C140 (1/2)

He hadn't run far when he heard a soldier shout. Liu Qing raised his head to look. Oh god, up ahead, right at the place where the sun was rising, a long line of cavalry stood there quietly, as if they were ghosts emerging from hell. They stood there steadily, not shouting nor charging, they were too lazy to even lift the big blades in their hands.

”General, there are cavalrymen behind us too.”

Liu Qing suddenly turned his head, he was shocked to the point that he was drenched in cold sweat. It was unknown when a large troop of cavalry followed behind him. They followed without a sound, like a tiger that was silently watching its prey, waiting for its final strike.

”Form the formation, quickly form the formation.”

”In front of the pikes, the archers, followed by the sabers, shields, and the hands are in the center.”

Following Liu Qing's order, the Soldiers of the Yellow Scarves panicked. They did not train much, and it took them a while to find their positions. Under the shouts of the Generals, they took a long time to finish setting up the array.

Fortunately, the cavalrymen did not rush in during the chaos. They did not even put the xanthopanax's formation in their eyes, and continued to advance forward confidently, as if they were strolling leisurely in the park. The two squads in front of them only stopped after they were about three hundred steps away from them.

The one in front was Dian Wei, and the one behind was Xu Zhu. They were even smiling, quietly waiting for the xanthopanax to finish forming the array, they were not in a hurry at all. Dian Wei turned his head to look at the distant east, as if he was waiting for the sun to rise.

”Kill …”

Yan Liang and Wen Chou galloped their horses at top speed, startling a few birds and they finally arrived at Marshes at daybreak. Looking at Soldiers of the Yellow Scarves who was destroying the house, Yan Liang pointed his big blade forward and released an earth-shattering roar that shook the heaven and earth.

”Ghost …”

Suddenly, xanthopanax, who was trying to demolish the house, saw the large group of cavalrymen rushing over. He immediately trembled in fear and could not care less about tearing the house down, throwing down the wood in his hands and running away. As he fled, he called out to his father and mother, quickly fleeing towards Marshes.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou kept on chasing, but it was too late for the xanthopanax soldiers to escape, so they could only throw away their weapons and kneel on the ground as they surrendered. Yan Liang and Wen Chou sent troops to take the captives, while chasing after xanthopanax, they forced him all the way to the river side and just as they were about to attack, they were suddenly stopped by Wen Chou.

”Brother Yan Liang, do you have any instructions? You can't be too hasty and force the xanthopanax down the river.”

”Stop the chase.”

Yan Liang raised the big blade in his hand, and the convoy gradually slowed down. More than five thousand riders crossed the embankment, slowly approached the xanthopanax, and stopped 500 steps away from him. The rider panted heavily, the horse snorted noisily, and all the big blades dropped, quietly pointing at the ground.

”Formation!” ”Array formation!”

Bu Yi regained his senses from his shock and immediately commanded the Soldiers of the Yellow Scarves to arrange a formation. However, the troops did not attack again. Instead, they watched from afar and did not attack. It was as if a group of wolf was waiting for reinforcements. Both sides started to fight.

He had to prepare the tools to cross the river, and was afraid that he would be surrounded by the officials from other directions. But if he were to cross the river now, as long as the officials charged, even his own tens of thousands of xanthopanax soldiers would not be able to escape being killed.

Bu Yi stood on top of the Marshes, facing the rolling Ma Shui He water, he was extremely dejected. He had already sent people to test it out several times, but at this time, no one dared to go into the water, even those who were good at swimming didn't dare to show off, but the most regretful thing was that he did not make a wooden raft.

”Lord General, all the soldiers are panicking.

Bu Yi's personal guard warned him carefully by his ear.

”This is the scheme of the officials. They do not attack us, but wait for us to defeat ourselves.”

”Lord General, what should we do?”

”Let's wait and see. If it doesn't work, then we'll break out of their encirclement at night and force our way out. One of them ran out.”

”Reporting, Lord General, a small boat is coming from the river. The boat is flying a white flag, it's coming straight at us.”

Just then, a personal guard suddenly shouted. Following the direction of his finger, a small boat drifted over from the river, as expected, an old man controlled a pair of oars and slowly rowed over to the river bank, and leaned on the side of the xanthopanax's formation.

”Send him over.”

After a while, the small boat docked. The old boatman anchored the boat by the river. With a white flag in his hand and a letter in his hand, he jumped off the boat and walked up the slope of the river. A few soldiers from the xanthopanax searched his body but didn't find anything as they brought him to Bu Yi's side.

”Who are you? Who sent you? ”

”Reporting to General, my name is Zhang Shun, I am a fisherman here, I was captured by the officials to be a sailor, they sent me here to deliver a letter to General.”

The guard took the letter and pinched it with his hands. There was nothing dangerous about it and he handed it over to Bu Yi with both of his hands. Bu Yi opened the envelope and saw that there was only a piece of silk, but not a single word was written inside. Bu Yi curiously looked at the sun, but there was nothing at all. Bu Yi thought for a while, but still couldn't wrap his head around it.

”Did they send you to say anything?”

”Reporting to General, they just said that General saw it and understood.”

”Take him down and watch him well.”