Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 289 One of the Reasons
Xu Qingfei was only wearing an inner jacket and a chain mail jacket, and led a group of confidantes in a panic. When the confusion first appeared, he thought it was a camp roar, which was happening among the hungry and oppressed refugees. It often happens, even in the regular army, which is one of the reasons why he uses earthen walls to separate the heart-hungry horse thieves and refugees.

So, at the beginning, he just kept sending his confidantes to suppress them. Later, none of the people he sent out came back, so he felt something was wrong. He knew that it was a night attack, and shouted everywhere that the officers and soldiers were coming, but he didn't know which group of officials it was. Army, how many people are here.But hearing the screams from all directions, he estimated that there would be at least [-] officers and soldiers just coming to his camp. He really couldn't think of where such a large army of officers and soldiers would come out and dare to attack them at night.

The screams were getting closer and closer, Xu Qingfei couldn't help being anxious, he didn't care to guess where the army came from and how many people there were.At this time, there were screams and screams outside, and it was very dangerous to escape alone. He might die in the hands of crazy refugees in a daze.He needs to recruit some people to fight a way out for him.

He grabbed a confidant and shouted: "Go and bring some people to firmly guard the northern camp wall."

"My lord, I gathered 200 people, and all the horses have been snatched, let's run!" Another confidant ran over and said.

Xu Qingfei saw in a blink of an eye that it was one of his adoptive sons running towards him. Following the direction he pointed, there was a group of people gathered in the middle of the camp. Pulling the manic horse tightly.

Xu Qingfei has encountered raids by the officers and soldiers many times, and has some experience in this kind of camp collapse. That is to gather a group of people to escape from the camp first, and then take advantage of the chaos to run for hundreds of miles. At that time, slowly gather up the scattered troops.

"Let's go!" Xu Qingfei yelled, and finally made a decision, leading a group of shirtless confidants around him, and ran towards the horses that his subordinates were pulling tightly.

"My lord, what about those family members and money?"

Xu Qingfei didn't turn his head back, and shouted: "I don't care about them anymore, as long as we escape, the woman and the money will be snatched back later."

After a while, they arrived in front of the low wall. Several confidantes howled loudly, reminding that the king was coming over there. The opposite side put away their knives and guns. Xu Qingfei rushed into the crowd and took the horse. The officers and soldiers came from the north, and after identifying the direction, they led the way to the camp gate in the south. They ran and yelled all the way, and many horse thieves followed behind them, forming the largest fleeing group.

This group of horse thieves rode to open the way, slashing their knives and guns at the refugees blocking the way, and the dense horseshoes trampled on the corpses towards the camp gate. The debris and corpses on the ground seriously affected the speed of the horse thieves, and they could not see in the dark It is clear that many horses are constantly stepping and falling, and the speed is slower than walking.

To the north was another sound of screams mixed with the sound of violent volleys of crossbow arrows. Hearing that he was not far from the camp wall, Xu Qingfei was anxious and urged his men to speed up. Several confidants with excellent riding skills opened the way in person.

The two camp gates were tilted aside, and many of them were escaped bandits on horseback rushing out of the camp gates. There were still some elite bandits guarding the earth barrier. The rogues fought back with knives and guns, and even stabbed two of the horse thieves in front. Xu Qingfei and others rushed forward together.

The horse thieves flocked out of the camp gate, Xu Qingfei finally came to the camp gate, and when he looked up, the fire outside was soaring into the sky, many shacks were lit, turning into huge torches, countless refugees ran wildly in the flames, and the whole camp area was filled with crazy cries Voice.From a distance, the other six camps of rogues seemed to be similar, Xu Qingfei couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, he didn't dare to have the slightest chance anymore, he just wanted to escape.

There was a sudden scream from the east of the camp gate, and waves of men and women came towards the camp gate. The horse team that had just left the camp gate was instantly surrounded by those people, and suddenly became unable to move an inch. No matter how they hacked and killed, the tide rushed The refugees who came still disrupted their formation. Tens of thousands of refugees entered through the gaps of the horse thieves led by Xu Qingfei, and even pushed the horses so that they could not stand still. The frightened horses jumped in panic, and some vicious bandits took the opportunity to surround them The horse thieves killed and snatched the horses by themselves, the horse team screamed and screamed, and Xu Qingfei's horse team was blocked at the camp gate, and the rear team even fell inside the camp gate.

In the chaos, the first group of officers and soldiers appeared in Xu Qingfei's field of vision. There were only 36 of them, and they were the three fastest Huaxia Guards. A Huaxia Guard raised his hand crossbow and fired several rounds at the huddled refugees. Blood sprayed all over the crowd, and the nearby refugees almost went mad. Countless people were overthrown and trampled to death.

After several rounds of volleys with crossbow arrows, 36 Huaxia Guards, led by three highly capable squad leaders, yelled, and swarmed up with knives in hand, slashing and killing those refugees and bandits from behind. Screaming and fleeing to the southwest.

Xu Qingfei was led to the southwest by this wave of crowds. Thousands of confidantes who finally gathered together had been dispersed, only one adopted son and more than a dozen confidantes followed, and they swung their knives fiercely. He chopped up the men and women refugees around him, and even the hair curled by the knife edge could not disperse those crazy refugees.The other horse thieves were either blocked in the camp or dispersed by the crowd.Before Xu Qingfei fled, he looked back at the direction of the camp gate, and saw dozens of officers and soldiers appearing again. They blocked the camp gate, not afraid of being full of horse thieves inside, and rushed up fiercely, knocking out the crowd of horse thieves who were circling around in place. Once beheaded, even those empty horses that were frightened and rushed were also cut down by them.

Xu Qingfei was terrified when he saw it. It was the first time he saw such a fierce officer and army, and he was not even afraid of startling a horse.His team was finished, and Xu Qingfei didn't have time to feel sad, but he felt inexplicably relaxed in his heart. He suddenly felt that this was also an opportunity to get rid of the control of the Maitreya Sect. Instead of going to Nantang, the hometown of Maitreya, he would go to Dali or Khitan, and he would still be able to live a more relaxed life. He no longer thought about the days of leading tens of thousands of people and being chased by the officers and soldiers.His only concern right now is how to escape the predicament in front of him.

Unable to turn to the south, they could only run away in the direction of the crowd, with fewer and fewer confidantes running behind them, and people kept being dragged off their horses by the refugees next to them, and then disappeared into the crowd.

Ye Chen led five hundred black cavalry to easily kill hundreds of Xu Qingfei's confidant bandits who were foolishly staying in front of the earth wall in the north of the camp center, and then rushed forward stepping on the corpses all over the ground. Wounded refugees, they filled the ditch in front of the earth wall, stepped on layers of dead bodies in the ditch, and arrived at the base of the earth, suddenly a dozen rogues with spears appeared on the mound, and they faced Yechen against the earth wall. With random stabbing, several black cavalry soldiers were caught off guard and injured.But the next moment, he was easily killed by the black cavalry.

There were no more rogues standing on the earth wall, Ye Chen led five hundred black cavalry over the earth wall and jumped onto the earth barrier.

Ye Chen stood on the earth barrier and looked down. There were many tents burning in the central camp. The light inside was bright, but the smoke was everywhere, and countless people and horses were running around in the smoke. robbing.When Ye Chen saw that there were no more elite rogues appearing behind him, he couldn't help but secretly rejoiced, thinking that Xu Qingfei did not disappoint him, and probably had already escaped.

Ye Chen gave an order, and the five hundred black cavalrymen killed most of the rogues who were robbing things, and these rogues who took advantage of their random ideas to make a fortune immediately fled.

Ye Chen led the people to continue rushing in, the places they passed were full of casualties, blood and water converged into streams, overflowing everywhere on the ground.

Suddenly a black shadow flickered in front of the left, and a big thing quickly struck, knocking over a black cavalry rushing obliquely in front, and then came towards the black cavalry. It was a mad horse. Several black cavalry were killed The horse's momentum staggered.

Hei Yue, the leader of the black cavalry, suddenly took two steps forward, leaping nearly two feet high, avoiding the horse's head, and took advantage of the situation to chop off the horse's head with the long knife in his hand.The horse's headless neck was bleeding violently, and dozens of black cavalrymen beside it were all blood red.The headless horse ran two or three steps forward, and finally fell to the ground, its hind legs still twitching.

The black cavalry finally began to pant at this time, which showed that their physical strength was also exhausted. Ye Chen thought that the people outside were crazy and the camp roar had already formed, so there was no need to continue to charge the camp.He intends to bring five hundred black cavalry to stay here, and erect his own banner so that other Huaxia Guards can find him, thus restoring the smooth flow of military orders.In addition, he saw countless gold and silver treasures in the central camp.After a rough calculation, a few of them are worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Wu Jianfa is a Huaxia Bronze Guard. He followed his team and four other Huaxia Guard squads through the smoke above the Liuku camp. As he struck, another black shadow moved in front of him, and he stabbed subconsciously, and the black shadow fell down in response. Only then did he notice that the black shadow was not big, he seemed to be a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy.

Before he had time to think about it, there were more and more figures running in the smoke. The Huaxia Guards continued to slash and kill to keep moving forward. Wu Jianfa's arms were so tired that he almost wanted to throw down the thin knife and hand crossbow.In particular, although the power of the hand crossbow is far superior to that of ordinary hand crossbows, it is also two or three times heavier than ordinary hand crossbows.Holding it in his hands for a long time, he was almost exhausted.

People screamed horses in the smoke in front, there was a sound of Huaxia Guards shouting and killing in the south, and there was a hysterical shout in front. Countless refugees and horse thieves emerged from the smoke and fire, and rushed straight towards their lines.

Wu Jianfa didn't know how many rogues there were, but he knew that they had no way out before the sound of the drum to withdraw troops from the commander-in-chief's place, they could only kill all the rogues they encountered.

(End of this chapter)