Chapter 23: The First Defeat
The breeze is light and the grass is abundant.
A 5,000-strong Sui army marched vigorously on the official road leading to Hailing. The head of the general, wearing a vermilion flame helmet, wearing chain mail, holding a hundred nails mace, with an angular face and a red beard, this person is X Ming, who had a force value of 95 last time, that is, Qin Ming, the good man of Liangshan.
On both sides of him, there is a general, the person on the left, nearly eight feet tall, handsome, dignified, dressed in bright silver armor, with a strong bow on his back, a quiver hanging from his waist, and a spear in his hand, this person is Li Guanghuarong, a good man in Liangshan.
And the person on the right is also heroic, with a sword hanging from his waist and a tiger head gun in his hand, Zheng Qin Ming's apprentice Zhen Sanshan Huangxin. Both of them were carried out by Qin Ming and joined the army together, and because of their strong martial arts, they were appreciated by Chang Yuchun, and they both served as captains in the army.
"Report, three generals of Qiqi, there is a Chu army arrayed in Xunlongling ten miles ahead, blocking the way of our army!"
"Oh?" Qin Ming listened to the scout's report, and his face showed surprise, "I didn't expect that there were such tough people in the Chu army, I thought that Li Zitong was captured, and the Chu army was leaderless, and when I heard that my Great Sui Heavenly Soldiers were coming, I should surrender immediately!" ”
Hua Rong frowned, and said cautiously: "Brother, don't be careless, I guess the main general of this Chu army is very likely to be Wu Yunzhao, it is said that he fought with General Xue Rengui for more than thirty rounds in the Battle of Huainan, which should not be underestimated!" ”
Qin Ming smiled and said: "Brother Hua Xian is too worried, although Wu Yunzhao is brave, but their lord Li Zitong was captured by our army, and the army's morale is weak, what role can Wu Yunzhao do alone?" ”
Hua Rong still said with some apprehension: "Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, I'll be careful." ”
Qin Ming waved his hand nonchalantly, "Brother Huaxian, you are too careful, Wu Yunzhao is in danger of guarding the Yangtze River, I don't think even he has any confidence in himself, he just doesn't want to surrender to our army." Since the three brothers and I joined the army, although they have been appreciated by General Chang Yuchun, they have not made an inch, how can such a great fighter miss it? ”
Hua Rong nodded when he heard this, "Okay, then listen to my brother." ”
Qin Ming pointed at the mace in his hand and shouted loudly: "Brothers, kill, capture Wu Yunzhao alive!" ”
"Kill!"
Five thousand Sui troops waved the weapons in their hands, trampled on the ground and dusty, and followed the Qin Dynasty to kill the Xunlongling ten miles away.
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Patrolling the Dragon Ridge, Wu Yun summoned his horse and spear, and the five thousand soldiers behind him lined up and waited for him, staring coldly at the front.
"It's coming!"
Wu Yunzhao suddenly muttered to himself, but when he saw the dust rising from the north, Qin Ming took the lead, brandishing a mace and rushing straight over like a tiger descending from a mountain, shouting in his mouth: "Where is Wu Yunzhao?" Do you dare to fight Grandpa Qin for three hundred rounds? ”
Wu Yunzhao's eyes were like torches, ignoring Qin Ming's provocation at all, silently calculating the distance between the Sui army and his own army.
300 zhang, 200 zhang, 100 zhang, 80 zhang, 50 zhang, 30 zhang!
When the Sui army approached, Wu Yunzhao's eyes suddenly burst out with terrifying killing intent, and he shouted loudly: "Send a signal, order the crossbowmen, and release the arrows!" ”
Clang!
With the sound of bangs, I saw that thousands of crossbowmen suddenly burst out on the mountains on both sides of the road, and fired at the Sui army's bows and crossbows.
Qin Ming is strong in martial arts, although he suddenly encountered a rain of arrows, he still used the mace in his hand to shoot down the feather arrows that shot at him, but Huang Xin beside him was quite unlucky, he was caught off guard and was shot into a hedgehog on the spot by random arrows, fell off the horse and was trampled into meat by the random horse.
"Quick, get out!"
Qin Ming saw that he had been ambushed, and the soldiers around him fell one after another under the enemy's feathered arrows, and he was sad in his heart, and shouted loudly to command the whole army to retreat.
"If you want to go, it's not that easy!"
Wu Yunzhao heard Qin Ming's thunderous roar from afar, a sneer hung on the corner of his mouth, and he said in a deep voice: "It's time for General Liu Zhiyuan and King Wu to appear!" ”
The herald behind him understood, hurriedly rushed to the high ground, waved the big flag in his hand, and Liu Zhiyuan, who had been in ambush for a long time, and Shen Faxing, the king of Wu, each took tens of thousands of elites to kill all over the mountains and fields, and quickly cut off the retreat of the Sui army.
"Damn, how can there be so many enemy troops? Didn't the Chu army have been seriously injured in the battle of Huainan? ”
Qin Ming couldn't break out of the encirclement when he rushed left and right, but instead lost a lot of soldiers, and couldn't help but scold viciously.
"It's not good, this is not the Chu army at all, this is the Wu army, it is Shen Faxing's Wu army!"
Hua Rong on the side was meticulous, listened to Qin Ming's angry scolding, and carefully watched the enemy's banner and armor, and immediately shouted out in a lost voice.
"That's right, but it's too late!"
With a sharp cold drink, Liu Zhiyuan flew the black-maned horse under his crotch, brandished the dragon scale purple gold knife in his hand, and rushed straight to Qin Ming and Hua Rong after killing the chaotic army, "I am Liu Zhiyuan, the general of the Chu army, and you have fallen into the siege of our army, so you will obediently dismount and be bound, otherwise you will be called to die without a complete corpse!" ”
"What a thief!"
When Qin Ming heard this, a burst of anger suddenly surged into his heart, his hair was upside down, and his eyes were about to split, "Hua Rong, you go back to the Chinese army to command the whole army, and I will kill this puppet!" ”
After speaking, regardless of whether Hua Rongtong disagreed or not, his legs slammed into the horse's belly, and he faced Liu Zhiyuan like an arrow from the string, and the mace in his hand attacked with a strong murderous aura.
"Ding Dong, Qin Ming was detected to have entered a state of rage, force +4, intelligence -3, base force 95, currently up to 99, base intelligence 42, currently down to 39."
"What's going on? Could it be that they are in trouble in the spring? ”
The main force of the Sui army is now crossing the Yangtze River, and Yang Gao is sitting on his handsome boat feeling the breeze blowing from the river, but he coldly receives the prompt sound of the system, first Huang Xin is killed, and now Qin Ming is full of firepower, and his heart suddenly "popped", and suddenly had an ominous premonition.
At the Dragon Patrol, Liu Zhiyuan looked at Qin Ming, who seemed to be unstoppable, the corners of his mouth suddenly raised a trace of hideousness, the dragon scale purple gold knife in his hand lit up, the cold light flashed, and a "mountain and moon" attacked him.
"Ding Dong, it was detected that Liu Zhiyuan has entered a state of bravery, with force +3, basic force 98, and the current force value has risen to 101."
"I'll go, it turns out that Liu XX last time was Liu Zhiyuan." Hearing the prompt of the system, Yang Gao was not calm, "It seems that Qin Ming is in trouble with the thunderbolt fire, this Liu Zhiyuan is not simple!" ”
Although Yang Gao is not very familiar with the history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, he still knows a little about the ranking of the fierce generals, among which the first is naturally the Flying Tiger General Li Cunxiao, the second is Shi Jianjiao, followed by Wang Yanzhang and Gao Siji, and after these two is the golden knife Liu Zhiyuan.
It must not be easy to be able to rank in the top five with Wang Yanzhang and Gao Siji, so when Yang Gao heard the system prompt and learned about Liu Zhiyuan's existence, he immediately began to worry about the safety of Qin Ming, a fierce general who had just joined him, but now he is also out of reach, so he can only silently pray that Qin Ming will be safe.