Chapter 1002: The Hunt Begins
What are the two favorite words of the world?
When thinking about this problem, there will be many, many words that come up, such as auspicious, such as health, such as peace, such as smooth, and there will be many, many examples, but if you boil these up to two words...... Wishful.
Before Shen Leng came, the Daning soldiers trapped in the Houque State were unsatisfactory, and if they were unsatisfactory and helpless, they were even more unsatisfactory.
Someone can become a general, it's not just luck, such as Shen Leng.
After he arrived in Houque State, the Ning army became wishy-washy, the enemy's strength was still more than ten times that of the Ning army, but the Ning army was thriving, from Shen Leng to him ordered the two guards to stick to the Nu Qi fiefdom, before and after more than ten days, and then look at the equipment of the Ning army, not only no longer worry about eating and drinking food and grass, even the war horses have been robbed of tens of thousands, if you continue to fight like this, maybe it is really as Yang Hatshui said, when you come, you are all infantry, and when you go back, you are cavalry.
The fief of the prince of Houque is called Yinshui City, outside the city is the grassland, there is a big lake named Yinshui Lake on the west side of the city, the lake is connected with the river in the city, there is a water source, and the grain and grass materials that have been snatched, the Ning army can even give up the grassland outside the city and only need to hold the Yinshui City.
Shen Leng let the two guards hold here for ten days, and he took five thousand light cavalry and did not know where to go.
Two days later, the Sabbatarians attacked in a big way, but the walls of Silverwater City were strong, and the Sabbatarians who came this time traveled a long distance and did not come to attack the city, so they didn't bring their powerful stone-throwing carts, and it was not so easy to attack Silverwater City by piling up with human lives.
There is a poplar forest about two hundred miles northwest of Yinshui City, I don't know how many years it has been, it looks as if a thick green velvet blanket has been spread on the ground from a distance, and it is the capital of Houque Kingdom that walks through this poplar forest for three days, and the capital is called Fair City.
The terrain here is very peculiar, it looks like a grassland with a flat river, walking and walking will find that there is a huge deep pit in front of you, you can have a steep slope of two or three hundred zhang down, if you accidentally slide down for half a day, you may not be able to climb up.
Occasionally, scattered herdsmen's dwellings can be seen in areas with abundant pastures, but they have long been empty.
Houque Prince Nu Qi was very annoyed, full of hatred and full of fear, he took the fief 10,000 cavalry to pursue the Ning army, chased to the halfway and disappeared, and when he came back again, he found that the general of the rest of the country, Ge Singer, was dead, and the 10,000 elite horsemen under the command of Ge Singer were killed by the Ning people, and he passed by the battlefield during the day, and the corpse on the yellow sand had been buried in a small part, but he seemed to be able to smell a strong smell of blood in his nose.
I heard that Gersinger was cut off by the Ning people, and the body may not be able to be found, without the gorgeous and expensive general's armor, who can distinguish the identity of a headless corpse?
The Ningren soldiers kill people and like to cut off people's heads the most, so the most on the battlefield are headless corpses.
A team of scouts galloped back from a distance, and the captain led by him jumped down from his horse and knelt down on one knee: "Lord Wang, the road ahead has been explored, and there is no trace of the Ning army, they should not dare to come to such a place close to the capital, and the news was learned that the prime minister has gathered soldiers and horses from all over the country to the capital, and now the capital has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops, and there is a steady stream of large armies, even if the Ning army is bold, thousands of people dare not go to the vicinity of the capital." ”
Nu Qi let out a sigh of relief, hearing that the fief was broken by the Ning army and the clansmen were slaughtered, Nu Qi hated as if there was a fire burning in his body, but he didn't dare to attack or take revenge, the rest of the people used him as cannon fodder, he couldn't use himself as cannon fodder.
So he made a decision to stay away from the battlefield and go back to the capital, he is the prince, and the capital naturally has a place for him.
Nu Qi looked back at his soldiers, fortunately, there are still nearly 10,000 cavalry, otherwise there may really be no place to go back to the capital, he still has this team in his hand, the big prime minister Uldun will not do anything to him, at least he is useful, if he goes back alone, the big prime minister under the anger will really dare to let people cut off his head.
The royal family has declined, His Majesty died in battle outside the city of La Liga, and the great prime minister Urdun is in power, although he has not yet ascended the throne and called the emperor, what is the difference between him and the emperor.
As soon as he thought of this, the hatred in Nu Qi's heart became heavier, and he hated Urdun more than he hated Ningren.
"The poplar forest ahead is the only place where you can ambush troops, are you sure you've explored it carefully?"
Nu Qi asked again uneasily.
"Lord Wang, five teams of scouts, more than 100 people, have been in the poplar forest for half a day, and no danger has been found, not to mention the cavalry, and no hoof prints have been found."
"That's fine, that's fine."
Nu Qi let out a long breath, stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "Go back to the capital." ”
In the poplar forest, Shen Leng, who was hiding in the trees, poked out, his clothes were tied to the branches, and if he didn't look closely, it would be impossible to find him in such a dense foliage.
In addition to him, there were also three thousand Daning soldiers in ambush in the entire poplar forest, that is, the three thousand recruits he brought out from La Jia City, and how long had it been since he followed Shen Leng, everyone had undergone a huge change in temperament.
They didn't ride horses, the horses were at least thirty miles away from here, and if they were too close, they would be noticed by the Houque scouts, so they wouldn't dare to go, and the soldiers hiding here each crawled quietly on the tree, and the leaves covering their bodies made them seem to have merged with the tree.
Shen Leng calculated that Nu Qi would not dare to return to his fiefdom, and this poplar forest was the only way for him to return to the capital, and ambushed 10,000 cavalry with 3,000 people, so Shen Leng could do this.
Not long after, the mighty cavalry team entered the poplar forest, first a team of more than 100 pathfinders rushed over, while galloping horses and constantly firing arrows to both sides, they had no target, not found anything, just shot out randomly.
A feather arrow flew out grazing Shen Leng's hair, and Shen Leng didn't even move.
Soon after, the army came up from behind, and the cavalry of nearly 10,000 men was divided into three teams, the front team was about 2,000 men, scimitars in hand, and none of them dared to be careless, even if the scouts had already run back and forth in the woods once.
After the front team passed was the Chinese army, the Chinese army was about four or five thousand people, and the prince Nu Qi was in the Chinese army, surrounded by personal guards, and surrounded him like an iron bucket, even if there were feather arrows around him, hundreds of people would not be able to reach him.
Shen Leng lay on a relatively thick branch, and slowly aimed the crossbow at the cavalry of the Houque Kingdom passing under the tree, he had been waiting, and his people had been waiting, and his subordinates would never make the first move if he didn't do it.
Finally, the prince Nu Qi, who was surrounded by hundreds of people, came from a distance, even if he was surrounded by his guards, he still walked cautiously, Shen Leng's crossbow arrow in his hand was more special, the first crossbow arrow in the crossbow box was a crossbow, and there would be a very sharp sound when it was shot, like a whistle, when he saw Nu Qi coming up, the crossbow adjusted the angle slightly, and at the moment when Nu Qi just walked under him, Shen Leng's crossbow arrows shot out, his fingers quickly buckled, and the three crossbow arrows were connected into a straight line.
With a whistle-like sound, the Ning army on the tree began to shoot at the cavalry passing below, they quickly shot the crossbow, and then replaced the crossbow box as fast as possible, the crossbow arrows fell from the top of their heads like a torrential rain, and the rear cavalry around them thought that there were people above their heads, they knew that the Ning army's light cavalry was elusive, so when they came back, they sent a large number of scouts to explore, not to mention the war horses, they didn't even find a horse's hoof print, although the vigilance was still there, But the cavalry that is on guard is killed from the flanks or from all sides, and the arrows come from the overhead, which is simply a hooligan.
Under Shen Leng's strict order, everyone emptied the two crossbow boxes as fast as they could after he shot the first arrow, and each person shot out more than 20 crossbow arrows, and the cavalry of the Houque Kingdom below was crying wolf.
Shen Leng's three crossbow arrows were all shot at Nu Qi's body, but the iron armor on Nu Qi's body was too strong, and the crossbow arrows failed to shoot through, Shen Leng jumped down from the tree, calculated the time distance, and fell right behind Nu Qi, he hung up the crossbow when he jumped, took out the small hunting knife with a flip of his palm, and landed behind Nu Qi, and the little hunting knife ran through Nu Qi's neck five times in one breath.
The five knives are not in the same position, and after the five knives, Nu Qi's neck is still connected to this layer of skin.
Shen Leng grabbed Nu Qi's hair with his left hand, pushed his knee forward, Nu Qi's body fell to the side, the hand holding the hair pulled the head up and was dragged down, he moved to the saddle, and urged the horse to rush forward.
At the same time as him, the Daning soldiers jumped down from the trees one after another, snatched the war horses and left, without hesitation at all, and were not even in the mood to make up for the wounded Houque soldiers not far away.
After killing the prince Nu Qi and robbing thousands of war horses, Shen Leng led the cavalry into the depths of the poplar forest.
A group of Houque people stood around the headless corpse of Prince Nu Qi and watched, everyone fell silent, this battle came too suddenly, unprepared, their enemies fell from the sky, and without the slightest reaction, the prince's head was cut off.
Shen Leng rushed out of the poplar forest with three thousand men but did not leave in a hurry, after leaving the forest, he sent a signal to the sky, waiting for Chen Ran, who was more than thirty miles away, they kept staring at the poplar forest, and when they saw the signal flying, they immediately rushed over with more than 2,000 other cavalry, although they only had more than 2,000 people, but there were many horses, so the scene of galloping was like an army of tens of thousands.
The panicked Houque people rushed out of the poplar forest with Nu Qi's headless corpse, and as soon as they came out, they saw Ning Jun waiting in line on the plain outside.
Shen Leng urged the horse forward, and shouted in the back words: "Leave the horse, you can leave!" ”
The Houque people are not stupid and must know what the consequences will be without the horse, of course they refuse to agree, but at this time, the smoke and dust on the side of the wind and dust stormed, it seems that they don't know how many Ning troops are coming, they will not hand over the horses, and they will not fight this battle, the team immediately dispersed, no one commanded, they fled in all directions like headless flies.
Shen Leng sighed, a little dissatisfied: "Ma, I said that as long as the horse, what ...... run?"
He glanced at the chaotic scene, and then looked down at the human head hanging on the side of the saddle, thinking that it would be a loss, if you grab a few fewer horses, you will grab a few less, although I feel that if I rob less, I will suffer a loss, and if more than 10,000 war horses cannot be snatched away, it must be a loss.
"Blow the horn, kill for a while, grab the horse and leave."
He pulled out the black line knife and pulled the iron mask down: "Go rich!" ”
With a whoop, the cavalry following him rushed out like a pack of wolves.