Chapter Ninety-Eight: Vaulting
The devils withdrew, and there was cheering on our positions. However, these people cheering were all scouts led by Chen Laosi. Today, however, the scouts are treated as ordinary infantry envoys, and they fight a defensive battle against the devils with the small arms at hand on this position. The battle was short, but it was hard enough, the devils retreated, the battle was won, and the warriors had every reason to cheer to their heart's content.
The cavalry that came up later did not cheer, Gao Quan and Kong Xuan each led half of the cavalry team to chase the devils, and they did not have time to participate in the cheers and celebrations.
More than half of the more than 100 devils were able to retreat alive, dozens of devils fled in a hurry in front, and thousands of cavalry pursued in the rear, it seems that the devils were almost completely annihilated. "Chase, chase! Slaughter all these little devils! Gao Quan rode his jujube red horse and chased more and more excitedly, seeing the devil running in front of him, he rode a horse behind and chased unhurriedly, not to mention Gao Quan, anyone who served as the commander of the pursuit force would be in a surprisingly good mood.
"Boom! Bang! In front of the galloping cavalry troops, there was a sudden unexpected explosion, and several explosion points made more than a dozen cavalrymen lose their horses and even fall out with their horses! The warriors behind hurriedly pulled the reins and controlled the horses to turn to the side, and the neat cavalry team was in chaos at that time.
"Squeak-boom!" With the scream, there were several explosions, this time the explosion point moved back a little, the cavalry troops because of the explosion just now, the team has been dispersed, although this explosion is closer to the middle of the team, the damage caused is not as much as just now, only three or five knights and men with horses turned out.
With a whistle, it's shelling! The devils are bombarding our cavalry units with artillery fire! Gao Quan, who instantly understood the source of the damage, immediately ordered the signal soldier next to him: "Blow the trumpet and order the troops to retreat!" ”
The call to collect the troops sounded, and devils appeared in the distance. Of course, it's not that the devils who fled in a hurry just now are back, this is the devil's backup force, and the number of people is at least hundreds! The plaster flag fluttered in the wind, the steel helmet reflected the sun in the west, and the angry devils howled and ran, like a dog behind their buttocks, and ran towards the cavalry with their little short legs.
"Withdraw!" Seeing the big group of devils rushing to this side, Gao Quan gave the order to withdraw his troops without hesitation, he didn't doubt at all that there would be hundreds, or even thousands, of devils behind these devils! The effect of the cavalry's surprise attack has been achieved, and it is not a clever tactic to rush up and fight the devils. Liu Qi led thousands of men and horses of the Independent Brigade to set up positions in the back, intending to fight to the death with the devils, it was their job to fight positional warfare, how could the cavalry troops steal the limelight of the infantry?
"Squeak-squeak-" There were several more shrill howls. These little devils, let you get a little cheap, and you still don't give up! Gao Quan's heart was on fire, and when he opened his mouth and was about to scold for two sentences, he suddenly felt his heart tighten, as if one of the whistles was particularly harsh and ugly, and the hairs on his arms stood up with excitement!
It was too late for other reactions, so he quickly pulled his left foot out of the stirrup, lifted it upward, and tilted his body to the right, kicked the saddle, and shouted: "Red red turn!" Then he held his head in his hands, bent his legs, and fell directly to the ground.
If it falls this time, there will be no problem with life, it is difficult to say whether the arms and legs will be broken, and the abrasions and scratches on the body will definitely not be less. Gao Quan closed his eyes and waited for the next blow and pain, which I don't know if it was light or heavy.
The back finally made contact with the ground first! Hey? Why doesn't it feel hard and raw? I feel that the place where my back touches is soft or not, hard or not, and the strange feeling that I can't say is like pressing on a person.
But before landing, Gao Quan had clearly observed the ground environment where he was about to fall, and unfortunately, it was neither a thin muddy ground, nor a soft lawn, nor a sand pile or a garbage heap, not even a slightly smoother loess road, that place was an ordinary black and gray hard ground, and there seemed to be a few small stone eggs exposed on the ground. Gao Quan's only request is not to hit a certain stone with the first hit of the vital part. How does it feel this way now? Where did this fall?
Of course, it is impossible for a person to fall from a galloping horse to a place and not move, Gao Quan felt that the landing place was soft, and that was it, and then his body flipped to the side, and the landing posture he adopted was originally intended to use the rolling of the body itself to resolve the damage to the body when he landed. bumped into it, then rolled out to the side for seven or eight meters and stopped. The taste of rolling these laps was not pleasant, and Gao Quan obviously felt that he had been hit by three or four hard stones several times.
The place where it was hurt was painful, but fortunately, it didn't cause any serious damage if it rolled over, and it was still within the range that Commander Gao could tolerate. Finally the body stopped rolling, Gao Quan first closed his eyes and took a deep breath, checked it himself, fortunately, he didn't feel uncomfortable with his internal organs between breaths, fortunately there was no internal injury. Since the internal organs are not injured, let's check the external injuries, Gao Quan opened his eyes and looked around first, the feeling of landing on the ground for the first time was too strange, where did it hit?
A few steps away lay a gray-blue figure on the ground, it was our warrior. It turned out that he had fallen on his warrior's corpse just now, and Gao Quan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Throne! Throne! With a few exclamations, first a figure like a strange bird flew sideways, and then a large group of people quickly surrounded it. The one who came first must be Biaozi, this gold medal bodyguard who has always followed behind Gao Quan's body didn't protect it well, and actually let the military seat fall off the horse! When Biao Zi ran to Gao Quan's side, he had a self-reproachful and sad expression, if Gao Quan wasn't still lying here, this might have rushed to the group of devils to kill.
"Commander, how are you? Where's the injury? Biao Zi was so anxious that his voice trembled a little. The main thing is that he doesn't know whether Gao Quan was thrown off by a horse or blown off by a cannonball, if the latter result is too bad, but fortunately, the military seat will still be able to blink and look alive.
"I don't know," Gao Quan really didn't know where he was injured, although he was a little sorry for his wisdom when he said it, but he hadn't checked himself yet! Moved his fingers, shook his feet and neck, first made sure that his hands and feet were not broken, plus he was sure that his internal organs were not injured just now, and combined with the degree of pain in his body, Gao Quan already knew the severity of his injury, "It's not a big deal, it's a little skin injury, it doesn't matter." As he spoke, he grabbed Biaozi's arm and stood up.