When Han Xi led his people back, they reached a canyon.
However, it was discovered that there were debris blocking the way in front of the canyon, which made everyone become vigilant, and everyone drew their sabers.
The fifty imperial cavalry who controlled the donkey cart also mounted their horses.
"Who is sneaking around? Come out quickly!" Han Xi shouted loudly.
But there was no sound around, and suddenly, gravel fell from two slopes.
Han Xi looked a little embarrassed at the gravel, because the gravel was so small that it rolled to both sides of the motorcade and stopped.
If other teams had seen such a formation, there might have been a commotion for a moment, but the Imperial soldiers just looked at them coldly and looked around with vigilant eyes.
On the hillside, when he saw that Han Xi and his party were not in any confusion, Coach Liu frowned, knowing that this group of horse bandits would be difficult to deal with.
There can be no head-on conflict, just delay it here.
Han Xi saw that the other party just pushed down some harmless gravel and did not make any move. He looked at the debris blocking the road in front and said in a deep voice: "Go to the top of the mountain to check. The rest will guard the food. Five The team is following me."
After making arrangements, Han Xi turned his horse's head and ran out of the valley.
There were a lot of debris blocking the road. Han Xi was going to find a hidden place to recruit a group of imperial soldiers to move all the debris away, and at the same time try to lure these people out.
Han Xi's behavior was clearly seen by Coach Liu and his team on the hillside. Coach Liu whispered: "When those ten horse bandits come up, listen to my order and fire arrows. Shoot their horses for me."
Hearing this, more than 20 archers in Xiangyongli couldn't help but sweat dripping from their palms.
On the other side, ten imperial cavalry quickly rushed up the slope.
When there was still ten feet away, Coach Liu shouted: "Fire the arrow for me."
Soon, more than twenty arrow feathers were shot out, but the effect was unbearable. Only three or four arrow feathers shot into the cavalry team, and the rest fell in mid-air.
"Trash!" Coach Liu yelled, and then he rushed up with his cavalry. On the steep slope, the cavalry was fully deployed.
The cavalry that did not charge were no different from the infantry.
But there were nearly three hundred people on his side. If the remaining thirty cavalrymen on the opposite side charged up, they would be able to wipe out all the horse bandits and achieve great success. Thinking of this, Coach Liu felt hot and shouted road:
"Put all the sticks on the head,"
Just when a group of local warriors rushed up with sharp wooden spikes, they saw ten cavalrymen on the opposite side pulling the trigger.
"Bang bang~~"
There was a burst of gunfire, and six people were killed directly from a distance of ten feet.
"Death, death, death!"
Seeing their companions fall to the ground, some heroes showed timidity and retreated unconsciously.
There were quite a few such people, twenty or thirty in total. When these people retreated, they immediately collided with the people rushing up from behind.
In an instant, the Xiangyong team became confused.
Coach Liu also noticed the situation behind the team, and suddenly showed an angry look on his face: "Asshole! Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed by everyone."
After all, Xiangyong is not a well-trained team, and the three hundred people do not have a ruling system like Xiaoqi and Zongqi.
Therefore, no one among the more than three hundred village warriors listened to Coach Liu.
In just a moment, Xiang Yong fled before he could reach the cavalry.
Then, there was a scene of ten cavalrymen running around chasing more than 300 country warriors.
The imperial cavalry who noticed the movement below were quickly supported by ten cavalrymen.
A moment later, when Han Xi returned with more than two hundred spearmen, he found an extra row of people squatting beside the road.
This made Han Xi stunned: "Is this the person who attacked us?"
"Yes, General, these people are local warriors recruited from Yichuan County. They said there is another wave attacking Chenjiagou at this time." A cavalryman reported.
Attack Chenjiagou?
This made Han Xi's heart twitch, but when he saw Xiang Yong squatting on the side of the road, his heart quickly calmed down.
These country warriors may be of some use in defending the city, but in the wild, it's no wonder that one imperial soldier can defeat ten of them.
"Let these people move all the debris away." Han Xi ordered.
Soon more than two hundred captured Xiangyong were driven to work.
at night.
Han Xi entered Chenjiagou with more than a hundred donkey carts. On the way, he saw more than a dozen corpses lying on the roadside, and villagers were carrying the corpses.
Seeing this, Han Xi knew that those people from the county had been defeated.
"Report to the general. At night, a group of several hundred people tried to enter Chenjiagou through the back mountain trail. They stepped on a trap and were discovered. Twenty-three people were killed and the rest escaped under the cover of night." The imperial soldiers ran away when they saw Han Xi. Come up and report.
Hearing this, Han Xi smiled unkindly. Wild animals often appeared on the back mountain trail, so there were many steel animal traps and traps arranged there.
Unexpectedly, this group of people actually ran into it themselves.
"Is there anyone alive?" Han Xi asked.
The imperial soldier shook his head: "No one was left alive."
When he heard that there were no survivors, Han Xi didn't care much. He had captured a lot of survivors and they would be interrogated tomorrow.
On the other side, Yichuan City.
A group of people wearing white clothes kept shouting under the two-foot-high city tower: "Open the city gate, open the city gate quickly and let us in."
The officers and soldiers guarding the city illuminated the top of the city with torches and found that the people below were the team that went out to suppress the bandits a few days ago: "Didn't you go to Chenjiagou to suppress the bandits? Why did you come back so soon?"
"The thieves are cunning. We were ambushed by the thieves. They opened the door as soon as they asked you to open the door. How come there is so much nonsense." A young man below shouted loudly.
The officers and soldiers guarding the city heard the young man's voice. He seemed to be the young master of the most prestigious Wu family in the city, so they did not dare to neglect: "Master Wu, you can't open the door at night. I'll put the hanging basket down and pull you up!"
With that said, the basket fell down, and soon the young master of the Wu family was pulled up.
The young master of the Wu family looked embarrassed, snorted coldly at the officers and soldiers guarding the city, and walked into the city. The officers and soldiers guarding the city just smiled and kept apologizing.
As for the howls of the rest of the people in the city, he completely ignored them.
Early next morning.
Han Xi looked at the hundreds of men wearing white cotton being escorted over and began today's interrogation.
"How many defense forces does Yichuan County have now?" Han Xi asked, looking at an honest-looking man.
"No, I don't know!" the man said with some fear.
"How many people are there in Yichuan County?" Han Xi asked again.
"No, I don't know!" The man answered the same as before.
Han Xi raised his eyebrows and asked again: "How many people are there in your family?"
"No, I don't know!" The man said like a machine.
"Tell me something you know?" Han Xi was speechless.
"No, I don't know!"
"Pull it down!" Han Xi waved his hand and said.
Soon, two villagers with knives and fierce looks pulled the man up. The man struggled and shouted: "Master, please spare my life! I have a seventy-year-old mother to support, and I have a wife and children below me. Please spare my life!"
Han Xi, who had black lines all over his head, ignored the man's plea for mercy and asked the next person.
Soon, Han Xi knew the information he wanted.
The garrison strength of Yichuan County is about 400 to 600 people. There are seven villages in the city, each with about a hundred households.
That's almost more than six thousand people.
