Chapter 537: A Generation of Heroes
The cavalry led by Cheng Ge rushed the fastest in the middle, and they gradually approached Xiao Feng.
Xiao Feng obviously didn't expect to be caught up so soon, he took off his musket from his horse in a panic, turned around and shot at the pursuers.
Xiao Feng's marksmanship is very good, although the distance is very long, he may not be able to accurately hit the enemy, but he can at least hit the enemy's horse!
Two of the three leading horses were shot, and the horses rolled directly to the ground under the high-speed impact, and the cavalry who could not fly and dismount in the future was also crushed to the full level of disability.
With his skillful riding skills, Cheng Ge controlled the horse to run a big S and a small S, and successfully dodged the bullets.
But whether it is a big S or a small S, it will affect the speed of a man's horseback, and Xiao Feng took the opportunity to distance himself again. After a while, the cavalry led by Chenger gradually caught up.
Xiao Feng turned around and shot again, and after firing several shots, he knocked down a few more pursuers and opened up a little distance again.
After repeating it several times, Xiao Feng didn't shoot again, and ran forward with his head bored.
At a glance, Chenger saw a white object on the grass in front of him. He was a great horseman, and with one foot off the stirrup on his horse's back, he bent down to fish for the moon in the water, and picked it up.
It's a furoshiki, and there is a smell of gunpowder on it, Cheng Ge is overjoyed: "Xiao Feng has no ammunition, rush with me, kill Xiao Feng, and share the wealth!" ”
Cheng Ge took the lead, with the middle cavalry chasing, getting closer and closer to Xiao Feng, Cheng Ge tried to bend the bow and arrow, shot Xiao Feng an arrow, almost a distance, fell behind the horse.
Xiao Feng also heard the sound of arrows breaking through the wind, and in a hurry, he raised his musket and aimed back, Cheng Ge was startled, and hurriedly summoned Big S again.
However, Xiao Feng didn't shoot this time, just scared him, forced him to slow down, and then attached himself to the horse and continued to run.
Cheng Ge was furious, obviously Xiao Feng only had an empty gun left, since it was an empty gun, what was the use of me wanting this size S? Delay!
Cheng Ge approached again, bent his bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow, Xiao Feng didn't look back, and used a musket to pull away the bow and arrow.
Cheng Ge yelled: "Speed up the chase and release the arrows together!" "I bent my bow again.
Xiao Feng was in a hurry, turned around and raised his gun at Chengger, Chengger was unmoved, pulled the bow like a full moon, and the arrow went like a meteor, handsome!
Bang! Xiao Feng's gun rang out, and at the same time, Cheng Ge's arrow also flew in front of Xiao Feng and was copied by Xiao Feng.
Xiao Feng casually threw the musket to the ground, laughed, picked up the whip and slammed the horse's buttocks twice, and the white horse neighed and accelerated again.
The pursuers were startled by the sound of the gunshot, and then saw Chenggel staggering on the horse's back, and then fell off the horse. The cavalrymen were stunned and stopped their horses together.
Altan Khan, who was dragging behind, rushed up and looked at Chenger, who had fallen to the ground and died, and the musket thrown on the grass, his face turned pale.
"What's going on? Chenger is superb in riding and alert, how could he get shot? ”
The cavalry closest to Chenger told what had just happened, including the furoshiki found by Chenger and so on.
Altan Khan was shocked, angry and happy, surprised that Xiao Feng was so cunning, angry that his henchman died tragically, and happy that Xiao Feng's hand must have been prepared for himself, but because of his own prudence, Chengger was able to prevent the disaster.
Altan Khan yelled: "Give me chase!" He had already run two hundred miles, and even if the white horse's deceleration was pretended before, his horse must not be able to run fast now! ”
Xiao Feng, who was no longer pretending, began to flee at full speed, and the Mongolian cavalry behind also continued to pursue at full speed. Altan Khan was still following the group.
Because he knew that although Xiao Feng was without a musket, his kung fu should not be underestimated.
If he takes the lead, if Xiao Fengfeng is desperate and rushes straight at himself, he may be able to hurt himself before being shot into a hedgehog.
Not to mention that now that he has won the battle, there is no need to take risks at all, even if he rushes to the battlefield, he will try to avoid the most brave warriors on the other side.
The Great Khan should certainly be the bravest, but the Great Khan is also the most honorable. The most dangerous place is, of course, for the warriors to charge.
Otherwise, you have to work hard before becoming a great sweater, and you have to work hard after becoming a great sweat, isn't the great sweat in vain?
The grass is getting taller and taller, and it grows significantly better than the dwarf grass in the depths of the grassland. This shows that it is almost the boundary of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the Ming Dynasty prayed for rain successfully, it also rained outside the Great Wall, but the range beyond was not large, and there was no rain in the depths of the real grassland, so there would be famine.
The grass here is tall enough to reach the state of "the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep are low" in the song. Altan Khan suddenly sighed.
If the grass in the entire grassland is like that on the border of the Ming Dynasty, there will be no shortage of food in the grassland, then he won't have to turn his face with Xiao Feng so quickly.
Although Xiao Feng is a bastard, he is still a very interesting person, at least much better than Xiao Qin.
If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to divide the grassland, to subdue the Hetao, and to block his way to hegemony, he could have become friends.
The high grass hindered the horse's running, but it was more beneficial to Altan Khan.
Because Mongolian horses are born to gallop on the grasslands, they are less affected by pastures. And although Xiao Feng's white horse is handsome, he is used to running the official road, and he is obviously more affected in such a long grass.
So soon, Altan Khan saw Xiao Feng's white horse again in the telescope, and it was still running fast, but it was not the same as it was at the beginning.
Altan Khan breathed a sigh of relief, although this place is getting closer and closer to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Feng will never have a chance to set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty again, he is destined to die on this grassland.
After running for more than thirty miles, the white horse became slower and slower, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer. Xiao Feng no longer sat upright on the horse's back, but clinged to the horse's back.
Altan Khan put down his binoculars and nodded secretly. Xiao Feng's posture is the most labor-saving way for horses, and only veteran drivers who ride horses all year round know this truth.
When a person sits upright, the person is comfortable, and the horse is uncomfortable. The person is lying on the back of the horse, the person is uncomfortable, the horse is comfortable.
There is no light burden on long distances, and such a super long-distance high-speed run, any practice that makes the horse uncomfortable will waste the horse's physical strength and make the horse slower down.
Xiao Feng threw away the empty gun, and because of this, any reduction in weight is very important for horses that are tired to the limit.
Xiao Feng, you were born in the Central Plains, grew up in the Central Plains, and you are a scholar, but you can master the tricks of cavalry so quickly, you are really a genius.
No wonder Yan Shifan will be defeated in your hands, no wonder Xiao Qin will be defeated in your hands. In time, maybe I'll be defeated at your hands too.
It's a pity that you are too anxious and want to get rid of the threat for Daming as soon as possible, so you made a fatal mistake - to challenge a grassland overlord on the grassland, or to use the way of horse racing.
You are equivalent to comparing your big knife with Guan Gong, crying with Liu Bei, comparing your godfather with Lu Bu, and comparing with Cao Cao......
Before he could figure out what to compare with Cao Cao, the white horse in front of him and the white robe lying on the horse were already visible to the naked eye, and Altan Khan deliberately slowed down his speed and ordered the cavalry pursuing in front.
"Catch up and shoot the arrows!"
Seeing that the white horse in front of him was running slower and slower, the pursuers on the left and right sides also began to move closer to the middle, and the three pursuers rushed towards Xiao Feng in front like three greedy snakes.
The distance was getting closer and closer, and the arrow was like a flying locust, shooting at the white horse, and the white horse was hit by an arrow in the buttocks, and hissed forward in pain, but it was too tired, and its speed had reached its limit.
Soon more arrows hit it, and the white robe on its back. Blood flowed from the white horse, and his steps were crooked.
I Da Khan, who fell at the back of the team, raised his binoculars suspiciously, why did Xiao Feng still lie on the back of the horse and not make a move to block the arrows for the white horse? An arrow has already been shot at the white robe......
Altan Khan was shocked, reined in his horse, and then he saw a man standing up in the tall grass.
He was dressed in green clothes, and his white robe was gone. With a gun in his hand, he raised it and aimed it at himself.
Because of the telescope, the gun in Xiao Feng's hand seemed to be almost on his head, and Altan Khan screamed and threw down the telescope.
It wasn't so close as it was, but it was very close, and there was only a distance of twenty paces between the two of them, and if he hadn't reined in his horse just now, the gun would have been on his head now.
The pursuers in front were still chasing the white horse and shooting arrows, and the huge bounty made them tremble with excitement, their eyes were red, and they didn't notice what was happening behind them for a while.
Time seemed to stand still, and I looked at the horseshoe prints and dirt on Xiao Feng's body in a daze, and suddenly asked an inexplicable word.
"Stepped on?"
Xiao Feng smiled: "Although I try to hide a little more to the side, your chasing formation has been changing, and I was trampled by a guy who was eager to grab merit when he overtook from the side.
Thankfully, he hadn't noticed, otherwise he might have spotted me if he looked down. But with such a large bounty ahead, he would only think that the horse had stepped on the dirt bag. ”
Altan Khan held the reins tightly in his hands, and rubbed his horse's toes lightly. The war horse, which had followed him for many years, immediately understood what he meant, and began to retreat backwards extremely stealthily.
Xiao Feng sighed, took aim with his gun, and strode forward in the waist-deep grass. At this time, the three greedy snakes in front had been taken far away by the white horse covered in blood.
"Don't think about it, at this distance, I can hit you with my eyes closed, at least my horse. From the moment I saw you at the back, I was waiting for the grass to grow enough. ”
Altan Khan didn't dare to move anymore: "This gun, you hid under the horse's belly from the beginning, right?" You took the other handful on purpose to show me, so that I would not be suspicious. ”
Xiao Feng nodded: "I was chased and killed by a hundred cavalrymen, and I didn't even take a musket, so you don't believe it."
It's better to take one generously and throw it away, and you'll be more likely to believe that I'm out of gun. ”
Altan Khan smiled bitterly: "You don't hesitate to use a white horse as bait, but have you ever thought that if you kill me, you won't be able to escape."
You don't even have a horse, those pursuers will shoot you like a hedgehog, no matter how high your kung fu is, it's useless. Let's make a deal.
If you don't kill me, I won't kill you, but you have to admit defeat and stop worrying about the affairs of the grassland in the future, how about it? ”
Xiao Feng sighed deeply: "Great Khan, to this day, neither of us can trust each other."
I bet you'll kill me first thing when your pursuers come back. Only if you die, I still have a chance to live. ”
Altan Khan looked at Xiao Feng's slightly narrowed eyes, knowing that he was about to shoot, he roared at the moment and smacked the horse's ribs with his boots.
After a long time on the battlefield, the war horse that supported life and death did not say a word, rushed out with the fastest speed of oblique stabs, and instantly ran out of an extremely strange route!
The movement was so fast, and the route of the run was so strange, that in the blink of an eye, it was ten paces away.
As long as Xiao Feng misses the first shot, if he wants to reload the second shot, he will definitely have escaped far away, and there will be no more chance.
Xiao Feng's gun barrel moved slowly as Altan Khan's horse ran, and then pulled the trigger.
"Bang"! The war horse staggered, rolled and fell to the ground.
Altan Khan's movements were extremely agile, his feet had already broken off his stirrups, and he jumped desperately and rolled to the ground when his horse was crooked and did not fall.
The sound of gunfire alarmed the pursuing cavalry in the distance, and the more alert of them looked back and back.
It was too far away to see clearly, but half of the loyal cavalry gave up the bloody bounty in front of them and turned around and began to run back.
Altan Khan fell and injured one of his legs when he landed, but he was not hit by a musket.
Because this war horse was too smart and ran on too good a route, Xiao Feng did not risk hitting him, but hit the horse.
Altan Khan turned over and jumped up, and when he raised the long knife, Xiao Feng was already standing in front of him, throwing the musket on the ground with his left hand, and carrying the embroidered spring knife in his right hand, with a look of amazement on his face.
"Great Khan, if your kung fu is good enough to hold out until your cavalry comes back, you will win."
Altan Khan gritted his teeth, raised his long knife, let out a heart-rending roar, and pounced on Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng bent down and rushed towards Altan Khan.
When some of the cavalry rushed back first, they only saw a pool of blood in the grass and the body of Altan Khan who fell in a pool of blood, and Xiao Feng was nowhere to be found.
As far as the eye can see, waist-deep grass sways in the breeze, sometimes high and sometimes low, a piece of green, until the sky, where there is no hiding person.
The cavalrymen were furious, charging in all directions on their horses, slashing the grass with steel swords.
Patches of grass have been cut off, but in this vast grassland, trying to find someone hiding in the grass is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
When the remaining cavalry finally shot down the white horse, and found that there was only a white robe tied to the scabbard on the white horse's back, they immediately knew that they had been fooled, and they also turned around and ran back.
Because a few were killed by Xiao Feng on the way, the less than a hundred cavalrymen, after a brief period of rage and grief, fell into a deep silence.
"We, what should we do? Do you want to continue your search for Xiao Feng here? Still is...... Go back with the body of the Great Khan? ”
"Even if we can find Xiao Feng, his kung fu is so high, can we kill him? In such a short time, the Great Khan was killed, and the Great Khan was a famous warrior! ”
"Even if we kill Xiao Feng and the Great Khan is dead, no one will reward us. Will those tribal leaders turn their faces and join forces with the Ming army to kill us instead? ”
"If we return with the body of the Great Khan, what will happen to the tribal leaders? There are tribal leaders who are loyal to the Great Khan, but when the Great Khan dies, will they change their minds? ”
"I don't think that's the problem. It's about who won the gamble. Everyone swore that whoever won would listen to whom! ”
"But Xiao Feng didn't return to Datong, his horse died, and the Great Khan's horse also died, he must have been hiding nearby, and he couldn't run far.
So we didn't lose! As long as we kill Xiao Feng, we will still win! The gamble didn't say that the Great Khan needed to kill Xiao Feng with his own hands! ”
"But what if you win? The result of winning the gamble was that Daming no longer cared about the affairs of the grassland.
The Great Khan is dead, and a new Great Khan will surely arise from other powerful tribes! They'll attack us the same way we attacked other tribes before! ”
"And there is so little food this year, Daming really doesn't care about the grassland anymore, can the new Great Khan take us to win the Ming Dynasty and grab the food?"
Everyone was talking about it, and suddenly there was a creepy long whistle in the distance. Several horsemen immediately jumped up.
"Wolves, wolves. This meadow is a haunt of wolves. Otherwise, how could there be no one to graze such a good pasture. ”
"That's right, this grassland is a wolf pen, when the wolf was at its peak, the cattle and sheep of several tribes were washed with blood, and we even sent cavalry to fight the wolf."
"I remember that my Abba died in that battle against wolves, and those wolves, there were too many, too vicious.
After that fight, the wolves became smaller and their range of movement smaller, but no one dared to come to this pasture. ”
"It's getting dark, and after the sun sets, even the cavalry team doesn't dare to go head-to-head with the wolves, the wolves are all night-eyed......"
The cavalrymen fell silent, and one of the most prestigious suddenly spoke up.
"Anyway, Xiao Feng is the enemy who killed the Great Khan, if we can meet him, we must kill him to avenge the Great Khan!
However, our immediate priority now is to bring the body of the Great Khan back to the tribe and let the Great Khan's son inherit the throne as soon as possible.
If other tribes can continue to support it, it is best, if not, we will at least have a great sweat and will not be divided! ”
The other cavalry breathed a sigh of relief and responded.
"Yes, let's go back, there are wolves in this grassland, Xiao Feng has no horses, we can't find him, wolves can find him!"
"Yes, if it weren't for the wolves making such a fierce fuss and the wolves eating Xiao Feng, he wouldn't have been able to return to Datong, in that case, even though the Great Khan died, we would still win the gamble!"
So a group of people carried the body of Altan Khan on their backs, shouted the slogan "Xiao Feng must be killed", and rode away with a heavy heart.
After they had walked a long way, in the grass dozens of steps away, Xiao Feng stood up and looked at the endless grassland with a wry smile.
"I don't really need to walk all the way back to Datong from here. There are still hundreds of miles, and if it is really deserted, if you don't starve to death, you will die of thirst.
These guys say there are wolves in this meadow? It's not going to be that back, let me run into it......"
Xiao Feng carried a knife and a gun, walked forward for a while, and saw the white horse lying on the ground, at this time the whole body was covered in blood, and was shot into a hedgehog by an arrow, and he had lost his breath.
Xiao Feng sat down, touched the white horse's head, and gently closed the white horse's wide eyes.
"You are a good horse, and I hope to take you back to Datong. But you can't outrun them, and I can't help it.
We're both going to die if we catch up, so I'll have to strike first.
Altan Khan will not give up his position as the overlord of the steppe unless he dies. I don't want all the tribes on the grassland to fight for a long time and burn all the jade.
What the Ming Dynasty wants is a peaceful and stable grassland, not a grassland full of corpses and mountains of blood. This can only be done by taking risks.
The general will inevitably die on the battlefield, and the grassland is the best destination for a horse, which is better than you dying in the stable of the Xiao Mansion. ”
Xiao Feng muttered for a while, and seeing that the horse's eyes did not open, he tacitly agreed to his words, stood up and continued to walk forward.
The sky is blue and the clouds are white, the grass is long and the wind is slow, the grassland is like an endless green sea, and he is like a lonely boat in this sea, but he does not know where the shore is.