Chapter Eighty-Three: The First Battle II
"Tell the general!" A voice woke Chen Antian from his reverie, and another general rushed to announce: "There is an official army in front of the scolding formation, claiming to be Xiangzhou Yang Wu, willing to decide the winner with his body!" ”
"Decide to win?" Chen Antian was stunned, although the confrontation between the two armies in ancient times would not be like the two generals described in the romance novel, tens of thousands of bystanders watched, and the winner raised his gun and defeated the opponent. However, it is still common for brave generals to challenge in front of the battle and fight each other, and there are many examples of this in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that are very close to the Northern Song Dynasty. Chen Antian naturally heard about it, but he didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to witness it with his own eyes, so he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Lord, should or should not?" The general asked, Chen Antian squinted his eyes and looked at the open space not far away, there was a horse galloping back and forth, it should be the official army who challenged.
"There are few of us here who can ride and fight, don't pay attention to that guy, just shoot a random arrow and drive it away!" Someone on the side said.
"That's not good, just an official army to challenge, none of our more than 10,000 people dare to fight, isn't it a fall for the prestige of the Holy Sect? What will the sons think? The other spoke out against it.
"People are riding horses, we have two legs, how can we fight, and if we can't win, won't it be even more prestigious?"
Listening to the quarrel among his subordinates, Chen Antian couldn't help but be even more upset, he had no experience in this situation after all. At this time, an older grade on the side high-fived and said: "I have a subordinate named Lin Liang, who makes a good gun and stick famous for a radius of 100 miles." Let him go to war! ”
"So what, since the officers and soldiers dare to challenge. must have a very good ability, no matter how powerful Lin Liang is, he is also fighting on foot, how can he stop the other party from riding a horse? ”
"It's better to let Zhu Lei in my team go, he was originally a hunter, and he shot a good medicine crossbow, let Lin Liang resist in front, Zhu Lei hid in the back with a medicine crossbow, no matter how powerful the officers and soldiers were, they couldn't resist it!"
"People want to come alone, but you are secretly hurting people, and you are not afraid of people's jokes!"
"The two armies are fighting. What kind of morality do you still talk about, you say no. So what else do you do? ”
"Stop arguing!" Chen Antian interrupted the quarrel with his subordinates, and he pointed to the subordinate who advocated hurting people with secret arrows and said, "You guarantee that Zhu Lei can be shot?" ”
"Rest assured of the Lord!" That general Zuo straightened his chest and said: "Then Zhu Lei can't escape even a bird within thirty steps, let alone a big living person!" ”
"Okay, bring me Lin Liang and Zhu Lei!"
"Whoa!"
A few minutes later. The two men stood in front of Chen Antian. Lin Liang is burly. His hands and feet were grown, his eyes were focused, and he carried a spear. The barrel of the gun is the thickness of an arm's arm, and he knows that he is a good man at a glance, but Zhu Lei is not as tall as an ordinary person, describing Mu Ne, and only wearing a short brown on his body in the winter, and the exposed skin is frozen black, if it weren't for the crossbow machine and a pot of feather arrows on his back, he would be a beggar on the side of the road. Chen Antian was quite displeased when he saw it, but he couldn't change people when it came to the end, so he had to praise Lin Liang a few words first, and asked Zhu Lei: "Later, Lin Liang will fight with the horseback officer, and you will shoot the officer, do you know?" ”
"The villain obeys!" Zhu Lei bowed and saluted, Chen Antian saw him like this, his heart became more and more displeased, and asked: "This is a big deal, can you shoot accurately?" ”
That Zhu Lei still looked like a wooden man, bowed his head and said: "General, I can only do my best, but there is an ancestor in our family who has fought against Nong Zhigao with General Di, so that a good arrow, presumably I will not insult the reputation of my ancestors!" ”
"That's good, as long as you shoot, the wealth in Xiuzhou City will let you take it first!"
Yang Wu had already galloped back and forth three times in front of the peasant army, and he still remembered Zhou Ping's advice in advance, so he jumped off the war horse and made a leisurely appearance, so that he could save horsepower, he knew very well that horsepower was even more important than manpower in cavalry warfare; Second, you can also show the enemy at leisure and delay time as much as possible. Regarding Zhou Ping's assignment of himself to take on this dangerous task, Yang Wu had no complaints about Zhou Ping. He knew very well in his heart that as a thief who was recruited, if he wanted to climb up in the official army, the only way out was to use the blood of the thief to wash away the stigma on his body, Zhou Ping did not let Xue Liangyu, who was good at riding and shooting, and Li Cheng, who was brave in martial arts, challenge himself and let himself, give himself a chance. As for Zhou Ping's previous shooting and wounding himself, which led to him becoming a prisoner and sending him to Salmon Island, Yang Wu was not only not resentful, but also a little grateful, after all, as a disciple of Jiangmen, he grew up listening to his father's teachings since he was born, and his mind was "learning the literary and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family", and he was reluctant to fall into the grass and become a prisoner. Later, Song Jiang got the documents of the government Zhao'an, and the happiest place on Liangshan was probably counted in addition to Song Jiang, and later although Song Jiang and his group were killed by Zhou Ping, Yang Wu, who knew the inside story, was not afraid, because he knew very well what case Song Jiang and others had committed before they fell into the grass. In Yang Wu's opinion, this group of bold guys dared to touch Cai Xiangye's things, and it was just natural for his head to be cut off, and the only thing that made him regret was that he didn't take the heads of Song Jiang and others as a vote, and by the way, he washed away his relationship with these guys.
Seeing a person coming out of the ranks of the peasant army, Yang Wu did not step on the stirrup, jumped on the horse's back as soon as he jumped up, gently kicked the horse's belly twice, and then drove the war horse to Lin Liang's side, and at the same time he skillfully raised his long sword and aimed the tip of the sword at the enemy's throat.
"Bell!"
With a loud bang, Lin Liang laboriously pushed away Yang Wu's spear, and took advantage of the momentum to jump to the side, avoiding the other party's sweep with the tail of the gun. Looking at the distant riding shadow, Lin Liang only felt that his arms were numb for a while, and his back was already full of cold sweat, he was also a famous spear and stick instructor in the township on weekdays, and there were a hundred and ten apprentices brought out, and he was also quite conceited about his arm strength and martial arts, but as soon as he went into battle, he found that it was not like that at all. Maybe the opponent's arm strength does not exceed his own, but coupled with the speed of the war horse and the weight of the people and horses together, it is not at all the arm strength of a human can resist, if he didn't react fast enough and jumped to the side, I am afraid that he has been stabbed by the opponent with a shot and nailed to the ground. By the time he wanted to fight back, the other party would have already run away. If you do it twice, you'll be free. Thinking of this, Lin Liang couldn't help but look back at the peasant army formation behind him.
"Brother Zhu Lei, you have to shoot on time!"
Yang Wu turned the horse's head, in fact, he only took out seven points of strength just now, but the opponent's reaction and arm strength were very good, avoiding his own attack. He didn't want to kill this opponent all at once, although this could give the enemy the greatest deterrent, but it also went against Zhou Ping's original intention of letting himself delay as much time as possible. Yang Wu stretched out his hand to untie the cheek guard of the helmet so that it would be more convenient for him to speak, and while driving the war horse to approach the other party with a hurry, he shouted in as loud a voice as possible: "Wu Na man, a certain family sees that you also have some ability, as long as you can block my three moves, I will spare your life, just now it is the first move!" ”
With that, Yang Wu kicked the horse's belly twice and drove the war horse towards Lin Liang. Lin Liang looked at the opponent who was rushing towards him, and the sound of the horse's hooves seemed to have stepped on his heart, and his entire vision seemed to be filled with the shadow of the horse. It took all his willpower to control himself from turning and fleeing, holding his breath and pointing the spear in his hand diagonally upwards at the enemy on his horse.
"Bell!"
With a sound, Lin Liang flew out, his hands were torn, the spear had long been lost, and a shocking wound on his shoulder was the result of Yang Wu's long blade. The peasant soldiers who were watching with their weapons let out a frightened shout, but no one dared to step forward to meet the battle, Yang Wu was very satisfied with his results, he turned his horse's head and took out the horn bow and prepared to give an arrow to Lin Liang's vest, who was rolling and crawling towards his own army formation. Suddenly, his eyes went dark, and the whole person shook twice on the horse's back and fell.
"Good marksmanship!" Chen Antian high-fived and praised, sitting on the public opinion, he saw it very clearly, Zhu Lei, who was hidden behind the two flags, calmly aimed for a long time, and took advantage of Yang Wu's moment to untie his cheek guard and shoot it off the horse with an arrow, the two are more than fifty steps away, and it is not easy to shoot an arrow.
Zhu Lei still looked like a wooden man, sang a fat song to Chen Antian, and replied: "General, I just do my best, but there is an ancestor in our family who has fought against Nong Zhigao with General Di, presumably I will not insult the reputation of my ancestors!" But now Chen Antian no longer thinks there is anything annoying about this guy, and laughs: "Good shot, Lin Liang quickly went to get the head of that guy, let the officers and soldiers see how powerful!" By the way, why did you delay so long to? ”
"I only have a stone for this crossbow in my hand, not even a duckbill arrow, and the iron armor of that guy is probably not able to shoot through at all at such a distance!" Zhu Lei replied: "If he hadn't put down his cheek guard, I'm afraid he would have to wait!" ”
"Damn, the thief actually hurt people with a secret arrow! Hurry up and save Coach Yang! Chengtou Zhou Ping stumbled and scolded.
"It's too late!" Chang Zongtian on the side sighed, as he said, Lin Liang, who saw Yang Wu fall into the dust, immediately turned around and rushed towards the opponent who had fallen off the horse, and the distance was only more than ten steps away, even if the defenders had wings on their side, they couldn't catch up.
"Ugh!" Yang Wu groaned and sat up, only to feel a numbness in his cheeks, as if he was no longer his own. Suddenly, I heard a loud shout, and I saw a man with a hideous face waving a knife and slashing at him, it was Lin Liang who had just escaped. Yang Wu hurriedly rolled to the side, Lin Liang slashed into the air, and kicked Yang Wu over, and the two of them immediately screamed in unison. It turned out that Yang Wu was dressed in iron armor, and Lin Liang happened to kick the mirror in the back of his heart, almost breaking his toes; And Yang Wu had just been pierced through the cheek by an arrow, and he turned over and touched the body of the arrow, touching the wound and naturally exhaling pain. (To be continued......)