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As Li Zixiao led the people closer and closer to the head of the village, the wanton lewdness/laughter of several defeated soldiers at the head of the village became more and more clearly into the ears of Li Zixiao and his party, and some people began to nervous involuntarily, and the hands holding the weapons trembled slightly.

Even Li Zixiao's own heart was pounding, his heart speed suddenly increased, and his body was trembling slightly, but he tried his best to suppress the tension in his heart, making him look at least calm on the surface.

After all, he is the backbone of the whole team, and he wants to make his subordinates look calm, strategize, and stabilize the morale of the army.

Li Zixiao stopped crawling and looked behind him, although he saw that his subordinates were very nervous at this moment, but these people followed up and did not escape to expose their whereabouts, which made Li Zixiao feel a little comforted.

It seems that through this period of practice, these people still remember the observance of discipline very well, otherwise, if it had been placed in the past, there would have been no one to jump up and run away now.

After confirming that all his subordinates had followed, Li Zixiao took a few deep breaths, tightened the clasp of the shield with his left hand, firmly controlled the shield, slowly pulled out the waist knife with his right hand, and suddenly shouted: "Stand out, kill!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Li Zixiao jumped up, and after hearing Li Zixiao's angry shout, the others also picked up the guy, jumped up, and stood up together.

"All the pikemen obeyed the order, quickly assembled, and lined up. Swords and shields are lined up to defend. As soon as Li Zixiao stood up from behind the dirt slope, he immediately ordered loudly.

At this time, the results of nearly half a month's training in the cottage finally appeared at this moment, although the nearly thirty pikemen were nervous, but after hearing his order, they instinctively and quickly gathered together and lined up in two horizontal formations.

Li Zixiao took four sword and shield guards and held swords and shields to the left of the two captains of spearmen, and the remaining Zhou Dazhu and several other sword and shield soldiers lived on the right side of the queue, ready to cover the central pikemen at any time.

"The pikemen listened to the order, put the guns flat, looked left and right, walked in unison, left and right, ......left and left" Li Zixiao saw that the team was in good formation, and immediately ordered loudly.

Dozens of people immediately followed Li Zixiao's command, and the pikemen lined up in two horizontal formations and forced towards the head of Wangjiabaozi Village.

At this time, the group of routs at the head of the village, if they couldn't find Li Zixiao and others appearing, then they would really be blind, and a team of dozens of people that suddenly appeared so suddenly was too eye-catching.

The sudden appearance of the team led by Li Zixiao startled the dozen or so soldiers who were carnivaling at the head of the village at this time, turned their heads to look at the place where they appeared, and their eyes widened.

Several of the rout soldiers also blinked vigorously a few times, as if they couldn't believe what their eyes were seeing, and they collectively stood there in a little stunned, and then they fell into a brief panic.

After they were in a daze, they thought that they were chasing after the bandits, so they lifted their pants in a panic, and immediately began to look for their weapons in a panic, and the scene was a little chaotic for a while.

Even the two routs were frightened when they saw Li Zixiao and his party appear, and they picked up a few bags of money and property they looted, and immediately rushed towards the outside of the village.

Obviously, this rout is habitually running away, and it doesn't even have time to see how many enemies there are, and as soon as they see an enemy appearing, they immediately turn around and flee.

However, in this group of officers and soldiers, a man who looked like an officer reacted much faster, and soon realized that Li Zixiao was not the bandit chasing them, but just a group of ordinary mountain bandits who emerged from the surroundings.

Spotting many of the bandits who were chasing them, the officer immediately calmed down, stopped the two fleeing routs, prevented more people from following suit, and caused a rout of the group.

The officer grabbed his waist knife, waved it twice, and shouted coldly: "Don't be afraid, it's just dozens of bandits, and there are fewer bandits who died in the hands of our brothers?"

Just in time, the brothers cut off the heads of a few real bandits, and went back to ask for a reward from their superiors, and the heads of the mud-legged people in the province were easy for the superiors to notice that we were fake.

Add the heads of these bandits, there will be no fakes, don't run away, slaughter them with Lao Tzu, pick up knives and guns, and prepare to fight. ”

These officers and soldiers were really taken aback at first, but under the command of this officer, they still calmed down a little, and when they looked at Li Zixiao and them, they were really a group of beggar-like guys.

It's just that they are holding some knives and guns, and they have seen the scene in the standard bandit dress, and they have also suppressed many bandits, and they know the combat effectiveness of these bandits, so they have settled down a little.

After listening to the officer's words, Li Zixiao had just calmed down, and suddenly became angry, this group of brutes attacked this small village, it was really not as simple as robbing money and food.

They killed the villagers and cut off their heads, intending to take them back and pretend to be the heads of the bandits, and kill the good and take the credit, which is what really made Li Zixiao angry again.

"Don't let these brutes go, kill them all for me!" Li Zixiao's face turned red, and he roared loudly, venting the anger in his heart.

Although the officer shouted for a long time, the routs were still panicked, after all, they were a group of routs, not the elite of the official army, and they were destined to be not much stronger than the ordinary rabble.

Without waiting for these routs to put on their clothes and pants and find the knives and guns they discarded, Li Zixiao shouted the password and led the dozens of people under his command to enter the village in a neat queue.

To tell the truth, officers and men are still somewhat trained compared to bandits, and the difference between those who have been trained and those who have not been trained is huge.

Under normal circumstances, the same number of officers and soldiers still have more victories and fewer defeats against the upper bandits, and don't look at the same tattered clothes worn by this group of routs, but they are wearing the cotton armor of the Ming army, and their protective ability is much stronger than the tattered cotton clothes they wear.

After this officer stabilized everyone, several bold officers and soldiers copied their swords and guns and met Li Zixiao and the others.

These routs are actually a group of rabble, and the Ming Dynasty's characteristic guard system has developed to the present, which has been decayed, and those military households have long lost the courage to fight the world for the old Zhu family.

But these defeated soldiers are born with a sense of superiority, Lao Tzu is an officer and soldier, you are bandits, you can't beat us, it is the same reason, just like Li Zixiao's subordinates have an instinctive fear of the officers and soldiers at this time.

However, some of the routs also seemed to sense that something was wrong, and the group of bandits that suddenly appeared today seemed to be a little different from the bandits they usually saw.

In the past, the bandits they saw were all chaotic, but the group of bandits they saw today, one by one, holding spears, lined up, and marched forward, feeling very imposing.

So a veteran soldier Youzi deliberately lagged a few steps behind, letting the other routs rush ahead, wanting to see what happened next, these veteran Youzi knew how to save their lives best; Finish.

"Damn, look at this group of turtles, lined up one by one, isn't this waiting for us to go up and slaughter, it's really laughing to death.

Brothers, show Lao Tzu his real skills, and when he kills this group of bandits and goes back, I invite everyone to go to the drunken fairy building to drink! ”

The officer saw Li Zixiao and them lining up in two columns and pressed towards them, said with a sneer, and then encouraged his subordinates.

"Whoa!"

Stimulated by this officer, this group of routs finally came out of the panic of being attacked one by one, and forced Li Zixiao with knives one by one.

Seeing these routs rushing over one by one, the people on Li Zixiao's side also began to get nervous again, even if they had just experienced a battle, but those Li family guards were not as fierce as these routs.

There was a timid fellow in the ranks of pikemen, and his legs involuntarily grew more and more trembling.

When he saw several officers and soldiers coming up with swords, he became even more nervous, and involuntarily slowed down, so that a gap immediately appeared in the originally neat horizontal line, and the queue also looked a little untidy.

Although Li Zixiao shouted the password and led everyone forward, the corner of his eye kept looking at his team, and he immediately discovered this guy who had fallen behind.

"Zhao Heitie, hurry up and keep up with the queue, if you dare to fall behind, don't blame the ruthlessness of military law." Li Zixiao shouted sharply.

At this time, Li Zixiao was also so nervous that he couldn't do it, don't drop the chain at this time, otherwise he will fall short, and even his life will be easily lost.

Zhao Heitie was bold on weekdays, and he was even more afraid of the officers and soldiers like a tiger, and asked him to kill the officers and soldiers, he was already afraid to die, and he was still strong at the beginning, but seeing the fierce appearance of those defeated soldiers, he was really scared, and he couldn't hold on anymore.

Although he heard Li Zixiao's roar, he could no longer contain the fear in his heart.

Especially when he looked at a few officers and soldiers with hideous faces, carrying knives and killing them, he was even more frightened to the extreme, even if Li Zixiao shouted repeatedly, he still lost the spear in his hand, turned around and fled.

"Those who escape from the battle will be killed! Quartz. ”

Li Zixiao saw Zhao Heitie, who abandoned the gun and fled, his face was extremely gloomy, and he roared angrily and shouted at the quartz on the side.

"Yes, big boss."

Hearing Li Zixiao call his name at this time, of course Quartz knew what to do, only to see him take the longbow from his back, pull the bow with an arrow, and aim at the fleeing Zhao Heitie.

"Ah......h

This arrow accurately hit Zhao Heitie's back, causing him to let out a terrible scream.

He only felt a sharp pain in his back, and his body immediately flew forward, and after screaming, he fell to the ground, and a long arrow had already pierced his back.

"Don't look back, no matter how anyone escapes, they will still be killed. The people behind filled the vacancy of Zhao Heitie, maintained the formation, and continued to move forward. ”

After Li Zixiao shouted at Quartz, he was taken care of by Zhao Heitie, who escaped, and he believed that Quartz would take care of this little matter.

Li Zixiao needed to solve the mess left behind by Zhao Heitie's escape and tidy up the formation as soon as possible, at this time they were about to collide with the routs in front of them.