Chapter 19: Mutations
In the darkness of the night, several cavalry galloped on the official road.
Such a night was not suitable for horses, even if it was summer, the sky was clear, the moonlight was as clear as water, and the visibility was very high.
But night is night after all, and good visibility doesn't mean horses can gallop freely.
Because horses are born short-sighted.
Although the horses' eyes are longer than the left and right sides of their cheeks, they have an amazing range of vision, as if they were fitted with two rear-view mirrors, so they can see behind them.
The only blind spots they have are directly in front of the tip of the nose and directly behind the buttocks.
During the day, the horse can run while looking down at the road, but when the night comes, the vision is blocked, and when the nearsightedness is blurred, the person sees the road in front of him as a silvery-white piece illuminated by the moonlight, while the horse's vision is black.
But thanks to Cao Ren's burning of the village, he set fire to Niqiu Mountain near Zhangyangju and some hills in the remaining veins of Zhangshan Mountain, the mountains and forests were blazing, and the flames could be seen rushing to the sky dozens of miles away.
The originally dark road was illuminated by flames, and Cao Ren and other knights galloped on horseback and fled all the way north. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others chased after them, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer.
Under the moonlight, looking at the back of the enemy who was already less than twenty zhang away, he could even see Cao Ren turning his head to look back from time to time, with a hint of panic in his hideous face. The anger in Shen Chen's heart did not decrease in the slightest, but was like a flame erupting out, and his eyes were already red.
This Cao Wei general, who is famous in history, is a brave general and the most proficient wizard in people's minds. Countless people regard him as a hero, thinking that he is half of Cao Wei's country, if there is no Cao Ren, Xiangfan will be broken.
But at this moment, Shen Chen didn't have the slightest respect for him.
Because in addition to being one of Cao Wei's best generals, he was also a cruel executioner, Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou and Wancheng, all of which had his share.
The world's praise and follow-up to him, Shen Chen doesn't care, it's just a different position and looking at the problem from God's perspective.
Those people have never been the people of Xuzhou, and they have not been the citizens of the five counties of Xiapi who were slaughtered by Cao Cao, how do they know how cold the river in Surabaya is, how do they know whether their blood can dye the entire river red, how can they know that their corpses can block the entire river?
And Shen Chen was now personally facing Cao Jun's brutality, so his position was on the opposite side of the slaughterer.
If there is still admiration and no hatred in the face of an enemy who wants to kill him, then where should the countless ghosts who died in vain in Xuzhou and Wancheng go to avenge their grievances?
At least now Shen Chen didn't have the slightest appreciation for Cao Ren, at this moment he just wanted to tear him alive, cut off his head and hang it high, and crush his corpse to ashes, in order to pay tribute to the dead villagers of Zhangyangju.
"Cao Ren, suffer death!"
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's bodies were the heaviest, and the horses were overwhelmed and couldn't get up fast, but Liu Bei was lighter and had the best riding skills. The two of them were getting closer and closer, and less than a foot away, he roared and stabbed obliquely with his sword.
At the critical moment, Cao Ren's galloping guards on the right side didn't have time to help block it, so they gritted their teeth, and the whole person flew out, crashing headlong into Liu Bei's sword, and forcefully deflected the blow.
"Good dead!"
In the face of this kind of loyal protector of the dead man, Liu Bei also praised it, but his kung fu was not slow, and he changed the stab to slash, and actually split the flying dead man in mid-air.
This split is not simple, not only for the change of their own hand speed, moves, and skills, but also the most test is the wrist strength of the person.
Cao Ren's personal guard weighed more than 100 catties, and with the inertial impact caused by jumping, if it was an ordinary iron sword, it was very likely to break directly.
Even if it is not broken, the wrist strength of ordinary people is not enough, and it is very likely that they will not be able to split, allowing the enemy's body to crash into their own horses and disrupt the speed of pursuit.
But Liu Bei's own swordsmanship is extraordinary, the double-strand sword is a divine weapon, and the wrist strength can distinguish between the feather and Zhang Fei's wrestling, and he actually splits the enemy down in mid-air, so that he does not collide with his horse, which can be described as a very terrifying strength.
And this is only Liu Bei, Liu Bei can only be regarded as a second-rate military general, and he cannot reach the first-class and super-first-class level. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun are all super-first-class.
It can be seen from this that fierce generals like Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun are nightmarish existences for ordinary soldiers. Unless it is a large-scale military formation of hundreds or thousands of people, ordinary dozens of people face them, it is as simple as chopping melons and vegetables.
However, although Liu Bei skillfully defused the flutter, the horse had to slow down, and he himself lost his center of gravity and was temporarily unable to control the horse, causing Cao Ren to pull away some distance and flee a little farther.
The two sides chased and fled, and ran for about four or five miles. After all, Cao Ren came from dozens of miles of running, the horses did not rest enough, their physical strength gradually exhausted, and no matter how they whipped, the speed became slower and slower.
"Am I going to die here? What about Li Gan? I arranged for him to pick him up, why didn't he come here yet? ”
Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, and the surrounding guards were constantly dying for him to stop the enemy, and the number of people was getting smaller and smaller, Cao Ren's sense of fear became deeper and deeper.
However, as the so-called "house leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat was late and encountered a head wind", the pursuers were already very anxious, Cao Ren's crotch under the war horse lost its front hooves, because the night was too dark, stepped on the post road pit, fell to the ground, and overturned him.
Seeing this, the surrounding guards anxiously shouted to the general, and at the same time stopped and turned their horses' heads, and quickly came over to surround him and protect him, but their number was only five.
It seems that there is one more person than Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, but the combat strength of the two sides cannot be proportional at all, and the butcher's knife of death has quietly descended on their heads.
"Cao Ren, your time of death is approaching."
When Liu Bei saw this scene, he laughed out loud, and lowered his speed, now that the enemy is already a battle of trapped beasts, he is afraid of being exchanged for his life by the other party when he charges alone, and it is the right way to wait for the second brother, the third brother and Zilong to keep up.
The three of them are not far apart, only dozens of zhang between the front and back, and the last one is Guan Yu, who is more than two meters tall and weighs more than 200 catties.
However, just at this chaotic and critical moment, in the night, a sharp arrow suddenly shot in, piercing the void like a ghost, and shooting towards Liu Bei at the front.
Bite!
Liu Bei's eyesight is extremely high, and his archery skills are also outstanding, noticing the unusual, he flies with a double-strand sword.
In the next second, someone shouted in the distance: "General Cao, hold on, Li Gan is coming!" ”
"Kill!"
"Save the General!"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
Behind him, the mountains roared like a tsunami, and the troops that Li Gan responded to.
"Hahahaha!"
Cao Ren suddenly ignited his hope, got up from the ground with difficulty, and shouted: "Liu Bei, if you want to kill me, you are dreaming!" ”
Liu Bei anxiously reined in the horse and looked back, when everyone chased and fled before, because Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were too heavy, the horses were not fast enough, and only Zhao Yun followed at this moment.
"Lord!"
Zhao Yun came to the front and saw the torches pouring in front of him from a distance.
Cao Ren is not stupid, he actually came out this time just to kill Shen Chen, so in order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, he only brought two hundred soldiers.
However, north of Huangmen Pavilion, Li Gan was also arranged to arrange a thousand people to respond, and he was afraid of alarming Tao Qian's troops.
It's just that Tao Qian's troops didn't alarm, but provoked Liu Bei and others, and Huangmen Pavilion actually formed his own clan guards, which he didn't expect.
But fortunately, the back hand was properly arranged, and his life was saved at the critical moment.
"Uncle Zhao, kill him quickly."
At this moment, Shen Chen also arrived with Zhao Yun, and seeing this situation, he hurriedly begged Zhao Yun to make a move.
Zhao Yun urged the horse to pounce, and Cao Ren's four personal guards immediately gave up their lives to block, and several sharp arrows came over in the distance, forcing Liu Bei, who was going to go up to help, to retreat.
In the distance, Li Gan and more than a dozen soldiers on horseback rushed over, and their speed was the fastest, pulling down a large part of the infantry behind.
Soon the two sides were entangled, Liu Bei and Zhao Yun struggled to kill several people, and Cao Ren had already turned over on a horse with a personal guard next to him, turned the horse's head and ran out of about ten zhang, constantly drinking the soldiers in the rear to hurry up.
It was at this time that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei finally arrived, plus Liu Bei's more than ten retinue cavalry, the two sides fought for a while, Li Gan was forced to retreat, and was about to continue the pursuit, when the rear army had arrived.
"Damn!"
Shen Chen's eyes were red, he never expected that he would fall short, and Cao Ren actually arranged for someone to respond.
"Hahaha."
Cao Ren laughed insolently, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a child sitting in front of the white horse silver spear general in the distance, stared at it, and said in surprise: "Shen Chen, you are Shen Chen, you are not dead!" ”
At this time, the two sides had already separated, and they were facing each other seven or eight feet away, Shen Chen looked at him indifferently, and said coldly: "Do you really want me to die?" ”
"I didn't want to at first, but my eldest brother wanted to meet you."
At this time, Cao Ren didn't bother to make up lies, because they were already like this, and it didn't make much sense.
Shen Chen thought for a while, nodded and said: "Cao Cao is indeed a hero, it seems that after discovering that the Xiangben people had gone to flee, he learned that it was my idea to take me to Yanzhou, and then Lu Bu attacked, afraid that I would be obtained by Tao Qian, so he sent Ling to kill me to prevent future troubles, right?" ”
Cao Ren laughed and said: "Hahahaha, the eldest brother is right, you kid is really a trouble, it's a pity, if it weren't for Lu Bu's house, I would have brought you to the eldest brother a long time ago." ”
"It's okay, you let me kill it today, and I'll send Cao Cao there next day, and we will finally meet together underground in a hundred years."
Shen Chen's eyes already showed a fierce light, and he said viciously: "When the time comes, I believe that the hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou who were killed by you will be happy to meet you in the Netherworld and have a good chat about the pain and sorrow you have brought them!" ”
"Kill me?"
Cao Ren looked left and right, and saw that his ambush soldiers were slowly in place, and snorted coldly: "You take a look at yourself first, no one can leave Liu Bei and you today." ”
"Really?"
Shen Chen's eyes glanced to the right slightly, Zhao Yun quietly touched his waist, in addition to the silver spear in his hand, there was also a short sword on his waist, through the darkness, he wanted to see if he could throw it over and kill Cao Ren.
But before he could make a move, he heard a wave surging behind him.
"Kill!"
"Avenge the dead folks!"
"Don't let any of them go!"
The clansmen of Huangmen Pavilion, with Liu Bei's help, killed all the scattered Cao army and rushed to help.