Chapter 250: Robbery Field, Chaos Jiangzhou (Part 2)
The people gathered around the execution platform were completely uninterested in Taishou Cai's earnest teachings. It was not until they saw him leaving the sign of the killing sign that everyone was a little excited. Almost everyone moved forward at this moment, trying to get closer to the execution platform so that they could see the whole process of the next surgery and questioning more clearly.
This commotion naturally made more than 200 Jiangzhou officers and soldiers guarding the execution platform and the prison station nervous. They quickly raised their swords and guns and yelled, making all the people more polite and orderly, not to surpass the thick hemp rope blocked in front of them. After a long clamor, the order was brought back to control.
But what they didn't know was that taking this opportunity, twenty or thirty men with bulging waists had already squeezed forward from the crowd, all of whom were ready to go. One of them took out a short bow from the package under the cover of several companions, put it on the bottom and put it on the string. It was Hua Rong, known as Xiao Li Guang.
Two executioners with bare chests and arms exposed, strong figure, red cloth on their heads, and holding ghost-headed swords, came forward calmly. After looking at the appearance of the two prisoners kneeling there, they shouted loudly: "It is the criminals Song Jiang and Dai Zong!" Then they took a large bowl of wine from the side. After drinking half of it, they put the bowl to the mouths of the two death row prisoners: "Come on, after drinking this bowl of dead wine, you can go on your way with peace of mind!"
Song Jiang and Dai Zong were already desperate at this time. When they saw the wine bowl being delivered to their mouths, they drank it mechanically, then closed their eyes and planned to be punished by the sword. The two executioners did not let them wait for a long time. Seeing that they had drunk the wine, they immediately threw the bowl on the table and shouted loudly, and raised the half-human-high ghost-headed knife high. With the cold light flashing, they slashed hard at the connection between the back neck and spine of the two.
Seeing this, the people immediately let out a loud shout, and someone rushed forward. Under the cover of the voice, two sharp arrows flew to the execution platform with a sound at the same time, shot into the throats of the two executioners, and tilted their heavy bodies backwards. The knife in their hands had long lost its measure and wiped the bodies of Song Jiang and the others and landed on the stage. The two executioners did not kill them, but instead threw their lives here first.
The sudden change suddenly made the atmosphere of the Dharma field condense. The people first calmed down, and then bursts of screams sounded from all directions. Many people ran out with instinct, while others looked around and saw who dared to cause trouble in the Dharma field.
In this panic, dozens of men who were prepared had already shown their hidden weapons, and the person in charge even shouted loudly: "All the heroes of Liangshanbo are here, brother Gongming, we are here to save you!" It was Chao Gai who revealed his identity.
As he shouted, the others were already swiftly rushing towards the execution platform. Before the soldiers who had just reacted had time to raise their swords and guns, they were stabbed in the chest by a short knife and fell down screaming. At the same time, the long weapons in their hands fell into the other party's hands.
At the same time, a loud roar came from the restaurant on the side. A short black man suddenly broke the window frame and jumped down from the second floor. As soon as the person landed, he waved two huge axes and rushed towards the execution platform. While chopping the innocent people blocking him to the ground like mowing grass, he shouted in a hurry: "Brother Gongming, don't panic, the iron cow is here!"
Li Kui was really fierce, killing the people along the way screamed. Seeing him rushing towards him with two bloody axes, everyone hurriedly flashed to the side, so that he could even make the first move and kill to the edge of the execution platform. After axe slashed the two officers and soldiers who were brave enough to block his way out, he jumped onto the platform with one axe.
At this time, the other officers and soldiers also fully reacted. Some shouted "Protect the Prefect!" and retreated towards the prison slaying platform. Many people rushed to the execution platform, trying to stop the thieves from robbing prisoners. It was just that because there were too many Jiangzhou people mixed between the two sides, they were a little restrained. The bows and arrows they prepared were useless. They fought head-on with those Liangshan leaders with fierce killing methods and suffered repeated setbacks. Soon, Chao Gai and others were able to snatch up to the high platform and rushed to Song Jiang and the others.
At this time, Li Kui was already shouting: "Brother, I'm here to save you!" Then he chopped off with an axe, cut the rope that tied Song Jiang tightly into two pieces, and held him up. The latter stared at him blankly, but could not say a word for a long time, because the turning point of this matter came too quickly, and the desperate situation that he thought he would die suddenly appeared. Even Song Jiang was a little dazed at this time.
"Brother Song Jiang, I'll wait for you to suffer late. And Brother Dai Zong..." After jumping onto the stage, Chao Gai quickly swung his knife to cut off the restraints on Dai Zong, and helped the extremely weak person after being tortured. Then he turned around and looked at Li Kui who was still stunned in front of Song Jiang: "What do you call this brother? It's important that we take them out of here quickly!"
It was not until this time that Song Jiang came back to his senses and quickly replied to Li Kui who was stunned and stood there: "King Chao Tian, this is Li Kui brothers, Tien Niu, this is King Chao Tian, the leader of Liangshan Village. You can follow his orders!"
Li Kui responded, and waved and carried Song Jiang on his shoulders. Then he followed Chao Gai and the others with just one axe. After jumping off the platform, he met the official army that was already shouting and rushing towards him!
The sudden attack of Chao Gai and others was indeed a bit beyond Cai Jiu's expectations, especially when he saw that they could easily break into the encirclement of hundreds of people and save the dying Song Jiang, Cai Jiu was even more shocked and angry, and immediately shouted: "It's all a group of waste, hurry up and kill me, don't let these thieves run away!"
Seeing the prefect getting angry, the officers and soldiers guarding him were also panicked. They quickly agreed to raise their weapons and rushed towards the thieves in front of the execution platform, and soon formed an encirclement of them.
But although there were only thirty or fifty people here, when facing nearly ten times of the official army, none of these people were timid. Not only did they not retreat and protect themselves, but they excitedly raised their weapons and rushed backwards, and soon fought with the official army. Especially when Chao Gai and Li Kui and others behind them rescued Song Jiang and the others safely, these people were even more motivated. After rushing hard, they actually killed more than a hundred official troops in front of them, which gave them room to break through.
Chao Gai's reaction was also very fast. When he saw this, he quickly shouted, "Go to the south, there is someone to pick him up!" As he said that, he waved a Pu sword that he had seized from the official army and turned around and rushed to the south. He chopped over several official army again, scaring the others so that they could only dodge to the side and dare not block his way.
Liu Tang, San Ruan, Wang Ying and other Liangshan brothers immediately changed directions according to his intentions, carried Dai Zong and walked here. Li Kui made the same choice under Song Jiang's urging and rushed towards him.
But at this moment, with a gong, more than 300 armored officials were shouting and catching them from the south. At this time, seeing the fierce performances of Liangshan people and others, the people here had already fled elsewhere, and they were completely exposed to the government troops.
Without any hesitation, the general who led the team gave an order: "Shoot the arrow!"
When we climbed the time, the arrows flew through the sky like raindrops. Although it was not particularly dense, they also killed everyone in a hurry and could only wave their weapons to cover them. Some of them were not good at martial arts and even screamed and fell down.
Seeing this, Chao Gai could only change his direction: "Go to the other side!" What he pointed to was the prison slaughter platform, which was not too far from the execution platform. Although there were also officials guarding it, the troops seemed to be much smaller than here.
Everyone immediately turned and rushed towards the prison and rushing towards the prison station. As soon as they saw this, the dozens of officials guarding there were suddenly panic. They shouted quickly and raised their weapons to meet them. If these thieves approached the prefect, let alone hurt him, they would be very guilty.
Cai Jiu's face turned pale. Only then did he realize that he was indeed a little too arrogant. These Liangshan bandits were really capable and could still act calmly in the encirclement of the official army. He subconsciously glanced at Sun Tu, who was guarding him, and regretted not listening to the other party's advice and should be in charge of the state yamen.
Sun Tu also took a step forward at this time: "Prefect, I believe that the rural soldiers under Xiaguan's command should have entered the city from the north gate. They will not be able to arrive soon. Let Xiaguan escort you down first and avoid it..." At this point, his face suddenly changed, and his eyes fell to the north.
Cai Jiu followed his gaze toward the north gate, and his face changed. He saw that a stream of black smoke rose up there at some point, and then a fire rose below, and a big fire broke out. Of course, he didn't believe that there was such a coincidence in this world. It must be that the Liangshan bandits had been guarding early in the morning, so it was set on fire at the north gate. In this way, it would be difficult for the rural soldiers to enter the city from there.
In this moment of dazed moment, the state government troops who had just rushed out to resist the thieves had been killed by Liangshan people and others and dispersed, leaving only more than a dozen confidants who were still staying in front of the prison and killing stage.
Seeing this, Sun Tu immediately pulled Cai Jiu up and rushed to the other side of the stage. However, the latter was so scared that his face turned pale and his feet became a little soft. It was not until this time that he realized what a big mistake he had made.
When the Liangshan people saw that the guy who was obviously a senior official in the yamen was walking out, they were naturally very excited and shouted and chased after him. Behind them, more than 300 official troops were chasing him tightly...
The court where the rebels were executed was already in chaos...
Chapter completed!