An arrow like a flying fairy from the sky not only killed Shen Laoqi, making the minions of Hutou Village stunned on the spot, but also caught the officers and soldiers off guard, and it was difficult to react for a while. Only Suo Chao, who had been staring ahead, turned back abruptly after seeing this amazing scene, and in a blink of an eye, he fell on Sun Tu, who put down his bow not far behind him.

Although he felt that the bow in Sun Tu's hand looked a little strange, Suo Chao's first reaction at this time was to take the opportunity to break the enemy, and immediately shouted: "The thief chief is the head, brothers, step on the thief's nest in one fell swoop, kill!" As soon as he spoke, he was the first to pounce forward, and the long axe in his hand fluttered up and down to protect his body from the enemy's arrows.

This shout also immediately woke up a cadre of officers and soldiers, and they let go of their courage one by one, shouted, and rushed forward in great strides to kill, even those village soldiers, after knowing that the leader of the thieves had been killed, were also more confident, and followed closely to kill.

In stark contrast to the morale-boosting situation of the officers and soldiers, it is the performance of those bandits and minions in the cottage. When they saw with their own eyes that their leader Shen Laoqi was suddenly killed by a flying arrow, and the officials and soldiers took the opportunity to cover up and kill, these fierce guys suddenly didn't know what to do as if they had lost their souls.

Especially at this time, everyone was surprised to find that at some point, Du Hu, the owner of their own village, had disappeared. In this way, these bandits are even more leaderless, becoming a plate of scattered sand, watching the officials and soldiers rush to kill, but they can no longer form any defense, and some people are even more frightened and retreat.

Changes in the situation on the battlefield often occur in the blink of an eye, and the bandits who could have been able to block the offensive of the official army completely collapsed at this moment. They had no intention of stopping the enemy, and only had one thought left to turn around and flee for their lives, and more than 200 people ran towards the cottage like headless flies.

In this way, it naturally increased the confidence of the officials and soldiers to rush and kill, and in the blink of an eye, they had already rushed through the gate of the village, entered the village, and waved the weapons in their hands to greet the thieves who only took their backs to them. With the swing of the Xuanhua axe in Suo Chao's hand, he had already cut down three thieves who had no power to resist, and then shouted loudly: "Kneeling and being bound can avoid death, and stubbornly resisting and killing!" ”

The soldiers of the Daimyo Mansion who rushed in with him also shouted loudly one after another, and after killing several people in a row, the thieves who had long lost their heart of resistance were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and knelt down.

In fact, if these people struggle again with the idea of death, maybe they can really cause a lot of casualties to the officers and soldiers who desperately entered the stockade. However, at this time, once the small soldiers on the battlefield lost their unified command, they completely lost their fighting spirit, and they could only surrender.

At this time, the superiority of the officers and troops was completely apparent. While everyone pounced on the kneeling thieves and tied them up on the spot, they could also divide a part of their men to rush towards the cottage to catch and clear the remaining thieves. Those thieves who had been lucky enough to hide in it were also killed or driven out one after another.

For a while, the sound of begging for mercy and screams resounded everywhere in Hutou Village, and a few sergeants were the most clever, and quickly ran to the open space in front of the Juyi Hall, and cut off the flagpole erected there with a few axes, so that the tiger head banner tied to the top fell to the ground.

With the fall of this banner representing Hutou Village, this mountain bandit bandit who has been based in Yuncheng County for ten years and has suffered a great calamity has finally been completely destroyed. The sergeants and Minzhuang who saw this scene all let out bursts of cheers from the bottom of their hearts, thus completely overshadowing the screams of those bandits.

Although Sun Tu, who was in the middle of it, was also smiling, his eyes were flickering, and a question that was easy to be ignored by everyone in this era had suddenly risen from his heart-

When the leader of the thieves was shot and fell, the battle had already come to an end. And this may also be a common problem of all armies in this era, including the official army of the Great Song Dynasty, once the main general has an accident, whether he is killed or injured, as long as he cannot command the battle, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, they will become a mass of scattered sand in the blink of an eye, so that the enemy can be easily destroyed.

Therefore, in Sun Tu's view, the war at this time is still full of accidents, and often an inconspicuous variable can determine the victory or defeat of the war, which is really undesirable.

But then, he smiled to himself, what do he want to do as a small citizen who runs a hotel? That's what only the great generals who hold the military power should ponder, and now they just want to protect themselves.

Presumably, after this battle of thieves, he has shown something again, so Liu Yuan can't find another opportunity to deal with himself, right? And Jijiazhuang or something, it should be over here, right?

At this time, he heard several soldiers rushing to Suo Chao to report: "General, we have just found dozens of cages from the room behind, and the property in them is used as a birth gang!" ”

"Good! Take them out for me, and send them down the mountain later! When Suo Chao heard this, the last trace of uneasiness finally subsided. He came this time on order to recapture the Birth Gang, and since the things were recovered, he could give Liang Xianggong an explanation.

After the sergeants received the order, they hurried back to get busy. But not long after, in addition to bringing back the dozens of cages, they also carried the body of a middle-aged man with round eyes and long since he lost his breath: "General, this was also found in the room, and it looks like he has just died." ”

"Huh?" Suo Chao stepped forward and looked at the corpse carefully a few times very strangely: "He wasn't killed by you?" But did he commit suicide? ”

All the sergeants shook their heads: "We didn't kill him, we found him a corpse." And there was no weapon next to the body, he was killed. ”

"You all come and see, do you recognize anyone?" Suo Chao was even more surprised, and hurriedly greeted the people and servants who were watching the captives on the side.

Lei Heng looked at it, and when he saw it, he exclaimed: "This, isn't this Ji Yang, the owner of the Ji family?" ”

Sun Tu was also stunned when he heard this, but he quickly guessed the inside story: "He should have been killed by the thieves here!" He didn't say the second half of the sentence directly, in his opinion, the corpse looked a little sluggish, obviously had a bad time in the cottage, it should have turned against Du Hu, and even became a prisoner early!

Song Jiang also came up at this time, and after taking a few glances at the corpse, he also came to a similar judgment. And when he said this, everyone took a breath of cool air, isn't this a typical black eating black? Obviously, it was Du Hu who decisively attacked Ji Yang, a former collaborator, after discovering that Jijiazhuang was no longer useful.

But then, a thought rose from everyone's hearts: "By the way, what about Du Hu, the main culprit here?" Where did he go? ”

Suo Chao immediately shouted: "Someone, has anyone seen the main culprit Du Hu?" Gather everyone, and the corpses, not a single one will be missed! ”

The sergeants hurriedly took action, and after some busyness, all the corpses were gathered and then identified by the captives, but they could not find their owner. Subsequently, everyone searched everywhere, and there was no information about Du Hu's whereabouts, as if he suddenly disappeared a moment before he was defeated.

"How is this possible!" Suo Chao's face was full of disbelief, and he raised his face and ordered: "Everyone go and search me carefully, no corner can be missed, and there is a back mountain, go find it for me!" ”

The order was soon brought to fruition, and someone came to report that a hook had been found on the cliff in the back mountain, and it was evident that someone had escaped from here seeing that the situation was not good.

Suo Chao, who heard the report, brought people here, looked at the cliffs of dozens of feet, and the sky outside that had darkened, and could only spit out a breath of turbidity angrily: "This bastard is running fast enough." But no matter how big the world is, there is no place for him, and the government will hold you one day! ”

Although he ran away from the main culprit who robbed the Shengchengang, it was a great achievement to level the Hutou Village and recapture the Shengchengang. Now for Suo Chao, the most important thing is to hurry up and continue to send things to Bianliang, Tokyo.

After the second watch, the officers and soldiers finally slowly withdrew from Xishangang, and when they left, they also set a fire to completely burn down the Hutou Village, which had been burned by the fire. In this way, if someone wants to fall here, I'm afraid it won't be so simple......