"Everyone follow us, we will enter Ganzhou tonight and spend the night in Ganzhou Bianma County..." Qu Mingcheng wiped the sweat that had turned into salt on his forehead while riding on a horse, looked at the long valley in front of him, turned his head and shouted loudly.
"Follow up, follow up..." Low-ranking officers in the cavalry team of more than a thousand people started shouting one after another. Although there were many people shouting, at this time, it sounded as if they were weak.
This team set out from Ping'an County, Luyang Commandery, Yinzhou before daybreak today. They have been running for more than twelve hours now. Even though everyone was riding on rhino horses and had a rest in the middle, by this time, most people were already exhausted, thirsty and hungry. Their bodies felt like they were falling apart. The rhino horses under everyone's crotch also became tired. No matter how hard they whipped with the whip, the rhino horses' hooves seemed to be filled with lead and they could hardly move.
We have to go to Ganzhou Bianma County tonight, which means that after dark, we have to travel at least a hundred miles. Thinking of this, many people in the team secretly groaned, but the situation is urgent this time, and the Transport Envoy Lord Jiang has issued a death order, so they can't help but complain. Everyone knows that usually everyone eats and drinks well in Yinzhou, and is spoiled wherever they go. They are rampant and do whatever they want, relying on the golden signboard of the Transport Office. This time, someone in Ganzhou is so bold that he wants to smash the signboard of the Transport Office. This is simply like touching the head of Tai Sui and pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth. Is this a rebellion? So, no matter what, this time when we go to Pingxi County in Ganzhou, we must make those who dare to challenge the authority of the Transport Office regret coming to this world...
Qu Mingcheng also knew what the more than 1,000 cavalrymen under his command were thinking at the moment, so after he finished the previous sentence, he immediately followed it up with another sentence, "The manufacturing bureau is very lucrative. When we get to Pingxi County this time and get things done, the girls in the city and the women in Yanjia Town will be available for you bastards to play with for three days!"
"Ah..." Hearing that they could go to Pingxi County to play with women after finishing their business, the group of people who were weak just now finally perked up a little, and many of them howled like wolves. Whenever the soldiers of the patrol cavalry battalion were dispatched, they would confiscate the families and destroy the clans, making the local people silent. This is a lucrative position...
The terrain of the valley in front of him was a bit dangerous. Qu Mingcheng glanced at the mountains on both sides of the valley, and an idea flashed through his mind, but then he laughed at himself - who in the Han Empire would dare to touch the soldiers of the Transportation Office? Even if there were a few ordinary thieves, they would probably be so scared when they saw so many of them...
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, a slight strange sound suddenly came from the air in the valley. Hearing the strange sound, Qu Mingcheng's face changed instantly and he shouted, "Be careful..."
The word "be careful" had just come out of his mouth, but it was too late, because as the word "heart" fell to the ground, screams of pain were heard from the team, and four cavalrymen on horseback fell off their horses at the same time...
Those four men were all archers carrying bows on their backs.
Everything happened so fast that most of the cavalrymen around had not yet reacted. In just half a second, the sound of arrows breaking through the air was heard, and four more cavalrymen carrying bows fell off their horses.
Master, a thought flashed through Qu Mingcheng's mind.
The power, speed, and accuracy revealed by the sharp sound of the arrow breaking through the air made Qu Mingcheng's heart tremble. Moreover, one bow and four arrows, such archery skills made Qu Mingcheng vaguely think of a person...
But the situation at the scene did not allow Qu Mingcheng to think too much, because in the blink of an eye, eight more cavalrymen fell down, and the entire team fell into panic.
The archer was on the hillside five hundred meters away, revealing his entire body, looking down from above, and pouring deadly arrows at this side. Because the man was wearing all black and even had a hideous bronze mask on his head, Qu Mingcheng could not see the man's face clearly. But the man's devilish archery skills made Qu Mingcheng think that if he didn't rush over immediately, no matter how many people on his side there were, they would all be shot to death in this valley by that man.
“Over there, everyone, rush out with me…” In just a moment, Qu Mingcheng was covered in cold sweat. Without thinking, he mounted his horse and rushed forward with everyone.
Under Qu Mingcheng's command, the team, with people and horses falling to the ground, rushed forward, but the deadly whistling sound of arrows in the air did not stop at all. It was accurate and cold, shooting twice in one second, with four arrows flying at a time. Each arrow could make a person here fall off the rhinoceros horse, leaving them with no way to escape or hide. With such archery skills on the battlefield, they could scare the cavalry of the Transportation Office to death.
It took the entire team more than ten seconds to rush out more than a hundred meters. Among the thousands of cavalrymen, the more than a hundred archers running at the back were all shot off their horses by that one man.
Qu Mingcheng's eyes were bloodshot. After leading the team forward for dozens of meters, he shouted, "Keep charging!" and ordered the team to continue charging forward. At the same time, he pulled out his iron mace weapon from the saddle, bounced off the horse's back, stepped on the steep cliffs on both sides of the valley, and rushed directly towards the man in black.
“Kill…” The cavalrymen of the Transfer Office in the valley also shouted, but they had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to rush forward.
Luckily there is only one person setting up an ambush here...
As soon as this thought flashed through Qu Mingcheng's mind, the next second, a scene that made his blood freeze appeared in front of him. On the hillsides on both sides, more than two hundred people wrapped in black clothes suddenly appeared. Each of those black men held a bow and arrow or a crossbow in his hand. A rain of arrows poured towards the cavalry in the valley, and dozens of his subordinates fell down at once.
The war horses were neighing and screaming, and the valley was in complete chaos, but the cavalry from the Transfer Office were still charging forward.
When a group of cavalrymen armed with swords encounter an enemy armed with bows and crossbows, the only options they have to do are to get closer or flee, and if they stay where they are they will become targets for the enemy. If everyone wants to survive, they have to rush out quickly.
But soon, the cavalrymen from the Transfer Office who wanted to rush over were horrified to find that more than a dozen burning four-wheeled carriages had been pushed down from the hillside in front of them, blocking the road ahead. The carriages were engulfed in flames, and the carriages were filled with firewood. More than a dozen burning four-wheeled carriages blocked the road in the valley, and in the blink of an eye they turned into a wall of fire with rolling heat waves, blocking the road ahead.
Another batch of arrows flew down, and dozens of people in the cavalry team of the Transfer Office fell off their horses.
"Quickly retreat, quickly retreat..."
The chaotic team had just turned their horses around when the same scene happened again on their retreat path. More than a dozen burning carriages rushed down the hillside, cutting off their retreat path in an instant...
The man in black was, of course, Yan Liqiang. Even when he saw Qu Mingcheng running towards him, Yan Liqiang did not put down the bow and arrow in his hand. Instead, he fired deadly arrows accurately at the speed of eight arrows per second like a machine. Several low-ranking officers in the cavalry team who had some training, including some warriors and dragon-tiger warriors, were shot off their horses by Yan Liqiang in the blink of an eye.
At this distance, the so-called warriors, dragon and tiger warriors, and even martial arts masters, have almost the same chance of survival under Yan Liqiang's bow as ordinary soldiers. The speed and strength of the arrows shot from the strong bow in Yan Liqiang's hand have completely exceeded the upper limit of their capabilities. This is a bit like the survival probability of an ordinary person like Yan Liqiang and a boxing champion in his previous life when facing a pistol against their foreheads.
“Yan Liqiang…” Qu Mingcheng roared, his body like a galloping horse, rushing over on the rock wall. In the blink of an eye, he was within fifty meters of Yan Liqiang.
Yan Liqiang shot two arrows again, and eight more people fell down in the team below. In just one second, Qu Mingcheng had continued to advance more than 20 meters.
“I know it’s you…” Qu Mingcheng’s eyes were red, and he was filled with murderous intent.
The moment he put down the horn python bow, Yan Liqiang stretched out his hand and pulled out the dragon spine steel spear that was stuck in the ground, and smiled slightly at Qu Mingcheng who rushed forward.
"Go to hell?" Qu Mingcheng spread his wings like a roc, leaped several feet high, and smashed the iron mace in his hand directly towards Yan Liqiang.
Yan Liqiang was waiting for Qu Mingcheng to make the first move...
The next second, the dragon spine steel spear weighing more than 400 pounds in his hand was like an awakened angry dragon. It was like a big stick, without any fancy moves, and it lashed towards Qu Mingcheng with great dominance.
The sound of the dragon-spine steel spear bursting through the air was like a thunderbolt on the hillside...
(End of this chapter)