The wind passed through the valley in the mountains, and the sound of whirring sounded in people's ears, like the weeping of the legendary ghosts and gods. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt was already half dark, and the shadow from the west turned the narrow valley road into a pitch black. Helpless, Cao Chun could only let his 1,000 soldiers carry torches and ride on horseback.

The front and back are slowly dark, and the left and right are no exception, and the only light that can be seen is not the little sunset in the sky, or the light of the torch in his hand. In this situation where the darkness is greater than the light, out of fear of the unknown, I am afraid that most people will feel uncertain about the future. Of course, this does not include the existence of Cao Chun. As the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, he is much more courageous than ordinary people. Although it was the first time to walk this Chen Cang Road, he did not hesitate at all. In fact, he could not hesitate, because the enemy's flight made him have to devote himself to the pursuit, but he did not even have a chance to breathe, he only remembered to pursue, and then pursued.

This is still Cao Jun's territory, so he can still get some information along the way, like just now, Cao Chun got the news that Liu Zhao's convoy passed through Chen Cang. He understood that the news that he had sent troops to pursue Liu Zhao had leaked. Liu Zhao must have known that something was wrong on his side, so he went directly to Nanzheng because he was tired.

"Bastard......" Cao Chun scolded secretly, but he hated Liu Zhao to death in his heart. Because in his opinion, this matter was completely caused by Liu Zhao and the emperor, and for now, he can't hate the emperor, so he can only hate Liu Zhao - if Liu Zhao hadn't done such a thing, he might have participated in the sequence of Liu Bei's southern expedition now, where would he be so helpless to go to Shu: "Even if the task is completed, you still have to enter Shu, this is really ......" Cao Chun was really depressed. He had no choice but to move forward as fast as he could.

As he was running with his whip raised, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in front of him. I saw a tiger and leopard cavalry sergeant rushing to meet him: "Commander Qiqi, we have found a brand new horseshoe mark ahead!" ”

"What?" Cao Chun couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, he turned around and shouted to his companions: "The traitor is in front, and the brothers will follow me, ......" - the king is defeated, as the unfavorable party to Cao Cao, Cao Cao naturally gave Liu Zhao and them the title of "traitor", in fact, they all knew that all this was planned by the emperor.

The horse accelerated forward, and Cao Chun was in a hurry to hurry, so he would naturally be negligent, although they were negligent in some unimportant places. Let's say the top of the hill on either side of them. Neither Cao Chun nor Cao Chun's subordinates had ever considered that there might be an accident on top. They had no guess that right above their heads, a conspiracy was looming over them.

On the top of the mountain, the mountain wind of hunting shook the clothes of these people, causing the snow-white robes to drag back fiercely, revealing their well-trained and strong figures. They stood on the top of the hill against the wind, standing on the edge of the danger, looking down at the situation below, seeing that Cao Chun's soldiers and horses were about to approach here, the corners of their mouths were invariably upturned, and a mocking smile appeared on their faces.

"Ho...... Ho ......" They laughed, their mood seemed to be a little agitated, and even their voices were full of strangeness. It's no wonder, who filled their hearts with hatred for Cao Jun?

"Is that okay? All ready? The man in white in the lead smiled and asked his brothers, "This time the lord has allocated us a lot of money." You can't just waste it. He chuckled and pointed at Cao Chun's army below, "Just give them all this gift." I hope that they will suffer some hardships and buy more time for General Ma Dai. ”

"Yes!" The young men, also dressed in white, nodded their heads heavily, and then they prepared to go—they took a hundred and ten steps back, and at this far distance from the edge, took out the fire fold from their bosoms, lit it, and laid it gently on the ground, where there was a long line of fire that led straight into the dirt on the edge. They buried nearly two hundred pounds of gunpowder there.

The flames flickered in the line of fire, but several men in white quickly retreated. Even though they were in a long way from that location, they didn't feel safe enough. After all, in the past on the training ground, they have seen too much of the power of this gunpowder. They were still running, but they suddenly felt the shaking of the mountain behind them, and they fell to the ground—the power of the explosion was so shocking that they could clearly feel it even from two hundred paces away.

"Isn't it too violent......?" A man staggered up straight, shook the dust off his body, and asked a little confused. Apparently he was still in a pulp at the moment......

"......? I don't think it's enough, I can't blow up this mountain in one go, and smash everything here......" The other man shook his head and said viciously. For those of them who survived under Cao Cao's butcher's knife, hitting Cao Cao was all they had.

"I really want to see the miserable appearance of those people, the general of the tiger and leopard cavalry who led the team should be mad...... Deserve......! The other said this, but his eyes turned to the other side of the mountain, and he was thinking about Cao Chun's unhappiness - in fact, this is a very correct Xiao thought, and Cao Chun is indeed angry and annoyed at the moment.

Before the explosion at the top of the mountain sounded, Cao Chun didn't notice anything wrong. And after the explosion at the top of the mountain, he realized that it was already too late.

The mountain walls on both sides are hundreds of feet high, and even a fist-sized stone thrown from it will kill people, not to mention that it is not only a fist-sized stone thrown down in such an explosion......

Cao Chun almost died under the rain of rubble. If it weren't for the guards around him who saw the opportunity and helped him push him aside in time, I am afraid that he would be like the guard who saved him now, and his head would be smashed and fall to the side. Of course, this is lucky, but it is also his no, because he has to watch the brothers he worked so hard to bring out suffer heavy losses under this wave of rocks. The once majestic tiger and leopard rider is now like a snake that has been beaten half to death, with no vitality, only wails all over the ground.

"Bastard......" Cao Chun scolded, but the situation was already like this, and he didn't complain more, just quickly ordered: "All dismount, count the wounded, don't touch the corpses of the brothers who have been sacrificed, don't move the seriously injured, stay and take care of the lightly injured, and wait for the arrival of people from Chen Cang." Hmph, this thing is completely Li Shengjun's ghost, it seems that we have to speed up our progress, or it will be miserable if Li Shengjun's people have already joined the traitors......" Cao Chun quickly made such a judgment, he who had fought with Li Sheng, and had suffered from Li Sheng's thunder bomb, knew what kind of sound the explosion of gunpowder weapons was. Everything in that memory was very similar to what he was now, which made Cao Chun immediately think of Li Sheng's involvement.

Li Sheng...... Isn't that the one who wants to be the lord and aunt? How could it be......" Hearing his orders, his soldiers were still a little puzzled.

"Uncle...... That's only temporary. He will eventually be our enemy, as he is and will be. Remember that before the Lord's army encompasses the Universe, no other force is our enemy, and nothing else. Cao Chun said angrily, in fact, he also felt strange and angry: "I don't know what Meng De and the gentlemen think, it is really ...... to marry the third lady far away." Didn't he know that Li Sheng was already the second strongest force in the world? Why let him grow? And not directly eliminate him......? Cao Chun muttered quietly. He could only mumble like this, because he knew that these complaints he said could only be kept in his heart, not said. I can only talk about my dissatisfaction or opinions with my lord in private, and at other times, especially in front of my subordinates, I must not reveal similar emotions and words. He knew that it would have an effect on the lord.

Leaving behind the light and heavy wounded and re-streamlining the team to carry out the original pursuit order, this was originally a slightly cold-blooded order. If it is an ordinary general with an ordinary team, the issuance of this order has to be considered a little, it is impossible for Cao Chun to say it so naturally and lightly. But all this was so natural for Cao Chun, for his tiger and leopard riders. "Be ruthless to the enemy, be ruthless to your own people, and eliminate everything that hinders the battle." This is the creed of the tiger and leopard riders led by Cao Chun. They are so convinced of this that they naturally follow this creed exactly. Soon the order was carried out.

Soon, in less than a quarter of an hour, everything was settled. When Cao Chun reorganized his team and went on the road again, there were only about 500 men and horses in his hands -- in the wave of attacks just now, more than 100 people were directly killed by falling rocks, and about 300 people were injured to varying degrees and could not continue to fight.

It was really unexpected that there would be such an accident in a simple pursuit trip. He should have given up because the losses he had suffered were enough, but he didn't. He was unwilling to return to Xuchang with the reputation of mission failure behind his back to tell the strength of the enemy. He didn't know how many enemies had just caused such losses, but he believed that the efforts of these people were only one time, and once they met him face to face, he still had a great chance of winning, because he was a tiger and leopard rider, a tiger and leopard rider like no other in the world.

"No one can stop the pursuit of the tiger and leopard riders." Cao Chun is sure of this, although this myth was once shattered in Nagasaka.

And just when Cao Chun vowed to catch up with the enemy, he joined Ma Dai's cavalry at a good speed, and under the protection of a team sent by Ma Dai, Liu Zhao, who went to Nanzheng, also encountered the biggest crisis in his history at this moment. He was confronted by an enemy, an enemy army that had completely wrapped his body in black cloth.

"Can anyone tell me who they really are......?" Liu Zhao roared angrily.

The attack came suddenly, they had just broken up with Ma Dai, and they had seen Ma Dai and his Xiliang Iron Cavalry go away, and then they had turned a hill before they suddenly encountered these people. The men were not wearing armor, they were wrapped in a tight black coat, and they had no teeth, except for two shining eyes. They did not ride horses, but mainly fought on foot, with flexible bodies and small poisonous blades, and the right time they chose in cooperation allowed them to inflict heavy damage on Liu Zhao in an instant. They rode on foot, but they took advantage of Liu Zhao's lack of speed to get up the team, and entangled Liu Zhao and them in front. Their goal was not Liu Zhao's body, but the carriage at the back of the line, the life of Cao Cao's daughter, which was the goal of their trip.

"Their target is not the prince and princess, but Cao Cao's daughter ......?" This kind of thing made Liu Zhao stunned, and also made him realize how bad his initial arrangement was. Although he was a military envoy who escorted Cao Cao's daughter to Shuzhong to marry Li Sheng, he obeyed the emperor's orders, and he who guarded the prince and princess did not have the consciousness of being a military envoy. He knew the importance of the prince and princess, and completely put the main force of the escort force in the front, and only placed a mere 200 guards in the rear, and most of these guards were non-combat troops mainly honored guards. It can be said that he did not arrange any guards around Cao Cao's daughter at all. If nothing went wrong, no one would say that he was wrong with such an arrangement, but the problems that arose at the moment made him horrified to find that his own arrangement was actually vulnerable.

"As long as you entangle us with one team, and then raid the rear team with another team, that should have a good effect......" Liu Zhao found out about this, and also tried to make amends through his own efforts, but he was still surprised to find that the enemy in front of him was not ordinarily strong.

The spear in his hand stabbed straight out, stabbing the enemy on the opposite side. But just when he was about to stab the other party in a cross, the other party's figure suddenly became blurred. The spears were empty, and the knights on horseback were horrified to find that their opponent had turned to their other side at some point and stabbed them with the blue blade in their hand.

"How can it be like this...... such a strange situation was highlighted, and most of the soldiers were surprised. They don't understand how the other person could suddenly move from one side of their own side to the other. They all felt a little scary, as if they were fighting with ghosts. They were at a loss, and then, in a moment of silence, they were struck by the enemy's blades, and they fell to the ground and died instantly—the poison that had been smeared on the blades of these men was of the type that sealed their throats with blood.

"Damn it!" Liu Zhao gritted his teeth, watching the figure of the enemy get closer and closer to the object he nominally wanted to protect, but there was an indescribable depression in his heart. It stands to reason that he shouldn't care about this, after all, he is the emperor's person, and Cao Hua is the daughter of the traitor Cao Cao, and he and her should be hostile in terms of position. But now he found himself unable to do so. Because he had been in contact with her, he was deeply moved by her kindness. He had to admit that if he didn't have that identity, she would have been a good girl.

"All this must be stopped......" Liu Zhao became anxious. The spear in his hand was another forward stab, but when it seemed to be about to return in vain, it was suddenly withdrawn, and he handed it to his other hand. The gun stabbed out again, piercing the opponent in half in the midst of his disbelievable eyes. Although they are all people with strange shapes, and although they are considered ghosts by most of the soldiers here by relying on such figures, they are still alive after all, and they will still die eventually, if they are stabbed to the core.

Although it is a headache for people with strange shapes, the number of them still seems to be a little small, but they are mixed in with everyone, giving people a feeling that everyone is at home. After knocking out a few with similar methods, Liu Zhao single-handedly broke out of their encirclement and got rid of their entanglement, but he also quickly discovered this. In an instant, he had the feeling of being deceived, and he wanted to find trouble with these people who dared to deceive him again, but he couldn't rest assured about the situation over there, so he had to grit his teeth with hatred and ride away. For Liu Zhao at this moment, dealing with the enemy behind him and rescuing the safety of the car driver is one of the most critical things for him at the moment.

At this moment, the resistance in the rear, although it was dangerous, was still holding on, but the main force of resistance was not the honor guard he arranged in the rear, but the guards and some accompanying craftsmen assigned by Cao Cao himself to his daughter. As for the people arranged by Liu Zhao, they had already been lost at the beginning of the attack. They say they are soldiers, but they are not doing their duty as soldiers.

Such a situation made Liu Zhao, who caused all this, blush, and felt a little ashamed. However, it was only humiliation, and he was not in much of a mood to pay attention to the consequences of his own actions, because the enemy attack was still going on, and he had to get rid of these damn creatures first.

The spear in his hand was abandoned. Although the material of the spear is very good, and the one made is also a good weapon, but Lang was born as a general, he is not used to this, he is used to using the sword, and uses the four-foot-long sword he carries with him, and uses it to harvest the lives of these people. Like these people, he is also good at fighting with small skills.

Riding on his horse, he maneuvered the mount under him, and as the charge began, his speed suddenly increased, and he was ready to attack from the start. Because through his understanding of these people, he knows that making a fight too early can only give them some precautions, so that they have a chance to dodge.

"I have to put a long spear on the shelf, because of the heaviness of the long weapon, but it is a little ineffective, and I am using a long sword now, but it is not like ......this" Liu Zhao has no more opportunities to fight to the death, because he still shows a bit of youthful and immature taste in his performance, and when fighting, he is almost fighting, while recalling the words taught by his master. This is also due to the fact that what he is currently encountering is a "bandit", not a large army, and a small battle is being fought instead of a big fight. If he was in the kind of melee of tens of thousands of people in the army, he was so distracted, I was afraid that he would die right now. "There is no room for loss of mind on the battlefield" -- this is an iron law.

The cavalry raised the speed, then his sharpness was not comparable to ordinary people. Although he held a sword instead of a spear in his hand, his combat power was not much reduced because of this, and even because of the ease of the weapon in his hand, he was a little stronger than usual.

He crossed in front of them, and the long sword in his hand stabbed out quickly, not stabbing them at once, but relying on the speed of the horse, through the sharpness of the sword edge, he lightly pulled a long and large hole in their body - Liu Zhao used the sword as a knife, but he took a fancy to their weakness of being unarmoured.

The blades were flattened, and the blood gushed like a fountain, and as the blood flowed from the long cut in his chest, the men let out a miserable cry. They felt the pain, they felt the passage of life, and they saw their own fear of death.

The injured screamed, and the uninjured did not get depressed because of it, although there was a kind of sadness of the dead rabbit and the fox. Their momentum was still very high, because they saw that only Liu Zhao was rushing over.

What can one person do? Although there are 10,000 enemies, they are all famous generals in the world, and there seems to be no such character as Liu Zhao in their memory.

"Up...... Kill him, he is only one man...... What are we afraid of? The man in black whispered and communicated, but more than a dozen people were separated from the offensive formation and rushed towards Liu Zhao with the short sword in his hand.

It was clear that they had no experience in fighting cavalry. At least, they hadn't fought with the cavalry that really charged, so they didn't know how much combat power the cavalry charged, and they had no armor, and as infantry, they actually made such a terrifying decision to hedge with the cavalry.

More than a dozen men in black stumbled up, fearless at first, but involuntarily showed a trace of fear when the war horse was about to approach. The rumbling of the horse's hooves, and the majesty of the other party's body taller than themselves, all made people feel a sense of fear in their hearts. The majesty of the cavalry charge was so strong that it frightened them and made their bodies tremble slightly. They struggled to shake off the feeling of panic, trying to achieve it by raising their daggers in their hands and screaming with great effort. But such actions are weak after all, their actions are rigid, and they always look dull.

"Looking for a ...... death" Liu Zhao glanced at these people with contempt and said disdainfully. As the number of killings increased, he saw more blood and more of these people's moves, and he had more or less written down the abilities of these people. He understood that these people were well-trained masters, but their training was sufficient, but they lacked experience, and they seemed to be novices just like himself. Perhaps in foot combat, they made up for their lack of experience with training through their own efforts, but in fighting cavalry, their lack of experience has become a fatal point for them at the moment.

"Infantry against cavalry, not fighting like this to you, nor holding such a weapon in your hand......" Liu Zhao said coldly, his heart had calmed down, and he naturally entered the realm of "peace and thoughtlessness, only the enemy in his eyes". He pinched the belly of the mount under him slightly, speeding it up, slamming into the body of the man who dared to use his arms as a chariot, knocking him straight away, and with a swift swing of his sword, slashing their throats with the two accomplices beside him as they closed their eyes in fear of the horseman's own might and involuntarily closed their eyes. Liu Zhao used his strength skillfully, and did not use brute force to try to cut off their heads, but just made their skin break a little and cut their throats with such a gentle stroke. He didn't kill them all at once, but left them to struggle helplessly on the ground, making a dying sound.

Death is not terrible, but the howl before death is heart-wrenching. Looking at the bubbling blood, constantly coming out of the wound in the throat, the rest of the people all felt trembling. Some of them were stunned, some retreated, but Qi Qi did not intercept Liu Zhao's turn. Although it is useless for them to intercept even with their hands.

Liu Zhao rushed out of their encirclement, ran away, and then came back. At this moment, he felt a little pity in his heart, but it was a pity that he didn't have a bow and arrow in his hand. In his opinion, if he had a bow and dozens of arrows in his hand, he would definitely be able to kill the people under him. Because he had seen clearly that these enemies did not have long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows.

"Alas......" Liu Zhao sighed at this, and his heart suddenly moved, but he remembered the things that Ma Dai had told him: "That black, fist-sized ball, can it destroy the enemy?" Liu Zhao remembered Ma Dai's words, and he was still a little skeptical about it, but he was planning to treat the dead horse as a live horse doctor at the moment. From his bosom, he took out one of the balls, lit them on fire, and threw them in the direction of the enemy. The round ball fell into the black-clad men, but it didn't hit anyone. Just when they laughed at Liu Zhao's useless throwing of this thing, the black iron ball exploded violently, scattering shrapnel, hitting the bodies of the nearest few people like a sieve, and at the same time, there were five or six people who were settled.

"This ...... Did I cause it? Listening to the loud noise on the ground, and watching several big living people being blown apart, Liu Zhao couldn't help but feel like he was about to vomit. He looked at the big pit opposite in a daze, and then looked at his hand in a daze, and finally had a deeper understanding of what Ma Dai told him meaningfully: "This is really a force that cannot be resisted by manpower." ”

"It's the same as killing, is there any difference between the conspiracy used by the pen used by the literati and the force used by the military general?" Thinking of what his master told him before, Liu Zhao couldn't help but see a lot. He finally relented, pressed the churn in his stomach, and made a gesture to pull the ball out of his bosom again.

That's no small thing. Fear flowed involuntarily from the eyes of those men in black.

"Wait!" They hurriedly stopped Liu Zhao.

"How?" The corners of Liu Zhao's mouth curled slightly, and he squinted at them.

"If we continue to fight, we will suffer heavy casualties on both sides. I don't know how many black balls you have, but you're just alone, can you blow us all up? I admit that we failed this operation, so how about we give up and leave......" asked one of the men in black, apparently the head of their group.

"Let you go?" Liu Zhao was a little reluctant at first when he heard this, but when he saw the prayers flowing from the eyes of these people under him, he finally nodded helplessly. He had to admit that what this guy who didn't even dare to show his face said was very reasonable, and it undoubtedly hit his vital point. "Okay. You go...... The farther you go, the better. Liu Zhao said this sentence fiercely. He didn't want to dwell on them anymore, because he knew they weren't the only enemies. "General Ma Dai went to stop the tiger and leopard riding. We have not yet entered the territory of Hanzhong, so we don't know if this retreat is safe. It's still one less trouble. Liu Zhao was anxious to leave, and he agreed so happily.

When the man in black saw that Liu Zhao agreed, he let out a long roar and quickly retreated. They disappeared quickly and cold-bloodedly, for they left behind the bodies of all their victims.

Seeing the man in black leave, Liu Zhao breathed a long sigh of relief. He began to arrange for the aftermath - his own team needed to be reorganized, the destroyed carriages and horses had to be abandoned, and the arrangement of the passengers and drivers had to be considered separately, so he asked everyone in his team to come down and prepare to readjust.

Because everyone came down, Cao Hua saw the two children in the team, that is, the emperor's second son and the eldest princess. Of course, she had never seen them, and she didn't know their identities, so she only felt slightly strange at the moment, and opened her mouth and didn't say anything.

The corpses were strewn all over the ground, terrifying to the few people who had never seen them before. Their faces were filled with expressions of unbearability. They all covered their noses, but they stood there stupidly, no one screamed and didn't know how to leave. This miserable thing may become their nightmare at night.

"How good it would be if there were no strife? So there wouldn't have been so many people dying. The young prince said to his sister.

"Maybe." Although his sister was a few years older than him, she was inferior to him in this place, and she only had a miserable white face now, and she didn't dare to vomit.

"Really...... I didn't even dare to look at it. The prince said.

"If you don't dare to look at it, you can close my eyes forever." The miserable voice suddenly sounded, and I saw that one of the dead corpses suddenly jumped up, and the short sword in his hand swung out vigorously, slashing at the prince's chest.

"Don't ......," cried the young princess, powerless to stop it.

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