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Chapter 75

Covered in winter snow, the weather has turned colder.

The people in ragged clothes were shivering against the wind and snow.Li Chongjiu's "Cangtou Army" trekked forward on the official road in the wind and snow.

When passing through a village, there was no sound of chickens or dogs, and it was extremely quiet. They sent people in to search, but found that the houses were already empty, all abandoned, and the houses collapsed, revealing traces of being burned.Although it had been expected, he did not expect that Jiang County would be a more desolate scene than that of Hedong County.

Wang Mazi in Hedong only coerced ten thousand people, but Chai Baochang had already gathered a hundred thousand people to attack Zhengping County, the prefecture of Jiangjun, within ten days after hearing the news.

The news is still interrupted until now, and it is not known whether Zhengping County has been captured or not.

Li Chongjiu rode his horse on the road and wanted to inquire about the movement of Chai Baochang's army in the village, but he found nothing except a few old people who were not good at speaking, even the person sent to deliver letters to Chai Baochang. , There is also no news for the time being.

Seeing this situation, after Li Chongjiu, Sun Erniang, Lin Dangfeng and several caravan stewards discussed, they all felt that Chai Baochang was busy besieging the county town, so he was unable to take care of them, so they just took this opportunity to speed up their march.Otherwise, once Chai Baochang captured the county, it would not be easy for them to escape.

So everyone reached an agreement to speed up their progress, but only this speeding up would make the old, weak, women and children at the end of the team feel overwhelmed.Everyone couldn't help but slow down.

On the second day of this trip, conflicts broke out in the caravan, and several stewards put pressure on Li Chongjiu to abandon the refugee team and take the young and strong first.

But this was rejected by Li Chongjiu and Sun Erniang. The reason is very simple. If he does not bring the refugees along, Li Chongjiu's team will be divided first. The young and strong among the refugees will definitely return to take care of their families.

On the third day of such noise, the situation changed.On the official road, many rangers of unknown origin suddenly appeared.Wearing red scarves, these rangers kept rushing forward to inquire around the caravan, and some brave ones even forced them to the vicinity of Baibu to inquire carefully.

So it must be the outpost of the thieves, who came to inquire about the truth, the people in the caravan were all panic-stricken, and asked Li Chongjiu again to see if there was any other plan.

Li Chongjiu thought for a while, and immediately took ten bodyguards from the bodyguard bureau to the north to inquire.

It was snowing heavily, and Li Chongjiu rode his horse through the snow. There were still few people in Jiang County.Beside them, the red scarf ranger who had been following the caravan, saw Li Chongjiu and the others riding away from the caravan, and followed them from a distance.

At the beginning, there were no more than five or six people behind the red scarf wandering riders, but after that, more and more people followed, until they became fifteen or six riders.

Li Chongjiu knew in his heart, regardless of these wandering riders, he continued to go north, and after traveling for about five or six miles, he suddenly found blue smoke rising in the distance.

Immediately, Li Chongjiu led the people towards the place where the green smoke was burning, and passed through a dense forest. As a result, they saw a group of people burying pots and cooking by the side of a big river.

Seeing that there were a lot of people on the other side, the bodyguards were all secretly startled.

Li Chongjiu immediately ordered the bodyguards to walk along the river together to find out the details of the other party, but after a rough check, there were at least 1000 people on the other side.

Many of them are old and weak, and their weapons are not complete. Many people still use sticks, hoes and the like, but there is no doubt that the opponent is a "regular army" among the thieves, at least they are not as powerful as Li Chongjiu. Generally travel with women and children.

Not long after, the thieves on the river bank also found Li Chongjiu's side and were watching their movements. At that moment, hundreds of thieves abandoned the cauldron, armed with knives, guns and sticks, and screamed at Li Chongjiu and them across the river bank, threatening them.

These people also wore red scarves on their heads, and they were obviously in the same group as Rangers.

Blocked by the big river, if they waded through the water and were not washed away by the turbulence, they would freeze to death in the river. Li Chongjiu didn't care at all, and continued to watch and check the other party's reality.

All the bodyguards at the side saw how calm the young head of the bodyguard was, and saw the opponent's thousand-man army as nothing, they all felt admiration.Seeing that Li Chongjiu and the others did not leave, these red scarf thieves were immediately furious, and they took arrows and shot at the river.But what good bows do the rogues have, not to mention the three-stone bow, even the military-style bows are not available. Most of them are bamboo and wooden bows used for hunting. The arrows are weak, and before they cross the river, they fall in the river.At this time, Li Chongjiu saw that the red scarf riders were approaching his side within less than 11 steps, and the number of opponents had increased to more than [-] riders. Obviously, he had gathered with his companions and was going to deal with Li Chongjiu and the [-] of them by the river.

Li Chongjiu smiled immediately and took out his three-stone bow, obviously deciding to fight.Seeing that there were few people on their side, all the bodyguards originally planned to retreat, but seeing that Li Chongjiu decided to attack, they could only support from the side, and they all took out their riding bows.

After hesitating for a while, these red scarf riders seemed to feel that there were too many people on their side, so they decided to attack together.At that moment, the horses were snorting, and the red scarf riders began to drive their horses together, running towards Li Chongjiu and the others with bows and arrows in hand.

The red scarf thieves on the other side of the river, seeing their own cavalry attack, were all overwhelmed with confidence and began to shout loudly.After all, those who can serve as cavalry are the elite among the rogues, so they are very confident in the rogues on their river bank.

Li Chongjiu unhurriedly raised his bow and set his arrows, and the red scarf knights ran together with all their strength, they were running like thunder, and in a blink of an eye, they could not reach three hundred steps.

Seeing Li Chongjiu's nonchalant expression, all the bodyguards were heartbroken, and many of them took arrows to aim.

Two hundred steps!
Everyone's hearts were beating extremely fast, and the horse seemed to sense the master's uneasiness, and began to throw the ground unceasingly.

One hundred steps!

The rangers also started to take arrows, and when they got close to fifty paces, they covered them with arrow feathers and drew their knives to fight. Their numbers definitely had the advantage.

As he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the sound of arrow feathers piercing the air, and the long neighing of the war horse.

I saw Li Chongjiu with a bow hanging on his arm. One person and one bow can shoot a waterfall of arrows!
The bowstring crashed and crashed, and the arrow pierced through the air like lightning.

Li Chongjiu's first arrow pierced Yuyu's neck, sparking a burst of blood, the second arrow went straight through a thief's eye socket, the third arrow, the fourth arrow and the thief fell in response, the fifth arrow, and the sixth arrow again. straight down the throat.

I saw Li Chongjiu's five fingers plucking, like playing music, playing a song of death on the bowstring.

In the blink of an eye, he shot and killed Liu Qi with a single shot of arrows.

Seeing this terrifying archery skill, all the red scarf knights were terrified. "This thief is good at archery!"

"They deliberately lured us to attack!"

"It's hit!"

The red scarf rangers were all horrified, Li Chongjiu was under such a sharp arrow, everyone reined in their horses and turned around and left.

Seeing this, Li Chongjiu said: "If there is a strong attack, there is still a glimmer of life. If you turn around and leave, you will only have a dead end."

While Li Chongjiu was speaking, his hand kept on shooting, and three more arrows shot past, piercing through the backs of the three rangers.

"Kill them all, don't let them go!" Li Chongjiu yelled and rode his horse to chase after him. At this moment, all the bodyguards suddenly realized that they were all stunned by Li Chongjiu's amazing archery skills, and they hadn't fired an arrow yet. "Boss, this archery..."

"What are you doing in a daze, didn't you hear what the young escort said? Don't let anyone go!"

"Yes Yes."

While speaking, all the bodyguards immediately drove their horses to follow.

The thousands of thieves on the other side of the river were stunned, and no one made a sound for a moment.

There was silence on the river, only the gurgling sound of the river water remained.

(End of this chapter)