Chapter 22: Retreat

Shi Cuigan and the elite cavalry under his command rushed towards the two black-clothed women with overwhelming momentum, and he himself even bent his bow and arrows, ready to shoot the two.

"Whoosh ......"

A series of bows and crossbows rang out, and more than a dozen cavalrymen of the Pinglu Army who rushed to the front were shot off their horses, and the ownerless war horse screamed a few times, stopped in place and sneezed.

The sudden change made Shi Cuigan frightened, and put down the bow and arrow in his hand and looked ahead vigilantly.

"Whoosh ......"

Soon, more than a dozen Pinglu cavalry were shot off their horses.

"Uh-uh-uh......"

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry of the Pinglu Army, which rushed in front, was constantly shot off their horses.

"Mi Niang, someone has come to save us, let's go."

Two women in black supported each other and ran towards the sparse pine Berlin in front of them.

At this moment, Li An, Kunxiong, Fei Yu, as well as Li Fei Shouyu and the White Wolf Mountain brothers under his command, were hiding behind the pine and cypress trees, shooting wildly at the cavalry in front.

Li An and the three of them have been martial arts idiots since they were children, and their archery skills naturally do not need to be repeated, Li Fei Shouyu's archery skills are even more powerful, and the archery skills of the White Wolf Mountain brothers are not weak.

"The owner of the village, the two men in black seem to be women, and they are here."

Zhang Erniu could see at a glance that the other party was a woman.

"Erniu, you take the brothers and protect these two people back to White Wolf Village."

"No, the owner of the village, we want to stay."

At this moment, Shi Cuigan's cavalry was more than 200, and Zhang Erniu was worried about Li Fei Shouyu and Li An, so he was naturally unwilling to leave with his brothers first.

"Erniu, to deal with these cavalry, the four of us are enough, you can only be a burden here, go quickly."

Li Fei Shouyu gave the death order mercilessly, in his opinion, even if all the brothers stayed, it would be impossible to block the impact of the opposing cavalry, and it would suffer heavy losses.

"Yes, Lord."

The two women in black walked over quickly and passed by Li Fei Shouyu's side, at this moment, Li Fei Shouyu suddenly had a sense of déjà vu, and a trace of tenderness welled up in his heart, but he quickly calmed down and continued to shoot.

"General, there is an ambush?"

Seeing that their comrades-in-arms fell off their horses one after another, all the cavalry were greatly surprised.

Shi Cuigan was even more furious, and ordered: "Soldiers, rush up for me, there are few of them." ”

"Driving ......"

After the initial panic, Shi Cuigan led more than 200 elite cavalry under his command and rushed forward.

"Shouyu, we are divided into two groups, and Kunxiong follows you."

"Okay, that's it."

Seeing that the opponent's cavalry was too numerous and was coming, Li An and the four of them divided into two roads and alternately covered the retreat.

The sparse woods more or less blocked the pursuit of the cavalry, and the skis of Li An and the four of them allowed them to retreat faster and more flexibly, for this reason, Shi Ngan and the more than 200 cavalry under his command were never able to catch up with Li An's four, and they were constantly shot and killed by Li An's four.

"General, you can't chase anymore, the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties."

Shi Cuigan looked left and right, and there were only one hundred and fifty cavalry left under his command, that is to say, nearly a hundred cavalry were shot off their horses by the four people in front.

As a general under An Lushan, he had never suffered such a major humiliation, which he could not tolerate.

"You all stay, I'll chase it alone."

The conceited Shi Cuigan rode a horse alone to pursue Li An and the four.

"General, General."

Several pro-soldiers couldn't help but follow.

Seeing that the other party was only chasing after five or six horses, Li Anxin was surprised for a moment, and then bent his bow and arrows, preparing to shoot the leading Shi Cuigan.

"Whoosh......"

With killing intent, the sharp arrow flew towards Shi Lugan's throat at an extremely fast speed.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Shi Kuigan's mouth, and he dodged violently, dodging an arrow shot by Li An, and drew his bow and shot at Li An.

Dodging and returning fire were completed almost instantaneously, and Ang Lee's skillful movements shocked Ang Lee, but the arrow still dodged.

"I've met a master."

Li An's desire to win was great, and he fought and left, and shot five or six arrows at Shi Cuigan, but they were all dodged by the other party.

"Big brother, shoot people first and shoot horses."

Li Feiyu reminded softly.

Li An smiled at the corner of his mouth, and shot an arrow at Shi Cuigan's seat.

"Hiss ......"

Under the effect of fixed thinking, Shi Angan did not expect Li An to shoot a horse suddenly, after all, Li An and the four of them shot down nearly a hundred cavalry all the way, but they never shot horses.

"General, General."

The soldiers in the rear saw that Shi Cuigan had fallen into the mud, so they hurriedly jumped off the war horse and helped Shi Cuigan up.

Shi Cuigan's face was full of unwillingness, but the other party was very powerful, and he knew that it was impossible for him to catch up with the other party.

"Go back, the whole army withdraws to the camp."

With an unwilling heart, Shi Cuigan retreated.

Looking at the cavalry of the Pinglu Army that was gradually moving away, Li An and Feiyu glanced at each other and smiled.

"No harm, the archery skills of the general just now are not below you, but you are much younger than him, and in the future, you will definitely be able to surpass him."

Li Fei Shouyu walked over gently, when Li An and Shi Rangan were shooting against each other just now, he had been watching from the sidelines, and found that Shi Rangan's archery skills were very powerful, and his love for talent suddenly rose, so he didn't shoot Shi Rangan.

Of course, Lifei Shouyu didn't know that a few years after he let go of Shi Cuigan, he would be given the name Shi Siming by the emperor, and more than ten years later launched a large-scale rebellion with An Lushan, completely dragging down the entire Tang Dynasty.

"Shouyu, I failed to kill An Lushan this time, and it may be even more difficult to kill An Lushan in the future."

Li An failed in one blow, and he no longer had any hope of assassinating An Lushan.

Li Fei Shouyu nodded lightly: "It's okay, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, there are many things that the eldest husband has to do, and he can't put all his thoughts on revenge." ”

"Big brother, the last shot you threw stabbed An Lushan in the shoulder blade, which can be regarded as a lesson to An Lushan."

"Big brother, Sun Xiaozhe was pierced in the stomach by you, and it is estimated that he will be seriously injured if he does not die, which can be regarded as revenge for the people in the village."

Li An nodded lightly and expressed his approval, this time, although he failed to kill An Lushan, but stabbing An Lushan and Sun Xiaozhe was also a big breath of evil, which made him feel much better.

Of course, if he knew that An Lushan, who was stabbed, was faked by He Side, it is estimated that Li An might be very depressed.

In the main hall of the Governor's Mansion, An Lushan frowned and paced slowly, and touched his fat belly from time to time, which was his habitual action and his signature.

On both sides of the main hall stood Yan Zhuang, Shi Cuigan, An Zhongliu and He Side.

Yan Zhuang lowered his head and didn't say a word, Shi Cuigan's face was pale, and he stopped talking, An Zhongliu was expressionless, like a stone statue, and He Side, who was injured, looked pained.

This time, all the actions were planned by Yan Zhuang, and every step was carefully considered, but he made two mistakes, one was to seriously underestimate the strength of the other party, thinking that these thieves were a rabble that were easy to deal with, but he did not expect that the other party's strength was extremely strong.

Another mistake was to calculate that the other party would divide the troops into two ways and make corresponding preparations, but he did not expect that the other party would actually divide the troops into three ways, which made his calculation fail.

Of course, Yan Zhuang's calculation of the two enemy forces is not wrong, Li An does plan to divide the army into two ways, but the man in black appeared in advance, and let the sneak attack come out all the way for no reason, which Yan Zhuang never expected, this may be the so-called people are not as good as the sky!

"Killed fifty enemies, lost one hundred, General He was slightly injured, Xiaozhe was seriously injured and unconscious, and half of the thieves ran away, hum!"

For such a result, An Lushan was obviously very dissatisfied.

Shi Cuigan hurriedly asked for guilt and said: "Governor, the last general is ineffective in killing the enemy, please punish the governor." ”

"Governor, General Shi has done his best, but his subordinates underestimate the enemy and underestimate this gang of thieves." Yan Zhuang bowed his head to excuse Shi Kuogan.

This operation was planned by him, and now that the operation has failed, he naturally has to bear the main responsibility.

An Lushan was very angry, but he knew that no one was to blame for this matter, Yan Zhuang was the maker of the plan, but he was not an immortal, it was impossible to predict all the circumstances, Shi Cuigan was a strong general, and he was a fellow villager, he knew Shi Cuigan, as long as he could kill all the thieves, Shi Cuigan would never let the thieves run away.

But after all, he is the governor of Yingzhou, and it is still necessary to maintain the most basic official authority, even if no one is to blame, he must lose his temper to deter his subordinates and make them submissive, this is the art of being an official, and it is the power of grace and power, and An Lushan is obviously proficient in this way.

"Okay, the matter is over, and it's useless to hold accountable, what should I do next, Mr. Yan?"

When Yan Zhuang heard this, his eyes rolled a few times, and he said: "Dudu, my subordinates have already asked people to check the more than fifty black-clothed people who were killed by our army, and found that they are all from the Xi tribe, and the items found from them can be sure that they are all from the Nu Du Clan." ”

"What, Nu Jibu, is this old boy Li Tagu trying to kill me?"

An Lushan was furious, his eyes were staring straight, and he couldn't wait to immediately send troops to fight against the Nu Dynasty.

"Dudu, the men in black are the Nu Du Ministry, but there is also a group of thieves, and they don't seem to be in the same group as the men in black."

Shi Rangan opened his mouth to interject, although in the end Ang Lee rescued the two women in black, Shi Angan could still feel that the man in black and Ang Lee were not all the way.

"And a group of people, the ones who left with their whole body?"

"Yes, Du Du, Erlang is very likely to be injured by this group, four of them are very powerful, and our two hundred cavalry can't help them."

When Shi Cuigan said this, he felt a deep sense of frustration, and his head was deeply lowered.

When He Side heard this, he immediately answered: "Dudu, the last general's shoulder was injured by a short spear, and Erlang's abdomen was also stabbed by a short spear, this is obviously a group of people. ”

An Lushan was stunned: "How many people are in this group?" ”

"Back to the capital, less than fifty people." Shi Kui replied.

Yan Zhuang rolled his eyes and arched his hand: "Dudu, if the subordinates' guess is correct, this group of thieves less than fifty must be bandits entrenched in the depths of White Wolf Mountain. ”