Chapter 414: Tiger Ben Liwei
When Gai Wu saw the old mulberry head, he knew that the elders who often appeared around his father were not doing very well now.
Although the "Night Stalker" is usually not tall, this uncle has always lived with his head held high, just like a real Night Stalker, and is unwilling to bow his head to anyone.
And now, his back is a little rickety due to the long-term bending of the waist, his face is wrinkled because of the wind and sand, black and dry, obviously at least half of the year is exposed to the sun or blown by the wind and sand.
What made Lunaro most distressed was that three of the fingers of his right hand had been cut off.
He didn't pay attention when they first met, but once they pulled and pulled, they would inevitably see this amazing change.
Lao Sangtou's martial arts were taught by Gai Tiantai himself when he was in Xingcheng, in other words, he used the sword technique of the Gai family.
Can a man with only two fingers in his right hand not hold a knife? It's a question you don't need to ask.
So in an instant, these Lu Shuihu people, who had been reunited for a long time, knew the reason why Lao Sangtou was not as happy as he was now. No matter how powerful he was before, a Lu Shuihu with crippled hands, illiterate and no other skills, it will only be more difficult to make a living.
"Old mulberry, what's the matter with your hands!"
Lunaro scolded with anger on his face.
"Hacked by a horse thief." The old mulberry head put away his hand lightly, avoiding the sympathetic or surprised or angry eyes of those clansmen, and only saluted Gai Wu in front of him.
"Young Master Gai Wu, don't come unharmed. You're taller than your collar now."
"Uncle Sang, don't be like this."
The old people reunited, but goodbye was like this, Gai Wu's nose was sour, and he couldn't help but step forward and hug the old mulberry.
"This is not the place to talk, let's follow the mission to the oasis first, and we'll talk in detail when we get to the oasis."
Old Sang Tou nodded, he didn't come here to catch up, but Lunaro dragged him hard and he had to come.
For this man with high self-esteem, perhaps he would rather these past companions did not see him.
"Where are you going? Come with us! "
Lu Naro nervously grabbed the old mulberry's shoulders again.
"I was hired by the caravan as a guide." The old mulberry said to Lunaro, "My employer is not dead, I must go back to the caravan. I'll come back to you when I get there."
Seeing that the old mulberry insisted on leaving, Lu Naro could only let go of his hand and watched his companion with a slightly hunched back walk step by step towards the caravan for the rest of his life.
"How did he become so ...... now" Lunaro gritted his teeth, picking out one of his poor vocabulary as "immortal and immortal".
"He wasn't like that before!"
"Who hasn't been down?" Gai Wu remembered that he couldn't find a job in Pingcheng, and he couldn't eat enough when he was hungry, and there were more than three hundred people, except for Luer Tanyu, who still had some income, and everyone else was just a day of food and clothing.
His father died, the Tiantai army of Nuoda was scattered, and some people would rather live in a foreign country and be destitute than return to the sad place of Xingcheng......
Was it his father's fault?
Or is it his fault?
If not, then whose fault is it?
The commotion between Gai Wu and Lu Shuihu attracted the attention of He Mulan, and after summoning Gai Wu to ask if he was an old friend of the Tiantai Army, He Mulan nodded with some sympathy.
"It's not easy to meet the old people in this troubled world, Daxingyi is dead, we also need reliable guides for us to reference, if your friend wants to stay, he can stay in your team. I personally paid for him to be hired as a guide."
Gai Wu didn't expect He Mulan to say this, and after a pause, he said a little uncomfortably: "He probably won't want to come. He ...... about my father's death."
Gai Wu touched the double knives on his waist, and he was a little melancholy for a while.
"It's very nostalgic."
Gai Tiantai's sword technique is difficult to have an opponent in the world, and even Meng Bao, the father of Queen Meng, has praised Gai Tiantai, who was still milky and not dried up back then, I am afraid that he will become the grandmaster of sword skills, which shows that his martial arts are extraordinary.
And the eldest grandson general of Wei who "defeated" him in the competition is just quite famous in leading the army, but his martial arts are not as terrifying as today's Mulan.
If it was Hua Mulan, whose prestige spread all over the world, who defeated him at that time, maybe so many Tiantai troops would not have fled in anger, and eventually led the Tiantai army to the point of falling apart.
It's not that no smart people guessed that this was a concession that the rooftop had to make in order for the Lu Shuihu people to survive under the iron hooves of the Wei army.
Lao Sangtou ran away in such anger, he thought that Gaitiantai violated the oath of the Tiantai army to advance and retreat together. He would rather die with Gai Tiantai in order to resist the Wei army, rather than the other party to die like this because of "saving everyone".
It was difficult for Gai Wu to guarantee that he had no resentment against the Wei people who caused this qiē, so he did not build yì He Mullan to use him as a guide for the whole army.
Even if he is an old friend, but now that so many years have passed, no one knows what happened to him.
He Mulan was willing to use the old mulberry head to take care of the apprentice, and even Gai Wu felt that she could not be trusted, so she kept silent and did not mention this matter.
The caravan led all the way to the oasis, but the scouts of the Iron Guard Battalion and the Tiger Army soon brought bad news.
There are already quite a few people stationed in the oasis, and there are at least a thousand of them, each with weapons, and they are not ordinary travelers.
The banks of the river are all over. [,! Drinking horses, it seems that this group of people has been stationed here for quite some time.
"It's impossible, it's remote, but it's still on the road that the family will pass. In order to ensure the safety of the road, the king had already sent troops to clean up the road, and no sand thieves and horse thieves would dare to take this risk in the short term......"
Meng Yulong's face darkened as soon as he heard the scout's words.
"Are you sure it's not a caravan?"
The scout of the Iron Guard Battalion nodded affirmatively: "It should be the Sand Bandits. Only they do not pitch tents, but sleep with blankets."
Because these people don't trust each other, it's normal for the tent to cover up a lot of crimes in the dark, for the gang to eat each other, or for a few people to die in the morning.
Not all of the Sand Pirates worked together, most of them came together little by little to attack larger caravans.
In this case, the sand thieves who were out on the sand usually did not camp and sleep, everyone was exposed to the noses of others, murder and theft were rare, and everyone would be woken up at the slightest movement.
"If the sand thieves occupy this place, it's no wonder that Li Yuanjun and the few soldiers I left behind have no news."
He Mulan sighed, estimating that they were all dead.
"What now?"
Meng Yulong asked He Mulan with a cold face.
"There are so many of us, the sand pirates in the oasis probably already know we're coming."
Even thieves have scouts.
There are so many of them, the dust is not shallow, and the other party should have been ready to meet the enemy a long time ago.
"We've been going all the way, and our boring bones are going to rust." Na Luo Hun looked at He Mulan with expectant eyes: "Every day except for rushing is rushing, there is basically no danger, since Li Yuanjun may die in their hands, we should avenge Li Yuanjun......"
His eyes were blazing on Hermulan.
"General, let's do a big job!"
As soon as Na Luo Hun's words came out, everyone's eyes sparkled at He Mullan.
The elite of the Tiger Ben Army is 5,000 here, and the other party is just about 1,000 sand thieves, maybe it is a group of rabble. Sand thieves, horse thieves and the like are all evil, and people with blood on their hands are not considered to kill innocents indiscriminately, even if they are killed......
The most important thing is that the spirit of the Tiger Benjun has been very tense all the time, and if it is not vented, I am afraid that there will be a problem.
Since He Mulan is a general, he naturally knows these hidden dangers of the Tiger Army. She sent another team of scouts to spy on the front, and now that the sand thieves had already seen that something was wrong, and after secretly starting to withdraw in batches, they immediately began to summon the Tiger Army.
"Leave three thousand brothers to protect the princess and the prince, and the hundred-man team from Tiger One to Tiger Twenty will go out with me!"
He Mulan dismounted, ordered someone to lead Yue Ying, and continued to order to the 2,000 people who were pointed out of the ranks: "Change horses, change weapons!"
Of course, the horses used to rush now have no horsepower, and the charge needs energetic war horses, and the cavalry usually prepares several horses to take turns to fight in order to store horsepower, which is also the reason why Wei Guo's iron cavalry is invincible in the world.
As He Mulan gave the order to prepare for the attack, the two thousand tiger soldiers changed their horses, raised their long weapons, and followed Mullan, who had already stepped on the shadow of Yue, to prepare to charge.
"Master, should we go and ...... too?"
Gai Wu rode forward on horseback, but was stopped by Hemulan.
"You go and look at the caravans that have joined today, and I'm afraid that if any of them have any problems, there will be chaos in our rear."
There were also hundreds of people in the caravan, and I was afraid that there was some conspiracy in it.
She always felt that Buddhism and Fuqu Muqian would not just give up so lightly, and she didn't know what was waiting for her.
"Okay then, Master, be careful."
Gai Wu nodded and ordered the Lu Shuihu people to "protect" the safety of the caravan.
Meng Yulong's task was to protect the prince and princess, and of course he would not follow He Mulan to attack, so when this world-shattering tiger army began to charge, all the onlookers were shaken by the momentum of the shaking of the earth.
The thieves had already realized that something was wrong when the sound of the horses' hooves came out, and all the people who were still in the oasis hurriedly got on their horses, and galloped in the opposite direction of the horses' hooves, completely ignoring their belongings or women's spoils.
However, it was one of the most elite cavalry of the Wei State that pursued them, and it was not an opponent to meet the enemy in person, let alone give them their backs.
Under the leadership of He Mulan, the cavalry team from Tiger Ten to Tiger Fifteen immediately drew their longbows, and Hermulan pointed at the arrows, and hundreds of arrows immediately scattered forward as if they had eyes.
The momentum was so frightening that the black-pressed arrows hit the target with the first swift arrow, like dumplings, and many horse thieves fell from the fleeing horses in front of them, and then they were trampled into the earth by their fleeing companions, and occasionally some unlucky ones tripped over their fallen companions and fell to the ground together.
The knights, except for the cavalry archers, wielded long weapons and pursued, and because of the soft ground, the tiger army was dented along the way, and this hellish depression stretched all the way behind the horse thieves, like a real fierce god, devouring the fleeing horse thieves one after another.
The Iron Horse spun furiously, wrapping the people in the oasis who didn't have time to escape in the middle, the Tiger Army also had a cruel side, and the long-suppressed march had made this look forward to a real battle, but these horse thieves were obviously just some rabble who bullied the weak and feared the hard. [,! So there was no good fight, and the Tiger Army teased these people like cat and mouse.
From time to time, they let go of a gap, or chased in other directions, but when the thieves thought they had a chance to escape, the gap closed mercilessly......
It's been a long time since these sand thieves have encountered such a situation, and the rout of the army has completely collapsed after being eroded by such violent cavalry.
Many of them almost hit the tip of the gun and the hooves of horses themselves.
He Mulan was at the forefront of the team, leading the Tiger Ben army to cut through thorns and thorns, the shadows roared, there was no armor left everywhere, and countless sand thieves died in her hands, the image of that kind of war was indeed extremely brutal, and the faces of the Iron Guard Battalion and others who were not far away changed dramatically.
At this time, the Tiger Ben army playing with the sand thieves was no longer an army, but a burst of debate, and each hundred-man team was a storm that swept through the enemy, crushing them mercilessly.
"Vomit ......"
Princess Xingping looked at the scene of blood flowing in front of her, and couldn't help but vomit in front of the horse.
Bodhi had never seen such a battle, and his little face was as white as if he had been coated in flour.
Meng Yulong estimated in his heart whether he would have such a record with this team, and in the end he could only reluctantly admit that he might be able to win, but not so beautiful and cruel.
Hermulan's goal was indeed to break the psychological defenses of these horse thieves, because she needed to get information about the infestation of these horse thieves in the desert through guò.
She may not care about one or two horse thieves, but once more and more horse thieves receive the news of the return of the team, no one knows whether they will take risks for the sake of that huge wealth and finally unite.
After a thunderous engagement, the Tiger Warriors rejoiced and cut off the heads of their enemies and shouted back to their comrades.
And the people who are watching this qiē, no matter what kind of psychology they hold to watch, they can't help but be dumbfounded and stunned like stone people at this moment.
Covered in blood, He Mulan rode his horse to the front of the battle in distress, and said to Fuqu Bodhi and Meng Yulong: "There are about two hundred people who have run, I need you to ask from these horse thieves who are not dead to find out the information about the sand thieves on this road, I am not very good at this ......"
Without waiting for a response, He Mulan stopped his words and looked at the two strangely: "What's wrong with you??"
"No, no, no, no, no......" Frustrated Bodhi was so frightened that he hid behind Meng Yulong. You you you don't go to wash ...... first"
"You mean that?"
He Mulan shook her head indifferently, and the blood beads of her enemies were thrown off her head with her.
"It's a trivial matter, I'll deal with it later."
Bodhi swallowed and shrank in.
Meng Yulong arched his hand in admiration, and said from the bottom of his heart: "The general is mighty, and he is willing to serve below."
With that, he pushed out Bodhi behind him, sighed in his heart, and pushed him in front of Hemulan.
"The prince is timid and lacks exercise, so General Lao will take care of him for a while."
Poor Bodhi was inexplicably slipped in front of the bloodied Hermulan, and his nose smelled a terrible smell of blood and rust, and before he could say excuses such as "I, I, I, I or I will go back to the team by myself", he saw He Mullan grinning at Bodhi with a "loving" smile.
"Of course, no problem."
However, in Bodhi's eyes, at this moment, He Mulan opened a hideous mouth, and the expression of "love" was also as if to say to him:
"Of course, he must be delicious."
Mother!
Come and save me!