Chapter 449, Murder Arrow
Although the little scout surnamed Dong had fallen from his horse and died, after all, he died after fleeing back to the barracks, and he had already brought back information to Huo Yunsheng. Of the more than 100 scouts, only one escaped, and that doesn't mean a problem? Among the 100 scouts in this team, there were two lieutenants, one was a small man surnamed Dong, and the other was a big scout who turned around and killed Huang Zongling. In particular, the small captain surnamed Dong is the archer in Huo Yunsheng's army, and he is also Huo Yunsheng's godson.
Huo Yunsheng, who was nearly forty years old and tall, came outside the tent, his face was gloomy and terrifying, and he squatted on the ground to check the body of the little scout Dong Tie again. The arrow was shot from the back of the heart, and then from the front of the heart, and the two heart goggles and armor were shot through, indicating that this person was extremely powerful, Dong Tie was a captain, a sharpshooter in the army, but he was shot by others, so don't think about it, the other party must be a better archer.
As the herald passed the order, all the soldiers in Huo Yunsheng's camp had entered the highest state of alert. The death of their own scouts was like a thunderclap on the ground, which frightened these soldiers. These more than 100 scouts were built by Huo Yunsheng himself for several years, and they were all elites in the army, but they were killed in a battle, how terrible should the opponent be? Although Huo Yunsheng was confident that he would defeat these enemies, the morale of the soldiers was obviously low.
A few days ago, the enemy attacked the camp at night, beheaded the captain Qiu Zhengli, and shaved the head of the commander. Now that the scouts are dead again, they can figure out what kind of strength the enemy has with their toes, the strength of the Weiwang Mansion is too terrifying, and it is no wonder that the soldiers are demoralized.
Huo Yunsheng thought nervously, he urgently needed a victory to win the army's heart. The reinforcements of the Wei Wangfu happened to arrive at this time, so it was better to use them to open the knife! Huo Yunsheng began to dispatch troops and generals, and transferred three hundred elite cavalry out, Huo Yunsheng rode on his horse and set off with three hundred cavalry to raid the enemy, and at the same time let the three thousand infantry catch up with him later, and he wanted to fight to the death with the enemy.
Huang Zongling and the square-faced man with a yellow beard on a black horse fought on the official road, two hundred cavalry shouted and cheered on the side, the gray-clothed square-faced man was not stunned at all, a machete played like a dragon out of the water, Huang Zongling and the square-faced man fought for thirty rounds, regardless of victory or defeat, the big man was extremely strong, Huang Zongling was tired and sweaty, and he was afraid that he was short of horsepower just after chasing for dozens of miles.
After fighting a few more times, Huang Zongling secretly said in his heart, this guy is strong, it is difficult to win like this, it is better to use arrows to defeat him. Thinking of this, Huang Zongling sold a flaw with a false knife, turned around and left. Where was the square-faced man willing to give up, shouting and chasing after him, Huang Zongling ran down the official road in the direction of Jianzhou City. The two hundred cavalry, seeing that the main general could not win and left in the wilderness, also hurried up.
The distance between Huang Zongling and the gray-clothed square-faced man was about thirty paces, and the distance between the big man and the two hundred cavalrymen was fifty paces, and they were all in hot pursuit. Huang Zongling wanted to shoot the big man, but the big man wanted to kill Huang Zongling, and he was afraid of being surrounded by all the cavalry, so he urged the horses tightly, the horses' hooves rumbled, and the running was full of dust. The 200 cavalry wanted to release arrows, but the main general and the enemy were one after the other, and they were afraid of accidentally injuring the main general, so they did not dare to attack.
Outside the east gate of Jianzhou City, there is a flat land for dozens of miles, it is early winter, the crops have already been harvested, and there is a flat river at a glance, so both sides are not afraid of ambushes. Huang Zongling turned his head to peek as he ran, and the yellow-bearded man with a square face chased after him, seeing that the distance between the two sides was only thirty steps away. Huang Zongling quietly took off the hard bow, reached out and touched it in the quiver, and suddenly remembered that the last three arrows had shot at the little scout.
This surprise was not trivial, there were no arrows, and the courage in my heart was gone, so I had to run down the harvested farmland. As he ran, he thought, I'll scare him with a bow, and when I thought of this, I turned around, pulled the bowstring, and let go of my hand. The square-faced yellow-bearded man who was chasing after him was also afraid that Huang Zongling would have any plans, so although he was chasing the enemy, he did not dare to relax his vigilance at all.
The square-faced and yellow-bearded man suddenly saw the enemy turn around, holding a hard bow in his hand and letting go, and he heard clearly that the bowstring sounded, and he was startled at that time, and hurriedly lay down on the horse's back, but did not hear the sound of the arrow flying past. The big man was puzzled, raised his head and looked, the other party was aiming at himself with a hard bow, and the bowstring sounded again, so he was frightened and quickly hid in a stirrup, and he didn't see any arrows flying, and he was wondering, and the bowstring sounded again, or there were no arrows flying.
The square-faced man understood in his heart, is this guy playing with me without a bow and arrow? He sneered, turned around and took down the bow and arrow, and said secretly, wait for me to shoot you and see! Zhang took the bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at the back of Huang Zongling's heart. That big man's archery skills are not as good as Huang Zongling,
The accuracy of this arrow was a little worse, but Huang Zongling suddenly flashed, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he grabbed this carved arrow in his hand, this arrow was lighter than Huang Zongling's use.
Huang Zongling had an arrow in his hand, and he was secretly happy in his heart, big boy, your time of death has arrived! Huang Zongling turned around again, the arrow was already on the string, and he could see the other party's face clearly in about thirty steps. This arrow came out of the string, impartially, and hit the face of the big man, and the big man sighed and fell off the horse.
Huang Zongling used the big man's carved arrow, which was much lighter than the arrow he used, so one arrow failed to penetrate the big man's head, and only shot into about three inches. Huang Zongling turned the horse's head and came to the place where the big man fell from the horse, and saw the big man lying on the ground, the machete was thrown aside, his eyes were wide open, he was dead, his eyes were full of horror and unwillingness, Huang Zongling secretly shouted ashamed, if it wasn't for the other party to send arrows, he would have hung up today. Although it is not its own arrow, as long as it is an arrow that can kill, it is a good arrow.
When the two hundred cavalry saw that the main general had shot the enemy general, they immediately cheered like thunder, and Huang Zongling cut off the head of the big man, hung it on the horse's neck, and led the troops to prepare to retreat. After all, the little scout just now had fled back to the barracks, and his own side had been exposed, and at this time he was short of horsepower and could not fight anymore, so he quickly withdrew and rested. The chase just now was too fast, and the officials in charge of the horses behind did not keep up, so they had to change horses if they wanted to fight again.
The horse team had just turned around, and the horses' hooves rumbled on the official road behind them, and the dust covered the sun, and there should have been a large group of enemy troops killed, and it seemed that there were at least hundreds of cavalry. Huang Zongling did not dare to meet the enemy, and the cavalry withdrew, and met his own 300 cavalry on the way, his own 300 cavalry was catching up, his own casualties were more than 10 people, and more than 100 scouts of the other party were annihilated, Huang Zongling was overjoyed when he heard the news.
Looking back, the enemy cavalry was in hot pursuit, obviously wanting to avenge the scouts. Huang Zongling led five hundred cavalry to retreat sharply, as long as the main force of Jin Chengzhang of the halberd in the rear kept up, it would not be a big deal to eat hundreds of cavalry.
Besides, Jin Chengzhang and Shui Ruyue, an infantry of 2,500 people, went out of Lao Ye Ling, and saw a horse Pingchuan, and the depressed mood of walking in the mountains for several days immediately swept away, Shui Ruyue was happy, an eagle chirped in mid-air, Shui Ruyue raised his head, and saw a sparrowhawk Xiaoqing hovering in mid-air. Shui Ruyue was overjoyed and beckoned to Xiaoqing, Xiaoqing immediately fell, Shui Ruyue took down the secret letter, and was taken aback after reading it.
It turned out that Tang Jiusheng said in the letter that Huo Yunsheng, the main general of the enemy army outside the city, knew how to do witchcraft, and the captain He Changhu fell into a demonic coma and was beheaded by Huo Yunsheng, and the fat man was also hit by witchcraft, and he had been unconscious for five days. Tang Jiusheng instructed Shui Ruyue and Euphorbia Jin Chengzhang not to underestimate the enemy, if they met Huo Yunsheng, they must be more careful, and they must not fight alone with him.
Shui Ruyue asked the attendant to call the halberd Jin Chengzhang to come over to discuss the matter, and after a while, the halberd Jin Chengzhang came to Shui Ruyue's horse, and said respectfully: "The lowly Jin Chengzhang participates in the princess!" Shui Ruyue handed Tang Jiusheng's letter to Jin Chengzhang, Jin Chengzhang took the letter and read it again, and couldn't help but look embarrassed, if you want to say that you want to fight the formation, fight the wisdom and fight the martial arts, Jin Chengzhang is not afraid, but in the face of such a thing as witchcraft, what good way can there be?
Jin Chengzhang suddenly remembered that Huang Zongling led people to chase the enemy scouts, and someone reported on the way, saying that more than 100 scouts were wiped out. Jin Chengzhang was uneasy, for fear that Huang Zongling would suffer a loss when he met Huo Yunsheng, which would not be good, so he ordered the whole army to speed up and quickly go to rescue Huang Zongling, and this infantry team began to speed up. After all, infantry is infantry, and no matter how fast it accelerates on flat ground, it cannot catch up with the cavalry.
This team left the Laoyeling Pass, walked out of the distance of 20 miles, and was walking, when they saw the dust and smoke rising on the official road in front, one in front and one in the back, two groups of cavalry, it was Huang Zongling's troops who retreated. Jin Chengzhang relieved his heart at this time, and immediately ordered the army to set up bows and crossbows, and spearmen and short swordsmen lined up together, ready to fight.
Huang Zongling led the cavalry to run back, and when he saw that his team had already set up a formation from a distance, he was overjoyed and led the cavalry back to his own formation. Two hundred steps away, Huo Yunsheng led three hundred elite cavalry in pursuit, and suddenly saw that the enemy's army and horses had already set up a formation, and immediately shouted, leading the troops to rush over, wanting to tear a breakthrough, by the way to see how the enemy's combat effectiveness was.
Jin Chengzhang stood in the middle of the formation, let go of his own cavalry, and when he saw that the enemy dared to charge into battle, he also admired the courage of the other party, laughed cruelly, and shouted the order to release the arrows. The flag officer waved the flag and signaled the crossbowmen to open their bows and release their arrows, and hundreds of crossbowmen fired their arrows in three rounds, and more than 30 cavalrymen of the enemy fell in response
Horse. The cavalry was too fast to have a chance to make another round, so the crossbowmen immediately retreated in an orderly manner, and the pikemen stepped forward, with the tip of their spears pointing outwards, to defeat the cavalry.
Huo Yunsheng saw that the opponent's formation was rigorous and difficult to start, so he actually led the cavalry to go around in front of the formation, and was still more than thirty steps away from the cavalry formation, and turned around. This was much beyond Jin Chengzhang's expectations, he originally thought that Huo Yunsheng had lost more than 30 cavalry, and he would definitely rush into battle in anger, but he didn't expect the other party to afford to lose, so he turned around and left. Jin Chengzhang was faintly uneasy, the commander of the enemy cavalry was too calm.
Huang Zongling saw that the enemy was retreating, so he rode to Jin Chengzhang on horseback, and explained the previous battle process to Jin Chengzhang one by one, Jin Chengzhang nodded in approval, and told the letter from King Wei, Huang Zongling secretly called it a fluke, if it weren't for the problem of horsepower, he would be ready to turn back and fight. Fortunately, he didn't turn back, otherwise he would have faced Huo Yunsheng single-handedly, and he would never have ended well.
Huo Yunsheng saw that the formation of the army on the opposite side was in order, and he led the troops to rush and suffered a small loss, and he couldn't help but secretly admire in his heart, the general of this commander should be a famous general, and he had few soldiers, so he could not underestimate the enemy, and then led more than 200 cavalry to withdraw, and when the subsequent reinforcements arrived, it was not too late to start a war with the other party.
Seeing the enemy retreating, Jin Chengzhang ordered hundreds of soldiers to step forward and pick up the arrows and crossbows that were shot, as long as the arrows and crossbows were not broken, they could be recycled. It takes a lot of time to build arrows in the army, so what can be recycled must be recycled. In a short time, the soldiers had already cleaned up the battlefield, and the enemy horses that had been shot dead and wounded had all been slaughtered and salted, and the food problem was solved by using local materials, and the food that 3,000 people had to eat in a day was very amazing.
Huang Zongling came to see the princess Shui Ruyue and told him what had happened, Shui Ruyue praised him, and Huang Zongling was elated. Then Euphorbia Jin Chengzhang ordered all the soldiers to eat lunch, and today at noon they ate noodles, which was both long and fast. After lunch, they set up a marching army and could not walk ten miles, and saw a team blocking the way from the official road in the distance.
This team has about three or four thousand people, and it is the more than three thousand horse infantry soldiers brought out by Huo Yunsheng. Jin Chengzhang immediately commanded the team to transform from the marching army to the battle formation, the two sides were tense and confronted, Huo Yunsheng came out of the horse and called the main general on the opposite side to come out to answer, in the shadow of the door flag, the halberd Jin Chengzhang took Huang Zongling and dozens of cavalry out of the battle together, and Shui Ruyue took Shen Xiaoyu, Zu Qingqiu, eccentric monks and others to sweep the formation.
Huo Yunsheng had a big axe in his hand, and scolded: "This general is Huo Yunsheng, the general in front of Niu Jingluo's tent, commanding 10,000 troops, and he has been waiting for the rats of the Weiwangfu for a long time, and the rats on the opposite side should be reported quickly!"
Jin Chengzhang sneered, "The general Jin Chengzhang, came to beg for thieves on the order of the king of Wei, why don't you get off your horse and surrender?"
Huo Yunsheng glared and said: "Oh, it turns out that you are the Euphorbia Jin Chengzhang, there are tens of thousands of male soldiers under the account of my Niu Jingluo, hundreds of famous generals, sitting in Jiannan, looking at the world, and now you are recruiting troops and horses, I have long heard of your name of Euphorbia Jin Chengzhang, why don't you come to my Niu Jingluo account to plan for a great cause, and you will not lose the position of the marquis in the future!"
Jin Chengzhang laughed wildly, "What kind of ox is a strategic envoy? It's just a thief who deceives the world and steals his name, and sooner or later he will be exterminated! As the saying goes, the matter of the loyalty of the king is ridiculous, but your family is full of cattle, but the king of the king is against the court, he is a villain who has no father, is disloyal, unrighteous, unkind and unfilial, and you Huo Yunsheng is just a bastard who is a thief, a guts rat, and dares to talk nonsense in front of the battle!"
Huo Yunsheng was furious, slapped his horse and took Jin Chengzhang directly with the big axe, "Rat generation, do you dare to go head-to-head with Ben General?"
Jin Chengzhang laughed, "This person relies on his own demon arts, so he has to fight with others, and the general will not be fooled, brothers, release arrows!" Dozens of cavalry released arrows together, Huang Zongling opened his bow but did not shoot arrows, just stared at Huo Yunsheng tightly. Huo Yunsheng saw the arrow on the opposite side, so he had to dial the feather arrow while turning the horse's head, and as soon as he turned around, Huang Zongling shot an arrow, hitting Huo Yunsheng's left arm.
Huo Yunsheng was hit by an arrow, couldn't help screaming, and returned to his own camp with a big axe. Back in the formation, Huo Yunsheng gritted his teeth and pulled out the feather arrow, and after a closer look, it was the kind of feather arrow that shot Dong Tie, and he knew in his heart that the person who put this arrow was the one who shot Dong Tie. Huo Yunsheng gritted his teeth and asked, "Have you seen who put the arrow?"
A junior lieutenant Lu Zhang pointed at Huang Zongling and said, "General, it's that white-armored man." ”
Huo Yunsheng looked at Huang Zongling and said hatefully: "Sooner or later, I will capture this person alive, and I will be cut by a thousand cuts!"
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