Wang Youfang, the little aide, really didn't lie to Li Mi and the Yang family brothers. When he learned that Chen Yingliang's two clansmen led the troops to surrender, and they came so quickly and simply, Xu Minlian, who advocated the surrender, was really overjoyed. He decided to personally lead the county officials and gentry representatives out of the city to meet the coming enemies.
There are many reasons for Xu Minlian's decision. One of the most important reasons is that Xu Minlian just received news not long ago that after Jiangdu County Prime Minister Shichong defeated Liu Yuanjin, he burned incense and made an oath at Tongxuan Temple in Wujun County, vowing not to kill the surrender, but the results scattered. The remnants of Liu Yuanjin, who was a thief, soon surrendered more than 30,000 people, and the counties in Wujun, which were raging with flames, immediately returned to peace. Although Xu Minlian didn't know how Wang Shichong treated these surrendered prisoners of war in history, with Wang Shichong's example before him, Xu Minlian, who was barely loyal to his duty, was willing to follow suit.
Chen Yingliang, who has a fickle personality, is also willing to surrender. This is not because Chen Yingliang thinks that Wang Shichong's methods must be correct, but because Chen Yingliang came to the west of Qiao County and found that the strength of the officers and soldiers of Qiao County in this area is too weak. There were too many deserters, and if the troops in the west were not strengthened, Chen Yingliang would really feel a little worried about leading the main force of Qiao County out of the county to fight the rebellion, so he temporarily changed his mind, abandoning the original surprise attack tactics and changing to appeasement. So when he learned that his two brothers from the same clan rushed in and surrendered, Chen Yingliang was also a little happy. Not only did he not object to Xu Minlian going out of the city to meet them in person, but he also agreed to go out of the city with Xu Minlian to meet his brothers from the same clan.
Of course, as a cunning traitor who belongs to the same breed as Li Mi, Chen Yingliang also left behind a backup just in case, that is to let the five regiments led by Ma Sanbao and Kan Leng prepare for battle and disguise themselves as ordinary people watching the excitement The refugees secretly monitored the descending team of the Chen family brothers, and at the same time avoided revealing their identities, scaring away the Chen family brothers who should have come to surrender sincerely.
Under Xu Minlian's personal arrangements, all kinds of surrender affairs were quickly arranged, and at the same time, he came to report that the team of the Chen brothers was less than ten miles away from Qiaocheng. Going to meet him outside the east gate of Qiao County, Chen Yingliang also went out of the city with Xu Minlian in casual clothes, and stayed by Xu Minlian's side.
The Chen brothers' team came very quickly. As soon as Xu Minlian and the others left the city and stood still on the official road, they could already see their messy flags and dusty smoke from their marching at the end of the flat official road. He told Xu Minlian once: "Prefect Xu, remember, let them stop half a mile away from you, and only let a few representatives come over to salute, and after entering the city to make an oath at Huazu Temple, let them all put down their weapons immediately, remember , don’t be negligent.”
Xu Minlian nodded, and casually said that he had already remembered it. Chen Yingliang, who had nagged him many times before, also felt that he was a bit wordy, so he didn't say anything more, but sent someone to inform Ma Sanbao and Kan who were ambushing on both sides of the road. Leng, tell them to be careful not to mention it.
At the same time, the Yang family brothers and Li Mi who were walking in front of the team had already seen Xu Minlian and others' welcoming team, and they winked at Yang Jishan and asked him to temporarily entangle Wang Youfang next to him. Li Mi also told Yang Xuanting: " Three generals, remember, you must capture Xu Minlian alive, and don’t be in a hurry to kill him after you win, take him as a hostage first to keep you safe, and we will discuss other matters after our support team meets with you."
"Understood, don't need to be wordy." Yang Xuanting was not as good-tempered as Xu Minlian, and he spoke against Li Mi, and explained in reverse: "Mind your own affairs, don't worry about me, the city gate is open , Whether we can take Qiaocheng immediately depends on whether you can take down the city gate." Li Mi smiled wryly, and could only nod his head to express his understanding.
In this way, under the sun that was gradually sinking to the west, the two teams, who did not know each other's details, gradually approached. When the Yang brothers' team came to the position where Xu Minlian and others were only half a mile away, Wu Queyi, the deputy captain of Qiao County, led the team. The army stopped the Yang family brothers' team, and the Yang family brothers did not dare to forcibly attack Wu Que's team. They ordered the army to stop according to Li Mi's plan, and then Yang Xuanting personally led two carefully selected reliable fighters to come forward with weapons in hand. With Wu Que, he expressed that he had no malice. At the same time, Wang Youfang also stepped forward to Wu Que, saying that Yang Xuanting was the leader of this gang of thieves, Chen Yingshang, and that he wanted to personally bow in front of Xu Minlian and ask for his surrender.
The biggest thief, Chen Yingshang, has handed over his weapons, so why is Wu Que worried? Overjoyed, Wu Que immediately sent someone to report to Xu Minlian. Xu Minlian and Chen Yingliang were also overjoyed when they heard the news. They all said that the Chen brothers came to surrender in good faith, and hurriedly ordered Wang Youfang to lead Chen Yingshang to meet. At the same time, Chen Yingliang was still thinking in his heart: "When this group of people is surrendered, the Chen family brothers will be used separately. I will take one back to Yongcheng, and Liu Zhiyuan will also take it with me, so that Xu Minlian can use their team without worry."
In this way, under the guidance of Wang Youfang, the unarmed Yang Xuanting came to Xu Minlian's side with two followers. It was also a coincidence that although Chen Yingliang and Yang Xuanting had a deep hatred for each other, they also fought on the battlefield more than once, but I have never met each other at close range, and every time I saw each other from a distance on the battlefield, so as they got closer to each other, Chen Yingliang only felt that Yang Xuanting looked familiar, as if he had seen each other somewhere, But I can't remember when and where I saw it.
Yang Xuanting was even worse, because his attention was all on Xu Minlian, and he didn't pay much attention to Chen Yingliang who was standing next to him. He just followed Wang Youfang to walk in front of Xu Minlian, and followed Li Mi's instructions. He knelt down on one knee at the place where he walked, Jishou saluted, and said loudly: "Chen Yingshang, a grassroots man, kowtowed to Governor Xu of Qiao County. The crime of grasslanders is unforgivable. He came here specially to ask for death, and please Taishou Xu to deal with it!"
As Li Mi expected, when he saw Yang Xuanting far away, he bowed his head and saluted. Xu Minlian, who was standing in the middle, strode forward to help Yang Xuanting. Because of this, he was distracted, and even Chen Yingliang was negligent because of this, following Xu Minlian strode forward, ready to get to know each other with Yang Xuanting.
"Chen Zhuangshi, please get up quickly." Just as Li Mi expected, Xu Minlian, who sincerely surrendered, really came to support Yang Xuanting with both hands, and couldn't wait to say loudly: "Although Chen Zhuangshi makes small mistakes occasionally, he always pays attention to his words and deeds." , did not offend our people and houses in Qiao County, which is enough to show the loyalty and kindness of the strong men, and today they led the people to surrender, and repented of their mistakes..."
Xu Minlian was already stunned before he could finish the consoling words of infusing the ecstasy soup—because a sharp dagger suddenly appeared in Yang Xuanting's hand, and it was pressed against Xu Minlian's heart at once! Immediately afterwards, before Xu Minlian could cry out in alarm, Yang Xuanting jumped up, strangled Xu Minlian's neck with one hand, held Xu Minlian's heart with a dagger with the other, and shouted at everyone: "Don't move! Otherwise, I will Kill him!"
The incident happened so suddenly that even the experienced Chen Yingliang was caught off guard for a moment, let alone the others. The two followers of Yang Xuanting who had been prepared for a long time also jumped up and quickly protected him in a zigzag shape. Yang Xuan straightened his back, one of them snatched the sword from Xu Minlian's waist, the other quickly took out a small red flag from his arms, raised it high and shook it vigorously, and shouted: "We got it! We got it!"
"Successful!"
Hearing this shout, Li Mi and Yang Jishan, who were half a mile away, were overjoyed. At that moment, Yang Jishan suddenly shouted and led two hundred selected soldiers to charge forward. The deputy captain, Wu Que, cut off his horse, and took advantage of the momentum to attack Wu Que's disorganized army of village warriors. Another elite soldier of the militia, also led by a reliable assistant, directly attacked the right wing of the team of village warriors in Qiao County. Rushed through the interception and went straight to the city gate.
Under the sudden change of the situation, not to mention that everyone in the Xiangyong team in Qiao County was caught off guard, even the thieves team who didn't know beforehand were all stunned and at a loss for a while. Fortunately, Li Mi was mentally prepared for this, and immediately looked back. , and shouted at the thieves who didn't know beforehand: "Brothers! The big boss has already captured the dog officer Xu Minlian, and Qiaocheng is ours! Go into the city and grab money! Grab food! Women! Kill! ...!"
"Kill!"
Li Mi hadn't finished chanting the slogan of killing, and something that stunned him also happened. Among the civilian refugees on both sides of the road who were watching the excitement, they suddenly preempted the loud shouting of killing, and countless people suddenly tore apart the tattered clothes on their bodies. Clothes, revealing the brand-new military uniform hidden under the clothes, took out a pair of bright horizontal knives as if by magic, and roared left and right to kill the thieves. He set up countless Xueliangmo knives and countless spears and spears, and rushed towards him with a quick step.
Seeing this scene, Li Mi's jaw just popped out of its socket, and he screamed vaguely: "Why is there an ambush? I was so careful, how could I fall into an ambush? The ambush arranged by Chen Yingliang himself? That's not right! If he arranged the ambush, he should have launched it long ago? Why did he give us a chance to capture Xu Minlian alive?!"
Li Mi screamed over there, and Chen Yingliang was also stunned and screamed, "Is it a false surrender? It's a false surrender? How is it possible? Who are these thieves, and even I can deceive them?"—Screaming Of course, Chen Yingliang, who loves his little life, retreated quickly and hid behind his own soldiers San Gouzi and others.
"Dog officer! It turns out that you have already set up a trap for us to drill!" Yang Xuanting, who had already captured Xu Minlian, was the most angry. He did not analyze how he could successfully capture Xu Minlian if this was a trap, and held Xu Minlian with a dagger. Just yelled, "Tell your men to put down their weapons, or I'll kill you with one knife!"
Xu Minlian was scared out of his wits and almost peed his crotch. He didn't know how to respond when he was threatened by Yang Xuanting, but Chen Yingliang calmed down first, grabbed one of his own soldiers, and shouted: "Go and send the order!" , close the city gates, close all the city gates!"
The soldiers rushed away at the command, but Yang Xuanting on the other side was furious and shouted at Chen Yingliang: "Don't close the city gate! Tell your people to stop, or I will kill this dog official!"
"You can't blackmail me!" Chen Yingliang was very calm, and threatened in turn: "Let Governor Xu go, and I will let you go, otherwise, none of you will survive today!"
"Hahahaha!" Yang Xuanting laughed loudly, and said with a wild laugh: "Boy, with a mob like you, you still want to stop the tiger and wolf master I trained with my own hands? You don't even ask, I used to..."
Before he could finish his proud words, Yang Xuanting's wild laughter stopped abruptly, because Yang Xuanting slightly turned his head to look at the battlefield behind when he was laughing wildly, but what made Yang Xuanting dumbfounded was that he followed the method of his father Yang Su and elder brother Yang Xuangan's military training , the well-trained team was still vulnerable to the officers who suddenly rushed out. The officers who were killed from the left and right rushed into a mess, and even the elite led by the younger brother Yang Jishan The team was also entangled by a group of officers and soldiers, and fell into a close fight.
Shocked, Yang Xuanting hurriedly threatened Xu Minlian again: "The person who called you orders you to call Jin, and the person who called you calls Jin, or I will kill you!"
Xu Minlian finally came back to his senses, and said in a crying voice: "Hero, you have arrested the wrong person. These troops are not under my control. My order is useless. You have arrested the wrong person!"
"Arrested the wrong person? These troops are not yours? What do you mean?" Yang Xuanting's sixth sense told him that the situation was not good.
"These troops belong to him." Xu Minlian pointed at Chen Yingliang very unkindly, and cried out with snot and tears: "These troops are all new troops brought by Chen Tongshou from Yongcheng. Shou he set it up, and they don't listen to what I say!"
Yang Xuanting's expression froze, he looked at Chen Yingliang in a daze, and after a while he yelled hysterically, "No wonder I thought your face was familiar just now, so you are the little thief Chen Yingliang! My God! Why am I so short-sighted? What happened just now?" Didn't recognize you, brother-killing enemy?!"
"Killing brothers and enemies?" Chen Yingliang was startled, then finally came to his senses, and immediately shouted hoarsely, "Yang Xuanting! You are Yang Xuanting! No wonder I thought you looked familiar just now, so you are the one who slipped through the net in the Hongnong War! Yang Xuangan's three... help!"
The reason why Chen Yingliang wailed, of course, was because Yang Xuanting suddenly pushed Xu Minlian away, snatched the sword from the attendant's hand, and swung the sword to kill Chen Yingliang—Yang Xuanting's force may not be as good as Yang Xuangan's, but at least it was five times successively. Taking the lead in overthrowing Pei Hongce's fierce generals the first time, it would be no problem to deal with a half-bucket of water like Chen Yingliang. Chen Yingliang's only two personal soldiers drew their knives to block them, but they were quickly knocked down by Yang Xuanting's sword and kick. Seeing that Yang Xuan came to seek revenge on him with red eyes, Chen Yingliang, who was very self-aware, of course didn't dare to fight head-on, turned his head and ran towards the city gate.
A very rare battlefield spectacle appeared under the city of Qiao County. The well-equipped and well-trained Qiao County officers and soldiers fought with fewer enemies and more enemies, sandwiched between poorly equipped and under-trained thieves. Taking advantage of all kinds of advantages, Chen Yingliang, the leader of the army, was chased and hacked by Yang Xuanting, the leader of the thieves. What made Chen Yingliang cry even more was that when he managed to escape to the city of Qiao County, the defenders of Qiao County had just closed the gate of the city according to his order, and Yang Xuanting was chasing after him again. It was too late to re-open the city gate. There was no other way. The self-inflicted Chen Yingliang had no choice but to run in an arc to his team for help.
Yang Xuanting, who has quite a lot of experience in the battlefield, of course can see Chen Yingliang's wishful thinking. In order to smash Chen Yingliang's dream, Yang Xuanting not only chased after him, he had to yell again and again, and ordered his soldiers on the battlefield to block and kill Chen Yingliang, the brother-killing enemy. A few rebel soldiers who had been killed and scattered rushed towards Chen Yingliang with tattered horizontal knives after hearing the order, and Chen Yingliang was so frightened that he even shouted for help, and in the screams, he even wailed, "Help! Help! Who will save me!"
Two Qiaojun soldiers who had escaped from the team in the melee heard Chen Yingliang's yell and rushed over to respond, but they were caught by the bandit soldiers, and they couldn't free up their hands to stop the most dangerous Yang Xuanting, who had long since killed him. Yang Xuanting ignored the two officers and soldiers, chasing Chen Yingliang who deserved to die, but he didn't let go. The tip of the sword in his hand danced less than three feet behind Chen Yingliang, roaring like thunder, "Little thief! Stop! My brother's life! Give back my brother's life! Give me the life of a hundred thousand rebel soldiers!"
Chen Yingliang stopped when he was stupid, and ran as fast as he could. Fortunately, Chen Yingliang has been exercising for the past few months, and his nutrition can definitely keep up. His physical strength and explosive power are far from what he had during the Luoyang War , ran faster than a rabbit in the frantic escape, although Yang Xuanting was very brave, he was still unable to quickly catch up with Chen Yingliang and killed him.
With a bang, the heavens opened their eyes, Yang Xuangan manifested, Yang Xuanzong and Yang Wanshuo brothers and countless rebel soldiers who died under the butcher knife of Chen Yingliang were blessed. He tripped over something, a dog fell to the ground after eating shit, and almost knocked off two front teeth. Yang Xuan, who was behind, was overjoyed, and he came up and chopped off the back of Chen Yingliang's neck with his sword!
At the juncture of life and death, the fighting skills learned in the criminal police team temporarily saved Chen Yingliang's life. Hearing the sound of the wind in the back of his head, Chen Yingliang rolled over like a lazy donkey, and narrowly dodged the fatal sword. He was even more furious when he missed a blow, and he also slashed Chen Yingliang's head with a backhand sword. Chen Yingliang had no choice but to keep rolling and avoiding Yang Xuanting's sword for the second time, regardless of his body covered in grass and mud.
Of course, the speed of tumbling movement cannot be compared with the movement of footsteps. After Chen Yingliang dodged two arrows in a row, Yang Xuanting also learned his lesson. , suddenly stepped on Chen Yingliang's buttocks, the foot was heavy and heavy, not only stomped Chen Yingliang to the point of screaming, but also stomped Chen Yingliang to the ground at once, making his mouth full of mud.
"Little thief! Your retribution has arrived!" Yang Xuanting laughed wildly, flipping the sword with both hands, pointing the tip of the sword at Chen Yingliang's vest, using a thousand catties of force with both hands, he thrust into Chen Yingliang's vest fiercely, shouting in his mouth, "die!"
"It's over!" Chen Yingliang was completely desperate this time...