Chapter 229: The Storm Rises (4)

"Let's go!"

Stepping out of Cui's mansion, Zhou Cang's face was slightly gloomy, and he turned over his horse and ran out of the city.

The reason why Liu Wenxiu agreed to Zhou Cang's request for marriage was not only because he wanted to promote this matter, but also because he was a little tempted.

If the Cui family agrees to the marriage, Zhou Cang can not only hold the beauty, but also use the Cui family's influence in Shidao County to directly control it firmly in his hands.

However, from Cui Daoheng's words just now, Zhou Cang felt that the Cui family had completely favored Daqin.

"You quickly go to the outer cabinet stronghold in Yizhou City, and immediately submit the information of Yizhou City to the deputy marshal!"

Turning to the hidden exit of the street corner, Zhou Cang was afraid that something would happen on the road, so he told a cronie beside him.

"Whoa!"

The guard immediately took the order, turned over and dismounted, and hid out of the crowd.

"Driving~"

A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Cang and the others traveled all the way to three miles away from Yizhou City.

"Phew!"

Looking at the edge of the mountain forest not far away, Zhou Cang's face was completely gloomy.

Ahead, rows of black-armored cavalry armed with halberds appeared at the edge of the mountain forest, fanning Zhou Cang and the others in a fan-shape.

"Zhong Ion!"

Looking at the Qin Army's military marquis Zhong Ion who appeared in front of the Black Armor Qibin, Zhou Cang muttered in a deep voice.

This thousand Great Qin cavalry has been lurking in Shidao County, and it seems that the connection between the Cui family and the Qin army is extraordinary.

"General Zhou, we're meeting again!"

The Great Qin cavalry around him slowly closed, and seeing that Zhou Cang and the others had become turtles in the urn, Zhong Ion had a refreshing smile on his face, and said with a bit of condescendingness.

On the same day, Zhou Cang dared to rob the young general's fiancée in front of him, and he was forced to turn his face with Zhou Cang on the spot, but he was always worried about it in his heart.

But he didn't want the opportunity to come so soon, so Zhou Cang sent it to the door himself.

The four-rank partial general, who can command 10,000 regular troops, is already considered a high-ranking officer in the Southern King's forces.

If such a high-ranking military officer had an accident outside Yizhou City, or was he unhappy with the Cui family, what would Sima Yu, the king of the south, think?

This is tantamount to cutting off the Cui family's retreat, no matter whether the young general marries Cui Ying or not, they can only fall to Daqin.

Such an excellent opportunity to not only show the evil anger in his heart, but also force the Cui family to completely fall to Daqin, how could Zhong Ion let it go.

"Zhong Ion, it seems that Daqin is determined to start a war with our army?"

Although he was in danger, Zhou Cang was not afraid, and drove a few steps forward to raise his voice.

"Haha, General Zhou, you are too worried, as long as you disappear here silently, will the king of the south really be the enemy of my hundreds of thousands of Qin troops for a small partial general? I'm afraid General Zhou is overestimating himself! ”

Zhong Ion shook his head with a mocking look on his face.

"Oh? In that case, then you should die! ”

Zhou Cang pretended not to care and quietly reined in the horse and took a few steps forward again, and then suddenly clamped the horse's belly, and the prancing horse rushed towards Zhong Ion with his knife.

Judging from the current situation, Zhong Ion has a murderous heart for him, and it is difficult to escape from the siege of a thousand Great Qin Tigers, so the only way to capture Zhong Ion first may have a chance of survival.

"Kill!"

More than 20 guards behind Zhou Cang have also followed him for a long time, many of them are even Yellow Turban soldiers from Erlong Mountain, and as soon as Zhou Cang moves, they will follow closely behind him and kill.

"Attack!"

Seeing that Zhou Cang had set himself as his goal, Zhong Ion was unmoved, did not retreat, and with a wave of one hand, hundreds of Great Qin Iron Horsemen behind him rushed out in an instant.

"Bell!"

"Bang!"

"Ahh

The swords and halberds intersected, the war horses staggered, and the halberd array composed of hundreds of Qin iron cavalry swept through, and the more than 10 personal guards who followed behind Zhou Cang couldn't dodge, and were instantly swept off their horses by the halberd array.

"Drink!"

The big knife in Zhou Cang's hand kept swinging, slashing heavily at the long halberd that came from the stabbing body, and the heavy force led the body of the Great Qin cavalry to drift by.

"Ahh

The knife turned into a sweep, and blood splattered, directly cutting it into two sections, and the dripping blood infected the armor.

After serving Sima Yu, Zhou Cang had taken the Pulp Cleansing Pill, and his qualifications for martial arts have been improved a lot, and he has been promoted from the original Qi training realm to the early stage of refining gods.

Zhou Cang, who launched the madness, rushed into the Great Qin Iron Cavalry like a mad tiger, using the opportunity of close quarters to limit the halberds and bows of the Qin soldiers, and brought the advantage of the big sword to the extreme, rushing left and right, and no one could stop him.

Between the people on their backs, in just a few minutes, Zhou Cang had already killed in a straight line until it was too late for Zhong Ion to come close.

"Die!"

The continuous tragic death of the guards behind him completely stimulated the killing intent in Zhou Cang's heart, and he drove the horse over, and the big knife in his hand slashed out horizontally, wanting to slash Zhong Ion under the horse.

Zhou Cang's strength was really much beyond Zhong Ion's expectations, and Zhong Ion, who was blocked by the chaos in front of him, didn't have time to evacuate, and Zhou Cang had already rushed to the front of him.

"Be careful!"

Seeing that Zhong Ion was about to die under Zhou Cang's knife, a Qin soldier beside him suddenly drove a horse in front of him.

"Wow!"

The big knife slashed heavily at Qin Bing's body, and the leather armor burst into the flesh extremely deep.

"Bang!"

In the splattering blood, Qin Bing's body flew off the horse's back under this heavy blow, slammed into Zhong Ion behind him, fell to the ground, and rolled into a ball.

"Protect the Marquis!"

With this delay, the other Qin soldiers around also reacted one after another, and rushed towards Zhou Cang together.

In the Great Qin, the military discipline is extremely strict, and the law of joint sitting is implemented, if the main general dies in battle, the guards under his command must be severely punished.

"Let's go!"

With the continuous influx of Qin soldiers, maintaining the Zhong Ion group that fell to the ground in the center, Zhou Cang completely lost the opportunity to capture him, but it also made the right wing of Qin soldiers weak, Zhou Cang seized the opportunity, turned his horse and took the few remaining guards to the right flank to kill.

The men and horses were surging, and the Qin soldiers, who were unable to respond, were soon chiseled out by Zhou Cang and broke through.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Zhong Ion, who had already re-mounted his war horse in the back, immediately ordered angrily when he saw this.

"Woo Woo Woo ~ "

Hundreds of cavalrymen armed with Qin crossbows pulled the trigger, and the sharp crossbow arrows shot towards Zhou Cang.

"Ah~"

In the midst of the screams, the remaining guards and their horses fell to the ground screaming.

"Humph!"

With a low muffled snort, a crossbow arrow passed directly through Zhou Cang's back and shoulder, and the powerful impact almost rushed him off the war horse, and continued to run forward after shaking the war horse a few times.

"Chase!"

In the rumbling sound of the horse's hooves, the undying Zhong Ion immediately led the troops to chase in the direction of Zhou Cang's escape.

Pedal Pedal Pedal ~

"My lord, they were ambushed by that Qin army outside the city, dozens of guards died on the spot, and General Zhou Cang's life and death are unknown!"

Half an hour later, Gu An hurriedly came to the mansion to report to Su Ze.

"What?"

Su Ze's face changed suddenly when he heard this.

"Immediately order, we will leave Yizhou City tonight and go to Beiguan City!"

After standing up and pacing back and forth in place for a while, Su Ze turned around and decisively instructed Gu An.

Although Great Qin was strong, the laws were strict, and the burden on the people was extremely heavy, so it was not his choice.

Pedal Pedal Pedal ~

At that time, the gates of Beiguan City had been closed. When night fell, the remnants of the setting sun dragged its long tail and shone obliquely on the ground, stretching the lonely figure of a war horse on the official road outside the city longer and longer.

On the back of the war horse of the official road, a figure in armor lay there, motionless and silent.

The speed of the war horse was not fast, the body exposed to the vest was covered with scars, the gray mane was coagulated into clusters by blood scabs, and there was a broken arrow stuck in the right hind hip, and as the war horse moved, blood continued to spill out of the wound.

Despite the pain of moving on its right hind leg, it still resolutely carried its master and limped in the direction of Beiguan City.

"There's movement outside the city!"

Under the cover of night, it was not until it was less than 50 meters away from the tower that a soldier guarding the city tower finally discovered its traces.

"It's our people!"

With the help of the light of the fire, the soldiers on the castle tower finally saw its full appearance and recognized its identity at once.

Tall, high-quality Hequ horses with black armor were the standard for cavalry in the southern royal army.

"Come on! It's General Zhou Cang! ”

Passing through the small gate of the tower, the two soldiers guarding the city went out of the city to the front of the war horse, and when they saw the people on horseback clearly, their expressions changed greatly, and they immediately shouted loudly to the people in the city.

"Greymane!"

When the two soldiers of the Eastern Army helped Zhou Cang off the horse's back, the gray war horse stretched out its bright red tongue and licked Zhou Cang's cheek, and finally fell to the ground with no support, and never got up again in the exclamation of the soldiers.

On September 23, the third year of the Great Controversy, Zhou Cang, the general of the Southern Wang Eastern Army, was ambushed by the troops led by Hou Zhong Ion of the Great Qin Army, and dozens of guards were killed, and only Zhou Cang escaped with serious injuries.

This event marked the beginning of the war between the Great Qin Empire and the Southern King in Shu that lasted for several years.