Chapter 36: Intercept

The moonlight was like water, pouring on the ridge like a fish's back. Liu Bei rubbed off the wet mud on the ground, looked at the muddy and slippery ridge behind him, and looked at the dangerous ground that almost made him slide down, and a surge of anger arose in his heart. In order to burn the fire, he worked hard to get from Lukou to Hujiu. Unexpectedly, he was blocked by Cang Shu with 500 people here for the middle of the night, and hundreds of people were damaged. He couldn't go further. Seeing that he had exhausted the stones and was about to succeed, he came to reinforcements and blocked his way forward. Sun Ben was even more frightened by Cang Shu and clamored to retreat to Lukou overnight. He also said that Cang Shu could calculate, which was more accurate than the magician Wu Fan.

Liu Bei sneered at this statement. He didn't believe in any predictions. He didn't believe the words of those sorcerers, but Sun Ben said that Cang Shu knew that one of his sons was Liu Feng and the other was Liu Chan, which made him feel sad. Liu Feng was okay. Liu Chan was only two years old, and his name was only a few months ago. Only a few people around him knew, how did Cang Shu know? He was the first to think of Xu Shu, but Sun Ben said that Xu Shu was arranged to Xuzhou by Cao Cao soon after he arrived in Xiangyang, and Cang Shu said this before he entered Xiangyang.

Otherwise, Liu Bei would not have suspicious, so he decided to let Sun Ben go. Since so many people knew about it, killing Sun Ben would be useless, not to mention that the opportunity is not easy to find now. He wanted to lead people to Yingchoujian and could not waste it with Sun Ben here.

"Lord, soldiers are of great speed." Zhuge Liang whispered to Liu Bei, who was a little tragic.

"Oh, go forward immediately." Liu Bei was shocked, retracted his mind and waved: "I'll let someone inform Huo Zhongmiao and come over with the rest. As for Sun Ben, let him be the suspicious soldiers there."

A thousand elites threw away their fear just now. After a little rest, they embarked on the journey, went down to Yingchou Stream, and stepped on the wet and slippery stream bottom. Although Liu Bei felt very tired, he was extremely excited. He looked at Zhuge Liang, who was wearing a slightly small leather armor, and was filled with joy. If he had encountered this situation in the past, he would have taken his two powerful generals and brothers to rush to death, or they would have to retreat. With this young man, one plan failed and another plan came into play. He comforted the almost crazy Sun Ben, letting him be a suspicious soldier there, and he led his people over the dangerous ridge and penetrated into the center of Hao's acupoint. Although nearly a hundred people died on the ridge, the remaining nearly a thousand people were enough.

If I had met such a talent, why would I have been driven around by Cao Cao, and I was as anxious as a dog who was strayed from home.

"Zilong, send the order to continue. This time, each person will receive an additional monthly military salary." Liu Bei turned around and ordered Zhao Yun who was following closely behind.

Zhao Yun paused for a moment and turned around and passed the order down. These soldiers were Liu Bei's personal army. They were already extremely elite and had a high salary. When they heard this order, they immediately quickly accelerated like a screaming wolf. One thousand people were like a fire dragon, passing through the Yingchou Stream. Occasionally, some sprained ankle, but no one asked. They hid aside immediately to avoid being trampled to death by the people behind.

"Kong Ming, this time Cang Shu will no longer be blocked in front of you." Liu Bei smiled at Zhuge Liang who looked up to check the terrain.

"Lord. I think it's not possible, but lord should be careful not to go too far." Zhuge Liang lowered his head slightly and bowed his hand to salute. He looked at Liu Bei's face that was red with excitement, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried. Liu Bei's position was too forward. Although it was unlikely that there would be ambush in front, if there were ambushes, Liu Bei's position would be very dangerous.

"It's okay. If Cang Shu could still block the front, I would accept my fate." Liu Bei laughed. The laughter echoed in the valley. His laughter stopped and shouted loudly: "The generals tried hard to move forward, burning Cao Zhe. There were... cough cough... rewards." He laughed for a while, then shouted again, and finally he couldn't get angry. The word "reward" almost couldn't be said in his throat. He choked him to cough twice and stopped.

When Zhao Yun saw this, he quickly rushed forward and, along with a personal guard, held Liu Bei on the left and right. They were tall and almost pushed Liu Bei off the ground, running along with the army like a cloud of clouds. Liu Bei was indeed a little tired, letting them hold him, and he seized the time to breathe, but his mind was very excited, and he kept thinking about it. After running for nearly an hour, he saw that the mountain stream ahead became wider and wider, and his physical strength was almost recovering. Then he broke free from Zhao Yun and called Zhuge Liang and asked, "Kong Ming, are you coming to Hao's acupoint?"

"After passing the bend in front, it is a flat road, which is very easy to walk. Twenty miles ahead is the Hao point. You can definitely reach the heart of Hao point before dawn to block Cao Cao's defeated soldiers." Zhuge Liang responded with a breath.

"Okay." Liu Bei was excited and stood up and took a breath: "I waited on the road and let the soldiers take a break before they could get the energy to set fire when they arrived at Hao's acupoint." As he said that, he couldn't help laughing and muttered to himself: "Cao Aman, you have today too."

"Lord, there is a torch in front of you." Zhao Yun suddenly looked tight and immediately stretched out his finger. Liu Bei looked along his finger, but saw nothing. He turned around in confusion and asked, "Zilong, have you read it wrong? How could there be any torch?"

"Master, how could Yun read it wrong? There were clearly a few torches that suddenly went out." Zhao Yun said nervously: "Please send an order to the lord, immediately rushed through the bend in front and went to the main road. Even if there are ambushers, I can't help me."

When Liu Bei heard this, he looked forward for a while half-believingly, turned around and looked at Zhao Yun again. Seeing that Zhao Yun's expression was affirmative, he believed it and immediately sent the order forward. After running for an hour, the army, whose speed had slowed down, gathered Yu Yong and moved forward hard. The hundreds of people in front quickly passed the corner and were safe and sound. When Liu Bei saw it, he felt very calm. With Zhao Yun and others, he quickly walked into the corner.

The bend is about ten steps wide, with cliffs on both sides standing upright. It seems that it is a place where water flows very fast. The rocks were washed smoothly as a mirror, and it is difficult for monkeys to climb. Zhao Yun looked at the rock walls on both sides and couldn't help but move towards Liu Bei and looked up. At this moment, he saw a flash of cold light on the cliff, instantly turning from small to large, and rushed towards Liu Bei beside him. Zhao Yun was shocked and didn't care about it. He squeezed Liu Bei aside from one side of his body. A feather arrow, with a sharp roar, passed by Liu Bei. With a pounce, he pierced into the chest of a guard. The powerful feather arrow penetrated the leather armor on his body, passed through his chest, and blood burst out. He took him back and hit another guard.

Liu Bei was shocked and had not yet understood. Then more than a dozen feather arrows flew up. They all pierced on the shield that Zhao Yun had just raised. With Zhao Yun's arm strength, Zhao Yun's left arm was numb by the dozen long arrows. When the guards saw it, they screamed and several people rushed up. They used their shields to form a screen cover and hugged Liu Bei to run forward. The archers on the ground seemed to have recognized Liu Bei, and the long arrows followed him, and there were long arrows constantly shooting through the gap. Shooted the guards who only cared for Liu Bei, and a muffled groan came to Liu Bei's ears, and he couldn't help but sweat.

"Be careful of an ambush in front of you." Zhao Yun protected Liu Bei and ran wildly. His shield covered Liu Bei's head. He pulled out the long sword from his waist with his right hand and focused on his vigilance. As soon as he fell, several figures next to the big stone beside him suddenly rose up and a sword flashed. Several guards were caught off guard and were immediately chopped to the ground. The figures were not in a fight, but rushed towards Zhao Yun and Liu Bei. One of them had a tall and mighty figure with sharp sword light. He took three steps forward and had already cut five people under the knife. He took another step and rushed to Liu Bei. He shouted. He held the knife with both hands and chopped with all his strength.

"Protect the lord!" Zhao Yun let out a roar, and the shield in his left hand rushed forward. The sword in his right hand pierced the man's throat. With a bang, the sword and shield intersected. The man's sword bounced on the shield and then slashed on Zhao Yun's sword. With a click, the sword broke. Zhao Yun held Liu Bei with his back, took three steps in a row, and used his left hand to hold the shield to protect Liu Bei. Three guards rushed past him and blocked the figure.

The man glanced at Zhao Yun, shouted loudly, raised his legs and kicked a guard in the lower abdomen in front of him, kicking him backwards, blocking the way forward of a guard behind him, then dodged left, holding a knife in both hands and slashing on the head of a guard on the other side, slashing the guard with his man with his sword in two steps, stepped forward, rushed to Zhao Yun, holding a knife in both hands and slashing three times in a row.

Zhao Yun was hit hard twice with his left hand, and he was already very numb. The sword in his right hand was broken and he wanted to protect Liu Bei again, so he could no longer give in. He had to put the shield on his shoulder, carried three swords, threw away the broken sword in his right hand, took the long sword handed over by a guard, and stabbed it like a poisonous snake while the man was breathing.

The man even slashed three times by Zhao Yun. Although Zhao Yun forced Zhao Yun to take another step, he failed to kill Liu Bei who was hiding behind Zhao Yun. He couldn't help but roared, leaned back, supported his left leg and kicked his right foot in front of Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun stabbed the sky with a knife, and was kicked in his left leg again. He almost couldn't stand steadily and had to stop his foot. The man pressed his hand on the ground. The man suddenly stood up straight, held the knife in one hand and slashed it down on Zhao Yun. However, his body took advantage of the time when Zhao Yun resisted, and immediately turned behind Zhao Yun and shook it in front of Liu Bei. The long sword in his hand drew a circle, killed an intercepting guard who rushed up, and slashed at Liu Bei fiercely.

"Lord!" Two guards rushed forward, one pounced on Liu Bei and pressed him on his body, while the other swung the knife and hit the figure. The man was beheaded by the sword, but his body was still cast, and he hit the man hard. The man was hit by a step back, and suddenly threw out the long sword in his hand. The sword roared away, assassinating the guard who was lying on Liu Bei. At the same time, Zhao Yun slashed his back with all his strength, and a metal squirted. He groaned, took a step forward, stretched his hand, snatched the long sword in the hand of a guard, and turned around and slashed, slashing the second sword that Zhao Yun cut down.

In this moment of dazed moment, several guards had already pushed the guard who was terrified from behind and pulled Liu Bei back quickly. Zhao Yun blocked his man and Liu Bei in a wrong kung fu. When the man saw him, he smiled regretfully, whistled his lips long, and the few figures guarding behind him immediately protected him and rushed forward, like rolling soup and pouring snow. In a blink of an eye, he broke out and broke out.

"Who are these people, so brave?" Liu Bei asked in shock.

"The tiger soldier under Cao Chong, the one who is the leader is Xu Yi. I have seen him in Changban." Zhao Yun secretly wiped his cold sweat. Changbanpo almost killed Xu Yi's chief general Cao Chong. This time, Xu Yi attacked him and almost killed his lord Liu Bei. Xu Yi is worthy of being the son of Xu Zhongkang, the captain of the Tiger Guard. His skills are indeed great. Zhao Yun heard the sound of killing in front of him that was already gradually diminishing. He smiled bitterly and shook his head, and said that this leader was very brave and let hundreds of people go in front of him.

Reassure yourself, the ambushing arrows on the top of the mountain force themselves to protect Liu Bei and send them to the ambushers. Then, these brave tiger soldiers attacked and wanted to kill the main general in one fell swoop. They almost succeeded. If the lord is really killed, what's the use of burning Hao's acupoint? Furthermore, if one misses, they will retreat quickly. The hundreds of people in front are probably already stuck, and they can't stop these ten warriors who came from behind. They are extremely good at first and accurately beat them.

"Is that Cao Chong again?" Liu Bei became furious and slashed the stone next to him with a knife. Mars flew everywhere, and he cursed: "Can he fly? If you attack me, even if you can't set the fire, you have to kill this guy to relieve my hatred."

Huang Zhong was hit by arrows. He shot over half of the hundreds of vanguard troops who had stumbled around the bend. Then, while they were still in shock, he rushed to kill and rushed to Xu Yi and rushed back to the ground. Xu Yi only had five of the ten tiger soldiers left, and each of them were injured. Xu Yi was also cut by his left arm, and blood flowed.

"Zhengli, is that okay?" Huang Zhong protected Xu Yi and retreated back to the small formation and asked with concern.

"It's okay, it's a pity that I couldn't kill the big-eared thief." Xu Yi gritted his teeth, "That Zhao Zilong is so powerful. If it weren't for the iron armor that the young master admired, he would have been killed by him today." He spat bloody saliva and cursed with lingering fear. Huang Zhong glanced at his back and saw that a large hole had been cut out from the outside of the double-layered iron armor, and the inner layer of iron armor also had a deep knife mark. It seemed that this knife was indeed not light.

"You retreat to the back and bandage it." Xu Yi shouted to the five tiger soldiers. The five responded and walked through the small formation to the back.

"Hansheng, can you hold them?" Xu Yi asked with some concern as he looked at Liu Beijun who was rushing out in front of him.

"You have to block it, and you have to block it even if you can't block it." Huang Zhong raised his hand and fired three arrows in a row. The long arrow roared away from the strings and shot down the three sergeant soldiers who rushed to the front. Then he said: "Fortunately, the young master divided us into two groups, otherwise we wouldn't even catch up here. If they were on the main road, we would really not be able to stop it. Now there is this excellent terrain, so there is no problem to block for more time."

Cao Chong and Huang Zhong and the others walked all the way. In less than half an hour, they found the problem. His body had not recovered and he had no horse to carry. He felt it was difficult for a short time to set off. After barely holding on for half an hour, he could not stand it. The other soldiers also had problems. Huang Zhong's 300 people were brisk and not much affected. Wei Yan's men were also familiar with the road when walking on the mountain road. Although his 100 tiger soldiers had the highest martial arts skills and the best physical strength, they were not good at this mountain road. Only Xu Yi and others had good physical skills and could still keep up with Huang Zhong. If they continued at this speed, they might not be able to block Liu Bei. He made a quick decision and asked Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to go first. Xu Yi followed with more than a dozen tiger soldiers with good physical skills. He took the rest of the people, led by a Jingzhou scout, followed behind.

Huang Zhong and four hundred people accelerated their speed, ran all the way through mountains and ridges, and finally reached the last turn in front of Liu Bei. The torches that Zhao Yun saw were them. When Huang Zhong saw the long dragon-like torches in the stream, he immediately ordered to put out the torches. Relying on his familiarity with the mountain road, he led people into the ambush with the moonlight. Wei Yan brought a few strong archers to ambush, while Xu Yi took the tiger soldiers to risk the big rocks at the corner of the stream and prepared to raid Liu Bei. Huang Zhong took the rest of the people to guard the entrance of the stream with strong bows. The turn of the stream was very beneficial to them. No matter how many people Liu Bei had, he could not play his advantage - they could not turn around and shoot arrows, while Huang Zhong's people could use strong bows to block this ten-step-wide mountain stream. At the top of the stream, Wei Yan's people kept coming down and greeting Liu Bei with long arrows.

Jedi, another Jedi.

Liu Bei was once again blocked by someone in this ravine that could not be advanced or retreated when he was successful. He was furious and ignored Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun's dissuasion, the generals attacked wildly. He did not believe that his thousand elite troops could not break through the four or five hundred people in front, not to mention that Huo Jun had to bring people behind him. He wanted to use two to exchange for one before Huo Jun came, even if he had to use two to exchange for one.

The relatives of other places held their shields and swarmed out of the narrow stream. Once they turned around, they had to face Huang Zhongdi's strong bow. They knew that there was no way out. They shouted forward with fearless horns, regardless of whether they were screaming by the people who fell down by arrows, or whether they were stepping on their own compatriots. They only knew to run wildly. Only after running nearly a hundred steps of this distance, they had the chance to fight face to face with the enemy, had the chance to break the formation, and had the chance to succeed.

Huang Zhong was overjoyed when he looked at the running Liu Bei army soldiers. He wanted Liu Bei to do this the most. He brought a lot of long arrows and arranged a total of 150 strong archers behind the formation. Each of them could fire two arrows at this hundred steps. Liu Bei's army's formation was so dense that it was a good time for a strong bow to show its power. Their shields could not play much role at all. Even after rushing through this hundred steps, facing the row of sword and shield hands in front and the two rows of serpentines in the back, Liu Bei's people would not get much advantage.
Chapter completed!