Chapter 69: Battle of Dajia Village (Please collect! Please vote! Please invest!)
Although I don't know why Xu Zhaojie must force me to Huishan? What did he arrange in Huishan that made him so confident that he could kill me under the protection of 700 imperial guards!

According to the intelligence on the surface, although Ye Mingsheng, who had 700 imperial guards under his command, was not afraid of the bandits entrenched in Huishan, he was a little nervous when he saw Xu Zhaojie acting so seriously...

He was somewhat reluctant to enter the Huishan area, and wanted to bypass Huishan and take the longer route through Songquan County, which had fewer bandits and was safer, to reach Daejeon Pass.

There is only one way to do this, and that is to kill the messenger without anyone noticing!
Xu Zhaojie was his immediate superior. Once Xu Zhaojie's military order was issued, he had no way to refuse. Otherwise, he would be considered as disobeying orders and would be subject to military law. Therefore, since he did not want to enter Huishan, such a dangerous place, there was only one way - pretending that he had not received the military order.

Although Ye Mingsheng had already made up his mind at that time, in order to be cautious, he still asked the messenger a few questions. It was these questions that dispelled the idea of ​​killing the messenger.

The messenger came from Cai Pengbo's unit stationed in Wujiagou, fifty miles east of Fengxi County, and not from Liujing. This shows that Xu Zhaojie's move was not a spur-of-the-moment idea, but was premeditated.

Although Cai Pengbo holds the same official position as himself, that of a commander and of the seventh rank, he has a different fate. As Xu Zhaojie's trusted and beloved general, Cai Pengbo has three thousand imperial guards under his command. Even when Ye Mingsheng had the most troops, his strength was less than half of Ye Mingsheng's.

And now that Cai Pengbo appeared in Wujiagou, which was so close to Fengxi County, Ye Mingsheng didn’t believe that he was really ordered to suppress bandits. Most likely, they came here to monitor him, so if he became a messenger, it would just give them an excuse to attack him...

It was obvious that Xu Zhaojie had calculated everything and was just waiting for him to take action!

Realizing this, Ye Mingsheng could only let the messenger leave. After all, they were all imperial guards, but he only had 700 men under his command, while Cai Pengbo had 3,000 men. If a fight really broke out, he would be courting his own death...

Although he now knows that Huishan is a trap set by Xu Zhaojie for him, Ye Mingsheng has no choice but to go ahead and give it a try.

If he broke in, with the help of nearly 700 Great Zhou imperial guards under his command, Ye Mingsheng still had a chance to survive and fight his way out of Huishan!
Instead of breaking through, he took a detour to avoid Huishan and walked hundreds of miles from Songquan County. Although it was safe, it would definitely take more than fifteen days.

When he returns to the Great Zhou, Xu Zhaojie will have a legitimate reason to punish himself. By that time, a higher-ranking official can crush a person to death. What's more, he is a seventh-rank official, seven levels lower than Xu Zhaojie, who is a third-rank official. Xu Zhaojie can kill him however he wants!

Although he had to break in, he had to think about the methods and ways to do it. Now it was still about three to five days' journey from Huishan area, which was enough time for Ye Mingsheng to think about the countermeasures!
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"Kill!" "Kill these Zhou dogs! Avenge the king!"

In Dajia Village, southwest of Gongdu, a group of Zhou soldiers consisting of more than a hundred men slowly walked into the village in the afternoon. However, just as they entered not far from the village entrance, they heard a gunshot, and hundreds of Gongdu soldiers rushed out from inside and outside the village, shouting and killing, and surrounded the Zhou soldiers at the village entrance.

This group of Zhou troops, which consisted of only a hundred men, were caught off guard after the sudden attack and left behind more than a dozen bodies. However, the imperial guards of the Great Zhou were an elite force after all and they quickly calmed down. Under the command of military officers at all levels, they formed a military formation and stabilized their position, resisting step by step the palace soldiers who surrounded them and outnumbered them several times.

"Didn't they say that there were only a hundred or so deserters from Gongdu in Dajia Village? Where did so many people come from?"

In the center of the Imperial Army formation, Wang Kangxin looked at the murderous soldiers from the palace rushing in from all directions, and angrily yelled at his sentry leader:
"Commander, this is the news from above. I don't know why..." Facing Wang Kangxin's rebuke, his subordinates also said in fear and trepidation:
Seeing the aggrieved look on his subordinate's face, Wang Kangxin naturally understood that this was not his subordinate's mistake, but someone was playing tricks behind the scenes and gave him wrong information.

"Xu Zhaojie, you bastard!" Wang Kangxin's face twisted as he cursed viciously:
He is not a fool, so he naturally knows who is the mastermind behind all this!
"Sir, be careful with your words!" Seeing Wang Kangxin openly insulting his immediate superior, Commander Xu Zhaojie, the guards beside him quickly reminded him:
Wang Kangxin did not pay attention to the reminders from his personal soldiers. In fact, at this moment, he had no way of paying attention to any reminders. The soldiers from the palace in the village relied on their absolute numerical advantage and rushed up like a tide, not giving the imperial guards of the Great Zhou any chance to breathe. Wang Kangxin was forced to command the battle non-stop, and even personally led his personal soldiers to act as a "firefighter" to patch holes and put out fires everywhere...

Although the Zhou army fought bravely, they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers. Before the battle lasted long, more than 20 men were lying down.

There are only about sixty Great Zhou imperial guards standing on the ground who can still fight, and among these remaining people, about half are injured.

Fortunately, the entrance to the village was narrow, and the numerical advantage of the soldiers in Gongdu meant that they could not deploy all of their troops, and could only take turns to fight. Otherwise, the more than one hundred men under Wang Kangxin might not have survived until now, and would have all become victims of the swords of the people in Gongdu, and died in a foreign country!

Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more critical, his side was already at the end of its strength and was about to fail, but the soldiers of the palace surrounding the village entrance showed no intention of retreating. This made Wang Kangxin, who was commanding the battle, like an ant on a hot pan, with his internal organs burning with anxiety.

Wang Kangxin quickly looked around the battlefield in front of him, trying to find a suitable breakthrough point from the densely packed palace soldiers, but his efforts were undoubtedly in vain. There were too many palace soldiers in front of him, and there was not even a single gap for him to exploit.

(End of this chapter)