Chapter 3, Huma's Land

The distance between the trees here is not dense, but it is blocked by low branches from time to time. Zuzhao's mounts are tall horses in the north, and the horse is eight feet tall. It is really difficult to walk through the forest. Fortunately, everyone is skilled in equestrianism, slowing down a little, and they can still shuttle between them freely.

The journey of three miles passed in an instant, and the forest became more and more sparse.

The plain outside the woodland can be seen at a glance without being passively looking far away, and you can see a team station not far ahead at a glance. There were seven or eight carriages in the team, but more than half of the horses had disappeared. Only two carriages outside the south were still equipped with horses. The horses bowed their heads leisurely and ate grass. There were many luggage, bags and even damaged carriages scattered near the convoy. Three or four bodies fell in a mess, and several other survivors were hiding behind a carriage and crying.

Zu Zhao secretly shouted: Has the Hu people already won?

Rushing out of the woodland, he subconsciously whipped his whip to speed up and stepped on a gust of wind to the front of the convoy.

When the survivors heard the sound of horses' hoofs, they were shocked and cried harder one after another, until one of them felt that the direction of the sound was wrong, boldly looked up, and then shouted like a savior.

Zu Zhao strangled the reins on the side of the carriage where the survivors were hiding. He looked at these people and found that they were all dressed in white. It seemed that they were either merchants or low-class servants. He immediately shouted directly without talking nonsense and asked, "Where did the thief go?"

The survivors were stunned. They saw that Zu Zhao and others were not in uniform, and they didn't even have decent weapons. At this time, they didn't want to save themselves, but went to track down the barbarian thieves, which was really a little big. However, Zu Zhao's question was full of anger, but his young body exuded an unquestionable majesty, quite with the demeanor of a young hero, which made people dare not neglect at all.

"To the west... went, my young lady was...bducted by them..." A man stretched out his finger in a trembling direction.

"How many thieves are there? How long have you been away? Zu Zhao continued to ask.

"A lot...A lot..."

"How many!" Zu Zhao stared and asked harshly.

"Six or seventy people... just left." Another person quickly added.

"Go east by carriage first, about 20 miles to Luronse. Zuji, let's continue to chase. Zu Zhao did not give a quick order, and then hit the horse in the direction pointed by the man.

Zu Ji was full of excitement. Even though he knew that the thief was three times more than himself, he didn't see any fear on his face. He responded loudly, and then knocked on the horse's buttocks with his long bow and chased after Zu Zhao. However, seeing that Zu Zhao and Zu Ji were brave, the other attendants did not dare to retreat at all and shouted and rushed up on the horse.

Following all the way, Zu Zhao's mind was thinking about many ideas at the same time. Of course, he is not a fool, and he is by no means a brain fever, so he blindly entrusted him. Even if he is a regular army, he will feel tricky, let alone a group of domestic servants and attendants? The reason why we must pursue it is that on the one hand, he has been hating the invasion of foreigners in the past few years. Today, since he met Huma's robbery, he must stand up and fight against grievances; the other is that he has been dormant for many years, and it is time to show his skills to earn a bravery; in the third aspect, he is not a little bit. It is grasped that the nomads in the north at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not have a complete military system. It was nothing more than pulling gangs to fight against the rabble, but a morale and psychological contest.

With his saddle and pedaling across the times, coupled with his hard-trained riding and shooting skills, as long as he releases seven or eight people with slow drag tactics, it is enough to destroy the confidence of these "pastorals". But every horse thief who is making money has no courage to make up his mind. This is his own grasp.

The road to the west was slightly undulating. After chasing a quarter of an hour, after crossing a mound, I immediately saw a large group of people driving at a slow speed five miles northwest. Hu people are dressed in coarse cotton pleats, wearing cotton felt hats, or accompanied by animal skin fur, which are full of dark tones from a distance. The Han hostages wrapped in the barren are mostly light and bright clothes, which are very conspicuous in the crowd.

Because the captive hostages kept crying and twisting, the beginning and end of the team were delayed very long and loosely.

It's extremely beneficial to Zu Zhao. He judged the direction of the wind, turned around and shouted to the people behind him, "Take the west wind to their left wing."

The attendants turned their heads and told each other, keeping the northwest and continuing to advance quickly.

Several people at the end of the Hu team heard the sound of horseshoes in the rear, and soon found Zu Zhao and others. They immediately waved all kinds of long-handled weapons in their hands and shouted at the front of them. After a while, the Hu team gradually changed. About 20 people continued to move forward with hostages, while the rest of the people turned around and rushed to face Zu Zhao's side to shout and charge. Obviously, they did not pay attention to the pursuit team of more than 20 people.

The number of Hu people who came to attack was a lot, roughly half a hundred. These herdsmen are also very experienced in archery and know how to seize the upper position, which is just tit-for-tat with Zu Zhao and others.

Sure enough, there are two pieces!

Zu Zhao hummed secretly, but he did not dare to be careless. At this moment, he naturally could not easily change his direction. Even if he could not grab the upper position, he would not let the Hu people take advantage. If the Hu people want to surround them, they will inevitably slow down at speed, and then they will be able to act according to the tactics expected in the morning. The worst result is that the two horses are on two parallel lines and hit each other with bows and arrows.

"Keep the formation and keep the speed. It's better not to shoot arrows than be slower than the thief." Seeing that the Hu people were getting closer and closer, Zu Zhao turned sideways and gave orders to the people behind him.

"Son, what should I do if I don't shoot arrows?" Zuji, not far behind, couldn't help asking doubtfully.

"Act according to the opportunity, and don't let the thief surround us." Zu Zhao said.

Zu Ji would be confused for a while. He thought he would be short-sighted, but now he has become to see who runs fast, which is really aggrieved.

Before themselves, the Hu team was forced to reach a position more than 100 steps behind the side, and then there was no way to get closer, otherwise it would only make the two sides farther and farther away. Relying on the crowd, they kept making rough laughter, and a few arrows flew from time to time, but they were at a disadvantage and too far away to hit.

Zu Zhao looked back and roughly calculated the distance between the two sides. Everything was already in his expectation.

He quickly pulled out a long bow and a feather arrow from behind, and shifted his whole body's center of gravity to the horse pedal. In the process of twisting his waist and turning back, he took the opportunity to open the bow string and aim at the nearest barbarian with green emerald jewelry on the hat. The Hu people rushed to the front of the team from beginning to end. As if it were the leader of this team of horse thieves, of course, they have to capture the king first.

It is not easy to wear Yang in a hundred steps, not to mention on the bumpy horse, but it is now in the upper hand and has the advantage of pedaling. There is still three points of self-confidence that can create some deterrent.

Hold your breath, bow firmly, and carefully grasp the rules of riding.

At that moment, he loosened the bow string and the arrow screamed and flew out.

The leading Hu people noticed Zu Zhao's posture of opening his bow early in the morning. After hearing the sound of arrows, he quickly lowered his head and turned sideways to avoid. However, the roaring feather arrow first brushed the head of his mount, and then crossed his own shoulder. Although it avoided the key point, the penetrating arrow finally hit another barbarians who followed him.

"Ah!" The man who was hit by the arrow shouted in pain and persisted on the horse's back for a while, and then fell down and was swallowed up by the dust under the horse's hoof.

Although it was hit by mistake, this arrow still surprised everyone.

The leading Hu man was angry and afraid. After quacking, he also opened his bow and shot two arrows at Zu Zhao. The rest of the Hu people followed suit and shot more than a dozen arrows in pieces. Unfortunately, it was neither a good wind nor a horse pedal. When aiming at the bow, they had to slow down the speed of the horse. The arrows shot out, not to mention catching up with Zu Zhao, even a few followers at the end of Zu Zhao's team could not touch it at all.

More than ten arrows shot by the Hu people failed, which not only broke his face, but also set off Zu Zhao's prestige.

The sharp contrast immediately aroused the cheers of the followers behind Zu Zhao. Zu Ji even waved his long bow and shouted, while turning back to the barbarians.

Zu Zhao heard the cheers of the crowd and was immediately inspired. What could be more demoralized than teasing the enemy? At the thought of this, he turned back and said heroicly to the followers, "How dare such an unconverted person be the enemy of my big man? What a joke. Look, I'm shooting him alone."

The attendants shouted, "The eldest son is Shenwu."

After saying that, Zu Zhao bent his bow and arrow and aimed at the leading man in jewelry again.

Seeing this, the leader Hu quickly slowed down and hid in the crowd.

Zu Zhao sneered at the corners of his mouth, and the earlier arrow had already worked. He did not intend to deliberately stare at the leading Hu man. He still chose the nearest horse thief as the target. He just wanted to let these horse know what a gun was. At the full moon, he deliberately shouted "middle" while shooting arrows, deliberately to form a threatening momentum.

Huma was guilty as early as the leader retreated. Now they heard Zu Zhao's shouting. Before they saw the feather arrows flying, several people in front of the team immediately dodged first. Because the first person dodge too much and did not have a stable posture, he suddenly fell from the horse's back, pulled the reins in his hand, and was still dragged by the seat for a long time. Finally, he was buried in the dust in the heartbreaking screams.

No one knows whether the arrow shot by Zu Zhao was hit or not, but the attendants couldn't take care of so much and shouted one after another: "I hit it again, I really hit it again."

"There is nothing more than this."

"The great prince's divine arrow."

"Huyi, do you dare to chase him again?"

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[Happy New Year's Day! Winter vacation is approaching, and the end of the year is approaching. I am preparing to go to Xiamen to shoot a short film with several students from Communication University. I hope everything goes well for the readers, and I hope everything goes well myself.