Chapter 1841 There is no one who can bear the sword
More than a dozen cavalrymen wearing old leather and hard armor, three in front and three in back, scattered like marmots leaving the entrance of the hole, looking at the surrounding situation vigilantly, straightening their necks from time to time and looking into the distance.
Near Yangcheng, there is Yangcheng Mountain.
Many people may not be familiar with this Yangcheng Mountain, but if we talk about its next-door neighbors, more people should have an impression of it. Not far to the southwest of Yangcheng Mountain, there is Shaoshi Mountain. Of course, it may still be
Also, I don’t know what Shaoshi Mountain is, so I can only hook up with Du Niang on my own.
Different from the northwest, Sichuan, or Taihang passes where one man can pass and invincible, the gap between Yangcheng Mountain and Shaoshi Mountain is different. If the Taihang Eight Paths can be regarded as a single non-motorized road, then the distance between Yangcheng Mountain and Shaoshi Mountain is
The distance between Muroyama is at least twelve lanes...
It was precisely because of this terrain that Dong Zhuo was able to raid Yangcheng.
With such a wide area that needs to be defended, there is no way to build passes such as Hangu Pass, Hu Pass, etc. The only way is to build an outpost mountain stronghold, on the one hand, to control the intersection between the two mountains as much as possible, on the other hand
It is also for early warning in Yangcheng at the bottom of the channel.
Therefore, the land in this area is basically uninhabited, and those who come and go are either caravans or soldiers. Now the caravan trade no longer takes this route, and it is time to take the relatively safer Wuguan and Wancheng lines, so this place becomes more and more popular.
became desolate and barren.
As for Xiahou Dun, he definitely hopes to connect Yangcheng Mountain and Shaoshi Mountain like building a city wall of thousands of miles, and then close the access channels. This can be used as an important stationing point, and it can also directly threaten the Heluo area. But the problem is
With such a wide distance, building such a "separation wall" requires investing a lot of wealth and manpower, which Cao Cao cannot provide at this stage, so he can only deal with it reluctantly.
And all the things that are reluctantly dealt with will eventually have to pay a corresponding price.
The Yangcheng defense line that Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun managed to deal with now needs to be inspected by the hussar generals.
For Xiahou Dun, the pressure on his shoulders was naturally extremely heavy. The behavior of this hussar general was unexpected. He sent troops when he thought he would not send troops. As a result, after capturing Luoyang, he thought he would immediately march to Xu County in Yuzhou.
But he stopped again, like an actor who absolutely does not follow the script, not to mention the feeling of suffocation.
Coupled with Xia Houyuan's matter...
Although Xiahou Dun didn't say anything on the surface, he might not be holding his breath in his heart. Therefore, Xiahou Dun became more and more cautious. He even mobilized some of the only cavalry in his hands and increased the intensity and depth of the scout dispatches. He was determined to hit the key points.
above...
This team of more than ten scouts was the team that penetrated the furthest into Heluo.
The leader of this team of scouts from the Xiahou family is called Xiahou Peng. Not all people from the Xiahou family are important ministers, just like not all people with the surname Ma in later generations are great? The 28-20 rule was the same in that dynasty, and poor people
I still have to test my own hands and work hard with the meager inheritance left by my fathers.
However, the surname Xiahou is somewhat preferential. Just like the subordinates assigned to Xiahou Peng, they are all relatively elite soldiers. However, the so-called elite soldiers also have another name, Lao Lao Youzi.
The closer they get to Luoyang, the more uneasy everyone becomes. This uneasiness comes from their hearts and has nothing to do with the rocks and low shrubs on the mountain. These scenery are no different from before, but the more they look at it,
The more frightened I became, the more frightened I became.
But Xia Houpeng still refused to retreat.
Something seemed wrong, but Xia Houpeng didn't know what was wrong.
"I saw you!" After another one or two miles of sentinel inspection, Xia Houpeng stopped his horse, suddenly pulled out his sword, and shouted in a deep voice, "Come out! There's no use hiding!"
It was quiet and motionless all around.
After waiting for a while, Xia Houpeng and his men looked at each other and nodded, "Let's rest here for a while..."
Xia Houpeng dismounted and found a rock to sit on. He took out the water bag and took a shallow sip. After spitting out all the sand and dust in his mouth, he took a big gulp and then drank heavily.
Let out a rough breath.
If you want to get ahead, having such a Xiahou surname is of no use. It’s like a horse and a monkey with a surname of horse. Can it be like a horse? Xiahou Peng wants to get more, how can he do it without taking risks? But the problem is Xiahou Peng
He wanted to get ahead, but his subordinates, especially the few veterans assigned to him, didn't think so.
"Why don't you go back? What does this madman want to do?"
"He will only drive us hard. The benefits he gets are not his, but the sins he suffers are ours..."
"I think about the battle in Puyang back then. It was such a miserable fight. Everyone in front of me and behind me was damn dead. No one survived alive. But even if it was like this, what's the use? The reward was indeed given a lot.
, but things are so expensive in the fucking market, and the reward I got for my life can’t even buy an acre of his fucking land!”
"Have you not heard anyone say that the Cao family has bought all this land? If there is less land, the price will naturally be higher... It is said that General Li Feng's son came forward to buy it..."
"Hey! There's nothing to say when you eat meat, but you don't even have any soup left. How can you still live like this? I heard... that thing is directly distributed to the people!"
"Really? Don't be fooled, right?"
"I'm just lying to you! I heard that they also have a military medal. After the battle, it will be calculated based on the medal. It doesn't matter if you want land or money..."
"Then the damn fool wants money, and he must want land! Seriously!"
"I think even if you want land, it's definitely not a good land. It's probably a corner place..."
"That's better than nothing!"
"That's true..."
Xia Houpeng rested for a while, but he listened to the grumbling words of his soldiers. At the end, he couldn't help but roared: "I told you to rest, but you still have so much energy to talk nonsense!"
Xia Houpeng roared, and everyone naturally shut up. But Xia Houpeng didn't understand what the purpose of everyone's complaints was. Is it useful to complain about the previous boss? Most people know that it is useless, but why do they say these things?
What about the words? It's nothing more than a way of saying that your kid shouldn't be as bad as the last one.
Another point is that the lower the people are, the more they complain and complain. It's not that these people don't know that complaining and complaining are useless, but because these people have no other way to vent other than complaining...
After eating Xia Houpeng and drinking like this, these old veterans of Cao's army did not dare to say anything. They all got up listlessly, either tidying up their horses, loosening their girdle belts and feeding them some concentrate, or organizing their equipment, preparing to continue to the outpost while the sky was still bright.
Explore for a while.
Xia Houpeng was about to hang the water bag back on the horse, but he stopped halfway with his hand raised. The hairs all over his body stood up for an instant, and the most feared and familiar whistle in the wind came to his ears!
Xia Houpeng didn't have time to think about it, so he just pounced to the side!
At the next moment, a feather arrow shot out from the slanting thorn with strong wind, and struck Xia Houpeng's water bag. Suddenly, water splashed all over the sky! If Xia Houpeng had not avoided it, he might have been killed.
Get right in front of him!
I don't know when, in the bushes on both sides, three or four soldiers wearing strange clothes and even with grass tied on their heads stood up, holding strong bows and crossbows, and they all aimed at Xia Houpeng's group.
Team shoot!
There were also a few soldiers who lifted up the thin boards and floating soil above their heads, emerged from the ground, covered in dust, and pounced with their swords drawn like ferocious beasts!
"It's a hussar scout!"
In an instant, three of Xia Houpeng's team who were on guard outside were shot and killed, and two more were surrounded and cut down by hussar soldiers, and were also in danger...
When did the Cavalry General send scouts to this area?!
This was originally considered to be within Cao Jun's warning range. If something goes wrong, it means there must be General Hussars and other troops ahead!
In a hurry, Xia Houpeng made a mistake. "Two of you go! Report the message to the general! Others, prepare to fight!"
If it is a tribe that has been cooperating for a long time, there is no problem with Xia Houpeng's order. But the problem is that Xia Houpeng's team has not been established for a long time, and in the eyes of veteran Youzi, Xia Houpeng also bears the name of Xiahou Clan.
A guy with mixed qualifications who landed in the air...
So, which two go back?
Are those the others?
The next moment, almost all the veterans who were slightly behind immediately mounted their horses in various postures, urging their horses to run back like crazy! On the contrary, Xia Houpeng, who was in the middle, and the two following him
Three soldiers who were also members of the Xiahou family were left here!
If it were an ordinary army, the behavior of these veterans would be considered guilty of "betraying the master". But the problem is that Xia Houpeng's team is a scout, and the most important duty of a scout is not to fight, but to pass information back...
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But even so, these escaping veteran Youzi still couldn't escape the intensive care of bows, arrows and crossbows. They were shot by arrows flying out of unknown bushes along the way, and they were killed one by one!
Damn it, I was ambushed! But for so many cowards who died like these escaped veterans, it’s better to just fight to the death! Give me some support!
"Kill!" Xiahou Peng shouted, "There is no one in Xiahou who can bear the sword!"
Once upon a time, Xia Houpeng also believed that Cao Jun was an invincible team. When he was fighting Yuan Shu, Xia Houpeng heard the story of how a captain in Cao Jun with three to four hundred men scared Yuan Shu's thousands of troops into scattering!
During the attack on Jizhou, I also heard that there was no resistance in a huge city. Basically, they surrendered from a distance after seeing Cao Jun's banner! Those Jizhou nobles who used to have their noses turned upward all bowed down in front of Cao Jun.
Yes!
But this time, after meeting General Hussar's men, everything seemed to have changed.
First, a group of men and horses ran unscrupulously to the foot of Xu County, and then broke out of the net, seeming to laugh at Cao Jun's incompetence and Xiahou's stupidity...
Then there are these hussar scouts, like mountain elves, they are almost integrated with the mountains, rocks, shrubs, etc. They are extremely difficult to detect, and you will suffer losses if you are not careful. So Xia Houpeng and others later learned the lesson.
, he would cheat from time to time, but even so, just like now, Xia Hou Peng even pretended to shout before taking a break, but he was still attacked.
Normally, when a scout fights a scout, there are actually not many people on both sides. Generally speaking, the fight is very short, and the purpose of the fight is not to purely kill the enemy. The first is to capture the enemy alive, and the second is to block the opponent's scout from transmitting information.
, so the hussars scouts are just a small team at the moment, and I am also a small team, so I don’t suffer much in terms of numbers, but the problem is that these few soldiers under my command still run away when they see them!
It's not like you're dead if you run away!
This was simply a disgrace to Cao Jun and his dignity as a soldier!
"There is absolutely no one in Xiahou who can bear the sword!"
Yes, there are no cowards in the Xiahou clan! Even those who died on the battlefield were always facing forward, and there were absolutely no escapers who were hacked to death and shot from behind!
Xia Houpeng shouted and slashed at Ling Jie with his sword.
Ling Jie just let out a slight sigh, and then shrank his head and face behind the buckler. Not only did he not slow down, but he kicked his legs violently, like a stone being ejected by a trebuchet, with the steel-clad buckler as a
The center was directly facing Xia Houpeng with a shield attack!
Xia Houpeng's sword struck Ling Jie's round shield with a loud "clang" sound, and then was bounced high by the reaction force. It was like a knife striking a solid boulder, and the fingers and wrists were
The joints seemed to be groaning and trembling at this moment, and the arms could not withstand the shock and were raised high, and the middle door was wide open!
Ling Jie's sword came out from under the shield, like a snake. He first shrank behind the shield, and then when he found an opportunity, he lunged forward!
The sharp sword cut across Xia Houpeng's neck. The tip of the knife cut into Xia Houpeng's slightly dark skin, then cut off the blood vessels, trachea and throat, and flew out from the other side with blood foam and bubbles!
"Bang!" Ling Jie put away his sword and couldn't help but cursed out, "It's easy to kill again! I can't keep you... you guys, please stay alive!" On the battlefield, one sword kills and one kills, very few people.
There is no one who can be beaten for a long time without any injuries, especially for elite scouts like Ling Jie. It is often normal to take action to determine life and death. It is really not easy to hold back.
"Chichi...chichi..." Xia Houpeng grabbed his throat, blood and bubbles spurted out from the wound and the gap between his fingers. Even so, Xia Houpeng still stared at Ling Jie, as if he was shouting something,
But because the trachea and larynx were cut off, not much sound could be made.
"Xiahou..."
"There is absolutely no one in Xiahou who can bear the sword!"
Seeing Xiahou Peng being chopped down, the remaining Xiahou soldiers went crazy and fought back desperately, even injuring one of Ling Jie's men. However, there were strong crossbows and bows outside and elite soldiers and armor inside.
They were unable to save much of the situation, and eventually died in battle one after another.
"Boss, this... we can't keep our hands..." A subordinate came over with a bit of flattery, "This... that... or else I can help boss take down this head..."
"Hey...forget it!" Ling Jie stopped his men from coming to behead him, and looked at Xia Houpeng, who was already dead. "Let's just leave him whole, he is still a man..." Xia Houpeng
If he died at the hands of Ling Jie, Ling Jie naturally had the right to deal with it. When he said this, no one objected.
Ling Jie patted the dust on his body, put away his sword, put two fingers into his mouth, whistled, and returned with his men.
The mountain mist blew past, bringing up a faint smoke and dust, like a layer of gauze, gently covering the bodies of Xia Houpeng and the several deceased people. One moment, these were still living beings who could talk, laugh, curse, and feel pain.
For a moment, he lay silently in the yellow sand, and no one even remembered his name.
The yellow dust was billowing, following the hooves of Ling Jie and others' war horses all the way forward, crossing a hillock, and then as if they had hit layers of steel city walls, they stopped obediently, under the cold spears and shields.
Fall down.
Huang Xu, who was tall and round, and looked more and more like a wall. When he saw Ling Jie coming, he tilted his head and gave up half of his body, allowing Ling Jie to step forward.
"General Qi, this should be the last batch of Cao Jun's scouts..." Ling Jie reported the results of the battle one by one, "According to Cao Jun's usual practice, no new scouts will come for about seven or eight hours...
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Fei Qian nodded, then turned to Zhang Liao and said, "Wenyuan, even if it's seven hours... I don't know if it's enough?"
Zhang Liao cupped his hands and said, "Please wait for the good news, my lord!" After saying this, Zhang Liao stood up and walked outside. When he got under his own battle flag, he raised his head and looked at the three-color flag flying above his head and his general's battle flag.
, didn’t say anything, just smiled, and then rode out!
