Chapter 9: The Long Tassel (8)

"Ahh Grabbed his mount sharply and turned back.

Even if he faced the battle, there was no chance of winning by chance, and from the moment he began to flee for his life, he already knew in his heart the huge disparity in strength between them. However, if he was still just trying to escape for his life as before, the entire team of scouts who came out on a mission today would be wiped out.

It's hard to choose between life and death, but once you make the choice, everything becomes incredibly easy. Riding on a horse that had already run away, the Khitan scout straightened his chest high. Just like when he first participated in the hunt in the tribe, he was full of strength and pride.

The heavy iron shovel was lifted above his head, like a wolf-headed battle flag in the tribe. Staring at the Central Plains General who was chasing after him, he narrowed the distance between them as quickly as possible, fifty steps, forty steps, thirty steps...... As long as the opponent is forced to free up his hand to reload the crossbow arrows, he has hope to win the chance to live for his companions!

"Idiot!" Gao Huaide pursed his lips disdainfully, and the Khitan scout, who was aiming at Gao Hedge, snapped his right index finger again. Immediately, he lightly struck the golden stirrups with his feet, rode his horse to avoid the falling corpse, and aimed the Wuhou crossbow at the last escapee. The left hand pushes away the limiting mechanism above the crossbow, and the index finger of the right hand decisively presses back for the third time......

The third crossbow arrow of "Whoosh ——!" flew out like lightning and hit the back of the target's heart.

"The general is mighty!" the soldiers who followed on the left and right sides came up with a burst of proud cheers from their mouths. Annihilation! As soon as they arrived on the battlefield, they completely annihilated a whole group of enemy scouts of the enemy army! And all of them were Khitans.

"Take the thief's rank and mount, let's close the team!" In the cheers, Gao Huaide smiled and hung up the Wuhou crossbow, immediately crossed the gun, and commanded loudly.

"Obey the order——!" All the pro-soldiers stood up and pulled their backs, and responded one by one with a particularly loud response. The Khitan people are brave, in fact, that's what happened. In the past, they were invincible, and that was because they did not meet the Gao family's army. When I met our Gao Jiajun today, I was beaten back to the prototype in a blink of an eye!

"The movements are all neat, and we are not familiar with life, so we can't delay for too long!" Gao Huaide raised his head and looked around, his eyes as bright as electricity.

Since he met Zheng Ziming more than ten days ago, he has always felt that there is a dark cloud hovering above his head, and he is very depressed no matter what he does. It was only at this moment that the dark clouds finally dispersed, and the sky above them was like a wash.

"Collect the team, collect the team! Collect the team and go back to pay the order. ”

"These Khitan dogs don't know how to cherish war horses at all. I almost ran away with the livestock!"

"Nonsense, I can't save my life, what's the use of keeping livestock?"

"There are few people and many livestock on the Khitan side. War horses are worthless. ”

“......”

The pro-soldiers laughed and discussed, and the stars hugged Gao Huaide like the moon, turned around and returned in the direction of Jizhou City.

The autumn breeze was crisp, the sun was shining, and everyone's face was filled with the excitement of returning home with a big victory. However, Gao Huaide, who had only walked three or four hundred steps and was surrounded in the center of the group, suddenly tightened the reins.

"Shhh......h The surrounding soldiers of the Gao family army also hesitated to pull their mounts one by one, their faces full of confusion.

"It's too quiet around here, something must be wrong!" Gao Huaide tapped the stirrup with his gun and whispered.

"It should be, it should be just now, I was scared away by us just now!" Gao Yanfu was stunned by the pro-soldier team, and responded with some expectation.

This place is at least forty or fifty miles away from Jizhou City, and if it encounters a large number of enemy troops, it can only break through with all its strength, and there is no chance to ask for support from its main force.

"If the sparrows are frightened on the other side of the country, they will soon fly back again!" added Gao Huaide loudly, and then rode his horse towards the mound on the left.

All the soldiers drew their weapons, and horses followed. The sparrow thing has the least memory, and can even turn a blind eye to the corpse of a companion for a bite of food. And on the other side of everyone's hometown, this is the time for the sparrows to accumulate their winter rations. The sound of horses' hooves falling to the ground could hardly keep them gone, and even the earth-shattering medicine puppets couldn't scare them for so long without daring to turn back.

All of them are the elite of the Gao family's army, and although they lack combat experience, their reactions are first-class alert. Now the situation is not good, as soon as possible, I will follow the main general to seize the advantageous terrain. As for who the enemy is, what is the strength of the two sides, and whether they can return to Jizhou safely today, at this moment, they don't think about it anymore.

"Woo, woo......" The horn sounded from behind the woods not far away, like a north wind in the cold winter moon. Now Gao Huaide and others have begun to be vigilant, and the enemy troops who are ambushed nearby have also taken decisive action. The cavalry of the brigade rushed out of the bushes behind the two nearby mounds with the sound of horns, their horizontal knives shining in the sun.

"Damn it!" Gao Huaide turned his head to look at as he rode his horse towards the top of the mound, and let out a low curse from his mouth.

The enemy general is a rare black-hearted man, in order to block his way back, he actually ignores the life and death of the previous group of Khitan scouts. And on the battlefield, the most difficult is this kind of opponent. In order to achieve their goals, they do not care about the life or death of their soldiers, and all means that help to achieve victory must be used to the extreme.

"It's the Youzhou Army, the descendant of the Han family in Youzhou!" Gao Yanfu, the captain of the personal army, rode his horse and galloped wildly, while reporting the enemy situation he had observed like a general.

"It's about four battalions, and they're all cavalry!"

"They should have been around a long time ago, and now we are chasing and killing the scouts, but they have endured not showing up!"

"They all have leather armor on their bodies, and the size and color of the war horses are not much checked!

Gao Yanshou, Gao Yanlu, Gao Yande and other carefully selected generals also quickly reported their observations to Gao Huaide, and the more, the deeper their voices became.

The cavalry was slightly lower than the infantry, but the cavalry of the four battalions also had more than 1,600 people. And at this moment, the Gao family army is only a team of 100 people! With 100 enemies and 1,000 enemies, I am afraid that even if Sun and Wu are reincarnated, they will not have much chance of winning.

However, nervousness is nervousness, and the movements of the big guy are not chaotic at all. While reporting and summarizing the situation of the enemy army, he surrounded the main general Gao Huaide and galloped on horseback. Soon, they reached the highest point near the hillside, and automatically set up a position to occupy the favorable terrain.

The cavalry from Youzhou, like crows, also gathered at the foot of the mountain. A zigzag-shaped military formation appeared in the blink of an eye. Immediately after, another low horn sounded, and a young general, also wearing silver armor and white robes, riding a white horse under his crotch, slowly walked to the front of the military formation. "The son of Yanjing's left-behind guard, the leopard cavalry of the left wing of the Youzhou Army of the Great Liao is the commander of Han Degang in Youzhou, this is polite. I would like to invite Brother Shanshang to come down and talk to each other. ”