Volume 5 The World Collapses Chapter 416 The Night Battle is Ugly
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The sand dunes are not very big soil slopes, but they are very famous, here is the place where the king of Shang built the wine pond meat forest, here is the place where the king of Zhao Wuling was starved to death, here is still the place where the first emperor Qin Shi Huang died, but now there is only a dirt slope left, between the weeds and stones, occasionally see a few Qin bricks and tiles.
Liu Xiu was on the top of the sand dunes, looking at the dozens of people rushing with torches in the distance, and at Wen Chou and his general flag who were rushing to the front with a halberd, and was silent. He let Luo Yao and Wang Zhi ride two horses to the west, with their attainments in stealth techniques, plus the cover of the night, not to mention a hundred and ten people, even thousands of people may not be able to catch them. However, this one of the four court pillars of Hebei, who should have become a stepping stone for Guan Er's fame in history, is not an ordinary person, he actually recognized the suspicious soldiers he laid so quickly, and chased after him with more than a dozen personal guards.
Wen Chou chased too tightly, and he couldn't get out of the road at night, so he could only walk along the gallop road, and there were pavilions four or five miles ahead, and it was impossible for you to pass by easily in the middle of the night. If you want to leave safely, you can only defeat or even kill Wen Chou, so that he doesn't dare to chase after him anymore, and then leave generously and calmly.
Zhen Yan and Lan Lan were a little nervous, after all, there were only five of them here, but when they saw that Liu Xiu was not nervous, and the two tiger warriors behind him were not nervous, they also slowly relaxed, just adjusted their sitting posture on the horse, and pressed their hands on the hilt of the sword at their waists.
"You take a step back." Liu Xiu turned his head sideways and said to them, "Wait a minute, I'll be in the front, the two of them will be behind me, and you two will be a little behind in the middle." ”
"Does the general think we're weak women?" Zhen Yan smiled slightly and drew her long sword.
"I didn't say you were weak women, but you're not as good at riding as we are, isn't that true?" Liu Xiu also laughed softly, "You two are envoys sent by the earthquake envoy, can you clear my suspicion." It will fall on you, and you will not be harmed. ”
Zhen Yan was silent for a moment: "Please rest assured, general, I will definitely bring your sincerity." ”
"I'd rather see your strength." Liu Xiudao. "You just talked about King Xiang's Art of War, but in fact, King Xiang's Art of War is not suitable for you. As we all know, Xiang Yu is good at capturing fighters with soldiers, but what he is best at is cavalry combat, using the speed of cavalry to break the opponent's weaknesses in order to achieve the purpose of rapid defeat. There are countless Jing Rui cavalry available. Therefore, he can use King Xiang's art of war to the fullest, but you can't, because you don't have enough cavalry, and you don't know how to ride a horse. The only thing you can use is to use the tactic of avoiding the false and attacking the real, and it is easy to draw a tiger into an anti-dog. ”
Zhen Yan nodded thoughtfully. Liu Xiu is a disciple of Duan Cheng and has won every battle since his debut. His comments on King Xiang's Art of War are certainly more clever than theirs.
"What I'm going to show you right about to is Xiang Yu's favorite method: concentrate your forces and hit the enemy's middle army."
Zhen Yan and Lan Lan glanced at each other. Nodding at the same time, he controlled the war horse to take two steps back, and the two tiger warriors gently urged the war horse, taking a step forward, one left and one right, protecting Yu Yan and Lan Lan in the middle.
The sound of horses' hooves is getting closer and closer, and under the reflection of the torches, Wen Chou's face gradually becomes clear, and the hillside in front of Liu Xiu and the others is also illuminated by the torches, which is a very flat road. There is not a single brick and stone on it, I don't know if it was the avenue of the palace at that time, after hundreds of years of wind and rain, it is still flat and solid, and even the grass grows, which shows how dense it was rammed at that time.
"Let's go!" Liu Xiu snorted softly and knocked the war horse. The war horse rushed forward suddenly, rushed out, followed by the two tiger warriors also urged the war horse to follow, although Zhen Yan and Lan Lan had been preparing, but at this moment it was still a gap in their riding skills, and the kung fu of the wrong god had been left behind by Liu Xiu and the three of them by more than a dozen steps.
Wen Chou was rushing, and suddenly saw a black shadow moving in front of him, and heard the rapid sound of horses' hooves approaching quickly, and suddenly became vigilant, he flattened the halberd in his hand, and shouted loudly at the same time: "Enemy attack!" ”
The dozen or so knights behind him were all the si soldiers he brought, who had been together for many years, and had a tacit understanding, as soon as he heard this, he immediately controlled the war horse to adjust the formation, forming a small goose-shaped formation, with Wen Chou as the goose head, and rushed forward.
It happened suddenly, the sky was dark and dark, and they didn't have time to shè arrows, so they could only level the spear in their hands, stare ahead, and listen with bated breath. However, they were holding torches, and their bodies were in the light, while the other party was in the dark, they could only see a few shadows, and they could only hear the faint sound of horses' hooves, but they could not see how many people there were, and they couldn't help but be a little nervous for a while.
It was here that suddenly there were a few whistling sounds in the air, this whistling sound was very strange, it was a little like an arrow, but not very like an arrow, the sound was not sharp, but it was very loud, and it quickly approached them. Taken aback, they instinctively lowered their heads and raised their riding shields in their left hands.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
Several loud noises in succession, several knights who rushed in front shouted, fell off the horse, and then were stepped on by the companion war horse behind, making a terrible scream, the people behind panicked for a while, while tightly clamping the war horse, to prevent themselves from falling, while also controlling the war horse, try not to step on the companion, they are all together for many years, that kind of care has penetrated into the bloodline, although they usually know that they can't care about the life of their companions at this time, and must maintain the formation of the charge, But after all, they are just some family soldiers, not soldiers who have survived a hundred battles, and they can't be so cold-blooded, and the formation is unraveling.
Immediately after a few loud bangs, two more knights fell off their horses, and the two war horses neighed wildly and jumped wildly, which made a mess of the formation.
Wen Chou was shocked, and he was also hit on his shield, and the strength was very heavy, and he reacted at this time, the other party was not shè arrows, but throwing stones!
Throwing a fist-sized stone fifty or sixty paces is amazing, even with the help of the speed of a war horse. However, Wen Chou didn't have time to be surprised, almost in no particular order with the stones, and the sound of several war horses stepping on the hurried hooves of the horses was slammed.
The light of the knife emerges from the darkness.
Wen Chou was taken aback, instinctively raised the shield in his left hand, and at the same time stabbed out the halberd in his right hand with all his might.
"Kill!" At the moment when the two horses staggered, a loud shout sounded in Wen Chou's ears like thunder, and a war knife came to lightning, flicked lightly on Wen Chou's halberd, slid down the halberd, and slashed at Wen Chou's shield. If Wen Chou did not raise the shield. The knife would cut off his arm and cut his neck.
Wen Chou let out a cold sweat, although he was in the light, the other party was in the dark. However, in the midst of a rapid charge, he was able to slash such an accurate knife, and the opponent's eyesight and knife skills still reached an astonishing level. As long as there is the slightest deviation and he can't knock his halberd open, it will be a lose-lose situation.
With a "boom" sound, Wen Chou felt that he was not slashed by a knife, but directly hit by a war horse, and his mouth was suffocated. didn't come up in one breath, his body shook twice on the warhorse, and he almost fell off his horse. When he reacted, he quickly adjusted his sitting position, and was about to turn the horse's head when he suddenly noticed the sound of horses' hooves in front of him.
Wen Chou was taken aback, and subconsciously raised his halberd to stab, and suddenly felt that his right hand was empty. The halberd didn't know when it was gone, which scared him a lot, and he was stunned for a while. It wasn't until Zhen Yan and Lan Lan rushed in front of him, and the two long swords stabbed one left and one right, that he woke up, waved a shield with his left hand to open a long sword, and pulled out the ring knife from his waist with his right hand, and shouted loudly, fighting back with all his might.
Unlike later generations, the Han saber was not hung around the waist with a silk rope, but directly inserted into the belt, and was not inserted under the left rib. It is the right rib, so when the knife is drawn, the tiger's mouth is in the direction of the knife ring, and when the knife is just pulled out, it is held upside down in the hand, and it must be turned in a direction to become a positive grip. The scandal came out in a hurry, and there was no time to change hands. I could only hold the ring knife behind and go out. It's also because of his height and long arms, if his arms are shorter, this four-foot-long ring knife can't even be pulled out.
With a crisp sound of "dang", the swords collided, Lan Lan's arm was numb, and she couldn't stop Wen Chou's strength, and she almost got out of her long sword. The three horses staggered, Zhen Yan and Lan Lan didn't plan to stop at all, and rushed directly to the knight behind, Wen Chou was also shocked, for fear that there would be people behind, he didn't dare to slow down the horse, and continued to rush forward for dozens of steps, but he didn't see anyone reappearing, so he stopped the war horse, turned his head to look, and was suddenly surprised.
At most, a third of the dozen knights he brought with him were still sitting on their horses, and the rest were lying on the ground, some rolling and screaming, some motionless, apparently out of breath, and a few torches fell to the ground, illuminating their bodies. The ownerless war horse came back, arching his master with his mouth, snorting his nose, and digging the soil from time to time.
Wen Chou was frightened, he looked around, it was dark everywhere, and he couldn't see a single figure, he listened attentively, in the screams of the guards, he heard a few horses' hooves that were gradually moving away, the sound of horses' hooves was very light, he couldn't tell how many people there were on the other side, but the number should not be very much. But when he thought of the lightning and flint rush just now, the stone that broke through the air, and the fast and ruthless knife, he didn't dare to chase it anymore.
Although he didn't know who the man was, he believed that the other party was not afraid of him now - the other party could almost kill him in one round, and shoot down and maybe even take the halberd in his hand, and the martial arts were obviously more than a step above him—but he didn't want to delay time and be overtaken by more pursuers, so he drifted away after the first blow.
The more Wen Chou thought about it, the more frightened he became, and a cold sweat broke out of his body.
In the distance, Zhen Yan and Liu Xiu galloped side by side, this is a gallop road, after Qin Shi Huang died in the sand dunes, there was no advertisement// Zhao Gao and Li Si conspired to establish Hu Hai as the emperor, in order to prevent the news from leaking, they put Qin Shi Huang's body in a cool car and traveled west along this road to the north, passing through Jingcheng to Jiuyuan, sending people to eat every day, pretending that he was still alive. This gallop has been used since then, and it is very well kept, and they have often traveled from this road to and from the giant deer of Montenegro many times recently, and they are very familiar with it, even at night.
"General, why don't you kill Wen Chou?" Yu Yan said with some regret: "It was he who killed the Digong General." ”
"It's easy to kill him, but his dozen or so people are just part of the chasing soldiers, if we are entangled by him and the people behind chase after us, can we still get out?" Liu Xiu urged the horse forward and said: "Besides, his martial arts skills are very good, if it weren't for him in the light, we were in the dark, and the surprise attack was successful, if we really had to fight in the open, we wouldn't have won so easily." The day is almost dawn, and we must leave Julu as soon as possible, otherwise the army pursued by Yuan Shao will soon come from all directions. ”
He turned his head and glanced at Zhen Yan: "You have to remember that there are conditions for defeating the strong with the weak, the fighter is very important, you can't force it, you can't love the war, save yourself, and live, so you can have a chance to create a greater victory." ”!。