Chapter 232: Counterattack
Mu Sheng didn't expect that he would be in a hurry or a step late.
Looking at the villagers with numb eyes and frightened faces, as if they were scared stupid, Mu Sheng couldn't help but have a big head.
Theoretically, Mochizuki Village is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the people in the Mochizuki Village are naturally the people of the Ming Dynasty.
And now the people in the village have been slaughtered by one-third of the White Lotus Sect, this is no longer as simple as a simple beastly act, this is a challenge to the authority of the Mu family to guard Yunnan for thirty years.
What's more, after he brought people here, he didn't even see the faces of the people he slaughtered, which made him feel the most uncomfortable.
"Immediately, immediately, send an order to the major Tusi Mansions under Lin'an's rule, let them take people into the mountains to conduct a carpet search, let go of a White Lotus Sect, and Ben Hou will test them."
The emperor was angry, and millions of corpses were ambushed, Mu Sheng was not an emperor, but in Yunnan, he had the power of an emperor.
"Ah Gong~"
A terrible cry caught everyone's attention, it was a young girl covered in dust, who stumbled to the pile of corpses, her eyes full of despair.
"Ah Jin?"
Mu Sheng heard the girl's voice, but the girl seemed to have lost her soul, and just frantically moved each corpse until she found a headless corpse in leather armor between the piles of corpses.
The girl seemed to lose her strength, she didn't say a word, and after finding the body, she began to look around like a mad demon for the head, and at last, she saw a familiar head in a corner.
The girl covered her mouth and approached the old man's hair, which was still open after death.
When she saw the face of the head, the girl's face was full of disbelief, and she held the head and returned to the corpse, combining the head with the corpse.
Grandpa, who had raised her for more than ten years, finally had a complete corpse, and the girl looked at the familiar old man in front of her, and the tears in her eyes slipped like a kite with a broken string.
She shook her head, as if she couldn't believe that her grandfather, who loved her and loved her, was separated from her forever.
She covered her mouth and tried not to let herself cry.
Step by step, then turn and run.
"Ah Jin!"
"Stop him!"
Mu Sheng shouted anxiously, with his years of experience in the battle formation, how could he not see that the girl had fallen into a state of extreme sadness and despair, if she was allowed to run out of the village, I am afraid that there would be no chance to come back.
The girl staggered towards the outside of the village, and it was very simple for the soldiers who followed Mu Sheng to stop a little girl.
They formed a human wall, and Ah Jin looked at the soldiers with some confusion.
Suddenly burst into tears.
"Ah Jin, wake up."
Mu Sheng stepped forward, grabbed Ah Jin's arm and shook it a few times.
But Ah Jin's eyes were full of confusion, and only tears kept falling.
"Ah Gong ......"
Ah Jin seemed to suddenly think of some frightened picture, his face suddenly distorted, and his eyes instantly turned red.
"Demon, let me go!"
Ah Jin bit on Mu Sheng's arm, as if he wanted to tear off all the flesh on Mu Sheng's arm.
Mu Sheng frowned slightly, and then slashed at Ah Jin's neck with a hand knife, and Ah Jin fell into his arms in response.
The little girl's mind may well have gone out of sorts.
But the most important thing at the moment is not how to make her accept reality.
handed over the little girl to a soldier who was swinging and instructed him to take some people to stay in the village to deal with the aftermath, and Mu Sheng led the people to continue to rush towards the official road at the foot of the mountain.
Chen Kan only had 400 people in his hands, although he had arranged 600 cavalry to ambush in the mountains and forests in advance, but the total number of people on both sides was only 1,000, and in the face of 3,000 White Lotus Sect members, he might not be able to take advantage of anything.
In fact, it was not too much different from what Mu Sheng expected, the four hundred people under Chen Kan's command were certainly brave, and they even started to attack instead of defend recently, and they also caught a group of White Lotus Sect disciples off guard.
But as time went on, the convenience of fewer people began to stretch out.
The people of the White Lotus Sect seemed to be unable to kill them all, and whenever Fang Xu and Zhang San led people to kill a gap, they were always filled in the blink of an eye.
On the other hand, on Chen Kan's side, there was one less manpower, and as a last resort, everyone had to gradually shrink the defense line and no longer try to attack the gentle slope.
But even under such circumstances, the face of the White Lotus Sect leader became more and more ugly.
Because in the calculation of the Buddha and the Holy Maiden, they must take down the Qincha team within the time of a stick of incense, otherwise it will be regarded as a failure of the mission.
The topography of Shuzhong is different from that of Yunnan, they are both fighting away, and once the time drags on for a long time, the army stationed in Lin'an Mansion will be brought over, which means that they are likely to bury their lives here.
And now, time is already approaching a stick of incense, and the Qincha team of only 400 people is still resisting stubbornly.
Especially the bravery of Fang Xu and Zhang San, which made him even more angry, and he couldn't wait to cut them to pieces with his own hands.
Chen Kan tried his best to finally push the stinky boots out of his mouth with his tongue.
"Get up!"
Chen Kan's face turned red, and he didn't know if he was angry or pressed by the three imperial histories.
Chen An's face was a little embarrassed, because his move was indeed suspected of committing the following crimes.
Fortunately, Chen An's psychological quality is good, in fact, the psychological quality of the ministers in the early Ming Dynasty is okay, and most of them have experienced the baptism of battle.
Don't look at Chen An's thinness like a weak chicken, he has also been on the battlefield.
Otherwise, in this kind of bloody scene, change to a younger civil official, let alone stop Chen Kan's brainlessness, it would be good if he could not be scared to pee by these stumps and broken arms.
Chen An stubbornly discussed with Chen An: "My lord, the lower official can let you get up, but you have to promise the lower official one thing, after you get up, don't think about rushing up and killing people, that's not what you should do, your life is more important than anything else." ”
Chen Kan is now gradually coming back to his senses, and he also knows that his behavior just now is indeed a little impulsive.
But in the two lives, he is at the age of hot blood, and he can't control it at all, okay?
"Let me go, reinforcements have arrived!"
Chen Kan squirmed a few times, his face full of helplessness.
He had already seen that on the path to the village, Mu Sheng was rushing in his direction with his guards like a mad dog, and it would take no more than five minutes at most.
In addition, the six hundred cavalry led by Luo Qianhu should also do it!
Sure enough, as soon as Chen Kan's words fell, he heard a shout of killing coming from another mountain forest.
"Kill!"
Yunnan was not suitable for cavalry combat, so Luo Qianhu abandoned his horse and rushed out of the dense forest with his six hundred soldiers.
Fighting in the mountains and forests is also an unavoidable item for the military in Yunnan during training.
Their ability to fight in the mountains and forests may not be as good as those who are as agile as monkeys, but compared to the White Lotus Sect from Shu, they are at least equally divided.
What's more, the army is a violent machine born for war, and the White Lotus Sect is, to put it bluntly, nothing more than a loose cult organization.
Even though each of them is not weak in martial arts, when you encounter a formed army, no matter what kind of master you are, you will have to die!
What Chen Kan could see, the White Lotus Sect leader could naturally see it, and when he heard this shouting and killing, his face suddenly changed greatly.
Why did the imperial army come so quickly?
Unfortunately, he had no time to think, and he clearly knew that once he was entangled by the army, the tragedy of twenty years ago would be repeated.
In the midst of a flash of thought, he made a quick decision.
Compared to one Chen Kan, so many backbones of the White Lotus Sect were undoubtedly more important.
At least two-thirds of these 3,000 people belong to the forces of the West Buddha in Shu, if all of them are lost here, the West Buddha will not have ten years to recover, and even the Holy Mother may directly come to Shu to ask for sin, such a consequence is not something that he can bear as a small Ten Pillar Bodhisattva.
"Withdraw, everyone disperses and hides."
Breaking up into pieces is the most likely way to escape the army's strangulation.
Even if the number of troops in the imperial court was far less than theirs, he didn't dare to bet, what if there were other teams in the imperial court ambushing somewhere?
The mountains in Yunnan are so big that it is impossible to fully understand the situation on each mountain.
He didn't have time to think about why the planned foolproof interception would be known in advance by the imperial army, and the moment he shouted to evacuate, he burrowed into the deep mountains and old forests.
The Qincha team led by Fang Xu instantly felt that the pressure had suddenly eased a lot, but as far as the eye could see, the White Lotus Sect was evacuating in an orderly manner.
Looking at the White Lotus Sect hidden in the mountains and forests, Chen Kan naturally couldn't let them escape so easily.
"Kill!"
With a shout, Chen Kan led people to catch up with the White Lotus Sect's ass.
In the midst of the chaos, I don't know if it was Chen Kan's luck or if Chen Kan really had this strength, but there were really a few White Lotus Sectists who didn't have time to escape and died under Chen Kan's knife.
"Chase!"
Chen Kan was already red-eyed, and without the slightest hesitation, he led people to chase into the deep mountains and dense forests.
This time, Chen An did not obstruct Chen Kan.
Although these White Lotus Sectists were not a defeated army at the moment, since they chose to flee, it showed that they were afraid of the imperial army.
The most important thing in the battle between the two armies is morale, and once the morale is lost, it is not far from a rout.
The opportunity to beat the water dog is not something that anyone has this opportunity to encounter, the three imperial historians glanced at each other, and saw that there was only a corpse left on the official road, and they also had a tacit understanding to pick up the knife and follow the team's ass into the mountains and forests.
A few minutes later, the three teams converged, and the team of 1,200 people, in addition to the more than 100 people who died in the fierce battle on the official road, there were still more than 1,100 people.
Among them, there are two hundred Mu Sheng's pro-army.
The picture of more than 1,000 people chasing 3,000 people running all over the mountain looks very weird, but it is very reasonable to see that the chasing soldiers are the most elite army in the imperial court, and they have reached 100% after the whole army is armored.
The only thing that is not beautiful is that the mountains in Yunnan are too big, the forests are too dense, and the people of the White Lotus Sect are getting fewer and fewer, and similarly, the chasing troops led by Chen Kan and Mu Sheng are becoming more and more scattered.
Mu Sheng grabbed Chen Kan, who had been killed like a blood gourd, and said in a deep voice: "We can't chase anymore, we don't have any protective measures, the miasma in the mountain will be fatal!" ”
Chen Kan's bravery was useless in front of Mu Sheng, and Mu Sheng's arm was like an iron tong firmly clamping him.
Chen Kan's violent eyes gradually returned to clarity.
Then he sighed deeply.
The conditions are here, Chen Kan doesn't know, even if he continues to chase down, it will be worth the loss, but he is really unwilling to let these White Lotus Sect people escape like this.
The elusive White Lotus Sect has become a thorn in his heart.
This time he was lucky, because Ah Jin reported to him in advance, so that he could avoid the interception of the White Lotus Sect, so what about next time?
It is nearly 4,000 miles away from Yunnan to Beijing, can he have such good luck every time?
But no matter how unwilling he was, Chen Kan could not have put the lives of so many soldiers at risk.
"Master Hou, Mingjin retreats!"
Chen Kan stopped and made the decision to withdraw the troops with a depressed face.
Hearing this, Mu Sheng also breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Chen Kan would be angry, and chased into the deep mountains and old forests regardless of it.
is still the same sentence, the loss of so many soldiers is still second, and what he is most afraid of is that Chen Kan will die in Yunnan.
Chen Kan can die anywhere, but he must not die in Yunnan.
He couldn't take that risk.
The sound of "clanging" resounded through the mountains and forests, and the soldiers who were chasing and killing the White Lotus Sect heard this sound and immediately began to withdraw from the forest in an orderly manner.
"Count battle damage!"
Mu Sheng commanded, and then sat on the ground panting heavily.
He is not the type of fierce general, this day from Lin'an to Mochizuki Village, there are a few rapid charges, and a whole day without a drop of water, the battle is fine, now when he stops, he suddenly feels like his chest is burning.
Chen Kan sat down next to Mu Sheng, his state was not much better than Mu Sheng, although Mu Sheng was not a fierce general who captured the flag, but he was a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time.
As for Chen Kan, when he goes to the battlefield, he is really no different from waste.
Wiping the blood from the knife with his official uniform, Chen Kan asked, "Master Hou, how is Mochizuki Village?" ”
Mu Sheng was stunned by his question, and then shook his head and said, "You better go and see for yourself." ”
Looking at Mu Sheng's expression, Chen Kan suddenly had a hint of foreboding in his heart.
Seeing that Fang Xu led people back, Chen Kan couldn't care about the fact that they had just fought a big battle.
Commanded: "Go to Mochizuki Village!" ”
Chen Kan's order was a military order, and he couldn't take a break, and a group of people hurried towards Wangyue Village.
Seeing this, Mu Sheng sighed slightly, and then followed Chen Kan.
It took half an hour to walk from the official road to Mochizuki Village, and although it was all the way uphill, Chen Kan's speed did not slow down at all.
Walking to the door of the stockade and seeing that the gate of the stockade was still complete, Chen Kan felt a little more relaxed.
But as soon as he stepped into the gate of the village, Chen Kan's eyeballs began to be congested uncontrollably.
In the small square in front of the village, dozens of corpses were lying quietly, and the one in the middle was the old village owner who invited Chen Kan to eat Yunnan mountain delicacies.
Chen Kan took a long breath and suppressed the killing intent in his heart.
Slowly walked up to the old man.
When he saw the leather armor worn by the old man and the ash pole he was holding in his hand, Chen Kan finally couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.
"White Lotus Sect, I, Chen Kan, will never die with you in this life!"
After speaking, Chen Kan turned around and left.
Fang Xu hurriedly chased after him: "My lord, where are you going?" ”
"Go for revenge!"
Chen Kan's face was terrifyingly cold, and his voice was even more hoarse and emotionless.
Guilt and anger filled his mind, making Chen Kan's head almost explode, at this moment, he had to vent, there was nothing more than the head of the White Lotus Sect that allowed him to vent his anger.
"Calm down, if you go to the White Lotus Sect now, you're just going to die."
Mu Sheng grabbed Chen Kan and was not afraid of Chen Kan's eyes that were almost about to breathe fire.
"Ben Hou has already asked people to notify the major Tusi forces, and all the passes in Yunnan have been blocked, and there are so many people in the White Lotus Sect, they can't escape from Yunnan, don't worry."
After comforting Chen Kan, Mu Sheng took his hand and said lightly: "Follow me!" ”
Chen Kan had no room to resist, he couldn't break free from Mu Sheng's hand.
The two came to a bamboo building, and Chen Kan looked up to see that it was the home of the old village owner.
"There's someone waiting for you inside!"
Mu Sheng just said casually, and pushed Chen Kan into the bamboo building.
Chen Kan stumbled under his feet, but as soon as he stepped into the bamboo building, Chen Kan saw a person who should not be here.
She hugged her calves and squatted on the edge of the fire with a blank face.
"Ah Jin!"
Looking at the girl's face, Chen Kan couldn't help but call the girl's name softly.
But the girl's expression was numb, as if she hadn't heard Chen Kan's voice.
Chen Kanshang took a deep breath and continued to ask, "Ah Jin, when did you come back, and what about your father?" ”
It seemed that the word father woke her up, and she suddenly turned her head to look at Chen Kan, and her eyes burst with strong hatred.
"It's you!"
"You killed Grandpa, and you killed everyone in the village."
Ah Jin spoke, and the girl's hoarse voice was filled with hatred.
The red and swollen eyes looked at Chen Kan, as if he was looking at an enemy who had an uncommon hatred.
Hearing this, Chen Kan felt bitter in his heart.
So many people died in the stockade, and it really had nothing to do with him.
If he hadn't come to visit Mochizuki Village at the beginning, maybe the White Lotus Sect wouldn't have been eyeing it here.
"I'm sorry!"
Chen Kan bent down to apologize to the girl, and the girl suddenly seemed to be crazy, rushed to Chen Kan and asked with red eyes: "We have no grievances with you in Mochizuki Village, why did you bring those demons here, kill Ah Gong, and kill everyone......"
Chen Kan opened his mouth, but found that he had no way to defend himself.
The people of the White Lotus Sect were indeed recruited by him.
"I'm sorry!"
All Chen Kan can do now is an unconvincing apology.
Ah Jin bit her lip tightly, big tears rolled out of her eyes, and her lips had bitten out blood, but she didn't seem to realize it, but she still looked at Chen Kan with eyes full of hatred.
"Ah Gong is so good, why do you want to harm him?"
Ah Jin's voice was still so hoarse that he could barely speak, but every word in her mouth made Chen Kan can't help but feel a pain in his heart.
"I ......"
"Get out, we don't welcome you in Mochizuki Village!"
Ah Jin cried and said this, pushing Chen Kan out of the bamboo building.
Then there was a hoarse cry from the bamboo building.