Dawn was the darkest hour of the day, and the soldiers were most asleep at the moment. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Wu Tuo was extremely uneasy tonight, and he couldn't sleep anymore at the moment, so he pulled Du Shu to talk while eating tea. Although the two went all the way from Huangzhou to Jiankang, and then from Jiankang to Dingzhou. But Wu Tuo has a straightforward personality, while Du Shu is an elegant and elegant person, and his personality is not compatible, and he has not had much contact along the way.

And they have spoken more tonight than they had done before.

With a long yawn, Du Shu said: "General Wu, the hour is not early, it is estimated that there is still half an hour before the sky should be bright." Either I'll stare here first, and you'll stare at it first. ”

Wu Tuo shook his head: "What's the point of sleeping at this time, it's okay, I'll tell the soldiers to get up and bury the pot to make rice, and when the diet is ready, it's time to dawn, and it's time to set off after eating." ”

At the same time, a large clump of waterfowl suddenly roared into the air in the distance, and the sound sounded like wild ducks and herons.

A few of the soldiers were awakened by the sound of birds, and their heads poked up with sleepy eyes.

Du Shu laughed: "It's okay, go to sleep!" ”

Suddenly, Wu Tuo felt the cold hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and the whole person jumped up subconsciously as if he had been electrocuted, stretched out his leg and kicked the soldiers on the ground beside him, shouting: "Get up, get up." ”

"Alert!"

"Extinguish the fire!"

The shouts were so loud that the soldiers woke up and looked at their commander in confusion.

Du Shu: "General Wu, what's wrong?" ”

Wu Tuo Tie blushed and wore armor neatly: "Straight lady thief, we are being targeted, and I don't know which team it is." In the middle of the night, the water birds should be near us. Come here in the middle of the night, it's friend or foe! He continued to shout: "Get up, be on guard!" ”

Hearing him shout, there was chaos in the camp, and the soldiers jumped up one by one to touch their weapons and armor, and there were figures everywhere.

When Du Shu heard this, cold sweat fell: "Being targeted, how many enemies are there/"

"I don't know, I can't see it, but there must be more frightened waterfowl than us. Straight mother thief, hurry up, put out the fire, do you want to become a live target for thieves? Wu Tuo lifted a soldier and roared loudly.

The soldier answered, grabbed a bucket of water, drew water from the river by the roadside, and threw it on the campfire.

In the sound of "whoosh", the heat filled the air.

"Ahh

Almost at the same time, hundreds of feathered arrows flew out of the reeds on the side of the road, drenching the crowd like a torrential rain.

"Ding ding" feather arrows hit the armor.

The "tuk tuk" feather arrow hit the wheel of the cart.

The "Whew" feather arrow hits the human body.

Hot blood spots fluttering in the air, and the smell of fishy smell swayed in the wind.

In a series of muffled grunts was the sound of a fluffy human body.

Standing next to the fire, Wu Tuo was tall and arm-long, and his body was covered with shining armor, so he naturally became the target of many enemy archers, and almost instantly, he was covered with arrows.

He snorted, tore off six or seven arrows and threw them aside, shouting: "Listen, everyone, don't want to die and hide behind the car!" ”

In the wind, the reeds were surging like waves, and there was a loud sound of paddling.

Listening to the sound, there are at least dozens of small boats, thousands of people.

"Kill all the Sizhou thieves, kill all the Sizhou thieves!" The shouts of the Manichaean demons came from all directions, and the dull horn blew the hearts of the people.

I saw that one after another small boats rushed ashore, and the black-pressed demon jumped down first without waiting for the boat to stop, and rushed towards the convoy in a dense manner.

The rain of arrows still did not stop, and in the blink of an eye, the cart was full of sensational feathers.

Wu Tuo's soldiers went to Jiankang a while ago, although they encountered many water bandits, and they also fought a few battles. But most of them are fighting on the river, and there are not many enemies. Everyone played two rounds at random, each paying one or two lives, and one of them was afraid and fled.

In the final analysis, these soldiers were just township soldiers in Huangzhou before, and they had never experienced real battle formations. Seeing so many enemies, everyone shrank their heads to the back of the car and did not dare to stand up straight.

Wu Tuo was furious, ran back and forth behind the car with a spear in his hand, lifted the soldiers from the back of the car one after another, and scolded: "All stand up, fight, fight, fight!" ”

"Don't be afraid, thieves only have one life, of course we will die, and they will go to Hades if they are cut by our swords!"

"It's pitch black around, there is water everywhere, there is no way to escape, if you want to live, you have to fight with the enemy!"

"Wow, ahhhh As he was shouting, a thief with two knives in his hand jumped into the cart, his face looking unusually hideous in the night light.

The soldiers of the township army did not expect the enemy to burst in front of them so easily, and they were all stunned, and none of them went up to stop them.

Wu Tuo was furious, and the spear in his hand was thrown out with a "whirl", and the chest of the thief in the middle was pierced through.

Another enemy jumped into the car, and before he had time to draw his gun, Wu Tuo's tongue burst into thunder, and he rushed forward in three steps and two steps to catch the tail of the gun and let go fiercely.

The bloody spear head stabbed out of the thief's vest, stringing it together with another thief.

"Dang!" Wu Tuo felt a heat on his body, and his right shoulder was so painful that he had no strength.

It turned out that the third thief jumped into the cart, and the hoe in his hand condescendingly struck him on the shoulder.

"Woo-huh!" A long arrow struck, and the feathered arrow went from the right neck of the thief with the hoe to the left neck.

Wu Tuo looked back and saw Du Shu trembling with a recurve bow, his face so white that there was no blood.

He grinned, nodded at Du Shu, shook his right hand, and felt his strength return. A hand axe came out of his hand and cut down a thief from the car.

In the lightning and stone fire, four people died in the hands of Wu Tuo. The thieves who swarmed up were also afraid, and did not dare to jump on the car again, so they only stabbed this side indiscriminately with long weapons across the cart.

Wu Tuo looked intently, but saw that the open space from the cart to the water's edge was full of black and slimy people, these thieves were in tattered clothes, and many of them were still exposed. All of them have yellow and thin faces, vegetable faces, and the weapons in their hands are also extremely simple, most of them are hoes, flails, nail rakes and other agricultural tools.

In contrast, the Huangzhou Township Army is full of three meals a day, and they are overnourished and powerful, and they are simply people from two worlds.

Wu Tuo laughed, and while stabbing forward with his spear, he shouted: "Brother Paoze, look at the enemy in front of you, the straight lady thief is estimated to have not eaten for several days, if the straight mother thief loses to their hands." When we return to Huangzhou in the future, others ask us who we lost to, how should we answer! ”

He said so many words in one breath, but he didn't breathe, which shows how strong his qi is: "Kill the thief!" ”

"Kill the thief!" After seeing the enemy's rudimentary equipment clearly, the soldiers of the township army, who were still well-armoured, were bold and strong, and they also raised their long weapons to stab the enemy through the cart.

As soon as order was restored, the physical fitness and equipment advantages of the soldiers of the Huangzhou Township Army suddenly appeared, and they instantly occupied an absolute advantage.

Although they were not wrapped in steel like the regular troops of the Sizhou Army, they had a leather armor and a helmet. The armor is also inlaid with iron leaves, and if the ordinary sword is not strong enough to cut it, it really can't help them, not to mention that most of the thieves have wooden sticks with iron pieces in their hands.

Often, the enemy's spears stabbed at them, causing them to take a few steps back at most, and gasping in pain. And when their spears poke through, they will easily reap a human life.

After discovering that this was nothing more than a pure massacre, the village soldiers were emboldened and roared angrily: "Kill the thief, kill the thief!" ”

Wu Tuo shuttled back and forth in the ranks, reorganizing his troops as he ran, shouting: "Spearman, thorn, stab me." The archer stands behind the pikeman, shoot the fuck! ”

In the indiscriminate firing of feathered arrows, in the stabbing of spears, the thieves fell to the ground in disarray. In the flickering bonfire, puddles of human blood flowed from the dead and spread on the ground, gradually joining into a small river next to it.

In the blink of an eye, the river was already red.

The thief army is still rushing forward, but under the rectification of the enemy's leading general, there is finally some order. Constantly the roar of the enemy general came from behind: "Shieldmen, go to the front, protect the spearmen." Archer, keep shooting, don't aim, don't care who's in front of you, just shoot out! ”

At the same time, Wu Tuo was also ordering: "The archers of the Bow and Arrow Society, another round of volleys." "The military power of the Great Song Dynasty was mainly composed of three parts: the forbidden army, the box army, and the township army.

The forbidden army is a regular field army directly under the central government, and the box army is a local army stationed in the locality. As for the township army, it is a civilian security force.

Since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, there have been constant wars, fighting with the Western Xia Dangxiang people, fighting with the Khitan and Xi people of the Liao State, and fighting with the Jurchens of the Jin State. Internally, there is also an endless war, Wang Xiaobo, Li Shun, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, Fang La, and now Zhong Xiang again.

Especially in civil wars, it is necessary for the villagers to fight to protect the place. Therefore, in the area north of the Yangtze River, the folk martial arts style is extremely popular, and many group exercises such as horse riding clubs and bow and arrow clubs are organized.

Although the archers of the Huangzhou Township Army are not very good, they can't stand up to the equipment, and they are so close to each other that they only need to shoot, and every arrow can easily hit a thief.

"Pikeman, listen to me, stab—"

Dozens of spears reached forward at the same time, and the sound of "poofing" into the flesh was connected.

"Close!"

"Huh!" Screaming for days.

Wu Tuo pulled out the two bones hanging on his waist: "Knife hand, prepare!" ”

The two carts slowly separated, revealing a passageway.

Wu Tuo's hand Gu Duo flattened the chest of a thief: "Knife hand, follow me!" "The whole person has turned into a cloud of black light and pounced into the enemy group.

At this time, Du Shu, who was holding a bow in his hand and still trembling, subconsciously turned his head and saw a trace of red light projected on the horizon in the east.

Dawn is coming.