Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 343 Praying Mantis Catching Cicadas (Please Subscribe!)
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On that day, Chao Gai led 2 horses and a dozen leaders to Zengtou City.

Set up camp.

At dawn the next day, Chao Gai led the leaders on horseback to see Zengtou City.

After seeing it, Chao Gai's heart is cold!
Zengtou City is located on a high hill, surrounded by a natural moat. Willow trees are planted in front of the river and behind the river, making it impossible to see the reality. Only a winding snake road at the front and back can enter it. It is a dangerous fortress. , Every end is an iron wall and a copper wall!

Between Chao Gai and all the leaders, a group of men and horses flew out of the willow forest.

There were more than a thousand of these brave men and horses, and the first one, wearing a wrought bronze helmet and chain armor, wielded a steel point gun, and rode a charge horse. It was Zeng Kui, the fourth son of the Zeng family.

Zeng Kui yelled at the leaders of Erlong Mountain: "I was about to reward you and other grassroots officials to relieve officials, but I didn't want you to come to my door. Come to Grandpa to die!"

Chao Gai was furious, he turned his head and said, "Who is going to catch this fellow with me?"

Wen Da said: "Young general is willing to go!" After finishing speaking, he rushed forward with a knife and slapped his horse, and said at the same time: "My child is arrogant, your grandpa Wen Da is here to take your dog's life!"

Zeng Kui was not afraid, and fought with his spear.

The two horses met and fought for more than [-] bouts. Zeng Kui was defeated, he feigned a shot, turned his horse's head and led the men into the willow forest.

Chao Gai wants to lead someone to chase him in!
Li Ying persuaded: "There may be an ambush in the forest, don't rush in, why don't you go to Shikou to fight tomorrow, our army is several times stronger than him, as long as we don't fall for his tricks, our army will be invincible."

After hearing Li Yingzhi's words, Chao Gai gave up.

On the third day, Chao Gai led [-] troops to form a formation in the wilderness of Pingchuan at the mouth of Zengtou City, and then beat drums and shouted.

Not long after, a letter cannon sounded, and Zengtou City killed three thousand horse troops!
These [-] horsemen are all vigorous and strong, wearing first-class armor, and riding good horses from the Northland.

What an elite horse army!
There are seven heroes in the front row of the three thousand horse army: in the middle is Shi Wengong, the teacher of the capital, Su Ding, the assistant teacher at the top, Zeng Tu, Zeng's eldest son at the bottom, Zeng Mi and Zeng Kui at the left, Zeng Sheng and Zeng Suo at the right, They are all neatly dressed.

Seeing that Shi Wengong, with a bow and an arrow on his back, sitting on a jade lion horse in the night, with a Fangtian painted halberd in his hand, he is really romantic for both men and horses!

The horse army separated from the left and right, and one hundred and ten people rolled out fourteen trapped chariots and placed them in front of the formation.

Zeng Tu pointed at Chao Gai and others and yelled: "The anti-national traitor, did you see me trapped in the car? Killing you is not considered a good man. I will capture you alive one by one, then load them into the trapped car, untie them to Tokyo, and let the officials The family will cut you into pieces!"

Chao Gai was furious, he shot out with his gun and rode straight towards Zeng Tu!

Li Ying was afraid that Chao Gai would make a mistake, so he greeted everyone, "Follow the king of heaven!"

In an instant, the two sides fought together!
Although there are many people in Erlongshan, there are only a few horse troops, Zengtou City is full of horse troops, but there are too few people, so the two sides are evenly matched.

After fighting for a while, Shi Wengong saw that he had no chance of winning, so he ordered to withdraw to Zengtou City.

Chao Gai wanted to chase him, but Li Ying and Li Cheng stopped Chao Gai, saying: "Don't chase poor bandits, beware of their ambush."

Only then did Chao Gai give up, and then very unwillingly stopped Erlongshan's troops.

According to statistics after the war, 700 people were killed or injured in Erlongshan, while Zengtou City lost more than [-] horses.

Seeing that the number of casualties on his own side was five or six times that of the other side, Chao Gai was unhappy and worried!
Seeing this, all the leaders persuaded: "Brother, don't worry, don't be depressed, it hurts your body. Song Jiang went out in the army, and he was defeated. In the end, didn't he return to the mountain with victory? Today's scuffle, he is the horse army, and most of us are In the infantry, if there are more casualties than him, it is not considered as losing him, so don't worry about it, brother."

Chao Gai didn't hear what the leaders said, and his face was still full of sorrow.

On the fourth day, Chao Gai took people to Zengtou City early to fight.

But no matter how the people in Erlongshan yelled and scolded, Shi Wengong and others just stayed behind closed doors.

For three days in a row, Chao Gai took people to Zengtou market early every day to fight, but he never saw a single person in Zengtou market.

Chao Gai was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan!
Another day later, when Chao Gai was about to attack, two monks suddenly came to vote!
The monk saw Chao Gai and worshiped him: "The young monk is a monk from the Fahua Temple in the east of Zengtou City. He has five tigers from his family who often go to the temple to extort money and disturb my cleanliness. Now he has brought a large group of people to our temple to occupy the Zhongsi Temple." For the village, he drove us out, and heard that Erlong Mountain practiced the way of benevolence and righteousness, and that wherever he went, he would not disturb the people, so he came here to worship and ask all the heroes to suppress those villains, and make the monks clean."

Li Chengdao: "Heavenly King, don't believe these two thieves, there must be fraud in them!"

The monk said: "The monks don't tell lies. The two young monks were really forced by the five tigers of the Zeng family to lose their place to practice, so they came to join the righteous king Chao Tian, ​​who overwhelmed the world. The two of us can serve the Buddha and Bodhisattva with peace of mind."

Chao Gai said: "General Xiu was suspicious and missed a big deal. This is a chance for me to win Erlong Mountain. Tonight I will go for it myself."

Li Chengdao: "Don't take risks, the king of heaven, give the young general 5000 troops, and the young general will go through this for the king, and the king of heaven will lead a large team to meet him."

Chao Gai said: "If I don't go by myself, who will go forward? You, Li Ying and Zhu Dian will lead a large team to meet them outside, and the rest will follow me to attack Fahua Temple and capture the five tigers of the Zeng family."

Li Ying also wanted to persuade Chao Gai, but Chao Gai didn't give Li Ying a chance at all, and said: "This matter is settled like this, don't talk about it again."

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At night, two monks led the way first, followed by Chao Gai and others leading 5000 people.

While walking, the two monks suddenly disappeared.

Wen Da reacted the fastest, and said, "Not good! I'm in an ambush, hurry back!"

When Chao Gai heard the words, he immediately turned his horse's head and led his men back to kill him!

Suddenly the sound of horseshoes shook the sky, and there seemed to be thousands of horses and thousands of troops all around!

Chao Gai led the army away, only to turn two turns, knocked out a big army horse, and shot at the future with random arrows. Unexpectedly, an arrow hit Chao Gai's left shoulder, and Chao Gai fell off the horse!

Fortunately, Wen Da and Lei Heng rushed up to protect him desperately, behind Liu Tang and Bai Sheng helped Chao Gai onto the horse, and everyone rushed out with Chao Gai to meet Li Ying, Li Cheng, Zhu Dian and others who were supporting him. place.

At this time, three or four thousand horse troops followed and charged out. Li Ying, Li Cheng, Zhu Dian and others hurriedly led people to fight, and the two sides fought in a scuffle!
Shi Wengong is not so good, with one against three, Li Cheng, Wen Da, and Zhu Dian were only able to parry and had no power to fight back. On the other hand, Su Ding defeated Li Ying and Lei Heng with one against two. Hu led the horse army to repeatedly kill all the minions in Erlong Mountain.

Liu Tang and Bai Sheng have no intention of fighting and just want to escape with the seriously injured Chao Gai. Du Xing, Cai Fu, Cai Qing, and Zhang Heng are not opponents of the Five Tigers of the Zeng family at all. Only Xue Yong and Fan Rui can compete with Zeng Mi and Zeng Sheng Fight one on one.

Zengtou City is on the verge of victory!
Seeing this, Shi Wengong, Su Ding, and the five tigers of the Zeng family fought even more vigorously, wanting to defeat Erlongshan completely and capture Chao Gai and others in one battle!
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(End of this chapter)