Before dawn, it is often the darkest hour, and before a crisis erupts, it often gives people the illusion of calm. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yuan Xie, under the escort of a group of cultural relics generals, walked into the ambush circle carefully designed by Mount Tai step by step, but did not notice it at all.

Yuan Xie didn't notice it, but Zhao Hu and Zhang Long had a premonition of the coming crisis with their intuition of fighting on the battlefield, and clenched their weapons and followed Yuan Xie's side, protecting him inch by inch.

When the army continued to move forward dozens of steps, countless Yizhou troops suddenly appeared on the mountains on both sides of the road, all of them holding strong bows and sharp arrows in their hands, and they were already on the strings, and in a tooth-aching sound of strings, dozens of 50,000 arrows were aimed at the Yuan Xie's department that was marching at the same time.

Yizhou revealed Meng Da's figure, and shouted to Yuan Xie and the others: "Where did the mountain bandits come from? Don't you know that this is the garrison of the king of Hanzhong? The soldiers listened to the order, shot arrows and killed, and left no one behind!" Meng Da followed Taishan's instructions and deliberately said that Yuan Xie, the dignified son of heaven, was a mountain bandit. Because no one could have imagined that the Yuan Association would quietly enter Hanzhong, and before that, the Yuan Association did not issue an edict, saying that he would come to Hanzhong, which gave Taishan such an opportunity to come to a fish-eyed pearl and treat the Yuan Association as a mountain bandit. Even if they knew that these Yizhou troops, who had always had a strong sense of xenophobia, would obey Taishan's orders in all likelihood and would not care at all whether the Son of Heaven was the Son of Heaven or not, after all, Taishan was now the king of Hanzhong, their lord, and the direct controller of the eastern and western rivers of Yizhou. On the territory of Yizhou, Taishan's words are much more useful than Yuanxie's.

Under Meng Da's order, the more than 50,000 Yizhou troops did not hesitate at all, and immediately released the bowstring in their hands. The rain of arrows in the sky fell towards the heads of Yuan Xie and the others.

Zhao Hu and Zhang Long had already arrived that something was wrong, and when they saw this scene, why didn't they understand that this was a trap that Taishan had prepared a long time ago? The two hurriedly danced their weapons and blocked in front of Yuan Xie, blocking the arrows that fell towards Yuan Xie. The five thousand Heavenly Returning Army drew their swords in unison, and instantly built a great wall of steel with their flesh and blood. Guarding the Yuan Association. The first swordsman Wang Mi also reacted, and hurriedly beckoned the Imperial Forest Army who followed him to surround Yuan Xie's side, Wang Mi had already drawn his sword, and a sword stopped in front of Yuan Xie's body, and the arrows shot fell to the ground one by one.

However, not everyone has such swordsmanship as Wang Mi. Not everyone has the same marksmanship as Zhao Hu and Zhang Long, and not everyone has the willpower to sacrifice life and forget death like the Tiangui Army and the Royal Forest Army.

Some of the civil officials who followed the Yuan Association on the expedition were even more frightened. While hiding behind the soldiers, he shouted hoarsely: "Stop firing arrows, we are not mountain bandits, we are the army of the imperial court......"

Hearing the shouts of these officials, although Meng Da knew it, on the surface, he put on a look of righteous indignation, and shouted angrily: "Bold mountain bandits! Dare to pretend to be the imperial court army, and the soldiers will all be shot to death by the generals! These mountain bandits are really hateful!"

Under the shouts of Menda. The scattering of the 50,000 Yizhou troops seemed to be more dense, and wave after wave of arrows, as if they didn't need money, shot down on the enemy's head in pieces.

"Withdraw. Evacuate quickly! Protect the Holy Lord, retreat back!" The veteran Huangfu was anxious at heart, and hurriedly beckoned Wang Mi, Zhao Hu and others, and evacuated to safety with Yuan Xie. However, under such a dense rain of arrows, how can it be said that the enemy can be withdrawn? The rain of arrows that covers the sky and the sun completely entangles the enemy troops, and in this case, it is quite difficult to say that they are retreating, even standing in place to protect themselves, and from time to time there are screams after being hit by arrows, which sound in the ears of everyone, and transmit the pain to more people through the sound.

Zhao Hu and Zhang Long glanced at each other, they now understood in their hearts, Taishan is going to put Yuan Xie to death in a high-sounding manner, Meng Da has just clearly expressed this meaning by shouting, in the eyes of the Yizhou army, Yuan Xie is now an out-and-out mountain bandit leader, in order to prevent the east and west rivers of Yizhou from being attacked by mountain bandits, they have a sufficient reason to shoot Yuan Xie on the spot! Otherwise, where is Meng Da interested in saying so many things to the so-called mountain bandits?

Zhong Xuan was in the chaos of arrows, thinking more than Zhao Hu and the others, the reason why Taishan dared to use this extreme means of concealing the sky and crossing the sea, was because he saw the court's weakness to control the situation, through this Yuan Xie's silent march, he wanted to clear the last obstacle to his peak of power in one fell swoop, I am afraid that except for Yan Wang Yuanqi, no one will stand up for Yuan Xieqiang, for Taishan, anyway, he has already formed a mortal enmity with Yuan Qi, but there is no need to worry about anything.

Looking at the enemy army that was shot by random arrows, Meng Da had a smile on his face, Zhong Xuan thought of something, Meng Da naturally understood better, as long as Yuan Xie was killed today, the position of the Son of Heaven would fall to Taishan, and when Taishan became the Son of Heaven, Meng Da would be considered the founding father, and it would not be too high a luxury to be a marquis or something, so at this moment, Meng Da's heart was not too high. It's already full of longing for the future.

At the critical moment, Yan Yan, a veteran general of Yizhou, was sent out by Taishan, and he led 10,000 light cavalry to cut off Yuan Xie's retreat in the sound of horses' hooves. Yan Yan didn't know who the opponent he was about to face was. It's just that before leaving, Taishan gave him an order to kill everything, and Yan Yan naturally had to obey the order.

When he was less than a hundred paces away from the rear of the enemy, Yan Yan suddenly grabbed the reins of the war horse, raised his right hand, and signaled the 10,000 light cavalry behind him to stop. In a slightly chaotic tapping sound, the 10,000 Yizhou Army light cavalry all stopped. Waiting for Yan Yan's next order.

Yan Yan saw that the people and horses in front of him were in chaos, and his soldiers were attacking indiscriminately with bows and arrows, if he rushed forward rashly at this time, he might be injured by his own arrows, so Yan Yan stopped marching, but took out a carved bow, and at the same time gave an order to the light horsemen behind him: "Take the bow and prepare to shoot!"

Under Yan Yan's order, 10,000 light horsemen laid down their weapons one after another and picked up the cavalry special riding bow. From behind the enemy, a round of deadly flat fire was launched. The sergeants in the rear of the enemy army, because they only cared about resisting the rain of arrows scattered in the sky before, did not notice that there was another group of light cavalry behind them, so they were caught off guard by the flat shooting of Yan Yan and others, and immediately thousands of enemy soldiers were shot defenselessly and fell to the ground screaming.

It wasn't until Yan Yan led the crowd to complete three rounds of flat shooting that the Yuan Xiejun turned around with difficulty in the face of the ubiquitous rain of arrows, and used their shields to resist Yan Yan's arrows. Seeing that the enemy army had erected his shield, Yan Yan twitched the corners of his mouth, slightly raised the carved bow in his hand up by half a foot, and at the same time ordered the light horse behind him: "Raise the cavalry bow by half a foot and shoot!"

The light cavalry of the Yizhou army immediately raised the riding bow in his hand by half a foot in accordance with Yan Yan's order, and then continued to draw arrows from the quiver on the horse's back, put them on the bowstring, and shot them at the enemy formation by throwing them. Don't look at Yan Yan only let them raise the angle by half a foot, this is the experience that Yan Yan has learned in countless riding and shooting, at a distance of nearly 100 paces, slightly raising the angle of the shot, it will change the trajectory, so that the arrows thrown out can just right around the enemy's shield, and then accurately kill the shield holder behind the shield.

When Yan Yan's light cavalry threw the sharp arrows in accordance with Yan Yan's order, it immediately caused a lot of damage to the enemy's shield players, and nearly forty percent of the shield players were pierced by the sharp arrows shot by the Yizhou army's light cavalry, making the enemy's shield array in the back row appear a lot of loopholes.

In the loophole of the Yuan Xie's army's shield array, Yan Yan saw that Yuan Xie, who was dressed in gold armor, was retreating to his side under the escort of one old man, two young and strong, and three masters. Yan Yan didn't know Wang Mi, Zhao Hu and Zhang Long, when Yuan Qi led the army to attack Hanzhong for the first time, he didn't even step into Xichuan, but only fought with Mount Tai in the Dongchuan area, so Yan Yan was not familiar with the soldiers of Yuan Qi's department, not to mention that Zhao Hu was also ordered to pacify Goryeo at that time, and did not follow in the army. Although he didn't know these three people, Yan Yan could see that the three of them had extraordinary martial arts and were all first-class masters.

"There are such masters among the mountain bandits now? It seems that this group of mountain bandits is not simple. Yan Yan whispered to himself, then pulled out a wolf tooth arrow, put it on the carved bow, aimed at Yuan Xie, who was guarded by Wang Mi and the three of them, and slowly but forcefully pulled the bowstring away, until it reached the full string, Yan Yan shouted: "Medium!"

The wolf's tooth arrow was shot out by Yan Yan's force, like a meteor catching half of the moon, and shot straight towards the back of Yuan Xie's heart! Seeing six ways and listening to all directions is the instinct of the top master, although Yan Yan's archery skills are extremely good, and even the sound of the bowstring vibrating is overwhelming, but it still can't escape the ears of Wang Mi and the three, Wang Mi dodged and came five steps behind Yuan Xie, raised his sword and slashed down at the sharp arrow that Yan ** came out.

With a click, Yan's sharp arrow was cut off by Wang Mi's sword, but to Wang Mi's surprise, even if he had cut off this sharp arrow, the arrow still trembled and flew towards Yuan Xie's body, but after being hit by the long sword in Wang Mi's hand, this section of the arrow had lost its original trajectory, and it was no longer shot at the back of Yuan Xie's heart, but towards his waist.

Wang Mi was shocked, and he wanted to rush over to stop the half of the arrow, but it was too late. Although Wang Mi is the number one swordsman in the world, but the art of fighting and the method of battlefield fighting are not the same thing at all, Wang Mi used the swordsmanship he is accustomed to fighting to block the arrow of Yan Yan, who has been through a hundred battles and has amazing archery skills, which is obviously a bit too much.

Fortunately, Wang Mi was not the only one by Yuan Xie's side, seeing that the broken arrow was about to pierce Yuan Xie's body, Zhao Hu stabbed out obliquely, shook the sun-breaking spear in his hand, and knocked the arrow to the ground when there was no room for fire, avoiding the certainty that Yuan Xie was shot.

Seeing that Wang Mi and Zhao Hu blocked their wolf tooth arrows with one sword and one shot before and after, Yan Yan snorted coldly, pulled out a wolf tooth arrow again, and put it on the bowstring. Yan Yan, a veteran, is quite similar to Huang Yong, one of the five tiger generals under Yuan Qi's command, both of them were unknown when they were young, and they did not become famous until they were old, and then they were powerful all over the world, so their morale is extremely high, the older they are, the more they refuse to admit defeat, and these two people are both swords and horses, good at riding and shooting, and one-handed archery, which is not inferior to their own knife skills.

Closing his left eye slightly, Yan Yan used his wide open right eye to lock the direction of the wolf's tooth arrow arrow on Yuan Xie's body again, and at the same time pulled the bowstring's right hand fingers around the bowstring, so that the arrow feathers of the wolf's tooth arrow were entangled in a circle of bowstring, and then exhaled and shouted: "Medium!"