Chapter 44: Halfway Kill
Han Yao took a team of guards to the east coast in two boats.
Crossing the river smoothly and everything is normal. After Yingyangwei got ashore, he immediately set up a battle formation to prevent the attack of thieves.
Looking east from the embankment, there is an endless river valley in front of it. The grass is lush and silent. The air is filled with a fresh earthy atmosphere. However, the beautiful scenery in front of you has been artificially destroyed. When the bandits were carrying the looted objects, they stepped on a winding path of sheep intestines in the valley grass layer. Some colorful objects were abandoned on the path. It can be seen that the bandits were panicked and fled in a hurry.
Han Yao stood at the high point of the river embankment and looked closely. He had already guessed about the origin of the bandits. However, what surprised him was that the bandits in Mangdang Mountain were limited in strength, and his leader, Mr. Chen San, was even more cautious. How could he suddenly do such an incredible thing? He burned Xia Pavilion, interrupted the canal waterway, and slaughtered Yingyangwei. Any of these things could be convicted of rebellion, which was like a rebellion, and the consequences of the rebellion were unknown. Nowadays, thieves could live a life, just live a life of severity. It was better to live a life than to die well. There was no need to rebel, seek death, and harm the innocent.
The team leader and the team deputy came over and asked Han Yao whether to notify the brothers on the other side to cross the river immediately.
Han Yao had something in his mind and didn't say anything for a long time. The team was asking again. Han Yao thought for a moment, and suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the green grass in the valley surging violently like waves. As the "waves" fluctuated, a trace of ominous thoughts surged in Han Yao's heart for no reason.
"Send a few brothers to search in the valley to see if there are traces of thieves."
The team leader and the team deputy looked at each other and didn't agree. In addition to weeds, there were weeds in the valley, which was clear at a glance, and where could people hide? Besides, Yingyangwei chased after him all the way, and the bandits were like frightened birds, and they had already escaped. Where could they have the courage to attack Yingyangwei?
Seeing that the team leader and deputy disagreed with his orders, Han Yao asked angrily, "The bandits crossed the river in front of us. We chased after him, but they disappeared. Did they grow wings and fly away in an instant?"
This is, when the band of thieves in front of them came ashore, they hurriedly chased after them but disappeared, and the thieves would not fly with wings, so the only possibility was to ambush in this valley. If you reason with this, the band of thieves would be suspected of seducing the enemy. The thieves were cruel and committed the shocking case of burning Xiating and massacring the Eagle and Yangwei. The crime was so serious that they could destroy the three tribes. Since this is the case, you can imagine how brave the thieves were. What else did they dare not do?
The team commander and the team deputy no longer hesitated and hurriedly sent a Fire Eagle Yanggu to the valley ahead to find traces of the thieves.
The Fire Eagle Yangwei was a little timid. After all, there were only ten people, and fifty corpses were lying on the ruins of Xia Ting. They were not afraid of being lies, but the military orders were like mountains, so it would be impossible not to go. Ten people lined up in battle queues, walked down the river embankment carefully and walked into the valley grassland.
At this moment, a dozen white-clothed thieves suddenly jumped out of the grass hundreds of steps away and fled like a life-threatening one's way.
The Fire Eagle Yangwei stopped immediately. It was still Han Sima Gaoming who saw an abnormality at a glance and forced out the ambushed thief. Now that the thief has escaped and the danger has been lifted, there is no need to waste time and energy to "wander" this vast valley.
The team chief and the team deputy summoned the Fire Eagle Yangwei back without waiting for Han Yao to speak.
Han Yao's doubts were even more serious, but his subordinates did not cooperate. The two team chiefs and deputy team members were eager to "seek credit for goodwill" to Fei Huai, and could not wait to send a signal of "everything is normal" to the other side, which made him unable to forcefully stop him, and he could no longer send someone to investigate.
The four ships returned to the other side together. Fei Huai ordered the crossing of the river. Liu Jing did not dare to refuse, so he asked a brigade of hundreds of Yingyangwei to take four ships, two in front and two in the back, crossing the river at the same time.
When Han Yao faced the "surging" river valley, his ominous feeling became stronger and stronger. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth, rushed down the river bank alone, and walked into the river valley.
The team leader and the team deputy were quite confused. They didn't know what Han Yao was going to do, so they hurriedly called out. Han Yao was too lazy to pay attention to them and shook his hand at them, indicating that it was okay, but the speed of moving forward was faster.
The team leader and the team deputy knew that Han Yao was in a very bad mood now. If such a big thing happened, as Yongcheng Yingyang Mansion, which guarded this section of the canal, he would definitely take responsibility. Yingyanglang general Fei Huai was the first to be the brunt, followed by Sima Han Yao. These two people were in great trouble, so the team leader, the team deputy and the Yingyang guards sympathized with them. After all, this was a disaster and there was no place to complain if there was any injustice. Both of them thought that Han Yao wanted to be quiet alone, so they let him walk into the valley alone.
Han Yao walked aimlessly, and when he looked up, he saw that there was a green field, and he could not see anything, and even a bird could not see one. This made him feel more and more uneasy, and his walking speed was faster and further away from the river bank.
Suddenly, Han Yao stopped in horror, his eyes widened suddenly, and his expression was extremely frightened.
A few steps ahead of him, Mr. Chen San sat cross-legged in the deep grass layer, aiming his powerful crossbow at Han Yao with a playful smile on his face, and his expression was leisurely, but a cold air appeared in his eyes.
"Sima Han, are you safe?"
Han Yao's face gradually changed, from white to red, from red to green, and his emotions also fluctuated greatly, from fear to anger, and then from anger to a strong urge to kill.
"Chen Rui, it's you." Han Yao gritted his teeth. "More than ten years of friendship and years of care for him have resulted in today's betrayal? Why? Why do you want to repay your kindness and revenge? Why do you want to kill someone?"
Mr. Chen San was calm and calm, and his face was even more sarcastic and sarcastic, "Han Wulang, I would like to ask you a question, who was going to kill someone back then?"
"That thing has nothing to do with someone." Han Yao shouted in a furious voice, "You are following the wrong person, standing in the wrong team, who can you blame?"
"Is someone following the wrong person? Is someone standing in the wrong team?" Mr. Chen San sneered, "The fact is very simple. Your surname is Han, and my surname is Chen. At the critical moment, the seller named Han asked for honor, but the one named Chen was upright and unyielding. Even if he stabbed someone in the back, he would never trait his promise."
Han Yao became more and more angry and shouted at Mr. Chen San, "This has nothing to do with someone, it has nothing to do with someone."
"Your surname is Han, that's enough." Mr. Chen San teased, "You dare to pat your chest and tell someone, are you not Han?"
Han Yao was furious and wanted to swallow Mr. Chen San alive. "Chen Sanlang, don't bully people too much!"
"I'll bully you, what can you do to me?" Mr. Chen San laughed, "I'm a thief, you can't even think about being a human being. Now..." Mr. Chen San shook the powerful crossbow in his hand, "Give you two choices, either be a thief with someone, or go to hell to be a ghost."
Han Yao was furious, and his rage made him lose his mind. He stretched his right hand to his waist, pulled out the horizontal knife with a "clang", raised his leg and wanted to rush forward and slaughter Mr. Chen San with one knife.
It was a long time to say that, before his lifted foot fell, a long stick suddenly flew out of the grass layer and smashed towards him, hitting Han Yao's waist and abdomen. Han Yao couldn't bear the pain, and let out a scream, and fell backwards.
The team on the river bank was anxious and uneasy. Sometimes they looked at Yingyangwei who was crossing the river, sometimes they looked at Han Yao who was walking alone on the grass in the river valley. They always felt a sense of unreasonable tension in their hearts. Just while waiting, when they turned around, Han Yao disappeared.
The team was turning around and checking carefully. There was nothing in front of them except the "rough" valley.
"Where is Sima Han? Who saw Sima Han?" The team was screaming in panic.
The team deputy and a group of Yingyang Guards turned around, searching around and guessing at the same time. Some people even screamed at the top of their voices, but Han Sima seemed to have disappeared from the world, and there was no trace.
Han Yao could hear Ying Yangwei's shouting, and even through the cracks in the deep grass, he could see his subordinates panic on the river bank looking for his subordinates, but he could not respond, nor could he call the police. He could only watch the vicious bandits quietly approaching the river bank, and could only helplessly watch the god of death about to swallow up the fresh lives, and was in pain.
"Swish..." A whistlebrating thunder suddenly rushed into the sky, and the harsh whistle cut through the quiet field in an instant.
Suddenly, the Yingyangwei on the river bank panicked. Some looked up to look for the whistleblow, some looked around the river valley, and some shouted nervously.
A group of people suddenly stood up in the "rumping" valley, a group of people wearing green grass and holding crossbows, were only forty or fifty steps away from the river bank, and were close to each other.
"Woooooooo..." The horn suddenly rang.
"Swish swish swish swish..." The arrows shot towards Yingyangwei like rain.
The Eagle and Yangwei on the river bank were caught off guard, either caught an arrow, avoided, or howled, and were in a mess.
"Kill!" The rebel soldiers who were ambushing the valley roared out, rushed up the river bank, and slashed around the Yingyang guards.
The battle ended quickly, and all the fifty Yingyang Guards were wiped out, and none of them survived.
On the other side, Fei Huai was stunned and Liu Jing was dumbfounded. The soldiers of Yingyang Mansion in Yongcheng looked at the bloody scene in surprise, unbelievable.
However, greater blows followed.
As soon as the whistle sounded, the battle broke out. The Yingyang Guards who were crossing the river were shocked. The speed of rowing not only did not speed up, but slowed down. However, when they wanted to speed up, they found that there were thieves digging boats underwater. They were even more panicked for a while. I didn't know what to do, and the four ships actually started to turn on the river. This was the consequence of long-term abandonment of training. Many young soldiers were seriously lacking in adaptability, and at the critical moment of life and death, their reactions were as panicked and slow as ordinary civilians.
The ship sank, and sank amid the angry and helpless shouts of Fei Huai, Liu Jing and Ying Yang Guards.
One hundred Eagle Yanggu on the boat struggled hard in the water, but carrying dozens of kilograms of weight, those who could not water immediately sank, and those who could not escape from water could not escape from death because there were too many water pirates, and the water pirates were covered with bare bodies more flexible than the fish in the river. The Eagle Yanggu who fell into the water could not catch the "life-saving straw" at all, so they could only be water ghosts.
There are four regiments of 800 soldiers in Yingyang Mansion in Yongcheng. Now that there is no arrow, no thief has been killed. Instead, the thief has killed 200 people in a regiment. How can Fei Huaiqing bear such a great humiliation?
Fei Huai was completely desperate about his future. He had only one thought left, that is, before Dongwu stopped him from arresting him, he would kill all these thieves and avenge the dead Yingyangwei.
"Transfer an order, urgently report to Yongcheng and ask for help."
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Chapter completed!