Chapter 295
More than ten miles away, where Sun Ce often hunted, the place where he first met Ma Chao, Guo Jiale stopped the war horse, raised his hand to cover the dazzling sunshine, and looked into the distance.
He saw a dark shadow moving slowly in the blue sky in Shucheng direction.
"What is that?" Guo Jia pointed at the black shadow with one hand and covered his mouth with the other, and coughed violently. Lujiang was wet and he was very uncomfortable. However, in order to seize the sword of the Shanggu and Wu sword in Sun Ce's hand, he had to come in person. In order to avoid being discovered by Sun Ce's scouts, and to avoid being discovered by those who were dependent on Yuan Shu to cause unnecessary trouble, he hid in the day and night, and went here, but unexpectedly he found the eagle as soon as he arrived here.
He actually didn't need to ask, and he knew what it was. There were few eagles in the Jianghuai area. He could even guess whose eagle was. In the information he received, this eagle was the first divine object collected by the emperor's Northern Expedition, and from then on the era of natal beasts began.
What he didn't understand was how did this eagle arrive in Lujiang? Is it because the emperor intends to use troops to Lujiang?
Guo Jia was in a sneak attack, with only a dozen tiger soldiers trained by Xu Qian. His mission was to assassinate Sun Ce, rather than confronting Sun Ce. If the emperor, like him, also took a fancy to the sword of the Shanggu and Wu sword in Sun Ce's hands and sent a master, then he could not act rashly.
He is not Sun Ce, he has a deeper understanding of the emperor. He knows that there are many masters of enlightenment around the emperor.
"That's... an eagle?" Tiger Soldier Kuang Tianya said uncertainly. He was a swordsman. When he was wandering around the world, he became friends with Xu Qian. Xu Qian returned to Cao Cao. He also joined Cao Cao's tent. This time Guo Jia came to plan Sun Ce's treasure sword, and he was one of the masters in charge of the action. He had good eyesight, and even from such a distance, he could roughly see what it was. However, he did not know much about Guo Jia, and he was very puzzled about the appearance of the eagle here and was not sure of his judgment.
Guo Jia nodded: "We may meet our opponents, and we are extremely strong opponents."
Kuang Tianya looked at Guo Jia in confusion. This was the first time he saw Guo Jia so cautious and so nervous. Guo Jia was unruly. Even in front of Cao Cao, he did not have the time to sit upright. No matter how big the matter was, it seemed to be no problem for him, and it was easily resolved. And it was amazing.
"What kind of opponent can make Jijiu value so much?"
Guo Jia turned his head, looked at Kuang Tianya, smiled bitterly, but did not explain. "Take two people. Go to Sun Ce's camp to see. I'm a little tired, so I'll take a break here."
Kuang Tianya did not ask any more, and immediately executed it, and led the two tiger soldiers to Sun Ce camp outside Shucheng.
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Facing the more than fifty cavalry that rushed over, Cheng Pu did not dare to be careless. Since Xu Huang dared to rush forward with fifty cavalry, he must have his reliance. He came from afar and put such a large formation on the hem of Shucheng, it would never be for the purpose of dying.
Cheng Pu immediately ordered: "Boundist, gathering shooting, sword and shield, spear, guard the formation, and retreat the latter to kill!"
The drums of war were loud and Cheng Pu's order was sent out.
In fact, without Cheng Pu's order, the soldiers who faced Xu Huang directly felt heavy pressure, especially Xu Huang's huge Yinglong. When he looked at it from a distance, he felt that it was not small, but he didn't have any direct feelings. At this moment, Xu Huang rode his horse and Yinglong's wings danced, as if he was swooping in, quickly becoming a giant beast that could not be looked up. The suffocating pressure hit his face, which immediately made many people's legs weak. The spearmen subconsciously clasped the spears in their hands, the sword and shield hands raised the shields in their hands, and the crossbowmen shot the arrows in their hands.
The long arrow roared away, crossing dozens of steps, and shot towards Xu Huang, who was leading the way.
Xu Huang sat upright on the horse's back, motionless, and even the battle axe in his hand did not shake at all.
But Yinglong moved, and his two wings, about three feet wide, suddenly opened. The dense feather arrows shot on Yinglong, as if they were trapped in a mud, losing all their strength, and fell to the ground, but no arrow could pass through the Yinglong, which was transformed from true energy. The huge Yinglong was like a transparent shield, blocking the arrows and protecting all the guards behind him. The dense rain of arrows was as if nothing was left to it, and it flew faster and faster. In the blink of an eye, it rushed to the formation of the sword shield and spearmen.
"Throw!" Xu Huang shouted angrily, pulled out the small axe from his waist, and shook his hand and threw it out.
The little axe was spinning in the air, and with a sharp roar, it turned into a afterimage, leaping more than thirty steps, hitting the face of the shocked former army commander. With a "puff", the lieutenant's head was chopped in half and turned over and over. The personal guards beside him were shocked and quickly helped him up. Only then did they find that there was a small axe on the face of the lieutenant's face, which slashed deeply into the skull, and even the helmet was cut into a hole.
Seeing all this, everyone couldn't help but take a breath. A personal guard reached out to hold the handle of the axe and pulled it out with force, taking the captain's body away from the ground, but failed to pull out the small axe. It can be seen how deep the small axe cut into.
Xu Huang did not give the guards more time to surprise him. As he threw the small axe, more than ten more guards threw the small axe. These fifty guards were all brave men who followed Xu Huang for a long time. Practicing the throwing of the small axe has become their daily entertainment. The small axe, which is twice as heavy as an ordinary war knife, is as light as a feather in their hands. Twenty or thirty steps away, even on the speeding war horse, they can still make nine out of ten shots, with enough strength to shake off ordinary shields and cut through ordinary armor.
Without any order, more than ten small axes crossed over Xu Huang's head and gathered in front of him, as if they were Yinglong's huge mouth stretched forward.
"Puff puff puff!" The little axe hit the target one after another, tearing a hole in the battle formation composed of spears and shields in front of Xu Huang.
Xu Huang arrived, jumped through the gap, swung the battle axe in his hand gently, and two spearmen who were howling and rushing up flew up.
More war horses rushed in, and the battle axe swung again and again, accurately chopping the gap. Although the soldiers on both sides tried their best to block it, their efforts were useless in front of the galloping war horses and flying battle axes.
Shields were knocked away, and soldiers screamed and fell to the ground, blood splashed, and the sound of axes roared.
Xu Huang easily broke through the first defense, entered the formation, rode his horse, and killed the crossbowmen behind him, wantonly ravaging them. Although the crossbowmen were equipped with melee weapons such as swords, they had no time to react in the face of the rushing horses and could not organize an effective counterattack. They were killed in the blink of an eye.
Cheng Pu is from Youbeiping and is not unfamiliar with cavalry warfare. Otherwise, he would not have been attracted by Sun Jian. Now he is entrusted with important tasks by Sun Ce. As soon as he sees the axe thrown by Xu Huang, he knows that trouble is coming. The soldiers of Jianghuai are not familiar with the cavalry and do not know how dangerous it is after being penetrated by the cavalry. He sets up a formation, but cannot make every soldier in the array concentrate.
As expected, Xu Huang broke through the formation and his first formation was useless.
Cheng Pu was very anxious and immediately ordered the drum to beat the second formation to strengthen defense to avoid repeating the same mistake.
Unfortunately, Xu Huang didn't give him this opportunity at all. After breaking through the first formation, Xu Huang did not hesitate at all and immediately rushed to the second position sixty steps away.
The same tactics were the same sharpness, without any fancyness. Dozens of small axes flew out and forced a hole in the defensive formation. Before the Yuan army soldiers could be restored, Xu Huang rushed to the scene by wielding the axe.
In a moment, Xu Huang broke through three formations in a row and came to Cheng Pu's central army.
Behind him were the scattered formations, the wailing wounded soldiers, and fifty guards holding battle axes and fighting spirit. The guards quickly passed on the short axes in their hands and were ready to continue fighting.
Xu Huang held back the war horse, raised the bloody Xuanhua battle axe, and pointed directly at Cheng Pu under the central army's flag: "Do you dare to fight?"
His voice was not loud, but every word he said was sent into Cheng Pu's ears and into the ears of every soldier in the central army. Ying Long waved his wings, the wind and dust were rising, and his huge dragon head was raised, staring at Cheng Pu coldly, making Cheng Pu feel like his heart was being held.
Cheng Pu did not move, his face turned pale. Xu Huang and his subordinates showed more combat power than he expected. Three formations were broken in an instant, and he even doubted whether his central army could block Xu Huang's pace. Faced with Xu Huang's challenge, he hesitated for a moment.
Just when Cheng Pu was afraid of Xu Huang, Ma Chao led fifty Guards, galloping back and forth like a group of wolves around Cheng Pu's formation. Guards were selected by elite troops from various divisions, and only 300 people were selected from tens of thousands of troops. They were all superb riding skills and brave and good at fighting. Whether it was equipment or war horses, they were the best, even stronger than dragon cavalry. At this moment, facing thousands of infantrymen, they were still galloping on horseback, without fear, shooting sharp arrows into the enemy formation, and almost every sound of the string would take away a lively life.
The Yuan army soldiers who lined up were in great pain. Although they had strong bows and hard crossbows, they had an absolute advantage in numbers, but when facing the cavalry that was coming and going like the wind, they had no time to adjust. The rain of arrows they shot was either empty or too sparse to cause substantial damage to these hateful cavalry. Once the flaws were revealed, the cavalry would take advantage of the gap, slash and slash, and then break away before they could react.
They were like a group of huge bisons, surrounded by a group of wolves. They had only brute force but could not be used. Instead, they were bitten by the wolves and were covered in blood and covered in bruises. They could only let out helpless roars.
"Accelerate, accelerate-" Ma Chao raised his spear with one hand and wiped away the greasy blood from the cloak with the other hand, and let out a long roar.
"Accelerate, accelerate-" Fifty Komsui Rou responded in unison and rode his horse.
Chapter completed!