Chapter 138: Bloody Canyon (1)
When he walked west, Li Ang and his men entered the desert, looking at the increasingly desolate wilderness. In the Uighur days, he didn't know Lin Fengshuang's true identity at that time, but he regarded her as a confidant. Thinking of that time, Li Ang couldn't help but smile on his face. Although the later events were quite a bit narrow-minded, it also gave him a perfect marriage.
Six people and twelve riders, galloping on the earth, the sky was soaring eagles, and beside them were chasing wolves. The sound of hooves dissipated in the empty world. The vastness made Huang Yuan feel very happy. He was locked in the gloomy room of the Logistics Department of the Ministry of War. Year after year, day after day, the boring life of day after day had been suppressed for too long. If it weren't for Li Ang and the others, he would really want to whistle and vent the resentment that had accumulated in his heart for more than ten years.
Suddenly the speed of the cavalry slowed down. Huang Yuan tied the reins of the horse and stopped the galloping horse under his crotch. At this time, Li Ang and the others stopped. Seeing that Li Ang and Tule both showed solemn expressions, Huang Yuan couldn't help but feel shocked. He had been practicing the "listening power" he passed down from home since he was a child, and his ears were far better than others. He did not expect that in addition to him, Li Ang and Tule could also hear the tiny sound of gold and iron coming from afar.
"A Guang, twenty miles east." Li Ang looked at the eagle hovering in the sky and whispered to Lu Guang beside him.
"Brother, are there enemies in front of you?" Murong Ke looked at Li Ang in confusion. He was still young. Although his skills were not bad, his keen battlefield intuition like Li Ang and others could not be learned by learning.
In the clear and loud sound of the eagle flute, the eagle in the sky suddenly flapped its wings and flew to the east, turning into a little black shadow in the sky. Soon there was no trace. "Let's go." Seeing Huluguang let out the Eagle King, Li Ang shouted lightly and rode his horse away again, but the speed was much slower than before. He didn't know what was going on before, although everyone was equipped with two horses. However, for the sake of making sure it was better to save some horses' feet.
The more he went, the sound of metal and iron fighting became clearer. Even Murong Ke heard it clearly. At this time, he realized that Li Ang had asked Huluguang to send the orders of the eagle, and everyone stopped. In the sky, a whistle eagle cries broke through the floating clouds. Huluguang's eagle king had already swept down. In the strong wind with his wings flapping, he stopped steadily on Huluguang's arm.
Take out a few pieces of dried meat from the calf's waist from the waist bag. After feeding it to the Eagle King on his hands, Hu Luguang took out the eagle flute and started to blow it. The sound made was rapid and short, just like the sound of an eagle cried. Soon the Eagle King who swallowed the jerky began to scream in response.
"Sir, there seem to be two groups of people fighting in front of them. The number is about a thousand people." After hearing the eagle words, Hu Luguang looked at Li Ang and replied. He could only say a little bit. After all, no matter how spiritual the Eagle King is, he is just a more powerful bird.
"Go and have a look first." Li Ang pondered for a while, said to several people, and then rode his horse forward. Huang Yuan and the others were stunned for a moment, and immediately followed him, feeling a little excited. Along the way, in addition to wild land, they were also wild land. If it weren't for Li Ang's plucking song to relieve their boredom, they would have been almost crazy, especially Murong Ke. When he first met Li Ang, he had some of the demeanor of aristocratic families. Later, Murong Baiyao found a way to let him into the secret cavalry camp, the young man's active nature was fully revealed.
Li Ang and his friends stopped again. Looking from the canyon where they were, they saw two groups of people fighting. The side where they blocked the canyon with carriages and clothes were slightly neatly, it was obvious that the Qin escort team was a little mixed, and it was obvious that several escort agencies joined forces to protect the land. In the canyon, there were scattered yurts. Looking closely, there were old, weak, women and children, and merchants from Daqin. Outside the canyon, there were mixed clothes and armor, just wearing red flags, with a sloppy word "cloud" written on it. Jian Li was obviously the bandits and horse bandits who were coming and going like the wind in the desert.
Since the Western Regions were incorporated into the Qin Dynasty and renamed Wanzhou 150 years ago, it has become increasingly prosperous. Ten major cities have been built, and the official roads of the Silk Road are wide and neat, ensuring the smooth flow of Chang'an to the Western world. However, other places still seem a bit desolate. Some small tribes still live the same hard life as before, especially in the north, where the areas bordering the Uighurs and Tielle were still within the territory of the Qin Dynasty, there were no officials or garrisons, as if they were forgotten.
In this vast area, there are business travelers to Uighurs, Tiel, and Turks from time to time. In order to survive, many desert men chose to do the job of bandits, but most bandit groups did not dare to be too presumptuous. They usually followed the rules. As long as the business travelers paid for the road, they would keep their safety in their own land.
After all, the reputation of the Great Qin Legion was there. There were no great figures in the desert before, but once they invaded the Great Qin, they all turned into dust. However, in the past thirty years, the Great Qin Legion has not used any weapons. In the desert, some horse thieves gradually became bolder and forgot about those things.
"Brother, can we get on?" Seeing the horse thief robbing his own caravan, Murong Ke looked at Li Ang, and his hand was already touching the horse spear next to the saddle. Huang Yuan, Feng Sha and the others were also looking at Li Ang, waiting for his orders.
Li Ang looked at the battlefield at the entrance of the canyon and said lightly, "Dropping off the horse and rest first, wait for my order."
When Murong Ke heard Li Ang's words, he was stunned at first, then cheered, jumped off his horse, took off his ground horse spear and wiped it. Huluguang beside him took the horse to feed the fodder and water.
The narrow import of the canyon prevents the horse thieves from leveraging their number advantages. They can only use the attrition war to drag down the stoogee. It was precisely when Li Ang saw this that he decided to let everyone rest first. Anyway, those horse thieves cannot kill into the valley for a while, so he doesn't have to worry too much.
Huang Yuan walked to Li Ang and frowned and asked, "Sir, how do you plan to deal with those horse thieves later?" He had a shocking eye. In addition, he had already seen the number of stooges and those horse thieves in the canyon at a glance, three hundred to one thousand. He didn't think that the six of them could turn the situation around.
"Wait." Li Ang looked at Huang Yuan, knowing what he was worried about, and just answered, "Didn't you find that the tribe in the canyon is only old, weak, women and children. There is not even a strong man?"
Hearing Li Ang's words, Huang Yuan hurriedly looked at the canyon. He saw that only the Daqin escort was fighting with the horse thieves at the entrance of the canyon. Then he quickly calculated the number of men in this tribe from about a thousand women and children, at least three hundred.
The man is gone.
"As long as they hold on until the men of this tribe come back, the horse thieves will lose." Li Ang looked at the canyon battlefield in the distance, with a few rays of cold light in his eyes, and flashed away.
"Master. Those horse thieves sent people over, about a hundred people." Tule suddenly brought his tame wolf to touch him.
"It seems they are planning to go down from behind this canyon." After looking at the rock wall of the canyon, Li Ang sneered. He no longer planned to let these hundred people go back.
"Guanlan, Tule, you two bring all the bows and arrows to ambush in front and let them come over. When I take action, you will greet them again and don't let anyone go for me." Li Ang had already given the order, and Huang Yuan and Tule were just slightly stunned. Then they picked up their respective big bows and took the two wolves forward.
"Brother, where are we?" Seeing that Li Ang assigned tasks to Huang Yuan and Tule, Murong Ke couldn't help but get anxious.
"You three bring your horses to ambush behind the rock wall over there, and wait for my long roar to make a horn, and you will come out." Li Ang looked at a larger rock not far away and said to the three.
Looking at Li Ang with a cold face, Murong Ke did not dare to raise objections, but he was a little unwilling to do so. Huluguang led his horse to the leeward rock.
Seeing that everyone had already been in place according to their own arrangement, Li Ang found a rock and sat down. His black giant horse-slashing sword was placed aside. Then he closed his eyes and waited for the horse thieves to come.
Under the sun, Huang Yuan was lying in the sand and watching the horse thieves riding horses passing by not far in front of him. He didn't know how Li Ang planned to wipe out the hundred horse thieves. Frowning, Huang Yuan decided not to think about it anymore. He just waited patiently.
Murong Ke hid behind the rock and watched the horse thieves sitting alone in the distance. His chest was beating violently. He was worried for Li Ang. If Li Ang was riding a horse, he would be more at ease. Even if he couldn't fight, he could escape. But like now, sitting there and waiting for the horse thieves to come, it was too dangerous. Murong Ke stared at Li Ang motionlessly. He had made up his mind that if something was wrong later, he would rush out immediately.
The leading horse thief looked at the man in black sitting in the distance, with a few hesitations flashing in his eyes. He looked around and saw that nothing was wrong in the empty field except for one or two small sand dunes.
"Let's go." The leader greeted his subordinates and went forward again. He felt a little uneasy, but he couldn't tell why. He looked at the man in black with his eyes closed in the distance. He turned around and looked at the nearly a hundred brothers behind him. He felt that he was too brave. The corner of his mouth smiled cruelly. The man in black would be killed.
Li Ang suddenly opened his eyes, and the cold light that suddenly burst out scared the horse thief leader who was approaching him jumped. The horse thief leader felt that the two gazes just now looked like cold blades, which made him so scared that he was actually in a cold sweat.
"Do you want to kill me?" Looking at the horse thief with a faint expression, Li Ang stood up from the sitting stone.
Looking at the man in black who looked up and stood up, the horse thieves saw clearly his appearance. They were only in their early twenties, but they had a kind of coldness like a blade, especially their eyes, which were as fierce as the wolf kings in the desert. The horse thieves with blood on their swords were suddenly frustrated. When they saw the black giant sword in Li Ang's hand, they knew that the man in black in front of them was not easy to mess with. Those who were horse thieves had always had the brightest tricks.
"What are you talking about sir?" The thief leader saw that the man in black in front of him was a tough guy and didn't want to cause trouble. He smiled and said something out of tune, and wanted to call his subordinates to take a detour. After all, there are often some ruthless people who come and go alone in the desert, so there is no need to commit it.
Seeing the horse thief leader walking past Li Ang, Murong Ke, who had been staring at him in the distance, unconsciously clenched his fists. Huluguang and Feng Sha next to him were also the same, and he raised his heart to his throat.
The sword light suddenly appeared, and no one saw how Li Ang drew his sword. The horse thieves just saw their leader's head flying into the sky. The smooth-cut neck, the blood arrow soared into the sky, and then the wind blew it into blood rain and hit their faces.
Just when all the horse thieves were shocked, Li Ang had made progress and slashed continuously. With each sword swing, a horse thief fell from the horse. It was not until he killed three people in a row that the horse thieves woke up, shouted and cursed, drew their swords and guns at the terrible man in black.
The horse team, which had already stopped, suddenly became in chaos, and the horses were crowded and covered, becoming chaotic. Only a dozen people could fight against Li Ang, but they were not Li Ang's opponents at all. When Li Ang's black giant sword was waving, the torn wind and thunder were stunning. The horse thieves who fought with him were afraid, and even half of their usual skills could not be used. Li Ang was peeking at the flaws, and the sword slashed the three of them, which was so shocked that the horse thieves' eyes widened and their minds were blank.
From a distance, they suddenly saw Li Ang, Murong Ke, Hulu Guang, and Fengsha who were suddenly attacking and killing with giant swords, were all in a state of fear. They had never seen Li Ang take action before, but they knew that he was very powerful, but they did not expect that his martial arts were so high. Just when they were stunned by Li Ang's fierce sword technique, they heard the whistle made by Li Ang.
As soon as he woke up, Murong Ke and the other two looked at each other, immediately turned over the horse, rushed out from behind the rock, and rushed towards the horse thieves who had already awakened and surrounded Li Ang.
In the round formation, there were more than twenty deadly tragic corpses at the feet of Li Ang. The horse thieves who came to their senses had surrounded him, bent their bows and shot arrows, and they did not dare to fight him in close combat. Fortunately, his giant sword defense was amazing, and the horse thieves surrounded him, and they were anxious and could not use the accumulated shooting, at most they could not attack.
Murong Ke controlled the war horse, held his horse spear, and Fengsha, and Huluguang formed a cone formation in the shape of a font, and pierced into the side of the horse thieves' circular formation. They suddenly attacked, and the distance was short. When the horse thieves woke up, the circular formation that was not thick was immediately broken. A burst of people were overturned, and the six people were picked up by Murong Ke and others. Under the chaotic horse hooves, they were crushed into a bloody ball, leaving only screams echoing in the wind.
Chapter completed!