Chapter 305: Zhu Yuanhao made meritorious contributions
"Do you dare to chase after you?" As soon as he ran out of four or five miles, Zhao Dahu suddenly heard the shouting behind him, and immediately turned his head to look, only to see a lot of firelight flashing in the darkness in the distance.
"Big brother, you leave, I'll wait for the break," a pro-soldier stopped and said. The general's name is Xu Lang, who was originally Zhao Dahu's subordinate when he was a robber, and he was extremely loyal, so he promoted the other party to the leader of his own soldiers. Xu Lang really did not let himself down, and stood up at the critical moment.
In the melee just now, Zhao Dahu was killed by an arrow on the back of the big horse under his crotch, and now he can only run on foot like other sergeants. If this continues, sooner or later they will be overtaken by officers and soldiers due to exhaustion.
"It's okay," he nodded after a little hesitation, and slapped the other party on the shoulder: "Kill the pursuers, don't fall in love, follow immediately." ”
"Yes, come with me if you're not afraid of death," Xu Lang said to the sergeant next to him with a spear in his hand.
When the words landed, twenty or thirty people stood up. As for the other sergeants, when they touched Xu Lang's gaze, they subconsciously turned their heads away. Fang had just rushed out of the encirclement of officers and soldiers, and now reason had reoccupied his brain, and no one was willing to continue to die.
After separating twenty or thirty subordinates to block it, Zhao Dahu led the remaining sergeants to leave the official road, turn into a dirt road, and rush towards the dark place with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"Quick, hide in the ditch on the side of the road," Xu Lang after the break was not a brainless person, after sending Zhao Dahu away, he glanced around a few times and pointed to a depression.
After receiving the order, twenty or thirty people were attached to the ditch.
This area is several zhang square, the artemisia grass is luxuriant, and it is more than half a person deep, and it is not difficult to hide twenty or thirty people.
After his subordinates were hiding, Xu Lang pulled out the bow and arrow in his waist and aimed at the end of the road. The officers and soldiers were already very close, and through the light of the torches in the distance, he could see nearly a hundred figures rushing towards this place.
Thirty zhang, twenty zhang...... Xu Lang began to draw his bow and aim at the black-faced man at the front, looking at what the other party was wearing, he was obviously the leader of this gang. As long as this person is shot, there will be no officers and soldiers, and they will definitely not dare to chase after him.
His archery skills are good, if the distance of twenty zhang in the day is nineteen. It's just that it's in the dark, and my vision is greatly affected.
Feeling unsure, Xu Lang didn't immediately release the arrow, planning to wait for the other party to get a few feet closer.
Unexpectedly, the big man suddenly raised his arm without warning, and the officers and soldiers behind him immediately stopped.
"Zhu Yingzheng, what's wrong?" someone asked aloud.
Zhu Yuanhao stared into the distance, the night ahead was dim, there was no movement, but he felt that there was some danger. Not far away, there seems to be a beast hiding.
"Revealed?" Seeing the other party's movements, Xu Lang immediately stopped hesitating, and as soon as his fingers loosened, the sharp arrow had already penetrated the darkness and shot at the leader of the sergeant.
"Be careful" Hearing the sound of the bowstring, Zhu Yuanhao's face changed greatly, and he suddenly pulled the sergeant standing beside him.
The "poof" feather arrow shot three feet beside him, and the shaft of the arrow still trembled, making the sergeant's heart beat in fright. If the camp was a little slower just now, he would have become a ghost.
"There is an ambush, everyone be careful," Zhu Yuanhao had already reacted at this moment, and hurriedly squatted down and said to the sergeant behind him: "Take the oilcloth and shoot the arrow"
Immediately many of the "Yes ......" team took their bows and arrows, wrapped their tarpaulins around the arrows, and then lit them against the torches, and swished towards the dead grass in the distance.
Seeing the rocket coming towards the hiding place, Xu Lang hurriedly jumped up, shouting: "Hurry, get out quickly"
Before the sound landed, the rocket had already drilled into the artemisia grass. After such a long period of exposure to the sun after withering in autumn, the artemisia grass is very easy to ignite, and now it encounters a strip of cloth dipped in fire oil, and it burns in an instant.
Almost in the blink of an eye, a thick burst of fire rose into the sky, and the sergeant in the smoke screamed and jumped in the firelight. Many of them were blinded by the smoke, panicked, and jumped into the ditch not far away.
By the light of the fire, seeing that there were only twenty or thirty sneak attackers, Zhu Yuanhao immediately said to his subordinates: "Kill"
Immediately, he rushed out first, a distance of twenty zhang, but in a few breaths, the two sides were already close to each other. Zhu Yuanhao directly confronted Xu Lang, and the remaining sergeants also found their own targets.
It should be said that Xu Lang's force value is quite strong, but against Zhu Yuanhao, he is a little insufficient. In just a few rounds, he was cut off by Zhu Yuanhao's arm.
Xu Lang endured the severe pain and rolled over, and was just about to stand up from the ground, when the big knife was already across his neck.
"You're not Zhao Dahu, tell me quickly, where did he flee to?" Zhu Yuanhao said coldly. Although he didn't know Zhao Dahu, he had also heard of the other party's murderous name. The strength of the thief in front of him is too poor, and it is definitely not Zhao Dahu.
"Phew, the general has already gone far away, and you can't catch up. Lao Tzu can't say it, you have the ability to kill Lao Tzu," Xu Lang spat and said.
"Stubborn," Zhu Yuanhao had no intention of letting the other party live, and his hand was up and down, and he had already lost his life.
The officers and soldiers already had an advantage in numbers, and in a moment, the thieves who resisted in the field had already been killed, and only a few prisoners were left kneeling on the ground and trembling.
"Tell me quickly, in which direction did Zhao Dahu escape, say it and spare your life" Zhu Yuanhao walked up to a prisoner with a bloody knife and asked.
This person is not as tough as Xu Lang, under the pressure of Zhu Yuanhao's murderous aura, he couldn't help but beg for mercy: "Don't kill me, don't kill me, the general fled there"
These captives are all small people, and Zhu Yuanhao has no intention of taking credit for his head. After knowing Zhao Dahu's whereabouts, he threw a few people behind.
Through the firelight, they could clearly see the messy traces of being trampled on the path next to them, so everyone rushed after them.
Knowing that there were pursuers behind him, Zhao Dahu did not dare to stop and rest when he fled for his life, but ran all the way.
Before I knew it, the east was already faintly bright, and when I heard the sound of running water in front of me, the faces of the thieves changed.
In a hurry, they panicked and ran to the side of the Dushui River. The river was hundreds of feet wide, and there were no boats nearby, so although they were slightly waterlogged, they could not escape by water.
"Haha, sure enough, God helped me, and these thieves actually escaped to death. When he saw the wide river in front of him, Zhu Yuanhao shouted excitedly, "Sons, surround them, don't let any of them go."
"Kill, kill these officers and soldiers" Behind him is the gushing water, and Zhao Dahu also knows that there is nowhere to escape. In this case, the suppressed ferocity in his heart spread again.
Stimulated, the thieves behind him also subconsciously clenched their swords. For a while, the fortune of the whole army was reunited, but compared with before, it declined several times.
On the other hand, the officers and men not only had an advantage in numbers, but also had a favorable situation in their own favor, so they were even more lucky, rolling around, and almost rushed into the sky.
The battle was extremely fierce at the beginning, Zhu Yuanhao faced Zhao Dahu, and the remaining officers and soldiers tightly surrounded the last forty or fifty thieves.
Choke...... The two long knives collided one after another, and there was a piercing roar, and the sparks burst straight up. Zhao Dahu fought against the water, and he put life and death aside. The long knife was swung out, and the moves were extremely ruthless, and it was completely a fight for life.
Zhu Yuanhao was not in a hurry, and most of the time he gestured. He knew where his advantage was, as long as he trapped this person and killed all those thieves by his subordinates, he would definitely be able to capture Zhao Dahu at that time.
Zhao Dahu obviously understood the situation he was in, and when he saw that his subordinates were constantly being killed by officers and soldiers, he became more and more crazy, like a trapped beast, roaring unwillingly
However, as soon as he glanced at it, his movements slowed down a little, and he just stepped on a corpse. Zhao Dahu staggered and hurriedly stood firm.
"Give me death" Seeing that the other party showed his flaws, Zhu Yuanhao hurriedly cut it down with a knife, splitting the opponent's body in half.
The thieves who were paying attention to the battle situation on this side of the "general" immediately screamed when they saw that Zhao Dahu was killed.
"Zhao Dahu is dead, you won't surrender yet" Zhu Yuanhao quickly stepped forward and cut off the other party's head, and shouted in his hand. I have to say that this action is very deterrent. Seeing this, the remaining thieves threw down their weapons and begged for mercy.
At this moment, the sky was bright, and after a night of fighting, the remaining thieves in the county had already been killed. The fire in the county office has also been extinguished, and both inside and outside the courtyard are occupied by officers and soldiers
At this moment, in the lobby, the handsome Liu Hong sat at the top. There is also a person kneeling in the hall, it is Wu Lianshan, the guard general who let Zhao Dahu go last night.
Liu Hong glared at Wu Lianshan and said angrily: "General Wu Wei, what do you have to say, yesterday Ben Dushuai repeatedly ordered that the thief must not be allowed to escape." As a result, you are good, hundreds of people under your command put their hands on the city gate, but let Zhao Dahu run away. How do you say Pondu Shuai should punish you?"
"Du Shuai, I don't complain about this matter, the last general led his troops to break through the west gate last night, and then led the troops to chase and kill the thieves in the direction of the county government, and I don't know what happened at the city gate. Moreover, when the last general was leaving, he met Zhu Yingzheng and ordered him to strictly guard the city gate and not let any thieves escape. Wu Lianshan raised his head and said nothing.
"Nonsense, you are blind when you are Ben Dushuai, last night attacked the city, Zhu Yingzheng took the lead, and it was he who led people to break the city gate first. And Zhu Ying is at the south gate, how could he run to the west gate?" Liu Hong also has some impressions of Zhu Yuanhao, and loves his bravery. At this moment, when he heard that Wu Lianshan shirked his responsibility, he couldn't help but say angrily.
"Du Shuai, what the last general said is true, the little one did give Zhu Yingzheng an order, if Du Shuai doesn't believe it, he can invite Zhu Yingzheng to ask. Wu Lianshan Zhenzhen said. When he did this, he naturally ordered his subordinates to investigate in advance, and Zhu Yuanhao went out of the city to pursue Zhao Dahu last night and did not return overnight, which was obviously more than lucky.
In this case, you can put all the blame on the other party, anyway, this person is dead, and there is no proof of it.
"Zhu Yuanhao, let him come to see me immediately. Liu Hong turned his head and commanded at his soldiers.
"Yes," the soldier replied and went out.
After a short time, he returned again and said: "Yu Du Shuai, Zhu Yingzheng went out of the city to chase the enemy last night and did not return overnight. ”
Wu Lianshan refused to admit to letting Zhao Dahu go, and the other party did not come back now, Liu Hong had to wave his hand to let the other party get up: "You get up, when Zhu Yingzheng returns, the two of you will confront each other again." ”
"The last general obeys the order" Wu Lianshan's heart was much more relaxed when he got up, knowing that this big crime was over.
It's just that before he returned to his seat, suddenly another soldier entered the hall, and said excitedly: "Du Shuai, Zhu Yingzheng has come back from killing the thief, and he has brought back the head of the thief Zhao Dahu."
"What, where is he?" Liu Hong got up from his seat in excitement. As for the few guards under the seat, there was also surprise on their faces.
"Just wait outside the county office"
"Order him to come over to see me," Liu Hong hurriedly commanded, and after speaking, he stared at Wu Lianshan.
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