Chapter 422: Capturing Dou Lu Yan
"It's a great place to march and fight! It's a pity that there is only a group of hungry people and a rabble on the other side, and they can't use their strategies and strategies with the two of us to fight for 300 rounds. Zheng Hao rode on a tall jujube red horse, and he proudly pointed out the country along the way.
"Hehehe, there is a rabble on the other side, and the two thousand people behind us are not elite soldiers." Although Dou Lu Yan was a little more stable, he was also in high spirits when he took 2,000 people to fight for the first time.
"Even so, how can Huang Feibee compare with you and me, even if he gives him 100,000 elite soldiers, it is difficult to beat Su Zhuang's clever calculation!" Zheng Hao said loudly.
Dou Lu Yan was praised by Zheng Hao, and the pride in his heart also came up, and he said unashamedly: "Don't say it's Huang Feibee, if you give me 20,000 elite soldiers, it will be those famous generals of the East Palace, Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui is not a problem." β
"Exactly, those who relied on the favor of the East Palace, who led the elite of the Tang Dynasty to destroy Xue Yantuo, thought that they were skilled in the art of war, how do you know that our children of the family are both civil and military, but there is no chance to lead the troops to fight." Zheng Hao was also indignant when he heard this.
Hearing this, Dou Lu Yan looked at the hill in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said: "Today, I will practice with the rabble of Yellow Flying Bees, and I may not have the opportunity to compete with them in the future." β
The two walked slowly as they spoke, and before they knew it, they were in front of the hill.
"Wait!"
Zheng Hao was about to pass through the mountain path as soon as he lifted the reins, but was stopped by Dou Luyan.
Zheng Hao looked back at Dou Lu Yan in confusion.
"The scouts haven't come back yet, and we don't know what's going on behind the hill." Dou Lu Yan explained.
Zheng Hao laughed when he heard this: "Su Zhuang, you really know how to tell jokes, think that a stupid person like Huang Feibee can also understand the art of war?" You also sent scouts to explore the way, and you don't want to think that these people behind you can be scouts?"
Dou Lu Yan nodded with a smile and said, "What Hongwen said is the same, but let's be careful and wait for him for a while." β
When Zheng Hao heard this, he didn't say anything anymore and ordered the scattered team behind him to stop.
The latter people are all domestic slaves and thugs in the mansions of various scholars in Yichuan County, and they follow their masters to collect debts and rents, and bullying the soft and afraid of the hard are their strengths. Today, I have been marching since I got up in the morning, and it has been nearly two hours now, and I am too tired to walk.
I heard that when I stopped to rest, I sat down on the mountain road to rest, and some people kept complaining.
"No wonder only good families are used in the Tang Army, and these domestic slaves really can't be ruled by the military." Zheng Hao heard the complaining voice behind him.
The complainant Dou Lu Yan also heard it, and said with a cold expression: "As long as the 'Seventeen Forbidden Laws, Fifty-four Beheadings' are strictly implemented, there will be no soldiers who are not well trained, and Sun Wuzi can even train the beauties of King Wu into a formation back then, let alone these people?"
As he was talking, he saw several young men in black robes turn out of the hill path, Zheng Hao and Dou Luyan immediately woke up, waved their hands and signaled their house slaves to come forward to stop a few people for interrogation.
"What do you guys do?" The house slave shouted and asked from a long distance.
When the young man on the other side saw this, he hurriedly raised his hands and said again and again: "We are the subordinates of General Flying Bee, and we have come to report the news." β
"Go up and take a closer look, and if you don't have any weapons with you, bring them to me."
Seeing that his house slave did not dare to step forward, Dou Lu Yan frowned and shouted.
These people are all slaves of the Doulu clan, and they dare not disobey Dou Luyan's orders, so they can only boldly step forward and search the people who come from the opposite side.
Zheng Hao said indignantly on the side: "These minions are really used to living a peaceful life, and they have even forgotten how to protect the head of the family." β
After a while, Dou Luyan's house slave came over with the young man in the black robe, and said with a flattering face: "Childe, we have searched these people, and there are no weapons on them. β
Hearing this, Dou Lu Yan glanced at these young people, and saw that they were all yellow and thin, and the black robes on their bodies were fat, as if they had been stolen from them. He flattered him with a thief's smile on his face, and was very contemptuous of them in his heart.
Standing there with his head tilted, he didn't look at these people, and asked in a pinched tone, "What kind of letter did Huang Feibee ask you to sendββ??"
A thin young man hurriedly bent over and said with a smile: "General Flying Bee sent the villains, saying that it was one or two hundred cavalrymen from Cuijiazhuang to inquire about our news everywhere, and General Flying Bee didn't know whether it was an enemy or a friend, so he sent us down the mountain to ask the adults for an idea."
I happened to meet here, so let's give us an idea! I'm so ......."
"Alright!"
Zheng Hao couldn't stop listening to him ramble on and on some slang, and stopped him impatiently.
When Dou Lu Yan came, Cui Qiang told him that Zhou Jin had taken three hundred East Palace guards to find Huang Feibee. Dou Lu Yan made a plan at that time, first working with the Yellow Flying Bee to eliminate the three hundred East Palace guards, and then eliminate the Yellow Flying Bee.
That's why I sent someone to deliver a message to Huang Feibee in advance.
"No one is going to deliver a letter to you?" Dou Lu Yan asked suspiciously.
"Sending a message? What kind of letter to send? We haven't received a letter, so what's the letter?" The young man said with a blank look on his face.
Dou Lu Yan glanced at him and didn't feel like he was lying, so he turned his head to look at Zheng Hao.
"It's normal that the wasp didn't receive the letter! Maybe the person who delivered the letter has long since been lost. "Zheng Hao doesn't care about authenticity.
Dou Lu Yan was right when he thought about it, and secretly scolded a group of useless minions in his heart.
"I know everything you said." Dou Lu Yan was a little irritable, and then asked, "Where is the Yellow Flying Bee now?"
"General Flying Bee has led the crowd out, and now he is behind Cuijiazhuang, monitoring the two hundred cavalry." The humanity of the message.
Dou Lu Yan listened and said in a low voice: "I haven't even figured out the number of people, and I am still monitoring?" After that, he asked loudly: "How far is Cuijiazhuang from here?"
"Five or six miles away, over this hill, there is a tree in front of ......"
"Alright! The head leads the way. Dou Lu Yan couldn't get used to listening to him.
"Hey! The small one leads the way. The young man nodded hurriedly and led the way.
"Order, keep marching!"
The house slaves sent by the families at the back had just rested for a while, and this time they couldn't help but have back pain, their legs were weak, and they all scolded and scolded, barely following behind.
Dou Lu Yan was riding on the horse and heard a word, he was angry, and he intended to give the house slaves behind him a little hardship, and kept whipping and stepping off the war horse to speed up.
Dou Lu Yan's acceleration can make the house slaves behind him miserable, those house slaves are not trained on weekdays, and now they are out of breath when they suddenly run, and they don't even have the strength to scold.
Even so, it didn't take long for the house slaves to run, and Dou Lu Yan couldn't help but slow down and wait for the house slaves behind.
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On a dirt slope next to the avenue leading to Cuijiazhuang.
Xue Rengui looked up at the sun in the sky that was almost due south, and asked with some confusion: "Why hasn't you arrived yet, and if you send someone to investigate, where has the enemy gone?"
Behind him, two hundred brightly armored cavalrymen stood beside the war horses, with carved bows on their backs, Tang knives hanging from their waists, and horses in their hands.
As long as Xue Rengui gave an order, they would definitely be able to quickly step on their horses, draw bows and shoot arrows, and raise their swords to kill the enemy.
After a while, a spy came back from the front, ran to Xue Rengui's horse, hugged his fists and said: "General Qiyu, the enemy army has entered the woods on the right one after another, and the vanguard will come out in half an hour." β
Xue Rengui's expression remained unchanged and waved his hand to order him to go down, and shouted loudly: "The enemy army has arrived, and the whole army is ready to mount." β
The generals were in good spirits and immediately turned on their horses, holding the reins in one hand and the gun in the other, ready to charge at any time.
But after half an hour the woods on the right were still as quiet as ever, and it did not look like an army was about to come out.
Xue Rengui was about to call the spies just now over to ask again, when he saw several people riding tall horses coming out of the woods.
Because I can't see who it is from a distance, I can only see that these horseback riding postures are leisurely, and it seems that they are holding horsewhips along the way and pointing at the scenery along the left and right, like sour rotten scholars who visit scenic spots.
"Where are the scouts?"
Xue Rengui couldn't hold back any longer, and asked loudly.
"The little ones are here!"
Hearing Xue Rengui's displeasure, the scout just now immediately rolled off his saddle and dismounted, kneeling on one knee in front of Xue Rengui's horse.
"Who is this on the way?"
Xue Rengui pointed at the few people who had just walked out of the woods with a horsewhip, and the scout hurriedly turned his head to look at it.
"Why don't you report to me earlier when there are idle passers-by on the road?" Xue Rengui rebuked angrily.
The scout looked at it and confirmed that it was the leader of the enemy army who was walking on the road, and hurriedly said: "General Qiqi, they are not idle passers-by, but the leader of the enemy army. β
"You read that right?"
Xue Rengui didn't believe it.
"General Qiyu, the little one is willing to vouch for the head of the item, and there will never be a mistake!" The scouts are categorical, they are scouts to investigate the military situation, they are all people with excellent eyesight, and they are so questioned by Xue Rengui, their temper naturally comes up.
When Xue Rengui heard that the scout was dissatisfied, he also realized that he had passed, so he softened his tone and asked, "Where are the two thousand enemy troops?"
The scout pointed to a group of house slaves who were following behind Doulu Yan's horse and said, "Aren't they all following behind?"
"How long are they in line?" Lu Hong, the deputy general next to Xue Rengui, asked curiously.
"It's always a few miles long." Scout said.
"How do you fight this?" Lu Hong asked Xue Rengui.
Xue Rengui looked at it for a while, and saw that the soldiers led by Dou Lu Yan had really been lined up far away, and there were only a few dozen people around him, and there were still weak ones one by one.
"What's going on, you just take a team of people down and capture their leader."
Xue Rengui said impatiently.
"Order!"
Lu Hong clasped his fist at Xue Rengui and saluted, then raised his horsewhip and said loudly: "Brothers, follow me!" Take down the leader of the rebels and make a big contribution! β
Seeing a group of cavalry following Lu Hong down, the soldiers on the hillside couldn't help laughing.
In their eyes, taking down a self-righteous "Sun Wuzi" like Dou Lu Yan really can't be regarded as a great achievement.
"Wow"
There was a sound of horses' hooves.
A group of cavalry led by Lu Hong roared down like a black storm. In a blink of an eye, he came to Dou Lu Yan and the others, and before they could react, Lu Hong stretched out his long arm, grabbed Dou Lu Yan's collar, and gently ripped Dou Lu Yan off his war horse.
The other soldiers also easily captured Zheng Hao and a few house slaves who could fight.
The house slaves who followed them, no matter who sent them, were all stunned.
"Drop your weapons and crouch down!"
Lu Hong let out a loud shout and then raised his knife and cut off the heads of several domestic slaves who were standing in front of him in a daze.
The bloody human heads and bones rolled out of the distance, scaring the people present who did not dare to breathe.
"Put down your weapons and crouch aside!" Lu Hong shouted again.
A group of domestic slaves did not dare to resist, and hurriedly threw down the knives and guns in their hands, and squatted on the side of the road with their heads in their hands.