The sky gradually darkened, the setting sun was like blood, and the hazy light of the setting sun shrouded the entire earth, leaving only a trace of bright red sunset on the horizon.
Yao Fangqiong immediately stood on the top of a hill, staring quietly at the groups of soldiers passing by at his feet. The cold evening wind passed by him, filling him with a slight chill. He stood quietly and silently.
There, it seemed to merge with the surrounding evening scene.
"Da da da - da da da -" the sound of galloping horse hooves came, and a group of fast horses were seen in front of them running towards the hill. The leader was wearing a set of finely crafted fish scale armor.
The bright breast mirror seemed to be covered with a layer of blood under the fiery red light of the setting sun.
"General -" Wang Yue shouted urgently, riding his horse up the hill. "The scouts reported that a large number of Song troops were found in Lingyang Mountain, with more than 10,000 people and horses."
If Yao Fangqiong in silence is like a deep pool with waves as flat as a mirror, it always makes people feel a sense of unfathomable depth. It is impossible to see through, let alone guess, and a fear is planted in the hearts of those who see him.
The seed. But at the same time, Yao Fangqiong like this also makes people quickly build confidence in him!
Wang Yue is his old brother, but he is more respectful than others in front of him, especially when Yao Fangqiong is immersed in his own heart.
Yao Fangqiong's face remained calm, and it seemed that the bad news from Lanmei Mountain did not affect him at all. In fact, he had thought of this as early as when he withdrew troops from Taoshui and returned reinforcements.
It's not uncommon for Lanmei Mountain to be attacked unprepared, but Baicang County between Lanmei Mountain and Yugu Road has a high city and strong walls. Although the fighting power of the defenders in the city is weak, there are after all two to three thousand.
It is not unusual to have four to five thousand people, including the servants of the big families and the strong people in the city, as well as the defeated soldiers who may have escaped from Lanmei Mountain. It is enough to defend the city.
Although the Song Army captured Lanmei Mountain in a surprise attack, it was only a partial force after all. How many troops could be wasted on attacking Baicang County? If everyone in the county could work together and fight to the death, the Song Army would not be able to help Baicang.
If the Song army is always trapped under the fortified city, the troops returning to the army will reach Baicang, the morale of the defenders in the city will be even higher, and all the favorable factors formed by the Song army will be wiped out in an instant.
Under attack from both inside and outside, how could the Song army have any chance of winning?
Therefore, Yao Fangqiong dared to predict that the generals leading the Song army would first plot against their own army, and then attack Baicang City. Or they might simply ignore Baicang and go to Yugu Road.
Anyway, the current situation is that as long as this partial division of the Song Army can defeat the returning troops under its own command, the Prince's Army in Dongcheng County will no longer be able to threaten them in a short period of time. The Song Army will have no worries.
Only then can we let go and attack Baicang City. But seeing the main force of our own army defeated, the defenders and people in Baicang City will naturally lose their morale and confidence greatly. By then, the situation in the city will be that the people's morale is shaking, the military's morale is turbulent, and their morale is
Not to mention the fact that the city was only defended by soldiers from the county and the country's young and strong people, even if there was an old army in the city that had been on the battlefield and had seen blood, it was definitely difficult to hold the city.
Therefore, after hearing Wang Yue's cry, Yao Fangqiong did not have the slightest surprise on his face. If he had to say something, it was that he did not expect the Song Army to come directly to Lingyang Mountain.
Lingyang Mountain is thirty or forty miles away from Baicang City. There is no need for the Song Army to get so far forward unless -
Yao Fangqiong had several thoughts in his mind and smiled calmly. At this moment, he deeply realized the Song Army general's eagerness to eliminate him.
"Instruct the whole army to turn northeast." Yao Fangqiong raised his head, stared at the eastern sky for a while, and then said: "We will camp at Qingpo tonight."
"Huh..." Liang Yi took a long breath, and his nervous heart calmed down a little. The prince army finally left. He put his ears to the ground and listened carefully again. The tapping footsteps became louder and louder.
He was getting farther and farther away, and he was indeed leaving. Only then could he get up and relax his body and bones.
Liang Yi stretched back hard. The short quarter of an hour he spent lying at the bottom of the ditch made him feel even more exhausted than if he had fought with the army in a battle.
A well-organized team of Prince's Army soldiers, with a total strength of fifty, came to search for him, a scout who had been climbing trees and running ditches for many years. The pressure was not ordinary.
But the result was good. My life was saved after all. What's even more gratifying is that I figured out the direction of Tai Zhizhi's next turn - to the northeast. With this information, I can return to the camp.
As for the final destination of the Prince's Army, that is out of his control. He is not the only one in the scout team. The entire formation has numbers six to seventy, and the nails scattered in the northeast direction alone are
Twenty or thirty.
Patting the dirt on his body, Liang Yi quickly dug out of the ditch, half-hunched his body along the edge of the dense forest and grass, and ran towards Lingyang Mountain in a hurry.
As he was running, suddenly, Liang Yiren's whole scalp exploded, and then he felt a chill on his neck. His ears heard a subtle "hissing" sound of a weapon breaking through the air from behind his head, "Damn it!" Liang Yiren said.
He cursed himself in his mind.
After all, he was a veteran scout who had been around for almost three years. Although he had never been on the battlefield, he was still an absolute veteran in the team. He even passed the 'stake' without even noticing. If he died due to such a sneak attack by his colleagues, then
It's too embarrassing. Even if I die, I won't have the shame to meet those brothers who took the first step.
His body jumped forward reflexively, and he drew the knife with his backhand and put it on his back. Hearing a crisp sound, a strong force came from his back, making Liang Yi's forward body accelerate even more fiercely. Okay
He has a good sense of balance, and he also practices two-handed postures. He presses his free left hand on the ground, and pushes up with one arm. His whole body spins in the air and lands on the ground. The blade on his back also follows the trend.
I scanned around me.
Liang Yi was relieved that his opponent did not follow suit, but then he was filled with anger, not against his colleagues who were also using swords not far away, but against himself. He was really careless just now.
"Boy, that's good." A word that seemed to be a compliment but was actually a mockery came out of the other party's mouth, and it also had a condescending tone. It was like a cat that saw a mouse and didn't want to kill it, but wanted to prepare to play first.
Last time I played.
"Where does this nonsense come from? Let's see the real deal." Liang Yi was actually even more amused at his opponent at this moment. He could tell at a glance that he had never been on the battlefield. For example, when Guangchang sent troops, he was more funny than he is now.
I am no better off after what I have experienced.
If you were to put yourself in his shoes, you wouldn't know how to use a knife at all. Is the hand crossbow on your waist equipped with a white weapon? Just shoot it with one arrow.
If you can't kill him, shoot two more arrows.
This guy didn't mention using the knife, he didn't even take advantage of the situation to attack, but he wanted to 'tease' himself. He was so old for nothing. If he looked closely at his opponent, he was probably around 27 or 28 years old.
, this is a rare advanced age in the scout team.
For example, Liang Yi himself is only twenty-three years old. He served as a soldier in Guangchang four years ago. He spent a year in the army and was transferred to the scout team. Now he has three years of qualifications. In the scout team where he is
There are already many veterans in the team.
Because, was it the peaceful time before, the scout line was just a decoration. And because the people inside were all the elites and masters of the army. If you stayed there for three or two years, you would be mentioned as the leader of the team. Uncle Dub
, that is, joining the school captain as a personal soldier and accompanying him personally.
And the colleague in front of me is actually twenty-seven or seventy-eight years old. In addition to the blow just now, he is obviously a master of stealth. Is there really no one looking for him?
Liang Yi himself is on the line. If the war hadn't started this year, he would have been selected by the captain to be his personal attendant in the second half of the year. That is, when he retires from the army in the future, he will have withdrawn it.
However, no matter what Liang Yi thought in his heart, he did not dare to be careless in the face of this person, although he did not have the slightest fear.
With the sword in front of his chest, Liang Yi's whole body was like a piece of cold iron, exuding a sense of killing.
The person opposite was good at martial arts, the distance between them was short, and he was being targeted. Although the hand crossbow was hanging on his waist, he had no chance to take it out.
With only a few steps away, he took out his crossbow and the opponent's knife slashed through his neck.
"Okay, you have courage." This scout of the Prince's Army is not like a scout, but more like a swordsman from the Jianghu. Looking at Liang Yi's "concentration and energy gathering", the murderous intention becomes stronger, and his body is as thick as poured copper.
The hand has been raised, the sharp sword is lying in the air, the cold light is flowing, like a general going out, looking forward to a bloody battle.
"Kill--" Almost at the same time, a violent cry to kill burst out from the depths of their throats.
The light of the sword flashed and the sound of gold and iron clashed, and the two figures were instantly mixed together.
Just like the scouts in the era of hot weapons, the scouts in the era of cold weapons are the most capable and brave group of people in the army. Liang Yi and the scouts of the Prince's Army on the opposite side had no reservations once they took action, and with the crisp sound of clanging, they
, little bits of blood couldn't help but sprinkle on the surrounding grass.
While the two were fighting fiercely, a faint sound of "roping" came from the grass not far away, but it was completely drowned by the violent sound of gold and iron.
"Creak-" seems to be the sound of the hand crossbow being cocked.
"噌——" Amidst the sound of the machine spring hitting, a black shadow shot out from the grass and passed through the air. A black iron arrow accurately penetrated into the back of the prince's army scout.
The cluster of arrows broke through the leather armor of the Prince's Army scout and penetrated deeply into his body.
"Ah -" The Prince's Army scout, who had been stabbed four times without making a single cry, finally roared at the top of his lungs, but that was it. The crossbow arrow that pierced his heart quickly sucked away all his blood.
Vitality. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
