Chapter 108 Hunting
The sixty or seventy villagers who survived the disaster all retreated to the large courtyard located in the middle of the village. The walls of the courtyard were high and thick and the buildings were solid. The fire had not caused a fire before. The Chihu people were unable to know whether there were Tibetans in other places in the village for a short time, so of course it was impossible to attack the courtyard.
Except for a dozen people occupying the surrounding roof ridges, using precise archery techniques to suppress the villagers in the courtyard or the assassins hiding therein, the remaining people were divided into arrays and searched from the periphery first.
Two groups of cavalry were patrolling the main street, preparing to quickly rush to help the enemy where they encountered it, but they did not expect the threat to hide on the eaves of a wooden building next to the main street.
Xu Huai walked to the side of the eaves and there was a slight sound, as if a cat was walking on a tiles. An enemy soldier was wondering why there were little animals that were not scared by them. He even came closer and looked up and saw Xu Huai's murderous face. Several enemy soldiers were guarding their guards to patrol. When the enemy saw Xu Huai coming over violently, he subconsciously waved his bow and whipped Xu Huai's knees, and took advantage of the momentum to avoid the extremely sharp blade.
Such a reaction is not unpleasant, but unfortunately he met Xu Huai.
Xu Huai's whole body was bent and thunder sounded, and it seemed like a slight sound in his body, causing his body to suddenly stop in the air for several moments. His long arm stretched out like a monkey, and his long sword turned into a cut, hitting the throat of the enemy soldier just right. Seeing the enemy soldier's shocked face, Xu Huai held the handle of the knife in his hand and made the blade fall along his body, from the left neck to the shoulder and armpits, and the sharp blade opened a bloody hole in the side abdomen of the war horse under his straddle.
Unlike the powerful mountain-slashing sword in the battle formation, Xu Huai used his sword lightly and simply to save every drop of physical strength as much as possible. In the battle formation, Strength can hand over the front line to the left and right to hold on, and there is also a chance to breathe. Now he is fighting in the village, and he has to rely on himself to hold on from beginning to end.
According to the previous plan, Xu Huaixian only needed to attract the attention of the enemy soldiers, so that Yan Xiaoyi, Zhou Yong and others could sneak out of the village, but now it is necessary to injured or killed the mounts of the enemy soldiers entering the village to prevent the enemy soldiers from breaking out in the end.
Xu Huai was not interested in fighting, and cut the blade across. He pulled a bloody mouth to the right hind leg of the war horse in front of him, and then he stepped close to the wall. Two sharp arrows shot through the side armpits, and hit the stones with a loud sound. Xu Huai elbows backwards, and shot down a sharp arrow from the face in a flash. He twisted his body, and the surging force drove the whole body to turn to the narrow alley outside the corner at an unimaginable speed to avoid the denser arrows.
There are more than a hundred families living in the remnant village. Facing the official road to the east, there is only one village gate, which is very small in scale. The east-west stone paving is narrow and the length is only more than 220 steps.
At this time, more than a dozen soldiers stood on the roofs around the courtyard courtyard with bows, above the courtyard wall. If there were no houses and the courtyard walls blocked them, any corner of the village would be within their range.
This is also the most difficult place for Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan to hunt these enemy soldiers in the village, and they must leave with one blow.
If they were entangled by three or five encroachers in the unblocked streets, it is very likely that dozens of sharp arrows would be shot accurately between two or three breaths, and Xu Huai would not dare to say that he could avoid it in time?
Zhou Yong, Shi Hu, Yan Xiaoyi and others also wanted to participate in the hunting in the village, but Xu Huai refused. Even when they attacked these elite envoys, they could not form a crushing advantage of advancing and retreating as soon as they started. The search for Xiao Yanhan's envoys and the envoys who were patrolling the streets mainly ensured that they were all within the range visible to their archers.
However, the group of enemy cavalry who were attacked obviously had not yet realized Xu Huai's strength. They believed that one person was killed and two horses were injured when they met, which was caused by a sneak attack in surprise.
The remaining four people were extremely angry, so they rode their horses and turned around the corner and rushed into the narrow alley between the two earthen walls.
The second person in the top was the one who was cut by a war horse. In a rage, he first abandoned his horse and chased him with a knife. The other three wanted to bypass the two injured war horses, and even if they rode their horses in front of them, they would fall behind.
The head-first thought that the attacker must have quickly fled deep into the alley on the side, but he didn't expect that he had just turned around and had not yet seen the situation in the narrow alley clearly, the blade that slashed across turned into a very cold lonely sword light passing by him.
The scimitar in his hand was only half pulled out, and the incredible rhino leather armor could not provide him with any protection. He vaguely heard the sound of a sharp blade slashing across his sternum. He saw the attacker squatting slightly, and he was already in front of him. In an instant, he changed his slashing step, and his body rushed over like a beast. As his body quickly approached, his elbows were crossing the spine, pressing against his chest, causing him to retreat involuntarily and collided with the first war horse that rushed into the entrance of the alley.
The two powerful forces in the front and back combined, and the enemy soldiers heard the slight sound of their sternum being cut off by the blade. Then they watched the attacker retreat quickly, and the next moment they approached the earth wall, stretched their long arms, put them on the wall and rolled into the courtyard burned by the fire on the south side. The two sharp arrows shot over did not even touch the corner of the other party's clothes.
Seeing his companion falling to the ground and his chest was almost completely broken, the other three soldiers realized that the attacker was much more powerful than they thought, and then pulled the reins hard. They pulled the reins and pulled the war horse under their crotch, not daring to really get into the narrow alley where the archer had no vision to chase.
Xu Huai did not escape far away. He quietly took out a sweat towel against the earth wall and wiped the blood on the blade to prevent the blood from falling on the ground and leaving clues. In addition to the horses breathing, there were also slight sounds of bricks and tiles falling. It was probably because a archer in the village came to reinforce him by flying over the eaves and walls.
Only then did Xu Huai sneak up on the north side against the earth wall.
The thieves set fire in the village before. Except for some embers that were still emitting black smoke, most of the houses were not burned. At this time, the fire was basically extinguished. The collapsed broken walls and ruins rushed to collapsed doors and windows, providing convenience for Xu Huai to walk between the houses.
When he arrived at the meeting place he had agreed to with Xiao Yanhan, he saw that she was already leaning against Tuyuan Xieli, Xu Huai was about to ask her about the record when he suddenly saw the clothes on his chest breaking open and blood was covered in scare, and he lowered his voice and shouted: "Why are you injured?"
Xu Huai reached out to look at the wound, but Xiao Yanhan glared at him and roared: "What are you doing? I was not hurt, but the clothes outside were scratched, and the blood belonged to someone else."
Touching that there was indeed a layer of silk clothes inside, Xu Huai pretended to be confused, pretended to poke his head out to observe the enemy situation, and said, "I told you not to take risks!"
"How many people have you killed?" Xiao Yanhan asked.
"Two two horses." Xu Huai said.
"I killed three people and destroyed four horses from the other party!" Xiao Yanhan said proudly.
"Don't take risks anymore, I beg you." Xu Huai reminded with a headache.
"Unlock the belt to me!" Xiao Yanhan said.
Xu Huai hesitated to look at Xiao Yanhan. He was wearing a short-tied outfit, and it didn't matter whether he had a belt or not. He took it down and handed it over. However, he saw Xiao Yanhan wrapping his belt around his chest twice and tied it tightly. He commented with some emotion: "It's really a hindrance."
Xiao Yanhan glanced at Xu Huai, listened to the horses running on the stone street outside, and the two of them pressed against the earth wall behind them, listening to the movements of the captured soldiers in the village.
Xu Huai and the others were able to urgently look at the terrain in the village and touch it, but the enemy soldiers were a little blind.
At present, two attackers with great skills have been hiding in the village. There are only more than 30 soldiers in the captive army and five of them have been killed. How dare you rush straight into the room?
Seeing that the two wings were searching far away, Xu Huai took out the long bow of the zhe wood that had been hidden in advance from a pile of ruins, tied the arrow bag behind his shoulders, and when war horses were neighing outside the village on both sides, he and Xiao Yanhan quickly passed through the hall and rushed to the gap in the west wall.
Shi Hu, Zhou Yong and others sneaked out of the camp, and it was impossible for Xu Huai and others to completely solve the war horses of the enemy soldiers in the village before taking action. This would also arouse the alertness of the enemy soldiers, or drive more war horses into the camp so that they can continue to control the stone street.
Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan only need to deal with some of the war horses in the village first. Shi Hu and Zhou Yong and others will attack directly outside the village, and it is on duty at this moment.
Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan listened to the roar of the enemy soldiers in the village, confirmed that Shi Hu and the others had succeeded outside the village, so they rushed to the west side near the Qingshui River.
It is also because their staff were too limited, and the main personnel outside the village were arranged on the east side. Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan then attacked the enemy soldiers from the west side of the remaining village to relieve the pressure here.
The enemy's traces appeared inside and outside the village, and the enemy soldiers became panic and could not understand the details of the attackers. They did not dare to disperse their hands to search for the attackers, nor did they dare to leave the village and escape easily when most of the war horses were scared away.
The enemy soldiers were in a position of retreat, so it was even more convenient for Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan to work together. Xu Huai first shot and killed two enemies, injured one horse, lured five enemy soldiers into a stairs, and attacked Xiao Yanhan from the gap in the earth wall and killed five people.
This made the enemy soldiers even more afraid to move easily, and soon occupied a thick yard on the west side, thinking of staying up until dark before breaking out.
Although Xu Huai only led a dozen people to arrive here first, there were more than a dozen small teams of elite cavalrymen in the Yiqi Battalion cruising within a range of several miles to more than ten miles in order to scare away the enemy soldiers in this area and clear the way for the subsequent brigades to travel north at night.
The team of captive soldiers did not dare to break through hastily, and was falling into Xu Huai's heart. At dusk, Yuan Lei, Wu Chihai and others led a team of cavalry to meet Xu Huai.
At this time, they had the advantage in numbers, and all the soldiers and armor were armored. First, they used crossbows to hold the divine arm crossbow to occupy the high point. Yuan Lei, Zhou Yong, and Wu Chihai led small teams and strongly rushed in with heavy shields, annihilated all the remaining less than twenty enemy soldiers, ending this unexpected outpost battle.
After nightfall, the guards of the tombs advanced north in batches under the night. King Jing Zhao Tuan, Qian Shangduan, Qiao Jien, Deng Gui and others also rushed to the remnants of the village in the early morning to meet Xu Huai.
Chapter completed!