Chapter Fifty-Seven: Defeat!

Chen Qi took the bow and arrow he was carrying from his back and went down the mountain, disappearing into the crowd after a while.

The 10,000 officers and soldiers were under the impact of the 5,000 righteous troops, and the 10,000 peasants who had just put down their hoes, put on their armor, and picked up their sabers and spears did not have the slightest will to fight.

The escape of the main general, Li Yulong, only increased the fear in the hearts of the soldiers.

The so-called soldiers are one and the bears will be in a nest, and Li Yulong, the main general, took the lead in escaping and caused disastrous consequences.

The 10,000-strong army was divided and surrounded by 5,000 righteous troops in an instant, and the soldiers of the righteous army killed people when they saw them

The rebels broke up their 10,000-strong army with only one charge, and the mountains were full of officers and soldiers wearing new armor.

The number of rebels was too small to form an encirclement of the officers and troops for a while, resulting in a large number of officers and soldiers burrowing into the mountains and forests on both sides of the official road.

In order to survive, the former officers and soldiers actually turned around and ran in the direction of Xingan County.

Loess Slope is located in the middle of Xingan County and Xiajiang County, no matter to the south or north, the distance is just 20 miles.

These 10,000 officers and soldiers were not familiar with the local terrain and did not know that Xiajiang County was twenty miles ahead, but they knew that twenty miles behind them was Xingan County.

Gradually, the fleeing officers and soldiers gradually gathered together, they threw away the spears, knives, firecrackers and other weapons in their hands, and the grain, grass, and baggage carried by the 3,000 rear army were even more innumerable.

There were too many grain wagons in the rear army, which caused the official roads to be blocked, and the soldiers of the official army rushed directly to the paddy fields under the official roads in order to escape for their lives.

Some soldiers disliked the heavy armor on their bodies, and took it off while running, and for a while, the entire battlefield was full of armor weapons and other military supplies.

When the soldiers of the righteous army saw the officers and soldiers fleeing for their lives in such a mess, they couldn't help laughing, and shouted while laughing: "Surrender to death, surrender to death!" ”

The officers and soldiers who were running slowly saw that they were about to die on the spot, and as soon as they heard this slogan, they immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

As soon as the rebel soldiers saw that the gang had surrendered on their knees, the butcher's knives in their hands were not falling, and they left them in place, leaving two people to take care of them, and the rest continued to pursue.

Li Yulong rode his horse and ran fast, and after breaking out of the encirclement, he ran forward for a distance of more than a hundred steps in a short time.

As soon as he escaped from the encirclement, Li Yulong couldn't help but feel palpitations, he rode on his horse and glanced at the battlefield behind him, and found that his own soldiers were being killed by the anti-thieves and would soon be wiped out.

And behind him, there were more than a dozen officers on horseback, these people were all senior officers in the army, such as General Qian, but they didn't expect to rush out with him now.

The officers ran away, but they were followed by a large group of thieves, and the officers and soldiers who were running slowly were stabbed when they were caught up by the thieves, and then died on the spot.

Li Yulong looked at them and couldn't help but scold in his heart: "What a bunch of fools, they actually run with me, don't you know how to run separately!" ”

Li Yulong didn't have time to scold his subordinates at the moment, he, the main general, took the lead in escaping, and he knew that he was not qualified to scold.

Li Yulong knew very well what kind of people he led the army, and he went south to support this time, purely to make a show, and the order given to him by the governor was also very clear, that is, to take 10,000 troops to stand on the wall of Xiajiang.

As long as this 10,000-strong army arrives in Xiajiang County, the anti-thieves will definitely not dare to attack the city again, because the disparity between the forces of the two sides is too great.

Moreover, Liu Zongxiang had already thought in his heart that as long as the 10,000-strong army arrived at Xiajiang City, even if it was used to defend the city, it would be enough to deal with the attack of 6,000 anti-thieves.

After all, these 10,000 people are not 10,000 pigs, so at least throw stones on the city wall and poke the spear.

The anti-thieves don't have any large-scale siege equipment, and they attack the county town with 6,000 troops and 10,000 troops, even a fool will not do such a thing, unless the thief's brain is in water.

Liu Zongxiang's ideals are very plump, but the reality is very skinny.

Mo Qian did not do anything according to Governor Liu's wishes at all, he took the evil path, sent 5,000 elite soldiers around the city to the north, set up an ambush on the road through which the 10,000 army of 10,000 troops must pass, and wiped out Liu Zongxiang's 10,000 troops recruited at a great price.

As the chief general of the army, Li Yulong naturally knew how much combat power his subordinates had, and when the two armies fought, the difference in combat power was simply the difference between heaven and earth, and Li Yulong knew at a glance that this battle would undoubtedly be lost.

Just stay there and wait for death, it is better to save your life as soon as possible, as long as you leave your useful body, you will still be able to kill thieves and make contributions in the future.

When Li Yulong began to think about how to explain to the governor when he turned around, he suddenly felt that something was flying towards him behind him.

When he turned his head to look, he saw a small black dot flying towards him, Li Yulong squinted his eyes and found that it was actually an arrow.

"Ahh

Li Yulong didn't have time to speak, and a sharp arrow was shot into his forehead, and the arrow penetrated three inches deep into his forehead, and Li Yulong died on the spot, losing control of his body and falling off his horse.

A group of officers in the back witnessed the death of the chief general and couldn't help but be shocked.

Just when everyone was surprised, several more arrows flew behind them, each of which could hit the target, and after a while, seven or eight more people fell.

Mo Qian, who was standing on the mountain, couldn't help but clap his hands when he saw such a divine archery technique.

"What a marksman, who shot this arrow?"

The soldiers beside him replied: "King, it was shot by Chen Zhuangshi." ”

"Chen Qi?"

"Yes!"

"I didn't think he had such archery skills!"

Mo Qian didn't expect that Chen Qi, who had just joined the rebel army, actually had this ability, he first saw that he was carrying a bow and arrow on his shoulder, and thought that he was just using it to fight hares or something on weekdays, but he didn't expect his archery skills to be so accurate, which really surprised Mo Qian.

Halfway up the mountainside, Chen Qi stood on a rock, taking advantage of his good vision, took out a sharp arrow made by himself from the quiver on his back, and each sharp arrow was issued, and one of the officers on horseback was bound to be shot off the horse.

After a while, Chen Qi shot ten officers to death, including Li Yulong, the chief general of the official army.

When he wanted to shoot again, Chen Qi found that the feather arrows in the quiver were used up, and the angry Chen Qi couldn't help but be annoyed: "Alas, it's a pity! ”

This ambush battle lasted from midnight to noon, a full hour, and the entire battlefield was full of blood, and many officers and soldiers even jumped into the Yi River in order to flee for their lives.

In the spring, the people shivered when the river was frozen, and some officers and soldiers ran too slowly, and were caught up by the rebels by the river, and more than 100 people were directly cut and killed, and the water of the Yihe River was red for a while.

By noon, except for more than 2,000 officers and soldiers who had fled, the remaining 7,000 officers and troops were all wiped out by the rebels.

Among them, more than 3,000 people were killed, and the remaining 4,000 were all soldiers.

Looking at the soldiers under the mountain, an officer asked Mo Qian what to do.

Mo Qian ordered all their weapons to be confiscated, and then dragged them south, and cut off Li Yulong's head and stuck it in the spear, and went directly south with murderous spirit, outside the north gate of Chen Bingxia Jiang County.