Chapter 243: Happy Meeting
Guanglu City is located in the northwest of Wuyuansai and northeast of Yangshu Lake, and is named after the founder of the city, Guanglu Xun Xu Ziwei of the Han Wu Emperor Dynasty. At that time, the Xiongnu had been driven to the north of the desert, in order to strengthen the control of Wuyuan and Shuofang, the Han people set up dozens of pavilions outside the Saiwai, stretching for thousands of miles, until the foot of Junji Mountain. Guanglu City is the largest of them, the facilities are also the most complete, so it is called the city, as the management of the Saiwai Pavilion Barrier, and the Huns are mostly carried out in this city.
Later, the Central Plains was full of war, the imperial court was unable to look north, Guanglu City and those pavilion barriers were gradually deserted, the Huns made a comeback, they hated these pavilion barriers, and the revenge surname demolished a lot, Guanglu City was also among them, now no one lives, overgrown with weeds, it has become the home of wild wolves and wild foxes, when the winter blizzard comes, the whistling north wind blows through the battlements, as if the soul of a hundred years ago is howling.
Now this is the ranch of the Hongyue tribe, the Xianbei people are used to living in tents, and they don't like to stay in the city, so they don't have the heart to repair Guanglu City, as for the merchants passing by, they occasionally live in it, and the next day they have to set off to the distance, of course, they will not have the mood and financial resources to tidy up.
Guanglu City has been lonely here for two hundred years, and there are only wild wolves, wild foxes, and occasionally a few passers-by.
A Xianbei scout came on horseback, he galloped on the snow field for a long time, cold and hungry, his face was stiffened by the wind, and he wanted to enter Guanglu City to rest, although Guanglu City has no wood to make a fire, but there are a lot of wild grasses that grow wildly, if you can still bake a wolf or a rabbit or something, it would be great.
"Huh-" When the Xianbei scout was about to enter the city, he suddenly restrained his horse, stretched his vigilant gaze along the two rows of horses' hoof prints on the road to the city gate, looked at the city with suspicion, hesitated for a moment, turned his horse's head, and whipped his horse. The war horse suffered pain and galloped wildly, a few points faster than when he came. But the knight was not satisfied, and he whipped his horse desperately, as if there was a great danger in the city.
On the ruined city wall, Lu Bu suddenly stood up, holding a carved bow in his hand, and was about to launch. Liu Xiu called out in time: "Fengxian, catch it alive." β
"Whoa." Lu Bu's hand moved, and the arrow moved a distance that the eye couldn't even detect, and he let go.
The long arrow burst through the air, flew a distance of a hundred paces, and struck accurately at the knight's right shoulder, from behind, through his chest. The knight screamed, turned over and fell off his horse, blood splattering on the snow, like a blooming red plum, extremely delicate.
"Feng Xian is good at archery." Liu Xiu praised it casually, and then teased: "If you compete with me in archery that day, Captain Changshui may be yours." β
Lu Bu smiled silently and put away his bow quite complacently. The two soldiers rushed out, dragged the Xianbei scout back with the warhorse, and threw him in the corner. The knight clutched his pierced shoulder and screamed, but when he saw the thousands of knights under the walls, his eyes widened and he swallowed back all his cries of fear.
These people are all wearing dark red battle robes, they are Han soldiers! The knight looked at the corpses of his three companions in the corner, and all the doubts that lingered in his mind vanished, along with the hope of escape.
"How many miles is left in the convoy? Fifty or thirty? Liu Xiu squatted down in front of the knight with the big gun. The knight's eyes showed a mixture of horror and surprise, and then he gritted his teeth and spat on the corpses of the three companions, and looked at Liu Xiu contemptuously, the meaning is very clear, I am not such a coward, you don't want to get news from me.
"They are no weaker than you." Liu Xiu beckoned, Wang Zhi walked over, "snapped" twice, opened the bow left and right, and slapped the Xianbei knight twice, the knight only felt dizzy, his cheeks suddenly lost sensation, and there was a smell of blood in his mouth, he spit, but found that there was not only blood but also countless teeth that spit out.
"Hmm......mm" The knight was shocked inexplicably, and then glared at Wang Zhi stubbornly, and scolded a few words vaguely.
"My lord, he said that it was useless to beat him, he would definitely not say it." Lou Lu translated.
"You told him that you knocked out his teeth, not to threaten him, but to bite his tongue and kill himself." Liu Xiu smiled shallowly and played with a snowball in his hand. Wang Zhi tore open the knight's robe, took out a silver needle in his right hand, and stabbed it into the knight's shoulder socket like lightning.
"Ten breaths." Cheng Lian stretched out his palm and flipped it over, "Fifty dollars." β
Wei Xu rolled his eyes, a little hesitant. Xu Huang, who was standing on the side, suddenly said: "You can add another hundred coins, and you can win back all the losses." β
Wei Xu turned his head to look at him, "Really? β
Xu Huang smiled: "If you don't add it, you won't have a chance." I bet this guy won't last seven breaths. β
Wei Xu glanced at the knight in surprise, and hurriedly said, "I'll follow, add another fifty dollars." β
"Are you crazy?" Cheng Lian smiled. Before he could finish speaking, he saw the knight's eyes widen, and he frantically tore the clothes on his body, scratching the skin on his chest vigorously.
"I'll add another two hundred dollars!" Wei Xu was ecstatic and shouted loudly.
"your mother, if you say a hundred, you will be a hundred." Cheng Lian flew up and kicked him on the buttocks, looking at Xu Huang with a surprised gaze. Xu Huang smiled faintly and turned his head.
Wei Xu fell on the snow, rubbing his buttocks, and sighed: "Alas, Lao Tzu is clumsy, and he didn't listen to Gongming, otherwise you will lose this dead billet once today." β
"You are born to lose money, and you can't seize the opportunity with the help of nobles." Cheng Lian laughed, took out a handful of money, counted fifty, threw the rest on Wei Xu's body, and proudly put it back in his arms: "Lao Tzu earns fifty." β
"Phew!" Wei Xu frustrated and picked up the money one by one and carefully put it back on his waist.
It was when they were fighting, the knight couldn't bear the itch that came out of his bones, and he took care of the situation of the convoy in 1510. He watched Wang Zhi pull out the silver needle, as if he had seen a ghost. As the silver needle was pulled out, the unbearable itching disappeared.
"Send him on his way." Liu Xiu stood up and made a gesture, and the soldiers who were resting under the city wall saw his gesture and stood up one by one, talking softly while beginning to arrange their weapons and horses.
With a "choking" sound, Lu Bu's long knife came out of the sheath, and the knife flashed, accurately cutting off the knight's neck, and the blood had not yet spurted out, and the knife had been returned to the sheath.
"Gongming, you lead the scout tun and set off first with the deputy horse and baggage." Liu Xiu stood up and walked towards the big red horse, saying as he walked: "The rest of the people, Feng first took Cheng Lian Naqu, and I took Wei Yue Naqu, flanked left and right, defeated them as quickly as possible, and then retreated immediately." β
"Whoa." Lu Bu and Xu Huang responded loudly.
After a short time, all the knights got on their horses, and Xu Huang led the scouts to gallop forward with more than 200 auxiliary horses carrying heavy loads. Liu Xiu and Lu Bu led more than a thousand knights to the east, and soon divided into two teams outside the city. All of them were dressed in white coats, and even the horses were dressed in white coats, and soon disappeared into the snowy fields.
Twenty miles away, a convoy was speeding forward, three hundred knights in fine armor were on the left and right, looking around vigilantly, and in the middle was a beautifully decorated cart, which was covered by a thick felt curtain, and it was impossible to see the scene inside, but from the nervous look on the face of the strong samurai next to him and the gorgeous clothes on the slave maids, it could be seen that the people in the car were by no means ordinary people.
The commander of the thousand commanders, Jiefen, drove to the cart, held the carriage, and said loudly: "Madam, we are almost in Guanglu City, and when we get there, we will take a rest, make a fire, eat some hot food, and wait for the people sent by the adults to meet us." β
There was an answer in the car, and Jie Fen urged the war horse, and shouted loudly while galloping: "Everyone work hard, when we get to Guanglu City to drink wine and eat meat, we will be home." β
"Oh-" The knights immediately became happy when they heard this, and they sped up one by one. After walking on the snowfield for more than half a month, they were already tired, and the hot wine and meat were very tempting to them.
"Your Excellency," said a centurion, ...... a centurion who stopped him from galloping past him, and pointed to the horizon in the distance, "I think something is wrong there." β
"What's wrong?" Jie Fen raised his eyes and looked at it for a while, but he didn't see any problems, but he believed in this centurion's eyesight, this centurion had good archery skills, and his eyesight was also very sharp, and he could see things far more clearly than ordinary people.
"I can't say it, I just feel that something is wrong." The centurion shook his head, undiminished.
"Are the scouts back?"
"Most of them have returned, but a few haven't come back in the direction of Guanglu City." The centurion tore off the felt hat from his head with some anxiety, revealing his bare head.
Jie Fen's heavy eyebrows trembled, and he was also a little worried, he looked at the convoy that was speeding forward, and then looked at the three hundred energetic knights, and smiled again: "It can't be that the horse thieves on the grassland have taken a fancy to our convoy, then they have found the wrong target." β
The centurion also smiled, three hundred fine horsemen from the royal court of Danhan Mountain are enough to deal with twice as many cavalry on the grassland, if it is to deal with horse thieves, it doesn't matter if the other party comes with a thousand people, not to mention that there are a thousand horse thieves in this area. They walked all the way, and they never encountered the harassment of horse thieves, as evidenced by this, even the most daring horse thieves had to weigh their own strength when they saw these three hundred elite horsemen.
Jie Fen made a joke, his mood was a little lighter, and he was about to turn the horse and go back, but the war horse under the crotch shook his head and tail a little uneasily, and Jie Fen kicked its legs, not only failed to appease it, but became more and more anxious, and snorted again and again, and the horse's hooves kicked the slush everywhere.
Jie Fen waved his horsewhip and was about to scold, when he suddenly saw the centurion's face full of astonishment, he was startled, and looked forward along the centurion's gaze, but he didn't see anything, but he also felt something strange, and he didn't react at first, and then he heard the centurion's exclamation, and he realized that something seemed to be wrong with the snow field in the distance.
The snow is writhing.
Jie Fen felt that he might be dazzled, how could the snow field be moving, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, straightened up on the horse's back and wanted to take a closer look, but before he could stand up straight and see clearly, he first heard the faint sound of horses' hooves.
And it was the sound of the hooves of hundreds of war horses running.
Jie Fen was cold and a little out of breath, but after years of fighting, he quickly reacted, he drew his sword out of the sheath, and galloped his horse: "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! β
The three hundred knights were well-trained, and as soon as they heard the shouts of Jie Fen, they immediately began to act, and some of them surrounded the cart in a circle, and the most luxurious cart was surrounded in the middle, and more than twenty knights drove their war horses and guarded them in front of the cart, and the two centurions raised their swords and shouted, and led their cavalry to meet them on both sides.
As soon as the curtain of the cart was lifted, a young woman wearing a fiery red fox fur came out, jumped on a white horse tied to the side of the car, drew the long sword at her waist, and bit her somewhat pale lip. A middle-aged Xianbei man held the carved bow tightly with one hand, tightly reined in the reins of the horse with the other, and the war horse under the control crotch leaned over, and the eagle-like eyes looked around vigilantly.
"Drumming!" Liu Xiu took off the halberd from the saddle, pointed it in the air, and the snow-red halberd was like a fire, jumping in the air and dancing wildly. He let go of the big horn that was tightly clenched in the palm of his hand, and the big horn was blown up by the wind, revealing the red robe and black armor on his body.
The herald who followed him vigorously struck the small drum, and the rapid sound of the drum quickly spread throughout the ranks, and all the warriors let go of the corners of the white daze, revealing the red robes hidden inside.
In an instant, a flame quickly spread out on the snowfield, turned into a wildfire, and swept away towards the convoy at lightning speed.
Xianbei people were taken aback.
Liu Xiu stood up on horseback, turned to look at the knight behind him, and suddenly shouted: "Follow me, charge-"
The soldiers of the guard battalion responded in unison, and while they shouted, they raised the iron halberds in their hands, as if a forest of halberds suddenly appeared, and a flame was jumping on each iron halberd.
Wei Yue's heart was hot, he tried the stirrups under his feet, and then straightened up, shouting: "Charge!" β
More than 500 knights flashed their swords in unison, and the roar was like thunder.
"Chargeβ"
More than 800 riders, like unbridled wildfire, roared away.
Liu Xiu looked at the Xianbei people who were getting closer and closer, let go of the reins of the horse, leveled the iron halberd with both hands, and stared at the Xianbei centurion.
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, one hundred steps...... A sharp arrow "swished" off the string, leaping a distance of a hundred paces, ready to hit the stunned centurion.
"Haha." Lou Lu laughed and put away his bow, and held the iron halberd in both hands.
The centurion held the shaft of the arrow tightly, blood gushing out of his mouth, he looked at the rushing fire, and before he could say a word, Liu Xiu swept past him, and the sharp halberd easily cut off his head.
Lou Lu and Xu Yu flocked to the left and the right. Their powerful lethality stunned Wei Xu and the others, and the horse thieves rushed over excitedly with their knives, only to find that Liu Xiu and his personal guard battalion did not leave them many enemies, and there were only a few lost Xianbei people in front of them, and more of them were ownerless war horses.
On the other side, Lu Bu and Cheng Lian galloped side by side, eating the hundred knights who met them like a bamboo, rushing to the front of the car formation, without saying a word, rushing up with a spear, picking a shouting Xianbei man at the end of the spear, raising one arm hard, shaking hard, the knight danced and screamed, and hit the cart fiercely, and a scream came out inside and outside the cart at the same time.
"Women?" Lu Bu's eyes lit up, and he glanced at the fox girl next to the cart, but the spear in his hand was not slow at all, he easily opened a war knife, picked the owner of the war knife off the horse, and then rushed to the next one.
Although the Xianbei knights were small in number, they refused to give up, they roared, drove the war horses, circled around the chariot formation, the horn for help whined, they slashed hard, trying to stop Lu Bu and the others. The fox woman waved the long sword in her hand, tightly guarding the car door, the middle-aged man pulled the bow and arrows, and as soon as the strings sounded, a Han knight would fall off the horse.
Lu Bu was furious, raised his bow in his hand, and shot three arrows in succession, and the arrows were shot at the man's face. The man didn't dare to slack off, while dodging Lu Bu's arrows, he shot back, the two of them went back and forth, and shot more than a dozen arrows in an instant, but they couldn't hurt each other.
Lu Bu was on fire, and with a roar of "whoa", he drove the zebra to gallop away, and he shot three arrows in one go, and when the man was shooting, he held a spear in one hand and stabbed at the man fiercely. The man was embarrassed by his series of arrows, and he easily shot two arrows, but he was hit in the arm by the third arrow, and before he could scream, Lu Bu's spear had already arrived in front of him.
"Girl, get out of the way!" The man shouted, picked up the horned bow in his hand and smashed it at Lu Bu's spear.
The bows and spears intersected, and with a loud "buzz", the bow broke and the spear broke.
"Good time." Lu Bu shouted, smashed the handle of a spear on the man's back with his backhand, followed by the man flying up from the horse, pulling out the sword, pulling away the two spears that had pierced him, and kicking the carriage of the cart away, and the man had already crashed into the carriage.
"Madame Protection!" Jie Fen was shocked, while roaring, he turned around and rushed towards the cart, only to hear the screams in the cart, not for a long time, Lu Bu held a knife in one hand, and a young woman in Chinese clothes in the other hand walked out of it, the bloody war knife was next to the woman's neck, and shouted: "Stop me, or Lao Tzu will kill this mother-in-law." β
Jie Fen's face was like ashes, and before he could make a decision, Cheng Lian slapped his horse and killed him, cutting off his head with a knife. He grabbed the head in the air and galloped on his horse: "Those who descend will not die!" β
The Xianbei people couldn't hold it anymore, and threw down the weapons in their hands one by one. However, there are few people left, under the attack of Liu Xiu and Lu Bu, there are only more than 30 of the 300 Xianbei people left, and most of them are injured.
Liu Xiu lowered the iron halberd, looked at Lu Bu, who was grabbing the woman like a chicken, and laughed: "Feng Xian, you are still the first, if you want to talk about robbery, you are still more skilled." β
"Hahaha......" Lu Bu laughed heartily, let go of the woman, and touched her face lightly: "My lord, this woman is mine." β
Liu Xiu nodded: "Do you need to say this?" He waved his hand: "Everyone, hurry up, a quarter of an hour, and retreat!" β
"Oh-" The horse thieves cheered and rushed up.
Cheng Lian took a fancy to the fox fur girl at a glance, and as soon as Liu Xiu's words were finished, he rushed over, but the woman suddenly shook her hand with a sword, fast and ruthless, and stabbed him in the face. Cheng Lian was startled, he thought her sword was an ornament, but he didn't expect her to be so ruthless, her body twisted, rolled, and the long sword cut a bloody slit on his face. Fortunately, the woman did not chase him, but rushed towards Liu Xiu.
Li Yifeng, as his name suggests, swept over like a gust of wind, raised his sword to greet each other, the two intersected with their long swords, and in the blink of an eye, Ding Ding stabbed each other with more than a dozen swords, Li Yifeng slashed at the woman's sword body, and stabbed her throat with his backhand.
"Yifeng stops." Liu Xiu shouted.
Li Yifeng Huo Ran withdrew his hand, and the long sword stopped an inch in front of the woman's neck. He threw a sword flower, put the long sword behind him, and Shi Shiran returned to the team.
Liu Xiu turned over and dismounted, picked up the long sword from the ground, walked to the fox woman, tilted his head and looked at her for a moment, and smiled toothily: "Wind and snow girl, you have lost weight." β
Feng Xue looked at the smile on Liu Xiu's face, opened her mouth, didn't say a word, and cried loudly. Liu Xiu shook his head, stretched out his hand to support her body that was about to fall, and smiled at the iron wolf who grinned in pain: "Iron wolf, you can be regarded as meeting an opponent today, right?" β
The iron wolf had a cold face and didn't say a word, just glanced at Lu Bu with complicated eyes. He was a well-known condor archer, and he was also dominant in the grassland, but he never thought that there would be such an archer among the Han Chinese.
Cheng Lian was stunned, leaned in front of Xu Yu and asked softly, "Is this ...... Who is this woman? β
Xu Yu shook his head, he didn't know either. Lou Lu took over the conversation: "This woman is the daughter of Lord Fengxue who I told you, who was once Huai Zong's fiancΓ©e, and was captured by adults in Mingji Mountain. β
"Really?" Li Yifeng was also a little surprised, and nodded solemnly: "This barbarian girl's swordsmanship is good, she can actually take my thirteen swords, and she is worthy of my family." β
"He's a prisoner of an adult, not a woman of an adult." Lou Lu retorted.
"You're such a pig brain, you can't even see this?" Li Yifeng sneered at each other: "As soon as the two met, one was so happy that he fainted, and the other was so happy that his face bloomed. β
Cheng Lian sighed and touched the injury on his face: "Lao Tzu's injury is in vain, who to complain to." β
The crowd laughed.
Liu Xiu let the horse thieves rob for a quarter of an hour, and then took more than two hundred war horses and more than thirty uninjured prisoners, including the young woman in gorgeous clothes, and quickly disappeared into the snowfield.
Feng Xue slowly opened his eyes on the back of the swaying horse, moved his body, and saw a familiar and unfamiliar face from the placket of the fox fur, and relieved himself for a while, only then did he realize that he was being held in Liu Xiu's arms and riding on the same horse. Her body tightened, and she subconsciously touched her sword, wanting to turn over and sit up, stabbing Liu Xiu with a sword, but after thinking about it, she gave up again.
I was his captive, and she said to herself that she should keep her duty as a captive, and even if she wanted to challenge him, she should be above board, not sneak attack.
"Awake?" Liu Xiu's voice was not loud, hidden in the panting of the war horse and the chaotic sound of the horse's hooves, only the wind and snow could hear it.
"Hmm." Feng Xue responded if he didn't have it, and I didn't know if Liu Xiu could hear it.
"Can you ride a horse yourself?"
Fengxue's eyebrows were raised, her face suddenly turned cold, she pushed Liu Xiu away, turned over and sat up, looked around, and saw that her white horse was beside Liu Xiu, jumped up, turned her face, and didn't look at Liu Xiu, but tears couldn't help but flow out.
Liu Xiu grinned, leaned over and said, "I came all the way to save you, and hugged you all the way, my arms were sore, and you didn't even say a word of thanks?" β
"You're here to save me?" The wind and snow were very surprised.
"We are the women who came to rob and reinforce." Liu Xiu said seriously: "I'm here to save you." β
Feng Xue burst into tears and smiled: "It's all big officials, and it's still not serious." β
(To be continued)