Volume 2 Heroes in Troubled Times Chapter 11 The Long River and the Sunset Section 43
Chapter 11 The Long River Sunset Section 43 The passionate trumpets sang wildly in the wind, and the excited cheers echoed over the West Sea, and the morale of the Qiang people suddenly rose.
"The leopard is dead, the leopard is dead...... "Desperate to live, desperate to live...... The Qiang people launched the most frantic attack in a thunderous roar, killing, killing the Han people.
The wild bull was favored by the god of the western sea, and it miraculously regained its life and gained endless power.
It stood up, it raised its head to the sky and howled, it began to fight, it roared and launched a fierce attack on the panicked male lion and black panther.
Linghu's Qiang cavalry army rose up with all their strength and raised their sharp weapons to slash at the Xiliang people. The Qiang knights of the rainbow sun were as angry as rainbows, and the army rushed through the resistance like a tide, drowning the battle flags of the Xiliang people, and rushed towards the Xiliang middle formation with great momentum.
The Xiliang people were about to collapse, and the sturdy battle formation of the Xiliang people suddenly lost their soul and the will they relied on to support them, and they were about to be defeated.
The Han soldiers looked up, they didn't believe that the general would die, they tried their best to find the mighty panther battle flag, they tried their best to keep calm amid the cheers of the Qiang people.
No one can kill a general, not in the past, not now, and not in the future. The general is the god of war of the Han Dynasty, and it is the myth of invincibility.
The general's panther battle flag fell, which does not mean that the god of war of the Han Dynasty has also fallen. The Great General will not die.
However, the Panther Banner was gone, and the most prominent Panther Banner on the battlefield was gone. The hearts of the soldiers began to cool, the anger of the soldiers began to condense, and the hatred of the soldiers began to explode.
On the battlefield, there was a brief suffocating breath filled with death and blood. The breath was so strong, so heavy, so heavy that even the north wind stopped howling, and even the snowflakes stopped flying.
At this moment, the battle flag of the Son of Heaven of the Great Han appeared. The battle flag of the Son of Heaven rushed out of the wind and snow, dancing wildly in the wind, hunting sounded, and was mighty.
......Under the guidance of the battle flag, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Feather Forest ran wildly all the way, roared all the way, stepped on the snow and fog in the sky, roaring, and magnificent.
"Son of Heaven...... Long live ......" This earth-shattering roar instantly woke up the people of Xiliang and the soldiers of the Han Dynasty, and it was more like a sharp arrow piercing the hearts of the soldiers.
Anger is aroused in an instant, hatred is ignited in an instant,
"Kill, kill the Qiang, kill the Qiang......"
"Boom ......" broke out in an instant. The vast snowfield collapsed and cracked in an instant, and the Han soldiers completely lost their minds.
They raised their weapons and unleashed the wildest, fiercest and bloodiest slaughter on their enemies. As long as the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty is still there, as long as the battle flag of the Son of Heaven is still flying in the air, as long as the Son of Heaven is still fighting fiercely, even if there is no general, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty can still feel the incomparable strength of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty is the king of the world.
The Han is invincible, the Han is invincible, and those who commit my strong man, although they are far away, will be punished, killed, killed, killed......
"Dahan...... Invincible......" The soldiers of the Han army shouted hoarsely and roared, killing and slashing with all their might.
At this moment, they forgot the general, forgot the Black Panther battle flag, they only had the big Han in their hearts, only the big Han battle flag, only the sacrosanct majesty of the big Han, and only the battle flag of the Son of Heaven hunting in the wind and snow.
Wei Jun was grief-stricken, the general fell, Koji Yi fell, and the intense anger almost suffocated him, but he still maintained a trace of sanity, and he couldn't let the army collapse, and he couldn't let the army's heart be lost.
He brandished his bloody sword and roared wildly,
"Dahan...... Fight for the Great Han and fight for the Son of Heaven...... Brothers, kill, kill, kill them all......" The soldiers roared like thunder, fighting to the death one by one.
Yan Rou burst into tears. His hoarse cry was accompanied by a mournful cry, the Panther's banner would not fall, would never fall,
"Kill them all, kill them all for me......" Pound's blood-red eyes widened, completely losing his mind.
He only knows how to kill, only the head of the enemy, the blood of the enemy can relieve the pain in his heart a little.
"Kill, leave no one, leave no one." The soldiers of the Han army were like a jet of crossbow arrows, roaring and shouting, killing the enemy formation, and they were overwhelming.
All kinds of weapons fell like a raging storm, killing the Qiang people with many casualties, and ghosts crying wolves. The rear army of the main force of the Qiang cavalry lost its direction, and they fell into the frenzied pursuit of the Han army.
Although they wanted to break through the Han army's resistance and join the army in front, the Han people suddenly broke out.
The bloody killing made the Qiang people feel terrified, and they were at a loss for a while, so they could only blow the trumpet frequently, asking the former army to return and help them tear apart the battle formation of the Han army.
The Qiang front army was even more unbearable, and the wild bull was terribly attacked by the lions. Outside the formation, there were Mustafa's Changshui battalion, Jiang Wu and Lei Zi's Ula Iron Cavalry, and the three armies surrounded and killed on three sides, extremely sharp.
Inside the array, the sacrificial Feng and the Hu cavalry battalion soldiers also broke out, and they stubbornly advanced in the Qiang formation, getting closer and closer to the Chinese army in Hongri.
At this time, the Qiang people had no way to turn back except to continue to attack and kill, let alone support the rear army.
The battle formation of the Xiliang people was crumbling, and Yang Qiu and the soldiers gritted their teeth. The Son of Heaven has already killed with reinforcements, and victory is just around the corner, as long as he withstands the last blow of the Qiang people, the Han army can firmly control the situation of the battle, and can obtain the victory that has been expected for a hundred years.
Li Hong led the soldiers to fight bloodily. The main force of the Qiang people on the right flank battlefield has been cut off, and the Han army's iron cavalry is besieging and killing one of them, while one of Hongri's iron cavalry is between the right flank battlefield and the middle battlefield, and the battle formation is very long.
At this moment, as long as the Tiger Feather Forest Battalion launched a fatal blow against this Qiang cavalry, this iron cavalry would immediately collapse.
In this way, the encirclement and annihilation on the left and right flanks of the battlefield will immediately achieve absolute superiority in troops, and the Qiang people will be completely annihilated in this battle.
Time, as long as it lasts for a short period of time, the beautiful West Sea will become an inseparable part of Dahan.
The Qiang people attacked like a tide, completely disregarding their lives. Li Hongding was at the forefront, spears flying, killing one enemy after another.
But there are too many Qiang people, and they flock to kill them all over. The Guards suffered heavy casualties, and they paid a terrible price in the face of an enemy force several times their size.
And the five hundred forest riders are getting fewer and fewer, and almost more than half of them are killed. The long arrow roared and drove into Li Hong's thigh.
Li Hong snorted in pain, staggered back, drew his knife and chopped off the handle of the arrow, and flew to fight again. The spear stabbed Li Hong in the lower abdomen, and blood splattered.
Li Hong roared loudly and pounced like a tiger, and his spear pierced through Qiang and was captured on the ground. Li Hong killed too many people, which angered the Qiang people, and the enemy soldiers were red-eyed and shouted wildly.
Li Hong rose up and killed seven people in one breath, and he was also wounded in many places, dripping with blood. He couldn't hold on, and the sound of violent gasps seemed to warn him that his strength was at its limit.
But he couldn't retreat, he never thought of retreating from the battlefield, fighting, and dying. Li Hong held a spear in his hand, barely supporting his shaky body, and the sword in his right hand was like a long rainbow through the sun, killing three more people.
The knife broke, and he knelt weakly on the ground with half a war knife in his hand. Maybe it's because I'm old, or maybe it's because the spell of the West Sea has worked, and I've run out of oil and can't wield my sword anymore.
The spear fell from the sky with a puddle of blood and pierced Li Hong's chest. Killed at will, the hand shield blocked the spear between the lightning and flint, and the war knife thundered down, cutting off the handle of the spear, and then turned the blade, stabbing straight into the chest of the Qiang people.
"Protect the general, protect the ......" stood up sharply and roared wildly. But after only half a shout, spears and arrows were already being killed at the same time from all directions.
Falling at will, he cut off three heads and blocked two spears, but still three spears pierced his body, and seven crossbow arrows pierced his chest, blood pouring out.
Random blood sprayed onto Li Hong's face, and on his long hair, warm blood flowed down his cheeks and onto his beard, dripping to the ground.
Li Hong gasped for breath, his heart was twitching, his hands were shaking, and his lost strength was recovering little by little.
The Qiang pounced again. The guards sacrificed their lives to fight, and in an instant, five brothers fell by Li Hong's side.
He slowly let go of his grip on the spear and gripped any of his knives.
"Killing ......" Li Hong moved, he moved like a leopard, the sword was like a rainbow, the broken knife was like electricity, and the roar was like thunder.
The Qiang people are like fallen leaves in the autumn wind, and like snowflakes falling in the sky, they are swept up by a wild hurricane and fly in the air.
Eleven enemies, eleven lives, disappeared in the blink of an eye. Li Hong stood still, motionless, the blood on his body was still steaming, the war knife in his right hand had been curled, and the broken knife in his left hand was inserted into the enemy's mouth.
The north wind blew, and Qiang's corpse collapsed with a bang, leaving only a blood-spurting head still hanging on the broken knife and trembling gently.
The Qiang people were full of liver and gall, surrounded around, and did not dare to step forward. The snow field shook, violently shook, and the Son of Heaven of the Great Han Dynasty took the Tiger Ben Feather Forest Battalion to the middle battlefield.
The horn sounded for a long time, shaking the heavens and the earth.
"Kill, kill......" Duan Xuan raised his arms high, and his sword pointed directly at the enemy formation,
"Kill them, kill them all, kill them all......"
"Straight to the middle of the battle, straight to the middle of the battle......" Zhang Xiao waved his spear, looking back and shouting,
"Kill the Rainbow ......"
"Kill the ......" The soldiers of the Tiger Feather Forest roared like thunder, and struck down with a thunderous blow, and the powerful iron cavalry army was like a giant iron cone, slamming into the enemy formation.
The enemy formation was torn apart and collapsed in an instant. The Qiang people's front army was in chaos, and some of them fought forward, desperately killing the Xiliang people, and making the last dying struggle.
Some of them were killed by the Han army's iron cavalry, and rushed to the Chinese army as if they were dead, trying their best to escape the attack of the Han army.
Linghu was desperate. The grudge between the Qiang and the Xiliang people is too deep, today's battle, the Xiliang people under the siege of the Qiang people, the hatred of more than a hundred years broke out, they blocked the meeting of the two Qiang armies with incredible bravery and tenacity, and also sent the Qiang people into the abyss of defeat.
"Tell Hongri, ask him to break through, be sure to preserve a vitality for Xihai, I will do my best to hold off the Han people, quickly, quickly......" The horn sounded, desolate and painful.
Hongri looked up to the sky and sighed, waved his hand and ordered,
"Tell the rear army, ask them to break through to Tianjun Mountain, and kill as many as they can."
"Order all departments, break through, break through in the direction of Datong Mountain, fast, fast ......"
"Woo woo......" The Qiang people sounded the horn of retreat. The Qiang cavalry army immediately turned its horse and retreated in the direction of Tianjun Mountain to the west.
Hongri commanded the army and broke through in the direction of Datong Mountain to the north. Linghu commanded the army to rush left and right, trying to fight their way out of the encirclement.
At this moment, Qin Yi was hurrying to the middle battlefield with the Yue Cavalry Battalion, as long as the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Xiliang Army met, Linghu's escape route would be completely cut off.
Xiao Tianzi led a team of men and horses to the middle battlefield, rushing to the place where the Black Panther Battle Banner fell. On the battlefield in the middle lane, the sound of killing shook the sky.
The Xiliang people were attacked by the Qiang people on both sides, and they were in danger, and the soldiers on both sides mixed together, fighting for their lives, and the battle was extremely fierce.
The Qiang people are completely insane, and the fear of death has made them lose their minds. They are like a wild bull trapped in a pack of lions, and before they die, they launch a final counterattack against the lions.
Even if you can't escape, you will die with the enemy, and the jade will be burned. The Xiliang people heard the horn of the Qiang people's retreat, and knew that the victory of this battle was decided, and they were all like a rainbow in morale, and they attacked bravely.
Li Hong was still at the forefront of the battle array, and there were only more than 100 of the 600 soldiers left, and they lived and died together with the general, and they did not retreat until death.
"Kill, kill, kill them......" Xiao Tianzi brandished his short sword and roared hoarsely under the protection of a team of Yu Lin Guards.
"Find the General, find him ......"
"Daddy, daddy......" Li Xiu followed him, crying, screaming, shouting. But the various sounds on the battlefield are intertwined and deafening, and no one can hear them.
The general is still fighting, and his spear is like a bloodthirsty beast, slaying the oncoming enemies one by one. The war horse was too badly wounded, bleeding profusely, and finally could not support it and fell under the fierce attack of a rain of arrows.
The two Qiang rode horses, and two spears stabbed at Li Hong, who fell to the ground, at the same time. Li Hong couldn't hide, his leg was crushed under the war horse, and all the wounds broke when he fell, and the severe pain made him temporarily lose all his strength.
He closed his eyes in agony and screamed loudly, not even knowing that the enemy's spears had roared.
Enlightenment Pegasus came. He has not withdrawn, he has endured the pain and insisted on the battlefield, he wants to advance and retreat with his brother.
The general is in danger, but he is still a few steps away from the general and has no time to rescue. Without thinking about it, he jumped high from his horse and threw himself at the general.
"Plop, plop, plop, ......" A spear pierced Li Hong's shoulder blade, and the other spear penetrated Enlightenment's body, and the tip of the spear pointed directly at Li Hong's heart.
But the spear was too strong to pierce it. Enlightenment is dead. Li Hong's eyes were cracked, and he couldn't help but cry out,
"Kill, kill them, kill ......" Tiger Ben Yulin Camp is invincible. The Qiang people were tired of fighting for a long time, and they lost their speed, and they had no power to fight back, and they were killed by the Han army, with countless casualties.
If Hongri's army wants to break through in the direction of Datong Mountain, it must first break through the Hu cavalry camp of Saifeng. The Hu cavalry battalion is now surrounded in the middle of the battle formation of the Qiang cavalry, and they are like a sharp arrow, nailed to the inner abdomen of the Qiang cavalry, making the Qiang people miserable.
At the same time, the three armies of Mustafa, Jiang Wu, and Lei Zi had regained their speed, and together with the Tiger Ben Feather Forest Battalion, they surrounded Hongri's army and slashed and slaughtered at will.
The more than 20,000 iron cavalry of the Han army echoed inside and outside, firmly trapping the main force of the Qiang cavalry, which only had more than 7,000 people left.
When they broke through the resistance of the Xiliang people, they suffered heavy losses and suffered amazing losses, which was an important reason why they failed to quickly break through the Han army's resistance and successfully break through.
The retreat of the Qiang cavalry was blocked, the army could not start to gain speed, and the annihilation of the whole army was inevitable. The retreat of the main rear army of the Qiang cavalry was very fast, and under the siege of Yan Rou, Pang De, and Ma Chao, they fought and retreated, galloping westward.
But before they could rush out of the battlefield, they were met with a head-on attack by the infantry battalion of the Northern Army. Yushi, Chen Jian, and the soldiers of the infantry battalion waited for a long time in the cold wind, but the Qiang seemed to have forgotten them, and they were so bent on attacking them that they turned a deaf ear to their presence, which made them feel that they had become spectators of the Battle of the Western Sea, and they were full of resentment.
Finally waiting for the opportunity to attack, Yu Shi and Chen Jian were overjoyed, and hurriedly commanded three hundred ballistas and two thousand strong bows to shoot at the same time.
For a while, the arrows were like locusts, and the dense arrow array almost instantly overwhelmed the Qiang cavalry. The first round of frantic shooting caused the Qiang people to lose nearly 1,000 men and horses by surprise.
The Qiang soul flew out of the sky, and did not dare to break through forcibly, so the troops immediately divided into two ways and broke through from both wings. Yan Rou, Pang De, and Ma Chao put all the main iron cavalry on both flanks to hit hard, and beat the Qiang people back.
As the Qiang's losses grew, their forces dwindled, and time was running out, they made the wrong decision to force a breakthrough through the Han infantry army in front of them at all costs.
They believed that the iron cavalry of the Han army was far stronger than that of the infantry army, and as long as they broke through the Han army's arrow array, the army could successfully break through, which could not only reduce losses, but also shorten the breakthrough time.
This method completely buried this Qiang cavalry, and they didn't know that the Han army's infantry army was actually more powerful.
Qin Yi's Yue cavalry battalion and the Xiliang army rendezvous. The Xiliang army fought very badly, and among the 12,000 elites who accompanied the general on the expedition to the West Sea, nearly 8,000 soldiers of the left and right armies were almost all killed, and the Chinese army also lost about 1,000 people, and the main force of the Xiliang army was finished.
The huge price paid by the Xiliang army gave a heavy blow to the Linghu who tried to break through the blockade, he only had 10,000 horses, and after the successful division of the Han army, his front army of more than 5,000 people died on the battlefield of breaking through the blockade of the Xiliang army.
When the Han army launched the final blow, he lost the opportunity to rendezvous with the main Qiang cavalry. Nie Xiao's Huangzhongqiang, the Yue cavalry battalion took the opportunity to surround it and launched a fierce attack on it, and the destruction of the spirit fox was imminent.
Jia Xu, who commanded the Chinese army, successively ordered all units to strive to besiege and not let the Qiang people break through.
Ordered Qin Yi to immediately send a force of five hundred soldiers to help the Xiliang army deal with the remnants of the enemy on the battlefield in the middle.
The killing noise on the battlefield in the middle lane gradually faded away.
"General, we have found the general......" Yu Linwei's cry of surprise spread throughout the battlefield,
"He's alive, he's alive." Xiao Tianzi, Li Xiu and the others were surprised and delighted, and hurriedly flew to the center of the battlefield full of corpses.
There were a mountain of corpses here, and the general was buried under the corpses. Li Hong was covered in blood, unrecognizable, scarred, and dying.
Xiao Tianzi rushed into the pile of corpses with a rolling belt, pounced on him and hugged the general, and cried bitterly,
"General...... General...... Quick, move the dead horse, move it away......" Li Xiu burst into tears, carefully hugged his father's bloody head into his arms, and shouted in a low voice.
Li Hong slowly opened his eyes, and his right hand moved subconsciously. This hand has always held enlightenment. He was worried that the bones of Xie Wu would be trampled and destroyed by the galloping iron horseman, and he kept holding it tightly in his arms.
What about enlightenment? Li Xiu grabbed his hand and cried and said, "Uncle Xie is over there, and his bones are intact. Li Hong's gaze moved to Xiao Tianzi with difficulty, and he gently spit out two words,
"Koji...... Koji ...... "He can't do it anymore, he wants to hand over the little emperor and the army to Koji Yi." Xiao Tianzi understood Li Hong's mind and cried even more,
"Koji-sama is dead, he's dead." Li Hongru was hit hard, and suddenly raised his head high, trying his best to get up.
But he couldn't move, his eyes widened, and he roared hoarsely,
"Yuntian ......" A mouthful of blood spurted out wildly, and Li Hong fainted immediately. On the snowfield, the panther battle flag soared into the sky, flying in the wind and snow.
The officers and men of the Han army, the "Great General......" were all ecstatic, their morale was suddenly boosted, and the sound of war drums and cheers swept across the battlefield like bursts of thunder, shaking the heavens and the earth.
"The general is still alive......"
"Kill, kill the Qiang people......" Hongri was stunned. The god of the West Sea no longer blesses her descendants, the god of the West Sea has abandoned the Qiang, and she has gone to favor the ferocious leopard, the leopard that slaughtered our Qiang.
A black shadow flashed, like lightning. Blood bursts out. Hongri only felt a sharp pain in his neck, opened his mouth and let out a terrible howl, and his tall body shook a few times on the horse's back, and fell down in the extremely shocked and frightened eyes of the Qiang people around him.
Rainbow Sun died, killed by a small black axe that fell from the sky.
"Rainbow Sun is dead...... He's dead......" Sacrificial Blade roared with a team of men and horses,
"Hongri is dead...... "The leopard is alive, Hongri is dead, and the god of the West Sea has abandoned the Qiang people...... In a short period of time, the Qiang people collapsed, completely collapsed.
Late at night, the Han army camp, the general of the chariot cavalry. Yu Shi and other generals in the army stood quietly in front of Ko Yi's body, motionless.
Jia Xu walked in.
"Did Your Majesty agree?"
"Your Majesty did not speak." There was a dead silence in the tent.
"Your Majesty did not refuse, silence is consent." Yan Rou turned around suddenly, looked at the generals in the tent with a cold expression, and slowly put on his battle helmet.
"I am the commander of the army, and I will give this order."
"Assemble the army." Yan Rou said word by word,
"Immediately kill the Qiang chieftain Linghu and 13,000 Qiang captives, and there will be no mercy." Jump to