Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 18 Riding Battle
Ma Dai took a closer look and saw that five soldiers in the armor of Han soldiers rode their horses out of the border forest from the direction of Luzhai, Zhuoxiang, and hurriedly drove their horses towards the Yangtze River in the northeast.

Ma Dai put the scarf and silk in his bag, got on his horse, raised his eyebrows and said to Mi Wei, "Bo Yan, would you like to fight the enemy cavalry with me. You two, I three."

Mi Wei resolutely got on his horse and fought back: "Don't underestimate me, Xuzhou Erlang! You two, I three. The winner will be called brother."

Ma Dai drove the horse forward at a slow pace, leaving "good" behind. Mi Wei saw this, pulled the rein with both hands, and rode the horse up slowly.

The five people pretending to be spies of the Han soldiers saw Ma Dai and Miwei coming, and they were a little panicked for a moment. They only heard the leader say fiercely: "They are wearing strong clothes and no armor. What are the five of us waiting for?" Afraid? Besides, we will wear the clothes of Han soldiers, take advantage of his unpreparedness to kill him, and receive meritorious service from Governor Lu." Seeing that the corps commander did this, the remaining four people agreed.

The leading corporal led four people and rode their horses towards Ma Dai and Miwei. The corporal shouted: "Which general is ahead, I will lead the order to join the army and carry out military affairs eastward."

Without saying a word, Ma Dai rode the horse for a slow pace of more than 20 steps. In Ma Dai's ears, he could only hear his beloved horse's four limbs and hooves stepping on the mud and sand one by one, and the sound of the horse panting slightly.

When Ma Dai saw that the enemy and us had only 250 steps, he increased his speed and changed the slow step into a fast step. The sound of the horse panting, but the sound of exhaling because of the blood speeding up and faster breathing due to excitement.

Wu Chang saw that Ma Dai and Mi Wei sped up their horses a little bit, they seemed to be unprepared, and continued to walk forward at a slow pace, secretly waving gestures and raising their spears to prepare.

The corporal saw that Ma Dai and Miwei were running fast at 200 steps, and their expressions changed. This was the preparation before the cavalry rushed. No burial place."

The corporal gritted his teeth and said: "Everyone is ready, you should ride and shoot in advance, don't panic, there are only two people on the opposite side."

The corporal took the lead and waved his hand for everyone to keep up with the charge.

Ma Dai was not nervous when he saw this, but changed the horse's small sprint into a long run in advance. Mi Wei followed Ma Dai's rhythm. Mi Wei only heard the wind blowing by his ears, and his right hand was sweating, but he was holding the bow more tightly. At this time, Ma Dai's voice came from his ear: "Listen to my order, you turn to the right to ride and shoot." Ma Dai didn't speak any more, but silently changed the big trot to a step charge.

"Turn" Ma Dai shouted, Ma Dai then turned the horse to the left, drew his bow and squeezed the arrow to shoot at Wuchang from the left, with the help of the initial speed of the horse's charge, the arrow quickly "swimmed" towards Wuchang, Wu Changgang He was about to shoot an arrow, but Ma Dai turned around faster, and before he could shoot, he was shot in the throat by Ma Dai's arrow and fell off the horse.

Before everyone could be surprised, Mi Wei turned to the right, picked up the bow that had been held in his hand, squeezed the arrow and shot it from the right, only to see the spy fell off the horse in the middle of his chest, howling on the spot.

After Ma Dai shot the arrow, he took down the Qiang spear in the victory hook, held the spear in his right hand and went up, drove the horse to continue to circle the arc to the left, and hit the last Wu Qi with his right hand. In front of Ma Dai, Wu Qi saw Ma Dai On his left side, he couldn't help but continue to accelerate, but Wu Qi started to attack earlier, and the speed of getting off the horse slowed down, and he couldn't speed up. Ma Dai stabbed Wu Qi with all his strength in front of the right front with spears. He stabbed Ma Dai, but the spear in Ma Dai's right hand was longer, and the tip of the spear pierced through the armor and pierced his back.

In an instant, only two of the five remained, and one fought against Mi Wei.One person sees Ma Dai on his left side and circles to the left, and prepares to speed up and circle to Ma Dai's left side. Ma Dai deliberately lags behind and slows down the speed of the horse. Ma Dai then changed the spear to his left hand, and suddenly bent down to stab Wu Qi. Wu Qi had no time to guard against, stabbed in the abdomen, and fell into the farmland.

Mi Wei is good at bow riding, but weaker than horse fighting. Seeing Wu Qi charging and turning around the arc, he couldn't help but panic after following his left side.He raised his bow and shot, but missed many times. Wu Qi was close behind. Mi Wei abandoned his bow and drew out his sword in his hand. He rode his horse and turned to charge Wu Qi. Wu Qi, the two embraced and fell into the farmland. Miwei held a spear under his armpit with his left hand, and raised a knife with his right hand to chop. Stopped, Mi Wei opened his tiger eyes wide and raised the ring-handed knife, cut through the neck guard, the blade penetrated into the large blood vessel, and blood sprayed out.

Miwei let go of his spear, lay on the farmland panting, the surrounding was silent, only the sound of the horse's hooves stepping on the ground and Miwei panting.

Seeing Miwei lying on the ground, Ma Dai was very nervous and rode his horse to the side of Miwei, got off his horse and checked Miwei's situation.Miwei waved his hand weakly and said, "It's okay, I'm just a little tired, let me rest."

Seeing this, Ma Dai left and searched for information on Wu Qi.
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After resting for a while, Miwei got up to check the situation of the battle, he couldn't help sighing inwardly. Compared with his effort to kill two Wu cavalry, Ma Dai bravely killed three cavalry by himself, Miwei admired Ma Dai more and more, regardless of his face Blood, stepped forward and bowed his hands to Ma Dai and said: "Brother Bo Zhan, I admire you for beating three horses bravely."

Ma Dai smiled and said modestly: "My brother Meng Qi once killed nine cavalry by himself and won the three armies bravely."

Mi Wei couldn't help sighing: "I thought that I was good at bow riding and was always proud of everyone. I didn't expect Brother Bo Zhan to be so brave, and I didn't expect that the Marquis of Xiangxiang was so majestic in his early years. I thought others were boasting, but now I see it. It's me sitting in a well and watching the sky."

Ma Dai smiled and said nothing, got on his horse, returned to the camp with five horses and five corpses of Wu Jun spies, and reported the situation.

What did Miwei gain for Ma Dai on the road? Ma Dai said regretfully: "There is one person who should be separated from five people in advance, but six people are spying on the enemy, and six people are spying on intelligence. , maybe cross the river ahead of time and report the information, what a pity!"

Mi Wei said puzzled: "It's a pity, Brother Bo Zhan, for some reason, the enemy agents went to Zhuoxiang Luzhai to draw information?"

Ma Dai pondered for a while, then said nervously: "Maybe, Lu Xun really wants to do something, because my Zhuo Township has always been the rear of our army, and the enemy spies suddenly appeared here, maybe it is true according to what His Highness said on the river. We wait We must hurry up, return to the camp and report the situation to Governor Zhao, so that Governor Zhao can prepare as soon as possible, and report to His Highness, so that he can return from the water village earlier."

After hearing this, Miwei said anxiously: "I'll take four horses back to Luzhai, and you will take one horse and two horses to Shuizhai to report the situation. What's the use of five corpses?"

Immediately, Ma Dai rushed to Shuizhai alone and with two horses, and Miwei went to Luzhai. Ma Dai and Miwei parted ways.

(End of this chapter)