Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 237 Tongue Sword Combo
Halberd warrior!
How could Chen Dao not recognize it?
The person in front of him was the warrior trained by Qu Yi, who had defeated the White Horse Volunteers twice!
The narrow terrain of the pass at that time made it impossible for Chen Dao to bypass the raid...
As for reining in?
If thousands of cavalrymen reined in their horses during a charge, the halberd soldiers would not even need to raise their hands and would be able to wipe them out directly.
It can be said that it was the same experience and the same bad terrain as in the Battle of Jie Bridge!
Chen Dao had no choice but to continue charging. As a result, the Yiyang Light Cavalry, which was derived from the Baima Yicong, was killed to pieces by the eight hundred halberd soldiers. Only half of them fled back to the camp in panic. After gathering the defeated soldiers for several days, they found that there were still nearly five hundred casualties!
"Halberd Soldiers..." When the woodcutter heard the name, he also frowned, obviously he was deeply impressed by this army.
Then, after a moment of silence, the woodcutter said, "Mr. Bai is very accommodating to General Chen Dao."
"The Great Halberd Warriors were originally trained by Ju Yi to restrain the light cavalry, and no one knew about it before. It is not the result of this defeat that Ju Yi and the Great Halberd Warriors arrived in Jingbei..."
"No, after the Battle of Jie Bridge, he should have understood that light cavalry like the Baima Yicong were not used to break through the formation head-on, and it was his fault that the general did not know himself and the enemy!" said the woodcutter sternly.
"So the lord also allows him to make up for his crime and make meritorious service." Taishi Ci did not explain any more for Chen Dao.
If it were Yuan Shao, the loss of 500 cavalrymen would at most cause him to frown - it would be a minor defeat.
Even considering that the Halberd Soldiers were composed entirely of generals, the previous wave of Halberd Soldiers were not unscathed, with 30 to 50 casualties...
Five hundred cavalrymen in exchange for thirty to fifty generals...this is not a loss!
However, when Bai Tu saw the news at the banquet, his heart ached, but he tried hard to hide it.
This is the difference between having 30,000 cavalrymen and having only 5,000 cavalrymen.
Moreover, among the 500 casualties of Yiyang Light Cavalry, more than 30 generals were also killed...
When Bai Tu saw the battle report, even the braised pork on the table didn’t smell good anymore!
As for why Qu Yi came to Jingbei so quietly, Bai Tu was too lazy to ask Cao Cao - he would definitely say that he had no idea, or perhaps he took a detour through Guanzhong.
Qu Yi's style of training elite soldiers is exactly the opposite of Gao Shun's. Qu Yi's elite soldiers are composed purely of generals. As long as they do not enter the key identified war zone, it is easy for them to pass through the territories of other princes.
Bai Tu told Lu Bu about this at this time, but Lu Bu would probably be very annoyed after the banquet - he "squeezed" out war horses and cavalry generals to supply Yi Yang, but lost five hundred of them so quickly?
The woodcutter must have understood what Taishi Ci meant. The reason he told this story to an unrelated person was simply to motivate himself to go to Yiyang to reinforce the army instead of being obsessed with chopping wood...
But he didn't say much.
At this moment, a Ni Heng jumped out from the side - in fact, Taishi Ci and the woodcutter had already noticed that there was someone in the alley, and Taishi Ci also recognized who it was, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
Unexpectedly, Ni Heng came over and pointed at the woodcutter and said, "I didn't expect that there is a person like you in the general's mansion!"
It sounded like he was flattering her, but...pointing directly at the tip of the woodcutter's nose didn't seem very respectful.
"Mr. Ni, why are you here alone so late?" Taishi Ci interrupted.
"So what if it's late? I have never done anything wrong in my life. Can't I walk at night?" Ni Heng said as he stretched his neck.
Taishi Ci: ...
Taishi Ci, who had almost injured his kidney just now, found this a little harsh - did I do something wrong?
At the same time, he straightened his back and covered his wounds. Taishi Ci didn't trust Ni Heng very much.
It’s not that I suspect he has defected to the enemy, but this guy has a very tight tongue!
"I didn't expect that I would actually meet a woodcutter with such a big tone...tsk tsk." Ni Heng said, looking at the woodcutter carefully.
Originally, Ni Heng was a little unhappy because he was not allowed to attend the banquet, but he didn't dare... He didn't want to argue with Bai Tu, so he decided to ambush on the street not far from the general's mansion. He made up his mind that when everyone came out later, if someone lost control after drinking, he would immediately jump out and say - People like you are worthy of attending Lord Bai 's banquet?
Unexpectedly, the first people to come out were Taishi Ci and... a woodcutter?
Afterwards, Ni Heng vaguely heard the woodcutter shouting and criticizing the frontline generals in front of Taishi Ci. For a moment... Ni Heng was amazed in his heart, there is actually another person like this in the world!
He did tell Sun Ce that the battle could be won even if a woodcutter was replaced, but what he said did not mean he really believed it, just like Ni Heng did not really think that Cao Cao's men were only good at feeding horses, chopping wood, and crying at funerals.
I never thought that there really existed such an arrogant woodcutter in the world.
Ni Heng also observed it briefly and found that the mental power of this woodcutter was actually much stronger than that of ordinary people, but... it was white and blurry, and no image could be seen. In other words... the other party should not be a counselor or general?
Following the principle that even the smallest bit of meat is meat, Ni Heng first looked at Taishi Ci - with him around, his personal safety was guaranteed, not to mention... a woodcutter, although he looked stronger, but if they really fought, they should be able to fight him on equal terms.
It's worth a try, quick battle and quick decision!
"Shun was once just a farmer. Fu Yue was just a laborer building a wall when he was discovered by Wu Ding. Baili Xi was a slave bought by Duke Mu of Qin for five sheepskins... They all came from humble backgrounds, but they all achieved something. The elegant Zhong Ziqi was also a woodcutter, so it doesn't matter if you were born a woodcutter." Ni Heng said.
The woodcutter frowned when he heard this, thinking in his heart - who is this licking dog? Why did he come up and "lick" me?
However, Ni Heng stretched his neck the next second and said, "The important thing is that they are all very capable, and you... are just a woodcutter. You didn't think carefully about which firewood would burn more vigorously and produce less smoke, but you actually spoke nonsense here. Don't you feel ashamed?"
woodcutter:……
Before, Bai Tu asked him to learn from Yan Xiang, and now Ni Heng feels that he has learned it - this is exactly what Ni Heng and Yan Xiang learned, "praise before criticizing", compared to criticizing right away, it can make people feel doubly heartbroken.
From Ni Heng's perspective, he only "saw" the "white mist" representing spiritual power around the woodcutter faded a little, and some of it was absorbed by the "Xuanwu" condensed by his own spiritual power... Anyway, he felt that he was the Xuanwu.
Ni Heng even thought that the mist that "looked" like nothing was just a thin layer, but after Xuanwu inhaled just a little bit of it, he felt surprisingly refreshed...
Ni Heng could not help but get even more excited: "A woodcutter who is illiterate and talks nonsense about military and political affairs has gone astray, and thinks he is cynical, but it turns out he is just an ant trying to shake a tree! Oh!"
The woodcutter didn't know why this guy suddenly got so excited... He just felt that his mood was a little strange.
From Ni Heng's perspective, it was Xuanwu's mouth that just spurted out four "tongue swords", further weakening the woodcutter's mental strength, that is... his thinking ability!
This is what Ni Heng discovered recently after watching many more performance forms in Jinling - the rhyming of tongue swords can create a combo effect.
I don’t know why, but Ni Heng vaguely felt that after the “tongue sword” shot into the fog representing the woodcutter, while weakening the opponent, it seemed to make some kind of cracking sound, as if... some shackles were gradually breaking.
