Carp Head is a place name, so named because a large stone resembles the head of a carp. The official road going north is a narrow mountain pass. After passing this mountain col, there is an open wilderness below, which is a 20-mile-long area.
, a valley more than ten miles wide.
Chen Qing wanted to deal with the pursuers not in this mountain col, but in the wilderness behind the mountain col.
About a quarter of an hour later, the rapid sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and dust was flying. Chen Qing looked down at the large group of small black dots in the distance, and said coldly to his subordinates: "Shoot the horses but not the people!"
The large group of cavalry was getting closer and closer, already about a hundred paces away from them, and their faces could be vaguely seen.
Chen Qing took out an arrow, stretched his bow and nocked the arrow, pulled the string like a full moon, and shot out an arrow like lightning. The horse of the leading cavalry was shot down by an arrow.
The three hundred cavalrymen all have exactly the same armor. Chen Qing needs to know who is the leader among them?
Chen Qing's men fired arrows at the same time. In an instant, more than a dozen war horses were shot down. The soldiers were in chaos. Yuan Gang's war horse was also shot down by an arrow from Chen Qing's soldiers. He got up from the ground and climbed onto a spare war horse.
, brandishing his knife and shouting: "There are only a dozen people on the other side, kill them!"
The cavalry shouted and galloped. Chen Qinghe's men shot down more than 30 horses. Chen Qing took a deep look at Yuan Gang and shouted, "Let's go!"
He led his men and ran along the hillside towards the wilderness......
Chen Qing led his cavalry galloping in front, and a hundred paces behind him, a large group of cavalry was chasing after him.
Yuan Gang knew that Chen Qing was very powerful with bows and arrows, and he was very cunning. He was wearing the same armor as the soldiers and blended in with the crowd. His hood covered most of his face, so it was difficult to recognize him.
In a moment, the cavalry had already galloped into the wilderness. Chen Qing glanced back from the corner of his eye and immediately locked the enemy leader hidden in countless pockets. He drew an arrow, turned around and shot out an arrow while running.
The arrow was incredibly fast and powerful. It passed through the gaps in the bodies of several soldiers and arrived in front of Yuan Gang in the blink of an eye.
As the saying goes, every advantage must have its disadvantages. Yuan Gang was hiding among the soldiers, and his field of vision was not as wide as the one at the front. When he saw the arrow in front of him, it was already too late to hide.
It pierced the skull and spurted out a bloody arrow from the back of the head.
Yuan Gang screamed, threw his head back and fell off his horse. This arrow made all the pursuing soldiers tremble.
At this time, Chen Qing stopped running. He immediately stood up high and raised his golden-backed tiger-tooth sword horizontally. Fifteen soldiers behind him raised their spears.
"kill!"
Chen Qing roared loudly and galloped towards the enemy cavalry. The murderous aura of the cavalry had disappeared at this moment. The death of their leader made them hesitate, and they could not make up their minds between advance and retreat.
This kind of hesitation is fatal to an army. It means that morale is affected and the will to fight is less firm.
In an instant, Chen Qing rushed into the crowd from the gap between the cavalry and the cavalry. His broadsword slashed out, blood burst out, and four heads flew up. A cavalryman on the side yelled and thrust his spear towards Chen Qing.
He dodged sideways and slashed back like a whirlwind with his broadsword. "Crack!" The man was cut into two pieces at chest level.
Fifteen soldiers also rushed into the enemy group. They did not fight alone, but guarded Chen Qing from behind.
Without worries, Chen Qing's attacks are sharper and his killings are more cruel. Although he has not practiced any sword skills, no matter what the weapon is, there are only two moves in the world for killing people, fast and ruthless. In the face of absolute speed and power,
Any fancy moves are just decoration.
Wherever Chen Qing passed, there was a bloody storm. Limbs were flying, heads were rolling, and corpses were everywhere. In one round, more than fifty cavalrymen died under his sword, and the death was extremely miserable. Not a single corpse was intact.
Many cavalrymen wanted to shoot cold arrows at Chen Qing from the outside, but Chen Qing's soldiers shot them first and shot them off their horses.
When Chen Qing turned his horse around and prepared to charge into the enemy group again, the cavalry group finally collapsed. The general died, as did the three heads. The man they were chasing turned into a devil and supported the soldiers.
There was no reason to continue killing. On the contrary, saving lives became the common thought of all soldiers.
More than two hundred soldiers unexpectedly turned their horses and ran away, but it was not so easy to escape. Chen Qing chased and hacked him all the way, and countless soldiers became the dead souls of his sword.
When the remaining soldiers fled to Liyutou, they unexpectedly found that ten soldiers from the other side had blocked the intersection of the canyon. They could not get out. Chen Qing had come from behind to kill them like melons and vegetables, killing the enemy soldiers bloody.
It flows into a river and corpses litter the fields.
Less than half of the remaining cavalrymen saw that they could not charge through Carp Head, so they turned their horses and fled for their lives. Chen Qing and his men took the opportunity to pursue and kill them, and they continued to fight until dark before letting go of the last dozens of enemy soldiers.
The cavalry stopped chasing. Chen Qing tidied up a bit and headed north back to Qinzhou with a batch of trophies.
Two days later, Fu Xuan got the news. Chen Qing killed more than 260 of the 300 elite soldiers he sent to chase Chen Qing, leaving only 34 cavalrymen who fled back to Longzhou. General
Yuan Gang and several others were all killed in battle. This news made Fu Xuan almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
He had no shame in going to see Zhu Shengfei again, told Fu Jingyi, and returned to Fengxiang in dejection with the remaining two hundred soldiers.
Zhu Shengfei didn't care whether Fu Xuan chased Chen Qing back. He had already made up his mind that the first of the three fires in the new official's appointment would be on Chen Qing.
He signed a suspension order, ordered Chen Qing to be temporarily suspended from office, and sent Shen Dayuan, a member of the judicial army, as a special envoy to rush to Qinzhou with his own orders to investigate Chen Qing's embezzlement of loot. Once he got the evidence, he would propose to the emperor his dismissal.
He asked the emperor to remove Chen Qing from all his posts.
Zhu Shengfei's attack on Chen Qing was definitely not impulsive. He had been involved in official circles for decades and knew that in order to establish his authority in Sichuan and Shaanxi, he had to either lead his army to a great victory or kill the chickens and scare the monkeys.
He doesn't have the ability to fight, but he is good at teasing people.
Among all the generals, the commanders have deep qualifications, are not prone to action, and may not necessarily be able to find clues. However, Chen Qing, the envoy of Qinzhou, was promoted by Zhang Jun, the former Xuanfu envoy.
Not deep either.
By overthrowing Chen Qing, he not only avenged Zhang Jun's attack on himself, but also intimidated the other armies. At the same time, he could also severely teach this general who did not take him seriously. It could be said that he killed three birds with one stone.
This shortcoming may offend Lu Yihao, but after all, Chen Qing is not Lu Yihao's grandson-in-law, he is just interested in him, and may be just one of the alternatives.
Once there is a stain on Chen Qing, Lu Yihao may not like this person.
In fact, there is another very secret reason, which is the case of replacing Chen Qing with the Queen Mother. Although this matter was settled in the end, no one in Lin'an mentioned it anymore.
But Zhu Shengfei was as clear as a mirror. Although this incident has been gradually forgotten, there must be a thorn in the official's heart.
After some weighing, Zhu Shengfei discovered that Chen Qing was simply a gift from God to his appointment.
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This morning, in front of the military envoy's office in Fengxiang County, a man in his thirties was asking the soldiers on guard what he was asking.
The soldier shook his head, "My family hasn't come back yet. I don't know when they will come back?"
The man had no choice but to leave with a disappointed face.
This man was Zhang Jian who escaped from the military camp in Chengji County. He fled to Fengxiang Mansion, hoping that Pan Yuanwai would introduce him to Fu Xuan, the commander-in-chief. His requirements were not high, as long as he could be promoted to commander, he would be satisfied.
Already.
Unexpectedly, Official Pan was nowhere to be found, and Fu Xuan was quite indifferent to Zhang Jian because he failed to seize the property, and asked him to wait for news in the inn.
It has been almost half a month since the wait, and there is no news at all. Zhang Jian is a little anxious. He doesn't have much money in his hand. If this continues, he may not even be able to afford the room.
Zhang Jian is not stupid. How could he not see that Fu Xuan didn't want to see him at all? What Pan Daguan said about talents being rare was totally deceiving him, not to mention the commander.
If you do it all, God will open your eyes.
Zhang Jian regretted it too much, but there is no point regretting it now. Just wait three more days! If it doesn't work, go back to Huating County.
Zhang Jian was currently living in an inn diagonally across from the military office. He returned to the inn gloomily. As soon as he opened the door and entered the room, he suddenly felt a pain in his neck, and then his vision went dark, and he didn't know anything anymore.
Half an hour later, the waiter yelled in fright and rushed down from upstairs, "Shopkeeper, that...that man named Zhang, his head is missing!"