Xu Erlang went up to the high city wall, looked down through the light brought by the blazing torches, and saw that there were already corpses all over the field.

The army of the Tartars is menacing, but the other team of about 1,000 people should not be underestimated, especially the person who leads the team, the action is decisive, and wherever the sword passes, a human head will be brought down.

This group of people came out very suddenly, and very quickly. Just as the Tartars' army began to attack the city, they emerged from behind the Tartars like ghosts, killing the Tartars by surprise.

It was precisely because of this team that suddenly appeared that Xuhui County got a respite. will not be caught off guard by being killed, and will not let the helpless people become the souls of the sword.

But now more than half a day has passed, and the team can no longer hold on.

After all, their number definitely did not exceed two thousand, and the Tartars numbered thirty thousand.

Again, an extremely strong contrast.

If it weren't for the fact that those people seemed to have brought a lot of drugs, and spilled white powder while fighting, the hordes of Tartars would have been slaughtered a long time ago. But even so, the long journey here is another unbearable hardship, and now their physical strength has come to an end.

Xu Erlang looked at the familiar side face of the person below, his throat was a little tight, and his heart was beating even faster. He wanted to pounce down and grab the man to look at him, but there was something more urgent at the moment.

"How many people are there in Xuhui County at present?"

The county magistrate wiped the cold sweat rolling down his forehead like rain, and replied with sincere fear, "All the servants in Xuhui County have arrived, and there are also civil servants, some families and rich families supporting servants. Even the errand officers from the three surrounding counties also arrived overnight in the early hours of this morning. In total, a total of one thousand and three hundred, more than one person. ”

But the number of combatants turned out to be just over 1,000?

It's too small to be of much use in war. But if you pin your hopes on the Liaodong Army,...... Far water can't quench the thirst of the near. Before the Liaodong Army arrived, Xuhui was already a dead land.

Xu Erlang looked at the nominal army that could no longer support the city and retreated while fighting, and finally gritted his teeth and ordered, "All the combatants gather and open the city gate!" ”

Xuhui's county magistrate was dead silent, and the whole person was shaky.

It was not found that the Tartar had dug a tunnel not far from the city gate, and he was already condemned to death. If a local governor dies here again, he is afraid that he will be punished by the nine clans to set an example.

The county commander rolled his eyes and was about to faint, Xu Erlang finally kicked over, "You stand above to supervise the battle, how to do it, listen to him." Xu Erlang pointed to one of his guards. The guard immediately said "yes." Although he is not as capable as a few people in Tonghe, he is not bad, especially in the art of war and strategy, in the past, he fought against his master in the sand table. Although he hasn't practiced it in detail, it's just on paper, but it's better than this county order that he doesn't know anything about.

The guard gave an order, and the matter immediately began to get busy. The archers are on the front line, hot water and oil are ready immediately, large stones are indispensable, and the elderly, weak, women and children can also support......

At the same time, the huge city gate burst open, revealing a huge doorway.

The Tartars, who had been chasing the support army and beating them, cheered excitedly when they heard the sound of opening the city gate. The city gate opened, what are you waiting for, the opportunity to exchange heads for military merit has arrived.

Xu Erlang rode out wildly, and some of the servants behind saw Lord Zhizhou's sharp sword swaying with cold light, and the Tartars fell to the ground wherever they passed, and they all surged with boundless battle intent. For a while, the shouting of killing shook the sky, and everyone rushed forward.

At this time, the ground resounded with a roar and tremor, as if a large group of people and horses were galloping wildly.

The direction in which the men and horses came was the rear of the fleeing rebels. The army coming from that direction would never be the Liaodong Army of Great Qi......

These soldiers and civilians who have just mustered up the will to fight, and a sense of death swelled in their hearts at the time of the day. I'm afraid it's a catastrophe this time. However, even if he died in battle, he died in his place.

Who knows, just when they were holding the mentality of killing one to make one, killing two to earn one, far away, they heard those righteous soldiers who spoke the Daqi dialect shouting, "Reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived!" ”

As he spoke, those rebels who were originally going to "escape" turned around and killed a horse pistol in high spirits.

At this time, the reinforcements also appeared. There was a support army, obviously three or five.

Because they come from different directions, the banners of resistance are different, and they wear the costumes of different tribes. It can be seen that these are all the tribes from the north.

But weren't they always in league with the Tartars? How can they now become the reinforcements of the Great Qi - yes, since these reinforcements were called reinforcements by the earlier reinforcements of more than 1,000 people, and the friends of friends are friends, then they must be the reinforcements of the Great Qi.

But how did these tribes come to the rescue for nothing?

They have never intersected with Daqi, and even if they do, they are still enemies. So what is it doing now? Is it because the Tartars have always been domineering and strong, and they want to take the opportunity to beat the Tartars, so they choose to help Daqi?

In any case, no matter what one thought about it, in short, the officers and the people at the city gate wept with joy.

They happily shouted to the people below, "The reinforcements of Daqi have arrived, and there are 50,000 people." ”

"There are five people, at least eighty thousand."

"One hundred thousand, you can't be wrong. Look at the smoke and dust behind them, the number of reinforcements is no less than 100,000! ”

At this time, the sky is slightly bright, and the smoke and dust behind those reinforcements are indeed large, so whether it is 100,000 or 80,000 data, it is very convincing.

The voices of these people "talking" were very loud, and the movement on the side of the "reinforcements" was also earth-shattering, and for a time the army of the Tartars dispersed.

The army's morale was unstable, and the generals who led the troops this time were shot and killed.

Those two were all cronies of the four princes, and they were pulled in front of them by the four princes to block the arrows, and they were shot through the neck and temples respectively, and they died directly.

And this time, the fourth prince who led the team, he saw the man who was aiming at him like a killing god, the Zhizhou of Hezhou, took out an arrow from behind him again and aimed at him...... The fourth prince thought of the third prince who was killed by a sword, and then looked at the miserable appearance of the two henchmen under the horse, and his face was so frightened that he wanted to flee when he drove the horse.

But the wind stopped, everything was silent, and the arrow had arrived.

The fourth prince stumbled in fright, and almost fell off his horse on one side of his body. But because of this, he was lucky enough to dodge an arrow that shot like thunder. His heart almost jumped out of his chest this time in fright.

He stalked his neck and shouted violently, "Come, come, come, protect ...... Hmm"

Unfortunately, before he could finish what he wanted to say, a sharp arrow pierced his neck.

The sharp arrow came quickly, directly taking the four princes off the horse, and the sharp arrow pierced his neck, and the end of the arrow rubbed against his throat......

When the surrounding Tartars reacted, the prince they led the team had already been raised by their own war horses, and half of the corpses trampled on were turned into mud. And his eyes were still wide, looking at the sky directly above, and he couldn't bat at himself.

The surrounding Tartars screamed, "Prince! ”

The messenger of Daqi shouted excitedly, "The fourth prince is dead, you surrender quickly." ”

"Yes, those who descend will not be killed! Otherwise, I'll kill you today! ”

The Tartars can take care of this. In addition, they didn't understand Daqi's words very well, so they fled like headless flies at this time.

They wanted to find the tunnel they had dug before, one of which exited in the grassland, and the other was in the place where the Tartars and the Liaodong army were now fighting. Regardless of the exit they went out, they all got their lives back.

The Tartar had no intention of fighting again, and fled in a panic like a frightened fish in a pond. It's a pity that Xu Erlang has the heart to "keep people", and those "reinforcements" who came from afar are also waiting for the heads with Tartars to be exchanged for rewards. So no one was merciful, and the Tartars were driven around. In the end, except for more than 1,000 people who raised their hands to surrender, the rest were slaughtered.

But even those who raised their hands and surrendered were not spared in the end.

They were stabbed by those reinforcements one by one, and Xu Erlang didn't say a word about it.

Several of the half-grown teenagers in the reinforcements said with red and swollen eyes while killing people indifferently, "My sister was taken captive by them, and in less than three days, she became a corpse." ”

"Our entire tribe has been slaughtered by the Tartars. My daddy, grandma, all my friends, gone......"

There was a dead silence on the battlefield, with only a few occasional whimpering sounds.

The sound of the wind whistling past the battlefield adds to the desolation.

Xu Erlang's gaze swept over these people, and then swept towards those behind them one by one.

There were no familiar faces among those people, and none of them were the ones he was familiar with.

Xu Erlang also wanted to ask carefully, but at this moment, a person with a ecstatic face rushed out of the city gate, "My lord, my lord, the Liaodong Army has arrived." ”

Although the Liaodong Army came one step late, the war had ended ahead of schedule. However, with the Liaodong Army here, it seems to feel safer. Even if the Tartars escaped from the tunnels later, they would not be afraid.

Xu Erlang replied and didn't pay much attention.

Mohe came with the Liaodong Army, and with him, he didn't need to ask about things.

After all, Xu Erlang walked up to the leaders of several clans, "Take a step to speak." The people glanced at each other, and then followed Xu Erlang to a secluded place not far away.

Then without waiting for Xu Erlang to speak, one of them had big shoulders and a round waist, a full beard, and a scar on his eyebrows, and said, "My lord, you wrote to us in person before, and said about working together to fight against the Tartars. You also said that you will support us to gain a foothold in the steppe and prevent the Tartars from invading us again. If it weren't for the fact that you know that Lord Zhou's reputation is loud and that he always does what he says, we wouldn't have dared to take such a big risk and run outside Xuhui City. ”

"Hehe, Tartar kicked the iron plate this time. The Liaodong Army replaced Chu Zhong as a general, and there was the latest cast sword, not to mention that it was easy to deal with the Tartars, but the two sides were tied. What's more, Lord Zhizhou got the news in advance that they were going to dig a tunnel to attack Xuhui, and joined forces with us to catch Wang Ba in the urn, hehe, I have killed a lot of Tartars this time, and I think we can all live a clean life. ”

Another big old man roared and shouted, "What is catching the king, that is called catching turtles in the urn." I don't know the two words and still want to learn to speak, and you are not a person with ink in your belly like Lord Zhizhou, what do you say you pretend to ......"

Xu Erlang didn't speak, and after listening to them finish saying this, he said with a tight throat, "If you believe me, you might as well follow me to the Xuhui Yamen first." After you have eaten and rested, let's talk about it again. ”

These big men, you look at me, I look at you, and finally laughed, "Then bother Lord Zhizhou." ”

"Hehe, we haven't been in Xuhui City, I heard that this place is prosperous. It's not as good as our territory, that's really a bird that doesn't......"

As a few people spoke, they followed Xu Erlang and entered the city gate.

They looked left and right, as if they were very relaxed and casual, but only each other knew that they were all tense.

What if this Lord Zhizhou goes back on his word and has a darker heart, and wants to keep them all here?

Who wants to die if they can live?

Besides, they still have so many subordinates to take care of. Without these leaders, their subordinates will be in chaos, where will those people go to beg for food?

It was precisely because of the consideration that Xu Erlang might cross the river and tear down the bridge, before these leaders entered the city gate, they all gestured to the left and right henchmen, asking them to leave two to follow into the city, and the rest stayed outside the city, waiting for orders to obey orders.

If things go according to plan, they will leave tomorrow. If things don't go well, or if they have an accident, they don't care about their lives or deaths, they just leave.

Xu Erlang entered the city gate, and saw Mohe and a general walking briskly side by side.

The general is about forty years old, and he is Chu Zhong's confidant, and he is the general Huwei from the third grade.

This man is a good fighter, and he has an independent combat team under his command. There are not many people, but more than 1,000 people, but they are famous for coming and going. Chu Zhong specially sent him, and he was also attentive.

The general's surname is Li, don't look at the official position is one level higher than Xu Erlang, but he is quite enthusiastic about Xu Erlang, and he doesn't see him put on any official show, so he happily patted Xu Erlang's shoulder, "Fortunately, Xuhui survived, and fortunately, Lord Xu is safe, otherwise I wouldn't be able to explain to the general." ”

He looked behind Xu Erlang again, and saw five big men wearing different tribal costumes. It is not entirely correct to say that it is a big man, because three of them do have big shoulders and round waists, but among the remaining two, one is as thin as firewood, and there is a short one that looks like Maitreya Buddha.

The image of such a few people is quite prominent, and it is difficult for people to recognize it.

In particular, General Li had been dealing with those tribes on the grassland for a long time, so it only took a moment to guess who these people might be.

General Li's eyes flashed slightly, he didn't say anything, everyone greeted each other, and then went to Xuhui's yamen together.

General Li received the order to come to the rescue, and now that Xuhui's crisis has been solved, he is not ready to continue to stay and rest, but only to leave with some food. In order to prevent Xu Erlang from thinking too much, he also said sincerely, "The general asked me to send 10,000 horses to the rescue." Now I and more than 1,000 of my soldiers arrived first, and the rest are still on the way. Now that my lordship is over, it's only right for me to go back to the border as soon as possible. There are still about 200,000 men and horses in the Tartars, and the Liaodong Army can't cope with it. After speaking, he smiled again, "My lord's contribution to this battle is indispensable." not only took the heads of the four princes, but also killed 30,000 Tartars, and the Tartars on the border line were less than 170,000. Hahaha, my lord's contribution is very great, and I admire it very much. ”