Eight Kou - Wu Changbo

Eight Great Kou - Wu Changbo

Wu Changbo sat on his horse, looking around, except for the white snow in front of him, only the black pine trees on the low hills remained.

This is the case in the Northland, as long as there is snow, the rest of the colors will change somewhat, and even the water will turn black.

Wu Changbo was very envious of his uncle Zu Fuyu's beard, and only such a big beard could make him look dazzling in the army.

The war horse slowly descended the hill, and a sentry lifted the lid on the nest, and stood tremblingly outside the nest waiting for Wu Changbo to verify.

Six soldiers in a sentry pit, this is the custom, Wu Changbo glanced at the six soldiers, and saw that they were all wearing sheepskin jackets, and they were standing in the snow with a stench and fluffy like white bears, so he took a wine jug from his waist and threw it to the Shi Chang, whose face was full of frostbite, and said casually.

"Have the thieves harassed you?"

Shi Chang held the wine jug and said carefully: "Yesterday, a group of slaves and thieves came, and the old slaves saw that they were outnumbered and did not move, and saw that they went all the way to the west, and the number was about sixty, and they all rode on!"

Worried that the slave thief would make a move, he released the wolf smoke to summon the message! ”

Wu Changbo involuntarily glanced to the west, and then to the west is the Daling River, the Daling River in winter is turbulent and will not freeze, in such weather, even if there is a boat, it is easy to be hit by the ice in the river, so he is not worried that the slave thief will risk crossing the river.

Shi Chang didn't dare to put his mouth on the spout of the wine jug, and poured a mouthful of liquor into his mouth, so he carefully returned the silver wine jug to Wu Changbo.

"Take another sip, and the rest of the brothers will also take a sip to warm up their bodies, Liaodong on dog days, it's too cold this winter."

Shi Chang was overjoyed when he heard this, and he impatiently poured a sip of wine into his mouth, and handed the wine jug to the brothers behind him.

He was reluctant to let out his own breath, so he held the wine in his stomach, and it took a long time to spit out a mouthful of white gas.

Wu Changbo saw that the soldiers were pitiful, so he sighed and said: "Bear with me, there is no shortage of food and grass in my Jinzhou army, but the weather is too cold on this dog day, and the heavy snow will not be able to send it up. ”

Shi Chang hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Young General, the old slave is the Wu Clan's standard army, and now, the big master is in the city, and the little ones must be more careful and dare not make mistakes." ”

Wu Changbo said with a smile: "This is reasonable, being a soldier and eating food is to tie your head to the waistband of your pants to make a living, and you have become my Wu standard army, even if you die in battle, Lao Tzu Niang, mother-in-law and doll will definitely be able to have a bite of food to eat, and will not starve to death in this world." ”

As he spoke, he said to the rest of the soldiers: "Do a good job, the Wu family has been rewarded with a large piece of land by His Majesty, and the Wu family can't cultivate it himself.

The armies work hard, if they can get the head of a first-class slave thief, and someone else doesn't know about it, but in the hands of a certain family, they can exchange it for three taels of silver, transfer to the army, and give five acres of land without silver, and in an instant, they will be stronger than your old dog.

This old dog is just relying on the long time he has been serving my Wu family! No other skills! ”

Everyone laughed playfully when they heard what Uncle Wu said, and the old man looked like he was honorable, and said with his chest straight: "This is the old slave who has a vision, not that these fools can compare." ”

Uncle Wu smiled and took back the wine jug to weigh it, and said angrily: "A group of filthy goods, a good pot of wine is all that is left, this is a good wine stolen from my father's study!"

It's been trampled by your cows! ”

As he spoke, he hung the wine jug on his waist, looked to the west and said to Shi Chang: "Sixty horsemen and thieves, since you are here, don't think about going back!"

You are so protective, if you find something wrong, you will light the wolf smoke, grandpa is going to accept these sixty slave thieves today! ”

Shi Chang grabbed the reins of Wu Changbo's war horse and said: "The young general must not underestimate the enemy, the old slave listens to the sound of the slave thief's hooves very heavy, and is worried that there are white-armored soldiers inside, and there will be condor shooters on the side of the white-armored soldiers, and there are only two hundred horsemen under the command of the young general, so there may not be a chance of victory!" ”

Wu Changbo looked down at Shi Chang's messy face and said, "You guys are so guarded, maybe you will have a chance to pick up the heads of some slaves!" ”

Without waiting for Shi Chang to speak again, Wu Changbo rode away and led his two hundred families to chase westward.

Between the white mountains and black waters in winter, there is the world of slaves and thieves, and these frozen savages are active frequently once they reach winter.

Ever since the slave prisoner Nurhachi died of illness in Liaodong due to a cannon wound in July, there was an immediate infighting between the slaves and thieves.

In Wu Sangui's opinion, before the slaves and thieves have completely established the head wolf, the defense line from Shanhaiguan to the Daling River should be stable.

Now, the sudden appearance of a slave thief sentry on the Daling River defense line is not a good sign.

The war horse galloped, the cold wind blew on his face, and Wu Sangui suddenly remembered the unprovoked explosion that happened in Jingshi this year.

As a child of a family, he knows far more clearly than ordinary people, just from the letter from the eunuch Liu Ruoyu to his father, you can see how strange the big explosion was.

Liu Ruoyu is an eyewitness to the incident and the chief eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, and what he said should be the closest to the truth.

"On the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, there was a sudden loud earthquake, and the fierce thunder was more than 20 trees, and more than 20 big trees were pulled out of the ground, the roots were either upward, and the tips were downward, and there were pits several feet deep, and the smoke clouds went straight up, just like Ganoderma lucidum, rolling to the northeast.

Iron slag flies down from the area of Xi'an Gate, such as bran and rice, and stops when the time is moved. Since the Xuanwu Gate is in the west, the criminal department street is in the south, near the factory house, suddenly dumped, the civil engineering is on the top, and the tile is on the bottom.

Thousands of people whose names were killed, and thousands of people who died and those whose names were unknown.

Wherever a house is flattened, the fire in the furnace is extinguished. However, the wood foil of two or three of the four houses that sold wine was burned, and the rest were not burned. All the dead were naked, both men and women, and all the undead were stripped of their garments......"

"I'm afraid this explosion is a heavenly punishment, right?"

Before he could say a word, he was forced back into his mouth by the cold wind, Wu Changbo coughed, and shouted, Qianjun, speed up, he really wanted to catch these slaves, so that he could know what was going on on the side of the slaves.

Soon arrived at the Daling River, the black river water whimpered and flowed slowly, and there was not a single footprint on the snow on the bank of the river.

Wu Changbo did not disperse his men to find out the whereabouts of the slave thieves, he only had two hundred people under his command, if he dared to divide the troops, even if it was to divide the troops in two ways, those bold slaves and thieves would dare to attack their hundred people!

Since the slave Nurhachi was proclaimed emperor in Hetua **ji in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty invested a huge amount of silver in Liaodong and built one fortress after another, but unfortunately, most of these fortresses are now occupied by slaves and thieves, and now, only Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan are left.

The Ming army is familiar with the Daling River, and Wu Changbo is familiar with every grass and tree here.

In the same way, the slaves and thieves also know the same about this place, whether it is Nurhachi, or Huang Taiji, or the general of the slave and thief, they are equally familiar with this place.

Unlike the rest of the savages who invaded the Central Plains, the thieves were more cunning, more ferocious, and more planned......

The snow at the foot of the mountain was very thick, and from time to time hares scurried out of the snow, and occasionally frozen pheasants landed on the snow, Wu Changbo had no interest in these things, and his eyes kept falling on the black pine forest.

There were no finches flying on the cedars, no small beasts scurrying out of the pine forest, and it was as silent as a dead land.

The sun drew an arc from the sky, and finally hung lazily on the horizon, shining weakly on the world.

Wu Changbo stopped his horse, he wanted to go to the front to take a look, but was held by the deputy general Wu Tong, and ordered the rest of his soldiers to surround Wu Changbo tightly.

"Major General, the thief slave dragged the branches behind the horse and cleared the snow track, but there are still traces to follow."

The front army shouted.

Wu Tong's eyes turned like a marquee, and after carefully inspecting the surrounding environment, he whispered to Wu Changbo: "This place is backed by mountains on one side, and there is unconcealed snow on the other, which is beneficial to the slaves and thieves who are good at shooting, and you can't rush in."

You should quit slowly! ”

Wu Changbo shook his head and said: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger, withdraw at this time, we will pass by the slave thief, no, pass my order, and put up a shield to advance!" ”

Wu Tong saw that Wu Changbo did not listen to his own admonition, and immediately shouted at the front army: "One horse distance, erect a shield, protect the direction of the pine forest, advance!" ”

The originally compact cavalry, under the command of the deputy general, quickly became loose, and Wu Tong quickly left Wu Changbo and went straight to the head of the team.

He is a very experienced general, and he is also a fierce general who has experienced countless battles, at this time, protecting Wu Changbo is no longer the most important thing, but to ensure that the head of the army is not caught in the net.

The soldiers also dispersed in turn, and the armor on Wu Changbo's body was no different from theirs, and in order to confuse the enemy, he was the first to leave the crowd.

There was still no sound in the dark pine forest, but it seemed that a fierce tiger was watching them, and Wu Changbo felt that the hairs on his back stood up.

Finally left the mountain bag, and in a short period of time, Wu Changbo forgot about the cold, forgot about the fatigue, and mobilized all the spiritual senses in his body to prepare for the upcoming crisis.

"Don't let up!"

Wu Tong's gong-like voice came from the front of the line again.

Wu Changbo shuddered, and a cold star suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye......

"Enemy attack!"

Wu discovered the enemy situation earlier than Wu Changbo, and with a roar, he urged the war horse to go straight to the small high ground at the foot of the mountain.

Hanxing's target was not Wu Changbo, but a big man with a beard on his face, the big man also found the feather arrow, and his body shrank into a ball on the horse and hid behind the shield, with a bang, the feather arrow was blocked by the shield, but the big man who was originally shrunk into a ball screamed miserably, and fell off the horse staggeringly, and at some point, there was a black feather arrow stuck in the root of his thigh.

By the time the big man fell off his horse, his body was already motionless, and a black feathered arrow pierced his temple......

"Amka friends get out! (Good time)"

The originally flat snow was suddenly lifted, and with the snowflakes in the sky, a slave thief wearing a sheepskin jacket rose from the ground, and before the Ming army on the opposite side could react, a heavy, rudimentary mace smashed on the chest of his war horse.

The horse's chest immediately shattered, and the knight fell to the ground with a bang, and the thief seemed to be prepared, and the mace smashed on the knight's helmet again, and the black helmet flew far away, and the knight's head became a bloody mess.

Wu Changbo felt that he had been fully engrossed, and the war still caught him off guard.

When the war knife was raised, he had already seen two pro-soldiers die tragically in the hands of the slave thief.

The arrogant Wu Changbo could bear it, and the war horse took two quick steps forward, and slashed down at the slave thief with all his might.

"Dangchang" sounded, his long knife collided with an iron rod, the long knife jumped high, Wu Changbo, who had participated in the war, ignored the long knife, and slipped out of the saddle bag of the war horse with his left hand, and sent it into the chest of the thief in front of him with the momentum of the war horse.

After the war horse knocked down the dying slave thief and rushed out of the mist composed of splashed snowflakes, he found that the originally peaceful snow field had completely turned into a battlefield of flesh and blood.

Sixty thieves dared to set up an ambush on the flat ground to ambush two hundred elite Guanning iron cavalry, which made Wu Changbo extremely angry.

On the battlefield, anger is a very good emotion, and Wu Changbo threw away the protection of his own soldiers and took the lead in rushing towards Xiaoshanbao.

The greatest threat to the cavalry was not those who hid themselves in the snow to raid, but the incomparable condor archers who stood on the mountain packs.

Holding a four-stone strong bow to stand in the wind, one arrow three shots, the former has just left the string, the latter has buckled the bowstring, the former has not killed the enemy, the tail has already left the string, and a pot of feather arrows has disappeared in an instant.

You can kill the eagle owl in the clouds, you can kill the giant fish of the abyss, hunt tigers and kill wolves, and you can't be called an eagle archer if you are not a hero!

The war horse was shot by the condor shooters, and Wu Tong, who was hiding behind a boulder with an arrow in his shoulder, saw that his master would charge in person, and remembered the extremely cold face of the master's family, and couldn't help but feel dead.

Gritting his teeth, he roared and rushed out from behind the boulder with his shield raised.

The arrows are like flying locusts, the condor hand standing on the mountain bag has no intention of leaving, his body is as light as a willow in the wind, avoiding the arrows one by one, even if the body is shaking, he still does not forget to shoot arrows with a bow, and easily shoot a few Ming soldiers who shoot at him.

Seeing that Wu Changbo's war horse had reached the hillside, the condor archer showed a sneering look on his face, and gently raised his hand, and a huge black arrow flew towards Wu Changbo's throat.

Wu Changbo raised his somewhat reddened eyes, bowed his head slightly, and pointed his helmet towards the feather arrow, only to hear the sound of the feather arrow, and the feather arrow flew obliquely into the air with the iron helmet.

The Condor Archer snapped, and as soon as his left hand was in the quiver, three feathered arrows immediately appeared on his bowstring.

Wu Tong spun the long knife in his hand in despair and threw it out, and his body jumped forward violently, wanting to block the disaster for Wu Changbo.

The long knife cut a bloody cut in the Condor Archer's face, flew behind him, and finally landed limply on the ground.

Wu Tong's body also fell heavily to the ground, and the feather arrow in the hand of the condor archer was not activated.

Wu Changbo's war horse spewed white gas and jumped violently, ready to crush this hateful condor archer.

The Condor Archer sneered, and all the longbow and feather arrows in his hand fell to the ground, and a black war knife was already in his hand.

The front hooves of the war horse were cut off by him in the air, and the body was slightly sideways, waiting for the war horse to fall and cut off the head of the enemy general.

The war horse fell to the ground with a bang, but immediately there was no human figure, and there was a whistling wind behind his ears, and the Condor Archer was taken aback and quickly fell down, and a fist-sized chain hammer swept in front of him, and the frightened Condor Archer rolled in the snow several times in succession, and then got up and stood up.

Wu Changbo stood no more than ten steps away from him, pulling the chain hammer with one hand and looking at him coldly.

"Are you a general?"

Wu Changbo grinned and said, "Grandpa is Wu Changbo, the son of Wu Xiang, the chief military officer of Shanhaiguan. ”

The Condor Archer smiled: "I finally saw a man who can fight and dare to fight!" ”

Wu Changbo stretched out his hands, clenched his fists heavily, and said: "Today, let you, the thief slave, see your grandfather's ability!" ”

The face of the condor archer slowly became solemn, and he nodded and said: "Okay, there is a bit of a hero, after you die, I will not behead you, leave the life of one of your subordinates, and let him take your whole corpse back!" ”

Wu Changbo sneered: "After you die, grandpa will not behead you, spare the life of one of your subordinates and let him take your corpse back." ”

After that, he untied the armor on his body, revealing his sturdy upper body, a chain hammer in one hand, and a short knife in the other hand as a jump.

The Condor Archer also laughed, ripped off the white armor on his body, and also revealed his chest as black as iron, and said, "Let's start!" ”

Wu Changbo rubbed his body forward, and after taking two steps forward, his body fell violently, and the chain hammer snake jumped up from the ground like a poisonous snake, and went straight to the abdomen of the condor archer.

The long knife of the Condor Archer pulled away the chain hammer, and when he wanted to continue to pounce, he suddenly heard a dense bowstring sound, and it was too late to move his body, and five arrows fired at close range went straight to his chest.

His forward body stopped, and five feathered arrows were stuck in his chest, each of which was half a foot into his body......

"Shameless...... The villain ......" The Condor Archer barely let out a roar of rage, and then fell to the ground, staring at Wu Changbo who was gasping for breath with a pair of eyes that were almost cracked.

The captain of the hundred-man team is here, and these sixty thieves and slaves are wolves, and the condor shooters are killed in battle, and the remaining thieves and slaves have become a rabble, and there is no more rules to speak of.

Under the command of Wu Tong, it didn't take long to kill these thieves and slaves one by one.

Wu Changbo's chest was like a fire, and after taking a big gulp of strong wine, he found that his hands were shaking violently.

Looking at the less than fifty of his own soldiers who remained, and then looking at the corpses that fell into the snow, I only felt that this world was unacceptably cold!