Chapter 495 Chapter Nine Survival

Under the twilight, the three of them rode their horses and galloped up to a high place. Across the current road situation, the undulating hills like waves stretched infinitely, densely and widely distributed on the ground. Ba Fenghan laughed and said: "In less than three days, we can travel through the hills and forests. It is just a fool's dream to chase us in this kind of terrain." Kou Zhong turned his head and looked back, using his spirit to explore the plains extending to Hualin, wondering: "Why didn't the enemy attack us in Hualin?" Xu Ziling said: "According to my guess, it's because of Tuli's scruples to deal with our three troops. According to the analysis of the Belegunatai brothers, only Shen Mohuan has the courage to kill us, and everyone else is afraid of marrying Tuli. A deep hatred will cause endless troubles."

Shen Mohuan was not afraid of Tuli because he had Xieli backing him and the desert to hide. Ba Fenghan smiled and said: "After we enter this hilly area, we can choose to break through and leave at any point. No one can pursue us, and we cannot stop them. Therefore, if the enemy wants to snatch Wu Caishi or kill us , can only intercept head-on before entering the forest, right?" Kou Zhong took a deep breath and said, "You think that there is an ambush hidden in one of the dense forests ahead, waiting for our arrival." Ba Fenghan said: "It's definitely the case. We must use our strength to break through this level, and then turn around and hunt down Shen Mohuan."

Xu Ziling frowned and said: "The enemy is waiting in full force, and their strength is unpredictable. Wouldn't it be a disadvantage for us to force our way in?" Ba Fenghan's eyes were shining brightly, he inspected the distance, and said: "Look, in the distant woods, birds can be seen flying and playing, but the few dense forests facing us are completely extinct. There are ambushes hidden in the mountains and forests, scaring away the birds, and the distribution of ambushes is clear. The worst plan is that the three enemies, Abaojia, Tiefuyou and Shenmoheng, form an alliance, and their total strength should be close to a thousand. number."

From the Belgunatei brothers, they received precise information about the enemy. A Baojia's Harrier Army was led by Kun Zhihuang who had met once, there were only about twenty people, but all of them were outstanding leaders from various tribes of the Khitan tribe. This group of people alone was enough for a life-and-death battle They cope. Tie Fuyou-Fang led fifty elite fighters from him to the east, and of course they were all experienced warriors.And Tie Fuyou is both wise and brave. He himself is a famous master on the grassland, and his strength cannot be doubted. The people on both sides are expensive and not expensive, in order not to make it public, so as not to offend Tu Li.If they had no choice but to kill the three people, they could also sneak away quickly and wipe them out, or shift the responsibility to the Sha Pirates in Shenmohuan.

Shen Mohuan came here with all his elites, and there were as many as 800 sand robbers under his command.The Sand Pirates are notorious for their ferocity and cruelty. They have never lost a battle across the desert and grassland. The strength of any one party is enough to cause headaches for three people.If they joined forces to ambush, once the three of them were trapped in a tight siege and forced to fight hard, they might not be able to leave alive. Kou Zhong smiled wryly and said: "Using troops to attack, the best strategy for this trip seems to be to turn around and return to Hualin. Buy a raft and enjoy the beautiful scenery along the Songhua River along the way."

Xu Ziling said unhappily: "It's thanks to you that you can still joke around at such a moment. Last night you proudly promised the Belgunatai brothers to join forces to eradicate Shen Mohuan, but now you can retreat and disrupt the entire Zhugetsu. Is it the enemy's plan?" Kou Zhong's tiger eyes lit up, and he said in a deep voice, "I'm really joking, Lao Ba, give orders! You should be better at this kind of wild forest and hilly warfare than us." Ba Fenghan said: "I only know how to choose the terrain that is most beneficial to us to break through, but the enemies are all masters with rich combat experience. It seems that the weakest point may be the strongest point. .”

Xu Ziling said: "If we dismount and rest now, what will the enemy do?" Ba Fenghan said: "They will be forced to attack before it gets dark. But in my opinion, Young Master Ling's plan may not work. They must have someone hiding in the flower forest to cut off our retreat. Without the cover of trees, it will be even more difficult for us to attack." breakout." Kou Zhong looked up to the sky and said with a smile: "Since we can't advance or retreat, let's have a piercing battle to see who is qualified to block my way." Xu Ziling laughed hoarsely and said, "This is not a piercing battle, but a self-seeking end! As long as the enemy spreads out in the forest, we will become a self-inflicted trap. I have a better suggestion, that is, to find out the deep forest first. Where Mo Huan is, if we fire the fireworks and firearms given to us by Belgunate, maybe we can turn defeat into victory! Hunt the prey and become the hunter."

Ba Fenghan said: "Although this is not the plan we discussed with Brother Belguna, it is also a contingency measure. The question is how to find Shen Mohuan's position?" They originally planned to use themselves as bait.As long as Shen Mohuan is attracted to chase after him, the Belgunatai brothers will chase tail after tail, attacking the Sand Pirates back and forth. Xu Ziling said lightly: "Come with me!" He took the lead and slapped his horse downhill, rushing towards the enemy's formation. The two laughed and rushed down the hillside with him. The three of them performed the art of being one with horses and horses, and their beloved horses and their bodies became a whole of flesh and blood, and they first galloped towards the closest dense forest on the right.

Naturally, they formed a triangular formation, with Xu Ziling at the front, Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan at the rear.The latter two, the two bows of the dying sun and the dying moon, came to the hand, wound the bow and stretched it. "Swish! Swish!" Two sounds, the strong arrow turned into two bolts of lightning under the stimulation of two steel strings full of true energy, traversed a distance of nearly a thousand steps, did not enter the forest, and there were two screams in response to the arrow in the forest .The arrows came back like rain, but unfortunately the farthest one was only three hundred steps away from posing a threat to them.

Xu Ziling laughed, yanked the horse's head, and changed from going straight to the wild forest to galloping. The battle horn sounded, and the hooves of the place where the double arrows killed the enemy just now sounded loudly. Dozens of cavalry rushed out from the forest. Ba Fenghan and Kou Zhong were able to kill, they couldn't stop turning around and shooting vigorously, the leaders of the enemy kept getting hit by arrows and fell off their horses. In the dense forest on the left in front of Sudden, the battle drums were beating, and hundreds of enemies rushed down from the top of the hill like a tide, and rode to the three of them across the hills and plains, clearly trying to block their way.

If it was a person with lower intelligence, seeing the enemy fighting in such a powerful manner, he would retreat back the same way.But the three of them had already seen through the enemy and planned to ambush them, so of course they would not fall for it. Xu Ziling tuned the direction, turned slightly to the left, and ran obliquely away from the approaching enemy, so as not to be cut off from the front and fall into a difficult situation. The three of them were fast, and they had already thrown away the enemy cavalry chasing from behind, Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan changed their magic bows to deal with the enemy on the right, the arrows turned everyone on their backs, it was extremely tragic. The enemies who shouted to kill Zhentian came from the rear and the right side, and they were replaced by the less courageous ones, who had already been frightened and ran away. However, what kind of people are the three of them? It was late at the top of the fort, and I hadn't seen any scenes before, and I felt full of pride and fighting spirit. I tried my best to use the geographical situation of rolling hills to avoid being trapped in a heavy siege.He also used the fast horse bow, hoping to draw out the ambushes behind the enemy. At that time, they will be able to fight and escape without any worries. Xu Ziling rushed up to a hilltop first, and looked around quickly. Sure enough, the direction of Hualin was full of dust, and more than two hundred riders rushed towards them in a fan shape, completely blocking the back road. It would be strange if they didn't know the real strength of the enemy and didn't panic.But they got accurate information from the Mongolians, knowing that the total strength of the enemy's coalition forces is around 900, of course it's another matter.This is exactly Sun Tzu's Art of War, "Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles." The enemy from Hualin accounted for more than 20% of the enemy's strength, and the strength of this side was less than 600. The enemy who showed up was about 300 people, and there were only about 300 remaining soldiers in ambush in the forest. The situation was very difficult for them. become very beneficial. Xu Ziling's state of mind entered the realm of Jing Zhongyue, who had come back from the enlightenment of becoming a Buddha under the arrow of a Khitan warrior last night. Suddenly, he seemed to be withdrawn from the bloody battlefield, but he kept the external emotions in his heart. The environment is reversed, and any subtle changes in the overall situation are fully grasped.Just like a hand-to-hand battle, Ying Zhizhu is in control of the current situation and possible changes of the chessboard. As long as he makes the right move, the enemy can only be led by the nose. Xu Ziling - with a long howl, turned his horse's head, and the enemy rider from Langhualin charged forward and quickly descended the hill. Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan fully trusted Xu Ziling's decision, and followed closely behind him. The enemies who came out of the dense forest formed a group and chased after him. The sound of hooves shook the hills, the grass and fields, and the dust filled the sky, covering the sky and covering the sun. There were still a thousand or five steps away from the approaching enemy, Xu Qianling screamed again to inform the two to change direction, reined in their horses, moved laterally to the right and charged up another hill. There was no sign of any enemy in the dense forest area, and 500 enemy cavalry came from all over the mountains and plains from the left, right and back. The three of them were galloping at full speed, keeping the distance away from the enemy, Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan no longer shot arrows to kill the enemy, they concentrated on riding their horses, and had a horse race with the enemy. Xu Ziling shouted loudly: "Prepare to punch through!" Kou Zhong said with great joy: "Happy, happy, these fools only have to eat dust and receive arrows, they don't look like some mother's elite soldiers." Xu Ziling took the lead to turn the corner, and turned towards the dense forest area on the left. This must be a big gamble. If the Meng people's information is wrong and they kill countless enemies in the forest, they will undoubtedly die. The dense forest keeps expanding and approaching, according to Ba Fenghan's technique of observing the enemy by watching birds just now, the place where they forced their way in should be the ambush at the northern end of the enemy formation, if they don't enter the forest and flee to the left, they will escape into the hilly area, and the enemy except After searching hard, there is no other way.In this case, the enemy had no choice but to get out of the forest first, block the way to the left, and then try to surround them heavily and attack. Sure enough, when the horn sounded, more than fifty cavalry rushed out from the front of the formation. The leader was short, strong and tyrannical, with a weak crown on his head, colorful and eye-catching, and shouted, "Where are you going!" Ba Fenghan responded in Turkic: "So it's Heishui Tiefuyou, who wants to escape?" Xu Ziling laughed loudly, left the north on the left, and galloped in the direction parallel to the dense forest area on the right, walking along the forest. This work is so big that it is unexpected, and he catches the wrong god, so he has to change his direction and chase after the three horses to eat the dust. Kou Zhong laughed loudly and said: "This is not piercing, but hide-and-seek before the battle. Even the grandson and his old man have never written it in the military book, ha!" Driving the horse at full speed, the three of them did not enter along the forest, leaving all the enemies behind. "blow!" A powerful arrow traversed more than a thousand steps, shot out from the dense forest, and aimed straight at Xu Ziling. It was accurate and ruthless, which is really amazing. Xu Ziling remained calm in the face of danger, he fully grasped the angle and direction of the arrow in the blink of an eye, he reached out his hand suddenly, and caught the incoming arrow squarely. There was a fiery shock in the palm, which showed that the archer was definitely not an ordinary master. Kou Zhong shouted: "Shen Mo Heng!" The two finally understood how Xu Ziling was able to identify Shen Mohuan's position among the many enemies. It was because Shen Mohuan used the arrow he stole from the archery master Feiyun Shenbow to shoot. It can be as far as a thousand steps away. The most difficult part of this battle is not to escape from the siege, but to help Belgunathi kill Shen Mohuan.As long as this coalition army is defeated, they will be able to travel leisurely to Longquan to take advantage of the excitement. Kou Zhong shook his hand and sent out the rocket, which turned into a red cloud with a "bang" in the sky, and shouted sharply: "The piercing battle begins." Without his reminding, Xu Ziling turned his horse's head and galloped fearlessly towards the place where Feiyun's bow was fired. Strong arrows shot from the forest like locusts, Xu Ziling slashed left and right with the Zhemu bow to block the incoming arrows, and with the other hand, he hit the arrow hard through the air until it lost its aim and shot elsewhere. Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan were thus able to shoot the enemy exclusively, and they fired powerful arrows one after another. At the end of the enemy line on the right, more than 20 cavalry were killed, needless to say, they were the dead soldiers of the Khitan chief A Baojia. Another hundred or so riders rushed out from the dense forest, trying to stop them in the plain outside the forest. Long-range offense and defense have evolved into close combat. The weapons of sand robbers are either swords or spears. Some bend their bodies to the horse's belly, and the sword hits the horse's feet; When the distance between each other's charges was shortened to seven hundred steps, the chaotic sand bandits suddenly organized and formed into a formation of more than a dozen rows of powerful troops attacking them wave after wave. Breathtaking. The rear is full of enemies, killing them all over the mountains and plains. As long as the sand bandits in front can stop them for a little time, they will be caught in a bloody battle to the death.Under the rapid exhaustion of energy and physical strength and bleeding from injuries, they are very capable of surviving a cup of hot tea. Even if the three great masters came in person, they would not be able to escape from the siege surrounded by thousands of troops. The Sand Pirates, regardless of their tactics and immediate skills, were beyond their expectations, and their formation was clearly able to restrain their piercing battle. It is precisely piercing against piercing, and of course it is their pitifully small number that wins. Big loss. The two sides quickly approached. Ba Fenghan and Kou Zhong shot the last arrow respectively, immediately drew their weapons, and shot all the four barrels of arrows they brought. When he was riding more than a hundred steps away from the Sand Pirates' vanguard, Xu Ziling pulled his horse's head, turned to stab obliquely, and pierced the gap on the left side of the Sand Pirates' front. Sand Pirates also changed direction slightly, and tried to intercept with all their strength, hoping to be ahead of the three of them. Seeing that the confrontation between the two sides was imminent, Xu Ziling suddenly shouted in Chinese: "Stop!" Nothing is impossible.It happened under the thaumaturgy of Ren Maru.The three horses were galloping at full speed, but they suddenly stopped and stood up, but their hind legs stood firm like nails, making the enemy overtake them like a long snake attacking the wrong target. In the situation of riding at full speed, Sand Bandit watched the enemy stop about ten paces to the left, and he had no choice but to keep his momentum and missed it. The three of them laughed loudly, turned their horses around, and ran in another direction, still bending towards the location where the Feiyun bow in the forest was shot, and the Sand Bandit became chasing behind again. Kou Zhong said quickly: "Young Master Ling is really powerful, he can play with the enemy's thousands of troops in the palm of his hand." Ba Fenghan shouted against the wind: "The young commander is too exaggerated! The army can barely make up the number, what is a thousand horses?" Arrows were scattered head-on, including the super powerful arrows shot by Feiyun Bow.The three easily blocked it, and still had time to chat and laugh. The number of enemies in the forest must be less than a hundred from the number of their arrows, so the three of them are in a good mood. As long as they can break into the dense forest, the mobility and flexibility of the three of them will be fully utilized. No matter what, they can be rescued by reinforcements, and they can also break through and escape when they are at their worst. With the sound of killing, more than eighty riders rushed out from the forest. The two leading riders were a man and a woman. The man wore a six-fold iron ring armor, the inner layer was made of cowhide, and the outer layer was covered with iron plates. Fish scales, ordinary arrows can hardly penetrate. Women wear feather-gen armor, which is strung together with tendons and feather-roots. It also looks majestic and majestic, and men are not allowed. This pair of well-known thieves outside the Great Wall wore iron helmets that covered most of their faces, with only the eyebrows, eyes and mouth exposed. The nose protectors were so huge that they looked oddly shaped. Shen Mohuan was holding a snake-shaped spear, the body of which was forged entirely of fine steel, and it was known to be unstoppable from a distance. Mu Ling has a shield on the left and a knife on the right. She is tall and plump. Although she can't see her face, her figure is provocative enough to arouse any man's imagination. Judging by the heroic appearance of their husband and wife, they must be masters who can compete with Xu Kouba and the other three. Coupled with the elite sand robbers under his command, it is no wonder that they can run across the grasslands and deserts, which makes the heroes of the Belgunatai brothers even more scrupulous. Kou Zhong yelled in Turkic dialect: "Shen Mohuan, your end is here!" Shen Mohuan laughed maniacally in Chinese and said: "You are not ashamed to speak big, let's see where you are going." Xu Ziling's arched back of Zhe wood heavily blocked Shen Mohuan's snake-shaped steel spear. This kicked off the fierce battle.