Chapter 22: The Attack (Part II)
Cheng Kun didn't remind his subordinates that there was really an ambush, and it was difficult to see it with their eyesight.
After an hour's rest, the group set off again.
The topography of Giethoorn is very peculiar, and the strange peaks on both sides of the road rise, like two sharp sheep's horns facing each other. This section of the road is also surprisingly narrow, barely accommodating one car. As a result, the team had to form a long line of snakes, and it was difficult to balance the beginning and the end.
What's even more tricky is that the surrounding vegetation is overgrown, and there is no way to see the reality with the naked eye. In such an environment, it is completely easy to hide more than 100 people.
But if you want to move forward, you have to take this path. Therefore, Cheng Kun could only shout at the servant to work hard and pass as soon as possible.
The wind blew softly, and the grass rustled, a subtle sound that accentuated the silence around them. Cheng Kun suddenly had a feeling that all the plants and trees were soldiers, he suddenly lost his laughter, and he also broke through the rain of bullets, and an ordinary grain and grass escort made him nervous.
He has the ability to concentrate his ears, and in this environment, the ears are much more reliable than the eyes. Countless voices rang out in his ears, and these voices were categorized to form a three-dimensional image in his mind. Cheng Kun calmed down and filtered carefully, in this state, once there was a discordant factor, he would be able to find out as soon as possible.
The servant listened to Cheng Kun's warning, and struggled to push the cart full of grain and grass forward, and the blue tendons on his forehead burst out. Cheng Kun could see that they had exhausted all their strength, but the speed of progress was still a little touching.
Zheng Lei rode a horse and walked at the front of the team and walked out of Sheephorn Ridge first. The team behind followed. Half of the people he saw had passed smoothly, but Cheng Kun's heart did not let go. At this moment, the sound of someone's breath in the grass beside him seemed to reach his ears.
He took out a bow and put it on an arrow, and shot an arrow into the grass by feeling. The arrow flew out with a full bow, and the arrow flew silently.
The screams of one man were immediately heard, and the enemy, who had been ambushed in advance, saw that he had been discovered, and that a companion had been shot with an arrow, and looked like he was about to die. The rest of the men no longer hid, but all stood up with swearing, and struck back with their bows, while someone took out a wooden whistle and blew it, as if to greet his companions.
The servant in the middle of the team did not expect to be about to walk out of Giethoorn Ridge, but suddenly disaster fell from the sky, and he couldn't dodge for a while, and he was hit by arrows one after another, and only a few clever people escaped by hiding under the car in time.
The battle began in such a surprise situation, with seventy or eighty men lying in ambush on both sides of the road, and this round of arrows rained down, and the servants suffered heavy casualties. Cheng Kun shouted to his somewhat panicked subordinates: "All the injured are hiding behind the car, and the remaining five people are in a group, pull out their knives and kill this group of people." ”
All the people under him were awakened, and Hong Chao, who was usually a little slow to react, was the first to rush out at this time. Taking advantage of the gap in the archery on the opposite side, he strode forward, holding a knife in both hands, and directly beheaded one of the enemy. A skull flew into the air, then rolled to the side, blood spurting out like a fountain under the pressure of the heart's pump.
This bloody scene made Cheng Kun slightly surprised, he didn't expect Hong Chao to be so ruthless.
There was Hong Chao fighting, and the rest of the people immediately gritted their teeth to keep up, in groups of five, responding to each other, although the action of swinging the knife was still a little stiff, but still dragged the other party with the advantage of numbers, preventing the other party from releasing arrows again.
Cheng Kun didn't shoot arrows anymore, and in this state of canine tooth interaction between friend and foe, he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't hurt his own people. He grabbed a spear and rushed into the midst of the scuffle.
Cheng Kun's order just now was noticed by this group of ambushed enemies, so as soon as Cheng Kun came over, there were seven people surrounding him in front of him. Cheng Kun was not surprised and rejoiced, and laughed: "Good come." The spear stabbed out like lightning, piercing the chest of one of the guys who had run to the front.
The six people behind all shouted angrily when they saw this, and rushed up together to avenge their companions. It's a pity that their profession is not berserker, and anger can't improve their strength. For Cheng Kun, six enemies are just six extra shots. He relied on the defense of the iron coat, and did not flash the knife in the enemy's hand, "poof", "poof", "poof", "poof...... After six shots, it was all settled.
The original stalemate was suddenly broken after Cheng Kun came over, and Cheng Kun on the battlefield was like a tiger entering a flock, setting off a bloody storm everywhere he went. I saw blood-colored spear flowers blooming in the most dense places of the enemy, and all the enemies were shot in the heart, and their hearts were pierced, and the blow was fatal.
When there were only more than 20 people left, Cheng Kun finally stopped, this person was no longer able to return to the sky, he could stay for his subordinates to deal with, let them see the blood, and the next time they encountered this situation, they would not stand stupidly in place and be a live target for the enemy.
Cheng Kun, who had withdrawn his hand, looked at Zheng Lei, his fifty cavalry were fighting with another group of cavalry, and it seemed that the situation was not good.
The other party's riding skills are obviously much better, the man sits on the back of the horse and is nimble, and the man and the horse seem to be one. They controlled the movement of their horses with only their feet, and their free hands were used to shoot arrows. From time to time, arrows fall from their horses.
Zheng Lei's situation was not much better, he was entangled by one of the enemy's enemies, and the two fought together. That person's martial arts are obviously much higher than him, a saber is powerful, and Zheng Lei already has several more wounds on his body, I don't know how long it can last.
There is a distance of more than 100 meters between Cheng Kun and Zheng Lei, and there are many big cars blocking the road, and he has not practiced light skills, so he can't rush to him immediately to support.
But it seems that Zheng Lei and his subordinates may not be able to support it for long. Once he is defeated and the enemy's cavalry is released, Cheng Kun's side will be miserable. He had no choice but to pick up the bow on his back, such a distance, and it was a moving target, Cheng Kun could only aim at the horse of the rider who was pressing Zheng Lei, and then shoot an arrow.
Zheng Lei is trying to parry the opponent's saber that is as heavy as a mountain, and he feels that his strength is slowly declining, and if he continues like this, he is afraid that his life will not be guaranteed.
Suddenly, an arrow flew past his ear, most recently only a fraction of a fraction of a second from his ear, which frightened him into a cold sweat. He thought it was a cold arrow shot by his opponent and wanted to sneak attack, but when he looked again, it was an arrow stuck in his opponent's right arm. This made the second monk a little confused.
He looked back, but found Cheng Kun standing a hundred meters away, holding a bow in his hand. How could he not understand who shot this "unpredictable" arrow. Zheng Lei didn't know whether Cheng Kun was confident or pure. If it's the former, of course, it's good, but if it's the latter, he'll have to stay away from this kid. Otherwise, instead of dying from his opponent's sword, he might have been killed by an arrow from nowhere. This kind of death is a bit too unjust.
Cheng Kun was also scared enough, he was originally aiming at the horse, but who knew that after an arrow was fired, the arrow flew towards Zheng Lei's head. Fortunately, the arrow missed, but his opponent raised his right hand to slash it, but he was hit.
Sure enough, moving the target is still too difficult for me now. Cheng Kun secretly warned himself that next time he must aim and shoot again, but he forgot that he also shot the arrow after aiming.
After the opponent's arm was injured, the strength and weakness reversed, and Zheng Lei's danger was also removed. Cheng Kun hurriedly carried a spear, jumped into the cart, and after a few vertical jumps, rushed to the opposite side.
When Cheng Kun arrived, more than a dozen riders on the side of the Dingshan Army had fallen, and the rest were also in danger. He also recognized it at this time, these are all Huns, they have grown up on horseback since childhood, and they are indeed better than the cavalry of the Dingshan Army in terms of horse archery. On the frontal battlefield, the cavalry of the Joyama Army was able to not fall behind, and many times it was due to the superiority in armor.
Seeing Cheng Kun coming over alone to support, Zheng Lei shouted at him: "Don't worry about anything else, get rid of their horses first." ”
Cheng Kun comprehended, stepped forward and swept with a shot, breaking the legs of the two horses. The horse staggered and fell to the ground, neighing miserably. Although the knight on horseback jumped down in time and was not crushed, he was still stabbed to death by Cheng Kun with two shots.
He did the same and broke the legs of five horses in succession, and all the knights on horseback were spared. This made the man who was fighting against Zheng Lei look at it with a split-split, and he yelled and threw Zheng Lei away, and rushed towards Cheng Kun. He could see that if Cheng Kun was not eliminated, the rest of the people would not be able to escape the poison.
The guy Cheng Kun saw rushed to the front and slashed at his neck diagonally. He didn't block hard, and the other party used horsepower to slash out this knife, which was quite powerful. After taking a step back and dodging the knife, he immediately stepped forward and struck the horse in the belly with a cross elbow, and the darkness was vigorous, and the spray was like a needle.
The horse neighed in pain, and the pain in its abdomen was like a knife, and it suddenly stood upright and lifted the rider out of its back.
Cheng Kun seized the opportunity to shoot like a dragon, and the head of the gun poked straight into the opponent's chest.
This person was very calm in the face of the crisis, and he was still accurately slashed at the tip of the gun in mid-air, but the condensed true qi that followed made his body qi pulse chaotic, and the true qi was retrograde, and he was hit hard in an instant, a mouthful of blood mist spewed out, and he fell to the ground, and he was no longer able to fight back, and was stabbed to death by Cheng Kun with another shot.
The rest is simple, Cheng Kun and Zheng Lei, who were free, shot together and quickly won the game. At this time, a group of people under Cheng Kun finally solved their opponents and rushed over to help.
A few minutes later, the last person was also stabbed to death by Deng Xiaoxian and several others, and the battle was finally over.
After the war, Cheng Kun counted the number of people, and only one hundred and seven people remained intact. A total of forty-three people were killed and wounded, and eight were killed, six of whom were cavalry under Zheng Lei. These figures only count the soldiers, and if you count the soldiers, the number of casualties will increase a lot.
Zheng Lei's face was pale, and the six people who died under him were all veterans who had been with him for a long time. These people all survived the war, but they died in such an ordinary grain and grass escort, which really made him feel extremely guilty.