Chapter 69: Horse Bandits
Thinking of this, Yu Cheng also smiled, who in the world would dare to raid Jin Wuwei of the Jin Kingdom on the boundary of Zhongzhou?
It was with this idea in mind that Yu Cheng didn't even take a closer look at the topographic map of the eyeline mountain road before setting off. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In fact, what Yu Cheng didn't know was that even if Xuanbu was reluctant to Yu Cheng back then, according to Xuanbu's character, he would never let a person like Yu Cheng with military exploits condescend and always be his housekeeper.
In fact, Li Yuantang, who was also Xuanbu's deputy general back then, was later recommended by Xuanbu and was already the governor of Yuzhou, who held the military power of one side.
Xuan Bu has long seen that Yu Cheng is actually not suitable to be a commander, he is often scheming and indecisive on the battlefield, fighting for small profits, but sparing his life when facing major events, such a person is actually more suitable for logistics work, if he blindly pushes him to the position of a general, it is actually harmful to Yu Cheng and the army.
Many people can't see their own shortcomings clearly, but they often complain that others don't give them enough opportunities.
An arrow rang out in the sky!
Yu Cheng was shocked, he encountered an ambush, and he had long heard that there were horse bandits near Wucheng, but he didn't expect that the horse bandits were so bold that they dared to intercept and kill the emperor's personal guards!
Although he was attacked, Yu Cheng was not flustered, the heavy armor on each Jin Wuwei was more than sixty catties, perfectly wrapping every part of the knight's body on the horse, the molten steel formula for forging armor, or Emperor Gaozu obtained it from the You people in Jizhou with heavy money, and ordinary swords could not hurt Jin Wuwei's armor at all.
Even in this dangerous situation, Yu Cheng was confident that he would still be able to break out of the encirclement with his horse's strong armor, only to see Yu Cheng pull out his saber and shout on his horse:
"Don't panic the army, it's just a horse bandit in the mountains, and then twenty miles ahead, it is Wucheng, we just need to rush all the way forward, and when we get to Wucheng, we will have our own officers and soldiers to respond!"
The guards promised in unison that it was true that the rapid march of the past few days had been too tedious, and that if a few uninteresting horse thieves came up to give them their heads, it would be very easy for everyone to accept. At this time, there were even a few brave Jinwuwei soldiers who couldn't wait to stand in place and wait for the horse bandits to come out and fight!
"Report to the deputy commander!" A soldier who was in the front camp suddenly turned back, beat his horse to Yu Chengma, jumped off the horse in one step, knelt on the ground and hurriedly said: "Deputy commander, the big thing is not good, the canyon passage ahead has been blocked by boulders, and a small team of spies we sent to explore the road in front has been shot!" ”
Yu Cheng felt a pang in his heart, the opponent was so carefully deployed, and he had always arranged outposts to explore the way ahead, and the other party shot the spies first, which was equivalent to blinding Jin Wuwei's eyes, and then blocked the road with boulders, waiting for Yu Cheng and the others to rush into the ambush circle like a swarm of headless flies.
At this time, Yu Cheng's secret way was not good, it seemed that he had encountered a difficult opponent, and he was busy raising his saber to the sky, shouting loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, the front battalion becomes the rear battalion, the rear battalion becomes the front battalion, and all the staff retreat!" ”
Jin Wuwei is the face of the Jin army, the royal prestige of the division, although ambushed at this time, but the whole army did not panic, everyone obeyed the order of the main general, turned their horses' heads, ready to withdraw from this canyon first.
Suddenly, a loud rumbling sound sounded in the canyon, and Yu Cheng was shocked......
Sure enough, what Yu Cheng was most worried about happened, the originally smooth back road also rolled down countless boulders, and in an instant, Jin Wuwei's back road was all blocked!
There were a few soldiers who did not give up, trying to break out of the blockade with their horsepower, but they were only smashed into mud by the rocks rolling down from the mountain.
Yu Cheng didn't see a single enemy, but he knew in his heart that this was the most terrifying enemy, and he hadn't shown up yet, and he had completely blocked all the ways of Jin Wuwei.
There is still the last glimmer of hope, if it is an ordinary horse thief, it should not be wiped out, after all, if his group of three hundred gold guards disappears out of thin air, within three days, the news will be transmitted back to Diji, at that time, no matter how cunning the other party is, it will not be able to escape the extermination of the Jin army.
At this time, Xuan Jing immediately stood on the top of the mountain, coldly looking down at the besieged Jin Wuwei below, and on the horses on the left and right behind him, Bai Lie and Chiyo Mochizuki were sitting respectively, and beside Bai Lie, there was also a man with loose hair.
"Xuan...... Ah, no, Master Xuan, what should we do now, according to me, it is best to throw a fire down and burn these beasts to death! The man who distributed the batch said.
"Uncle Hu, except for Yu Cheng, the rest of them are soldiers who serve the country, I can't bear to see them die tragically, use the crossbow arrows I gave you, it's better to leave a whole corpse, it's also decent, and the armor of Jin Wuwei on their bodies, I keep it and it's useful." Xuan Jing said with some emotion.
This Uncle Hu's name is Hu Feng, and he is one of the members of the Muyun Regiment recorded in the scroll left by Liu Xiang, who was in charge of the military hall in the Muyun Regiment back then, and naturally managed the matter of leading troops to fight.
After reading the list listed in the scroll, Xuan Jing began to use various means to contact everyone, many old people were already discouraged after Liu Xiang was imprisoned, even if the blood was not cold, and a few people dared to entrust their lives to a minor child like Xuan Jing.
Of course, there are also many hot-blooded samurai who stand up and respond to Xuanjing's call. And Hu Feng in front of him is one of the few positive responders, in fact, before Longkong Mountain was dispatched to Wucheng, Xuan Jing guessed that it was impossible for his group to stay in Wucheng all the time without coming out.
Although Long Kongshan can't go directly to Wucheng to arrest people because of the relationship between Sanqingmen, he still has the relationship between Jin Wuwei and the Shenji Battalion in his hands, so sooner or later, Long Kongshan will use these forces to come to Wucheng to find trouble for himself.
Since he had already anticipated the enemy's next move, it was natural to be prepared in advance, so Xuanjing arranged for Hu Feng and his subordinates to pretend to be horse bandits a month ago, lurking around Wucheng and waiting, and sure enough, he finally waited for Longkong Mountain's action.
With Hu Feng's order, the crossbow and the fire gun were fired together, and the Jin Wuwei people were holding torches, and they immediately became live targets, although the heavy armor on their bodies could resist ordinary feather arrows, but this was what Xuan Jing had long expected, so he specially transferred crossbows and fire guns from the Wucheng armory.
These military crossbow arrows and fire bolts were still prepared by Xuanjing's ancestor and Emperor Zhaowu of the Jin Dynasty, and the sophistication can be said to surpass the entire era. Even after decades of sealing, when Hu Feng and the others unwrapped the oilcloth, the weapons still shone with a cold light, as if the murderous aura of Emperor Wu back then was still on these weapons.