Chapter 147: Close encounter
Brothers Duan Song and Duan Liu urged their soldiers and led their horses to the west. Zhong Chongxun also led the team to the east. Duan Song was still cautious after all. Seeing that Zhao Zhen wanted to refuse the horses, he also brought a group of them, but Zhong Chongxun was a horse soldier, so he didn't take them with him.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour, seeing that Duan Song and others had gone far, Zhao Zhen also took action. Luan Tingyu held the green sinking gun, and Deng Fei pulled out a black gold chain and brought a black gold gun. The men mounted their horses and marched slowly with 20 horsemen.
Zhao Zhen and Huang Yang also led the troops and marched slowly, escorting the ox cart they had received from Duan Song and pulling their horses to follow. Wu Yong abandoned his horse and stood on the grain cart, observing the rebel camp in the distance.
About two miles away from the meeting, Wu Yong got off the grain truck, rode to Zhao Zhen and said: "Master, this group of rebels is really elite. There are followers everywhere in the camp. I'm afraid I've seen them a long time ago. After I waited, I still had breakfast in an orderly manner. Although I was not in formation, I was dressed neatly, with my armor on my body and my knife on my hand.”
Just as he was talking, he heard the sound of drums in the rebel camp. The rebels left the camp in an orderly manner and lined up. The usual military formation of the Forbidden Army was set up, with sword and shield soldiers in front, spears in second place, and a circle around them, with archers and crossbowmen in the middle. There were twenty cavalry troops on each side of the formation. I don't know whether it was because they were not prepared to resist the horses, or because they were not taking it seriously. There were no thorns in front of the formation to resist the horses.
In the east, Zhong Chongxun, Jiang Liangjie, and Cao Qi rode their horses and led their troops to arrive first. They stopped at a place where Wang Lun's army was two arrows away. They did not rush into the formation, but only monitored the movements of the rebels.
After a while, Zhao Zhen from the south and Duan Song and Duan Liu from the west surrounded them one after another. Zhao Zhen, Duan Song and others positioned their horses to resist. Everyone observed and found that Wang Lun was in the middle of the army and did not move forward or attack. He seemed to be defensive.
Zhao Zhen, Duan Song, Zhong Chongxun and others who surrounded Wang Lun communicated with each other and made plans. Luan Tingyu, who was in Zhao Zhen's army, stepped forward to challenge him. He dressed up as follows:
Wearing a scarlet hat Li-shaped helmet, with a red tassel on the top, a pair of plum blossom and elm leaf armor with hooks, a crimson war robe, a pair of green cloud-root boots, a snake bone bow, and a pot of wolf-tooth arrows. , riding a sea lion horse, wielding a green sinking gun, and hiding a meteor hammer at his waist.
Luan Tingyu reined up his horse in front of the formation and shouted: "Rebellion against the country, the heavenly soldiers are here, if you dare to resist, if you don't dismount and accept surrender, your bones will be shattered into pieces!"
In the opposite formation, just pretend not to be seen. Luan Tingyu returned without success. Zhao Zhen, Duan Song and others followed the plan and advanced with shields. Zhong Chongxun and others came in with their cameras. When they reached the place of one arrow, Wang Lun's army shot one arrow each to the south and west, followed by a hail of arrows.
Fortunately, both Zhao Zhen and Duan Song's troops had shields to cover them, and they were able to shoot at each other despite the rain of arrows. Luan Tingyu and Deng Fei led the cavalry troops behind, looking for fighters.
After a while, there was a close fight. There was still a stalemate at Duan Song on the west side. Two men suddenly rushed out from Zhao Zhen's army. They were indeed two heroes, Jiao Ting and Bao Xu. They were hiding behind the side cards. As soon as they started fighting, Fei Ye seemed to rush into the enemy's formation. , followed by heavy swordsmen. How could the rebels be so fierce? Before Wang Lun could change his formation, in a hurry, Jiao Ting shouted and cut the rebel in front of him into two pieces with a single knife. Bao Xu turned around with his Sangmen Sword and knocked down three or five of them. The heavy swordsmen from behind swarmed up and killed the rebels in front. Seeing that the situation was not good, the crossbowmen in the back hurriedly retreated, turned around and walked away to the camp. Luan Tingyu, Deng Fei, and Zhao Zhen arrived early on horseback. The horse army dispersed the rebel ranks at once, and the infantry followed closely behind, completely disrupting the rebel formation.
Seeing that Wang Lun was not in charge, he went straight to the west where the horse army was hiding. Luan Tingyu turned the horse's head and led the army straight towards Wang Lun.
In the east, Zhong Chongxun, Jiang Liangjie, and Cao Qi also seized the opportunity and went straight to the opposing rebel cavalry. In the west, Duan Song and Duan Liu also urged the sergeants to step forward bravely. For a while, there were shouts of killing everywhere. The rebels only hated their father. The mother-in-law had two feet and ran for her life on the deep forest road. There were also those who saw the opportunity early and ran into the camp early.
Unfortunately, Wang Lun only had thirty or twenty men left to guard the camp. Jiao Ting and Bao Xu followed closely and rushed into the camp. Killed and dispersed. Later, Wu Yongjian seized the gate of the stronghold, leaving half of Jiao Ting's men to guard it, and asked Bao Xu to recruit everyone in the stronghold. Seeing that the rebels had nowhere to escape, they abandoned their troops and armor and knelt on the ground. Bao Xu led ten soldiers An infantry unit found an open space and detained all the rebels. For a while, the village became quiet.
The rebels outside the camp rushed like wolves. Wang Lun led a group of cavalry troops to break out from Duan Song early. Luan Tingyu led his troops in hot pursuit, and Zhao Zhen came from behind. He shot two arrows in a row, one missed, and the other hit Wang Lun's side. Wang Lun folded his saddle and ran away, only running to an open place where there were few people. For a while, he was unable to catch up.
Everywhere else, there are figures of the coalition forces chasing death and chasing north. Jiang Liangjie and Cao Qi saw that the rebels broke into small groups and fled, and the mercenaries they led also dispersed and chased them. Zhong Chongxun killed the cavalry troops on the opposite side, but did not pursue and kill these guerrillas. Instead, he watched Wang Lun fleeing and led his troops to intercept.
He shouted: "The one in yellow is Wang Lun. The reward for capturing Wang Lun is ten gold." Hearing the shout, Jiang Liangjie, Cao Qi and others abandoned the scattered rebels and began to surround Wang Lun. Wu Yong took the opportunity to raise the surrender flag and asked Jiao Ting to take charge. He led two sergeants and went to Wang Lun's tent under the guidance of the surrender troops.
Outside the village, Zhao Zhen saw that Wang Lun was just running away, but he did not forget to take off his yellow clothes, and seemed to rush into the fog intentionally. Zhao Zhen and Luan Tingyu changed horses, and Luan Tingyu did not refuse, riding up and kicking the snow crow. Zui, single-handedly chased after him.
Luan Tingyu chased three people and shot them all off their horses. The horsemen around Wang Lun shouted and dispersed. Deng Fei and Zhao Zhen followed and captured the three people. Seeing Wang Lun, they were about to rush in. In the mist, Luan Tingyu took out the hammer from his waist and shouted: "Here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Lun was hit by Luan Tingyu's flying hammer, somersaulted and fell off the horse. Seeing Wang Lun struggling to walk into the fog, Luan Tingyu caught up and took a shot, stabbing Wang Lun to death long ago. He immediately grabbed the good horse Wang Lun was riding. Then he got off his horse and collected Wang Lun's body.
Zhao Zhen and Deng Fei led their troops over. Zhao Zhen found Wang Lun's golden seal from Wang Lun's arms and received it in his arms. Three heroes took Wang Lun's corpse and led the troops back. Along the way, people shouted: "Wang Lun is dead, and those who surrender will not be killed." Along the way, they collected the surrendered troops and got more than ten good horses, twenty or thirty. Lower the pawn.
The others listened and stepped up their efforts to surrender. After hearing this, Duan Song mounted a horse and came up with more than ten guards to help him.
Zhao Zhen took out the gold seal from his arms on the horse, handed it to Duan Song, and said, "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life."
Duan Song took the gold seal and looked at it in turn. Seeing that it was indeed carved with the words [Sage of Tiandu], he happily took it into his arms and said: "Don't worry, brother, the war drum will be presented later."
Everyone gathered their soldiers and treated the wounded.
Because it was previously agreed that what was captured on the battlefield would belong to everyone. Now that Wang Lun was conferred the title, the fattest piece of meat was given to Zhao Zhen to swallow. Duan Song did not attach much importance to the capture of the battlefield. Now that he has obtained the gold seal, he only cares about urging. Everyone stepped up to clean up.
(End of this chapter)