2. The aftermath of the catastrophe
Peeking at it, after shooting several waves of arrows in the middle of the army in front, two teams of flying horses were separated from the two wings, and along both sides of the crowd that kept charging forward, they raised their long long knives and kept slashing and killing to the rear.
"It's a good thing I didn't get to the side, otherwise even if I couldn't cut it to death, the horse's hooves would have turned into rotten meat! No way! Can't tremble! I've seen a demon die once! I'm not afraid of anything! Now is the time to run for your life! ”
Under the strong pressure of the cold air from his heart, Wang Bo crawled under the colder and colder corpses, turned his head slightly sideways, and squinted to observe the situation on the battlefield.
At this time, the two armies had already fought together, fortunately there were not many cavalry troops in iron armor, most of them were under the command of a general, and the strong men with yellow scarves on their heads were scuffling, while the remaining dozen or so soldiers were scattered in twos and threes, slashing and killing those who dared to resist, and cutting off the heads of the wounded who were constantly wailing. Then slowly surround the center of the melee.
There were dead bodies around Wang Bo, some of whom were stabbed to death by guns; There is a knife that cuts off the head; and arrows and horses...... Severed limbs can be found everywhere, mixed with scarlet, piercing blood, forming piles of strangely shaped objects, occasionally interspersed with the figure of the Iron Arm.
In the middle of the crowd, where Wang Bo began, like freshly cut wheat stubble, countless severed limbs and rotten flesh were scattered, and it was impossible to find a complete corpse, which made Wang Bo truly appreciate for the first time, the tragic scene after the cavalry charged, and the stomach that had just regained its calm surged up again......
Wang Bo, who had just pretended to be dead for a while, saw that the battlefield was slowly moving to the distant woods, and the cavalry troops on the periphery did not pay any attention to the cannon fodder who had been cut down most of them just now, but kept following the periphery of the battlefield, and the yellow turbans who rushed out of the encirclement were killed one by one.
After waiting for another quarter of an hour, Wang Bo moved his mind: "It's time to escape!" What to do when the victorious soldiers return to clean up the battlefield? I don't know if I want to be the first to do it? Probably yes! There is no ancient war where you can make military merits without a head! ”
Wang Bo raised his head carefully, seeing that the battlefield was not very real, he looked around, touched a cavalry saber, and took off a dagger from the hands of a dead corpse, calmed down, and quickly took off a pair of cavalry soft armor and hard shoes, and was just about to turn around and crawl along the low-lying barren grass ditch, a slight chaotic sound came from behind him, the hair exploded, and he rolled to the side to see that there were many dead corpses, and people who pretended to be dead like Wang Bo kept getting up.
Some were already repeating Wang Bo's actions just now, and some were sitting as if they had just woken up, and a few suppressed cries sounded, struggling to turn over the corpses of their relatives beside them, hoping that they would come back to life.
Wang Bo widened his eyes, made a silent movement, and roared in his mouth: "Don't howl! It's better to be alive than dead! If you want revenge, find a way to live! If you want to live, run separately! After speaking, Wang Bo turned around, bent down and ran towards the low-lying place.
Several people behind him also turned around and followed, Wang Bo turned his head and scolded while running: "Get away!" Don't follow me! Otherwise, no one will be able to escape! ”
After running for a while, I climbed a low dirt slope, just to catch my breath and observe the lazy situation around me. Behind him, a few people in ragged clothes also rolled over, and a slightly strong man came to Wang Bo with a smile and sat down. Wang Bo frowned and tore off the yellow cloth that the big man tied to his forehead, and scolded in his mouth: "Still wearing this dead man's cloth? Afraid that others won't recognize you? Isn't it a death to meet cavalry? The big man smiled innocently and said nothing.
Wang Bo looked at the few lean young men who came over and asked, "Why are you following me?" It's hard to chase the enemy when you run separately? One of them bowed his head slightly and said, "We want to live!"
Oh, yes! "I want to live, too!" What a reason! What a simple reason! Wang Bo sighed, and looked at the dozens of young men who were constantly climbing up the low slope behind him, and the old and weak couldn't survive at all! Say to the side, "Let them come around!"
Everyone sat in a circle, and Wang Bo asked loudly, "You all want to run for your lives together?" The crowd nodded.
"Good! Now throw away everything you have except your weapons! Those who have stripped off their clothes should now put them on, those that are too heavy should be thrown away, and those who have hidden food will now be eaten! Otherwise, throw it away! Take a break, and all of you run diagonally to the opposite woods! Leave it alone! After speaking, he glanced at it again, "Rip off your ragged robe!" ”
"That's all I have." The little man said timidly.
"It's better to be bare than to be caught up and cut off your head! People who are about to die are still afraid of people's jokes? Wang Bo glared.
The little man hurriedly used the short knife in his hand to cut through the tattered blue hakama that hung down to his feet, revealing his smooth and slightly white thighs, but others no longer had the desire to laugh.
After Wang Bo was calm and methodical, everyone had a glimmer of hope for survival from the bottom of their hearts, and their eyes were much hotter when they looked at Wang Bo.
After touching for about a minute, Wang Bo stood up, shook off his legs, carried the long knife that he was reluctant to throw away, and ran forward first, not to mention that dozens of people behind him stood up at the same time and ran in a hurry.
"Don't run too fast! Hold on! It's not something that can be done in one go! You can run a little longer! ”
Over countless undulating hillsides and grasses. Wang Bo and his entourage were diagonally away from the direction of the battlefield just now and ran towards the mountains and forests, so they felt that the distance was far, but there was no way, the farther away from the battlefield, the greater the chance of escape.
Wang Bo led the way to run from the low-lying places as much as possible. The team behind was getting bigger and bigger, Wang Bo frowned, and ran forward again, and the honest man who followed closely looked back, and then looked at Wang Bo, and finally couldn't help but turn around and take a breath, and shouted: "It's not far from the forest!" When you go to the woods, you have to live! If you don't want to die, keep up! A few middle-aged people at the back of the queue who had become staggering walked started jogging again when they heard this.
After a while, most of the people, including Wang Bo, also changed from running to walking, whirring like the panting sound of a broken fan, and the lungs to the throat were hot, like a red-hot iron rod inserted. But everyone insisted on or mechanically walked on their legs, as if there was only one movement left in heaven and earth.
A meandering stream flowed quietly over the hillside in front of it. Wang Bo puffed up his strength, tore open his somewhat hoarse throat, and shouted: "There is water ahead!"
As if stimulated, the crowd quickened their movements again, and rushed over the hillside towards the stream, until the last few turned into rolls.
Wang Bo rushed to the river first, picked up a handful of water and paused, splashed it on his face, and used his weak arm to block the Han man who was raising his hands next to him and pouring it into his mouth, and gasped for two breaths before saying: "Drink it after a while, be careful to break your stomach."
Han Han turned his head to look at Wang Bo, scratched his messy hair, turned to the side and shouted, "Stop them!" Rest for a while and drink again! Or break your belly! ”
Everyone stopped holding their hands and looked at Han Han and Wang Bo in puzzlement, and saw that they had not drunk water, so they finally stopped and threw themselves into the stream, fell on their backs on the clear green grass, and gulped for breath.
After resting for a while, and pouring a few handfuls of sweet stream water, Wang Bo turned over and climbed back to the small slope just now, looking towards the battlefield.
The crowd of people in the scuffle was already faintly invisible, and the sound of shouting and killing, and the golden sound of weapons intersecting could not be heard. But Wang Bo knew that the danger was not far away! If the cavalry kills all the enemies, they will inevitably return to the battlefield to harvest the heads and collect the corpses of their own people. Before his group ran into the mountains and forests, the cavalry sitting on horseback could hardly see anything except the blind ones, unless they all climbed on the back of the slope and remained motionless. But now it's just noon, and it's early before dark! It's hard to guarantee that you won't meet a ranger who goes to the creek to get water.
And after crossing the creek, although it is less than two miles away from the mountain woodland, if it is discovered, with the foot strength of the cavalry coming in an instant, catch up with this group of stragglers, it is simply not too wasteful, no more, ten or so riding two or three back and forth, you can kill them all!
With a "bang", Han Han squatted next to Wang Bo like a fart.
"This thing can't even breathe? It's a lot of stamina! Wang Bo, who hadn't even caught his breath, rolled his eyes speechlessly, of course, in exchange for a stunned laugh.
He kicked lightly and said, "Let them all find a way to decorate some water, and if they lack physical strength, change the long and short weapons, and let the physical strength be heavy things." If you escape for your life, you will have to rush into the mountains and forests for a quarter of an hour at most! ”
"Whoa!" Han Han replied loudly, but the nondescript courtesy he learned made Wang Bo raise the corners of his mouth.
A commotion rang out in the crowd, but after a few kicks, Han Han and the lean young men were honest. Han Han scolded angrily: "Count your slow running!" Take such a long gun? didn't wait for the thieves to catch up, he ran away first! I want to die and get away! Don't drag us down! ”
The middle-aged man, who was still wearing a wide Confucian shirt on his upper body, shrank his head, hurriedly pretended to comb his messy hair, and quickly picked up the dagger next to his foot with his other hand, and turned around.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Wang Bo went down the hillside, picked up the water and poured a few mouthfuls of it, and without looking back, he crossed the not spacious stream, and the Han man next to him yelled: "Let's go!" This is a close second. The crowd that had slowed down hurriedly followed.
The terrain is getting higher and higher, and the forest is getting closer and closer, but Wang Bo is getting more and more worried. But he didn't look back, because of life experience Wang Bo, it's useless to look back. If a pursuer spotted their group, they couldn't stop it by looking back and twice.
just looked at the Han Han who was running side by side from time to time and signaled him to hurry up. Now this group of people always felt that they were not as energetic as they had just run, perhaps because they were a little relaxed away from the battlefield, or because the vigorous running just now consumed too much of their physical strength.
The team was obviously divided into three waves, Wang Bo and Han Han, as well as those lean young people, a group of eight or nine ran in the first wave. Dozens of steps behind, thirty or forty of them formed a wave, and some of them had slowly turned from running to race walking.
The six or seven people at the back, when they found that they had fallen to the end, immediately rushed forward a few steps like a needle in the buttocks, and then slowly fell to the back of the line, and rushed forward a few more steps...... Over and over again, like a telescopic spring, people can't help but laugh!
Wang Bo also felt that his physical strength had been squeezed to the limit, his legs trembled, he bit his back molars for a while, and opened his mouth wide for a while, almost relying on the inertia of moving forward, stepping forward. And the Han man next to him opened his mouth and smirked a few times from time to time, which made Wang Bo eager to go up and rush at his front teeth, and it took a few punches to relieve his hatred.
Wang Bo's increasingly heavy worry became a reality, and a sudden burst of voice in the crowd behind him: "The thieves are coming!" The panicked crowd finally became chaotic. Due to nervousness, some even fell to the ground and could not get up again, and some cried and crawled forward on all fours......
Wang Bo's feet were empty, and he fell to the ground. Before he could get up, he shouted to Han Han: "Pick up the weapon, the long weapon can't be thrown!"
Han Han paused, turned around and yelled back, "What howl? Can't run even if you have the strength to howl? Far away! Can't catch up! Hurry up and get your weapons back! ”
A few people who had lost their weapons picked up the knives and guns thrown on the ground almost without thinking, and struggled to run towards Hanhan.
"Give me the long weapon!" With a bang, more than a dozen long weapons smashed into Han Han.
"Want to hack Lao Tzu to death? Little Cubs! Come! A few of you take it! After giving eight or nine people running in front, each with a long weapon, Han Han hugged the remaining five or six pieces with his right hand, and with his left hand, he pulled up Wang Bo on the ground and dragged him forward.
After a while, another person came up, grabbed Wang Bo's left arm, and ran forward. Wang Bo didn't bother to turn his head at all and express his gratitude to both sides.
Seeing that there were only a dozen steps left, he could rush to the edge of the forest, and his ears heard the faint rumbling of horses' hooves behind him. Wang Bo hurriedly shouted: "After entering the forest, those with short knives will run in front to pick up sticks and sharpen them, and those with long weapons will gather together and break them off!" Then he added: "If you can't kill them, no one can run!" Wang Bo, who was sitting on the ground just now, had already seen that there were only a dozen or so horses chasing behind, but fortunately, the grass galloped without dust and could be seen clearly.
Kankan was about ten steps away from the running crowd into the woods, and the dozen or so riders who chased after him could no longer walk because of the increasingly dense weedy slope. The undying enemy soldiers jumped off their horses, hung their bows and arrows and the quivers on their backs, leaving three or four men, and the rest of them chased after them with their sabers in their hands.
At this time, Wang Bo and his entourage had gone deeper into the woods more than a dozen steps away.
"Pick up branches and sharpen them, three per person! You! You! The one in front of you comes here! Grab the spear! Wang Bo raised his voice while pulling the grass. Han Han stared: "Hurry up!" Cowardice! Looking at the crowd of people who were cutting branches with weapons, Wang Bo thought for a moment and asked Han Han to line up.
As he spoke, he peeked at the pursuing enemy soldiers, and then said, "Come here with a long knife!" Ten more with pointed sticks! Squat there with me! When fifteen or sixteen people had been gathered, he said, "The one with the pointed stick is hidden behind!" Hear me shout 'Throw it'! Throw the stick at the enemy soldier and run in this direction! ”
Then he commanded the man with the long knife: "Let us wait for the enemy to come to us, and while the thieves are hiding from the sticks, we will cut down the dog in groups of three!" And then run again! Got it? Hide it, see me do it again! Don't move! Run when you're done chopping! ”
"A few more people with sticks, standing ten paces behind you, answering us, and throwing them when they see the thieves chasing after them! Then run in this direction! ”
Wang Bo uncomfortably pressed a few more throwers, and asked Han Han to lead another wave of people to take dozens of steps behind Wang Bo and continue the previous arrangement. Wait for Wang Bo to cross them before making a move, and so on, I don't believe that these pursuers can't be killed.
A group of people listened to Wang Bo's plan while walking, and Han Han patted his head with his big hand: "Okay!" Listen to you! I know big brother you can do it! A few people with spears flashed in their eyes when they heard this, and the people who were sharpening the wooden sticks in their hands paused blankly, only the middle-aged man who was wearing a Confucian shirt just now listened, jumped his feet, clapped his hands and praised: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Thou art a man of God! Seeing Han Han's eyes, he retracted his head and hurried away.
After walking more than ten paces, Wang Bo grabbed the six people who were carrying the big knife and said to Han Han: "Don't look at us! Keep walking, and after twenty steps of ambush! ”
After speaking, he clenched the long knife in his hand and squatted down with the six people with pale faces. He instructed a dozen or so men with short sticks to hide not far behind them.
Only then did he stare intently at the enemy soldiers who kept shouting and chasing. He said again: "Do you see the three people chasing at the front?" The three of you cut the one on the left, the three of you cut the one in the middle, and I'll deal with the one on the right! What to shake? Cowardice! If you don't kill them, you'll die! Even if you die, you will pull a cushion! Shake me again and throw you out! Several people were scolded so well that they were calm.
The enemy army was getting closer and closer, and following the sound of the Han Han in front of them deliberately screaming for their lives, they couldn't imagine that this group of ragged civilians dared to stop and ambush. Pull open the half-man-tall barren grass and chase it forward.
Holding his hand on the chest of the huge jump, Wang Bo stared at the three enemy soldiers chasing the fastest in front of him, and silently said in his heart: "One step!" Two steps! Three steps! ......" suddenly opened his mouth and shouted: "Throw it!" After speaking, he didn't care about the few sharp wooden sticks flying behind him, slapped the person next to him with his big hand, and slashed at the planned enemy with a knife in both hands.
Since Wang Bo had already instructed in advance to cut off only half of his armor and not protect his legs, a few people who had no way to retreat gritted their teeth and picked up the big knives in their hands, and slashed horizontally at the three thieves who were panicking and dodging the flying sharp sticks. Immediately, a scream rang out, and except for one who was cut in the air due to improper force, the other five people were hit, even if the effect was not all good, but at least these three people could not chase anymore.
"Run!" After chopping, Wang Bo picked up the person next to him who was in a daze and ran back. The little sergeant led by the chasing soldiers in the back scolded loudly, left another person, and led the others to chase after him with shouts. Some even threw a short knife, but fortunately missed.
Wang Bo, who was running, shouted at the second wave of pitchers in ambush: "Throw the stick!" This time it was finally thrown neatly, and a thief covered his face and screamed and rolled to the ground.
After everyone gathered, they rushed in the direction where the group of people led by Han Han ran. He fell down from time to time in a panic, but he didn't lose a weapon in his hand.
The enemy petty officer glanced at the four fallen and wailing companions, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Keep chasing!" Just a few little moth thieves can still turn the sky upside down! I didn't want to go back and be beheaded by Lord Duber, so I slaughtered them to avenge my brothers! Kill! He led the remaining ten soldiers and chased after him with a bright sword.
Wang Bo didn't have much time to cross Han Han and them, and it is estimated that they all saw the effect of Wang Bo's ambush and were already at ease. They all hid quietly in the grass, waiting for the thieves to chase after them.
This time five more were cut down, although the thieves had been more careful, but the half-human tall grass covered the ground tightly, and in addition to chasing from the bottom up, it was impossible to see at all, and there was no second ambush, so they landed again.
There were only six thieves left, and they looked at their companions who were screaming on the ground, looked at each other again, and under the command of the petty officer, they slowly retreated on guard. But what happened next made them stunned, and a trace of fear welled up in their hearts with anger.
It turned out that Wang Bo was ambushed again, and after waiting for a group of Han Han people to run over, he waited for a while, but did not see the thieves chasing him, so he stopped Han Han and asked about it, and the thieves retreated.
After Wang Bo secretly followed and observed for a while, he suddenly realized: There are only six enemy soldiers left who can walk, but nine people were injured.
slapped his thigh, and a ruthlessness surged into Wang Bo's heart. He turned around and said, "If you want to find food, you have to follow me!" Kill them and have horse meat to eat! "Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and then look at Wang Bo, and finally Han Han and more than twenty young people who didn't look too thin stood behind Wang Bo.
"They were also born and raised by their parents! Afraid of what? Didn't kill it very well just now! A bunch of cowards! Since you don't want to go, go by yourself! Don't wait for us, we will go our separate ways in the future! Wang Bo scolded again.
A dozen more slowly walked over, others still standstill.
"Let's go! Eat meat and go! Wang Bo took the lead, and he didn't look at the two dozen people who were left, and chased after him quickly.
More than a dozen neat pointed wooden sticks flew over, this time the accuracy was good, although most of them fell on the iron armor behind the thieves, but there were still a few pierced into the thighs, making several intact enemy soldiers roll and crawl, and the wooden stick wounds on the legs, although not as deep as the big knife just now, also frightened them enough. The wounded soldiers, who were still supported one by one, were also thrown aside.
There were several more waves of sticks flying, and there was no one left who could stand and run intact! Except for the leading petty officer, all of them turned into rolling down, screaming in horror from time to time.
"Kill!" With a loud roar, Han Han took the lead, picked up the big knife and waved it several times, the pursuers screamed again and again, several wounded soldiers with serious lower limb injuries suffered first, only the slightly injured ones resisted slightly, and were also beaten to death.
"! This Nima is so violent! Eight or nine of them were killed by one person! Hiss ......"
Wang Bo and his entourage only had two unlucky guys, who were cut by the dying and struggling wounded soldiers, and they didn't look serious. The little leader was ordered by Wang Bo to stay, and he was trapped with rattan, Wang Bo was not at ease, and left three people to take a knife to his neck to guard.
Then he shouted: "Horse meat is on the edge of the woods!" There are only three or two thieves left, don't let them run! ”
Although the few enemy soldiers guarding the horses outside could not see the situation in the forest, the earth-shattering shouts and screams also made them very puzzled. He was looking over here in disbelief.
Wang Bo led the crowd around a little, and a burst of sharp wooden sticks flew out, and the rest were all killed effortlessly, taking over the horses.
He collected all his weapons, including armor and clothes. In the end, there were only a dozen bloody corpses left, so Han Han led people to dig a pit and bury the matter.
Killed one of the thinnest-looking horses, and there were quite a few water bags on the horses, and made do with an iron helmet and boiled them in the woods. Wang Bo did not let go and divided into several groups of lookout posts, and everyone happily rested around the fire.
The harvest was quite abundant, almost everyone had a weapon, of course, not a short dagger knife, a dozen bags of flour made of corn, a dozen small packets of jerky, and a dozen standard short bows. It's a pity that there are no arrows in the quiver, and only dozens of iron arrows remain, which may be left by damaged arrow shafts.
A full nineteen fat and strong war horses, if it weren't for Wang Bo who said earlier that eating horse meat, it would not be good to lose trust, where would he be willing to kill one, and he was going to make some jerky for the rest of the food, but looking at this posture, I am afraid that it may not be enough to eat, so I have to do it.
Wang Bo skewered a large piece of horse meat brought by Han Han with a small wooden stick, roasted it on the fire, and talked with others, occasionally sprinkling some salt found from the horses. Han Han looked at it with a long stream of saliva, a smirk on his face, and before Wang Bo could bake it, he took another large piece and stretched his neck to squat beside him.
The rest of your life is always happy. A large group of people also laughed and became familiar with each other, and the twenty or so people who were reluctant to chase and kill the enemy soldiers before also came over timidly in search of the fragrance, but they didn't dare to step forward, swallowing their saliva vigorously on the side, and staring at Wang Bo and Han Han with blank eyes.
I don't know who whispered, I immediately turned around and looked around for a few handfuls of wild vegetables, you pushed me and concentrated it in the hands of the middle-aged man in a torn shirt, the middle-aged man held a large handful of wild vegetables, and carefully rubbed it in front of Wang Bo, and the strange face carved by sweat and dust was full of smiles and said timidly: "This big brother...... This one...... Checkmate...... We ......".
Wang Bo slowly turned his head and glanced at him, then looked at Han Han and a few more ferocious young people who had just killed, and then waved his hand impatiently and said, "Cook the wild vegetables that can be eaten, give them half of the horse offal, wash and cook them yourself!" These talents are very grateful, and they are happily busy.