Those who are supposed to come will always come, and after walking for about four or five miles, the two people who were behind the team flew up to report that the large group of imperial guards was already less than five miles away, and they would catch up in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Luyao used to have a relatively high position in the army, and he was almost the leader of Yang Zheng's old army. Although he was seriously injured, he still shouted loudly and said: "Old brothers, let the wounded soldiers and their families leave quickly. Let's find someone."
We are in a place with better terrain, so we can fight with them!"
At this time, He Qizhou's strength had recovered a little. Seeing what Zhang Luyao said, he said: "Uncle Zhang, you go first. When you see a favorable terrain, you will ambush a few people. We will set up ambush layer by layer. They want to eat us in one go."
It's not that easy. I think the gap we just passed through is good. I will take Yang Shan and Lin Chuan to guard for a while, and I will come up to you in a while." He Qizhou said.
"It's too dangerous there. The hillsides on both sides can be climbed up. The Imperial Guards are all elites with three or more lines..." Zhang Luyao said worriedly. Most of the Imperial Guards selected their candidates at the Arms Hall and the Fourth School. They are the most ordinary soldiers in the army.
There are also three-line cultivations, and officers with more than a hundred households mostly have six-line or above.
"The mountains here are gentle and you can go around anywhere. It just delays a little time. Don't worry, Xu Xuan even asked me to kill him. They can't do anything to me!" He Qizhou said.
"Let him go." Although He Lian was extremely reluctant, she still persuaded Zhang Luyao, who risked his life to help the Yang family.
"Okay, let's speed up into the mountain. Carry the wounded as much as possible, and get the children on the carriage. Let's go quickly!" After Zhang Luyao issued the order, those old soldiers who had not slept in the past few days, regardless of their fatigue, laid on their backs in the carriage.
The wounded were put into the car and the children who were not afraid of bumps were allowed to board the car. The group's forward speed was obviously accelerated. However, after removing the dozen or so strong men with wounded on their backs, only sixty or seventy were left who could really free their hands to resist the pursuers.
Just people.
The place where He Qizhou and the others were hiding was behind a big rock. The mountain road had a turning point here. It was not actually a very good place, because at most they could only hide a few people. Moreover, if the pursuers abandoned their horses, the hillsides on both sides would
You can go around it, and it will be difficult for the person ambushing you to escape.
He Qizhou's idea is that the enemy should also realize that this is not a good ambush location. If they can capture the leader without warning, it can at least delay it for a lot of time!
The rumble of horse hooves at the bottom of the mountain soon came over. As the vanguard team got closer and closer, the shouts of the forest guards could be clearly heard: "Sir, look above!"
"Hurry up! They can't run away!" an officer responded, his voice less than a hundred steps away from the boulder.
He Qizhou looked up again. Zhang Luyao and others who were at the end were climbing over a hill. When explaining the terrain just now, Zhang Luyao told him that as long as they crossed this mountain ridge, the next mountain road would be built in the valley.
It is flat and wide. After passing through the valley about five miles long, you have to abandon the carriage and go up the mountain. Only then can everyone find a better defensive position according to the mountain. If the cavalry of the Royal Forest Army is allowed to enter the valley too early, it will be difficult to escape from the General Village.
It will be extremely difficult for the group to survive.
He Qizhou secretly calculated the distance and realized that he would have to block the two thousand people for at least half an hour. However, this seemed to be an impossible task, but he couldn't think much about it at the moment, because a group of cavalry had already arrived in front of the big stone and were ready to turn around.
He moved backwards and chased up the mountain along the slope.
"There's an ambush!" The mountain road was almost large enough for two cavalry to ride side by side. The cavalry slowed down at the turning point. The soldier who was the first to go around the boulder discovered the three men hiding behind the boulder. As soon as he opened his mouth, Yang Shan
The sword was chopped over, and Lin Chuan's hand was not weak. He flew up almost at the same time, flying and knocking off the horse beside the early warning person.
He Qizhou did not take action immediately, but walked through the cavalry like a ghost, bypassed the four horses, and directly attacked the officer who had just ordered a quick pursuit.
The man seemed to recognize He Qizhou. When he saw him coming straight towards him, he hurriedly reined in his horse and stopped, shouting: "Come and save me!"
However, those soldiers who were immersed in pursuit had no time to cover him. He Qizhou plucked onions from a dry land and swept towards the officer. With one finger, he flicked away the straight knife that the other officer had hurriedly slashed at him. Then, he landed on the opponent's horse and locked it at the same time.
That officer's throat!
"Stop everyone!" He Qizhou yelled, and the dozens of riders behind the officer stopped as expected. The few riders who had already rushed towards the boulder were wiped out by Yang Shan and Lin Chuan in the blink of an eye.
Holding a sword, he came to He Qizhou's side. Opposite him were dozens of mounted imperial guards, and hundreds of steps behind these dozens of mounted knights, a long dragon-like team was approaching at full speed.
"Why did you stop? Charge! If you kill He Qizhou, you will be rewarded fifty thousand taels!" Someone in the long queue roared. Dozens of cavalry vanguards who had stopped started to charge again, and some people dismounted and walked around from one side of the hillside.
"Brother, I'm sorry, why do you think your officer is so young!" He Qizhou turned his horse, carried the restrained officer, and rushed towards the group of people who had launched the charge, while Yang Shan and Lin Chuan
He raised his sword to intercept the soldiers attacking from the hillside.
He Qizhou strangled the controlled officer's head and neck with one hand, then lifted the man up, holding his ankles, and picked up the man's body. He and his horse swept over the two cavalry who were rushing forward, then drew out his heavy sword and slapped him.
After killing, smashing, beating to death, and stabbing many people to death, he broke through the siege of the vanguard cavalry and rushed directly towards the long dragon. He had only one target, the officer who just shouted that he wanted to kill him.
The long dragon was also advancing rapidly. The one rushing at the front was Shen Gang, the commander of Qianhu who had just shouted. At this time, he was only thirty steps away from He Qizhou. Seeing that He Qizhou's horse and horse fighting skills were so good, he couldn't help but feel panicked.
They could only ride two horses abreast. If they were to fight immediately, the guards behind him would not be able to help him. Shen Gang made a prompt decision and jumped off the horse directly to the hillside, leaving only an empty horse to charge towards He Qizhou.
"What a pity!" He Qizhou sighed secretly and plunged into the dragon. After killing more than ten people in a row, the horse fell seriously injured. He Qizhou also jumped up the hillside and chased Shen Gang, but at this time he was already trapped in a tight siege.
, more and more soldiers dismounted and gathered around, but Shen Gang had already hid in the crowd.
"Archers, prepare!" Seeing that there was no hope of capturing the opponent's general alive, He Qizhou broke out of the encirclement and rushed up the hillside, shouting continuously. This was the retreat signal agreed with Lin Chuan and Yang Shan. Sure enough, he was fighting with more than a dozen people.
The two men who were fighting hard as a member of the Royal Forest Army immediately rushed up the hillside after hearing this.
How did those imperial guards know that He Qizhou's shouting meant retreat? They either dismounted and hid behind their horses, or crouched down on the hillside. If there was an ambush above, such a dense crowd would only become a living target for archers.
"Be careful and take cover, crossbowmen are ready!" Shen Gang found his position and hurriedly ordered, preparing to use crossbow arrows to suppress his opponent before pursuing him.
"Five Dynasties Rivers, Mountains and Winds"
He Qizhou and the other two took this opportunity to run up quickly. Except for a few masters, there were not many people in the Royal Forest Army who were as skilled as them. The Ouchi guards who were frightened by He Qizhou did not dare to pursue them. When Xu Xuan led the team , and did not dare to push the Royal Guards too much, so they often used their eunuch masters to attack difficult-to-attack places. After a few days, there were only a dozen people left in the fifty-man team, and the casualty ratio was much higher than that of the Royal Guards.
He Qizhou was secretly amused. He only had a few broken bows, how could he threaten such a large number of troops? If he really entered the depths of the mountain, he could consider firing a few cold arrows.
Shen Gang watched He Qizhou and the others running up the ridge, but no archers were seen attacking from above. It took time for the crossbowmen to fire their bows and load the arrows. By the time they were ready to take aim, the three of them had already exceeded the shooting range.
"Get on your horses and chase them! They can't run far!" Shen Gang was not a fool. He knew immediately that he had been fooled and gave an urgent order to continue chasing. The large group of men and horses chased up not far, but saw dozens of human heads emerging from the hills, mixed with rocks. Arrows fell from the sky, it was Zhang Luyao and others who had set up a temporary ambush.
"Counterattack with crossbows!" Shen Gang, who had predicted the situation, did not panic. The crossbowmen who had already strung the string only fired a single volley, suppressing the ambush on the hill until they could not raise their heads.
"Where is the vanguard camp? Dismount the left and right wings! Put up a sentry on each side to surround us!" As soon as Shen Gang finished speaking, about two hundred people immediately dismounted and went up the mountain along the gentle slope, approaching the mountain ridge more than ten feet high from the left and right sides. In the middle, there were hundreds of crossbowmen firing continuously. There were no more rocks on the mountain ridge, and arrows were flying towards them.
The two hundred people rushed up quickly, but there was no one on the mountain ridge. Zhang Luyao was unable to find so many stones in a short time. They just threw them one round and then retreated immediately.
The Royal Forest Army who rushed up the mountain ridge found that there was a wide and long valley 20 to 30 feet below. The fifty or sixty ambush soldiers who had just emerged had already descended into the valley and were running quickly along the flat road in the valley. They were more than a mile ahead. They were more than a hundred wounded soldiers, women and children, and they were not marching very fast.
"There's no more ambush! They're down there! Chase!" shouted a member of the Baihu family on the mountain ridge. Shen Gang quickly ordered the crossbowmen to mount their horses, and the large group of people began to speed up towards the hill. The Baihu who gave the warning led the troops on foot. The crowd charged into the valley, but after running a few steps, they fell to the ground, and an arrowhead emerged from the back of their necks.
But I saw a man in the valley who stopped running and faced the swarming imperial guardsmen, shooting out arrows. The Baihu who made the noise was the most unlucky, being the first to be hit by an arrow. After the other alert officers and soldiers protected their vital points, most of them just They were only injured, and the crossbowmen on horseback quickly rushed up the hill. When going down the slope, they began to shoot at He Qizhou, who was dozens of feet away. A crossbow arrow drew a large arc in the air, like a puff of arrows. The dense rain hit He Qizhou, who was fifty feet away.
He Qizhou quickly swept backwards, and the first arrows fell within a radius of three feet from where he had just stood, and the second arrows chased after him.