Chapter Twenty-Seven: When the Head Blows
Zhao Tong, the commander of the Zhao family's private army, rode on a horse, his face was full of anxiety, and he kept waving the leather whip in his hand, whipping the soldiers who were blocking his horse.
"Fool, don't go faster!"
"Short-lived thief, how can you not eat for three days?"
"If anyone delays the Zhao family's major affairs, be careful that I will peel him and cramp!"
The soldiers were sweating profusely and panting from Zhaotong, and they hated this meaty guy to death in their hearts.
After a hurried journey, an hour later, Zhaotong led the team to a gap area with two sides high and a concave middle.
Here, it is the only place to go to Qujiawu Fort - Fengjiayu.
"Commander, do you want the brothers to rest outside the valley for a while, and by the way, send someone in to investigate the truth?"
A pro-soldier beside Zhaotong cautiously suggested.
"Bastard! How to march is the business of this commander, where you need to talk more! We are now competing with the Jing family's team, whoever can enter the Qu family fort first, who can get the wealth accumulated by the Qu family! β
"Pass my order, everyone hurry up and pass through the valley, ten miles ahead is Qujiabao, whoever rushes in first, the commander will be rewarded with a hundred taels!"
When the soldiers heard that there was a bounty of one hundred taels to be obtained, they immediately mustered up their spirits and rushed into Fengjiayu in a swarm.
In Fengjiayu, above a slope, Qu Yong lay on the ground and whispered to Xian Yuyin next to him: "Xian Yu Duwei, the guy in the middle who is riding on a horse and has a face full of horizontal meat is Zhaotong, the commander of the Zhao family's soldiers!" β
"Okay, let's kill this dog thief today!"
After Xian Yuyin said this, he pulled the bow and wound it, aiming at Zhaotong is arrow.
"Whewββ!"
The sound of the arrow breaking through the air suddenly sounded, and the next moment, I saw Zhaotong riding on the horse tightly clutching his throat, "plopping", and planted it from the horse!
Seeing this, the guards around Zhaotong immediately panicked, and tore open their throats and shouted: "Oh no, Commander Zhao was shot off his horse!" There are assassins! Catch the Assassins! β
Xian Yuyin looked at the chaos below, stood up with a sneer, and ordered the archers hiding behind the big stone: "Release the arrows!" β
"Whoaβwhoa!"
A rapid rain of arrows poured down, hitting the Zhao soldiers at the bottom of the valley.
"Rolling Stones!" Xian Yuyin's order sounded again.
Large and small stones rolled down from top to bottom in an instant, rumbling towards the panicked Zhao family soldiers at the bottom of the valley!
"Not good, there is an ambush!"
"Oops, my legs!"
"Damn it, it's an enemy attack, not an assassin!"
"Quickly retreat outside the valley!"
Without Zhaotong's command, the Zhao family soldiers who suddenly encountered an ambush were like headless flies, trampling on each other and fleeing for their lives.
"Qu Jiajun! Charge! β
Xian Yuyin pulled out the knife on his waist and rushed down like a tiger on the mountain. Qu Gang was unwilling to be behind others, so he also pulled out his waist knife and followed Xian Yuyin to charge down.
In an instant, the war in Fengjiayu showed a one-sided situation.
The soldiers of the Zhao family were driven and ran for more than an hour, and their physical strength was already very seriously consumed, and now that the leader was killed and the team fled, there was no morale at all.
The soldiers of the Qu family waited for their work, and their morale was like a rainbow, they hid in the mountains and forests for several days, waiting for today's battle, so they charged up with great strength and were unstoppable.
At the bottom of the valley, people were constantly being cut to the ground, others were shot by arrows, and others were pierced by spears in the back of their hearts, and the bloody tips of spears were exposed in their chests.
"A good man spares his life!"
"Don't kill me!"
The voices of the Zhao soldiers begging for mercy came and went, and many people threw away their weapons and fell to their knees, kowtowing like pounding garlic.
However, there are also some soldiers of the Zhao clan who are running fast, and with the help of the horses under their crotches, they are about to take the road.
Over the years, the Zhao family has squeezed a lot of money from various nearby villages, all of which was used to recruit troops and buy horses, so among the 500 soldiers brought by Zhaotong, 50 were on horses. These soldiers on horseback naturally fled much faster than the two-legged foot soldiers, and some of them were shot off their horses by the Qu family's archers, but most of them still fled towards the outside of the valley.
"Alas, it's a pity that Gongzi didn't give me those twenty Xiliang war horses, otherwise none of these guys would have been able to escape this time!"
Xian Yuyin grabbed the reins of the horse that Zhaotong rode when he came, turned over quickly, and prepared to drive the horse forward in pursuit.
At this moment, he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and saw twenty Xiliang war horses galloping at high speed, and soon crossed the chaotic crowd and went straight to the deserters of the Zhao family on horseback.
"Minghui, Gongzi is behind, I'll take someone to capture the Zhao family cavalry now!"
Tian Chou, who was in the lead, hurriedly said a word when he passed by Xian Yuyin's side.
"Childe is actually here too?" Xian Yuyin was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted to the soldiers who were struggling to fight: "Those who surrender on their knees will not be killed, they will all be tied with ropes!" β
The soldiers of the Qu family, who had already killed the red-eyed soldiers, heard Xian Yuyin's shout, and finally came to their senses, and took out the ropes prepared in advance from their arms, and tied the frightened Zhao soldiers one by one.
When Liu He and his people hurried to Fengjiayu, they happened to see the picture of the Qu family soldiers chasing the Zhao family soldiers and slashing wildly, so he quickly ordered Tian Chou to take nineteen Xiliang soldiers to ride on war horses and launch a pursuit, so as not to escape the Zhao family's cavalry.
Don't underestimate Tian Chou and the nineteen Xiliang soldiers on horseback.
Tian Chou was born in Youzhou, and has practiced swordsmanship and riding and archery since he was a child, and his kung fu on horseback is not weaker than Xian Yuyin. The Xiliang army was dominated by cavalry, and the hundred private soldiers under Duan Xuan were originally good at riding and shooting, but the war horses were precious, so Duan Xuan did not give horses to others, and sent these cavalry to Liu He as infantry.
Contrary to Tian Chou and the Xiliang cavalry, who were good at riding and shooting, these cavalry of the Zhao family not only lacked strict and formal training in peacetime, but also the horses they rode under their crotches were also some horses, which could not be compared with the Xiliang war horses with abundant endurance.
Soon, Tian Chou took nineteen horsemen to catch up with the Zhao family who was desperately beating horses.
"Get the hell out of here!"
Tian Chou let out a loud shout, lowered his waist, stretched out his right arm to the side and forward, and grabbed the left arm of the rider holding the reins when the war horse he was riding under his crotch was about to overtake the cavalry in front, and then tore the guy off the horse and fell heavily to the ground.
A Xiliang cavalryman who was following closely behind Tian Chou did not hesitate to urge the war horse to step on the cavalry who had fallen from his horse and fainted, and directly trampled it into a pile of meat paste.
Tian Chou didn't love fighting, he just approached the guy who was running in front, and when he crossed the man's side, he let the war horse under his crotch squeeze tightly, forcing the other party to change the direction of his progress.
"Come down for me!"
Tian Chou shouted, taking advantage of the other party's hurry, he jumped on the horse's back, and jumped from his own war horse to the opponent's war horse, and then pushed the man off the horse.
The Xiliang cavalry who followed behind Tian Chou also showed their skills, staring at one or two targets and chasing after them, either cutting down the opponent and falling off the horse, or dismounting the opponent, in short, they were never allowed to continue to run away on their horses.
When Tian Chou's twenty horsemen chased and killed all the dozens of cavalry of the Zhao family who had escaped, they had already run out of Fengjiayu for more than ten miles.
In Fengjiayu, the team of Xian Yuyin and the team brought by Liu He converged.
"Childe, why did you run out when you didn't stay in the castle? To deal with these miscellaneous soldiers of the Zhao family, it is enough to have four hundred soldiers of the Qu family! Xian Yuyin said with some annoyance.
"Oh? What did the Zhao cavalry who fled say? Liu He was also polite, pointing directly to Xian Yuyin's mistakes.
"It's not that you are reluctant to give me those twenty war horses......" Xian Yuyin defended with some unconvincing.
"Hmph, even if I assigned the war horses to you a few days ago, can they really play their role?"
Xian Yuyin suddenly thought that the soldiers of the Qu family led by him were not Youzhou cavalry, nor Xiliang cavalry, and it was impossible to really play the role of cavalry, so he immediately closed his mouth.
"Don't rub it off with me here! The Jing family's troops had not yet appeared, and Tian Chou chased out of the valley again, and the battle was only half fought! Hurry up and hand over the captives to Deng Hai and Chen Gui to take care of, you and Qu Gang command the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and prepare to meet the Jing family's team! β
Liu He remained calm and did not get carried away by the victory in front of him.
"Oops, I almost forgot about the Jing family!" Fresh in silver quickly flashed.
"Where are Deng Hai and Chen Gui?" Liu He asked loudly.
"Childe, you are humble, what do you command?" Deng Hai and Chen Gui probed their heads in front of Liu He.
"You two take your brothers, quickly carry these corpses to the bottom of the hill behind and dig a few pits and bury them deeply! And these captives, all of them will be escorted to the back to find a hidden place to take care of! No show without my orders! β
"Whatever the son has said, you must keep it in mind!" Deng Hai slapped his chest with a bang.
"Everything that the son confesses must be resolutely implemented!" Chen Gui nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice.
"Don't play treasure here, hurry up and work for Lao Tzu!" Liu He burst into foul language, lifting his legs is two feet, and he has no grace at all.
Tian Chou, who had already completed the pursuit task, was about to turn around when he suddenly saw a team approaching this side faintly in the distance.
"Tian Teamzheng, what do we do now? Do you want to rush them away? β
The Xiliang soldiers gathered around Tian Chou also discovered the Jing family's team, their faces were not afraid, and they all showed excited expressions, like hungry wolves who found their prey.
Tian Chou shook his head and said calmly: "We don't have enough manpower, if we rush forward, we will only startle the grass and snakes, and increase casualties." Let's quickly turn around, evacuate in the direction of Fengjiayu, and lure the other party to come and investigate! β
"Obey the orders of the Tian team!"
Here, Tian Chou took the Xiliang cavalry to drive the horses of the Zhao family to retreat to Fengjiayu, and the soldiers of the Jing family who were hurrying over there also discovered the situation.
"Report to the commander, I found one or twenty people on horseback in front, and they were driving a group of horses in the direction of Fengjiayu!"
"What? Where did these horseback riders come from? Did the cavalry of the Zhao family arrive first? β
"It's too far away to see clearly!"
"How many horses?"
"There are forty or fifty horses!"
"With so many horses, if they can be captured by us, the strength of the Jing family will increase significantly!"
"Brothers, march at full speed and rush to Fengjiayu to join the Zhao family's team!"