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After defeating the soldiers and soldiers gathered in the West Courtyard, Cao Xuanwen was captured alive, the gate of the West Courtyard was opened, and Xu Huai did not let all the soldiers go directly to the provincial government.

Before the raid, Xu Huai and his friends studied the layout of the state yamen in detail, and they were also very clear that there was a slit-street in the military camp of Northeast City. The state yamen was also divided into the main courtyard and the east and west courtyards for officials who were transferred to Lanzhou from other places, and their families and entourages lived in. The courtyard was even more complicated than the front courtyard.

Their troops were already very limited. In addition to Xu Xin'an, Niu Er led more than a hundred people to stay at the Xicheng Gate, keeping everyone in and out of the gate of Kelan City, and alerting the inside and outside of Kelan City, there were only two hundred cavalrymen inside and outside the west courtyard of the state yamen.

At this time, I was eager to disperse. If something happened in the middle of the process, I would probably be caught off guard if I wanted to adjust the deployment.

Xu Huai decided to divide the two hundred cavalry into two teams:

One team was led by Yuan Lei to stay outside the state yamen, one was to warn the movements of the defenders elsewhere in the city, and the other was to intercept the officials in the state yamen and the soldiers fled.

If these soldiers and clerks are blocked in the state office, they will always be turtles in the jar and can be caught later.

Xu Huai personally led the remaining armored cavalry to fight, with shield, sword, spear, bow and crossbow, and went directly to the back house with Wang Ju, Wang Xian and Yin Peng.

Xu Huai didn't need to charge forward at this time, so he changed his hand to a zhemu step bow and swept across the road surrounded by many armored soldiers.

There are still many clerks and soldiers in the prefecture yamen, basically all Han people from the southern border of Shuozhou. They only followed the leader of Cao Shi. However, seeing more than 30 soldiers in the West Courtyard and more than 20 soldiers were slaughtered by powerful enemies who suddenly came in in the blink of an eye. Who would dare to come forward to seek death?

Xu Huai, Wang Ju, Wang Xian and Yin Peng led their team through the corridor, crossing the road, and heading straight to the backyard, as if entering a deserted place. Whenever there was a portal locked from the inside, Xu Huai arranged for people to climb over the wall directly.

Occasionally, three or five servants or servants came over to stop him with swords, or they did not have time to escape, but they were not their opponents. They were just a few more sword souls and a few more corpses lying in a pool of blood.

The backyard is also a building complex covered with snow eaves. Xu Huai and his team followed the layout diagram and went directly to the yard with the portal passage, the barracks and alleys.

It is also a garden of the state yamen. It covers an area of ​​not small, with more than two acres of land. Some Quxi fish ponds were dug and many ornamental trees were planted. A rockery three or four meters high was piled up in the corner. The garden is lush in spring and summer, but it is a scene, but at this time the water is frozen and the snow is sealed, and the trees are all withered with branches and leaves.

Xu Huai and his friends rushed into the garden. A group of women, under the escort of more than a dozen servants, came from the yard on the east side. They seemed to want to escape from the state yard, but they hit one of them.

These female relatives, more than a hundred armored soldiers, rushed in like wolves and tigers, and they looked fierce and ferocious, covered in blood on their swords, bows and armor. They were so scared that they were scattered. They screamed and wanted to turn around and escape back to the yard to the east.

The women and children in this house are all targets to be captured, so how can they allow them to escape?

Yin Peng led dozens of soldiers to the north gate. Without Xu Huai's instructions, Wang Xian led dozens of soldiers to the moon gate on the east side to block the retreat of these women and children.

Those armed servants were quite brave, but they didn't even have armor. How could they resist the attack of more than a dozen armored soldiers? As soon as they fought, someone was frequently chopped to the ground. Many female family members were panicked and forced to retreat to the northeast corner of the garden.

The rockery is in the northeast corner, and dozens of women and children cannot retreat and squeeze in the corner. However, there are also martial arts practitioners among the female family. An old woman saw the soldiers coming in Tongbai Mountain, drew her sword and yelled at a soldier in front of her:

"Where did the thief come from? How dare you be arrogant in my Lilan City?"

Xu Huai strictly prohibited the murder of women and children in the army. The soldier did not alert when he saw the old woman holding a knife. When he realized that the sword was so sharp that the old woman was slashing, the shield on her left hand was suppressed by an armed servant on the side with a spear. He was stunned and forgot to avoid it.

Seeing that the soldier's neck was exposed to the woman's sword force, Xu Huai was anxious and shot an arrow into the woman's face, and ordered coldly: "When the battle, women and children were all enemies with swords, and they were killed without guilt!"

"Old ancestor!"

The female family saw the old woman being ejaculated and screamed in panic.

The old woman was shot into the face by Xu Huai with an arrow. She fell down immediately before she could even stare at Xu Huai in disbelief. Her skin was trembling like a dead tree, and soon blood overflowed along the arrow shaft.

"Those who abandon the knife and kneel on the ground can survive!" Xu Huai put another arrow on the string, and his tiger's eyes stared at dozens of women and children. Many of them held the knife and refused to abandon it. They immediately shot into the face of a middle-aged woman, causing her blood to splatter five feet; Xu Huai could already hear the sound of enemy aid running around in the alley and causing the armor to move, and he had no time to get entangled with these women and children.

Xu Huaiyou issued a military order, and the generals and soldiers were no longer worried. When they saw those who held swords and weapons, they would stab the women and children, regardless of whether they were women or children, and they would shoot them with swords and spears or crossbows. In the blink of an eye, they cut down and shot dozens of women and children to the ground, with blood flowing into the snow.

More than a dozen armed servants were also left by Wang Ju, and Wang Xian personally committed suicide and solved one by one.

The door opening leading to Jiaxiang in the back house was open, and a young general, with more than a hundred soldiers, stopped his steps sixty or seventy steps away. Looking at the corpses in the garden, he roared wildly: "Dog thief, dare to slaughter my Cao family's women and children, Cao Cheng, I told you not to die today!"

"I'm still afraid that you won't kill me!" Xu Huai smiled.

Xu Huai then climbed up the rockery more than three meters high and saw that the defenders from the east, south and north were gathered towards the north camps, obviously preparing to gather there and then take back the state yamen.

Xu Huai then got off the rockery leisurely, touched the bowman continuously, and the bowman with a loose string force, changed into a zhemu step bow in his hand, and said to the guard beside him:

"The command from Yuan Lei that no enemy troops were forced to come from the periphery, so he divided three teams into the state yard and rushed to the courtyard to clear the yard. However, when women and children were in the enemy's formation, all those with swords could be killed! They did not want to violate military discipline. In addition, he asked him to send someone to carry the flagpole in the front yard and bury it in this garden so that Cao Xuanwen, who was the man, could tie up the rebel soldiers in Kelan City to open their eyes and see the fate of the surrendered enemy!"

"These two boys are probably also descendants of Cao Shixiong!" Wang Xian pulled the two teenagers to Xu Huai and said.

"Who are you?" Xu Huai looked at the two young men with anger and hatred, and asked in a voice.

Before, Xu Huai met Cao Xuanwen in Shuozhou, but other underage children of the Cao family did not have the opportunity to meet him. When he saw the two young men and the young generals who led the soldiers to kill him in the alley, they all met Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili brothers, and asked.

"Bah, when my dad leads his troops back, he will have to peel you thieves!" A young man spat at Xu Huai's face.

Xu Huai raised his foot and kicked the boy to the ground, and ordered: "The two little animals are not good. First, strip them naked and whip them thirty whips, wait for the flagpole to be buried in the garden, tie them up and show them to the public! Some of the rebels know him, so there is no need to talk nonsense to them!"

Wang Xian was about to take off the robes of the two teenagers and execute them, but he saw a middle-aged man running from the yard to the west in surprise and joy, and shouting at Xu Huai: "Xu Huai! It turns out that you are entering the blue sky. I didn't misunderstand you at the beginning - I hope you will suffer so much!"

Xu Huai stared at Xun Yannian who was walking quickly, and saw that he was wearing a blue robe. Although he was not as majestic as he had when he first met in Kelan City, he did not seem to have suffered any grievances. He frowned and asked, "Mr. Xun, where did you come from? Shouldn't you be imprisoned in prison at this time?"

"I..." Xun Yannian was stunned and said in a hint, "Cao Shixiong persecuted him in every way. I could only pretend to communicate with him first, but I didn't suffer any hardships. But I always wanted to escape from this Kelan City - you, don't you think I really intend to surrender to the enemy, right? Ha... How could it be, even though I, Xun, had no power to tie the chicken, would never do this miserable thing... haha..."

Xun Yannian laughed loudly, as if Xu Huai was telling a very funny joke.

Xu Huai closed his eyes, opened his sharp eyes after a while, and said with a cold face: "If you are tortured, you have to surrender to Cao Shixiong's tyranny for the time being, or if you sit in your house at this time and don't become a guest of the Cao family in this state yamen, I will not demand too much, and you can send you back to Bianjing safely. Look at how many generals died under the swords of the enemy, look at how many people in the city were slaughtered by rebels, how do you ask me to tolerate you? If you are still a little enlightened, you will die by yourself, at least you will not be completely ruined, and you will not be burdened by the Xun family! This is the only thing I can do for you!"

"You..." Xun Yannian sat dejectedly in the snow, as if all his strength was exhausted.

"You two find a room to help Xun Langjun sit in and think about it!" Xu Huai waved his hand and arranged for the two to imprison Xun Yannian. Even if he had to arrange for him to "suicide", he would not be busy at this time.

Xu Huai really didn't expect that the city of Kalan was completely controlled by Cao Shixiong for only two or three days, and Xun Yannian had no such backbone. He surrendered to the enemy so quickly, and even became the guest of the Cao family.

Cao Shixiong and other surrendered generals in Shuozhou have already made Wang Bing extremely passive in the court. If he really sent Xun Yannian back to Bianjing alive, he would only ask the court and the people to attack Wang Bing more than once. And Xun Yannian was too disappointing.
Chapter completed!