A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 288 Closing the Net
Looking at Li Yong with red eyes, Zhang Ye couldn't help but be a little scared. Fortunately, he knew this question.

"Sir, the newly appointed county magistrate's last name is..."

"Bang" the door was pushed open, interrupting Zhang Ye's words, "Sir, it's not good, Li Zhuang was attacked by bandits, Zhuangzi is in a hard fight, please let the brothers in the county go back to help!"

A guard covered in blood and dust, with a tired face and a riding crop in his hand rolled into the room.

Li Yong suddenly stood up: "What did you say? The bandits from Zaoqiang still dare to attack my Li clan brother. Are they tired of living?"

"This, young master, is probably from another county. I don't know how deep it is. It's better to send people back quickly. All the clan members are there. If Li Zhuang is lost and the master comes back, we will all die."

Li Yong was already very angry by these things.

"Immediately inform the county captain Li Chang and ask him to immediately lead troops back to Lizhuang for support. In addition, ask him to keep the soldiers guarding the gate to prevent bandits from attacking the city."

Seeing a guard carrying his token to mobilize troops, Li Yong collapsed on the bed with sweat profusely. After resting for a long time, he ordered a confidant,
"You, take this letter and go to Qingyang immediately. Find the master. You must tell him everything that happened in Zaoqiang and ask him to send troops back to Zaoqiang to support him. Quickly."

"Yes!"

After Li Yong gave all the instructions, he pushed himself up, went to the window of the room, opened the wooden window, and could overlook the entire county from the third floor of Xianju Building.

A cloud of smoke was seen rising from the barracks in the west of the city, and the smoke was heading towards the west gate of the county. It was the trace of the county captain Li Chang mobilizing troops and horses to Lizhuang.

As soon as Li Chang saw Li Yong's letter in the barracks, he immediately started beating drums to gather troops. Li Chang had followed Li Marquis in fighting against many rebel forces in Qingyang, and he could be regarded as a veteran of the Li family.

So after a while, hundreds of county soldiers gathered together. Li Chang left one or two hundred people to guard the two gates of the county seat, and he personally led 500 people to Lizhuang for support.

Li Chang took the lead, followed by 500 county soldiers neatly following behind.

When he was about to reach the city gate, Li Chang, who had experienced many battles, felt something was wrong. The street was too quiet, and there was not a single pedestrian on the road.

The city gate guard saw his army approaching, but he didn't come forward.

"Stop!" Li Chang reined in the horse and looked around with a pair of bull's eyes. The alarm bell in his heart kept ringing. The hair on his body stood up and his muscles tensed uncontrollably.

"Retreat, the rear team becomes the front team, retreat quickly!" Li Chang shouted loudly.

Although the soldiers under his command were a little confused, after training, they subconsciously began to carry out Chang Li's orders.

Just as half of the team turned around, rows of crossbowmen appeared on the roofs of the houses on both sides of the street where Li Changbu was standing.

"put!"

Li Chang only had time to hear an order before the crossbowmen on both sides let go of their hands holding arrows.

"Boohoo!" "Dundon!"

"Royal! Royal!..." Because Li Chang was the only one who was sitting high on the horse, before he had time to dismount, he only said two words and was attacked several times, and there were several crossbow arrows on his body in an instant.

"Huh..." The war horse under Li Chang was also affected. Several crossbow arrows penetrated its heart and lungs, and it fell down with a scream, pressing Li Chang under him.

"what!"

The continuous shooting of arrows caused Li Chang's formation to become chaotic. Without Li Chang's command, the entire team was like headless flies, scurrying around.

"Everyone come closer to me! Quickly, come closer to me, put your shield up, put it up, and rush back with me. Only by rushing out will we have a way to survive. Brothers, kill!"

A somewhat sober military commander in Chief Li's department reorganized the formation of more than 200 to 300 people.

As soon as the formation was formed and the shields were raised, Li Changbu's casualties immediately dropped.

Under the leadership of this military lord, the remaining soldiers, less than three hundred, rushed toward the rear from the direction they came.

Because the rear was already occupied by an elite group of two hundred enemy troops.

The two sides were locked in hand-to-hand combat. Before Li Changbu could fight for long, a team of more than a hundred people gathered behind them in the direction of the city gate. Led by the military prince who had previously inspected the grain and grass, they rushed towards the back of Li Changbu.

Li Changbu was immediately caught in a pincer attack from the front and rear, as well as the fire from the crossbowmen on the houses on both sides. The entire battle took less than half an hour from the moment Li Chang discovered something was wrong in advance and ordered a retreat to when the last soldier was shot dead. In a short time, all 500 people in Li Chang's department were wiped out.

In Liu Shi's expectation, there would be no prisoners in this battle, because there was still fighting to come, so there could be no prisoners, and there was no time or manpower to take care of the prisoners.

When the battle was getting very fierce, Li Yong, who was watching from the Xianju Tower, realized something was wrong and faintly heard shouts of killing. Because the Xianju Tower was in the north of the city and the battle was in the west, he couldn't hear clearly and immediately let his men go down. inquire about.

Li Yong was shocked when he soon received the news that Li Chang's troops were surrounded and locked in a bitter battle.

"Quick, let's go to the east gate immediately. You go to the barracks immediately and bring the remaining soldiers to the east gate. You must hold the east gate in your hands, otherwise we will die."

After Li Yong finished his instructions, he took a few dozen guards and ran towards the east gate.

As soon as Li Yong left, a man came out of the kitchen of Xianju Building and ran towards the county government office.

Chef Zhang used all his strength in his life and finally ran to the county government office as fast as he could. Liu Shi, who was in charge of the county government, naturally got the news that Li Yong wanted to control Dongmen.

He immediately sent Wei Tie, with a handful of fifty government officials, to the east gate to block all information leading to the east gate, no matter who it was.

After receiving the order, Wei Tie immediately took the remaining fifty or so county government officials and took advantage of his and others' familiarity with the terrain to take a shortcut, hoping to get in front of Li Yong and others and stop them.

Li Yong felt like there was a fire in his lungs. He was out of breath. How long had he been running before he had no strength? In the past, I could run ten miles without losing breath. What happened to me?
There was no way, for the sake of speed, Li Yong had to let the guards carry him on his back.

Seeing the city wall right in front of him, he passed the street ahead and reached the city gate. Just after he passed the corner, he saw several corpses on the ground. One of them was very familiar to him, Zhang Ye.

"Mr. Li, this is the first time we meet. My name is Liu Wei. Nice to meet you!"

What stood in front of him were the three guards who had been following Liu Shi.

Liu Wei and his two brothers stood directly in Li Yong's path. Liu Wei wiped the blood on the straight knife with the clothes on his arm, and then made a fighting stance.

This location was chosen extremely well, not far from the city gate nor close to it, just enough to cut off all those who went to the city gate to report the news. And the battle here, as long as it was not a big battle, could not be heard from the direction of the city gate.

Li Yong got off the guard's back and leaned against the wall: "The remnants of the Liu family?"

Liu Wei smiled and did not reply.

Li Yong frowned, then relaxed. It was useless to think about it now. The first problem was to enter the city gate and control the city gate, so as to save his life.

"You guys, if you want to survive, go and deal with these three people quickly. We don't have time." Li Yong ordered the dozen guards around him.

When the guards heard this, they left three people to protect Li Yong, and the rest of the dozen or so people rushed forward.

The three Liu Wei brothers all crawled out of the dead on the battlefield, so their martial arts skills were naturally not comparable to those of the guards around Li Yong.

I saw the three Liu Wei brothers forming a small three-person formation commonly used in the army. They cooperated with each other and did not fall behind under the siege of more than a dozen people.

But after all, they were at a numerical disadvantage and had experienced several battles before. As time went by, it became difficult for the three brothers to resist.

After killing the fifth person, a brother on Liu Wei's right was slashed on the shoulder by guard Li Yong. The knife in his hand almost fell off. Fortunately, he changed his hand in time and barely maintained the formation.

But at this time, their flaw had been exposed. Li Yong's guards attacked more and more aggressively, and concentrated their firepower on the injured Liu Wei brothers. Soon, due to the long period of blood loss, the injured Liu brothers were in a trance, and Li Yong's guards got the chance. , seal the throat with one knife.

"Thirteenth brother!" Liu Wei's eyes turned red. At this time, the Liu brothers had killed the ninth person, and there were still five or six people left.

But the battle was gradually coming to an end, and the Liu brothers were somewhat exhausted.

"Ah!" Liu Wei's other brother was stabbed through the heart with a knife and died.

Now Liu Wei is the only one left. His brothers died in front of him one after another, making Liu Wei crazy like a demon. Soon all Li Yong's guards in front of Liu Wei were killed by Liu Wei, leaving only three people protecting Li Yong. Guards.

At this time, Liu Wei had lost all strength and collapsed on the ground.

Li Yong was about to let someone kill him.

"Don't let Li Yong run away!"

Later, Wei Tie finally arrived with more than fifty government officials. Li Yong's expression changed and he immediately ran towards the city gate. However, one of Wei Tie's brothers had already circled in front of them from the roof and jumped down. There are a dozen or so.

Seeing that he was being flanked, Li Yong glanced to the side and gritted his teeth and said: "Quickly, enter the house."

His three guards immediately kicked open the door and escorted Li Yong into the residence. The residents inside had long been forcibly moved away by Liu Shi.

Wei Tie sent people into the house to hunt down Li Yong, but Li Yong's bodyguards took advantage of the narrow terrain in the house and the characteristics that Wei Tie could not exploit due to the large number of people in Wei Tie's house. He killed several of Wei Tie's men. Just as Wei Tie was about to take action himself. .

Later, reinforcements invited by Li Yong, more than a hundred county soldiers arrived.

Wei Tie had no choice but to leave a few people to guard the door to prevent Li Yong from running away. He took the remaining 450 people to meet Li Yong's reinforcements.

The two armies soon fell into a battle, with the county soldiers on one side and the government officials on the other. Since the government officials were not trained in military formations, they were quickly killed by the county soldiers and retreated.

Wei Tie relied on his martial arts skills to lead the remaining dozen government servants to resist.

Fortunately, the resistance did not last long. After finishing Li Chang's ministry, Liu Shi invited reinforcements from Guangchuan County and soon arrived here.

So when Wei Tie still had a few brothers left, the Guangchuan County soldiers strangled all Li Yong's remaining forces and took advantage of the situation to capture the east gate. Li Yong was also captured in a civilian residence.

At this point, the entire Zaoqiang County was under Liu Shi's control.

Wei Tie and several brothers sat down next to Liu Wei, who was lying on the ground and looking at the blue sky. They looked at the Guangchuan County soldiers who were coming and going to suppress the prisoners. None of them spoke.

(End of this chapter)