Turbulent Times Chapter 678: Little Chief of the Rilian Department
Shuitou River is a tributary of the Yellow River. The upper reaches are more mountainous, and it is the territory of the Rilian Department of Khitan. The aquatic plants here are extremely plentiful, and even in autumn, the green is still the same, but there are more festive yellows.
Da Touri stretched his waist and walked out of the military tent made of cowhide.
In the distance, some cumbersome ox carts and some horse carts had already been lined up, and the carts were piled up with grain and grass, ready to be sent to the camp of the Rilian Department in the Shuitou River Valley.
Da Tou Ri, who was just twenty-three years old, was at his most energetic.
Originally, I wanted to take this opportunity to fight against the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty with the old man surnamed Gao, to show his father and clansmen his bravery, but unexpectedly, his father asked him to come to **** the food and grass.
Da Tou Ri is the son of the great chief of the Khitan Rilian Department. The latter has seventeen daughters, but only one son, Da Tou Ri.
Because of this reason, the chief is even more worried about letting him go to the front line. You know, swords and guns have no eyes. If Datou was killed or injured on the battlefield, the great chief can only pass on the position of great chief to his brother. The great chief is already old, and the age of sixty is already considered a long-lived person in this era where the average life expectancy is in the forties. Even according to the calculation of the Han people, he is already in his sixtieth year, and it is difficult to give birth to another one. son.
But the young Da Tou Ri didn't understand his father's painstaking efforts, and was very unhappy because of it. The Khitan people value martial arts, if they can't show enough bravery, how can they restrain the Rilian Department?
Unfortunately, this truth is not clear to an old man who is single-minded about keeping his only son.
"After sending the grain and grass to the Hegu camp, you must stay. It is estimated that the offensive against the Sui people will start within a few days. Maybe you can make meritorious deeds and show your bravery to the tribe and father! Datou thought of this the first day, and secretly made up his mind.
"Little chief, the chariots and horses have been prepared and ready to leave at any time." A personal guard reported to Datou Ri, who looked at the sky and said loudly: "The storm has delayed us for nearly a day, send me Order, the food and grass must be sent to the upper river valley before dark tonight, if anyone dares to delay the important matter, I will cut off his head and feed it to the wolf."
"Yes! Little Chief." The personal guard intervened and obeyed, and went down to convey the order from the previous day.
Datouri was about to mount his horse, when there was a rush of hoofbeats from the direction of the upper river valley.
"It's cavalry, where are the cavalry galloping here?"
Datou thought in his heart: "Could it be that Shuitou can't wait to go to the valley, so send someone over to urge me to hurry up?"
Just as he was thinking like this, the sound of the horse's hooves was getting closer and closer, and he could see it more and more clearly.
There are more than a thousand people, and they seem to be dressed differently. Most of them were dressed as soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, but there were also more than a dozen people dressed as Jianghu warriors. This is rare.
"Ask them, who are they?"
The personal guard responded, urged the horse to rush over, and shouted loudly in Chinese: "Stop the horse ahead, who is coming?"
Someone responded: "We are from Bingzhou Hanwang Mansion, and we are ordered to pick you up and **** you across our Bingzhou territory."
"Gaoying's person?"
Da Tou Ri breathed a sigh of relief at first, but immediately became vigilant. There is a lot of enmity between the Rilian Ministry and Bingzhou. Although the war is temporarily suspended, we still have to guard against it. He squinted his eyes and looked carefully, the more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong. Because there are bloodstains on these people's clothes, it is clear that they have gone through several wars recently and killed many people. The most important thing is that these people are getting closer and closer, but they have no intention of stopping.
No, it's the enemy!
A thought flashed across Datou's day, and he immediately shouted nervously: "Be alert, they are the enemy, they are the enemy! Hurry up and be alert."
But when he shouted, the other party was already approaching the convoy.
The horse team suddenly split to both sides, a tall blood-red horse rushed out from the middle of the horse team, and immediately a young man in a white robe was handsome, but his eyes were extremely cold, with a precious sword on his right and a sword in his left Holding a strange-shaped horse lance that was longer than ordinary lances, the speed of the horse was so fast that it rushed into the convoy like the wind.
The horse spear waved, blood burst out, and screams everywhere.
Along the way, almost no one could block his momentum, and he quickly approached Datou Ri.
And the six Jianghu warriors holding long swords closely behind him are more like a tiger joining a herd of sheep. The sword light flickered, and the Rilian men who delivered the food and grass wailed again and again. The accompanying troops on both sides are also elite, especially the leading general with a knife on his back, who is as brave as the young man riding a blood-red war horse in the middle.
And after those people rushed into the convoy, they set fire everywhere without saying a word. The cart was full of grain and grass, and when sparks splashed on it, it spread immediately. Hundreds of oxen and carriages burned into a sea of flames in an instant.
The cows and horses in the cart were frightened, neighing non-stop, and running around.
Da Tou Ri was holding a spear, trying to stop the opponent, but the horse speed of the leader was too fast, and before Da Tou Ri could react, he had already arrived in front of him.
"Your grandfather is Jing Zhiqian, general of Bingzhou Lang, remember it!"
The general on the horse held the horse with both hands, picked it up like lightning, and Datou Ri's head flew up in the air, watching a headless corpse fall from the horse, the last thought in his mind: That is my body.
"The little chief is dead..."
I don't know who yelled, the number was superior, but the unprepared Japanese company staff immediately became a mess.
The fire soared into the sky, and people shouted and neighed. The sudden arrival of the opponent caught the unprepared Rilian staff off guard. And Datou's death on the first day made the situation even worse, and the morale of Rilian's subordinates dropped to freezing point all of a sudden. Although the number of them was twice that of the opponent, they lost consecutive defeats and were burned by the opponent.
"Withdraw!"
Following the young man who killed Datou Ri yelled, the men under his command rushed out immediately.
The leader of the Khitan Daily Company Department who came to his senses yelled loudly: "Stop them, catch them, otherwise we will not survive."
Indeed, they couldn't survive. Although the food and grass were burned, it was serious, but the death of the little chief was a big deal.
Don't say anything else, the great chief will definitely not let them go. If you don't catch each other, they will die miserably, and not only will they die, but their family members will also die.
All the warriors of the Japanese Company howled and chased after the leader with red eyes. Almost all the grain trucks behind them were reduced to ashes in the sea of flames.