Chapter 154: Blood Red and Snow White
Lu Rongfa asked people to take the young patriarch Lu Xiuping to flee to the river, while he led the people to meet the battle, in this hard and flat wilderness by the river, people can't outrun the horse's four legs with two legs, so he has to buy time for his nephew.
He recognized the flag, and the word Zhou on it did not represent the Zhou army, but had another meaning: they were the soldiers of the Zhou family, the elite of the Zhou family, and there were many generals surnamed Zhou in the world, but this Zhou family made Lu Rongfa unforgettable, specifically, the Lu family was unforgettable.
Eight years ago, the states of Jiangbei were still the territory of Chen, and Zhou Jiong, the general of Chen who guarded Jiangbei, returned to the dynasty by edict, and Tian Longsheng, the assassin of Dingzhou, took the opportunity to rebel into the Northern Qi Dynasty with seven towns in six states in Jiangbei, and Zhou Jiong was appointed by Emperor Chen as the governor of Jiangbei Province to lead the army to attack Tian Longsheng.
At that time, the history of Bazhou Thorn was Tian Longsheng's confidant, as the local powerful Tian and Lu families also judged the situation and followed each other to become the people of Qi, and when Zhou Jiong led the army to attack Bazhou, his two families sent clan soldiers to help fight.
In that battle, an elite cavalry holding the banner of the Zhou character broke into the right flank of the Lu clan, as if entering a no-man's land, instantly defeated them, and the whole army collapsed, Lu Rongfa watched the iron hooves of the opposing cavalry ruthlessly trample the Lu clansmen in the formation.
Outrageous refers to the fact that Tian had secretly surrendered to the Chen army at that time, so the direction of the other party's assault was chosen on the Lu side, after this battle, the Lu family suffered heavy casualties, how many families lost their fathers, husbands, and sons, and since then, the relationship between the Tian and Lu families has declined sharply, and Lu Rongfa was deeply impressed by the Zhou character banner.
The few cavalry of the Lu clan soldiers greeted it like moths to a fire, and in an instant, they dissipated like waves hitting the reef, and the enemy cavalry was already unstoppable.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Lu Rongfa commanded the few archers around him to release arrows, and suddenly most of the archers were gathered around the barracks, they were few in number, and the distance of a hundred steps was not far away, and in an instant, the enemy cavalry had rushed in front of him.
A horse stabbed at him with a horse lance, Lu Rong howled and threw the stone he had temporarily picked up in his hand at the other party, and then rushed forward with a knife to cut the horse's leg. The cavalryman first shook his body to avoid the incoming unknown object, and then swung his horse lance and stabbed Lu Rongfa in the shoulder just as he was about to rush to the horse.
The head of the lance was sharp and sharp like a knife, and he didn't use any additional force, just relying on the momentum of the horse, he cut off Lu Rongfa's right arm directly from the shoulder, and he was immediately knocked away by the war horse, falling into the snow like a kite with a broken string.
Red blood spurted from the broken shoulder, and Lu Rongfa fell like a broken body, unable to move, and he watched as the cavalry rushed past him, drowning the remaining dozen or so guards.
"Run, Xiuping, Run"
Looking at the back of his nephew rushing to the river, Lu Rongfa was full of grief in his heart, eight years ago, he watched his clansmen die under the iron hooves of the Zhou family, but he did not expect that the tragedy would happen again eight years later.
The snow-white snow on the ground in front of him was stained red by his own blood, and Lu Rongfa struggled unwillingly to get up and fight hard, but it was already difficult to breathe. Fang was hit by the war horse, and his ribs seemed to be all broken, and every breath was a heart-rending pain.
That year, it was the third brother Lu Rongjia, that is, the patriarch of the Lu family, who saved his life, but now he can only watch the son of the third brother flee helplessly to the riverside.
A continuous sound of horns sounded in his ears, the sound came from the direction of the barracks, and Lu Rongfa knew that the garrison that had been dormant began to move out and the end of the Lu clan soldiers was coming.
Another sound of horses' hooves sounded and got closer and closer, Lu Rongfa turned his head to see a few horsemen galloping towards him, and before his head was trampled by the horses' hooves, he saw many cavalry behind him......
Lu Xiuping ran to the river under the protection of the guards, as long as they reached the river, the pursuers behind them were helpless, the Lu family lived by the Yangtze River for generations, and everyone was proficient in water, so as long as they fled to the river, they would be safe.
He couldn't figure out what was wrong. The most important thing is why these cavalry under the command of Zhou Fashang, the assassin of Hengzhou, appeared here.
Looking at the Zhou flag, he initially thought it was the military flag of the Zhou army, but later found that it was different from the flag he saw on weekdays, and with Lu Rongfa's expression, he thought of the possibility that he had thought about in advance but vetoed: reinforcements from Hengzhou.
Hengzhou Assassin Zhou Fashang, his father Zhou Jiong came to Xiyang in the eighth year, and it was this Zhou Jiaerlang who once led his troops to hit the Lu family hard, which is memorable, the problem is not this, the key is that the appearance of the other party means that things have changed, and it is a big change.
The other party has a back hand, and this back hand is a knife to kill chickens, and it is already very difficult for the Lu clan soldiers to stop the soldiers in the barracks from attacking, plus these cavalry, then there is only a rout, and it is obvious what the other party wants to do next.
Just these cavalry outflanking Xiyang City is already a big variable, and the Tian clan who feints outside the city will definitely not be able to stop it. If the other party rushes to the south gate, with the assistance of the state soldiers, it is likely to block the tomb of Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, in the city.
At that time, even if Yu Wenwen died, the situation could not be recovered, but fortunately, their Lu clan had a back hand, and Bahe City was on the east bank of Ba Shui, and the other party could not attack it urgently. As long as you can cross south, you can escape the disaster.
Lu Xiuping was thinking about being suddenly thrown to the ground, but when he got up, he found that a person behind him blocked an arrow for him, and when he saw the person's face clearly, he couldn't help but be shocked: "Sir, sir!" ”
It was the scribe who was blocking the arrow, and now a feathered arrow had pierced his chest from back to front, blood oozing out of his chest, staining it a large patch of red. Lu Xiuping's eyes were red, and he wanted to pull him up and continue running, but the other party refused.
"Leave me alone, Lang Jun, run," the scribe said with all his might, and when the corners of his mouth spilled blood, he couldn't speak, Lu Xiuping saw this, and went crazy and wanted to step forward and leave with him, but was pulled away by the guards.
"Lang Jun! If you don't run, it's too late! ”
Lu Xiuping looked at the scribe who had lost his breath and his heart was like a knife, this was a well-learned person he had easily met, and when it came to learning, he was the first to be the Tao and was proficient in human affairs. He is also very good at the management of goods, and originally wanted to use it as a help to strengthen the Lu family, but he never thought that he would die at this time.
How so, how so!
He hadn't come yet, and the chasing soldiers were already approaching, seeing that the river bank was more than ten steps away, Lu Xiuping's side was more than ten steps away, and the guards howled and turned around to fight back, trying to buy time for Lord Lang, but then they were picked up by the horse lance.
As soon as the horse rushed in, Lu Xiuping heard the voice, and suddenly rolled on the spot to dodge, and then got up to run forward, but was pulled down by a lasso, he howled and struggled hard, but was dragged backwards.
"Got you!" A voice came, Lu Xiuping, who fell to the ground, looked up, but it was a young general riding on a horse looking down at him, he didn't have time to scold, but he heard a wail all around, struggled to sit up, looked up, but saw a desolate scene:
In the wilderness outside the barracks, the soldiers of the Lu clan were chased by the cavalry like sheep. The soldiers who were originally dormant in the barracks have now swarmed out, killing the clan soldiers who were originally blocking the door, some people resisted and were slashed on the spot, and many more knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, the originally snow-white ground was now stained with mottled blood, and the wilderness was blood-red and snow-white under the moonlight.
Defeated, he lost a game of chess that he had carefully planned, and what he thought he could lead his people to a brilliant victory now led them to a desperate situation.
These strange soldiers should be the handiwork of that Yu Wenwen. Lu Xiuping has always thought highly of himself and looked down on the lustful and unobtrusive Yuwenwen, he felt that Yuwenwen was just a fat pig with fine clothes and food, nothing more than a fate to be reincarnated in the clan and be able to be powerful, but now he was defeated in the hands of 'this fang'.
"Ahhh Lu Xiuping roared like a mad dog, he couldn't stand this bleak end, and got up to be desperately stabbed in the abdomen by the young general with a lance, and knelt on the ground in pain.
"It was a man who was cut off by me when the mantis arm was used as a car just now, I said why don't you fight to the death if you are so dissatisfied?" Zhou Faming took back the horse lance and sneered, the captured young man on the ground seemed to be the leader of the Lu clan's soldiers.
Just now, when he led people to lurk in the wilderness, he used the treasure clairvoyant mirror given by Bazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wen as a 'deposit', and he understood that this guard surrounded people and scolded, and Fang Xuan thought that he was a character, but he rushed directly to the river, which was really boring.
Since being teased a lot by Yuwen Wen's side, Zhou Faming has become more and more 'poisonous tongue', and he was about to 'train' the person in front of him, but he had to be reminded by the people around him to block his mouth so as not to chew his tongue and kill himself.
"Let the captives recognize if it's Lu Xiuping in a moment." After Zhou Faming finished speaking, he turned over and got on his horse, and was about to continue beating the water dog, but he saw more than ten horsemen galloping towards him. At this time, there were cavalrymen who dared to approach, that is, on their own side, so he and the people around him were calm.
"I'm here, Wednesday!" When one person opened his mouth to report to his house, he stopped abruptly, he was Yuwen Wen's 'confidant servant' Yuwen Fifteen.
"Yo, isn't this the Lord of Yuwen!" Zhou Faming, who was originally heroic, instantly became flamboyant, he was thinking about how to have a poisonous tongue, but he heard the other party ask how the situation was, and if there was no problem, he would start the next step.
"Uh, it's really okay for Xiyang City not to let me wait for reinforcements?" Zhou Faming asked, Yuwen Fifteen also looked back at Xiyang City, where the fire flashed, and then shook his head and said No need.
"It's really fake, Yuwen envoy Jun don't want to play with fire and burn yourself!"
"Where the words. If Lord Lang didn't send a signal, it means that it was done, and besides, Master Chen had already sent troops over. The martial arts of the lord of the history you know, hehe. Yuwen Fifteen replied disappreciatively.
"Your soldiers can't do it, don't make a mistake, don't freeze this cold day, we have to save it." Zhou Faming began to speak venomously.
"Don't panic, you can't steal the limelight from your brothers!" Yuwen fifteen sneered several times.
Lu Xiuping listened to the conversation between the two people, first puzzled and then shocked: these soldiers don't even need to go to the city to reinforce them, so what do they want to do! An idea appeared in Lu Xiuping's heart, and he was immediately startled, he looked up to the east side, only to see that the cavalry was driving his defeated clansmen towards Bakou.
'Fishing in troubled waters, they are going to attack Bahe City!' Lu Xiuping figured out the key to it, and he was so anxious that Yuwen Fifteen caught a glimpse of him and looked at him for a moment, and then pretended to be surprised and asked, "Isn't this Lu Langjun?" Such a coincidence? ”……
In Bahe City, on the wall of the West Gate, Lu Rongjia, the patriarch of the Lu clan, looked at the wilderness on the other side of Ba Shui, and was anxious. His son Lu Xiuping led his soldiers to besiege the new army camp of Bazhou Assassin Shi Yu Wenwen, which was originally going well, but he did not expect to be killed halfway, and the situation reversed.
Reversal, reversal, if it really doesn't work, immediately cross the river south and settle down to a new home on the other side, whether Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, can kill Yu Wenwen He doesn't care if he only cares about whether his son Lu Xiuping can withdraw safely.
Lu Xiuping is the most promising of his sons, and he is also the future patriarch, so Lu Rongjia has high hopes for him, and this cooperation with Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing in his homeland, is also a unanimous decision made by his son after analyzing the interests.
The defeated soldiers who fled back in embarrassment fled to the side of Ba Shui before the chasing cavalry swung their knives and slashed down, although it was the middle of winter, the river was cold, but this was not a problem for the Lu clan who grew up by the river since childhood, many wet soldiers swam across Ba Shui and climbed ashore, swarming towards the West Gate, but Lu Rongjia looked at it for a long time and did not see his son and younger brother Lu Rongfa.
A sense of foreboding came over me. He didn't dare to think deeply, but kept muttering the blessing of the Buddha in his heart, and at this moment, he only heard someone shouting at the gate of the city, and he listened to it closely, but he said what Lang Jun asked him to pass on.
Lu Rongjia was anxious in his heart, and he couldn't wait for people to come up and ask, so he poked his head out on the wall and shouted to ask Lang Jun what was the matter, the other party suddenly raised his hand along with several people around him, and then the sound of breaking the air sounded, and several crossbow arrows shot Lu Rongjia through the cold.
The incident happened suddenly, and the soldiers of the Lu clan were not yet at the scene, but some people in the crowd were in trouble, drawing knives and slashing indiscriminately, and they kept shouting that there was a fine work, and the situation was out of control in an instant, and it was easy to escape The clan soldiers who fled here rushed to the city desperately to squeeze away those guards who wanted to close the door.
"Don't panic, block people you don't know first!" There are people who wake up quickly and want to maintain order but are stabbed down, and the fine work mixed in the crowd has made difficulties, slashing and killing the guards at the doorway, and the gate is jammed, and the incident suddenly happened, the clan soldiers who had just escaped the pursuit of the West Bank were terrified, and they only cared about hiding in the city, and some people could afford to resist.
The archers on the head of the city wanted to release their arrows, but in the night, the crowds were crowded, where could they distinguish between the enemy and me, and in the chaos, I don't know how many people mixed into the city, not only the city gate was chaotic, but even the city head was also killed with knives, and it was a mess.
"It's the chasing soldiers, the chasing soldiers have crossed the river!" Someone shouted in panic, and everyone looked back to see that not far away, on the other side of the river, many soldiers were carrying bamboo rafts to rush down to the shore and put them into the water, some of them rowed over directly, and some of them were building pontoon bridges.
It doesn't matter, it's even more frightening, it's still behind, I saw a flag standing up on the other side of the river, with a big Zhou character on it, and some elders in the clan saw the banner and their faces changed greatly: "It's Zhou, it's the soldiers of the Zhou family!" ”
The soldiers of the Zhou family are like thunder for the people of the Lu clan, and the soldiers who experienced the disaster eight years ago are still very many people now, and the second son of the god of killing, Zhou Fashang, is now leading the soldiers of the Zhou family to take office in Hengzhou, and it is not impossible if the other party leads the troops over.
The Lu clan people were terrified when they learned that it was the Zhou family's tribe who came in, and the Zhou family's tribesmen who had already drawn their swords at the city gate and fought bloody battles were screaming to surrender and not kill.
Their ancestors followed Zhou Qiang, the assassin of Liangzhou in Southern Qi, to defend against the Northern Army, and their fathers followed Zhou Lingqi, the second-generation Lang lord and general of Southern Liang, to fight against the Guizhou barbarians.
They followed the third generation of Lang lord and Xiyang Taishou Zhou Jiong of Southern Liang to counterattack the Hou Jing rebels who were causing trouble in the Southern Dynasty, they followed Zhou Jiong, the assassin of Jiangzhou, to resist Chen Baxian, who was about to usurp Liang, they followed Zhou Jiong, the assassin of Anzhou of Chen State, to conquer Ba and Qi in Jiangbei, and they followed the Rongwei general Zhou Jiong to quell the Huajiao rebellion in Dingba and Hunan Erzhou.
They followed Zhou Jiong, the governor of Jiangbei Province, to quell the rebellion of Tian Longsheng in the six states of Jiangbei, and with Zhou Fashang, the second son of Zhou Jiong and the fourth lord of Lang, he defeated Chen Jun, who was several times his size, and went north to join the Zhou State.
"Surrender or kill, surrender and kill!!"
The shouts echoed in the sky above Bahe City, and the fire that gradually ignited in the small city reflected the face of Zhou Faming, who was standing on the west bank of Ba Shui, red, and watched the tribes succeed in the bloody battle, and the blood of the Zhou family in his body began to boil.
My father once led them to attack the city, and my second brother once led them to make great achievements, and now it is my turn to lead them to be invincible! (To be continued.) )