The Second Volume of Water Margin

  "What's going on?" Su Ding looked towards the troops on the opposite side of Liangshan, and indeed, the originally neatly arranged soldiers began to become disordered. The soldiers on the sides ran wildly in all directions, while those at the back became even more chaotic, kicking up clouds of dust, with no one knowing what was happening.

  The key is that Red-Haired Ghost Liu Tang and the three heroes of Ruan's family also rushed into the crowd, these four leaders were all infantrymen, and mixed with the soldiers, making Su Ding quickly lose his target.

  "Is this the opportunity?" Su Ding's heart ignited a thread of hope: "The Liangshan troops are in chaos, and the right camp can be safe. Could it be that Shi Wengong sent someone to cut off their rear path?"

  The soldiers under Su Ding also looked up and down, one by one excitedly.

  "Great, it's Central Detachment coming to save us!"

  "Let's make our move! It would be a waste if we miss this opportunity!"

  "Come on! Hiding in the village is useless, let's go out and kill some bandits!"

  "Hit it!"

  Facing the enthusiastic crowd's cheers and constant requests for battle, Su Ding said sternly: "We can't be rash! Is there a higher place in the camp to observe the enemy situation?"

  The sentinel smiled wryly and said, "This watchtower of mine is the highest. The teacher wants to find a high place, but there's really nowhere to go, unless you want to stack up like a pagoda and climb up to take a look?"

  On the opposite side of Liangshan military camp, Red-Haired Ghost Liu Tang and Ruan Brothers were hiding among the soldiers, secretly watching Zeng's reaction.

  "Look, Su Ding that bird-like person is watching us from the watchtower!" Li Di Taosui Ruan Xiaowu pointed to the opposite village: "Liu Tang brothers this move is not bad, they are itching in their hearts, and will rush out sooner or later!"

  Liu Tang laughed and said, "This is not enough, we need to give them another dose of strong medicine! You three each bring some soldiers and pretend to flee in different directions, secretly ambush behind the forest, wait for my signal! Only when our side has fewer people will that turtle Su Ding dare to come out!"

  "This is easy!" said Yan Luo Xiaoqi, rubbing his hands together: "With just one stretch of my arm, I'll lure out the big carp from the hole."

  Duoming Erlang Ruan Xiaoer didn't say much, just saying: "Got it."

  The three brothers of the Ruan family secretly whistled to each other, and soon several or a dozen soldiers ran out from the crowd and rushed into the forest. The three Ruan brothers also mixed in and entered the forest, ambushing in three directions.

  "Teacher, look! The enemy has scattered and fled. If we don't attack now, when will we?" The sentry shouted with joy.

  Su Ding carefully observed that the formation of Liangshan in front of him was already in great chaos, with soldiers turning around and running away in twos and threes. In less than a quarter of an hour, the original momentum had almost disappeared, leaving only about 200-300 soldiers still lingering there in disarray.

  "Sue the teacher, hit him!"

  "If you don't fight anymore, all your efforts will be in vain!"

  The soldiers under Su Ding's command were stirred up again, and Su Ding looked at a heart that was surging with excitement. What strict defense, this kind of opportunity did not go out to cover and kill, it would truly be wasted in vain!

  "Archers, switch to steel blades!" Su Ding gave a stern order: "Men! Follow me and kill our way out! Slaughter the Liangshan bandits until they're pissing their pants!"

  The soldiers all shouted and accepted the order, the bowmen relaxed their bows which were almost fully drawn, and the arrows on the strings were also put back into the quivers. Many of the bowmen simply threw down their bows on the spot, as they were about to go out and pursue the bandits on the beam, carrying their bows and quivers would be inconvenient.

  This kind of thing about picking peaches on the way down the mountain is something no monkey would let go of.

  The gate of the camp was wide open, and Su Ding left only a hundred soldiers to guard the camp, while all the other soldiers rushed out, ready for a big slaughter!

  About six hundred soldiers swarmed out of the camp, no one willing to fall behind. Su Ding rode a horse and charged at the front of the team, with a steel spear in his hand pointing straight at Liangshan!

  "Good timing!" Red-haired ghost Liu Tang saw it clearly in the formation, and Su Ding indeed couldn't resist the temptation, leading his troops to charge out: "Withdraw!"

  The remaining Liangshan soldiers slowly began to retreat under Liu Tang's command.

  Su Dingjian saw that the Liangshan soldiers had not yet made contact, and he began to retreat along the entire line. He was overjoyed in his heart: "This is a great opportunity given by heaven! Those four bastards who scolded me just now, I'll smash you all into pulp with one strike!"

  It's known that just now, the red-haired ghost Liu Tang and Ruan Shi San Xiong didn't hold back with their words, scolding whatever they could think of. It can be imagined how much anger Su Ding had pent up in his chest!

  One side is chasing, and the other is retreating. Su Ding led the soldiers of Zengtou City to chase quickly, while Liu Tang led his men to retreat swiftly.

  In the relentless pursuit, Su Dingquan completely forgot a truth.

  That's the Liangshan formation, which indeed had a strange movement and indeed dispersed. But what was the reason for the dispersal? Su Ding originally suspected that Shi Wengong sent someone to rescue him, but where were the reinforcements?

  Until the last Liangshan soldier's butt disappeared into the woods, Su Ding finally came to his senses a bit, pulled in the reins and thought about what to do next.

  But the soldiers under his command were charging forward with great enthusiasm, although they didn't engage in hand-to-hand combat with any of the Liangshan troops, they all had the idea of "killing to the end and sending Buddha to the West" in mind, completely disregarding the old saying of the green forest "don't pursue the poor thief, don't enter the forest when you meet it".

  Just as Su Ding was about to order his soldiers to stop pursuing, nearly a hundred or two hundred of them had already scattered and run into the forest.

  Su Ding's imagined shout of killing had yet to appear, instead giving him an extra dose of luck. He gritted his teeth and urged on the war horse, following the crowd into the forest.

  Not surprisingly, except for a few Liangshan soldiers fleeing in the distance, all the others in the forest were soldiers from Su Dingzhuang.

  "Are they all gone?"

  As soon as Su Ding had this thought, he heard the soldier who was chasing in front of him let out a miserable cry.

  It is unknown since when, but a wave of sharp arrows kept shooting out from deep within the forest.

  The archer shot an arrow and immediately retreated behind the trees, making it impossible for the soldiers to find their target. What's even more despicable is that a rain of arrows also came from the trees...

  The Zengtouzhen soldiers who rashly charged into the forest, exposed themselves in the open, and became live targets. Each fallen soldier had at least two or three arrows on his body.

  Every single soldier from Zengtou City began to regret why they had followed Su Ding out of the village, wasn't it good enough to hide behind the village with their bows and arrows? Now they were instead...

  The soldiers turned around and ran away crying, who still cares about organizing a counterattack, just escape with their lives first!

  "It's a trap!" Su Ding was shocked and pale with fright, hastily turning his horse around, without even considering the soldiers under him, galloping towards the outside of the forest.

  The war horse was originally slow in the forest, let alone the soldiers who were originally behind Su Ding's horse turned around and rushed back, colliding with each other in the chaos, instantly blocking Su Ding's way.

  "Get out of my way!" Su Ding heard the whizzing sound of arrows and the soldiers' cries behind him, his face turned white with fear. If he didn't escape now, who knew if he would be the next one to get hit by an arrow!

  What made Su Ding furious was that the more he shouted, the more chaotic it became. The war horses couldn't even take a step forward, let alone run!

  Just then, an arrow aimed at Su Ding's back missed its target and pierced deeply into the horse's buttocks.

  The war horse let out a pained whinny and suddenly stood up on its hind legs, then its front hooves softened and it crashed to the ground, throwing Su Ding off.

  Su Ding was still quite agile and rolled with the mixed iron club, using the war horse as a meat shield, only then did he dodge what must have been the nth wave of arrow rain.

  And that war horse has been turned into a sieve.

  "Spare your life, you bird brain, leave the head behind and scram!" As the rain of arrows stopped, a big fellow burst out from the woods on the left, his upper garment open, revealing a greenish-blue leopard-like tattoo, holding a large knife in hand, with a pair of copper-bell-like eyes staring straight ahead - it was none other than Ruan Xiaowu, the Standing Earthly Branch.

  Su Ding didn't dare to stay and directly dragged the iron club to run outside the forest, his previous heroic words had long been gone with the wind.

  "Su Ding, where are you going!" From the right forest, another person rushed out, followed by dozens of soldiers. With two swords on his forehead and a yellow hair on his chest, it was Duanming Erlang Ruan Xia'er. He held a wooden knife and shouted loudly: "Next year today will be your memorial day!"

  Su Ding heard the words and let out a cry of bitterness, pulling his leg back and retreating. The soldiers around him were in disarray, Su Ding took two steps forward but ended up retreating three steps instead, he steeled himself and swung the iron hammer in his hand left and right, instantly knocking down several soldiers.

  "Su Ding has killed someone!" The soldiers let out a mournful cry and scattered, not daring to linger around Su Ding again.

  Su Ding didn't know when his hair was all scattered, looking disheveled and embarrassed. Fortunately, the soldiers were all far away, and he hurriedly found a path to leave the forest.

  Just as they were about to escape the forest with only twenty or thirty steps left, a whistle sounded from somewhere and Liangshan soldiers jumped down from the trees, each holding a sharp knife, like wolves and tigers. In an instant, countless Zengtou City soldiers were knocked down.

  Su Ding was shocked by what he saw, and with a stern expression, he took a step forward. Suddenly, a big man jumped down from the tree in front of him and shouted: "You, Hanzi, leave your head as a toll before you can pass!"

  That man had a face full of strange flesh, with bulging eyes and a pair of protruding pupils, presumably from frequent activities in the water; his cheeks had a pair of light yellow beards of varying lengths, and he held a sharp knife in his hand, it was indeed Yan Luo Ruan Xiaoqi.

  "Now there's only you, even if I die, I'll drag you down with me!" Su Ding was like a mad beast, his iron hammer opening and closing wildly as he charged at Ruan Xiaoqi's neck!

  Su Ding's iron hammer is both long and heavy, with a hammerhead shaped like a horse's hoof on either side, a sharp central blade resembling a spear, and curved blades on the sides. When wielded, it has many techniques, can be used as a heavy weapon to smash or chop, or as a spear to thrust or hook.

  This stab was straightforward and went straight to Ruan Xiaoqi's neck. If it hit its mark, it would definitely be a case of heads rolling on the ground.

  Ruan Xiaoqi let out a cold laugh, his body agilely dodging to the side by several steps before swiftly closing in on Su Ding, his sharp dagger stabbing out repeatedly!

  So Su Ding had no choice but to hold the mixed iron hammer and dodge to the side, facing Ruan Xiaoqi's close combat, this long weapon completely lost its effect.

  Su Dingyi retreated again and again, his body was already stuck to a big tree behind him.

  No way back!

  Helpless, Su Ding let out a loud roar and abandoned the iron hammer, drawing out the steel knife from his waist to engage in a fierce battle with Yan Luo Ruan Xiaoqi!

  "King Yan teaches you to die at the third watch, how can you be allowed to live until the fifth watch!" Ruan Xiaoqi laughed loudly in his mouth, not afraid of Su Ding's steel knife at all. His body was like a fish, swimming around Su Ding's left and right, dodging and weaving unpredictably. With a "hiss" sound, the sharp knife in his hand had already torn open Su Ding's chest clothes!