Late Han Zhao Tang

Chapter 24: This is when fame begins!
As the crowd retreated on horseback, arrows whizzed through the sky.

"what!"

His companion cried out in pain, as he was shot in the shoulder and was about to fall. Zhang Yu rode his horse to catch up and tried his best to support his companion.

"Spread out!"

Under Zhang Yu's shouting, the Han cavalry opened up the distance between each other and, led by Zhang Yang, entered the dense forest behind the side. Because they retreated in time, all the Han cavalry retreated smoothly and no one was abandoned.

Shortly after the Han cavalry withdrew, a dozen Hu cavalry rushed out from the woods on both sides. Seeing the scattered food, grass, and cloth, they seemed to have discovered some treasure. Their eyes widened instantly. Zhang Yu and others, who had no time to escape, rushed to dismount and snatch the property on the carriage.

The Xianbei people named 'ebe' pointed at the smoke and dust left by Zhang Yu, Zhang Yang and others who fled, and shouted in Xianbei language: "The Han people are still here, you can't pick up anything, otherwise the leader will be angry!"

The crowd did not listen to 'ebe's words at all. They were busy grabbing things and putting the valuable items on the horses.

After all, these people are really afraid of being poor. A pair of pants is worn by several generations. Even if it is torn, they are reluctant to throw it away.

Iron pots are even more amazing. There may be iron weapons on the grassland, but because of the high technical content of iron pots, the Hu people simply cannot make them. Without iron pots, the Hu people can only cook with stone pots. Stone pots have poor heat conduction, and the food cooked in them is quite unpalatable.

When they saw the cart full of towels and iron pots, their first reaction was not to chase the Han cavalry, but to quickly grab as many things as possible before their companions arrived, otherwise many things would be snatched away by their companions when everyone arrived!

Seeing his companion's eyes covered by the iron pot and the towel, Ebe shouted angrily and felt extremely depressed.

Before Ebe had finished venting his anger, the other Hu people saw that some people were snatching rice, towels, and iron pots. Fearing that they would be late, they rushed over like a tide, dismounted one after another, and stuffed the valuables into their arms, fearing that they would take less and others would take more.

Seeing more and more people starting to grab things, Ebe, thinking of his younger siblings at home, had to join the queue to grab the pot.

The scene was chaotic and there was a lot of scrambling!
At the same time, Zhang Yu, Zhang Yang, Hao Zhao and others retreated two or three miles, shot back the sporadic pursuers, and then slowed down their horses.

"Are there any more Hu people chasing us?" Zhang Yule stopped his horse, looked around and asked.

"No shadow for the time being!"

Hao Zhao caught up from behind and reported.

Li Song held the bow in his hand and said, "We have scattered the money around the carriage. The Hu people who scolded the cadres must have gone to steal the ironware or the cloth!"

"What should we do now that our goods have been robbed by the Hu people?" asked Hao Zhao.

Zhang Yu pondered for a while, then suddenly asked, "Are you and your uncle afraid of death?"

Zhang Yang's authority as an elder was challenged by the younger generation. His expression darkened and he said angrily, "When I followed my brother to the north to attack the Xianbei, Ji'an was still studying at home."

Hao Zhao's face turned pale, and he said, "A man from Daibei should not be afraid of death!"

"Young Master, please don't bully us!"

"color!"

Seeing the enthusiastic response from the crowd, Zhang Yu cheered loudly and said in a deep voice: "Since you are not afraid of death, follow me to fight back. While the Hu people are looting goods, we will surprise them and defeat them with a heavy blow."

As he spoke, Zhang Yu raised his bow and shouted, "Although there are many Hu bandits, they are greedy for money and goods. Now they are competing to plunder money. If we fight back, we will defeat them. Do you dare to follow me?"

"Why don't you dare!"

"Uncle, do you dare?"

"Jian has a strategy!"

Zhang Yang laughed loudly and said, "I thought Ji'an was afraid of the crowd and ran away, but I didn't expect Ji'an to secretly think of a way to defeat the enemy!"

Pulling open his outer robe, Zhang Yang revealed his armor and said with a smile: "Let's charge back today, I will be the vanguard!"

"Uncle will charge in the front, and I will lead the cavalry to attack the front!"

When Zhang Yu was giving the order, Li Song grabbed Zhang Yu's reins and hurriedly advised: "Ji'an has a bright future, and there is a beautiful woman waiting for him in the distance. It is too dangerous to attack more than a hundred Hu bandits with more than 20 people. The stolen property can be recovered in the future. Why gamble with your life!"

Zhang Yu grabbed Li Song's hand, stared into his dark eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Bo Song, those who want to accomplish great things must never look ahead or behind. I'm retreating now, and my life is safe, but what about the future?"

"Are you waiting for the Chigan Hu people to bully me again?"

Zhang Yu pointed his bow in the direction of the Hu people and said firmly: "The opportunity for battle is fleeting. If we don't send out our cavalry, we may never have another chance to defeat Chigan."

“My fame begins from now on!”

Li Song was persuaded by Zhang Yu, and he said, "Song is willing to follow Ji'an into battle!"

"Not urgent!"

Zhang Yu pointed at the four wounded cavalrymen and said, "Bosong, lead these four wounded cavalrymen to bluff and raise a lot of dust to scare the Hu people."

"it is good!"

Li Song rode his horse to the four injured riders and led them ahead.

"uncle!"

"You, you, and all of you, follow me!"

Zhang Yang nodded slightly, and with his horse lance pointed out ten cavalrymen who dared to lead the charge to follow him, and the rest were handed over to Zhang Yu.

"go!"

There were originally 27 cavalrymen, but four of them were injured in the previous battle with the Hu cavalry. Li Song led four men to bluff in the woods, Zhang Yang led ten men to charge, and Zhang Yu led ten cavalrymen to act as rangers.

When Zhang Yang turned around and charged, the chaotic looting scene was slightly calmed down by the arrival of the leader Chi Gan Pu.

"What are you doing?"

Chigan Puda rode past and lashed the followers who were grabbing the property with a whip, angrily scolding them: "Take less and leave some for me!"

Through the translation of the people around him, Li Pu almost vomited blood. What kind of leader was the Chigan Puda he found? This was too outrageous. He didn't look like a leader at all. "My noble man, Zhang Yu!"

Li Pu waved to Chigan Puda frantically, asking him not to forget the head of Zhang Yu that he had promised him before.

Chigan Puda suddenly remembered something and stopped a tribe member who was holding an iron pot, and asked, "Where are the Han people?"

The tribesman held up an iron pot filled with rice, cloth and silk, and said with a simple smile: "The Han people are too weak to fight. They will run away after a few arrows. We won't be able to catch up with them in time!"

In the tribal system of nomadic peoples, fighting is similar to hunting. In the hunting system, everyone has his own prey. Whatever you hunt is your own trophy.

Today, Chigan Puda wants his people to hunt down Zhang Yu, but his people do not think that Zhang Yu is their prey, so they will not try hard to hunt him down. Instead, when they see a large amount of ownerless property, they are more inclined to plunder it as their personal belongings.

"roll!"

Because he couldn't punish them, Chigan Puda was very angry and kicked the people of Jiaobu and shouted, "Where is Ebe?"

"Chief, I'm here!"

Ebe tied the iron pot to the horse's back and answered loudly.

"Where is Zhang Yu's head?"

Ebe ran to Chigan Pudama and replied in shame: "Zhang Yu ran too fast. I wanted to lead people to chase him, but they were fascinated by the iron cauldron and didn't want to chase him."

“Ahhh!”

Chigan Puda whipped Ebe hard and cursed: "I let you eat and drink in the tribe so that you can hunt for me, not steal the iron cauldron!"

Seeing that the Hu people had not caught Zhang Yu, Li Pu rode his horse to Chigan Puda and said, "Sir, Zhang Yu has not gone far. It should still be in time to chase him now!"

Chigan Puda looked at his subordinates snatching property and suddenly hesitated.

While he was hesitating, he heard the thunderous sound of horse hooves coming from the direction of the fleeing Han cavalry. From afar, the thunderous sound of horse hooves could be heard coming towards him.

Didn’t the Han people run away?
The change in the situation made Chigan Puda unaware that he was about to transform from a hunter to a prey.

After a moment of hesitation, Chigan Puda called out to his people, shouting, "Hurry up and get on your horses! The enemy is attacking!"

"Hurry up and mount!"

"Enemy attack!"

The Hu people who were dividing up the property saw the Han cavalry returning and they hurriedly packed up their property and loaded it onto the backs of their horses.

"Whoosh!"

The next moment, Zhang Yu led the cavalrymen galloping out of the forest, with the bowstrings in their hands pulled for a long time, and the arrows flew out.

As the horses were about to cross each other, an iron arrow hit the Hu man who was about to climb onto his horse. He was shot in the throat and fell to the ground dead.

The arrow shot by Zhang Yu was like a bottle opener, and nine arrows were shot out from behind him. Because the distance between horsemen and archers was short, many of the Hu cavalry on the periphery were hit.

"go!"

Zhang Yu led his cavalry along the periphery of the Hu people, preparing to adopt a skinning tactic and use mounted archery to consume the Hu cavalry in the circle.

Zhang Yu drew his bow and shot down a Hu cavalryman, shouting, "Zhang Ji'an is here in Yunzhong!"

As he spoke, Zhang Yu looked back at the moon, cut his hand and fired an arrow, hitting the Hu soldier who was holding a towel in his arms.

Hearing Zhang Yu's name, Chigan Puda decisively called out to his followers to intercept Zhang Yu's troops and called out, "Ebe, shoot Zhang Yu to death!"

"it is good!"

When Chigan Puda divided his troops to pursue Zhang Yu, he saw Zhang Yang, wearing armor and leading the way. He and ten of his Han cavalry took advantage of the horse's speed and charged forward, like a sharp knife stabbing into the chaotic Hu group.

Obviously, Zhang Yu, who took the lead in attacking, was responsible for attracting the attention of the Hu people, while the task of inflicting heavy damage on the Hu people would be handed over to Zhang Yang.

From the discovery to the charge, everything happened too fast. Some of the Hu people were stabbed to death by the spears in the hands of the Han cavalry just as they were mounted on their horses. Their bodies seemed to be severely injured, flying into the air and falling heavily to the ground.

Among them, Zhang Yang was particularly brave. He wielded the long spear in his hand and stabbed up and down. Two or three Hu cavalry died from serious injuries.

In just a blink of an eye, the Hu cavalry who were caught in the surprise attack suffered heavy casualties. The rest saw the smoke and dust billowing in the forest and thought that the Han people had their own reinforcements, so they gave up the idea of fighting and instead fled like birds and beasts, taking the looted money with them.

After defeating the Hu cavalry, Zhang Yang continued to advance without hesitation, aiming directly at Chigan Puda who was pursuing Zhang Yu.

Hearing the screams, Chigan Puda looked back and saw that his men were defeated at the first blow. His eyes were bloodshot.

"withdraw!"

Seeing Zhang Yu in front and Zhang Yang chasing behind, Chigan Puda knew that the situation was not on his side and prepared to call his men to retreat!
But how could Zhang Yu miss this opportunity? Taking advantage of Chigan Puda's panic, he spurred his horse around, gripped his bow tightly, stared at the leader Chigan Puda, and shot an arrow into the air.

At this time, the ebe in the cavalry also took a fancy to Zhang Yu, bent his bow and drew his arrow, intending to kill him with one arrow. However, because the crowd in front of him was dazzling, ebe hesitated for a moment before shooting the arrow.

"Whoosh!"

The two arrows flew back and forth, like two arcs passing through the air, flying towards their respective targets.

Zhang Yu was quick to sense the danger and rode his horse at a high speed. The sudden change in posture caused the arrow shot by Ebe to pass by Zhang Yu's cheek, and the wide feathers of the arrow slightly rubbed his cheek, leaving a faint red mark.

Zhang Yu's iron arrows were shot quickly and accurately. Although Chigan Puta was wearing simple leather armor for protection, Zhang Yu was so strong that the arrow pierced into his ribs.

Chiganputa screamed in pain and fell to the ground violently.

ps: In Xianbei language, "ebe" means arrow, which is extended to mean an archer.

(End of this chapter)