Chapter 214: Road Encounter
Lu Bu raised his head, he also noticed the scout, and the moment the sound of the horse's hooves sounded and entered his ears, he bit the dry food cake in his hand with his teeth, swallowed it into his belly, drank a few more sips of water, re-plugged the water bladder, and put it under the tree, and then straightened up. By the time he had finished these actions, the scout had already ridden to a place not far in front of Lu Bu, turned over and dismounted, and ran quickly in front of Lu Bu.
The scout half-knelt down, clenched his fists and said, "Report!" General Qiyu Lu, the three squads found an unknown cavalry team in the hills in the northeast corner of here, and after reconnaissance, it was probably certain that they were a group of horse thieves, numbering about three or four hundred. ”
"Please show the general!"
"Oh?" Lu Bu raised his eyebrows, he thought he had found some kind of hostility, but he didn't expect that it was just a group of horse thieves, and it could barely be regarded as an "enemy situation"?
The group of horse thieves in Lu Bu's eyes can only be described, but three or four hundred horse thieves are enough to sweep the ground. As long as the government does not intervene, with the horses they don't know how to collect, they can also make many villages and towns in relatively remote locations fall into the chaos of fire and water. Once the government intervenes and sends troops to encircle and suppress, the horse thieves often drill into the mountains, and ordinary county soldiers can't catch up, let alone exterminate them.
Horse thieves also have horses, which can barely be regarded as a kind of cavalry, and they are extremely difficult in the eyes of others, but they are nothing in the eyes of Lu Bu. He glanced around, and saw that they were all resting soldiers, since there was no need to march now, and his meal had already been eaten, he naturally had to take care of it when he met it.
This is a state, not a place where people can come and go, plunder and do evil.
"Feng Xian, or I'll go and deal with those thieves?" Zhang Liao came to Lu Bu's side and said in a low voice.
Horse thief, when he meets Zhang Liao, he doesn't plan to let go. The reason why he spoke out was that he was afraid that Lu Bu would not plan to attack those horse thieves with the military regulations that were forbidden by order, so he was ready to take this task on his shoulders.
It's just that it seems that Zhang Liao's plan is about to fail, Lu Bu waved his hand and said categorically: "No need, I'll just go." Wen Yuan, you and Pepin can stay behind. ”
After speaking, Lu Bu did not give Zhang Liao a chance to speak, but ordered the scouts to pick up a hundred cavalry and follow him. To deal with the three or four hundred horse thieves, Lu Bu didn't need to bring too many cavalry, a hundred was enough, and with his single horse, he could make up for the gap in numbers.
He was especially not afraid, how could the cavalry who were called to follow be afraid? The Xianbei cavalry, which was more vicious and difficult to deal with than the horse thief, was defeated by them and fled, not to mention the horse thief who came out of nowhere and ran into the tiger's mouth.
A moment later, Lu Bu and his cavalry appeared in the wasteland to the northeast, and under the leadership of the scout, they quickly came here and connected with the scout team that followed the horse thieves far away. Before that, except for one of the cavalrymen who had returned to report the news, the remaining nine scouts had followed the horse thieves far away, out of their field of vision, hanging from a limit distance that was almost out of sight and barely able to trace.
Each scout squad had ten cavalrymen, led by a sergeant. With one less cavalry and only nine cavalrymen left, even if they were discovered by the group of horse thieves while tracking, they would be able to hang each other intact, and they would be able to give these horse thieves a nightmare that they would never forget. Their kind of cavalry, known as rangers, is the best in the army, and they have a matching bow skill, which is not inferior to the Xianbei cavalry who are good at riding and shooting. Not to mention horse thieves, as long as the number is smaller, more than a hundred horse thieves only need nine such scouts to play them alive.
The scouts in the army are naturally not found by horse thieves, and because of the large number of them, they are not something that a scout team can eat, and they are always waiting for the order of the commander. Now, when they arrived, the noses of the nine scouts twitched when they saw Lu Bu appear in person, as if they had already smelled the smell of blood not long after.
"Let's go." Lu Bu didn't talk nonsense, and rode his horse to chase after him. Against this kind of horse thief, you don't need to be strategic, let alone think too much, just go up and break through the enemy formation.
"Boom...... Stampede ......" As the distance approached, the clear sound of horses' hooves fell into the ears of horse thieves, who had not yet perceived the approaching danger.
The horse thief turned around, his face immediately turned pale, and they could see that the cavalry not far behind them was clearly the cavalry of the government. And the one at the front, with a halberd in his hand, and his tall stature, at a glance, it seemed that the war horse he was riding was much thinner.
"Big ...... Big Brother ......" The horse thief trembled and made a sound, his voice suddenly became hoarse, and every word seemed to be pulled out of his throat. There was horror in his tone, more fear and panic, so that the horse thief's face became extremely pale, but there were many beads of sweat constantly flowing down his forehead, and in the blink of an eye, he was already sweating.
"What's wrong?" The leader of the horse thieves glanced at the former suspiciously, wondering why his little brother was in such a wrong state now. He was about to ask the other thieves, but he found that the others were as pale and alarmed as the little thief who had spoken.
After holding back for a long time, the horse thief who opened his mouth said the whole sentence completely, "Big ...... Eldest brother...... That's Lu Bu! ”
"What?" The horse thief leader's heart jumped, and his body couldn't control it. He must have heard him right, right? Lu Bu actually appeared here? All kinds of questions appeared in his heart, and the leader of the horse thieves looked back, and finally realized why his men were so scared and afraid.
Lu Bu stayed not far behind him, his eyes were cold, and when he turned around, he smiled at him. This is the smile of death, I don't know why, this thought appeared in the mind of the leader of the horse thieves, and he felt cold all over his body, and even the breathing at this moment was forgotten.
"Run!" The leader of the horse thieves shouted, urging the horses under his seat to run faster.
At this time, the leader of the horse thieves resisted every day, even if there were three hundred and fifty-six people on their own side and only more than a hundred people on the other side, he really couldn't afford to have the mind to fight! That is Lu Bu, who once led a hundred horsemen and stepped on Lu Bu of thousands of tribes in Xianbei!
"Can you run away?" Lu Bu smiled mockingly.
In an instant, the halberd broke through the air and brought out a strong wind, piercing through the back of the panicked fleeing horse thief, piercing through his chest, and continuing to fly forward with his body!
(End of chapter)