Shi Yunhu squinted at the fleeing tiger-character flag guard and said, "Master Liang Er, do you want to send someone to chase him?"
"No need." Liang Eryi waved his hand and said, "Our goal is to snatch the goods back to the mountain."
Shi Yunhu withdrew his gaze and stopped trying to persuade.
Originally, he didn't want to kill all the people in Huziqi. Someone had to go back to Lingqiu to tell Liu Heng the news, otherwise how would his next plan be implemented.
The people of Tiger Character Banner began to suffer casualties during the siege by many bandits.
Wang Miao, the squad leader, was stabbed on the shoulder, and blood soaked the cotton armor on his shoulder.
Of the thirteen gunmen armed with Yanling knives, under siege by dozens of bandits, only nine remained, and all of them were injured.
There were many corpses of bandits scattered on the ground, at least twenty or so, all of them hacked to death by Yan Ling knives. The Yan Ling knives in the hands of all the fire gunmen who were still standing had varying degrees of damage to their blades.
Counting the bandits killed with fire cannons, there were forty or fifty corpses left on the hillside.
The people of Tiger Banner train regularly, eat well, are all strong men, and their weapons are forged from fine iron. They also wear armor, so they have a great advantage against bandits.
If there weren't too many bandits, they would have been killed long ago.
Many of the bandits who came down the hillside were frightened by Wang Miao with his musketry, and for a while no bandit dared to charge up again.
The situation on the spear team's side was better than that of Wang Miao and the others. After all, they formed a fighting formation and were barely able to protect themselves, but they were also besieged by another wave of bandits.
Liang Er, who was standing on the hillside, looked livid now.
This time, a total of 200 bandits were dispatched from the four cottages. With so many people, they couldn't even take down a group of dozens of caravan guards, and instead, they lost dozens of people.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't live with it, he would have wanted the people with the tiger flag to leave.
However, he could only think about this idea. If he really wanted to let the person go, he wouldn't even be able to afford the shame, regardless of whether the other big bosses would do it or not.
Shi Yunhu reminded from the side: "Master Liang Er, I don't think the archers are of much use if they stay with us. Why don't we let them help Master Huang and others, and deal with those guys with spears first."
Although it was the first time for him to see someone forming a battle formation with spears, he only looked at it for a while and found the weakness of the battle formation. Facing the archers, he could only passively take the beating.
Liang Er glanced at Huang Laizi, and then ordered a bandit beside him, "Tell our archers to help Huang Laizi and the others."
The bandit quickly ran towards a few archers halfway up the hillside.
With the help of archers on Huang Laizi's side, the situation immediately became different.
The spearmen formed together became a living target for several archers. Unless the battle formation was dispersed, there was no way to avoid the incoming bows and arrows.
But once the spear phalanx is disbanded, they will fall into a situation of fighting on their own, and they will no longer have the advantage over the bandits.
Two spearmen were shot in the face by arrows fired by bandits one after another, losing their lives. Another person was shot in the arm. The leader of the spear team knew that he could not continue like this.
Although they are wearing plate armor, which can reduce the damage of arrows, their exposed limbs and heads will always be hit by arrows. If they persist in this formation, sooner or later they will be killed by the bandit archers. Light.
Thinking of this, the corps commander no longer hesitated and ordered: "Disband the phalanx and everyone rush towards the bandits."
He raised his hand and pointed at the bandit closest to the spear formation, and took the lead in charging forward.
As long as you mix with the bandits, the bandit's archers cannot take action easily, otherwise it will be easy to accidentally injure other bandits.
The spearmen of the Tiger Flag all wear plate armor to protect their upper body vitals. It is difficult for bandits to hurt them, and even if they are injured, it is rarely fatal.
For a time, they actually killed the bandits who were several times more numerous than them and pushed them back.
However, this is only temporary. As long as the bandits are allowed to slow down, with the number of bandits, they will be able to kill all the spearmen of the Tiger Flag sooner or later.
Boom! Rumble…
A dull sound of horse hooves came from far and near.
Shi Yunhu, who was standing on the hillside, looked in the direction of the sound and saw a horse team galloping in their direction.
As the saying goes, stand high and see far.
When Liang Er saw that the cavalry was coming from the direction of Daliang Mountain, he smiled and said, "Master Shi Da, you concealed it well enough, and now you let your cavalry take action."
Shi Yunhu frowned. He had never arranged for anyone from the cavalry team to participate in this robbery.
Not only that, he also asked people to keep an eye on the cavalry people and not allow the cavalry people to leave the village.
As the cavalry approached, it was finally clear that the person galloping at the front was Ma Yunjiu, followed by the other riders in the cavalry.
When he was less than 200 steps closer to the hillside, Ma Yunjiu raised his knife and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me to kill!"
"No, let's go!" Shi Yunhu grabbed Liang Er, turned around and ran away up the hillside.
He didn't think that Ma Yunjiu brought people to help him.
If you were being targeted all the time and even being detained, it would be nice if you didn't retaliate, so why would you be so kind as to help?
He knew clearly in his mind that with the strength of Ma Yunjiu and the cavalry, even if there were only a dozen or so horsemen, even if there were twice as many bandits, they would not be able to match them.
Ma Yunjiu and the people in the cavalry team were either from Ye Bushou or from frontier generals and soldiers. They were all good at horse fighting. A ragtag group of bandits, no matter how large the number, was no match.
Liang Er was pulled by Shi Yunhu and ran back. He didn't know what was going on, so he said confusedly: "Why are you running? Isn't it your cavalry that is coming?"
Shi Yunhu pulled Liang Er away and said, "The cavalry has betrayed me. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself."
Liang Er turned around hesitantly.
At the foot of the hillside, he saw that his men were being killed by Ma Yunjiu and his cavalry.
He said with a livid face: "Shi Yunhu, what's going on, you have to give me an explanation in Erliangshan."
Those who were about to take down the tiger flag were saved by a sudden appearance of a cavalry team, and this cavalry team was Shi Yunhu's.
This made him feel like he was betrayed, and the person who betrayed him was Shi Yunhu beside him.
Shi Yunhu said with an ugly face: "Ma Yunjiu and the cavalry have betrayed us."
"It was your cavalry that killed the people. You must give us Erliangshan an explanation for this matter, otherwise this matter will never end." Liang Er was furious and glared at Shi Yunhu.
I suspected that all this was Shi Yunhu's fault, just to monopolize the goods escorted by the Tiger Flag.
"Whether Master Liang Er believes it or not, Ma Yunjiu has betrayed me and Shanzhai. If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave even if the cavalry catches up." After saying this, Shi Yunhu stopped caring about Liang Er and was alone. Escape to the mountains.
Liang Er took another look at the bandits who were being killed by the cavalry at the foot of the hillside.
Facing the butcher's knife of the cavalry, the bandits at the foot of the hillside had no power to resist and fled in all directions.
