Chapter 39: Plotting
The archers saw that Gao Huaiyuan was not afraid at all, so they all calmed down again, and they all opened their bows and aimed at the golden soldiers on the river beach on the opposite bank, and fired violently.
When even more than a dozen Jin soldiers fell off their horses with arrows, they immediately became chaotic, and they turned around and rushed to the river beach on the other side of the river, which gave the remnants of the Song army in the river a rare respite.
But the situation did not improve because of Gao Huaiyuan's round of launches, at this time a large number of infantry troops of the Jin army had also chased to the river, under the command of the chief general of the Jin army, once again rushed down the river beach, trying to continue the pursuit of the Song army.
Gao Huaiyuan released the arrows while cheering up the archers around him: "Don't be afraid! We'll just hold on for a moment and let our men get ashore!" Shoot me hard! ”
So these villagers obeyed his orders, once again struggled to release arrows, desperately intercepting the Jin army's pursuers, after two or three rounds of fierce shooting, the Jin army's actions were once again suffocated, and they were blocked on the river beach.
At this time, more Song troops began to cross the river, landing on the south bank of the river, shivering wet and trembling, climbing towards the river embankment in panic, and the chaos was not good.
After the Jin army's pursuit was blocked, he found that the Song army had people on the other side of the river, but he also saw that the Song army did not have many people to answer, so the Jin general immediately ordered his men to raise their shields, and ordered the accompanying archers to hunt and kill the Song army that had not yet crossed the river.
For a while, there was a sound of bowstrings on the riverbank, and the arrows swished and fell on the heads of the Song soldiers in the river.
Gao Huaiyuan watched as these Song soldiers fell into the river one by one, but there was no way to do it, so he could only keep releasing arrows, intercepting the golden soldiers on the other bank, and not letting them cross the river.
After Shen Ning was dragged to the river beach by his subordinates, he looked at these embarrassed subordinates around him, he really wanted to cry without tears, and his heart was really beautiful! It was really expected by Gao Huaiyuan, this raid really failed! After looking at it with big eyes, he knew that this time the defeat was miserable, more than five hundred subordinates, less than half of them were still alive at this time, and the rest were either lost on the other side or died in the river, all because of his decision to make quick success, these people were lost here in vain, and Shen Ning regretted wanting to slap himself at this time.
"Vice General Shen! Quickly gather the generals, quickly retreat to the mountain pass, there are people below to meet you, here to resist for a while, you go first! Gao Huaiyuan also saw Shen Ning at this time, and saw that there were still three arrows stuck in the armor on his back, and knew that he was already injured, so he immediately shouted at him.
Shen Ning looked ashamed, regretting that he should not have listened to Gao Huaiyuan's original persuasion, so he ended up like this, but this was not the time to speak, so he nodded, beckoned his subordinates to start concentrating, and quickly gathered the rout, and he himself ran all the way towards the predetermined retreat with the support of the two personal soldiers.
At this time, the Jin soldiers had already begun to raise their shields to cross the river, and continued to pursue this side, and the Jin generals had already seen that the number of Song troops on the other side of the river was not much, so they had the courage to urge their soldiers to cross the river, and they were bound to wipe out the attacking Song army.
Gao Huaiyuan examined the situation for a moment, and immediately shouted to the archers under him: "Concentrate on shooting those horses!" Let them cross the river, let's not think about retreating! ”
After saying that, he raised his hand and an arrow, and a cavalryman of the Jin Army who had just ridden his horse into the water was planted in the river, and after two flutters, he was dragged by the armor on his body and sank into the water, and a red came out of the river in the darkness.
The archers were very obedient, and immediately concentrated their firepower on the cavalry of the Jin Army who were the first to cross the river, and aimed at the horses and fired arrows if they couldn't shoot people, anyway, the target of the horses was larger than the people, so after a while, these remnants of the Jin cavalry were hit by arrows, and the wounded horses neighed miserably in the river, and finally temporarily intercepted the pursuit of the Jin army.
And the archers of the Jin army also rushed to the river at this time, and launched at Gao Huaiyuan on the opposite bank, but at this time the Jin army made a mistake, most of them held torches in their hands, originally to light the road, but as a result, they themselves were exposed to the light, and the Song army on the opposite bank could not be seen from the bright place, but they were all illuminated by torches, and became the target of Gao Huaiyuan's gang.
After the two armies shot at each other on the river beach, Gao Huaiyuan led the troops to shoot a lot of Jin soldiers, and saw that there were more and more Jin troops, so he put away his bow and arrows with an order, turned around and disappeared into the night, and ran towards the mountain pass.
The Jin army immediately noticed the retreat of Gao Huaiyuan and his party, so he immediately went into the water to cross the river again, and chased after Gao Huaiyuan and his party.
The two-mile road is not far, but it is not too close, and the Jin soldiers are menacing, falling tightly behind Gao Huaiyuan and his party, refusing to relax at all.
Seeing that it was likely to be caught up by the Jin soldiers if he ran like this, Gao Huaiyuan thought about it for a while, and immediately ordered twenty capable villagers, followed him to stop for a while, and let the remaining villagers retreat to the valley first, and personally led the team to turn around and shoot two rounds of arrows at the pursuers, and shot the dozen or so gold soldiers who were chasing in front of them on the road, so that the Jin soldiers had to slow down for a while, and then led the twenty people to run quickly to the valley again.
At this time, Shen Ning had already rushed to the valley with the rout soldiers one step in advance, and the arrow wounds on his body began to attack at this time, he shivered in pain, looked around, and took pity on the few heads he brought, there were only two people left at this time, one person was still the same as him, with arrow wounds on his body, only that Du Hu's legs were fast, and he was not injured when he crossed the river in advance, so he waved Du Hu with a pale face.
"Today, I regret that I should not have listened to the advice of the high commander, so as to incur this defeat, you led the remaining brothers here to assist the brothers in the township barracks to resist the enemy, and then retreat to the mountains after the high commander withdrew!" Shen Ning spoke out and commanded Du Hu.
Du Hu was already gritting his teeth with hatred for Gao Huaiyuan at this time, just now when he landed on the shore, he collided with Gao Huaiyuan, but was kicked by Gao Huaiyuan fiercely, almost kicking his ribs twice, until this moment there was still a faint pain, after hearing Shen Ning's order, he didn't dare to disobey, but he had a bad idea to avenge this arrow.
"General Shen rest assured, the lowly post will definitely block the Jin army's pursuit here, please take the first step, withdraw and bandage the wound, and the lowly post will arrive later!" The guy bowed down and agreed.
Shen Ning nodded weakly, and with the support of several recruits, he retreated into the mountains along the valley first.
At this time, Zhou Hao had already set up an ambush at the mountain pass with the rest of the villagers, and waited for Gao Huaiyuan to come back and repair the Jin Army's pursuers!
And Du Hu became the leader of the remaining Song army at this time, so he called these defeated soldiers to form a defensive line in the mountain pass and was ready to meet the enemy.
After a while, a group of township soldiers ran back first, panting and stopped, and Zhou Hao saw that Gao Huaiyuan was not among them, so he immediately said urgently: "What about the high commander?" Why didn't you see him come back with you? ”
The young man at the head replied: "The young master ordered me to withdraw first, and he brought some people to stop the Jin army's pursuit, and he will come back immediately!" ”
Du Hu cursed Gao Huaiyuan in his heart at this time, and he couldn't wait for Gao Huaiyuan to never come back, and it was best to be caught up by the Jin army and chopped into meat to relieve his hatred, so he said loudly: "I think that Commander Gao may not be able to come back, everyone still listens to me, seal the mountain pass quickly, and retreat into the mountain!" ”
"Nonsense! Our high commander will be fine! Hugh is going to talk nonsense here, or be careful that we are not polite to you! Hearing this guy shouting like this, Zhou Hao was the first to quit, and immediately reprimanded Du Hu.
The rest of the villagers and the teenagers of Crouching Tiger Village glared angrily, as if they were going to eat Du Hu, Du Hu was startled by them, and then sneered a few times and stopped arguing with them, but privately let his own soldiers pass the order, ordering these regular army archers to prepare bows and arrows and wait for his orders at any time.
After a while, a large number of torches began to appear in the distance, and a large number of Jin soldiers shouted to kill, and the atmosphere in Taniguchi immediately became tense.
Zhou Hao nervously watched in the direction of the Jin army chasing from the side of the valley, worried in his heart, but after a while, he vaguely distinguished from the firelight that someone was running in front of the Jin army, and many Jin soldiers were chasing behind, so he happily shouted to the villagers in the valley: "Get ready!" Our High Commander is back! Put the golden soldiers in the valley mouth, don't hurt our own people! ”
So the villagers immediately began to get busy according to the words, and moved the rolling wood and stones that had been prepared to the edge of the cliff to make all preparations.
Du Hu secretly sneered a few times, and whispered to his two cronies: "Pass the order, the archers prepare, I say release the arrows, release the arrows immediately, and don't let the Jin soldiers enter the valley!" ”
"But the high commander is ahead?" One of his subordinates asked, puzzled.
"Bastard! I said release the arrows, and if the Jin army attacked, would you want to die with these hillbillies? Without further ado, give me the order! Get ready to shoot your arrows at any time! Du Hu said angrily.
The two people under his command immediately understood what Du Hu meant, and were startled, saying in their hearts that this guy was ruthless enough, and they actually wanted to take this opportunity to kill Gao Huaiyuan.
But they didn't dare to resentful of Du Hu's meaning, thinking that they knew Du Hu's personality too well, and knew that this person was a person who would repay him, and if he didn't do what he ordered, then he would be retaliated against by this guy, so they nodded and turned around to give orders.
After a while, the archers of the Song army raised their arms, held up their bows and crossbows, and aimed them at Taniguchi.
Because everyone was very nervous at this time, no one noticed the actions of these Song troops who were facing the valley, and they just stared at the movement outside the valley, and saw more than a dozen villagers behind Gao Huaiyuan's hall rushing towards the direction of the valley.
"Don't let them run, these people have hurt a lot of us! Catch them alive and skin them alive! There was a shout among the Jin army behind Gao Huaiyuan, just now Gao Huaiyuan led more than 20 people to fight and retreat, injured a lot of Jin soldiers, so that they did not dare to get too close, and bought a lot of time for the archers in front of them to retreat into the valley, and the angry Jin soldiers screamed.
Gao Huaiyuan kept hitting the flying arrows with the dragon scale treasure knife in his hand while running, and his body was still unharmed, seeing that he was about to reach the valley mouth, he was finally relieved, so he closed his knife and followed the remaining dozen archers in front of him into the valley, and said in his heart that there should be a golden soldier to look good now!
But he never expected that their group had just rushed into the valley, only to hear a bowstring sound suddenly in the valley, only to hear a whoosh sound and flew over, Gao Huaiyuan with the dodging skills that he had already practiced, knew that it was not good, and shouted loudly: "It's our ......" while coming to an iron plate bridge, and then rolled on the spot and rolled to the edge of the mountain wall.
Pity the dozen or so villagers who finally escaped back from his subordinates did not have such a skill as him, as soon as they entered the valley, they were all relaxed, and they did not expect that they were greeted by a rain of arrows, and immediately more than a dozen people were hit by arrows, were shot into hedgehogs, and then sprayed with blood, and fell to the mouth of the valley.
"Uncle *, who told you to release the arrows? Grandma's! You bastards, don't you know that our senior commander is coming back? Dare to release arrows, fuck ......" Huang Yan on the other side of the mountain wall saw this scene, his eyes almost popped out, and when he turned his head and scolded at those Song soldiers in the valley mouth.
The Song soldiers realized at this time that they had shot the wrong person, so they hurriedly put away their bows and looked at Du Hu, who gave the order.
Du Hu sneered and said, "What do you see?" What if I let the arrows be released? With such a black light, who knows who rushed in? Accidental injuries are inevitable, so prepare for me and release the arrows! Seal the valley and talk about it! ”
"Your uncle! Lao Tzu slaughtered you! Several teenagers led by Huang Yan and Zhou Hao scolded after hearing this, they just saw that all the people who rushed into the valley were shot to the ground by the arrows shot by the Song army, thinking that Gao Huaiyuan was also killed at the same time, so they were anxious on the spot, and they couldn't care about anything else, so they jumped down from the cliff on one side and raised their knives to pounce on that Du Hu.
After all, Du Hu is also a martial artist, as soon as he saw the young men of these township soldiers rushing over, he choked and pulled out the waist knife from his waist and shouted: "It's against you, Lao Tzu is the head of the Shenjin army, you actually dare to do it, come here, take them down for me!" ”
After all, it is the people of the Shenjin Army, and the soldiers in the army are still inclined to Du Hu, so they have raised their weapons to meet Huang Yan and others, and the red-eyed Huang Yan doesn't care about them at all at this time, and with a swing of the double-hook gun in his hand, he wants to rush into this group of Song troops, and find that Du Hu to settle accounts, Zhou Hao, Zhou Jun and others on the side also waved their knives to rush forward, and even those villagers on the cliff couldn't care about the Jin soldiers outside the valley at this time, and angrily aimed their bows and arrows at the following Song army.
Seeing that an infighting inevitably happened, at the critical moment, Taniguchi suddenly heard a low roar: "Stop it!" Let's talk about this matter later, block the Jin Bing first! ”
Then a black shadow jumped into the crowd, separating the two groups, only to see Gao Huaiyuan stick an arrow in his thigh and shoulder, rushing between them.
As soon as they saw that Gao Huaiyuan was not dead, Huang Yan and the others stopped the guy, glared at those Song Jun fiercely, and then stepped forward to hug Gao Huaiyuan and hurriedly checked his injuries.
"Go away, prepare immediately, the Jin Army is coming! I'm fine, I can't die! Gao Huaiyuan gritted his teeth and said angrily.
And those Song soldiers knew that they were in the wrong, but they didn't speak, they retreated one after another, and a saw that the imminent internal strife stopped, and the situation did not expand.
Du Hu was shocked when he saw it, he thought that Gao Huaiyuan had been shot to death by them just now, but he didn't expect Gao Huaiyuan to escape from such a dense rain of arrows, so he suddenly became a little nervous, and muttered: "Misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding......
Gao Huaiyuan stared at him fiercely, turned to those Song soldiers and ordered: "Give me all the retreat, and let the Jin army in before fighting!" ”
These Song soldiers looked at Gao Huaiyuan, who was covered in blood, and knew that they had escaped to death by worshipping this person today, so they were very grateful to Gao Huaiyuan, and when Gao Huaiyuan ordered them to retreat, these Song soldiers didn't think about it, and collectively retreated to the back.
At this time, there was a shout of killing at the mouth of the valley, and a large number of golden soldiers poured into the mouth of the valley with a roar, stepping on the corpses of the more than a dozen villagers at the mouth of the valley, and rushed into the valley.
Seeing a large number of golden soldiers pouring into the valley, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but stare at the golden soldiers in the valley, secretly counting the number of golden soldiers entering the valley, and when he felt that it was about the same, he suddenly shouted loudly with all his might: "Do it......"
When the villagers on the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth heard the sound, they immediately roared hard and pushed down the rolling wood and stones that had been piled up.
I heard a loud rumbling sound in the valley immediately, and many of the golden soldiers who were rushing into the valley were smashed by these rolling logs and stones from the sky, and the Jin army was immediately frightened half to death, and immediately stopped rushing towards the valley, and the valley mouth was already shrouded in smoke and dust rising from the sky at this time.
After the dust and smoke fell slightly, and then looked at the valley mouth, it had been firmly stubbed to death by a pile of rubble, completely cutting the Jin army inside and outside the valley into two sections, the inside could not get out, and the outside could not enter!