choke element

Chapter 410 Pursuit

From Mishui to the west, the road leading to Zhucheng passes through a series of hills and valleys.

Most of these hills are the remaining veins of Mount Tai and Mount Yi, and the intervals are scattered. The valleys in between are mostly gentle, forming banded plains of different sizes, and there are shallow pits and ravines in them.

Qiu Huiluo and more than a hundred elites rode their horses in pursuit for a while, then changed to walking.When they were about to catch up with Yao Yun's rout, it was already dark.

The temperature at night suddenly cooled down. Although there was no wind, the humidity floated in the air, making the hair and clothes of the soldiers cold and wet.Qiu Huiluo planned to follow the deserters and sneak into Zhucheng, so he didn't carry torches along the way, and deliberately threw away a lot of his own military robes and armor, and only secretly carried a short knife.

In this way, it is a bit painful to run and feel hot, and to rest for a while, and to be cold all over.

Some of the red-coated soldiers who fell in the rear were defeated, and they were not vigilant when they saw someone coming from the rear.They were just peasants who rebelled out of desperation.

Some people simply sat or lay down, gasping for breath, and asked, "Where is Ding Haijun now?"

Qiu Huiluo was Guo Ning's colleague in Changzhou, but he was not from Changzhou.His ancestral home is Shandong, and he was forcibly conscripted to the frontier during the Taihe period. Now he showed his Xu and Pei accents, and said loudly: "It's amazing! I don't know how many people are behind, and they are about to catch up. I see. !"

The broken soldiers lying on the ground quickly got up and shouted: "Go!"

After walking for a while between the field and the abandoned ridges, it started to fog up.

The mist is like an endless veil, blocking the sight, covering the hillsides, woods, ponds and roads near and far.

Although Qiu Huiluo and the others had changed into the uniforms of the Red Coat Army, their aggressive and ferocious aura was still there.More than a hundred people echoed back and forth, as if they were a big force, so many people walked and ran, and slowly gathered around the group of people, and they seemed to regard them as the backbone.

Qiu Huiluo didn't refuse either, he had already made up his mind that if Yao Yun rectified his defense after entering the city, he would just use these people as cover.

After walking like this for half an hour, with one deep foot and one shallow foot, he stepped on the road again.In the mist, everyone vaguely saw the walls of Zhucheng, and seemed to hear soldiers chattering inside and outside the city gates, and after walking a few steps, they even smelled the smell of food.

The defeated soldiers were all overjoyed and ran forward quickly.

Several Dinghai officers and soldiers secretly glanced at Qiu Huiluo, Qiu Huiluo signaled everyone to be vigilant, and also quickened their pace a little.

In Zhucheng, have you made such preparations?
After Guo Yaoer, the city's guard, went to Pizhou, didn't there be no one in charge of the situation in this city?
A few steps closer, Qiu Huiluo even saw soldiers on both sides of the road, armed with knives and guns, lined up on guard.

Who is here to meet the rout?Yao Yun has such ability?

Qiu Huiluo didn't stop walking, but made a turn towards the woodland beside the road, and stepped into the shade of the trees.His subordinates naturally followed closely, and several routs of the Red Coat Army also followed in a daze.

Immediately, several subordinates stretched out their hands to hold the handle of the knife in their breasts, and stood behind them as if inadvertently.

At this moment, from the direction where Qiu Huiluo came, there was a sudden sound of fighting.

Qiu Huiluo was taken aback.

And on both sides of the road ahead, those red-coated soldiers who were on guard all smiled, and many people even cheered up and shouted: "Si Niangzi is doing it!"

The defenders of Zhucheng cheered.

Li Ting complained repeatedly.

When his subordinates confronted Yao Yun's troops earlier, they did suffer some casualties.In addition, many war horses were too tired, and when they ran, the horses stumbled and broke their legs.

After Qiu Huiluo set off, Li Ting took some time to reorganize his troops, eliminated some soldiers who could not continue to fight, arranged for the soldiers to eat something simple, and collected all the horses left on the battlefield in one place to feed them. Concentrate.

Although he is young, he is an old soldier, even if he is eager to make meritorious service, he will not be negligent in this regard.

When everything was ready and half an hour passed, he urged the army to advance.

The slowness before was to allow the soldiers to rest, but now the rush was to hope that Qiu Huiluo could arrive nearby at the same time as Qiu Huiluo arrived in Zhucheng.

The arrival of Dinghai's cavalry at Kuiye will definitely cause panic in the city, and Qiu Huiluo can take advantage of the chaos to make some use of it.This is the old routine of Tangluo, Hebei.

But I never thought that after walking halfway, as soon as I reached a narrow and long plain, I heard the sound of clappers on the slopes on both sides, arrows shot down like locusts, and gravel the size of fists slammed down. .

The cavalry chased all the way, and the whole team naturally pulled into a long winding snake.Suddenly attacked by arrows and stones, many cavalrymen were in a hurry and fell down with their horses.

Galloping at night, how could the people behind have time to react?

In a blink of an eye, the back bumped into the front, and a large group of people rolled over.The officer was still shouting, and the horse behind was tripped again.The horse knelt down, and the rider on the horse fell from the front.

There were too many fallen horses, and they were in a mess. Your spear pierced my horse's back, and my horse's leg broke his ribs.

The knights also reacted quickly. Many people in the rear immediately pulled out their horses and rushed into the field, while the knights in front also reined in their horses and came back, drawing bows and arrows to shoot high.

But what they fell into was the encirclement specially arranged by Yang Miaozhen with thousands of people!

The clappers kept ringing, and the arrows shot after wave.In the middle of the night, the archers could only see vaguely through the moonlight, not to mention the heavy fog, but the knights rolled down a little more densely, and the archers of the Red Coat Army pointed their arrows straight at the place. Shooting in all directions, almost every arrow can always hit something.

A few particularly brave Dinghai knights jumped off their horses and climbed up on foot.And they were immediately besieged by several times more red coat soldiers, and within a short while, they were stabbed and shot to death one after another.

The Red Coat Army is indeed loose.After Yang An'er's death, the hearts of most soldiers were also scattered.

What's ridiculous is that at this time, it was the Jin army that kept attacking Yang Miaozhen to help Yang Miaozhen maintain the last bit of troops.They regarded the disintegrated Red Coat Army as military exploits, as the source of their heads, and regarded them as targets for killing.

And this kind of deliberately raised fear has also become a temper.

Among the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of red-coated troops, there will always be some ruthless people who are desperate; among those who have been desperate for a long time, there will always be some people whose hatred with Da Jin will never be resolved, and will never bend their knees to beg for mercy.

To a certain extent, this defeat enabled Yang Miaozhen to pick out the truly tough steel from countless impurities.

In the past few days, she has continuously gathered such ruthless people from among the remnants and defeated generals, and re-formed a team that dared to fight.

The team she brought to Mizhou was such a team that would not give in even in desperate situations.Even if more than 2000 defeated troops in Zhucheng were gathered together, the number of this army is still not large.

But they are much stronger than the Red Coat Army imagined by Li Ting and others!

Li Ting sent his army south this time, and he paid attention to quick actions, swift attacks, and surprises.Ordinary troops would inevitably be panicked in the face of such a sudden enemy.What's more, the Red Coat Army knew about Yang An'er's death, and that the once-prominent Red Coat Army regime no longer existed... They should have collapsed at the first touch.

But Li Ting never imagined that the fourth lady, Yang Miaozhen, would rise up in this situation.

When Yang Miaozhen arrived with his troops, the Red Coat Army had a new backbone!

What Si Niangzi said is right, she has fallen to the bottom of the valley, the sea of ​​blood has reached her neck, and the Jurchen's knife has already been drawn on her forehead!Now, what's the use of being afraid?Since it is useless, what are you afraid of?Anyway, this fight is just for fun!
Then kill it quickly...First kill this group of Dinghai dog thieves who came to profit from Marshal Yang's death!

Li Ting reacted very quickly, and when he heard the sound of the arrow piercing through the air, he got off his horse.

Immediately, his war horse was hit by four or five arrows one after another, and died wailing.

He took a few guards to the back of the queue, trying to gather the chaotic knights.Relying on his power, he quickly gathered more than a hundred people, and piled up the corpses of the horses as a cover.

However, there are ambushes on the high slopes on both sides of the valley, and it is really difficult to support them.Li Ting often leaned forward to direct, and if he didn't pay attention, he was shot in the shoulder by an arrow.

These are not ordinary light arrows or bamboo arrows, but heavy armor-piercing arrows commonly used by the Jurchen Meng'an Mouk Army.

Three inches wide and seven inches long, like chiseled arrow clusters, pierced through the cloak in an instant, almost protruding through the body.Li Ting snorted coldly, staggered back, blood gushed out from his shoulder.

(End of this chapter)