Chapter 81: The storm rises again (4)

Early in the morning of July 25, Biting, fifteen miles away from Daliang City, more than 60 riders with distinctive armor were in a neat formation and did not look squinting. They followed Hou Dayong and Fu Ying, and slowly headed west with a large group of officials. Fu Ying was wearing soft armor and walked side by side with Hou Dayong to the front of the team, turning a small hillside, and both of them slowed down.

Qian Xiangnan waved to the team, and all the guards tied the reins of the horse, and the team stopped. Qian Xiangnan pointed at the backs of Hou Dayong and Fu Ying, and blinked at Shi Ying, who was ordered to promulgate the order. Shi Ying was a Jinshi in the second year of Xiande. He was clever. He nodded with a smile and nodded to express his understanding.

Hou Dayong advised again: "I will be sent to Zhongmu County again. I will send you a thousand miles away. If you are farewell, Xiaoying should go back."

Fu Ying didn't speak, and she didn't mean to stop at all.

Seeing Fu Ying sad, Hou Dayong said with some guilt: "Since marriage, we have always had more and less. Xiaoying, when the war is over, you can come to Fengzhou."

"National affairs are more important than family affairs. I didn't blame my husband. If my husband guarded me every day, I would definitely not be happy." Fu Ying sighed softly again: If my elder sister hadn't been on the recurring condition, I would have followed my husband to Fengzhou this time, but my sister's situation was like this, I really couldn't leave Daliang with confidence."

Hou Dayong has always wanted to talk to Fu Ying about Queen Fu. In the history that Hou Dayong knew, Queen Fu died very early. Now, from Queen Fu's body, it is very likely that she will die early, but this is really not easy to say to Fu Yingming. In this world, there are many things that everyone understands, but these things can only be understood but not said. Whoever says it first will be criticized by everyone. The judgment of Queen Fu's condition is such a thing.

Hou Dayong considered that Zhao Kuangyi wanted to gather the sixth sisters of the Fu family, so he decided to say it out. After returning to Daliang, he kept this sentence in his heart. Now it was time to say it: "I have an intuition about my eldest sister's condition. I may not be able to pass this level. My eldest sister said before that she had asked my sixth sister to marry His Majesty. This proposal can be considered seriously. Your Majesty is wise and virtuous, and kind-hearted. If the sixth sister can marry His Majesty, it would be the blessing of the sixth sister who has cultivated her in her previous life."

Fu Ying had this idea vaguely in her heart, but she didn't dare or wanted to think deeply. After the husband made this matter clear, she breathed a sigh of relief. Fu Ying suppressed her pain and said, "My elder sister mentioned this matter to her father a few days ago, and her father agreed."

Hou Dayong comforted, "Don't be too sad. I heard that Your Majesty invited Taoist Master Chen Tuan to the palace. Taoist Master Chen Tuan has a profound Taoist method. I hope he can cure his elder sister." Hou Dayong comes from modern society. He does not believe in Taoist magic. Although the Tiandun Gong passed on to him by Chen Tuan is an extremely effective internal skills and mental method, internal skills are just a way of training. Taoist methods are purely nonsense in Hou Dayong's eyes.

Thinking of the legendary character Chen Tuan, Fu Ying seemed to have another glimmer of hope in her heart. She said devoutly: "If Taoist Chen Tuan cured her elder sister's illness, I would like to pay for the cultivation of a Taoist temple, no, ten Taoist temples."

When Hou Dayong set off, Zong Lin was still sleeping, thinking of his son's red and Pupu face. Hou Dayong was very warm and said, "Xiaoying, go back, I will leave this big business at home for you. I will kiss my son Zong Lin more for me."

After walking for several miles, Fu Yingcai held the horse's head and looked at the heroic husband with tender eyes, saying, "The war is fierce and dangerous. You must be careful. Don't be careless. My son and I are waiting for you to return triumphantly at home."

Hou Dayong stretched out his hand. He held Fu Ying's slender and soft little hand hard, then let go decisively, waved to Qian following behind, and the guards accelerated and rushed to Hou Dayong.

The official road was flat and straight, and the sound of horse hooves and the dust raised were getting farther and fading, and finally disappeared on the road to the west. Losing Hou Dayong's figure, Fu Yingdi's tears still flowed out. She didn't want her personal guards to see it, and when she lifted the reins of the horse, the war horses under her also ran away.

Finally, the dust raised by the horse's hooves on the official road gradually dissipated and everything returned to its original state.

At this time, on the wall of Qiaojiabao in the east of Jingzhou City, in the eyes of Li Hui, the governor of Jingnan Army, the dust raised from the horse's hooves covered the sky and the sun. Outside the fort, the Dangxiang cavalry shouted "whimper" and came like a whirlwind, showing their masterful cavalry skills in front of Qiaojiabao.

From Jingzhou to Baozhou, several mountains lie across it, creating countless "one man is the pass, ten thousand man cannot open". Qiaojiabao is the easiest and difficult to attack among these many passes. Li Hui, the governor of Jingnan, stood on the wall of Qiaojiabao and secretly rejoiced that if there were not such a dangerous pass, the Dangxiang cavalry would have galloped outside the city of Baozhou now.

Less than half a year after Li Hui came to Bianzhou from Cangzhou, he led a thousand fangs from Cangzhou. This was the elite troops he trained for several years and his sons. In addition to the 5,000 border troops in the Bianzhou, the entire Bianzhou army was only 6,000. The Dangxiang Army outside the fort was several times that of the Bianzhou army. At least 20,000 people, and most of them were cavalry with extremely strong mobility and extremely strong combat power.

Faced with the situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, the experienced veteran Li Hui contracted the main force of the Banzhou Army into Qiaojia Fort, closed the fort gate, and let the Dangxiang Army play any tricks in front of the formation, and never leave the fort to fight the Dangxiang Army. Li Hui understood that as long as he guarded Qiaojia Fort, the Dangxiang Army would not be able to advance eastward. When the Fengxiang Army, the Black Eagle Army and other troops arrived in Jingzhou, the good days of the Dangxiang Army would come to the end.

Li Hui watched the Dangxiang cavalry keep turning around in front of the fort, and he always felt that the number of Dangxiang army was decreasing. He observed the judge Xing Peisheng next to him and said, "How many people are there in the Dangxiang army, have you figured it out?"

Xing Peisheng bowed and said, "According to the scouts, the Dangxiang Army has more than 20,000 people. The scouts lie in the ravine and count the tents of the Dangxiang Army. I think the number of Dangxiang Army should be accurate."

"Where is the Dangxiang man you caught?"

Xing Peisheng shook his head and said, "Dangxiang people are so brave. They cut his ears and he didn't say a word. This morning, he bit off his tongue." Xing Peisheng thought of the stubborn eyes of the captured Dangxiang people and said sincerely: "What a hero."

Li Hui is a pure soldier and has a natural affection for heroes. He said, "Since he is a hero, don't torture him anymore. Just chop him up, remember to get a coffin." Then he frowned and said thoughtfully: "Have you noticed that the white horse is the very tall one. It seems that he has been walking in front of the fort several times today. Could it be that the Dangxiang people are not strong enough? They are using a trick of doubting the soldiers."

Xing Peisheng suddenly pointed at the outsider of the Fort: "Jingdu, look."

The three Dangxiang cavalry ran past in front of the fort, and each of them was dragging a man behind the ground horse. Judging from the costumes of the people on the ground, they should be the people around them. After dragging them a few times outside the fort, they arrived outside the arrow and stood there.

Li Hui quietly said to Xing Peisheng: "Let your personal guards prepare their waists and crossbows, obey my orders, these party cavalrymen harm the people. We should teach them a lesson."

A Dangxiang man jumped off his horse with a knife and shouted to the fort in Zhongyuan: "Listen to the cowards in the fort, this is your scout."

As soon as the Dangxiang people said this, Xing Peisheng's face changed. Three days ago, he sent five more scouts. According to the agreement, he should have returned to the fort last night, but only two of them came back last night. It seems that the three scouts who did not come back were caught by Dangxiang people. He hurried to the crossbowman team beside him and ordered: "Prepare your waist and shoot these Dangxiang people to death."

The Dangxiang people standing on the ground kicked and dragged the three people behind the horse with their feet, and then cursed at the crowd in the castle: "If you have the ability, come out and fight with us like a man." After that, they held up their long sword and chopped off at the master on the ground.

A scream made the soldiers in the fort rush to their blood.

Li Hui gritted his teeth and said, "Start."

Ten crossbow arrows made a buzzing sound and flew towards the three Dangxiang people. Because the manufacturing of crossbows is more complicated than bows and arrows and is more expensive, the main long-range weapon of the tribes in the northwest is bows and arrows. They rarely use crossbows and have poor awareness of defense against crossbow arrows. These Dangxiang people thought that the Zhou army in the fort had no choice but to deal with them. They did not expect that the fort was equipped with infantry crossbows. The infantry crossbows are light crossbows, divided into two types: arm-opening crossbows and waist-opening crossbows. As the name suggests, waist-opening crossbows is a small crossbow that requires the use of waist-power to get good crossbows. The range is not as good as bed crossbows, and it is worse than arm-opening crossbows.

When the crossbow arrows roared and shot, the three Dangxiang people had no time to dodge. They screamed and were easily pierced by the crossbow arrows. The powerful momentum made the Dangxiang people who were caught flying from the horse and fell heavily to the ground.

The Fengzhou Army in the fort cheered loudly. Several brave soldiers slid quickly from the wall of the village to outside the fort with ropes. These soldiers had just approached the scout of the Fengzhou Army lying on the ground. Dozens of Dangxiang cavalry rushed towards them quickly. Seeing this, the soldiers in the fort shouted anxiously: "The Dangxiang cavalry is here, come back quickly."

The soldiers who rescued the people cut off the ropes with their knives and ran back with the injured scouts. The Dangxiang cavalry came to them like the wind. After a brief fight, the brave soldiers who left the fort fell to the ground, none of them were spared.

Li Hui shouted: "Dry crossbow arrows, quickly release crossbow arrows."

After the Dangxiang rider successfully cut and slashed, he quickly ran away. After the dust was gone, only a few bodies of the soldiers of the Fengzhou Army who were cut into blood and blood were left.

Li Hui strictly stopped the angry soldiers' request to open a fort to fight. The soldiers watched the brothers who died in battle lie quietly outside the fort. Finally, they could not wait until the evening before the soldiers took advantage of the darkness to quietly slide out of Qiaojia Fort and transport the bodies of the warriors back to the fort.

With the experience of shooting the Dangxiang people with crossbow arrows, the observer Xing Peisheng gathered the arm, waist, and bed crossbows in the Baozhou Army overnight and arranged them on the front of the wall of Qiaojiabao Village. He wanted to use crossbow arrows to attack the arrogant Dangxiang Army.

The next morning, Xing Peisheng was drinking porridge under the fort. His guard ran down from the fort panting and shouted loudly: "The Uighurs are here."

Xing Peisheng threw the bowl, carried a knife, and ran to the village wall.

In the open land to the east, the sound of horse hooves came, and the dust in the sky slowly rose up. Xing Peisheng said fiercely: "Damn it, it's really on time." Before he finished speaking, a cavalry team of about four or five hundred people, with the flash of the sun, headed straight for Qiaojiabao.

Xing Peisheng had a longing for revenge in his eyes. He looked at the Dangxiang cavalry, calmly, clearly and fiercely, and ordered: "Go to prepare for the crossbow."

The entire Fengzhou Army had more than 200 waist-length crossbows, which were usually scattered in various teams and never used them in a concentrated manner. Yesterday, the crossbow arrows successfully killed the enemy. This gave Xing Peisheng inspiration that he wanted to use the crossbow arrows to delay the launching location, so that the Dangxiang people could pay the price of bleeding.

The Dangxiang people obviously did not learn from yesterday's lessons. They rode wildly outside the fort, paying attention to keeping an arrow from the village wall of Qiaojiabao. When they came to the front of the village wall of Qiaojiabao for the second time, Xing Peisheng shouted: "Shoot the arrow."

More than two hundred crossbow arrows. Under Xing Peisheng's order, they made a terrifying whistling sound and rushed towards the Dangxiang cavalry.

Before setting off, most of the Party cavalry thought that this mission was just like usual, and they stopped working and returned to the camp by performing riding skills outside the fort. They did not expect that death came towards them with a smile as they ran wildly.

The sound of the crossbow arrows piercing through the body. The screams of the "Ah, Ah", the hoarse screams of the war horses, and the roars of the sergeant in the fort, resounding through the sky.

Xing Peisheng issued the second order: "Bed crossbow fires."

The bed crossbow is mainly used by the infantry to defend fixed positions. Five thick crossbow arrows were like a monster with fangs and claws. They chased the fleeing Dangxiang cavalry. Four of the five crossbow arrows were lost. The Dangxiang cavalry was in high-speed movement, so it was not easy to hit them. However, many Dangxiang riders saw an unforgettable scene. A Dangxiang rider was hit by a thick crossbow arrow on the back. The violent impact of the crossbow arrow made the unlucky rider feel cold. The crossbow arrows took the dead rider and flew several meters in the air before landing on the ground.

The remaining more than 300 Dangxiang cavalry were stunned by the two rounds of crossbow arrows that suddenly attacked. They rode their horses and fled far away, then stopped and stared at the fallen rider struggling and moaning outside the fort in a daze.

At this moment, another rapid sound of horse hooves sounded in the southwest, and dust was everywhere.

Xing Peisheng's eyes were full of murderous aura, and a few shouts made his voice a little hoarse. He shouted: "Hao Zhang Bi is ready."

A big difference between a crossbow and a bow is that it can be launched in a time-lapse after being turned on, so as to achieve suddenness and concentration of launch. The bow cannot do this. Xing Peisheng stared at the dust and waited for another party-xiang cavalry who was not afraid of death to enter the range of the crossbow arrow. He held his hand halfway, ready to issue the order to "fire".

Li Hui was an extremely calm veteran. After the crossbow arrows successfully attacked, many soldiers jumped up in excitement. Li Hui had no expression, but just held the handle of the knife and shook slightly. Like Xing Peisheng, he stared at the fast-coming cavalry team.

A black military flag was first exposed through heavy dust, and a large black eagle fluttered in the wind. The cavalry team did not rush towards Qiaojiabao, but rushed towards the Dangxiang cavalry at full speed.

Xing Peisheng looked at the cavalry team that did not approach the ground with a disappointment, holding his hand in the air and refused to put it down. When Li Hui saw this flag, he was stunned for a moment. This flag was very similar to the Dangxiang people's flag, but the Dangxiang people's military flag was an eagle, and the military flag was a black eagle.

"The Black Eagle Army is the Black Eagle Army." Li Hui had seen the newly embroidered military flag of the Black Eagle Army in Cangzhou, and was quite impressed. He was looking forward to the Black Eagle Army every day. Fengxiang Army rose up to reinforce. When he saw the military flag, he immediately determined that it was the Black Eagle Army.

Although Xing Peisheng was young and had better eyesight, he had never seen the Black Eagle Army flag. Therefore, he looked at the cavalry team half-believingly and said, "The Black Eagle Army is here, why are there only two or three hundred people? It's over, the Black Eagle Army is the target of revenge for the Good Dangxiang Army."

This cavalry team that suddenly appeared was the Black Eagle Army Lion Camp led by Tiechuanyuan. After they seized the Dangxiang Army flag in Wuliuguan, they took Fangdang to circle under the city of Weizhou with Fangdang, causing Fangdang to suffer a great loss.

After Tiechuanyuan left Fang and became the pursuer of Chihu, in order to find the main force of the Dangxiang Army, he came all the way east and finally caught the main force of the Dangxiang Army in Qiaojiabao. There were only 200 people in the Lion Camp of the Black Eagle Army, which was easy to hide. They observed the Dangxiang Army and every move near Qiaojiabao. The Dangxiang Army and the Baozhou Army fought in Qiaojiabao, and they saw it clearly.

Although Wu Jiaqiang was injured, he was the most angry. Seeing the Dangxiang people showing off their power in Qiaojiabao, he was full of energy and asked Tiechuanyuan for battle many times. After Liu Heigou successfully shot down the military flag of the Dangxiang Army, he made great contributions. He has been very awesome these days and tried his best to ask for battle. Tiechuanyuan was originally a three-legged role, but he was the chief officer of the forward battalion and was responsible for these two hundred soldiers. Because of his responsibilities, he was much calmer than Liu Heigou, the Wu Jiaqiang, and he did not find the best opportunity to attack. Therefore, the Black Eagle Army has been holding its troops.

Zhou Qing is the calmest among this group of young people. One of his favorite things is to sit halfway up the mountain to observe the Dangxiang military camp. In the past few days, he has made an important discovery: the number of Dangxiang military personnel who arrived in front of the fort was decreasing day by day, and the number of people decreased by more than 300 per day.

After learning about this situation, Tiechuanyuan sensitively realized that the opportunity had come. When the Dangxiang cavalry who were challenging in front of the fort dropped to about one thousand, the bold Tiechuanyuan decided to raid the Dangxiang army.

When Xing Peisheng arranged the crossbowmen, the Black Eagle Army Lion Camp took advantage of the night to sneak into a small hill less than 500 meters away from the Dangxiang Army's marching route. Although this hill was flat, the forest was dense and easy to hide. What's more important is that when the Dangxiang Army passed by here, it had never surveyed this small forest. The Black Eagle Army Lion Camp was preparing to ambush when the Dangxiang Army was the weakest vigilance.
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