Song Dynasty

Chapter 258 Fishing
Niu Gao is so skilled in martial arts, how could he be willing to let this knife be chopped, he shouted, as if a spring was installed on his foot, he jumped out of the battle circle abruptly.

However, the iron armor on his shoulder was still cut with a mark.

But at this moment, the captain holding the red flag suddenly shouted: "Come in!"

Almost at the same time, twelve soldiers took a step forward at the same time.The long shield is still covering the front, the spear is stabbing, and the round shield hand is protruding forward and slashing.Several people and several arms cooperated with each other, and Niu Gao had no choice but to take another step back.

The captain shouted again: "Come in!"

The mandarin duck formation continued to move forward and started the next cycle, which made Niu Gao very embarrassed.

Niu Gao was originally a person who gave his thoughts away, seeing that he couldn't break through from the front, he let out another shout, and leaped lightly to the left, trying to go around to the back of the formation and give his opponent a big blow.

But at this moment, the squadron leader ordered again: "Two wings, spread out!"

In an instant, the two wings of the inverted triangle expanded at the same time, directly blocking Niu Gao's way.

The strangely long wolf dog blocked it.

At the same time, two spears stabbed straight.

The boring palladium hand who had been waiting for a long time also went into battle, swiping with a rake.

Hei Yaya's weapons were all in front of him, so Niu Gao had no choice but to retreat again.

But his body was still in the air, a scorching arrow brushed past his helmet.

The captain in the mandarin duck formation waved the flag: "Return!"

All the soldiers shrank towards the middle at the same time, forming an inverted triangle formation again.

"change!"

The 12 people turned sideways at the same time, pointed the two signs at Niu Gao, and firmly covered the front of the small formation.

Fighting hard for a long time, not to mention not being able to hurt the opponent's fur, he almost got hit several times, while Niu Gao felt aggrieved, he let out a breath of hostility, thinking to himself: Evil methods, they are simply evil methods, hell!If I can't get the situation back today, who will obey me in the future, and how will they gain a foothold in the Sizhou Army.

At that moment, he took another step back.Before the opponent shouted "Join", he was still in the air, he took off the recurve bow on his back, grabbed a handful of arrows at the same time, and shot them in a row.

The first arrow hit the bow arm of the archer standing at the end of the mandarin duck formation.

Although Niu Gao changed the hammerhead arrow, but he was so strong and the bow was so hard, there was only a sound of "crack", and the archer's step bow was broken by him in an instant.

The second arrow went straight to the long player's face.

The long player of the mandarin duck formation is the one with the best psychological quality in the team, and the long player calmly raised his shield to block the arrow.

But at this moment, he felt severe pain in his right leg, and he couldn't hold it any longer, and fell limp to the ground.

It turned out that at the same time, Niu Gao's third arrow shot out, just hitting the bone of his right leg.

When the long player fell, the mandarin ducks burst.

Niu Gao was honest and blunt, before the round shield was in his hand to protect his side, he bent down with an arrow.

After the four arrows passed, Niu Gao threw away the bow and arrow, and rushed into the formation with bare hands without thinking about changing weapons.

The poor soldiers all had long weapons in their hands, and they were in a mess, and Niu Gao grabbed their belts one by one and threw them to the ground.

After knocking down everyone, Niu Gao laughed and jumped out: "How!"

"Good!" Everyone cheered at the same time: "It's amazing, I admire, I admire!"

This confrontation is a long story, but in fact it is only an instant.Wang Shen was shocked when he saw it. He also knew that Niu Gao was highly skilled in martial arts, but he didn't want Gao Cheng to be like this.Maybe his strength and martial arts are not as good as Hu Yantong or even Yue Yun, and there is still a distance compared to Yang Zaixing, an unborn little demon, but his impromptu reaction and reasonable tactics are not comparable to others.

After all, he is already a middle-aged man in his 40s. The so-called boxing is afraid of the young, and the stick is afraid of the old wave. On the battlefield of life and death, this person is an extremely difficult character.

"I don't accept it!" Suddenly, there was a shout of grief and indignation.

It was the captain of the small mandarin duck formation who spoke, the back Wei soldiers in the Sizhou army have always been the second eldest and the third, never willing to lose.Being beaten so embarrassingly by Niu Gao today, but he couldn't bear it: "Fight one more time!"

Wang Shen shouted: "If you lose, you lose. There is no shame in admitting the difference. After going down, think carefully about how to deal with the same situation on the battlefield in the future. Obsessive obsession is not a good man, go down!"

"I don't accept it, I don't accept it..." The captain suddenly wiped away tears.

Seeing the dark clouds on Wang Shen's face, the others knew something was wrong, they rushed up and tried to persuade him, and finally dragged him away.

The cries continued: "Shame, what a fucking shame, I'm just not a husband, woo woo..."

Niu Gao was dumbfounded when he saw a handsome seven-foot man crying like a child just because he lost the martial arts competition.It took a long time before he said: "I'm convinced, I've never seen the Sizhou army's unyielding spirit. There is such a good man who is not afraid of a strong enemy, why can't a stubborn enemy be defeated?"

Wang Shen: "I really admire Niu Boyuan's high martial arts skills. I am very happy to have Boyuan serve under my command. It seems that there is still room for improvement in this mandarin duck formation."

But Niu Gao shook his head: "Miao Zan, the military envoy, I have lost this round."

Wang Shen: "How to say?"

Niu Gao: "It's not that the general is boasting. There are not many martial artists like me in the world. Even so, it's just a narrow victory. If you really encounter this kind of mandarin duck formation on the battlefield, the general will say Probably dead."

He continued: "Military envoy, it is impossible to have only one small formation on the battlefield, and then there must be several mandarin duck formations cooperating with each other. So what if I break it for a while, and the other formation behind will make up for it, and the general will definitely not be able to survive. Lianzhu arrows can never be repeated, the people behind are prepared, and there is no possibility of opportunism. Military envoy, you are really evil this time, no matter what kind of good man you are, you will be handicapped when you encounter narrow disadvantages pay."

Evil? Of course it is evil.Wang Shen was proud of himself, thinking that in the past, Qi Jiguang used this formation to defeat the Japanese pirates, often playing a disparate exchange ratio, and many times he beheaded a hundred-level himself but had zero casualties. This mandarin duck formation is simply an epoch-making masterpiece of cold weapon warfare.

However, it is still the same sentence, there is no lineup to conquer the world.This mandarin duck formation is only suitable for small teams to fight in complex terrain. In a big battle, when they encounter a field army with a full range of enemy arms, they will be easily defeated by others.Therefore, when Qi Jiguang's Qi family army was transferred to the north to fight against the nomads, they used the chariot formation.

Niu Gao was fascinated again: "I really want to see with my own eyes the scene of this formation on the battlefield."

"Will do."

Niu Gao: "I seem to have figured out the true and false of this mandarin duck formation."

Wang Shen: "General Boyuan, tell me."

Niu Gao: "Advance the card, save the card with the stick, save the stick with the spear, and save the spear with the short soldier."

"Haha, that's right." Wang Shen clapped his hands and laughed, he was very satisfied with Niu Gao's tactical vision and accomplishment: "By the way, General Niu's marksmanship is really amazing."

He can also be regarded as a bow master. Since he traveled to the Song Dynasty, he lived and died, honing his skills all day for more than a year, and his skills have improved greatly.It is estimated that no matter how I can reach the standard of a master athlete, it is also possible to enter the provincial team and participate in the National Games.Of course, whether you can get the ranking is two things.

Wang Shen is a man of knowledge, so he can naturally see that Niu Gao's skills are just now.

In his opinion, Niu Gao's shooting posture is not as standard as in the textbook, but his strength and extremely fast firing rate are what win him.Because his innate movements have been finalized, he may not be able to enter a professional sports team, but on the real battlefield, this person is definitely a true, murderous evil star.

Niu Gao said: "Don't dare, I have heard for a long time that the military envoy is Li Guang, so General Mo's little skill is nothing. I know my own affairs well, my archery is not very accurate, but there is one strong point."

Wang Shen asked, "What strengths?"

"Able to ride and shoot from a saddle, and can shoot from both sides."

Wang Shen laughed and said, "This is quite remarkable." It seems that this Niu Gao is indeed an excellent cavalry general, and this white army can be considered to have found a qualified general to lead the army.

His hands were itchy for a while, and he was about to ask someone to bring two horses to compete with him. At this moment, Yan Yuemeng rushed over and said in a low voice: "Military envoy, General Ying Xiang sent a fast horse back, There is an urgent military report."

Wang Shen nodded and said to Niu Gao: "General Niu, speak with Jietang."

The three entered the festival hall, Wang Shen took the urgent letter with three chicken feathers stuck in it, looked at it, and then frowned: "This Yue Yun, I want to eat hot tofu impatiently!"

Yan said to Meng: "Military envoy, what happened to General Yingxiang?"

Wang Shen handed the letter to Yan Yuemeng to signal him to read it himself, and said to Niu Gao, "General Niu, you should read it too."

Yan and Niu put their heads together, only glanced at it, and took a deep breath at the same time.

There were not many words in Yue Yun's letter. The general idea was that, as the vanguard of the army, he led a hundred soldiers into the area of ​​Chongxiao Town, which was thirty miles away from Dingzhou. They are all thieves, and they have been completely controlled by the demons of Manichaeism.As soon as his 100 men passed by, they were targeted by the demon.

Moreover, judging by the posture of the monster, there are at least a thousand people, and they are all strong and capable of fighting.

At that time, Yue Yun realized that he might have met a big shot in Zhong Xiang's army, and he also thought about going to a decisive battle with him.But the bandit army didn't seem to have the intention of confronting him head-on. Moreover, the place was next to Dongting Lake, and the terrain was too dangerous, which was not conducive to our army's use of troops.

This is a helpless thing.

But at this time, another team of more than a hundred people came over. Seeing that they were dressed as officials, they sent scouts to check.When I got closer to see it, it was a coincidence that it was Du Yuezhi and General Wu Tuo who came.

Yue Yun scolded in the letter, what are Du Yuezhi and Wu Tuo's good Anlu hometown doing instead of going back to Hunan? Do you want to claim credit?But Lao Tzu couldn't do what they wanted, and just used Du Shu, a big man, and ten carts of supplies as bait to catch the thousand bandits.

Seeing this, Yan Yuemeng was shocked, and said in a trembling voice: "General Ying Xiang's move is to put Judge Du in danger, and it seems a bit inappropriate."

Wang Shen snorted: "What's wrong, that's a big bastard! Yue Yun also took the guts of a leopard and used his father-in-law as bait. Judge Du really has a job, how can he explain to his wife? You continue to watch .”

"Yes." Yan Yuemeng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and continued to read with Niu Gao.

Yue Yun also said in the letter that since there are big men in the bandit army, every single one must be wiped out in this battle.

According to the interrogation of the tongue he caught, the leader of the bandit army is likely to be Zhong Yaotou's false prince Zhong Ziang. If he is caught or killed, it will be considered a great achievement, and it can also greatly deter the enemy.

It's just that there are too few soldiers under him, fearing that they won't be able to swallow this piece of fat, so the envoys are asked to immediately mobilize the main force to encircle and suppress.

"Zhong Ziang, military envoy, this is a good opportunity!" Yan Yuemeng said with joy on his face, "It seems that our army should really eat this piece of hot tofu."

Wang Shendao: "It's indeed a heart-warming thing. However, my army is scattered all over the place, and it is difficult to gather for a while. There are only less than 500 people left in the Xingyuan of the Chinese Army, and we have to protect so many people." There is a lot of food and grass. Some people are worried... Is Zhong Ziang the bait of Zhong Xiang, who wants to transfer the main force of my army and come to take my food and fodder."

With the current level of corruption in the Dongting Lake area, if there is nowhere to replenish the food and fodder if it is lost, I can only go back to Jianghan in despair.

Yes, this time in Dingzhou, the army will rely on the rear to supply everything it needs.On the surface, Wang Shen only dispatched [-] backs, but behind him were [-] rear troops, thousands of civilians, and [-] to [-] large and small ships.The supply line is terribly long, and if something goes wrong, the dispatch to Hunan this time will be a big joke.

He looked up at the sky, unable to make up his mind whether to live or die.

Zhuge has been cautious all his life. The situation and tactics of the war against Manichaeism in Hunan this time are completely different from the previous ones, and he cannot advance rashly.

Probably seeing Wang Shen's concerns, Yan Yuemeng carefully suggested: "Military envoy, the bandit army is no more than a thousand people. With the bravery of our army, it is easy to take down Zhong Ziang. It doesn't need to use all the main force, just send Just ride two hundred light cavalry to help."

He said again: "If you ride a fast horse and set off from Xingyuan, you will be able to join General Ying Xiang in just one day. Military envoys, don't miss this opportunity, and you will never lose it again."

Wang Shen really couldn't bear the temptation to capture Zhong Ziang alive, and pondered: "That's true, but who should we send there?"

Obviously, it is impossible for him to make this trip in person. As the commander-in-chief of the first army, he has to take command of the central army.The entire Hunan battlefield is not limited to Yue Yun's place, who knows what will happen in other places.

But now he doesn't have a suitable general to lead the army. Could it be possible to let Yan Yuemeng go?
Yan Yuemeng couldn't help shrinking his neck when he saw Wang Shen's gaze fell on him.He is a pure literati with no power to restrain himself, not like my classmate Rong.

Seeing his fearful look, Wang Shen smiled and said to Niu Gao: "General Niu."

Niu Gao knew that Wang Shen was about to order a general, and he was overjoyed: "Military envoy, the last general is willing to go."

Wang Shen: "Didn't Boyuan want to see the performance of my mandarin duck formation on the battlefield? Now I have a good opportunity. You immediately take two hundred Qingqi to join Yue Yun and rescue Du Yuezhi." He shook his head with a smile Shaking his head: "Yue Yun is so bold, then his father-in-law will be the bait, and Du Shu must not do anything good or bad."

"Yes, envoy!"

(End of this chapter)