Chapter 53, Brave and extraordinary

Han Dang responded on one side. He fired two arrows in a row and shot two Hu horses in front of Zu Zhao. One of Hu Qi was shot in the chest and died on the spot, while the other Hu Qi was only with an arrow on his shoulder and still insisted on riding.

Zu Zhao's eyes were full of anger, but although he was emotionally excited, he still kept calm. At present, what he wanted to know most was the conspiracy of these thieves. Therefore, if conditions permit, he still wanted to capture the black arrow thief alive. Not only that, no matter whether the black arrow thief is alone with the Qiangyi he met in those years, it must be closely related. If he can capture this person, he will also complete what his grandfathers failed to complete, and he will definitely be more praised.

At this moment, a figure flashed not far from the front, and then a gust of wind came in front of him, and a fork stabbed straight. Han Dang saw it clearly and immediately shouted, "Mr. Zu, be careful!"

Zu Zhao leaned to one side, and the halberd in his hand waved from the bottom up, just blocking the blow of the iron fork.

A burly Hu Qi suddenly slowed down and took the initiative to attack. The weapon in the other party's hand is very different from other barbarians. This iron fork is like a fork, and it seems to be smelted with fine iron. In this way, the weight of the iron fork is absolutely not light, and ordinary people do not need such heavy weapons on horseback.

Zu Zhao originally thought he was an ordinary thief, but he was a general, but after seeing the strong texture of the iron fork in the other party's hand, he immediately did not dare to take it lightly. There are many people in the world who sell labels and sell them indiscriminately, but there are also many brave and powerful people with skills. He stood up the horse halberd and suddenly stabbed it when the thief's iron fork fell.

The thief looked burly, but his figure was very flexible. He leaned back slightly to easily avoid this thorn.

Zu Zhao did not stop. He held the horse halberd's hand and turned hard. The halberd blade quickly rotated and cut the opponent's chest straight down. This set of actions together is not only extremely fast, but also the halberd has already poked out, only seven or eight inches away from the body of the Hu people, and it is usually impossible to react in such a short time.

But the thief shouted loudly and didn't pay attention to the horse halberd that hit his chest. He had given up defense. Instead, he waved the iron fork in his hand and snatched to Zu Zhao. The force was so great that before the iron fork fell, a strong wind came. Even if the tip of the iron fork is directly facing, it will not be stabbed by the pointed head when split horizontally. It looks like it is beaten by a stick.

However, with the terrible arm strength of the Hu man alone, if this blow is taken abruptly, even if there is no trauma, it will cause extremely serious internal injuries. In mild cases, a few ribs will be broken, and in severe cases, the broken ribs will pierce the internal organs and cause internal bleeding.

Zu Zhao thought that the damage caused by his halberd may not take the life of the Hun, and it is certainly not cost-effective to exchange such a blow. Immediately, he hurriedly withdrew the horse halberd, took the opportunity to pick it diagonally, and held the opponent's iron fork above the Hu man's little arm. If the Hu people continue to suppress the halberd hard at this time, the halberd will slide in the direction of pressure and just cut its arm.

The thief obviously expected this and did not continue to exert force on his hand. He pulled up the iron fork and threw away Zu Zhao's halberd fiercely.

Just as the two were fighting, the weak barbarian not far ahead had turned around and suddenly raised the horse bow in his hand, and a cold black arrow was aiming at Zu Zhao. The man did not spend too long aiming. He confidently let go of the bowstring and only heard a muffled sound, and the black arrow rushed out.

Han Dang saw Zu Zhao fight with the iron fork thief for more than ten rounds. He wanted to help from the side, but on the one hand, Zu Zhao and the iron fork thief were difficult to understand and difficult to intervene. On the other hand, he did not disdain to hurt people secretly, and even speculated that even Zu Zhao himself also hoped to fight with the enemy openly. Therefore, under the balance, they no longer paid special attention to the battle between the two, but instead became alert to the abnormal situation around them. When the black arrow thief turned around, he naturally saw it immediately, so he quickly raised his bow in his hand and released an arrow in the direction of the black arrow thief. Time was rushed and he could not aim, but with his many years of experience in archery alone, he still had five or six points. What's more, this arrow was not to shoot the enemy, but to disturb the enemy!

"Child thief, An dares to hurt people with a secret arrow!"

As the feather arrow came out, he gathered in anger and shouted at the same time, with the intention of intimidating the Hu people and warning Zu Zhao.

The black arrow thief was affected by this, and the bow string was slightly lost, but the black arrow still attacked in the direction of Zu Zhao.

When Zu Zhao heard Han Dang's warning, he shouted, resisted the iron fork of the thief, and hurriedly pulled away to dodge. He only felt a cool breeze sweeping across his cheeks, and even a faint hot pain. He took a deep breath in his heart: it was almost bad!

At the same time, the black arrow thief may not be safe and sound. Even if he dodged with all his strength, an arrow shot by Han Dang still hit his shoulder. Unfortunately, this arrow seemed to be just a scratch. With the bumps on the horse's back, it quickly fell to the ground.

Zu Zhao knows that these barbarians are uninitiated, and they don't care about the etiquette, morality and rules of the Han family in the Central Plains. They are simply used to doing this kind of sneak attack and plot. A burst of anger gathered in his heart, his face became more and more cold and gloomy, and the murderousness in his eyes surged. Immediately, he pulled the reins and narrowed the distance with the iron fork thief again. He roared like thunder: "Xiao Xiao, look at me to take your head in the three-in-one."

Angry emotions can stimulate people's instincts, but they will also lose more reason.

In the competition in more than a dozen rounds just now, Zu Zhao did not seriously think about ways to defeat the enemy. He could see that the strength of the iron fork thieves was not small. He was afraid that he was still above himself. If he blindly fought hard, he could barely make a draw, but if he wanted to win, he obviously could not rely on brute force alone.

He deliberately showed a furious appearance in order to lure the iron fork thieves to fall into a state of barbarism like himself. Hard confrontation is the most vulgar competition, in other words, there will be more flaws. The most urgent way to defeat the iron fork thieves is to attack them unprepared with skills and win with surprises.

When the iron fork thief saw that Zu Zhao was in a desperate posture, he naturally could not relax. He also roared and raised the blade in his hand to attack. Next, his every move was full of strength, and the routine of each attack was almost the same, either sweeping or vertical splitting, and even the straight stab was almost useless, as if giving up the advantage of the sharpest part of the iron fork.

Only two rounds, Zu Zhao took advantage of the moment when the thief raised the iron fork, he advanced into the horse halberd and stabbed the exposed abdomen.

The iron fork thief's upper body movement was old and unavoidable, and he was stabbed by this halberd.

"Ah!" He screamed in pain and leaned down on the horse.

Zu Zhao saw that the other party did not fall from the horse and was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue. As a result, the thief turned out to be a warning from Han Dang again.

The black arrow thief seems to be trying to rescue his companions. At this time, although not every arrow is so sharp and accurate, it also creates enough interference.

Z Zhao had no choice but to pull out the distance.

The iron fork thief walked away slowly and lay on the horse from beginning to end, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

At this time, the team led by Zu Zhao finally met the more than 20 knights in the east. The Hu people turned their way and fled to the north, and the two chasers from east to west and from west to east naturally met. The more than 20 riders were all light and simple. Most of them wore black clothes and held sabers. Only a few wore casual clothes and had various blades in their hands. The people leading the team of knights wore a square scarf official hat and seemed to know each other from their bodies.

Zu Zhao stared at it for a long time, because it was dark, and the knights had abandoned the torch before, and they could not distinguish them clearly for a while.

But not long after, the leader wearing a square scarf official hat subconsciously approached and greeted Zu Zhao, "Mr. Zu, I didn't expect you to provoke these thieves with a trick!"

Zu Zhao heard the other party's voice and immediately said in surprise, "Lord Tian, why are you here?"

The person who came was none other than Cao Tianxian, the meritorious worker of Lingzhi County, and the team of knights from the east was also the strong men recruited by Lingzhi County. Tian Xian said in a tight tone, "I promised to arrange fire for Mr. Zu and others earlier. When I arrived, I happened to see a fight here. As a local official, he naturally couldn't sit idly by, so he first sent the fireman back to the county to report, and then led the rest of the people to help.

Zu Zhao nodded and sighed, "Lord Tian is indeed a righteous man. Needless to say, I will definitely capture the thief chief!"

Tian Xian quickly warned: "Mr. Zu is a young hero, but there is only a dozen Gobi ahead, and more than 20 miles past the Gobi is the border. There are often Hu people here, and I'm afraid that there will be no way to take care of them away from the county at that time."

Zuzuo pondered for a moment and said, "Lord Tian, don't worry, I have my own moderation."

After saying that, he slapped a few horse stocks with a halberd and accelerated to rush forward.

Tian Xian can't but keep up. Even Zu Zhao and other county people kill thieves so desperately. As a local official, if he doesn't try his best, won't it be a joke?

After getting closer to the black arrow thief, Zu Zhao put away the horse halberd and took the bow in his hand. He still has some knowledge of his archery. Since the black arrow thief is good at bowing and can't catch up with him immediately now, he just uses arrows against arrows. He stabilized his figure with the help of the stave, bowed with both hands without slowing down, and shot three or four arrows in front of him.

At this time, they are not far from each other, and the deviation of the arrows shot is minimal.

However, the black arrow thief was very clever. Every time he heard the sound of bow strings, he changed his sitting posture to avoid, but he was not injured.

However, Zu Zhao has an arrow that does not shoot people, but deliberately lowers the opponent's mount. This arrow hit the horse stock directly.

The horse of the black arrow barbarian suddenly slowed down a little, and it didn't take long to accelerate again. After all, the horse stock is not a key part, and a real good horse can still survive for a period of time.

At the moment when the black arrow barbarian slowed down, Zu Zhao jumped on the horse and caught up with him, raised the horse halberd and waved down at the short figure.

The Hu people have no blade in their hands and can only fight with horse bows and arms. Zu Zhao thought that with this blow, it was enough to destroy the opponent's horse bow. Unexpectedly, after the halberd collided with the horse bow, they could not hold on to each other. I don't know what kind of material the horse bow is, but it can be so strong.

Zu Zhao tried to suppress the other party. The arm strength of the black arrow beard man is far lower than that of the previous iron fork beard man. The horse halberd pressed very fast and held on the other's shoulder in less than a while. He took the opportunity to twist the halberd and let the halberd fight under the blade, so he stabbed the flesh on the shoulder of the black arrow barbarian.

"Ah!" The black arrow man screamed in pain.

Zu Zhao was slightly stunned and only felt that the sound was very strange. Compared with the screams when other barbarians were attacked before, the black arrow barbarian was obviously too angry, but like a woman. Of course, he can't make a clear judgment by this soft cry alone.

Taking advantage of Zu Zhao's split, the black arrow man pushed away the halberd on his bow arm, grabbed the end of the bow with his backhand, and pulled it fiercely to Zu Zhao. Although the horse bow is not long, the distance between the two is very close at this time. Zu Zhao dares not neglect, even if being pulled by the bow arm will not cause significant harm, but in the face of the other party's attack, how can there be no reason not to dodge? He moved his body slightly, picked up the halberd in his hand, and easily blocked the bow arm.

I thought that the black arrow Hu man had no other moves, but while he put away the halberd to block it, the other party suddenly pulled out an arrow from the arrow bag, took the opportunity to collect the bow, put the arrow on the string, and hardly raised the bow, shook his hand and shot an arrow at Zu Zhao. This series of movements was completed very quickly. Even Zu Zhao, who was confident in archery, had never seen such a fast archery action. In a hurry, he didn't have time to support the halberd to block, so he could only suddenly twist his waist and try his best to avoid it.

Unfortunately, the distance was too close, and the Hu people's arrow was too fast. This arrow brushed Zu Zhao's neck very vigorously.

He suddenly felt that his neck was hot. When he reached out to cover the wound, he could obviously feel a dent in his neck, and the blood could not stop overflowing from his fingers.

Bad! His heart was shocked, and he was not sure whether he had hurt the carotid artery for a while. If he was unlucky, his life would be in danger.

If you have concerns, naturally there is no way to fight.

Seeing that the previous arrow was effective, the black arrow did not hesitate, and immediately took out the second arrow.

Zu Zhao stared at each other's every move and was really angry. He is not resenting that the barbarians hurt people secretly. There are not so many rules on the battlefield, and he can only blame himself for being inferior to others. However, he had countless unwillingness to die on the spot, and this countless unwillingness converged together to achieve an explosive anger - this is "uncompromising" to the cruel fate.

It's better to die at the hands of a thief than die!

At the thought of this, he simply stopped covering the wound on his neck, palmed his halberd, shouted, and spun up the halberd to sweep like a groundbreaking sweep.

I'm afraid that even the Hu people didn't expect that people who had been injured could have such a terrible reaction. Hu gave up arching and hurriedly bowed his head. The horse halberd roared past and directly cut the hood on the cloak. The hood fell off, showing a dense black silk, which turned out to be an elegant and soft long hair.

Zu Zhao couldn't see the appearance of the black arrow man clearly. He only felt that a man could never have such thin and soft long hair. He was secretly shocked: Is the black arrow thief a woman?

With no time to think about it, the black arrow man suddenly straightened up and opened his bow sideways with a great range of movements. However, this man didn't know why he had the opportunity to turn around and aim, but he didn't turn his head around. He actually shot an arrow "almost blindly" at will. This arrow was not accurate and passed by Zu Zhao's side.

However, Zu Zhao has learned the arrows of the black arrows and barbarians anyway, and he inevitably has some scruples in his heart and subconsciously slowed down the speed to open the distance.

It was at this time that the black arrow Hu man kicked the horse in the stomach and desperately urged the injured horse to accelerate.

Zu Zhao burst into blood and was about to catch up with him, but he heard a continuous call from behind him: "Mr. Don't chase him. Hurry up and return it back." This is Tian Xian's voice.

Zu Zhao looked back and saw that not only Tian Xian's people were slowing down, but also Zu Ling, Zu Fan and others were also holding back the momentum of speeding. Tian Xian shouted and pointed to the north. He frowned slightly and realized that the situation was bound to change. He quickly turned around and looked forward. Under the night, many sporadic outlines appeared on the horizon of the northern Gobi Desert. I don't know when a group of figures appeared in the distance. Although they are far apart, it is not difficult to see that these people are riding horses.

He remembered what Tian Xian said earlier, and further north is the border, and there are often barbarians.

The night was dark and windy, and he rode from the north. Nine out of ten were Hu people, and they were also special to pick up the Hu people with black arrows.

Considering that people are tired and injured in many places, Zu Zhao knows that it is not appropriate to chase them again. Looking at the Huqi team fleeing farther and farther away, the black arrow thief who lost his hood in the crowd seemed to look back, but after all, there was not enough light to see the actual appearance at all. He snorted coldly. Even with all kinds of anger, he had to control it at this moment and finally strangle the reins.

Han Dang, Tian Xian, Zu Fan, Zu Li and others came to Zu Zhao's side one after another. Seeing that Zu Zhao was covered with blood and his neck was still wet, all of them showed worry.

"Big son, how's the injury?" Zuling asked with concern.

Zu Zhao checked the injury on his neck again. Although he was still bleeding, it was obviously not as bloody as arterial injury, and he was slightly relieved.

"Small skin and flesh injury, no harm." He shook his head and said decisively. Turning around, he looked at Zu Fan and hurriedly asked, "A Fan, it's time for you to take over Aji. How is his injury?"

"He was shot in the abdomen. Fortunately, he was protected by iron armor and was not too seriously injured." Zu Fan said.

"I didn't expect that there would be a barbarian involved in this exup of thieves. I think there must be a conspiracy." Zu Zhao said forcefully. After saying that, he turned to look north again. Those barbarians are getting farther and farther away, almost integrating with the dark shadows emerging on the horizon. His face was cold, and his sharp eyes were shining.