Chapter 70 Provocation (Please collect! Please vote! Please invest!)

Just when Wang Kangxin began to feel despair, he suddenly discovered that although there were many enemies in front of him, the number of soldiers from the palace behind him, that is, deep in the village, was much smaller, only about a hundred people...

This discovery was like a drowning man finding a life-saving straw, and Wang Kangxin's eyes brightened up. Although he knew that retreating into the village would lead to being trapped in a deeper encirclement by these people from Gongdu, it would be like drinking poison to quench thirst and would only lead to his own death.

But for the sake of his life, Wang Kangxin could not care about so much for the time being. He took a deep breath and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Brothers! Follow me!"

After shouting, Wang Kangxin led several personal soldiers and rushed towards the depths of the village. Although they were a little surprised by Wang Kangxin's actions, out of trust in their superior, the remaining dozens of Great Zhou imperial guards followed Wang Kangxin's steps and retreated towards the depths of the village.

Although there were hundreds of palace soldiers in the rear, they were no match for the ferocious and wolf-like imperial guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty. As soon as the two sides came into contact, they were immediately overwhelmed.

Wang Kangxin immediately led dozens of his men and fled for their lives to the depths of the village. Originally, Wang Kangxin saw that things were going well and planned to see if he could break out from behind.

However, to his disappointment, he was caught up by the palace soldiers behind him before he ran far in the village. Wang Kangxin had no choice but to take his men and rush into a house in the village to defend it to the death.

Entering the mansion and being in the enemy's hinterland, Wang Kangxin originally thought that he really had no way to escape this time, but what he never expected was that his helpless action in this desperate situation turned out to be "a move of God!"

It might be because the palace army was not good at attacking strongholds, and the space inside the village was narrower than the village entrance. This resulted in the palace army's numerical advantage being unable to be brought into play. Only dozens of soldiers could attack at a time, and they could only be beaten back again and again by the Great Zhou imperial guards guarding the mansion.

After several rounds of fighting, the soldiers of the palace, who had been fighting for a long time, saw that they could not get beyond the line of defense and had lost hundreds of lives in vain, so they simply gave up the attack and surrounded the house tightly, as if they were going to trap the Zhou army to death.

Seeing that the other side had stopped attacking, the Zhou army guarding the house could finally breathe a sigh of relief. After arranging a few people to be on guard, Wang Kangxin let most of the people take a rest for a while.

Looking at the forty or so people sitting on the ground, staggering here and there, Wang Kangxin felt a deep sense of grief and indignation in his chest. He had never thought that he would end up in this situation...

Before Xu Zhaojie arrived in Liujing, although he was only a commander, he actually commanded his own battalion and Li Wanshun's battalion. The remnants of the two battalions together had a total of about a thousand people.

After Xu Zhaojie's arrival, not only was Li Wanshun's battalion directly transferred away, but even the several hundred men in his headquarters were also mostly withdrawn by Xu Zhaojie for various reasons, leaving only more than a hundred people.

Faced with such naked humiliation from Xu Zhaojie, in order to be smoothly transferred to the Zhenwu Army, Wang Kangxin had to swallow his anger and accepted Xu Zhaojie's arrangement. Otherwise, if he was still surrounded by thousands of soldiers, these palace soldiers would be easily destroyed by Wang Kangxin. How could he end up in this situation?

Although he was very angry, Wang Kangxin knew at this moment that being angry was of no use. He needed a calm mind and think about what methods could help him escape from this desperate situation!

After pondering for a minute, Wang Kangxin looked up at the darkening sky, and a plan gradually formed in his mind...
Just as Wang Kangxin lowered his head and pondered, trying to find a way to improve the details of the plan, the guard beside him came over and whispered: "Sir, the group of people from the palace outside have sent people to persuade us to surrender!" "What did you say? They sent people to persuade us to surrender?" Wang Kangxin asked in surprise:

"Yes, sir!" The soldier nodded and said:
"Hahahaha!" Wang Kangxin, who was furious, laughed out of anger, stood up and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.

These palace dogs really think too highly of them. They even dare to take a look at themselves and try to persuade him, the commander of the imperial guards of the Great Zhou, to surrender. They are really a bunch of dogs who don't know how to live or die!
When we were about 200 meters outside the gate, we saw a smug man wearing a traditional palace robe and a small moustache, jumping up and down, and said shamelessly:
"You Zhou people, hurry up and surrender, kneel at our feet, otherwise Lord Jin Dongxiu will rush in and kill all of you like puppies..."

Hearing this man's nonsense, the imperial guards guarding the house all had fiery eyes and stared fiercely at this palace clown two hundred steps away. If looks could kill, that palace clown would have been eaten alive by this group of elite Great Zhou soldiers.

Seeing Wang Kangxin coming, everyone saluted, and a captain with a scar on his face asked Wang Kangxin to fight with an angry face:

"Sir, now that you are here, please allow me to go out and kill this Gongdu dog!"

After taking a deep look at the scarred captain, Wang Kangxin said sternly, "I remember your name is Zhao Huzi, right? You are such a warrior!"

"My name is Zhao Huzi!" Zhao Huzi was surprised and delighted to hear that the high and mighty commander actually remembered his name and praised him.

Wang Kangxin patted Zhao Huzi's shoulder heavily and continued, "Although you are courageous, how can you exchange your life for a palace dog? The lives of those people are worthless. You are a soldier of my imperial army, so you have to stay and serve the court!"

Seeing that Wang Kangxin thought so highly of him, the captain named Zhao Huzi's eyes suddenly showed a touch of emotion, and he said in a deep voice:

"I understand! I will be loyal to the court and the commander-in-chief until death!"

Wang Kangxin nodded, then turned his gaze to the Gongdu guy who was still shouting crazily outside, and said lightly: "A dog bites a man. Although a man can't bite a dog, he can be shot to death!"

"Come! Bring me my Weiyuan gun!"

Upon hearing Wang Kangxin's order, the personal soldier following behind him immediately and carefully took off a package he was carrying.

(End of this chapter)