Chapter Forty-Eight: Fighting the Autumn Wind (Part II)
(XX website.xxx.***) (XX website.xxx.***) (XX website.xxx.***) Yeluguang listened to Xiao Tiancheng's words, but smiled nonchalantly: "If you can really meet this woman, it will be a great pleasure!" He pinched the horse's belly a few times with his legs, and called out to the mount to speed up.
Xiao Tiancheng looked at his yearning look, shook his head helplessly, he couldn't persuade him, and he had to keep an eye on him and don't cause any trouble.
The speed of the Liao army is extremely fast, and it has run out of dozens of miles in a moment, and there is a large open space in front of it, which is the bellflower field left after the wheat field is harvested, and the large open space is dotted with sparse bean fields, and the little points of Hujiazhuang can be faintly seen in the night ahead.
When the bell rang for "......", the sentinel under the alarm tree found the traces of the Liao cavalry.
When Yeluguang was chatting in the army, he heard the generals mention that there was an alarm bell in the Song village, and when he heard the bell, he asked Xiao Tiancheng loudly: "Brother Xiao!" The Song people know we're here, right? Haha, interesting! ”
Xiao Tiancheng smiled, whistled, the cavalry quickly rushed towards Hujiazhuang, in the battle with the Song people Zhuangzi in the Liao soldiers experience is gradually enriched, since it has been discovered, then take advantage of the Song people to attack quickly in a hurry, but they don't need to pay attention to the people who call the police, so as not to delay time.
There is no road in the north of Hujiazhuang, compared to the thorny bellflower field, Liao Qi naturally habitually chose to take the bean field, although the war horse has a horseshoe to protect the soles of the feet, but also reluctant to let it run quickly in the bellflower field, the soybeans are not yet ripe, the soybean seedlings are soft and soft, and there is the rustle of the horse's hooves everywhere.
Yeluguang pulled the reins and let the war horse jump among the bean seedlings, laughing loudly: "Step on the beans of the Song people!" ”
Xiao Tiancheng listened to his childish words, couldn't help but smile slightly, and was about to teach him a few words. Suddenly, I heard the war horse in front of me neighing loudly, and the sound was very painful, and then I saw that the knights in front fell one after another, and the war horses in the back could not catch up, and they were tripped and fell to the ground one after another. The front end of the cavalry team suddenly became a mess.
Xiao Tiancheng vigorously strangled the reins, the mount neighed, the front height stood up, was pulled by Xiao Tiancheng in pain, and kept neighing, Yeluguang's riding skills were not so fine, when galloping all the way, he saw that he was able to manipulate the war horse with ease, but now he was timid, and he didn't react for a while, and the crotch dismounted and the knight who stopped urgently in front of him "bang" collided together, Yeluguang snorted, fell heavily from the horse, and hummed and chirped on the ground.
Several generals next to him hurriedly dismounted and helped him up, but Xiao Tiancheng didn't have time to care about him, and when he heard the sergeant in front of him shouting "Tribulus terrestris" or something, he knew the reason, frowned and said loudly: "Go to the bellflower field!" "It seems that the Song people have learned to be obedient, and they actually planted an iron thistle array in the bean field. Naturally, you can't see it under the cover of bean seedlings, hmph, it seems that the Song people are willing to give up these bean fields and only use them to set up traps against their own army.
After a period of panic, the Liao people re-established their position, dozens of war horses injured the soles of their feet, and several soldiers were also injured by thistles. Fortunately, there was heavy armor and body protection, and the injuries were not serious, and a team of 100 people was divided. Escorting the wounded soldiers and horses back, the rest of the people whistled, rode into the bellflower field, and pounced on Hujiazhuang dozens of miles away.
Yeluguang's face was pale, and he didn't look so excited anymore, he clenched the spear in his hand, his teeth creaked, and his legs clamped the horse's belly hard, and he didn't say a word.
Xiao Tiancheng glanced at him, shook his head, shouted in his mouth that the front army was careful, the speed slowed down, and he didn't say a few words, and suddenly heard a few loud noises of "poof", and saw that the front was full of smoke and dust, and there were several large holes on the ground that were dozens of zhang square, and the cavalry who rushed to the front were planted into the holes, Xiao Tiancheng was really taken aback at this time, if those iron thistles were not much on his heart, then this large area of horse traps in front of him made Xiao Tiancheng's heart lift.
At this moment, in the darkness not far from the east behind the small earthen bag, suddenly a group of archers poured out, with a gong sound, dense arrows flew like rain, dozens of Liao people suddenly screamed and fell off their horses, the rest of the Liao people were furious, this is really a naked provocation, there is no heavy infantry on the plain to resist the impact of the cavalry, and even directly sent archers to attack the cavalry, isn't this looking for their own death? With a whistle, he rushed towards the dirt bag like a wolf, and Yeluguang was also among them, and before Xiao Tiancheng could stop it, there were several loud noises, and dozens of cavalry fell into the trap again.
However, the east obviously did not dig too many traps, a large group of cavalry still swarmed over, the archers retreated very quickly, where was the cavalry willing to let go, quickly chased, who knows the "poof" sound constantly, from time to time there are Liao cavalry stepping on the air, falling into the trap, not long after, there are countless large areas of traps on this plain, those archers seem to remember the location of the trap very well, turn east and west, and retreat to the south. Jerolight shouted, "Follow me!" He was so clever that he remembered the route of the archers' retreat, and followed closely behind, with hundreds of horsemen following after Jerod in pursuit of the archers, while the rest of the brigade stopped and waited for the commander's orders.
Xiao Tiancheng was really stunned at this time, what is this for? Could it be that these Zhuangzi are crazy? Huge tracts of farmland just ruined? It seems that most of the farmland north of Hujiazhuang has dug traps, could it be that the Song people did not hesitate to lose both sides in order to fight against their own soldiers? Didn't the Song people just want to build Zhuangzi here because they had more land here? Why turn vast tracts of farmland into barren land now? It's better to migrate back to the south as a whole village, why bother to entangle with the north here?
There were many doubts in his heart, and he ordered his subordinates to pull out the soldiers in the trap pit, and at the same time shouted Yeluguang in his mouth, but Yeluguang was angry, where was he willing to listen, and chased straight down towards the archers, Xiao Tiancheng was frightened at this time, and was waiting to chase after the horse, when he suddenly heard the sound of a bangzi, and suddenly there was a crossbow sound in the grove in front of him, Xiao Tiancheng secretly said that it was not good, and shouted: "Stand back!" It was too late to shout, countless crossbow arrows flew out of the woods, and in the miserable shouting, dozens of horsemen and horses were shot to the ground, and the Liao soldiers suddenly made a mess and retreated back.
The gong sounded again, but the second round of arrow rain shot into the trap pit, and the trap suddenly screamed.
Xiao Tiancheng shouted: "Retreat!" Retire! At this time, he already knew that he was calculated by these Zhuangzi of the Song people, and the first evil nineteen was the owner of the Wujiazhuang, he could guess that he would inevitably send troops in the next few days, and even guessed that his target was Hujiazhuang rather than Wujiazhuang, so he arranged for the next two villages to be robbed and killed outside Hujiazhuang, and the enemy and I were not clear at this time. There are large areas of traps nearby, and the night is thick, and the terrain can not be seen clearly, the night that was originally chosen for the surprise attack has become the biggest elbow of his cavalry at this time, and it is difficult to ensure that the Song people still have any tricks if they are delayed. Now there is only a temporary withdrawal of troops.
Looking at the more than 100 horsemen chasing the archers of the Song army not far away, Xiao Tiancheng was annoyed in his heart, if it weren't for Yeluguang having a good old man, he would have long ago ignored his life or death and led the army and horses back, but now he only ordered the soldiers to retreat slowly, and at the same time picked up the order flag from his arms and handed it to the herald beside him: "Order Yeluguang to return to the army quickly!" "The order flag was specially brought by him, because he was afraid that Yeluguang would not listen to his orders in the battle, and there was a military tent order flag, and Yeluguang would not dare to disobey no matter how stubborn he was.
Jerodon chased after the archers in great hass. Seeing that the spear was gradually approaching the archer who was running at the end. Yeluguang shouted angrily: "Song Dog ate me with a spear!" The spear was raised high, and with a single blow the archer who had fallen to the ground at the end, and the archer had just screamed miserably, and had already been trampled by the disorderly horse, and was killed on the spot.
Yeluguang sneered, rode his horse and hurried, and suddenly saw a white-robed man standing against the tree under the big tree a hundred paces ahead. Yelu Guang is happy, could it be the third sister? When I went to get her, I let out a bad breath.
As soon as the thought passed, I suddenly heard the white-robed man shouting: "Eat me with an arrow!" Yeluguang was slightly depressed, it turned out to be a man, and at this moment, there was a loud sound in the air, and Yeluguang had not yet reacted. I felt a cold forehead, followed by a fiery pain, and a scream of "ah". Flying up by the huge momentum of his forehead, he fell heavily from the sky.
But it was the white-robed man who suddenly fired a cold arrow, hitting Yelu's forehead, and the angry arrow pierced his brain, and he actually flew Yelu out of the volley a few steps away.
The white-robed man laughed and disappeared behind the tree.
Liao rode in chaos, dismounted and watched, everyone knew that he was the beloved son of the emperor's uncle Wei King Yeluchun, if there were three long and two short, how could he be born, "Shizi?" The Son? ”
"Go back to the camp and ask the doctor for treatment!" Someone finally came to their senses and shouted.
A knight took Yeluguang in his arms, galloped back, and the rest of the Liao soldiers didn't care about looking for the white-robed man's bad luck, so they protected Yeluguang and hurried back.
When he arrived at Xiao Tiancheng's side, Yeluguang already had more air in and less air out, Xiao Tiancheng looked at Ye Luguang with a blue face, and shouted: "Go back to the camp!" "At this time, what kind of wounded soldiers and horses are incarnated, it is no longer cared about, and the Liao people are rushing towards the North Pole like a swarm.
The sky is faint, Hujiazhuang Zhuangbei people are boiling, there are excited Zhuang guests everywhere, and they are not blamed for being excited, and the Liao people have been fighting for so many years, there has never been such a joy, the Liao army did not get close to Zhuangzi at all and returned with a fiasco, and killed and injured more than 300 Liao cavalry, which can be said to be a rare victory.
Wu Zhi stood on a small earthen bag, silently looking at the Zhuang Ke who was cleaning the battlefield, but there was no joy in his heart, but a little frustration.
The beginning of the development of the battle is still expected, but later it was beyond their expectations, it should have been Hua Rong to take a cold shot to kill the opponent's commander, then take advantage of the enemy's chaos, their own Quartet to arrange heavy armor soldiers, crossbowmen, etc. can take the opportunity to kill, and strive to make a dumpling for the Liao people, who knows that a team of Liao cavalry has been chasing the team of light archers in Wujiazhuang regardless of the commander, if not rescued, the light archers are bound to be slaughtered by the team of Liao cavalry.
In desperation, Hua Rong had no choice but to change his goal and kill the leader of the Liao cavalry, so that the Liao cavalry of the brigade could escape calmly, but Wu Zhi's hard work was all in vain, remembering that in order to persuade Hu Taigong to give up the land in Zhuangbei, Wu Zhi tried his best, and promised to compensate Hujiazhuang thousands of dollars every year, but now he failed to defeat the Liao people, no wonder he was depressed.
"Why aren't you happy?" I don't know when the third sister walked to him, standing side by side with him, the breeze attacked, under the snow-white phoenix wing helmet of the third sister, a strand of silk scattered in front of the forehead was blown lightly, and the tips of the hair touched Wu Zhi's cheeks from time to time, and the light fragrance of the hair made Wu Zhi's spirit lift.
"Are you alright?" Wu Zhi looked at the third sister Hu in surprise, she had promised to let her kill happily, but she didn't want to touch the hair of the Liao people, she thought she would be depressed, who knew that she looked like no one.
Hu Sanmei looked at the north and said lightly: "The Liao people can't be killed, if I can drive the Liao people away without hurting a single soldier every time, I'd rather kill a few fewer people!" ”
Wu Zhi sighed: "Who said that there was not a single soldier injured? How can there be immortals on the battlefield? ”
Hearing his emotion, Hu Sanmei was slightly surprised and said, "Have you ever been in the battle array?" ”
Wu Zhi said "En", not wanting to dwell on this topic, and pointed to the Zhuang Ke who was trying to disguise the trap at the bottom of the slope. He smiled and said: "If you give up these fields, you can exchange for the safety of Zhuangzi, which is actually very cost-effective." ”
The third sister was slightly embarrassed: "My father borrowed money from you again, it's really, really ......" I didn't know what to say for a long time.
Wu Zhi looked at her amusedly. It's rare that this beautiful girl also has a time when she is stuck, if it were someone else, Wu Zhi would have waved her hand, said some comforting words, and changed the topic, but it was her in front of her, Wu Zhi deliberately didn't speak, and smiled in his heart when he saw her embarrassment.
The third sister was helpless, and when she raised her eyes and saw Wu Zhi smiling, she snorted angrily. Turned his head away. The mouth said: "Use it!" But my father is also wise! ”
Wu Zhi was about to speak, when footsteps sounded behind him, Zhu Wu hurriedly ran up, and just arrived in front of Wu Zhi, he hurriedly said: "Master, I'm afraid I'm going to be in big trouble!" ”
Wu Zhi smiled: "What's the big trouble? Did the princess reach out and ask for money again? ”
Hu Sanmei was not angry, and said lightly: "Who told you not to listen to me." I want to be a tough guy! ”
Zhu Wu smiled awkwardly and said to Wu Zhi: "Master, the person who was shot and wounded by General Hua is called Yeluguang, it turned out to be Yeluchun's beloved son, and the captured Liao people said that Yeluchun loves this son the most, you see ......"
Wu Zhi smiled: "Yeluchun's son? ”
Zhu Wu nodded and said, "Yes, General Hua said that Yeluguang Nineteen can't survive today's ......."
Wu Zhi's face was solemn: "That's really a big trouble!" "Look to the north. I seem to have inadvertently stabbed the hornet's nest again.
Hu Sanmei has been listening to the two of them talking, and her face is a little more solemn at this time: "That is the son of Liao, and the Liao people are afraid that they will report it back." We should report to the Department of Economic Strategy. ”
Wu Zhi pondered for a moment, and said to Third Sister Hu: "Miss Hu, I will leave it first, leave this matter to me, don't worry about it." ”
Hearing Wu Zhi's concern, Third Sister Hu was slightly appreciative in her heart, and nodded: "Well, I'm going too." ”
Wu Zhi was no longer polite, and Zhu Wu hurriedly went down the dirt slope, and Hu Sanmei returned to Zhuangzi by herself.
Wu Zhi hurried back to Wujiazhuang, and Zhu Wu discussed tablets in the study, and then wrote down a few secret orders, summoned the guards, and so on, all the guards received the order, and ran to the stables to receive the horses.
On this day, the road to the official road in Sanzhuang. There was an unusually luxurious car parked, and the eight high-headed horses pulling the cart were abnormal, even inferior to military horses.
Next to the car, there are a few beautiful women, not far away, dozens of riders, all of them are strong men in short clothes, looking extremely strong.
"Sister Jin Lian, I'm so scared, let's go back." The girl in the bright yellow dress said aggrievedly.
The girl in the flaming red dress smiled: "Ah, you are also scared sometimes?" What did Sister Jin Lian say when she came? 'I'll take care of something!' Aren't you nervous when you speak? ”
The girl in the yellow dress glared at her, but her eyes looked pleading at the most beautiful woman.
The woman in the light red dress smiled: "Since you have arrived, let's go and have a look, Xianggong won't blame you!" ”
Needless to say, these people are Jin Lian, Qiqiao and Xuanjing three daughters, yesterday Qiqiao suddenly heard the guards talking about the Daimyo's forbidden army is rushing to the border of the Liao and Song Dynasty in large numbers, Qiqiao naturally wants to ask to understand, only then do I know that Xianggong seems to be in trouble, I am afraid that I will fight with the Liao people.
Qiqiao and Jin Lian said, Jin Lian was worried, and finally under the help of Qiqiao, a few women with guards to Wujiazhuang, of course, before the departure sent the guards to report the news, a few women in a carriage slowly, this morning in a town received the guards back the king's handwriting, Wu Zhi also really want a few women, since they came, it is good to get together, but the words to clean up the Qiqiao, so that she will not dare to make a claim next time.
When the women saw Wu Zhi agree, they were all very excited, speeding up, and within a few hours, they arrived dozens of miles away from Wujiazhuang, but Qiqiao suddenly had a cowardice, and I didn't know if the Xiang Guild would scold him. rubbed to go back to the Daimyo's Mansion, and made Jin Lian and Xuan Jing cry and laugh. I had to stop the car and get out of the car to comfort Qiqiao.
Jin Lian saw Qiqiao looking at herself pleadingly, looking very pitiful, and couldn't help but persuade: "Don't be afraid, Xianggong loves you the most, and he won't scold you." ”
Xuan Jing also smiled: "Yes, who are we afraid of?" It's a big deal to teach the teacher again! ”
Qiqiao said angrily: "Sister Xuan Jing will say cool things now!" See what I do with you another day! Speaking of calculating her, I don't know what kind of ghost idea I remembered, I looked at Xuan Jing's eyes full of smiles, Xuan Jing was numb by her, knowing that if this little girl really had any ghost ideas, she couldn't afford it, she took a few steps back, and said hurriedly: "Qiqiao, don't forget that I am your second sister!" ”
Seeing that she was scared, Qiqiao smiled proudly, and when he looked at Jin Lian, his little face turned to pleading.
Jin Lian sighed helplessly: "Then what do you say?" You can't really go back to the Daimyo's Mansion. "From here, you can faintly see the black outline of Wujiazhuang, if you turn around now, you are really unwilling.
Qiqiao said aggrievedly: "That's not necessary, as long as the princess asked, Sister Jin Lian said that it was your idea...... Ah, Xianggong definitely didn't believe it, so he said that it was an idea for the three of us to discuss together. ”
Jin Lian smiled and said, "That's natural, Xuan Jing and I also wanted to say the same." ”
Qiqiao said again: "There are ...... And tonight, let's accompany Xianggong together, Sister Jin Lian is not here, if there is only Qiqiao left, I am afraid that Xianggong will have some bad ideas! ”
Xuan Jing's face flushed, and she took a sip: "Why are you still so crazy?" ”
Two red clouds also flew up on Jin Lian's face, and she forcibly said with shame: "You will talk nonsense, haven't you seen the letter from the prime minister?" After seeing Xianggong, we will turn around in the afternoon, and we can't share Xianggong's mind here. ”
Qiqiao let out a sigh of relief and said angrily: "Why didn't you say it earlier, it scared me to death!" As long as you don't see each other at night! Jumping into the car with a smile, he urged vigorously: "Let's go, let's go, don't let Xianggong wait in a hurry!" ”
Jin Lian and Xuan Jing glanced at each other helplessly, and walked towards the carriage, Xuan Jing didn't care, Jin Lian heard Qiqiao say, "It's good if you don't see Xianggong at night", but her face was enthusiastic and heartbeat, has this little girl been tossed by Xianggong in different tricks? That's why you're scared to death? Thinking of Xianggong's embarrassing actions, Jin Lian's face was so red that she didn't dare to think about it anymore, and Yingying walked to the car.
Qiqiao smiled and pulled Jin Lian's hand, but his eyes suddenly froze, and he looked at the north and said, "What a fast horse!" As he spoke, he quickly jumped in front of Jin Lian: "Sister, be careful." ”
Xuan Jing's face was also solemn, protecting Jin Lian's side, her eyes fixed on a white shadow that was galloping like lightning in the distance.
The guards are even more swords out of the sheath, as if facing a great enemy, these guards are all resident in the palace, naturally do not know the white horse and jade phoenix.
The white shadow did not pause in the slightest, and flew past the car.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Qiqiao turned around and helped Jin Lian to get into the car, and snorted: "It's a beautiful girl, the horse is spirited, one day bring our BMW to compare with her." ”
Xuan Jing smiled, although the speed of the white horse is fast, she and Qiqiao's eyesight is enough to see clearly, the girl looks about the same age as herself, and she only glanced at her group of people and galloped by, it seems that she is not an enemy, could it be that this is Hu Wushuang of Hujiazhuang?
Qiqiao also said at this time: "The little girl nineteen is the third sister of Hu, hum, Hebei Wushuang, such a big name, but it looks good, it seems to be more prosperous Qiqiao back then!" Alas......" sighed at the end, and seemed to sigh that he had married the wrong man, and he could no longer fight and kill at will.
Xuan Jing listened to the old words of the Tangram, as if the seniors were commenting on the juniors, and couldn't help but purse her lips and smile: "People don't know that your Tangram hero is coming to Hebei, otherwise wouldn't you be scared and quickly change your name?" ”
Qiqiao smiled and glanced at Xuan Jing a few times, and made up his mind to implement the vicious plan in his heart, but he didn't mention it anymore, and said: "Qiqiao doesn't ask about the affairs of the rivers and lakes for a long time, and I am very pleased to see that the rivers and lakes are full of talents......"
Not only Xuan Jing, but Jin Lian was also amused by her and couldn't stop laughing, at this moment, the horse and the twin bells rang from the south again, and the white shadow galloped over very quickly, it seemed that this time it was driving towards the car.