Chapter 375 Courage to paint tigers, desperate to report the news
Tu Hu comes from a military family. He has been a military family since the founding of the Dasheng Dynasty. It has been passed down for more than two hundred years. There has never been any high-ranking official in the family. The salary he will receive as a soldier has been determined since he was born.
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With his family background, it is considered good to be able to join a hundred households.
Because of this transfer, he became Yang Xuan's escort. I thought that as a supervisor, there was basically no chance to fight. However, as soon as Yang Xuan arrived in Ganzhou City, he had a conflict with others. In the following time,
Accidents also occur frequently.
Especially in the last battle against Tiefu Tu, Tu Hu's troops also made great achievements. As long as he waits for the court's decree to come down, he can be promoted, so he knows that following Master Yang will have meat to eat.
Tu Hu's family has relatively difficult conditions, with a blind old woman, a lame daughter-in-law, and a nursing son, so he is usually timid, because if something happens to him, no one in the family will survive.
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But when Yang Xuan paid a thousand taels of pension to every brother who died in the battle against Tiefu Tu last time, Tu Hu let go.
One thousand taels of silver was enough for their family of three to eat and drink, and to pay for their son to join the army when he grew up.
Now that he has no worries, Tu Hu naturally wants to fight for a better future.
This time when they went to Wutoubao, although Yang Xuan did not give any special instructions, Tu Hu still had strict requirements. Not only was the camp set up very solidly, but the scouts were also spread out for ten miles.
Even so, at night, Tu Hu still personally led the team and patrolled around.
It was dark and windy today, and Tu Hu always felt a little uneasy. When they had patrolled ten miles away without knowing it, one of his men asked: "Boss, that's it for now."
Tu Hu hummed, stopped his horse, and looked around.
The subordinate then said: "Boss, when we went to Iron Buddha Temple last time, didn't we sweep this place all over? There were no large groups of enemy troops at all, so why should we be so careful?"
Tu Hu reprimanded: "Be careful and you won't make a big mistake. Besides, if there is no large enemy army, there must be some scout cavalry from the Walas."
The subordinates smiled awkwardly and said: "But we still have so many brothers in the camp. Why would any scout who doesn't have a good eye dare to take our ideas? Besides, Princess Lizhu's cavalry guards are all elite, and they are just scattered."
If you go out for five miles, we will go out for ten miles."
Tu Hu glared at him: "If you don't want to watch the night, you can go back and stop complaining here."
"Boss, that's not what I meant, I just said it casually." The subordinate shrank his neck, pointed to the grove on the roadside and said, "Boss, I'm going to relieve myself over there. You guys go first, I'll be there in a moment.
Catch up."
Tu Hu waved his hand: "Lazy people pee a lot, go ahead, let's take a rest, you don't have to worry."
"Thanks, boss."
The men walked towards the grove, and Tu Hu also called out, asking the other soldiers to dismount and rest for a while.
But at this moment, an arrow shot out from the woods.
An arrow in the dark night, like a snake message spit out by a poisonous snake, suddenly arrived.
But the subordinate seemed to have found a good place to meet him. He stopped and turned sideways, and the arrow hit his back shoulder.
The next moment, a scream rang through the night sky: "Boss, run, there's an ambush."
Tu Hu turned his head and saw an arrow stuck in the back of his man, running towards him. He immediately turned his horse and headed towards Shunzi to meet him.
The other men didn't need to give orders, they all mounted their horses and followed, but the next moment, a shower of arrows shot out from the woods, like a giant python, reaching out its bloody mouth and swallowing up the men.
Tu Hu's eyes suddenly burst into tears: "Shunzi!"
Another subordinate quickly shouted loudly: "There are many enemy soldiers, leader, retreat quickly."
Tu Hu's horse received a whip on its butt, raised its hooves and started galloping.
Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of horse hooves in the woods. Just by hearing the sound of horse hooves, Tu Hu could tell that there were at least 1,800 enemies.
"Run quickly and go back to camp to warn us."
Tu Hu shouted while taking out a loud arrow from the quiver, stringing the crossbow, then raised his hand and shot out.
With a sound of 'chirp!', a loud arrow shot up into the air.
The next moment, Tu Hu heard a buzzing sound coming from behind. Without turning around, he knew that it was the sound of a bow string vibrating.
"Spread out, spread out, there are bows and arrows." Tu Hu shouted and leaned to the side of the horse's back, feeling shocked in his heart.
To be able to shoot arrows while galloping, and to be able to do so neatly and uniformly, must be an elite person, probably either a Wala or a grassland person.
After a hail of arrows, two more people from the patrol team of ten died.
"Spread out and run. Each one who can run will be counted as one. Remember to fire the reverberating arrows."
There were seven people left, and after a whistle, they scattered in all directions.
The pursuers behind them ignored them and galloped away directly in the direction of the camp.
Tu Hu did not dare to take too many detours. Although he fired a warning arrow, it was best to inform Mr. Yang of the detailed enemy situation as soon as possible so that it would be easier for Master Yang to deal with it.
These ambush cavalry troops were the dead soldiers of the Zhao family. They originally planned to wait until the third watch before launching an attack, but unexpectedly they were discovered by a patrol who was relieving themselves. They had no choice but to attack.
When they saw a horse running ahead of them, they naturally understood what was going on, so they separated into a small team and sped up to catch up.
Although the attack has been launched, after all, there is still ten miles away from the camp, so they are all pressing at a certain speed. Tu Hu wants to go back to report the news as soon as possible, so he spares no effort and just runs the horse to death.
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The chasing team was obviously better than Tu Hu in terms of riding skills and horse speed. They quickly closed the distance, and then several arrows were fired.
Tu Hu didn't even look back, he just kept his head buried and waved his horsewhip desperately.
More than a dozen arrows were fired, and five of them hit Tu Hu.
However, because he was wearing high-strength steel armor, the arrows did not penetrate at all, but one arrow hit his thigh, causing him to tremble in pain.
So he took off his crossbow, strung it, and shot an arrow behind him.
Immediately, there was a sound of people jumping on their backs. Tu Hu looked back and saw that he didn't know where the arrow had been shot. He only saw that there were three or four fewer pursuers.
But just for a moment, the distance got much closer, and it was no longer less than the distance between two horses.
Tu Hu knew he couldn't run away, so he gritted his teeth, his heart pounded, and he raised his crossbow and turned around to take aim.
With a 'crack' sound, the crossbow arrow was shot almost close to the face. The nearest person was immediately hit by an arrow in the face and fell off his horse.
The next moment, Tu Hu heard the sound of the opponent's steel knife coming out of the box, so he also pulled out the long black steel knife he was wearing.
The moment he turned around, two bright blades of light were already heading towards him, and Tu Hu subconsciously raised his black steel sword.
There were two clanging sounds, and Tu Hu was shaken all over, and his mouth was cracked by the shock, but he saw the two men looking at the half-length swords in their hands, and he was stunned for a while.
Tu Hu killed one of them with a casual slash, and several other riders were already chasing after him. Tu Hu pulled the reins of his horse, avoided the sharp edge, and brandished the black steel sword in his hand to fight with the enemy.
The six cavalrymen circled around Tu Hu, and the steel swords in their hands fell on Tu Hu like flowers.
Tu Hu no longer cared so much, he just wildly waved the black steel sword to fight back. When he was exhausted, he had chopped down four people, and the steel swords in the hands of the remaining two people had also been chopped off by him.
At this time, he was covered in blood. He didn't know whose blood it was. He only saw the two people left and was dumbfounded.
It's a pity that he couldn't even lift his arms at this moment, otherwise he would definitely chop these two enemies to death. Besides, he had a more important thing, which was to go back and inform the enemy of the situation, so he tried his best to pull the reins of the horse and turn around.
direction, and then gently poked the horse's butt with a long knife.
Just as he rushed into the camp, he was almost unconscious and just kept mumbling in his mouth.
"The enemy's army is coming with thousands of cavalry."
"The enemy's army is coming with thousands of cavalry."
