Daming kill

Chapter 49 Drums in the Valley
Because it was finally possible to go back, the whole camp was full of chaos, cooking, cooking, tidying up the tents, feeding the horses, everyone was very busy.

But Mrs. Zuo quickly sent an order, saying that there is no need to worry, and that she will not have to walk back to the city in one breath today, so that everyone can have a warm breakfast with peace of mind.

As a result, the busy crowd quickly slowed down.

Thinking about it, the road is slippery after the rain, and there is a long distance in the mountains, so it is naturally even more difficult to walk. The possibility of walking back in a day is not great, so it is better to be steady.

Finally, when the sun had risen very high and most of the mist covering the mountains had dissipated, the returning team finally set off.

At this time, not only is the air fresh, but the surrounding area surrounded by mountains is full of singing birds and flowers.

But most people are not taking the time to appreciate the beauty, the mud is making them miserable.The left foot is muddy, the right foot is also muddy, and it keeps slipping. The mountain road after the heavy rain is a nightmare.

Most of the shoes have been put away.

It's not that I feel sorry for the shoes, but that it's more brisk to be barefoot.

It wasn't until they walked into a low-lying valley that everyone's mood finally improved.

The road in the valley was originally an old river course, very wide and flat, and mainly made of sand and gravel. Walking on it is much more comfortable than the muddy mountain road.

Although it is an old river channel, and there is still a small stream on the left side of the river channel, the heavy rain did not have a big impact on this place, because the water volume of the stream did not skyrocket.

At this time, due to the terrain, the mist in the valley has not completely dissipated.

Li Ping knew that this low-lying valley was about 2 kilometers long and relatively closed because he walked through here when he came here, and the mountains on both sides were mostly steep and difficult to climb.

This is a good place to lay an ambush, but it's a pity that this valley is not the only passage nearby, let alone a key point connecting important towns or even villages. It is just a meaningless place in the backcountry.

Because the terrain is low and there is no shortage of water, tall bushes grow on both sides of the not-so-narrow valley bottom, and the mountain sides on both sides are also densely wooded, which makes this place the most secluded and most aesthetically pleasing place in the entire journey.

It's just that due to the rain for two consecutive days, we couldn't find enough dry firewood to dry the wet clothes, and we didn't bring a change of clothes. As a result, most people's clothes were damp, and Li Ping was no exception.

Originally let the sun bake for a while, and the clothes would be much dry, but luckily, the feet are comfortable, but the fog in the valley makes people feel uncomfortable again.

While riding on a horse, the clinging wetness is even more uncomfortable.

Li Ping, who had been on the horse to avoid suffering from the mud, simply dismounted, and while walking, he thought that he must take a good bath and have a comfortable meal after returning home.

For this trip, apart from looking at the scenery, he seemed to have completed a piece of chicken feathers, but he didn't know how Zhao Jin and the others were doing with good wine and beautiful women every day.

Walking and walking, I came to the only section on both sides of this valley that was not steep.The mountain recedes a lot to both sides here, making the width of the valley floor suddenly larger.

Similarly, the slopes of the mountains on both sides have also become much gentler, even enough for people to walk up.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

A burst of rapid drumming suddenly broke the tranquility in the valley.

Li Ping looked forward with some doubts, but the friendly army in front did not carry a military drum, so who played the tong drum?

"Boom, boom, boom..."

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The mountains on both sides also suddenly beat drums like a ensemble, and the sound was louder, and the number was no longer one drum, but several sides.

Li Ping couldn't help turning his head to look back and forth, but the mist blocked his sight and he couldn't see anything clearly.However, the drums at the front stopped when the drums on the mountains on both sides started.

At this time, a burst of chaotic yelling and shouting began to come from the hillsides on both sides accompanied by continuous drumming, and then the entire hillsides on both sides resounded with a very violent and widespread "cracking" sound of trees shaking, It shows that there are countless people and horses rushing down from the hillside.

Li Ping didn't react, he was a little dazed, and then most of the people in the whole team stood and stared stupidly like Li Ping.

Li Ping has been walking in front of his own team, and kept a distance of about [-] steps from the rear of Ma Ba's team. This distance allowed him to see clearly through the mist the tail end of the friendly team in front of him. Cavalry figures.

At this time, in the cavalry formation, a few horses that suddenly neighed loudly and began to gallop caught Li Ping's blank gaze, and then he noticed that the cavalry who were also on foot began to turn over in a hurry.

Finally, he was awakened by the continuous short whistle peculiar to his own troops, and the following Ma Yong's shout that almost tore his throat made Li Ping's heart sink into hell.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Quickly line up."

Li Ping finally realized what happened belatedly.

He felt the blood all over his body rushing to his head, and his heart started beating his body indiscriminately "bang, bang, bang", and then his whole head went numb, and his mouth became extremely dry.

He wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.

This was the first real battle he had encountered in his entire life.He has fantasized about how it will come and whether it will come countless times, but he has never thought that it will come so early and come so suddenly.

An extremely dangerous signal flashed through Li Ping's mind immediately, this damn terrain!Fear suddenly took over his heart.

After many years of military service, Li Ping almost subconsciously judged that the situation was more or less fatal. His eyes widened, and the surroundings suddenly became extremely quiet.

He seemed to be deaf, leaving only chaotic inner voices.

"Am I going to die here? Am I going to die? Who's going to kill me? Should I run for my life? Should I get on my horse first? Is there any point in resisting? Or just run? I feel like I should be like a man Where should I run? Is it bad to run like this? What will others think of me? Am I really timid? Should I look again?..."

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed strangely in Li Ping's mind, and then these thoughts began to collide violently.

In his nervousness, he subconsciously drew his knife and lifted his helmet, but he was still at a loss.

In a daze, Li Ping turned around unconsciously to see what the others were doing, and a mess of silent pictures immediately appeared in front of his eyes.

It was a group of frightened and flustered faces, a group of bewildered idiots, some were running around, some were shouting, and more people were trembling as they watched the loudest and nearest right hillside shaking in the mist.Not only did the queue not line up, but the original formation began to disintegrate.

Out of instinct and also out of habit, Li Ping's gaze first caught the officer with a higher rank who was closest to him in the crowd.

That was Xu Changen, the captain of Team 7.

At this time, Xu Changen was also looking at Li Ping, looking directly at Li Ping, his mouth was constantly opening and closing, as if he was shouting something.But in the silent world, Li Ping couldn't hear anything.

His brain seems to be stuck, and the reception of sound signals is blocked.

Suddenly, the personal soldier Zhang Yong moved to Li Ping's side and blocked Li Ping's sight. Judging from his half-raised knife and slightly bent body, he seemed to want to stand with Li Ping.

Li Ping blinked, realizing that his personal soldier Zhang Yong was in the way.Instinctively, he yanked Zhang Yong aside with his right hand holding the knife, and then went to look for Xu Changen.

But the frightened face of Liu San, the silly big man who was supposed to lead the horse for him, filled his sight again.What was even more exasperating was that this guy who had left his post without permission actually shook Li Ping with his hand after he came up to him.

"Take the total..."

However, Li Ping suddenly and miraculously heard the thunderous cry for help from the silly big man Liu Sanru, and then more voices began to jump into his ears again.

"Sir, what should I do! President, sir, what should I do!..." He finally heard Xu Changen's anxious cry.

But Li Ping was still a little dazed.

After dragging Liu San away again, the whistle chief Ma Yong came into Li Ping's sight again, and he was pushing this way from the rear of the team.

Li Ping could clearly see that Ma Yong was slapping the passing soldiers with the back of his sword as he squeezed, and he kept shouting: "Pick up the spear, pick up the spear, line up, line up!" Good team..."

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

A few sudden horrifying shouts suddenly pulled Li Ping's gaze back.

Then Li Ping suddenly saw two guys in ragged clothes and bamboo hats, holding sharpened bamboo spears, coming out of the bushes only ten meters away from Xu Changen's right.

The horrifying shouts were made by them, because they were terrified and stopped suddenly, they should be the enemy.

"Kill me!" came another cry from the bushes.

Immediately afterwards, a thin black guy with a knife and a white felt hat also jumped out from the nearby bushes.

Of course, he immediately stopped himself severely.

But the black and thin guy didn't make a horrified cry, but looked around in confusion, and then looked behind him deliberately, his expression quickly became weird, and he put down the raised knife all at once.

The sudden appearance of the three enemies shocked Li Ping's subordinates nearby. Many people instinctively pointed their knives and spears at them, but no one took any further action, as if they didn't know what to do. What to do, and then more people turned their attention to Li Ping.

The three enemy soldiers were obviously dumbfounded, and they didn't dare to move. As a result, both the enemy and us stared at each other strangely for a while.

The sudden encounter made both sides a little confused.One side is frightened with varying degrees of strength, while the other side is unprepared and overwhelmed.

At this time, Ma Yong, who had already squeezed over, snatched a soldier's spear and shouted at several soldiers around him: "Pick up the spear and stab them!"

After finishing speaking, he was the first to take up his spear and press towards the few enemy soldiers.

A soldier of medium build with a childish face was the first to react. He took a spear and stood beside Ma Yong with a stride.Xu Changen, the captain of the 7th team next to the soldier, also reacted after being flashed for a moment, raised the knife in his hand and followed, and then the surrounding soldiers also picked up their spears reflexively and rushed towards the enemy soldier. .

The results of mechanical training finally showed at this moment.

Li Ping also seemed to be a little more awake, and subconsciously raised his knife and shouted: "Take the spear and stab them."

But when he found that he was holding a knife, he didn't know what to think, but immediately put the knife back into the scabbard, and then went to the horse next to him to get the spear.

Li Ping didn't know why he insisted on getting the spear at this time, since he wanted the spear anyway.

When he was holding a spear and watching, he saw that the black and thin enemy soldier holding a knife was reacting very quickly and suddenly turned around and desperately pushed through the bushes, then disappeared in an instant.

But the other two enemy soldiers were not so bright, they were still in a daze.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

With a few shouts, Mayong and the others who were already approaching did not give the two slow-moving enemies a chance, and several spears stabbed at them at the same time.

Those two enemy soldiers might have been really frightened, they seemed to have forgotten that they also had bamboo spears in their hands, so they didn't resist, and were stabbed, twisted and stabbed down like that in horror.

Looking at the enemy who fell to the ground, Li Ping gave a jolt, and then a large stream of cold sweat broke out all over his body, and his whole body began to feel cold from the soles of his feet.

He finally woke up completely.

"Damn, fight hard, I'm afraid of a ball, why did I give up, I should be brave..."

Li Ping's face was slightly flushed because of the timidity and helplessness just now, and courage and reason began to return to his body.

He looked around quickly.

The shouts of "Ah! Ah!" and the sound of metal intersecting are constantly coming from the mist in front. It is obvious that many enemies are in contact with friendly troops.However, as far as Li Ping could see, there was no enemy in his field of vision, and only a few friendly cavalry were strangely still circling around without a clue.

They don't seem to be organized, let alone support anyone.

Suddenly, a cavalry fell off the horse holding his neck, and then the other horse began to neigh uncontrollably and jumped up, and quickly threw the cavalry down, and the other cavalry were startled All the children scattered to the side of the stream that was covered with stones tens of meters away because the river channel was suddenly much wider.

Seeing this scene, Li Ping hurriedly looked back to his side.

At this time, the troops on his side are forming broken rows one after another, and many backbones have begun to shout loudly to complete the formation. The raised spears are forming a mighty wall.

But no enemy soldiers came out from the bushes on the right. Li Ping's troops have not been directly under the pressure of killing, and the situation is still under control.

At this time, the sound of the drums on both sides became more urgent, and the shouts from the stream on the left were getting closer and closer, which caused a small commotion in Li Ping's troops, which were already mostly facing the right.

The enemy's two-sided attack is about to take shape.

Li Ping had to make a decisive decision, and the time left for him was running out.

(End of this chapter)