7

In normal times, the sound of drums and horns had died down for some time, and the sound of sound sleep in the camp was everywhere. At present, the soldiers of the Northern Front will doze off for a while if they can seize the opportunity to sleep. At the entrance of the camp, on the sentry tower, there were countless soldiers who fell asleep leaning on their bows and crossbows and leaning on their guns, and although everyone was standing, none of them still had their souls. The cold wind blew through the night, and from time to time a cold soldier woke up with a sneeze, but no matter how loud it was, it couldn't disturb the dreams of the people around him.

Thinking fiercely, the screams of killing shook the sky, waking up Xing Tao, who was already asleep. He thought it was nothing more than usual harassment, and the instructor adjutant could deal with it, but when he was asleep, he heard the sound of rushing and killing getting closer and closer, mixed with the crisp sound of iron colliding.

He got up from the bed with a stir, and the aftermath of the half-vat of wine made him feel like the world was spinning. At this time, the scout happened to run into the tent and shouted in a panic: "Enemy attack, general, real enemy attack, real enemy attack!" ”

Xing Tao was surprised and delighted when he heard this, "Grandma's, finally let me wait!" He swayed and picked up a pair of silver hammers, and rushed out of the tent before he had time to put on his armor. Brothers, don't panic, go into the city with me. ”

As soon as I got out of the camp, I saw a fire flying in the sky, and arrows flew into the camp with green smoke like a wise tail, although it did not ignite much fire, but it covered the already dark night even more mysteriously. The torches were reflected on the smoke walls, and the orange flames were in clusters, and it was difficult to distinguish the battle situation with their eyes for a while. Xing Tao led the guards to rush to the noise and kill, and within a few steps, he saw rows of red light.

"Kill me with me!" Xing Tao opened the silver hammer and rushed to the net, and not far away, the black armor of the Xuanlong Army had just been pushed to the fence of the camp, and it surged inward. He danced like a paddle with a double hammer, and the blades he encountered either bounced off or broke. The cold-forged armor of the Xuanlong Army was like brittle paper in front of the silver hammer, and when the hammer went up, the brains would burst, or the bones and tendons would break. With the courage of the general, the Beifeng soldiers who rushed to hear the sound rebuilt the defensive line after a while, and maintained the battle line in the area of the fence on the west side of the camp.

Seeing that the battle situation was stable, Xing Tao slowly withdrew into the formation with the blood spots on his face. "Come, everyone, stay close to me, let's rush over together!"

He led the soldiers forward like a captain, and the soldiers who had gathered temporarily were like a rainbow for a while. Seeing this, the Xuanlong Army hurriedly gathered together and set up a spear shield array, but the heavy shield was instantly swept away by a pair of silver hammers, leaving only a piece of wood chips.

While he was fighting, Xing Tao suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves rolling like thunder behind him, and when he turned around, he saw rows of black shadows whistling towards him. The black shadow rushing in front of the formation held something like a long lock in his hand, and when he got closer, he knew that it was a rolling log for rushing to the town led by dozens of cavalry.

"Get out of the way!"

However, the thick rolling logs were coming, and the Beifeng soldiers who had gathered for a while were slapped on the gun array in front of them in a row. Xing Tao took advantage of the strength of the wine, and after dodging the rolling logs, he used his doubles to resist the chains, and with a force of both hands, he dragged several cavalrymen off their horses.

"I am Xing Tao, the left general of Beifeng, who dares to come forward to fight!" He roared in the midst of all the hosts, and frightened the horses all around, and the men retreated one after another. Just when no one dared to approach, a black shadow flew from it.

"I'm here to see you on your way!"

Xing Tao glanced at it and saw that this person was dressed in black mountain pattern armor, with a long collar of long feathers on his iron jacket soaring into the sky, holding a slender straight knife, the straight knife was black and red, but the cold light was faintly flashing at the edge of the blade. When he saw this person like a wolf in his eyes closer, he was so shocked that the smell of alcohol dissipated for a while, and he shouted in his heart that it was not good.

"Zhong Li!"

8

On the second day of October, Zhong Li gathered 500 brave men and came out of the drainage canal in the back alley. Taking advantage of the sound of drums, a team of 100 people was led to swim across the big stone stream with driftwood. For a few days, the scouts came to observe the beacon tower, and the sentries changed shifts every hour, and Zhong Li and the others waited until the beginning of the shift to take down the left and right beacon towers, and then led the rest of the men and horses with chains and baggage to cross the water.

Yin Zheng, Qin Lang, and Xia Mao each led 1,500 people out of the north and south city gates, and after eating cold food, they groped their way to the vicinity of Beifeng's main camp by the sound of drums and horns. At the same time, Zhong Li and the others all touched the beacon tower after swimming across the river, and waited for Mu Chu's sentinels to change shifts.

Mu Chu passed by, and estimated that Zhong Li would take the shift sentry, and Qin Lang and Xia Mao launched an attack on the main camp. Zhong Li changed the same number of soldiers into sentry clothes, went to the north side to deceive the guards in the north of the camp, and captured the trestle and gate in the north of the camp. At this time, the west side was already full of soldiers, Zhong Li ordered all the troops to get on the horse, regardless of the scattered soldiers in the camp, 500 people camped on the west battlefield. When he arrived at the battlefield, he saw this Xing Tao dancing a pair of forty-pound silver hammers, and he killed them heartily.

9

"Take your life!"

When Xing Tao hesitated, Zhong Li's knife was already in front of him, and he was busy blocking the knife with a hammer, but he felt that the slender knife was like a snake looking straight at his face. Helplessly, the double hammer protected the face, and the knife in front of him rubbed the hammer to make a flash of fire, and the collision and friction made a thunderous sound, and the mouth, nose and eardrums trembled as if they were about to spurt blood.

"What a cruel knife!" Xing Tao reluctantly took the blow, forcing his almost out-of-body soul to return to his body. Looking closely, two three-third-minute deep knife marks were cut on his pair of silver hammers, and if he received another blow in the same position, I am afraid that the hammer head would be cut out.

Zhong Lilema turned around and looked at the knife edge, the two collapses were very conspicuous on the smooth knife body. "No wonder Dai Ying trusts you so much that she can take my blow intact. It's a pity that you will die here tonight. ”

Zhong Li flicked the reins again and stabbed at Xing Tao with a straight knife. Xing Tao first drew the hammer to the left, and when he saw that the tip of the knife pointed directly at the tip of his nose, he quickly swung to the right, and then used his right hammer to remove the tip of the knife, and then rotated his body and hammered the horse's belly with his left hammer. Like a heavy hammer hitting a drum, the horse was hammered as if it were about to rise after a muffled sound, and then his legs went limp and rolled forward seven or eight times before stopping, and blood gushed from his mouth and nose.

Although the horse was killed as he wished, Xing Tao felt that Fang Cai's right hammer had not eaten up the strength after a little thought. It turned out that Zhong Li took advantage of the situation to retract the knife, jumped down the horse, and the whole person flew behind Xing Tao while the horse was in the air, and the long knife was immediately slashed. When Xing Tao reacted, he saw a knife wound on his left shoulder, and blood had flowed down his arm to his left hand.

"It's a pity for my horse!" Zhong Li couldn't help but sigh when he saw that the horse had already died.

Xing Tao didn't care about the wound, and walked in front of Zhong Li with a hammer. "You don't have a horse, now see how arrogant you can be!"

The smoke of gunpowder filled the sky, and the shouts of killing filled the ears, but the soldiers on the two sides in front of them seemed to have reached a tacit understanding, no one took a step forward, nor did they do any provocation or shouting, and watched the duel between Zhong Li and Xing Tao together. Bunches of torches surrounded the two of them, and the originally dark and cold late autumn dawn was pierced by the scarlet and warm firelight. Zhong Li's Changxun long knife was stained with blood on the tip, Xing Tao's double hammer reflected the orange firelight, and the two of them were separated by a zhang, listening to each other's restrained breathing, looking at the restrained eyes, and no one wanted to sell the flaw first.

Suddenly, the jackdaw was startled, and Zhong Li raised the knife with both hands to slash forward at Xing Tao's neck. Xing Tao stepped forward with his left hammer and pulled the knife, and the right hammer went straight to Zhong Li's chest, not wanting the knife to suddenly turn into a backhand at the moment of touching the hammer. Zhong Li flashed sideways again, the back of the knife was close to his body and rubbed the right hammer, and when he lifted the knife again, he saw that Xing Tao's right finger was cut off in two. Xing Tao was not afraid, and with three fingers, he clenched the hammer and turned around and smashed it into Zhong Li's back. Zhong Li hurriedly moved forward with the knife on his back, although he unloaded some strength, the blade of the knife was still trembling by the hammer, and his hands were so numb that he almost couldn't hold the knife.

"Ruthless!"

"Quick!"

The two men admired each other after the next round, then looked at each other and smiled, and then turned around to fight for their lives.

Zhong Li took advantage of the length of the knife to take the lead in slashing, and when Xing Tao parried and wanted to counterattack, he hurriedly withdrew his body and did not meet his hammer head. And Xing Tao was also afraid of Zhong Li's ever-changing knife techniques, and tightened the hammering action to minimize flaws. After a few more rounds, Zhong Li saw that Xing Tao's right hand, which was missing two fingers, was almost at the limit, so he slashed his left wing with a right downspin, and then turned sideways and slashed his right leg with a light stroke.

"Not good!" The moment Xing Tao swung his right hammer to make a block, he felt that he had been seen through by Zhong Li, and sure enough, at the moment of contact, Zhong Li put away the knife, and the twenty-pound hammer flew out by itself due to the force of rotation.

"I conceded."

Zhong Li raised his hand and slashed again, Xing Tao parried with a single hammer with both hands, and Zhong Li flipped his back hand again, and the blade of the knife directly turned the hammer head and rotated to the inside. Zhong Li pushed the hammer away with a knife, and then twisted his waist with an arrow step, and saw a knife edge from his shoulder to his ribs, and Xing Tao fell to the ground in response.

10

As dawn dawned and the morning light rose, the cuckoo began its mournful and ethereal cry again. The fire of the main camp of Beifeng has been extinguished, and the soldiers who have survived for several days are very tired, but they are still happy to clean up the battlefield.

Zhong Li leaned against a dead tree with thick wheels, checking Chang Xun's injuries. After a fierce battle, although the knife was not bent or cracked, the edge of the knife was already uneven, and it was indispensable to hand it over to the blacksmith for repair.

"Repair the knife and draw blood to stain the red, and the horse leather shroud builds martial arts. Ping Ming is a confidant, and Lao Mu is tired of relying on Wen Lengfeng. ”

"The strong crossbow fights against the enemy's heart, and the lone rider rescues the danger. There are so many men in the world, how can they be heroes after tea? ”

Halfway through the casual chanting of poetry, Zhong Li was interrupted by a familiar voice. He looked back and saw a purple figure slowly approaching in the midst of the smoke, gradually revealing in the blue-gray smoke framed by inky wreckage and withered black branches.

"Don't take my poems, entertain me."

"Now that you know I'm entertaining you, it means that I'm not bad at it."

"Just look down on us boys like that?"

"Obviously I have solved it with my brain, but I have to risk my life, I obviously feel that I have a heavy responsibility, and I don't hesitate to die at a critical time. What do you want to do with your temperament, what kind of ambition do you want to talk about, what kind of bosom friend do you call the rivers and lakes, what kind of hero to use to legend, you teach me how to look at it? ”

Gu Yu's words actually amused Zhong Li, "Obviously I am secretly trying to come up with all kinds of ways to help remind me, but Mingli wants to be sneering." What kind of heroes and not heroes do women like you comment on? He replied like this, but Gu Yu didn't care, just looked at each other and smiled.

"What's next?"

"Rest for half a day before sending troops, just leave a thousand men in the city, and it is expected that no more army will appear in this pile of stones. The next thing is to think about how to find Dai Ying's home formation. ”

Before the two chatted for a few words, Qin Lang handed over the rough statistics such as battle losses to Zhong Li. In this battle, more than 1,000 enemies were killed, and the rest surrendered after Xing Tao was killed, which also made the Xuanlong army only pay the price of more than 200 casualties.

"The grain and grass are heavy and the others are pulled back to the city first, and the rest are kept for a slow inventory in the future. At present, the military situation is urgent, and the whole army returned to the camp to repair until the beginning, and the Weizheng army followed me, leaving only Xia Mao and a thousand people to stay. ”

"Understood. General, one more thing. Seeing Zhong Li's signal, Qin Lang continued: "What to do with these more than 6,000 prisoners of war? Escorted back to the city? But if after the general leaves, there is a northern front army attacking the city......"

Zhong Li frowned. "Take it to the city of urns and shoot it."