Chapter 265: The Horse Bandit (Part II)
Su Fu has already set his sights on the prey. And the more than 100 cavalry soldiers led by Li Yanzhi are still circling in the mountains of Longxi.
I don't know if it's a bad year or what. Li Yanzhi's planned plan was to march into Didao and intercept the material exchanges between Didao and Sangbi, Jicheng, and even Longxi and Nan'an counties. After all, Di Dao is located in Longxi, and there will never be a shortage of goods, money, and grain. Correspondingly, the city defense force is also relatively strong. According to the situation reported by Su Fu's spies, there were hundreds of Hun cavalry and no less than 2,000 foot soldiers stationed in Didao City.
And the bad luck of Li Yanzhi's department also comes from this defender. A cavalry of no less than fifty men in the defending army had their eyes on them, far behind them, following them all the way. And as "horse bandits" at this time, they naturally must have the consciousness of horse bandits. In addition, Li Yanzhi carefully weighed it, if his people turned around and fought with the rangers who were watching, they would not be able to completely annihilate the other side, not to mention, their own losses would definitely not be small.
So Li Yanzhi had to order his subordinates to flee quickly. Taking advantage of the advantages of two horses, he fled for more than 30 miles and threw off the Hun cavalry who were following behind him. Seeing that there were no more Hun cavalry chasing closely behind him, Li Yanzhi breathed a sigh of relief, so he could only order his subordinates to change the route, so as to get rid of those Hun cavalry who were like kraft candy.
But fortunately, Didao is still more than 200 miles away from Longxi and Nan'an counties. At such a long distance, these cavalry still have a lot to do. After all, these troops stationed in Di Daozhong, even if they send out an escort team, it is impossible to dispatch too much. The main task of the Hun cavalry in the city is to be responsible for scouting the cavalry, and they will not be dispatched to escort these convoys of money and grain. This is the hinterland of Longxi, with vast Yuzhong in the north and Caohan in the west, and no one will believe that they can encounter enemy attacks here.
And the dispatch of cavalry to disguise themselves as horse bandits is precisely to grasp the enemy's careless psychology and launch an attack on their transportation lifeline in places that are impossible in their consciousness. Based on this alone, Li Yanzhi had to admire Su Fu's wisdom. Xu has been in the army for a long time, and his thinking has become more stereotyped. However, it ignores the ever-changing battlefield, which is where diverse ideas and creativity should be brought into play.
Throwing off the Hun sentry behind him, Li Yanzhi also divided the division into two parts. A group of more than 20 people, led by Cui Yang, went north to seek contact with Su Fu's department. The other eighty or so people, led by himself, under the guidance of Tao Heng and other generals who are familiar with the topography and landforms of the Longxi region, followed the valley in the mountains and quietly sneaked back to the vicinity of Didao. Li Yanzhi also sent Liu Jiwu to take a few cavalry soldiers, change into ordinary linen shirts, and go to Didao City. Attempt to get in touch with the spies sent to the city earlier.
In all fairness, Li Yanzhi was actually reluctant to let Liu Jiwu risk his life. However, only Liu Jiwu has seen those spies of the cadres brought out at the moment. After winning his life, Liu Jiwu did not procrastinate, even if he changed his clothes, he led the other people all the way to Didao City.
At this time, it was almost night, and Cui Yang led more than 20 of his subordinates to the north. The roar of wild beasts in the mountains and forests on both sides of the night often reminded him of the wolf ambush he encountered with Li Yanzhi and others a long time ago. At that time, they were so determined to protect themselves that they fought the wolves bravely, and almost forgot the fear in their hearts. It wasn't until he got out of the wolf's kiss that a wave of fear rose in his heart.
There are so many unbearable memories of the past, which also prompts him to work hard all the way to get out of this ubiquitous nightmare. He didn't dare to let his men dismount and rest. I'm afraid that I will encounter the same dangerous situation as last time. However, these horsemen are not iron-clad, although they are on horseback, under the continuous rush, they are already in trouble. Cui Yang ordered everyone to use a lasso to tie themselves to the horse's back. In this way, even if you can't bear the sleepiness and fall asleep on the horse's back, you won't fall off the horse.
After doing this for a day and a night, the sentinels sent out finally reported that they had found traces of Su Fu's department. Cui Yang didn't care about the excitement, and hurriedly led his subordinates to gallop under the leadership of the sentry horseman. When they arrived at the mouth of a valley, they heard the continuous sound of swords clashing, shouting and scolding, and shouting and killing in the valley.
Cui Yang led his subordinates and led his horses up a high slope to look at the battlefield in the valley, but he saw more than 100 cavalry under Su Fu's command sporadically engaging with the enemy troops guarding the convoy in the valley. The enemy foot soldiers on the periphery of the convoy were being slaughtered one after another. The enemy generals in the center of the convoy had already gathered the foot soldiers around him, pushed the carts they were escorting over one after another to form a circle formation, and then the foot soldiers gathered under his command, and used these carts as a basis to support the swords and guns in their hands one after another, and guarded the chariot formation.
Su Fu, who led his subordinates to kill the escort foot soldiers on the periphery, also saw the situation here. For a moment, he was slightly frightened, and hurriedly called out to those elite soldiers around him, abandoned the remnants in front of him, and rushed towards this car formation!
The enemy general in the car formation was also slightly surprised when he saw twenty or thirty horse bandits rushing straight towards the car formation. I don't want this incoming horse bandit to be so difficult. The reason why he abandoned the soldiers and vehicles and goods on the periphery who had no time to gather and built this car formation in the middle of the formation was precisely because he wanted to retreat under the difficulty of relying on his hastily constructed but solid defense. It is not unacceptable to plunder some of the money and goods from the periphery. However, the other party saw the terrible thing about this car formation, and wanted to rush in while its foothold was not stable, how could this horse bandit be a horse bandit!
While sneering, the leading general hurriedly urged the soldiers to place the vehicles that had not yet been properly placed, and his left hand was already raised high. Cui Yang saw that in the car formation, many soldiers were already raising crossbows with black bodies in their hands! On top of each crossbow machine, a crossbow arrow was placed, and the winged arrows flashed with a deep cold light, pointing directly at Su Fu and the others who were about to break through the formation!
At that moment, Cui Yang could feel that his heart was almost in his throat. He didn't care much, and hurriedly yelled: "Rush! At the same time as he ordered the exit, he was already urging the military horse under his crotch, straight towards a red lightning bolt, and rushed towards the chariot array in the valley!
The more than 20 horsemen under Cui Yang's command saw him rush out first, and after a short look at each other, they also hurriedly raised the horsewhip in their right hand and slapped the horse's buttocks behind him mercilessly. The horses were in pain, neighed one after another, and then galloped out one after another, closely following Cui Yang, and headed towards the chariot formation!
Su Fu saw that the foot soldiers with knives and guns were still struggling to push the cart on the periphery of the car formation, wanting to perfect this defense, his heart became more and more anxious, he urged the war horse, and desperately rushed towards the few gaps on the outside of the car formation that had not yet closed. The soldiers beside him were also tightly guarding him.
Seeing that he was less than thirty steps away from the car formation, Su Fu saw the soldiers holding knives and guns on the outside of the car formation squatting down, but they were greeted by rows of arrows shining with deep light in the car formation! The soldiers holding these sharp crossbows looked at them expressionlessly, as if in the next moment, they were dead bodies lying outside the car formation!
Su Fu stayed on the galloping war horse for a second, and then immediately leaned down on the horse's back, and yelled at the same time: "Arrow attack!" Arrow Strike! Before the words fell, there were already sounds of breaking the air in my ears. This was followed by the popping sound of arrows smashing into the flesh, and the muffled sound of his own men falling off their horses behind him. Before he could look back, Su Fu had already felt a light in his crotch, and when he looked at it, the horse under his crotch had slowly knelt on the ground......
Su Fu was thrown forward by the stumbling war horse. He struggled to stabilize his body in the air, and after landing on the ground, he still rolled for a long time before stopping, and he was extremely embarrassed. Su Fu, who had experienced countless fights, already felt the danger the moment he got up, and he took advantage of the momentum to roll sideways, which was able to avoid the two spears stabbed out of the car formation.
He pulled out the sword at his waist, and parried a spear that stabbed at him, and his eyes swept back, but he saw that the twenty or thirty soldiers of the Clan who had just rushed with him had already gone halfway by this time, and only a few military horses that had lost their masters were still wandering and galloping helplessly. And the rest of the subordinates who survived the blow of this round of arrow rain were all killed in front of him at this moment.
One of the subordinates rushed straight towards Su Fu, wanting to get him on his horse, and then break away from this dangerous battle group, retreat back first, and then make a plan. Looking at the subordinate who rushed towards him, Su Fu's heart became more and more anxious. As he stabbed several spears in front of him, he yelled at the subordinate, "Charge! Leave me alone! ”
He looked at the subordinate with a hint of confusion in his eyes, but in a short moment, a spear stretched out from the formation of the car and quickly pierced the subordinate's ribs. Reluctantly, the man gripped the barrel of the gun that had pierced his body with his left hand, and his mouth was still swishing, and his right hand had already drawn the sword from his waist, and slashed at the enemy with the gun.
The enemy's hand was cut off, and he let out a terrible howl that was not like a human voice. Then he abandoned the gun and fell to the ground, and the miserable howl was one after another. Su Fu watched as the subordinate with a smile on his face was dragged into the formation by the enemy soldiers in the car formation with his spears, followed by several spears and several sharp blades falling!
"Thief, your mother!" Su Fu's eyes were red, and the long-lost Guanzhong dialect also burst out of his mouth. He opened the spear in front of him, then grabbed the barrel of the gun, and with all his strength, dragged the enemy soldier who was holding the barrel of the gun out of the gap in the cart!
"Holy shit!" Su Fu stepped on the enemy's head to the ground with a single kick with his left foot, and then the ring knife in his hand was already mercilessly slashed down!
With a scream, the enemy soldier under his feet was already flying out of the sky! And just as Su Fu was about to get up and fight with the enemy soldiers in the car formation, a spear had already come from the oblique thorn and nailed his right shoulder in half! Su Fu was in pain for a while, and roared, and the knife in his right hand had fallen to the ground involuntarily. His left hand gripped the barrel of the gun on the other side. The enemy soldier opposite him gritted his teeth and tried to pull out his spear, but after a long time of trying, the spear did not move!
Between the two sides of the stalemate, Su Fu's keen sense of hearing caught some special sounds from the noisy battlefield: the sound of breaking the air was the sound of arrows coming! He looked up in astonishment, but saw that the enemy soldier who had pierced his shoulder gradually let go of his hands, rolled his eyes, and involuntarily fell to the ground. Su Fu took a closer look, but saw that the enemy soldier had several feather arrows stuck in his back, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling!
Several people in the enemy's car formation were hit by arrows, this change made the car formation panic, some people looked back, but saw Cui Yang's more than 20 horses, had already killed the car formation!
The breakthrough chosen by Cui Yang is also a gap that has not yet been fully arranged in place. The two soldiers on the cart also fell to the ground in the round of arrows. One was wailing, while the other was silent. And this gap has become an omission that the enemy in the car formation can never fill.
Cui Yang took the lead, came to the gap with a spear, and took advantage of the horse's momentum to pick up a soldier who wanted to close the car formation. The soldier flew diagonally and knocked down several enemy soldiers with guns holding their guns to stop him from filling the gap. At the same time, the dark crossbow machines in the formation were raised by the enemy one after another, pointing at Cui Yang, the cavalry who broke through the defense.
Cui Yang saw those crossbow machines, and he didn't have time to think about it, and the spear in his hand was already flying towards the first crossbowman like a meteor. With the muffled click of broken bones, the crossbowman's chest was pierced by the spear thrown by Cui Yang, and the head of the spear penetrated straight through his back, and the surrounding enemy soldiers felt a chill. Distracted, the crossbowmen released their crossbow arrows, which had already deviated from the target. Under this first wave of charge, only two people on Cui Yang's side fell off the horse.
Seeing that Cui Yang had taken some initiative, Su Fu, who was outside the formation, was also excited. With a wave of his hand, he ordered the soldiers who had rushed to his rescue to abandon their horses, turn over the chariot formation and enter to support Cui Yang's attack.
After a short moment or so of fighting, in the face of the increasingly heavy casualties of the "horse bandits" and his subordinates who surrounded them, the enemy general who was in charge of escorting finally ordered his subordinates to abandon their weapons and surrender. Su Fu, who finally succeeded after fighting for half a day, did not have much joy of victory at this time. His most powerful and loyal twenty or thirty men were lost more than half of the raid, and even he himself was wounded. It just made him angry!
His hasty and failed raid on the car formation not only caused such serious consequences, but also allowed Cui Yang, who was a friendly army, to lead his troops to support, although Cui Yang didn't say anything, but the competitive Su Fu always felt that Cui Yang was looking at him with a hint of meaning.
Furious, Su Fudang even ordered the execution of all the more than 100 enemy soldiers who surrendered. He was not sure that no enemy troops had escaped from this raid, but the ambush was more than a hundred miles away from Yuzhong, and when the news came back from these fleeing enemy troops, he asked Yuzhong to send reinforcements......
After bandaging the wound, Su Fu got up, got dressed, and then looked at Cui Yang, who was standing quietly on the side without speaking, and said lightly: "Li Sima hasn't done it yet?" ”
Cui Yang replied respectfully: "Sima has not received the news yet, I don't know when Di Dao's money, grain and goods will be shipped, Sima himself is monitoring the movements in Di Dao City, and another subordinate is sent to contact the hundred generals......