Chapter 300: Dark Mansions, Violent Tigers
"Start up and send someone to urge the team"
Before dawn, in the darkest period, long dragon-like torches ran across the field, and the rumbling horse hooves followed Zhang Liao's voice and headed towards Xia Pi from afar. In the dim light, his face was a little anxious. If someone else led the cavalry to surround Xia Pi, he would not be so nervous, but that person was Gongsun Zhi. The other party started from almost from scratch in the true sense, and now he owned five counties and had tens of thousands of soldiers under his command.
Even Yuan Shao, the most powerful in the world, suffered a lot of losses from the other party. He once heard that the other party had to rely on cavalry to capture Liu Yu's Juyong County. Although Xia Pi City is strong and thick at present, he dare not take it lightly. After Bailang broke through Daze Township, he followed him all the way. Once Xia Pi City is broken, it is hard to imagine what kind of fate the Lu Bu family will suffer.
It was a long night for him.
Less than five miles away from Xia Pi City, the scouts who had dispersed began to return one after another. The horses came and stopped. Someone raised his hand: "Report to the general, there was no trace of the enemy within a few miles, and there was no noise in the direction of Xia Pi City, and everything was as usual."
Next to him, a deputy general crossed the reins and looked at Zhang Liao in confusion: "General..."
".……not good."
Zhang Liao frowned for a moment, looked at Luxian westward, gritted his teeth and turned his horse's head: "Cabinets come with me first, you lead the infantry in the rear team to follow quickly, the white wolf may fall in halfway..."
The words suddenly rang out in the night, and the war horses rushed two feet away. The whip was whipped down and shouted loudly: "Go" the sound of horse hooves exploded on the ground. The guards, two thousand light cavalry ran with him.
...
Rumble.
Countless horse hooves sprinted through the field, dust rolled up in the black. When the night was at its deepest, the mountains and forests in the distant hills swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound. A cavalry that was winding from the direction of Lu County held a fire, looked at the sky, and slowly stopped to rest for a while.
The swaying flame reflected the flower robe and stroked the wind. The figure turned on the horse's back, revealing a beast-faced face on the chain armor on his chest swallowing his head. Lu Bu took the water bag and drank it, "How many roads are there to go away from Xia Pi?"
"Report to the lord, it's more than 40 miles away from Lu County. Now it's less than 60 miles away from Xia Pi." A personal guard next to him who specializes in recording the distance along the way replied. Later, one of the generals who commanded the cavalry, Wei Xu turned his head: "Lord, Zang Ba and Gao Shun in the rear are too far away. Wait for them and go back together after dawn."
They crossed Pengcheng from Pei Kingdom and Lu County. They rushed more than 150 miles in two days. Huge fatigue accumulated on everyone. It was not impossible to run the remaining fifty miles. But in this case, once they were attacked, let alone fighting, it was a big problem whether the war horses could run.
After all, not everyone has a good horse.
"Let's go for a while..." The wilderness was silent. After putting down the water bag, Lu Bu nodded to him, then raised his hand to the hills ahead, "I know you are tired, but once Xia Pi is lost, we will not even have the last place to settle down, and even the soldiers and families in the army will not be protected... After passing Geyi Mountain in one breath, we will rest and guard Zang Ba, Gao Shun and others for the surroundings."
"Master, can you wait..." Wei Xu was about to speak, and Cheng Lian next to him rushed to pull him immediately.
On the other side, Lu Bu suddenly turned around, his eyes were covered with blood, and his voice shouted: "Don't be too long-winded, send a horse team to go first."
"yes……"
Wei Xu pursed his lower lips tightly, looked at Lu Bu, who was angry, bowed and went down to arrange the manpower. After a while, the brigade slowly moved, and a team of hundreds of people rushed towards the hills over there to explore the way.
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Not yet.
The forests swayed, the leaves were roaring wildly on the mountain, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger. A horse team in the distance galloped past here, and occasionally night birds were singing at night, and some people were whispering: "Lu Bu is here..."
"Not Lu Bu..." A pair of thick eyebrows frowned slightly, Gongsun Zhi tightened the hilt and loosened it, "Don't act rashly, just come here to explore the way first."
At the same time, the horse team below slowed down. A small school raised a torch to look at the hillsides that were not very high on both sides of the road. There were weeds and trees. He waved: "Go up and take a look."
Another voice next to him said, "... After two days of travel, Wen Hou is not polite. We don't sympathize with ourselves? Let's go quickly and have a good rest after passing by."
The person who spoke was a commander. Although his official position was a little lower, everyone knew his brothers well, so he could naturally hear the resentment in his words. The officials were not arrogant, so he nodded, "Well, hundreds of us can't search such a big forest and keep walking."
Not long after, the team had passed by, then waved the torch in front of him. The cavalry on the other side saw the shaking of the fire. The slowly moving horses in the rear gradually accelerated and began to pass through the narrow valley. There were dense forests on both sides, and the sound of leaves covered the crisp sound of stepping on the branches. A pair of eyes were exposed in the gap to look at the moving team below.
Around them, more figures moved carefully, slowly lifted their weapons, and some even pulled their bows and arrows, and were then pressed down. "The governor ordered Lu Bu to let him go and only attack the infantry behind him, don't do anything randomly."
"We have so many people, but I'm afraid that Lu Bu will run away!" Xiahou Dun glared at the tall figure passing through his sight, and put down his bow in anger.
Next to it, a burly and dark iron helmet tied a circle of branches. When he turned his head, he swept to the face of Xiahou Dun who was talking, "I agree with this. If a group of people came up to investigate before, they would be discovered if they could not save the ambush."
"You are so dark, even if you stand by the roadside, they can't see you. They're so panicked." Xiahou Dun pushed away the branches and leaves swept from the black man's head and said teasingly.
Zhang Fei pulled off the branch and was about to curse, but Li Ke, who had come to inform him earlier, covered his mouth, "Don't speak out."
In the past month and a half, although I have guaranteed to obey military orders in front of Gongsun Zhi, most of the personal temperaments are conflicted. Occasionally there is no war, and there will be frictions between each other, which is limited to verbal collisions. Only at this time, bad things almost happened.
Fortunately, the Bingzhou cavalry under the slope had passed.
A large number of cavalrymen rushed out of this valley, and Lu Bu's thoughts of worrying about being ambushed also relaxed. After walking a few miles, he asked the soldiers to dismount and rest, waiting for the infantry in the back team to come here to meet.
The wind roared from a distance, and the night birds were singing and flying, and the journey was almost over. When Lu Bu took the dry food handed over by Cheng Lian, he looked at the direction of Xia Pi City and still couldn't help but grit his teeth. He sat down absent-mindedly, thinking about other things, or thinking about his wife and daughter at home.
...
On the official road, a huge team of nearly 20,000 soldiers were moving forward, walking through the ground with difficulty, and flags stood in front of him. Chen Gong was tired and talked to a general named Zang Ba next to him. The man was of medium shape and upright. He held the hilt of the knife in one hand and the reins in the other hand. He looked around with vigilant eyes, nodding from time to time and echoed the military advisor.
"...It's probably that's it. Cao Cao didn't take the opportunity to cover up and came. It seemed that he was also prepared. Now he was hanging behind and slowly advancing. We can only rely on Xia Pi City to defend us to eliminate the anger of the enemy..."
"Well, I also heard that Marquis Wen was brave that day, but Cao Cao killed him backwards and left the camp and ran away... Unfortunately, Xia Pi was surrounded and failed to do his best. Marquis Wen treated his family well and was reasonable to rescue him."
On the horse's back, the two of them talked verbally, and they were almost at the mountain pass. A monotonous sound of horse hooves came from the road at the foot of the mountain. A cavalry turned back and told the situation when they saw the two: "The lord ordered the military advisor and General Zang to meet quickly, and the siege of Xia Pi was immediately lifted at dawn."
"Well, you reply to Wen Hou, we will arrive in a moment." Zang Ba sent the cavalry away and turned around: "It seems that there are no ambushes, so we will speed up the marching, and the military advisor will be affected as well."
Chen Gong smiled and bowed: "Although I am a literati, I can still lift three-foot green edges and kill the enemy. Don't take care of the general, please send an order to speed up the march."
The sky was blue and dark, and it became blurry. In addition to generals such as Zang Ba, Cao Xing, Song Xian, etc., there were also middle-level generals, such as Zang Ba's former generals Wu Dun, Yin Li, Chang Xi, Sun Guan, etc., who also surrendered to Yanzhou when Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou. The last part of the team was Gao Shun, the most controversial and combat-capital camp of the entire Lu Bu army, except for the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. More than 700 people under this person fought with Lu Bu in the south and north, and each of them had fearful battle marks.
In the cold wind in the early morning, the team had already penetrated into the hills, and the leaves in the surrounding forests were ringing. Zang Ba, who was moving forward, looked back at the winding back team still on the road outside the valley, and frowned. He could not help but be wary of the swaying branches of the forest.
He strangled the horse and stopped by the side of the road. The soldiers came over from the side. Chen Gong looked at him: "General Zang, what's this..." Before he finished speaking, the grass nearby suddenly swayed. Zang Ba pulled his bow and arrow, and the string sound trembled, and the black shadow flew out of his hand and shot in.
The sound of deer is sarcastic
A female deer fell and rushed out. Chen Gong smiled and let go of the hilt of the sword he was pressing, "General is good at archery. Now you can have a meal of venison for breakfast."
Wave and ask a soldier to bring back the blind deer.
....
"Dead deer...it's a dead end..."
In the dense forest, Gongsun Zhi sat on the bluestone with a big golden sword, staring at the figure below who ran to pick up dead deer, slowly raised his hand, around it, the figure began to move, and one by one, the swords were out of the sheath, the archer put an arrow on the arrow, and poked out the branches...
...
A soldier ran over to carry the deer that had been shot to death and ran towards the two of them. Just as they were about to speak, a "wow" shouting sounded. An arrow flew over a distance as the sound suddenly sounded. The soldier, who was offering treasure, exploded with snowflakes on his neck. The arrow pierced his neck and shot his whole person to the ground in front of Chen Gong's horse. The dead deer on his shoulder rolled to the ground.
The change suddenly broke out, and Chen Gong was stunned for a moment in the entire team, and then the next second, Zang Ba pulled out his long sword and roared: "Enemy attack!" The soldiers nearby also shouted: "There are ambushers, be careful to line up... Hurry up!"
In the swaying sight of the fire, the forest wild swayed wildly, and overlapping figures ran down from the hillsides on both sides. These were the more than 10,000 surrendered soldiers who had surrendered under Zhang Xun before. At this time, it was best to use this narrow terrain. Behind them were the Black Mountain Cavalry who had gotten off their horses, running wildly with fierce footsteps, and then they crashed into the long dragon team and waved their swords one by one.
Countless swords and weapons collided, killed, arrows flew into the sky, and while running, Xiahou Dun shouted with a gun: "Kill them all"
"kill"
Zhang Fei was caught in the crowd and rode down on a horse, roaring like thunder: "Kill!"
Countless rushing figures were forced to spread and collided with the enemies on the road below. The crazy sound of weapons fighting rose to a point that made people stand up in an instant. The infantry under Zang Ba's outside were suddenly attacked and were crushed and crushed by the spreading crazy surrendered soldiers. On the whole line, the broken corpses kept falling down on both sides with blood.
A small array of soldiers was formed, galloping horses attacked and jumped out of the hillside. On the horse's back, a big gun roared and swept the figures, tilting them. Xiahou Dun pulled out the spear head from a corpse, turned around and stabbed straight towards the head of the pounced enemy soldiers. Blood and white viscous liquid splashed out from behind his head.
At the same time, in the chaotic team, a figure dodged in the crowd, staring at the enemy general riding a horse, pulling his bow and arrows as the opponent drew his gun.
The arrow flew over the side of a walking soldier's head and shot straight into the man's face with a violent sound of breaking through the air. Xiahou Dun turned his face and drew his gun. The arrow brushed the round gun handle, and it deviated for a moment. At some point, it brought blood.
“Uhhhhhhhh….”
On the horse's back, the strong figure curled slightly, covering his face with one hand. When he looked up, half of the arrows were exposed, and blood flowed out through the gap between his fingers. The intact other one-eyed one-eyed red stared at the sneak attack figure, and then... he suddenly pulled out the arrow and the eyeballs that pierced the arrow on it.
Bite into your mouth and chew.
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Chapter completed!