Chapter 2: Ambush

Seeing those Tartars galloping towards him from a distance, Li Xiao felt the hot blood in his whole body, as if he brushed the ground, and was immediately ignited. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

As several Tartars quickly approached, Li Xiao saw clearly, in fact, there were only three Tartars riding horses, and on the saddle of another tall horse, there was a woman tied obliquely with her hands and feet tied! The horse, which was carrying the woman on its back, was led by a tartar in front of him, and ran with the reins.

"Good fellow, there are only three Tartars, God help me! Now, let's just deal with one by one! Beside Li Xiao, Xiao Daquan's optimistic voice came.

Xiao Daquan and Xiao Er didn't notice that Li Xiao at this time had a condensed face.

He sighed secretly in his heart, this Xiao Daquan was too much to take for granted.

Only Li Xiao knew that of the three Tartars who came on horseback, the one who led the way and led the horse with the woman tied to it was a white tooth horn with a back gold, and the two behind were infantry soldiers.

Compared with Xiao Daquan and Xiao Er, who only know hunting for a living, Li Xiao, who came from later generations but has read the history of the Ming Dynasty, knows more about the Later Jin army.

He knew that in Houjin's army, the soldiers in the army were mainly divided into three ranks, guards, infantry armor, and horse armor. Ordinary Manchurian males, starting at the age of ten, take exams every three years, and if they meet the standards, they are guards, then infantry armor, and then horse armor. On the vest is Pashku, which is selected by the winner in the vest, and the Han people call it the leader. There are more elite soldiers, who were selected as white swing tooth soldiers, commonly known as white armor soldiers, and later evolved into the later Manchu Qing Dynasty guard camp sergeants, among the eight banners, they are the scarce but most elite and capable soldiers. You must know that the Tartar chieftain Taiji's personal entourage is only more than 200 people.

The white-toothed soldier at the front, dressed in white lacquered armor as shiny as silver, wore a black dark helmet with a high red tassel, and a flaming border flag on his back.

The two infantry soldiers who followed on horseback behind were both wearing blue cotton armor with large copper bubble willow nails and ordinary tasselless iron helmets.

Li Xiao didn't have time to explain the Houjin military system to the optimistic Xiao Daquan, and if he really wanted to say it, it would only make Xiao Daquan and Xiao Er's pressure multiply and their confidence frustrated. At this time, his face was silent, but his heart was secretly tightened.

With each of these three people on the side of the family, with a hunting bow and a pig iron waist knife, they want to deal with a white swing tooth and two foot armor, how small is the chance of victory.

It's just that the arrow is on the bow and has to be sent!

"Uncle Daquan, Xiao Er, listen to my orders, and focus on shooting the white-armored one in front of you!" Li Xiao shouted the order.

"Good!"

There was a soft gurgling sound, and the bowstrings of the three were full, and the cold cast iron arrows pointed at the leading white tooth horn that was getting closer and closer, and everyone could hear each other's heavy breathing and nervous swallowing saliva.

Li Xiao didn't know that the white swing tooth lama who was leading this small team and galloping at the front was named Zha Su, who was actually a personal guard who was trusted by Huang Taiji.

Zha Su is a person who is brave in battle, strong in martial arts, and loyal to Huang Taiji, so he is quite appreciated by Huang Taiji. It was precisely because of his trust in him that Huang Taiji had a deliberate intention to promote him. In this campaign to attack the Ming army in southern Liaoning to seize Jinzhou, Huang Taiji arranged for him to be a member of the Zhenglan Banner to get Bashiku, in the hope that he could make military merits, and after he returned, he could be promoted by military merits.

In this battle, Zasu really lived up to Huang Taiji's expectations. In the large and small battles of the march to southern Liao, all of them personally led their troops to charge in front, and where the tiger sword passed, the Ming army was defeated by the wind. Later, in the battle to conquer Lushun, he took the lead and braved the arrows and stones to climb the head of Lushun City, which made great achievements for the Houjin Army to finally conquer Lushun.

At this time, Zasu, who was galloping on horseback, just wanted to cross Panlong Mountain as soon as possible, and wanted to rush to Wajiadian in the north of Panlong Mountain to rest before dark. This elite post-golden-white tooth swinger never thought that on the side slope of this Panlong Mountain and the valley, there would be a few ordinary grass people who would dare to ambush him here.

"Put!"

Li Xiao shouted angrily, and the three of them loosened their strings at the same time, "Whoosh! "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" With three soft sounds, each of the three iron arrows slashed out a white light and rushed out.

The first volley, Xiao Er's shot missed, Xiao Daquan's arrow shot right in the chest of Bai Swing Yala's mount, and Li Xiao's iron arrow penetrated through the gap between the white lacquer heavy armor worn by Za Su and penetrated into the left arm of the white swing tooth soldier.

The mournful screams of the horses rang out with Zasu's roar. The wounded mount raised its front hooves high and threw Zasu, who was wounded in his left arm, off his horse.

Seeing this sudden change, the two infantry soldiers who followed behind were stunned for a moment, but these two were long-term warriors, although they were attacked by surprise, but they reacted quickly, and the two quickly turned over and dismounted, blocking in front of Zasu, who was about to struggle to stand up from the ground.

"Put it again!" Li Xiao, who had re-drawn the bowstring, shouted angrily.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

In the sound of three light and crisp arrows breaking through the air, three more iron arrows shot out fiercely.

Xiao Erzhi's arrow struck the neck of one of the infantry soldiers' mounts, and the horse jumped up in pain and galloped away. Xiao Daquan's arrow happened to hit the iron helmet of an infantry soldier, and the iron helmet was lifted off, leaving a cyan scalp and two greasy and disgusting small braids.

And Li Xiao's arrow shot deep into the abdomen of an infantry soldier, and the arrow penetrated deep into the cotton armor, and the infantry soldier roared loudly in pain, holding his abdomen and squatting down.

Zasu, who had risen from the ground, his angry face was covered with mud, and his entire left arm trembled, apparently broken to the bone. It's just that this person's right hand, when he got up from the ground, quickly grabbed the tiger knife that fell to the ground.

"Rush over! Slaughter the Tartars! ā€

When he saw the infantry soldier who had been stripped of his helmet and was about to shoot at his side with his bow and arrows, Li Xiao, who was eager to win, shouted loudly. At the same time, he brushed the ground and pulled out the pig iron waist knife at his waist, jumped out of the ambush point first, and rushed down the mountain.

Xiao Daquan and Xiao Er also immediately pulled out their waist knives and shouted towards the mountain.

"Whoosh!"

Hearing Xiao Daquan's scream next to him, Li Xiao squinted and saw that the arrows of the infantry soldiers tore off Xiao Daquan's right ear in an extremely fierce attitude!

"Shoot well, rush over with Lao Tzu! Kill all these damn Nikans! Zha Su scolded hatefully, waved the tiger knife in his right hand, and hedged against Li Xiao, who was striding towards him!

After listening to the words of the main general, this infantry soldier immediately threw down his bow and arrows, picked up a long-handled military sickle on the side, and rushed towards Xiao Er!

"Tartar, suffer death!" Li Xiao's face was as red as blood, his face was hideous, he clenched his teeth, and used all his strength to slash the pig iron waist knife in his hand towards Zasu's neck.

"Ding!"

Li Xiao's pig iron waist knife was knocked open alive!

Za Su is a man accustomed to war, seeing Li Xiao striding in and slashing like this, he hurriedly slashed the tiger knife in his right hand horizontally, and bent it down, with this explosion, sparks flew everywhere, which was worthy of Li Xiao's fatal blow.

While Li Xiao and Zha Su were fighting to the death, Xiao Er and Xiao Daquan were fighting with another infantry soldier.

Xiao Daquan, who had lost his right ear, half of his face was covered with blood, and he and Xiao Er attacked together, but they were also fighting to a draw with the infantry soldier.

Soon, Li Xiao and the others seemed to gradually begin to gain the upper hand, but a vicious arrow changed this favorable state.

A dull sound of arrows entering the flesh, accompanied by Xiao Daquan's scream, Xiao Er, who was fighting together, was horrified to see that a blood-dripping steel arrow with a gushing blood mist leaked out of Xiao Daquan's chest fiercely.

Li Xiao hated it in his heart, hateful, it turned out that the infantry soldier who was injured in the abdomen did not die, and this guy who came to relieve his anger quietly attacked Xiao Daquan, who was fighting with all his might.

Xiao Daquan's body went limp, and he knelt on the ground, he glanced at the arrow that pierced his chest in a daze, and tried to look back to see the appearance of the infantry soldier who shot arrows from behind and attacked him, but finally his body quickly crooked and fell to the ground and died.

"Uncle!" Xiao Er cried out miserably.

The infantry soldier who was fighting hard with Xiao Er, seeing that Xiao Er was distracted, a cruel smile flashed on his face, and then he turned around and waved the military sickle in his hand, only to hear a "bang", Xiao Er's head, with a blood mist rushing to the sky, rose into the air.

"Uncle Quan! Xiao Er! Seeing that in a short period of time, Xiao Daquan and Xiao Er were killed one after another, Li Xiao yelled angrily, because of extreme anger and pain, his face was distorted into shape.

The infantry soldier kicked the headless corpse that Xiao Eryu was standing on, roared angrily in his mouth, and rushed towards Li Xiao with a military scythe!

It's just that in an instant, Li Xiao fell into a great predicament of one against three!

Za Su was secretly proud in his heart, although the Nikan martial arts in front of him were exquisite, but the helpers were all dead, and next, he was going to take the life of this Han dog who didn't know whether he was alive or dead!

Zha Su drank in a deep voice, and the tiger knife in his right hand slashed downward, directly attacking Li Xiao's lower plate, Li Xiao hurriedly put the waist knife in his hand down, and slammed it into the ground, "Dangchang" A crisp sound blocked Zha Su's fierce attack.

This shoddy pig iron waist knife, although it barely blocked Zasu's fierce blow, was also smashed in half by the stainless steel tiger knife, and the head of the knife fell quietly to the ground.

At the same moment, the infantry soldier who was rapidly approaching let out a strange scream, and the military sickle in his hand slashed fiercely at Li Xiao's head!

said it was late, it was fast, Li Xiao twisted his waist, and his head shrank suddenly, which was able to avoid this fatal blow! Then, taking advantage of the moment when the infantry soldier's sword strength was old, Li Xiao was like an extremely agile leopard, and his entire body quickly shot out towards the infantry soldier who was about to return the knife and cut again.

"Flutter!"

With a soft sound, the broken knife in Li Xiao's hand pierced the neck of this infantry soldier, and the broken knife edge penetrated through the back of the neck of this infantry soldier!

This infantry soldier was killed by Li Xiao.

"Poof!"

There was another soft sound, but it was the sharp-eyed Li Xiao, who quickly twisted the chest of the infantry soldier who was killed by himself, and quickly turned around, just using the back of the corpse of the infantry soldier to block the cold arrow fired by the injured infantry soldier.

All of this happened in a very short second or two!

Li Xiao's reaction and attack were so swift and agile that Za Su, who was attacking head-on, was stunned, and taking advantage of his stunned opportunity, Li Xiao quickly snatched the scythe from the hands of the dead infantry soldier, and then threw the corpse of the infantry soldier at Za Su, who was about to swing the knife at him again!

Zasu reacted quickly, flew up with his right foot, and kicked the corpse of the infantry soldier thrown by Li Xiao to the side.

Unexpectedly, when Zasu kicked the corpse of the flying infantry soldier, Li Xiao had seized the opportunity to draw up and jump to the ground, and rushed towards the infantry soldier who was injured in the abdomen by himself not far away and was hurriedly changing arrows and shooting again!

Za Su was very angry, the tiger knife in his right hand pulled a knife flower, and chased after Li Xiao with a roar.

It's late.

He saw Li Xiao, who was rushing away a little faster, kicked the foot bow in the hand of the infantry soldier, and then the tip of the military sickle in his right hand slashed downward, and the blood on the neck of the infantry soldier gushed out like a fountain.

Immediately, Li Xiao quickly turned around and crossed his waist, and the tip of the military sickle full of blood coldly pointed at Zasu who rushed over!

Nikan, what a great skill!

Zasu, who hurriedly stopped his steps, unconsciously gasped slightly, and the tiger knife in his hands subconsciously clenched.

The forest wind is howling, the blades of grass are flying wildly, the sunset is half-sinking on the top of the distant mountain, as if it may fall away at any time, between heaven and earth, more and more dark, and the blood-red afterglow is thicker, painting these two people who are still for a while into a grotesque abstract work of art.

"Yikes!"

"Yikes!"

Almost at the same time, Li Xiao and Za Su let out a hoarse shout together, and they hedged against each other again!

"Boom!"

Li Xiao's long-handled military sickle wooden handle was cut into two neat pieces by the tiger knife that Zha Su fiercely slashed over!

The tiger knife was unabated, and with a strong knife wind, it slashed through Li Xiao's unprotected right leg, cutting a piece of bloody flesh.

"Poof!"

With a dull sound of piercing the body, a sturdy body collapsed.

It was the white tooth soldier Zasu who fell.

In Zasu's right eye socket, the sharp steel pendant tail tip at the lower end of the wooden handle that was broken into two long-handled military sickles was deeply pierced into the brain.

Zasu, who was dying, still had a mixture of surprise and unwillingness on his face.

This cunning Han dog had long had the intention of stabbing himself with this half of the hilt, and even injured himself at the expense of achieving his goal.

When Li Xiao kicked him in the head in retaliation, Zasu was already out of breath.

The mountain wind whistled non-stop, like a complaining person wailing, the sunset had all disappeared into the mountain, between heaven and earth, the heavy blood red gradually receded, and the boundless darkness began to spread quietly.

In the suffocating silence, Li Xiao squatted on the ground and gasped for air.

At this time, he suddenly felt extremely tired and thirsty, and the wound on his right leg that was cut by the tiger knife still had blood oozing out.

"Uncle Daquan, Xiao Er, Li Xiao has avenged you!" Li Xiao muttered, but his eyes gradually turned red.

Li Xiao quickly took a look at the messy battlefield, the dead bodies were scattered, the swords were staggered, and the three mounts of the Tartars had run away. Only the tall war horse with the tied woman on its back had stood quietly not far away, as if waiting for the dead Zasu to come and take it away.

Li Xiao was deeply attracted by this majestic war horse. He saw that the horse's head was compact, full of muscles, tall and slender, his coat was black and shiny, his hooves were as white as snow, and his forehead was a little white, like silver and black jade, and the well-trimmed mane, and the carefully combed tail, the whole horse was extraordinarily majestic and extraordinary.

What a good horse, Li Xiao secretly praised in his heart.

He didn't know that this horse was a famous horse in Liaodong, and it was a valuable gift given to Zha Su by Huang Taiji after he followed Huang Taiji to conquer Mongolia and insert the Han Dynasty.

Li Xiao noticed that on the left and right saddles of this war horse, there was a large package with a bulging bag on one side, and a bow and quiver on the other side. Eventually, his gaze rested on the hunched woman who was tied to the saddle.

The woman appeared unconscious, lying motionless in the saddle.

Who is she?

Where are they going to tie up this woman?

Li Xiao was shocked.

His thoughts were quickly interrupted, for at this moment there was another faint but clear sound of horses' hooves coming from one end of the valley.

, there's another **** Tartar soldier coming!