Hu Yanlei learned from the shopkeeper that there were a total of 180 Xixia spies, 24 of whom were in the mule and horse shop, the remaining 20 or so were distributed in Baichuan Restaurant and Saibei Fur Shop, and then 100 were distributed in the city.
In three courtyards.
Tonight they will gather at Baichuan Restaurant to seize the East City Gate. More importantly, these Xixia spies only have short swords in their hands, and their weapons are stored in the mule and horse store.
Hu Yanlei saw that the opponent only had a dagger, and immediately judged that the opponent was a Xixia spy. He shouted, "Kill!"
Hundreds of Song soldiers held long conflict cards and attacked the opponent. The Xixia spies only had short swords in their hands. They had no way to hide and swung their swords to attack the opponent.
The two teams fought fiercely on the street.
The fierce fighting on the street alerted dozens of state soldiers guarding the east city gate, but no one dared to step forward. They all knew that rashly stepping forward to ask questions would only get them burned.
The fierce battle did not last long. The disparity in strength between the two sides was too great. Although the Xixia spies were elite, the Song army scouts were also elite. The huge gap in weapons made it impossible for the Xixia spies to compete with them.
Soon the Xixia spies were being killed and were retreating steadily. Corpses were scattered all over the ground. Eighty or ninety of the more than 150 people had been killed.
Li Fuding saw that the situation was not good and shouted, "Retreat!"
He led the remaining dozens of people to flee in panic towards the west gate, but within a dozen steps, an army suddenly shot out from the diagonal thrust, cutting off their retreat. They squatted on the ground and fired crossbow arrows together. The crossbow arrows were densely packed.
Shooting at the Xixia spies in black like a rapid rain.
Some arrows passed through the crowd and were shot at the Song Army scouts behind them. The Song Army scouts quickly raised their shields to resist.
This round of crossbow arrows killed most of the Xixia spies, leaving only seven or eight of them. Li Fuding was also hit by seven or eight arrows and died tragically on the spot.
Hu Yanlei led the Song army scouts to swarm forward, surrounded and killed the remaining seven or eight people.
"Who are you?" Hu Yanlei asked loudly.
Although this army helped a lot, Hu Yanlei still had some doubts.
"General Huyan, he's one of ours!" Li Ziheng walked out wearing armor with a smile.
It turned out that they were two hundred soldiers from the Li family. They looked no different from the Song army. Their equipment was much better than that of the state soldiers, and everyone carried a crossbow.
"It's Li Yanei, thank you! Thank you very much!"
Li Ziheng stepped forward and smiled apologetically: "Zhuang Ding has never experienced actual combat, so he is very nervous. I see that you are all wearing shields before ordering the arrows to be fired. It will not hurt the brothers!"
"fine!"
Hu Yanlei understood that the Xixia spies were very fierce, and these village men might not be able to stop them. If they were robbed of their weapons, unnecessary casualties would inevitably be caused.
Hu Yanlei said again: "Li Yanei's order is completely correct. Now I want to go to the county government office. Will Li Yanei go with me?"
Li Ziheng nodded. This was what his father meant. The state soldiers were from the city and Wu Shan was the eldest son of Wu. They could be relieved of their duties and disarmed, but it was best not to kill anyone.
"I will go with General Huyan and I will persuade them to surrender!"
"We also hope there will be no bloodshed!"
Hundreds of soldiers trotted towards the county government office
In the dusk, an army of more than a thousand people was marching hurriedly toward the northeast of Longxi County. The team was also followed by hundreds of mules and donkeys, carrying cloth and copper coins.
This army is the thousand puppet Qi troops that evacuated from Longxi County. They have two ways to retreat to Guanzhong. One way is to go northeast, across Qinzhou to Deshun Prefecture, and finally enter Jingyuan Road from Pingliang Prefecture.
Or take Liupanguan and enter Jingyuan Road.
The other way is to take a straight line along the Wei River and go all the way to Fengxiang Mansion, but taking the Wei River line requires crossing Longshan, and the only way to go is through Chengji County, which is too dangerous for a thousand puppet Qi troops.
The Northeast Official Road that passes through Qinzhou mainly passes through Jichuan County, and then enters Deshun Prefecture within a hundred miles. There are supplies there, and it is much safer than Chengji County.
Of course, this puppet Qi army chose the relatively safe northeastern line, but the northeastern line also had a serious hidden danger, that is, it was easy to encounter the Song army coming from Ganquan Fort.
Of course, Ganquan Fort comes from another official road and is located to the north of the road they are currently taking, but who doesn't know whether the Song army will split into two groups?
The soldiers had marched for more than fifty miles in a hurry, and they were already exhausted. Their legs seemed to be filled with lead. They walked slower and slower, and a thousand people actually stretched into three miles.
At the third watch, the team passed through a valley with dark pine forests on both sides and shrubs below.
The team stopped to rest, and the soldiers behind them rushed forward desperately, fearing that they would waste their precious rest. Many soldiers lay on the ground, unable to move.
At this moment, a crisp bang sound suddenly came from the pine forest, 'Bang! Bang! Bang!' The sound was very rapid, and then dense arrows were fired at the puppet Qi army resting in the valley.
Thousands of puppet Qi troops were caught off guard and were hit by arrows one after another. Suddenly there was a cry of ghosts and howls of ghosts and wolves, and they stumbled and fled in all directions. Suddenly, a thousand soldiers came out from the pine forests on both sides, waving spears and sabers to attack the puppet Qi troops.
"Xi Xia Army! It's Xi Xia Army!"
The soldiers of the Puppet Qi Army suddenly recognized the black helmet on the head of this soldier, which was the symbol of the Xixia Army, and they shouted.
The soldiers of the Xixia Army were even more ferocious. Regardless of whether they surrendered or not, they rushed forward and chopped off their heads with one knife, killing almost the entire puppet Qi army. Only a few soldiers managed to escape.
These Xixia soldiers were the bandits called Xia Hu who Chen Qing was wary of. Of course they were fake bandits. Their real identities were the Xixia Capture Army, an army specifically responsible for capturing slaves. Their number was not two hundred, but two.
Thousands of people.
Xia Hu is his real name. He is a general of Xixia. He once used the alias Xia Baihu to wreak havoc in the Xihe Road states. After ten years of being wiped out, he fled back to Xixia. Ten years later, he was ordered to lead the army back to Gongzhou. This time his mission was to lurk
, not allowed to be exposed, wait for the opportunity.
Xia Hu is indeed very tolerant. Jichuan County is just a few dozen miles away, with almost no troops stationed. He has never gone to massacre and loot the city. He is completely different from Ten Years. In fact, it is all a mission, but the mission is different.
Xia Hu didn't know that he had been exposed, let alone that a Song Army cavalry was coming towards him. He was also lucky. On the way to Longxi County, he encountered the puppet Qi army and simply set up an ambush to annihilate this tired army.
Xia Hu did not waste time, and ignored the corpses all over the ground, and continued to rush to Longxi. Of course, there were hundreds of mules and donkeys laden with copper coins and cloth in his team. These mules and donkeys walked fifty miles and then turned around again.
Return to the county seat
At the fifth watch, Yang Zaixing led two thousand cavalry and rushed from the east. At this time, they saw headless corpses lying all over the canyon. All the heads were piled together. The Xixia army habitually beheaded people, but in the end they
Not taken away.
Yang Zaixing shook his head secretly. Now that the weather is getting hotter, regardless of whether the corpse will produce a great plague, he immediately ordered: "Collect the corpses, burn them and bury them deeply!"
The soldiers of the Song Army worked together, piled up the corpses, poured kerosene on them, lit a fire, and then dug a deep pit next to it, pushed the charred corpses in, and buried them all deep so that there would be no wild animals.
Come and dig open the deep pit, the beast doesn't like the smell of burning.
After clearing the battlefield, it was already dawn, and they were delayed for a whole hour. Yang Zaixing led two thousand cavalry to speed up and rush to Longxi County.
