfare shifted at an astonishing rate, with the ambushers' headquarters destroyed, the commanders scattered, and the ambush forces without effective command, especially when the two armies were completely entangled, and their artillery was largely useless. Under the leadership of Li Yong, the horse thieves began to swing like a machete, and they galloped, driving more and more horse thieves to run, cutting down one ambush after another.

Zhang Shousheng also led dozens of horsemen to charge, and he led people to kill those tiger squat cannons and gunners, and knocked over the more than ten tiger squat cannons that posed the greatest threat to them.

The silver-armored boy was straddled off the horse and ran dozens of steps away, and finally reined in the horse, and when he turned around, he saw that his subordinates who had just gained the upper hand had been chased and cut by thieves in a blink of an eye, and his eyes couldn't help but be red.

"Kill the thief!" With a shout, he swung his knife and turned around and rushed back.

The middle-aged general Zhang Gong shot a bandit off the horse, but when he saw that Gongzi was back again, he couldn't help but say urgently, "Why are you back again." ”

"My father once said that when the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and the battle has just begun, how can I escape, brothers, follow me and kill the thief together."

"Kill the thief." Countless voices responded, and the shouts converged, which immediately boosted the morale of the horse thieves, who were about to collapse, and actually blocked the fierce counterattack of the horse thieves.

However, looking at the excited son, the general's eyes were not happy. From his experience, he can see that they are still not as fierce as the bandits after all, and they are all supported by a breath of qi at the moment, but this qi will soon be discharged, and then they will still be defeated. He regrets it very much now, why didn't he stop him well, and actually let him come with these three hundred family members.

Just a few miles away from Tuchenggang, Liu Jun led the nine-headed bird to ride a horse.

A night horse rushed to Liu Junma from the front, "Report! ”

"Report to your lordship, I found two armies of soldiers and horses fighting, one of them seems to be the hundreds of bandits who escaped from under the tiger head fort, and the other is unknown, but now it is at a disadvantage, and it seems that it will not be able to support it."

As soon as he heard the news, Liu Jun didn't have time to think about why there was a kind of soldier and horse here who was fighting with his men, but immediately gave a loud order.

"Full speed ahead, thief!"