Seventy-six

At noon, the sky was overcast, and the sun looming behind the clouds seemed to have lost its vitality, and the cold sunlight sprinkled through the cracks in the clouds, and there was no trace of warmth. On the contrary, the mountain wind blows through the valley from time to time, carrying a bitter chill. The foliage of the surrounding trees shuddered, giving the illusion that winter was coming.

Yue Xiang's heart was even colder, cold through his heart and lungs.

He really couldn't understand why he was so unlucky, but he ran into the damned Jianzhou soldiers here. Could it be that these chasers have the help of gods and men? How did they count out to be here and waiting? Seeing that the banner army surrounding them like this can have more than 200 people, it is not like an accidental encounter.

He was not unprepared, and the area around Fu'anbao was one of the areas that Nurhachi claimed to be Jurchen cultivated land and made territorial claims in the Seven Hatreds. Now that Mingjin has publicly turned his face, there is no reason to let it go easily. It's just that he just got out of the mountain pass, and he was surrounded before he even stepped on the flat ground, and the other party's reaction speed was inevitably too fast.

The five people present were all frightened, and even Wang Yining, a guy who was hidden deeply, was sweating on his head. The ferocity of the Jianzhou Banner Army is what they have seen with their own eyes, and now there are only so many of them, and there is no chance of winning by fighting hard. It's useless to run, the other side is full of cavalry, and even if you run back, you may not be able to run away. Moreover, hundreds of strong bows are condescending, and as long as the other party is willing, they can be turned into hedgehogs anytime and anywhere.

However, Yue Xiang concluded that none of the five of them had the opportunity to pass on the news to the outside world, and it was impossible for them to have one. Needless to say, he, Xiaowan and Ma Li all came out of Qinghe, and they fought viciously with the Jurchens, and there was an inextricable blood feud. Although Ma Li was born in the White Lotus Sect, Yue Xiang believed that they still had this national integrity.

Wang Yining...... It can't be either. Although he hadn't seen him all these years, he believed that this guy would never go to be with the Jurchen barbarians, otherwise he would have known that this Gaohuai Tibetan gold was in the incense burner mountain, so why not bring Nurhachi to get it? That's definitely a big deal.

But when it comes to Gao Huai's hidden gold, there is one thing he has been pondering for a long time, he doesn't understand why Nurhachi and others don't look for him to surround him again and again. This trip to the incense burner mountain was obviously reported by someone, and these thousands of people all came to themselves. Judging from the time, the news was reported almost at the same time as he got up. But the people who know their true destination are all their own henchmen, and all of them have died on the battlefield.

The rest is all here, and they don't have the possibility of leaking secrets.

What the hell is that......

Yue Xiang really couldn't understand why he couldn't help but think about these trivial matters at such a life-and-death juncture, and what he should think about now was how to deal with the current dangerous situation. But he just couldn't control it, and the more nervous he was, the more messy things in his mind came out.

There was a clear eagle whistle in the sky, Wang Yining looked up, and immediately gritted his teeth: "Hai Dongqing!" I said, how do these Tartars know to stop us here, these flat-haired brutes are watching us from the sky! ”

Yue Xiang also looked up, but saw a small black shadow hovering in the sky, majestic and chic, ordinary birds could not fly so high, it could be concluded that it was an eagle falcon.

Only then did he remember that the Jurchen tribe was a famous bird of prey, and he couldn't do without it when hunting, and it seemed that there was also a legend that he could help his master reconnoiter the enemy during battle. He had always thought it was a legend, and it was not uncommon for animals to be trained to fight, but eagles could not speak human language, so they could see the enemy in the sky and tell the people on the ground.

It's just that today I saw the magic with my own eyes, but it was for the enemy to use to track him. There are many eagles in Liaodong, and they usually don't care when they see it. How could anyone have imagined that in such a backward era, there are people who can really come up with such advanced reconnaissance means, which are simply living satellites in the sky.

"How is it good!?" Wang Yining's face was grim, and he approached Yue Xiang, seeing that he meant to be ready to find an opportunity to break through.

"It's over, since the other party already knows our whereabouts, there is enough time to arrange. Even if it is extremely light, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape from the rain of arrows with hundreds of strong bows. The other party is trying to capture me alive, and maybe that's the only thing we can take advantage of. Yue Xiang quickly calculated the idea in his heart.

"Don't you have a chance to break out?" Wang Yining's face was ugly and ugly, but he still didn't move. In terms of actual combat experience against the Jurchens, Yue Xiang is stronger than him. At the same time, he was sure that Yue Xiang would never be so restrained, so he gritted his teeth and decided to fight.

"Listen to the dog Tartar on the mountain, your grandfather will not change his name, he will not change his surname, Qinghe Yue Xiang Yue Ziyi is also! Isn't Nurhachi's old dog looking for the master? If you want to capture me alive, give me a seed! ”

Yue Xiang gathered his dantian and shouted loudly. The sound reverberated in the air like a bell, and there was an echo among the mountains. The Jurchen soldiers on the mountain didn't expect the Han people below to have such a loud voice, and they all aroused their courage and ruthlessness, grabbed the reins, and scooped their eyes from time to time to peek at the head man's forehead, just waiting for him to give an order, and they were about to rush down.

Yabahai was wearing a set of red chain iron leaf cotton armor, and a tall horse was placed in his crotch. Scooping a portrait in his hand, he looked at the people down the mountain coldly, comparing them with the portrait from time to time.

As an archer, his eyesight was excellent, and he was not far away, so that he could clearly see the faces of those people down the mountain. Although there was a slight gap between the face on the portrait and Yue Xiang's, he still concluded that he had really caught a big fish. Moreover, Yue Xiang's voice just now made everyone hear it really, there were Han soldiers around him, who understood Chinese, and the translation made him even more excited.

This is really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

Originally, he was an ordinary Niu Lu in the Zhenghong Banner, and he was not as favored in front of Dai Shan as Lange and Shiertai. This time, he was sent to Fu'an to patrol the mountain roads and river crossings, which he considered to be a garbage mission. You must know that there are so many mountain roads, how did he surround these hundreds of people?

Moreover, the main force went to the area of Huabaochong and Chai River to sweep the border, but they did not have their share of such benefits, which shows how much they have in Dai Shan's heart.

But unexpectedly, a big fish really broke into the net laid by himself. He was excited in his heart, secretly thinking that thanks to his eagle background, he was usually used to training falcons, but it turned out that this Hai Dongqing helped a lot and found the traces of this group of rats, otherwise a simple fortune would have gone by mistake.

Haha, Lange and Shertai lost their troops, but they still let these miscellaneous fish slip through the net, but they fell into my hands. The banner master will definitely reward me if he knows it, and maybe I will be the same in the future!

The more he thought about it, the more beautiful it became, he stuffed his finger into his mouth and whistled sharply, and Hai Dongqing, who was hovering in the sky, heard the call of his master, chirped in response, and then flew down from the sky, standing firmly on Yabahai's left arm, looking around. He wears a special bracer guard on his left arm to prevent it from being scratched by the talon.

At the mouth of the valley, Yue Xiang watched the eagle fly down from the sky and stop on one of them, and then he was completely sure that his whereabouts were exposed to this damn ghost. Righteous gritted his teeth, but he heard the Jurchen bannermen on the mountain let out a wild strange howl together, as if something exciting had happened. Then the horses rushed down, and the smoke and dust on the mountain suddenly flew, and thousands of iron hooves beat the earth, like rolling thunder rolling down from the mountain, and its momentum was as unstoppable as a landslide.

It's just that everyone present can be regarded as having seen the big scene, and the thousands of iron horsemen of Huang Taiji have seen it, and the charge of more than 200 people in front of them is not weak. Yue Xiang and the other four men stood on all sides and protected Xiao Wan at the core. Yue Xiang's sword was horizontal in his chest, and he was prepared for the worst.

However, these cavalry did not rush straight at them, but only galloped back and forth around them with strange screams, surrounded them, and raised smoke and dust around them, and countless cavalry figures shuttled and dizzy.

Yue Xiang once again saw the superb riding skills of the Jurchens, and the galloping horses rushed down the hillside and barely slowed down. Yue Xiang knows how to ride, and on the way to rush down from a high place, he must hold the reins and slow down the horse's speed, otherwise the inertial force of the whole body will act on the front hooves when the horse's hooves step on the flat ground from the slope to the moment the horse's hooves are uncontrolled, and the strong reaction force is very likely to break the horse's front legs.

But these Jurchen banner soldiers relied on exquisite riding skills to remove the reaction force of this inertia, and Yue Xiang didn't know how they did it. Moreover, the seemingly chaotic bannermen at this mountain pass actually implied a formation, because none of the more than 200 horses collided or rubbed in the run.

Can the cavalry of Jianzhou gallop as usual in such a mountainous terrain? Yue Xiang looked at the cold hands and feet, this is simply an all-round field cavalry, the opponent of the Ming army is a group of such strong soldiers, is there any hope of winning?

Just when he was at a loss, a rope shadow suddenly flew out of the surrounding smoke and dust figures, and he came directly. Yue Xiang was defenseless for a while, and the rope was directly put on his body as if he had eyes, and the cavalry around him screamed strangely, cheering and shouting.

Worst! As he reacted, he grabbed the rope, and a huge force came, and a cavalryman outside urged his horse to turn around and dragged him out.

Yue Xiang roared in a hurry, and his dantian horse stabbed in a hurry, his body was firmly rooted on the ground as if it had taken root, and he dragged it back like a tug-of-war. These Jurchen cavalrymen have grown up on horseback since childhood, and this kind of trick of grabbing people and flying ropes and lassoes can be played with their eyes closed, and they thought that this time it was easy to move, but as a result, it felt as if it was not a person but a mountain, and the suddenly straightened rope actually dragged him and his people and horses to the ground.

The Jurchen soldiers were in an uproar, they had never seen a Han Chinese and a horse compete to win so simply. This kind of warrior was only born among the Jurchen tribes in their impression.

Yue Xiang raised his hand and cut the rope with a knife, but saw the surrounding cavalry flying with ropes and coming straight towards them. Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai held the Pu knife to parry indiscriminately, while Wang Yining was flashing and moving, and from time to time he wanted to rush forward and grab the horse, but they were all forced to retreat. Yue Xiang knew that the other party was playing with them, and when he tossed them to exhaustion, he naturally caught them.

It's just that he knows that this is the case, but there is nothing he can do, and now the initiative is not on his side.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai to be the first to stand it, and their bodies were entangled in several layers, but the blade of the Pu knife was not sharp, and after the fierce battle, it was full of flesh and blood, and it had become dull. The rope was cut for a while, and it looked like it was about to be pulled down.

Seeing this, Yue Xiang was in a hurry, jumped over and flashed the knife in his hand, directly breaking the rope into several pieces. But before they could get up, Yue Xiang heard Xiao Wan behind him scream, and when he looked again, he saw that she was firmly enclosed by a rope lasso, and a Jurchen cavalryman took advantage of the gap he left, laughed wildly and urged the horse to sweep past her, leaned over and reached out his arm, and directly lifted her up. When the flagmen next to them saw that they had caught the woman, they immediately screamed excitedly.

"Holy!" Yue Xiang scolded in a hurry, and when he was about to go to the rescue, two ropes flew out of the oblique stab and flew straight towards him. The sword light in Yue Xiang's hand twisted wildly, and the rope turned into pieces all over the sky. But he didn't have time to pass, so he had to shout: "Wang Yining, save Xiaowan!" ”

In fact, there was no need for him to shout, almost at the same time, Wang Yining's figure had already been activated. I saw that his body spun violently, and his speed increased by more than two times compared to just now, and an arrow step actually stepped out six or seven meters away in place, and Yue Xiang even had the illusion that his body had no weight. I saw him flying diagonally like an arrow from a string, and before the cavalry could turn around, Wang Yining's figure had already landed on his horse's buttocks.

The cavalryman was terrified, and the empty door behind him was wide open, and he was about to die if he was hit by it.

He screamed strangely, pressed Xiao Wan with his left hand with a very skillful and experienced movement, and quickly drew his knife with his right hand and swept it back. The sword light flashed from under Wang Yining's feet, and then Wang Yining almost floated in mid-air and fought directly, holding down the cavalryman's helmet with one palm, and standing directly upside down on top of his head with only one hand.

The surrounding Jurchen soldiers were all stunned by this scene, and there was a rider standing upside down on the saddle on the equestrian side, but they had never seen this. This Han man seems to have no weight in his body, and he sways lightly in the wind on it, and he will not lose his balance and fall down.

Others were surprised, but the Jurchen soldier didn't have the mind, and was just about to raise his knife and poke it. Wang Yining's palm suddenly exhaled force, and with a snap, the pig iron cowhide helmet was directly squeezed and deformed and split, the head below spurted blood, the neck and spine were shattered, and half of the entire human head was almost pressed into the cavity. And the war horse under the crotch was even more wailing and was crushed to the ground, as if Wan Jun's weight was directly pressed on its back.

The centaurs fell to the ground as if a wall had been knocked down. This was the second time the Jurchen cavalry had seen such an incredible battle. However, when he came back to his senses and wanted to avenge his comrades-in-arms, Wang Yining had already retreated with Xiaowan in his arms.

Yue Xiang jumped in front of them, and at this moment, the surrounding water was already surrounded by water. He looked left and right, without any chance of breaking through. In his eagerness, he saw a Jurchen general wearing a red battle armor with an eagle on his arm and his head showing his head in the crowd, Yue Xiang clearly saw a sinister smile flashing on his face, and then saw him shout something in Jurchen words loudly before shrinking back and disappearing.

Bad! Yue Xiang was about to step forward, but it was too late. At the same time as he moved, more than two hundred Jurchen soldiers around him shouted in unison and raised their arms together, and when Yue Xiang looked up, there were only countless flying rope lassoes in his eyes that were overwhelming without any dead ends......