Chapter 34: Cunning
The waning moon is like a sword, and so are the cavalry.
Without the Du family's internal and external cooperation, there would not be much chance in this battle.
But the courage of the handsome people brought Yang Zheng a glimmer of opportunity.
The cavalry of this era did not have a double horsetail, only a single stirrup, more to assist the horse, the saddle was already available, but when charging, it was still necessary to clamp the horse's belly with both legs.
A skilled equestrian can stabilize his center of gravity with the strength of his legs alone, but the vast majority of cavalry need to hold the reins with one hand and slash with the other.
Yang Zheng held the reins in his left hand and held the lance tightly in his right hand.
The thief army has been chaotic, and the chase has long been out of array.
Seeing Yang Zheng turn the horse's head, Qi Jiantou was actually overjoyed, and he was not afraid to rush with a knife.
In foot combat, the strength of the enemy and the enemy is quite average, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser.
But the horse war is different, and there is no such thing as the 300 rounds of the battle in later novels.
Life and death are only in a moment.
Strength, agility, speed, equipment, courage, any small factor is the key to victory or defeat.
And now Yang Zheng is riding against each other, well-equipped, and it is by no means a mere brute force that can create miracles.
The moment the war horse rushed by, a look of pity rose in Yang Zheng's eyes.
As soon as the lance in his hand trembled, he felt the weight penetrating the human body.
The leather armor broadsword on Qi Jian's head did not play any role, and the long lance easily tore open his chest.
"Wow......" he coughed up a cloud of black blood from his mouth.
More than forty horsemen also crashed into the crowd, the sword light flipped, and blood splashed.
A massacre without suspense.
The elite of the thief army is probably only about 200 people.
The routed army, which had gradually stabilized its position, saw that Hao Shuai was stabbed to death, and the cavalry slashed and killed indiscriminately, and suddenly became frightened and fled in all directions.
At the same time, Zhou Yu's infantry array entered the core of the battlefield.
The thief army was completely crushed.
Qiang was not an outsider in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the two clans had already been sinicized, mainly under Cao Wei, and there were many Qiang people in the Wei army.
So when fighting against Yang Zheng, he was cowardly by three points.
Now that Hao Shuai has been killed, the momentum of the Wei army is like a rainbow, and the thief army has collapsed.
Yang Zheng looked back at the soldiers around him, marched all the way for nearly three hours, and then immediately threw himself into the battlefield to fight, although he was sure of victory, he was already tired.
War horses, in particular, panted in front of their mouths and noses.
In these days, livestock is worth more than human life.
A good war horse is even more precious.
Yang Zheng also had no intention of killing them all, so he only let everyone gather together, take a short rest, and return to the horsepower.
The thieves outside the dock fort are retreating, but the thieves inside the dock fort are blazing.
Women and money make them beastly.
The smoke and flames were filled with the burnt smell of burning food and the scorching smell of corpses......
The thief army shouted and laughed excitedly, like a bloodthirsty wolf, bursting with firelight, and the screams of rare women.
More than a dozen armor guards suddenly rushed out of the door.
There were cries of children and women inside the car.
This sound stimulated the surrounding thieves, and they all gathered around.
The dozen or so armorers slashed indiscriminately, and the thieves were not allowed to approach, but only stabbed with spears, and several armorers fell, and the war horses were also stabbed down by spears, and the blood of horses and people flowed all over the ground.
The carriage was stuck in front of the door.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the armor suddenly dropped his long knife and scattered in a hurry.
A middle-aged man shouted from inside the car: "Yang Tiejian, didn't you promise that as long as you open the door and surrender, you will let me go?" ”
A person's rough laughter came from the dock fort: "Uncle Du Wu is in vain that you are the Langzhong of the imperial court, how pedantic!" ”
In the firelight, the man walked out, quite majestic, with a beautiful woman in one hand and a knife in the other, and three narrow scars on his face, as if he had been wounded by sharp claws.
"Your Du family robbed our woman's land? Today, it will be reported with interest! ”
The middle-aged man stretched out his head from the carriage and saw the bloody corpses all over the ground, and his whole body suddenly trembled, tears and snot mixed together, "How could a person who has read the books of sages and followed the way of Confucius and Mencius in his life do such evil deeds?" ”
There was an immediate burst of laughter.
Yang Tiejian laughed and said, "Since it wasn't you who did it, you dedicate your wife and daughter to me and spare you from dying." ”
"Uncle no! Such barbarians, who lead beasts and cannibals, how can they talk about faithfulness! A man in the fort came out in armor, armed with a bow and arrows, and shouted.
An arrow was shot and missed.
Another arrow was fired, and it was hit, but the arrow was so weak that it couldn't even penetrate the leather armor, and it was bounced back.
This man is thin and has loose armor.
The more Yang Zheng looked at it, the more familiar it became, and suddenly remembered that this was not the envoy of the Du family who fooled himself to help?
At that time, he said that he was the head, and he thought that he had two brushes, but he didn't expect to pull his crotch so much.
Enraged, one of the thieves chased after him with a knife.
The messenger screamed, threw down his bow and arrows, and ran.
"I regret not listening to Yuan Kai!" The middle-aged man beat his chest, suddenly jumped out of the car, blocked in front of the carriage, trembling and pulling out the long sword at his waist, "Today's disaster is all on me!" ”
Although this person is cowardly, he still has some backbone, and he still has his own bottom line.
After Qi Jian's head was stabbed to death, most of the thief army was scattered, and only this Yang Tiejian gathered two or three hundred people around him.
"The thief is so shameless, do you deceive me and have no boy in the Han family?" Yang Zheng rode on the horse, lifting the lance upside down, the green silk behind him fluttered gently with the night wind, the waning moon was bent above his head, and several corpses were scattered under the horse's hooves.
And his gaze was also cold in the night.
The horses snorted restlessly at the ground.
The more Yang Zheng walked, the greater the deterrent.
It's understandable.
But it is despicable to be disgraceful to have no faith in words and to mutilate women and children.
"Who are you?" Yang Tiejian's pupils contracted suddenly, and he couldn't help but let go of the beautiful woman in his arms.
The beautiful woman cried and wanted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the fire, but was stopped by the messenger of the Nadu family.
"Martial arts, Yang Zheng!"
While speaking, the war horse felt Yang Zheng's murderous aura and ran forward.
"There are a lot of wealthy women in the castle, how about you and I divide it equally?" Yang Tiejian was intimidated by Yang Zheng's killing momentum, and actually retreated again and again.
This person is much worse than Qi Jiantou.
Many times, soldiers and thieves are not too far apart.
Yang Zheng sneered, "I am a man of the Han family, a general of the Great Wei army, how can I be in the same league with the thieves?" ”
"You and I have no enmity in the past and no grudges in the near future, how about sparing my life?" Yang Tiejian retreated again and again, this person's name was loud, and he was quite strong, but he was so timid.
Yang Zheng couldn't help but feel contempt in his heart.
"This thief is cunning and abnormal, good at words and demagogy, the general beware!" The envoy of the Du family reminded him.
As soon as the words fell, Yang Tiejian, who had retreated to the wall, changed his momentum greatly, as if a fierce beast had been cornered, and he actually slammed into Yang Zheng with a knife.
Yang Zheng stabbed out with a long lance, and Yang Tiejian rolled on the spot to avoid the edge, swinging his knife and slashing at the horse's hooves.
The movements are fierce and swift, and they can't compare to the cowardice just now.
Yang Zheng clamped the horse's belly, and the war horse man stood up, which was able to dodge his knife rolling to the ground.
Unexpectedly, like a cunning rabbit, this creature sprang up from the ground and rushed into his own thieves.
This set of movements is smooth and fast.
Yang Zheng was preconceived and deceived by his disguised cowardice.
Yang Tiejian sneered proudly, and shouted to the thieves around him: "Rush out, he will take revenge one day!" ”
"This thief is treacherous, if he escapes today, he will be a disaster in Zhongzhou tomorrow!" The envoy of the Du family said quickly.
The war horse looked extremely clumsy in the dock fort, and the long lance was inconvenient, so Yang Zheng simply dismounted and abandoned the lance and drew out the Hua Collar Sword.
Although the sword body has been broken, it still does not change its edge.
"Come out and die!" Yang Zheng was a little angry by this guy.
He and Qi Jiantou are not all the way, and they don't know how to get together.