Chapter 18: Night Raid
Inside the charcoal-burning tent, the fire was dim. Leon drank his wine, very slowly. Yu Lipan sat next to him, wiping his black lance. Suddenly, the curtain of the tent was lifted, and with a flick of his wrist, the wine jug in his hand flew out, and then the whistling cold wind poured in, blowing the dark red carbon in the fire pond and making it a lot brighter.
"It's cold in the second half of the night." Dusting off the snow on his body, Gao Aocao wiped the residual wine from the corner of his mouth and walked into the tent, and stuffed the half-drunk wine jug to Yu Liyan, who came out of the lance.
"Lao Yan, he is a stuffy gourd, you say ten words, and he can't even say half a word out of his mouth." Gao Aocao sat next to Li Ang, looked at the black shadow that flashed out, and whispered to himself, "But when it comes to fighting, no one is more reliable than him." ”
"Although this trip is to protect your brother and go back in style and break the face of the Turks, in fact, I also want to kill those Turkic masters." Gao Aocao suddenly raised his head, looked at Li Ang beside him, sighed and said, "Who would have thought that I and Lao Yan would divide our troops and set up suspicious formations, but they were just some pawns." ”
"The Turks are not stupid, they put the news to my head, and they must have a plan." Li Ang touched his neck and smiled, "We want to catch big fish, why don't they want to." Today's ambush is just a temptation, and the next thing is to see the real chapter. ”
"Yes, we showed up here, and they should be on the other side." Gao Aocao thought about it and laughed.
In the tent, the fire pit was darkened again, and Li Ang and Gao Aocao stopped talking, but just quietly roasted the fire, as if waiting for something.
In the dark night, the snow fell heavier and heavier, and it fell far and near, and it was impossible to see anything clearly. Sang Ruo held his sword and sneaked in the howling wind, and behind him, there were ten other people, all of whom were the most elite scouts in the Turkic army.
A hundred steps away from the Qin military camp, Sang Ruo stopped, he was good at assassination, his intuition had always been very accurate, and now he had an uneasy feeling of coldness, as if he had become a frog targeted by a snake.
The howling wind and snow obscured the muffled sound of the Great Qin Repeater's crossbow and the sharp roar of the sharp arrows breaking through the air, and it was not until the black crossbow arrows approached that Sang Ruo and his subordinates realized that death was coming.
In the dark darkness, Sang Ruo, who was lying in the snow, heard the sound of iron armor colliding, he stood up quietly, looked around behind him, except for the three injured subordinates, the others were already full of black short crossbows, lying in the snow forever. Turning his head, the dim light of the fire in the distance gradually became clear, Sang Ruo didn't move, but the subordinates behind him stood silently in front of him.
Gao Aocao and Li Ang stood side by side, behind them were soldiers with repeating crossbows, and on either side were tiger and leopard riders with swords. "Come down, at least you can still live." Gao Aocao shook his head as he looked at the Turks with knives in a desperate posture.
After hesitating for a while, Sang Ruo walked out slowly from behind the three subordinates, "How did you find out about us?" "He spoke very well in Chinese and his voice was very calm.
"When you set up camp, this place was deliberately reserved for you." Gao Aocao looked into the distance, "I didn't expect you guys to really come!" ”
In the darkness behind Sang Ruo, a human-high snow barrier suddenly burst, and Yu Liyan, who was carrying a black lance, stepped on the thick snow, and his figure slowly became clear, his armor was covered with thick ice, and from time to time snow fell, and his face was terrifyingly white.
"No wonder Lord Yun Lie said that you are the hardest-hearted people in the world." Sang Ruo's voice was not calm, looking at the armored man behind him, his eyes were full of awe, "I'm convinced, but I want to know, how did he tell you that we were here?" ”
Yu Liyan didn't answer, but the black lance in his hand was picked in the snow, and then a tight black rope was exposed and broken.
Looking at one end of the black rope tied to the feet of the armored person, Sang Ruo understood, as long as the person hiding in the snow pulled it slightly, the straight rope would vibrate, and the person at the other end naturally knew. "Good calculation, so that the timing of the bow and crossbow will not be bad." Sang Ruo laughed self-deprecatingly, his enemies had laid this point of no return for him from the beginning, and for his conceited man, it was more painful than his death.
"Don't talk nonsense, I want your answer." Gao Aocao was a little impatient, and the crossbowmen behind him aimed at the Turks who were still chinling.
"You guys." Sang Ruo looked at the three remaining subordinates, and in Turkic dialect, his voice deepened, "Be loyal!" ”
As soon as the voice fell, the three still alive Turkic scouts swung their swords forward, and then they were shot into hedgehogs, and they fell into the snow without even taking half a step. Sang Ruo stood, he stood from beginning to end, without blinking.
"They don't have to die." Li Ang, who had been standing beside Gao Aocao and had not spoken, took a step forward, forced him to look at the prisoner standing in front of him and said lightly.
"It's better to die than to be captured alive, tortured, and finally forced to ask for news." Sang Ruo raised his head, stared at the figure in front of him with a somewhat blurred face, and suddenly asked, "Are you...?" ”
"Too much nonsense." Receiving the wound crossbow from the soldier beside him, Leon interrupted the Turks, and his calm and somewhat cold tone made the Turks' hearts suddenly tighten.
"Tell me your Great Martial Order, I'll wait for him in Kushui Town." In the crisp sound of the machine, the crossbow in Leon's hand shot a powerful steel arrow, piercing the Turk's right shoulder, stirring up a blood mist.
Sang Ruo was half-kneeling on the ground, his right arm was gone, and cold sweat was on his forehead, but he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word, got up from the snow, didn't say a word, and turned around.
"By the way, go directly to your Great Martial Order, you don't have to go back to the place you came from." Li Ang called out to the departing Turks and said lightly, "I think they should be dead!" ”
Sang Ruo's body froze suddenly, and his footsteps swayed, but in just an instant, he stabilized, and then strode into the wind and snow without looking back. Staring at the figure of the Turkic man disappearing into the darkness, Yu Liyan walked to Gao Aocao's side, and the two looked at Li Ang together.
Leon turned to his side, and took a half-step with his right foot at random, but he faintly pointed somewhere in the darkness. Gao Aocao and Yu Liyan were slightly stunned, and they already understood, and the two stopped talking, but walked back to the camp with Li Ang. As the flames receded, the snow returned to darkness, leaving only the corpses of the nine Turkic scouts quietly hidden by the howling of the wind and snow.
"If you want to capture the past, it is a good move." In a shadow of the camp, Gao Aocao looked at Li Ang beside him, this time the tiger and leopard rode a brigade of people, they and Li Ang were just bait to lure the enemy, and there were 800 people in the shadows, just waiting for the Turkic army to appear and give it a thunderous blow.
"Barely half a step." Li Ang didn't look back, "Those people during the day just want to force our people who are hiding in the shadows to come out, and the opponent is not stupid!" After a pause, he stared at the darkness in the distance, his eyes shining with coldness, "As for coming tonight, I still don't see what it means." ”
Listening to Li Ang's whispering, Gao Aocao couldn't help frowning: The Turkic assassins who came tonight are indeed a bit weird, only ten people, but they are just here to die. At this time, slight footsteps sounded, and Yu Liyan came behind the two like ghosts, and said in a low voice, "Our people, we will arrive in two hours." ”
Gao Aocao raised his head abruptly and looked at Yu Liyan, "Old Brother, I always feel that something is wrong, Brother Li and I will go first, you wait for our news to arrive, and then you will do it." After saying that, he looked at Li Ang.
"That's exactly what I mean." Facing Gao Aocao's inviting gaze, Li Ang replied quietly, and then looked into the distance, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, "And I can't ask for it!" ”
Under the bleak moonlight, Sang Ruo, whose face was pale, stared at the blurred military tent in the distance, and it had been almost an hour before he believed that the Qin people, who were no different, were not playing a trick to capture the old people, so he began to retreat slowly, until he could no longer see the place of the Qin camp clearly, Fang straightened up from the snow and ran headlong into the darkness behind him.
Looking at the black spots in the distance submerged in the wind and snow, in the shadows, Gao Aocao paced out, beside him was Li Ang who was holding a wine jug and drinking lightly, the two glanced at each other and followed closely.