Hearing that another large group of cavalry was coming to the village, the first reaction of the brothers in the house was that this time it might be Xiao Jixian's Khitan remnants. Therefore, Wang Kunjun immediately ordered the platoon commander of the personal guard to send someone to investigate. And Mutel stood up and said to Wang Kunjun: "Fifth brother, now the Zhou army is still slowly advancing between Liangxiang and Youzhou City, and in the east of Youzhou, in addition to the cavalry of the brothers, only the 'Ranger Battalion' and Xiao Jixian's remnants can have such a large-scale cavalry. To be on the safe side, the brother went to get his cavalry ready, if it was a brother from the 'Ranger Battalion', it would be fine, if it was a Khitan, then the brother would give him a big bag and would never let them run away again. ”

Wang Kunjun nodded when he heard this, and said, "That's very good, you go and prepare." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to Cheng Fei and said, "Old Twenty-Nine, you arrange a squad of guards at the east entrance of the village, I will leave four or five guards here, and you will take the other guards to the west entrance of the village to cooperate with the actions of the old thirty-five." If it's really Xiao Jixian, then we must not let him slip away again this time. ”

Although I felt that it was a bit too little to leave only four or five guards on Wang Kunjun's side, considering that as long as he held the entrance of the village, surrounded the remnants of the Khitan army, and did not let an enemy enter the village, there would be no danger for Wang Kunjun to have only one personal guard by his side. So, Cheng Fei and Muttel did not insist on leaving more personal guards for Wang Kunjun, but put their own guns (pistols) and knives (horizontal knives) on the table respectively, and then walked out of the room together to prepare.

There was not much time, and the guards who went to investigate came to report, and the cavalry from the west was about 2,000 people, under the banner of the Khitans. Although it is not completely certain that it is Xiao Jixian's men, judging from the fact that many of them are wounded, it is definitely not the Khitan reinforcements who have just arrived on the battlefield, but the defeated Khitan army that is fleeing for their lives.

After getting the advice of the guards, Wang Kunjun felt more confident in his heart. After a brief discussion with Cheng and Mu, who had already prepared the team and returned to the house again, it was decided that the main force of the cavalry regiment led by Muttel would divide into two routes and surround the remnants of the Khitan from the north and south. Cheng Fei led the guards to intercept the Khitans at the west entrance of the village, creating conditions for the great encirclement of Mutel. Cheng and Mu took the order and left, while Wang Kunjun took the remaining five guards in the house and waited for the good news that they had completely annihilated the remnants of the Khitan army.

Not long after Cheng and Mu left, there were dense gunshots, the neighing of war horses, and the screams of the wounded came from the west entrance of the village. Although judging from various voices, the battle at the entrance of the village and its vicinity was very fierce, but Wang Kunjun's heart was very steady. In his opinion, in this battle, his own side not only has an advantage in equipment, but also has a similar number of people to the other side, and there is no possibility of missing at all. Therefore, Wang Kunjun's attention was not focused on this battle, but sat in the room, drinking tea, while carefully looking at a map that Muttel carried with him, a topographic map near Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) drawn by the military department according to several tourist traffic atlases and military maps in the hands of the crossing team, so as to have a more intuitive understanding of Yuguan (Shanhaiguan), so as not to have a dark eye and not understand anything when discussing the battle with Qian Yuanshan and others.

Just when Wang Kunjun was engrossed in studying the map, there was a sudden sound outside the room, "Bang! Bang! There were two loud noises, and a scream of pain, followed by the shouting of a guard squad leader who had been waiting outside the house: "Enemy attack! Fight back, fight back! Immediately outside the house there was a burst of gunfire. Although he couldn't see the specific situation, Wang Kunjun still heard that the first two loud noises were gunshots, and the screams were very similar to those made by one of his personal guards. When the head of the personal guard squad shouted out the enemy attack, the situation became even clearer - some enemies took advantage of the cavalry regiment and the main force of the guards to deal with the remnants of the Khitan army, and sneaked into the village to disadvantage themselves. …,

Although it was not clear how this group of enemies had entered the village, the situation was very serious. Now there were only five guards around Wang Kunjun -- including the one who screamed and whose fate was unknown, and judging by the shouts of killing outside the house, there were no less than twenty enemies who came to sneak attack. Although the weapons in the hands of the guards are sharp, since the opponent is close enough to kill the guards, they are afraid that the advantage of their own weapons to kill from a distance is gone. Once you enter into hand-to-hand combat, your team's numerical disadvantage will be revealed. No matter how brave the guards are, it is difficult to say whether they will be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive - not to mention that the fighting is raging outside the village, and whether their own people can find out that the crisis here is still between the two.

Thinking of this, Wang Kunjun had a sense of crisis for the first time since he crossed over, and for the first time he had a feeling that his life was threatened. However, this feeling is only fleeting. The experience of being at the decision-making level of the crossing team for a long time and making Zuihou decisions for many issues related to the development and direction of the team not only makes Wang Kunjun more urban and more generous than at the beginning of the crossing, but also makes him more courageous and calm. In addition, in the past few years, he has not put down the Tai Chi Gong of the Fuyaozi Old Immortal Sect, and now when it comes to fighting alone, I am afraid that there are really not many people who can beat him. Therefore, after stabilizing his mood a little, he picked up the horizontal knife left by Muttel with his left hand, grabbed the pistol left by Cheng Fei with his right hand, pushed open the door and walked out.

At this time, the courtyard in front of the house, which was not too spacious, had become a pot of porridge. After filling in more than 10 lives, the enemy soldiers who came to sneak attack were finally able to rush in front of the four guards who were still capable of fighting, forcing the latter to give up the "Five-Five" rifle, which had a limited rate of fire and could not offset the enemy's numerical superiority, and drew his horizontal knife to engage in a face-to-face white-knuckle battle with himself. Now, in addition to the guard who was plotted at the beginning and fell to the ground, the other four guards have all hung up their lottery, and in the face of an enemy who is more than twice their own, although the guards can still barely support, it is impossible to drive the other party out of this mansion, or take out the manpower to report to the village entrance.

Seeing that although his personal guards did not have the upper hand, they would not be defeated for a while, Wang Kunjun did not rush to join the battle group, but stood on the steps of the room, carefully observing this opponent who emerged from nowhere. At a glance, Wang Kunjun found that although the enemies who attacked this sneak attack were all wearing Hanfu and dressed as business travelers, if you looked closely, you could find that the clothes on their bodies did not fit, and their eyebrows and eyes did not look like Han people, but more like Khitans. However, what interested Wang Kunjun the most was not the Khitans who were fighting with his own guards, but the young man who was standing on the other side of the battle group, and was also looking himself up and down, obviously the leader of this group of enemies.

The other party's first impression of Wang Kunjun was that he was young, and the young ones were a little unusual. Although his face was full of dust and his expression was a little tired, from Wang Kunjun's eyes, this person was only about twenty years old at most, and maybe even younger. And the fact that the other party can still look at himself very calmly and calmly in such a chaotic and fierce white-knuckle battlefield shows that he is not only courageous, but also must be a general who is accustomed to seeing battle formations and regards combat as a daily routine. Thinking of the remnants of the Khitan army outside the village, the direction of the remnants of the Khitan army, and the situation of Xiao Siwen's generals provided to everyone by the "Dark Feather" and the Ministry of Military Affairs before, Wang Kunjun could almost conclude that the young man in front of him was Xiao Jixian, who was lucky enough to lead the army out of the encirclement and suppression of the "Ranger Battalion".

While Wang Kunjun was observing Xiao Jixian, Xiao Jixian was also looking Wang Kunjun up and down. Judging from the bravery of the opponent's guards, the calm demeanor of the opponent when facing the killing field, and the respectful performance of the two leaders who were now leading the army to besiege his subordinates, Xiao Jixian believed that his original judgment was not wrong - the man in front of him, dressed in Confucian clothes and in his early thirties, was definitely not an ordinary person, and his identity was neither an ordinary scribe nor a businessman, but a figure who had a great relationship with the mysterious armed forces that wiped out his uncle and his tens of thousands of Liao troops. …,

In fact, since discovering the whereabouts of the other party in Sanhe County the day before the fight, Xiao Jixian has begun to pay attention to Wang Kunjun and his party. It's just that Xiao Jixian didn't regard the other party as a great figure at first, but just took a fancy to the large number of people in this team dressed as a businessman, the various materials he carried with him, and the horses under the seat were all good horses, so he had the idea of robbing and robbing the horses halfway. Later, after many observations, it was found that the other party was by no means an ordinary businessman, and his actions were not only full of traces of ranks, but also those sturdy men dressed as bodyguards were also equipped with Tang-style horizontal knives that were rare in this era. And what surprised Xiao Jixian the most was that the spies he sent to follow and monitor the team inadvertently discovered that these guards were actually equipped with muskets.

As far as Xiao Jixian knows, in addition to the Zhou army, the only army equipped with muskets is the mysterious armed force that wiped out the entire Youyun Liao army. At present, the Zhou army is still slowly advancing between Liangxiang City and Youzhou City, and it is impossible to appear in Sanhe County, which is far away from Youzhou City. Then there is only one explanation, and that is that this team is a member of the mysterious army. And since the guy dressed as a scribe will be protected by nearly two hundred guards, then his position in this mysterious armed force can be imagined. As soon as he thought of this, Xiao Jixian immediately changed his idea of besieging this team and robbing them of their horse supplies, and instead decided to turn a strong attack into a sneak attack, and capture alive the scribe whose status in the mysterious armed forces was definitely not low without causing a big battle as much as possible, and exchange him for his uncle and his generals who were captured by the other party. In this way, he could not only repay his uncle's kindness for raising him, but also save a little face for Da Liao - although the direct siege was more certain, as the so-called "sword has no eyes", no one dared to guarantee that the scribe would not be injured during the fierce battle.

For this reason, Xiao Jixian decided to divide the troops into two ways. He himself led more than 20 elite people to disguise themselves, followed behind the other party as a merchant passerby, chose the right time and place to carry out a sneak attack on the other party, and restrained the scribe in one fell swoop. The main force of their own side crept far behind, and when their own brothers in front of them succeeded, they flanked them from both flanks, and surrounded them, forcing those guards to give up the idea of snatching their leader back, and to be captured.

Xiao Jixian did this, and he did the same. When Wang Kunjun and the others entered Shangzhuang Village to rest, Xiao Jixian also led more than 20 of his subordinates into the village, and drank in another wine shop not far from the restaurant where Wang Kunjun ate, while observing Wang Kunjun's movements, waiting for an opportunity to move. However, "people are not as good as heaven", Xiao Jixian only wanted to make a move, and Mutel led the army to Shangzhuang Village. On the one hand, I don't know whether the cavalry who came is friend or foe, on the other hand, the guards on Wang Kunjun's side reacted very quickly, and before Xiao Jixian made a decision to fight or not, they had already set up a defensive formation, which made Xiao Jixian lose the opportunity to launch a surprise attack. When it was confirmed that it was the other party's people, Xiao Jixian secretly shouted that it was a pity, but on the other hand, he also strengthened his judgment that the other party was a big man, and then decided to take a risk and gamble - the other party came with thousands of cavalry to answer at once, and it was obviously impossible for him to carry out a sneak attack according to the original Jihua. So, while continuing to monitor Wang Kunjun and the others casually, he secretly sent people out of the village to give orders to his main forces hiding a few miles away from the west of the village, ordering them to attack the village head-on, attract the attention of the other party, and create conditions for himself to take advantage of the chaos to sneak attack the other party's leader.

What made Xiao Jixian feel happy was that he actually made the right bet. In the face of the attack of nearly 2,000 cavalry on his side, the other side sent all the horses out, and there were only five guards left to protect his leader. Although the opponent should be equipped with a musket in his hand, Xiao Jixian felt that as long as his side was as close to the other party as possible, and then suddenly launched a sneak attack, without giving the other party time to give full play to the weapons in his hands, he should be able to have the opportunity to drag the other party into a face-to-face white-knuckle battle, in that way, the advantage was on his side. So, Xiao Ji waited until the battle at the entrance of the village started and the gunfire was loud, and no matter how much movement on his side would not attract the attention of the enemy troops at the entrance of the village, he led more than 20 elites to quietly approach the house where Wang Kunjun was, and successfully approached a place that was only forty or fifty steps away from the two sentries at the door.