"Don't chase after the poor!"

Liu Jun rode his horse in front of the spear lineup, shouting loudly as he ran.

The battle was simpler than Liu Jun had imagined, although he was fifteen riders with one hundred and twenty recruits.

But in fact, the bandits on the opposite side are not much better than them, they are also more than a dozen elite bandits on horseback, with more than 300 cannon fodder rabble, and they can still have the upper hand by number in the face of Zhao Dagu's more than 20 patrol archers, but in the face of Liu Jun, an experienced nine-headed bird officer with a group of brave newcomers, they can't do it.

A few rounds of firearms have scared the soul of the thief away, and with the neat array of spears, the thief is like a dog biting a hedgehog with nowhere to put his mouth. When Liu Jun and the others killed the horseback thieves who took the lead in the charge, the rest of the thieves saw that their companions who rushed in front were stabbed into meat skewers with spears, and finally let out a shout, turned around and ran away.

The recruits wanted to chase, but Liu Jun stopped them.

A group of Wuheliu gangsters, it is impossible for them to reorganize the team and kill them back, such a group of cannon fodder, it is useless to kill. Even if he cut off a person's head, Liu Jun would not be given much silver, but for every time he cut off a person's head, Liu Jun himself had to pay twenty taels of silver. These are old and weak, and even if they are captured, they will only be in vain.

The purpose of this time is to rescue Zhao Xunjian, and since the bandits have been defeated, the purpose has been achieved.

"The recruits all go to cut off their heads, and everyone has to cut their heads!" Liu Jun shouted to a group of recruits, these recruits are of very good quality, although it was the first time to fight just now, no one panicked, the thieves rushed on horseback, they did not turn around, but raised their guns and stabbed according to the order, which is quite rare.

However, Liu Jun still hopes that these recruits can adapt to the war faster, let them cut off the heads of thieves and bandits, and poke corpses with knives and guns, so that they can adapt faster.

At the end of the battle, the formation was disbanded, and the recruits carried firewood knives, iron sickles, and axes under the leadership of the team leader to take the corpse of the thief to practice, and the recruits who had just performed very well, but many people couldn't help but vomit when they cut off the corpse's head, Liu Jun smiled, this is normal.

Zhao Dagu descended the mountain with the support of the archers.

"Liu Jun, deputy of the Nine-headed Bird Horse Team."

"Tiger Head Pass inspects Zhao Dagu." Zhao Dagu stood up straight and introduced himself, "Thank you, Brother Liu, if you hadn't arrived in time, our twenty or so people from the Hutouguan Inspection Department would have all been here today." "He is grateful from the bottom of his heart, this time the enemy was ambushed, it was really dangerous and dangerous, and he almost wiped out the whole army. Originally, when he was on the mountain, he already felt that he was dead, and the county had no time to rescue, so he sent someone to ask Liu Jun for help, but it was just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, but Liu Jun really came, and he defeated the bandits so easily.

"They are all fellow brothers, and Liu is duty-bound." Liu Jun waved his hand.

Zhao Dagu looked at the recruits who were slashing the heads of the bandits with knives on the battlefield, "They are all strong guys, are these the brothers of the nine-headed bird?" Zhao also heard that Team Liu and Team Li led a group of nine-headed bird brothers to show their might at the Zhongyi Pavilion, and they wiped out all the bandits. ”

Liu Jun looked back at the recruits who were covering their noses and cleaning the battlefield, and smiled, "These are indeed my nine-headed bird brothers, but they were all recruited in Taiping Township in the past few days, and thanks to the Taiping villagers' martial arts and bravery, otherwise with me and a dozen brothers, even if they come, they may not be able to solve this siege." ”

Zhao Dagu and the group of archers were stunned, "These are new recruits, not those brothers who suppressed bandits in the post house last time?" ”

"After the bandits came back, they took a seven-day vacation, and the team members went home, and I came to a brother's house in Taiping Township with a few brothers, and I originally planned to come over to recruit new recruits, but I didn't expect to encounter this incident, so I rushed here without hesitation, but fortunately I didn't miss anything."

Zhao Dagu was shocked in his heart, it turned out that he still felt strange, why did Liu Jun bring the Nine-headed Bird Team over to rescue him all at once. Now when I heard it, they were all recruits who had been recruited for a few days, but just like that, Liu Jun had just defeated more than 300 thieves with these more than 100 recruits and a dozen old brothers.

unimaginable.

If Liu Jun hadn't said it himself, he wouldn't have believed it, he was watching the battle on the mountain just now, and he obviously saw that this team was lined up, very orderly, and those villagers raised their guns and stabbed without hesitation, it was really hard to believe that these were actually recruits who had only been a few days.

I think he brought more than 20 archer brothers, and he also boasted that his team was well-trained, but before he was only fleeing in embarrassment, and he also only had a dozen old brothers, but he could bring more than 100 recruits from afar, and defeat several times the number of bandits.

Zhao Dagu's reverence for Liu Jun arose spontaneously, although he was young, he really didn't boast about this skill.

"It's not advisable to stay here for a long time, the thieves may come back again, let's go back to Hutou Pass first." Liu Jun proposed, and Zhao Dagu nodded hurriedly.

At this time, the battlefield was almost cleaned, and Zhang Shan came to report the results.

"Thirteen horse bandits and thirty-seven foot bandits were killed, and seven good horses were seized, as well as a number of swords, guns, bows, arrows, and iron armor. No one of our troops was killed, and only two members of the team were slightly injured, but they were fine. ”

The thieves eventually had five or six bandits on horseback escape.

The casualties on Zhao Dagu's side are more serious, when he sent out the troops, he took almost all the people from the inspection department, only one deputy inspector and two Xu officials stayed behind, Zhao Dagu came out with a scribe and twenty archers, except for an archer Xiao Wu who broke through the siege to report the news, there are still sixteen people left, five were killed in battle, and the remaining sixteen people are basically all injured, Zhao Dagu has arrow wounds on his legs and shoulders, two archers are seriously injured, the situation is very bad, and a few may also be disabled.

At this point, the vitality of the Hutouguan Inspection Division was greatly damaged.

After hastily cleaning up the battlefield, the nine-headed bird recruits took the heads of fifty bandits, carried the wounded archers with seven captured horses, and made several stretchers with captured spears, and carried the dead archers on board, leaving behind a place of blood and gunsmoke, and they slowly retreated to Hutou Pass.

At the same time, several other post guards of Taipingyi who reported the news finally arrived at the county seat and Shenzhuang Baosheng Fort.

"What? Hutouguan Zhao patrol chasing thieves was ambushed, and now trapped in the mountains by hundreds of thieves? Is it the back left five battalion thieves from the east? "The county commander Lu Jinxi just gave the soldiers and the people strong and the rewards after the previous battle to suppress the bandits, and he was rarely happy, so he drank two more glasses.

I just wanted to take a nap, but I was woken up by my master, and then it was a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

The patrol inspection of Hutou Pass in the north of the county and his subordinates were lured and ambushed by thieves, and now they are in danger. Of course, this is not what frightens Lu Zhixian the most, what frightens him the most is that the thieves of the fifth battalion of Gezuo appeared in Macheng County.

As the magistrate of Macheng, there is a joint armed township group of squires established by Mei Zhihuan in the territory, and the banditry situation in the county is much better. Except for some small bandits, basically no big thieves can settle in Macheng. Thanks to Mei Zhihuan, his life is much better.

But he also knew that on the other side of Dabie Mountain, there was a huge force of thieves, thieves among thieves, pillars of thieves, and the fifth battalion of the old Huizuo, which had been entrenched in the Yinghuo Mountains across the mountains. Fortunately, in the past two years, the thieves have been negative, and the old Hui group has been staying in the east with peace of mind, and has not crossed into the Huguang and Huang areas.

But now, the old man and horse actually crossed the line, and he also surrounded and ambushed his Hutou Pass inspection, is this the thief finally going to cross the line? As soon as he thought of thousands of thieves entering the realm of Macheng, Lu Jinxi's scalp couldn't help but tingle. finally settled the slaughter of Lin Jiazhai, and this incident happened again, could it be that he, the magistrate, really came to an end?

"Quick, prepare the sedan chair, and go to Shenzhuang immediately."

In the event of this major event, Lu Zhixian was unable to solve it by himself, so he had no choice but to ask Mei Zhihuan to take action. In case the 5th Left Battalion really crosses the line, the only thing that can be relied on is Mei Zhihuan's Baoshengbao Township Regiment and the squire armies from all over the country.

Shenzhuang is only ten miles away from the county seat, and Baosheng Fort is near Shenzhuang, forming a triangle with the county seat and Shenzhuang, forming a horn and watching each other.

At this time, in Baosheng Fort, Mei Zhihuan also received an urgent report from the Taiping post guard, and after confirming the information, he immediately sent people to summon the officers at all levels of the township regiment in the fort to come.

"The inspection of Hutouguan is in the northernmost part of the county, seventy miles away from the county, and the place where Zhao Patrol is ambushed is still further north. More than 20 people were ambushed and surrounded by hundreds of bandits, and when we gathered men and horses to rush over, we were afraid that it would be difficult to save the fire from far water. Hu Gongguo, the barracks officer of Baosheng Fort, muttered.

"The people of the Hutouguan Inspection Division must not have been saved, and it is too late to be saved. I think what we need to discuss now is not how to save people, but how to deal with the westward advance of the 5th Left Battalion. It seems that it is very likely that Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who rebelled in Junzhou, Xiangyang, contacted Lao Huihui and others in Yinghuo Mountain and invited them to go west to meet. A team leader said.

Lu Jinxi is Zhao Dagu's boss, and the relationship is usually good, at this time, seeing that everyone in the township group has the intention of giving up the rescue, he was in a hurry, and couldn't help but say, "The post man who reported the news said that although Zhao Patrol was ambushed, he fought and retreated, and finally retreated to a mountain to hold on. And the people who broke through, according to his intentions, sent someone to Taiping Township to ask Liu Jun to come out to rescue, maybe now Liu Jun has rushed to the rescue, at this time, we must have reinforcements. ”

Mei Zhihuan heard this information for the first time, frowned, and asked, "Liu Jun?" ”

"It's Liu Jun and Liu Jiye of the nine-headed bird, I heard that he is recruiting new soldiers in Taiping Township these days, so Zhao Dagu asked the archers who broke through to go to Taiping Township to find Liu Jun for help as soon as possible."

"Liu Jun's nine-headed bird seems to have been disbanded and on vacation in the past few days, right? Even if Liu Jun is in Taiping Township, it is estimated that there are not many soldiers around him, how to save it, what to save? ”

No one thought that Liu Jun would take such a risk to rescue Zhao Inspection, after all, although he was brave, but there were no soldiers around him, should he take a group of newly recruited recruits to rescue Zhao Inspection?

How is this possible!