Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Fierce Cat Kills the Dead Mouse
A halberd killed Zhang Chun, Yuan Qi jumped on the horse and raised the whip, shouted and gave the order to attack: "Heaven belongs, kill!"
The elite of the 3,000-day return camp immediately shouted in response: "The return of the heavens, there is victory and no defeat!" Then, under the leadership of Ma Yue and Xu Chu, they divided into two teams to kill the rebels brought by Zhang Chun. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wei Yan watched the three thousand days return to the camp roaring out, and secretly thought that he had not built an inch of merit since he surrendered to Yuan Qi, and now that Zhang Chun had been killed by Yuan Qi, if he wanted to make meritorious service, he could only fall on King Meng. Looking around at the moment, seeing that King Meng had already run away dozens of steps away with the Thorn Tower cavalry, Wei Yan immediately called the remaining two thousand cavalry and chased in the direction of King Meng.
The movements of Wei Yan and his party did not attract anyone's attention, because the elite of the Tiangui Camp successfully attracted everyone's attention.
After giving the order to attack, Yuan Qi took the lead and raised his halberd to fight into the rebels. Not to mention the low morale, these rebels have fallen into a situation where the dragons have no leader, although they have a large number of people, they have different orders to fight separately, some charge forward, some do not move in place, and some even move their steps and retreat a little bit.
Yuan Qi didn't care about this, he picked up the mixed yuan halberd and swept it away, and all the rebels who were swept by the mixed yuan halberd all wailed and flew out upside down with broken bones and tendons. From a distance, Yuan Qi gave people the feeling that he was like a giant spirit god in charge of killing in the heavenly court, with infinite power and ferocity.
Under the leadership of Ma Yue and Xu Chu, the elite of the Tiangui Camp was like two sharp knives, stabbing into the two ribs of the rebels with a whistling oblique, as if they had inserted a hot sharp knife into butter, and instantly tore two big holes in the rebels' formation. In the midst of a crowd of people turning on their backs, the steel knives in the hands of the elites of the Tiangui Camp kept expanding and contracting, and each time they retracted, they would accurately take away a piece of the rebels' flesh and blood.
Yuan Ying rode on a horse and observed the battlefield, keenly sniffing the fighters. So he turned to Shi Jia and said, "Now that the rebels have been torn apart by Yuan Qi's subordinates, you quickly lead the men and horses of your headquarters to enter from the center to form an encirclement." β
Shi Jia glanced at Yuan Ying deeply with tears in his eyes, as if he wanted to use this glance to always remember Yuan Ying's voice and smile. After that, he choked up and replied: "The last general will receive the order." Then he called his men and horses to pounce on the rebels and attack from the front.
As soon as he came into contact with the rebels, Shi Jia used all his strength, wielding a big knife and slashing a rebel lieutenant away, as if he wanted to completely vent the anger in his heart in this knife. The enemy troops behind Shi Jia also felt the same way, and every time they swung their weapons, they carried endless anger and strength, and the rebels they killed were defeated and retreated.
Let's put aside the frontal battle for the time being.
Wei Yan led 2,000 cavalry to gallop all the way, following the hooves of the horses left by King Meng's troops to the north. Turning around the foot of a hill, two roads appeared ahead. One is a large road, flat and wide, and the other is a small road, which is rugged and difficult to navigate. Wei Yan came to the fork in the road, carefully looked at the horseshoe prints on the ground, and found that King Meng's army should have gone straight to the main road. As soon as Wei Yan was about to give the order to pursue, one of his subordinate cavalrymen suddenly let out a startled "huh".
Turning his head to look at his subordinate cavalry, Wei Yan asked in a deep voice, "Did you find any problems?" The cavalryman replied respectfully: "General, the villain knows the road here, these two roads lead to Yuyang, but the main road is nearly a hundred miles farther than the small road, and the Thorn Tower people obviously take the flat road." β
Wei Yan pondered for a while, his mind turning sharply, considering which way to go. After thinking for a while, Wei Yan made up his mind, and said loudly to the two thousand cavalry behind him: "Everyone, wealth and danger are sought, killing King Meng is a great achievement, although the path is rugged and difficult, but the victory is that the road is closer, I will, let's take the path to intercept and kill the Assassin Tower." β
The two thousand cavalry said one after another: "I am willing to listen to the general's arrangement." β
Seeing that no one of his subordinates objected, Wei Yan waved his hand and said, "Take the path!" After speaking, he took the lead and ran from the path.
It wasn't until he actually walked on the trail that Wei Yan realized what it meant to be rugged and difficult, he was originally a person from Jingzhou, half of Jingzhou was full of rivers and lakes, although there were also mountains, but the mountains were relatively flat, how could he ever be so difficult to walk to the mountains and mountains in the north? At the beginning, there were only more stones on the path, and the road surface was a little potholed and not very smooth, as long as you were careful, it would not affect the speed of the march. However, as we go deeper and deeper, the road becomes more difficult to walk, not only do there become more and more stones, but even large and small dirt pits appear on the road surface coldly. If the cavalry on the run does not pay attention, they will fall into the dirt pit, and the horse's leg will be broken by the dirt pit, and there will be a non-combat attrition.
There was a section of mountain road that made Wei Yandu, who had always been very courageous, afraid. The trail was so narrow that it could only accommodate two horses at most, with towering peaks on one side and cliffs on the other. Under the encouragement and leadership of Wei Yan, the cavalry bravely rode their horses up the mountain road cautiously, and if some of the horses stumbled, the knights would immediately fall to the bottom of the cliff with a series of screams, and fall to pieces. Dozens of people died in this section of the mountain road alone.
However, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and Wei Yan finally led his cavalry out of the mountain road and came to the foot of a mountain at the junction of the main road. After Wei Yan walked out of the mountain road, he didn't have time to relieve his nervousness, so he turned over and dismounted as soon as possible, and walked to the main road to investigate.
So, Wei Yan began to make careful arrangements. He divided the cavalry into three groups, and the two groups of cavalry lay in ambush in the woods on both sides of the road to watch the situation. The other cavalry dismounted and cut down trees or brought stones to block the road leading to Yuyang, leaving only a gap in the middle of the road for one horse.
After doing all this, Wei Yan's subordinates hid their bodies one after another, and waited for the arrival of King Meng's subordinates.
didn't let Wei Yan wait too long, King Meng really led a group of Thorn Tower cavalry to rush towards the ambush circle set by Wei Yan.
"Huh-" King Meng rode his horse to stop in front of the pile of rocks on the road, looked at the pile of stones and tree trunks blocking the way, and couldn't help but wonder and said, "What's going on? Hurry up and go to a few people to clear the road." Dozens of guards, who followed King Meng, dismounted and went to clear the road. The rest of the Thorn Tower cavalry were resting on their horses, and the long run had already fatigued their bodies.
Dozens of King Meng's guards had just walked to the pile of rubble, and before they could clear the obstacles, the woods on both sides suddenly made a loud sound of bowstrings vibrating, and then shot a large number of arrows from the woods, killing dozens of guards.
"Enemy attackβ!" said one of the guards, before he died.
Needless to say, the Thorns knew that they must have been ambushed, and everyone cheered up and searched around for the enemy.
A shout of slaughter came from the woods on both sides, and two groups of cavalry rushed out of it. King Meng saw that there was indeed an ambush, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to split up to meet the enemy. However, King Meng sadly found that although the road was wide, it was not wide enough for him to calmly form a formation to meet the enemy. Therefore, King Meng could only let his subordinates form a straggler line and kill the enemy freely.
Soon, the cavalry on both sides rushed to the front of the Thorn Towers. The Thorn Tower people fought on the spot, and because of the restrictions of the road, nearly 10,000 Thorn Tower people were crowded on the same road at the same time, so they lost the mobility of their horses and became infantry on horseback, and because they were on horses, their flexibility was not as good as that of pure infantry, so that their combat effectiveness was reduced to the lowest point. The cavalry of the Beiping Army rushed from both sides, with the comprehensive advantage of the right time, place and people, and with the help of the impact of the war horse, they rushed into the team of the Thorn Tower people with amazing momentum.
The first row of Thorn Tower cavalry was immediately knocked out of balance by the powerful impact of the enemy, fell from their horses in horror, and then was crushed to pieces by the hooves of the enemy's advancing horses. Then, before the second row of Thorns could react, they were beheaded by the roaring cavalry, and it was not until the enemy cavalry killed the third row of Thorns that the Thorns reacted, and the two sides fell into a fierce battle.
Wei Yan, who was in the distance, saw that the time had come, turned over and got on his horse, knocked his legs the horse's belly, and went straight to King Meng from the front of the road alone.
King Meng had been keeping an eye on the battlefield behind him, directing his men to engage the enemy cavalry. Wei Yan, who didn't see it at all, galloped wildly, until he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Wei Yan's tiger eyes wide open, and he was running towards him murderously, less than ten steps away from him!
Wei Yan calculated in this way, using rocks and branches to arouse the doubts of King Meng first, and then let the ambush soldiers on both sides shoot King Meng's personal guards with arrows, exposing the position of King Meng; and then arranging for the ambushes on both sides to kill to attract King Meng's attention and divert his attention; when the battle was completely fought and the battlefield was shouting and killing, Wei Yan single-handedly went straight to King Meng from the front, intending to assassinate King Meng under the horse in one fell swoop.
When King Meng saw Wei Yan rushing over, he was immediately startled, and wanted to beckon the guards to come forward to resist, only to find that since the guards were shot, there was already a complete blank space within ten steps around him. At the same time, because of the sudden attack of the enemy cavalry on both sides, he did not have time to gather other subordinates to defend him.
In desperation, King Meng had no choice but to swing his sword at Wei Yan, trying to kill Wei Yan and solve his current predicament. Seeing King Meng's reaction, a smug smile appeared on the corner of Wei Yan's mouth. The current King of Meng, like his subordinates, has lost the mobility brought by his war horse, and at best he is just an infantry sitting on horseback, and an infantry with his own legs destroyed. In the face of such an opponent, if he can't be cut off from the horse, then Wei Yan is not Wei Yan.
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After a loud bang, Wei Yan slashed with a huge impact, and King Meng, who was caught off guard, was slashed aside by Wei Yan with the war knife in his hand, and the whole body was wide open.
"Death!" Wei Yan shouted, raised the big knife in his hand with both hands, and slashed it from top to bottom according to King Meng's body that had lost his ability to defend himself.
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King Meng didn't have time to make any more dodge moves, and he was split into two pieces by Wei Yan with a knife and a shoulder strap!
With a successful sword, Wei Yan took advantage of the opportunity of the two horses to stagger the staggered moment, stretched out his left hand to grab the crown of King Meng, held the handle of the big knife close to the blade with his right hand, wiped it on King Meng's neck, and easily cut off King Meng's head with the help of the impact of the war horse. Then he raised the head of the man in his left hand and shouted: "King Meng has been ambushed, why don't you come down early?"
At the same time that Wei Yan killed King Meng, thousands of miles to the south, in the Fuchun County Mansion of Wu County, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy held a sword in his hand, and looked at the dozens of entourages around him without anger. Frightened, dozens of people retreated, and no one dared to step forward.
The young man shouted angrily: "It's all with a certain dodge! A certain must go to Wancheng to find that Yuan Qi to compete and see who can be the title of the little overlord." β
This young man is a native of Wujun, Jiangdong, named Sun Ce, because Sun Ce has been powerful since he was a child, so the people of Jiangdong call him Jiangdong Xiaobawang, Sun Ce himself likes this title very much, and he has always regarded Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, as his idol, and his father is the new Changsha Taishou Sun Jian.
Since Yuan Qi was about to leave Huang Yong, the former Changsha Taishou Han Xuan got a lot of money from Yuan Qi, so he simply gave up his official position and became a rich man. Therefore, Sun Jian of Wu County filled the position of Changsha Taishou and took his subordinates to take office.
Who knew that as soon as Sun Jian left on the front foot, Sun Ce, who stayed in Fuchun, was going to Wancheng to find Yuan Qi to duel, so there was the scene just now.
With a squeak, the courtyard door was opened, and a strong man and a teenager walked in, and the two of them saw that the courtyard was in a mess, and they were not surprised, Sun Ce was short-tempered, and he liked to drop things when he was not satisfied, which was no secret.
There are only a few people who dare to approach Sun Ce when Sun Ce loses his temper. In addition to Sun Jian, the two people in front of him are also in this ranks. One of these two people was Sun Jian's right-hand man, named Cheng Pu, whose name was Demou, and who was from Beiping, and the young man who was Sun Ce's biological brother, whose name was Sun Quan, whose name was Zhongmou. Sun Quan is very peculiar, his hair color is noble purple, and the pupils of his eyes are different from ordinary people, not black, but slightly deep blue.
Sun Quan and Cheng Pu came with obvious intentions, they came to persuade Sun Ce. They knew that Sun Ce was very proud, and when they learned that Yuan Qi was also known as the little overlord, they would inevitably find Yuan Qi to compete. But before the two of them could speak, Sun Ce blocked the mouths of the two in advance: "If someone doesn't let him go to find that Yuan Qi to compete, he won't treat him as a brother!"
Sun Quan Chengpu was naturally very clear about Sun Ce's character of doing what he said, and the words he had thought of were blocked by Sun Ce's words, Sun Quan smiled helplessly: "Big brother, but now that Yuan Hussar has been ordered to go north to quell the chaos, he is no longer in Wancheng." β
Sun Ce looked up at the north, and said with a firm expression: "Then so-and-so will go to Youzhou to find him! In the whole world, there is only one person worthy of the title of Little Overlord, and that person is my Sun Ce!"