036 Ambush
The sun, glowing with a golden glow, crept up into the sky and continued to bring a touch of warmth to the earth. Under the sun, there is a lifeless Xiangwu City, the city gate is wide open, the streets and alleys in the city are in a mess, and the dry and cold autumn wind is raging at will in the streets and alleys of the city, rolling up the remaining items on the ground.
The sound of chaotic horses' hooves came from far and near, and the yellow sand flew on the official road outside the west side of the city gate, and a group of about 1,000 Qianghu cavalry quickly drove from the yellow sand, and approached Xiangwu City little by little under the leadership of a leading leader.
"Stop!" The leader made a gesture, and when he saw Xiangwu with the city gate wide open, he couldn't help but be a little suspicious, and said to a few cavalrymen behind him, "You guys, go in and have a look!" ”
Several cavalrymen received the order, picked up their sabers and rushed into the city quickly, galloping back and forth through the streets and alleys of the city, and finally returned to the city gate, and reported to the leader: "Xiangwu has become an empty city, and there is no one in the city. ”
The leader said: "It looks like you have just left, follow me!" ”
The voice fell, and the leader galloped into the city with all the cavalry, crossing the straight east-west streets of the city. When all the cavalry quickly drove into the city gate, more than 20 people suddenly drove out from behind and closed the city gate as quickly as possible, and more than 20 people poured out of the east city gate, closing the east city gate, and then more than 200 arrows shot out from the houses on both sides of the avenue across Xiangwu City, and more than 100 Qianghu cavalry fell in response.
"There's an ambush!" The leader waved the saber in his hand to block the arrows, and shouted to his subordinates, "Don't panic! ”
Arrows shot out one after another, and when the Qianghu cavalry dismounted on both sides of the avenue and tried to find the archers, the arrows suddenly stopped, and then a cavalry poured out at both ends of the front and back, Gao Fei and Zhao Yun each took fifty horsemen to block the head and tail, and once they poured out, they quickly rode their horses and rushed towards the Qianghu cavalry.
Gao Fei at the east gate facing the Qianghu cavalry, and Zhao Yun at the west gate facing the Qianghu cavalry, both rushed into the middle of the Qianghu cavalry with lightning speed with the sabre in their hands. The Qianghu cavalry was caught off guard, and suddenly someone was knocked off by the horse, and the rest of the cavalry saw that someone was driving out, so they separated and killed at both ends.
As soon as the Qianghu cavalry parted, a hundred strong men armed with sabers poured out of the houses on both sides of the avenue, picked up their sabers and rushed into the Qianghu procession, slashing and killing the Qianghu cavalry while pulling the Qianghu cavalry off their horses, while a hundred men were still hiding in the houses with bows and arrows and firing arrows through the windows.
Gao Fei had already turned over and dismounted, the saber in his hand kept waving, cutting down five or six people in a row, and his body was also splashed with blood, staring at his resentful eyes, his face was hideous, and he shouted the words "Han army mighty" loudly. The sabber men behind him also fought bravely, following Gao Fei all the way to kill, and soon killed all the more than 100 people who came to resist Gao Fei.
The back of the Qianghu cavalry was also violently impacted, Zhao Yun took the lead, rushed to the front, and when the knife fell, the heads fell to the ground, and blood gushed out from the necks of these Qianghu cavalrymen one after another.
The Qianghu cavalry was attacked on three sides, and more than 1,000 people lost more than 300 people in just a moment, but they were so numerous that Rao lost more than 300 people, and they still did not feel the slightest fear. After estimating the approximate number of ambush soldiers, the Qianghu cavalry began to shake up their spirits and began to launch a counteroffensive under the leadership of various small leaders.
The Hu people are tall, strong, and aggressive, and they immediately show the majesty of their nation as soon as they counterattack. Gao Fei and the others began to occupy the upper hand because the number was too small, and they could not play the huge role of the ambush normally, he saw the subordinates around him fall one after another, and the number of sabber men in the middle of the ambush also quickly decreased, screams, roars, painful moans, and the neighing of war horses were all mixed together at this time, and it was really noisy.
After about ten minutes of fighting, the six Hu people surrounded Gao Fei, and the cold and shining scimitars reflected golden light in the sun, and the people who reflected them couldn't open their eyes. Gao Fei squinted his eyes and looked around, but saw that his subordinates had been separated by Qiang Hu, and there were less than ten of the fifty people left, and even the scimitar in his own hand had been curled.
"Ahh Gao Fei roared angrily, and when the six scimitars slashed at the same time, he jumped forward, rolled on the ground, and waved the scimitar that had curled the blade to draw an arc, and the six blood-red arcs suddenly appeared on the Hu people's thighs one by one, and the six Hu people around him staggered to the ground with their thighs covered, shouting hoarsely.
Seeing this, Gao Fei hurriedly threw down the knife in his hand, picked up two scimitars from the dead corpses on the ground, and his body moved with the shadow, and the six heads were cut off. As soon as he looked up, he saw that his subordinates had been hacked to death, he roared and jumped over, cut off the arm of a Hu man head-on, rushed into the circle surrounded by Hu people, and then rescued the remaining seven people with a burst of slashing.
He held his scimitar horizontally in both hands, looked at the Hu people rushing towards him in front of him with sharp eyes, and shouted to the people behind him: "Go and bring Li Wenhou out!" ”
The two people behind immediately ran away and brought out Li Wenhou, who was tied up by five flowers, from a house not far away. Gao Fei cut down three Hu people one after another, and then jumped to Li Wenhou's side, tightly strangled Li Wenhou's neck with his arms, dragged Li Wenhou up the steps by the city gate like a dead dog, raised the scimitar in his hand and pointed at the people who were still fighting in the streets and alleys, and shouted: "Stop!" Stop it! ”
In the melee, Gao Fei's hysterical roar was heard in everyone's ears, whether it was the Hu people or the Han people, it was as if they heard a thunderclap, the collision of weapons, the shouts of killing, and the neighing of horses all quieted down at this moment, and everyone moved their eyes to Gao Fei.
There was a strong smell of blood in the air, Gao Fei's body and hands were full of blood, and even his face was splashed with blood, he thought that he could easily deal with these Qianghu, but at the moment he felt very difficult, three hundred subordinates had killed almost a hundred people, and there were more than eight hundred Qianghu left, he greatly underestimated the combat effectiveness of these Qianghu, and had no choice but to hold Li Wenhou hostage.
"Listen, I know you're not afraid of death, but your wife and children are now following the army, and if I can't stop these people today, once they catch up, they will massacre the people, and then your wife and children will die by their swords, and I will remove the cloth from your mouth now, and you make them lay down their weapons." Gao Fei stuck to Li Wenhou's ear and shouted in a low voice.
Gao Fei's unexpected escape was beyond Li Wenhou's thoughts, he and Beigong Boyu originally planned to rebel when the conditions were ripe, and then he took all his family out before that, but everything came too suddenly, Jia Xu secretly helped Gao Fei, and escaped with Gao Fei, and his subordinates also followed Gao Fei, he thought about his wife and children, so he nodded slightly.
Gao Fei saw Li Wenhou nodding, so he hurriedly took off the cloth that was stuffed into his mouth, and even the arm that strangled his neck slackened a little strength, but the scimitar in his hand was always held tightly, and once he found that Li Wenhou dared to say something unsatisfactory to him, he would cut off Li Wenhou's head.
As soon as the cloth in his mouth was removed, Li Wenhou looked around at the people present, and saw that some of them were his old subordinates, so he opened his mouth and said: "You all listen to me, I lied to you at the beginning, telling you to follow me to eat, in fact, I want you to rebel with me, but along the way, you have also seen how Beigong Boyu treats us Han people, if you still have a little conscience, you will all put down the weapons in your hands." ”
Among the more than 800 people, there were Han Chinese, Qiang people, and Huangzhong righteous servants, and more than half of them were Li Wenhou's old Han people, and after hearing this, they were all moved. Of course, the Qiang people and Huangzhong Yicong did not want to see this scene, and one of the leaders of Huangzhong Yicong picked up the saber in his hand and shouted: "Don't listen to him, he is no longer the valley master......"
Before he could finish speaking, he saw a long arrow shoot at him, piercing the leader's face and making it impossible for him to speak.
Gao Fei took advantage of the situation and said: "I am Gao Fei, the Marquis of Duxiang, and if I am a Han Chinese, I will kill the Qianghu around you, this rebellion is in Qianghu, and it has nothing to do with you." As long as you kill Qianghu today, even if you join the Han army, you will not only be able to fill your stomach, but also make meritorious contributions......"
Only half of the words were spoken, and immediately saw a few Han people cut down the Qianghu around them with a knife, and then the Qianghu cavalry team of more than 800 people instantly staged a good scene of beheading, those Qiang and Hu people did not react, their heads fell to the ground one after another, and all the Qianghu in the team were cleared in an instant, and the situation immediately changed dramatically.
After Gao Fei saw it, he felt that the appeal of the big man was still very strong, although he had experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but the real troubled times had not yet come, and he was secretly glad that he had made the right choice.
"Dangchang!"
The sound of the weapon landing continued to sound, and about five hundred people knelt on the ground one after another, and bowed to Gao Fei in unison: "We have mistakenly believed the lie, so that we have done something to rebel against the imperial court, and now we are willing to submit to the Hou Ye, contribute to the imperial court, resist the rebels, and ask the Hou Ye to do it!" ”
Of course, Gao Fei was happy, although about 100 of the 300 cavalry died, but there were 500 more, this kind of thing was very cost-effective. But after all, he still felt a trace of regret, and regretted that if he could have used such a method from the beginning, it was estimated that he would have obtained far more than five hundred subordinates.
He cut the rope on Li Wenhou's body with a knife, and said to Li Wenhou: "You only had a rebellious heart at the beginning, but you never participated, and you have nothing to do with the rebels, I have released you now, are you willing to take refuge in me and resist the rebellion of Qianghu with me?" ”
"At this point, do I have any other options? I am willing to take refuge in Hou Ye, resist the Qianghu rebellion with Hou Ye, and do my part for our Liangzhou. Li Wenhou immediately knelt in front of Gao Fei and kowtowed.
Gao Fei helped Li Wenhou up and said to everyone: "Everyone simply clean up and retreat to Chencang with Benhou!" ”
"No!"