Chapter 301: Western Xia Spies
In the evening, in a tavern in Wulong Zhai, Wang Gui and Li Yanqing sat at a small table, the excitement of meeting in other places had calmed down, and the two were narrating what they had come to do. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Wang Gui poured Li Yanqing a glass of wine, sighed and said: "The relationship of my family is that the Taiyuan Mansion Legion practices Ding Jing, and we are in the forbidden army, which is a layer of relationship, my grandfather wants to ask him to help me stay in Taiyuan to defend the city, but the shuai attaches great importance to our group of martial arts students, and all of them arranged for us to go to the border, saying that we will grow up in blood and fire, but I will come to Wulong Village, and it is useless for Ding Jing to intercede." ā
"How many martial arts students are there in your group of martial arts students who came to Taiyuan?"
"There are a total of twenty-three people, thirteen went to Shaanxi Road, ten were on Hedong Road, I was alone in Wulong Village, and there were three in Shenquan Village."
"But I heard Yang Zaixing say that you are here to build fortifications on the border."
Wang Gui shook his head, "Lao Niu, they are, I'm not, the Oolong Village has been built, and the Shenquan Village is going to rebuild the outer wall, they are selling coolies!" ā
The two drank a glass of wine, Li Yanqing grabbed the wine jug and filled the two with wine, and said with a smile: "If you want to go back to Taiyuan, I have a way to transfer you back." ā
"Do you have a way?"
Li Yanqing nodded, "I can let you be the patrol guard, in fact, the patrol is almost over, and when the last batch of inspections is over, you can stay in Taiyuan directly." ā
After a pause, Li Yanqing said: "You can go with me tomorrow, and I will go to Shenquan Village and Tongqin Village." ā
Wang Gui lowered his head and pondered for a moment, but still shook his head, "I can escort you to Shenquan Village tomorrow, but I still don't want to go to Taiyuan." ā
"Why?" Li Yanqing looked at Wang Gui puzzled, "Just now you said that it is useless to find a relationship. ā
Wang Gui smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I was really desperate when I first came to Wulong Village, I always felt that I would die under the sword of the Xixia people sooner or later, and I hated why I wanted to study martial arts, but now this idea is gone, I feel like a fish, and I have finally found the most suitable fish tank for myself, I don't know if you can understand this feeling." ā
"When you say fish tank, do you mean Oolong Village, or do you mean the border?"
"Yes, I'm nothing in martial arts, I'm as ordinary as a piece of slag, but here, everyone calls me the Divine Arrow Agui, I am not only the first Divine Arrow in Wulongzhai, but also the chief head of the Oolongzhai Bow and Arrow Society, although I am just a charge officer, but no one dares to underestimate me, even if Zhizhai gets any reward, he will send someone to give me a little, I have never had this feeling."
Li Yanqing laughed, "You did find a good fish tank!" ā
"Not only did I mix well here, but I also shot five Western Xia soldiers with my own hands, that feeling of killing the enemy..... It made my blood boil, and I felt that I was born to go to war. ā
"Where are you going to kill the Western Xia soldiers?"
"Hunting Western Xia spies, I led my brothers to ambush outside for twenty days last month, killing three batches of Western Xia scouts, Lao Li, don't look at your riding and shooting, but in terms of actual combat hunting experience, you can't compare to me."
"I'm a civilian official, and I'm in charge of joining the army."
Li Yanqing emphasized his status as a civil official, Wang Gui suddenly laughed, and Li Yanqing couldn't help laughing, he really hadn't touched a bow and arrow for a long time.
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Early the next morning, the two engaged in continuing to count the military supplies in Wulong Village, Li Yanqing took six sergeants and the guide Mo Wulang to Shenquan Village, Wang Gui took the initiative to ask Ying, and led ten brothers to escort Li Yanqing and his party to Shenquan Village.
Shenquan Village is eighty miles northwest of Wulong Village, this area is dense with hills, there are many ravines, although the Song army implements the strong wall to clear the wilderness, all the people are moved to the east of the Yellow River, so that it is difficult for the Western Xia army to find supplies for the invasion of the brigade, but there are advantages and disadvantages, without the people's surveillance, the Western Xia spies are active, often go deep into the territory of the Song Dynasty to explore intelligence.
"The average number of Western Xia scouts is five or ten people, and the horses are extremely fast, we are basically infantry, we can't catch up with them, we can only rely on ambushes to hunt."
Although Wang Gui is only an officer, equivalent to the position of squad leader, he is from martial arts after all, and the ordinary Song army is still different, the biggest feature is that he has a war horse, in the Song army, war horses are very scarce, the Northwest Army has nearly 100,000 troops, only 6,000 war horses.
There are only eleven war horses in the entire oolong village, Wang Gui has one of them, but this is his own war horse, after he was admitted to the county school, his grandfather bought a black horse at a high price, and has followed Wang Gui for many years.
Li Yanqing's six sergeants also had no horses and could only walk, but the guide Mo Wulang rode a donkey.
"Ah Gui, do you say that the Western Xia spies will hunt us down?"
"It's very likely, we heard from the captured Western Xia spies that they didn't dare to go too deep, and they could also find out a lot of information if they caught us, especially like you......."
Wang Gui glanced at Li Yanqing's civilian uniform, and couldn't help but smile: "Why do I think you are like a piece of bait, strongly tempting the Western Xia spies to arrest you?" ā
Li Yanqing smiled faintly: "There is an advantage to wearing an official uniform, that is, I won't be shot by cold arrows, if I want to shoot, shoot the one next to me!" ā
"What do you mean?"
"Like you said, I have a lot of intelligence value, of course I want to be captured alive, and the people who get in the way must be killed, such as you ......"
Wang Gui snorted, patted his chest and said, "The person who can kill my Wang Gui has not been born yet!" ā
As soon as the words fell, I just listened to 'Whoosh!' With a sound, a sharp arrow shot at the helm of Wang Gui, Wang Gui shouted, turned over and fell off the horse, Li Yanqing was so shocked that his scalp exploded, turned over and jumped off the horse, helped Wang Gui up and shouted: "Old Gui!" ā
"I'm fine!"
Wang Gui waved his hand, he took off his helmet, and the arrow grazed his scalp and shot it, which was thrilling.
At this time, there was another scream, it was the voice of the guide Mo Wulang, Li Yanqing turned around, the soldiers had already fallen down, Mo Wulang was lying on his back on the ground, and an arrow was shooting him in the chest.
"These dog mongrels!"
Wang Gui scolded and scolded, but he turned over and hid behind a big rock and dragged Li Yanqing over.
Lin Xiaoyi, who was following Li Yanqing, reacted quickly, grabbed Li Yanqing and Wang Gui's horses, and ran backwards, at this time, another arrow came, Lin Xiaoyi snorted, fell to the ground, and this arrow hit his back.
At this time, Li Yanqing had already seen the hiding place of the archers, fifty steps in front of them, across a small hill more than ten miles long and more than twenty zhang high, Li Yanqing saw two Western Xia soldiers, holding bows and arrows aimed at them.
Wang Gui suddenly asked, "How many people do you see up there?" ā
"It's just two of you!"
Wang Gui's face changed, and he said hurriedly: "Retreat!" The others must have outflanked them. ā
Li Yanqing also reacted immediately, these two people were just snipers, and the Western Xia spies who really ambushed them would definitely kill them from both sides.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves had sounded, and the Western Xia cavalry had already been killed, and Li Yanqing saw that there was a ravine more than a dozen steps away on the left, so he shouted: "Go into the ravine!" ā
The soldiers rushed into the ravine, and two more arrows came, one shot into the air, and the other hit one of Wang Gui's men, and the soldier screamed and fell into the ravine.
Li Yanqing had already galloped a few steps and turned on his horse, shouting to Wang Gui: "You take everyone away, we will lead them away." ā
At this time, Li Yanqing suddenly found that Lin Xiaoyi was not dead, and was crawling towards the ravine in pain, and he was about to get off the horse, but Wang Gui rushed over, "You go quickly!" He put Lin Xiaoyi on his shoulders and whistled in his mouth, while the black horse followed his master to the ravine.
Out of the corner of his eye, Li Yanqing found that the Western Xia horsemen on both sides had rushed to more than twenty steps away, and there were as many as twenty people, if he hadn't tried to capture him alive, he would have been shot to death by random arrows.
Li Yanqing urged the horse to gallop, galloped wildly to the southeast, and rushed in front of a team of Western Xia spies, stirring up billowing yellow dust, and the two Western Xia cavalry shouted and chased after them.
As Wang Gui said, Li Yanqing, who was wearing an eight-grade official uniform, was a rare treasure in the eyes of the Xixia people, and catching Li Yanqing was better than the news that hundreds of spies had inquired.
At this time, Li Yanqing had already pulled out the leopard head bow from the bow bag, and put a pot of arrows on his shoulder, he pulled out an arrow, opened his bow and took the arrow, twisted his body and shot back, this arrow was as fast as lightning, the forehead of the Western Xia cavalry in the front, the cavalry screamed, turned over and fell off the horse, followed by five arrows like a series of shots, arrows and arrows such as chasing the soul of life, five Western Xia chasers fell off their horses with arrows, all of them were headshots.
In the blink of an eye, the six Western Xia soldiers who were at the forefront were all shot and killed, which really surprised the Western Xia cavalry, and the leader of the Western Xia cavalry shouted, and the rest of the cavalry stopped chasing.
Li Yanqing also stopped running, he wanted to lure these cavalry away and give Wang Gui a chance to escape.
Suddenly, the yellow dust was rolling in the direction of Wulong Village, and more than 100 cavalry were basically coming towards Li Yanqing's side, Li Yanqing was shocked, turned his horse's head and ran to the northeast.