Competing

Chapter 32 One-sided Ambush
The morning light is faint, and dewdrops are still hanging on the tops of the leaves and grass.

The birds chirped without listening, flying in the forest, practicing with actions that the early birds have food.Occasionally, a few little squirrels jumped up and down on the branches, seeming to be performing cute acrobatics.

Suddenly, the sound of heavy footsteps broke the tranquility of the forest.The birds chirped and flew out to the sky with fluttering wings. The little squirrels raised their eyes and jumped quickly among the branches, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"Hurry up, make sure to arrive at Panyi at noon!" An Tong rode in the lead, stopping and waving his arms from time to time to shout.The four thousand Qin soldiers swallowed a few mouthfuls of half-baked dry food, and hurried on the road, tired from running all the way.But Captain An never ordered to rest, but kept urging them, so everyone had no choice but to move forward patiently.

An Tong and other generals were guarded by their own soldiers and marched forward on horseback.The meritorious Cao "Zhang Bo" who came to report the news fell to the side on horseback. Although he knew equestrian skills, he was already tired and sweating profusely after seeing the horse galloping back and forth for nearly a hundred miles a day.You must know that in this era, war horses were not equipped with stirrups, and riding a horse was indeed a laborious task. "Zhang Bai" was out of breath, and An Tong's generals couldn't help laughing and mocking.

"Zhang Bo" didn't respond, just stretched out his sleeves to wipe the sweat on his forehead, thinking to himself: Laugh!It's time to cry after laughing, no!There should be no chance to cry.Along the way, "Zhang Bai" kept silent, raising his head to observe the surrounding terrain from time to time.

Passing through a canyon, the terrain is suddenly much wider, with low hills on one side and a rippling river on the other. The refreshing river wind is very cool.After running for forty or fifty miles, everyone was exhausted, sweating profusely, and begged for a rest.An Tong couldn't stop his subordinates from talking, so he frowned and said: "Then stop and rest for a quarter of an hour!"

All the soldiers sat down to rest one after another as if they had received an amnesty, feeling that the hard-won rest was precious.Fanyi county meritorious officer "Zhang Bo" jumped off his horse, his legs were very sore, but he never sat down, he paced back and forth, exercising his muscles and bones.

"Zhang Bo" walked leisurely to the river, with a cold smile on his lips.Heart said: An Tong, An Tong!It's also you who should die, rest and recuperate, and you chose a place with the young master, so this place is destined to be the place where you die!Looking back at Qin Jun who was sitting scattered all over the ground, he jumped forward and plunged into the rippling river with a plop.

"what happened?"

The people around stared wide-eyed, looking at the water splashing on the river surface, wondering.Did Zhang Gongcao throw himself into the river?Can't stand a few words of ridicule?But something seemed wrong, I saw a black line under the water surface going straight to the center of the river, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Before An Tong figured out what was going on, a general by the river shouted loudly: "General, be careful, we have been tricked, this person is a spy!"

An Tong turned pale with shock, exchanged a glance with Xin Gang who was beside him, and recovered instantly.That Zhang Gongcao is a spy, and jumping into the river at this moment is just swimming to escape, and then... from each other's eyes, they both saw infinite fear.

"Get up!"

"Get ready to fight!"

Four thousand Qin soldiers were scattered on the long and narrow river beach. They saw the chaos in front of them and kept shouting, but they didn't know what happened.Another point is that the soldiers were so exhausted that they had just sat down to rest, and their buttocks hadn't warmed up yet, so they wouldn't get up easily.

An Tong ran back and forth with several generals, shouting at the soldiers, beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.Bewildered, the soldiers rose reluctantly, and there was chaos on the avenue by the river.

At this moment, a long horn sounded on the hill on the other side.An Tong and other generals who were organizing the troops felt a little bit in their hearts, it's too late, it's over!
Two days of arrow rain flew from the woods on the hillside, and the road by the river was narrow, and there was nowhere to escape.The Qin army, which was already in a mess, became even more flustered, and the number of people killed by arrows was unknown.

Immediately afterwards, a team of people and horses came out from the two ends of the bottom, and the characters Wu and Yin were flying high on the flag.An Tong has already understood that Wu Rui is really collaborating with the bandits, more precisely, he has joined forces with Yin Xu.As for Chen Kui, he may have really discovered the anomaly and indeed made a report, but it was only discovered by Wu Rui, and he must have followed the first emperor underground at this time.

If it is said that Chen Kui and Wu Rui are in the same boat, An Tong will not believe it!At this time, he was very guilty, and only saw that the letter was written by Chen Kui, so he wrote it in a daze.His subordinates tried to persuade him, but he was blinded by his anger and blindly listened to the one-sided words of that "Zhang Bai", so that he followed Yin Xu's way again.But today is different from the past, can you escape this time?
Yin Xu took the lead and led his troops to rush over.Duan Shui unsheathed, raised his sword and dropped it, and the head of a Qin soldier flew out.Behind him are the bandits under him and Ying Bu, who have now been renamed the Rebel Army, and they are all strong men with blood.He was chased by the Qin army again, and he suffered from a few months of uselessness. At this time, all of them broke out, and they swung their swords to slash and kill, without any courtesy.

On the other side is Wu Rui's men, who are also extremely brave.Wu Rui was originally a descendant of the Wu royal family. Since he was a child, his grandfather often explained to him the glory of Wu and the lessons in history.And learn the art of war and formation of the ancestor Wu Qi, who is Wu Qi?A military strategist who is famous all over the world and is as famous as Sun Wu.During the time of Marquis Wen of Wei, he served as the governor of Xihe County. He once used 76 Wei troops to beat 64 Qin troops to the ground.He once fought [-] battles with the princes, and won [-] points completely;

Wu Rui is smart and eager to learn, studies hard, often discusses with others, and combines the best of them.After growing up, he led the members of the Wu clan to practice martial arts and formations diligently, and trained a group of soldiers with good combat effectiveness.Wu Chen followed closely beside his father, rode out on horseback, inherited the prestige and bravery of his ancestors, and blocked four thousand Qin troops on the long and narrow river beach.

An Tong tried to lead troops to break through several times, but failed.Both ends of the not-so-wide road were blocked by Wu Rui and Yin Xu. Although there were a large number of Qin soldiers who broke through, they could not spread out.

On one side of the hill were Wu Rui's crossbowmen, whizzing feather arrows without interruption.Both Yin and Wu are extremely brave, and they are bound to wipe out the Qin army here, and the offensive will not relax for a moment.Occupying the best location early, under the influence of many favorable factors such as mental arithmetic and unintentional, the form is completely one-sided.With the flash of swords and swords, Qin Jun's wailing continued, blood splattered, leaving corpses all over the ground.Bloody water flowed into the river, staining half of the river red.

In less than a quarter of an hour, nearly [-] Qin soldiers had died in battle.Looking at the blood and corpses all over the ground, and looking at the black arrowheads and gleaming sword edges of the rebels, many Qin soldiers showed infinite fear in their eyes.

clang!
I don't know whose saber fell to the ground first, and then there was a splash, splashing big water.The first person to eat crabs reminded everyone that there is still a way out of this bloody river.As a result, the sound of weapons falling one after another, and water splashing constantly on the river, hundreds of Qin soldiers, regardless of whether they knew the water or not, plunged into the water and flowed to the opposite bank under the urging of the will to survive.

Looking at those struggling Qin soldiers, Yin Xu shook his head secretly, preparing for an ambush here, how could he give them a chance to survive.When each of the Qin soldiers climbed up to the opposite bank covered in water, looking at the gleaming sword blades, their hearts full of hope suddenly turned cold. Zhou Da and Lu Ming were leading hundreds of people to guard there.

Just before he died, the soldiers noticed that Zhang Gongcao, who jumped into the river first, had changed into dry clothes and sat down on the bank to rest. From time to time, the elder brother sneezed and said, "It's autumn, the river is too cold..."

Zhou Da laughed and said, "I didn't realize that Lao Gao is really good at swimming!"

"Ah! Growing up beside Peng Lize, I'm naturally familiar with the nature of water. It's no different now than it was then!"

Zhang Gongcao who reported the news was of course Gao Yi in disguise. He used to be a clerk in the yamen, so he is very familiar with this aspect.And the appearance is very similar, and he is alert and calm, so this matter fell on his shoulders.

However, there was one thing that took everyone's painstaking efforts. Once they were ambushed, Qin Jun would definitely discover Gao Yi's identity as a spy.How can he escape safely?Gao Yi is a scholar with average martial arts skills, and everyone is very worried about this.

Fortunately, Gao Yi's water quality is excellent, so everyone chose this riverside to ambush after discussing, but Gao Yi only needs to think of a way to jump into the river with his horse, and when he swims to the other side, Lu Ming and others will accompany him.By coincidence, An Tong chose this place to rest, and Gao Yi left more calmly.He can be said to have contributed a lot to the easy victory of this battle.

An Tong's face was covered in blood, and there were only hundreds of people around him, and people kept falling down.His heart was trembling, he was still secretly happy when he received the news of the suppression of the bandits at the beginning of the year, but there are hundreds of bandits, they will surely be defeated until the bandits are wiped out, they will be praised by Zhao Gao, and they will be prosperous in the future.He didn't expect to be turned around by more than a hundred bandits, and he continued to lose soldiers and generals, which made him lose face and became a laughing stock in the army.

Today, I am full of anger, and I want to ask the teacher to ask the crime, but I don’t want to, but I have fallen into the Tao again.An Tong's body trembled, if it wasn't for Xin Gang's support, he might have collapsed already.

"What to do? General!"

"They're coming again!"

……

Hearing the terrified shouts of his subordinates, An Tong just shook his head lightly, and said, "Xin Gang leads the men to charge again! See if we can charge out?"

"promise!"

Left and right are dead, Xin Gang stopped the remaining troops from preparing to break out again, just when he was panicking.With a pop behind him, An Tong turned around and saw a long sword across his neck, blood gushed out, and he fell slowly to the ground.

An irresponsible general died without any sense of responsibility until his death.With An Tong's death, the last remaining morale of the Qin army was completely disintegrated, breaking out of the encirclement has become empty talk.Yin Xu and Wu Rui seized the time and led their men to hack and kill.

The Qin army was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, and the whole army was wiped out after a while. Seeing this, Xin Gang knew that there would be no chance of revenge in this life.Staring at Yin Xu fiercely, he slayed himself by An Tong's side with full of resentment.

The autumn wind blew, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. A river of blood flowed slowly, and thousands of Qin soldiers on the long and narrow river beach were completely breathless.

So far, the first battle against Qin has ended in a one-sided ambush!

(End of this chapter)