"What? You don't believe it? Do you dare to question the divine power of the Holy Duke?" Meng Xiang shouted angrily.
"Who are you lying to? Do you still want to lie to us? What kind of Holy Duke? It's just the former pirate Hai Dongqing. You, Chief Meng, are not a Tianlong, you are just a pirate. At this time, you still want to lie to us."
"That is, since you have a body to avoid fire, Chief Meng will show it to everyone. Everyone will make a way for Chief Meng to rush over first. Let's also see how Chief Meng survives unscathed."
All the believers spoke in a flurry of words, their words full of ridicule, sarcasm and resentment.
"You bastards, you are so brave. You dare to speak like this. Are you betraying the Holy Religion and the Holy Father? Apostates should be cut into pieces and light lanterns in the sky." Meng Xiang shouted angrily, pointing the big ring knife in his hand. A group of people who just spoke.
No one in the congregation dared to speak out. They were afraid that Meng Xiang would kill someone, so they chose to shut up. Suddenly, the horse under Meng Xiang's crotch neighed, and then started to jump. Meng Xiang almost fell off the horse. He tightened the reins of his horse and shouted: "Beast, what are you doing? You beast, you are coming to fight against me now."
The horse kept jumping, and someone nearby shouted in horror: "Master Meng, there is a knife on the horse's butt."
Meng Xiang turned around in shock and saw a machete embedded in the bone above the horse's tail, bleeding. Someone had just slashed the horse's butt.
"Who did it, who did it, I will kill you." Meng Xiang roared and glared at the believers beside him, raised his big ring knife and slashed at one of the believers. The believer couldn't dodge and was hit by Half of the head was chopped off and the body fell to the ground. Meng Xiang roared to himself and slashed to kill others.
One of the congregants shouted loudly: "Everyone has been killed so miserably by this bully. His family has been deceived by some bullshit saint, and he has been given the reputation of being a rebel. There is no way to survive at this moment anyway. Let's kill this bully." Bad breath."
"Yes, kill him. We are killing people indiscriminately at this time. We are not human beings. Kill him, kill him." The silent congregants roared, and a group of people waved their fists and pressed forward.
Meng Xiang screamed in horror: "Who dares? Who dares to do this? I...I will chop him alive."
"You are a dead man. We are not afraid of you. Dog thief, I will kill you." A member of the congregation picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at Meng Xiang. This move reminded everyone, and all the members picked up the stones and mud balls one after another. The rubbish was thrown at Meng Xiang. Meng Xiang cursed while protecting his head and face to avoid it. Two stones hit him hard on the head, making him dizzy. Suddenly the horse jumped and he was thrown to the ground. In the air, it fell heavily.
Meng Xiang fell to the ground, rolling on the spot as a habit, trying to get up. Suddenly he found that the bottom of his body was empty, and his whole body rolled down the slope below the Chi Road. Thorns and thorny vines pricked his whole body in pain, but Soon he no longer had to worry about the pain, because his whole body fell into the mud beside the road with a thud. The moment he fell, half of his body was already stuck in the smelly mud.
Meng Xiang instinctively twisted his body with force and straightened his body to avoid the bad luck on his head and feet. However, even so, at this moment, half of his head was buried in the mud, and half of his body was lying in the mud, unable to move. A foul and unpleasant smell assaulted my nostrils, and the buzzing sound of flying mosquitoes lingered in my ears.
The churchgoers on the galloping road watched with their own eyes as Meng Xiang was thrown to the side of the road by the horse, and then he rolled down the galloping road and fell into the mud. They all looked out to watch.
"Save me, save me quickly!" Meng Xiang shouted loudly.
"Master Meng, aren't you a Heavenly Dragon? Aren't you blessed by the Holy Duke? It's time for the Holy Duke to save you, but we can't save you. Please come to the Holy Duke." Someone sneered and teased.
"Holy Duke... I have no time. Whoever comes to save me, I will make him a protector and give him as much gold and silver as he wants." Meng Xiang shouted.
"Bah, if we don't kill you, we will already give you a lot of face. The Qingjiao is a liar, the Holy Duke is a liar, you are all a group of liars. The court is also a group of liars, you are all liars. The most painful thing is
We, the common people, have been deceived by you. We can't even live in peace and contentment. Who have we offended and provoked? Why do you come to deceive us poor people? Have we provoked you? We have worked hard to provide you with food and drink.
Are you going to drive us around and not even let us live a happy life?"
One of the congregants spoke loudly, and when he got excited, he raised his hands to the sky and beat the ground violently, feeling extremely painful. Everyone in the surrounding congregants shed tears and burst into mourning. The cries were loud.
Meng Xiang heard clearly with half of his ears outside. He wanted to argue, but when he opened his mouth, a stream of smelly water poured into his mouth, and he almost suffocated. He could only shut up, and did not dare to struggle. He just watched helplessly.
The congregants on the road jumped at him, yelled, cursed, and pointed fingers at him, but no one came to save him.
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Several miles to the rear, the officers and soldiers were preparing to rest on the spot. At this time, Guo Kun received news from the soldiers on alert on the sand dunes, saying that they saw the light of fire reaching the sky at the end of Dongfangchi Road, and it seemed that something major had happened.
Guo Kun was very surprised when he heard this. He hurriedly climbed to the top of the nearby sand dune with Wei Dakui, Zhao Youji and others to look east. Sure enough, they saw red light illuminating the sky and flames rising into the sky. Everyone was a little puzzled.
"Looking at the direction of the fire, it seems that it was at the east exit of Chidao. Could it be that someone set a fire at the entrance of Chidao, blocking the escape route of the cult bandits?" Zhao Youji expressed his guess.
"Yes, it is indeed in that direction. Who could have done it? Could it be that the bandits themselves set the fire to prevent us from chasing them?" Wei Dakui said thoughtfully while looking at the fire in the distance.
"Impossible, it's too late for them to escape. Besides, it's only been half an hour. I'm afraid the fleeing enemies haven't reached the east exit yet. Wouldn't setting a fire block their own way?" Zhao Youji shook his head.
"Who could it be? What's the intention?" Wei Dakui smacked his lips and thought.
Guo Kun, who was frowning and thinking, suddenly burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, who else could it be? It must be Lin Jue. I know him. He always acts unexpectedly and boldly. His purpose of setting this fire is to trap all the cult bandits in Bolangsha
No escape. He wants us to eat them all in one bite and never let them go. Hey, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, your appetite is too big. I don’t even dare to think so."
Zhao Youji and Wei Dakui were stunned when they heard this. Wei Dakui nodded and shouted: "Yes, it must be Master Lin. Only Master Lin dared to do this. He even dared to lead three hundred cavalry to attack the camp and attack the formation.
There’s nothing he wouldn’t dare to do.”
Zhao Youji said: "Du Yuhou, what should we do now? Should we stand still or should we act according to the signal sent by Master Lin?"
Guo Kun frowned and pondered for a moment, then said slowly: "Originally, for the sake of safety, I refused to chase and kill at night. However, I made a mistake in judging whether to send troops to Fengqiu or Yangwu. This time I chose to believe Lin Jue
Since he made such a move, he must think that we can annihilate the remnants of the religious bandits. Besides, we are here to save them. If we ignore it, won't they be besieged by the religious bandits after the fire is extinguished? Pass me
Order, immediately mobilize the army to pursue and kill."
Thousands of horse and infantry troops immediately formed a team, but for the sake of safety, a formation was adopted in which the Imperial Guard infantry advanced with shields in front and the cavalry troops trailed behind. This was a formation to prevent encountering an ambush by the opponent. When encountering an enemy attack at night, the infantry would be more vulnerable than others.
The cavalry can respond more quickly. However, all this is obviously unnecessary. When the army advanced beyond Li Xu, they saw the black and crowded religious bandits in front. These religious bandits had completely lost their fighting spirit. Seeing the officers and soldiers chasing them, they simply could not
There was no intention of resisting, they all knelt down and surrendered with their heads in their hands.
Guo Kun even suspected that this was a trick by the other party. How could such an easy thing happen? Before, this group of people were fighting fiercely with him at the west entrance, but now they have no fighting spirit. It's really incredible. But the fact is right in front of you, teach the bandits
They held their heads one by one and let them be dealt with. The officers and soldiers tied their hands with ropes and pushed them back. They found an open space next to the road and gathered them there. The bandits were as docile as lambs, and nothing happened.
Any unexpected events.
It wasn't until the officers and soldiers advanced forward again that the die-hard elements of the Qingjiao Skitarii began to resist. Of course, this resistance could not change the situation at all. Under the joint strangulation of the horse and infantry troops, and under the intensive firing of crossbows and arrows, the Skitarii
There were heavy casualties. Some people refused to be captured by the officers and soldiers, and chose to risk great danger and escape among the thorn bushes on both sides of the road. The officers and soldiers naturally would not chase them. How dangerous is the thorny land of Bolangsha swamp at night?
, everyone knows it well. Since these people would rather enter, there is no need to follow them and take such risks. Even if they search, they must wait until dawn.
In any case, the entire process of encircling and suppressing the remaining religious bandits went smoothly, and the price paid was only dozens of casualties. The vast majority of the believers did not resist at all, and they even threw away all their weapons. Wherever the officers and soldiers arrived,
At this point, they all knelt down with their heads in their hands, accepted the bindings of the officers and soldiers, and were escorted one by one to the open space behind them and guarded.
Except for a few die-hards who refused to surrender and were slaughtered by the officers and soldiers or who took the risk of fleeing into the depths of Bolangsha, the rest of the religious bandits were all captured. A piece of thorny sand in the rear that had been temporarily cleared was overcrowded. Nearly seven thousand believers held their arms.
There were piles of people squatting here, panicking like bereaved dogs. At this point, almost all the more than 20,000 believers in the five counties in northern Beijing led by Meng Xiang had been wiped out. There were tens of thousands of casualties and tens of thousands of people captured.
Neither the enemy nor we could have imagined that this war would end in such a one-sided manner. This battle was also praised by later historians, and was regarded as a classic example of a victory with less than many, and it was recorded in the annals of history.
