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Chapter 550 Governor Li came back to pick peaches?

Xie Junyouce was on the horse, with the long knife in his hand parrying and slashing, and beheading two officers standing in front of the horse one after another, a tiger spear stabbed him, holding the long knife in both hands, he was able to parry the tiger spear, and immediately Then he urged the horse to gallop south, and the horse's belly had a blood-red color leaking out, which was obviously caused by the spurs.

Zhang Cheng had long since discovered that Xie Junyou was the leader of this group of horse thieves, but when the two armies met, they could not stop him, so they had to chase after him. Fortunately, the servants led by Chen De stopped Xie Junyou.

But even so, Zhang Cheng couldn't catch up with Xie Junyou. He hastily retracted the saber stick on the winning hook, took out his Kaiyuan bow, drew out an arrow and put it on the bowstring. The whole movement was as skillful as flowing clouds and flowing water.

Chen De also held a bow and arrow and rode after him, shouting: "Zhang Shuai, the one who escaped must be the thief, wait for me to shoot him off the horse."

As soon as he finished speaking, the arrow flew out of the string, but it brushed against Xie Junyou's ribs and did not shoot him off the horse.

But even so, Xie Junyou was still shocked. While urging his horse to run wildly, he looked back sideways. Before he could clearly see the situation behind him, he saw a cold light flying towards him!

With a sound of "Puff!", an arrow shot on his right shoulder, followed by another "clang", the long knife in Xie Junyou's hand fell to the ground, and he hugged the horse's neck tightly in panic, fearing that he would fall off the horse .

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Seeing that he missed his first arrow, Chen De shot two more arrows in succession, but Xie Junyou had already been shot by Zhang Cheng, and he leaned on the horse's back, so the target was smaller, and the galloping horse galloped farther and farther away. No shot.

He was so angry that he wanted to chase again, but was stopped by Zhang Cheng, who said to him: "There is a lot of smoke and dust in the south, it seems that bandits have come to meet them, don't chase after them!"

Chen De also reined in his horse and stopped, he came to Zhang Cheng's side and said with a little atmosphere: "It's a pity to let him escape."

Then he clasped his fists to Zhang Cheng and said, "Zhang Shuai's amazing arrow really lives up to his reputation. Chen De admires it very much. No wonder he was able to shoot Dorgon and kill the slave thief Yue Tuo back then."

Zhang Cheng was praised by him, and he said with a smile: "Mr. Chen Qian is proficient in horse fighting and riding and shooting. This commander also appreciates it very much!"

At this time, Zhang Guangda also galloped towards Zhang Cheng. He clasped his fists in front of Zhang Cheng and shouted loudly: "Commander, the bandit army's left-wing cavalry is almost wiped out, and less than [-]% of them escaped!"

Zhang Cheng nodded and said to him: "Guangda, let the soldiers under Chen Shuai's command in Henan clean up here. Go and join Lin Fangping at once, go south to find Chen Zhong and the others, and do a good job for me." Send Li Chuangwang off.

Remember one thing, don't be greedy for merit and rush forward, you must guard against bandits setting up an ambush, especially after passing the new city, you must be extra careful, send more sentry riders in front to explore the road, and try your best to contact Chen Zhong and Cui Shijie first. If it is inconvenient to attack the thieves, you can retreat back to Kaifeng. "

After Zhang Guangda received the order loudly, he said, "Don't worry, Commander, it's not the first time we've played a battle, so we will definitely proceed with caution."

As he said that, he sent out his own troops to wave the flag to gather the fine cavalry under his command, and asked people to go to greet Wang Tieren to gather Qingqi to obey orders.

At this moment, a puff of smoke and dust billowed from the official road in the west, and even the deafening "rumbling" sound of horseshoes stomping on the ground, Zhang Cheng's face could not help but change slightly.

Zhang Guangda and Chen De also hurriedly turned their heads to look at Zhang Cheng, while Zhang Chengfang and Zhang Jintai even led the boys' battalion and rushed to guard Zhang Cheng.

Now their cavalry are scattered on the battlefield just now to clean up the battlefield, collecting scattered horses, and it is difficult to gather for a while.

Only Chen De's servants with nearly [-] riders left, because they followed Zhang Cheng and Chen De to surround Xie Junyou just now, and they have not dispersed yet. When Chen De saw the wink Zhang Cheng gave him, he understood it in his heart and hurriedly responded. The two whistle chiefs said in a deep voice: "You are divided into two places, hurry up and see if it is the soldiers and horses over there!"

After they obeyed the military order, they led the soldiers on their horses and ran towards the smoke. About a quarter of an hour later, one of the chief sentries led his cavalry back on horseback.

He came in front of Zhang Cheng and Chen Dema, and said loudly: "Marshal Zhang, Mr. Chen Qian, here are the five hundred cavalry from the guerrilla Gao Qian, and behind him are the five hundred cavalry from the guerrilla Zhang Dechang, who are guarding the governor Li Daren at ten miles away." outside."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Zhang Guangda looked at the smoke and dust gradually dissipating in the west, raised the corner of his mouth, and said with a contemptuous smile: "Governor Li really knows how to pick the time, so we drove the intruders away, and he led the army." Come back and pick peaches!"

Zhang Cheng glanced at him expressionlessly, and said in a deep voice, "Now that the cavalry battalion has assembled, what are you doing here instead of joining Lin Fangping?"

If it was in the past, Zhang Guangda might still say a few gossips, but since King Qin's incident, Zhang Cheng's dignity has become more and more serious. Although the relationship with the brothers is gradually warming up, no one dares to joke in front of him anymore. .

Zhang Guangda was no exception, he just smiled foolishly and led the cavalry elite gathered around Zhang Cheng to ride southeast to meet Lin Fangping, leaving only a trail of billowing smoke and dust.

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Here Zhang Cheng and Chen De walked slowly side by side in the direction of the west gate of Kaifeng, watching the Ding cavalrymen under Chen De's command continue to clean up the battlefield just now, gathering the ownerless horses.

After all, Chen De couldn't hold back, and asked softly beside Zhang Cheng: "Zhang Shuai, Li thief's attack on Kaifeng was frustrated, and when the morale of the army is low, why don't you go all out and lead the army to chase after it and wipe it out completely."

Zhang Cheng smiled and explained to him patiently: "It is true that the army of intruders suffered setbacks under the city of Kaifeng, but there are still more than [-] thieves in their army, and more than [-] horse thieves. Very good at escaping, not only is it hard to chase, even if you catch up, it's hard to get rid of him in one go.

Before that, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of troops from the imperial court had been chasing and intercepting them several times, but they couldn't completely surround them to death. How can I destroy one of them with only more than 2000 officers and more than [-] cavalry here. "

He then went on to say: "If our army chases all the way, not only will the soldiers be exhausted, but even the army may not be able to supply enough food and fodder, and once the intruder returns to the Funiu and Xiong'er mountains, there will still be ten new tricks there. Tens of thousands of refugees.

At that time, how can we fight against the tens of thousands of exhausted and hungry troops?Not to mention blowing it away! "

Hearing Zhang Cheng's words, Chen De rode his horse, and seemed to realize something in his heart. At this moment, Zhang Cheng's voice came to his ears again: "We have defeated the intruders' attack under Kaifeng City this time, not only defending the prince's feudal land, In one fell swoop, the bandits were prevented from resurging in Yu Province, and I think that at least within this year, the bandits would be powerless to bring troubles to the land of eastern Henan again."

When Zhang Cheng said this, he stopped his horse and looked to the south with deep eyes. Chen De also looked to the south with him, and saw billowing smoke and dust in the endless wilderness retreating south.

"Ugh!"

Chen De suddenly heard Zhang Cheng sigh. He thought that Zhang Cheng was worried about Zhang Guangda, Lin Fangping, Chen Zhong and other generals who were following the intruders, and he just wanted to say something.

But I heard Zhang Cheng say: "Oh. I just don't know where the thief Xian and the thief Cao have fled to? How is the situation at the supervisor Yang Ge's department? If we can work together to wipe out one or two of the stubborn thieves, the rest will go all the way. It's nothing to worry about!"

(End of this chapter)