When the first ray of dawn pierced the darkness, an army of more than a thousand people walked alone on the desolate land.

They walked slowly and unsteadily, and their faces revealed confusion and despair about their future. It was obvious that they had a very obvious resistance to continuing southward. If it were not for strict military discipline, they would have mutinied long ago.

Pei Xiaoer stood on the high ground with a stern face, looking at his Pei family army. His eyes swept across the soldiers. The soldiers lowered their heads one after another, not daring to look at him. However, the decline in his eyes was difficult to conceal.

Unable to go any further, Pei Xiaoer sighed inwardly.

"Send the order, rest on the spot." Pei Xiaoer didn't even look back and ordered the ordering soldier beside him.

"The general has an order, all the troops should rest on the spot," the ordering soldier shouted as he ran, and his figure gradually faded away.

"When Wang Hong comes back, ask him to come see me immediately." After Pei Xiaoer gave the order, he didn't say much and found a place to sit down.

When it was still dark in Xia County, the commander was still having a sweet dream.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good, it's not good, my lord." A Qianhu ran in panting.

"Damn it, who's wrong? Aren't I a good person?" The commander cursed at the door, turned around and went to sleep again.

However, the people outside the door obviously refused to let him go. They opened the door and barged in. "Sir, sir, it's not good. The bandits outside the city have escaped."

Seeing that the commander was still sleeping, this Qianhu didn't care about the hierarchy anymore and ran directly to the bedside to shake him awake.

The commander was woken up from his dream and looked very angry, "What the hell are you doing? Disturbing my dream."

"The bandits outside the city have escaped." The Qianhu man was breathing heavily. It was obvious that he had just run all the way from the city.

"Wouldn't it be better if they ran away? What I got was the money for defending the city, not the money for killing the bandits. It's just right if they run away, so I won't be worried all day long."

The conductor made the adults wake up in such a hurry when he heard that the person was calling him, just for such a trivial matter, he cursed a few words and went back to sleep.

"Oh, sir, those bandits are heading towards Hongnongwei." Seeing that the commander was about to sleep again, Qianhu hurriedly pushed past him and said.

"What? Are they heading towards Hongnongwei?" The commander was shocked when he heard this.

Wearing clothes in a hurry, "How do they know we are from Hongnongwei?" the commander asked the Qianhu next to him.

"I don't know, Beizhi! Early this morning, Beizhi was woken up by the people below, and then he saw the gang of bandits packing their things and heading south, towards Hongnongwei." This Qianhu looked innocent.

"Damn, one of us must have become a traitor." The conductor was irritable and walked around the room.

"What do you think we should do?" He turned to Qianhu beside him and asked.

"Sir, what else can we do? Let's go back to Hongnong Guard! The soldiers' families are all at the guard. If they are captured by a group of bandits..." Qianhu replied without even thinking.

"But, I promised Magistrate Liu that I would defend Xia County for him." The commander was a little confused.

"Sir, you are confused," the thousand households jumped anxiously, "our family members are in Hongnongwei, do we have to abandon our family members for a mere five thousand taels of silver?"

What's more, we agreed with Magistrate Liu that we would guard him for two days. Counting today, it has already been four or five days. It can be said that we have done our best to him. Besides, after this incident, Magistrate Liu can still do this.

The magistrate of Xia County cannot make excuses."

The light in the commander's eyes became brighter and brighter as he listened, "Okay, I'll do as you say. You go and pass the general's order and tell everyone to pack up, and we will set off back to Hongnongwei immediately."

No matter what, he came here to seek wealth. Now that his home base was threatened, between his credibility and his home base, the commander decisively chose the latter.

"Yes, follow the order." Qianhu accepted the order and ran out of the door.

After a while, the whole city seemed to have woken up, and there was a buzz of people. Soldiers were kicked and kicked out of the barracks by the flag officers one by one, and gathered in the playground.

Looking at the sleepy-eyed soldiers gathered on the playground, the commander didn't say much and just said, "Brothers, the drill is over, let's go home."

"Okay," the soldiers finally gained some energy and started talking among themselves.

“Mom, I’m finally going home.”

"It's okay, why are you here practicing?"

"Who knows? Anyway, it would be good to go back."

The poor soldier still doesn't know that he came here and helped others make a fortune.

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The chaotic movements in the city were all seen by Wang Hong. After a while, the city gate opened wide, and groups of soldiers in neat clothes headed towards Hongnongwei.

The important thing was done, Wang Hong shouted in his heart, not daring to neglect, he rode on the stolen donkey and chased the Pei family army along the road.

When Pei Xiaoer broke camp, he made two arrangements. He first sent Wang Hong to keep an eye on the movements in the city. If the officers and soldiers in the city went to rescue Hongnongwei, Pei Xiaoer would set an ambush in the middle. If the officers and soldiers in the city remained unmoved,

, then Pei Xiaoer directly led the army to capture all the family members of the officers and soldiers.

Although the plan went awry, the second route directly to Hongnongwei was not feasible. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers were successfully mobilized.

By the time Wang Hong saw Pei Xiaoer, the sun had passed noon.

"So, all the officers and soldiers in the city's guard station have left the city?" Pei Xiaoer asked cautiously.

"Yes, I dare to guarantee it with my head," Wang Hong assured.

"Okay." Pei Xiaoer stood up suddenly and threw the branch he was playing with on the ground. He turned to the Pei family and said, "Brothers, the officers and soldiers of Xia County have fallen into the trap and been mobilized by us.

Now as long as we go to the Gangzi slope in front and set up an ambush, we will definitely be able to defeat the army. Maybe we can spend the night in Xia County tonight."

Liu, Zhang and Pei were also hesitant, but this did not prevent them from following Pei Xiaoer to appease the morale of the army.

Finally, under the combined influence of the persuasion of several senior officials and the harsh military law, the soldiers finally reached Gangzi Slope and laid an ambush.

Two hours later, the guard commander, who was eager to rescue, forced the guards to rush towards Hongnong Guard non-stop.

Tired and hungry along the way, the officers and soldiers of the guard station who were not allowed to rest reached Gangzi Slope and finally couldn't stand it anymore. One man was exhausted and fell on the side of the road, unable to move anymore. Their commander was still holding the

He whipped the soldiers to keep them on their way.

Suddenly, there were sounds of killing, the sound of drums was like thunder, and ambush troops like heavenly soldiers and generals appeared out of nowhere and surrounded and killed them from all directions.

When the officers and soldiers saw this, they were so shocked that their livers and gallbladders split. However, they were exhausted from the continuous journey and their bodies could no longer move. After running a few times, they lay down on the ground again.
Chapter completed!