The night was hazy and the woods were pitch black, making it impossible to see the exact situation clearly.
After hearing Sun Jian's words, Wang Can frowned and remained silent.
If Wang Can could hit the speaker by his voice, he would still have some confidence, but it would be very difficult to hit the speaker's vital points. After all, people are tall, short, fat, and thin, and these objective conditions cannot be judged by voice alone. In other words,
It is also impossible to determine the exact position of the speaker's head, heart, and throat.
Sun Jian saw Wang Can frown and said: "First of all, if you can't shoot, let's attack by force. Judging from the voices in the woods, there shouldn't be too many Xiliang soldiers. We have more than a hundred soldiers, which is enough to deal with them.
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Wang Can nodded and asked, "Have the soldiers surrounded this place?"
Sun Jian nodded and said: "Don't worry, we are surrounded."
Just when Wang Can was about to speak, a soldier stepped on a dead branch. After the dead branch was stepped on, it made a crisp sound. The soldier who stepped on the dead branch opened his mouth wide and instinctively wanted to scream. Fortunately, the soldier stood aside.
The principal next to him had quick eyes and hands, and reached out to cover the soldier's mouth. Even so, both the principal and the soldier stepped on the dead branches, making a crackling sound, which made Wei Xu and Hou Cheng who were standing far away become alert.
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"who?"
Wei Xu turned his head, looked at the place where the dead branch made the sound, and shouted suddenly.
Hou Cheng also turned his head, staring into the distance with his eyes wide open, trying to see something from the distance, but the response to him was still silence and no reaction.
No one came out, and Hou Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Judging from the situation, the sound should be caused by livestock running through the woods.
Sun Jian saw that the Xiliang soldiers in the woods were alert and immediately prepared to mobilize the soldiers.
Wang Can stretched out his hand to stop Sun Jian, squinted his eyes slightly, picked up the bow and arrow, put it on the bowstring, and aimed at the person speaking in the distance.
In the woods, Hou Cheng saw that Wei Xu had a strange look on his face, like a frightened bird. He curled his lips and said, "Wei Xu, there's no need to scare yourself. I guess it was the beast in the woods that ran by here and stepped on the dead branches. You don't have to be so nervous."
, It’s nothing. Besides, we are all ready to leave anyway, so there is nothing to worry about.”
Wei Xu ignored Hou Cheng and shouted again: "Whoever is over there, if he doesn't come out, I will kill him with a knife."
Wei Xu felt unsafe and threatened again. These words reached Hou Cheng's ears. He was extremely disappointed in Wei Xu. A big man could be so timid. Just when Hou Cheng was slandering Wei Xu in his heart,
Suddenly there was a shrill sound in the woods.
A bow and arrow came out from the string and headed straight for Wei Xu.
"There is indeed someone!"
Wei Xu suddenly woke up, knowing that he must have been caught in a trap. Almost as soon as the thought flashed through his mind, Wei Xu couldn't care less about what was behind him, and immediately fell back and fell to the ground based on his intuition.
"call out!"
The bow and arrow shot through the air and passed over Wei Xu's fallen body.
"Bang!"
Wei Xu fell to the ground, and his body was poked by a dead branch protruding from the ground. He grimaced in pain, but there was also a look of joy on his face. If he hadn't reacted quickly and fell back in an instant, he would have been hit by a bow and arrow.
, he would be seriously injured even if he didn't die. While Wei Xu was feeling happy, he was filled with deep worry.
Obviously, the burning of the torches in Sun Jian's camp was intentional.
At this time, Wei Xu had mixed feelings in his heart and knew that it would be difficult to escape this disaster.
"Hou Cheng, there is an ambush, retreat, retreat quickly!"
Wei Xu rolled over and got up from the ground, and immediately retreated deep into the woods. Hou Cheng was also shocked by what just happened. He always thought that the night was hazy and it was impossible for Sun Jian to leave the camp with his soldiers, but things always happened unexpectedly.
In addition, Sun Jian was not afraid of an ambush and led his people out of the camp.
Hou Cheng didn't care about other things, followed Wei Xu and ran deep into the woods.
Seeing that the bow and arrow missed Wei Xu, Wang Can shook his head and sighed. The arrow he shot just now, if Wei Xu had reacted a little slower, Wang Can would have succeeded. Unfortunately... Seeing that he could not shoot the person hiding in the woods, Wang Can said to Sun Jian: "
Brother Wentai, give the order to attack by force, we cannot let them gather together to break out!"
"kill!"
When Sun Jian heard this, he roared at the top of his lungs, and the soldiers surrounding him also shouted in response.
"Hoo ho!"
Suddenly, a torch was lit in the dark woods. Cheng Pu grinned and held a blazing torch in his hand, illuminating the dim woods. So many people only had weapons.
, Cheng Pu actually took a torch, which surprised Wang Can. Wang Can looked excited and said happily: "General Cheng, good job!" While speaking, Wang Can had already picked up the bow and arrow from the arrow pot and took aim.
Wei Xu ran quickly.
"middle!"
Wang Can opened his mouth and shouted loudly, and his bow and arrow came out from the string.
With the light shining from the torch in Cheng Pu's hand, Wang Can could vaguely see the person running in front of him. Although the light was a little dim, it was enough for Wang Can to aim at Wei Xu. As long as he could see the general appearance, Wang Can could
He was confident that he could hit the target. The bow and arrow carried huge power and were quick and fast. Without any deviation, it hit Wei Xu directly in the back.
"puff!"
The arrow broke through Wei Xu's armor, penetrated Wei Xu's back and hit his heart.
"Ahem!"
Wei Xu coughed twice, staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"Run, run away!"
Wei Xu opened his hands and shouted loudly, with an anxious and frightened look on his face. After spreading his legs and running forward two steps, he lost strength in his legs and fell to the ground.
"Run away, run away..." As he spoke, red blood flowed from the corner of Wei Xu's mouth. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the dim and dark woods, feeling that all the strength in his body was gradually drained away as his heart slowly stopped.
, the light in front of me became darker and darker, and finally it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything...
"Wei Xu!"
Hou Cheng turned around and glanced at Wei Xu. When he saw Wei Xu lying on the ground without making any sound, he became even more panicked.
"Plop! Plop!..."
While running fast, Hou Chengming felt his heart beating faster and faster, as if his heart was about to pop out.
"puff!"
Another bow and arrow shot out, hitting his beating heart without any deviation.
"ah!"
Hou Cheng roared loudly, feeling like he was about to suffocate. His heart, which was originally beating very fast, suddenly slowed down. The slow beating made Hou Cheng's chest feel tight, and his mind was as empty as white paper. Soon, Hou Cheng felt that he was in front of his eyes again.
It became hollow, and the blazing torch became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a spark and disappeared. The surrounding woods and people were no longer visible, and everything disappeared.
Hou Cheng's body collapsed and he fell to the ground, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, his eyes turned white, and he was breathless.
"kill!"
"kill!"
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The sound of killing in the woods was loud, and the soldiers who formed a circle gradually narrowed the circle. The more than ten Xiliang soldiers who were surrounded looked frightened, running left and right, but could not get out of the range of the soldiers. It took less than half a quarter of an hour.
, more than ten Xiliang soldiers were all killed. Hou Cheng and Wei Xu were eliminated very quickly, and almost no difficulties were encountered.
Sun Jian felt a little scared in his heart when he watched Wang Can shoot Hou Cheng and Wei Xu instantly with a little light.
Such superb archery skills are terrifying.
Sun Jian smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Wang Can said: "Is there any hard work? Fortunately, General Cheng lit the torch, otherwise it would be difficult for us to deal with this group of people. After all, it would take a lot of time to search for this group of people just to hide in any nook and corner in the forest."
General Cheng played an indispensable role in the battle."
Cheng Pu came over and said with a smile: "Prefect Wang is exaggerating. Cheng Pu just thought that the woods were too dark and it might not be easy to catch the Xiliang soldiers, so he brought a torch specially. Unexpectedly, it came in handy."
Wang Can smiled and said: "Bring all the dead people back to the camp, order the troops and horses, and prepare to go to war!"
Sun Jian nodded and said: "What I said first is right. Things should happen sooner rather than later. We have to hurry up."
