"You guys follow me to deal with the enemy cavalry that have overtaken them." Chen Qingfu greeted a few peasant soldiers holding firecrackers, and he leaned against a doorway with a firecracker.
Wu Tong, who was running forward, suddenly stopped, pulled Chen Qingfu with his hand, and said, "Why don't you run away?"
"There are enemy cavalry chasing after me. I will lead my men to intercept them. Mayor, you and your men will run away first." Chen Qingfu glanced in the direction behind him.
Wu Tong followed his gaze and looked over.
At the other end of the alley, several enemy cavalry were chasing them.
"Stay alive." Wu Tong knew that if he stayed, he would only be holding back the other party. He patted the other party's arm with his hand, turned around and ran with the other peasant soldiers along the alley towards the entrance of the village on the other side.
Chen Qingfu used a fire stick to light the match rope on the fire gun, and at the same time said to the few peasants and soldiers left behind: "Check the fire gun, the enemy is approaching, start firing."
Several peasants and soldiers holding firecrackers all lit the matchsticks of the firecrackers.
The medicine had already been loaded, and they raised their firecrackers, waiting for the enemy to approach.
"Avoid, avoid!" Chen Qingfu suddenly shouted, pressing himself tightly against the side of the doorway.
Two or three feather arrows flew over from the direction of the place.
One of the peasant soldiers was unable to dodge, and his throat was pierced by an arrow. He fell backwards to the ground, and the fire blunderbuss in his hand was thrown away.
boom!
Chen Qingfu raised the gun in his hand and fired it at an enemy cavalryman twenty steps away.
The gun did not fly, but knocked over the enemy cavalry at the front.
The alley, which was not wide, could only accommodate one horse. When the enemy rider at the front died and his body fell to the ground, the uncontrolled horse stopped and blocked the alley.
"Let's go." Chen Qingfu shouted to the peasants and soldiers next to him. He bent down to pick up the firecracker on the ground and quickly chased after Wu Tong and others who were leaving.
As he ran forward, he heard an arrow shooting from behind his head.
However, at this time, he did not dare to look back and kept running forward with his head buried, not even knowing whether other peasants and soldiers were hit by arrows.
Only a scream was heard.
Soon, he caught up with Wu Tong and others who had left first.
At this time, he had a chance to look back, only to find that only two peasant soldiers fled back with him.
"After leaving the village, let all the peasants and soldiers run for their own lives. Each one who escapes will be counted as one." Chen Qingfu said to Wu Tong.
Wu Tong, who heard this, said with a pale face: "Is there really no hope? Otherwise, let's find a yard in the village and use the yard to deal with the enemy."
"It's useless. The enemy can set fire to the young man's house and wait for death if he stays. It's better to fight and escape one by one. We have done our best by delaying the enemy cavalry in the village for so long." Chen Qingfu said.
After leading the peasants and soldiers to deal with the enemy cavalry for so long, he had done his best.
"It's up to you, run away." Wu Tong knew that they had no better choice. They could only do as Chen Qingfu said, run for their own lives and leave everything to fate.
"There are enemies coming from behind." A peasant soldier noticed the enemy cavalry appearing behind him and said nervously to Chen Qingfu.
From the moment they fought against the enemy, it was Chen Qingfu who commanded them as peasants and soldiers. This made many peasants and soldiers subconsciously turn to Chen Qingfu for advice when encountering problems.
"Don't worry about them, run as hard as you can." Chen Qingfu shouted.
The entrance to the village was not far away from them. Running with all their strength was enough to escape from the village before the enemy cavalry behind them caught up.
"Ahead, there are enemy cavalry blocking the way."
The peasants and soldiers running at the front slowed down and even stopped in the end.
There was a blockade in front and a pursuer in the back. When Chen Qingfu saw this situation, he knew he couldn't run away. When he saw the door of a house next to him, he ran into it without saying a word.
"Come here, two people, and knock the door open with me." Chen Qingfu pressed hard on the big wooden door with his shoulders.
Two peasant soldiers came over and knocked down the big wooden door with him.
After several hits, half of the large wooden door was knocked open.
"Come in quickly, everyone come in quickly." Chen Qingfu opened the other half of the door and called the peasants and soldiers outside to come into the yard.
A group of peasant soldiers ran into the yard one after another.
Chen Qingfu led others to replace the broken half wooden door on the door frame and use wooden sticks to hold it back.
This family must be a big family in the village, and their courtyard walls are higher than other families.
"Quickly look for quilts and wooden doors. Find as many as you can. Get the quilts wet with water." Chen Qingfu directed the peasants and soldiers to do their work, and he led several peasants and soldiers holding firecrackers to the back of the courtyard wall.
Peasants and soldiers brought a ladder from the side. Chen Qingfu stepped on the ladder and lay on the courtyard wall to look at the enemy cavalry outside.
The enemy cavalry chasing him at the entrance of the village and in the village slowly surrounded him towards the yard where he was hiding.
"The deputy mayor's door panel."
"Deputy mayor, we found two quilts."
There were peasant soldiers carrying the door panels, and there were peasant soldiers holding wet quilts.
"Put the quilt on the door panel and use the door panel to block the top of your head. Peasants and soldiers holding firecrackers will hide under the door with me. Wait for the enemy to get close and hit them with the firecrackers in your hands." Chen Qingfu said to the peasants and soldiers in front of him.
The peasants and soldiers with firecrackers in their hands pressed their bodies against the courtyard wall one after another, and the firecrackers in their hands were also filled with medicine.
Except for a few peasants and soldiers who used long guns to hold up the door panels, the others followed Wu Tong and hid in the house.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The enemy cavalry outside fired rockets into the courtyard.
Several sheds built in the yard were all on fire, and thick smoke was billowing from the roofs of several main houses.
"beat!"
Chen Qingfu leaned out of the courtyard wall and was about to hit the enemy on the street with a blunderbuss, when he found that the enemy on horseback had already opened his bow.
"return to!"
Seeing this, he realized that something was wrong, and he hurriedly retreated behind the courtyard wall without thinking about firing the gun.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Arrows were fired, and several peasants and soldiers who had no time to escape were shot dead on the spot.
At this time, Wu Tong and others who were hiding in the house had to run out because the roof was on fire.
"Hide quickly and find a place to avoid the arrows." Chen Qingfu waved vigorously at the peasants and soldiers who fled from the house to the yard, signaling them to take shelter.
However, there was no hiding place in the yard. The two sheds that could barely be used for hiding were still emitting thick smoke, and the hay and a few wooden sticks on the roofs of the sheds were on fire.
Arrows were fired into the courtyard from outside.
Several peasant soldiers who had nowhere to hide were hit by arrows. One of them was shot to death on the spot, and the remaining few were also wounded by arrows.
"Go behind the wall, go behind the wall." Chen Qingfu reminded them loudly when he saw the peasants and soldiers in the yard running around like headless flies.
A group of peasants and soldiers rushed to the back of the two courtyard walls.
Soon the courtyard wall was crowded with people, and there were still many peasants and soldiers who had no place to hide.
Chen Qingfu had no choice about this.
