Chapter 9: Who Will Go to Providence
On the shore of the quiet Suye Water, Aitengna, escorted by several attached soldiers, stared at the bright moon in the sky.
Aitengana knew that her name meant the moon, the moon was the brightest presence of the long night, and the rest of the stars only existed to compliment her purity and radiance.
Ayitengna knew that her father Khan loved her very much, and always held herself in the palm of her hand like the moon; Although Hanhan's brother doesn't say anything, he also likes himself from the bottom of his heart, but he doesn't say it often.
Suddenly, the slightly excited cry of an owl was heard in the sky, interrupting Aitengna's thoughts. Aitengana heard the maids mention that the Tang people hated to hear the call of the night owl, saying that it was a bad omen, and they couldn't help but worry.
Ayitengna couldn't figure out why the Tang army surrounded Shattered Leaf City, and she didn't understand why Father Khan brought her brother and herself here tonight, but from the sound of horses' hooves in the south just now, Ayitengna knew that something bad was happening.
First, a detachment was sent out, and then Father Khan led a large group of men and horses to rush out brandishing scimitars and spears. After a period of noise about the neighing of people's horses, he heard someone shouting "Khan be careful", and the elder brother did not listen to the advice, and hurriedly took almost all the remaining detachments and killed them, leaving only a dozen sergeants to guard him.
Soon, there was another earth-shattering sound of fighting in the south, as if the whole world was made up of endless fighting! Aitenga was at a loss, not knowing what to do, so she had to look up at the bright moon in the sky again, and she was delirious!
"It's finally done!" A sergeant who had been crouching on the ground stretched and shouted in relief.
"Speak down!" The detachment guard who was guarding Aidengana's side shouted, "Push into the river!" Then he bowed his head to Aitengana and said, "Lord of the county, you can first cross the river on the raft!" ”
"Don't you wait for your father and brother?" Aitengna asked, puzzled.
"The secret service just instructed that as soon as the raft is ready, the county lord will be sent across the river first. He also said that he has something to convey to you, and I hope you can remember it in the future: "The secret service is the position of Kudulu, a Turkic tradition, and the sons of the Great Khan mostly hold this position, and follow the Great Khan to familiarize themselves with military affairs."
"What's that?" Ayitengna was stunned, she didn't expect her brother, who had always been clumsy, to explain his words.
"The secret service said that he may not be able to become a big hero in the future, but he can be a good brother now."
"Heroes? Brother? The clever and dexterous Aitengana was also confused by these headless words.
"Little county lord, let's cross the river first. The agent said, you may not understand this now, but you may understand it when you grow up. But the secret service said that if you can never understand it for the rest of your life, that's the best! ”
Without waiting for Aitengna to reply, the guard picked Aitengana in his arms and strode towards the raft, which was already swaying in the dark red waters, on which three sergeants had already boarded, ready to cross the river at any moment.
The guards who were holding Aitengana were about to step onto the sheepskin raft when they heard a violent tearing of the air from behind.
Before he could turn back, he felt a huge pain in his back, and he pushed himself forward with a strong force. He endured the pain and threw Aitengna backwards, and then his eyes were blurred, and he fell into the pitch-black and reddish plain leaf water, using his own blood to dye the plain leaf water even redder.
Aitengana felt as if she had suddenly grown taller, and the sheepskin raft and the attached sergeant had become smaller and shorter in an instant. I could follow the owls flying on the river and see the woods on the other side. The trees flew past in front of them, revealing a faint black, and a yellow round suddenly appeared in the black world.
"What's going on?" It was only then that Aitenga felt that something was a little strange, and before her brain could spin, she felt dizzy and swollen, and the sound of the wind was whistling in her ears. She closed her eyes in fright, but immediately felt like she should open them. When I opened my eyes, I found that I was getting closer and closer to the riverbank, and on the riverbank, in addition to a few attached sergeants, there was also a gray-clothed man holding a little girl in one arm, rushing towards the river.
"Catch the county lord!" A group of detachments scrambled towards the location of Aitengana. The sergeant on the raft hurriedly propped up the pole and was anxious to leave the shore.
As he ran, the man in gray drew a short spear from his back and threw it at the raft with all his might. With a shrill whistling, one of the detached sergeants fell again and fell into the river. Before the sound of the heavy object falling into the water stopped, the man in gray grabbed another short spear! The detachment sergeant on the raft looked at the murderous gray man, and suddenly became confused, and one of the detachment sergeants was so frightened that he hurriedly jumped into the river, and when he fell into the water, he remembered that he could not swim.
Just as Aitenga was about to hit the ground hard, several of the guards swooped forward and lay flat on the riverbank, forming a row of meat pads. Like a pretty meteor and like a test flight eagle, Aitenga smashed into the flesh pad and then burst into tears like a volcanic eruption.
Before Aitenghena could cry twice, the sound of horses' hooves rang out in the woods to the southeast. A tall steed foamed at the mouth and leaped out of the woods. The man in black on the horse was attracted by Aitengna's cry, and immediately saw the man in gray who was about to throw a short spear again.
The man in black screamed and threw out the saber in his hand. The saber swirled in the air, reflecting the moonlight in the sky and flashing into a cloud of fireworks.
The gray-clothed man's footsteps stopped, and the scimitar stabbed into the ground in front of the gray-clothed man's feet, trembling incessantly.
The gray-clothed man's movements froze, and the reacting detachment sergeants rushed towards the gray-clothed man, except for the two guards who were guarding Aitengna's side.
Before the detachment could rush to the gray-clothed man, they heard another thunderclap behind them. The alert sergeant hurriedly swung his sword to protect his rear, and then heard the wailing of his horse. Looking back, the man in black who had lost his saber was fighting on the ground. The sound of horses' hooves rumbled again in the woods on the southeast side, and a knight with a white horse and silver armor waved a huge bow and led a group of light horsemen out of the woods.
"Tang Jun!" The detachment recognized the identity of the other party from the bright light armor. Just now, in order to cross the river and catch Aitengana, all the attached troops dismounted, lost their greatest reliance, and in the face of the rapidly advancing Tang cavalry, the attached army that became foot soldiers did not know what to do for a moment.
"Tripping with a horse!" One of the attached sergeants guarding Aitenggna's side shouted as he took out a ball of leather belts tied together from his arms, and at the other end of the belt was a round iron ball of similar size, and he tripped the horse in his hand and swirled it around the white horse at the front of the Tang army.
"A little trick!" Ma Lan snorted coldly, opened his bow like lightning, and heard a bang, and a sharp arrow stumbled with the horse and stumbled into the leg of the horse's owner. The detachment army who was about to take out the horse stumbling was shocked by this thunderbolt string, and after a slow movement, Ma Xuan swung his bow again, and the hand was like a pianist caressing the string, and the arrow exploded like a bead, and in the blink of an eye, the detachment army fell down three or four.
"Oh my God, is this Tang General still human?" It's not that there are no heroes and heroes on the grassland who can shoot arrows in a row, but there are not many people like this Tang General who can draw such a huge bow and shoot in a row. The momentum of the detachment army was firmly suppressed by the Tang general with a white horse and a silver saddle.
Taking advantage of the stunned efforts of the detached army, the man in black grabbed a spear, jumped up from the ground, and rushed to a war horse attached to the detached army, and rushed towards the gray-clothed man. The man in gray was disturbed by the scimitar of the man in black, and took a step slower, and watched the raft go offshore.
Ma Xuan turned a blind eye to the actions of the man in black, and pulled out his horse lance and shouted loudly: "Rush! "More than a dozen Anxi scouts, under the leadership of the team, slaughtered the attached army stupidly on the river bank like angry King Kong!