At this time, if you look carefully at the clothes of Liu Xiu and others, you can see that they are all in rags, their faces are black and white, full of dirt, and their hair is messy, stained with grass stalks and soil lumps, and their appearance is similar to that of people fleeing famine.
There is almost no difference between the refugees.
After successfully sneaking into the town, Liu Xiu and others hid. Not long after, another group of patrols came over. This group had an even smaller number of patrols, only three people.
At Liu Xiu's signal, Xu Ying, Xu Fei, and Xu Ting rushed out from the corner. Three patrols suddenly took action from behind, restrained the three of them, and then dragged them.
Enter the alley.
Xu Fei and Xu Ting killed the two soldiers they had restrained in a clean and low manner. Liu Xiu walked up to the soldier restrained by Xu Ting and said, "If you don't want to die, don't scream!"
The soldier turned pale with fright and nodded repeatedly at Liu Xiu. Xuying slowly lowered the hand covering the soldier's mouth. Liu Xiu asked: "Where is the granary?"
The soldier's face turned even paler and he hesitated, unable to say a complete sentence for a long time. Xu Fei put the dagger in his hand against his throat and asked in a solemn voice: "Want to die?"
The soldier trembled and said in a trembling voice: "Grain... there is one granary in the north of the town and one in the south of the town."
Liu Xiu said expressionlessly: "Draw it on the ground."
The soldier took a branch handed over by Liu Xiu and drew a simple map on the ground tremblingly.
After Liu Xiu looked at it, a cold light flashed in his eyes and asked: "Lied to me?"
The soldiers were so frightened that they opened their mouths and said repeatedly: "No, no, no, I... I drew it right..."
Liu Xiu stared at him for a moment and nodded to Xu Fei. Xu Fei flipped his wrist and hit the soldier on the neck with the handle of his dagger. The latter rolled his eyes upwards and fainted on the spot.
Pulling the unconscious soldier and two corpses to the end of the alley, Liu Xiu said: "Go to the granary in the north of the town."
It is not difficult to find granaries in Lanxiang. Both granaries are one of the largest buildings in the town.
There are many sentries set up at the entrance of the granary. Even on New Year's Eve, there are one sentry every three steps and one sentry every five steps. They are heavily guarded.
Of course Liu Xiu and others would not force their way through the main entrance. They went around to the back of the Zhenbei Granary. After the patrols passed by, they got out of the alley and ran to the base of the courtyard wall.
Several soldiers of the Knight Cavalry stood leaning against the wall, while others stepped on their shoulders, jumped up the wall, and then jumped into the courtyard.
After Liu Xiu jumped in, he immediately squatted down and carefully observed the situation in the courtyard. This should be a certain family's mansion. The area was not small, but even in the courtyard, there were piles of bags filled with food.
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After looking around, Liu Xiu walked to the pile of bags closest to him and stabbed a bag with a dagger. As he pulled out the dagger, white rice flowed out from the hole.
Seeing that the bag was full of grain, Zhu You, Fu Jun and others spread out, cut the bag open with daggers, and pocketed the flowing rice with their lapels.
More than a dozen people were stealing rice together, and their voices were not quiet. When a patrol of soldiers passed by the yard, they immediately sensed something was wrong.
The patrols looked at each other, followed the sound and walked over. They saw Liu Xiu and others hiding in the corner stealing rice. Upon seeing this, the patrols became furious and yelled: "Who is that?"
Their voices startled Liu Xiu and others. They didn't bother to continue stealing rice. People turned around and ran away with their lapels full of rice. They climbed over the courtyard wall and jumped out, pocketing the rice in their lapels.
The rice inside was also scattered all over the floor.
"Damn it, are you so brave that you dare to come here to steal rice?!" The patrolmen were so angry that they chased after them while shouting.
Liu Xiu, Zhu You, and Fu Jun were at the end. Before the three of them could climb over the wall, ten patrols had already chased them. The three of them were not polite and rushed forward with daggers, stabbing randomly. , stabbing down several soldiers.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the other soldiers were scared back, they all jumped up to the courtyard wall and jumped out.
At this time, there was already a chaos in the courtyard of the granary, and people's shouts and shouts could be heard from time to time outside. Not long after, two groups of reckless soldiers ran to the back of the granary.
Liu Xiu and others each held daggers and fought with the rushing troops.
Even though they didn't have any weapons at hand and only used daggers, their force was not something ordinary soldiers could withstand.
In a short time, most of the twenty reckless soldiers were stabbed to the ground. Some were killed on the spot, while others were injured and lay on the ground, wailing desperately.
The leader of the Mang army in Lanxiang was named Zhu Ji, a school captain. He drank a lot of wine at night and slept very hard. He was not woken up until there was a chaos outside.
Wearing a medium coat and a coat, he walked out of the room cursing and asked loudly: "What's going on? What are you all yelling about?"
A soldier guarding outside bowed to him and said, "Sir, Captain, a few grain thieves just sneaked into the granary!"
Hearing this, Zhu Ji's brows stood up, and he clasped his waist with both hands and yelled: "Food thief? Damn it, I've stolen all the food! I think they have eaten the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard!"
As he was talking, a soldier hurried over, stepped in front of Zhu Ji, saluted, and said breathlessly: "Master Colonel, then... those food thieves have injured more than twenty of our brothers!"
Zhu Ji's eyes suddenly widened and he asked sharply: "How many people are there?"
"It seems... there seem to be more than a dozen people!"
"There are only a dozen of us, but more than twenty of you have been injured. You are just a bunch of losers!"
Zhu Ji was pointing at the messenger's nose and cursing. Two people walked out of the room next to him. They first looked at each other inexplicably, then looked at Zhu Ji and asked, "Captain Zhu, what happened?"
These two people were the two grain escorts from the Zhenfu Grain Transport Team and the Liangqiuci Grain Transport Team. They drank with Zhu Ji last night, and they were just woken up by the noise.
Zhu Ji bowed his hands to them and said, "It's nothing, just a few thieves popping up in the town. You two adults should continue to rest. I'll be back soon!"
As he spoke, he returned to his room, put on his armor, and strode out.
If they were just ordinary little thieves, there would be no need for him to take action personally, but now these little thieves have hurt people, and they have injured more than twenty people, which is not a trivial matter.
When Zhu Ji left the house, Liu Xiu and others had already run towards the west gate. After listening to the report of his men, Zhu Ji was so angry that the flesh on his face jumped, and he shouted angrily: "Call our army brothers and follow me. Chase, we must not let these dozen thieves escape tonight!"
Zhu Ji gave the order, and the soldiers below naturally did not dare to neglect it. In a short time, a team of seven or eight hundred people was assembled in the town.
Looking carefully at the dress of these soldiers, they all had crooked helmets, and some soldiers did not even have armor on their bodies, but just hung it on their shoulders. Seeing that there were already a lot of people coming, Zhu Ji led the soldiers and went straight to
Go to Ximen.
When they ran to the west gate, Liu Xiu and others had already ran out along the west gate. Zhu Ji was not willing to let them go, so he chased after them.
Not to mention, within two miles of chasing them, they really caught up with Liu Xiu and his party.
He saw Liu Xiu and others running, each carrying a big bag. Seeing this, Zhu Ji became even more angry and said through gritted teeth: "These damn rats! Capture them all, I want to live!"
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Hundreds of reckless soldiers chased Liu Xiu and others.
Liu Xiu and others, each carrying a bag, couldn't run fast at all. Seeing that the reckless army was approaching, they threw their rice bags down one after another.
However, when the bag fell, there was no sound of heavy objects hitting the ground. On the contrary, Liu Xiu and others had an extra long sword in their hands.
It turned out that the bag was not filled with rice at all, but filled with weeds and their respective weapons.
Liu Xiu drew out the Chixiao Sword and swung it backwards. The two soldiers who were chasing him were caught off guard and fell to the ground when the sword was swept to their chests.
Fu Jun held an iron bow, twisted the bow and nocked an arrow, and shot several arrows backwards.
Several soldiers who ran towards him were shot to the ground one after another. When he twisted his bow and set an arrow again, the soldiers behind him fell down in fright. However, Fu Jun's arrow did not hit anyone.
Shot into the sky.
Chirp——
A sharp whistle sounded from the air and spread far away.
Before the reckless soldiers chasing out of Lanxiang could figure out what was going on, they heard the rumble of horse hooves.
People looked around subconsciously, unable to see anything clearly in the night, but the torches in their hands were particularly eye-catching in the night.
When Zhu Ji realized that something was wrong and wanted to retreat to Lanxiang, it was already too late. More than 500 knights led by Ma Wu and Feng Yi rushed towards them like a whirlwind.
The soldiers of the reckless army turned pale with fright, and the people screamed and ran back one after another, but their two legs could not be faster than the four hooves of the war horses.
The cavalry on horseback raised their spears one after another, pointing their spearheads directly at the reckless army in front.
Boom!
The war horses rushed into the crowd, and for a moment, there were screams. Spears penetrated people's bodies and nailed each reckless soldier to the ground.
The horses sprinted so fast that the cavalrymen had no time to pull out their spears. They all drew out their swords from under their ribs and swung their swords left and right, slashing at the surrounding barbarians.
More than five hundred cavalrymen entered the crowd of reckless soldiers, just like tigers entering a flock of sheep.
The 700 to 800-strong army was defeated almost instantly. People shouted, screamed, and fled in all directions, but the cavalry who rushed up from behind were like seducing ghosts, cutting them down one after another.
On the ground.
Zhu Ji, who was riding on the horse, screamed inwardly that he had fallen into a trap! He ignored his soldiers and turned his horse's head to run back. He had only run ten meters away when he heard a sharp sound coming from behind.
When the wind broke, he instinctively lowered his head.
Bang! The arrow hit his helmet, causing his helmet to fly far away. The bun on Zhu Ji's head fell down, and blood flowed all over his face.
Fu Jun's arrow made a big gash in the scalp on the top of his head. If Zhu Ji had been slower to dodge, the arrow would have penetrated his head.
Zhu Ji secretly thought he was lucky! He thought he had escaped by chance, but he didn't expect the sound of horse hooves behind him. He turned his head and looked back, only to see a big man with a black face urging his horse to catch up, holding a gleaming cold gun in his hand.
Nine ears and eight rings knife.
Ma Wu, Ma Zizhang! Zhu Ji had never seen Ma Wu, but he had heard that the sword Ma Wu used was the nine-eared eight-ring sword. When he realized that the person chasing him was actually Ma Wu, Zhu Ji was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.
He raised the spear in his hand, and when he heard the sound of horse hooves behind him, he shouted loudly, turned around, and stabbed backwards with his gun.
His judgment was correct. The black-faced man who was chasing him was none other than Ma Wu. Ma Wu swung the knife in his hand outwards, and with a bang, Zhu Ji's gun flew out sideways, spinning in the air, and fell to ten
meters away.
He didn't have time to beg for mercy, and Ma Wu slashed his neck with a knife.
Click! Poof!
Only the headless body was left sitting on the horse. Zhu Ji's head rolled to the ground, and the windlass went out a long way.
