Under the light of the stars and moon, the surrounding fields are vaguely distinguishable. Gongsun Yanling of Dingnan County in the Great Zhou Dynasty stands alone on the official road with a single gun. In front of him is a long dragon of torches getting closer and closer, and behind him are one or two hundred people. In the darkness of the night, a straight line was formed across the official road on the east bank of the White River and the torches in the wilderness. From time to time, the sound of drums and bugles came from behind Sun Yanling.
Although Sun Yanling loved his son Sun Jiqing, he was not a brainless person - he was also a general who was familiar with the art of war and was good at using strategies. It's just that his luck was a bit unlucky. In the first battle in his life, he encountered Li Fuchen, who had strong soldiers and experienced hundreds of battles. Even so, he persisted for a long time before he was completely defeated by Li Fuchen. So he still has military capabilities!
For example, at night, he used a bluff to stop Li Zhongshan from advancing alone!
This is the southern part of Nanyang Prefecture, almost to Xinye County, and it is definitely the hinterland of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Li Zhongshan was a general of the Ming Dynasty, not a general of the Zhou Dynasty. To be honest, it is outrageous for a man like him to lead two or three thousand cavalrymen to rush for two to three hundred miles from Xuzhou to the hinterland of Nanyang Prefecture in order to rob Wu Xiaoxian. If the Wu family really wanted to kill him, wouldn't it be easy to set up an ambush on the way so that he could never come back?
Even if Wu Shifan was grateful to Li Zhongshan for saving his life and did not set up an ambush to stop him, when Li Zhongshan went deep into the vicinity of Xinye County, he would definitely be on tenterhooks for fear of being ambushed.
Therefore, as long as Sun Yanling and his subordinates assume the posture of sending troops to block Wu Zhou's army, Li Zhongshan will definitely not dare to fight Wu's army in the hinterland of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
But seeing the torches in front getting closer and closer, and finally seeing the Ming cavalry with their heads wrapped in red scarves under the torches, Sun Yanling's heart still jumped into her throat.
But Sun Yanling still held back and did not run away, but shouted: "Hey! Stop the Red Scarf Army in front. We are the Xiaoqi Camp of Zuoyi Guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and we have been ordered to guard here!"
His shouts seemed to have an effect. Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of drums and drums from the Red Scarf Army in front, and then the whole team stopped advancing.
Sun Yanling let out a sigh of relief and said in her heart: I finally got over it!
Just as he thought of this, another sound of drums and drums came from the Ming cavalry team that had just stopped in front, and then all the Ming cavalry began to change horses!
Only then did Sun Yanling discover that these Ming cavalry were actually equipped with one person and two horses - this was too luxurious for the Ming Dynasty, which did not have natural grassland horse farms!
Before Sun Yanling could figure out how these Ming cavalry could be equipped with two horses, the sound of drums and drums came again, and then the Ming cavalry originally formed in a marching formation began to spread out in groups on the official road and wilderness east of Baihe River. A dozen impact groups are a standard cavalry impact formation!
Not only did these Ming cavalry have many horses, but they also had excellent equestrian skills and could launch attacks at night!
Sun Yanling was a little confused, but in order to cover his son's escape, he continued to pretend to be the Zhou army, and shouted: "You, the Red Scarf Army, have heard this. We, General Zhou Yiwei Wang, have ordered us to guard here, specifically for If you are not allowed to go deeper, please leave as soon as possible to avoid damaging the harmony between the two countries!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another rapid drum sound from the opposite side. This was the signal of impact!
Now Sun Yanling was panicking. Are these Ming troops really coming? Are they crazy? Or is it that the Ming Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty have already started a full-scale war?
No way, I have to run quickly!
Thinking of this, Sun Yanling quickly picked up the reins, turned the horse's head and wanted to run away, but before his horse could pick up speed, the sound of hooves was thundering behind him, and he was about to be caught up in the blink of an eye!
He knew that facing the enemy with his back would lead to death, so he had no choice but to pull the reins again, turn the horse around again, then wave the spear in his hand and howl to face the enemy.
However, before the war horse under Sun Yanling's crotch could start running, the dozen or so knights charging at the front from the opposite side had already collided hard with him, and his spear was mixed with the bamboo spear thrust towards him.
There was only a "click" sound, and the bamboo spear had been broken, and the spear in Sun Yanling's hand was shaken off on the spot!
And there are more bamboo spears coming from the opposite side! Sun Yanling no longer had a spear to block, but his reaction was still fast enough. He quickly threw himself on the horse, shrank his body, and huddled up behind the horse's neck.
He had just shrunk when he heard the thin screams of his beloved war horse. It hurt to hear it!
Sun Yanling's crotch had fallen to the left, and it seemed that she was about to die after being stabbed with a bamboo spear. Sun Yanling quickly took his left foot out of the stirrup, hugged the horse's neck with both hands, and then fell to the ground with him and the horse. Although the fall was quite heavy, he didn't have time to cry out in pain, so he pressed his body against the fallen man. The horse's body curled up in order to avoid the enemy's hoofs as much as possible - if he stepped on it, he would be lucky to lose his hands and feet!
Perhaps because it was night and could not see clearly, the formation of the "Red Turban Cavalry" was not too dense, and there were not many horseshoes to greet Sun Yanling, which finally allowed him to escape temporarily.
Sun Yanling's soldiers who were waving torches and bluffing behind were all anxious! They were all old brothers who had followed Sun Yanling for many years, and now they all focused on him, the Duke of Zhou Dynasty, to live their lives. When they saw him fall off the horse, they rushed to save him like a swarm of swarms.
The "group" of knights on the opposite side were also unambiguous. When they saw Sun Yanling's men rushing up, and there were not many of them, they stepped forward without hesitation with their guns drawn. Nearly three hundred cavalrymen on both sides collided with each other. The neighing of horses, the sound of spears piercing flesh or breaking bamboo spears, and the screams of wounded soldiers were all mixed together.
The impact speed of both sides is not very fast, but in comparison, the "Red Scarf Army" cavalry is faster, the formation is denser, and of course there are more people, so they accounted for most of the wave of confrontation between the two sides. Cheap. Dozens of Sun Yanling's old brothers were killed in one round, but the remaining Sun family soldiers still refused to retreat! The "Red Turban Army" cavalry did not withdraw from the battle to reorganize their formation. Both sides were shouting and fighting, with shadows of people and horses circling around Sun Yanling who was curled up on the ground.
Soon, several groups of red scarf cavalry joined the battle group, surrounding Sun Yanling and his soldiers three levels inside and three levels outside!
The brutal chaos of night riding battles is unimaginable. If they weren't elites who had been fighting for a long time, they really couldn't bear it, and they might have "fished" under the cover of night. But tonight both sides are working very hard, one side wants to save Sun Yanling - they are the parents of food and clothing!
On the one hand, Wu Shijue personally supervised the battle - when Sun Yanling was yelling nonsense just now, one of Wu Shijue's subordinates had already recognized him by his voice, so what else was there to say? Li Zhongshan must be turned into his brother’s father-killing enemy! So not only did he personally go to the front line to supervise the battle, he also rode a horse and ran in circles while shouting with his throat open: "Behead one level, reward fifty taels of silver!"
Of course, Li Zhongshan would have to reimburse the "fifty taels" reward!
Because this battle was originally fought by Li Zhongshan!
When Wu Shijue's Huaixi Red Scarf Army, which spoke with Liaodong accents, heard the reward amount, their eyes turned red - had the Prince of Chu gotten rich? Why are you so generous? This money is easy to come by, you must earn it!
Therefore, this group of "Second Generation Guanning Iron Cavalry" also became ruthless and fought together with Sun Yanling's personal soldiers. It was rare for both sides to be furious. People were knocked off their horses and fell heavily to the ground. However, the number of cavalry under Wu Shijue was huge, more than two thousand, which was more than Sun Yanling's men. Although these two thousand cavalry could not fight Sun Yanling's few soldiers at the same time, they were large in number and could not bear to be consumed. After a while, There were not many soldiers around Sun Yanling who were still fighting to the death.
The remaining soldiers of the Sun family also knew that they could not save Sun Yanling, so they had no choice but to leave Sun Yanling who was still curled up on the ground and rush out. During the process of breaking out, they collided with the "Red Scarf Cavalry" who were waiting to cut off their heads in exchange for silver. Together, only twenty or thirty knights managed to escape in the end, and the rest were basically destroyed!
Wu Shijue immediately detached half of the cavalry to chase them to find Wu Xiaoji, while he directed the remaining men to clean the battlefield, look for the Sun family soldiers who were still alive, and then kill them all! Even if he lay motionless, the soldiers of the Sun family who were already looking cold had to make up for it with a few more blows.
Hearing the screams that kept coming to mind around him, Sun Yanling was so frightened that her face turned pale - this Li Zhongshan was too cruel, wasn't he? They all have to be killed! Seeing that the knife was about to fall on him. Sun Yanling screamed and jumped up. He drew out his sword and knocked down a red scarf soldier who was finishing the attack with one blow. Then he rushed towards a cavalryman and tried to hide from the horse, but suddenly there was a sharp pain in his calf and he couldn't even stand. Unable to stand still.
Sun Yanling looked down and found that an arrow had hit his calf. Then he looked up again to look for the despicable villain who stabbed others in the back, only to see a familiar face illuminated by a torch - this was Wu Shijue's face!
"Wu Wu Shuangyu? Why?" Sun Yanling couldn't believe her eyes.
Wu Shijue put away his horn bow, then sighed and said: "Sun Yanling, I didn't expect you to be so kind to Li Jiqing, but he is not your son!"
"He is, he is my son!" Sun Yanling looked like she was about to collapse and roared, "Wu, why do you say Qing'er is not my son?"
Wu Shijue nodded and glanced at Sun Yanling sympathetically: "Yes, yes, he is a poor son and has the pity of all parents!" He waved his hand again and said, "Give him a good time!"
"Wait!" Sun Yanling roared.
Wu Shijue asked: "General Sun, what else do you have to say?"
Sun Yanling stared at Wu Shijue: "Wu Shuangyu, why do you want to kill me? I have no grudges against you!"
Wu Shijue said: "Remember, it wasn't me who killed you, it was Li Zhongshan who killed you in a rage because of his beauty!"
"Then you still want to kill my son Ji Qing?" Sun Yanling finally asked.
Wu Shijue said: "Don't kill him, don't kill him. I won't kill him this time!"
Sun Yanling breathed out, closed his eyes and said: "You people are fighting for the world, but your family is destroyed and my wife is separated. Why? It's better in the past when the world was peaceful! Let's do it!"
Wu Shijue waved his hand and made a beheading gesture.
When it got a little brighter, Sun Jiqing and his party, who were already a little exhausted after running all night, were chased away by a steady stream of two to three thousand red scarf cavalry.
The mounts of many of them were exhausted, but they had already fled outside Xinye County - as long as they entered Xinye County, they should not be afraid of pursuing soldiers.
But the magistrate of Xinye County refused to open the city gate to let them in before dawn, and now he refuses to open the door. Who knows if they are the spies of the Huaixi Red Scarf Army who are driving over?
So Sun Jiqing and others were blocked outside the trench in Xinye County, unable to advance or retreat.
The dozen or so soldiers of the Sun family who had fled to Sun Jiqing's side also told Sun Jiqing that his father, Sun Yanling, had been shot down, and the news was grim.
At this time, Sun Jiqing was so anxious that he burst into tears and didn't know what to do. He had just found his father, why would his father be gone? What should I do? Should Wu Xiaoxian replace his father?
When he was thinking about exchanging his "fiancée" for Sun Yanling, he suddenly saw the red scarf army and cavalry in front suddenly stopped advancing, and then a cavalry general carried a human head with a spear and galloped near Sun Jiqing and his party. , shouted loudly: "Sun Yanling kidnapped the princess and has already beheaded her. If you don't hand over Princess Jiading, when will we wait?"
Sun Jiqing was really anxious, so he grabbed a monocular telescope from Fu Honglie's hand, then squinted one eye, used the telescope to look at the head raised on the bamboo gun, and immediately screamed: "Ah! Ah! Ah, Ama! It was the child who harmed you! Li Zhongshan, if you kill my Ama, I will never share the same fate with you."
Li Zhongshan now has another enemy who killed his father! And this enemy is his half-brother! And their common father is still alive and well!
"Quickly, protect Mr. Sun and retreat! Fu Sima, what are you waiting for?"
Shang Shuying suddenly roared. She didn't know when she had already mounted a strong horse pulling the cart, and shouted to Fu Honglie to take Sun Jiqing and run away.
Fu Honglie also reacted, and quickly called his men to put Sun Jiqing, who was collapsing, on his horse, and then pulled the horse to run away. At this moment, the city gate of Xinye County, which had been closed before, suddenly opened, the suspension bridge suddenly lowered, and two to three hundred infantrymen drove out from inside, and suddenly swarmed to the carriage where Wu Xiaoxuan was.
A civil servant of the Zhou Dynasty who looked like a county magistrate was holding a sword. While waving it, he shouted to the collapsed Sun Jiqing: "Young Master, please leave quickly. I have an official here!"
Fu Honglie quickly shouted: "Come on, come on, don't go into the city, go around, let's go to Fancheng!"
Those Sun Jiqing's personal guards below didn't even bother to snatch Wu Xiaoji back - the people surrounding Wu Xiaoji now were all the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty!
So Sun Jiqing inserted Wu Xiaoji, who had only been snatched away by a wild father, and was inexplicably handed back to the magistrate of Xinye County.
Nanyang Prefecture, Ye County.
The Yexian county government office has now become a hotel shared by the great grandson of the Zhou Dynasty and the general of the Ming Dynasty. There is no one with whom they have a good relationship! In the small county town and on the outskirts of the county town, there were almost 20,000 troops stationed, half of which were Ming troops and half of which were Zhou troops.
And these two troops, a grandson and a general, entered a small county town inexplicably and stayed there for several days.
This is really weird!
However, the Dazhou County Magistrate in Ye County did not dare to ask, so he had to vacate the county office and go to Dianshi Yamen to squeeze in. He also had to find ways to raise supplies. It was really troublesome. I don’t know when. Is it a head?
Just when the Zhou officials in Ye County were at a loss, Wu Shijue finally fulfilled his mission and brought a wooden box to the county government office and found Li Zhongshan and Wu Shifan who were playing chess.
"Shuangyu, where is Xiaoji? Why are you holding a wooden box with a head? Who did you kill?" Li Zhongshan saw Wu Shijue with a tired look on his face and the "head box" that was very common in the army in his hand, My heart skipped a beat.
"This is Sun Yanling's head. I leave it to you!" As he spoke, Wu Shijue put the wooden box on the small table where he played chess, and then took off the lid, revealing that the missing piece inside was gone. The head that had lost the slightest bit of life.
"He, is he Sun Yanling's head?" Li Zhongshan didn't know Sun Yanling. He saw the dead head and then looked at Wu Shijue, "Did you kill him?"
"How come I killed him?" Wu Shijue glared, "It was obviously you who killed him!"
"Me? When did I kill him?"
"The night before yesterday!" Wu Shijue said, "It was you who led the three thousand red scarf cavalry near Xinye County and encountered the two hundred cavalry led by Sun Yanling who was covering Sun Jiqing's escape. After a battle, you killed most of the Sun family's soldiers. You also killed Sun Yanling and took back Princess Jiading!"
"Shuangyu, why are you talking nonsense?" Li Zhongshan suddenly changed the subject, "Shuangyu, did you just say that Princess Jiading was snatched back?"
"Yes!" Wu Shijue nodded, "It's not easy!"
"Second brother, brother Shikai"
As soon as Wu Shijue finished speaking, Wu Xiaoji's voice came from outside the lobby, and then there was the sound of jingling bells. Li Zhongshan quickly grabbed the lid of the wooden box from Wu Shijue and closed it, covering Sun Yanling's head. Then he wanted to go to meet Wu Xiaoji, but was caught by Wu Shijue: "Shikai, remember. I didn't help you get Xiaoji back, let alone kill Sun Yanling. You and the Huaixi Red Scarf Army did everything by yourself. Of course, you didn’t threaten me with your grandson. We are still good friends and good brothers!"
Li Zhongshan already understood that this Wu Shijue deliberately killed Sun Yanling and put the blame on him. But that Li Jiqing wasn't that confused, right? Could it be that he would seek revenge on his brother for his wild father?
Thinking of this, Wu Xiaoxian had already walked in from the outside with his mouth pouted. When he saw Wu Shifan and Li Zhongshan, he let out a cry and cried aggrievedly.
Li Zhongshan hurried over and comforted him: "Don't cry, Xiaoji. We will be together every day from now on and never be separated again!"
(End of chapter)
