The distance was too close, and Yuan Yao and the others would have no advantage on horseback.
In addition, he was unable to react in time, but he was forced into a panic by this group of ignorant and fearless Peng family disciples.
Yuan Bao forced the two men to retreat with a knife, and tightened the reins. The horse was in pain and raised its front hoof. Yuan Bao took advantage of the situation and pulled it to the left, turning the horse's head.
Yuan Yao and others also followed suit, turned their horses' heads, patted them and ran back.
The children of the Peng family thought that Yuan Yao and the others were afraid, and they were so arrogant that they chased after them with swords waving.
The horse moved some distance away, Yuan Bao gave an order, and more than ten horsemen turned back to the horse's head.
Yuan Bao held his breath and stared at the stunned youths of the Peng family who were in front of him.
"Young Master, do you want to kill them all, or is it enough to kill a few to establish your authority?"
Yuan Yao was almost hit by a Peng family disciple just now. This was the closest time he felt that the sword was close to him since time travel.
At this moment, he was in shock and extremely insecure.
"Kill them all, leaving no one alive!"
Yuan Bao received the order and immediately waved his sword and ordered: "Kill!"
More than a dozen pro-riders were ordered to fly forward like arrows from the string.
When the galloping knight approached, everyone in the Peng family realized how stupid and ignorant they were.
Blood and flesh flew everywhere in the field.
At the cost of their lives, these dozen Peng family members learned the lesson that two-legged people can only be slaughtered in front of four-legged cavalry.
"Stop, I told you to stop!"
Suddenly, there was an angry roar in the river. Yuan Yao turned around and saw that the Peng family sailboat, which was originally in the center of the river, had sailed to the river bank.
A young man at the head of the boat stood on the bow and roared at Yuan Yao.
Yuan Yao didn't say anything, just looked at this man coldly.
"Are you deaf? I told you to stop immediately. Didn't you hear me?"
The young man was so angry that he took a pair of treasured bows handed to him by the attendants behind him, put on the feathers and arrows, and opened his bows to aim at Yuan Yao.
Fortunately, Yuan Bao always kept his responsibilities in mind, so he only commanded the cavalry beside Yuan Yao and did not participate in the massacre.
At this time, Yuan Bao quickly stood in front of Yuan Yao, and at the same time reached for the bow and arrow he carried with him on his back.
With a whooshing sound, the young man shot the first arrow, but his accuracy was far off, and it flew past Yuan Yao a few meters away.
The young man quickly shot the second arrow, which hit Yuan Bao's left shoulder.
Yuan Bao endured the pain, drew his bow and shot an arrow in return.
However, it did not hit the young man from the Peng family, but only made one person behind the young man from the Peng family act as a scapegoat.
The man was hit by an arrow and fell into the water, but it also frightened the young man of the Peng family.
He shot the third arrow randomly, not daring to shoot at Yuan Bao who had already been hit by an arrow. Instead, he hid behind the sail in panic.
"Turn around, go, go!"
Everyone on the boat hurriedly held up the poles, slid the oars, and tried to turn around and escape.
Yuan Bao used all his strength to shoot the second arrow. This time the arrow penetrated the sail and fell into the river.
After shooting the arrow, Yuan Bao's left arm hung down weakly, but he still held the bow in his right hand as if he was about to shoot.
The young man hid behind the sail and secretly glanced at the shore. Seeing that Yuan Bao was still standing after being hit by an arrow, he cursed angrily:
"I usually ask you to bring a few more bows and arrows when I come out with you, but you were lazy and didn't bring them with you. You just brought a weak bow for shooting birds. This young master was almost killed by you!"
Everyone on the boat did not dare to refute, but they just thought to themselves:
Ever since you killed two tenants in the field hunting last time, the old man has strictly prohibited you from carrying bows and arrows. We secretly brought you a pair of weak bows at the risk of being imprisoned in the water. You still have the nerve to blame us.
"Hurry up and go back to the ferry. Go to the ferry and call for help. I'm going to kill all those people!"
A person next to him murmured: "Second Young Master, those people on horseback killed all of us at the bridge entrance. If Fourth Young Master hadn't run away, he would have probably..."
"What do you think?" Peng Lang, the second young master of the Peng family, still didn't realize the criticality of the matter until now.
"I'm afraid something unexpected has happened! We'd better report this matter to the eldest young master or the old lady first..."
Before the man finished speaking, Peng Lang kicked the speaker from the boat into the water.
"How many times have I told you not to mention that bastard in front of me!"
"He is a slave with a foreign surname. If my father hadn't adopted him as his adopted son, would he be worthy of the surname Peng?"
On the shore, Yuan Yao's personal cavalry had finished taking care of the Peng clan members at the entrance of the bridge.
Yuan Bao endured the pain and pulled out the arrow from his left shoulder.
Fortunately, he was wearing soft armor and the arrow did not penetrate deeply into his flesh and bones.
At this moment, Yuan Yao was shocked and furious. If Yuan Bao hadn't blocked this arrow from him, he would have been hit by it!
I will destroy this Peng family!
"You guys, hurry up and take a boat to rescue General Huang!"
Yuan Bao pointed to the small boat next to him. Immediately, several horsemen dismounted and untied the cables, jumped on the boat and rowed towards the middle of the river.
Not long after, Huang Yi and others were rescued, and the five hundred infantrymen behind them finally caught up.
Huang Yi was helped ashore and even vomited several times, unable to stand firmly.
A guard reported: "Young Master, only seven people including General Huang were rescued, and there are still five brothers who have not been found!"
"No, no... there's no need to look for it." Huang Yi collapsed on the ground: "Those five people didn't know how to swim. They were thrown into the river and disappeared!"
Yuan Yao grabbed Huang Yi and said, "I asked you to explore the bridge crossing. How did you get thrown into the river?"
"What do you do with the guy in your hand? Twelve scouts including you can't defeat these dozen thieves guarding the bridge entrance?"
Huang Yi said with a sad face: "Who knew these people were so arrogant and unreasonable!"
"When we came up, they blocked us and asked us for bridge tolls. In order not to cause trouble, I paid them the bridge tolls."
"But when we walked to the bridge to complete the survey, we were blocked by them when we came back, and they had to collect the bridge toll again."
"I even checked my crotch bottoms and didn't get them all together. Revealing my identity didn't work, so we just got into a dispute!"
Yuan Yao: "Then why did you get slapped? How did you get thrown into the water!"
"Isn't it just for you?"
Huang Yi glanced at Yuan Yao angrily.
"For me?" Yuan Yao didn't know the answer.
"I told the Peng family that I was the Zhonglang General under the command of the Yuan Family's eldest son, but the leader of them said that he didn't recognize the Yuan Family's eldest son! He didn't know what a Zhonglang General was either."
"Then I will tell you your name and ask them, haven't they heard of Captain Yuan Yao who recently occupied Chaisang?"
"In the end, they said that they had never heard of bird eggs, turtles, and Yuan Yao."
"I heard that Yuan Datou came to Chaisang. As soon as he came, he exempted and exempted the tenant farmers who were as humble as livestock. He was a complete scapegoat!"
Taken advantage of? Yuan Datou?
When did a powerful family member from Yuzhang give himself such a nickname?
Yuan Yao was completely humiliated and furious, and he went too far!
"Then I led my men to fight them with swords drawn, but hundreds of Peng clan members appeared out of nowhere and surrounded us."
Speaking of this, Huang Yi suddenly turned red:
"Then, it's impossible for me to take a dozen people and go head-to-head with more than a thousand people, right?"
"I had an idea and said that if I pay the toll with my saber, I can let us go, right?"
"In the end, you slapped yourself twice, admitted your mistake and apologized, and then you were thrown into the river like a joke, right?"
Yuan Yao looked at Huang Yi with a sneer. He knew this brother-in-law's fierce and cruel nature very well.
Huang Yi's face became even more ashamed. He had been embarrassed before, but he had never been as embarrassed as he was today.
"More than a thousand people? Do you have the nerve to brag to me?"
"Isn't it just these dozen stupid young men who scared you? Where did a thousand come from..."
Yuan Yao's words came to his lips, but they were choked back into his stomach.
On the other side of the wooden bridge, I saw countless civilian men with weapons in their hands.
On the river, densely packed boats and rafts appeared.
Huang Yi saw the sudden surge of people and looked at Yuan Yao's open mouth.
"Yes, that's the expression!"
"I had the exact same expression as you do now. I could fit two eggs into one mouthful!"
At this time, Huang Yi was confident because Yuan Yao had 500 infantry behind him to support him.
Peng's stupid attributes and mobilization ability were completely beyond his expectations, and he could no longer guess what would happen next.
So we can only plan for the worst outcome.
"The front camp obeys the order and blocks the bridge entrance! The bowmen and crossbowmen of each camp are ready. Anyone who dares to come closer than a hundred steps will be shot!"
Facing countless Peng clan members, Yuan Yao was unusually calm and ordered decisively.
Five hundred people make a song, and every hundred people form a tunnel, that is, there are five tunnels in the front, back, left, right, and middle.
The former garrison commander immediately ordered his bucklers to quickly line up and block the southern bridge entrance.
The archers stood behind their shields and drew their bows and loaded arrows in batches under the command of the chief commander.
Houtun, Zuotun and Youtun also responded quickly and lined up in three directions: east, west and north.
The spearmen and shield soldiers stand at the forefront, the archers are in the middle, and the sword soldiers are at the end.
Zhongtun shrank to the center, protecting Yuan Yao.
The crowd was getting closer and closer, and the former camp chief asked hurriedly: "Captain, do you want to shoot an arrow as a warning?"
Yuan Yao thought for a moment and realized that although things couldn't go better today, the two sides wouldn't start fighting as soon as they came up!
Just nodded.
The village chief quickly ordered: "Send warning arrows!"
Among the twenty archers in Qiantun, the five with the best archery skills immediately fired their arrows.
With a few whooshes, the five feathered arrows were all nailed to the wooden bridge a hundred and twenty steps away.
The Peng clan members who rushed over from the bridge were also frightened by these arrows, and their momentum was stagnated.
But soon someone shouted: "Young and old men, rush forward, they missed us!"
"While they are changing their arrows, rush up and kill them all!"
Yuan Yao felt his head hurt when he looked at the Peng clan members who were rushing forward in front of him.
Do these people really not know how to write the word "death"?
Seeing that the opponent was already a hundred steps away, the former commander no longer hesitated and immediately ordered: "Fire the arrow!"
Although Yuan Yao sent twenty archers from Zhongtun to block the bridge entrance, the forty arrows were shot in two rounds, which seemed very sparse.
Fortunately, the wooden bridge was only one foot wide and there were so many people in the Peng clan that even an archer with poor accuracy could still aim.
The first wave of arrows hit more than a dozen targets, and only then did the Peng clan members at the front show signs of panic.
But he still didn't stop, gritting his teeth and rushing towards the bridge entrance despite the arrows.
Fortunately, the soldiers under Yuan Yao's command had not trained in vain in the past few months, and they fired two more arrows in the face of the rushing crowd.
Yuan Yao frowned slightly. These archers were able to fire at least one more round of arrows during training than now. It seems that they still don't have enough actual combat experience.
The Peng clan members rushed to a distance of less than thirty steps, and the archers hurriedly retreated. The spearmen stepped forward, their sharp spears protruding from the gaps in their shields.
The Peng clan members who were rushing at the front finally realized that they were afraid. They could still rush forward with a sense of luck when shooting arrows from the opposite side, but few normal people would push forward with dozens of spears.
But they couldn't help it at this time. The people behind pushed and hugged them and bumped into them.
The spearmen were not polite. They twitched their spears in a burst of thrusts. The bridge entrance was instantly stained red with blood, and screams came one after another.
The people at the front faced the combination of spears and shields. They had no way to break it, and naturally they had no fighting spirit.
But the Peng clan members behind them still rushed forward, which made the dozens of people at the front unlucky.
However, as long as there are enough people, just a bunch of people can kill a bunch of people.
There are more and more corpses hanging on the spears, and it is difficult for the spearmen to insert them freely.
A member of the Peng clan escaped from the spear and was squeezed in front of the shield. The shield soldiers quickly drew their swords and hacked at them.
Soon the bridge entrance was blocked by dozens of corpses. The people behind didn't know what was going on in front of them and couldn't push them around.
I don't know who shouted, "We are almost at the bridge. The river here is shallow. Jump into the river and rush across!"
The Peng clan members who couldn't stand the congestion on the bridge pushed the fragile wooden guardrails on the bridge one after another, jumped off the river beach like dumplings, and rushed towards the bridge entrance.
The former garrison commander hurriedly ordered the soldiers to reorganize and block the landing area.
At this time, the Peng clan members on the river also braved arrows and approached the river bank and rushed up.
Fortunately, they came over by boat from the river and were much sparsely distributed, so they suffered much less casualties than their counterparts on the bridge.
Moreover, they also took the lead in causing casualties to Yuan Yaojun.
When this group of Peng clan members who made a living by fishing saw Yuan Jun's spear and shield on the shore, they immediately threw the harpoon in their hands, killing and injuring many Yuan Jun soldiers.
Apart from the sparse bows and arrows, Yuan Jun had no good countermeasures.
You can't just throw the spear in your hand over! No one can tell whether they smash it or not. If these unscrupulous people pick it up and rush over to them, what will they do with it?
After throwing the harpoon, most of these fishermen became unarmed, but they did not run away. They picked up the stones on the river beach and greeted Yuan Jun.
Fortunately, at this time, Yuan Yao also discovered that the Peng clan members who came to besiege him were not as many as he thought. There were only dozens of small boats on the river, and the total number of people was only 1,800.
Yuan Yao decisively ordered: "Those who come ashore will be killed without mercy!"
The village chiefs also reacted, commanding their shield bearers to block the rocks and march toward the shore.
The fishermen were not stupid either. When the timid ones saw Yuan Jun advancing steadily, they jumped into the river and climbed back into their boats.
Yuan Yao was extremely angry: "Let the light soldiers attack and drive these people into the river!"
The village chiefs woke up from a dream. These thieves were just fishermen and not enemy soldiers. They were afraid of a hammer!
The light soldiers with swords in their hands quickly rushed out of the military formation, killing the fishermen who had not had time to escape back to the boat in a moment, crying for their fathers and mothers.
At this time, it was on the Xiushui River not far away.
On a boat with a ripped sail, a leader of the Peng family looked at the tragic situation on the river bank and couldn't bear to say: "Second Young Master, let our people withdraw first!"
"This army looks like it is not the group of brave county soldiers from Haihun County who can't even pull their bows. We'd better find more people and avenge the Fourth Young Master before it's too late!"
