Dodging the feathered arrows fired by the other party, Zhang Mengcheng quickly fired back with his bow and arrows, and finally shot a rather difficult rogue cavalry in front of him.

This opponent had already killed and injured several of his subordinates with bows and arrows, and even Zhang Mengcheng had two feather arrows he shot in his body. Judging by some battle habits, this rogue cavalry was mostly Mongol.

The thieves who roamed around in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, among which there were also many Mongols. There may be fewer thieves in Mali closer to the inland prefectures, but it is common to see them in border states and counties not far from the border wall.

Although most of the subordinates under Shen Yikui before had their hair shaved later, there were hundreds of Mongolians who really had hair in it, as far as Zhang Mengcheng had seen.

Seeing that his best shooter was shot by the official army, the thieves gave up and continued to shoot at the official army, and all drew their swords and rushed towards Zhang Mengcheng. Zhang Mengcheng did not give up his bow and arrow, but unhurriedly shot another arrow to kill an opponent, because his subordinates Wu Dayong and Lao Liao had already led people to block it.

The two sides chased each other with bows and arrows before, and the battle situation has not changed significantly. Now after changing to a white-knuckle battle with real swords and guns, the stalemate battlefield immediately became one-sided.

The organization cultivated by the Jindingshan cavalry through rigorous training, coupled with their skillful fighting skills and sophisticated equipment, the battle between the two sides was divided into results.

The wails of their fallen companions deeply frightened the other thieves who remained on the battlefield, and they then showed obvious hesitation.

And Zhang Mengcheng took advantage of this opportunity to ride a horse and break into the thief cavalry at high speed, and shot the leader who commanded these thieves with an arrow.

This blow became the last straw that crushed the camel's back, and the gang of thieves who fought against Zhang Mengcheng finally lost the will to fight, and all fled to the rear in panic.

And Zhang Mengcheng, who threw down the last straw, shouted to his subordinates: "Dayong, you take your brothers to catch up, and the others follow me." ”

After speaking, Zhang Mengcheng led his subordinates to support Che Jibao, who was still entangled with thieves.

Originally, Zhang Mengcheng led the armed forces left behind in Jindingshan and followed his eldest brother Zhang Mengjin to prepare to ambush the thieves in the north. But then suddenly received news that the thieves' sentry had seen through the ambush of the official army. The new order was for Zhang Mengjin to lead the cavalry to attack and outflank the left flank of the official army on the battlefield.

Therefore, Zhang Mengcheng led more than 70 cavalry stationed in Jindingshan, and temporarily selected more than 20 foot soldiers stationed in Jindingshan to ride on horses and join the cavalry team of the eldest brother. Later, during the rapid march, their vanguard was unexpectedly confronted by the enemy. Therefore, Zhang Mengcheng and Che Jibao's sentry team of more than 20 people merged and outflanked the enemy together.

But who thought that the thieves also planned to do the same, and they also sent more than a hundred cavalry to outflank them.

The two hostile centaurs inevitably knocked each other down as they carried out the order. Therefore, Zhang Mengcheng and Che Jibao each took part of their men and horses and launched a fierce battle with the cavalry troops outflanked by the thieves.

And from the current point of view, this bandit's outflanking force is quite good at fighting. Especially in terms of riding and archery skills, the cavalry of the thieves was even higher than Zhang Mengcheng and his gang on average.

During the battle, the feather arrows fired continuously and quickly by the opponent made the soldiers of Jinding Mountain suffer a lot. Zhang Mengcheng and Che Jibao, who were harmed, had to make dangerous moves, using themselves as bait to attract a lot of firepower.

After defeating the enemy in front of him, Zhang Mengcheng ordered his subordinate Wu Dayong to drive away the remnants of the enemy. And he himself took out his Yanling knife and led his subordinates to respond to Che Jibao.

At this time, the thieves who were fighting with Che Jibao were still chasing each other with the bows and knives in their hands and the officers and soldiers in front of them. And the feathered arrows shot by both sides made the warring soldiers and war horses on the battlefield let out a miserable scream from time to time.

However, the Jindingshan cavalry, which had good armor protection, slightly gained the upper hand in this battle. And although the overall riding and archery skills are worse than those of the enemy, but with the outstanding combat power of individual abilities, the thieves' cavalry has also been shot and killed.

At this time, Che Jibao and Su He each inserted a few feather arrows, but it didn't seem to affect their fighting posture.

And Xi Gui was lying on the back of his shot horse, and used his arquebus to shoot lead pellets at the enemy. Ma Jinzhong's war horse was also shot, but he rode a war horse that captured the artesian thief and continued to chase the enemy in front of him.

When Zhang Mengcheng appeared behind these thieves with his team, the gang of thieves finally knew that their allies had been defeated.

At the critical moment, the rogue horsemen were not afraid, but fought fiercely. They quickly drew their swords, bones, axes and other melee weapons, and rushed towards the officers and soldiers with a shout.

It's just that Zhang Mengcheng was very keen and brave, he rode his horse straight into the thief formation, cut off the head of the leading thief with a single sword, and decisively interrupted the momentum of the thief cavalry in one fell swoop.

Then the soldiers behind Xiucai also followed the leader to launch a fierce attack, and the thieves' desperate assault was completely defeated. The remnants of the thieves stopped shouting meaninglessly, and quickly slapped their mounts under them and turned to flee.

It's just that the soldiers under Zhang Mengcheng and Che Jibao have tacitly blocked the direction of their escape, and under the leadership of Zhang Mengcheng, they loudly demanded that the other party surrender.

Several rogue cavalrymen who were confident in their own skills, although they launched a breakthrough operation one after another, they were all killed by the officers and soldiers without exception. The rest of the rogue cavalry fell into despair, and after the first defector appeared, they dismounted one after another and knelt down and begged.

"Xiucai, you did a good job enough, if you didn't solve the other party as soon as possible, I don't know how long it will take."

Although Che Jibao had a hint of blush on his face because of the victory in the battle. However, his visibly pale face, as well as some unnatural movements, indicated that he was clearly wounded.

Che Jibao has always been reluctant to wear the cold-forged armor carefully crafted by Jinding Mountain, but the old armor that he has been wearing for several years. This is not because he is dissatisfied with the cold forging armor, but because he has some superstition and has always believed in some strange way to avoid arrows.

The Drill Sky Sentinel of Jinding Mountain has always said to Xiucai that his shabby armor has been incense for several years, and now he has aura, and if he changes it, he will break his law. But today, Che Jibao had to pay the price again for his superstition.

"How's the injury, does it matter?"

Zhang Mengcheng didn't care about Che Jibao's flattery, but got off the horse and asked directly about his injury. As if worried that the other party would succeed, Zhang Mengcheng directly helped Che Jibao off the horse and checked his wounds.

"You're pushing yourself too hard, this arrow has torn a lot of new wounds in your wounds, and you can't go any further."

Although Zhang Mengcheng has been complaining about his friend's superstition, Che Jibao has always gone his own way, no matter who says it, it is useless. In fact, Zhang Mengcheng knew in his heart that in addition to the useless arrow avoidance method, the superstitious Che Jibao also added some other things to the armor, just to bless him to find his lost family as soon as possible.

"Damn, I didn't expect this gang of thieves to be so strong in riding and shooting, I was a little careless. I've been on the battlefield for so many years, and the Jianyu in the east and the Mongolian Dazi in the north have not been able to do anything to me, and I can't imagine that I have capsized in the gutter today. ”

Although Che Jibao's face was pale and scary, a lot of cold sweat broke out on his head. But he kept holding back, without Zou frowning at all, let alone saying a word.

As early as Chongzhen's second year after he was injured in the battle with Sha Liluan, he was already a little shaken in his heart about the arrow avoidance method. However, because of the other remaining charms in the armor, Che Jibao finally chose to continue to maintain it. So for this result, Che Jibao has actually always had a certain consciousness in his heart.

Zhang Mengcheng was very worried about Che Jibao's injury, and the thief's armor-piercing arrow pierced his armor and hit a rather dangerous part. If you don't treat it as soon as possible, or if you make the wound worse during the operation, then your friend will definitely be quite dangerous in the future.

Zhang Mengcheng really wanted to stop his pace and take Che Jibao back to the rear for treatment as soon as possible. But the situation is so bad that he cannot afford to delay any longer. Because from this battle, it can be seen that most of his eldest brother will not be easy. There are hundreds of cavalry soldiers outflanked by the thieves here, and there will definitely be more enemies on the frontal battlefield.

Che Jibao saw Xiucai's worries, and his pale face forced a smile and said, "You can take the team quickly, don't worry about me, just leave a few guards to watch the field." I still owe Lao Fan his life, and before I repay him, I won't just close my eyes so easily. ”

Che Jibao's optimism somewhat relieved Zhang Mengcheng, and Xiucai finally relented and said to his best friend in the village: "Most of the frontal battlefields are still fighting fiercely, and I can only take my brothers to support my eldest brother as soon as possible." My subordinate Wu Dayong has already gone to drive away the fleeing enemy, and he will escort you away when he returns. As long as you get back to the station as soon as possible, these, these injuries ....... ”

Che Jibao knew what Zhang Mengcheng wanted to say, so he directly interrupted Zhang Mengcheng's words and said: "Don't be so hypocritical, we men in northern Shaanxi, who cares so much about life and death." cough, haha, this little injury is really nothing to my old car, our big boss is the monkey, that is the monkey who made trouble in the heavenly palace. I am his subordinate drill sentry, how dare Lord Yama dare to take the life of Sun Monkey's general, you say yes, hahaha, cough, cough, cough. ”

Zhang Mengcheng looked at Che Jibao again, and finally turned around silently and began to gather his subordinates around him. After tying up the captured thieves, Zhang Mengcheng left ten cavalrymen of Che Jibao's sentry to continue to care for the wounded and guard the prisoners. Then let the own personnel who had lost their horses change to the thieves' mounts and set off again.

When everything was ready, Zhang Mengcheng turned his head and shouted at Che Jibao: "Old car, you, don't die so simply." It's not just Lao Fan, you still owe me a lot of silver that you haven't repaid, don't think about fooling around like this. ”

After saying this, Zhang Mengcheng quickly left the place with the team.

And Che Jibao, who remembered that he still owed Xiucai silver, laughed out loud after coughing up a mouthful of blood.

Among the many leaders of Jinding Mountain, Che Jibao is the most thrifty. Other leaders snatched their mothers-in-law from the people, and they would hold a banquet to entertain the brothers.

But Che Jibao has been in Jindingshan for so long, and he has never held a banquet. It's his son's full moon wine, he didn't even pay for it, and a few brothers helped him do it.

It's not that Che Jibao is stingy, but because he spends all his money on searching for his lost family members. Although there was little hope, he never gave up hope.

Previously, Artemisia Ding was released to one of Che Jibao's clan brothers by breaking the rules, and at that time, he was too shy to raise a thank you gift, so he borrowed a lot of Zhang Mengcheng's wife. Later, Zhang Mengcheng got married, and he borrowed the money from other brothers for the money his brothers raised.

Although the brothers didn't care much about the money lent out, Che Jibao kept saying that he would pay it back, and he pestered Xiucai to ask him to help write an IOU. Every time the income in the village is divided, or the court pays a silver reward. Che Jibao would make up part of the arrears to the brothers around him, and while revising the IOUs, he kept shouting that he would definitely pay off the debts.

However, only Xiucai is an exception, Che Jibao has given a lot of money to other leaders over the years, but he has not returned a single copper plate to Xiucai.

Whenever Che Jibao wanted to borrow money from Xiucai again, he would pull Xiucai to eat the game he got from hunting, and he said that these were the interest and principal repaid to Xiucai.

Although Zhang Mengcheng felt that his friend was a bit of a scoundrel, he was not angry. It's just that after lending money every time, he asked Che Jibao to teach him some things he knows, and cooperated with the other party to say that it is enough to have these interest.

is also joking with each other, and the friendship between the two is getting deeper and deeper.

Che Jibao, who lost his family, regards Zhang Mengcheng as an equal existence with his family. Zhang Mengcheng, who has always worn a mask in front of people, will only let down his guard a little in front of Che Jibao and laugh with his friends.

What will be the outcome of today's battle in the end? In fact, in the conversation just now, both of them faintly felt it. But both sides didn't want to believe it, and both thought they were too pessimistic. As long as you rush back to the rear for treatment as soon as possible, there are military doctors trained with the help of Artemisia Peak, and this problem will definitely be properly solved.

However, there are still too many unsatisfactory things in the future development.