Elbow strikes, hand knives, whip legs, Liu Qi had to use his best hand-to-hand combat skills, which was more than enough to deal with the thieves with inferior weapons, but unfortunately after all, there were many thieves, and they didn't put down a few, and the three of them and the remaining twenty or so guards were still forced to gather together to guard the courtyard gate.

The guards are well-trained, leaning together to form a small phalanx, the offensive and defensive cooperation is very tacit, fortunately the thieves did not carry bows and arrows, and although the courtyard is large, it is full of bamboo groves and low trees, and there is a pond in the middle, so although there are many thieves, only a small number can rush in front, and the rest are howling in the back, so they have not broken through this small courtyard gate.

However, it didn't take long for many thieves to climb over the courtyard wall and bypass them and go straight to the backyard, the backyard was less manned and the terrain was open, which was more difficult to defend, but Liu Qi couldn't watch Zhao Zhen's family fall into the hands of thieves, so he had to order to retreat into the backyard.

Although the guards didn't know Liu Qi's specific identity, they all understood that he had a close relationship with Zhao Zhen, and they didn't have much trouble finding out the traitor and subduing Yan Yan, but they all knew it in their hearts, and the ghost idea came from this young man!

Zhao Rong, the head of the guards, was not in the mansion with Zhao Zhen, so at this moment, the highest status in the mansion was Liu Qi, and the guards immediately regained their composure with the backbone, and calmly fought and retreated to the backyard.

The backyard was a mess, the wives and concubines who were crying and crying, and the babies and young sons who were crying were all gathered together, Du Jie had gathered more than a dozen guards and Gao Teng and Gao Jing The two were waiting anxiously, seeing Liu Qi, they retreated in an orderly manner, and their hearts were a little settled, and the wood and stones that moved the door and poured out the door together.

Outside the side door of the backyard, there are also fires and the shouts of thieves and soldiers, there are chasing soldiers in front and interception in the back, is it really going to be heroic here this time, Liu Qi felt a chill in his heart.

And many thieves in this small courtyard and with the tacit understanding of the guards under the knife also suffered heavy casualties, the offensive gradually slowed down, the death of the guards roared a wave of thieves were cut down in an instant, looking at the blood covered in blood like a killing god of the guards, for a while the rest of the thieves showed fear in their eyes, and they did not dare to step forward.

A leader-like thief soldier behind him roared: "There are only a dozen of them, what are you afraid of, let's rush up and kill them all!" Whoever catches Zhao Di first, the beautiful women behind them and the room full of gold and silver will all be enjoyed! Rush me! ”

Liu Qi is not good at using knives and doesn't know how to cooperate with the guards, so he can't do anything in a hurry, fortunately Gao Teng found two bows in the house, but unfortunately there are not many arrows, only two pots, and the two climbed the wall to find the thieves who pose the greatest threat to the guards.

Seeing that there was not much left of the two of their arrows in the blink of an eye, Liu Qi anxiously turned his brain to figure out this escape plan, and suddenly heard such a sentence and suddenly realized, they were anxious to suddenly hear that the city was broken and Zhao Zhen was killed, and there were thieves everywhere outside the mansion shouting to kill and set fire, where can I take care of it to confirm the truth or falsehood, think carefully about the city gate has long been closed, if there are thieves attacking the city, how will they attack the city without moving, it must be a small group of thieves who have already infiltrated the city to make trouble at night.

And their goal, of course, is to attack the Taishou Mansion and capture Zhao Zhen, and to hold the Taishou hostage in order to protect themselves and receive a large group of thieves into the city.

It is impossible for the thieves to kill Zhao Zhen, and they didn't catch Zhao Zhen at all, otherwise they don't have to bother attacking the Taishou Mansion at all, they don't know that Zhao Zhen interrogated the prisoner overnight in the prison and was not in the mansion.

Liu Qi did not hesitate to shoot the last arrow in the quiver with all his strength, and with a "whoosh", the leader of the thieves in the firelight was shot through the simple leather armor and submerged into his chest, screaming and falling to the ground on his back.

"The people will listen to the command! Fujun is not dead! It's just a small group of thieves making trouble, and the prince has led a large army to kill, everyone rushes! ”

Liu Qi stretched out his arm and shouted in the direction of the main gate, then jumped down from the wall, picked up his bow and knocked down a thief, and took the lead in rushing into the thief.

Gao Teng Chengguan and others also shouted and followed Liu Qi's left and right, and when the guards heard that Taishou was not dead and led the troops to rescue, they suddenly rushed over with a momentum like a rainbow, and the anti-audience thieves, seeing Liu Qi pointing behind him, they really thought that the official army was back to help, and the leader was dead and there was no one to order, facing the terrifying light mixed with blood from the neat snow-bright blade of the majestic guards, the thieves were all terrified.

One of the thieves trembled, and finally threw his weapon with a wail and turned around and ran.

With the first one, there is a second, have been thieves for many years, most of the thieves are alert and cunning, and the thieves who don't know why in the back saw their companions in front of them fleeing backwards in horror, and many people felt that the situation was not good and ran away, and under the chain reaction, more and more people escaped, and finally became a big rout.

The few remaining thieves who were not afraid of death fought separately, and they were quickly cleared, and the guards screamed and rushed out to pursue the victory, and Liu Qi, who was soaked in sweat, sat panting and resting on the back bar of the corridor, don't look at others who are tall and big, but their endurance is far less than those guards who are a head shorter than him.

The thieves were quickly driven out of the Taishou Mansion, and the guards blocked the gate again, took out shields, bows and arrows from the treasury, and climbed the wall to arrange defenses.

After a while, the guards reported, Zhao Zhen was safe and sound, and was leading the troops to clean up the remnants of the thieves in the city, when the thieves suddenly attacked, Zhao Rong led the guards to protect Zhao Zhen on the tall building, and soon noticed that the thieves were few, and at this moment they learned that the family was safe and found out the situation, and immediately gathered the officials and soldiers in the city to kill the thieves and put out the fire.

Liu Qi, who was completely relieved, finally loosened his tense nerves and fell asleep, until the sky became brighter, and Zhao Zhen was not awakened until he led the army back to his house.

Zhao Zhen rushed back to the house first, and saw that his parents and wife were unscathed, and tears were in his eyes, and he found Liu Qi, who was covered in stains, and his long beard trembled with excitement: "The survival of the foolish brother's family depends on Ziyuan's righteous help, and Ziyuan is not chaotic in danger and retreats from the enemy, which is really a strange person!" ”

Liu Qi, who was aching all over, was almost shaken apart by the excited Zhao Zhen, compared with the professional soldiers of this era, Liu Qi's physical fitness that he was proud of in the past was not on the table at all, if it wasn't for the practice of righteous qi and the fact that he was already on the right track and began to play an effect, if it wasn't for the fact that the bow was just an ordinary one-stone bow, just shooting those dozen arrows would make his arms lose his strength.

At this moment, Liu Qi has a different feeling in his heart, he killed one person with his own hands last night, and dozens of people died indirectly because of himself, but he didn't have nightmares like last time, and he didn't even feel anything special in retrospect, did he adapt to this kind of life so quickly?

Should we be happy or sad?

Zhao Zhen beckoned to all the children and urged: "Hurry up, come and thank Uncle Xie!" ”

In addition to the two daughters, Zhao Zhen's sons are older than Liu Qi, but they all fell on the ground and called him uncle, especially Zhao Ci, Liu Qi couldn't bear this, he was very helpless and turned his head to Zhao Zhen Zhengse and said: "Brother is favored by brother, this is a matter of duty, senior brother is so outside." ”

Zhao Zhen was extremely moved, patted Liu Qi's shoulder and nodded heavily, and said no more.

It took two days to clear out the thieves scattered and hiding in the city, and after interrogating the captives, they learned that the original thief leader Xu Xi entered Yongning from Jiangyang and did not intend to stay for a long time, but just wanted to pass through Ba County by way, Ba County is rich and close to Guling and Hanzhong, so it is convenient to enter Bashan to hide or go out of Yizhou to run to other places, and it is more convenient to get Yan Zhan's funding, but I didn't expect Yongning to be so tough Zhao Zhen, and before he could plunder the second county town, the army was killed in front of him.

Although there was a report from the internal response to avoid its edge, the loss was not large, but after the official army held the city, the Yellow Turban thief army was unable to attack the city at all, and their large number was limited by the terrain and it was difficult to detour, so they had to wander around and loot to replenish military funds, but the surrounding counties had already prepared, so they gained little.

Behind him, Jiangyang County also sent troops to recruit at the invitation of Zhao Zhenzhi, and the food and grass under the enemy were becoming increasingly scarce, Xu Xi had to take advantage of Zhao Zhen's return to Jiangzhou to send a group of more than 400 people to ambush quietly in the mountains and forests near Jiangzhou at night, and wanted to wait for Zhao Zhen to escort the grain and grass to the halfway to intercept and kill him, but he didn't know that there was no movement for a long time, Xu Xi had to send a messenger to secretly sneak into Jiangzhou City to contact Neiying.

The city should be extremely excited to put forward a great news, Zhao Zhen has transferred the officials and troops around Jiangzhou, Jiangzhou City is extremely empty at this time, there are only hundreds of old and weak soldiers, you can immediately send troops into the city to assassinate Zhao Zhen, and by the way, Yan Yan will be killed so that they can take the opportunity to receive the Yan family's private army.

Sure enough, it's great news! After Xu Xi got the news, he looked up to the sky and smiled, and immediately ordered the people lurking outside Jiangzhou City to act according to the plan, but there were two more orders, killing Neiying together, and by the way, Zhao Zhen was captured alive and occupied Jiangzhou City, while Xu Xi himself left behind the old, weak, wounded and disabled to confuse the officers and soldiers, and secretly ordered the elite to immediately travel lightly at night, bypassing the counties and counties, and not exposing their whereabouts all the way, and going straight to Jiangzhou.

Xu Xi has rebelled for many years, so he naturally understands that these wealthy families have any good intentions for him, but they just use each other, if the two sides swap positions, Xu Xi believes that Yan Zhan will take the same approach, so he doesn't have any psychological baggage.

If you take this opportunity to count the dove to occupy the magpie's nest, then you will have the opportunity to reunite the army and create the invincible scenery of the more than 100,000 troops raised by Ma Xiang Zhao You!

Three days ago, more than 400 people broke up and mixed into Jiangzhou City in batches with the help of Neiying, and settled in a remote place in the city to wait for the opportunity, for fear of attracting attention, so they only dared to act carefully at night.

Unexpectedly, yesterday suddenly lost contact with the inner response, and the unfamiliar thieves did not find any useful information after nightfall, and the leader felt bad, so he had to order to take matters into his own hands.

Zhao Zhen understood the whole story, and listened to it in a cold sweat, it was too dangerous! If it weren't for Liu Qilai's coincidence and the design to find out the traitor in time, I am afraid that not only would he have died at this time, but Jiangzhou City would also have fallen into the hands of thieves.

At present, the army of Yellow Turban thieves must have quietly approached Jiangzhou, and they must immediately order the counties north of Yongning to mobilize officials and troops to recruit Xiangyong to defend Jiangzhou in the south.