Xie Ming

Chapter 30: The Tiger Returns to the Mountains
Upon hearing the retreat signal from the west bank of the river, the soldier Gu Zi cried with joy.

It must have been such a torment to hold on and fight so hard while watching the people around you die one after another!
Now, General Sun Qian was injured so badly by the explosion. How could he not burst into tears when he heard the retreat signal from the other side?!

The man does not flick when he has tears, but he has not yet reached the point of sadness!
"Has the general reached the west bank?" Sun Peizhong's ears were temporarily damaged at this moment, and he was unable to distinguish.

"Yes! Captain Qian! The general has reached the west bank. According to the plan, we can retreat!" Gu Zi shouted desperately.

"Okay! Help me up!"

"Gu Zi, order the troops to stop blocking and attacking. All remaining people must flee into the mountains and disperse to break out of the enemy's siege and pursuit!" Sun Peizhong ordered.

"Yes!" Gu Zi accepted the order.

"Bai Qiang, Da Bing, the two of you carry General Qian and retreat first!"

"I will lead a team to hold on for a while and cover you as you leave!"

"Yes!"

Having said that, the other two soldiers did not hesitate, carried Sun Peizhong on their backs and prepared to move.

But Sun Peizhong struggled and refused to give in.

Two of his soldiers ignored his obstruction and forced him to retreat, but Sun Peizhong suddenly grabbed a branch nearby.

"Bastard!"

"Put me down!"

"Big Pancake! Are you fucking deaf!"

"Drag me, none of you can get away!"

"Don't worry about me, just go away, I'll cover you!" Sun Peizhong shouted at the top of his lungs.

But even though he did this, his soldiers Dabing and Baiqiang had no intention of abandoning him.

However, Sun Peizhong was so uncooperative that the two men were in a panic and had a hard time for a while.

Seeing this, Gu Zi, who was standing by, also became furious. He came up and struck Sun Peizhong with a knife, knocking him unconscious.

"Guzi, you are fucking crazy!" Bai Qiang looked at him in shock.

"There's no time! Bai Qiang, quickly lead Qian Zong to retreat!"

"If anything happens to Mr. Sun Qian, I will not forgive you even if I become a ghost! Go!"

After saying this, Gu Zi did not look back and picked up the bird gun and sword on the ground.

"Team three!"

"Is anyone in Team Three still breathing? Follow me!"

In an instant, Gu Zi led the remaining dozen soldiers and rushed back towards the enemy army under the artillery fire!

Bai Qiang and Da Bing's eyes were moist, they sniffed, and without stopping, they carried Captain Sun Peizhong and the rest of the soldiers and fled towards the back mountain for their lives.

"Li, General Li Qian!"

"Oh my god! Mr. Li Qian!"

At the same time, among the bandit army that continued to advance into the mountains and forests from the east bank of the Hunhe River, a soldier of the Rat Hu clan, gasping for breath and shouting, rushed to the front of their captain Li Maocai.

"Rat! You bastard, if you have something to say, say it quickly. If you have to fart, fart quickly!" The bandit commander Li Maocai replied angrily.

His troops had more than twenty Portuguese guns to help them, but they were unable to take down a small hill for a long time. How could he be in a good temper at that moment?

"Hey, Mr. Li Qian!"

"Oh no! There's movement on the west bank of the river!"

"General Wang Qian asked me to come up here to tell you that we may have fallen into a trap to lure the tiger away from the mountain!"

"I'm afraid that the Ming army's chief general has already crossed the Hun River with the Ming crown prince!" said the rat-like old soldier Hu.

"fart!"

"How many people are there in that group of Ming dogs?!"

"General Liu Heita reported before he came here that there were only about 400 to 500 people!"

"We can't even get up Dongshan if we attack like this. You tell me the main force isn't here?"

"If there aren't three to five hundred people on this mountain, I, Li Maocai, will take your surname!" Li Maocai retorted angrily.

"Hey, General, my last name is Li too, please stop making fun of me!"

"You, listen!"

As Rat Beard spoke, Li Maocai also listened attentively.

"We have crossed the Hun River, don't stay any longer!" "We have crossed the Hun River, don't stay any longer!"

"Ah! Ah!" Li Maocai heard it clearly this time, and he could no longer not believe it. He was so furious that he drew the sword from his waist and chopped left and right at the small branches beside him.

"Rat!"

"Fuck it, bring those two Ming dog deserters here to me!"

"Look! I'm going to chop them into pieces!" Li Maocai shouted angrily.

"Oh, yes, yes! I'll go right away!"

Mouse Husky bent his waist and ran and jumped down the mountain in a hurry. His movements were very swift, for he was afraid that if he didn't stay away from Li Maocai, he would fall into his vicious hands again.

After a while, Gou Zi and Gao Sheng, the servants of Lord Liu's mansion who had been caught while escaping near the Xixiang fishing village, were tied up and brought to the bandit captain Li Maocai.

"Bah!"

"You two sons of bitches, you have such a guts!"

"How dare you play tricks on me!"

"Tell me! Where is Mentaiko?!"

As he said that, Li Maocai whipped the goat's face with a horsewhip, causing the goat to scream in pain like a slaughtered pig.

"My lord! General!"

"We are just two soldiers. We have told you everything we know!"

The tall student at the side was shaking like a sieve, his face turned pale, and he was so frightened that he lost all his soul. In the end, he stammered and was unable to say anything.

"Son of a bitch!"

"Still not being honest! I told you not to be honest!"

Seeing that Gao Sheng's words were irrelevant, Li Maocai picked up the horsewhip and attacked Gao Sheng again. Gao Sheng was beaten so hard that his skin was torn and he almost lost his human form!

"General! General Li!"

"Stop hitting me! I'll tell you, I'll tell you"

Next to Gao Sheng, the dog had blood in its mouth, and it wanted to cry but had no tears, but it did have some affection.

"Huh? Speak! Speak quickly!" Mouse Beard brought the two of them up and kept watching from the side.

At this time, seeing that the dog seemed to be giving in, he flashed a pair of rat eyes and acted as an accomplice to the tiger.

"I say, OK, I say!"

"I'm talking about your grandma!"

"I've told you everything! Where's my reward?!"

"You bastards, you are the bastards!"

"My name is Lu Kuisheng!"

"I am just trying to trick you bastards!"

"Prince? You still want to see the prince?"

"Just you bunch of stinky soldiers! I would have sent soldiers to escort the prince away long ago!" Gou Zi said arrogantly.

"Ha ha ha ha."

"Stinky knight, stinky"

Snap! Just when the dog couldn't stand the beating any longer and was almost going crazy, speaking nonsense, Li Maocai was furious and cut off the dog's head with a knife!

Later, Li Maocai got tired of this kind of game and swung his knife again, killing Gao Sheng!
"Ah! Ah!" The old soldier named Rat Hu was so frightened by the vicious Li Maocai that his legs went weak and he shouted out.

"General! The Ming dogs' blockade above seems to have stopped!"

At this moment, a soldier ran down from the hillside not far away and reported.

"Damn it! My half-life of wisdom is ruined in an instant!" Li Maocai hammered the tree trunk hard.

"Chase! Not a single Ming dog can be spared on this East Mountain!"

“Chase me to death!” Li Maocai roared.

"Yes!"

On the evening of March 19, the 17th year of Chongzhen, after Xiao Jingchuan broke out of the capital with the crown prince, they were chased and surrounded by the Dashun enemy troops all the way in Xiangshan. At this point, they finally escaped the enemy's encirclement.

All the way south, a journey of thousands of miles, Xiao Lang cleverly crossed the Hun River and entered Sanpo. The tiger has returned to the mountains and it may be difficult to stop it!
(End of this chapter)