Chapter 443 Husband and wife thieves
Some of the warriors were busy collecting bows and arrows on the battlefield, others bandaging their wounded comrades, and everyone was busy with the joy of victory.
"We have to get out of here quickly, the Khitan pursuers have reached seven miles away, and they will soon be able to meet the horse thieves of Huyanjin." Long Tao turned to the south and looked at the horse thieves fleeing in panic.
At this time, the Gunatai brothers were very convinced of his "skill of detecting the enemy", and Bugunatai immediately issued an order for the soldiers to assemble in the whole team.
Belgunatai frowned and said: "Shen Mo Huan has always been Jieli's lackey, it's not strange that he came to deal with the Divine Sword King, why do the Khitans also help Jieli do things?" For the dispute between Jieli and Tuli, they support Tuli, it is said that the Divine Sword King is Jieli's enemy and Tuli's brother, and they have no reason to make a move against you. ”
Long Tao thought that in addition to dealing with him on the surface, there was also a Xu Kaishan of the Great Ming Sect in secret, and Xu Kaishan could contact other people through Du Xing, Bai Ziting and others.
According to the relationship between Du Xing and Hu Yanjin in the original plot, most of this Hu Yanjin was gathered by Xu Kaishan through Du Xing, and as for the Khitan pursuers in the back, it is likely that they only came to avenge Brother Cave.
"Now the situation in the grassland is complicated, and the relationship between the forces of all parties is changing due to their own interests, it may be like the deep end of the Huan to us, I happen to be the target of several forces to eradicate, and their joint action is just a coincidence."
Belgunatai nodded with deep feelings: "That's true, the Khitans are already uneasy and kind to support Tuli, and hope that he will fight with Jieli endlessly, so that they can wait for the opportunity to rise, and Jieli let Baiziting build Longquan City and develop the Bohai Kingdom, but also to let it contain the Khitans and Tuli." ”
This heroic man shot his deep gaze into the starry sky above his head, as if he had seen through the past and the future, and sighed: "The prairie is about to usher in an era of turbulence and change!" When you unify Middle-earth, it will be the time of the decline of the Turkic peoples, who were at their height for a long time! Khitan, Murwei, Jianya, Tiele Zhubu, all the slightly stronger nations on the grassland, are waiting for the opportunity to rise and grow, but the premise must be the unity of the nation first, although the act of worshiping Ziting to establish a country is arrogant, it is also done by people with lofty ideals, and we chase and kill Shen Mohuan, not only because of its identity as a horse thief, this thief takes refuge in Jieli, is a traitor to Murwei, as long as our brothers can eradicate it, it will definitely rise in prestige, and it will be much easier to unify Murwei at that time! ”
Long Tao praised: "Brother Gunatai has a long-term vision, I think that sooner or later, this prairie will be the world of your Mughul Wei!" His tone changed, and he smiled lightly: "However, in the matter of chasing and killing Shen Mohuan, Yan may be going to take people's love, because I want to leave his dog life and bring it back to the gate to pay tribute to a person who was killed by him back then." ”
Belgunatai laughed and said, "How can our brothers bother with the Divine Sword King for such a trivial matter? As long as we can eradicate their sand bandits, even if the merit is complete, compared to Shen Mo Huan, our biggest gain this time is to get to know the Divine Sword King, if the king unifies Middle-earth in the future, our brothers will pay tribute to you, I believe that the king will not treat us lightly, right? ”
Long Tao laughed and said, "If I unify Middle-earth in the future, I will definitely form an alliance with two eternal brothers!" ”
At this time, when the team was assembled, Bugunatai asked, "Where shall we go?" ”
"The enemy's forces are far above us, but the disadvantage is that they are composed of men and horses of different forces, and we can break them down one by one before they form an encirclement network, just like we did with Huyanjin, so our first task is to hide and not let the enemy know our whereabouts."
Belgunatai said: "This is indeed the most clever strategy, but how to hide your whereabouts? ”
"Let's start with the truth and the truth." Long Tao pointed to a sparse forest in the east, and said calmly: "We set fire to the grass and woods over there, the Khitan pursuers will definitely think that we are doing this trick to block the enemy in order to escape to the northeast, and we are hiding in the dense forest where Huyanjin ambushed just now, if the enemy in other directions is attracted by the fire, maybe we can fight a beautiful ambush again." ”
Bugunatai rejoiced: "This is indeed a good way! How could the enemy have imagined that we would dare to stay where Huyanjin had been waiting for their army to arrive? ”
Belgunatai sighed: "Although our brother is conceited and brave and strategic, but in the face of an enemy several times his own, the first thing that comes to mind is how to break through and escape, the King of the Divine Sword not only has no intention of retreating, but is still planning how to destroy the enemy, so bold and strategic, no wonder he can crisscross Middle-earth, no one can be invincible!" ”
Long Tao smiled and said nothing, thinking to himself, don't praise me like this, I dare to play like this, it's not because there is a spiritual sense that envelops the whole audience and can grasp any changes on the battlefield at all times, as long as it is not surrounded by water, it can be calmly withdrawn with the team.
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The fire was raging, and more than 700 soldiers had already retreated into the dense forest to hide, while Long Tao and the Gunatai brothers hid in the darkness on the top of a hill, monitoring the movement on the other side of the fire.
A moment later, the sound of hoofs shook the earth, and a cavalry force of no less than three thousand men rushed from the south and stopped outside the burning sparse forest.
There were also a number of horse thieves who had just been killed, following behind a man in his fifties and sixties wearing a crown, pointing and talking about something, as if telling about the defeat just now.
Belgunatai said in a low voice: "It's the Mohui chief of the Khitan, and Brother Cave is the son of this person!" ”
Long Tao asked, "Who is in charge of the Khitan clan now?" ”
Belgunatai said: "It should be their big chief Abaojia, but there are many Khitan chieftains, just like the Turkic Great Khan and various small khans, the chieftains may not have to listen to Abaojia in everything, today's matter, most of the Mohui led their own people to take revenge, and it has nothing to do with Abaojia." ”
At this time, I saw a wave of the horsewhip, the Khitan soldiers turned their horses' heads, and the army bypassed the fire and chased to the northeast.
The Gunatai brothers were secretly relieved to see that the enemy had really hit the plan.
Long Tao got up and said with a smile: "Let's go, since they are chasing the northeast, we will go southwest, and someone happened to send it to the door." ”
The three of them unfolded their bodies and ran back into the dense forest, and the warriors were all bows and arrows in hand, ready for battle, because the sound of horses' hooves was clearly heard from the west.
A team of nearly 1,000 people passed about 800 paces away from the dense forest, from west to east, in the direction of the fire.
"It's Shen Mohuan!" Bugunatai said, his voice suppressed excitement.
Belgunatai said: "This thief is really cunning, this distance is far beyond our range. ”
Both of his brothers were skilled martial artists, and although they were at night, they could still see the enemy in the distance clearly by a little starlight.
"Every time you don't enter, this is the basic marching rule, Shen Mo Huan can wreak havoc on the grassland for many years, and he still has some ability." Long Tao smiled and looked intently.
I saw a tall and strong man in the team, wearing a six-layer Tieluo ring armor, and the iron pieces on the armor were connected like fish scales, and ordinary arrows could not be shot through.
Next to him was a woman wearing Linggen armor, the armor connected with hoof tendons and Linggen looked majestic, not allowing men, and the weapon was a left shield and a right knife.
Both men and women wore iron helmets that covered most of their faces, revealing only their eyebrows, eyes and mouth, and their nose protectors were particularly large, making them look strangely shaped.
Long Tao recalled the original book and thought that this should be the "husband and wife thief" of Shen Mohuan and Mu Ling.
Bugunatai said: "There are about 800 of them, we can win a head-on battle, we still have the advantage of fighting fast and slow, it is better to kill them." ”
"I'm afraid that I'm afraid that I'll let Shen Mohuan run away." Long Tao shook his head and smiled slightly, "Don't worry, I have a way to force them over." ”
After speaking, he opened the bow of the sun and shot an arrow into the sky.
The arrow circled in the air before flying towards the enemy, shooting at Mu Ling's neck from the other side of the line.
The dense forest is on the north side of Shen Mo Huan's team, but this arrow will give Shen Mo Huan the illusion that the sneak attacker is in the south, and only Long Tao's archery technique guided by spiritual power can produce this magical effect.
Because he snatched the "Feiyun" bow from the arrow master and used it with him, he was particularly sensitive to the arrows fired by this divine bow with a range of 1,000 steps.
This person is indeed a little capable, and when he heard the sound of arrows flying through the air, he immediately swung the serpentine spear in his hand to the right.
Hearing only the sound of "clang", the tip of the gun swept the arrow, and Mu Ling escaped, but one of Shen Mohuan's arms was also numb from the shock, and the spear could barely hold it.
Long Tao had expected this situation, so after one arrow was fired, two more arrows were fired.
Before Shen Mo Huan could even issue a warning, the second arrow hit again, but Mu Ling was finally alarmed by Shen Mo Huan's actions, and subconsciously raised his shield to block it.
"Bang!"
The arrow shattered at the same time as the shield.
The third arrow followed, shooting through the little white neck that was only exposed under Mu Ling's iron helmet, and then piercing through the neck on the other side.
Mu Ling sprayed a bloody arrow and fell off the horse and was killed on the spot.
Shen Mohuan was shocked and angry, and even more shocked, because he couldn't feel where the enemy was, and the vast grassland under the dark night suddenly gave him an unfathomable and profound sense of terror.
The three arrows all came from the south, and he could only subconsciously turn the horse's head, pick up Mu Ling's body, and gallop towards the north.
The horse thieves fled with them, and soon they were close to the dense forest and within five hundred paces.
At the sound of the order, the warriors fired arrows at the enemy outside the forest, mercilessly taking the lives of the horse thieves.
When the horse thieves saw an ambush in the forest, they turned their horses around again and fled westward.
Long Tao led the horse and rushed out, straight to the deep end of the Huan.
The Gunatai brothers led their warriors to rush into the ranks of horse thieves and slaughter them with free relent.
When the two horses were more than ten zhang apart, Long Tao rose from the horse's back and threw himself into Shen Mo Huan, and the wind power around his body was under the control of the spirit body, all of which became a boost for him to accelerate, and in the blink of an eye, he came to the top of Shen Mo Huan Horse, and slapped it out with one palm.
Shen Mohuan showed superb riding skills at the moment of life and death, the horse did not stop, and the person leaned back on the horse, and at the same time stabbed the dragon Tao diagonally upwards with a shot.
When Long Tao's mighty palm slapped the tip of the gun, it became weak and weak, and Shen Mohuan's shot seemed to be stabbed in the air, and he was almost taken away from the horse's back by the force of this shot, and he relied on his legs to clamp it hard, so that he did not land.
At this time, Long Tao had already flipped his head directly above him, and a punch went straight down, and the condensed fist like a pillar hit Shen Mohuan's iron armor, making a loud bang.
Shen Mohuan's whole person was knocked off the horse's back in a flat lying position, fell to the ground on his back and couldn't move, and a dented fist mark appeared on the iron armor on his chest, which was shocking.