The two of them left the city and turned north. They could not go back the way they came, because Zhang Fei's army was already in the east, and they did not want to rush into his camp again.
When it was almost approaching Dangyang, it was getting late. At this time, the two happened to see smoke rising not far ahead. It was a camp with the banner of Cao Jun on the flag.
When the guard at the gate saw Song Xin approaching, he immediately stopped them and notified the general.
The general came out and saw that the two men were wearing Cao Jun's armor, and asked, "Where are you from?"
"We are coming from Jiangling and going to Xiangyang." Song Ya answered with cupped hands.
The general was a little suspicious. During this period, enemy spies often disguised themselves as friendly troops and went to the rear to spy on the military situation. He asked again: "Why are you going to Xiangyang?"
"We have General Cao's letter with us and want to present it to the Prime Minister in person."
"General Cao? Where's the letter? Bring it to me!?"
"This is a letter for the Prime Minister. I can't give it to you to read," Song Xin said.
"Hmph, there is no proof for what you say. If you don't prove your identity, I will have to treat you as spies." As soon as the general finished speaking, more than a dozen soldiers surrounded the two of them.
Song Ya had no choice but to take out the letter, "This has General Cao's paint on it. If you destroy it, can you afford it?"
The general also knew the power here, nodded and said: "Since there is fire paint, I can't believe it all." After that, he pointed to the two soldiers, "Look at them, before leaving the camp tomorrow, be by their side! "
The general sent the two men into the camp and ate dry food. Through chatting, they learned that the men and horses in this camp were transporting grain, grass and weapons from Dangyang to Jiangling. They will not be able to reach Jiangling until tomorrow, so they will camp here to rest tonight.
At midnight, all the soldiers went to bed, leaving only a few sentries to patrol around the camp.
Song Xin slept for an hour and then began to breathe and practice Qi. For him, practicing Qi has more physical benefits than sleeping. So he just slept for a few hours and started practicing. Diligence is also the reason for his rapid progress.
At about four o'clock in the morning, there was a sudden slight tremor on the ground.
Song Xin felt this tremor keenly, and immediately stood up and scanned the surroundings, but he did not find any unusual movement.
But the vibrations on the ground were obviously getting stronger and stronger, and Song Xin put his ear to the ground to listen.
He immediately became frightened and said: "No, it's the sound of horse hooves, the sound of many horse hooves hitting the ground. It's coming from the west."
He quickly stood up, ran up a haystack, and looked to the west.
At this time, it was dark and dark, and Song Xin tried to use his spiritual consciousness to perceive, but he couldn't see anything. It must be that the enemy was still outside the range of his spiritual consciousness!
"Song Xin. There is a group of people coming from the west." Xiaoyu suddenly reminded.
"how many?"
"...Probably...nearly a thousand..."
"Do you know whose soldiers they are?"
"I don't know, but they are dressed differently than you."
"No, night attack!"
Song Xin immediately realized something was wrong and shouted.
He hurried to the tent and woke up Song Ya and the general. The general was also a veteran on the battlefield. When he lay on the ground, he immediately knew something was wrong and said: "These horses' hooves are very light on the ground. They obviously don't often wear heavy armor." Our cavalry. Nine times out of ten...are enemy troops."
After that, he shouted and woke everyone up. The soldiers who were sleeping in a daze ran out of the camp, not knowing what was going on.
Suddenly, there was a roar from the west, like a huge boulder flying out of the darkness, hitting the hearts of everyone in Cao Camp.
"kill!"
In an instant, the gentle sound of horse hooves began to gradually become heavier and faster. From far to near, the enemy cavalry began to accelerate!
"It's the enemy!!!" A sentry standing high up saw the enemy first and started shouting a warning.
Everyone heard the sentry shouting and hurriedly followed the sound. At this moment, the sentry who was shouting the warning was shot into the mouth by a flying arrow. The arrow was so powerful that it instantly pierced through the back of the sentry's head. The man rolled his eyes, fell from a height, and was gone in an instant. gas.
This arrow brought not only death, but also heart-stopping panic.
In an instant, there were loud shouts of killing.
At this time, the vibration of the horse's hooves on the ground in the darkness was like waves of rolling thunder, carrying a wave of death towards this small camp.
Many soldiers looked for weapons and put on armor in the dark. They did not expect to encounter such a large group of enemy soldiers within their sphere of influence. But now I realize it's too late. Already, enemy cavalry howled into the camp and began to harvest their lives.
"Don't take the heads, burn the food and grass as soon as possible! Don't be obsessed with fighting!" came an energetic voice. This voice was like a god descending to earth, allowing everyone to hear it very clearly.
The few cavalrymen who rushed in first quickly cut down Cao Jun's soldiers who tried to resist, then grabbed a torch and started throwing it at the grain cart.
After a while, the grain began to burn, and the flames turned the dark night red. The food was roasted by fire, and there was a burst of aroma. But at this time, no one will pay attention to this, everyone just wants to escape.
Song Xin pulled Song Ya onto his horse and prepared to flee north. At this time, he encountered more than a thousand cavalry. Even if he was a Taoist, he would definitely not be able to deal with them, not to mention that Song Ya was by his side.
He turned around and saw that the general was so angry that his eyes were about to burst when he saw the food and grass being burned. He is an officer in charge of food. If he loses food and grass, he will be beheaded by military law even if he reaches Jiangling. He jumped on his horse regardless, picked up his spear, and rushed out with a few cavalry to stop the enemy.
As soon as he left the camp, he saw a tall general rushing over. General Cao Jun's eyes were red with anger, and he stabbed the man in the face with his spear. The general didn't panic. He raised his long spear in his hand and gently knocked the spear to the left, easily deflecting the thrusting spear.
The spear passed by the general, and his spear did not take off the spear of the captain. Second, it directly adhered to the spear shaft and slid up. The commander of Cao Jun's army was unable to dodge and was stabbed in the throat by the Changshan. Unexpectedly, the general was so powerful that Changshan continued to castrate him and used the sharp side of the Changshan to cut off his head.
This set of movements flowed smoothly without any lag, as smoothly as cutting a piece of paper with a sharp blade.
In an instant, General Tun's head was in a different place, and his head with an unwilling expression rolled to the ground. His body was carried by the war horse for a few steps before finally landing.
The soldiers at the back saw their commander's head being beheaded at once. The attack was so swift and the position was so precise that they were all frightened and their spirits were flying.
Song Xin could see it clearly. He had never seen such a smooth... killing method... It couldn't even be called killing, it was simply art...
The soldiers of Cao's army rolled off their horses and knelt down to beg for mercy.
Without looking at them, the general galloped into the camp and ordered the sergeants to set fire everywhere. Song Xin originally wanted to find a place to escape with Song Ya, but what he didn't expect was that he was surrounded by more than a thousand soldiers.
Can't get out.
"What should we do?" Both of them were a little anxious. They originally wanted to find a place to sleep and rest, but unexpectedly they encountered a night attack...
Song Ya crept next to Song Xin and whispered: "I think the enemy only wants to burn food and grass. They haven't killed many of the surrendered soldiers."
"Well, the two of us will pretend to surrender first. If it doesn't work, we will fight our way out," Song Xin said.
He could use Earth Escape to escape, but he couldn't leave Song Ya alone. If the enemy really wanted to kill them, Song Xin wouldn't care about the rules of a monk. Even if he was struck by lightning, it would be better than being killed without resistance. It would be better to blow up these people directly with the Heart Fire Seal than to have their heads chopped off by them.
Looking at the general not far from him, he was riding a tall red horse. He looked very majestic, especially the five-foot-long beard floating on his chest, which was very beautiful and conspicuous. This man was nine feet tall, with red phoenix eyes and silkworm eyebrows, a face like purple jade, majestic and dignified appearance.
With such an appearance, Song Xin knew without guessing that he must be Guan Yunchang, Liu Bei's number one general.
He was wearing iron scale armor, with a dark green battle robe tightly wrapped around it to prevent the armor from touching each other and making a sound when moving forward. He held a long spear in his hand, and the white light flashed against the fire. Two long knives were inserted into his waist, and a hard bow and arrow kettle were hung under the saddle.
The arrow feathers in the arrow pot were all painted red. It must have been Guan Yu who shot down the sentry just now. Because there was still a red arrow feather exposed in the mouth of the dead sentry.
Song Xin was frightened in his heart. Although he was not a practitioner, he didn't know why, but it also brought great mental pressure to himself. The sentry was at least forty or fifty steps away from Guan Yu. When he fired an arrow from the galloping horse, he was able to hit the open mouth of the man who was screaming in surprise. This kind of power and accuracy was truly terrifying.
However, this Guan Yu's appearance was very different from what he knew. First of all, his beard was not that long, and the weapon he used was a long spear. It occurred to me that stirrups were not yet popular at this time, so no matter how strong you were, you couldn't swing the Qinglong Sword.
"Burn the food and grass, take the horses, and retreat quickly!" Guan Yu shouted in command of the soldiers with his spear, his voice majestic and strong.
"promise!"
At this time, there were two pawns crawling quietly on the ground, trying to escape. They had just climbed a few steps, and like magic, a few arrows were inserted into their backs. The two struggled for a while, and finally fell to the ground. Dead.
The two soldiers beside Guan Yu put away their bows and arrows and shouted: "Anyone who escapes will be killed without mercy!"
This time, no one dared to move. They were all lying on the ground shivering.
Guan Yu's soldiers kept throwing torches, but they didn't even look at the kneeling soldiers. Some of them wanted to run away to report the news, but they were immediately discovered, chased and killed.
Song and Xin watched helplessly as all the grain carts began to burn, and then the fodder for the war horses. Shocked in my heart. This food is enough to feed a thousand people for several days.
When all the food and grass were ignited, Guan Yu turned his horse's head and said, "Back off."
The more than a thousand people immediately mounted their horses and evacuated in an orderly and rapid manner. They come and go like the wind and are well trained. There will never be any sloppiness in fighting. They burned all the food and grass, and finally took away all the horses in the camp. Even the horses that Cao Ren gave to Song Xin were also taken away.
Guan Yu finally turned around and glanced at all Cao Jun. He smiled mockingly, stroked his beard proudly, turned around, rode his horse and disappeared into the night.
