Chapter Eighty-Six: Caught off Guard
Qinglong Gorge is an artificial canyon between two mountains, the total length is only two miles of road, its wall is about three zhang high, the valley bottom is the widest but more than ten meters, the narrow place is only five meters, it is the only passage in the north of Chenzhou.
In the past two days, Panlong has encountered inexplicable things one after another, and he has been worried in his heart. Therefore, when he entered the mouth of the Qinglong Canyon, he was on full alert, and his eyes were looking around, lest there be any accidents, and the result was nothing wrong; After running forward for a while, when he reached the narrowest part of the canyon, Panlong's muscles tightened again, and he was ready to deal with it, but as a result, there was still nothing wrong;
In front, there were already soldiers in twos and threes cheering and rushing out of the south entrance of the canyon, Panlong's body suddenly relaxed, and he muttered: "Xie Lu Xie Baihu Divine Ancestor bless!" ”
The words in Panlong's mouth were not interrupted, and suddenly the dust flew in front of him, and the mud wrapped in layers of grass on the outside of the stones fell from the cliffs on both sides, smashing the two unlucky Tujia soldiers to the ground, followed by the long tree trunks sliding down one after another, blocking the valley mouth in front of him.
When the dust rose, the coiling dragon quickly leaned against the rock wall and stood close to him, his eyes wary of everything around him.
"Tom tom" a few soft sounds, jumped from the rock wall more than a dozen soldiers dressed in Tujia costumes, in a confused crowd began to slash vigorously, the caught off guard Tujia soldiers have been cut to the ground, a big man with a dark face roared angrily, straight to the dragon, it was Zhang Bin who couldn't bear it all the way.
After Zhang Bin and Qin Hansheng led ten Tanzhou soldiers to successfully blend into the Tujia deserter team, they first pretended to be infighting and made a lot of trouble in the tribal camp on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, and then pretended to be attacked in the middle of the night to scare Panlong once. After that, they quickened their pace, ran to the front, searched for the ambush along the way, and suddenly saw the Qinglong Gorge, which has a unique geographical location, and secretly arranged it.
As early as half an hour ago, they had already sent a soldier to bypass the mountain peak, get in touch with Ge Chang, who had been chasing after Panlong, and made an appointment to attack back and forth at the south entrance of Qinglong Gorge.
At this time, hearing the sound of shouting and killing in front of him, Ge Chang, who had been asking everyone to be quiet and listening to the movement in front of him, immediately waved his knife and roared: "Attack with all your might!" ”
After speaking, Ge Chang grabbed the first two steps, waved his knife and cut off the rope sleeve of the horse on the first accompanying carriage, turned over on the horse, kicked with both feet, and rushed out first. The pursuers, who had long been arranged to rest in the carriage, also moved quickly, grabbed the horses with their hands and feet, and had to gallop with the slightest hesitation.
Soon, six chariots and twelve horses formed a shock formation of four horses and a row of three columns, and quickly rushed forward. It was followed by a neat infantry formation.
The horse team galloped through the north entrance of Qinglong Gorge, and after a few breaths, the battlefield situation could already be seen, and Ge Chang roared again: "All speed up!" With that, he flipped the back of the knife with his right hand and slashed at the horse's hip.
The horse neighed in pain, and immediately ran wildly again, Ge Chang lowered his body and slashed left and right.
Twelve cavalrymen, compared to the physically and mentally exhausted Tujia soldiers, is a nightmarish existence. They tried to get away in terror, but their bodies did not obey the call, or they were knocked away by the galloping horses, or they were slashed in the head, and they were instantly crushed.
One by one, the roaring pursuing infantry quickly wedged along the bloody path of horseback, cutting down the Tujia soldiers to the ground or forcing them to the edge of the cliff.
"Surrender or kill!" Ge Chang's roar resounded like thunder on the battlefield, and the other soldiers immediately echoed loudly.
There was no way forward, there were pursuers behind them, and they couldn't run, and soon, the Tujia soldiers ran to the edge of the cliff, knelt on the ground, raised their weapons above their heads, and surrendered.
As soon as the road was cleared, the speed of the pursuers behind them increased even faster.
At this time, Zhang Bin and they were already in a predicament. The Tujia soldiers who knew that there was no way to retreat also went crazy, shouting the name of the White Tiger Divine Ancestor, and soon surrounded more than a dozen soldiers, and soon the soldiers behind rushed to block the road Zhang Bin's knife was like lightning, forcing the coiling dragon to death in front of the cliff, blocking left and right, embarrassed.
"Panlong, you dare to hurt my brother, you are dead!" Zhang Bin kept roaring in his mouth, and the strength in his hands became bigger and bigger.
"Hugh hurt my big brother!" Pan Song hurriedly commanded the others to surround those guards, and arranged for others to move the barricades, and then freed up and attacked Zhang Bin.
At this moment, a piece of thatch on the top of the cliff was quietly lifted, and Qin Hansheng, who had been dormant for a long time, put a sharp arrow that had been sweating a long time on the bow, aimed at the coiling dragon, and shot out suddenly.
Pan Song, who was forced to retreat by Zhang Bin's knife, happened to catch the arrow, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately pounced on him and blocked the arrow with his body.
With a "flutter", the sharp arrow pierced deep into Pan Song's chest, Pan Song roared in pain, struggled and shouted "Big brother go away", and the person fell down.
Panlong's liver and gallbladder were cracked, his eyes were red, and he couldn't imagine that Pansong, who had the best relationship with him, would fall like this. He suddenly burst into anger, swung his knife suddenly, blocked Zhang Bin's knife, and used all his strength to push Zhang Bin back two steps.
Pansong's only two remaining guards pounced, one went straight to Zhang Bin, and the other went to pull Pansong, shouting: "General Pan, go quickly, the Tujia family can't live without you!" ”
Zhang Bin took two steps back, cut down one of his guards with a knife, and pounced again.
Two more cold arrows were fired, one nailing the guard who was pulling the dragon to the ground, and the other piercing the dragon's left arm.
"Protect General Pan!" Five more Tujia soldiers pounced, two entangled Zhang Bin, and the three pulled up the coiling dragon and rushed to the front that had already cleared the road.
Zhang Bin roared twice and cut down the two soldiers again, but he was already five meters away from Panlong, and he lowered his head and chased wildly.
Just when Panlong was being escorted and was about to pass through the barricade, the body of a Tujia soldier who fell to the ground suddenly moved, and the steel knife in his hand jumped out like a poisonous snake and stabbed directly into Panlong's lower abdomen. At the same time, Qin Hansheng's arrows also arrived, knocking down the three warriors who were protecting the coiling dragon one by one.
"General Pan!" The Tujia soldiers, who were fleeing frantically, surrounded them, set up the coiled dragon that had fallen to the ground, and quickly withdrew.
Qin Hansheng no longer disguised, stood up, and shot arrows along the side of the cliff, shooting arrows continuously, knocking down the Tujia soldiers who protected the master, but the Tujia soldiers stepped forward one after another.
When he shot down the twelfth soldier, the arrows in Qin Hansheng's pot were finally used up, and he had to stop chasing.
At this time, Zhang Bin also chased after the barricade and cut down seven or eight soldiers who turned around to attack, but the distance from Panlong was even farther away!
"Zhang Bin, don't chase it!" A broken cry came, it was Ge Chang who had already attacked here.
Zhang Bin hatefully slashed the steel knife in his hand at a soldier of the taxi family who was still moving after being injured, and roared angrily forward: "Panlong, you will die without a place to be buried!" ”
Ge Chang jumped off the horse, ran to the barricade, watched the scattered Tujia soldiers jump into the surrounding hillside, disappeared, sighed lightly, and whispered in Zhang Bin's ear: "Lord Lin has an order, if you can't do anything, let go of Panlong for the time being." When our reinforcements come, let's completely wipe out the Chenzhou Tujia family! ”
After pacifying Zhang Bin, Ge Chang turned around and shouted loudly: "All those who resist will be killed!" Clear the battlefield quickly! We returned to Tanzhou in triumph to return to Lord Lin! ”
The results of the battle were quickly counted, and there was a big gap in the comparison of battlefield casualties: in addition to the five soldiers who were lurking in the Tujia family with Zhang Bin died, Ge Chang only had two guards, four Wuchang elites were killed in battle, and only twenty-one people were slightly injured. The number of casualties among the Tujia soldiers was considerable, nearly 200 people were killed on the spot, including Pansong, and 107 surrendered.
As for the belongings, the Tujia soldiers basically discarded all the things they carried on the battlefield. It's almost at the doorstep, and they still haven't kept the money they're crazy about.
Seeing that the six wagons were quickly filled with discarded money and weapons, Ge Chang ordered the soldiers to tie up all the surrenderers together, tie up all the remaining booty to them, and then ordered them to return the way they came.
As a result, these surrenderers have become the saddest group of people, still the road they ran with their lives just now, or those belongings, but now, they have to walk all the way back, and the belongings have to be sent back intact, but what awaits them is an unknown fate!