Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 1039 Contact again
A cup of tea before.

The light after noon spread among the woods, and a figure stooped and walked quickly ran in amid the rustling sound of leaves. A few leaves rubbed against his body, making him look a little embarrassed.

"Here they are! The bandits are three miles ahead. Most of their spies are running on the main road. Those who enter the woods have been killed."

Zhai Liang wiped the sweat off his face. There were a few bloodstains on his chest and lower garment, which were left by the rebel spies he had killed.

Zhai Jin stood up and exhaled softly: "How many armored men are there?"

"Not many." Zhai Liang thought for a moment and said with certainty, "I only saw a few burly men who looked like leaders and some soldiers beside them wearing armor. They accounted for about 10% of the total number. The rest were a mob, and some of them were holding pitchforks and hoes."

"It's expanding quickly." Zhai Jin nodded, and then another scout came back and passed on the information. A team of more than 2,000 people was moving a little faster and was somewhat disconnected from the troops in the rear. However, they had no flags and no one knew which leader their team belonged to. All they knew was that they all had black turbans on their heads.

"Two thousand men?" Zhai Jin walked towards the warhorse, stepped on the stirrup and sat on it, holding up his spear: "Order the whole army, mount the horses!"

Zhai Liang ran excitedly to his warhorse, and Zhai Jin's personal guards came over and hurriedly put armor on him. Then the young man turned around and mounted his horse, carrying a mixed iron spear.

The sound of war horses neighing rang out in the forest. Figures wrapped in crimson robes and armor rode on horses, holding the reins and looking at the number one general of Jingxi in front of them. The sound of their panting could be faintly heard.

"There are over ten thousand bandits ahead, but they are all useless." Zhai Jin turned to look at the more than seven hundred cavalrymen and raised his spear. "You have heard about the tragic situation in Yiyang and Lushan, and some of you have even gone to see it."

The knuckles of the scouts holding the reins turned white.

"Song Jiang and his men are all vagrants. They flee west today and east tomorrow. No one knows if they will end up near our homes one day." Zhai Jin held his spear horizontally and pointed it outwards: "Tell me, do you want to see your parents, relatives and friends die at the hands of bandits?"

"In no mood--"

Hundreds of figures roared.

Zhai Jin reined in his warhorse, changed direction, and looked calmly at the direction of the official road: "Okay, follow me and follow the flag.

I advance, you advance, I retreat, you retreat, don't hesitate, our goal is to lure the thieves into an ambush! Then--"

He kicked the horse's belly with his legs, holding the spear upside down in his hand: "Push down the banditry and bring peace back to the west of Beijing."

The warhorse started running out: "Follow me——"

More than 700 war horses, with more than 2,000 legs, moved in an orderly manner, stepping on the ground and raising dust. After slowly changing direction, they rushed out in a straight line. The hot air in the afternoon vibrated and the silent earth made a huge roar.

A little further away, the fighting between the scouts was still going on. The sound of fierce fighting and shouting spread, and several figures ran out quickly. Dai Zong and Liu Tong held wooden shields and kept raising them sideways to block the incoming arrows.

There were several corpses of government soldiers around them, all of whom were killed by a single blow to the neck. However, there were even more spies under their command. The scouts who received the information and came to support them continuously, shooting at the two men with crossbows and bows and arrows.

Soon, these two men, who were famous for their speed, changed their positions and quickly ran away from the range of the government army's arrows. They fled for their lives and brought back the news of the government army's attack.

Not long after they ran, Zhai Jin took the lead and ran out of the woods. The rumbling sound of horse hooves stepped out of the woods one after another. The roar shook the clouds in the sky, and the bustling crowd turned into black spots, and the frightened birds flapped their wings and flew away from both sides.

"Tear those bandits apart!"

At that moment, there was murderous intent.

……

"Whoohoo-"

The scenes on both sides quickly receded in their eyes. The two people who were running for their lives let out a gasp. Occasionally they looked back. The yellow earth rising in the air behind them made their scalps numb, and they ran forward even faster.

After passing a bend full of trees, figures with bare chests and single swords in hand appeared in front of them. They walked crookedly and laughed as they watched the two men running towards them. They raised their hands and shouted, "Captain Dai, Chief Liu, why are you running so fast?"

You are asking for death!
Dai Zong was so anxious that he shouted: "Government cavalry! Government cavalry! Are you idiots deaf?"

The thief who was holding up his hand and smiling suddenly froze in expression. It was then as if his ears were cleared and the roar of galloping war horses came into his ears.

"Cavalry?!"

"Quickly notify the Third Lady!"

"Come back! Where are you going?"

All kinds of exclamations suddenly became a mess, and a figure turned around and ran, which immediately made the leader of the team angry and ran faster than him.

Dai Zong cursed in his heart, and he and Liu Tong used all their life's skills to run behind the group of people in just a moment. When they turned their heads to look, a black horse carrying a general in a red robe and full body armor ran around the corner.

"kill!"

Zhai Jin roared, clenched the spear in his hand, and rushed forward at an even faster speed. The seven hundred cavalrymen followed behind him, also keeping up without stopping. Some fell behind, while others ran forward quickly, in an orderly manner.

The array of 700 men was deployed while running. On the black warhorse, Zhai Jin raised his hand to give a signal. Some of the cavalrymen in the rear drew their bows and arrows, while the knights in the front row who were about to engage the enemy held their spears and shouted "Kill..." with ferocious faces.

"run--"

The bandit standing in front roared in despair, threw away the weapon in his hand, turned around and ran away quickly.

The horses' hooves roared, and an arrow went into the ground.

The Song cavalry roared and urged their horses frantically. The moment the men and horses got close to the ground, they went in with a "boom". The long spear pierced into the back and came out from the chest. Then they lifted it up with force and swung it out with a wave of their arms.

On the other side, the Song army knights behind pulled the bows and arrows, then let go and shot the arrows in their hands.

The arrows were like locusts, swirling and piercing down.

More than three hundred arrows are not a lot, and the Song army's cavalry archery naturally cannot compare with the northern cavalry. However, there is no need for high accuracy at this time.

The bandits were crowded together on the road, and even if some of them tried to escape, they could not get far away. Amid the sound of whizzing through the air, more than a hundred bandits fell to the ground, wounded or injured, and wailed while holding the places where they were shot by arrows.

As the Mercedes-Benz was bumping, Zhai Jin looked at the figure in front of him and licked his lips: "With such a small number of people, I'm afraid we won't be able to provoke the other party's anger."

Immediately, he called out to the personal soldier beside him, who picked up the horn from beside the saddle and blew it.

Woohoo——

The figures that entered the battle formation launched a charge towards the battle formation behind. The sound of spears piercing flesh continued, and one bandit after another fell to the ground.

At this time, Dai Zong and Liu Tong, who were running very fast, had already run behind this group of bandits. They looked at the astonished Duan Sanniang, Duan Er, Qiu Xiang and others and shouted, "The soldiers are attacking--" Then they ran towards Song Jiang's group behind them.

Duan Sanniang frowned and cursed, "I can see that you are a donkey that won't die. Why do I need you to remind me?"

Duan Er hesitated for a moment, holding up his knife, and looked at the Song cavalry who were advancing like a broken bamboo: "Should we go forward to support them now?"

"You stupid pig."

Duan Sanniang slapped Qiu Xiang, who was eager to try, on the head, causing the young man to stagger. He cursed, "Open those two holes on your face and look. There are our cavalry in front of us. We have nothing. What can we use to fight against the government troops? Are you going to use the holes on your buttocks to catch the spears in their hands?"

The five men, Duan Er, Duan Wu, Qiu Xiang, Shi Jun and Fang Han, immediately leaned back slightly on their horses and looked at Duan Sanniang with an expression of disdain.

The fair-skinned woman didn't even bother to give her relatives an eye roll. She pulled the reins of the inferior horse under her and said, "As long as we are safe, we have enough armored men, and we can take care of those rubbish in front as many as we want."

The five people looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. They were afraid that the third lady would rush forward in a fit of anger. Now it seems...

Damn it, I got scolded for nothing.

In an instant, more than 200 figures in leather armor left the team, wailing continued to sound, and the galloping horses trampled on the dead bodies on the ground, splashing countless blood.

Not long after, the 2,000 or so bandit soldiers at the front collapsed and scattered.

……

The sound of fighting spread to the back. Sun Li and Sun Xin were sitting on their horses and whispering something. The moment they heard the chaotic sound, the former Dengzhou officer was stunned. "Something happened!" He shouted and raised his spear on his horse: "Follow me, quickly! Brother, go and inform the back! Someone, inform brother Shi Jin, there are enemies ahead, come to help quickly!"

More than 1,700 of his followers followed their leader in a relatively orderly pace. Sun Xin reined in his horse and ran backwards. He did not go to find Song Jiang first, but ran into another group of people in the rear.

His wife was talking to Jie Zhen and Jie Bao, and was startled when she saw him coming. When she understood what was going on, Mrs. Gu patted her two cousins ​​on the back with both hands and said, "Don't just stand there, go and help your uncle."

The two-headed snakes and the double-tailed scorpion listened to her the most. They immediately carried steel pitchforks, bows and arrows, shouted, and a team of three thousand people in total quickly ran out.

……

Under the sky, on the battlefield at the foot of the mountain, running figures gradually gathered.

"How many cavalrymen?"

Song Jiang stared at Dai Zong and Liu Tong running in front of him with wide eyes. The two thieves who were best at running looked at each other. Dai Zong lowered his head embarrassedly and said, "You ran too fast, so I couldn't see clearly, but judging from the sound, the scale should not be big."

"...Go and investigate!" Song Jiang took a breath, looked at the two men and said, "You are the eyes of the army, how can you not even understand these things?"

The two men blushed, but soon, there was no need for them to go forward to take a closer look, as someone in the front passed on the number of government troops and generals.

When Song Jiang heard that it was his old rival Zhai Jin who was leading the troops, he felt relieved instead. He quickly deployed his troops and sent Li Kui forward as the vanguard of his army.

Lei Yingchun and Zhang Yue'e on the left, and Wu Song on the right are leading their troops forward quickly.

Looking down from the air, teams of thousands of people were scattered in the fields and woods at the foot of the mountain. The three armies in the front were several miles away from the army in the rear.

A cavalry group broke through the crowd at the front and shot arrows continuously from their hands. The accuracy was indeed a little low, and only a few blood splashed.

Among the bandits who were fleeing in chaos, there were many who just went with the flow. They also felt that they were being defeated quickly, so they just watched the people around them run and then followed them, and then they watched the cavalry chasing them from behind.

Several newly joined small leaders originally wanted to follow the plundering, and they were not afraid of anything. However, they did not know that the cavalry on the battlefield was very powerful. They led dozens of people to fight back, but were quickly broken through by the cavalry of Zhai Jin's army that came from the rear. They were thrown out one by one with their spears hung on them.

On the battlefield of chase and fighting, Zhai Jin looked relaxed. Blood soaked his outer battle robe and stuck to his armor. If it weren't for the cotton lining inside the iron armor, the blood would have seeped inside.

There were not many bandits left, and most of them were fleeing in all directions.

As his sight turned, a thief with a khaki scarf wrapped around his head came into view in the distance. The thief running in the front was holding a long spear, which immediately made his eyes light up.

"Follow me—" He raised his spear and laid it flat forward: "Defeat another group of bandits!"

Hundreds of cavalrymen behind him shouted "Kill!", and under the fluttering flags, the rumbling sound of horse hooves followed the figure in front.

The neat charge and the uniform crimson color looked awe-inspiring.

"Damn..."

Sun Li's face changed. The cavalry on the opposite side was charging at him like a tidal wave. He instinctively shouted "Form a formation!", but then he suddenly realized that the bandits on his side were all cloth-clad and holding single swords. He quickly changed his words and shouted even louder: "Disperse!"

The soldiers who had gathered together had already been frightened by the rushing figure, and hurriedly moved out of the way of the cavalry.

Zhai Jin narrowed his eyes and looked at Sun Li riding on his warhorse, then rushed towards him with a tiger roar. The cavalry following behind him were not willing to be outdone and hurried to catch up.

Sun Li didn't dare to face the charging cavalry alone, so he turned around and ran, shouting at the fleeing bandits: "Spread out to both sides, wait for the enemy to pass, and then surround them!"

Zhai Jin seemed unaware and just spurred his horse in pursuit. The herd of war horses ran through the cleared road. Those who were slow to dodge immediately became innocent souls under the horses' hooves, rolling and disappearing in the dust raised by the horses.

The rumbling of horse hooves echoed in the air, and Zhai Jin roared: "Coward, if you have the guts, turn around and fight!"

The sick Wei Chi in front ran without looking back.

While secretly cursing Zhai Jin behind him for being shameless, he said, "You have hundreds of cavalrymen at my side. If I go crazy, I will go back and fight with you, the number one general in western Beijing. If I am not trampled into a pulp, it will mean that I, Sun Li, have wasted all these years in the army!"

Seeing that he did not answer, Zhai Jin in the rear snorted coldly and led his troops to pursue.

Only a mile or two away, the troops of Shi Jin and the Xie brothers came into the sight of the mounted knights.

Sun Li was rising and falling on his horse, his mind racing with thoughts. He pulled the reins and urged his horse to gallop towards Jie Zhen and Jie Bao.

Under the daylight, the two brothers of the Xie family took a breath as they watched the galloping war horses approaching, and shouted to all around: "Get ready—"

wow-

The bandit soldier in front raised the bow and arrow in his hand, and the arrow head flashed a dazzling light under the sky.

(End of this chapter)