Chapter 73 [Two Heroes Breaking into the North Sea]
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"Rescue Kong Beihai?" Ma Han's expression of "surprise" was actually expected.
"Yes, this is what my mother meant. When Ci was traveling north, there were many envoys in the family. Now that the Yellow Turban surrounded Duchang, and the envoys Kong was in trouble, the family asked Ci to repay this kindness and guard the city..." Taishici was embarrassed and worried. After all, he was no longer the single-handed ranger in the past. All his actions that had nothing to do with this battle must be approved by his superiors, namely Ma Han. However, for his efforts to repay his kindness, it had an impact on the entire combat operation, which was extremely uneasy for Taishici.
"A real man is clearly divided into gratitude and gratitude. He will repay all kindness and demand all gratitude. Ziyi is a hero. How can he not repay any kindness?" Ma Han looked like a caring boss.
Seeing that the city guard had no intention of being harsh, Taishi Ci secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, "Ci has no intention of implicating our army. If the city guard agrees, Ci is willing to ride alone and enter Changdu to meet the envoy Kong. He said that he is powerful and volunteered to be the general and lead the Beihai County troops to defeat the bandits to break the Beihai siege."
Ma Han smiled but said nothing. Taishici did this in history, but Kong Rongkong was full of sutras and arguments, had no eloquence, but knew nothing about military affairs, and lacked courage, and refused to agree to Taishici's request. The only thing he trusted was reinforcements, and only foreign monks could recite scriptures. Finally, Taishici rushed out of Duchang and asked for help from Liu Bei in the plain. As a result, before the three thousand reinforcements arrived, the Yellow Turban thugs had already heard of the news and fled. It was such a mob. But it scared the dignified Kong Beihai.
Ma Han knew that Taishici would be difficult to convince Kong Rong during this trip, but this was just right. All he wanted was Kong Rong not to fight. Otherwise, how could he implement his plan? Similarly, he would definitely save Beihai, regardless of whether Taishici requested it or not. But Ma Han must wait for Taishici to propose it. Then he promised it himself, so that Taishici owed him a favor. To conquer someone, it is not to take the head and bow down when he was hot and bowed, but to keep showing kindness and righteousness in the process, give it to favor, bind interests, slowly consolidate it, and finally make it completely return to his heart. This method of defensive control is the clearest, but the gang is also the best at playing.
"The thief army besieged the city, Ziyi is the most important general of my White Wolf City. How can I take risks alone? I and Ziyi go with me." Ma Han smiled and held out the magic eye bow, and the sun shone on the two stainless steel pulleys, shining, "Last time we killed the wolf, we haven't decided the outcome yet. This time we killed the thief, we can compete with each other."
Taishi Ci was so excited when he heard this. He couldn't help but hold the new bow in his hand - this is a five-stone pulley bow. He used a four-stone strong bow, and after adding a pulley, he saved 30% of his effort. Now he opened a five-stone bow and shot a hundred arrows, which was like playing.
"Okay! This time, it's better to see who shot more thieves."
From Huangxian to Duchang, through Xianguo, Qucheng, Yeguo, Dangli, and Xiami counties, the journey is nearly 300 miles, according to the normal cavalry marching speed. At least three days. But the Wolf-fanged Flying Cavalry is shameless, and of course it is impossible to travel through the village and county, and run around in Qingzhou, so they must not take land. If you walk on the sea, you can go west along Laizhou Bay for a day and night, not only hidden, but more importantly, fast.
After five days of rest, in addition to more than ten people who were not adapted to the local conditions and were in poor condition, most of the Wolf-Tooth Flying Cavalry soldiers had recovered. However, nearly thirty horses had problems because they were not adapted to the bumps at the sea. The Mahan simply left three troops, led by a team, and under the arrangement of Taishici, several friends from the village party, scattered into Huangxian to hide, collect intelligence, and communicate with Liaodong. The remaining 170 people were all on board and headed to the west coast of Laizhou Bay.
In the morning of the first day of May, three boats of the stern boats transported more than 170 people, including Ma Han, Taishi Ci, and more than 170 people to Laizhou Bay, and the Weishui River exited the sea. Looking south from here, you can see Duchang City more than 20 miles away. Seeing the geographical environment of this city, Ma Han understood why Kong Rong abandoned the Beihai National Headquarters Ju County and chose to fight against the Yellow Turban Thiefs here.
Because of the near sea, Duchang City is not high and the city is not big, which is conducive to defense. Moreover, its geographical location is really good: ten miles to the west are irrigation water, the east is close to the Wei River, the north is turbulent sea, and the south is facing the Yellow Turban Thief. This way, it is surrounded by water on three sides and facing the enemy's terrain is really impeccable. Seeing Kong Rong's military is not good, but his vision is still very good.
After Ma Han landed, he was not in a hurry to break in, but asked Taishici to find a village nearby to inquire about the situation of the Yellow Turban siege. About two hours later, Taishici returned and brought the news that the head of the Yellow Turban thief was Qu Commander named Guan Hai, with a force of more than 10,000 troops under his command. The camp was stationed in Hanting ten miles south of Duchang. In addition to the large number of Yellow Turban thieves in the south and west, there were very few troops in the east and north directions. Because the east was close to the river and the north was the sea, under normal circumstances, reinforcements were impossible to come from these two directions.
Ma Han thought a little, squatted on the beach, drew a circle on the beach with his fingers to indicate Duchang, and then drew a thin line on the left, saying, "This is Weishui, which is bypassed five miles away from the east gate of Duchang. We took two small boats and went upstream. When we reached the east gate, we broke out from the boat and broke through the siege of the thieves. What do you think about Ziyi?"
Taishi Ci said happily: "It's exactly what I want."
Ma Han immediately ordered ten warriors who knew the nature of water, were fierce and nimble. Each of them had an ordinary bow, two bags of arrows, a chopping knife, and a round shield. He removed his armor and helmets as light as possible. Then he took off two lifeboats from the fenders on both sides of the sill boat, transferred eight husbands and added an eagle slave. The two boats had a total of twenty-one people, and took the Duchang upstream of the Wei River.
It took more than twenty miles, and within half an hour, I peeked out of the cabin and saw sparse tents along the coast, ridges, woods, etc. The rice in May had just been eared, but many of the ridges were trampled and destroyed by this group of thieves.
When you approach the east gate, you can see that there are trees piled up hundreds of steps away from the city gate. This is an obstacle set by the Yellow Turban thieves to prevent the city's defenders from breaking through or attacking. Near that obstacle, there are about a hundred Yellow Turban thieves holding simple weapons and patrolling back and forth. Even closer to the river, there are yellow Turban thieves with gray-yellow cloth on their heads and tattered clothes washing clothes. Or sitting in the sun to catch lice. These thieves are not many young and strong, many elderly and weak, and even women can be seen entering and leaving the camp...
The warrior of the Wolf-Tooth Flying Cavalry couldn't help but spat: "Just like this kind of alert, such patrol, such old, weak and disabled soldiers can even besiege this city!" His disdain for the Yellow Turban thieves and the soldiers of Beihai County was beyond words.
Ma Han slapped the warrior's head: "Stop talking nonsense. Come with me!"
The boat was on the shore, and thirteen people came out of the water like dragons, jumped to the shore. In the stunned thief, who was washing clothes and catching lice, were as fast as the wind, rushed towards the city gate five miles away. The two small boats rushed down the current and left far away.
Ma Han, Taishici and others were moving too fast and running for three miles. The Yellow Turban Thief reacted and shouted loudly to chase and block from all directions.
Ma Han knew with just a glance that, except for the more than a hundred patrols intercepted from the front, the left and right could not be encircled. The Yellow Turban thieves behind could only eat dust behind their butts. As long as they defeated the frontal thief army and crossed the roadblock, they could break into Duchang City.
"Wolf Teeth Flying Rider, Free Scattering, Target, Front!"
The sound of the horse man fell, and half of the demon's eye bow was shot out, and an arrow shot out. A thief who was rushing towards him a hundred steps ahead was hit by an arrow, and a bloody rain was particularly red in the afternoon sun...
Taking the orders of Ma Han as the beginning, eleven bows were lifted almost at the same time, swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing swishing-
In just a few breaths, the arrows were like rain. Twelve bows actually shot a critical effect similar to the volley of powerful archers of hundreds of people.
A large area of Yellow Turban Patrol in front of him fell down, and Ma Han and Taishi Ci shot and killed nearly ten people. The group of Yellow Turban Patrols had never seen such a powerful storm. The screams rose and fell, like birds and beasts scattered.
Ma Han was waiting for the twelve Storm Sagittarius, five were clearing the way forward, five were breaking the tail, Ma Han, Taishi Ci and Yingnu were in the middle, and the two Three Kingdoms attacked fierce men from afar, shooting from the left and right, and shooting like lightning. Both of them were rapid archers, each holding a powerful pulley bow, and shot one arrow after another. From a distance, they shot like a super strong crossbow, and the person who was hit the arrow almost fell down in pieces.
"Ziyi, I let go of fifty-six people, thirty-nine deaths, and seventeen injuries."
"The rapid shooting of the city guard is unparalleled in the world. Ci felt ashamed of himself, and only shot thirty-two people and injured eleven."
The horse man kept ringing and his footsteps were flying, and he laughed: "I'm not satisfied this time, I'll play again next time I have the chance."
Before the thirteen people rushed to the roadblock, there was no one in front of them, and they rushed to the left and right, and stopped behind them. They just walked out so easily and walked out.
The guards in Duchang City were stunned and all stunned.
At this time, a heroic young man with two halberds on his back and holding a strange bow rushed to the city and shouted loudly: "Donglai Taishi Ci, on the order of his family Ci, I will come to help Kong Envoy!"
The defenders on the city then realized that they were both surprised and happy. They hurriedly put down the suspension bridge and hung two hanging baskets from the city wall.
A guard general leaned over the female wall and whispered: "Please put the weapons in the hanging basket and take another hanging basket."
Without knowing the identity of the visitor, the separation of people and weapons and hanging baskets into the city is a conventional way of handling. Taishi Ci certainly understood that he did not think it was offensive and threw arrows and double halberds into the basket, but the pulley bow was on his back. The general Duchang didn't care. After all, if the bow is not as good as a fire stick without arrows.
At this time, the Yellow Turban thieves had already reacted. A large number of bandits emerged from the south gate. These bandits could be seen from afar, with bows and shields, and even a dozen cavalry. There were very few Yellow Turban cavalry. The appearance of these cavalry means that the elite Yellow Turban soldiers who besieged the South Gate were alarmed and rushed to intercept them.
The defenders of Dongcheng pointed at each other and shouted, but there were only two hanging baskets. If they wanted to get them, they could only go to the military depot in the city to retrieve them, but where was there any time?
At this time, Taishi Ci had just stepped onto the city, and the hanging basket was shaking down, while hundreds of Yellow Turban elite soldiers had rushed to three or four hundred steps away...
"City Guard, please climb the city quickly." Ten wolf-fanged flying cavalry warriors lined up and guarded at the suspension bridge. Before their city guards could climb the city safely, no one would retreat even if they died.
Ma Han didn't even lift his eyelids towards the empty hanging basket. He grabbed an iron arrow and inserted it on the ground. He turned around and aimed at the Duchang City Wall, pulled the arrow, put the strings, opened the bow, slack the strings, and fired, and continued, and his momentum was like flowing clouds and water, which was indescribable.
Pupp pupp pupp! Arrows were like beads, breaking through the ground, about a foot deep, and as dust flew, all twenty iron arrows shot out. The iron arrows intersected, half an arm apart, and from bottom to top, forming a "staircase" on the rammed earth city wall.
The horse general inserted his bow into the bow bag, stepped up, and stepped on his hands and feet. In the blink of an eye, he rolled up a three-foot high wall. He immediately took the bow and arrow, and Zhuo Lili was on the wall, with awesome power, which made the guards of Duchang East Gate dumbfounded.
Ten wolf-fanged flying cavalry soldiers quickly retreated under the city wall and climbed up one after another. The speed was much faster than hanging baskets.
After the last wolf-fanged flying cavalry warrior successfully climbed the city, Ma Han and Taishici collected their bows. After the whole process, the defenders of Duchang East City stood aside like a group of dumb geese, watching the group of fierce soldiers sucking weapons and easily climbing the city. Including the guards, they did not dare to say a word.
Ma Han walked over, snatched the hanging basket from the guard's hand, waved everything, the thick rope broke, and the hanging basket fell to the ground. Ma Han held the broken rope and swung the iron arrows, and withdrew the right arm, the iron arrows broke through the ground, and the mud and sand fell down. The long rope raised, rolled the iron arrows onto the top of the city and shook them down at his feet. In just three or five strokes, all twenty iron arrows were retracted.
It was not until this time that the defenders woke up like a dream and hurriedly pulled up the suspension bridge. At this time, the Yellow Turban Thief Army was still two hundred steps away...
Chapter completed!