Chapter 116: Ambush
The princess said on the horse: "Chen Shimei, where do you think we should go tomorrow to get rid of the pursuers?" ”
When Chen Yuan heard her ask, he hurriedly collected his thoughts: "Princess, how many soldiers and horses have you brought?" ”
The princess lightly lifted her lips: "Five hundred, there are still three thousand people waiting for us here two hundred miles to the north." ”
Jermane added, "As long as we join the three thousand, we will be safe." ”
Chen Yuan thought for a moment: "Let's go up the river and go back." ”
Jerne Gollum and the princess said in surprise at the same time, "What? ”
Chen Yuan said: "Originally, I only had more than 100 guys, so I can't go if I don't go." But now that the princess has brought these five hundred elite soldiers, instead of figuring out how to go, we should go back and find a suitable place and fight them again. If we keep running, they will find out where we are, and it will be easy to see that we have five hundred more. But if we were to fight them here, these five hundred men would be a surprise soldier they had not even thought of. ”
The princess thought for a moment and said, "Yes, then I can still choose the battlefield, choose the fighter, and arrange it calmly, it is better than letting the other party catch up and rush to meet the battle." ”
Yelune also nodded slightly: "Okay!" Brother Chen, in fact, I think if you want to fight, the terrain here is very good! As long as we block the river, this valley is the only place for the other side, and there is no way out. ”
Hearing what they said, Chen Yuan turned around and secretly glanced at Yang Wenguang. At this time, Yang Wenguang had already picked up a Pu knife and stood next to Pang Xi.
Seeing Chen Yuan's eyes, he immediately nodded slightly, signaling that this place was completely okay.
Chen Yuan can't fight a war, he is just responsible for finding a way. I thought of a way to get rid of the pursuers just now, and now I have to find a way to cut off the river.
The plan has been decided, the specific details are discussed by Chen Yuan and others, and early the next morning, everyone began to arrange the battlefield.
Chen Yuan's method of cutting off the river is simple, which is to drive wooden stakes. The river runs through the valley and flows fast. Even if the stake is more obvious, the enemy will not be able to dodge.
The princess divided the five hundred soldiers of the Liao kingdom into two parts, one with three hundred men, and hid them among the lofty mountains on the other side of the valley, and took a strong bow in her hand, and when the enemy fell into the water, she shot them from above, and drove the fallen enemy into the valley.
The other group of 200 men lay in ambush on the hills on both sides of the valley entrance, with spears and short bows in their hands, and cooperated with Chen Yuan's men to annihilate the enemies who fled into the valley.
The valley was full of firewood and other fire-starters, and if the horse thieves came in, they would have nowhere to hide if they threw a few torches on them.
After everything was arranged, Chen Yuan, Pang Xi and the others were ambushed on the mountain with their men, and they also had a few bows and arrows in their hands, which were captured from the horse bandits after winning that battle a few days ago.
Time passed minute by minute, Chen Yuan was not nervous this time, lying with Hu Jing, and he was still in the mood to flirt secretly, so he didn't feel that time was difficult. The same was true of the guys, laughing at each other, no longer having the nervousness of the first battle.
In the faint hazy sky, suddenly a whistle came from the other side, and everyone's nerves tensed at this moment, and a team of horse thieves rode on a raft and turned out of a dense forest upstream along the river, and the team of Hao Hao Tang Tang was full of two thousand people.
On the first bamboo raft in front of him, a young man dressed in silk stood in front of the raft, looking very discordant with the horse bandits.
When Yelu Gollum saw the man, he gritted his teeth and said, "Jelu Shubao! ”
Chen Yuan looked at him: "He is Yelu Shubao?" ”
Yelune grunted: "That's right, it's him, this time he was unlucky, he actually stood on the first raft!" ”
Chen Yuan smiled: "That's right, if you can capture him alive, will you kill him to relieve your anger?" ”
Jerion grunted, "What do you say? ”
While the two were talking, Yelu Shubao had already discovered the wooden stake in front of him, and saw that there was chaos on the bamboo raft, and people were crowded together, showing that they were in chaos.
You can't enter, you can't retreat.
Soon the raft crashed under the stakes on the river, and the bandits on it fell into the water, and the raft shattered. However, Na Yelu Shubao reacted quickly, and actually jumped on another raft and escaped this first disaster.
Chen Yuan was very excited in his heart, peeked at Yang Wenguang twice, and saw that he was still calm and calm in this tense situation, and secretly praised in his heart that he was behind the gate.
More and more bamboo rafts came out of the river. The front one hit the stake, the back hit the raft in front, and the whole river surface was like a scared dumpling, and the sound of "poof, poof" was endless.
Finally controlling the raft behind them, those horse bandits just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly from the other party's cliff suddenly stretched out a strong bow, actually landed, and shot down on the heads of these horse bandits.
At this time, the horse bandits had not yet gotten rid of the panic just now, and this sudden blow suddenly made them no longer in formation, even if it was a chaotic formation.
The three hundred Liao soldiers are the princess's guards, and they are the elite of the Liao country, and more than 300 people occupy the advantage from top to bottom, and almost every arrow can shoot an enemy, and the opponent is shot on his back in an instant, and more than half of the casualties are lost.
That Yelu Shubao was beaten and scattered, and he hurriedly fired back with arrows. Unfortunately, they couldn't reach the princess guards above.
The horse thieves were shot by arrows, and blood stained the raft and the river.
Yelu Shubao was very annoyed in his heart, it was impossible to retreat, seeing an empty valley next to him, although he knew that the other party would set up an ambush in the valley, he could only find a way to go in first.
At the same time, the arrows on the cliff shot even more violently, as if urging Yelu Shubao into the valley. Moreover, those archers also discovered the identity of Yelu Shubao, and more and more arrows began to take special care of him. Although the horse thieves held their wooden shields high, they still couldn't stop the powerful arrows of the hundred crossbows, and they fell down one after another.
Seeing that the guards around her were falling one by one, the situation was not right, she screamed wildly, turned over and jumped into the water, and hid under the raft. Surely the bow and arrow could not hurt him, and when the thieves saw it, they did the same, and jumped into the water.
The powerful arrow shot straight into the water, and the blood kept pouring up from the water, and then the corpse of the thief came to the surface, and the scene was extremely cruel.
Either you die or I die, it has always been an iron law on the battlefield.
The surviving bandits grabbed the raft and rushed into the valley. They thought they could find life by escaping from the river, but they didn't know that they were stepping from the edge of hell to hell.
The horse thieves had just taken a long breath, and suddenly saw many torches flashing out from the mountains on both sides of the valley, Chen Yuan was a hero this time, and he was the first to stand up and laugh below: "Yelu Shubao!" You chased after us and the wind blew for days, and today I keep you warm! ”
After saying that, he threw the torch in his hand downward. The men also threw torches, and the dry firewood that had long been arranged in the valley was instantly ignited.
The horse bandits were instantly caught in a sea of fire.
Some horse thieves at the entrance tried to escape, but were shot and killed by the two hundred Liao soldiers.
The screams were incessant, and more than 2,000 horse thieves had collapsed. The remaining horse thieves who were still in the river saw that the situation was not right, and immediately turned around, regardless of the life or death of their companions.
Those who walked slowly were immediately locked up in the valley by the Liao soldiers in the mountain pass, struggling to survive in the sea of fire.
Chen Yuan was on the mountain at this time, and he could even smell the smell of the human flesh being roasted, and he suddenly felt that the taste was a bit the same as the smell of the roasted meat he had just had.
Just thinking of this, I only felt a surge in my stomach, and I wanted to endure it, but I couldn't hold back, and a torrent rushed out of my throat.
Hu Jing hurriedly stroked his back gently: "What's wrong?" Uncomfortable? ”
Yelune on the side grunted: "I'm sure that Brother Chen definitely didn't go to the last battle, if he killed someone, it doesn't matter now." ”
Chen Yuan vomited so uncomfortably, and waved his hand lightly after spitting: "No, it's just that this taste is a bit like the meat I just roasted." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt Hu Jing's hand behind him tighten violently, and then said: "Wow! ”
Then Yelune's grunt suddenly swelled in her throat, and after a moment she sat up violently and tilted her head to the side: "Wow! ”
By the time the fire had subsided, there were still bandits alive below. This situation once again illustrates the truth that people's desire to survive can often overcome some seemingly impossible natural disasters, and I think this is also the reason why humans can dominate the earth.
But these people are not to be thanked, because the greatest enemy of mankind is not the disasters of nature, but the human beings themselves.
At the entrance of the valley, the princess had been waiting for a long time with three hundred Liao soldiers coming down from the opposite mountain. As soon as the fire was small, they rushed in and killed all the horse bandits who survived the fire.
Chen Yuan also joined the massacre with his men.
To be honest, Chen Yuan didn't want to do anything to these people who had lost the ability to resist, but the fact was that he did.
When the three hundred Liao soldiers rushed in shouting and killing, the two hundred Liao soldiers on the mountain also shouted and rushed down.
Chen Yuan, and these guys around him didn't even think about whether they should personally kill these poor people in front of them who were now just trying to find a way to live.
It's just that kind of shouting to kill that evokes an impulse in their hearts, and then, they go down.
Chen Yuan also shouted loudly, as if after shouting, he could relieve the depression, fear, excitement, and the guilt brought to him by the other party's corpse.
In fact, most of them just shouted, the Liao soldiers' killing methods were much more professional than the guys, and by the time they went down, the people had basically been killed.
The cessation of the screams made Chen Yuan's surname immediately return a little, looking at the corpses of the horse bandits who had been killed in this valley because of his idea, there was a slight unease in his heart, but if he did it again, he would still do it. Nothing is more important than being alive yourself.
(To be continued)