What the henchmen were most worried about happened. Although they had escaped for a few days, they still failed.
A team of more than 50 members of the Self-Defense Forces came to this area with wooden sticks and began to knock on the door to search.
"Open the door! Check! "
"Open the door! I'm here to check! "
"If you don't open the door, I'll smash it!"
"You don't want to open the door, do you? You have a benefactor here, don't you? "
… …
With all these actions, these Self-Defense Forces people were indeed very arrogant and brutal. Under the protection of his henchmen, Maeda Toshinaga saw three Self-Defense Forces people directly beat a man who was protecting his wife to death with a long stick, and then raped the woman on the spot.
Maeda Toshinaga frowned.
"Which family's retainers and guards are they from? How could they do such a thing? How could they be shameless enough to harm civilians after being a traitor? "
The henchmen around him said that they didn't know or recognize them. They couldn't see any signs. Some people suggested that these people might be gangsters. Those untouchables were used by Qin. They were just a group of villains who flaunted their power.
That was a valid argument.
But the problem was that they were living in the house like turtles. If the door was knocked on, it wouldn't be easy to deal with it.
Although his henchmen had given some strategies to deal with various situations, there was no doubt that there was no strategy to deal with such a simple and crude way of receiving information.
If this group of people were simply looking for trouble and not asking questions, then it would be troublesome.
They had to go back and hide Maeda Toshinaga, Hou Yangcheng and his wife immediately.
There was really no good place to hide in the small shabby house of civilians. Except for some large vats, the only place to hide was under the bed. But it was very easy to be discovered. There was no safe place at all. But except for these places, there was no other place to hide.
"No! I will never enter these places! "
What was more terrible was that Hou Yangcheng seemed to be determined not to enter these dirty places.
He said, "I am the emperor! I am the emperor, do you understand? How can an emperor enter such a place? I have no dignity at all. I have no dignity at all! I will never go in! "
"But Qin's search team is right in front of us. If we don't hide, it will be very dangerous!"
Maeda Toshinaga begged desperately.
"That's your problem. If you can't protect me, you'll all die!"
But Hou Yangcheng seemed to have no intention of giving them even the slightest bit of understanding.
While they were anxious, the arrogant Self-Defense Forces members had already begun to knock on the door.
The thing he was most worried about had finally happened.
It was indeed not normal to have more than ten people in a house. If they were really suspected, it would not be the fault of the Self-Defense Forces. So once the door was opened, it would not be easy for them to pass.
While Hou Yang Cheng was determined not to hide in the vat, the knocking on the door became more and more urgent. Then, he started kicking the door.
"If you don't open it, we'll come in directly!"
There seemed to be quite a number of Self-Defense Forces members outside the door. One by one, they knocked on the door, making Maeda Toshinaga so nervous that his whole body was trembling.
His indecisive nature erupted once again.
Left with no choice, the most decisive elder decided to use violent means.
"My lord! Forgive us! "
He knocked Maeda Toshinaga out with one palm, and then, under the horrified gazes of Houyang Cheng and the Empress, he knocked them out in two moves. He forced them into the vat and under the bed to hide, which could more or less hide them for a while.
And they had already made a decision.
"Let's fight our way out together to give my lord some time. Then, some of us will act as cover and buy time for the rest of us to escape with my lord and His Majesty. This is the only way!"
They made a decision together.
Then.
The door fell down with a loud bang.
"I'd like to see who dares to stop us from the Self-Defense Forces! They are simply courting death! Aren't you afraid … "
A guy who rushed in first pointed at the people in the room and scolded them. As he scolded them, he realized that something was wrong.
There seemed to be too many people in the room, and …
They were holding knives in their hands …
They were in big trouble.
The members of the Self-Defense Forces quickly realized the problem.
Li Rusong was patrolling with a group of people. Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei had gained a lot. As the elder brother, if he did not gain anything, he would not be able to explain himself. Therefore, he decided to do it himself, personally patrolling with his men as the leader.
Something went wrong with this patrol. They happened to see the battle between the Self-Defense Forces and the henchmen.
It might not be accurate to call it a battle. It was more like a massacre and an ambush. The Self-Defense Forces did not have much fighting power. They were only holding wooden sticks in their hands. How could they be a match for the henchmen and guards who were holding knives?
They were killed miserably and were running away. But if they met Li Rusong, the result would be very different.
When Li Rusong saw the battle, his heart immediately started to pound.
Big fish! Big fish! The big fish that he had been chasing had taken the bait!
Li Rusong did not say anything else and immediately took his great spear from his personal guard.
"Kill for me!!!!"
Li Rusong galloped away on his horse. His bravery was not reduced in the slightest.
The more than 20 cavalrymen and more than 100 infantrymen followed closely behind, killing their way over.
When the henchmen and guards who were slaughtering the Self-Defense Forces saw that there was a Qin general attacking on horseback, they immediately realized that they were in trouble and immediately turned around to escape.
However, they couldn't outrun the warhorses. Li Rusong took the lead and chased after a retainer wielding a steel blade. He ruthlessly pierced his spear through his chest, and with a loud roar, he lifted the retainer up and threw him away. His bravery was evident.
Since their leader was so brave, the cavalrymen and infantrymen were not willing to be outdone. They chased after the henchmen and guards in front of them and started killing.
In the end, the cavalrymen still had the advantage of speed. Once they caught up with them, they killed them. The ordinary guards and henchmen only had steel knives, so they were no match for the long weapons. When they encountered the long weapons, they could only be killed. In just a moment, they lost more than 20 people.
Li Rusong would never let them go. He chased after them and chopped off three of their heads with his own hands. The Qin army's first round of attacks had caused the retainers and guards to suffer a great loss. The plan of the elder who came up with the strategy did not include the idea of dealing with the regular Qin army. The combat power was on a completely different level.
The Self-Defense Forces were just paper tigers, while the Qin Army were real tigers.
When the elder saw that the situation was not good, he had already ordered everyone to escape. But they were still not as fast as the Qin Army on horseback.
The result was self-evident.
After killing all of them, only three were left alive. But these three people still had a bit of backbone. They would rather commit suicide than tell Li Rusong the information he wanted to know. In a rage, Li Rusong ordered for five hundred soldiers to be mobilized to search every house in the street. They had to dig three feet into the ground to find what he wanted.
The result was, of course, that they found it.
Because Li Rusong had ordered that nothing should be left. Everything that could be smashed was smashed, and everything that could be carried away was carried away.
And then they found Houyang Cheng and his wife hiding in the vat, and Maeda Toshinaga, who was still unconscious on the bed.
At that time, Li Rusong did not know their identity. He only saw that their skin was soft and tender, and their skin was not rough at all. He also saw the excited expressions of the three people who were captured alive. He vaguely guessed that these three people were probably nobles and needed protection. So he ordered for the three people to be captured and brought back.
Returning to the military camp, he ordered for the captured nobles to identify who these three people were. When he asked them, his heart almost stopped beating.
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