Verse 20: Drink the Machuan

The battle was raging in front of the Drinking Horse River.

A group of more than 50 cavalrymen was a strong outsider, few but freshly clothed and angry, and the horses were arrogant and blocked the mountain pass.

At the mountain pass, there were four or five hundred men confronting the cavalry, apparently the minions of the Drinking Horse River.

Most of these people were yellow-skinned, their clothes were tattered, they were armed with messy things, and they were wantonly provoked and insulted by the cavalry on the opposite side, but most of them were listless and no one went into battle, saying that they were robbers, but rather a gang of beggars who gathered to survive in the wilderness.

There were more than a dozen corpses lying in the open space between the two sides, and most of them were from Yumachuan. There were seven strongmen in leather armor who surrounded the three men and fought fiercely.

The three men are inferior in numbers, although they all have the ability and do their best, but they are exhausted by the opponent's extremely fierce style of play, and at this moment it cannot be said that they are completely in a desperate situation, and they have no chance of winning.

Even if they had a way to win these few, there were two not very tall but very majestic armorers watching the battle next to them.

These two people were covered in iron armor, carrying bows and arrows, and carrying large swords, and they were obviously the big leaders of this group of cavalry, and their skills must be higher.

In the forest, Duan Jingzhu pointed to the red-eyed man who was trapped and said, "He is Deng Fei, who is known as the fiery and fierce, and he is a righteous man." The other two don't know each other. The besieging Jurchen will be a thief of gold. ”

Zhao Yue stared at the guy who was smiling fiercely on the horse, and sneered: "I'm worried that I don't know where to find the thief's lair, and I don't want to run into it here." Doing too much evil. If you throw yourself into hell, you deserve to die. ”

The Drinking Horse River is about 30 miles away from the spearhead mountain. The golden thief's lair is not too far away. Recently, because Deng Fei's cottage has come to take refuge, as soon as the number of people is large, eating has become a problem, and they have to go out more frequently to "borrow grain", which 'attracts' the attention of the government, and also leads to the possible exposure of the gold thief's nest.

The Jurchen thief leader, who had never taken Deng Fei seriously, decided to get rid of Deng Fei immediately, knock down the Yinmachuan Cottage, and make the government lose its goal.

The political system and official organizational structure of the Great Song Dynasty are known for being the most complex and overlapping and wasteful in history. The administrative efficiency of the entire court is the lowest in history. Whoever has a little power is too involved in doing things for officials, and it is extremely difficult for the administration, especially if they want to innovate and do some good governance.

Of course, making money is in line with the **, not to mention all, at least the interests of the vast majority of officials, doing this, the efficiency of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty is not only not low, but also the heart is abnormal, and the administrative efficiency is extremely high.

Coupled with the cultural tradition of Confucianism and Qing talk, Song Chen believed that more things were better than less things, especially in the border areas, and it was difficult to be ambitious. If the Drinking Horse Thief disappears, the government will be happy, and who cares how he disappeared and where he went. Shift your gaze naturally.

Like Zhao Lian, he was able to break through all kinds of restraint and resistance at the local level, and innovate and efficiently enforce good governance, which was a special case in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Lian was approved to carry out the 'Special Zone Experimental Field', with the support of the emperor and high-level officials, and got along with Cai Jing and other powerful ministers, and had a strong Cangzhao hard power behind him with all kinds of powerful means to support him, and he himself was brilliant and politically extraordinary.

After cleaning up a few bold and unsightly local turtle provocateurs, no one dared to blatantly look for it. is really powerful, who wants to have nothing to do to offend a powerful favorite like him?

Of course, when he leaves the place, efficient and good governance will come to an end.

The Jurchen chief who led the Song thieves was called Wan Yan Guguduo, that is, the one who sat on the horse and smiled, and was the brother of the same clan of Wanyan Aguta, although he was young, he was brave and very smart, and he was deeply appreciated and trusted by Aguta, although he was only on temporary duty, he was sent to take full responsibility.

In this battle, Gu Gu Duo planned to remove Deng Fei and other thief leaders first, and the rest of the rabble, although the number was numerous, and the leader was lost, but it was just a chicken dog that the cavalry he trained himself to slash and kill.

Previously, he had used the Song people against the Song people and killed most of Deng Fei's right-hand men.

Seeing the situation clearly, Zhao Yue and the four of them hid their horses in the forest, sneaked up and approached quietly, and suddenly appeared and rushed to the arena as agreed. Jiao Ting, Duan Jingzhu, and Shi Yong were responsible for helping Deng Fei.

Zhao Yue's goal was to target the most hated two golden thieves.

He ran with all his might, jumped a few times to a distance of more than twenty meters, and with a sudden rise in his left hand, three three-star darts shot towards the multi-faceted door of Wanyan who was turning his head to stare at him.

The right hand also kills the other with three darts.

The bones and bones are really extraordinary, and the body suddenly leans back, and at the same time the big knife sweeps sharply. Two darts missed, and the third was stuck in his helmet, shooting through the iron sheet, and the edges and corners pierced into his forehead by half a centimeter.

The thrill and pain made Gu Gu Duo both frightened and angry.

With this dart there, don't dare to move your head, otherwise the helmet will hurt even more if you move it slightly. Naturally, they couldn't cope with it. When he heard the screams of his companions, he didn't expect it to be good, and immediately reached out and pulled out his dart, despite the great loss of blood. Unexpectedly, there was a huge pain in the back of the hand. Another dart pierced his palm.

No matter how loud the bones screamed, no matter how bad the hand was, he didn't care about the dart on his forehead that hurt him again, so he decisively got up and slashed his knife to guard.

Sure enough, a black shadow was like a swift and light cheetah, and it had already taken off and pounced.

He slashed out with a big knife fiercely, and he didn't want to know if it was the severe pain that made his eyes bad and he made a mistake in judgment, or if the enemy had some ingenuity, this knife actually slashed into the air, and it was too late to think about it again. I only felt a chill in my throat, and I was suddenly unwilling to get off the horse.

Zhao Yue learned from his master, stepped on a horse, and flew into the air to slash another horse.

The thief was much worse than his bones, and he avoided only one dart, and the other two darts plunged deep into his left eye, and one into his right cheek, and shattered the bones of his face. The nerves are most abundant on the human face. Both wounds were not fatal, but they were painful, and he covered his eyes and screamed, and the surviving eyes were full of tears.

Zhao Yue easily slashed the account, then retreated, rode on a war horse with many bones, and pressed the horse's belly with spurs on both feet. The restless war horse let out a long neighing and rushed towards Deng Fei.

The seven Jurchen barbarians, who were fighting and retreating while fighting, suddenly shook and fell three, each with a dart stuck deep in the back of their necks.

At this time, Zhao Yue's war horse also arrived in front of the enemy, and he gave full play to his speed advantage, swallowing his left and right swords, and slaughtered two more in an instant. The war horse rushed forward and instantly crashed into another one.

The remaining barbarians were frightened, and they were in a daze for a while, and their heads were cracked by Deng Fei taking advantage of the situation with an iron chain.

"Get on the horse and kill the thief."

Zhao Yue shouted, exchanged his swords, and rushed towards the fifty horsemen who came to the rescue. More than ten meters apart, this time it was a seven or eight darts, and regardless of the killing effect, the double swords flew and killed the enemy group.

'Good skills. ”

Deng Feiwei screamed, and didn't ask who the familiar Duan Jingzhu was, who this little hero was, snatched a war horse, and slashed the knife with an iron chain in one hand and a knife in the other, and followed to kill.

Lost the most powerful and ferocious Jurchen chieftain, the thieves were frightened, their morale was greatly reduced, and there were many people who wanted to turn around and run away, but whoever was afraid of death would die first, and they would only be chased and killed by Zhao Yue's Pegasus, who was bent on annihilation, and the darts from afar, the swords from near, and the thieves fell off their horses one after another

"I Deng Fei (Meng Kang, Yang Lin) visited Zhao Sanlang, and I am not grateful for the grace of saving my life, and I am willing to follow the life and death before and after the saddle."

Zhao Yue was stunned for a moment, and he was still thinking about how to say it in order to impress him, but he didn't want Duan Jingzhu to only introduce his identity, and before he could ask who the other two heroes were, the three men knelt down happily.

"Good. The three hero brothers, please hurry up. My family is not happy to kneel around, so I don't have to kneel down the backbone of a good man. ”

This is the temper of the three heroes of the drinking horse river that has only been freshly baked recently.

They had heard of Cangzhao's various deeds, and they had early admiration, but they didn't go to take refuge because of the taboo of officials and thieves. raised, and I suddenly felt convinced and steady.

Zhao Yue was more excited than them.

I never expected to find the heroes of Sanliang Mountain this time, and they still have their own specialties.

Meng Kang is a shipbuilder in short supply.

In the future, you don't have to go to the battlefield to play what you are not good at, work in the shipyard with peace of mind, and strive to become a leader in new technologies in the shipbuilding industry.

Jin Leopard Yang Lin is heroic, delicate, alert and cautious, sharp-tongued, and a natural spy. The city of Tokyo is lacking such a lively-eyed Jianghu person to do things. There you have it.

In the future, you will pay attention to talented and unambitious people in Tokyo, make more friends with Lin Chong, Xu Ning and other heroes, and accept Zhang San and Li Si, the ruffians of Daxiangguo Temple, waiting for the great monk who only kills people and does not chant Buddha.

The flower monk Lu Zhishen is the purest hero, and he is also one of Zhao Yue's favorite Liangshan heroes. Such a pure hero must be taken under his banner and not let him suffer any more grievances.

As for 007, it has to be the dexterous and handsome prodigal son Yanqing.

One day I will find an opportunity to take him.

For Lu Junyi, the number one master in Liangshan, Zhao Yue's interest is not so urgent.

Deng Fei?

The martial arts are good, and he is definitely a good man with righteous and enthusiastic spirits. Cultivate well, leave things to him, rest assured.

There are more than 1,000 people in the Yinmachuan cottage, but Zhao Yue smiled bitterly.

This is a den of robbers, and it is clearly a refugee camp.

Discuss with Sanjie and let go of the poor food in the cottage to eat. Get everyone back to work as soon as possible. Anyway, there is no food, and there are still many more in Spearhead Mountain and the nearby gold thief's nest. Consume more and save moving.

Reluctantly picked out three hundred strong and brave men, ate and practiced a little, and prepared to attack the golden thief's lair today. The rest stayed here for the time being, waiting to be transferred to the seaside, and went directly to Zhao Sanzhuang to live with the boat that responded.

Now the details of the gold thief's lair have been clarified.

At the beginning, there were seventy horsemen of Jurchen who mixed in here, and then increased slightly. Some have died in battle over the years. Now there are fifty-nine left.

Among them, there are ten spearhead mountains, which have been completed.

There were thirty people who escorted the supplies of the main village to the beach and were in charge of guarding them, and took away the most ferocious 200 Song thieves. Five of them went to Spearhead Mountain to receive supplies, and they brought fifty thieves. This should be gone. The ten who came to attack here, including the chief thief Mu Wanyan Gu Guduo, are all finished.

Now there are only four Jurchen barbarians left in the thief's nest, and the remaining two hundred bandits are weaker and the thieves are guarding the house.

Zhao Yue asked Duan Jingzhu, who had the best equestrian skills, to make a hard trip, and return to Spearhead Mountain, if the Jurchen who received the goods was destroyed, he would leave five guards to guard it, and the others would come over to participate in the battle

Meng Kang stayed behind to drink Ma Chuan.

Zhao Yue led the team to go straight to the enemy's cave and came to the front of the village, and he could not completely sneak in the daytime to raid and attack hard.

It was still Zhao Yue who broke through first, jumped to the wall at the door to intercept and block the gatekeeper thief, Tang Bin and the others followed closely, quickly killed the enemy, and opened the gate.