There was a splash of water, and Li Xiao and Wang Yishou rushed across the south bank of the Daling River with their horses and continued to gallop south. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xiao's heart relaxed slightly. Suddenly, he heard a slight tremor in the ground beneath his feet, and then the sound of horses' hooves sounded in his ears.

, the Tartars are catching up!

Li Xiao suddenly turned around, and vaguely saw that on the north bank of the Daling River, a large group of Tartar sentry horses appeared in shadows, like a group of colorful little dots, moving quickly in his direction.

"Vice-team, the Tartar pursuers are coming, at least more than twenty horsemen!" Wang Yi put his hand on the pergola and looked back, and said in a trembling voice.

"No matter how much, run to Xiaoling River Station as soon as possible!" Li Xiao yelled at Wang Yishou.

In the vast wilderness, the two horses galloped together, the sweat on the horse's back glittered in the sun like a layer of fine gold sand, and the flying horses' hooves lifted the weeds on the ground from time to time, and threw them backwards one by one.

The hotter and hotter wind swept past his cheeks, and Li Xiao felt that his lips were so dry that they almost stuck together, his throat was so dry that he could almost burst into flames, and his eyes were also blown by the hot wind.

It's just that he didn't dare to reduce the speed of running in the snow at all.

To escape from the pursuit of this large group of Tartar sentinels, there was no time to relax. Perhaps, even a few seconds of respite will be the difference between life and death.

Especially on his own mount, he was still carrying the unconscious Chen Monkey.

As long as he is still breathing, Li Xiao will never abandon his brother.

It's just that even though he tried his best to escape, treading the snow carrying the weight of the two people, the speed was rarely faster. Li Xiao could gradually hear the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in his ears getting louder and louder.

Compared with the Tartar who was chasing after him, Li Xiao was more worried about Wang Yishou, who was trying to keep up with his pace.

From time to time, he glanced at him with a worried look, and he could clearly see that Wang Yishou's face was getting paler and paler. His eyelids seemed to be extremely heavy, and it took all his strength to open them, but his eyes became more and more scattered and misty.

Li Xiao knew that Wang Yishou, who had been hit by an arrow in the shoulder and thigh, fled all the way with him, bleeding too much, his energy was almost exhausted, and he didn't know how long he could hold on.

"Vice, I'm fine, can I hold on。。。。。" Wang Yishou understood Li Xiao's eyes, gritted his teeth and said.

"Well done! You must hold on, get to Xiaoling River Station, and then fight to the death with this group of Tartars! Li Xiao cheered him up loudly.

You are so nervous that you are chasing me and escaping, Li Xiao forgot the time, and there was only one thought in his mind that flashed repeatedly, he must rush to Xiaolinghe Station, he must rush to Xiaolinghe Station, he must 。。。。。。

I don't know how long I ran, but when things around me began to take on a dull warm tone, at the end of the line of sight, a small gray and dilapidated castle stood on a steep slope.

Xiaolingheyi is finally close at hand!

At the same time, an arrow slashed past Li Xiao's ear with a sharp whistling sound.

The dog-in-the-Tartar has finally caught up with them!

"Yoshimori, run over as best you can, we're almost there!" Li Xiao yelled.

He didn't hear Wang Yishou's answer.

At this time, Wang Yishou finally exhausted his last bit of strength when he saw the Xiaolinghe Station that appeared in front of him.

He lay limply on the horse's back, his face buried deep in the horse's mane, but fortunately his hands subconsciously wrapped his arms around the horse's neck, and at the same time his feet clamped the horse's belly, so that he could not fall off immediately.

Li Xiao gritted his teeth, stuck to Wang Yishou's mount, grabbed the reins, and took Wang Yishou's mount and galloped towards Xiaolingheyi.

In the whistling sound of one arrow after another, Li Xiao frantically slammed the horse's belly, stepped on the snow with a long neigh, and ran at full speed with all his might.

Another steel arrow, let out a slight sinister laugh, shrieked past the left hand side of Li Xiao's holding Wang Yishou's mount.

The sharp three-edged arrow tip swept over the edge of the stainless steel palm of Li Xiao's left hand, plowing a deep blood groove on the back of his hand!

Li Xiao gritted his teeth hard, endured the pain, and tightened his grip on Wang Yishou's follower, and the two horses galloped together on the abandoned path on the Xiaoling River Station.

Li Xiao rushed into Xiaolinghe Station with two horses, immediately jumped off the horse's back, and led the two horses to a dead corner position and tied them firmly.

Chen Monkey and Wang Yishou, who were unconscious, were quickly laid flat by Li Xiao and placed in another place.

Li Xiao then quickly half-crouched behind the mouth of a broken wall, and squeaked softly at the Tartar rider who was rapidly rushing towards the Xiaoling River Station.

He saw clearly that there were twenty-six or seven Tartar horsemen who came, led by a Bashiku, and among them there was a man in a green shirt and a horse coat who looked like a Han general.

A soldier in a vest on a green horse took the lead, roaring in his mouth, and rushed uphill to the path.

"Whoosh!"

The snatching bow in Li Xiao's hand made a soft sound, and a steel carved arrow shot towards the Tartar's chest!

The Tartar saw it very well, and hurriedly shrank down and lay on the horse's back, and the arrows shot by Li Xiao flew whistling past his shoulder.

Before the frightened bloodless horse armor soldier could catch his breath, another fierce steel arrow roared and flew in, but it shot through the neck of the war horse at once, and the arrow carried a surge of horse blood, which fiercely revealed from the back of the horse's neck.

The horse that was hit by the arrow let out a long mournful roar, raised its front hooves high, and then slammed it to the side, and the heavy body of the horse smashed the thigh leg bone of the horse armor soldier who was crushed!

The vest soldier let out a miserable howl that was not like a human voice, and he was in great pain, and his hands were dancing wildly in the air.

Seeing this, one of the armourers and another of the infantry soldiers immediately rode over and tried to drag the infantry soldier out of the narrow uphill path.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

On Li Xiao's side, two arrows shot in succession.

The neck of the vest soldier was pierced by a steel carved arrow, and the arrow was extremely powerful, and only the feathers of the tail of the arrow were still outside the neck of the vest soldier, and the arrow and the shaft of the arrow were drilled out from the back of the neck. The tremendous force of the impact lifted him off his horse, and after the vest soldier rolled twice on the slope, he remained motionless, only the arrow in his neck was still gurgling blood.

Another infantry soldier was shot in the thigh by Li Xiao, and he screamed loudly, endured great pain, turned his horse's head and fled backwards.

An arrow that chirped happily caught up with him, and with a muffled "grab" sound, the sharp tip of the arrow burrowed ferociously into his back, and then pierced through his chest, bringing out a large cloud of blood mist.

The infantry soldier shook twice, fell upside down from his horse, and did not move.

Li Xiao's continuous fire made the Bashi Kutulai who led the twenty-seven horsemen to be angry and burning.

This abominable Nikan, by virtue of his superiority, could shoot his own soldiers with a hard bow and heavy arrows at this distance, but it was difficult for himself in his position to shoot at him.

Li Xiao clearly saw that after his own success, one of the Tartar horsemen who looked like Bashiku shouted loudly, and all the Tartar riders stopped together, and no one dared to step forward.

The Bashiku roared again, and a man who looked like a Han man was in trouble, and after saluting him tremblingly, he took a few steps forward and shouted to Li Xiao in Chinese: "The Ming army is a good man! Don't open the bow, I, Captain Turai, have something to say to you. ”

Li Xiao sneered in his heart, and replied loudly: "Dog Tartar, if you want to fight, you will fight, and if you talk too much, grandpa, I am not in the mood to listen to your noise!" ”

After listening to Li Xiao's reprimand, the Han people didn't care, and shouted again and again: "Good man! And listen to me, there is a way to know the times for those who are handsome, now that you have been surrounded in a lonely fort, it is impossible to escape with wings, why bother to fight with our army again. I, Captain Turai, appreciate your martial arts and archery skills, if you know the current affairs and surrender immediately, Captain Turai can not blame the past, and strongly recommend Niu Lu Ezhen. ”

When Li Xiao heard this, he laughed loudly, and also shouted loudly to the Han general: "Dog minion! You insult your ancestors for the Tartars, and you don't pee according to your own ugly appearance of the money rat's tail, and you dare to persuade your grandfather to surrender! Phew, you guys will die of this heart, grandpa, I was born as a Han person, and died as a Han ghost, how can I surrender to the Tartar ugly class and work together! Nonsense, I will fight with you to the end today! ”

The Han general looked ashamed, and immediately after returning from the army, he whispered to Bashi Kutulai.

Furious, Turai shouted angrily to the left and right, and all the Tartars dismounted, and began to throw themselves into the sky.

Seeing the arrows being thrown one after another, Li Xiao's heart sank, but he was relieved.

He knew that the terrain of this Xiaolinghe Station was on the high side, and the enemy army was far away, even if there were many people and repeated projectiles, it had no effect.

In fact, Turai is also helpless, such a long-distance back attack, in addition to the projectile, what is the way.

Sure enough, most of the arrows were blocked by the walls and roof, and only a few of them burrowed into the fort, but their strength was lost, and there was no real threat.

Only two arrows hit Li Xiao, and one shot at the mirror on his chest, and bounced off with a clatter. The other grazed his shoulder armor, making tiny scratches on the white-lacquered steel armor.

The Tartars had only thrown a little more than six rounds before they were stopped by Bashkutulai.

He could see that if he continued to shoot like this, it would be difficult to inflict substantial damage on Li Xiao, and it was just a waste of arrows.

Enraged, Turai gritted his teeth, but there was a feeling that there was nothing he could do.

He looked at Li Xiao who was standing at the mouth of the shooting with a sneer on his face, and he wanted to tear this hateful Nikan to pieces.

"Who is this Nikan? How to wear the white tooth armor of our army, and the martial arts are so good? Turai said to himself with a complicated look in his eyes.

"Master, I'm afraid no one knows the origin of this person, but this person's martial arts and archery skills are so good, he has killed many soldiers of our army, if you don't get rid of it, you will leave trouble! In my opinion, if our army attacked the fort together, the dog would be alone, and he would definitely take care of one thing and lose the other, and we would rush to the fort and attack and kill him together, but we could cut this person into meat sauce! ”

The Han general took over the words on the side, and his face was grim and he made a downward slashing motion with his palm.

Turai was silent.

His elongated, typical Jurchen face, eyebrows tucked together, was clearly pondering how much damage such an assault would cause to his own team.

These three Ming army Nikans have killed a total of 8 Houjin soldiers, and the other infantry soldier was crushed by a horse and broke his leg, which was seriously injured, and it seemed that it was difficult to live, and he didn't even kill any of them on his side, but two of the Ming troops temporarily lost their combat effectiveness.

Such a fiasco was something that Turai had never encountered.

Shame, shame!

It's just that Tulai was not carried away by the hatred in his heart, he calculated very clearly in his heart, according to the temptation of the three Tartars just now, then, if he really wanted to rush to Xiaolinghe Station and kill Li Xiao, he would have to pay the price of at least 7 or 8 Tartars, maybe more.

To exchange the precious lives of so many elite soldiers of Houjin for the life of a dog of the Ming army Nikan who doesn't know where it came from, such a price is too heavy.

As Thurai hesitated in his heart, his surroundings gradually began to get darker and darker, and thick dark clouds filled the sky at some point, and faint thunder sounded.

The summer weather is changing, and a heavy rain is coming.

Turai looked up at the sky, his face becoming more and more confused.

"Master, if you don't fight, it's better to withdraw your troops, now it's dark, and when it rains and gets wet with bows and arrows, we will be more passive." The Han people were anxious to advise.

Still, Thurai did not speak, but his eyes were noticeably darkened.

The sky was even darker, and a thick lightning bolt swept through the air, and the raindrops the size of copper coins began to fall densely and frantically, and the sky and the earth were instantly filled with the sound of roaring rain.

"Master。。。。。。 The Han people, who were so drenched in the rain that they could barely open their eyes, had their lips sobbed.

Turai sighed lightly, and his words were low: "Pass my order, take advantage of this rainy and dark day, quickly snatch out the bodies of the three sergeants, and then the whole army retreats." ”

"Huh!"

Under the cover of darkness and heavy rain, the bodies of the three Tartar sergeants were quickly and successfully recovered.

Turai glanced back with hatred in his eyes, and it was difficult to see the Xiaoling River Station opposite, which had dissolved into one with this dark and rainy night.

Subsequently, Turai took the lead in galloping away.

"Han dog, don't be complacent, one day, I, Turai, will cut off your dog's head with my own hands!"

Turai, who returned from the rainstorm, had a terrible look in his eyes, and he repeated this sentence in his heart.

。。。。。。

Li Xiao, who was in the dark, stretched out his hand and couldn't see his five fingers, and his ears were full of the sound of rain.

He suddenly slumped and slid down against the wall, letting go of his bow and arrows, gasping for air.

I can finally relax a little.

In such a dark rainstorm, those Tartars could not light torches, and it was impossible to attack again, so Li Xiao got a rare respite.

He first reached out to the mouth of the moat, took a large handful of rainwater in both hands, then leaned his neck and drank it, moistened his dry lips and throat, and then took out a dry hard dough with body temperature from his bosom and chewed it heavily.

A look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.

Wang Yishou's waking groans reached Li Xiao's ears.

This violent storm that shook the heavens and the earth actually woke up Wang Yishou, who was already in a coma, from his coma.

The rain rained for a full hour.

When the rain stopped, the dark clouds in the sky were blown away by the cool night wind, the bright moonlight gently filled the land, and all kinds of unknown insects began to chirp pleasantly, but the surrounding environment seemed even more silent.

Li Xiao looked out from the mouth where he was shot, and there was still the shadow of the Tartar. The corpses of the Tartars in front of the slope have also been cleared away.

"Yoshimori, the Tartar has run away, just in case, we will return immediately." Li Xiao patted Wang Yishou on the shoulder excitedly.

Wang Yishou nodded vigorously, he had already drunk water and eaten the bread, although he still looked haggard and pale, he had already recovered some strength and moved without hindrance.

He immediately stood up and rode off with Li Xiao.

Just like the arrangement of escaping back during the day, Wang Yishou took the head of the Tartar, and the Chen monkey, who was still unconscious, was taken away by Li Xiao.

The moonlight dissolved, and the two of them rode on horses, and after running on the horses for about an hour, they came to the Xiaoling River.

The Xiaoling River, which had rained heavily, was already swollen and roaring, and there were no more shoals to cross.

"Vice, we can go up the river to Zuotunwei Daliu Fort, but there is a stone bridge to cross." Wang Yishou reminded Li Xiao.

"Very well, I'll listen to you." Li Xiao replied.

When it was almost dawn, the two finally arrived in front of Zuotunwei Daliu Fort, and then crossed the river from the stone bridge to the south bank of the Xiaoling River.

"Vice, shall I return to Zhongtun now?"

"No, the monkey hasn't woken up all the way, I'm afraid it can't be delayed any longer, we need to find a doctor for treatment quickly, let's go straight to Jinzhou City!"

After Li Xiao finished speaking, his legs slammed into the horse's belly, stepped on the snow with a long neigh, and ran wildly.