The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

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Jia Xu told Zhang Yan about his strategy. After Zhang Yan heard it, he thought it was very good, so he asked Jia Xu to handle the matter with full authority.

For Zhang Yan, Yuan Shu was kidnapped. It was not a trivial matter, but it was not a big matter either.

After all, Yuan Shu's foundation has been lost, and as a traitor, everyone in the world can punish him.

Therefore, Zhang Yan was not too worried about the disturbances that Yuan Shu would cause after being robbed.

However, the news that Yuan Shu was kidnapped could not be spread, otherwise, what would his face be?

For this reason, Zhang Yan specially called Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Chen Ying, and asked them to lead two hundred cavalry each to search around.Once he met the person who robbed Yuan Shu, he would bring him to see Zhang Yan. He wanted to see with his own eyes who it was who was so bold that he dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head!

In the main hall, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Chen Ying were still drinking. The five of them had a lot of alcohol. Although they drank a lot, they were not very drunk. After the five people received Zhang Yan's secret order, Without any hesitation, they left the main hall immediately, ordered two hundred cavalry each, and rushed to the place where Yuan Shu was robbed.

Half an hour later, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Chen Ying arrived at the place where Yuan Shu was robbed. Yang Lie, who was in charge of escorting Yuan Shu, immediately came forward and hurriedly said: "The last general Yang Lie , See you generals!"

Yang Lie was Xu Huang's general. After Yuan Shu was captured, Xu Huang sent his confidant Yang Lie to lead the troops to escort him. He thought it would be safe, but he didn't expect Yang Lie to miss.

Xu Huang rode his horse and took two steps forward, reined in the horse, raised his whip, and lashed Yang Lie fiercely, angrily said: "Yang Lie, what are you doing for such an important matter, how could you Can someone take Yuan Shu away? You...you..."

Although the whip was on Yang Lie's body, it didn't hurt at all. Due to Yang Lie's negligence this time, Yuan Shu was robbed, and he couldn't absolve himself of the blame.Yang Lie also understood in his heart that Xu Huang flogged him in public, just to make a show for the rest of the generals, so as not to offend others.

Yang Lie didn't dare to refute, and immediately blamed himself: "Yang Lie didn't do his best to guard, and let such an important prisoner be robbed. Yang Lie cannot absolve himself of the blame, and I ask the general to punish him!"

Xu Huang said coldly: "Punishment? It's not too much to kill you! But right now, it's time to employ people, and the lord has not punished you. You should thank the lord well, and strive to make up for the crime!"

"Yes, yes, yes, the general will definitely strive to pay off his merits!"

"Let me ask you, how many robbers are there? In what direction are they fleeing?" Xu Huang asked straight to the point.

Yang Lie said: "There are about [-] robbers. After taking away Yuan Hou, they fled to the northwest!"

"Bastard!" Xu Huang immediately became furious after hearing Yang Lie's words. This time, he was really angry. He raised his horsewhip and slapped Yang Lie's body fiercely. The whip collided with the battle armor. , let out a crisp sound, "I gave you a thousand elite soldiers to escort the prisoners, and a mere two hundred robbers were able to snatch people from your hands, which shows how useless you are?"

Yang Lie hurriedly said: "The general calmed down, it's not that the last general didn't spare no effort to escort him, but that the gang of robbers were too powerful, all of them were skilled in martial arts, especially the leader, whose martial arts were even better than the last general, and the last The general fought fiercely with him for several rounds, and was almost beheaded by the thief. Moreover, the last general and others walked away for a whole day, and the robbers suddenly came out again, which was beyond our expectation, so..."

"You don't need to make excuses with me! The escort is weak, the escort is weak! What else can I say? The rest of these people, you must let me take care of them. If another one is robbed, I will cut you off." Dog head!" Xu Huang said angrily.

Yang Lie clasped his fists and said, "The general obeys orders!"

Xu Huang turned around and said to Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Chen Ying: "Generals, the robbers are highly skilled in martial arts. They are not opponents. Why don't we let them stay here and we will immediately chase northwest? ?”

"General Xu, I will lead my troops to stay here. If the robbers come back again, I am afraid these soldiers will not be our opponents." Chen Ying said immediately.

Xu Huang clasped his fists and said, "General Chen is right, so I'll have to thank General Chen!"

As soon as the words fell, Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, Gao and Xu Huang chased towards the northwest by the way. However, the four of them only brought [-] cavalry. In order to prevent accidents, they deliberately left [-] cavalry for Chen Ying to lead. What a surprise.

A group of people hurried along the northwest direction. Along the way, they could see the horseshoe prints left by the robbers. They chased for more than 30 miles, and in front of everyone was a fork in the road. There were horseshoe prints on both roads. No one knows which way the robbers will go.

So Xu Chu suggested, "General Gao and I will take the left path, and General Xu and Zhang will take the right path!"

Everyone had no opinion, so the soldiers divided into two groups and continued to pursue.

Xu Huang and Zhang Liao took the road on the left, led two hundred cavalrymen, and chased forward for about five miles. They unexpectedly encountered another fork in the road, and there were horseshoe marks on every road.

"It seems that we can only go separately!" Xu Huang said.

Zhang Liao nodded, and said to Xu Huang: "The robbers continue to set up suspicious formations at the fork in the road, which means that the robbers are very treacherous. They don't want us to find each other so quickly, and our troops will be scattered. General Xu , Be careful on the road!"

Xu Huang said: "Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of myself! But General Zhang drank too much, if you encounter robbers, be careful that you can't beat them! Hahaha..."

Zhang Liao knew that Xu Huang was fighting against him in secret, so he laughed when he heard Xu Huang's words, rode his horse forward, and led a hundred cavalry to chase along the road on the left.

Xu Huang also immediately led a hundred cavalry to chase the road on the right. After walking for about seven miles, he suddenly found that the horseshoe marks on the ground had disappeared.

Xu Huang reined in the horse, frowned, immediately turned over and jumped off the horse, and searched all over the ground, but found nothing.

"It's absolutely impossible for the horses to suddenly disappear here. Could it be that they have grown wings?" Xu Huang wondered to himself.

He calmed down for a moment, thought carefully, and immediately asked someone to bring a torch. With the light of the fire, he searched the ground over and over again, and finally found some clues.

"Hmph! How dare you lie to me with such a small skill?"

Xu Huang found that the ground had been treated, and the soil on the ground also showed signs of being loosened, which was obviously different from the ground he was standing on.

Although this approach can confuse the real with the fake, it cannot escape his discernment.

Just in time, Xu Huang followed the plan along the loosened ground.

A group of people walked forward for about a mile, and found that the dirt directly deviated from the official road and extended towards a low hill.

Xu Huang was overjoyed, thinking that the robbers must be here, he ordered people to extinguish the torches, and then the whole army dismounted and followed him up the mountain on foot.

The hills are not high, but the road is indeed difficult to walk. In the narrow mountain road, there are many troubles and thorns.

Xu Huang led people to the entrance of the mountain road, and suddenly found horse dung. He lowered his body and tested the temperature of the horse dung with his hands. There was still some residual heat, which meant that the robbers had just passed by.

The mountain road was rugged and narrow, and only one war horse could pass through it. Xu Huang saw that the thorns in front of him had been cut open, so he was sure that the robbers entered from here.

Therefore, without saying a word, Xu Huang immediately led people quietly into the mountain from this mountain path, walked forward for about two hundred steps, and suddenly saw a bright light in front of him, and at the valley entrance of the mountain path, dozens of war horses were still tied. On the tree stump, he was lowering his head to eat the green grass on the ground, and he was still snorting.

Looking further inside, you can see a cave, with a faint light shining in the cave, and you can vaguely hear the voices inside.

Xu Huang looked around for a week and saw that there was no one guarding them. They probably thought that such a strategy was considered clever, and it was impossible to find them, so they rested easy.

"Brothers, let's rush in directly. If the thieves resist, we will kill them. But in the end, I have to leave three alive!" Xu Huang turned his head and said to the soldiers behind him.

"Here!" Everyone responded softly.

"Okay! Rush in!"

As soon as Xu Huang gave an order, he immediately drew out the steel knife worn at his waist, and moved cautiously towards the cave with a hundred soldiers behind him.

At this moment, the cave was brightly lit, and Yuan Shu, who was wearing a dragon robe and a crown on his head, was still tied up, but his mouth was not gagged.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed to be rescued from the prison car by them, but he didn't know this group of people, and he didn't know the origin, so he immediately asked: "You guys have saved me, you are a great hero, you quickly get me If you are untied, I will definitely thank you very much."

"It's almost time to die, return me there, do you really think of yourself as the emperor?" A man in black at the head took off the veil tied to his face, revealing a slightly immature face. It looks like he is only seventeen or eighteen years old.

However, the man in black is tall and strong. If you don't look at his face, he is almost like an adult.

"What did you say? Death is imminent? You saved me from Zhang Yan's army, isn't it to let me go?" Yuan Shu said in surprise.

"Save you? Are you dreaming? The reason why I have worked so hard to bring you here is to kill you, the devil, with my own hands. I will kill you one by one with my own hands, so that you will feel that life is worse than death." taste!" The black-clothed boy said with a ferocious expression on his face.

Yuan Shukong was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked: "You... who are you guys? I have never seen you before, why do you..."

"Yuan Shu! You haven't seen us! But you let people kill 380 people in our village, and even my father died at your hands. The revenge of killing my father is irreconcilable! This account , I won’t settle with you, who will I settle with?” said the boy in black.

"I am your father-killing enemy? Why don't I know? Who are you?"

"Yuan Shu, please remember. My name is Lu Meng. I am from Fubei, Runan County. When you sent troops to attack Runan, you burned, killed and looted. My father was brutally killed by your army to protect the village. There were 380 people in our village, all of whom were killed by your subordinates, men, women, and children, not one of them was left behind, and my village was burned to the ground. How can we not avenge this bloody feud!"

"Brother Lu, why bother with him, kill him and avenge the elders of the villagers!"

"Revenge! Vengeance! Revenge!" Dozens of men in black behind Lu Meng were all excited, all filled with righteous indignation, and raised their arms and shouted.

At this time, Xu Huang and his people had already arrived outside the cave, and suddenly heard the cry of "revenge and revenge" coming from the cave, thinking that it was Yuan Shu's old department who wanted revenge, so he shouted, raised his knife and rushed into the cave. The soldiers followed closely and hacked from behind the group of men in black.

The sudden appearance of Xu Huang surprised Lu Meng and the others. They never expected that someone would discover their hiding place.

Lu Meng saw that Xu Huang was extremely ferocious and had killed several people in a row, so he swung his knife and slashed at Yuan Shu with one blow.

"what--"

When Yuan Shu saw the long knife coming, he screamed in fright, but his body was controlled by others, so he couldn't dodge the knife at all.

But seeing a flash of cold light, Lu Meng raised his saber and beheaded Yuan Shu with one slash. A fresh head rolled down, and blood gushed out from his cavity continuously, splashing Lu Meng all over.

Xu Huang slashed left and right, and suddenly saw Lu Meng kill Yuan Shu, which surprised him. If these men in black came here to save Yuan Shu, why would they kill Yuan Shu again, and Yuan Shu is still tied up, Could it be that there is something else hidden in this?
"Stop it all!"

Xu Huang suddenly yelled, stretched out his arms, and blocked the attack of the soldiers behind him. He glanced at the men in black opposite him. This group of people looked immature and young, and they were all about fifteen or sixteen years old. , the first person, maybe a year or two older, but not too old.

"Who are you all? Why did you kill Yuan Shu?" Xu Huang stared straight at the leader, Lu Meng, with his eyes like torches. He could tell at a glance that this person was the leader of many men in black, and asked immediately.

Facing Xu Huang and the others, Lu Meng didn't change his face, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "Yuan Shu deserves to die, we killed him to avenge our whole village!"

"Revenge? What kind of revenge?" Xu Huang asked.

Lu Meng then told the story that all 380 people in his village were killed by Yuan Shujun's butcher's knife, and Xu Huang realized that this group of people came to seek revenge from Yuan Shu!

"Revenge is irresistible, it should be reported! However, Yuan Shu is already a dying person. This time he was escorted to Pengcheng to obey the emperor's order. But you robbed the prison car and committed a serious crime. It is a capital crime!"

Lu Meng said: "We are not afraid of death, as long as we can get revenge. Now that the big revenge has been avenged, we are worth it even if we die. Now that we are surrounded by you, I am afraid we will not be able to break out, but this matter is planned by me alone. I am willing to go back with the general and plead guilty, and I only hope that the general can let these brothers of mine go! They are still young, if they die just now, it is not worth it!"

"Brother Lu, we are willing to live and die with you!" The rest of the men in black said with tears streaming down their faces.

Xu Huang felt a bit courageous when he heard Lu Meng, and immediately said: "You are all good, but the family has family rules, and the state has state laws. If you do this, you violate the state law. You go back with me, and I will be in the general's office." Excuse me in front of you!"

Lu Meng threw away the long sword in his hand, knelt down on the ground immediately, and said loudly: "I have heard for a long time that the general rewards and punishes clearly, and he will definitely not kill us for Yuan Shu, a thief. We will live or die depending on the general's decision." !"

(End of this chapter)