Chapter 52: Reminiscences Under the Moon
Hua An, who was out of the house, looked at the bandit leader who was hanging on the railing of the corridor and had lost his breath, and suddenly had a plan, only to see him pull out the dagger inserted in the chest of the bandit leader, cut off his head, and kicked the rest of his body downstairs.
Hua An, who held the head of the bandit leader in his left hand, strode towards the second floor of the Juyi Hall, and at this time, on the platform on the second floor, eight soldiers with bows and arrows were leaning on the wooden railing, bending their bows and arrows to shoot at the swarming bandits in front.
Almost every arrow shot would result in a fall of a bandit, because there were so many bandits that there was no need to aim at the black press.
Looking at the large number of bandits swarming, Hua An frowned, the situation was much worse than he imagined, he didn't expect that there was actually a powerful bandit leader who escaped.
This bandit leader is like a banner, gathering a plate of scattered chaotic bandits together, forming a lot of combat effectiveness.
In any case, it is necessary to break the bandits' will to resist first, so that they lose the determination to resist, and only in this way can they win with certainty.
Hua An raised a wooden board in his right hand to block his chest, lifted the head of the bandit leader with his left hand, took a few steps forward, and shouted: "Listen to the bandits below, your leader has been killed, and tens of thousands of troops of the imperial court have surrounded this place, as long as you lay down your arms and surrender, the imperial court will not be responsible for the past, otherwise you will be killed."
This trick really worked, and the large number of bandits who swarmed stopped in an instant, looking at the head of their leader.
"Brothers, don't listen to him, avenge the chief." The big leader of the bandits shouted for tat when he saw that the bandits had stopped attacking.
Thousands of thieves suddenly hesitated, they didn't know what Hua An said, whether it was true that tens of thousands of troops in the imperial court surrounded the cottage, and they were stunned for a while.
Hua An raised his eyes to look at the piles of fires around the cottage, a knowing smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he paused and shouted: "You open your eyes and look around the cottage, the piles of fires that soar into the sky are the bonfires lit by my tens of thousands of troops, you can't run away, only surrender is your only way out." ”
As soon as Hua An said this, thousands of thieves immediately raised their eyes to look around, and sure enough, piles of fire were lit around their cottage, and they no longer doubted what Hua An said, and retreated back in horror one by one. After getting out of range of his bow and arrows, he threw down his weapon and fled in all directions.
The bandit leader slashed a few fleeing bandits with his sword, but he couldn't stop the large number of fleeing bandits, and only the five hundred men behind him barely followed him.
The angry and crazy bandit leader bared his teeth and shouted: "Brothers, you are all good, the first team will be on me, and the archers will prepare rockets and set fire to them." ”
Although there are only five hundred bandits left in front of them, this is still far more than the number of Hua An and others, and there is not much chance of winning if they fight hard, although they heard that the bandits were going to set fire, but they were powerless to stop it.
Under the command of the bandit leader, a hundred bandits with spears slowly approached. The archers in the back also lit rockets and followed the pikemen, shooting flaming rockets one after another towards the Juyi Hall where Hua An and the others were.
The hundred pikemen were quickly repelled by the warriors guarding the gate, but the flaming rockets set the house on fire, and the warriors became agitated when they saw the fire begin to spread.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Hua An immediately threw the wooden card in his hand and the head of the bandit leader, and shouted to the two soldiers in front of him: "You two give me the bow." ”
Hearing the order, the two soldiers handed over the big bow in their hands to Hua'an. Hua An put the two big bows together, drew a sharp arrow from the soldier's quiver, drew the bow and aimed it at the big bandit leader.
The bowstring sounded, and the big leader of the bandits fell down with an arrow in response, and as soon as the leader died, all the bandits under his command were suddenly frightened, and the distance was so far that some of the officers and soldiers could shoot their leader, which made them not surprised.
The disillusioned bandits threw away their weapons and scattered around, but with their familiarity with the terrain, they preferred to flee, because they thought that the officers and soldiers would not treat them well.
Anyway, with the efforts of Hua An and others, the entire five thousand bandits were finally disintegrated. The joy of victory filled the faces of every warrior, and the warriors cheered loudly.
Hua An also threw away the two big bows in his hand with a sigh of relief, and took a deep breath.
Wang Ling's figure appeared in the corner of his eye, Hua An looked sideways, Wang Ling was standing ten steps away from his right side accompanied by Xiao Cui, his frowning brows gradually relaxed, and when he saw Hua An looking at him, he immediately laughed happily.
Hua An took a few steps to greet him, held Wang Ling's little hand, and scolded softly: "Why are you so disobedient to stay in the house, it's too dangerous outside." ”
Wang Ling lowered his head with a smile in his eyes, and ignored his small mouth.
The burning wood around made a 'crackling' sound, and the burning flames reflected Wang Ling's already red pink face even more brilliantly.
Hua An looked at the delicate beauty in front of him, and an impulse surged in his heart again, but the maid Xiaocui was next to him, Hua An was not good at making a mistake, so he had to watch it dryly, but it was a very pleasant thing to have a beauty to appreciate, and Hua An was already very satisfied.
"Team, the house is about to burn down, let's go!" Before the person arrived, the iron bull who arrived first ran up with a big grin.
Suddenly saw Hua An holding the pink little hand of a woman in red, and couldn't help but sigh: "Oops, oops, this is the team's sweetheart, this is too handsome, I have never seen such a good-looking girl anyway." ”
Tie Niu said and looked at Wang Ling stupidly, just like Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden, with a surprised expression.
Wang Ling was very unhappy to be looked at by such a bearded man, and glared at Tie Niu angrily.
Tie Niu trembled exaggeratedly, turned around and ran downstairs, which made Wang Ling laugh.
Hua An shook his head with a smile, helped Wang Ling to walk downstairs, before the flames spread on a large scale, a group of more than 70 people, safely left the Juyi Hall and came to the main gate of the cottage.
At this time, the bright moon in the sky has turned west, the time has reached the second half of the night, and the sky should be bright in two hours, and the group rested comfortably against the wall.
"Another full moon." Hua An, who was leaning against the wall, looked up at the bright moon in the sky and said softly.
Wang Ling, who was beside him, heard the voice, looked up at the sky, and said with a smile: "The bright moon tonight is as beautiful and bright as the Shangyuan Festival ten years ago. ”
Hua An chuckled twice, squinted and recalled: "That year, it was Miss and Sister Garlic who accompanied me to watch the moon, just like today. ”
After Hua An finished speaking, Yu Guang glanced at Wang Ling.
Wang Ling smiled reluctantly, looked at Hua An's eyes, and sighed silently in his heart: "Hua An, do you know that I only have you in my heart all these years." ”
Sad tears in her eyes, Wang Ling also knew that she couldn't control her feelings, as long as Hua An appeared, her heart would beat non-stop, Hua An laughed at her and laughed, Hua An was sad and she was sad.
"Miss, why are you crying?" Hua An stretched out his hand to gently wipe away the tears from the corners of Wang Ling's eyes, stroked her red face, and said softly: "Don't cry, don't cry, what's wrong, suddenly crying like this." ”
"People are scared." Wang Ling sobbed and lay in Hua An's arms.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the bandits have been beaten away, don't be afraid." Hua An caressed Wang Ling's back and comforted softly.
Wang Ling, who was lying in Hua An's arms, gradually stopped sobbing, a pink little face was attached to Hua An's chest, his little hands were on Hua An's broad shoulders, his eyes were closed and he pretended to sleep, and he was secretly thinking in his heart: "Hua An! I really want to lie in your arms like this for the rest of my life, even if it's only for a moment, I'm satisfied. ”
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The fire of the cottage is burning more and more, and Han Qian, who has received a request for help, has already led two thousand light horsemen to the woods in front of the cottage, looking at the skyrocketing fire and the bandits fleeing all over the mountain, Han Qian is completely confused.
Needless to say, the location of the skyrocketing fire must be the lair of the bandits, and the bandits who fled all over the mountains seemed to be telling Han Qian, and the bandits were defeated.
Who was defeated, could it be that there were less than 100 warriors under the command of Hua'an, but there were 5,000 bandits, even if General Zu Ti was alive, he could not achieve the result of defeating the enemy army with such a huge disparity in strength.
After careful interrogation, Han Qian confirmed his speculation that the entire five thousand bandits were indeed defeated by less than a hundred warriors such as Hua'an, which made him both excited and worried.
He was deeply pleased with the brilliant results achieved by Hua'an's strategy, but at the same time he was worried about Hua'an's safety, after all, the lucky element of this victory was greater, and if the operation failed, his life would be lost.
Han Qian frowned and shook his head, leaving the main force to capture the fleeing bandits all over the mountains, while he himself led his henchmen to the bandits' lair.