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"Don't chase the enemy!"

Liu Jun rode his horse and ran past the spear lineup, shouting loudly while running.

The battle was simpler than Liu Jun imagined, although he was fifteen riders and one hundred and twenty new recruits.

But in fact, the bandits on the opposite side were not much better than them. They were also more than a dozen elite bandits riding horses, with more than 300 cannon fodders, and they could still gain the upper hand by their number when facing Zhao Dagu's more than 20 patrol archers. However, facing Liu Jun and other experienced nine-headed bird officers, they could not do it.

Several rounds of firearms have scared the thief's souls. With the neat spear formation, the thief is like a dog biting a hedgehog and has nowhere to mouth. When Liu Jun and others killed the horse-riding bandits who took the lead in charge, the rest of the thieves saw that their companions who were rushing in front were stabbed into meat skewers by spears, and finally shouted, turned around and ran away.

The recruits wanted to chase after him, but Liu Jun stopped him.

A group of mob bandits would not be able to reorganize their teams and kill them back after they ran away. Such a group of cannon fodder would be useless to kill. Even if the heads were cut, the superiors would not give Liu Jun much money. On the contrary, for every heads were cut, Liu Jun had to pay twenty taels of silver himself. These were all old and weak, and even if they were captured, they would be useless for food.

The purpose of this time is to rescue Inspection Zhao. Since he defeated the bandits, the purpose has been achieved.

"The new recruits will cut their heads, and everyone will see blood!" Liu Jun shouted to the new recruits. The new recruits were of great quality. Although it was the first battle just now, no one was in a panic. The thieves rushed over on horseback. They did not turn around, but raised their guns to stab them according to orders. This was quite rare.

However, Liu Jun still hopes that these recruits can adapt to the war faster, let them chop the thieves' heads and poke the corpses with swords and guns, so that they can adapt faster.

The battle ended and the formation was disbanded. The new team members carried hatches, iron sickles, and axes under the leadership of the team leader to practice with the thief's corpse. The recruits who performed very well just now couldn't help vomiting when they were chopping the heads of the corpse. Liu Jun smiled, this was normal.

Zhao Dagu went down the mountain with the help of the archers.

"Liu Jun, deputy of the Nine-Headed Bird Horse Team."

"Hutou Pass Inspection Zhao Dagu." Zhao Dagu stood up straight and introduced himself, "Thank you, Brother Liu. If you hadn't arrived in time, our 20th person in the Hutou Pass Inspection Department would have been here today." He thanked sincerely. This time, underestimating the enemy was really dangerous and almost wiped out the entire army. When he was on the mountain, he felt dead. The county had no time to rescue him. He sent people to ask for help from Liu Jun, but he was just a silence. Unexpectedly, Liu Jun really came and defeated the bandits so easily.

"It's all brothers of comrades, and Liu has no choice but to do so." Liu Jun waved his hand.

Zhao Dagu looked at the recruits who were shaking their swords on the battlefield and slashing the thieves' heads, "All of them are strong guys. Are these brothers from the Nine-Headed Birds? Zhao also heard before that Team Liu and Team Li, two brothers from the Nine-Headed Birds, were showing their power in the Zhongyi Hall, and they destroyed all the bandits, which was amazing."

Liu Jun looked back at the recruits who were cleaning the battlefield with his nose covering his nose and smiled, "These are indeed my nine-headed bird brothers, but they were all recruited in Taiping Township these days. Thanks to the martial spirit and bravery of the Taiping Township people, otherwise, even if they come, they might not be able to escape the siege."

Zhao Dagu and the archers were stunned, "These are new recruits, not the brothers who suppressed bandits in Zhongshiguan last time?"

"After the bandit suppression returned, it took seven days off. The team members went home. My brothers and I came to a brother's house in Taiping Township. We originally planned to come here to recruit some new recruits, but we didn't expect that we happened to encounter this incident and rushed over. Fortunately, we didn't miss the situation."

Zhao Dagu was shocked. It turned out that he was wondering why Liu Jun brought the Nine-Headed Birds to rescue him at once. Now, he heard that he was actually some newly recruited recruits for a few days. But that's it. Liu Jun just now defeated more than 300 thieves with these more than 100 new recruits and more than ten old brothers.

Unbelievable.

If Liu Jun hadn't said it in person, he wouldn't have believed it. He was watching the battle on the mountain just now. He clearly saw the team's formation and arranged very well. The village warriors raised their guns to stab each other without hesitation. It was hard to believe that these were recruits who had only been a few days ago.

I think he brought more than 20 archer brothers and claimed that his team was well-trained, but before, he was only fleeing in a panic. There were only a dozen old brothers who could come from afar with more than 100 new recruits and defeat several times the bandits.

Zhao Dagu's reverence for Liu Jun arises naturally. Although he is young, his ability is really not something he can do.

"It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. The thieves may come back again. Let's go back to Hutou Pass first." Liu Jun suggested, and Zhao Dagu nodded quickly.

At this time, the battlefield was almost cleaned, and Zhang Shan came to report the results.

"Kill thirteen horse bandits and thirty-seven camp bandits. Seven other good horses, swords, guns, bows, arrows, iron armor, etc. No one in our army died in battle, and only two team members were slightly injured, but they were not seriously injured."

The thief eventually escaped by five or six bandits riding horses.

The casualties on Zhao Dagu's side were quite serious. When he sent troops, he took almost all the people from the inspection department, with only one deputy inspector and two clerks left. Zhao Dagu came out with a clerk and twenty archers. At present, except for Xiao Wu, a archer who broke out to report the news, there were sixteen people left, five of them were killed in battle. The remaining sixteen people were basically injured. Zhao Dagu had arrows on his legs and shoulders, and two archers were seriously injured. The situation was very bad, and a few of them might be disabled.

In this regard, the Hutou Pass Inspection Office was severely damaged.

After hurriedly cleaning up the battlefield, the nine-headed bird recruits took away the heads of fifty bandits, carried the injured archers with seven captured horses, and used the seized spear to make several stretchers, lifted the dead archers, leaving behind blood and smoke all over the ground, and they slowly retreated to Hutou Pass.

At the same time, several other postmen who reported the news from Taiping Post finally arrived at the county town and Shenzhuang Baosheng Fort.

"What? Inspection Zhao of Hutou Pass was hiding after chasing the bandits, and now he was trapped in the mountains by hundreds of bandits? Are the bandits from the Wujiao from the east?" County magistrate Lu Jinxi just handled the previous fight for the bandit suppression and gave the soldiers and the military and strong soldiers. The constables were very happy and drank two more drinks once.

I just wanted to take a nap, but I was woken up by the master, and then I was bolt from the blue.

The county's Beihutou Pass inspector and his subordinates were lured and ambushed by thieves, and now they are in danger. Of course, this is not what scared Lu County Magistrate the most. What scared him the most was that the thieves from the fifth camp of Gezuo appeared in Macheng County.

As the magistrate of Macheng, there was a gentry-armed armed gang established by Mei Zhihuan in the territory. The bandits in the county were much better. Except for some small-scale thieves, basically no big bandits could have a foothold in Machengluo. Thanks to Mei Zhihuan, his life was much better.

But he also knew that on the other side of the Dabie Mountains, there was a huge bandit force, a fierce bandit among the bandits, a figure like a pillar among the bandits, Lao Huihui's Huizuo Wuying has been entrenched in the Yinghuo Mountain area separated by a mountain. Fortunately, the bandit forces were negative in the past two years, and Lao Huihui and his group had been staying in the east with peace of mind and did not enter the Qihuang area of ​​Huguang.

But now, Lao Huihui's men have actually crossed the line and surrounded and ambushed his Hutou Pass. Is the thief finally going to cross the line? When he thought of thousands of bandits entering the territory of Macheng, Lu Jinxi couldn't help but feel numb. After finally settled the case of Linjiazhai being slaughtered, this incident happened again. Could it be that he, the magistrate, really ended up being the end?

"Hurry up, prepare a sedan chair and go to Shenzhuang immediately."

In the event of this major event, Magistrate Lu was unable to solve it at all, so he had to ask Mei Zhihuan to take action. If the Zuowu Camp really had a trend of crossing the line, the only thing he could rely on was Mei Zhihuan's Baoshengbao Township Group and the armed gentry from all over the country.

Chenzhuang is only ten miles away from the county town, while Baosheng Fort is near Shenzhuang, forming a triangle with the county town and Shenzhuang, forming a horn-like momentum and can watch over each other.

At this time, Mei Zhihuan also received an urgent report from the Taiping Post Office staff. After confirming the information, he immediately sent someone to summon officers at all levels of the township regiments in the fort.

"The Hutou Pass inspector is at the northernmost end of the county, seventy miles away from the county. The inspector Zhao was still further north. More than 20 people were ambushed and surrounded by hundreds of bandits. When we summoned people to chase him, we were afraid that the water would not be able to save the nearby fire." Hu Gongguo, the official in the barracks of Baosheng Fort, pondered.

"The Hutou Pass Inspection Office will definitely be unable to save it, and it is too late to save it. I think what we are going to discuss now is not how to save people, but how to deal with the westward advance of the Zuowu Camp. It seems that it is very likely that Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others from the rebellious areas of Junzhou, Xiangyang, and others contacted Lao Huihui and others from Yinghuoshan District and invited them to go westward and meet up." A team leader said.

Lu Jinxi was Zhao Dagu's boss, and his relationship was pretty good. At this time, he saw that the villagers in the village were giving up the rescue, and he couldn't help but say, "The postman who reported the news said that although the inspector Zhao was ambushed, he fought and retreated, and finally retreated to a mountain to defend. Moreover, the people who broke through the siege, according to his wishes, sent someone to Taiping Township to ask Liu Jun to come out to rescue him. Maybe Liu Jun has rushed to rescue him now. At this time, we must send troops to reinforce him."

This was the first time Mei Zhihuan heard this message, frowned and asked, "Liu Jun?"

"It's Liu Jun and Liu Jiye of the Nine-Headed Bird. I heard that he is recruiting new recruits in Taiping Township these days. Zhao Dagu asked the breakout archer to go to Taiping Township to ask Liu Jun for help."

"Liu Jun's nine-headed bird seems to have been disbanded in the past few days? Even if Liu Jun is in Taiping Township, there are probably not many soldiers around him. How can he save him and what should he save him?"

No one thinks that Liu Jun would be so risky to rescue inspector Zhao. After all, although he is brave, there are no soldiers around him. Should he take a group of newly recruited recruits to rescue inspector Zhao?

How is this possible!
Chapter completed!