PS: The net broke and the fish did not die

Volume II, Chapter 42

Chen Song was uneasy.

When the flying cavalry team left the north gate of Chang'an, it was said that it was the time when people slept the deepest, but not long after the riotous plundering stopped, Chang'an City did not recover from the horror at all. The Flying Cavalry is stationed in the south of the city, and when they pass through the market, they can hear the cries of the common people in the courtyard all the way. Chen Song has been in the army for so long, this is the first time he has sent troops with a heavy sense of guilt, and it is also the first time that he has sent troops in the curse of the common people instead of a farewell.

The Xiongnu camp was about twenty miles north of Chang'an City, and their scouts should be ten miles outside the camp, but in the cold hours before dawn, in fact, none of the scouts could still parade soberly. If experience or intuition tells them that there is no imminent danger, it is customary for them to find a leeward place and sleep in wool felt. The attackers either touched and slit their throats, or sneaked past them, and as long as they got ahead of them, the scouts lost their warning meaning.

The knights of the flying cavalry have the title of horses, their mouths are covered, and their hooves are wrapped in a thick cloth. In order to prevent the weapon from shining in the moonlight, the exposed blades were blackened with smoke. In addition to the weapon, each man had a wooden stick, which was wrapped in cotton and rags and soaked in oil. After storming the Xiongnu camp, in addition to killing people, they also set fires, which could create greater chaos and cause greater deterrence.

When they had quietly walked out of the ten miles or so, a lieutenant in the vanguard came back to give a report.

The Hun scouts were discovered.

But they didn't sleep and were cruising in this direction.

How many people?

About a dozen.

Chen Song secretly admired Helian Bobo: At this moment, in this kind of weather, the Hun scouts were still on horseback. Helian Bobo's military discipline is like iron, and it seems that it really deserves its reputation.

The scout's horses are all selected fast horses. Man is also a first-class marksman, and. They tend to carry horns. If they can't be killed instantly, whether they run out and ride alone, or blow a horn, the battalion will be alert, and the sneak attack will be in vain.

Chen Song called Hu Lvzheng, and the two discussed it in a low voice, and decided that the team would stop, and Hu Lvzheng would take two hundred elite horsemen and set up a pocket array not far away. As soon as the Huns came in. Immediately the bow and arrow shoot rapidly. Each person is to shoot five arrows as fast as they can, and then immediately rush forward to replenish the sword.

Hu Luzheng took two hundred brothers and walked forward quietly for a while, asking everyone to dismount and the horses to be put down. He put his ear to the ground and listened for a moment, then decided to set up an ambush here. Fifty of the fastest riders were on standby, and the rest were lined up in three rows ready to fire their arrows.

I don't know how long I waited, but there was a faint sound of horses' hooves ahead. The sound of horses' hooves became clearer and clearer. Gradually, the helmets of the Hun knights were polished by the moonlight. After another moment. All the scouts, even the men and horses, and even their haze, can be seen clearly. In the eyes of the ambushers. They are like a group of ghosts who have strayed into the world, unaware that the demon slayer is waiting.

Hu Luzheng stared at the figure that hit the head, estimating the distance. At this time, the Hun scouts were about a hundred steps away from the ambush circle. He wanted them to go further. This way the bow and arrows are more lethal, and it is best to deprive them of any alarm ability with the first salvo.

Thank God. The opponent has no intention of stopping.

One of them said something, and the other responded to something. The whole team burst into laughter, and the laughter could be heard far away in the empty silence of the night.

It was the last time they had a good laugh in their lives. The laughter seemed to enrage the night, causing it to instantly release a dense hostility. They heard a familiar voice burst through the air, but before they could make the instinctive reaction of a knight, they were enveloped in a dense rain of arrows.

After the ambushers had fired five volleys with an astonishing frequency, Hu Luzheng rushed forward with fifty cavalrymen drawing their swords.

There is no need to touch up the knife.

All the scouts, including their horses, were shot as hedgehogs.

Hu Luzheng breathed a sigh of relief and sent someone to report to Chen Song.

At this time, in Chang'an City, Guo Xu was looking for Wei Hua all over the city. When Chen Song led his troops out of the city, he accompanied Zhu Lingshi to bid farewell to Liu Yizhen at the east gate. During the extraordinary period, no grand ceremony could be held, but the remaining personnel of the Yongzhou Assassin Mansion still had to be present. When Liu Yizhen appeared, Zhu Lingshi found that Wei Hua didn't come. He had already heard that Liu Yizhen had taken Wei Hua's woman, and he felt that the latter was understandable for refusing to come. When the southbound army went out of the city, Zhu Lingshi wanted to convene his assistants to discuss military affairs, but he still did not appear. Wei Hua's house in the Assassin's Mansion was empty, and it had been empty for more than a day, which showed that he had been living in his lover's house. His little lover was a young widow who ran a small pharmacy left by her husband. Since she was taken away by Liu Yizhen, this small pharmacy has no one to take care of it. Zhu Lingshi sent someone to see it, and sure enough, it was also a cold stove and a cold bed.

Don't drive is not a petty official, under the history of assassination, above 10,000 people, there are countless military and political secrets. Liu Yizhen went south, Chen Song attacked by surprise, Wei Hua knew all these things.

Zhu Lingshi's first reaction was to immediately send someone to catch up with Liu Yizhen, asking him to stop going south and quickly return to Chang'an City.

But after thinking about it, it is still impossible to confirm Wei Hua's whereabouts, if Liu Yizhen calls back and Wei Hua also appears, wouldn't it seem that he is too rough?

A frustrated man may spend the night in a brothel, lie on his side in a tavern, wander in a market, or even hang himself on a branch. Zhu Lingshi thought about all kinds of possibilities, and even thought of the possibility of Wei Hua joining the enemy in anger, but in the end, he smiled faintly and extinguished this thought. Wei Hua is a native of Jiangdong, but also the old man of Beifu, Huayi's distinction is engraved on the bones, although the marriage is not satisfactory, the career is still very rushed, will never because of a momentary mood, he will throw away the great future, throw the tomb ancestral hall, put on the fur of the Huns, shave off the long hair on the head, eat cow and sheep cheese, and bow down at the feet of Shan Yu, since then the deceased will never look back.

Guo Xu was instructed to search like a grate lice in Chang'an City, brothels, taverns, casinos, and inns one by one, and even deceived himself to find the woman's distant relatives, but he didn't find any trace of Wei Hua. In the end, he found the person in Chang'an City who was usually in charge of sheltering and burying the ownerless body, and told Wei Hua's body and appearance, and the latter said that there was no such corpse. Wait until he's done with that. When he went back to return to Zhu Lingshi, the sun had already risen. shines on the crisis-ridden Chang'an City, and one of the crises is that a high-ranking official does not know where to go.

So far, Zhu Lingshi can only have two judgments. First. Wei Hua sneaked out of Chang'an and hid in a place he thought was safe; Second, he committed treason.

If it's the first, then let him go. If Chang'an is not guaranteed, the loss of a hateful driver is nothing; If Chang'an can hold on, then there is naturally a chance to arrest him.

But what if it's the second?

Zhu Lingshi immediately sent two rangers to reconnoiter all the way to the east to see if the Huns had followed the movements of Liu Yizhen; All the way to Chen Song to call the police, asking him to beware of the Hun ambush. At the same time, Guo Xu was ordered to take people out of the north gate to stand by. Once Chen Song is safe, he will rush to the aid immediately.

The rangers who went north to find Chen Song rushed all the way over, only to see the raging fire created by the flying cavalry in the Hun camp and hear the earth-shattering shouts of killing there.

After eliminating the Hun scouts, Chen Song led the flying cavalry all the way to the north, and when the east was faintly shining, he shot the sentry who was napping at the gate of the camp, and more than 2,000 horsemen drove in.

The knights threw torches at their horses, turning the tents into fires. The Huns, who rushed out of their tents, were knocked down by their horses. Pierced by a lance, his head crushed by a mallet, and cut off by a sword. Wherever the Flying Riders went, they created flames and screams. Unstoppably slaughtered into the depth of the camp.

Chen Song held a lance in one hand and a sword in the other, and ran in front of the horse. Behind him was the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, and in the afterglow were Huns who had been shot by their subordinates. I have already thought of how to play. He wanted to plunge into the middle of the Hun camp in one go. Find the Chinese tent and lead the dead to kill the enemy general. In order to capture the thief and capture the king. If God forbids, maybe there will be a chance to kill Helian Bobo. Even if you can't kill with one blow, you must let the enemy commander Wolf Bèi escape, and break the morale of the Huns in one fell swoop. He was less than half a pillar of incense, and the spearhead of the flying horse had already penetrated the first half of the Hun camp, and Helian Bobo's big tent was in front of him. The brothers had thrown away the sticks in their mouths and removed the cloth covering their horses' mouths, and the sound of men's shouts and the neighing of horses mingled with the blood boiling.

But a trace of uneasiness vaguely rose in Chen Song's heart.

It's so easy!

Too easy is unreal!

The Huns are fierce enemies, by no means stragglers, even if they are raided, they should have a decent resistance, how can they be so close to collapse? Besides, the distance from the camp gate to the Chinese army is an important place for heavy soldiers to gather and defend the commander, why are the soldiers pouring out so thin?

At this time, Zhu Lingshi's ranger arrived. The latter briefed Chen Song about Wei Hua's disappearance, and told Chen Song to be careful that the Huns were already on guard.

It was a very young soldier, with a weak beard on his chin, and he was sweaty in the winter, but his eyes shone with a kind of eagerness that is common to young people. Chen Song nodded, and said that you will go back and tell General Zhu, and say that I will be careful, and ask him to beware of the Huns taking advantage of the situation to attack Chang'an. The Ranger saluted and turned his horse's head to go back, when a dense stream of arrows came from three directions, one of which pierced the young Ranger's temple, thrust him off his horse.

Almost at the same time, Chen Song's horse raised its front hooves with a neigh. Chen Song tightened the reins and lay on his horse's mane and was not overturned, but his horse then fell with a bang, almost crushing Chen Song under him. Chen Song jumped to the side, only to find that the horse had been hit by an arrow on the left side of the neck.

The Flying Cavalry was wiped out by a sudden rain of arrows, and the rest of the men hid in the stirrups, and the horses spun in place. Chen Song jumped on the horse of the shot ranger and gave a loud order:

"Withdraw! Get out, get out at full speed! ”

The surviving knights scattered in formation and retreated along the road to the outside of the camp. The place that had been slaughtered by them just now suddenly burst out with a lot of killing opportunities, and the Hun archers emerged from the well-disguised trenches and accurately shot the galloping Jin army.

While swinging his long sword to shoot down the arrows, Chen Song shouted to the brothers not to stop and fight back, and to run out is victory. He used his spare eyes to see Hu Luzheng hanging under the horse's belly, secretly envious of his skills, and hated that he didn't have this ability. At this time, he felt a sharp pain in his right ear, and his hands were covered with blood. An arrow swept from behind and shot off the top half of his ear. Almost at the same time, my calf and stomach went numb, and when I looked down, I saw an arrow stuck in it, and blood gushed out, the only thing to be thankful for was that the arrow was stuck in the flesh and did not hurt the bones.

Hu Luzheng had already seen Chen Song hit by an arrow, and immediately turned over into the saddle, and he wanted to beckon the brothers to gather around Chen Song. But he immediately realized that if the brothers knew that the Lord was going to be hurt, they would be demoralized. Nai Ze approached Chen Song and leaned over to cut off the shaft of the arrow with his sword in the gallop. took off the wine jug on his waist and poured the wine gurgling over Chen Song's wound. Chen Song tried to clamp the horse's belly, and found that he could still exert his strength when he injured his leg, and felt a little comforted.

When the crowd rushed not far from the camp gate, the rain of arrows from behind them and on the wings stopped.

Because they came across a thick wall of people.

Chen Song heard someone behind the human wall ordering:

"General Helian has an order to capture the generals of the Jin army alive, regardless of officers and soldiers, to be the marquis of a thousand households and reward a thousand acres of land. 10,000 cattle and sheep! ”

Guo Xu took five hundred elite infantry out of the north gate of Chang'an. Zhu Lingshi wanted to give him 2,000 people, but he refused. What he needed was a short, sharp dagger, not a big, weak broom. If the Huns really had an ambush, the more people who went, the more they lost; The more people are lost, the less Chang'an has the capital to hold onto.

He led five hundred men all the way north, gradually moving away from Chang'an. His cavalry consisted of twenty horsemen, all of whom were sent to inquire about the news. Looking at the distant figures of these loyal subordinates, he secretly prayed that what they brought back was the good news of Chen Songqi's successful attack instead of the bad news of being besieged. But he vaguely felt that the situation was not good. Things in the world. It seems that there is always a hurdle, and after this hurdle, fortune will be reversed. Liu Yu's departure from Chang'an seems to be a hurdle for the Northern Expeditionary Army. Since then, Wang Zhenxi, Shen Tianzi, and Wang Xiu have not been able to die one after another, although there was a great victory in the pond last year, but people's hearts are becoming more and more depressed. Guo Xu felt that he was fighting with the Huns this year. I'm afraid I won't be as lucky as last year. The enemy is now, don't go missing. It made him feel cold and heavy.

The captain of the infantry came over and asked if he wanted to wait for news from the cavalry here. Guo Xu shook his head and didn't speak. The horses were not given any hint of stopping. His horse, with graceful steps, walked in front of the infantry.

Finally, I saw the smoke rising from the horizon.

This should be the success of the Jin army's attack.

He felt a little relieved in his mind, but immediately he saw a helmet floating on the distant horizon, then a man, then his horse, and then more people.

The pro-soldier returned, with two men who had been shot in the body.

It was the rangers sent out by Zhu Lingshi before, and only two of them survived.

Just a few words, the shape is clear.

Guo Xu asked the two rangers to go back and report to Zhu Lingshi on their own, and ordered the infantry to line up. He glanced at the black smoke in the distance, and then looked back at the stern infantryman:

"Brothers, you already know that General Chen Song and the Flying Cavalry have been trapped in the Hun camp. We can advance or retreat now, and it makes sense to advance or retreat, and you can choose for yourself. General Chen Song once saved me in a desperate situation, and now it's time for me to save him. I'm not sure I'll come back alive, and I can't guarantee that I'll be able to bring you all back to Chang'an. You hear clearly: those who are willing to follow me to save the flying rider will stay put; If you are willing to go back to Chang'an, turn around and go back to Chang'an directly! ”

The infantry was silent for a moment, and then someone began to turn around, and in a moment, there were less than three hundred of the five hundred infantry left. Guo Xu sighed secretly: The iron-beaten Beifu soldiers also have times when they rust!

More than 200 people regrouped, and Guo Xu once again reinforced:

"Brothers, this is my personal rescue brother, I don't force you to follow me, you think clearly."

The soldiers stood still, and led the captain Huo Ran to pull out his saber:

"Deputy Guo Jun, needless to say, I have been in the army for so many years, who has not been saved by my brother! Let's go! ”

A small group of people forcibly marched north, like an arrow from the string, and vowed not to turn back.

The flying cavalry beside Chen Song, counting the wounded soldiers who could fight, was barely a thousand at this time. He could not make any plans to divide his troops, so he could only kill at one point and tear open the gap and rush out of the enemy camp. He knew in his heart that even if he was killed, he might be killed by the Huns, but at least there was a glimmer of hope of survival. If you fight in circles here, no matter how many cushions you pull on, you can only fight all of them in the end.

At this time, there is no need for any supervision, everyone knows that the situation is dangerous, and they can only fight to the death. The bow and arrow skills of the flying cavalry were weaker than those of the Huns, but they were not inferior in fighting. Since there is a general order to capture the enemy alive and have a heavy reward, the Huns do not dare to release arrows, and when the two sides are in a scuffle, bows and arrows are even more useless, only relying on knives and lances to fight, it is difficult for the Huns to eat this Jin army.

But after all, there is a huge disparity between the crowds, Chen Song's side keeps people falling, Hu Luzheng was stabbed by someone, fortunately he flashed quickly, but he just scratched the skin under his ribs. The Huns had already seen that Chen Song was a general, and they continued to rush over to kill them. His lance stabbed a Hun lieutenant and stayed on the other side, and he now held a sword in one hand. Dancing a snatched mace in one hand, there were already two notches in the blade. A lean Hun jumped from his horse. landed on Chen Song's horse and hugged him from behind. I want to throw him off the horse. Chen Song's sword was too long to stab him, so in a hurry, he threw away the long sword, reached out and pulled out an arrow from the quiver of a Hun cavalryman on the flank, and stabbed it in the back of the head, just stabbing the enemy's eyes, making him fall off the horse with a scream. He dodged a short lance and grabbed the shaft. He knocked the enemy off his horse with a stick, and then left and right, and killed his horse in the direction of Helian Xuan's banner.

At this time, the rear of the current Huns sounded the shouts of the Han people.

Guo Xu was like a wheel of death, rounded the iron mallet and long sword, and entered the Hun camp. The more than 200 people he led were determined to die, and each one was a hundred. The Huns surrounded and suppressed Chen Song, and the momentum was like capturing a tiger. The casualties were already exhausted, and someone suddenly stabbed him in the back, and he immediately fell into chaos. Guo Xu saw the banner of Helian in the crowd, and immediately took the shortest straight line. Shouting and going straight to the past. His own soldiers followed him, and the infantry followed in dense formations, like boiling water pouring down on the snow.

He and Chen Song did not have an agreement. But they had used small forces to take the head of Abogan in the chaos of the army, and they all knew the tricks of attacking the enemy's commander. At this time, the two spearheads had a spirit in their hearts. Stabbed at Helian from two directions.

If Helian had not been severely injured by the Jin army, he might have stood there as peacefully as Mount Tai. used himself as an anvil, mobilized officers and soldiers to make iron mallets, and smashed the Jin army that came over to pieces. It's a pity that he is the general of the defeated army, and when the situation is critical, his instinctive reaction is to be in good condition. He didn't have the hardness of an anvil, and he didn't have the same thoughts, so when two strong generals came at him on his back, his order was for the Chinese army to move around to avoid the enemy's edge.

It was also at this time that Hu Luzheng shot an arrow from afar, shooting Helian Bi's flag bearer off his horse, and the flag in the latter's hand fell down with a hula and was trampled by the horse's hooves in a blink of an eye.

Hu Luzheng immediately jumped on horseback, brandished his bow and shouted:

"Helian Pyropy was shot to death, Helian Pyropy was shot to death!"

When the Hun soldiers who were fighting fiercely heard this astonishing news, they looked up and saw that Helian Biao's banner was gone, and the Chinese army was leaving the command position.

Chen Song rushed to kill more than ten steps, and almost collided with Guo Xu's horse's head. Guo Xu heard Hu Luzheng's shout and knew that he was still alive; Now I see that one side of Chen Song's face is full of blood, I don't know how serious his injuries are, and I immediately asked him to gather the brothers to evacuate quickly, Chen Song said How many people did you bring, Guo Xu said that there were only about two hundred. Chen Song said that if this is the case, he cannot withdraw immediately, and he must take advantage of the panic of the Huns to rush and kill for a while, so that he can calmly withdraw.

The Huns were in chaos, the morale of the Jin army was greatly boosted, and the sound of foot cavalry killing shook the sky, chasing Helian Bi's Chinese army. The latter raised a counter-encirclement plan for the Jin army, and the whole army withdrew from the camp and retreated to Helian Bobo's imperial driving camp.

He regrouped in the camp and waited for the Jin army to come. If they don't come, he will kill and retake the camp. Not to mention anything else, just those grains can't be cheap.

The Southern Barbarians never came.

Father's warrant came:

"You idiot! Use your donkey head to calculate how many people there are in Zhu Lingshi! And the face retreats to me! If you don't kill it back, you will take off your armor and go back to herding sheep! ”

Since he has not hesitated to become an old donkey, he calls his newborn son with the head of a donkey, which shows how angry Bo Bo is. Helian didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly counterattacked as a team.

As I got closer to the camp, I saw that the fire in the camp was obviously bigger than just now, and the smell of burning food was in the air. The back door of the camp had been blocked by burning food pockets. Many obstacles, such as camp walls, thistles, and horse rejections, were difficult to remove quickly, so they could only bypass the camp. After confirming that the Jin army had withdrawn, he sent people to chase after him while entering the camp to check. When I went in, I found that all the grain had been burned, and the grain cart and the horses were gone. Obviously, the Jin infantry no longer relied on their legs when they retreated, so when the pursuers came back and said that they had not caught up with the Jin army, Helian was not surprised at all.

In this fierce battle, the casualties of the two armies were equal, but the loss of this person was nothing to the Hun army; As for the destroyed grain, the Huns would have requisitioned it from the surrounding Han people. The Jin army lost only fine cavalry, which made it more difficult for them to launch decent field battles after that.

Taking Chang'an was a foregone conclusion, but Helian couldn't get excited.

Some people in the Jin army seem to be born to be his nemesis.

Compared with taking Chang'an, he was more eager to take the heads of these people.

Otherwise he could not get rid of the shame. (To be continued......)