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  Chapter 653 650【Multiple acts of injustice】

  Of course the Datong Army can’t fly, but Zheng Bing’s side is really walking too slowly.

   Li Dingguo asked the soldiers to bring three days of dry food, but it turned out that he was thinking too much. It only took half a day and midnight for the vanguard of the Datong Army to catch up with Zheng Bing's army.

   One side is procrastinating, carrying a lot of luggage, and most of them are civilian husbands and bravery.

  One party rushed at full speed, only brought a small amount of dry food, and all of them were elite troops.

   In other words, even if it is replaced by Vietnam's elite troops, the situation will not change much. Zheng Bing led an army of 60,000 to march south, but wasn't it overthrown by Ruan's 100 elephant soldiers?

  This bad old man is purely addicted to vegetables, he doesn't know how to fight, but he always conquers himself.

   Yuan Shizhong was the first to catch up. He abandoned the infantry, took the cavalry of the whole division, and hurried along the official road on horseback. Then he abandoned his war horse, temporarily transformed into infantry, and ran all the way with his equipment.

   There is no fear of going the wrong way at all. Zheng Yi's tens of thousands of troops trampled countless crops along the way, and they can see even if they are not blind.

   More than two thousand fellow troops, holding torches, chased them in the early hours of the morning.

   Zheng Yi's tens of thousands of troops are still sleeping, and they don't even bother to set up camp. There are paddy fields all around and they can't set up camp. They just lay on the field ridge, or several people sat together, resting back to back with each other. Fires were lit every three to five times, and there was no open flame, only wet grass was used to smoke mosquitoes, and each fire was filled with grass on duty.

   It was the soldier in charge of fuming mosquitoes who saw the Datong army coming with torches and shouted in fright: "The pursuers are here, the pursuers are here!"

  The nearby Zheng Jun immediately fried the pot. His first reaction was not to defend against the enemy, but to jump into the paddy field, wading through the muddy water and fleeing for their lives.

  It’s not easy to line up during the day in this broken place, let alone being attacked at night.

  Yuan Shizhong heard the chaotic shouts ahead, and immediately ordered: "No need to wear armor, no firecrackers, kill the enemy immediately!"

  After the order was passed on, more than 2,000 soldiers put down their armor one after another. He didn't even want the firecrackers, he just threw them on the edge of the field, and rushed up shirtless with a cold weapon in hand.

   "Kill!"

  Datong soldiers, holding torches in one hand and waist knives in the other, ran quickly along the field ridges, and from time to time some people slipped and fell into the fields.

  When encountering a fork in the field, they are automatically divided into several teams to prevent the entire army from forming a long snake.

   Zheng's army stretched for several miles, and at this moment, wave after wave collapsed. Those who were far away from the Datong Army didn't even know what was going on, so they subconsciously ran away.

   There are also some diligent gentry, who took the night attack of the Datong Army as a good opportunity, and hurried away with the bravery of their village. Otherwise, they will follow Zheng Bing to drill the valley, and they will be able to return to their hometown sometime.

  Under the moonlight, torches danced wildly, causing chaos.

  The Datong army, which was shirtless due to the hot weather, only held cold weapons in their hands, and more than 2,000 people chased tens of thousands of enemy troops.

   And Zheng Yi, Zheng Zuo and his son can only control the troops on a few ridges around them. They also didn't know how many pursuers had come, they only heard that they were fleeing in all directions.

   Fortunately, Zheng Bing has been on the battlefield for a long time. Although he has not won any battles, he has rich experience in defeating battles. The old man in his seventies, as if he had been injected with adrenaline, led his troops to escape quickly at the first moment. He has seen this kind of situation a lot, and he didn't get dizzy from fright, knowing that the most important thing is to save his life now.

  Yuan Shizhong chopped down several people one after another, and knelt on the ground in front of the field ridge.

  Yuan Shizhong shouted angrily: "Get out of the way, those who surrender go to the field, don't block the road on the ridge!"

  It's a pity that he didn't bring a translator, the enemy soldiers couldn't understand at all.

   But, the sword in the hands of the Datong Army is the universal language of the world. After cutting out the corpses all over the ridge, the enemy soldiers understood that very few people dared to kowtow on the ridge.

  This kind of terrain is easy to defeat the enemy, but it is not easy to kill and capture the enemy.

   More than 80% of Zheng Yi's tens of thousands of troops escaped successfully. They ran sideways in the rice fields, and they couldn't tell the direction, as far as they could run. Most of them will flee back to their hometown, and some may gather as bandits.

  Zheng Ting was still too old after all, and after only running for a few dozen steps, he was so tired that he was out of breath.

  He ordered his soldiers to flee with him on their backs, but the ridges of the field were already narrow, and it was even more difficult to keep balance while carrying someone on their backs. As he was running, the soldier stumbled and stepped into the air, and fell into the field with Zheng Bing.

  Zheng Zuo looked back at the Datong army who were chasing closer and closer, and then at his old father who fell into the paddy field. After a little hesitation, he gritted his teeth and left, pretending that he didn't know anything.

  The soldiers got up with great difficulty, and seeing that the pursuers were approaching, they didn't care about Zheng Bing, and ran away through the muddy water.

   Zheng Yi, who was over seventy years old, struggled in the paddy field, finally climbed back to the ridge, and said angrily: "Nizi, come back and save your father!"

   Zheng Zuo heard the words and ran faster.

  For this old father, he has saved several times. The situation is similar, that is, the army was suddenly defeated, and then he took his father and fled the battlefield quickly.

   This time there is really no way to save it!

  Li Shenzong, Li Zhenzong and his son were squatting by the field and shivering.

  Yuan Shizhong led his troops to chase after him, but Li Zhenzong hurriedly hugged his head, pretending that the ostrich couldn't see anything.

  But Li Shenzong stood up and shouted in the Chinese he learned when he was young: "I am Li Huang...I am Annan Taishang King, I wish to send soldiers from heaven, I wish to send soldiers from heaven!"

  Yuan Shizhong stopped quickly and asked, "Are you the lord of Annan?"

   "I am," Li Shenzong pointed to his son and said, "I am the supreme king of Annan, this is the king of Annan, please help my father and son to restore the country!"

  Yuan Shizhong laughed loudly: "Keep a few people and take care of these two!"

  Li Shenzong said again: "The traitor of the Zheng family is running towards that side, the general is going to chase and kill him."

  Yuan Shizhong smiled even more happily: "I remember that you have made great contributions to guiding the way!"

   Zheng Yi felt that his waist was broken, and his back hurt every step he took. He simply abandoned the field ridge and hid in the paddy field, using the knee-deep seedlings as cover, crawling among the seedlings like a dog.

   Really let him run away!

   There are really too many deserters, and there are too many people in the dark, and the Datong soldiers can't take care of them at all.

   Whenever he felt that there were pursuers approaching, Zheng Yi would lie down in the seedling field, even pressing his face into the muddy water. When a wave of pursuers passed by, he continued to crawl, and climbed several fields in a row.

   Climbing until dawn, he managed to escape and fled to a village covered in mud.

   It is estimated that there have been rout soldiers here, and the villagers are so scared that they hide at home, and there is not even a ghost in the surroundings.

  Zheng Bing didn't dare to stay longer, and felt his waist hurt more and more, so he limped towards the outside of the village.

  The bad old man in his seventies was really tortured enough, half his life was lost. He stopped and rested, and he didn't know how far he had walked. Anyway, the sun was about to set, and he finally came to the second village community hungry.

  Tired and hungry at this time, Zheng Bing touched his waist, there was only one scabbard left, and his saber was lost somewhere.

  Zheng Bing didn't dare to enter the village. He wandered outside the village for a long time, and finally saw a shepherd boy returning home from herding cattle.

   "Little brother!" Zheng Yi shouted with a smile on his face.

  Seeing him covered in mud, the shepherd boy thought he was a beggar from somewhere, so he laughed and said, "Beggar, don't take a bath, shame on you!"

  Zheng Yi suppressed the anger in his heart, took off the jade pendant around his waist, wiped the mud and said, "What do you think this is?"

  The shepherd boy's eyes lit up: "It's so beautiful."

   Zheng Ting seduced: "You go home and get some food, and this jade pendant will be given to you. Remember, don't tell others, they will come to **** this treasure."

  The shepherd boy spread his hands: "Give it to me first."

   "If you bring the food, I'll give you the jade pendant." Zheng Yi had already made up his mind that as long as the shepherd boy brought food, he would take the opportunity to strangle him to avoid revealing his whereabouts.

  The shepherd boy said, "Give it to me first!"

  Zheng Ting was so hungry that he panicked, so he had to hand over the jade pendant, then hid and waited for the shepherd boy to bring food back.

  The shepherd boy grazes cattle for the landlord’s family, and the family has nothing to eat. After a long time, he brought some old rice porridge with bran in a bamboo tube, handed it to Zheng Ting and said, "Take it and eat it, I saved it, I will be hungry if I eat it for you."

   Zheng Yi grabbed the bamboo tube and poured it into his mouth. The rough bran was so unpalatable that it made him want to vomit, and it rubbed against his esophagus, making it difficult to swallow.

  After swallowing it abruptly, Zheng Ting saw the shepherd boy turn and leave, he quietly chased after him and stretched out his hands.

   "Woooooh~~~"

  The shepherd boy was suddenly strangled by the neck, and subconsciously grabbed Zheng Yi's wrist, struggling wildly with a painful expression.

  The strength of the struggle became smaller and smaller, and finally died gradually.

   Zheng Yi looked grim, let go of the shepherd boy's body, turned and fled further away.

   But within a few steps, Zheng Yi suddenly clutched his lower back. He was thrown with a slight bone fracture last night, crawling and walking all the way, and now strangled the shepherd boy to death, finally making the fractured bone more serious.

  Zheng Bing couldn't walk or even climb, and as long as his limbs were exerted, his waist hurt so badly that he almost passed out.

   Night falls.

  The body of the shepherd boy was lying there, a few meters away, and it was difficult for Zheng Yi to move half a step, so he could only lie on the ground waiting to die.

   Time is pulled back to dawn.

  Zheng Zuo ran away with dozens of soldiers, running less and less along the way. Some soldiers pretended to fall, and after falling into the paddy field, they waded through the muddy water and escaped horizontally.

  A soldier was caught. Although he could not communicate with each other, he yelled and pointed out the direction of Zheng Zuo's escape in order to make meritorious deeds and survive.

  Zheng Zuo didn't know where to flee. The Thang Long Mansion was gone, the Zheng family in Qinghua was also copied, and the army was completely disbanded. Even if he fled into the mountains, he could only be a savage.

   "Plop!"

  Zheng Zuo finally fell down with weak legs, and the soldiers behind quickly helped him up.

   Then, the classic show was staged.

  A soldier said: "The Thang Long Mansion is gone. I don't know if our family is still there."

  Another soldier said: "Is this still going into the mountains?"

   "Go into the mountains to graze?"

   "I won't run away, I was on my way yesterday, and now I'm exhausted!"

   "If you don't escape, you will be caught and beheaded."

   "Arrest this guy to ask for credit, and he will definitely survive."

   "Yes, arrest him for meritorious service!"

   "Dog thing, the seller is begging for glory, let me go!"

   "..."

  A few soldiers tore off Zheng Zuo's belt and **** the guy's hands and feet.

  They returned the same way, and when they met the Datong army, they shouted: "The son of Zheng Wang is here, the son of Zheng Wang is here, and the son of Zheng Wang has been captured!"

  (end of this chapter)