Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 154
Outside Jiuyuan City, Meng Yu led [-] cavalrymen to protect Princess Yingzhen's car and drove north slowly.

According to the laws of Qin, the marriage of a princess is a major event for the entire empire, and there is a set of rather complicated etiquette. Every link is supervised by a special servant, and it must not be sloppy. Her Royal Highness is holding a grand wedding, but the conditions are limited, so everything can only be kept simple.

On the extravagantly decorated carriage, Princess Yingzhen was in a low mood. As a daughter, she didn't want to marry the king of Hu Yiman. As the princess of Daqin, she shoulders an inescapable fate. In order to revive Daqin, she can only sacrifice herself.

"Sister Princess, did you really marry yourself like this?" Baili Yishui asked quietly.

"Little sister Baili, this is fate, this is my sister's fate, there is no way to escape." Yingzhen sighed.

Seeing Yingzhen's moody look, Baili Yishui almost told her about Xiang Zhuang's plan to rob her, but she swallowed the words abruptly, because Bailixian had repeatedly told her , so that she must not reveal the slightest word to Princess Yingzhen, otherwise something bad will happen.

While walking, the people from the nearby building greeted them mightily from the north.

The leader, Lou Fan, hugged his chest and bowed to Mengji on horseback, and then said: "General Mengji, the princess will leave it to us. Our king is still waiting for her to get married in the royal court."

What Lou Fan said was naturally Lou Fan's words, but Meng Ji had lived in Hetao for many years, so he naturally understood.

Meng Yu immediately rode his horse and arrived in front of Princess Yingzhen's carriage. Yingzhen lifted the curtain of the carriage and said in a low voice: "General Meng, you and the soldiers have worked hard, so let's go back to Jiuyuan. The old Qin people in Jiuyuan are leaving." I won't let you go."

Speaking of which, Meng Ji planned to send Yingzhen to the royal court in Loufan all the time, but Yingzhen insisted on not letting it go.

The reason is very simple. The purpose of the marriage between Yingzhen and King Loufan is not to let the old Qin people be used by the Loufan king, but to let the Loufan tribe be used by the old Qin people. If Chu was put under house arrest, all the old Qin people in Jiuyuan would lose their backbone, and Yingzhen's dream of reviving Daqin would come to naught.

Meng Chu sighed, clasped his fists on the horse's back and said, "Your Highness, take care."

"General Meng, take care." Ying Zhen gave Meng Chu a sad smile, and lowered the curtain.

Meng Jie sighed, turned his horse's head and waved his hand again, and the five hundred Qin cavalry also reined in their horses and turned back, meandering south.

Hu Qi, who had come to greet the relatives, rushed forward clamorously, protecting Princess Yingzhen's car and set off again, heading slowly towards the Royal Court of Loufang.

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On the reckless desert, a group of Hu merchants are heading east.

This team of Hu people probably consisted of more than a hundred riders, and more than a hundred accompanying pack horses, all of which carried bulging sacks on their backs, and they didn't know what was inside.

Xiang Zhuang straddled a black horse and wandered among the team, his vigilant eyes were constantly searching the surrounding grasslands.

Two hours ago, Lou Annoying's wedding party passed by nearby. As long as there were no accidents, Lou Annoying would probably pass by here when they came back.

Counting the time, it's almost time for Lou's annoying wedding party to return here.

Five hundred sharp soldiers from the Chu army were also ready. Apart from the hundreds of sharp soldiers around Xiang Zhuang, there were more than three hundred other sharp soldiers lurking in the deep grass on both sides.

Suddenly, there was a faint rumbling sound on the southern horizon.

When Xiang Zhuang put on the awning and looked north, he saw a faint black line appearing on the horizon. Lou Fan, the Lou Fan who came back from welcoming his relatives, finally appeared. At that moment, Xiang Zhuang whistled, and more than a hundred knights rode They got off their horses one after another, and then led all the horses to a mound, and set up a defensive formation.

After three or four quarters of an hour, Hu Qi, who was near Qianlou, escorted several carriages and came to the mound.

Xiang Zhuang immediately winked at Pang Yu, and Pang Yu understood, and immediately untied the hemp rope on a pack horse beside him.

The four big sacks that were originally tied to the horse's back fell heavily to the ground, and then rolled down the slope along the slope, and a large amount of gold, silver and jewels contained in the four big sacks immediately splashed all over the place. On the entire slope, a ray of sunlight just shone through the clouds, making the gold, silver and jewels glisten, which is extremely eye-catching.

Lou Fanren who passed by immediately urged their horses to come over, all of them showing greedy eyes.

Originally, these buildings were annoying because they didn't want to cause extra problems, but these gold, silver and jewelry are too eye-catching.

Xiang Zhuang winked at Qi Mai again, and Qi Mai hurried forward, waving his hands and shouting loudly in Beiracoon dialect, those Lou Annoying people naturally couldn't understand, but they had already heard that Qi Mai didn't speak the Central Plains dialect, There was a cruel murderous intent in the eyes of each of them, and the accent sounded like Donghu people, so there was no problem.

The leader, Lou Fan, whistled, and nearly a thousand Hu people dismounted one after another, and drew out their weapons.

Most of these thousands of barbarians are the elite of Lou Fan, many of them are holding double-edged iron swords, and even more are holding bronze swords three to four feet long, while four or five hundred barbarians do not hold them Instead of taking out weapons, they unloaded short bows from their backs one after another, and took out bunches of feathered arrows from the quiver on the horse's back, all of which were bronze arrow clusters.

The next moment, a dense wave of arrow rain had already accumulated and fell on the earthen platform.

Qi Mai, who was dancing and shouting loudly, screamed, quickly shrank back like a rabbit, and hid under the belly of a pack horse. Qiao Zhuang Hushang's more than a hundred sharp soldiers of the Chu army also hid under the horse's belly. Under Xiang Zhuang's order, the horse also lay down horizontally, and was protected by several pack horses behind it.

After more than a dozen waves of arrow rain, the annoying people on the 500th floor screamed, waving iron and bronze swords, and launched a fierce attack on the hundreds of "Hu merchants" on the earthen platform like a swarm.

Xiang Zhuang slowly raised the horizontal knife, and the corner of his mouth was already filled with cold murderous intent.

Since he was seriously injured in the Dabie Mountains a few months ago, Xiang Zhuang has never fought with anyone, but today, he can finally take these barbarian sacrificial knives!
Behind Xiang Zhuang, more than a hundred elite soldiers of the Chu army also raised their ring swords one after another.

All of a sudden, a short and stocky barbarian rushed in front of Xiang Zhuang.

The barbarian has the obvious characteristics of the barbarian in the grassland. Although he is short in stature, he is strong, his neck is almost as thick as his head, and the outline of the five pipes is extremely rough, full of the wild breath of a beast. Most of the army's standard iron swords are warriors or leaders in the building.

"Aww..." The short and strong barbarian roared wildly, and rushed towards Xiang Zhuang like a wolf.

Xiang Zhuang's heart was cold, and when he was about to reverse the horizontal knife and cut him a big hole, a heavy arrow with spikes as thick as a thumb had already shot towards him with cold murderous intent, before the short and sturdy barbarian had time to raise his sword In the next step, the heavy arrow of the wolf's teeth had already pierced his throat. When Xiang Zhuang looked back anxiously, he saw that Pang Yu had already fully drawn the iron bow again.

"General, you are a mere barbarian, why do you need to do it yourself?" While speaking, Pang Yu fired six arrows in a row, killing seven people in one fell swoop, and one of the arrows shot through the throats of two barbarians in succession. Annoyingly found out that Pang Yu's shooting skills are amazing, he suddenly bullied him and came to kill Pang Yu, but Pang Yu shot his head to pieces with a backhand bow.

In less than a moment, the Hu people dropped more than 200 corpses and retreated.

The 500 sharp men that Pang Yu selected from the Chinese army were the [-] men who followed him to attack the Han army camp at Hangu Pass. The elite of the [-] veterans led by the army, how could these barbarians be able to resist their powerful front?

Lou Fanren finally found out that something was wrong, the group of Donghu people in front of him were too tough, right? !
Not to mention anything else, the weapons they use are too fucking evil. Lou's annoying bronze long sword is nothing but scum under the opponent's sword. Even the sword can't hold back the opponent's weapon that looks like a sword but not a sword, or a sword but not a sword. Where did this group of Donghu people come from?

The next moment, the group of Donghu people took off their leather robes one after another, revealing the dark scales underneath.

It was only then that Lou Fanren came to his senses. He was not from Donghu, he was clearly from Old Qin. These old Qin people who kept their promises dared to take their princess back!

However, it's too arrogant to want to snatch the princess back with just a few hundred people in this area, right? !
At that moment, the leader of Loufan raised his head to the sky and roared, and the Loufan who had just retreated gathered behind him one after another. The more than 500 archers who drew their bows and released arrows also drew their swords and gathered behind the leader of Loufan. Silly, knowing that their bronze arrows would be difficult to pierce through the scales of the old Qin people, so they simply stopped shooting arrows.

However, just as the leader of Loufan was about to order another attack, hundreds of old Qin crossbowmen with powerful crossbows appeared in the surrounding weeds without warning.

"Qin Nu, damn it, it's Qin Nu!"

"Sirius God, it's really Qin Nu!"

"It's over, it's over, run, run!"

The buildings gathered together panicked at once.

For the barbarians in the grassland, Qin Nu is a lingering nightmare in their hearts!
The next moment, the crossbows in the hands of the old Qin people had been fired one after another, and the unsuspecting Lou Anren fell to the ground under the dense rain of arrows. Almost at the same time, the hundreds of old Qin people guarding the earthen platform also A counterattack was launched, and under the fierce attack of the two old Qin people inside and outside, Lou Annoying's resistance was like ice and snow poured with boiling water, quickly melting and disintegrating.

In less than half a meal, more than 400 people fell into a pool of blood, and the rest of the people finally collapsed. One by one, they got on their horses and fled to the north. Tossed out of the sky by Lou Annoyance, even losing her life, what kind of princess do you care about?
(End of this chapter)