At the same time, in a secret room of the Hua family, Chen Yongkun, Hua Yuncheng and other wealthy people in Anyi gathered here.

"Has Qin Shizhen come back?" Hua Yun asked after taking a sip of tea.

"I'm back." Someone answered immediately. If Qin Shizhen was here, he would immediately identify this person as his "good friend" who asked him to try his luck with Pei Jiajun.

Hearing that Qin Shizhen was back, he immediately attracted the attention of others, and everyone looked at that person. "What do you mean? Has Pei Jiajun agreed to refund Zhang Xianzhong's accounts?"

"What do you mean by returning it? It was originally our money, why did it fall into the hands of the Pei family army?"

"Just because their fists are big and their armors are sharp, do you have these?"

"you..."

Seeing that a fight was about to start, Hua Yuncheng snorted and placed the teacup in his hand heavily on the table, "Shut up, everyone."

Hua Yuncheng was still very prestigious in Anyi. Seeing him getting angry, the people in the quarrel didn't dare to be bold anymore and returned to their seats angrily.

"You like to quarrel so much. Why didn't you quarrel when Zhang Xianzhong wanted to rob you? Why didn't you quarrel when Pei Jiajun robbed our servants? What kind of ability is it to only dare to quarrel with your own people? If you really have the ability, just go and quarrel in front of Pei Jiajun."

Thinking of this, Hua Yuncheng felt angry. When the officers and soldiers were there, they couldn't dismiss his servants. Unexpectedly, the first thing the Pei family army did when they entered the city was to snatch away their servants. It was really unbearable.

Tolerate.

At this moment, he had completely forgotten that he had sent his son to ask for help from the Pei family army.

The others looked ugly when they saw Hua Yuncheng lecturing him like a grandson. Chen Yongkun hurriedly came out to smooth things over, "Okay, okay, Brother Hua, everyone just hates Pei Jiajun, we are all thinking the same thing."

A conflict was deceived by Chen Yongkun's few words, and everyone's eyes returned to "business" again.

"What did the Pei Jiajun people say? If they dare not return our money, tomorrow I will let the people in the city know that this Pei Jiajun is no different from that Zhang Xianzhong." Hua Yuncheng said bitterly.

"No, on the contrary, Liu Zhizu from Pei Jiajun agreed on the spot to return our money. It's just..."

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up. "Just what?" someone asked.

"It's just that Liu Zhizu said that there are many lost owners in the city, and he will return them all together at the Yamen Gate tomorrow."

Return them all together? What does this mean? Will they deceive us all and then catch them all in one fell swoop? Having done something bad, everyone present felt a little uneasy and looked at the landlord Hua Yuncheng.

Hua Yuncheng was also thinking deeply, but he couldn't figure out what tricks Liu Zhizu was going to use. Chen Yongkun next to him reminded him: "Brother Hua, don't worry about what tricks he is going to use. Doesn't the Pei Jiajun want a good reputation?"

Do you want the public support of Anyi? Then we will encourage all the people in the city to go there early tomorrow morning. In full view of the public, even if he has great ability, he will not be able to display it."

Chen Yongkun's words awakened Hua Yuncheng, who clapped his hands and said: "Brother's clever plan, let's do this. As long as his Pei Jiajun continues to discuss his reputation, as long as he doesn't kill people wantonly like Zhang Xianzhong, so many people can take advantage of it."

he."

When other people heard this, they also thought it was a good idea, so they all agreed.

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In the middle of the night, Song Meng led the cavalry and dragged their exhausted bodies back to Anyi.

People say that long-term illness makes a doctor, but Zhang Xianzhong has traveled a lot and already has rich experience. After the failure of the city gate defense battle, everyone was panicked and didn't know what to do, but Zhang Xianzhong was able to

Analyzed rationally.

"There are General Pei to the north and south of Anyi, and to the east of Anyi is Xia County. That is the home base of the Pei family army. The Pei family army must have heavy troops there, so we can only escape by going west.

vitality."

So Zhang Xianzhong made a prompt decision and led the remaining troops to escape westward from the west gate of the city. They ran wildly all the way, and the route was filled with broken troops, which stretched for dozens of miles. Those who ran fast had already reached Changle Town in the west, while those who ran slowly had even just arrived.

Out of town.

At this moment, Song Meng led the cavalry in the city and began a bloody pursuit. In the era of cold weapons, the highest mortality rate was not when the two armies fought in formation, but when one side was defeated and the other side pursued. The defeated soldiers faced

They looked very helpless as they were pursued by the cavalry. They could only keep running. There was only one thought in their minds, run fast. As long as I ran fast enough, I could survive.

Song and Meng's cavalry battalion encountered almost no decent resistance along the way. They only had to ride their horses to the back of the defeated army, gently stretch out the long sword in their hands, and run at high speed without even using force.

Among them, the blade was like a dexterous poisonous snake, directly slicing through the necks of the defeated soldiers, leaving corpses one after another.

There were occasional resisters, but their numbers were insufficient to form a huge infantry phalanx, and they could be captured with just one charge.

After chasing for several miles, people continued to kneel down and surrender. However, Song Meng and his cavalry did not have the time to accept the surrender. They could only gently send away the long sword in their hands, take away the man's life, and leave them to hell.

I regret my mistakes.

Seeing the pursuers getting closer and closer to him, Zhang Xianzhong also realized that running like this was not an option. In desperation, a thought suddenly appeared in his mind, and Zhang Xianzhong stopped. "Brothers, run like this.

Going down is not an option, sooner or later we will all be captured in one fell swoop. I am here and I will personally block the pursuers with my men, giving my brothers a chance of escaping. You run away quickly. Head west and we will meet up at Jiezhou."

"Eight Kings!!!" The defeated soldiers looked at Zhang Xianzhong in disbelief. Is this still the Eight Kings they knew? Some people even had tears in their eyes.

"Stop crying and leave quickly," Zhang Xianzhong urged impatiently. The defeated soldiers could only stop being surprised, kowtowed to Zhang Xianzhong and left quickly.

After most of the defeated troops had left, Zhang Xianzhong turned around, and all his generals followed him. Zhang Xianzhong laughed twice, and without saying much, turned and headed north.

As for letting Zhang Xianzhong stay to stop the pursuers and let the defeated soldiers escape, let's just dream about it. His original intention was to break away from the large army and let the defeated soldiers attract the attention of the pursuers in exchange for his own escape.

Sure enough, the pursuers came to the place where they had just paused, and only stopped for a moment before chasing along the bulk of the broken troops.

The defeated soldiers did not realize that they had been betrayed. They thought that with Zhang Xianzhong's interception, they could not stop them for a moment, but those who fled fell down. After being caught up by the pursuers, everyone raised a question, isn't there the Eighth Army?

Did Wang intercept? Why did the pursuers come so quickly?

But no one gave them the answer. This question could only wait for them to think about it in hell.
Chapter completed!