But the Qin Yue people said: "Since this is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and all the people of Silla have been killed by you, what danger is there? Please also ask Captain Sun to withdraw his troops, and I will know the way back."
Sun Xiaozhe laughed "hehe" twice and said: "Qin Daxian doesn't know something. This northern land is not as peaceful as the Central Plains. The Xi people, Khitans and others often cause rebellions. Now An Zhongcheng is still suppressing the rebellion in Songmo. , it’s better to be careful.”
Dugu Xiang said: "Aren't you a Khitan yourself? Who knows whether you will kidnap the great sages and go to the Khitan side?"
Sun Xiaozhe scolded: "Nonsense, I have always been loyal to An Zhongcheng and have never changed my mind!"
Dugu Xiang's voice rose and he said, "Oh...it turns out you are only loyal to An Zhongcheng and not to the pilgrim saint."
Sun Xiaozhe said angrily: "Where did you come from, a wild servant, talking nonsense here!" He wanted to let his men shoot Dugu Xiang with crossbows, but Dugu Xiang blocked Fu Julin in front of him and was unable to attack. He himself did not dare to approach Jiang Shuo. This evil star can only fight with Dugu Xiang from afar.
But Dugu Xiang was not angry and said: "Captain Sun, you are a Khitan and you are not loyal to the saint. How can all the great sages dare to join you?"
Sun Xiaozhe saw that the Qin Yue people were standing on the stage and had no intention of getting down. The other doctors were obedient and did not move. He could only say: "Since you great sages do not want a certain guard, it is inconvenient to force him. Please give this prince of Xinluo some protection." Leave it to me so I can go back and recover."
Dugu Xiang asked, "What do you want from this prince?"
The Qin Yue people also said: "I am a disciple of Jing. Jing Zun has a good life. It is a big mistake for you to kill Xin Xing and others. How can I watch you kill innocent people indiscriminately? This prince of Xinluo cannot do anything." I asked you to take it away."
Sun Xiaozhe gnashed his teeth and said, "Ah... this is not easy to handle..."
Duguxiang said: "What's so hard to do? Come up and catch it yourself."
There are masters like Jiang Shuo and Wei Jingzhao on the stone platform. How could Sun Xiaozhe fall into Dugu Xiang's plan? He didn't answer, but leaned on the saddle, thinking, this old guy from Qin Yue is still pretending to be a big deal, so let's trap this old guy for a while and see who can't stand it first.
At this moment, suddenly the dust started rising again at the foot of the mountain, and it was very lively with people shouting and neighing. Sun Xiaozhe was surprised and asked: "Who is here?"
I heard someone shouting: "Sun Shu'er, people from my hometown are here to see you!"
Sun Xiaozhe scolded: "What a hometown person! What nonsense are you talking about?"
But I saw a group of knights and horses leaping up the grassy slope. These knights were also dressed in black clothes and black armor, but they did not wear masks or helmets. Their bare heads were exposed. It was obvious at a glance that they were all Khitans with long hair. cavalry.
The leader smiled at Sun Xiaozhe and said, "Sun Shu'er, don't you remember your grandfather Tarigu?" The person who came was none other than Tarigu, the leader of the Khitan Assault Division.
Sun Xiaozhe was also a slave captured by An Lushan from the Khitan. Seeing that he was born in a wretched manner, he named him "Sun Shu'er", which was the same as "Li Zhu'er" and "Zhang Gou'er". Later, Sun Xiaozhe's A Niang hooked up with Anlu Mountain, and Sun Xiaozhe's son got rid of his slave status because of his mother's status. He became the captain of Yiluohe, and even changed his name to "Xiaozhe", but his "mouse" name was Khitan old land. No one knows it, so they use it to make fun of him.
When Sun Xiaozhe saw Taligu and his attire, he was frightened and said, "Taligu, how did you get here?"
Tarigu patted the black armor on his body and said: "Hey, don't you understand this? Li Guiren was completely wiped out by us in Songmo, and I ripped off this armor from him."
Sun Xiaozhe said: "Bah, Liu Yao's magical power is unparalleled in the world. Is that something you and other rats can destroy?"
Ta Ligu said: "It can't be destroyed originally, but who told the Yan army that rats and cats like you would have too many culprits?" The Khitan knights behind him burst into laughter together, and Sun Xiaozhe said angrily: "All the troops Listen to the order and shoot this rat to death first!"
However, the Khitans were still two hundred steps away from the Yiluo River, which was almost the limit of the range of their crossbows. A team next to Sun Xiaozhe crossed their hands and said: "Captain, our troops are scattered and too far away from the enemy... "
Sun Xiaozhe scolded: "Idiot, gather the whole team and rush with me. We must shoot intensively to deal with these Khitan dogs first!"
The Yiluohe warrior is indeed an elite soldier in the Yan army.
They quickly turned around and gathered in a square formation to rush towards the Khitan knights. The crossbows could still shoot with flat ends even when the horses were galloping. They had an advantage over the Khitan hunting bows when fighting on the open grass.
However, he saw Tariggu pointing with his finger on the slope and shouting in Khitan. Many Yiluohe warriors were making fun of others and did not understand Khitan. However, Sun Xiaozhe understood what Tariggu was shouting and said hurriedly: "Ah, oh, No, get out now!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw countless arrows flying up from the slope, passing over the heads of the Khitan cavalry, flying into the air and then starting to fall. They were accurately shot into the trailing river formation with excellent accuracy, as if these bows and arrows were blinding, and they seemed to be flying. The Yiluohe cavalry were hitting the bows and arrows themselves.
It turned out that there were Khitan longbowmen lying in ambush at the foot of the hillside. Khitan longbows could shoot straight into the air, with a longer range than arm-loaded crossbows. However, they could not see the enemy's position and could not aim when they were hiding under the hillside. Tarigu deliberately led a group of men uphill in order to attract Sun Xiaozhe to gather his troops and give directions to the long archers down the slope. The Khitan language he just spoke was to report the direction and speed of the drago river.
The Yiluohe warriors were extremely brave. Although many of them were hit by arrows and fell from their horses, they still galloped forward. Tarigu still shouted down the hillside, and saw waves of bows and arrows coming over the hillside. It seemed that Infinite, bows and arrows are not like crossbows, their firing speed is limited, and it is impossible to shoot them in succession. It seems that there are many archers hidden under the slope.
Although many of the Yiluohe warriors were shot down, they were also approaching Tarigu's cavalry. At this moment, they were able to shoot many Khitan knights with their crossbows. However, Sun Xiaozhe got timid first and lay down on the ground. The man on horseback said: "The bandits are strong, let's retreat first!" He turned his horse's head and fled. Since the leader turned, the Yiluohe warriors could only follow suit, without firing a single arrow from the crossbow in their hands.
Taligu and the other warriors of the sudden attack had drawn their swords and were ready to charge with the crossbow arrows falling down the river. Unexpectedly, Sun Xiaozhe was so timid and turned around and ran away. Taligu sheathed his sword and laughed. Shouted: "Sun Shu'er, watch the road when you run away. Don't run to Huaiyuan Town. At this moment, Nieli Dayi and Li Jin are afraid that they have captured Shouchu City and are bumped into by him. Be careful to peel off your Shu'er." Skin."
Sun Xiaozhe didn't bother to reply. He had already led the Yiluohe warriors and ran away, leaving dozens of corpses of his companions behind, but he couldn't care less.
Upon seeing this, the Khitan knights cheered together, and the sound shook the forest. The archers at the foot of the hillside also rode their horses up the hillside. There were more than a thousand Khitan cavalry, more than three times as many as those dragged down the river. Xiang'er said in disbelief: "No. I didn’t expect so many people to come.”
Da Wuyi said: "Although Captain Sun ran away before the battle, which is despicable, his judgment of the battlefield situation is not wrong."
Dugu Xiang said: "Your Majesty, according to you, Sun Xiaozhe is still a figure?"
Da Wuyi said: "Little girl, don't think that villains can't achieve success. Upright gentlemen often stand out and are easily defeated, but villains can seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and live a long life."
The two of them were still chatting leisurely, but the doctors on the stage were so frightened that they could not speak. They saw that a thousand Khitan knights had arrived at the edge of Qipan Mountain. This was even more frightening than the previous Yiluohe warriors. Yiluohe belongs to the Yan army, which is the army of the Tang Dynasty after all. Although Sun Xiaozhe is cruel and easy to kill, he seems to dare to kill everyone. In the eyes of the Tang people, the Khitans were all barbaric and uncivilized thugs. Now that they were in their hands, the danger was much worse.
I saw a Khitan barbarian, waving a long bow in his hand, shouting towards the mountain, but the Khitan language he spoke was as sharp as a sharp stone sharpening iron, and everyone could not understand a word. Jiang Shuo shouted excitedly: "Brother Hang Han, you Here we come too!" As he said that, he jumped down from the mountain and landed on the grass. The person who came also got off his horse and rushed forward to hug Jiang Shuo. But it wasn't Hang Han. Hang Han didn't speak Chinese, but he could already listen. Jiang Shuo knew Chinese, but he could not speak Khitan. The two hugged each other, one spoke Chinese and the other spoke Khitan. They actually went back and forth and had a very happy conversation. Everyone was surprised when they saw it. .
Wei Jingzhao was also shocked and thought to himself: When did Shuoer make so many barbarian friends?
Jiang Shuo said to Wei Jingzhao: "Master Wei, don't worry, these Khitan friends are good people and will never harm the great sages. Just now Hang Han told me that they bypassed the Yan army's defense line to destroy the Yan army. The army's baggage and supplies just happened to be sent by Senior Beimingzi. He knew that Sun Xiaozhe had us besieged here and he came here to rescue us."
Wei Jingzhao
He said, "This is strange. Why do the Khitans want to help us Tang people?"
At this time, Ta Ligu also came over to meet Jiang Shuo, and crossed his hands to Wei Jingzhao and said, "Taoist Master, please don't listen to the words of An Thief's family. Since Zhang Shougui's surrender, all the tribes in the North have been oppressed for a long time. It's not that we are born rebellious, but that we have been repeatedly oppressed." They were plundered and had to fight back.”
Wei Jing was still doubtful, so Jiang Shuo said, "Taoist Master, I can't explain this matter at the moment. Let's leave quickly in case Sun Xiaozhe finds help and comes back."
Dugu Xiang said: "Hey... wasn't Huaiyuan Town occupied by Dayi Li Jin? But where could Sun Xiaozhe find help?"
Tarigu laughed loudly and said, "Sister Xiang'er, I lied to him with my big words. You are such a weirdo, how could you be fooled by me?"
Dugu Xiang also smiled and said, "Hey, I didn't expect that Brother Tarigu, a straight-tempered person like you, would actually be able to use tricks."
Ta Ligu said: "You Han people have read too many books."
There were many people in the Tuju and Tulubu tribes who were familiar with Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang. They all gathered around and started singing and dancing. Wei Jingzhao did not expect that Shuo Xiang and these Khitan people had such a harmonious relationship. He was really surprised and happy, and said: "Shuo'er, if this is the case, where are we going now?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Returning the way we came, we have to pass through the territory of the Yan army. I wonder if there are any more conspiracies and tricks in Baoan Lushan. There is also a war in Songmo to the west. I don't know which way to go is safe."
At this time, Prince Qianyun of Silla came forward and said: "We might as well go south to build Anzhou. It is under the jurisdiction of the Andong Governor's Mansion. Anlu Mountain is beyond our reach. We can then board a boat from Qingnipu to reach Dengzhou City in Henan Province."
