Chapter 328: Clashing with the Spirit Snake with Open Swords and Secret Arrows (1)
Yang Zhi killed the spotted man, and while driving away the remaining bandits, he caught one of the bandits and questioned him. Only then did he realize that the bandits lurking in the dense pine forest were all in the same group, and that the bandits just used The spotted man with the big ax is the leader of this group of men. However, this group of thieves neither inquired about the birth date in advance nor have any accomplices. They just saw the car fight and went crazy wanting to get rich. Therefore, he came up with such a trick. He thought it was a "once and for all" solution, but he didn't expect that there are people outside the world. This small calculation was left in Yang Zhi's heart and was broken by a small eye. Yang Zhi finished asking this question. As for the gangster, in order to seal his silence, he also sent this gangster to the west with one knife.
Yang Zhi counted his troops and horses, and found that there were no casualties. Yang Zhi was very satisfied. He thought that if he brought these two hundred people to Erlong Mountain, it would greatly enhance the strength of Erlong Mountain. However, these two hundred people were How could he follow him in Beijing? This was something that Yang Zhi needed to think carefully about. So, while Yang Zhi reorganized his team, he quickly caught up with the team escorting the birthday card, reorganized and moved forward. A near-miss fight greatly boosted the confidence of the accompanying soldiers, and their morale reached an all-time high. No one said anything trivial about Yang Zhi's suspicion. On the contrary, the two hundred soldiers not only surrendered to Yang Zhi. He also admired Yang Zhi's wisdom and strategy. Even though the old man was frustrated, he never murmured another word. Although the journey was difficult, after all, in a crisis-ridden world, life-saving was still the most important thing. .
In this way, Yang Zhi led this army of soldiers and horses to the east along the official road. After walking for a day, he arrived at Zizhou. After crossing the cage water, he changed the horses at Lianchuan and rested for half a moment. He hurriedly came out of Zichuan and headed east. When he passed through a mountain range, he encountered a group of people standing at the foot of the mountain to block the road and rob him. One can imagine how rampant they were. However, the eldest brother who led him came over and fought with them. Yang Zhi was killed by Yang Zhi after he couldn't fight in two moves. The rest of the minions ran wildly and snatched the corpse of the boss, then swarmed back to the mountain. They closed the village gate tightly and never came out again. And Yang Zhi's troops came out of the mountain range in such a swagger, which made all the soldiers who followed him feel indescribably happy.
In this way, Yang Zhi led his soldiers all the way eastward. However, as he went further back, the troubles became more and more. Yang Zhi suspected that the remaining "bluffing" soldiers and horses had been betrayed by various gangs and lakes. The bandits saw the clues. After they went all the way back to the city, the people in the world had already guessed that this group of soldiers and horses that were drifting away was the real team escorting the birthday gang. And on the way after that, It was not as smooth as the previous two days. From time to time, a group of well-armed people would come out from the middle of the road to fight. Sometimes, before one group of people had finished killing, another group would join them and come forward with swords. This made Yang Zhi was not only frightened, but also had a headache. If he hadn't killed two groups of thieves smoothly in the past two days, which at least emboldened his two hundred elite soldiers, he would have encountered so many gangsters now. All the elite soldiers fled in one fell swoop.
Thanks to the soldiers and horses under Yang Zhi, they were all elites selected by him and Suo Chao from the real army of Daming Mansion. With the vigor foreshadowed in the past, coupled with Yang Zhi's calm and appropriate command, they were able to kill every one of them. It was bravery, and Yang Zhi was very satisfied when he saw it. Whenever the thieves made a surprise attack, no matter how powerful the enemy was, when they rushed to the formation of Yang Zhi's troops, they would be thrown into chaos and be killed by Yang Zhi and others like they were on a board. The flesh will soon collapse like a bereaved dog.
There is certainly the power of the heroic fighting of his soldiers and horses, but as Yang Zhi went further and the number of fights increased, Yang Zhi gradually noticed some clues. This "shoot the man first, shoot the horse." He is not the only one who understands the principle of "capture the thief first, capture the king first", and he is not the only one who does it. When the thieves fight, the leaders are often the first to die. Yang Zhi died miserably at the hands of a sharp knife that was too quick to cover his ears. Sometimes, he disappeared from the scene from the beginning of the charge and fighting. After the fighting dispersed the bandits, Yang Zhi discovered that the prominently dressed leaders had arrows piercing their bodies. At first, Yang Zhi didn't care about it and didn't notice anything. However, gradually, more and more arrows like this were kept in his mind, and he felt that there was something fishy in it.
Once when the chariots and soldiers and horses were crossing the Jianshui River, it was very difficult for the chariots carrying the birthday card to move forward in the river, especially the uneven stones at the bottom of the river, which made the chariots move very slowly. , when the horses could not pull, all the soldiers guarding the left and right had to dismount and push the cart away. However, at this moment, two groups of people and horses suddenly came out from both sides of the river bank. Yang Zhi looked at them With their heads wrapped in red scarves, you knew that these two groups of about three to four hundred people were in the same group. They came from both sides of the river bank to attack Yang Zhi's troops who were crossing the river.
Yang Zhi's heart went crazy when he saw this, but he didn't dare to mess up his face. He quickly ordered a deputy general named Qin Fei to abandon his chariot and lead seventy or eighty soldiers and horses towards the back to attack the pursuers on two wings. And he took the lead and led seventy or eighty soldiers and horses to meet the enemy. Yang Zhi's eyes, flashing with life-threatening light, searched for the shadow of the leader of the group in the surging crowd of thieves. , and also locked the location of each boss. Within a moment, Yang Zhi locked their positions, brandished his sword and rode forward. The horse Yang Zhi was riding was the war horse given to him by Liang Taishu. This war horse was covered with armor. After that, he spread his hooves and ran like a moving silver armored fortress, smashing all the bandits on the way to pieces, leaving limbs broken and bones broken, and many people died of vomiting blood. In Yang Zhi's hands, The broadsword he carried looked like a soul-calling flag from the underworld. As long as Yang Zhichi swung and slashed in his hand, flesh and blood would fly everywhere, and he would be fatal everywhere.
Yang Zhichi took the lead in rushing into the enemy formation. He looked at the leaders and quickly killed them with his sword. He saw the shadow of the knife flashing on his horse, and the leader's head was cut off somewhere, leaving only his body stiff. He stood there with blood spurting from his neck, and soon fell to the ground completely dead. When the subordinates following him saw that their immediate leader was dead, they felt as if they were entering a deserted land for this rampage. Yang Zhi was even more frightened. He didn't care about charging at the moment and ran away from Yang Zhi. Yang Zhi fought and dispersed all the way. The elite soldiers who followed him and charged and looted were also powerful, as if they were not being robbed by bandits at the moment. It's as if Yang Zhi led the troops to suppress the bandits and swept away other people's nests.
Yang Zhi galloped around the crowd and killed three or four leaders, but he couldn't find a decent opponent, so he couldn't find the leader of the group. Yang Zhi looked at the man in front of him. The man's arrogance has been suppressed by his officers and soldiers, and the situation is very good. All that's left is to rely on his elite soldiers to kill a few waves of minions to disperse them. If there is no leader in the front, it must be in the back, so , Yang Zhi held his sword and fought again. After crossing the river, he rushed into the bandits behind him. Among the bandits in this area, Yang Zhi's general and his elite soldiers had already resisted the enemy's attack. At the edge of the river bank, the general who followed Yang Zhi knew how to kill the leaders first, and now he was running rampant in the enemy formation, searching for the figures of the leaders. Yang Zhi rushed forward at this moment, waving his sword and killing several in and out, but, No matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find the figure of the leading brother. Yang Zhi felt that something was wrong. Seeing that these minions had been killed and scattered, there was still no sign of retreating in large numbers. This didn't seem right.
Yang Zhi looked at the open areas on both sides of the river bank, but there was no one there. Yang Zhi saw that the situation in front of him was not too bad, so he simply let go and killed them. He galloped through the enemy formation and killed them all. After a fight, the four hundred thieves were stunned and bleeding like rivers were killed by Yang Zhi's two hundred elite soldiers. In the end, only a hundred people were killed and fled in all directions. Yang Zhi was confused and deliberately captured one alive. When I came to ask, I found out that the leader of the gang of thieves was not in the fight, but there was another group of people on a hillside on the other side of the river.
The two groups of people who ambushed and killed them can be regarded as the main force. If the robbery is successful, then there is no need for the boss to take action. If the robbery fails, then the boss will bring people to kill them and catch them like a divine soldier from heaven. They gathered troops to defeat the gaps and weaknesses where the officers and soldiers were fighting. The reason why they were killed to pieces by the officers and soldiers but still did not escape in large numbers was that their leader could roughly see the entire battlefield from the hillside. If the situation was not good, he would They would kill them immediately, or call for gold to withdraw their troops. However, they neither killed them nor called for gold just now. They were all fighting in the sea of people, thinking that the general trend was still there, so although they were killing hard at that time, they did not retreat.
After Yang Zhiming understood this, he ordered his general Qin Fei to lead the men to push the chariot across the river. At the same time, he ordered more than thirty elite soldiers to rush up the hillside mentioned by the minions.
However, when Yang Zhi reached the hillside, he was suddenly startled. He quickly reined in his horse and took a closer look. The hillside was covered with the corpses of bandits. Yang Zhi estimated by visual inspection that the number of bandits on the hillside was There were only eighty if not a hundred. Yang Zhi couldn't help but look around again. There were only a few trees on the mountain ridge, and there were no traces of people or horses. Yang Zhi couldn't help feeling a little shocked. He got off his horse and took a closer look. I felt even more horrified.
Yang Zhi recalled that during the fight just now, he didn't hear any sounds of fighting here. The distance from the mountain ridge to the river is only a hundred steps. If there was a fight here, he wouldn't have heard it or ignored it. , and what surprised Yang Zhi even more was that most of the bandits who were killed on the mountain ridge had their weapons unsheathed, and their wounds were all vital...