Chapter 571: Don't be presumptuous
Lin Hu's wolf cavalry was chasing after a squadron behind the Hezhu Army, and at the same time, they were still shouting curses, but the people of the Central Plains didn't understand Lin Hu's language and couldn't understand it. But the Lin Hu people themselves had already laughed. After waiting for them to catch up on lightning-fast horses, he raised his scimitar, which was more than three feet long, and slashed at the soldiers of the joint column.
Poor some of the soldiers in the faint light, did not have time to draw their swords or spears to fight, but were slashed by the knights of the Lin Jackal Cavalry, like a crescent-like blade glittering with cold light, ruthlessly slashed down, and several of the combined columns were chopped off in the head.
At this time, Du Qing rushed to the back with a spear, and he first ordered the squadron composed of more than 300 people of the Hezong Army to immediately engage the Linhu people. He himself joined the warband.
Du Qing's marksmanship is very proficient, and the battle is extremely brave, he danced a spear, the red tassels on the tip of the spear fluttered, flashing, and a wolf cavalry knight was picked off the horse.
Du Qing is actually better at archery, which is not inferior to the archers of the Hu tribe in the north. Archery also requires talent, and it just so happens that Du Qing is lean, with broad shoulders and a long arm span, so he can use all kinds of curved bows and crossbows, and he can be handy in everything, and he is a famous marksman in the Zhao army.
However, at this time, the sky was not yet bright, the target was still dim, hazy, and his superb archery skills could not be displayed.
However, Lin Hu's twenty or so wolf cavalry troops were small in number after all, and they were the opponents of the combined columns. Du Qing observed that those Linhu knights relied on their riding skills, and galloped through the military formation of the combined army as if they were in a no-man's land. He had an idea, and hurriedly shouted, "Sons, cut off their horses' legs first, and take these Linhu people off their horses." ”
The soldiers of the joint column army immediately understood, and they all bowed down, raised their swords in their hands, and swept towards the legs of the horses of the Lin Jackal cavalry. The Linhu knight hurriedly drove his horse to dodge, but the hero couldn't stand the manpower, and in a moment, the Linhu knight's war horse was abolished.
The knights landed on the ground and became a very ordinary soldier. The sergeants surrounded them, and then easily and happily cleaned up the twenty or so Lyrian Cavalry Knights.
At this time, the sky was beginning to lighten, and some of the sergeants were still slashing and killing the dying knight of Linhu to avenge the death of his comrades. Someone shouted to Du Qing: "General Du, let's go quickly, if we delay, a large number of Linhu people should catch up." ”
Du Qing also realized the critical situation of the situation, and with this desperate battle, they fell far behind the large army, and once Lin Hu's tens of thousands of wolf cavalry troops were launched, their team of about 300 people was in the situation of being caught up by them first.
Du Qing hurriedly ordered the soldiers: "Sons, hurry up and pick up the shields and bows and arrows of the Linhu people as much as possible, and follow me immediately." ”
As he spoke, he urged the horses and ran around the team, urging everyone to leave for the road. However, this squadron of the combined column army still had difficulty outrunning the Lynn Jackal cavalry.
The cavalrymen of the wolf cavalry who had discovered the emergency military situation were sent to report the situation to General Mantuo, but Mantuo had just laid down not long ago.
This is the second night of the siege of Jinyang, Mantuo also drank a lot of wine at night, he is also like Zhang Yi and Gongsun Yan, where would he have thought that the prince of Zhao State would break through so quickly?
According to common sense, the prince of Zhao finally hid in Jinyang City, and he must have relied on the tall walls of Jinyang City to rest in it.
However, the soldiers are strange and unexpected; Soldiers, treacherous ways. The second trick of Su Qin is to mention that Qu Xin and Zhou Shao used strange tricks to get out of the predicament, and such a trick has received unexpected results.
Mantuo and his men drank heavily, and when the peeing knight arrived at the tent of the Chinese army, he was snoring like thunder. When the guard on duty heard that there was an urgent military situation, he did not dare to delay, so he first went to Mantuo for instructions.
But when the guards entered the tent, they immediately smelled the smell of wine. He pinched his nose, went to the felt where Mantuo was lying, and shouted, "General, get up quickly, someone in Jinyang City has sneaked out." ”
Mantuo was in a coma at this time, and when he could hear the shouts of the guards, he rolled over and went back to sleep. The guard shouted seven or eight more times, but Mantuo was stunned and couldn't shout.
This made the guards very anxious, and he found that shouting was useless, but he did not dare to shake the general of Mantuo easily, for fear that Mantuo would wake up and lose his temper in a daze, and it would not be a scimitar to cut him.
So he hurriedly went to the more senior guard commander of the Chinese army to come and find a way. In fact, the short and strong captain of the guard also drank a lot of wine, but the guard had no choice but to wake him up himself.
The chief guard was still in a daze, and was dragged by the guards, and staggered to Mantuo's tent, he was a man who had drunk a lot, but when he entered Mantu's inner room, he was still choked by the smell of wine.
The chief guard woke up for a moment, and after understanding something, he asked, "You just said that someone in Jinyang City sneaked out, is this true?" ”
Of course, the guard on duty did not dare to drink that night because he was on duty, only he was still a sober person, he nodded and said, "That's right, this person who doesn't report is still here." ”
As he spoke, he went outside the tent and found the knight who had discovered the military information while urinating. The guard had just kept an eye on him, and instead of letting the knight return to his tent, he had left him in case the man woke up to ask for details.
The guard called the knight out of the tent, showed it to the stocky chief of the guard, and said, "This is the man who first discovered the situation." ”
The chief guard looked at the knight and asked him, "How can you find out that someone is sneaking away in Jinyang City?" ”
The knight hurriedly replied: "I was drinking and playing with a few friends from the same team, and I was in a hurry, and went out to urinate on the high slope outside the camp, and then I found a lot of horses and horses that had stolen out of Jinyang City. ”
The knight swore to the sky, "What I found is not wrong at all. Later, I hurriedly ran back to the camp and asked the other partners in our team to go out to observe, and everyone thought that it was someone from Jinyang City. We were worried that the prince of Zhao in the city would sneak away, so we hurried to report the news. The rest of my companions have pursued the fleeing Prince of Zhao. ”
The chief of the guard listened to the details of the knight's report, and he was also half frightened, and the drunkenness dissipated a lot. The chief of the guard also shouted and shouted: "General Mantuo, wake up, there is the most urgent military situation!" ”
But the effect of the chief guard's shouting was the same as just now, there was no reaction at all, after all, Mantuo had just fallen asleep after drinking, where could he wake up so easily!
The chief of the guard ordered his subordinates to hurry up and call for people, and everyone came together to call for General Mantuo, hoping that with the help of everyone shouting in unison, General Mantuo would wake up.
The guards went out of the tent and went around looking for people, but most of the other guards who were not on duty were also drunk, so it was not easy to call a few sober people. It took more than two quarters of an hour for the guards to call in six Chinese guards.
The chief guard was already impatient, and he scolded the guard on duty for being useless. The guards on duty felt aggrieved and almost burst into tears. However, he was afraid of the rank of the chief of the guard, and did not reply.
The chief of the guard then led seven or eight men and shouted, "General Mantuo, wake up!" ”
Sure enough, the mantuo lying on the felt turned around in a daze at the deafening shout, and his eyelids moved. When the guards saw this, they were very happy, and thought that the mandol would wake up. However, the final result was very disappointing for everyone.
Mando's eyelids moved, his mouth clicked, he rolled over again, and continued to fall asleep. The guard on duty was immediately deflated, and he sighed in Lin Hu language in his mouth, probably thinking that it was more difficult to wake up a drunk mantuo than to fight a big battle.
Although Mantuo has a very bad temper and usually beats and scolds the soldiers when he is not in a good mood, but at this moment, the military situation is urgent, and the captain of the guard does not dare not wake up Mantuo.
He thought to himself: "If I abandon this information and let this information pass like this, and do not let General Mantuo know, then he will wake up the next day, and he will not be able to put all the blame on my head?" I'm afraid that by then, he will be able to make my head fall to the ground with an excuse. ”
The chief guard weighed the pros and cons, and he thought: "If I wake up General Mantuo today, maybe he will also be angry, but even if he loses his temper, he will be beaten and scolded, and he will suffer a little physical pain." If you fall into the crime of knowing and not reporting it, is it not the crime of losing your head? ”
Therefore, the chief of the guard simply did not stop doing anything, he asked the guards to shake Mantuo's body vigorously with him, and while shaking, he was still shouting: "General Mantuo, wake up, there is an emergency military situation." ”
But Mantuo just wouldn't open his eyes, and the guards shook for a long time, so tired that they stopped. However, Mantuo's body swung twice more according to the inertia, but he still did not wake up.
It's no wonder that this mantuo is the Zuoxian king of the Linhu tribe, with a noble status, these guards are careful to even glance at the mantuo for a long time on weekdays, and today under the strong order of the chief of the guard, they actually pushed the body of the dignified general Mantuo, where did they dare to use all their strength to do it.
When the chief guard saw this, he was also dumbfounded, and thought to himself: "It seems that even if we lift the felt under General Mantuo's body and throw him from the sky, he will not wake up." ”
The chief guard was originally a strong man, and he usually spoke in a rough voice, but at this time, facing this problem of waking up Mantuo, there was nothing he could do, and he was about to cry.