Chapter 5: The Bloody War
Hu Kang was a lieutenant of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and two hours ago he received a military order that there was a rebellion in the area of Panyang City, and his top general asked him to immediately lead his troops to support.
Hurry up, but he is still a step too late, the gate of Panyang City has been breached, and if he goes to the city at this time, he will only be razed and use the advantage of the city wall to fight back.
After thinking about it, Hu Kang decided to set up an ambush in the valley two thousand meters outside Panyang City, which was a necessary place to return from the wilderness, as long as they waited for them to plunder enough resources, they would come out on their own, avoiding the casualties of Hu Kang's troops in the siege.
"General Qiyu, our men have captured a group of deserters in the valley!" said one of the soldiers, who walked quickly to Hu Kang's side.
"Oh, bring it here!" Hu Kang commanded with a cold face.
A few minutes later, Zhang Han and his entourage were taken under a big tree on the other side of the valley by several soldiers.
"General, the man has been brought!" said the soldier with a salute.
"Hmm. Hu Kang waved lightly and said, "Where do you belong?"
Looking at Hu Kang, who was wearing a general's uniform in front of him, Zhang Han asked with a calm face: "I don't know why the general wants to arrest me?"
Hearing Zhang Han's answer, Hu Kang looked stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Wait for a coward! And have the face to ask why General Ben arrested you! Come on! No need to interrogate, pull them all out and behead me!"
With Hu Kang's order, several soldiers on the side had already drawn their swords and were about to escort Zhang Han and the others out for torture.
"General, wait, wait, we are just ambushing and destroying the wilderness on the top of the mountain, where do you come from?" Zhang Hanchang said with a red face.
Ambush?
Just seven or eight of you?
Hu Kang thought to himself, you guys are stupid to me?
Zhang Han knew that Hu Kang would not believe this, so he continued: "General, the city gate has been lost, and we will undoubtedly die in the past at this time, but the Yi people are not good at defending the city, and they will definitely return to the land of the wasteland after plundering, and this valley is the only place to return to the wasteland, we have observed the terrain, when the land comes out, we will raid a wave with rocks and rolling wood, although we are short of manpower, we must let the land leave something, and the target of withdrawal after the fight is relatively smaller." ”
Zhang Han said that the head is the way, and Hu Kang was also stunned when he heard it.
Looking at the young man in front of him, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, Hu Kang didn't expect his strategy to be so consistent with his own.
After a long groan, Hu Kang asked with a serious face, "How do you prove that you are not deserters?"
"The general untied us, and when the war continues, we will prove our innocence with blood. Zhang Han replied without the slightest hesitation.
"Okay, I'll give you a chance, and if I find that you can't wait for the bales, I'll have you court-martialed. ”
Hu Kangyan stopped, waved his hand to signal the soldiers to untie a few people, and asked again: "What department do you belong to?"
Unloaded the rope on his body, Zhang Han also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, listening to Hu Kang's question, Zhang Han just took a step forward slowly, and the identity tag belonging to Wu Chang was handed over.
On which brand, there is no name, only a subordinate unit and a symbol representing the captain, Zhang Han is not afraid of being recognized.
After receiving the identity tag handed by Zhang Han, Hu Kang's face changed slightly: "I didn't expect you to wait for General Fang's person." ”
Zhang Han nodded lightly, but did not answer, how did he know who the general was.
However, Hu Kang's words immediately made Zhang Han stunned.
"I also heard about General Fang's encounter with razing and encirclement in the Nanping area three days ago, and it is a great fate for you to escape, but it is a pity that General Fang died young. ”
Zhang Han still didn't dare to answer, but slowly lowered his head, and this scene fell into Hu Kang's eyes, but he regarded Zhang Han as a loyal person, combined with the experience of only seven or eight people who dared to come to ambush and raze the wilderness, Hu Kang suddenly understood Zhang Han and the others' desire for revenge.
After half a ring, Zhang Han and his entourage left under the big tree where Hu Kang was and walked all the way to the top of the mountain.
"Brother Han, wait a minute, are we really fighting?" Wu Qing asked sneakily on the side.
Zhang Han rolled his eyes and said, "Nonsense, if you don't really beat you, you still want to wait to be slaughtered!"
"Oh. Wu Qing nodded stunned.
"Don't think about it so much, in fact, this is also an opportunity, why don't we take advantage of this battle to enter the military, and it will be more advantageous to investigate the whereabouts of the Emperor in the future. ”
Listening to Zhang Han's explanation, everyone's eyes lit up.
"Yes, I didn't expect that when I stood on my heels in the future, I was afraid that he would only be a big Zhou Dynasty!" Wang Lin also whispered on the side.
Zhang Han made a silent gesture and whispered to several brothers behind him: "Wait for the time when life and death are not at stake, you all don't use mana easily, too high-profile will cause bad things, do you know?"
Several people nodded in response.
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The valley is actually not very long, the front and back add up to only about 200 meters in length, and the slopes on both sides are only about 20 meters high, but fortunately, the side of the road is steep, and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb.
A thousand soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty lurked here, but it was difficult to find them under the mountain.
In order to survive, for thousands of years, plundering the rich cities of the Great Zhou has become their habit of survival, and they have created a lot of sins in the land of the Great Zhou.
Compared with the wanton oppression of the common people by the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the razing of the land was even more unbearable, and incidents of eating human flesh and drinking human blood often occurred.
Zhang Han looked at the barren people and horses that had been roaring out in the distance, and at a cursory glance, there were almost more than 1,500 people, and a string of women and children tied together like grasshoppers were driving at the rear of the team.
Dressed in iron-chained armor and sharpened scimitars, with blue and white stripes painted on their faces, they let out "oh-oh" cries as they walked.
"Brother Han!" Wu Qing shouted in a low voice as he hid to the side.
Zhang Han looked sideways, only to see Wu Qing pouting at the back of the desolate team with a warm face.
Looking at his current position, Zhang Han's pupils shrank sharply.
I saw that at the back of the team, the bucket compartments of several ox carts were densely packed with old babies, piled up in a mess, as if they were some kind of goods, which was also the reason why Zhang Han did not find out at the first time.
Inhumane.
This is Zhang Han's first impression of razing the wilderness.
Gritting his teeth, Zhang Han forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and quietly waited for the desolation team to enter the ambush point.
Time passed little by little, and a sharp arrow suddenly pierced the sky, directly bursting the eyeballs of a deserted soldier, piercing his head, and spilling blood on the ground.
"Enemy attack!"
With the attack of a sharp arrow, the Razor Soldier reacted quickly, drew his scimitar at his waist, and with a whistling sound, he wanted to speed through the valley.
"Call me!" On the other side, Captain Hu Kang's roar also instantly resounded through the valley.
All of a sudden, a large number of imperial sergeants appeared on the top of the mountain, arrows rained down, rolling logs and falling rocks were even more fatal to throw down, and the soldiers of the wilderness were hit by these dozens of pounds of falling stones, either dead or injured, and even their crotch horses were smashed to death.
"Ahh
"Ride the archer, shoot back!
"Get cover!
Despite being in a passive position, the reaction of the Yi people was not unpleasant, and they quickly organized an effective counterattack, and a long feather arrow kept shooting at the top of the mountain, and more than a dozen Da Zhou soldiers who were relatively far away were accidentally killed by arrows for a while.
At the same time, in front of the Nayi, a red-capped officer-like officer quickly gathered a force of more than 500 men, and with a forceful grip between his legs, the horses roared towards a path on the hillside.
Lying on the hillside, Zhang Han and the others had no bows and arrows to use, so they picked up fist-sized stones on the ground, and often when the stones roared, they could perfectly hit the head of a Yiren soldier below and send him to the underworld.
Although several people did not operate the spiritual power in their bodies, they were not able to withstand the strength of their bodies alone, and the quasi-heads of the stones were also stable and terrifying, and the battlefield near Zhang Han and the others was completely out of a state of crushing.
And the behavior of several people like human trebuchets also stunned many of the Great Zhou soldiers beside them.
The hillside where Zhang Han is located is wooded, and the road up the mountain is narrow, and at the same time, it can accommodate up to three people in parallel, riding a high-headed horse, and it is difficult for Yiren to rush up the mountain in one go.
There are also nearly 100 Great Zhou soldiers stationed on the mountain road, but in the face of the menacing Yiren generals, even if they have the advantage of terrain, they are also in the process of retreating.
I saw that the general of the Yi people decisively turned over and dismounted when he rushed to the middle of the mountain road with the Yi soldiers, raised the scimitar in his hand, and often did not have a Great Zhou soldier between the left and right slashes, and the defense line of the entire mountain road was broken through in an instant.
Bent down again to pick up the stones on the ground, but Zhang Han grabbed a blank spot, turned his head to look at Wang Lin and the others, and found that there were not many stones left on the ground.
"Whoa!" With a bang, Zhang Han took out the iron spirit sword on his back and shouted, "Follow me!"
Zhang Han had already discovered the disadvantages on the mountain road not far away, and thought that with the advantage of the terrain, the Great Zhou soldiers would be able to drag it even if they were defeated, but he overestimated the combat power of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty and underestimated the ferocity of the general.
"Whoa, whoa!" Seven or eight people drew their long swords one after another, and followed Zhang Han closely to kill the mountain road.
The mountain road must not be lost, although the Yi people suffered heavy losses at this time, but there are still nearly 800 or so troops, if the mountain road is lost, Zhang Han and others will lose the advantage of the surprise attack, to the Yi people are generally higher than the strength of the Zhou soldiers, the victory or defeat is still unpredictable.
"Bang Bang!" the Yi general split a Great Zhou soldier in half with the spear in his hand, and the blood almost stained the Yi general into a bloody man.
"Ahh
Feeling that the enemy army in front of him was empty, the general's roar sounded on the top of the mountain.