100 [The county official came out to collect the corpse]
At this time, the goods and women had been loaded onto the ship, and the bandits were escorting Qing Zhuang and were about to leave.
Since Zhao Pan and Fan Yaozi were already dead, seeing Wang Yuan coming to help them, the thieves immediately had disagreements among themselves.
Some people claim that they want to avenge General Zhao and Fan Yaozi, and kill the few government spies by the way; some people think that they should go south as soon as possible and bring their belongings to join the army. Regardless of the choice, anyone who expresses his opinion publicly is ambitious.
The vigorous generation.
Proclaiming revenge is a way to build power and gather people's support, hoping to take over this 300-man cavalry team.
If you want to go south quickly, you want to please the leader of the thieves. If you send the goods, you will be praised by Liu Liu and Liu Qi.
Until Wang Yuan came outside the camp, these thieves and bandits had not yet concluded their dispute. They were noisy and noisy like in a vegetable market. Those who had conflicts almost wanted to fight each other. Anyway, the two leaders were dead, and the remaining three centenarians were all dead.
Who are you dissatisfied with?
Wang Yuancai didn't care that there were so many people. If the bandits didn't come out, he would dismount his horse and rest, slowly building up his power there.
There was a commotion in the camp for a long time, and they quickly moved south to gain the upper hand.
The side gate of the camp was opened, and more than a hundred riders cleared the way. There were hundreds of young men who were trapped in the middle, and the remaining two hundred riders held down the formation at the rear, while preventing the young men from escaping midway.
Wang Yuan allowed them to leave the camp, and when they all came out, he suddenly approached on horseback and shot several arrows in succession.
The arrow hit, causing the thieves' rear team to panic, and the thieves were so angry that they all came back to kill them.
Wang Yuan was unwilling to engage the enemy at all and immediately retreated.
The thieves couldn't catch up, so they had to go back on their way, and they were completely out of temper. There were also archers among them. They were good at shooting rabbits at short distances, but they were completely blind when playing horseback shooting at long distances. They stared blankly as Wang Yuan flew the kite from beginning to end.
Zou Mu and several Jinyiwei spies were not as capable as Wang Yuan. Moreover, they came from the capital without any rest during the journey. Their horses were already exhausted, and they were afraid that they would be killed first when flying a kite.
One spy was sent back to report the military situation, and the remaining spies, together with Zou Mu, could only stay far behind the bandits.
Seeing that Wang Yuan had stunned the bandits, Xiaoqi couldn't help but admired him: "If this husband were to serve as a sentinel in the army, he would probably shoot the enemy soldiers blind during the war."
In ancient times, there was no satellite positioning, and obtaining battlefield intelligence relied entirely on sentinels.
Before the armies of both sides arrive at the battlefield, their respective sentinels have already begun to fight. Whoever has more sentinels and whose sentries are stronger can cover the battlefield and prevent the enemy from knowing the details of our army.
That's why the little flag sighed like this.
Zou Mu smiled and said: "With Brother Ruoxu's strength, even if he chooses to join the army, he will definitely become a general. How can he become a sentinel?"
"That's true." The spies fully agreed.
After following him for a while, Xiaoqi said again: "This husband is a veteran, neither arrogant nor impetuous, and very patient."
"Why do you say that?" Zou Mu asked.
The little flag explained: "This husband only shoots five arrows at a time, and then retracts his bow after shooting. This can not only slowly restore his physical strength, but also avoid strain on his arms and back. He will not be tired after shooting like this for a whole day."
Wang Yuan didn't feel tired, but the thieves and bandits were tired, and his heart was tired!
Along the way, Wang Yuan had killed and wounded more than a dozen bandits. Now no one wanted to go to the rear, so they all started to speed up.
Finally, one of the thieves suggested: "Don't worry about it, young man. Anyway, the goods have been shipped and shipped away. We need to go south quickly to join the army!"
No one objected, and everyone accelerated, leaving hundreds of young men in the middle of the road.
The Jinyiwei spies were inexplicably shocked and exclaimed: "This husband actually rescued hundreds of people from the rebels single-handedly! The thieves and bandits were all scared by him."
"He's still chasing him!" a spy yelled.
Everything Wang Yuan did along the way was watched by Qing Zhuang. At this moment, the horse passed through them, and the people in the town knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Wang Yuan like they were pounding garlic.
Wang Yuan had no time to pay attention because the rebel army was running away with all its strength.
This is a very magical scene. One person and one rider killed more than 300 horse-riding thieves and fled for their lives. They tried to turn around and charge, but they couldn't even touch a hair, so they had no choice but to escape. Don't run at the end.
If you survive, you will be safe when Wang Yuan finishes shooting the arrows.
Several Jinyiwei spies, not to mention that they have never seen such a spectacle in their lives, would never dream of it.
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Liangxiang County.
Gaudí stood on the low and damaged earth wall, holding a scribe's sword in his hand, staring in the north direction.
He was elected in the fifth year of Hongzhi, worked in the officialdom for sixteen years, and was finally promoted to the rank of seventh-level county magistrate. As his term was about to expire, he unexpectedly encountered such a thing, and a large number of rebel troops crossed the border at the feet of the emperor.
The battle last night was too big. Hundreds of bandits passed around the city. The rumble of horse hooves woke up the officers and soldiers guarding the city.
Gaudí was almost fifty years old, and he usually did nothing in politics. He seemed to be a relatively mediocre official. But at critical moments, he remained calm in the face of danger. He immediately summoned county warriors, police officers, and civilians to guard the city, and prepared gold juice and hot oil overnight.
While waiting for the items to defend the city, he personally carried a decorative sword to the top of the city tower.
After staying up most of the night and having breakfast on the tower, Gaudí couldn't hold it any longer. He stared at the north for a while, then started to doze off, and actually fell asleep leaning on the arrow stack.
"Boom!"
There was a sound of horse hooves.
The county lieutenant hurriedly shook Gao Di awake: "Your Majesty, the thieves are coming!"
"Have the bandits attacked the city?" Gaudí suddenly opened his eyes and jumped up.
The county lieutenant rubbed his eyes and looked out: "Hey, what is that?"
Gaudí looked intently and saw a scholar wearing a t-shirt chasing two to three hundred thieves passing by the city.
"Then the scholar is a thief?" Gaudí asked doubtfully.
"He is killing thieves!" the county captain exclaimed.
Gaudi was dumbfounded. He saw that the scholar fired five arrows in a row, three of which hit the bandits, and the remaining two arrows also hit the horses. Wang Yuan's arms were sore from shooting too many arrows, and he was no longer as accurate as he was at the beginning.
"This, this, this..." Gaudi pointed to the city, unable to speak clearly, "Is this one person chasing hundreds of thieves?"
The brave soldiers, policemen, and civilians on the top of the city all stood dumbly on the spot, unable to believe their eyes.
Suddenly, a bandit took the initiative to leave the group and fled westward around the city wall. This move immediately alerted others, who all changed directions and followed him, begging Wang Yuan not to shoot him again.
The three centurions of the rebel army were going crazy. After more than thirty people were shot to death, they lost their minds with anger and turned around to kill them desperately. As a result, they were kited by Wang Yuan again, and ten more people died. Finally they came to their senses and chose to continue.
Run south.
There is no other choice. This is the land of Gyeonggi Province. It is very dangerous for the rebels to run around. They have no choice but to go south and join the main force.
If it were a regular army, it would only take a small team to hold back Wang Yuan, and 90% of the others would be able to escape successfully. But these are all a mob, and the two bandit leaders were shot to death at the beginning, leaving them without a leader.
There is no way to allocate rear troops.
Now they were in an embarrassing situation. A cavalry team of two to three hundred people was actually chased and shot by a man until it collapsed. More than thirty people among them directly chose to leave the team and disperse to escape.
Although Wang Yuan had not finished shooting all five quivers, his arms were already sore. Seeing that the morale of the bandits collapsed, he immediately put away his bow and drew his sword, and accelerated the pursuit with all his strength.
At this time, Ah Hei finally showed what speed is.
It ran around half the night last night and only rested for an hour and a half before dawn. After eating some food and salt water, it carried Wang Yuan back and forth to fly the kite. Outside the rebel camp, it rested intermittently for another two-quarters of an hour, and then kept running. At this moment
It can actually speed up again.
"Why doesn't he shoot arrows?" Gaudí asked while standing on the tower.
The county lieutenant said in an incredulous tone: "Do you want to rush into the rebel army?"
Wang Yuan held the Dragon Bird Sword in his hand, lowered his body on the horse's back, and approached the bandit army at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The bandit running at the end heard the sound of the horse's hooves and thought it was his companion. He immediately slapped the horse's buttocks with his sword to prevent his companion from catching up, because whoever ran behind would be shot.
If you want to survive, just run faster than your companions!
Wang Yuan caught up with the thief and cut him off his horse with his sword. The man didn't even know how he died.
After killing several thieves in a row, someone finally realized something was wrong and shouted in panic: "This killer is catching up with me. He must be out of arrows. He is about to be killed... ah!"
Apart from those who were shot to death along the way, those who scattered and escaped along the way, and those who were hacked to death just now, there are still more than 240 bandits left.
When they heard that Wang Yuan had finished shooting the arrows, the thieves were so happy that they all wanted to turn around and hack Wang Yuan to death.
But running at full speed, the horses couldn't hold back for a while. Their speed slowed down, and their formation was in disarray. They were actually killed by Wang Yuan, one man and one horse.
When all the bandits stopped, there were only more than 220 people left, and Wang Yuan had already run in front of them.
"kill him!"
The thieves roared, surprised, happy, frightened and frightened.
In the shocked eyes of the officials and people of Liangxiang County, Wang Yuan, one man and one horse, rushed towards more than 220 bandits.
Suddenly, Wang Yuan gently pulled the reins and galloped diagonally across the farmland. He put away his sword, took out his bow, distanced himself again, and started flying a kite again.
"He still has arrows!"
With desperate cries, more than 200 bandits completely collapsed and no longer dared to pursue Wang Yuan. They just kept their heads down and fled south.
Wang Yuan put away his bow and arrows, and pursued them again with knives. He killed more than a hundred of the bandits and fled in two directions. The west side was fine, it was all farmland, but there was a river in the east.
He didn't even want the horse anymore, so he just jumped into the river and swam away.
"Guizhou Juren Wang Yuan is here, please surrender immediately!" Wang Yuan shouted, waving his sword.
Some of them actually surrendered. The twelve bandits slowed down their horses, stopped and fell to the ground, kowtowing repeatedly with a cry: "Hero, spare your life, hero, spare your life!"
Wang Yuan stopped chasing. If he continued to chase, the horses would be exhausted. He said to the surrendering thieves: "Group of two, untie each other's belts, and tie each other's hands and feet."
The twelve thieves were already frightened out of their wits. Now that they saw Wang Yuan's bloody sword, they dared not be disobedient. They trembled and began to tie them up.
Wang Yuan rode up to the city and shouted: "Is the chief official of this county here?"
Gao Di quickly responded: "I am the magistrate of Liangxiang County, Gao Di, whose courtesy name is Yunde. I wonder what my friends call me?"
"Wang Yuan, the candidate for the current examination, is named Ruoxu."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Master Gao County, please bring someone down to collect the corpses. There are more than a dozen surrendered thieves over there."