Chapter 34: Please enter the urn
Black Bank launched a fierce attack, he personally led the warriors of the tribe, again and again to the White Tiger Village, they were very brave, braving the rain of arrows to approach the White Tiger Village, each time closer to the White Tiger Village, but they and the Flying Tiger Battalion's equipment is too far away, and there is a strong wall in front of them, although they have paid a heavy price, but they still repeatedly fall short, except for leaving a corpse in front of the wall, there is no real progress.
Looking at the overlapping corpses on the hillside, looking at the guards on the wall who cheered or disdained, Hei An almost pinched the bamboo bow in his hand in half, he never thought that he would fall into such a dilemma, retreat, to bear the notoriety of being defeated by a woman, although the tribe does not discriminate against women, and even some tribes still take women as their leaders, but the battlefield has always been a man's world, and being defeated by a woman on the battlefield is no different from death, if there must be a difference, it is even more humiliating. Jin, he couldn't find any way to break through, he firmly believed that he could defeat these women, but he had no way to break through the arrow array composed of these bows and crossbows, the Flying Tiger Battalion used the walled wall as a cover, and the bows and crossbows of various ranges cooperated with each other, covering from one hundred and fifty steps to ten steps, and there were corresponding attack methods, but he only had a simple wooden shield, in front of those vehicle-mounted strong crossbows, the wooden shield was simply vulnerable.
Even if he paid a heavy price and rushed to the wall, he still had to face the wall of thick wood, whether it was a stone axe or a copper axe, it was not easy to cut through such a thick wood, not to mention that he had to guard against the rain of arrows from all directions.
Blackshore was confused, and he couldn't think of a better way to attack than to send him to his death. He also wanted to organize archers to cover the attack, but he soon found that the range of the bamboo bows in their hands was too short, and if they wanted to cover the attack, they would have to face the fierce counterattack of the other party.
To his dismay, dozens of archers were killed or wounded, but they did not cause any damage to the other party, and their arrows made of stone were no different from scratching the opponent's leather armor, and it was only possible to shoot the bare arm when it was shot, and this effect was to provoke the opponent, and then shoot a headless burst until the archer was knocked down.
Black Shore had an arrow nailed to his ass.
"Collect the troops and rest early." Hei An said through gritted teeth, he looked up at the sunset that had fallen on the mountain beam, and felt that the blood-red sun seemed to be bleeding.
"Won't fight?" Because the fox breathed a sigh of relief, he sat on the ground, this day's charge had exhausted him, he wanted to persuade him, but Hei'an was crazy, no matter how he persuaded him, he almost stabbed him to death with a deer spear. As soon as he heard that the troops were collected, he subconsciously thought that Hei'an was going to give up, because the situation was obvious, with their strength, if they wanted to capture the White Tiger Village, they would have to lose at least half of their lives, and only when the opponent's arrows were exhausted could they have a chance to fight in close quarters, and their bravery would have a chance to show.
But who but the Black Bank has such determination?
The other leaders smiled with relief, just like Inhu.
"Rest, not not fighting." Blackshore let out a low roar, and the scar trembled like a living centipede.
"Then ......" Yinhu and the others are a little confused, could it be that they can come up with a way tomorrow after a night's rest?
"It's not okay to attack head-on, isn't there still a sneak attack?" Hei An held back his anger and reassured everyone: "Wa'an said that the little doe escaped from the back mountain, there must be a road there, as long as Wa'an finds a way, we can turn defeat into victory." Everyone also saw that there were not only powerful bows and crossbows in the White Tiger Village, but also countless possessions, as well as more than 500 strong women. β
As soon as they heard the woman, everyone's eyes lit up, yes, there are many women in the White Tiger Village now, there are five hundred people in the Flying Tiger Camp alone, and they are all equipped with leather armor and bows that they can't even think of, and they seem to have knives in their waists, although they have never seen the war knives of the Yue people, but they have heard of them, they are so sharp that they dare not imagine, and of course the price is also what they dare not think. If you can break through the White Tiger Village and get dozens of such swords, the improvement of the tribe's strength is obvious.
Thinking of this, they were not only reluctant, but also did not dare to leave, if they left here, once Hei'an and Wa'an broke through the White Tiger Village, all these spoils would fall into their hands, and when the time came, none of them would be able to resist if they came back to retaliate against them.
"You are all heroes of nearby tribes, so you dare to attack the White Tiger Village, if you go back like this, then how can you raise your head in front of other villages in the future? Defeated by a group of women, do you think it's very face-saving? β
Because the fox and the others were silent, but no one refused to retreat first, the matter has come to this point, and they can only hope that Wa'an can successfully sneak attack.
Wa'an stood on a large bluestone, looking at the silent sneer of the White Tiger Village at the foot of the mountain, and from this angle, the situation of the White Tiger Village was clear. The wall of the White Tiger Village is divided into two layers, with crossbowmen standing on it, and rows of carts below, blocking the wall tightly, even if the black bank cuts the wall, it is necessary to move these carts to attack the village. It was too far away for Vaan to see what the carts were, but he saw a group of companions lying ten paces away from the carts, piling up a wall of corpses, and roughly estimated that the Black Bank had lost at least a thousand men that day.
A thousand people, a big village was destroyed here, as soon as he thought of this number, the corners of Wa'an's eyes couldn't help but tremble, and he hated the king of Yue who he had never met. He is too insidious, he actually sent a flying tiger battalion composed of all women to deal with them, if he doesn't defeat the White Tiger Village now, Hei'an will definitely not be able to retreat, no matter who it is, he can't afford to lose the face of being defeated by women, as for how strong these women are, others will not pay attention to it.
If this hidden mountain road is not discovered, Waan believes that he and Hei'an must have ended badly, either gambling all their strength, or leaving in disgrace, and becoming a laughing stock of people from then on, after this battle, those tribes who are watching will definitely not hesitate to throw themselves into the arms of King Yue, and in turn attack them to flatter King Yue.
"Take a break." Waan turned around and ordered: "Send someone to inform the Black Shore Chief, that we will attack in the middle of the night, and ask him to be ready to respond, and once the fire breaks out in the village, he will come and meet us immediately." β
A thin soldier answered, turned and quickly disappeared into the woods. Vaan led the people back to a place with water, took out the rations he brought, drank a few sips of water, recuperated himself, and slept for a while, preparing to attack in the middle of the night. When the moon rose in the east, the messenger returned, and Hei'an was ready to respond, and he promised Wa'an that if he could break through the White Tiger Village this time, Wa'an would be the first to take the lead, and he would give priority to the spoils of war.
Vaan smiled and didn't speak.
In the middle of the night, the moon disappeared into the clouds, and the sky darkened, and Wa'an jumped up, led more than 300 cronies through the woods, and quickly approached the White Tiger Village. The White Tiger Village was as quiet as a sleeping baby, and the fierce battle of the day made them extremely tired, except for a few guards holding torches and on duty on the wall, there was no one to be seen.
"Great." Wa Anqiang pressed his excitement, beckoned his subordinates to follow, and ran forward, turning a few corners, and suddenly a large open space appeared in front of him. Waan was a little strange, this place was empty, and very flat, as if it had been specially groomed, but why was there a whole field here? Is it a martial arts training ground?
Vaan lowered his head and glanced at the ground, he saw a line, a red line, what is this for? Waan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, the moon in the sky was obscured by clouds, why could he see the line on the ground? He glanced up and gasped.
There seemed to be too many torches on the wall.
"Stopβ" Vaan shouted, his voice trembling a little from great fear.
The Yi people, who were a little excited by the belongings and women in the village, heard Wa'an's shout, did not react for a while, and continued to rush forward, the fastest had rushed to the front of the wall, Wa'an was about to scream again, suddenly a row of people came out of the wall, a drum sounded, and a rain of arrows hit, shooting several people who rushed to the front to the ground.
Wa'an's eyes were quick, he waved the copper knife in his hand and slashed an arrow in front of him, looking at the dense crowd on the walled wall and the bows and crossbows like trees, he was inexplicably shocked.
"Shoot!" Yan Feiyan shouted excitedly, and as soon as her fingers loosened, another arrow shot at Wa'an. She was so happy, relying on the sharp ordnance of the Flying Tiger Battalion, they firmly guarded the front village, blocking the black bank in front of the village, and blocking the sneak attack of Wa'an at night, this rapid shot destroyed Wa'an's morale, they were in a mess, there was no discipline at all, and Bai Xuan and Gaia had already led people to block their way back, Sun Shangxiang and people had already outflanked the past, and successfully surrounded more than 300 people in Wa'an.
The drums were pounding, the strings were buzzing, and more than 500 bows and crossbows were shooting at Wa'an and the others, but with the kung fu of the tea, there were only Wa'an and a dozen subordinates who were holding a wooden shield in the field, and they held the wooden shield above their heads, curled up desperately, and squeezed into a ball tightly, the once arrogant Wa'an was in the middle, he held the wooden shield above his head with one hand, and held a copper knife tightly with the other, waving nervously.
"Let him surrender!" Sun Shangxiang waved his hand, Gaia carried a war knife, strode over, stood five steps in front of Wa An and others, raised his knife and pointed at Wa An, and shouted: "Surrender, spare you from death!" β
In an instant, Yan Feiyan's disgust for Gaia disappeared without a trace, and she was even a little envious, how nice it would be if she was standing there now.
Seeing that the archery had stopped shooting on all sides, Vaan's nervousness slowly relaxed, he looked around, pushed away the people who were protecting him, and took a cautious step forward, licking his dry lips, and muttering a few words in his mouth. Gaia didn't seem to understand, and stretched out her hand and beckoned: "Come closer, speak slowly." β
Wa An took two more steps forward, Yan Feiyan suddenly caught a glimpse of the copper knife he was hiding behind him, his heart tightened, and he blurted out loudly: "Gaia be careful." Before the voice fell, Waan suddenly screamed, raised his hand and pounced on the copper knife. Yan Feiyan was dumbfounded, and was about to shout again, but saw Gaia, who was standing there, suddenly let out a long roar, rushed forward, and the long knife in her hand flashed, and she made a mistake with Wa'an. The two rushed three steps and stood together, Gaia shook the knife in her hand, pointed at a dozen Yiren who were less than three steps away from her, and sneered: "Who else is coming?" β
Behind her, Vaan slowly turned around, looked at the half-cut copper knife in his hand with round eyes, covered his neck with his left hand, staggered back a few steps, his body shook, and fell to the ground with a bang, blood shooting out of his neck like a spring.
The dozen or so people were frightened by all this in front of them, they didn't know whether the person in the delicate leather armor in front of them was a woman or a god of war, and he could actually kill Vaan in one face. They didn't know that Vaan's martial arts were actually above Gaia, but his knife was too far behind Gaia, and at the touch of it, the copper knife was cut into two parts, and Gaia was unharmed, but Vaan was cut off by Gaia's neck.
After a moment's hesitation, a dozen of them fell to their knees and asked Gaia to surrender. Gaia put away her knife, strode to the wall, and arched her hand to Yan Feizhai, who had not yet come to her senses: "Thank you Patriarch Yan for reminding her." β
Yan Feiyan was a little embarrassed, Gaia was obviously prepared, but she seemed a little fussed. She hurriedly returned the salute: "Cover the team and lead the martial arts." β
"Hehehe......" Gaia laughed softly: "I am a Buyeong, and my name is Gaia, not my surname Gaiya." β
"Uh......" Yan Feiyan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but laugh softly.
"Okay, some people clean up the battlefield and immediately strengthen the guards of the front village, don't be taken advantage of by that black monkey." Sun Shangxiang walked over and patted Gaia on the shoulder: "Clean up the battlefield, this time is your first achievement." β
"Whoa." Gaia shouted excitedly and led her men to clean up the battlefield. Sun Shangxiang entered the village, went straight to the front village, went up to the wall, and just saw Hei'an rushing to the front of the village, but was killed by a burst of arrows from the thunder that had been prepared, and was holding his head and running away.
"Rats!" Sun Shangxiang snorted disdainfully.
Gaia strode in with Vaan's head: "General, do you want to hang up this head and let these rats see it?" β
"That's it, hang it up, let these Yi people know that our White Tiger Village didn't come when they wanted to." Mu Zhiqiu clapped his hands and shouted.
"Nope." Sun Shangxiang shook his head: "I scared them away, and our battle was in vain." β
"What?" Yan Feiyan didn't think about it for a while: "Isn't it over if you scare them away, and you have to fight again?" β
"You know what." Sun Shangxiang sneered: "So many coolies, where can I find them if I am scared away?" β
"Coolies?" Yan Feiyan and Lei Zi looked at each other, and couldn't help but be stunned, it turned out that they were like a great enemy, and Sun Shao didn't take it seriously at all, in his eyes, these more than 10,000 Yi people were just coolies?
"Don't think about it, go back to sleep." Sun Shangxiang didn't want to say more, for fear of ruining Sun Shao's affairs, so he left with a vague word. Yan Feiyan and Lei Zi held on to the wall, looking at the helpless retreating Yiren in the distance, and there was an indescribable bitterness in their mouths.
Hei'an is very strange, the drums in the mountain behind the White Tiger Village shook the sky, obviously Wa'an launched an attack, but he didn't see the fire, and the village quickly quieted down again, Wa'an must have failed, so did he escape or die? White Tiger Village's reaction was too calm, which made Hei'an a little confused. If Wa'an is captured or killed, it is said that the White Tiger Village will definitely escort him to the front, as long as they see others or the head, then their last hope will be considered lost, and there is only one way to retreat. Now Wa'an's whereabouts are unknown, which makes Hei'an a little confused, is it just to startle the snake?
Hei'an sent people to the back mountain overnight to look for Wa'an's traces, but unfortunately Wa'an's shadow has not been seen, but worse news came, Yue Wang Sun Shao's whole army dispatched, more than 10,000 troops divided into three roads, and blocked the three exits they withdrew from the Baihu Village, they were approaching Baihuzhai at full speed, before Hei'an reacted, Sun Shao trapped them in this mountain forest.
As soon as they heard the news, the people of Yirentou suddenly exploded, some of them jumped like thunder, stomped their feet and scolded, and some of them had no expression, but the non-stop eyes exposed their panic, and some were at a loss, looking at others with blank eyes, hoping to find an object to rely on.
Hei'an was also stunned, it took a while for him to come back to his senses, no wonder the people who were ambushed in that valley have not heard news, it turns out that Sun Shao has made a big circle and has caught them all, Baihuzhai is a bait, a bait that lures them to lose their minds, they want to hunt, but they didn't expect that they are the prey of others.
Hei An understood a little at this time, but it was too late, there were two paths in front of him, one was to break through as soon as possible, and the other was to surrender, he was not interested in surrendering, but he had no confidence in breaking through. The five hundred Flying Tiger Battalion has already beaten him to the ground, how strong will the more than 10,000 elites be? Will he be able to tear through the other party's encirclement and escape? The Black Bank had no confidence at all.
"We've been fooled." Because the fox suddenly sighed.
"What?" Hei An was stunned for a moment, and then walked up to Yinhu: "What did you just say?" β
"We're in Vaan." Yinhu's face was gloomy: "I won't tell you the truth, I have been to Jinguashan, I have seen King Yue from a distance, and I have also seen his big ships, I heard that they are sent by the tide of the sea god." β
Hei An chuckled in his heart, he remembered the question at the beginning, and hurriedly pulled Yinhu to inquire about the time of Sun Shao's arrival in detail, and after hearing it, he was so angry that his face turned purple and he scolded. At the beginning, he was worried that Sun Shao was blessed by the god of the sea, but it was Waan who lied to him, saying that Sun Shao's boat was broken several times by the god of the sea, and it could not be the person blessed by the god of the sea, he must have come two days ago, and now he knows, but it is too late, they died thousands of people in vain, and they lost a good opportunity to attach to Sun Shao in the first place.
Now is surrender, the difference between surrender and dependence Hei'an has heard others say that Sun Shao divides the people who surrender to him into several grades, and those who take the initiative to attach themselves enjoy the best treatment, and those who serve after beating are worse, and those who do not accept it are miserable.
The Yi people were in a mess, quarreling with each other, because the fox regretted that he did not recognize the situation at that time, bowed to the king of Yue in time, and followed Wa'an to attack the white tiger village, and now he has become the enemy of the king of Yue, not only hundreds of people died in vain, but also faced the anger of the king of Yue. There are many people who echo him, and the spearhead gradually turns to Hei'an's head, although Hei'an is very unhappy, but in the face of so many opposing voices, he can only swallow his anger, people follow him to make a fortune, and now he not only failed to defeat the White Tiger Village, but also lost so many people, this responsibility can only be borne by him.
Just when the Yi people were arguing, Sun Shao sent a messenger, the conditions were very simple, surrender within an hour, you are all the people of my Yue country, I will spare you from death, give you land, let you live and work in peace and contentment, if you do not surrender, then I will not be polite.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the leaders who had already had their own thoughts quieted down and turned their eyes to the black bank, with a bit of hostility in their eyes, and those who intended to surrender and those who did not intend to surrender gradually divided into two factions, and no one refused to give in.
Hei An didn't say a word, walked out of the woods, climbed high and looked into the distance, the Yue soldiers in the valley in the distance surprised him, the last trace of fighting spirit turned into nothing, the other party has more people than him, the weapons are stronger than him, he can't be an opponent at all.
Surrender, you can still save your life, whether you can live and work in peace and contentment later. He's a person that the sea god likes, so he shouldn't lie.
"The headmanβ"
Hei An turned around, glared at the panicked cronies, and roared like a trapped beast: "What's the matter?" β
"Tile ...... The head of Vaan. He swallowed his saliva and pointed in the direction of the White Tiger Village. Hei An looked up and saw that the wall of the White Tiger Village was full of people, on a high wooden pole, holding a head, standing too far, Hei An couldn't see whether it was Wa'an at all, but he got a positive message from the atmosphere of joy and drums on the wall, this must be Wa'an, only by killing Wa'an, the people of the White Tiger Village would be so happy.
Hei'an's heart ached, his eyes were a little dizzy, he shook twice, because the fox rushed over, one hand held Hei'an, Hei'an stood firm, just about to squeeze out a smile to express his gratitude, suddenly felt a pain in his waist, he looked down in surprise, and saw Yinhu's big hand holding the copper knife, maybe it was too hard, because the fox's hand was bulging, like a locust that had sucked up blood.
"I'll borrow your head for a while." Because the fox sneered, drew his knife and retreated, blood bursting out of the wound. Hei An gasped, and before he could stand firmly, there was a huge pain in his back, and then a copper axe came to him, instantly illuminating Hei An's eyes.
Hei An felt that he was flying, and turned around lightly in the air, he saw more than a dozen of his personal guards being slashed and killed by Yinhu and others in the middle, saw the unmoving Yue army in the distance, and saw the Wa'an head hanging high on the White Tiger Village.
Hei An suddenly felt that the army of the Yue Kingdom and the White Tiger Village seemed to form a pottery urn, and they were the pickled fish in the urn.
(To be continued)