The Red Chamber: Starting from Saving Xue Baochai

Chapter 25 Blood-stained Green Robe Night
After Shen Yuan and Jiang Fan's boats docked, everyone took their portable belongings, removed their oil lamps, and quickly got off the boats and entered the valley ahead.

If they didn't have their female relatives, even if they wanted to leave, these bandits would be unable to do anything to them.

But for now, we can only defend ourselves based on our geographical advantages and wait for the government troops to arrive.

"Brother Jiang, take a few people to escort them deep into the valley and find a place to hide."

Although the entrance to the valley was narrow and easy to defend but difficult to attack, Shen Yuan could not guarantee that no bandits would break in, so he let Baochai and the others hide, which would be safer.

"Brother Shen, you and I will fight side by side."

Jiang Fan said firmly that he wanted to stay and ordered several Jiang family guards to send Xue Jia and Xiang Yun Qiu Er away.

Shen Yuan nodded without being pretentious. He said that he was just in case. This was the main battlefield. If Jiang Fan was here, there would be more combat power.

"Brother Shen."

"Brother Shen."

"elder brother."

But Baochai, Xiangyun and Qiu'er spoke almost at the same time, and their pretty faces showed worry and reluctance.

Although Qiu'er called him brother, she kept looking at Shen Yuan from time to time.

Shen Yuan smiled at the girls, signaling them to rest assured.

At this time, some bandits were chasing after them.

Seeing this, Jiang Fan's face turned grim and he urged, "Hurry up! Only when you are safe, Brother Shen and I can have no worries."

Although the three women were reluctant to leave, they understood what Jiang Fan said, so they did not delay any longer and followed several guards into the depths of the valley.

After Baochai and the others left, Shen Yuan turned around and looked at the bandits who were getting closer and closer. His eyes were cold and he shouted in a deep voice: "Find cover on the spot and prepare your bows and arrows!"

The opponent's advantage is that they have more people, while Shen Yuan and his team's advantage lies in not only the geographical advantage but also their weapons and equipment.

Whether it is the Jiang family guards or the Shi family guards, the equipment they use is basically the same as that of the army. As far as individual soldiers are concerned, it is even better.

They all wore light armor, with autumn-water goose-feather knives on their waists, two-stone strong bows on their backs, and each of them had a close-range crossbow. This equipment was almost enough to crush the bandits.

The long-range weapons of these twenty or so people alone are enough to kill more than a hundred people.

It depends on how many lives these bandits are prepared to sacrifice tonight. The average bandits can't afford such a high casualty rate.

On the bandit side, the third leader looked at the entrance to the valley not far ahead and asked a subordinate beside him: "Did you see it clearly? Have all the people on the three ships entered?"

"I saw it clearly. I was hiding nearby. Their families all went deep into the valley. There weren't many left at the entrance."

"How much is not more?"

"There should be no more than fifty people." The bandit obviously overestimated.

But when the third in command heard this, he felt a little disdainful. There were only less than fifty people, so what could they do even if they had bows and arrows?
He now has nearly three hundred people sent by the boss, and he is not afraid at all.

"They have bows in their hands. Those in the front row, find wooden boards for cover and charge for me. The money and women inside belong to our brothers!"

They had just gone to the ship to check, and it was obvious that the silver bills and some valuables had been taken into the valley by those people.

Soon, dozens of bandits divided into several rows and slowly advanced forward.

Until they reached the entrance of the col, they didn't see the other side shooting arrows, so they relaxed their vigilance, thinking that the other side didn't have many bows and arrows.

But when the two sides met, the bandits were confused.

The people in the front row just moved their wooden shields away and prepared to fight with swords, but they didn't expect that the opponent had a crossbow.

"Shhhhh!"

After a volley of crossbow fire, bandits in the front row fell one after another.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

What followed was a row of arrows shooting, and the bandits in the back row were also hit by the rain of arrows.

In just a quarter of an hour, more than twenty bandits were killed.

When the third in command saw this scene, his eyes turned red. What kind of perverts had he encountered? Their weapons were as good as those of the border troops.

"Fuck you, come on! Go around the hillsides on both sides."

After the observation just now, he discovered the enemy's weakness, which is that they have too few people. There are definitely less than 50 of them. They can barely guard the entrance, but how can they defend the hillsides on both sides?
This is also the situation that Shen Yuan least wants to see, but he has to face it.

"Brother Jiang, take ten people with you and focus on long-range defense with bows and arrows. Don't let them get around from the hillsides on both sides."

"Brother Shen, you..." Jiang Fan hesitated to speak. He took away ten people, and Shen Yuan was left with less than twenty people at the entrance. How could he resist the hundreds of people on the opposite side?
Shen Yuan urged: "Go quickly! I'm here."

Jiang Fan had no choice but to withdraw ten men, concentrate his arrows, and go to defend the hillside.

In fact, his defense range is larger and the pressure is no less than Shen Yuan's.

Seeing this, the third boss raised his lips slightly and said jokingly, "With such a small number of people, why are you dividing the troops? You are looking for death, come at me, chop these bastards into pieces, kill them!"

Shen Yuan looked at the bandits coming at him with a gleam in his eyes.

Today, he will kill these bastards and scare them to death.
"Shen Jieyuan!"

The guard beside him had a dim look in his eyes at this moment. It was not because of fear, but because he felt powerless, or even despair.

Shen Yuan knew that this was not the time to be soft-hearted, and he would not say anything like asking them to escape on their own.

"You are soldiers, you cannot lose your position alive!"

He shouted in a deep and loud voice, and said no more. With a goose-feather knife in his left hand and a fine steel sword in his right hand, he rushed towards the bandits.

The guards' ears were shaken by Shen Yuan's words, and they felt the young man's aura of "he would go forward even if there were thousands of people against him". Their blood boiled in their chests, and they no longer thought about anything else. They raised the goose-feather knives in their hands and resolutely killed the general.

On Shen Yuan's side, as soon as the battle started, several heads flew up. After the battle at Aomen Village, he once again turned into a razor demon, killing so many people that the bandits trembled with fear.

It made the guards even more excited.

Only at this moment did they truly witness the true fighting power of Shen Jieyuan. The rumors in the streets turned out to be true. Who knows, he might be able to fight his way out of this bloody situation today.

The third in command, who was watching the fight from behind, couldn't stop twitching his mouth.

What the hell kind of monster is this?

He glanced at both sides of the hillside again and saw that more than a dozen bandits had bypassed Jiang Fan's defense and entered the valley.

The Third Master shouted to the bandits inside, "Quick! Go into the valley and capture those women! Go!"

His mentality has been broken down and even distorted by Shen Yuan. He must make this young man regret it!

Upon hearing this, Shen Yuan paused for a moment and shouted, "Brother Jiang! The people inside are in your care!"

After saying that, his eyes turned scarlet, making himself even crazier.

"kill!"

With a roar, two heads flew out at the same time, frightening the bandits.

"kill!"

Two more heads rolled down, and the surrounding bandits were trembling in fear.

"kill!"

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The shouts of killing, like the sound of the underworld, rang in the ears of every bandit.

Gradually, no one dared to approach Shen Yuan anymore.

"Kill! Kill this dog for me."

Before the Third In Command could finish his words, the sword in Shen Yuan's hand flew over and pierced his chest directly.

"boom!"

The third leader of the bandits fell to the ground with his eyes open, and the sharp sword that pierced his body stabbed into the ground, nailing him to the ground.

Shen Yuan stepped forward, came to the side of the corpse, and drew his sword without hesitation.

The young man stood solemnly, his shirt already dyed red with blood.

"Devil! This man is a devil!"

"Run away!"

The leader of the bandits was killed with one sword. How could the bandits have the courage to fight again?

Why would I want to fight so hard?
The remaining bandits fled in all directions.
call--

I won!

That’s how we win!
Dozens of guards were injured to varying degrees at this time, but they were all excited!

Looking at the blood-stained shirt boy in front of him, there was only admiration and worship in his eyes.
On October 5, the sixteenth year of Yuanzhen, they will never forget this bloody night.
(End of this chapter)