Chapter 159: Lujiang Erqiao (2)
The next day, the sky was slightly bright, and frost was everywhere. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Han Lie led a team of men and horses, under the guidance of the guide, and drove directly to the eastern mountainous area of the Lujiang River, where the tiger was seriously infested. Although Han Lie only brought 500 people this time, he was accompanied by Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Zhang Fen, who led the personal army, and the 500 sergeants who accompanied him were strong archers specially drawn from Yu Ban's rear camp, and all of them were able to shoot two stone strong bows.
Since it is hunting, Han Lie is naturally also draped all over his body, and the horse he rides is Cao Cao's war horse in the past, this horse is a Dawan divine horse, because it gallops like the wind, so it is named Jueying.
This horse was captured by Cao Cao, who was killed by Xu Chu, in the battle of Langya, and dedicated to Han Lie. When Han Lie saw this Peerless Shadow Divine Horse, he liked the abnormality and stayed by his side. Speaking of Cao Cao, there are indeed a lot of treasures, such as the two swords of Yitian and Qingyu, as well as the two BMWs of Jueying and Claw Huang Feidian, which are now in the hands of Han Lie and have become his treasures.
Along the way, although the wind and frost and fog walked, but the morale was very high, Han Lie, who led the team, was also quite looking forward to it, although there were not many tigers in this era, but Han Lie had not shot them with his own hands, and it was naturally impossible for future generations to shoot tigers, so for being able to shoot tigers with his own hands, and it was also a righteous act to eliminate harm for the people, even if he was the lord of all hosts, he was still full of enthusiasm.
Zhang Fen, the captain of the pro-soldier team who was behind him, opened his mouth several times to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.
"Well, the lord is happy today, so it's not too late to wait until the hunt is over." Thinking of the Erqiao sisters who were looted back to the mansion by Dian Wei last night, Zhang Fen couldn't help but shake his head and muttered to himself.
Originally, he wanted to report last night and send it to Han Lie, but because Dian Wei came back too late, he didn't bother Han Lie, who was already asleep, but this morning Han Lie came out early, and he was in high spirits to hunt tigers, so he closed his mouth again.
Along the way, he always felt that something seemed to be wrong with this matter, and he wanted to open his mouth several times, but because of Han Lie's energetic chat with Xu Chu, and because Dian Wei hung up the lottery last night, in order to cover up his injuries, he deliberately fell behind along the way.
Zhang Fen's uneasiness came from Dian Wei's injury, although Dian Wei suffered skin injuries, but Zhang Fen, who knew Dian Wei's martial arts, found out that Dian Wei was injured, and he understood that the Qiao family was only afraid of a fierce resistance, but Dian Wei just smiled and said that it was okay, but he didn't want to say more.
"Three miles ahead, there is the Tianzhu Mountain Range, which is also where the tiger's lair is located." After walking for most of the day, I saw a lofty mountain in the distance, and then the guide also pointed to the mountain range and said the destination.
"How can you find tigers on such a big mountain?" Seeing the winding Tianzhu Mountain, Xu Chu on horseback suddenly looked puzzled.
"Don't worry, general, although this mountain is big, but in the middle of winter, there is a lack of food in the mountain, this group of tigers often haunts the township in front, stealing the livestock raised by the peasants, not to mention, several farmers have died in the tiger's mouth recently, which alarmed the county guard." When the guide officer heard this, he hurriedly explained.
"So, as long as we stay in the township and set up ambushes, we can hunt this group of troublesome tigers?" Han Lie didn't expect that this tiger would be so rampant.
"General Huiyu, that's exactly the case." The guide officer was Cao Peng, a thief in the county, so he naturally knew Han Lie's identity, so he replied respectfully.
"Let's go into the village." Han Lie immediately raised his hand and waved, and the five hundred sergeants accompanying him immediately headed towards Huoshan Township at the foot of the mountain.
When he came to the township, Han Lie immediately summoned the three elders in the township and asked about the tigers, only to know that this group of tigers was a tigress with four tiger cubs that were about to grow up, which is why this group of tigers is so aggressive, and it is also the reason why there is a group of tigers.
It is important to know that tigers generally live alone, and only during the mating season, or when the tigress raises tiger cubs, will there be more than two tigers living in a group. Tiger cubs born of a tiger litter are usually two or three, but there are also four or five, but the probability of more than four can survive all is very small, it is almost impossible in later generations, even in ancient times, dense vegetation, jungle food is abundant, it is difficult to maintain the conditions for survival.
There are four tiger cubs that are about to reach adulthood, and there are three aggressive male tigers among them, so it is not surprising why they are stranded here. You must know that this Huoshan Township is a large township, with a population of 1,200, 100 cultivated cattle, nearly 2,000 pigs, and countless livestock such as chickens, ducks and geese.
"General, this group of tigers is very fierce, I am afraid it is also caused by hunger, the traps set by several hunters in our township did not trap them, but were eaten by tigers, and please be sure to get rid of the tiger pest." After introducing the situation of this group of tigers, the villagers knelt down and pleaded repeatedly.
"Get up, old people, as long as the tigers dare to come, I promise to let them never come back." Han Lie solemnly promised, although he knew that this group of tigers was very fierce, Han Lie was confident that with his group of sergeants, as long as he set up bait, he would definitely be able to kill this group of tigers in one fell swoop.
According to the guidance of the village elders, Han Lie divided the troops into three, and tied ten lambs as bait at the three entrances to the village.
Han Lie personally led a team, Xu Chu's team, and Dian Wei's team, and had dinner in the township, and the three of them immediately led the team to lurk in the place where the bait was placed.
As soon as night fell, in the vast mountains and forests, there was a sound of tiger roaring, which was terrifying, and I was afraid that the faint of heart would be scared half to death just by hearing the sound of the tiger roaring that undulated with each other.
This is obviously a group of hungry tigers, as the night deepens, when the fog gradually rises, the figure of this group of tigers swaggers down the mountain, Han Lie led the team to lurk, is a bamboo forest mountain stream into the village, and it is also the first few times the tiger entered the village and walked through the trail twice.
"Baa Baa ......"
"There is movement......" The frightened cry of the lamb tied to the foot of the mountain immediately attracted the attention of Han Lie's team on the mountain, Zhang Fen just opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Han Lie waving his hand, although they were separated by hundreds of steps, Han Lie was still worried that the tiger would smell their breath.
In order to cover up his breath, Han Lie deliberately sprinkled a lot of sheep blood around the foot of the mountain as a cover, and it was also to attract tigers.
On the cold winter night, the stars were dim, only a crescent moon hung high, and the cold mist was rising, although the vision was very blurry, but the howling sound of the tiger clearly reached Han Lie's ears.
"Roar!" In the blink of an eye, several colorful tigers rushed from the dense mountain forest into the lambs, and the bloody aura spread.
"Attack!" Han Lie gave an order, Han Lie, who was holding a divine arm bow, took the lead in rushing out, under the night of three hundred steps, the arrow naturally had no effect, so they had to take advantage of the space where the tiger was biting the lamb, quickly approach, and then within the effective range, launch the bow and arrow in their hand.
"Whoosh ......"
The sergeants, who were silently calculating their pace, took advantage of the faint moonlight to launch the feathered arrows made of fine iron in their hands within the firing range, and the arrows shot crosswise made a sound of breaking wind.
"Roar!" Immediately afterwards, there was a tiger roar, although he still couldn't see the specific situation clearly, but from the roar of the tiger, Han Lie could still conclude that a tiger had been hit by an arrow.
"Whoosh ......"
The second round of arrow rain was shot again, this time the distance was closer, and the lethality naturally increased sharply, and at this time, Han Lie also clearly saw that a group of tigers in front of him had fallen to the ground with two arrows, and the other few were also injured, these were all things that Han Lie expected, but to Han Lie's surprise, there was a white tiger among them, and it was obviously twice as big as the other tigers.
What surprised Han Lie even more was that this white tiger did not have a single feather arrow on its body, and the reason why it refused to leave was to protect the two injured tigers, and it was obvious that this white tiger was the mother of this group of tiger cubs.
"Lord, it's the white tiger, it's the white tiger......" This is Zhang Fen also saw the white tiger clearly, and he couldn't help himself with excitement, and immediately let out a scream: "The white tiger is auspicious, this is the meaning of the lord, and you must not be offended and killed." ”
"I am the son of the Emperor of Heaven, although the white tiger is a divine beast, but its scourge to the people, it should also be killed." Han Lie saw that when the sergeants on the left and right heard this, their footsteps suddenly stopped, and he immediately shouted, pulled out the Tai'a sword on his waist and took the lead in killing.
"Kill!" Seeing Han Lie rushing forward, Zhang Fen had to grit his teeth and pull out his saber and follow.
"Roar!" Before Han Lie could rush close with his sword, a large mouth of blood spurted into the air, only to see the vigorous white figure coming down like a sword wind.
If it was three years ago, in the face of this white tiger's killing blow, Han Lie would definitely retreat, but now that his martial arts have entered the realm of the grandmaster, he did not have the slightest panic in the face of a fierce attack, and the Tai'a sword in his hand stabbed Ling Tian, and the lightning sword instantly pierced the throat, and the three-foot soldier entered through the body, directly piercing its heart.
"Bang." The next moment, when Han Liefei retreated, the white tiger that was already dead in mid-air and could no longer die suddenly fell to the ground.
"The general is mighty, the general is mighty!"
Seeing that Han Lie had stabbed this colorful white tiger to death with a single sword, all the sergeants couldn't help but let out a cheer while being excited.
With the killing of the white tiger, the remaining tigers were originally hit by arrows, and they were stabbed to death by Zhang Fen and others without even setting off a wave.
The whole process took less than a quarter of an hour, and it seemed easy, but if it weren't for Han Lie's move, the white tiger alone would be enough to make the team of more than 100 people pay a lot of casualties, after all, the lethality of a crazy tigress is definitely not as lethal as the lethality of a quasi-first-class fierce general.
"Carry them all back." Han Lie looked at the white tiger under his feet, who was afraid to have four or five hundred catties, and his mood was also agitated, such a white tiger is indeed rare to see, and now this white tiger was killed by his own sword, and his fur is intact, if it is measured by value, it is really a thousand gold.
In the Lujiang City Barracks, the 10,000 soldiers of Liu Xun's subordinates who had just been attached to it mutinied at this moment.
The reason for the mutiny was caused by Dian Wei and Zhang Fen, it turned out that last night, Dian Wei took his own soldiers in the name of Han Lie to the Qiao Gong Mansion to deceive the door of the mansion, but under the hospitality of Qiao Gong, Dian Wei took the opportunity to coerce Qiao Gong and kidnapped the two Qiao sisters back to the mansion in one fell swoop.
When rushing out of Qiao Gong's mansion, he was surrounded by Qiao Gong's guests, Dian Wei relied on force to kill all the way out, and when he left, he gave Qiao Gong a blow and seriously injured Qiao Gong, and then he left.
Qiao Gong was seriously injured and unconscious, and the mansion was in chaos, and it was not until this morning that Qiao Gong woke up, and after waking up, Qiao Gong learned that his daughter had been snatched away, and he was furious, and said indignantly: "Okay, you Han Ziyang, you actually robbed the people's daughter, and I am inseparable from you." ”
As the Wangda clan of Lujiang County, Qiao Gong's disciples and nephews can be said to be all over the Lujiang government at all levels, which not long after Qiao Gong summoned his nephew Qiao Rong, who served as a military Sima in the army, and his disciple He Feng to his home, plotted a mutiny, and took the opportunity to capture the Taishou Mansion and expel Han Lie and his party from the Lujiang plan.
Qiao Rong and Chen Feng, as disciples of the family, were already quite popular in the army, and these Liu Xunsuo sergeants who had newly surrendered to Han Lie were still in a panic, and they were so bewitched by Qiao Rong and He Feng, and spread the purpose of Han Lie's recruitment of them, in fact, to relax their vigilance, and then they were killed.
When the rumors spread, the 10,000 soldiers who were bewitched, under the guidance of Qiao Rong and Chen Feng's respective troops, broke out in the camp that night, and the flames of war spread in the city in an instant.
At this time, Han Lie's army in Lujiang City, mainly the Red Flame Army, added up to only more than 5,000 people, as for Yu Ban only brought 1,000 people this time, and the rest of the troops were stationed in Heqi, at this moment Han Lie took another 500 people and horses, so the total number of Red Flame soldiers and horses around Taishou Mansion was 5,500 people.
And Jiang Qin, Xu Sheng, Dong Xi, and Ling Tong are leading the navy to build the Lujiang Navy Governor's Mansion in Xunyang Port on the bank of the Yangtze River.
Yu Ban, who was in charge of defending the troops in the Taishou Mansion, received the news of the mutiny as soon as possible, and then Taishou Lu Dai, as well as Guo Jia and Zhu Huan, also woke up.
"What's going on?" has followed Han Lie for many years, and such an unexpected event will naturally not make Guo Jia lose his claim. At this moment, Guo Jia, who came out in full costume and had a serious face, asked in a deep voice when he saw everyone coming up.
"Tell the military division, it was the surrender of the southern camp that mutinied." Yu Ban had already received the news from the spies arranged in Nanying, but he was not too panicked.
"I also went to the camp at noon, and nothing unusual happened?" When Lu Dai heard this, he was taken aback.
"Strategist, now that the lord is not here, the enemy situation is unknown, please retreat to the Xunyang Port Navy Camp quickly." Zhu Huan knew the importance of Guo Jia to Han Lie, and when he learned of the Nanying mutiny, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"No, Lujiang is not easy for the lord to take, now the lord is not there, as soon as the military division leaves, it will inevitably shake the heart of the army, now we still have 5,000 elites in our hands, and this army suddenly mutinied, whether it is the morale of the army or the morale must be unstable, if we can take the lead in attacking, we will definitely be able to deter the enemy, and even disintegrate their military momentum." Yu Ban will resolutely stop it.
"What General Yu said is extremely true, the subordinate is willing to go to resist the enemy." Lu Dai thought about it, and found that since he took office, he did not make any mistakes, and today's mutiny obviously had a reason, but no matter what the reason, he, the Taishou, obviously has to bear the responsibility, if he can't put down the rebellion, then his responsibility will be even greater.
"Wen Zeyou and Dinggong led an army of 5,000 to attack, and Hugh Mu led a subordinate of 500 sergeants to guard the Taishou Mansion, and sent someone to inform the Xunyang Port garrison, as well as the lord outside the city." Without the slightest hesitation, Guo Jia made a decision and agreed to Yu Ban's tactics of attacking. (To be continued.) )