74. Suppressing the Rebellion (3)
There were still about 3,000 defeated troops who had fled, and although they were at the end of their crossbows at this time, and they were still attacked by the Song army in the back, they were in this desperate situation, but they had stimulated their last trace of potential. This was originally a combat power forced out by the rebels with death, but now it is the rebels' turn to pay for it.
I saw that everyone in the defeated army was like crazy, waving the weapons in their hands, slashing wildly at the opponent in front of them, beating and kicking with their feet without weapons, and then biting with their teeth. He will not dodge the knife and spear that stabs him, and he will die, and he will take away a cushion. In the face of such an opponent, the rebels in the rear team couldn't help but panic, and the array was also rushed to pieces. Crowded and trampled on each other, and countless injuries and deaths were also imposed.
Zhao Yueru, who was watching the battle in the imperial city, saw that the rebels were in chaos and began to kill each other, so she was very happy, and immediately sent Yan Wei, Zhang Wei, Gu Xueping, and Huang Mingxia to lead 500 Song troops to kill them from the imperial city, taking advantage of the current chaos of the rebels, and completely defeated the rebels in one fell swoop.
Zong Tianxuan waved his long sword, and slashed several defeated troops in a row, but when he went to find that the defeated army was still one after another, he continued to rush up to him, and raised the sword and gun in his hand to beckon to him. Zong Tianxuan couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, why didn't this trick work this time? How did this group suddenly become not afraid of death? Peeking at the surrounding situation, Zong Tianxuan couldn't help but be surprised, only then did he understand why Chen Yichao stopped him just now, and he couldn't help but regret it in his heart.
And at this time, countless Song troops were killed from the streets on both sides of Xi'an Gate Street, and they joined the war group one after another, slashing and killing the rebels. And the rebels were already in a mess, where they could still compete with the Song army, and the Song army was killed from the streets on both sides, and they couldn't prevent it, so they were only killed so that the rebels were ambushed all over the place, and the blood flowed all over the place. Xie Qingfeng, Song Yiren, Pan Bing, Pan Ren, Pan Fu and others also responded one after another. The rebels in the back did not see it well, and many of them turned around and fled.
Zong Tianxuan hurriedly parted the crowd, killed Chen Yichao's side, and asked, "General Chen, what should I do now?" ”
Chen Yiqi waved his spear and stabbed to death a defeated soldier who raised a knife and slashed at him, and said with a wry smile: "I have no choice, this time we have completely failed with the scriptures, so let's fight out of the encirclement first, take Your Highness, and escape from Jiankang." ”
Zong Tianxuan thought about it for a while, and also smiled bitterly, and said: "That's the only way, you try to recruit as many people as possible, and I'll notify the others." Then he entered the battle group again and went to find Xie Qingfeng, Song Yiren and others.
Chen Yichao hurriedly found Pan Bing, Pan Ren, Pan Fu and other brothers in the chaos, greeted more than 200 rebels, turned his head and retreated first.
But at this moment, I saw a burst of killing behind the rebels, and a group of Song troops carried the rebels' rear and killed them. A general at the head of the team, without a horse on foot, with a bronze helmet and iron armor, a handful of hemp knives, and a group of flower knife lights, all of them fell to the ground and died, it was Yang Yan.
It turned out that after he broke up with Ling Xiang, he took a thousand Song troops from Zhengyangmen Street to Xi'anmen Outer Street, and rushed up from behind the rebels. Yang Yan lost the treasure knife "Fenglin Volcano", and chose a high-quality hemp knife as a weapon in Li Xianzhong's camp, which was similar to the treasure knife he originally used, so it was more handy.
At this time, the rebels had become a pot of porridge with chaos, and the people in the back were in a hurry to escape, but they didn't expect that at this time, there was another team of Song troops from their own front, and the rebels had no intention of responding to the battle at all, and they simply didn't even have the ability to parry, only to be killed by the Song army and fell to the ground.
Yang Yan danced the big knife and led the Song army into the rebels, as if entering a no-man's land, the rebels fell one by one beside him. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people have been killed. And Chen Yichao and the others were retreating and fleeing with a group of rebels, and they happened to bump into Yang Yan head-on.
Yang Yan couldn't help laughing, pointed a knife at Chen Yichao and said, "Chen Yichao, I didn't expect you to also participate in the rebellion, this time I can't let you go." Why don't you get caught soon? ”
Chen Yichao knew how powerful Yang Yan was, but he didn't dare to come forward to fight him, and turned around to see if Zong Tianxuan and the others had followed, but at this moment, Pan Bing, Pan Ren, Pan Fu and other brothers didn't know who the person in front of them was, and they just wanted to kill him, and they could find their way and escape. The three of them had the same mind, and immediately raised their weapons, Pan Bing made a spear, Pan Ren made a stick, and Pan Fu made a double knife, and they came up together to meet Yang Yan. After Chen Yichao found out, he wanted to stop it, but he was a step too late.
At the moment, Pan Bing was in the center, Pan Ren and Pan Fu were lined up left and right, forming a "product" shape, surrounding Yang Yan, Pan Bing stepped forward first, waved the spear, and was about to stab Yang Yan in the chest, suddenly a flower in front of him, only to see a handle in Yang Yan's hand suddenly turned into thousands of blades, dazzling, difficult to fathom, I couldn't help but be shocked, I had to raise the spear, and stabbed aimlessly into the blade, only to feel that the gun pierced the air, and then the chest was cold, and the blood gushed out like a spring, Pan Bing "hummed", and fell to the ground.
Pan Ren and Pan Fu also waved their weapons and attacked Yang Yan, but they saw Yang Yan's body flicker, and their weapons were all in vain, and before they could see what was going on, Yang Yan rushed out of the encirclement of the three, and even his brother died under Yang Yan's knife. The two couldn't help but be shocked, hurriedly grabbed both of them, raised their sticks and knives, and attacked Yang Yan again.
Yang Yan turned around and dodged Pan Fu's knife, and then swung his knife to hold the stick that Pan Bing smashed down. Pan Bing only felt that his chest was like being hammered, the tiger was about to crack, the long stick took off his hand, spurting out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person also withdrew more than a foot away and fell to the ground. When Pan Fu saw it, he hurriedly waved his knife to save him. Yang Yan raised his knife to meet him, and with a flash of the blade, Pan Fu's head was a blood line and flew into the air.
In fact, the fight between the four was just an instantaneous thing, and the Pan brothers were killed and injured. Chen Yichao saw that he and the Pan brothers were originally fellow villagers, and they had a good relationship since childhood, so they were desperate, shaking the spear, and stabbing Yang Yan indiscriminately as if they were not dying.
Of course, Yang Yan knew that his martial arts were different from the previous three, but he was not afraid, he waved his sword and looked up, and in an instant, the knife and gun hit each other more than a dozen times, Chen Yichao retreated more than ten steps in a row, the blood on his face retreated, and the armor and stomach on his left chest were cut open. But for the time being, there is no fear of life. And taking advantage of his and Yang Yan's hands, the other rebels rescued Pan Bing and helped him aside.
At this moment, I saw a sword light shooting down from mid-air, straight towards Yang Yan, and the fierce sword qi that was like a substance was brought up, and it came through the skin first.
"Dang!" The swords struck, Zong Tianxuan flipped backwards and fell to the ground, the long sword in his hand pointed at Yang Yan from afar, and the tip of the sword trembled. At this time, Xie Qingfeng and Song Yiren also fought left and right, killing the battle group, standing on both sides of Zong Tianxuan.
Yang Yan also took three steps back, holding the knife in one hand, pressing the blade behind his back, and showing a suspicious look on his face for the first time, although the Song army had the upper hand on the battlefield, but he was now facing three top masters, even if it was a one-on-one battle, it was not easy to defeat any of them. During the day today, he was able to escape from the joint efforts of the three people, and he was more or less responsible for the self-respecting identity of the three people, and he was unwilling to join forces to deal with his own advantage, so that he could break them one by one. But now the three of them obviously don't have any scruples about this.
However, over the years, Yang Yan has experienced how many battles, and what kind of scenes he has never seen, so his fighting spirit and momentum have not decreased in the slightest, on the contrary, he screamed sharply, waved the long knife, and brought a series of strong winds to soar, surging and churning like waves, rushing towards the three of them.
The three of them were all thinking about how to deal with Yang Yan just now, so that they could hit him with one hit, even if they couldn't kill Yang Yan, they would also hit him hard, and then find an opportunity to escape, but they didn't expect that in this case, Yang Yan would dare to take the initiative to attack, and they couldn't help but be a little surprised, and they all took a step back, guarding the door tightly first.
That knew that Yang Yan unfolded the knife momentum, the sword was flourishing, and the cold knife qi was like an electric thunderbolt, and it couldn't help but impact the enemy with the momentum of cracking the shore and waves. And flickering left and right, the angle and direction of each knife are unexpected, and the three of them are also uncertain for a while, and they can only temporarily take a defensive position, waiting for Yang Yan's round of mercury-like offensive to conclude, and then launch a counterattack.
It turned out that Yang Yan knew very well that the three of them did have the ability to kill themselves in a short period of time when they joined forces. If you blindly defend it, I'm afraid you won't even be able to withstand a few moves, and you are now using a hemp knife, although it is not as easy as the "Wind Forest Volcano", but the blade of the hemp knife is longer than the "Wind Forest Fire Forest", and it is also more advantageous to attack and not conducive to defense, so it is better to take the initiative to attack and defend. As long as they hold on for a while, and when the other Song troops rush up, the three of them will naturally not dare to fight.
So Yang Yan's knife was desperate, and he attacked without retreating, giving full play to the advantages of the hemp knife, completely enveloping the three of them in the light of the knife, and slashing out more than 20 knives in a row, killing the three of them without the power to fight back.
But this kind of fierce attack is the most exhausting, after this round of offensive, Yang Yan also found that his heart was short, and he knew that he was really not angry, so he took advantage of the time to take advantage of it, immediately put away his sword and turned back, retreated to his own army, and bought time to regain strength.
And the three of them suddenly felt a light pressure under Yang Yan's fierce attack, it turned out that Yang Yan had collected his knife with the scriptures, knowing that he had reached a temporary critical point with the scriptures, and was about to take the opportunity to counterattack, but there was a sound of killing behind them, it turned out that Tie Chenglin and others led the Song army, penetrated the rebels with the scriptures, and pursued them. And the Song army was also killed on the left and right.
The three of them didn't dare to fight at this time, Zong Tianxuan said: "Uncle Xie, Uncle Song, let's break through separately, and then meet at His Highness." Xie Qingfeng and Song Yiren both nodded in agreement, so the three of them immediately gave up and continued to pursue Yang Yan, separated into the Song army, and tried their best to kill outward.
At this time, Tie Chenglin and Gu Xueping both led the army to kill, and when they saw Yang Yan'an, they were both overjoyed, and they fought hard to kill Yang Yan's side, Tie Chenglin said: "Senior Brother Yang, it's really good that you are still safe." ”
Gu Xueping also said: "Brother Yang, you really didn't die!" ”
Yang Yan was also very happy to see that the two of them were safe, he had already known from Ling Xiang that his family and Zhao Chen were safe, so he was not too worried, and said: "Now is not the time to talk, what do you have to say, after defeating the rebels, let's talk about it!" ”
In fact, now the rebels have long been in chaos, and under the pursuit of the Song army, there have been countless casualties, and everyone else is looking for their own escape. However, although the Song army had the upper hand, it was also divided into many squads, each fighting separately, chasing and killing the rebels, and the two sides were staggered and surrounded by each other, so the situation on the battlefield was very chaotic. Yang Yan, Tie Chenglin, and Gu Xueping only had hundreds of Song troops around them. Yang Yan smiled bitterly unconsciously, it seems that this situation will continue for quite some time.
Yang Yan was about to separate from Tie Chenglin and Gu Xueping to organize the Song army, but at this moment, he heard the sound of killing on the periphery sound again, it turned out that Li Xianzhong led the army to finally arrive, and when the Song army and the rebels were fighting, Li Xianzhong ordered his men and horses to secretly surround this area, and sent some soldiers to climb on the roof, draw bows and arrows, and aim at the melee army on the ground. Sure enough, he is a veteran of a hundred battles, and he suddenly took an absolute advantage from the bottom of the world.
Yang Yan saw that Li Xianzhong led the army to arrive, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, first ordered Tie Chenglin and Gu Xueping to gather the Song army on the battlefield, and then came to Li Xianzhong's side, after a little discussion between the two, Yang Yan said loudly: "Listen to the rebels, you are surrounded by the scriptures, why don't you quickly lay down your arms and surrender, wait for the waiter." ”
At this moment, in the crowd, someone suddenly rose to the sky, jumped on the roof, waved his long sword, and beheaded several Song soldiers in a row, and the other Song army archers on the roof were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, so they did not dare to release their arrows. It turned out to be Xie Qingfeng, after he broke up with Zong Tianxuan and Song Yiren, he killed for a long time, but he didn't get out of the encirclement, seeing that Li Xianzhong led the army to surround this area, he knew that it was difficult to kill, so he only took the risk of jumping on the roof, hoping to escape from the roof.
When Yang Yan saw it, he immediately lifted the thorn knife in his hand and hurled towards him with all his might. At this time, Xie Qingfeng killed the Song soldiers on the roof and was about to escape, when he suddenly felt the strong wind behind him, and hurriedly turned around and waved his sword to block.
"Boom!" Now that Xie Qingfeng has been fighting for a long time, he is already at the end of the crossbow, although he blocked the knife that Yang Yan fought with all his strength, but he was also shocked to stand unsteadily, and he retreated several steps on the roof, and suddenly stepped into the air and fell. When Song Jun on the other roofs saw it, they fired bows and arrows at him together, and the distance between the two sides was too close at this time, Xie Qingfeng was able to dodge, and he was hit by dozens of arrows and died.
At this time, the light of the sky was brightened by the scriptures, and it turned out that the scriptures had been fought all night.
The other rebels who were still alive were all mentally and physically exhausted, and they were surrounded by the Song army, and now they dared to resist there, and they all laid down their arms and raised their hands in surrender. Li Xianzhong immediately commanded the Song army, collected and surrendered troops, and cleaned up the battlefield.
After four days and five nights of rebellion, the rebellion has finally been completely quelled.