Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 591 Chu Pingsheng: Is my reverse scale prickly?
On the battlements at the back, soldiers with extraordinary arm strength drew their bows and arrows, staring eagerly at the rapidly approaching siege troops. In the open space in front of the city gate tower stood a flagpole with a triangular flag with a yellow background and a red border, with a large "Song" character in the middle. In front of the flagpole stood a tall, fair-skinned middle-aged man wearing a narrow-sleeved robe. He looked calm and had a bit of the bookish air typical of a Confucian scholar. He was none other than Song Zhi, the Earth Sword, who was called the incarnation of Zhuge Wu Hou by the people of the Lingnan ethnic groups and the second-in-command of the Song clan.

Facing the two thousand cavalry led by the eighteen elite riders, the others were very nervous. Only he had a smile on his face, stroked his long beard, looked relaxed and unrestrained, and looked like he didn't take the enemy seriously at all.

Call...

Chu Pingsheng pulled the reins, and the precious horse under his crotch stopped in front of the formation. He first looked at the mountains behind Cangwu City, then looked at the Dong'an River that was like a jade belt around the city, and then turned to look at Song Zhi, the earth swordsman standing on the top of the city.

"Are you Chai Shao? The new leader of Xieji Sect?"

Song Zhi's voice came against the wind, bringing a hint of coolness to the still hot weather. Even the soldiers crawling in the trenches could hear the murderous intent in the words of the Song family's second-ranked master and military advisor.

Chu Pingsheng said: "Yes, I am Chai Shao."

"Hand over the murderer who killed my third brother and nephew, and I will spare your life."

Song Zhi looked down from above and spoke in the tone of a victorious general, because two hours ago he received a report that the cavalry unit led by his eldest brother, with the cooperation of Xiao Xin's army who turned a blind eye, used the strategy of feinting to the east and attacking in the west to severely damage Lin Shihong's Jiangnan army and cut off the food supply of the Sui army. In this situation, there was no need to engage the Sui army head-on, but to defend in a dangerous place. They only needed to hold out for a few days, otherwise these soldiers from the north would run out of food and grass and be defeated.

There is no doubt that this was his work, and Song Que was just the executor.

"Who is the murderer of your third brother and nephew?" Chu Pingsheng laughed, "That person is far away and close at hand."

Song Zhi frowned and looked at the cavalry troops behind him, but did not see any trace of Mei Niangzi Jin Huanzhen and Zhou Laotan.

"That's me."

Chu Pingsheng laughed: "Song Zhi, you don't think that without my order, the two of them dared to kill the only son and brother of Tiandao Song Que with one sword, right?"

"you?"

Song Zhi frowned and his two black feather-like eyebrows twisted into a ball. He was very puzzled, because according to the rumors, Chai Shao took the position of the new leader of the Xieji Sect with the support of Zhu Yuyan after obtaining the evil emperor's relics, and Song Shidao and Song Lu were killed before the opening of Yang Gong's treasury. How did Chai Shao order Zhou Laotan and his wife to kill the Song family at that time?

He was thinking about something when he suddenly heard the sound of a bowstring beside him.

call out.

A sharp arrow shot out from the side and pierced the heart of the person he was talking to.

This arrow was fast, accurate and fierce. The strong wind around the arrow alone was enough to hurt human skin.

However, the man on the precious horse just pulled forward, and the arrow that was powerful enough to pierce through the armor suddenly lost its speed and fell into his palm extremely lightly and softly. With a slight flick of his thumb, the arrow shaft broke into two pieces and fell in front of the horse's hoof.

Song Zhi glanced to the side and saw that the one who launched the sneak attack was his cousin Song Shuang. His face, which was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, looked a little embarrassed, as if he couldn't understand how his sneak attack was easily broken by the enemy.

"According to Master Fanzhai's speculation, after Chai Shao obtained the evil emperor's relic, his strength approached that of the demon commander Zhao Deyan. Now it seems that what he said is true."

Song Shuang's fighting ability is only inferior to the three brothers in the Song clan, and even better than Song Shidao. On the surface, this powerful attack did not kill Chai Shao, but it also indirectly proved a fact that if the two of them fought head-on, Song Shuang would never be Chai Shao's opponent.

Chu Pingsheng said, "I remember Song Que always talked about being aboveboard, but it turns out he is just like this."

The cavalrymen behind all raised their spears and shouted "villains", drowning out the marching sounds of the infantrymen behind.

Song Zhi said: "All is fair in war."

"Well, all is fair in war." Chu Pingsheng said, "So, in order to win the battle, you won't have any complaints about how I deal with your Song family?"

Song Zhi smiled coldly: "Do you think you still have a chance?"

Song Shuang gathered his inner strength and shouted to the cavalry and infantry behind Chu Pingsheng: "Listen, everyone behind us. Your food supply has been cut off by the clan leader's troops. You will run out of food soon. If you are smart, quickly lay down your weapons and surrender. I, the Song family, will spare your lives in accordance with the will of heaven."

He thought that this shout would shake the morale of the Sui army and greatly reduce its morale, but he didn't expect that the enemy was not at all panicked. Dugu Feng and Ling Longjiao, who arrived last, noticed this scene and finally understood why Master Chai did not conceal the battle situation in the rear.

"It is impolite not to reciprocate." Chu Pingsheng also gathered his inner strength and shouted loudly: "Listen, everyone in the city, young and old, women and children. If I take action, innocent people will be hurt. I will give you two hours to quickly withdraw from Cangwu City before the two armies start fighting."

Shangguan Long glanced at the sun and made a quick estimate. It was almost night in two hours.

Chu Pingsheng said to Song Zhi, "Open the south gate and let the women and children in the city leave."

Song Zhichong sneered and did not appreciate it.

Song Shuang laughed and said, "Chai Shao, let alone that you will definitely lose this battle, even if the Sui army's food supply is not cut off, you want to use this to shake our military and civilian morale. It is really ridiculous. Who in the world doesn't know that all the people of our Lingnan tribes are soldiers? My brother Song Que, the Heavenly Sword, is a god in the eyes of the Li Liao tribes? Back then, Emperor Wen sent out 100,000 elite soldiers to face my brother Song Que. They lost ten battles outside Cangwu City and finally rolled back to the Central Plains in disgrace. Now that the Sui Dynasty has run out of luck, Xiao Meiniang, a woman, wants to conquer the land south of the Five Ridges and the land of Baiyue. It is simply a fool's dream." Chu Pingsheng was not annoyed by the two people's contempt, and said lightly, "So, you two are responsible for the casualties of women and children in the city?"

Song Shuang said: "That's natural."

Chu Pingsheng said: "But I still want to hear the voices of those people themselves, rather than the high-profile statements of you two representatives."

Song Shuang's face showed even more disdain: "Humph, you are so long-winded and talk nonsense."

Song Zhi waved his hand to stop his cousin, looked down at the city and asked, "Chai Shao, I want to ask you, who killed my brothers Song Lu and Shi Dao?"

"I."

"you sure?"

"That's right. You, the Lingnan Song family, deserve to die for daring to touch my flesh and blood."

"Hmph." Song Zhi snorted coldly and winked at the lieutenant standing behind him. The man turned and entered the city gate tower. After a while, a woman with disheveled hair, hands tied behind her back, and wearing a loose high-waisted skirt came out with a knife at her back. Judging from the level of her belly, the day of delivery was not far away.

Song Shuang angrily said: "Chai Shao, take a good look at who this is?!"

"Shang! Xiu! Xun!"

Chu Pingsheng spoke word by word, and his face grew colder with every word he uttered.

She also saw the man under the city. Her eyes suddenly turned red. Recalling her past stubbornness that resulted in her current desperate situation, she turned her head away in pain.

The wind was strong at the city gate tower, blowing her hair into disarray, with a strand of black hair sticking to the corner of her lips.

Chu Pingsheng looked at her haggard appearance and laughed in hatred: "I really didn't expect that the dignified Lingnan Song clan would use such means to deal with a weak woman. If I don't kill all the Song family members, my name Chai Shao will be written backwards from now on."

tread, tread, tread...

The eighteen elite cavalry were retreating.

It was not that they wanted to retreat, but the murderous aura rising into the sky frightened the horses under their crotch, and even pulling the reins hard could not stop them from retreating.

Song Zhi held onto the bricks and stones on both sides of the battlement and said loudly, "She was originally my final weapon to delay your offensive, but now, I have changed my mind. Didn't you ask me to let the women and children in the city leave? Then I will show you who is more motivated to fight."

As he retreated, an old man in his sixties walked to the front of the battlement and said tremblingly: "You bastards from the north, go back to your Hebei Province. I only regret that I can't be thirty years younger, fight in the battlefield and chop off your dog heads."

Another man holding a rusty iron spear and looking sick said, "Thieves, don't be so arrogant. We knew you were coming. We are standing here today, determined to live and die with the Song clan."

Another woman with a face full of flesh, wearing an apron, half of her body covered in grease, holding two kitchen knives in her hands, stared at Shang Xiuxun's belly viciously: "You bastard surnamed Chai, the child in her belly is yours, right? You came too early. If you were half a month later, when your child was born, I would have chopped your bastard son into pieces and made soup for the soldiers and civilians in the city."

At this time, a forty-year-old woman snatched the spear from the soldier guarding the city and stabbed Shang Xiuxun.

The general next to him was quick-witted and quickly snatched the spear away.

"Why? Why don't you let me kill that bastard named Chai's wife and child?"

"It's not yet time."

Song Shuang laughed wildly and said, "Chai Shao, are you scared now? In terms of ruthlessness, who has the Lingnan Song family ever been afraid of?"

Dugu Feng, who was behind the cavalry unit, had already grasped the hilt of the sword, with the blade half an inch out of the sheath.

Linglongjiao's face was as cold as the water in a cold pond. For the first time, she felt that she and her cheap husband had a common hatred for the enemy.

"Good, good, good."

Chu Pingsheng said three good words in a row and looked at the sky above his head, "I was determined to protect your life, but you treated my wife and children like this."

After saying that, he waved his hand fiercely towards the back and said sternly: "Pass my order, everyone, retreat ten miles."

(End of this chapter)