Defend the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 13

The horse thief was getting closer and closer, and the rapid hoofbeats beat on people's hearts like dull drumbeats.

The dozen or so horses tied outside the camel formation to slow down the enemy's cavalry seemed to feel the suffocating tension, neighing, stamping, and struggling, trying to escape from this place of right and wrong.

Huang Dafu went to battle for the first time. He hid behind his hump and watched the horse thieves attacking like a tide.

At this time, someone patted his right shoulder heavily.

Turning around subconsciously, he suddenly found that it was a barbarian who was about his own age.

He was wearing thin scale armor and an iron helmet that could protect his neck. It was tightly wrapped, and only a grinning face was exposed.

I've never seen him before, could it be General An's personal soldier...

Huang Dafu was thinking about who this group of "hunchbacks" and the people who got out of the sacks were, when he suddenly heard someone shouting from the left.

"Thirteen hundred steps."

"One thousand two hundred steps."

"Eleven one hundred steps..."

Looking back, a veteran in his forties, facing the horse thieves rushing towards him like a mountain and sea, did not change his face, squatted behind the camel, set an arrow and controlled the string, and kept reporting the number of steps in his mouth.

Chen Lvshuai even smiled disdainfully and said: "There was a lot of noise, and the result was only a hundred rides. Zhang Si Lao Luo listened to the order. If the horse thief sees that the situation is not good and wants to run away later, remember to follow the old rules. A team of three, grab horses and chase after them."

"promise!"

"Chen Shuai, do you still want to light the wolf smoke?"

"Light up the smoke, how many horse thieves can our night watch team catch up with? Give the Youyi team something to do, otherwise they will come for nothing."

It turns out that they are night watchmen who specialize in chasing and killing horse thieves in the vast sea!

Those vicious horse thieves in the vast sea were afraid of them, seeing them running faster than rabbits, no wonder they were not only not worried about being unable to defend against a strong enemy, but even planned to hunt them down instead.

Moreover, according to their tone, there are reinforcements, and they are equally brave and good at fighting, and even a little disrespectful Youyiren.

Huang Dafu couldn't be more excited, not only was he no longer nervous, but his blood was boiling, wishing that the horse thief would come sooner.

Wang Hu, Li Youwei and Zhang Cheng also reacted, and the three of them finally let go of their breath, thinking that Master Shi Yu had already prepared.

"Four hundred steps."

"Three hundred steps.

"Two hundred steps..."

In a blink of an eye, the horse thieves were in front of them, and they could clearly see them wielding scimitars, and could clearly hear their yelling and killing.

Chen Lvshuai stood up abruptly and shouted, "Shoot!"

Twenty or so night watchmen suddenly appeared, quickly looking for targets, drawing bows and firing arrows, or aiming and shooting with strong crossbows.

The swishing sound was like the panting of death, and the six or seven horse thieves rushing to the front screamed and fell off their horses. Even if they were not shot to death, they would be trampled to death by the horses behind.

The horse thief who took the lead in the charge could not close his mouth in astonishment. He couldn't believe that a dozen horsemen and hunchbacks had turned into dozens of bloodthirsty warriors in the blink of an eye, and he couldn't believe that they were broken just after a face-to-face encounter. Six or seven subordinates.

This is definitely a trap.

He fell into an ambush by the Tang people in a daze!

The leader of the horse thief came to his senses, and his ferocious face gradually became clear. He really wanted to escape from this place, but he had already rushed to the front of the formation, and he couldn't hold back at all.

"Spear!"

"Kill me!"

Facts have proved that Chen Lushuai's roar was superfluous.

The moment the horse thief rushed to the front of the formation, the dozen or so night watchmen who had been lying in ambush behind the camel raised their spears and long knives obliquely, with the tails of the spears touching the ground, forming a hedgehog-like array of spears and knives. .

They quickly moved and adjusted the tip of the spear and the tip of the knife so that their spear and knife pointed at the chest of the horse. What they needed to do at this time was not to kill the enemy, but to prevent the horse thief from charging into the battle.

Huang Dafu saw clearly that a spear sank silently into the chest of the horse. The horse was still moving forward, but the night watchman had already let go of the spear, and picked up the spear that was resting on it as quickly as those night watchmen who used crossbows before. The sword and shield beside him.

A horse thief was pierced into the lower abdomen by the spear that pierced the horse. Together with the horse, the spear was strung up high by the spear. The horse's dangling front hooves were powerlessly planing and screaming in pain. The horse's blood flowed down the shaft of the spear. .

A horse thief was thrown in from the air by the horse that hit the camel, and fell heavily to the ground with a plop.

Huang Dafu was about to go up to make a repair, but he was kicked over by someone.

Turning around quickly, the young barbarian from the night watch team just now was slashing at a horse thief who didn't know when he turned in. He heard half a wail, and the horizontal knife slashed from the horse thief's shoulder to his waist. .

The blood of the horse thief was so high that the young barbarian's armor was stained with blood, even on his cheek, but he pulled him up as if nothing had happened: "Look at the front, don't look at the back."

"Oh."

Huang Dafu realized that he had saved his life just now, so he didn't bother to thank him, so he quickly picked up his sword and shield and got up to defend.

However, the horse thieves who were aggressive just now realized that what they were facing was not a group of horsemen and hunchbacks, but a team of Tang frontier soldiers who were brave, skilled in fighting and fearless of death, and no one dared to stand out.

The leader didn't speak, and they didn't dare to run, so they waved the machete, howled, and ran around the camel formation.

I don't know who took the lead first, the inner layer and the outer layer, like a circle drawn in the center of the camel array, and several layers inside and outside, like a huge whirlpool, rolling up waves of dust.

If the horse thieves didn't charge, the night watchman's swordsmen and spearmen guarding behind the camels had nothing to do with them, so they could only stand in their respective positions and wait in full force.

But the horse thieves ran around like this, and fell into the arms of the night watchman archer who had been guarding the middle of the camel formation.

For those of them who are used to hunting horse thieves at night, the distance of more than ten steps seems like the prey is standing in front of them.

They kept drawing their bows and setting arrows, aiming and shooting quickly.

With the sound of strings, the horse thief screamed one after another and was shot down from the horse by feathered arrows.

Exactly!

so fast!

Li Youwei was dumbfounded, thinking that he would never dare to brag about how to walk through Yang with a hundred steps.

At this time, the horse thief who looked like the leader screamed and was the first to rush out of the circle like a whirlpool.

The vortex formation suddenly became chaotic, and several horse thieves were caught off guard and bumped into the people in front, or were knocked over by the people behind.

In an instant, the entire vortex array was in complete chaos, and the horse thieves fled in all directions like frightened birds.

"That's it... chase!"

"promise!"

Following Chen Lvshuai's order, more than a dozen night watchmen turned over and jumped out of the camel formation.

The night watchman who was the first to jump out ran over and grabbed a horse that was in a panic, quickly climbed on the horse's back, brandished a horizontal knife and chased the horse, and shouted without looking back: "Old four, old nine Hurry up and find a horse, and chase after me!"

"coming!"

"How can I chase without a horse?"

"Old Jiu, there are horses over there!"

……

The horse thieves came fast and ran even faster, and they could only vaguely see their backs in a blink of an eye.

The night watchmen who could find the horses had already chased them out, several of them were single-handedly hunted down!
Chen Lvshuai didn't seem to be worried about the safety of his subordinates. He walked up to Han Shimei who had just stood up, and pointed to the southeast direction with his knife: "My lord, Lang Yafeng has finally lit the smoke."

According to the rules, the Fengzi stationed in each garrison and beacon must observe the movement day and night. Every morning and night, they raise one fire for safety, two fires when they hear the police, and three fires when they see smoke and dust.

If you can't see the Ping'an fire every morning and evening, it means that the Fengbao has fallen.

The horse thieves made such a big commotion just now, and when they rushed over, they stirred up so much smoke and dust, Lang Yafeng didn't even light the fire to set off the smoke.

When the horse thief found out that he was unable to attack and fled, Langyafeng lit up the beacon, which showed that what happened just now was not just a simple rebellion by someone in Yele's department.

Han Shimei looked at the rising smoke from a distance, then looked back at the smoke that the night watchman had lit just now, and said nonchalantly, "Maybe they didn't see it just now."

"I think they can't see it, my lord, why don't I take a few people to see it?"

"Need not."

Han Shimei looked at the horse thieves who fell in front of the battle but were not dead and howled in pain, and asked, "Chen Lushuai, how long will it take for the Youyi team to come here?"

Chen Lvshuai looked back around and said in a positive tone: "My lord, don't worry, they are three or four miles away from us. Even if they encounter fleeing horse thieves, they can rush over in front of the army. After all, the guards on duty in the military city are not Many, it will take time for the army to build up."

Cao Wulan definitely didn't have the guts to rebel, nine times out of ten his subordinates were urged to do what happened just now.

But he definitely can't get rid of the relationship, since he can't restrain his subordinates, then change to someone who can!
As for whether there are people in the frontier army who are playing tricks, it is another matter. Not to mention that it may not be possible to find out now, even if the truth can be found out, they should not act rashly.

Because Yele town has a total of more than [-] soldiers. If the army's morale is not stable, the "four towns of Anxi" may really become "three towns of Anxi". By then, what will be lost is not just a few thousand soldiers and a few cities, but a radius of nearly a thousand miles. The territory of the Tang Dynasty!

The sky is big and the earth is big, and the military spirit is the biggest.

With few major generals, it can only be maintained with difficulty.

As a supervising army, he must put the overall situation first, Han Shimei sighed helplessly, and said coldly: "Okay, when the Yuyi team arrives, I will go to Baisha City with me to quell the chaos!"

(End of this chapter)