Chapter 147: Ambush on Three Sides
"Revenge!!"
Under the sneak attack of the feather arrow just now, more than ten people were killed and injured in the Yangwei Dart Bureau, including Ji Zhan, who was killed on the spot. Although the reputation of the Ji brothers and the Yang Wei Dart Bureau outside is not very good, they are very united inside, and Ji Zhan usually often plays with everyone in ***, at this time everyone is infected by the sadness of Ji Zhan's death, and suddenly dozens of people let out a terrible shout, and at the same time, with Ji Chuan's movements, he urged his mount to catch up with Cao Chen sent those family soldiers who were holding shields and moving forward slowly.
Most of the dart masters of Yangwei Dart Bureau are outlaws, and this kind of thing is too familiar to them, and even like a common thing, so there is still a saying in the dart game industry in Fuxu Town, entering Yangwei Dart Bureau as a dart master, his hands reached into the golden rice bowl, but his feet have stepped on the coffin, and the whole person is buried in most of the loess.
Cao Chen wanted to stop it, but no one could hear his stopping sound at all, and he was completely drowned in a roar that was higher than a voice, and even the dart master of the Yangwei Dart Bureau who was originally escorted at the end of the tail also urged his mount to rush to the front, but Cao Chen couldn't do it like they led people to kill with red eyes, his task was this batch of goods from the Cao Chamber of Commerce, since he couldn't stop the action of Yoshikawa and the people, Cao Chen had to quickly order the henchmen around him to arrange the accompanying guards to protect the convoy closely.
"Brother Cao! There were only a dozen people, and they all ran away! After a few guys raising shields behind the crazy dart master trembled to the slope, they looked at the dozen or so riders in the thin smoke and dust in the distance, and hurriedly turned around and reported loudly to Cao Chen in the convoy.
As soon as the words fell, Cao Chen's heart was violently chuckled, this was obviously a plan to lure the enemy, but before Cao Chen could think too much about it, there were suddenly several terrible hiss and painful wails on the side of the slope that rushed straight into the sky.
"Hit the mark!" On both sides of the slope, Cao Chen and Yoshikawa, who almost fell into the trap, were a spirit at the same time, but the reactions of the two were diametrically opposite, Cao Chen hurriedly arranged the defense measures of the convoy himself, and Yoshikawa decided to continue the pursuit after seeing that several more dart masters filled the trap, because the murderer who killed his own brother was a hundred meters away in front of him.
After a short pause, Yoshikawa did not open his mouth to order everyone, and urged the mount to rush out again, but as soon as the mount rushed out a few steps, Yoshikawa felt that the mount was like a pair of front hooves were suddenly cut off, and the huge body suddenly fell to the front, and the unprepared Yoshikawa also lost his balance, but fortunately, Yoshikawa's mount fell on the edge of the trap pit, and Yoshikawa was thrown to the other side of the trap pit, so he did not fall into the pit and became the prey of those barbed bamboo spears.
Without waiting for Yoshikawa, who had fallen to a stumbling block, to get up, the dart masters behind him who had not had time to stop their mounts rushed up, and once again several people and horses fell into the pit, and a burst of wailing and neighing made Yoshikawa, who was clenching his teeth, burst out of blood from his gums because he was too hard.
"Revenge! Avenge!! ”
But the rest of the outlaws didn't seem to know what death was, or they didn't care that they would fall into the trap, and the slogan shook the sky, and they continued to urge their mounts without hesitation, leaping over the two traps one after another, and looking at the dozen riders in the smoke and dust in the distance, their eyes were full of endless hatred.
But there was a trap of the same size in front of them, but this time, even the neighing of the mounts and the wails of the dart masters were much less, not because the number of people who fell into them was smaller, but that they were numb by this time, and their hearts were full of hatred, and the pain was nothing.
At the same time that Yoshikawa refound his mount and jumped over the three traps, Ding Li in the distance also learned from the mouth of Aguda beside him, and without hesitation, he lifted a short crossbow from the side of the saddle and aimed it at the air is an arrow.
"Whoosh!!"
This is not an ordinary crossbow arrow, but a ringing arrow used to transmit signals, and this arrow also surprised everyone, whether it was Cao Chen who stayed next to the convoy, or Ji Chuan who was chasing Ding Li and others, or Kuroko and Ludachi who were ambushed in the woods on both sides of the official road.
"Pay attention to defense, there must be an ambush nearby!" Cao Chen's reaction was extremely fast, and when the arrows rang together, he understood that this was a secret signal between the ambush sneak attackers, and immediately waved his hand at everyone on horseback and shouted, but as soon as the reminder was spoken, countless sounds of breaking the sky sounded in the woods on both sides, like the sound of death in hell, tugging at the heartstrings of everyone around the convoy.
Fortunately, Cao Chen had already deployed his defenses in advance, and there were enough shield-raising guards on both sides of the convoy, except for a few unlucky ghosts who were hit by crossbow arrows and fell to the ground, the casualties were not large. But after all, it was a sneak attack, it was an ambush, and even Cao Chen couldn't be completely calm for a while, after all, he only had more than a hundred guards, and the other half of the strength was the power of the Ji brothers of the Yangwei Dart Bureau, but at this time, the remaining half of the dart master was still taken by Yoshikawa to the side of the slope to take revenge.
However, Yoshikawa's reaction was something Cao Chen did not expect, and the moment he saw the arrows in front of him rise into the air, Yoshikawa also suddenly calmed down, and after hurriedly pulling the reins and stopping the mount, he thought about it for a while, gritted his teeth, and looked resentful, but he turned the mount decisively, and shouted at the dart masters around him: "We will avenge this revenge later!" Go back to the rescue convoy first, we have fallen for the enemy's trick to divert the tiger from the mountain! ”
Without waiting for everyone to respond, Yoshikawa slammed his legs around the horse's belly, and returned in the direction of the convoy with a ring head knife full of anger. Seeing this, everyone had to temporarily put aside the anger in their hearts and follow Yoshikawa back, although these people are outlaws, but they also know the truth of taking people's money and eliminating disasters with people, and they are making a living from this, so they naturally understand that the batch of goods of the Cao Chamber of Commerce behind them is more important than the dozens of brothers who died. What's more, even Yoshikawa, who died his own brother, returned completely regardless of hatred, so what other choice did they have.
"Eighteen, twenty-two, sixteen." Thinking back to the crossbow arrows from the woods on both sides, Cao Chen's brows couldn't help but wrinkle more and more in his heart, the number of people in the ambush in the woods was completely uncertain, and the results according to the analysis were still very different, so that Cao Chen couldn't determine the number of people in the ambush at all, let alone want to fight back.
On this official road, Cao Chen and the others are completely like live targets, even if someone carries a bow and arrow to fight back, but the feather arrows shot are completely like a stone sinking into the sea, and they are either blocked by dense branches and leaves, or they don't know which tree they are quietly nailed to.
However, with the sound of rolling horses' hooves suddenly rising and getting closer and closer on the slope, Cao Chen also suddenly shuddered, and his eyes on the side of the slope where the sound of horses' hooves came began to panic, and even he, who had always been calm and composed, began to change quietly.
But as the leading Yoshikawa horse crossed the top of the slope and appeared in front of Cao Chen's eyes, the heart hanging in his throat finally fell heavily, and Cao Chen, who was soaked in sweat, breathed a long sigh of relief, but then Cao Chen's face sank, and the hatred in his eyes was fully revealed, and he suddenly roared: "The shield soldier stepped forward, search!" Search them one by one! Press them all up, and get all those hateful guys out for Lao Tzu! ”
The ambushes on both sides were in the woods, and it was obviously unreasonable to rely on Yoshikawa's horseback dart masters to get in, and Cao Chen couldn't watch the other party suffer heavy casualties without his own side showing any indication.
After a few rounds of crossbow arrows from the woods on both sides just now, the fear in the hearts of the guards of the Cao Chamber of Commerce has actually been greatly reduced, after all, from the analysis point of view, as long as they are not fools, they can conclude that there are definitely not many sneak attackers in ambush, so after Cao Chen's order was issued, not many people were timid, but some of them rushed to rush into the woods to catch the sneak attackers to make meritorious contributions to Cao Chen.
But it was obvious that the sunspots and Lu Dachi and others in ambush in the woods did not want Cao's guards to enter the woods easily, and as Cao's guards gradually approached, the sound of crossbow arrows in the woods became more and more scattered, but the hit rate was greatly improved, and most of them were shot at the uncovered legs of Cao's guards. However, it is not easy to do this, after all, there are many shrubs and weeds in front of you, and the trees do not grow regularly, so it is not easy to aim at the target.
"The enemy wants to run! Hurry, hurry! All pressed up! As the crossbow arrows from the forest ** decreased, Cao Chen suddenly shouted, urging everyone at the same time, even Cao Chen himself carried a Tang knife and beckoned a few henchmen to follow with a shield.
And Yoshikawa, who returned to the convoy, saw that Cao Chen was preparing to enter the woods with Cao's guards, and felt that he could not help much for the time being, so he ordered the drivers of the accompanying convoy to pay attention, and then arranged for a few small darts to lead people to disperse and pay attention to the vigilance, and then took a few guys who had been in the market with him many years ago to the mount carrying Ji Zhan's corpse.
At the same time, Ding Li, who had just escaped to a distant place, was returning to the convoy with Aguda and a group of people who also learned from Yoshikawa, but the expressions of Ding Li and the others under the black veil were completely different from those of Yoshikawa's group. Sitting on horseback from a distance, you can see the trap pit filled with the corpses of people and horses, and at this time, everyone is still discussing excitedly how many people have been filled in the three traps.
"Brother Li, brothers have worked hard for so long, it seems that their strength is not in vain!" After discussing a final result with a few people, Aguda urged the horse to come to Ding Li's side and asked with a smile: "But, Brother Li, how many people do you say that the three horse traps have to be filled?" I just thought about it with a few brothers, and there must be at least thirty of them! ”
"Unlikely!" Ding Li glanced at Aguda, and then swept over a group of brothers who were looking at him, seeing that everyone had different expressions, either nodded slightly in agreement, or looked unconvinced, seeing this, Ding Li smiled slightly, and then continued: "Thirty people is actually not much! But if you add their mounts, I'm afraid there are no more than thirty people! Don't forget, the one who enters the horse pit must be the one who is on the horse, and the person on horseback is the only one who passes through the horse pit first to die inside! After all, this horse trap is mainly to block the cavalry, and the lethality depends on what scale the horse trap is! As for the horse pit we dug, it is absolutely useful to block the cavalry charge, but if you want to kill a few more people, I am afraid it will not be very useful! ”
"So, what about the ones on both sides of the official road?" Aguda was a little discouraged when he heard this, just now he swore to a few brothers that there must be at least thirty people, but now that Ding Li analyzed, even he himself agreed a little in his heart, but after seeing the eyes of the few people he was talking to just now, he couldn't help but stiffen his neck and continue to ask Ding Li, as if he wanted to divert the topic.
"Over there." Hearing this, Ding Li paused slightly, and then said with a smile: "If nothing else, the harvest over there should not be small, after all, cavalry can't enter the woods!" ”