Long Qian finally stopped the frenzied team in time, and after he led Cheng Erhu's break, he safely withdrew the team to Tianmen, and most of the weapons and ammunition lost by the officers and soldiers were collected. The casualties were counted, and the troops who attacked paid nearly twenty casualties, most of them wounded. A small group of Lushan suffered heavy casualties, seven dead and five seriously wounded. However, there were at least 50 corpses abandoned by officials and soldiers in the area from Tianmen to Louzi. In any case, it was a beautiful tactical counterattack, beyond Long Qian's expectations.

Long Qian checked his left arm, but he was not injured, and the blood was stained with the enemy. Listening carefully, the gunfire in the direction of the aggressive village has stopped, and I am still worried about another battlefield, but there is no need to tell the person in front of me who has just won this battle.

To the subordinates who had calmed down, he encouraged, "Brothers, well fought! It is estimated that the officers and soldiers will not dare to attack again tonight, they have suffered a big loss, and they are going to lick their wounds. Erhu took your men to stay behind to monitor the officers and soldiers, and leave more ammunition for you, pay attention to their cold artillery, but don't attack. Do you understand? Seeing Cheng Erhu nodding vigorously, "Okay, the rest of the people will go back to the village with me." Erhu, when I receive my order, immediately lead people to withdraw to the village, it's useless here. ”

Long Qian stood up, probably in a hurry, and felt a little dizzy. I had spent all my physical strength in the first battle just now, and now I really feel weak. Chaotic hand-to-hand combat is the most ferocious, and even if you are a master of martial arts, you can defend yourself against bayonets stabbing from nowhere. Fortunately, the officers and troops couldn't support it and retreated, otherwise when their follow-up troops came up with reinforcements, it would be themselves who would have been scattered.

However, Long Qian knew that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers who survived this battle should be improved by several grades. The soldiers saw blood in brutal hand-to-hand combat, and their understanding of death was unusual.

"Captain, you're fine, are you?" Jiang Yun saw that Long Qian's body shook a little.

"It's okay," Long Qian pushed Jiang Yun away, took the rifle in Jiang Yun's hand as a crutch and held it, "Erhu, at most half an hour, I will send Jiang Yun here, in case the officers and soldiers touch it, what should you do?" Long Qian felt that the officials and soldiers would not touch the camp, but who knew what about it?

"You're going to ambush the team here, and you can take a guy over there and squat. It's going to be dark right away, and if they come up, don't shoot, and after retreating to this hillside, they go to the Guangming Temple, leave it alone, and quietly touch back to the village, and if they come this way, you'll have to fight. ”

"Understood, captain, you, you put, rest assured. I'm not going to let them go, let them go! ”

Cheng Erhu is the person that Long Qian is relieved of, patting Erhu on the shoulder, Long Qian led people to disappear into the twilight.

Halfway through, he met people sent by Wang Mingyuan, Song Jinguo and Feng Guozhu to report on the battle situation, which made Long Qian relieved. Due to the timely detection of the officers and soldiers who were climbing the cliff in a roundabout, two were killed by a volley of guns, and the rest retreated. Feng Guozhu's team searched carefully in the west of the village, only one place can climb up, the rest are difficult to climb cliffs, until the official army completely retreats and is out of sight, and now there is a brother left there to watch.

"Good, well done. Mingyuan, Jin Guo, how are you preparing? ”

Wang Mingyuan and Song Jinguo replied in unison, they had already prepared and the food was cooked, just waiting for the captain's order.

"Where's the wound?" Long Qian was most worried about the injury, and he already had a plan in his heart about the retreat route.

"There are twenty-seven people in total, oh, not counting the brother who was injured just now," Wang Mingyuan said in a low voice, "The vegetable cellar can be hidden when it is cleaned up, and it is really impossible to see it if you don't pay attention, but the injured people are a little scared." ”

"Well, I'll go talk to them. Let's go, let the brethren eat. I'm going to have to go through the night. ”

Returning to Dudu Village, he took the coarse porcelain black bowl handed by Jiang Yun and drank a bowl of cold boiled water, and Long Qian asked Song Jinguo to take him to the concentration of wounded soldiers.

It was not only the eighth team that was seriously injured and unable to walk, but also the sixth team that was injured in the fierce battle in the morning. Get rid of the wounded soldiers, and the prostitutes who were saved by Team 8 are also there. The night has covered the mountain, a few torches have been lit, the wounded soldiers are lying in a pile, scolding, the people of the eighth team stopped scolding when they saw Long Qian coming, but the sixth team didn't care about it, they were still scolding there.

Wang Mingyuan must have told them about Long Qian's decision. They probably thought that to stay was to die.

"Brethren, I understand your feelings, but there is nothing I can do. For I cannot take you on the mountain road, at night. Long Qian bowed his hand to the wounded, and after he spoke, the people fell silent, "When we walked on this road, we faced bloodshed and death. There are no eyes on the battlefield, and no one can complain. Compared to the brothers who have died under the butcher's knife of the official army, you are lucky, because there is still hope of survival. You are also fortunate to have at least been made as careful as possible by the brethren to give you a place to hide, to leave you with enough food, and to take care of you. And the brothers who were about to break through with me to catch up with the brigade were seriously wounded, and they were either captured by the officers and soldiers or died. In this respect, you are really luckier than them. Brethren, I promise you that I will come back as soon as possible, as long as I live. I, Long Qian, swear to heaven that if I abandon you, including those seven poor women, I will let the guns of the officers and soldiers shatter my head and feed my corpse to wild dogs! ”

In this era of general superstition and belief in the existence of gods in the underworld, this is a very heavy poisonous oath, looking at the wounded soldiers whose emotions have gradually stabilized, Long Qian continued, "The officers and soldiers will be here tomorrow morning, and after we retreat, we will set fire to the house, creating the illusion that all have been evacuated." You can rest assured that you will hide in the vegetable cellar, at least three or five days, at most seven or eight days, and I Long Qian will definitely return to the mountain! Speaking of this, Long Qian's heart moved, "Jin Guo, you take five brothers to stay and take care of them, is it okay?" Long Qian turned around and stared at Song Jinguo.

In the eighth team, because he is a fellow countryman, everyone knows that Song Jinguo is Long Qian's confidant, managing the property of the eighth team for Long Qian, and it is also Long Qian's personal property. Therefore, although Song Jinguo is the leader, his status in the eighth team is not inferior to the three squad leaders. Now that Song Jinguo wants to stay, that is enough to prove Long Qian's sincerity.

"Well, since the captain has an order, I'll stay." Song Jinguo said angrily.

"Well done, good brother." Long Qian turned around and hugged Lao Song, "You take care of them into the vegetable cellar, it's going to snow soon." ”

"Why did you leave Lao Song to die?" Wang Mingyuan said in a low voice.

"How is it to die? Do you know that we can live if we leave? Long Qian sighed, "Old Song is weak, so it's not necessarily a good thing to follow us." How can there be a way of life in troubled times, what a fuck! Long Qian scolded indignantly and strode away.

"Captain Dragon, please stay," a high-pitched female voice said. Long Qian stopped and turned around.

In the shadows came a woman, of medium height, with long hair, whose face could not be seen clearly under the torches, and whose voice was not very young to hear.

"My name is Sun Juan." The woman took another step forward and knelt down for Long Qian, "I will remember Captain Long's life-saving grace for the rest of my life, but please Captain Long be merciful, save people to the end, and take us away." ”

"Miss Sun, please get up," Long Qian stretched out his hand and withdrew it again, "It's not that I don't take you, first, the injured need your help, and second, we march and fight, and the road is hard." It is inconvenient to think that many of your sisters have bound their feet. Miss Sun, you heard what I said to the injured people just now, as long as I, Long Qian, return to the mountain alive, you are my sisters, please go back, take care of the injured number for me, don't be afraid, I don't expect that the official army will not search the mountain carefully. As soon as the officers and soldiers are gone, you can come out. But don't go over there easily. In short, everything listens to Lao Song. Long Qian turned away, ignoring Sun Juan's crying behind him.

Back to the barracks of the eighth team, the soldiers have eaten, Jiang Yun has prepared a meal for Long Qian, Long Qian glanced at the clay pot on the table, it is cabbage stew and big cakes, there were pigs raised on the mountain, Sun Dewang let the Nong Mengfu Lao army slaughter all, the eighth team was divided into two heads, and there was meat in the past two days.

Long Qian didn't have much appetite, drank a bowl of cold water, and asked Jiang Yun to call several squad leaders and even chiefs, together with Song Jinguo, the logistics chief who was arranging the injured number.

"What about Cheng Erhu?" Jiang Yun asked. Cheng Erhu is still monitoring the enemy army at Tianmen.

"Don't call him."

By the time a few squad leaders came in, Long Qian had already gobbled up the pot of stew and three large cakes, "Let's talk about it, where are we going?" ”

Ning Shijun glanced at Long Qian, and said in his heart that he was literary, saying that he couldn't escape, and he used the word "withdraw", these rough men who didn't know a lot of big characters knew what to withdraw.

"What can I do? Go to Mengyin with the team, be familiar with the Tao, and it's easy to go. Feng Lundao, the leader of the sixth team.

"You can't go to the shade." Wang Mingyuan said slowly, "I think it's appropriate to go to Fei County." ”

"For what?" Long Qian asked with interest. This kind of meeting is unique to Team Eight, and Long Qian strives to get his backbone to use their brains to think instead of simply obeying. His unique approach has been criticized, and in major military affairs, generals must be decisive and do not allow their subordinates to arbitrarily dispose of their beaks.

The feudal army is the foolish people of the feudal rulers, but Long Qian believes that the implementation of understanding is not at the same level at all compared to passive implementation.

"The officers and troops will attack as soon as dawn, and they will definitely follow the guide's instructions and chase down the avenue." Wang Mingyuan said.

"So what? We walked at least twenty miles in one night, and we got rid of them a long time ago. Feng Guozhu supported Feng Lun's view.

"What about Shi Jun's opinion?" Long Qian turned his head to look at the Xiucai of Team Eight.

"I think what Mingyuan said is that the south side is safer."

"Lu Shan?" Long Qian called the roll again.

"The captain must have a plan, we listen to the captain." Lu Shan said humbly.

"You have to think about the problem, especially if it's a matter of life and death. What about Lao Song? ”

"The road to the south is not easy to walk. Not to mention carrying things. Song Jinguo rubbed his hands.

"Except for dry food and guns, I don't have anything else with me." Long Qian stood up, "We don't go east, we don't go south, we go west!" He ignored everyone's astonishment, "Yes, the officers and troops are coming from the west, and we will go west." You remember, the more dangerous the place, the safer it is. This is called a surprise. ”

"How do you get to the west road? It's all cliffs. Ning Shijun said in surprise.

"It may be difficult to get up, but it's always easier to go down. Shi Jun, you remember, there is no such thing as the best of both worlds, if you want to break through safely. You need to take some risks, and you'll remember later that risks like this are nothing. ”

Song Jinguo suddenly realized that a few days ago, Long Qian asked him to secretly collect the rope, and personally checked the texture of the rope, and put forward his special requirements, it turned out that Long Qian had already thought of the route to break through.

"That road has been walked by someone, although it has fallen to death Orion, but it is not a dead end......," Song Jinguo said, but Long Qian had already decided that he would stay, and he could not disobey Long Qian's order, and his heart was a little gloomy.

"We're heading west, not joining the brigade?" Lu Shan asked.

"I suspect that there are ambushes of officers and soldiers on the East Road. If Cao Kun couldn't even think of this, he would have studied in the Martial Arts Academy in vain. After that, let's talk about rendezvous. Long Qian said softly, "Don't say it to the below, if someone asks, just say that there are officials and soldiers behind you, and you can't run steadily." ”

"What good is it to always treat us as substitutes for the dead? With the captain's talent, we will live better than them. I agree with the captain. Ning Shijun looked at Lu Shan, who was a little stunned. Realizing that Long Qian was preparing to break away from Sun Dewang and Liu Yucai, he felt very excited.

"That's it, time is tight. You prepare separately, get a few more torches, Lushan, you take people to burn Dongzhai, you can't see it from the direction of the building, don't worry about the officials and soldiers finding out. The content of the military discussion just now is strictly confidential, and it is not allowed to be revealed below! After a while, Mingyuan's squad will take the lead, and after Guozhu's squad is broken, Lu Shan and the people of the sixth team will walk in the middle, each of them will master their own soldiers, no noise, pay attention to deserters, and those who dare to slip away will be killed! Don't be soft-hearted. ”

Wang Mingyuan and the others naturally resolutely complied, and Feng Lun and Ye Yanbing both expressed their resolute obedience to Long Qian's orders. Long Qian told them to get ready, and they started after half an hour.