Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Grand Steward is angry, and the consequences are serious

Liu Youzhu heard from the big boss that the Wudang Flying Army of Zhuge Kongming of the Three Kingdoms crossed the mountains and rivers every time, and broke when it met the enemy, so it was named the Flying Army.

Therefore, when he was training the Wudang battalion, he paid great attention to the speed of marching, and his tactics were fast, ruthless, and accurate.

From Lou Fu to Montenegro, and then to the terracotta ditch of the Longquan River, a total of thirty miles, he took less than two quarters of an hour to speed up all the way.

On the opposite bank, there are 100 horsemen stationed in the horse terracotta ditch, it is Gu Dingtian who put here to guard against Mengjiazhuang to copy his back road, seeing that Liu Youzhu's 300 Wudang camp is coming, he does not retreat, but dismounts one after another, and forms a formation by the river.

The Longquan River is a seasonal river, and now there is neither snow melt nor rain, and it has long since dried up, but there is still some silt mixed with stones in the middle of the river beach, and if you try to break in, the horse's hooves will definitely sink into the silt.

The Wudang camp stopped a hundred steps away from the river, and Liu Youzhu pointed out eighty people, each dressed in double-layer cotton armor, wearing a newly made iron helmet, one carrying five javelins, holding a swallowtail shield, and under his personal leadership, slowly advanced under the rain of arrows from the Hu family.

When they reached the river, there were still seventy-two people in the eighty-one camp, all of whom were twisted and thrown, and seventy-two javelins roared into the opponent's spear array.

After a round, more than a dozen Hu family bandits were defeated, dozens of shields were smashed, and there were two-foot-long javelins stuck on them.

After two rounds, the Hu family bandits fell again, seventeen or eighteen people.

After three rounds, there were only about fifty of the Hu family's 100 bandits, and they began to turn around and flee, and the 220 Wudang battalions behind them also roared and killed.

After four rounds, Liu Youzhu drew his long knife and strode across the river beach into the opponent's scattered formation.

Of the 100 horsemen arranged by Gu Dingtian here, only 20 horsemen escaped back to report to him.

Six of them were killed, all of them by being shot in the throat or in the face while bidding for guns, and twenty-five were wounded, thanks to the wearing of double cotton armor and iron helmets, these wounded soldiers were basically only lightly wounded.

Liu Youzhu left twenty people to take care of the wounded, and by the way, he collected the other party's scattered war horses, and he took the remaining two hundred and fifty people and rushed to Lanhe along the horse ditch.

Because he had to drive a hundred slow mule carts, Gu Dingtian's march was very slow, not much faster than not being able to do it.

After receiving the news that the terracotta ditch had been breached, he realized that the situation was not good, and when he looked back, he saw that the man surnamed Qin was leading four hundred horsemen, hanging behind him unhurriedly.

Gu Dingtian led the army to turn around, and when he wanted to kill the one surnamed Qin and fight to the death, the other party ran away and didn't fight him at all.

It seems that this guy is determined to intercept him from both sides.

To the northeast of him is the Arashi River, the valley has not dried up, the water level is still very deep, and it is not feasible to cross the river on horseback.

So, on the one hand, Gu Dingtian sent fast horses to the East Village to ask for help, and on the other hand, he asked people to throw down the hundred mule carts, not even the mules, and led the five hundred horsemen to leave the road, climbed the Nancui Mountain next to it, spread their hooves and galloped to the west, trying to bypass Liu Youzhu.

He happened to pass behind Liu Youzhu's ass and retreated in the direction of the horse shop along the horse ditch.

However, the dog thief surnamed Qin still took four hundred horses and bit him tightly.

After Liu Youzhu found out that Gu Dingtian slipped away from behind his buttocks, he was annoyed, and just wanted to chase after him, the herald sent by Qin Chuan arrived, asking him to pay attention to the movements of the Hu family in the East Village, and prepare to ambush the reinforcements.

So, Liu Youzhu didn't chase after him, but got into the black dragon depression north of Zoumagou, ready to wait for the rabbit.

When the news came back to the Hu family, the entire Zhuangzi jumped for a while, and there were less than three hundred people left behind in the Hu family, but they forced out two hundred horsemen and went south from the Black Dragon Valley to meet Gu Dingtian.

As soon as I entered the trumpet ditch of the Black Dragon Valley, there was a sudden shout of killing on the slopes on both sides, and arrows, javelins, stones, etc. were overwhelming, and in the blink of an eye, half of the two hundred men and horses fell.

The rest of the men galloped out of the narrow ravine, but they found a hundred enemies lined up in front of them.

The leader didn't care much, grabbed a finger, and more than 100 horsemen of the Hu family roared and rushed over.

Fifty paces, the opponent was confronted with a rain of arrows, thirty paces, ate a round of javelins, twenty steps and another round of javelins, and finally entered the range of ten paces of more than 20 horsemen, and was also pierced by the third round of javelins.

The two hundred horsemen of the Hu family are all explained here.

There were less than 10 casualties in the Wudang battalion.

Liu Youzhu only roughly cleaned the battlefield, and then led two hundred and fifty horsemen to lead the captured horses to the East Village.

The east village of Lanxian County is at the southern end of the plain, adjacent to the Lanhe River, and the only low mountain on the plain in the north, Lianghei Tea Mountain.

Hujiazhuang is built on the half-slope of the Black Tea Mountain, the scale is nearly twice as large as Mengjiazhuang, and the Hu family is naturally nearly twice as large as the Meng family, and even the East Village at the foot of the mountain is more than twice as large as Loufan Town, with more than 500 households.

When Liu Youzhu arrived, the defenders of Hujiazhuang were less than 100, and the people of the Hu family temporarily pulled three or four hundred young men in the village and brought them into Hujiazhuang to help guard the village.

But Liu Youzhu didn't attack the village at all, grabbed a few villagers and asked, and then went straight to a courtyard at the foot of the mountain on the eastern side of the Black Tea Mountain.

There are a lot of plains and wastelands in this area, the water and grass are abundant, and there are many pasture slopes in the area of the local black tea mountain and Zhangshangou in the east, so the Hu family raised a lot of livestock.

Because the livestock feces and urine were smoking, the Hu family built a yard on the eastern side of the Black Tea Mountain and enclosed all the livestock there.

When Liu Youzhu got there, he was immediately happy.

In this huge livestock yard, there are seventy or eighty ploughing cattle, more than 600 sheep, only twenty or thirty mules, donkeys and horses, etc., which should have been led to deliver grain to Jingyou, and there are only twenty or thirty mule carriages, which should be matched with livestock, and there are quite a few chicken carts, more than 100 vehicles.

Liu Youzhu was not polite, first searched the entire yard, loaded more than 100 stones of bean material into the car, and did not let go of even the forage, piled up all the chicken carts, and the farm tools, saddles, and hoovers in the yard should be taken away.

In the end, more than 20 mule carts and more than 100 chicken carts loaded with forage drove out of Dongcun, and Liu Youzhu led a hundred Wudang battalions to drive hundreds of cattle, sheep and horses to press the formation behind, and did not rob people's houses, but only swaggered south along the Lanhe River.

The people of the Hu family did not dare to come out to chase and kill, because there were less than 100 people in Zhuangzi who were really capable of fighting, and the hundreds of villagers were sent to death when they went out.

They could only watch as the son of bitches drove away their livestock, gritting their teeth with hatred.

On the way, Liu Youzhu gathered up the hundred mule carts that Gu Dingtian threw in the middle of the road, loaded all the forage on the chicken cart onto the mule cart, and returned to Lou Fu in a mighty way.

Qin Chuan has been biting Gu Dingtian to the death, not letting him turn around, and not letting him return to help Dongcun.

Gu Dingtian didn't know that Dongcun had been robbed, and thought that Qin Chuan and Liu Youzhu were chasing him in the east and south, so they just ran along the zouma ditch to the northwest.

He didn't dare to stop, because the surnamed Qin chased very closely, as soon as he stopped, the surnamed Qin would take advantage of the situation to rush and kill, which was simply a catastrophe for his subordinates who had not had time to set up their formation.

Chasing and chasing, Gu Dingtian suddenly found that the surname Qin was no longer chasing.

When he also reined in his sweaty mount and turned his horse's head, he found that the man surnamed Qin had withdrawn a few hundred paces away.

He didn't dare to chase after him, because Liu Youzhu's more than 200 people and horses had not yet appeared, and he was afraid of being ambushed.

Moreover, his hundreds of horses first traveled fifty miles from Dongcun to Jing, and then galloped all the way from the Longquan River to here, and their horsepower had reached the limit.

If they ran any further, the five hundred horses would have to die of exhaustion.

So, Gu Dingtian asked his subordinates to rest on the spot and feed the horses some bean feed.

A quarter of an hour later, people from Hujiazhuang in Dongcun came and brought bad news: 200 reinforcements from the Hu family were wiped out in Heilongwa, and the enemy took advantage of the situation to loot Dongcun and rob all the livestock and vehicles of the Meng family.

When Gu Dingtian heard this, he was immediately furious, and his scarred face was extremely hideous.

"The surname is Qin, I Gu Dingtian and you swear not to stand together!"

He scolded for a long time in the direction of the south, and Gu Dingtian, who was tired of scolding, suddenly regretted it, if he had given him a thousand stones of grain at the beginning, the Hu family would not have suffered such a big loss.

Now, he has broken 200 men and horses in Heilongwa, more than 70 men and horses in Chitugou, 100 mule carts in Longquan River, and more than 70 ploughing cattle, more than 600 sheep, bean fodder, and countless other tools in Dongcun, all of which are worth far more than 1,000 stone of grain.

Those two hundred war horses alone are worth five or six thousand taels of silver, and they can buy three thousand stone of grain.

But......

No, this one must be recovered!

Gu Dingtian's hideous face was once again fierce.