Chapter 20: The Raid
Two hours later, Li Xiao and the others got back on their horses and rode forward in the cool night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoIn the vast wilderness and wasteland, three sentinels are like three small black dots moving quietly on the silver-gray earth.
When the three of them successfully arrived at the south bank of the Daling River, the sky and the earth were still dark and heavy, and a faint trace of fish belly white floated at the eastern pole of the sky.
Li Xiao made a gesture, and the three of them immediately followed the plan for the night, quickly found a shoal and quietly crossed the river.
After crossing the river, the sky was getting brighter, Chen Monkey quickly took out a charcoal pen and a large piece of brown paper from his arms, looked around the surroundings, and began to draw a topographic map carefully and quickly.
Li Xiao was curious, and leaned over to take a look, but saw that Chen Monkey carefully marked the shape of the Daling River on brown paper, the shallows that can be crossed, and the woods, grassy beaches, mountains, soil and other topographic features on the shore were all carefully recorded and marked one by one.
"Vice, I'll wait a little further and record it, and the sentry on the north shore will be completed." Chen Monkey whispered to Li Xiao.
Li Xiao nodded, and the three of them rode forward in the direction where Chen Monkey was going.
It is also luck to say that Li Xiao and the three of them went all the way, but they never met the Tartar sentry horseman, and the three of them were secretly happy.
After about an hour, Chen Monkey basically finished drawing, he put the pen and paper into his arms excitedly, and said to Li Xiao in a low voice: "Vice, the drawing is finally finished, I'll wait nowγγγγγ β
His excited words were interrupted by a steel arrow that whistled by.
The three-edged steel arrow flew past Monkey Chen's face, and the edge of the sharp arrow ploughed out a deep blood groove on Monkey Chen's face!
Chen Monkey roared in pain, and subconsciously wiped his face with his hand, pasting the sticky blood on his hand.
With this, Wang Yishou next to him let out a painful scream.
Li Xiao caught a glimpse of a stainless steel arrow, through the hem of his cotton armor, and the arrow shot deep into Wang Yishou's left leg.
Wang Yishou's body shook violently, but he was an old sentinel and had rich experience, so he quickly grabbed the reins of the horse, and Fang did not fall off the horse.
"The Tartars are coming! Retreat to the other side of the hill! Li Xiao shouted angrily.
He looked around, but saw in the distance a number of Tartar riders, beating their horses and galloping in his direction.
These abominable Tartars, at such a distance, shoot so accurately!
Chen Monkey and Wang Yishou took the lead in riding their horses and galloping towards a rocky hillside not far away.
Li Xiao held the bow and walked behind him.
While the enemy was chasing and fleeing, Li Xiao and the three of them were in an extremely disadvantageous situation.
Arrow after arrow, with a sharp whistling sound, shot past the three of them.
Li Xiao saw with his own eyes that a sharp arrow hit the side of Wang Shouyi's helmet, stirring up a shining spark, a huge momentum, making Wang Yishou's mouth spurt blood, and his upper body immediately smashed heavily on the horse's neck, and the mount screamed, almost lifting Wang Yishou off the horse again.
"Do your best, make sure to get through this stretch quickly!" Li Xiao hissed and roared.
As soon as he finished speaking, a stainless steel carved arrow shot fiercely into his bronze knee pad, and bounced away with a clanging sound, and Li Xiao suddenly felt his feet tingle.
Li Xiao was secretly glad in his heart, if it weren't for the armor of his own white tooth horn soldier, the calf bone of his own leg might have been shot off!
It is so important to have good armor protection.
Finally, after a suffocating period of life-threatening galloping, Li Xiao and the three of them frantically galloped up the hillside.
A sharp steel arrow screamed and chased after it from behind, making a muffled sound, piercing the monkey's mount from behind into the horse's head, and the dying war horse let out a wail and then rolled down the slope. Chen Monkey screamed, and under the huge inertia, he fell to the ground diagonally and fell heavily, and fainted in an instant.
"Monkey!" Wang Yishou screamed hoarsely.
An agile figure leaned down from the galloping horse, grabbed the belt of the dead Chen Monkey, and lifted him onto the horse with a deep sigh.
"Deputy Team Leeγγγγγγ" Wang Yishou watched Li Xiao gallop into the hillside with the faint Chen Monkey, and his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly slammed the horse's belly and followed closely.
When he ran behind a boulder that abruptly appeared on the slope, Li Xiao ordered him to dismount, and at the same time quickly put the unconscious Chen Monkey and the two horses behind the boulder.
Li Xiao and Wang Yishou gasped for breath, both holding bows and arrows in their hands, and watched nervously and intently as the Tartars rushed to the front of the slope from far and near from a depression next to the boulder.
When they reached the bottom of the slope, the Tartars shouted and cursed, and immediately dismounted and prepared to go up the mountain to chase and kill.
"The deputy team, a total of eight horsemen, 2 vests, 4 infantry armor, and 2 followers." Wang Yishou endured the severe pain from his injured left leg, and quickly reported the type and number of tartars.
Li Xiao didn't speak, his cold eyes were fixed on a vest rushing to the forefront, and the snatching bow in his hand had been mounted with a stainless steel carved arrow, and in the slight squeak of the tiger tendon bowstring when it was opened, the snatching bow quickly stretched like a full moon.
The warrior was dressed in fine iron armor and wore a high-needle black tasseled iron helmet, with a large head on top of his short body, and his face was full of beastly hideousness. He didn't notice that Li Xiao was aiming at him, shouting and cursing in a foreign language, waving one hand up and down, directing everyone to outflank him from the bottom of the slope.
"Whoosh!"
With a light roar of arrows, Li Xiao released the arrow and shot out.
The power and speed of the steel carved arrows shot by the snatching bow were so fierce and fierce that Wang Yishou on the side could even hear the muffled sound of arrows shooting into the bones in the distance. He could see clearly that the arrow had shot deep into the center of the armoured soldier's eyebrows, and the arrow was gone, leaving only a small piece of the tail still outside the front door.
This Deputy Li team has good archery skills and good strength!
Wang Yishou was surprised to see that under the tremendous momentum of the steel carved arrows, the vest soldier rose into the air, drew a long half-arc, and fell to the ground on his back obliquely, and no longer moved.
Immediately, there was a burst of angry scolding from below. Wang Yishou saw that these Tartars were worthy of being elite soldiers who had fought for a long time, and when he saw that the horse armor soldiers were killed by Li Xiao's blow, he immediately reacted and took refuge behind the stones on the slope.
"Whoosh!"
The bow in Hand Howl's hand snapped loudly, and one of the infantry soldiers who could not dodge was shot in the back, and the arrow fell deep into his yellow cotton armor, and the infantry soldier screamed and rolled down the slope.
Seeing Li Xiao's two shots and two hits, Wang Yishou was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly opened his bow and released arrows, shooting at several other Tartars again and again.
A Tartar servant did not find a stone in time to dodge, and was seen as a real Wang Shouyi, and an arrow was shot in the shoulder.
The armourless servant screamed in pain, rolling on the ground and wailing, and his fishskin felt hat fell off, revealing a blue scalp and ugly braids.
Wang Yishou fired two more arrows in succession, and the servant was hit by three arrows, and his roar became low, and he twitched on the ground.
He hurriedly wanted to shoot again, but a fierce arrow struck, hitting Wang Yishou's right arm, which was tense and about to shoot!
Wang Yishou howled loudly in pain, he threw his bow and arrows, and his face was almost twisted with pain.
Li Xiao's eyes flashed, he seized this moment, and with a bang of the bow in his hand, the neck of the infantry soldier who poked his head out from behind the stone to sneak attack Wang Yishou was quickly pierced by the heavy steel carved arrows, soaring blood mist, and then fell to the ground and rolled down the hillside.
"Yoshimori, how's the injury?" Li Xiao asked anxiously.
"Vice, don't worry." After Wang Yishou finished speaking, he clenched his teeth, and with a strong force, he pulled out the arrow on his right arm, and a huge pain came, making him almost faint.
Fortunately, the Tartar was shot from the bottom up, and the force was greatly reduced, and it did not penetrate as deeply as the arrow that hit his thigh, so it did not penetrate deeply, allowing Wang Yishou to pull it out.
At this time, no one dared to probe the four Tartars hiding behind the boulder below, but they began to throw arrows one after another, one after another on the boulder where Li Xiao and the others were hiding or nearby, making a clanging and crisp sound.
It's just that this projectile without a clear target is of little significance, and it did not cause any damage to Li Xiao and the others.
After a while, the arrows began to thin out, and Li Xiao knew in his heart that these Tartars had fought so far, and it was estimated that each of them had shot at least fifteen or sixteen arrows, and their arm strength had been exhausted.
These bitter cold places, the Tartars who live by shooting and hunting, are much stronger than ordinary Ming troops. Li Xiao remembered that it was said in the history books that the average Liaodong Ming army could shoot five or six rounds at most and then could no longer pull the bow.
Li Xiao suddenly saw that the Tartars below let out a long whistle, and the four Tartars immediately ran down the slope from behind the stones, striding towards their mounts at the bottom of the slope.
The dog's tartar is running away.
I guess it's time to move reinforcements.
If you want to escape, it's not that easy!
"Yoshimori, is it possible to go on horseback and fight?" Li Xiao twisted his hair and asked.
"Deputy team, Wang can still fight." Wang Yishou gritted his teeth and struggled to get up from the ground.
"Okay, get on your horse and hunt down the Tartars!" Li Xiaoteng got up and rushed to the mount to step on the snow.
Wang Yishou gritted his teeth and turned on his mount, and rushed down the hill with Li Xiao roaring.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Li Xiao and Wang Yishou opened their bows on their horses, and an infantry soldier who was about to turn over his horse was shot in the back shoulder by Li Xiao, and rolled off the saddle with a scream.
Wang Yizhu shot the mount of one of the vest soldiers, and the mount screamed, jumped to its feet, and threw the horse soldier off his horse.
To Li Xiao's heart, it was quite regrettable that another infantry soldier and a follower, taking advantage of the opportunity for them to exchange arrows and shoot again, had already galloped away.
Li Xiao hurriedly pursued an arrow, and the steel arrow flew whistling past the face of the infantry soldier who was running wildly, so startled that he lay on the horse's back tightly, and slammed the horse's belly harder to speed up the escape.
Looking at the figures of these two Tartars fleeing away in a hurry, Li Xiao cursed hatefully and spat on the ground fiercely.
At this time, the other two infantry soldiers and horse armor soldiers had staggered up and were about to get on their horses again, when Li Xiao and Wang Yishou had already roared and rushed to the place where they were.
The tiger knife in Li Xiao's hand swept out diagonally, and a cold cold light slashed through, and the head of the infantry soldier immediately flew into the sky, bringing up a soaring pillar of blood.
Wang Yishou shouted, and the horse armor soldier swung his riding knife fiercely at his neck.
What he didn't expect was that the vest soldier seemed to be aware of the movement behind him, and let out a strange scream, bent his lower body, and dodged sideways to avoid Wang Yishou's fierce blow.
Wang Yishou grabbed the reins of the horse, and when Zhenggu turned around, and slashed the horse soldier again, the horse armor took advantage of his turn of the horse's head and pounced on him fiercely.
The two then rolled on the ground, tearing and fighting.
Wang Yishou, who was wounded in the leg and was hit by an arrow in the arm, bled a lot, and his strength was almost exhausted, and soon, he was stuck by the neck and pressed to the ground by this strong beast-like vest soldier.
The vest soldier smirked and pulled out the sword from his boots, raised his right hand high, roared angrily, and stabbed it down at the door of Wang Yishou's face.
Looking at the shining cold light of the detoxifier knife piercing straight to himself, Wang Yishou sighed in his heart, my life is over.
"Poof!"
The gushing blood splashed Wang Yishou's face, and he, who thought he was going to die, opened his eyes in surprise, only to see the headless corpse of the vest soldier slowly falling from his body.
After the corpse of the vest soldier rolled off his body, Wang Yishou saw the tip of Li Xiao's tiger knife that was holding directly in his hand, still dripping blood!
"Vice-γγγγγγ"
"The Tartar has gone back to report the news, you can't stay here for a long time, I'll cut off the head as soon as possible, and return immediately!" Before Wang Yishou wanted to say words of thanks, Li Xiao's voice was clearly heard.
The two of them immediately took the head knife in their hands and began to quickly cut off the head of the tartar.
Since one vest soldier and one infantry soldier had been beheaded by Li Xiao, they only had four heads to be cut off.
Wang Yishou turned over the follower with many arrows in his body, and was about to cut off his head, when Li Xiao caught a glimpse from the side, this was a very young Tartar, estimated to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he had struggled until now, and his brown pupils looked at the sky unwillingly, and he seemed to murmur a word in his mouth.
"What does this dog Tartar say?" Li Xiao asked Wang Yishou, who knew a little about the Jurchen words, on the side.
"Vice-president, this tartar said that he was going home to see his mother. Haha, now Lao Tzu will send you this dog in, see your mother! Wang Yishou sneered, and then the head knife that flashed with cold light in his hand stabbed downwards skillfully, and the head of the servant was lifted in his hand, and the blood was still spurting non-stop at the severed head of the corpse.
Li Xiao frowned slightly, but didn't say anything.
Wang Yishou then took out the fine hemp rope he was carrying, strung six bloody tartar heads, tied them together with the braids behind them, and then tied them on horseback.
"Quickly cross the river and return, it is estimated that as soon as the Tartars who fled back report the news, the Tartars will chase after them!" Li Xiao placed the still unconscious Chen Monkey in front of his saddle and shouted to Wang Yishou in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
"Drive!" Li Xiao slammed the horse's belly and took the lead in running towards the shallows of the Daling River.
"Alas, it's a pity that these Tartars don't have time to peel off their good armor." Wang Yishou glanced at the headless vest corpse with envious eyes, and sighed secretly in his heart.
He immediately gave the same shout and quickly followed Li Xiao.
Under the bright clear sky, the wilderness is vast, Li Xiao and Wang Yishou two people, galloping on horseback, galloping towards the Daling River with the sound of hooves.