ebookland Chapter 273 Rescue (1)
Chapter 273 Rescue (1)
One of them said, "I'm right, it's just two horses. The people from Bicheng knew we were here and they ran away long ago. How could they dare to come here?" The sound of horse hooves became louder and louder, and two more assassin spies were awakened. They rubbed their eyes, not knowing what had happened.
One of the assassins suddenly jumped up and said, "These two horses are running so fast, let's catch them quickly." He stretched out his claws to stop the horses that were running towards him. But a man suddenly jumped out from the side of the horse's belly, stabbed the long sword in his hand, and stabbed it straight into the middle of his chest. Then he pulled it back with his backhand, and blood spurted out of his chest.
The person who came was Chu Xiaomu.
Chu Xiaomu succeeded in his attack. While the assassins were still not able to react, he took out a ball of oil grass roots, put it on the fire, and threw it on the tent, which immediately started a big fire. He then threw the other balls of grass on the birds of the Claw Tribe. The birds had sparse feathers on them, and although the grass balls could not set them on fire, they were burned and painful, and they fled in all directions in fear.
Chu Xiaomu took advantage of the other assassin's lack of reaction and thrust his sword at him again. However, the assassin's reaction was not slow. He was stunned for a moment before he realized that someone was attacking him and quickly waved his claws to block. Chu Xiaomu's sword pierced his palm, but it was like hitting iron wood and did not hurt him.
The other Claw Clan assassins were awakened instantly, and the leader in the tent was so burned that he screamed and jumped out of the tent, slapping the flames on the tent. Suddenly, he saw Chu Xiaomu fighting with an assassin and shouted, "Go and catch him, I want to skin him alive!"
The other assassins didn't care about the fleeing bird and surrounded Chu Xiaomu.
Lin Zhen and the others were delighted to see Chu Xiaomu finally come to the rescue. Zhou Weide even shouted, "Well done, Xiaomu! Kill them all!"
Chu Xiaomu saw six assassins coming towards him, so he didn't dare to fight anymore and had to spur his horse to flee. The Claw Clan assassins whistled, called back their mounts, lit a few torches and followed closely behind.
The Qinglu horse was extremely fast, and although the assassins rode well, they were still far behind Chu Xiaomu. Chu Xiaomu saw that the assassins could not catch up with him, so he pulled the reins and turned his horse around, shouting and charging back at the assassins.
When several assassins saw that Chu Xiaomu dared to rush towards them alone, they were overjoyed. They shouted and surrounded him again. One of them shouted loudly: "Everyone catch him alive. I'm going to skin this kid alive and then light a sky lantern with him!" The others responded, grabbed the bird's head, and rushed towards Chu Xiaomu.
Chu Xiaomu thought, I didn't expect that the Claw Tribe, like Jinyang City, actually had such cruel punishments as peeling frog skins and lighting sky lanterns. I don't know who learned this from whom. He rushed to the assassin twenty or thirty feet away, and suddenly stopped his horse and shouted, "You think you can catch me with a few toads? Dream on!"
Several assassins were furious when they heard his shouting and cursing, but they could not outrun the opponent's horse and wanted to catch him to vent their anger.
Chu Xiaomu ran for a while, then deliberately slowed down, pretending to be exhausted. When the other party approached, he spurred his horse and ran away again. In this way, one person ran away and six chased him. He didn't seem to be running away. After running two or three miles, he stopped and yelled and cursed. When the six assassins caught up, he turned around and ran again. He couldn't catch up with them, so he gnashed his teeth and cursed, saying all kinds of nonsense and jargon. The Claw Tribe originally had weapons for throwing stones, but they didn't put them in a place where they could take them easily when they slept at night. They didn't take them out when they chased them. They could only watch the opponent run in front of them. Unless they caught up with him, there was no way to catch him.
Although the six assassins' mounts were not as fast as galloping horses, they were extremely strong and did not slow down at all. Chu Xiaomu was secretly glad that he was riding the Qinglu horse of the Zhouzhong Army. If he had been riding an ordinary military horse, he would have been caught up by these Claw Clan assassins and his body would have been separated from his head.
Seeing the opponent's horse slowing down, several assassins were overjoyed, thinking that they could catch the opponent and kill him in a blink of an eye. However, every time when they were about to catch up, the opponent's horse would speed up a little, and they were always a few feet behind. There was even one time when the opponent escaped just a few feet in front of their claws. They were so angry that they almost exploded.
However, they were all very familiar with the horses and mounts of both sides. They knew that although the horses of the Bicheng army were fast, they could not compare to the mounts of their own Chisha country in terms of endurance. So they were not in a hurry and just followed closely behind the opponent, thinking that it was only a matter of time before they caught this guy.
Chu Xiaomu estimated that he had run for thirty or forty miles, about half an hour. He suddenly reined in his horse, raised his sword and shouted, "I am Chu Xiaomu from the Bicheng Nanding Army Horse Herding Team. I specialize in killing wild dogs from the Sand Country! Who of you dares to fight me?!"
The six assassins saw Chu Xiaomu suddenly stop, thinking that he was out of power, so they all stopped about 40 to 50 meters in front of him. One of them shouted, "Although your horse is fast, you can't escape in the end. Get off your horse quickly and die, or you will suffer more!"
Chu Xiaomu said: "Your mount bird is very strong, I can't outrun you, but even if I die, I will die unwillingly!"
The assassin said, "This red ostrich is unique to our Chisha country. It won't get tired even if it runs for a whole day and night. Most people know this. Why are you dissatisfied?"
Chu Xiaomu said: "If we fight alone, none of you can be my opponent! So I am very dissatisfied."
The assassin laughed a few times and said, "You people from Bicheng are only good at bragging. If we really can't defeat you, how did you capture Humu Pass and how did you break through the Nanding camp?"
Chu Xiaomu said: "You are just relying on your numbers, otherwise my Nanding Army will kill all of you wild dogs without leaving a single piece of armor." He kept calling them wild dogs, deliberately trying to anger these assassins.
The assassin said angrily, "Nonsense! When we attacked your Humu Pass, our Claw Clan only sent out a thousand people, and your defenders had at least five or six hundred. The number of our two sides is not much different."
Chu Xiaomu laughed and said, "The Chisha people are really shameless. Even one more is too many. You have almost twice as many people as we do, but you still say that it's not too many. You are bringing shame to Yanzhua!"
The assassin felt that his victory was unfair, and he was speechless. In fact, it is extremely difficult to capture a pass or a city. The attacker usually needs three or four times the number of troops as the defender to capture it. The Claw Clan only sent about twice the number of troops to capture the Tiger Pass, which is indeed not a large number.