Qi Duyan gasped for breath, he desperately waved the steel knife in his hand, slashing left and right, but unfortunately although he was brave, he could not defeat four hands with two fists.

Every time his knife was slashed, a shield or two, or a spear or two, was drawn out. Swinging his knife again and again, he was blocked again and again, and he repeated the useless work. At his feet were the brothers who had followed him to the top of the city, but by this time they had all fallen to the ground, and their bodies were riddled with holes and limbs.

The blood of the brethren was dripping thick on the city, and the hem of Qi One-eyed's clothes was wet.

Exhausted, and hopeless.

"Come on, Eagle Dog, minions!"

"Phew, there's a kind of one-on-one to fight with Lao Tzu!"

Qi one-eyed shouted angrily, but unfortunately no one paid attention to him at all, and those townsmen only knew how to rely on more and bully less. He turned his head and glanced at the city, where it was already light, no one was jumping up the ladder, and the brethren were retreating, like a tidal wave.

The brothers who had come up to the top of the city were almost dead. Without follow-up support, there were fewer and fewer brothers in the city, and they had been divided and surrounded by the townspeople, and they were bullied and killed by those people.

"Come on!"

Qi Duyan slashed down with a steel knife again, one of the townsmen raised his boring palladium to fork his knife, and the other townsman had already reached for his feet with a hook gun, trying to hook his legs.

The steel knife was forked, so that it could not be moved, Qi Duyan abandoned the knife, rolled on the spot, rolled through the blood plasma of the brothers, and could avoid the hook gun, but several spears stabbed him, and Qi Duyan, who was already clinging to the battlements, could no longer avoid it.

Looking at the excited and proud faces of the villagers behind those spears and palladium, Qi single-eyed gritted his teeth and showed a contemptuous smile. "Even if Lao Tzu dies, he will not fall into the hands of you eagles and dogs." With that, he pressed his hand on the battlements and jumped down.

There is a morning breeze blowing beside his face, and in front of his eyes are the faces of his wife and sons, and I have come to meet you. Qi Duyan smiled at the corner of his mouth, closed his eyes, and let his body fall freely.

A group of reservists couldn't help but show a depressed expression when they saw that fierce thief actually jumped off the city at the last moment. Seeing that this guy is so fierce, everyone thinks that he must be the leader of the thieves, at least equivalent to the flag general or even the hundred general level in the nine-headed bird, but after working for a long time, this guy jumped over the wall by himself, really.

"The thief is really ruthless." Several of the reservists sneered, and a piece of fat to their mouths was gone.

The sky was getting brighter, and the battle of the sneak attack and ambush came to an end for the time being, and the thieves retreated to a place two miles outside the south gate to gather and rest. And Tiger Head Fort also began to clean up the battlefield and take turns to rest.

However, this battle was a beautiful victory for Tiger Head Fort.

The results of the battle were reported to the whole fort as soon as possible, and a team of members rode horses, beat gongs and drums, and blew suona to report to the fort over and over again.

The traders and people who were asked to close their doors at home also opened their doors at this time, walked to the front of their homes, walked to the streets, and celebrated with their neighbors and villagers, and congratulated each other.

They were also woken up by the sound of firecrackers in the early hours of the morning, but before they could go to the street to check, a group of nine-headed birds had already been notified from door to door, saying that there were bandits coming to attack the city, and General Lian had already led his troops to fight the enemy, so that the Chinese and African soldiers in the fort were closed and at home, and they were not allowed to move. After that, there were patrol soldiers patrolling from time to time, and everyone was worried all night.

For the so-called rebels, in fact, whether they are squires or merchants, or even ordinary people, most people have no good impression. And so far, there has not been any so-called rebel army that has done anything good, they are just a group of bandits and thieves, sweeping everywhere, everywhere they go, except for looting or coercion.

The gentry and merchants hated the bandits, and the people hated the bandits, even if life was hard, after all, they could still live by guarding their homes. And as soon as the bandits came, they didn't even have a home.

Now when they heard that Liu Lian had finally defeated the bandits, everyone was excited. Many shops have reopened, and some people have even set off firecrackers to celebrate. There are even shops to celebrate the defeat of the bandits, all the officers and soldiers of the nine-headed bird will enjoy a 20% discount on shopping, and a big reward for the news of guests, as long as they come to buy things, they can enjoy a 95% discount within three days, and so on.

A steaming breakfast was prepared in the cafeteria and brought to the city in vats and steamers.

At the same time, the shops in the fort also joined forces to launch a condolence and reward action, they gathered a lot of goods and materials, and also temporarily raised a sum of silver, which was sent to the nine-headed bird, thanking everyone for repelling the thieves and protecting their lives and property.

Although there are not many silver items, this is sent by everyone, and Liu Jun is very happy.

The shopkeepers of the condolence reward group led by Lu Weizhang couldn't help but be stunned as they watched the carloads of corpses pulled to the intersection. Even those who pulled the corpses were just as shocked when they saw the piles of corpses. As soon as the thieves came, the construction site was suspended, and Liu Jun arranged them to be people's husbands to move ordnance, carry the wounded, and transport corpses.

The hundreds of corpses in the urn city at the north gate were all transported to the Guan Gong Temple in the center of the fort, and the corpses on the head of the southern city were also transported. In addition, the thieves retreated, so Liu Jun asked people to open the south gate and transport back the corpses of the thieves outside the city.

There were 728 corpses, and a high pile was piled up in front of the Guan Gong Temple.

The blood is full of blood, but the onlookers are three layers inside and three layers outside, no one is afraid, everyone is very excited, just like the dense crowd of people watching the execution of prisoners at the entrance of the vegetable market when the government executes criminals.

Even among the onlookers, there were many people who took the hot steamed buns they had just bought and ran to the side of the corpse pile to dip them in blood and eat them. It is said that human blood is a kind of medicine, and steamed buns dipped in human blood can cure tuberculosis and the like. In fact, most people don't have tuberculosis, but they are superstitious about what human blood can prevent disease and so on, and they all want to dip some human blood into steamed buns.

If Liu Jun hadn't sent someone to stop it in time, maybe someone would have come to cut the flesh of the bandit's corpse to eat, and even a few bold guys actually asked the guards to buy the heart and liver of the leader of the thieves to fry the wine and eat it, which made Liu Jun disgusted.

The people of the Ming Dynasty have a cowardly performance on the one hand, but sometimes they are very cruel. For example, when Yuan Chonghuan, a hero who was once praised by the Ming Dynasty, was later executed by Emperor Ling Chi, the people of Beijing rushed to watch, and even competed to buy Yuan Chonghuan's meat, and after buying it, he didn't even need to process and cook it, and ate it raw.

That's not just one or two, it's many.

In one night's battle, 728 bandits were killed, which is quite an astonishing achievement. When the results were reported, everyone was surprised, I didn't feel it when I played, I felt very relaxed, basically it didn't take much effort, and I felt a thunderbolt in the dark, and I won it.

But now according to statistics, there are actually 728 thieves.

Especially when these seven hundred and twenty-eight corpses are piled up in front of everyone, the intuitive shock brought by that kind of corpse pile is really very big.

"Are our casualties counted?" Liu Jun was also quite surprised when he looked at the corpse pile, but he didn't show it.

"Three were killed, five were seriously wounded, and thirteen were lightly wounded." Zhu Yuancheng, the general manager of the Chinese army, reported to Liu Junyu.

Hearing this casualty figure, Liu Jun first felt very happy, killing more than 700 enemies, only three of them were killed and five were seriously injured, and this casualty ratio was already very small. But when I think about it, after this war, I have to reduce the number of eight team members, and my heart is a little heavy. It is not easy to train a team member, there are eight fewer in one night, and how many times can his 600 people withstand such attrition.

Last night was a very special battle, they took advantage of the thief's carelessness, and it was a defensive counterattack to take advantage of the situation.

"For the brothers who died in battle, help them wash their bodies, prepare their coffins, park them in the Chenghuang Temple in Dongcheng first, and then hold a grand funeral for them after the war." Liu Jun's tone was a little heavy, "A few injured brothers, let the doctor do his best to heal them, no matter how valuable the medicine is, as long as it can be treated, I will never give up." ”

However, according to Zhu Yuancheng's report, even if the five team members can save their lives, most of them will be disabled, and they can only quit the nine-headed bird in the future.

"Send someone to record the combat exploits of the team members, check them carefully, and there can be no omissions and mistakes, these are all exchanged for the lives of the soldiers, and their rewards cannot be missing."

Zhu Yuancheng and other officers nodded one after another.

"What about the corpses of these thieves?" Zhang Shan asked, it's July, the weather is still very hot, and the corpses are piled up here, and they will stink in less than a day.

Liu Jun waved his hand with some interest, "Chop off the head, pickle it with lime, and store it in the warehouse for sealing, and we have to use it to repay the merit after the war." As for the corpses, they were pulled outside the city to dig a big pit and buryed, or they were directly pulled outside the city and burned to ashes. ”

Originally, when they were just armed squires, Liu Jun didn't care much about the corpse of the head when he killed the bandits. But now it's different, they are the regimental training of Macheng County, and they are the local official armed forces of the imperial court, so the corpses of these killed thieves must be preserved, even if only one head is preserved, they must be kept and sealed, so that they can be reported after the war, and let someone be sent from above to verify. Otherwise, who would believe that there are seven hundred and twenty-eight thieves who have been killed with empty mouths and white teeth, without evidence and without evidence.

"I don't know if the county has received our warning, and I don't know when this reinforcement will come." Wang Qian was full of worries about the bandits camping two miles away from the south gate. The joy of winning last night's battle does not mean that the thief is really that useless.

Last night they suffered a loss against the enemy, and if they came to attack the city again, I am afraid that it will never be so easy.

"What are you afraid of, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will flood the earth. If the Leopard runs away with its tail between its legs now, we can only watch them leave. But if he is not convinced and wants to regain his confidence with us, then he is killing himself. We were able to kill them seven hundred and two last night, so if we fight again, we can definitely kill him again. Liu Jun said fearlessly. Last night's battle has fully demonstrated that although the Nine-headed Bird is a new army, it is indeed enough to defeat an old bandit like the Diamond Sky Leopard.

If the thief doesn't leave, he will come again, but he is just here to give Liu Jun and the nine-headed bird a head and equipment to send merits.

The spring breeze is blowing, the war drums are beating, who is the nine-headed bird afraid of!