Even an ordinary person would be out of breath after running for several hundred meters in one go. Although the bandits gathered on the official road were fierce, most of them didn't know what to eat next. After all, their leaders weren't kind enough to feed them all. They had been chasing for almost half a kilometer, and the sparse group of bandits was so long that they couldn't catch up with each other.
The dozen or so bandits chasing in front were already exhausted. Most of them had picked up some taels of silver, which was why they had been able to run so far. But now that the wolf-riding woman in front of them had sped up, they simply sat on the ground to catch their breath. Some of the clever bandits saw that their kind had caught up with them, so they simply hid on both sides of the official road to keep their taels of silver.
But not long after the few bandits ran out, they ran back in panic and shouted, "Oh no, there are people on both sides of the official road. Those bumpkins have surrounded us with forks of dung."
The bandits who were resting said happily, "They're just a few poor bumpkins. What are you afraid of?"
The one who had escaped retorted, "It's not just a few. I've seen more than a dozen of them. There are dozens more coming from far and near. "
The resting bandit continued to say happily, "Even if there are dozens of them, we have more than a thousand people. When they come and see our numbers, I'm sure they'll run away in fear. "
More and more criminals caught up with them. Seeing that there was no sign of the wolf-riding woman in front of them, and seeing a few of their kind sitting on the ground, panting, someone shouted, "Hey, you guys must have picked up quite a lot of money. Everyone who saw it has a share, share some with us."
Those who had picked up the silver were unwilling to share it. They jumped up with their weapons and cursed, saying that if they wanted silver, they had to ask for their knives first. The two sides didn't give in to each other. They called on their friends to see who had more people and who was more imposing in the end.
But after the confrontation for less than ten breaths, there was suddenly the sound of rumbling footsteps on the official road ahead. From afar, they could see an orderly team slowly moving forward at a low speed. Someone with sharp eyes shouted, "Look, it's that wolf from just now."
The giant wolf soon came within a hundred meters of them and began to speed up. Behind him were ten bodyguards who were on foot with the help of talismans. Their speed was not slower than ordinary horses, and they were also rushing over at a fast pace. Behind the bodyguards, there was a group of raised spears and a dense mass of human heads under the spears.
The criminals who were still in a deadlock were shocked, and some of them quickly ran back. Some of them had strange thoughts. As they ran, they shouted, "Hurry up! There are silver coins and a dozen naked women in front of us. Those guys are going crazy over them."
The criminals behind them didn't know what was going on, but when they heard the shout, they chased after them even faster. The few that escaped were like fish swimming in the sea, leaving their own kind behind as scapegoats.
The Giant Wolf was fifty meters away and had already begun to accelerate. The bandits at the front fled for their lives, but there were still many people at the back who were desperately rushing forward. The two sides were like two waves crashing together, shoving, shouting, and even killing each other to seize the road. A chaotic scene was inevitable — Zhou Qingfeng, who had raised his saber high, charged over.
He threw several Flame Talismans at them in a row, and one of them exploded on the spot, setting the place ablaze. In the flames, there were at least a few people, and as many as a dozen people, screaming in fear and running around like headless flies. People often lost their sense of direction in the chaos, and some of them even charged in Zhou Qingfeng's direction.
The puppet wolf was the first to charge into the sea of fire. No matter who stood in its way, they were all sent flying and knocked down. Four wolf pups jumped out of the wolf's belly, and these little guys were even more ferocious than the puppet wolf itself. They kept jumping, pouncing, and biting. Their sharp teeth were soon stained with blood, which made the criminals in the sea of fire even more panicked and chaotic.
Behind Zhou Qingfeng, the ten bodyguards followed closely. Protected by talismans, they ignored the flames on the road and charged forward with their spears. The military chain linked the courage of the ten of them into one, forming a green blade.
The parallel blade of the military formation was like a sickle that cut through wheat, knocking down the fleeing criminals in unison. As the ten-man military formation slowly advanced, no one could stand in front of them. The main road was cleared out for a while, but the ground was littered with corpses.
After the charge, Zhou Qingfeng suppressed his speed and continued to move forward. The ferocious-looking puppet wolf roared and ran. More and more criminals were running away, but the number of criminals behind them was also getting denser. When hundreds of criminals were squeezed together, they did not even know where to run to safety.
This gave Zhou Qingfeng a chance to make a big move.
"Hold on, gather your strength …" Zhou Qingfeng stepped aside to let the bodyguards behind him catch up, and he directly faced the large group of criminals who were squeezing in front and behind them only a few meters away. "Stab!"
Spear of Courage!
Green light gathered and surged out.
A giant spear condensed from willpower and courage appeared out of thin air and crashed forward in the blink of an eye. The giant spear was like a giant tree used to siege a city, but it was more like a solid cannonball, crashing into the crowd of enemies with unstoppable force. The bandits who were huddled together originally had some thoughts of resisting. After all, there weren't many enemies in front of them. But they were wrong.
At the moment of impact, the squeezed criminals suddenly caved in. They were a dozen unlucky fellows who were hit. And when the invisible spear pierced through the outer defense, it immediately exploded under Zhou Qingfeng's control.
The gathered criminals were already pointing their weapons outwards, and a few orders could even be heard from inside. Zhou Qingfeng, who had moved aside, could clearly see that most of the criminals had a rag or rope tied around their arms. They were clearly in a group and had been organized by their leader. Faced with the sudden explosion of the Spear of Courage, the crowd immediately broke into an uproar.
More than a dozen criminals were blown into the air, their bodies twisting and rolling as they flew. Around the point of explosion, the dozens of squeezed criminals were blown to the ground like waves of wheat by the violent blast of the explosion. A lot of people were hit by their own weapons, and many were injured or even killed.
The shockwave from the explosion caused the bandits on the outside to run out in panic. Many of their ears were ringing, and their minds were in a mess. No one could control their emotions in such a situation. Everyone was shouting and shoving each other. A moment later, people were trampled on in the crowd and screamed in different tones.
The bodies that had been blown away flew into the air, and the spectacle could be seen from afar. Tan Feng, who was holding the line for Zhou Qingfeng with more than a hundred patrol officers and soldiers, couldn't help but feel his blood boil when he saw this scene. Following the plan, he shouted, "Charge! Chop off the heads of those criminals and make money!"
Further behind them were a large group of villagers who had been mobilized by Zhou Qingfeng. Zhou Qingfeng offered a reward of one tael of silver for a bandit's head. Thanks to his invincible performance the day before, at least a thousand strong young men from the surrounding villages had come to help. These people weren't good enough to be the vanguard, but they were very useful in taking care of the scattered soldiers in the rear.
Hearing the explosion in front of them and seeing the criminals who had been blown into the sky, the villagers cheered nonstop. These people walked even faster, as if they were rushing to a market. They were so excited that their faces were red in the middle of winter.
With the help of the Strength King Kong Talismans, the ten bodyguards were still very strong after the big move, and weren't as weak as Zhou Qingfeng's slave soldiers before. They continued to advance with their spears, and the sharp edges of the spears continued to sweep away all obstacles. Although there were only ten of them, their fearless courage allowed them to suppress their opponents and attack.
Zhou Qingfeng retreated behind his bodyguards and paid close attention to the overall situation. The human-faced demon below and the Flat Hair in the sky kept in touch with him. The momentum of the attack had already slowed down, but the efficiency of the slaughter hadn't decreased at all. When Tan Feng's team caught up, Zhou Qingfeng's men even had the advantage.
The dense spears kept stabbing, and the sharp spearheads kept stabbing into people's bodies. Every mass assassination left several corpses on the ground, and it also drove more bandits to join the fleeing team. But they couldn't escape; they didn't have the stamina.
Xu Bing had already used up a lot of these scumbags' stamina by provoking them to give chase. Moreover, in a chaotic battle, the consumption of physical strength would increase by several times. Compared with the spearmen, who were waiting for the exhausted to catch up, the disorderly criminals would often fall to the ground as they ran, a sign of exhaustion.
Zhou Qingfeng rode the giant wolf forward slowly. Several patrol spearmen ran past him and stabbed a fallen criminal on the side of the road. The criminal was dressed well, and was probably a leader. He stared with his eyes wide open as he watched himself being pierced. There was nothing he could do.
After stabbing a target, the spearmen wanted to chop off his head. Zhou Qingfeng shouted as he rode past, "I calculate military credit based on how well you complete the mission. If you chop off someone's head now, not only won't you get any silver, I'll also punish you."
Although Zhou Qingfeng had given out a bounty of heads, one should focus on how to complete the mission in battle. Snatching loot and heads on the battlefield was a foolish act. As for how to define military credit, he hadn't officially established an army yet, and didn't have any clear rules in that regard. But when he saw his subordinates not fighting properly, he still had to stop them.
Now that the team was small, Zhou Qingfeng could personally command them. After he shouted, the spearmen immediately followed his orders and continued forward to kill the fleeing enemies. Of the two thousand criminals, at most two hundred were killed on the spot, and another two hundred were injured. More criminals were fleeing because they had lost their leader or their morale was low, but some of them retreated and regrouped again.
Because the criminals were fleeing, the area of the battlefield was expanding. Seeing that Tan Feng was rashly chasing after them, Zhou Qingfeng hurriedly sent someone to order him not to stray too far away from him. The enemy was now a centipede that was dead but not dead, so it wasn't advisable to disperse their strength.
After chasing for about half a kilometer, Zhou Qingfeng forced the criminals back to the slope where the enemy had set off from. Flat Hair, who was flying in the air, suddenly sent a warning. "Boy Zhou, we're in trouble. I see a group of cultivators. They're hiding in the middle of a group of cowardly bandits and approaching you. "
Most of the criminals on the battlefield were fleeing, but there was only one group of them approaching Zhou Qingfeng. They were dozens of elites in fat coats and holding long spears. At first glance, they were clearly much stronger than the other criminals around them. With just a glance, Zhou Qingfeng was able to tell that they were definitely not bandits who wandered about and lacked food and clothing. They were a group of government soldiers in disguise.
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