Chapter 5: Tanka (1)

The night was dark, but the Khitan camp was as bright as day.

Countless lampballs and torches swayed between the dense tents. Groups of soldiers carried bright knives and guns as they shuttled through the camp. Occasionally, a war horse that had just woken up raised its head and neighed uneasily from its mouth, "Shy shh "Like the north wind of the cold winter moon, it blows people's hearts cold.

Zheng Ziming felt his heart sink down, sink down, sink down, sink like a 10,000-pound iron lump, so heavy that he couldn't breathe normally. Turning his head to look at the brothers around him, he found that everyone's faces were all gray, and everyone's lips and shoulders were trembling uneasily.

"I, I'm really an ominous person. Shi Chonggui's heart was the most fragile, and the whole person was paralyzed on the horse's back, tears raining down, "You, you leave me behind, and find a way to escape by yourself! Erbao, Da Chun, you are all good children, don't ...... for me, an unlucky ghost."

"Uncle, what are you talking about, it's all here, where else can we run?" Tao Dachun shook his head with a cruel smile and pulled out a scimitar from his waist.

It was so close to the camp of the Khitans, and everyone had not tried to control the speed of their mounts just now, so it was impossible for the Khitan soldiers on night duty in the camp not to be unaware!

"Death is death, uncle, let's poke the Tiandu of Liaodong out of the hole, how can we pretend to be a bad seed now. On Tao Dachun's side, a Cangzhou warrior said with a stalk around his neck. It's not so much to comfort Shi Chonggui as to cheer himself up.

"We follow my general. Wang Guigui said through gritted teeth while arranging the bowstring. "Where the general is, where we are. ”

"We follow the general, if the general doesn't leave you, we won't leave you either!" The rest of the Cangzhou warriors also pressed their hands on the hilt of their swords and responded with trembling voices.

More than 30 horsemen traveled thousands of miles, so that the Liao State sent 100,000 troops to surround and intercept it. If you can be so beautiful once in this life, it is worth dying! Since there is no way to go today, let everyone straighten their chests and fight vigorously again. Tell those Khitan pigs and dogs that the Central Plains is not without men.

"This, this, this ......" Shi Chonggui was burned to the core, and tried to support his body with his hands, so that he would not fall too far in front of the young people.

He is Shi Jingjiao's nephew and has been adopted by his uncle since he was a child. Then, like a lone wolf, he fought with his enemies and fought openly and secretly with his cousins until he stepped on the throne with bloodstains.

He had no real brothers in his life, and no real friends. In his life, he only had enemies, political enemies, and accomplices! Today, by his son's side, he has seen what it means to be loyal, what is friendship, what is to treat each other with all sincerity, and what is life and death together!

He finally understood why his son was able to lay such a big foundation with his bare hands. finally understood why his son dared to sneak into Liaodong with less than 100 people. He struggled to straighten his body as he pulled out his cutlass from his waist. He was also a horse emperor, and he was also a strong and stubborn soldier back then. He felt his heart beating wildly, and the young blood rushed all over his body, and suddenly he found a young soul in his body, proud, brave, and indomitable.

"General Ziming, we'll follow you!" Zhou Xin patted his horse forward and said with his hand.

"Ziming, whether you fight or go, you can decide with one word!" Tao Dachun turned his head with a resolute face.

"General, where you go, we will go!" Li Shun, Tao Yong, Wang Guigui and others spoke one after another, and everyone's eyes were burning with the frenzy of battle.

However, Zheng Ziming suddenly put his finger to his mouth and shook his head gently, "Shhhhhhh The Khitans don't seem to have discovered us yet!"

"Ah——?h

How is this possible? In order to keep the speed of the journey, everyone brought at least three war horses. More than a hundred war horses galloped on their legs, even the deaf could be awakened, how could the Khitans on the river beach turn a blind eye.

However, the scene in front of him is still as illusory as a dream. The Khitan soldiers patrolling the camp quickly yawned and came and went, and no one was interested in taking a second look at them.

"They, they still treat us as their own!"

"They, they're used to making trouble, and they don't pay attention to any discipline!"

"When they were in the Central Plains, the Khitans didn't like to camp well!

"They, there is no ditch next to their camp, and there is no deer firewood!"

The voice of surprise quickly turned into ecstasy. Tao Dachun and the others were one by one, their faces full of excitement and eager to try.

At the moment, everyone has two choices, first, turn around immediately, take advantage of the defenselessness of the Khitans, and ride horses to flee for their lives. The other is to rush straight over, grab the ship and sail eastward to the sea. Both possibilities are nine deaths, and both possibilities may lead to the annihilation of the entire army.

Without waiting for everyone to figure out which path to choose, Zheng Ziming suddenly took a deep breath, pulled out the Wuhou crossbow with his left hand, drew a steel whip with his right hand, and pointed forward vigorously: "Brothers, whether it is life or death, we are all together." Come with me, let's take the ship!"

"Seize the ship!" "Seize the ship!" "Seize the ship!" Everyone responded quickly, skillfully erecting the stone weight in the center of the team, with Zheng Ziming as the front, forming a triangular assault array.

Looking around, Zheng Ziming smiled, raised the steel whip, and waved it down: "Rush!"

Tie Hua spread his hooves and ran down the hillside. The brethren held a scimitar sword in his hand, protecting Shi Zhonggui and the seriously wounded, and followed closely with a spare war horse. More than 20 people and more than 100 horses, like moths to the fire, stabbed at the continuous military camp of the Khitans.

"You guys, don't mess around, ride your horses in the camp, kill your head!" a group of patrolling soldiers stopped, raised horn flags, and waved loudly in warning.

Most of the Khitan warriors were herdsmen and had a loose nature. Even when fighting in the Central Plains, they never set up their camps as impregnable as the Han Chinese. And now, on their own territory, more than a dozen soldiers and horses that are not subordinate to each other have temporarily gathered together, so all kinds of nonsense and death actions are not uncommon. When the soldiers on night patrol saw Zheng Ziming and others roaring down from the top of the mountain, they thought that they were the cronies of the general who led the army, and held the flag to remind them a few times, they had already fulfilled their responsibilities, and they didn't have the heart to step forward to stop them.

"The grouse that General Yelu asked for is here, get out of the way, don't delay the cook to make the decanting soup!" Shi Chonggui immediately saw the opportunity, mustered up his courage, and responded loudly in skillful Khitan dialect.

"General Yelu, grouse, sobering soup!" Li Shun and the others also opened their throats, parroting as much as possible.

The Khitan nobles had only two surnames, either Yelu or Xiao. No matter how smart the soldier on the night patrol was, in a short period of time, he couldn't tell which Yelu general Shi Chonggui was talking about. I had to continue to wave the flag vigorously and advise loudly, "Then you can't rush directly into the camp, in case you disturb the nobles......"

No one paid any attention to his words, Zheng Ziming and the Cangzhou warriors, with their legs between the horse's belly, took advantage of the geographical advantage to increase the speed of their mounts to the extreme in a very short time. The horse's hooves splashed with mud and sand, and it swooped down like a yellow dragon, and in the blink of an eye, it had swooped down on the edge of the camp.

"Rise", with a broken shout, the four hooves of the war horse rose into the air at the same time, flew a distance of several zhang, and instantly left behind the simple camp wall temporarily built by the Khitans with tree branches.

"Stop! Stop!" The Khitan 100 generals who led the night patrol finally realized that something was wrong with the situation, "Stop, don't break in again." If you break in again, I'll blow the siren and wait for you—ah!"

"Poof!" Zheng Ziming raised his left hand and shot the crossbow arrow directly through the person's choked throat. Immediately, the steel whip in his right hand slashed horizontally, smashing the other two Khitan soldiers who couldn't dodge into the air.

"Puff, puff, puff!" Tao Dachun and the others pulled the trigger one after another, shooting the cold crossbow arrow into the chest of the person who stood in the way. Immediately, he abandoned the crossbow and swung his sword, bringing up clouds of blood mist, and all the movements were like flowing water.

The early morning breeze blew in with moisture, blowing the tail of the war horse in a straight line. More than 100 horses and more than 20 warriors roared across the sleeping camp, and everything that stood in their way, whether living or tented, was instantly trampled into pieces.