Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 675 Chasing and intercepting
On the second day, Zhao Zhen's camp was ready to attack the stronghold. With a cannon shot, the gate of Diaowoyu was wide open, and a general rode out on horseback, followed by eight thousand armored soldiers who lined up with their backs against the wall.

A captured general reported: "The leader is the military marshal Nao Tianlong."

Nao Tianlong shouted, "People of Liang, who will fight me?"

The [Double-Gun General] Dong Ping had already shouted and rushed into battle.

The two men fought in front of the battle formation. After thirty rounds, Nao Tianlong became exhausted and shouted, "Take a break." He rode his horse back to the battle formation.

It was not until an hour later that Nao Tianlong came out again. Dong Ping was about to fight him, but Hua Rong said, "General Dong, let me take over this battle."

After saying this, he rode out.

The drums of war were blaring and the shouts were endless. Hua Rong and Nao Tianlong could not fight for more than twenty rounds, so Nao Tianlong reined in his horse and rode away.

Hua Rong was reluctant to give up and was chasing after him when he heard someone shouting from behind, "Be careful."

Hearing the sound of the bowstring, Hua Rong quickly leaned forward, and the arrow just happened to hit him. Hua Rong just flicked it and caught the arrow.

Hua Rong looked up and saw a man from Wang Bo's army standing at the flag gate, holding a bow that he had not yet put down.

Hua Rong sneered: "This fellow is showing off his bow and arrows!"

He put the arrow in his mouth, put the gun on his belt, quickly took out the bow with his left hand, took the arrow with his right hand, put the string on it, and shot the arrow at the man's heart.

When the bowstring sounded, an arrow pierced through the chest. It turned out that this guy was the brother of Nao Tianlong and Nao Tianhu. The two of them could not win the battle, so they asked Nao Tianlong to lure the Liang general to approach the army, while Nao Tianhu secretly shot an arrow.

Hua Rong took another arrow and shouted, "I will kill you all."

After saying that, he shot an arrow at the back of Nao Tianlong who was about to disappear in the army formation.

When Nao Tianlong saw Nao Tianhu being shot by an arrow, he was just about to dismount from his horse when Hua Rong shot his second arrow, hitting Nao Tianlong's right arm.

When Wang Bo, who was on the wall of the village, saw this, he hurriedly ordered his men to sound the horn and withdraw their troops back to the village.

In Zhao Zhen's camp, Wu Yong said, "Lord, something strange is going on today. You have been hiding for so many days, but today you are going out to challenge a battle."

Zhao Zhen heard this and said, "It's a bit strange. Could it be that this guy wants to escape?"

Wu Yong waved the feather fan in his hand and shouted, "I'm afraid that's the case. The captives said that this Diaowo Valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is only this one entrance and exit. We attacked for many days, but this guy blocked the gate of the village. Today he cleared the gate and opened it to fight. He is either trying to rob the camp or escape."

Zhao Zhen nodded and said, "If this fellow refuses to come out, we will have to work harder."

At that moment, everyone discussed it and went down to prepare.

At Diaowoyu, Nao Tianlong was very angry when he saw his brother Nao Tianhu dead. Zhang Qing comforted him, "Marshal, now is not the time to be sad. You should bury the general first. When we are stronger, we will come to take revenge."

"How shameful that I didn't even ask for the enemy's name." Nao Tianlong said angrily.

Zhang Qing said: "Since we already know about Liang State, we may not be able to find out about this person who is good at archery."

At three o'clock in the morning, Wang Bo and others gathered eight thousand confidants, opened the camp gate, removed the bells from their horses, and ran away quickly, bypassing the Liang camp.

Just when they were feeling thankful that the Liang army's defenses had been lax, they saw torches suddenly lit in the Liang army camp, the camp gates opened, and the army was divided into two waves. One wave was led by Li Kui, Lu Zhishen and others, who led the infantry and came to seize the wall.

The other wave was led by Shi Wengong to chase Wang Bo.

Seeing that their whereabouts were exposed, Wang Bo and others did not dare to delay and rode away at full speed.

As he was walking, two Puma soldiers came out from the front, the left one was [Thunderbolt] Qin Ming, the right one was [Double Spear General] Dong Ping, the two intercepted Wang Bo and killed him. Wang Bo's army was only concerned with escaping, with the blockade in front and the pursuit behind, Wang Bo dared not stay, Nao Tianlong and Zhang Qing protected Wang Bo and fought their way out of the town.

After turning around the foot of the mountain, Wang Bo was thankful and said, "Fortunately, this guy was not prepared. There was only this group of horses lying in ambush on the side. If there were another group of soldiers, we would all be captured."

As soon as he finished speaking, a gong sounded, and arrows were fired from the pine forest on the mountain. The crossbow arrows rained down, and even a very heroic person could not avoid such arrows.

What's more, Wang Bojun had just traveled a long distance and it was time for him to relax.

The four or five thousand soldiers who escaped quickly mounted their horses and fled for their lives.

Less than a thousand riders were able to escape.

Pang Wanchun, Ji Ji and Lei Jiong did not chase after them, but only ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

After Wang Bo and his two companions had fled, they ran for another half an hour until their horses were exhausted. It was already dawn. Seeing that no soldiers were chasing them, Wang Bo and his companions dismounted and asked everyone to water their horses and rest by the river.

Many soldiers even let go of their horses and lay on the ground, gasping for breath.

Wang Bo said to Nao Tianlong who was standing beside him, "We finally managed to get out of this fight. It's a pity for our military advisor Zhang Qing."

Just as I was resting, I heard the sound of horse hooves.

Wang Bo and his companions were all horrified and struggled to get up.

After running for half the night, the men and horses were tired, and now they had no one to follow, so they just grabbed a horse and mounted it. For a moment, there was a lot of chaos, with people shouting and horses neighing.

Before everyone could mount their horses, Zhang Qing [No Feathered Arrow], Su Ding [Dual Swords], Gong Wang [Tiger with Flowery Neck], and Ding Desun [Tiger Shot by an Arrow] had already arrived.

Nao Tianlong shouted, "Your Majesty, go first. I will stop this fellow for a moment."

After that, he brandished his sword and rode straight at Zhang Qing. Before the two of them fought, Zhang Qing had already hidden a stone in his hand, and he raised his hand and hit Nao Tianlong in the forehead, knocking Nao Tianlong off his horse.

Su Ding stepped forward, raised his sword, and chopped off the head of the still struggling Nao Tianlong.

He immediately leaned over, picked up Nao Tianlong's head and shouted, "Those who surrender will not be killed!"

Wang Bo was so frightened that he fell off his horse when he saw that Nao Tianlong was killed without even a single fight. Seeing that his soldiers were still in chaos, he sighed, drew his short knife from his waist, and committed suicide.

When the guards around him saw this, they shouted, "The king is dead..."

Zhang Qing and his men immediately divided their forces. Gong Wang, the Tiger with Flower Neck, and Ding Desun, the Tiger with Arrows, each led a thousand men to attack from both sides. The soldiers shouted, "Those who surrender will not be killed!"

Seeing that there was no way out, some soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt down. Some tried to escape, but were shot dead by javelins and flying forks. Seeing this, the rest of the people no longer dared to run.

After cleaning up the battlefield and having someone identify Wang Bo's body, they ordered Gong Wang, the Tiger with a Flowery Neck, to lead a hundred men, take the bodies of Wang Bo and Nao Tianlong, and return to the main camp to report the news.

Zhao Zhen was also waiting anxiously in the camp, and from time to time someone came to report news.

Diaowoyu had now been captured. When the soldiers learned that Wang Bo had escaped, their morale collapsed and they all laid down their weapons and surrendered.

[White Horse and Silver Spear] Shi Wengong, [Thunderbolt] Qin Ming, [Double Spear General] Dong Ping, killed and captured more than 3,000 of Wang Bo's elite cavalry. The second group [Little Yang Youji] Pang Wanchun sent Zhang Qing's head, and killed and captured more than 4,000 Wang Bo soldiers.

Wang Bo and Nao Tianlong were still on the run. Only the Guard Cavalry Battalion at the outermost had not received any news.

After daybreak, they saw the two corpses brought by [Hua Xianghu] Gong Wang. After identification, they found that they were [Zhi Shi Wang] Wang Bo and Marshal Nao Tianlong.

(End of this chapter)