Da Wei Chun

Chapter 252
Although Li Chengzhi was shocked, he didn't panic.

Even if it is an enemy attack, even if there are many enemies, it is still very easy to escape because the guards and camps are all riding three horses.

Unless it is surrounded on all sides.

Li Chengzhi put on his pocket guard and quickly got out of the tent.

Today is April [-], and the moon is very bright. Even though the open fires in the camp have been extinguished, Li Chengzhi can still see the general idea.

After all, these personal guards have been fighting for a long time, and they are very calm.Those who prepare arrows prepare arrows, those who draw knives draw knives, and there is no trace of panic.

Li Chengzhi nodded in satisfaction, and saw Li Liang rushing over quickly, and reported in a respectful voice: "Just now a scout came to report, saying that there were horse thieves fighting with Hu merchants about [-] miles east of Shandan County.

The horse thief has three or four hundred riders, the Hu merchants are outnumbered, they will collapse at the first touch, and are fleeing west... The horse thief is chasing after him, at most two minutes, they will chase around the county..."

So it wasn't for me?
But Li Chengzhi couldn't help but turn dark.

Hu Shang is running for his life, and it is still night, so how can there be any direction and rules?

It is even more impossible to run only in the direction of the county seat.Not surprisingly, [-]% of the caravan guards will flee in this direction.

There is absolutely no doubt, there will definitely be pursuers chasing after him.

They were all riding horses, twenty or thirty miles away in an instant, no matter whether I wanted to hide or leave, it was already too late...

Wanting to hide his whereabouts and flee back to Guanzhong without making a sound has become empty talk?
Li Chengzhi gritted his teeth bitterly.

I just saw a ghost, in the middle of the night, where did horse thieves and barbarian businessmen come from?

Fortunately, he was not dead, and he just happened to be hit by himself?

But for one or two hours in the morning, I will definitely find a way to avoid it instead of camping...

Li Chengzhi's face darkened, and he quickly confessed: "This place is so empty, there is nowhere to hide in Tibet. Forget it, let's defend on the spot... Also, prepare the official flag for emergencies..."

More than just the official flag?

In Li Chengzhi's arms, it is really about the customs clearance documents and orders of Zhongzhenshoufu.

Otherwise, he would not be able to walk unimpeded to Hexi with fifty guards, and it would be even more impossible for him to blatantly go to Wuwei City to spy on the way west...

Li Liang was a little puzzled: Mr. Lang wants to show his official flag?
They are gangsters, and their strength is nearly twice as large as their own. When they see the official flag, isn't it that the hungry wolf has seen the fat?
Suspicious for a while, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Li Chengzhi sneering faintly, and Li Liangfu came to his heart and suddenly realized.

No wonder when the scouts came to tell the time, they didn't mention any movement in Shandan City, it seemed that even half of the beacon towers were not lit?

This group of horse thieves, nine out of ten are officers and soldiers pretending to be...

Otherwise, why are there horse thieves so close to the county seat?
In addition to the county soldiers, the south of the county seat is the Hexi Horse Farm, where there is a Dianmu Mansion with a chief official as high as the fifth rank, and there are thousands of herdsmen just grazing horses.

These are thousands of households, and each household has at least one man. Riding on a horse and carrying a bow on his back, he is a good cavalry.

How can a horse thief be so courageous, not afraid of being suppressed by the Dianmu government office?
Li Liang was a little helpless, secretly sighed that he was unlucky, and he happened to run into such a bad thing?
This group of officers and soldiers is really brave enough: robbing Hu merchants in the Western Regions is a felony, ten to ten, and the court will investigate to the end...

While being suspicious, Li Liang also understood Li Chengzhi's intentions.

If they were real officers and soldiers, as long as they saw the command flag of Guanzhong's guarding mansion, they would definitely feel guilty, and would run away in all likelihood.

Unless it is sure that there will be no more than two hundred guards left here...

Li Liang took the order to go, and after a short while, the guards used cavalry guns to set up a horse-repelling formation with a circumference of about one mile around the camp.

Close to the inner formation, another layer of armored horses stood up, and then armored soldiers, all of them holding bows and pockets, waiting for the formation.

Li Chengzhi was surrounded in the middle, sitting on his horse, raising his head and looking east.

Next to it stands a connected flagpole, which is two feet high.There is a lantern hanging underneath, and it will be lit up when necessary to show your identity...

From time to time, scouts return to the camp to report urgently, saying that many rout soldiers are fleeing here, and there are still many pursuers behind.

Li Chengzhi couldn't help sighing.

Thinking about it will lead to this result: I can't hide it at all!
But what else?
He could only stabilize himself first, startle the group of "horse bandits" away, and then set off immediately, rushing on the road overnight.

As for someone asking in the future?

Since there can be officers and soldiers pretending to be horse thieves, who can guarantee that no "thief" will pretend to be officers and soldiers of the Guanzhong Town Guard Mansion?
If you don't admit it...

Just as I was thinking about it, the horn sounded again not far away.

This is not an enemy, but a scout sent by Li Liang.

The copper whistle belonged exclusively to Li Chengzhi's command, and even Xi Kangsheng's personal guards had not yet started equipping it. In order not to expose the identity of the White Armored Battalion, Li Song did not use it long ago.

Li Chengzhi's personal guards are mandatory for everyone, but it is even more impossible to use a copper whistle to warn when foreign enemies are approaching, so they will naturally replace it with a cornet.

The trumpet blew three times in a row, short and urgent, indicating that the enemy cavalry had already rushed within a hundred feet.

Without deliberately turning his ears, Li Chengzhi could already hear the clear sound of horseshoes, as well as the sound of someone shouting and roaring.

Li Liang shouted heavily: "Hold!"

With an order, the fifty guards in the East Wing raised their bows and arrows in unison, half-drawing and half-releasing, ready to go.

In just eight or nine breaths, Li Chengzhi saw that about twenty or thirty riders were galloping here.

I don't know how many chasing soldiers are behind, but just listening to the galloping formation of the horses' hooves, I can guess that there are more than fifty or sixty horsemen.

Li Chengzhi was very helpless.

This group of Hu merchants have been chased to the sky and have nowhere to go, and they can't even move their brains?
I only know to run towards a place with bright light, but why don't I think about it, at this time, the brighter the place, the more dangerous it is?
Li Chengzhi sighed secretly, and exhaled lightly: "Bring the gong, light the lamp, release the arrow..."

There was only a loud "boom", like a thunderclap in the flat ground.

Then there was a burst of "swish swish swish", as if countless birds flew past the ears, and it seemed that a beehive was poked, hundreds of wasps came out of the nest, huddled together, and made bursts of buzzing Ming.

Almost at the same time, there were screams one after another not far away, like a live pig waiting to be slaughtered was pushed onto the chopping board, howling so loudly that Li Chengzhi's eardrums were about to burst.

There were also some Hu merchants who were quick to wake up and slammed the reins, trying to bypass the two wings of the spear array.

As long as there is no Hu merchant who is not stained with Han blood, Li Chengzhi has long wanted to kill two to relieve his hatred.Now that he has already done it, how can he be soft-hearted?

Li Chengzhi yelled coldly: "Shoot again!"

The guards on the two wings didn't stop for a moment, and they didn't take aim, they just shot out along the gap in the horse formation.The front line also drew the bowstring again, dozens of arrows were thrown into the air, and then fell obliquely.

Just listening to the sound of the bow and arrow falling to the ground, horses fell to the ground one after another.As soon as the knight fell off his horse, before he could scream, countless arrows shot towards him and nailed him...

Hu Shang, who was still howling and fleeing in the blink of an eye, fell silent in an instant, like a chicken or duck being grabbed by the neck.

Only a few horses were still struggling.

Dead... Those Hu Shang's guards all died in the blink of an eye?

"Stop...stop...deaf, stop...for grandpa..."

There was a burst of angry shouting and cursing from the chasing cavalry.

There was only a burst of yelling, and dozens of pursuers seemed to want to use all their strength to feed their babies, and squeezed the horse's reins vigorously.

The horses neighed one after another, and some horses even stood up...

Are you good at riding?
With the torch in the hands of the pursuers, Li Chengzhi sneered repeatedly as he looked at the group of cavalry stopped about ten or twenty feet away.

If you only look at the appearance, everyone thinks that they are a group of horse thieves: some are naked from the upper body, some are wearing leather robes, and some are wearing sheepskin-like clothes made of sheepskin.

The hair is also messy, like a piece of rotten felt. Although it is separated by ten or twenty feet, you can still smell the strong smell of sheep.

But even if you can't speak nonsense, why don't you change your accent?

Good guy, what Guan Zhong said is more authentic than yourself?
Li Chengzhi has already confirmed that this is undoubtedly a group of officers and soldiers.

But it is estimated that they are not guards in Shandan County, but nine out of ten are herders from Hexi Racecourse.

Because the smell of mutton is definitely not something that can be pretended temporarily.

Moreover, such superb equestrian skills cannot be practiced by ordinary guards.

Li Chengzhi was looking at this group of horse thieves, and this group of horse thieves was also wondering about the origin of this group of people in front of him?
There are only fifty or sixty horse thieves, one counts as one, and the frightened soul is about to fly out!
This formation... Where did it come from?
Like it just popped out of the ground, popping up all of a sudden?
The head was chilled all over, and the hand holding the rein of the horse couldn't help shaking.

That thing that reflects the moonlight, exudes a little bit of coldness, and is so dense that it makes one's scalp tingle, isn't it a spear?

And it's neat as if it was drawn with a ruler...

There are also those bright mirrors that look like an iron wall together, but occasionally there are slightly shaking things, aren't they armored horses in full armor?
There is also a cold light shining between the horses and behind the horses, like a mirror, but it is much smaller, isn't it a soldier in full armor?
How many people can't tell, but just looking at the size of the formation and the swarming formation of horses, there seem to be nearly a thousand horses alone?
But with so many horses and so many people, why are they like dead things, not even the slightest movement?
What kind of powerful equipment and strict military discipline is this?
When did such a strong army come to the county, and there was not even a whisper of wind on the mountain?

This is by no means a barbarian, let alone a barbarian...

What joke are you telling?
Horse bandits and Hu merchants must have such equipment and military discipline, not to mention Shandan County, even the Hexi Racecourse has been robbed long ago...

The boss has already vaguely guessed: No accident, the origin of this group of people is similar to theirs, they are all doing dirty work...

But because of this, he was even more afraid: if the opponent is so powerful, will he kill himself and others?

Don't talk about silence, it is possible to take advantage of the situation and attack the racecourse...

The boss was startled and stunned, the corners of his eyes were aching, and in just a few breaths, fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

He was about to yell "Let's go" in a low voice, but the words reached his throat, but he was pressed back abruptly.

In addition to the chilling light, there seemed to be a glimmer of light in that array?
The leader took a closer look, and saw a big lantern rising on the opposite side.

After seeing the words on the lantern again, the leader breathed a sigh of relief, as if all his energy had been emptied, his body shrank suddenly, and he was several points shorter on the spot.

Guanzhong tutelary mansion!
The fact that the other party dared to show the banner only meant one thing: Grandpa knows your origins, and even more knows what you are doing, if you are sensible, get out!
This little life was saved...

As if being pardoned, the leader tremblingly raised his hands and arched them, and shouted in a trembling voice, "Thank you..."

Just after the word "thank you" was finished, I heard him call "go" urgently.

Dozens of his subordinates came back to their senses and pulled the reins with all their strength, fearing that they would die if they slowed down...

These soldiers really guessed right.

If it weren't for the fear of poking a hornet's nest, Li Chengzhi would have had the slightest urge to kill and silence.

Seeing the group of horse thieves running farther and farther, and finally being silent, Li Chengzhi sighed sadly: "Let's get rid of the camp!"

I can't stay in this place anymore...

Li Liang responded respectfully, and quickly gave the order.

First, a few horses galloped out of the formation to send orders to You Ge's scouts to explore the way first.

The rest of the guards put away their guns, and those who packed up their tents packed up their tents...

……

About ten miles east of Shandan County.

Hundreds of cavalry tightly surrounded a circle, and more than a hundred pack horses, camels, and convoys were tightly surrounded in the middle.

About a hundred or so Hu merchants all knelt down, yelling nonsense languages, some in Hu language, some in Chinese, and some in Sogdian. Without exception, they all begged for mercy.

There are soldiers in the formation who are kidnapping people one by one, and some are searching for carriages, but the strange thing is that they don't seem to be searching for goods, but people.

Yuwen Yuanqing rode a big horse and stood on a small hill, staring excitedly at the battlefield not far away.

I don't know, among these Hu merchants, are there any of the two people that Xiazhou governor Gao Meng confessed to?

If it happens to be found by myself, it will definitely be regarded as a great help to the Gao family.

I don't dare to say how much favor I can get, so I asked Gao Meng to go to his uncle Gao Zhaogao Situ to beg for mercy, and transfer him back to Luoyang, there is still no hindrance...

Just thinking about it, a horse galloped out from the formation and came galloping.

When he got closer, the confidant leaned forward again, put his mouth to Yuwen Yuanqing's ear, and said in a low voice: "Lieutenant Bingdu, there are indeed female relatives in the convoy, but they are just a few orchids..."

Only a few orchids?

Yuwen Yuanqing frowned: "Have you searched carefully?"

"The subordinates have searched back and forth three times, not only the living people and the carriages, but also the bodies of those who were shot and beheaded... It is true that there are only a few orchids, and there are no Han women. ..."

Yuwen Yuanqing's heart sank violently.

Killed the wrong person?
But the killing has already been killed, can it still be brought back to life?
Simply kill it...

His eyes turned cold, and he stared closely at his cronies: "Be clean..."

The confidant understood in seconds, and solemnly responded.

(End of this chapter)