This group of cavalry soon came to the place where Xie Shence and the others had lit the fire before.

A cavalryman dismounted and examined the footprints and hoof prints on the ground, then dug up the buried fire with a knife and said to a captain: "It should be the team, the green smoke I saw just now should have come from here, the fire is still hot, they must not have gone far." ”

The cavalry captain said, "In that case, send a signal and call the others over." ”

One of the cavalrymen then drew an arrow from his quiver, lit the fuse, and prepared to shoot a signal arrow into the sky.

These arrows are specially made with gunpowder and fuses attached to them, and when ignited, they emit a bright signal light when they are shot into the air. At this time, it is evening, the sky is slightly dark, once it shoots into the sky, the effect is excellent, and you can clearly see it for more than ten miles.

Just as the cavalryman was about to pull the string, a dark arrow suddenly "snorted" and shot out of his head and plunged into the ground under the hooves of another war horse. The knight's bow and arrows fell to the ground, the tips of the arrows still rattling.

The knight then fell, several horses were agitated, and several horsemen around him immediately noticed that something was wrong, and pulled the reins to calm the horses, and then one of them wanted to open his mouth and shout, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he did not make a sound, but spit out an arrow!

Immediately he also fell from his horse.

At this time, the remaining few people finally discovered the situation and drew their knives one after another.

However, it was too late, and several more feathered arrows came from the shadows, and three more people died in an instant.

"They're in the trees!"

As soon as the cavalry captain finished shouting, his head tilted and he fell from his horse.

The remaining five people were in a mess, and after knowing that there were archers in the trees, they wanted to rush out of the woods, and three of them had a fast reaction and had already run out of more than ten zhang.

Two more feathered arrows were fired, and the two slower runners were pierced through their chests from behind by the arrows, and they died instantly. One fell from his horse, the other had his feet caught in stirrups, and the whole man hung backwards on the horse's back, and the horse still ran without stopping.

Just as the three horsemen began to accelerate in the woods, Xie Shence and General Secretary Yang rushed out from behind the bushes, and suddenly attacked, one by one, killing two people, and the remaining one continued to rush forward without looking back.

He Ruoque jumped down from the tree, bent his bow and set up arrows, and after letting the man run out for more than ten zhang, the index finger and middle finger of his right hand were gently loosened, and the arrow was pushed out at the moment when the bowstring was retracted, and the huge force of the bowstring bounced back shot the arrow violently, like a meteor, shooting from the back of the man, revealing from the left chest, and the whole arrow was nailed to a tree in front of him, and the arrow feathers stained with blood were still trembling.

After losing the weight of the cavalry on its back, the war horse rushed out of ten feet and stopped. By the time Xie Shence and the other four, oh no, the five of them were gathered again, the horses were already grazing with their heads bowed.

Xie Di made a stab on each corpse, and in order to ensure that there was not a single living wound, he cut off the head of each corpse.

He Ruoque and General Secretary Yang gathered more than a dozen war horses, plus their original six, and now there are a total of twenty horses.

The more than ten horses captured were all war horses, enough for them to last three days or more.

Xie Shence checked the outfits of these knights, and General Secretary Yang confirmed that these people were the horse bandits who should have responded.

Xie Shence and the other four hurriedly stripped off their leather armor and boots and put them on themselves, and then collected a few more knives and arrows. Xu Luwei had already untied her hands and feet at this time, so she also endured nausea and learned Xie Shence and others to take off a pair of leather armor boots and put them on herself, although her figure was tall among women, she still couldn't hold up leather armor, and she couldn't be like Xie Shence and the other four people, each of whom put two layers on her body.

Xie Shence hung up his things, and then said, "It's not safe here, you have to leave quickly." Since they have caught up, and it is a small force, then it means that the poison given last night has worked, but it certainly did not poison their leader. At this point, they must have lost clues and scattered the team to search, and there must be other squads nearby. This is not a place to stay for long, so let's go. ”

Xie Shence guessed well, half of his face did break up the team, except for himself who led the three teams as the Chinese army, the other seven teams were all fanned out.

But, remember, there were two hundred people in Half Face, and he was divided into ten teams, and each team was twenty people! In other words, Xie Shence and the others only killed half of the team just now, so what about the other half of the team of ten people? Where are they?

The remaining ten rested by the small river three miles away.

A horse bandit captain filled the water bladder with water and asked the people around him, "How long have they been there?" ”

The horse bandit cavalry beside him replied, "It's been about half an hour, so I guess I guess I have made some discoveries." ”

The captain of the horse bandit turned over and said, "Don't wait, go and see, if we find out, we can also get half of the credit!" ”

So more than ten horse bandit cavalry rushed towards the grove where Xie Shence and the others were resting.

At this time, Xie Shence and the others had just run out of the grove.

When the group of horse bandits and cavalry arrived at the grove, Xie Shence and the others were already three or four miles away.

In the woods, the captain of the horse bandits had a gloomy face.

"Ten people were actually killed by just a few people. Rubbish! ”

One of the horse bandits behind him said, "Do you want to send a signal to pursue now?" ”

The captain of the horse bandits pondered for a moment and said, "This group of people is a bit of a prick, and if they can kill the fifth child, it is possible to eat us, and it is too risky to chase us alone." This is the first thing to do. Send a signal arrow to notify the other two teams. ”

After the bandit came out of the woods, the cavalry lit the fuse and fired an arrow into the sky.

The arrow roared loudly when it rose into the air, and it brought out an extremely dazzling light, which was clearly visible within a radius of more than ten miles.

Xie Shence stopped his horse and watched the light fade away from miles away.

Mr. Yang said: "I can't go, at most three or four hours, you can catch up with us." ”

Xie Shence narrowed his eyes, looked at the place where the signal arrow was raised, and said: "Then you have to run, you can run for nearly a hundred miles in three or four hours, and you may not be able to escape at that time." ”

He Ruoque said: "The pursuit on the grassland is very easy, but fortunately, because of the war, they can't use eagles to lock on, otherwise we will definitely die." And if we continue to chase with a large force, we will surely die. But now that they have broken up the large army, then we still have a good chance of winning against the previous team. Let's run first, run around as you go, and you may survive. ”

Xie Shence said with a smile: "Running and maneuvering, this is a good saying, but there is a more classic saying, called 'The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I chase, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, and the enemy is tired and I fight', of course, this sentence is not suitable for our current situation." ”

Mr. Yang frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "Who said this?" Why haven't I heard of it before? ”

Xie Shence laughed, "I don't know who said it." But that's a very good statement. ”

He Ruoque said: "These words are very subtle, and the person who speaks must be well versed in the essence of the art of war. ”

"Now, we can only advance and retreat. Let's go, and run while it's not completely dark. ”

......

"Sixth, have you found out?" One of the bandit captains asked the captain of the team that had sent the signal arrow earlier.

"I can't go wrong."

The captain with a full team of twenty people looked at the corpses on the ground and frowned, "The people of the fifth are all dead. Aren't you on the team with the old five? What's going on? ”

The captain named Lao Liu said lightly: "We rested by the river, and Lao Wu brought people over to investigate, but they just happened to bump into that group of people, and they were all killed, and now it is guessed that that group of people should have gone south." ”

"Then why don't you chase it?"

The sixth snorted coldly and said: "Since that group of people can kill the fifth child silently, then my dozen or so people will die if they rush up, even if they are killed, my people will not survive." In that case, I might as well send you a message. Eighth child, I'm not greedy for credit, it's my news to you, and when the time comes, I will share half of the credit for success. ”

The captain named Lao Ba said without hesitation: "No problem. ”

After the two captains had finished discussing, the thirty horse bandit cavalry came south like a whirlwind.

In the second half of the night, Xie Shence and the others slowed down. War horses need to rest, and people need to rest. In the past two days, Xie Shence and the others only rested for less than three hours, and spent the rest of the time on horseback, taking the initiative to carry out a successful attack in the middle. The nerves and bodies are in a high state of tension, so now all five of them are extremely tired.

Several people are not only physically and mentally exhausted, but they also look as unbearable as refugees. After several days of running, Xu Luwei's face was no longer broken when he returned to the city, not only was it covered with abrasions, his cheeks were cracked, and his hair was oily and inelastic. As for Xie Shence and the others, they were even more sloppy, and there were still large patches of blood stains on the leather armor on their bodies, and they couldn't see their original appearance for a long time.

During the period of slowing down, sleepiness quickly surged, and Xie Shence and Xu Luwei were already yawning. Especially Xu Luwei, if He Ruoque hadn't woken her up with a big gun a few times, she would have fallen off the horse several times. However, even if He Ruoque's big gun hurt her body, it didn't drive her sleepiness away.

At this time, the only person who can barely maintain his spirit is Xie Di, and the only person who can still be completely energetic is He Ruoque. Mr. Yang's refreshing drugs have long been used up, and there are no herbs on the grassland that can stimulate the potential of the human body, so Mr. Yang himself is also sluggish.

Tired, sleepy, hungry and scared...... Xu Luwei is already facing collapse.

Fortunately, however, there seemed to be a fire more than ten miles ahead, as if there were several tents.

Xie Shence and the others became excited.

Of course, at this time, Xie Shence will definitely not go over recklessly. He Ruoque and Xie Di dismounted at a long distance, and then sneaked over, and it took a long time to return.

"It's a squad of cavalry, about twenty people."

"Horse bandits?"

"Horse bandits."

Xu Luwei was a little desperate.

The atmosphere was a little dreary.

Xie Shence clapped his fists with one hand and said fiercely: "Kill them!" ”

General Secretary Yang did not agree immediately, but said: "Little Hou Ye, twenty people are not ten, and we don't have a geographical advantage, so if we go up rashly, it is very likely that we will fall into the mouth of the tiger." ”

Xie Shence straightened his body, let the cold wind blow his spirit, and said: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger, kill them, and we can get supplies." The group of horse bandits killed at night didn't have anything to eat, but this team even had some forage for the war horses, and they had to take it. Otherwise, when dawn comes, and we find the marks of our horseshoe, they will chase after them. ”

He Ruoque said: "The first strike is the strongest." ”

Mr. Yang looked at the two of them and said, "Okay, kill them!" ”

(PS: Strive for another chapter before 9 p.m.!) ）