Turbulent Times Chapter 384: Evidence of treason
The galloping officers and soldiers turned a deaf ear to the screams and pointed their guns at them, killing all those who blocked the way.
"Mother!" Before the cavalry's horses collided with the spears in their hands, the pikemen in the back row had completely collapsed, screaming and throwing away their weapons, turning around and fleeing.
A man with two legs cannot run a horse with four legs. Although the minions in charge of blocking the way have decisively dropped their weapons. Although they swing their limbs like wheels one by one. The distance between the back and the spearhead was still shortened to nothing in one breath.
Hundreds of lances collided with the backs of the escapees, and the sound was like waves hitting the shore. The sound of horseshoes disappeared in an instant, and the cry became weak and inaudible. Between the heaven and the earth, it seemed that all the sounds had stopped abruptly.
Amidst the screams, countless streaks of red plasma slowly sprang up, leaped into the air, and entangled alternately, like a gorgeous peony, slowly blooming, blooming, and then fading in the sun.
The flowers fall like rain, and the red mist evaporates.
There are countless souls lingering and flying up to the clouds. The sun became extremely bright in an instant, casting chills on the guns and horseshoes. The red mist was instantly condensed, blown away, and drifted along the wilderness.
Rows of war horses came out of the red mist, and broken limbs and pieces of meat fell in disorder.
The horses galloped, leading the officers and soldiers on horseback towards the fleeing targets. The sharp point of the spear shortened the distance from the minion's back inch by inch, pierced the flesh, pierced the bone, pierced the internal organs inch by inch, and finally pierced a ball of dazzling red from the target's chest.
Another row of corpses flew up and smashed towards the archers in Iron Spear Village.
Most of the archers had already turned around and joined the fleeing team, even though the leaders shouted loudly, they refused to stay any longer. However, there are a small number of archers who don't know whether they are scared to death or full of evil. He actually stood there blankly, holding the horn bow blankly, neither running away nor making any resistance. He stared blankly at the gun point piercing his chest.
"Boom!" There was another dull crash.
More corpses flew into the sky, and blood splattered like a torrential rain.
Under the rain of blood, spearmen, archers, and the big and small leaders of Iron Spear Village ran for their lives like lambs that had been fried.
No one dares to stop for the slightest, lest they run slower than their own companions. The strong ones ran into Ma Lixiong's army without hesitation, while the weak ones staggered a little, they would fly like a wall with their lances, and then they would be trampled into flesh by the horses.
The minion soldiers who were not caught up by the horses for the time being were frightened, and the spearmen pushed away the archers who blocked their way, and the archers rushed towards their own army without hesitation. The outermost part of the Chinese army, the main force of the Iron Spear Village, which was originally intended to launch a counterattack at a critical moment, was soon dispersed by their own defeated soldiers, pushing each other back, back, stumbling, and lost their minds.
"Uh, uh, uh..." Ma Lixiong, the leader of Iron Spear Village, his eyes stiffened, his saber half-raised in the air, but he couldn't issue any orders from his mouth.
He didn't believe it, he couldn't accept the facts in front of him. With only a dozen or so snaps of the fingers, the defeat was actually a foregone conclusion. Let alone turning the tide right now, because there were too many brothers gathered around him, it was unknown whether he could escape from the battlefield.
"Boss, let's go, let's go, if you don't go, it will be too late!" A confidant soldier grabbed the reins of his horse and shouted loudly.
"Go, go, if you don't go, it will be too late..." Ma Lixiong murmured weakly.
"Go—!" He opened his throat and yelled at everyone around him. Immediately, he turned his mount and fled eastward quickly surrounded by his personal guards. The hooves of the war horse under the crotch are kicking wildly, kicking over the people who stand in the way, no matter how close they are or how close they are.
"Run, run!"
"The wind is tight, the wind is tight!"
"Mother——"
Seeing that all the big and small leaders of their own families fled, the small and big minions on the battlefield have no fighting spirit. Throw away your weapons, shields, and everything that weighs on you, and turn to the east.
This is no longer a battle, but a one-sided massacre. Under the continuous advancement of the cavalry, the "Tianyi Army" suffered heavy casualties, and the 2,500 infantry of the officers and soldiers also chased them up, and formed an encirclement circle from both sides.
Those minions who ran too slowly and gradually fell behind the fleeing team, or were deliberately squeezed behind the team by their companions, heard the approaching hoofbeats, and kept uttering desperate screams from their mouths. However, the screams couldn't bring any speed to their legs, instead they weakened the strength of their legs because of the pause in their breathing. In a blink of an eye, the blood-dripping cavalry chased up and overthrew the dozens of minions who were running the slowest. Then, the same fate befell the second-to-last row of minions, then the third-to-last row, and the fourth-to-last row... The blood wave rolled back along the phalanx formed by the cavalry, spreading fear in all directions along with the sound of horses' hooves .
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On February 27th of the fifth year of Renshou, 5,000 rebels from Longxi County attacked Wushan County. More than 3,000 enemies were killed, the leader of the bandits, Ma Lixiong, was captured, and more than 1,000 bandits fled to the direction of Dayang Mountain, where Li's ancestral house in Longxi was located at the foot of Dayang Mountain.
In addition, this prisoner captured more than 200 rebels, among them, apart from Ma Lixiong, there were thirteen bandit leaders. Some letters and tokens were found on his body, which were suspected to belong to the Li family in Longxi. In addition, the confessions made by the bandit leaders are said to be all concentrated in the hands of the imperial envoy, Qin Anhou, for further investigation.
All of a sudden, the whole world was shaken, the aristocratic families waited and watched secretly, and sent countless spies to infiltrate Longxi County to find out the truth. There were constant roars, roars, and cries in the ancestral house of the Li family in Longxi.
"Guo Tieqiang, the owner of Tieqiang Village, didn't go to Wushan County, so he quickly sent a team of death guards to Tiewu Mountain to control Tieqiang Village, and forced Guo Tieqiang to take the initiative to kill all of Guo Tieqiang's family members. Besides, we have nothing to do with the bandits attacking Wushan County." Li Zongxian, the owner of the backyard of Li's ancestral home, gave an order to a confidant with a livid face.
After the confidant master left, Li Fengchen said: "Father, Wang Junlin sent a letter through the elder brother's hand a few days ago, expressing peace, why is he framing us like this now."
"The premise of his peace negotiation is that we send your aunt's apprentice Chen Danying to him, but your aunt disagrees, what can I do?" Li Zongxian said this with resentment on his face.
"Father, my son has already inquired. Those so-called evidences are all in Wang Junlin's hands now, and they haven't been sent to the capital yet. Now we still have a chance to negotiate a peace." Li Fengchen said through gritted teeth.
"Hey! I'll go see your aunt again and see what he has to say." Li Zongxian's expression changed, and there was a decision deep in his heart that he still couldn't make up his mind.
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The third update, there are two more updates tonight, so stay tuned———