In the distance, nothing could be seen clearly, and the scouts sent out reported one after another, and there were probably thousands of pirates in front of them. At this time, the sound of the sea coars became even louder, and the sound of shouting crossed the vast wilderness and faintly came along the sea breeze. Qingyuan camp was on guard, Luo Huan glanced at Zhao Xingde, and asked Zhang Baodao, "Can you bypass it?" ”

"I'm afraid not," Zhang Bao shook his head and said, "On the road ahead, the pirates have released spies. ”

"Do you want to retreat first, wait until the pirates have looted .....," someone suggested in a low voice.

"This ......" Luo Huan was speechless for a while, and he glanced at the side again.

Others don't know Zhao Xingde's identity, but he knows, at this time, Mr. Zhao is like a crutch, and people can't help but want to ask him for help. Luo Huan is the backbone of the Qingyuan battalion, and all matters are decided in a word, although Zhang Bao and other officers are heroic, they have never experienced the battle formation, and they are even more overwhelmed when they encounter the enemy, so everyone also looks at Zhao Xingde, hoping that he can get an idea.

"Don't panic," Zhao Xingde said in a deep voice, "Haikou is a rabble, the enemy is bright and I am secret, and it may not be that there is no strength to fight." ”

"Sir's golden body, safety is related to the overall situation," Luo Huan hesitated for a moment, and persuaded in a low voice, "It's better to stay away from ...... for the time being."

"No, you don't." Zhao Xingde shook his head slightly: "I'm sure." ”

Seeing this, Luo Huan no longer persuaded each other, and said loudly to the generals: "In this battle, we will listen to the orders of the military envoy for everything." ”

Zhao Xingde nodded, he looked at the sky in the distance, the night, like a black curtain covering the misty earth.

It was the darkest time before dawn, and it was about half an hour before it was time to light.

Zhao Xingde pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Although the Haikou people failed to succeed in the village, they have already been frustrated for a while. It is the two armies that meet and the brave wins, and our army rushes in front of them, and lights torches on all sides, which can defeat them. Although the number of pirates in front of him is ten times that of his side, no one shows cowardice, and immediately according to Zhao Xingde's orders, Luo Huan led two hundred soldiers, each holding two torches, and pushed forward far away, Zhang Bao selected and selected three hundred elite people as the front team, and approached the village at night, once in contact with the scouts of the pirates, they rushed and killed the past, it was the vanguard of the two armies that won the brave and defeated the pirates in one fell swoop.

Zhao Xingde hadn't personally participated in such a surprise attack of hundreds of people for a long time, and he put on his armor and looked around, and couldn't help but feel refreshed. The Qingyuan battalion was born in regimental training, and there was no unified military uniform, so in order to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, he used a white cloth to tie it on his left arm. A little white in the darkness is quite eye-catching. After the formation of each team, it was not long before dawn. The officers distributed bamboo titles to the soldiers, this was the first battle of the Qingyuan battalion, and the officers and soldiers looked a little nervous.

Zhao Xingde and Zhang Bao led three hundred elites to sneak for about half an hour, and when they came to the vicinity of the village, they saw the fire flickering in front of them, and the haikou shouting was already very clear. Reinforcements from the officers and soldiers were always late, so even though the village was lit with a beacon fire, the pirates still had no intention of retreating, but gathered men and horses to surround the village, and the reason why they did not attack immediately was because the large and small pirates did not negotiate. Zhao Xingde crouched in the grass, seeing that Haikou's orders were different and the team was not in order, he was a little more sure of winning, he turned his head and saw that several of them looked a little nervous, so he smiled at them, reached out and patted Zhang Bao's shoulder, and gently pulled out his saber. At this time, Zhang Bao and the others understood that the protector envoy was a battle-hardened general, and they also drew their sabers, and their hearts were a little at ease.

Several partridges chirped in the east, and countless torches were lit, as if a fiery dragon suddenly appeared in the dark night sky.

The pirates on the east side of the village immediately spotted torches in the distance, and all kinds of shouts rang out, "The wind is tight-" "The officers and soldiers are coming!" ”

"Someone!" "Alas! "Oh!" All kinds of shouting and screaming continued, and a fierce man was killed in the dark, and he didn't answer his face, and he killed every person, and the pirates were caught off guard and suffered a big loss immediately. Zhang Bao got Luo Huan's advice, followed closely behind Zhao Xingde, only to see him brave as a tiger, when he met a sea coward without armor, a knife swung over, and immediately cut into two pieces, flesh and blood flew sideways, and when he met an armored coward, the horizontal knife took his head directly, and there was almost no enemy in front of him. Zhang Bao is also a tyrant in Qingyuan County, but he has never seen such a hearty killing method, his pride in his chest has increased greatly, he holds a knife in both hands and follows behind him, as soon as he sees Haikou dodging Zhao Xingde, he roared and strode forward to kill him. Under the leadership of the two fierce generals, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, they immediately killed the Haikou to cry and cry their mother, and they could not form an army, and in less than a stick of incense, the Haikou who had originally surrounded the east of the village had been killed.

Seeing this situation, the strong men in the village also shouted loudly, and without waiting for the order of Dubao Peng Rui, they beat the gongs and drums to cheer for the officers and soldiers.

"The officers and soldiers are coming!" "We're saved!"

"Kill! Kill! ”

"We're saved!"

Many people were so excited that tears flowed down their eyes. Unlike ordinary thieves, the pirates are devastating once a village is breached. Regardless of men, women, young and old, the villages that have been attacked by the pirates often do not have a single bite left, and since then they have become a blank land. Therefore, the coastal villagers hate Haikou to the bone and are terribly afraid. God bless tonight, first the village woke up, found out the movement outside in advance, closed the gate of the village, and then a large group of officers and soldiers came to help, the village was preserved, how can it not make people ecstatic. The people in Lingnan are fierce, and the strong men in the village see from afar that the officers and soldiers who come to help are numerous, and the closer ones are more fierce like tigers, and many people are even more eager to try, wanting to open the gate of the village and go out to slash and kill.

"We might as well kill it and help the officers and soldiers!" "That's right! Kill these damn bunch! "You can't be a turtle with a shrunken head!"

"Wait, wait......" Peng Rui, the chief of the capital, had gray sideburns and sweat beads on his forehead, he was a cautious person, seeing the fire dragons in the distance rushing towards this side continuously, he breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "Maybe it was the officers and soldiers who passed by, and they just happened to bump into it." However, there is nothing wrong with being careful, in my opinion, it is better to stick to the wall. Cook more food, slaughter cattle and sheep, and bring money and silk from every household, and never be stingy, and prepare to reward the officers and soldiers after dawn, and never offend. ”

Peng Ruixuanhe was exiled to Lingnan for five years, and he has lived in this village for thirteen years, and he has also educated the children of the people for thirteen years. It can be said that the young and middle-aged people in the village are all students of Peng Rui. After Qingliu of the Lishe took charge of Lingnan, Peng Rui was a member of the Lao Li Society, and concurrently served as the head of the township school sacrificial wine, the chief of the capital, the regimental training officer, and the county school student, and he had more prestige among the hundreds of families around. Therefore, when he spoke, no one in the village objected, and the outside carefully guarded the wall, and prepared meals inside, waiting for the officials and soldiers to break through the sea with all their hearts. Zhao Xingde ordered two hundred soldiers to each hold two torches, rush from east to west, and then extinguish the torches, and light the torches again after returning the original way, so as to form a good momentum of the officers and soldiers coming from east to west.

Outside the village, Zhang Bao wiped the blood on his face and said happily: "My lord, how is it?" ”

Killing the bandits at once, the leaders were all happy and convinced of Zhao Xingde, surrounding him like stars and moons, and obeying his orders.

"Not bad." Zhao Xingde smiled and said, "With a small victory in the first battle, it is appropriate to defeat the thieves on the other three sides in one fell swoop, and then enter the village to have breakfast." Ignoring the blood spots on his face, he lifted the hem of his white robe, wiped the blood on the knife, pointed the knife to the west of the village, and ordered in a deep voice: "Let me kill for a while!" Extinguish this morning eclipse! ”

The generals obeyed the order, drew their horizontal knives one after another, and strode behind Zhao Xingde. The so-called wicked people are even more afraid of the wicked, and the pirates burn, kill, and loot in peace, and do all kinds of evil, and they are originally extremely fierce criminals, but the officers and soldiers in the distance are shocking, and the officers and soldiers in the vicinity are even more covered in blood, and the fierce gods and evil gods are generally killed, and the pirates are all terrified, and they flee one after another after the slightest resistance. Lingnan has few horses, therefore, whether it is a bandit or an officer and soldier, they are mainly fighting on foot. The pirates ran in stride, Zhao Xingde, Zhang Bao and others chased after them in stride, and all the pirates on all sides of the village were killed. It was only then that the villagers learned that there were only a few hundred officers and soldiers, and the villagers were inexplicably grateful, and they served the cooked food, wine and meat to the officers and soldiers.

"I see the courage of the general, it is really like Guan Zhang's rebirth." Peng Rui raised his glass and saluted, "I salute General Xing." ”

"Master Peng has won the prize." Zhao Xingde didn't want to reveal his identity, raised his wine glass, and wanted to drink, at this time, the scouts outside came to report, and the Haikou gathered more than 2,000 people, and loudly invited the battle outside the village, and was extremely arrogant. At this time, the sky was already bright, and the total number of officers and soldiers and strong men in the village was less than a thousand, Peng Rui and Luo Huan both had worried faces, and Zhang Bao and the others all looked at Zhao Xingde.

Zhao Xingde put the wine glass back on the table, looked calm, and said with a smile: "Everyone, wait a minute, I will go and drive the flies away." ”

After he finished speaking, he stood up, Luo Huan, Zhang Bao and others also got up, and Peng Rui and other elders in the village naturally couldn't sit still. The group followed Zhao Xingde to the wall, only to see a large group of bandits gathered in the west of the village, and a leader rode a horse in front of the queue to show off his might.

Zhang Longwang rode on a horse, waving a big knife with both arms, which seemed to be amazing, and the minions also shouted loudly to cheer, which made him even more proud. Zhang Longwang didn't believe that he happened to meet the officers and soldiers of the brigade passing by, first scolded his subordinates, and then summoned his minions to come over to explore the truth.

Seeing that someone in the village had gone up to the wall, King Zhang Longwang shouted loudly: "I am the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and the children on the other side dare to fight with me!" ”

"Quack!" Zhao Xingde frowned slightly, took out a strong bow, picked up three arrows in his right hand, and aimed them at Zhang Longwang from afar.

Before the other party could react, the two arrows of "whoosh" and "whoosh" were released, and the third arrow was put on the string. These two arrows have a name in the Xia Army called "Yan Shuangfei", castration is not the key, but it is extremely difficult to dodge, and can only be avoided by means such as hiding in stirrups.

Zhang Longwang watched him bend his bow and arrows, but he didn't have time to retreat, he hurriedly twisted his body to dodge, but he couldn't avoid the upper and lower, and he couldn't avoid the left and the right. At this moment, a third arrow flew in, and this arrow was powerful and heavy, and it was inserted squarely into Zhang Longwang's forehead. King Zhang Longwang let out a cry of pain and planted his horse, and his body remained motionless.

Up and down the city, Zhang Longwang's subordinates, Luo Huan, Zhang Bao, Peng Rui and others were stunned. Zhang Longwang not only takes the dragon king as his name, but he also has a great prestige on the sea, but this bandit who crisscrosses the sea died on the battlefield so lightly, and many people witnessed this scene with their own eyes, and their faces were still in disbelief.

Zhao Xingde's face remained unchanged, and he picked up three arrows in his right hand. Seeing Zhao Xingde bend his bow and arrow again, pointing at the place, the Haikou retreated with a shout, and retreated three hundred steps away before he dispersed in a hurry.