Chapter 352: King Su and Huan Hu
As the so-called name of the person and the shadow of the tree, I think that the news that the son of the Wei royal family's clan "Su Wang Ji Run" led 25,000 Jun Shui troops from Daliang to march from Daliang, and finally successfully defeated the 160,000 army of Xiong Tuo, the monarch of Chu Xuancheng, invaded Wei State, has not only spread in Wei, but has gradually spread to the ears of Korea, Wei Guo, and Yin Rong who live in this land of three rivers.
And Huan Hu, who was born in Han Di, has naturally heard about this and knows that there is such a number one person as "Su Wang Ji Run" in the Wei royal family.
It's just that the 'Su Wang Ji Run' he is witnessing in front of him now is really far from what he imagined in the past.
You must know that the rumored "Su Wang Ji Run" is said to have used death threats to force down 50,000 Chu troops and captured 300,000 or 400,000 Chu people.
For example, Huan Hu, in his opinion, a practice like "Su Wang Ji Run" is an out-and-out "evil party", so he subconsciously imagined "Su Wang Ji Run" as a middle-aged man with a gloomy face, such as Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang.
But what I didn't expect was that "Su Wang Ji Run" turned out to be a fifteen-year-old young man from the Wei royal family, not to mention his gloomy face, and even his eyebrows were quite beautiful, and he couldn't see that it was a vicious party that had used pit killing methods to threaten the 50,000 Chu State troops to surrender to the Wei State.
"Aren't you kidding me?"
Huan Hu glanced at Li Cheng suspiciously.
But thinking about it carefully, he felt that Li Cheng should not have the need to deceive him.
"Could it be that the little hairy boy who has not dried up is really the Su Wang Ji Run?"
Huan Hu silently looked at Zhao Hongrun in the distance, and secretly said a few regrets in his heart.
He regretted that the employer who hired them to come to capture the King of Wei had not given the King of Su a clear price. Otherwise, you can make a lot of money this time.
"Why, don't you continue the fight between you and me?"
Seeing that Huan Hu had not moved for a long time, Li Cheng asked with a calm face.
You must know that Li Cheng is still holding a breath in his heart.
"......" Huan Hu glanced at Li Cheng, and after thinking for a moment, he dismissed his plan to fight Li Cheng.
After all, his force is actually inferior to Li Cheng. The reason why Fang Cai was able to gain the upper hand was just to make Li Cheng unstable with his lip service, so that it was difficult to play to his usual level, and now, that King Su has taken over the command of the Tiger Ben Guard, so that Li Cheng can freely pour his mind into this side, if Huan Hu dares to step forward again, it will really be killed.
Of course, it seems to be self-defeating. Huan Hu naturally didn't speak, but he shook his head and said calmly: "I just said that I don't have to fight with you." …… Rather than fighting with you to the death, I am even more curious about how the legendary King Su, who defeated the 160,000 Chu army with a weak victory, can now resist my more than 200 horsemen with a few dozen people...... Thieves. ”
When it comes to the last two words. Huan Hu glanced at Li Cheng deliberately, his face full of ridicule and mockery. Obviously, he was very unhappy with Zhao Hongrun and Li Cheng calling them "thieves".
And hearing Huan Hu say this, Li Cheng's newly relaxed mind couldn't help but lift it again.
Indeed, King Su Hongrun once led 25,000 Junshui troops to defeat the 160,000 army of Xiong Tuo, the king of Chu Xuancheng, but according to the battle report submitted by Bailiba, the general of the Junshui army. In fact, the 160,000-strong army was not an elite regular army, but an army temporarily recruited by some desperate farmers and poor people in the Chu State, and it was hardly trained for long.
The reason why these people were able to break through several cities of Wei was because the temptation of the Chu army to allow the soldiers and soldiers to loot the enemy cities gave them a great desire to fight. Therefore, it became extremely fierce, if it were not for the fact that the difference in the number of soldiers between the two sides at that time was too much, this Chu army would not be able to conquer a city like Zhaoling County.
But at the moment, this group of horse thieves is a real fierce man, this group of people is superb in riding, well-trained, and no less powerful than the regular army, and what is even worse is that these people seem to look down on life and death, whether they kill or are killed, it will not have much psychological impact on them.
This group of people is a long-standing bandit who has been tested for life and death!
Although it is said that the Tiger Ben Guards are also elite divisions that have been trained for a long time, they are the guards responsible for Wei Tianzi's travel, although they are not jokingly called honor guards, but the experience of going into battle to kill the enemy, to be honest, is really not much, because of this, when Li Cheng and Huan Hu were entangled, those Tiger Ben Guards seemed a little flustered, so that in a moment, more than a dozen people died.
Leading such a well-trained and well-equipped army with little experience in killing enemies, and even more importantly, there are only less than 100 tiger guards here, how can they resist more than 200 fierce horse thieves?
Thinking of this, Li Cheng couldn't wait to leave Huan Hu and personally go to command those tiger guards.
But he knew very well that he could not act rashly.
Because at the moment, those horse thieves are still in a state of fighting on their own, which is likely to be due to the fact that Huan Hu did not command their relationship, if Li Cheng relaxed the threat to Huan Hu, and Huan Hu freed up his hands to command those horse thieves under his command, the situation is likely to get worse.
『…… Please, Your Highness King Su!'
So far, Li Cheng can only entrust his hope to Zhao Hongrun, who is probably the most experienced in the battlefield.
At the same time, Zhao Hongrun had taken over the command, commanding the tiger guards to form a line of defense with the shields in their hands.
"It's a very ordinary formation......
A hint of disappointment flashed in Huan Hu's eyes, he still thought that this 'Su Wang Ji Run' would come up with some clever tricks to deal with them, but in the end, it was just the old routine of infantry against cavalry.
But just when Huan Hu was disappointed, the defense line formed by the tiger guards changed slightly, and I saw that the originally dense rows of standing columns suddenly turned into a single row, and a formation with a depth of only one person was formed.
"Huh?"
Huan Hu opened his mouth, only to feel a little inexplicable.
You must know that the infantry is specially used to deal with the cavalry formation, and the most important thing is that the formation must be tight and impermeable, like those tiger guards at the moment. With only one person's defense, what threat can they pose? The cavalry scattered as soon as they charged, and then it was a massacre.
"Hey, hey, does that King Su understand the tactics of warfare, and he used infantry to put on such a weak defense in front of the cavalry...... It's just killing people for nothing."
Huan Hu touched his chin, a little guessed.
And at the same time. The horse thieves under his command also noticed the movement of the Tiger Ben Guards, and they reorganized their formations with mocking faces and licking their lips.
"These guys want to block the cavalry with a one-man thick defensive line?"
"Hahaha, what a small cavalry."
"Kill, kill, kill!"
The horse thieves shouted and charged towards the defense line of the Tiger Ben Guard, just to see this scene. It's hard to imagine that this neatly galloping army turned out to be just a horse thief.
"What does His Royal Highness King Su want to do?"
Li Cheng was also taken aback in his heart, after all, he also knew that the infantry formation with a depth of one person could not stop the cavalry assault at all.
But he didn't make any moves, and watched silently, because he knew that His Royal Highness King Su. No matter how you say it, the commander who once defeated the strong with the weak and won the war with small losses, it is absolutely impossible for him to put on such a suicidal formation for no reason.
The horse thieves began to sprint. And the Tiger Ben Guards didn't make the slightest move.
It wasn't until the horse thieves were only more than ten zhang away from the defense line of the tiger guards that Zhao Hongrun suddenly raised his hand and ordered: "The tiger soldiers listened to the order, and threw the spears in your hands towards the oncoming thieves!" ”
As soon as the words fell, in the row of tiger guards. Raising the spear in his right hand, he threw it at the oncoming horse thieves.
Suddenly, the unsuspecting horse thieves flipped on their backs, especially those who rushed to the front of the group. They were pierced through their bodies by those spears, and they didn't blink to death.
"Bang bang bang-"
After a series of heavy objects falling to the ground, the two sides came to their senses.
Only then did they discover that just now, more than 20 horse thieves were directly pierced through the bodies by those spears and died.
At this scene, the surviving horse thieves immediately grabbed the reins and stood in place.
"These idiots...... They stopped.'"
Huan Hu helplessly patted his head with his hand, and said in his heart: The cavalry has no speed to sprint, what is the threat to this?
"But ......"
Huan Hu turned his head to look at Zhao Hongrun, who was among the tiger guards, and was secretly speechless.
"It's so messy, that you use the spear of the main battle as a spear thrower...... Although this move is indeed unexpected, but the loss of the long weapon, is this really appropriate?"
Just when Huan Hu was secretly guessing, the formation of the Tiger Ben Guards changed, and about half of the Tiger Ben Guards lined up in a row, and they drew their swords at their waists, as if they were ready to use this short weapon to fight the horse thief.
And the other half or so of the Tiger Ben Guards didn't know what to do behind the shields of their teammates in front of them.
“……”
“……”
The horse thieves looked at each other and looked a little hesitant.
I have to say that the fact that Fang just lost more than 20 people at once caused a huge shock to their minds, after all, when this gang of horse thieves attacked the Qingyang tribe, the two sides fought for a long time, and in the end, only eight or nine people were killed in this gang of horse thieves.
And in the blink of an eye, more than two dozen brothers were gone.
They wanted to charge again to avenge the brothers who had died in battle, but looking at the swords in the hands of those tiger guards, they couldn't help but feel a little frightened in their hearts.
For none of them could guarantee that when they charged again, the scumbags would not repeat their old tricks and throw those swords out to hurt people.
After a stalemate for a long time, Huan Hu couldn't help it anymore and scolded: "Idiot, if the other party dares to throw those swords, they will have no blades in their hands, let you slaughter, don't you even understand this?!" ”
Hearing this, those horse thieves suddenly came to their senses and immediately charged at those tiger guards again.
『……』
"Shh Zhao Hongrun frowned and glanced in the direction of Huan Hu, and actually ordered: "Retreat!" ”
In the incredible eyes of Huan Hu and Li Cheng, dozens of Tiger Ben guards quickly retreated in the face of the horse thieves' sprint.
This made the group of horse thieves suddenly dispel the scruples in their hearts, screamed, and drove the war horses under their crotch to speed up the sprint.
On the other hand, Huan Hu already had a bad premonition in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Stop!" Stop it! ”
Unfortunately, he shouted too late, and the horse thieves could no longer stop the charge, only to see them riding their horses with a hideous face and rushing through the area where the Tiger Ben Guards had set up the defensive line.
Suddenly, the horse thieves in front of the team only felt that their crotches were empty, and the war horses under their crotches fell to the ground one after another for some reason.
For a while, the horse thieves turned on their backs, fell to the ground and howled miserably.
"What's going on?"
Although he already had a bad premonition in his heart, Huan Hu was still shocked by the scene he had witnessed, and he really couldn't understand why those little cubs under his command fell inexplicably when they were obviously driving the war horses well.
He squinted his eyes and took a closer look, only to find that in the area where the Tiger Ben guards had set up the defensive line, many fist-sized pits had been dug in the ground at some point.
Yes, these holes were dug by the Tiger Guards, who were hiding behind the shields of their teammates, with their blades, when the horse thieves were shocked by the first wave of spear-throwing attacks.
These holes are not large, only about the right of their fists, and can be dug with two strokes of the blade in their hands.
The holes were not deep, only half a palm's depth, but they were enough for the galloping horse to sink his horse's hooves into the pit and break his legs, and even the horse thieves on horseback fell half to death.
"Kill!"
With Zhao Hongrun's order, the tiger guards stepped forward again and used the swords in their hands to mend the horse thieves who fell to the ground and couldn't move.
Immediately, the tiger guards returned to the area where the troops had just been arranged, and the soldiers in the front row once again lowered the shields in their hands, isolating the sight of the horse thieves on the opposite side.
For a while, the horse thieves who were still clamoring to kill all these tiger guards were silent at the moment, and the failure of the two offensives, as well as the inexplicable death of the dozens of brothers, made the fighting spirit in their hearts extinguish a little.
Even Huan Hu showed a look of amazement on his face.
"I see...... It turns out that the first wave of spears was thrown in order to delay time and deter those fools? The real killer move is those small pits...... It's the yin damage, to use such a "despicable" trick in such a dim place......
Huan Hu looked at those dense pits with interest, and kept in mind the trick of pit and harm the cavalry, and he didn't know when he could use it.
"It's really remarkable, in such a place, in such a situation, you can still think of such a clever trick, which is worthy of defeating the 160,000 army of the Chu State and forcing and capturing more than 400,000 people. But...... Kill dozens of my brothers, this blood debt, I still have to ask you, the king of Wei, to get it back......
Thinking of this, Huan Hu restrained the smile on his face, raised his fist and shouted, "Little ones, gather." ”
When the horse thieves heard this, they turned their horses' heads one after another, and reorganized their formations again by Huan Hu's side.
Seeing this, even Li Cheng could only retreat.
For a while, the entire Wei camp became silent, and the horse thieves led by Huan Hu and the tiger guards commanded by Zhao Hongrun confronted each other.
However, just as Huan Hu was about to personally command this group of horse thieves to fight, outside the Wei camp, a team of panting tiger guards hurriedly ran in, numbering about a hundred people.
"Shhhhhh Did you miss the opportunity......
Seeing this, Huan Hu frowned, and then glanced deeply at Zhao Hongrun opposite, and the corners of his mouth raised a little smile.
His smile seemed to say: We will meet again, King Su of Wei, when the time comes, let me recover today's blood debt!
"Withdraw!"
Immediately decided, Huan Hu chose to retreat. (To be continued.) )