Chapter 38: Beheading
Zhou Huan flew in the sky, staring at the group of cavalry below.
There were more than 30 of them in total, all of them were one person and two horses, and the general led by them was dressed in a red cloak and looked back at the direction of Chuzhou City from time to time.
That was Murong Shiqing, the second commander of the Northern Wei army, Zhou Huan's current target. Where they left, a small village was already littered with corpses.
After the goshawk circled twice above them, Zhou Huan fell towards the road ahead.
After several successive deformations, Zhou Huan gained experience, and found a retractable animal skin from the warehouse to make shorts, and at the same time put clothes and fighting weapons in the package on his back.
After the defeat of Chuzhou City, Murong Shiqing fled north with his own soldiers, Zhou Huan would not have paid attention to this person, but when he slaughtered a village, Zhou Huan changed his mind.
In the past sixteen days, when Zhou Huan attacked every night, he not only killed people and set fires, but also spent a lot of time reconnoitering the enemy's situation, putting some weapons and bows and arrows elsewhere to prepare, that small village was where Zhou Huan occasionally passed by, the straw in the barn was very warm, and Zhou Huan, who was cold all over his body, sometimes went to sleep in it for a while, until he was awakened by the children's frolicking in the morning.
Sometimes Zhou Huan doesn't even go back to Chuzhou City, just watching the children's happiness by the side of the village.
But this village was slaughtered by the order of Murong Shiqing, who was passing by, just to vent.
Didn't cover up their bodies, because it was useless, what was really useful was to avenge them.
Draw the longbow, aim at a cavalryman, let go, and fire.
"Ahh
A soldier beside him let out a terrible scream, and a cold arrow hit him in the shoulder, this was the third sneak attack Murong Shiqing encountered, which also made him understand that someone was following his team.
Thirty-five-year-old Murong Shiqing, a famous warrior in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the personal soldiers of the Murong family are also well-known elites, after encountering the attack, not only did they not panic, but quickly rushed to the direction of the arrow, but the result was the same as the last two times, the attacking enemy fled without a trace.
Without blaming the soldiers for not finding traces of each other, Murong Shiqing asked people to put down a package behind him, and when he opened it, there were dazzling gold and silver jewelry.
"The warriors who attacked me, there are many of us and you are only one, why bother to track them down? This bag of gold and silver is enough for you to be rich and rich for the rest of your life, let us go. ”
Putting down the package, Murong Shiqing led the pro-soldiers to slowly retreat, while leaving three people to monitor everything around, this place was empty and unoccupied, even if that person caught up, the three pro-soldiers could resist for a while.
This was impossible in the past, because the soldiers of the Murong family were not afraid of the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty at all, let alone one person, even if it was a few hundred, Murong Shiqing would dare to take thirty horsemen into battle!
"Murong Shiqing, if you can return to Los Angeles alive, count me as losing. ”
A voice came from the woods a few hundred meters away, and a young man of about one meter seven showed his face, he was dressed in close-fitting soft armor, and his appearance had a three-point bookish air.
"Are you Zhou Huan?"
Murong Shiqing's heart sank, of course he had the portrait of the culprit of the defeat in Chuzhou City.
"I'm Zhou Huan, I'll make a bet with Princess Pingyang to see if I can take your head, it seems that I won this time. ”
"Master Zhou, the Southern Dynasty is weak, the monarchs and ministers are unreasonable, and sooner or later they will be annexed by the Northern Dynasty, what future do you have with them? ”
"Can Helian Bo's head be lifted?"
"We can't do it, Mr. Zhou can do it, I have a daughter in my family, gentle and virtuous, and I am willing to marry Mr. Zhou as a concubine, with Mr. Zhou's ability, it is easy to inherit the Murong family. ”
"That's a good price. ”
Zhou Huan looked at Murong Shiqing with a smile and nodded, "So, if we cooperate, you provide me with information, and I can help you kill the high-level of the Helian family, as well as those who oppose it, and then the Northern Wei Dynasty will become the Northern Murong?"
"I don't dare to bother Mr. Zhou to make such a big move, I just hope that I can ...... with Mr. Zhou"
"Han and thief are not separated, I won't cooperate with a murderer like you, Murong Shiqing, don't dream. ”
After saying this, Zhou Huan's figure disappeared into the woods again.
Seeing Zhou Huan's disappearance, Murong Shiqing's face became very ugly, for sixteen days in Chuzhou City, Zhou Huan destroyed all kinds of things in the camp every night, no matter what method was used, he was unable to kill Zhou Huan, and many people even thought that Zhou Huan was an envoy sent by God, invulnerable, and invisible.
"Twenty-five of you stay, and the rest will go with me!"
Murong Shiqing looked at the woods, and then at the open space of a few hundred meters outside the woods, Zhou Huan would inevitably pass through here if he wanted to pursue him. Zhou Huan didn't attack without scruples just now, which shows that he still has scruples about cold weapons.
So Murong Shiqing issued an order, leaving most of the people here to resist Zhou Huan, and he led six guards to flee quickly, which was the most stable strategy.
It's a pity that he didn't expect that this was exactly what Zhou Huan wanted.
With a long breath, Zhou Huan calmed down the excitement in his heart.
The pro-soldiers of the Murong family, two people can threaten Zhou Huan when they join forces, and three people can kill him if they join forces, and thirty people join forces, Zhou Huan has no chance of winning at all.
As for bow and arrow shooting, those pro-soldiers are all bow and arrow masters, and Zhou Huan doesn't think that he alone can fight against thirty opponents.
But Murong Shiqing didn't know this, he was intimidated by Zhou Huan's prestige, and didn't think that his subordinates could kill Zhou Huan, so he chose to escape.
In this way, there are fewer and fewer people around him, which is in Zhou Huan's arms.
Six hours later, in the dark wilderness, Murong Shiqing's last guard died under Zhou Huan's cold arrow.
"You coward, you have the ability to come out and duel with me, I'm not afraid of you, I'm ......"
It's a pity that Murong Shiqing's challenge did not arouse Zhou Huan's competitiveness, and Zhou Huan in the dark shot dozens of arrows in a row, shooting the general of the Northern Wei Dynasty like a porcupine before stopping.
In a world without true qi and abilities, the strong bow and crossbow are a nightmare for all warriors, and those long arrows comparable to pistol bullets are almost impossible to avoid in the dark.
It's like exchanging a cold weapon master is not as good as exchanging a pistol.
"I still need to work on my skills. ”
Zhou Huan didn't have any joy in his heart, there was no challenge to such a victory. He used the Transfiguration Technique to follow Murong Shiqing and his party, and after the ambush in advance, all kinds of cold arrows hurt people, and immediately transformed and left after being discovered, and even the most excessive thing was to turn into an eagle and throw a stone from a high altitude to kill a guard.
"It's a pity that I didn't get started with the True Qi Breathing Method, otherwise I would ......"
With a leisurely sigh, he cut off Murong Shiqing's head, found his general seal, and Zhou Huan flew into the sky.
He really didn't like this era.
On the other side, the city of Chuzhou was already full of laughter, and the soldiers were happily cleaning up the battlefield.
Only Princess Pingyang was not happy at all, because Zhou Huan was gone.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou, I shouldn't have guessed you like that. ”
After the conversation with Zhou Huan that day, Princess Pingyang found that there was an extra rift between her and Zhou Huan, and Zhou Huan's attitude towards her changed a little since then - of course she didn't know that Zhou Huan classified her as a female fox, and decided to stay away from this kind of woman, otherwise something would happen sooner or later.
In the eyes of Princess Pingyang, Zhou Huan had such a skill, but she was guessed like that, so she was naturally very unhappy in her heart, and later she wanted to find an opportunity to apologize several times, but unfortunately Zhou Huan did not give her such a chance.
"Brother Zhou won't leave. ”
Tang Yunniang said categorically, the little girl is now a playmate of Princess Pingyang.
It was at this moment that an earth-shattering cheer suddenly came from afar, and then a message came.
Master Zhou Huan Zhou chased and killed Murong Shiqing for eight hundred miles, and now brought his head back to Chuzhou City!
Later generations of history books record that in the fifth year of Qian'an of the Liang Dynasty, Princess Pingyang was trapped by the Northern Wei army under the city of Chuzhou, and 1,000 to 50,000 Princess Pingyang were fearless, and the great master Zhou Huan actively attacked, successively killing the enemy commander Helian Tieqi and Murong Shiqing, and breaking the enemy army.
Of course, that was a story a long time later, and Zhou Huan was still the protagonist of this story at this time.
Murong Shiqing's head was hung high on the head of Chuzhou City, and it was hung on top of the tall city tower alongside Helian Tieshu's head.