Shu Chen

Chapter 332
Hexi Corridor, Wuwei County.

Since Wei State Guanzhong rode into the south of Helan Mountain, Puying County, the easternmost part of the Lushui (Shiyang River) Basin, became the outpost of the Han garrison.

Traveling east along Wushaoling to Naowei County, this section of barren valleys that used to be uninhabited for hundreds of miles has now become a battlefield where cavalry and scouts from both sides frequently meet and chase each other.

Today is no exception.

But in the desert scorched by the scorching sun, there are more than a dozen cavalry soldiers who are clearly dressed in the Han army, galloping in the direction of Puju County in a hurry.

The cavalry on the war horse kept clamping the horse's belly, leaning on the horse's neck to avoid the wind and sand from covering its nose and eyes, and looked back from time to time with eagerness on its face.

Because behind them, there are still about a hundred riders chasing desperately.

Some of the cavalry wore felt hats, some had shaved heads, and half of them wore standard leather armor. They were obviously Wei cavalry with a lot of Xianbei and Xiongnu mixed in.

The distance between the two groups of cavalry is less than a stone's throw away.

Many Xianbei or Xiongnu cavalry soldiers who were skilled in riding and shooting did not forget to point arrows and bows when chasing, to see if they could shoot the Han soldiers in front of them off their horses.It's just that they are shooting against the wind and the riding bows they use are too weak, so it is difficult to make meritorious deeds.

But the well-equipped Wei Zu is different.

I saw them turn sideways slightly with the strength of their waist and abdomen, hold the horse's rein with their forearms horizontally as a fulcrum, put the well-made crossbow on the rack, squint their eyes through Wangshan for a moment, and then press down the hanging knife.

The powerful sound of more than twenty crossbows breaking through the air made the fleeing Han cavalry in front of them very dangerous.

Zhang Te, whose body was almost attached to the horse's back, was very embarrassed.

His face was covered with sand stuck to him by sweat, and his hair was scattered and scattered, fluttering wantonly against the strong wind.Just now, a crossbow bolt passed close to his scalp, and the braid that bound his hair was blown away.

Yes, it was Zhang Te, who had previously supervised two hundred armored cavalry.

In the last field battle between the Prime Minister and Cao Zhen in the past, the Prime Minister admired his ability to capture fighters with two hundred armored cavalry to attack and break through the formation, and because the current imperial court lacks financial and material resources, it is unable to expand more armored cavalry. After the state was restored, the prime minister transferred him to Ma Dai as a school lieutenant.

For one thing, it was the general who supervised the cavalry who broke through the formation. He only needed to be brave, and there was no need for Zhang Te to be overqualified.

The other is that Ma Dai is getting older after all.

The Ma family, which experienced two massacres in Yecheng and Jixian County, has very few descendants, and now they all stay in Chengdu to take up noble positions, and the generals who command the Xiliang iron cavalry have no successors.After all, according to the unwritten practice in the Han army in the past, it is impossible for Ma Dai's deputy Wudu Baima Di Wang Yang Ji to become the main general.

Zhang Te, who also came from the borderlands and is good at riding and fighting, is a good choice.

Naturally, Jiang Wei is more suitable.

But the prime minister's expectation of Jiang Wei is the governor, not the general.

Zhang Te, who was transferred to Hexi to serve, spontaneously asked for orders to come here to guard the outposts of the war out of gratitude and meritorious deeds, and often personally led scouts to guard and spy on the military situation.

Relying on his proficiency in bow and horse, every time he goes on tour, there are many who can capture three or five rank Wei scouts and return.

But today he is obviously out of luck.

Wei Guo didn't know whether he was angry after losing the scouts repeatedly, or he was about to attack on a large scale, but the scouts he sent out consisted of a team of fifty or sixty cavalry.

Zhang Te came out with only twenty riders and met him, and immediately ordered to turn back.

The scouts in the army have always been elite, and the enemy is outnumbered, so there is no need to be compromised because of recklessness before the battle begins.Moreover, the distance between the two sides is about two arrows, and Wei Qi can't catch up when he turns back and returns.

It's just that sometimes the house leaks and it rains all night.

Just when the two sides chased me and fled for about [-] miles, another team of Wei Guo scouts suddenly appeared in front of them, coming obliquely from the south of Wushao Ridge!In order to avoid being cut off in the middle, the scouts of the Han army had to turn their horse's head and turn north to avoid it first, and then turned west to rush back.

A full galloping horse, extremely fast.

Such a moment of delay for the Han cavalry has evolved into a dangerous situation where the chasing troops in the rear are less than a stone's throw away.

Fortunately, the crossbow was slow to wind.

It was even slower on the bumpy horseback, which gave the Han army scouts a little rest.

But even so, only three quarters of an hour after being approached by Wei Guo scouts, six cavalrymen under Zhang Te's command fell off their horses.

The cavalry and scouts chased and fought, and those who fell off the horse would surely die.

Whether it was pierced by crossbow arrows while on the horse, or trampled by horseshoes or owl heads by the Wei army who rushed to follow up.

And based on the calculation that this place is more than [-] (Han) miles away from the frontier Puying County, it is lucky that there are two or three scouts of the Han army who can return home in one piece.

This made Zhang Te both helpless and angry.

He had already thought more than once in his mind that instead of being shot one by one by the anti-Wei cavalry, he simply turned his horse's head and went back to fight.At least before they all die in battle, they can still win several levels of beheading for life.

But every time this thought popped up, he forcibly suppressed it.

Because they still have a chance.

While fleeing, every ten miles or so, he asked his scouts to shoot a chime for help.

Just as Wei Guo sent more than one team of scouts, the scouts who rushed out from the outposts of the Han army to spy on the military situation were not limited to him.

There are also Lu Shui, Huli Tangmang who was born as a horse thief, Hu Boju, who was persuaded by Zheng Pu to surrender, and Liu Zhu, Sima Sima of the Qiang Guard Camp, whom he placed his hope on.

Liu Zhu, who is in charge of two thousand Qiang riders, has always led more than two hundred riders out to patrol and guard.

If he could hear Mingdi calling for help and rushing to rescue, the one who fled in a hurry would be the Niwei scout.It's just that in the vast desert and wild valley, scouting teams who are responsible for spying on different areas, it's not easy to meet each other!

Not to mention, this place is still more than [-] miles away from Liu Zhu's inspection range.

"Accelerate! Accelerate!"

Wiping the dust off his face vigorously, he raised his head slightly and shouted at his subordinates, "There is no need to be stingy with horsepower! But we can go back for thirty miles, and we can all survive!"

But as soon as his words fell, Wei Jun scouted a new round of crossbow arrows and fired again.

Not surprisingly, there were new casualties this time.

A cavalry pawn driving side by side with him, the horse he was riding was not only shot somewhere by the crossbow arrows, but suddenly let out a mournful cry, and directly knocked down on the sand in the way of "kicking", making the crisp fracture sound from the horse Burst out at the neck.

And its owner is even worse.

According to the inertia of galloping, it was lifted high, and flew forward for more than a foot before landing; and before the screams could be uttered, it was severely crushed by the horse corpse that turned over immediately.

Accompanied by a muffled hum that stopped abruptly, a faint mist of blood flashed briefly in the flying dust.

Zhang Te, who saw it clearly, made his five sense organs squeeze together in pain.

Immediately, the canthus cracked.

"Accelerate! Accelerate!"

Roaring like thunder again, he pulled the reins slightly to slow down the horse, and raised the two-stone strong bow from the side of the saddle.

　Oh, I'm so busy~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)