Three hundred and thirty-six Zhensanshan twenty-nine
Among the cavalrymen riding horses and shooting around the forest was a young man with a baby face. He had only been paid by Shangzhou Army for half a year and had become a first-class cavalryman. This was because he had been traveling with his father who drove a cart since he was a child.
He was one of the few newcomers who had good riding skills when he entered the army. In addition, he had some family background, so it was natural for him to be promoted into the temporarily formed team of thousands of elite riders.
This young man who is only nineteen years old ranks among the top ten in riding and shooting ability among the two hundred people beside him. It is not that Tang Huaili is unwilling to bring all the thousands of people to the vicinity of the inn. It is really the so-called
There are a lot of "fine cavalry" among the thousands of people, and almost half of them come in through favors and money. There are also a hundred people who are old pawns who are proficient in bow and horse but have a lot of misdeeds and are disobedient to discipline. No Suzhou military attaché is willing to go like that.
Hundreds of people are asking for trouble.
It is very difficult to get 300 young and strong cavalry by scraping together here and there. If those thousand people have the same fighting strength as these 300 people, even if they are weaker, it doesn't matter. Tang Huai and Li Dake can justly crush them.
, even the King of Xiaoyaoshan, whose martial arts realm is profound and unpredictable, will always have his energy exhausted and unable to breathe.
The baby-faced cavalryman eager to achieve great feats took out the arrows from the half-empty quiver with ease and cocked the arrow. Although he had the confidence that he could still hit the target fifty paces away, the sight of smoke and fire rising into the sky before him
, even if you have the skill of shooting at a hundred steps, you may not be able to hit the target, so the commander of the team ordered not to worry about the accuracy, just shoot the quiver empty.
Each of their two hundred riders had a quiver full of thirty arrows. If the quiver was empty, it would be a full six thousand. Even the monsters and monsters in this forest no bigger than the size of a palm were shot into hedgehogs.
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"Shoot all your arrows! If anyone wants to break out, use your sword to chop off his head!" The sweating centurion rode his horse around the entire cavalry, shouting at the same time.
He shouted, "Don't covet the military glory of one or two heads today, just wander around the forest and shoot! Anyone who disobeys the command will be stripped of his status as a cavalry and dealt with according to the military law!"
Most of the cavalrymen who could participate in today's siege were from poor and humble backgrounds, and they were all eager to climb up the ranks in the helpless state army based on their military merits, but they could not bear the price of stripping away their status as cavalrymen.
"Boss, if you run out of arrows, can you get closer to the forest?" The baby-faced cavalryman led his horse closer to his corps commander, and asked in a low voice, "If you miss this time, you can get military honors next time."
I don’t know how many opportunities there are in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.”
"In a team of 200 people, there will always be someone who loses his composure first. Don't be the first one to stand out."
The corps commander, who is only a few years older than the baby-faced cavalryman, has been in the state army for four years. He is already an out-and-out veteran. He relies on his relatively well-to-do family background and the money he picked up during a certain bandit suppression.
With three heads of military merit, he filled the vacancy of the corps commander just two years ago and leads pawn No. 4.
Seeing that the baby-faced cavalryman was still a little eager to try, the corps commander had no choice but to scold in a low voice: "Can the Xiaoyaoshan bandit who wants to use two hundred cavalry to encircle and suppress him be a fuel-efficient lamp? Be the first one to rush in, in case the bandit is only attacked by
You were seriously injured but didn't die. With your three-legged and cat-like skills, can you withstand two hits?"
Suddenly enlightened, the baby-faced cavalry distanced their horses, then obediently raised the crossbow in his hand and shot an arrow into the forest.
After half a stick of incense had passed, most of the two hundred cavalrymen who were riding around and shooting had emptied their quivers. The anxious cavalrymen were waiting for the centurion, their immediate superior, to give the order to march. The palm-sized forest was so damaged.
With such an overwhelming rain of arrows, how can there be any living creatures? It’s a good time to rush to cut off heads to gain military merit...
"Lord Tang, after gathering around two cups of tea, the two hundred horsemen all emptied their quivers. Then they followed your instructions and wandered around the forest, shooting and setting fire to them. Even rats, rabbits and sparrows were shot and burned to death.
Everything must be clean..." The centurion, who turned over and dismounted, organized his words. The middle-aged man, who didn't know a few people, was stumbling, but he spoke with utmost respect to the fat man on the horse.
Reporting the military situation, "Look, if we gather around them, there shouldn't be many people left in the forest who can move..."
The centurion, who thought he had lowered his posture low enough for his grandson, lowered his head and half-knelt on the ground, waiting for Tang Huaili on horseback to speak.
The centurion, who had been kneeling for a long time and had some numbness in his back and legs, was about to get up when the fat man who was originally silent suddenly said slowly and logically:
"The people in the forest are not ordinary bandits in Xiaoyao Mountain. Are you really sure, General?"
The elite cavalry centurion of the Suzhou Prefecture Army may have a status comparable to that of an infantry general. He is usually quite flattered when he is complimented as a general by his enthusiastic subordinates.
However, when these usually flattering words were uttered by Tang Huaili, this centurion, who was not very stupid, felt like a light on his back.
The anxious centurion was about to kneel on both knees instead of one knee, and kowtow to the Tang soldier Cao to apologize, when the man on the horse, who seemed to be full of fat and only interested in collecting money, spoke leisurely again:
"Whether you are sure or not, since the general has a brave heart, how can Huai Li stop him? Then I would like to wish the general a victory and immediate success."
Anyone could hear the sarcasm in these words, but the centurion's face was filled with relief after hearing this. He thanked Tang Huaili with his fists and then got on his horse.
A fool who thinks he is smart? Or a smart person who deliberately hides his clumsiness? Tang Huaili doesn't want to think about it. Since it is easy to use, he will continue to use it. If he uses it well, he will give it a sweet date. If it is used up, he will replace it.
"If those two hundred cavalry don't help, I'll have to trouble you two to take action later."
In an instant, Tang Huaili, who changed his face and smiled, turned to the two cavalrymen nearby, who were all covered in pure black cloaks, and said softly.
"Easy to do."
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The cavalrymen who had shot all the arrows put their light crossbows on their backs, drew their sabers from their waists in unison, and drove their horses toward the burning woods, slowly tightening the circle around them. Each cavalryman was two meters apart.
The width of the horse's body gradually shortened to one and a half, and then there was only one horse's body. No one among them thought that there were still living people in the forest. Most of them were just careful to beware of the flames and charcoal fire that would burn the horses' hooves, and some of them were lucky.
The people lowered their heads and looked around, hoping to find military exploits within their reach that had not been burned to cokes in the embers.
They did not find the military glory that was readily available to them. Instead, they were greeted by evil spirits leaping from the ground.
The evil ghosts, whose bodies were covered in burnt black stench and even had small fireworks burning on their bodies, instantly pounced on the cavalry who were bent on gaining military glory. The unsuspecting cavalry on horseback were killed before they even had time to react.
By the time the comrades around them reacted, those evil spirits who had killed several of their comrades in the blink of an eye were already on their feet.
"There he is! Kill him! Kill him!"
Ma Dayuan, who had seven or eight arrows stuck in his back, raised his arms and shouted while already running a distance of two to three feet under the horse's belly, followed closely by the surviving Jinzhou military attachés.
Their bodies and minds were on fire, vowing to burn that perfidious bastard to ashes.
No one knew about the Suzhou Jingqi behind these people. It was their brothers who gave their lives to these people who should have been burned to charcoal. Those Jingqi who were frightened by their ghostly appearance only thought of taking action at this time.
But only one person subconsciously swung his knife and scratched the back of one of the evil ghosts. The remaining people took off their light crossbows and wanted to shoot the evil ghosts, but found that their quivers were already empty.
The baby-faced cavalryman saw with his own eyes the captain who had just been chatting with him about the military merit of picking up a head and inviting the other four people to drink. He turned his head and grinned at him, and was stabbed by the jumping evil ghost with a short knife.
Heartbroken.
The corps commander who always liked to tease him with dirty words looked down in disbelief, as if he didn't believe that he was dead like this. Then he was pushed off the horse's back and was trampled hard on his chest by the raised horse's hooves, breaking his bones.
The snapping sound was like someone breaking a foot and crushing a dead branch.
Of those who were with him, he was the only one left to die.
The centurion, who was also waking up from a dream, saw the direction in which the evil spirits were riding their horses. He stretched out his arms and pointed at the horses and said in a trembling voice: "Stop them! Stop them!"
Although there were fifty cavalry around him as guards, the encirclement of the two hundred men was broken instantly. If Mr. Tang Huai and Li Tang, who seemed to have a close relationship with General Suzhou, had some shortcomings...
No matter how rich and beautiful the future is, his pension may not be worth a few taels of life.
Tang Huai Li...Master Tang...Tang Ancestor!
You must not die!
"Follow me when the troops are gathered! Mr. Tang is right there! Anyone who kills thieves today with the ability to fight, I will report to you, and I will teach you to reward you with fifty taels of silver! You will be promoted to one level!"
Such an unreasonable reward rekindled the fighting spirit of these elite Suzhou cavalrymen. Their desire for promotion in the state army and the reward of silver overcame the anxiety and fear in their hearts. Looking at the cavalrymen who were all vying for the lead at this time, the
The centurion cursed his mother in a dull tone, and then hurried away. If it was still too late, Mr. Tang could see his desperate posture of sacrificing his life to protect him. Maybe it would be a blessing in disguise, right?
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Tang Huai and Li Wang, who were on horseback, looked at the roaring evil spirits with an unchanging expression, and there was a slight sweat on their foreheads.
The Suzhou Jingqi with fifty cavalry in front of him had already formed a three-layer formation in front of him. This was the thickest formation that could be stacked under the guarantee of the formation width, but Tang Huaili still felt that this man who had served in Jin Dynasty could not handle it.
Cao Shenjun, a soldier who had served in the state border army, knew that these so-called elite cavalry with bright armor and complete swords and crossbows were really good at that time, but they were defeated among them.
"I would like to ask you two to take action...I would like to ask you two..."
Before Tang Huaili, whose voice gradually trembled, finished his second sentence of please, he turned his horse's head and fled under the intriguing eyes of the fifty riders, as if he had been kicked and lame after not having eaten the meat.