Chapter 251: On the Canal
Yue Tuo was shocked, he didn't expect Qin Shuhuai to come back again!
After the two hundred and fifty Jiannu cavalry rushed out, there were still two hundred and fifty cavalry left around Yue Tuo, but in front of the same number of Qingshui Banners, the combat power of those two hundred and fifty cavalry was more than one grade behind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The five large formations of Qingshui Banner quickly killed, each formation had about fifty people, they had a clear division of labor, several people in the formation were responsible for cutting the legs of the war horses, and the rest were responsible for killing the fallen cavalry. There were no shouts, no roars, they were like delicate machines, working seamlessly with each other, and they carried out the slaughter at an astonishing speed. The Jiannu war horses fell one after another as if there was a domino effect, and once the cavalry on the horse dismounted, they would only be hacked to death with random knives. In the blink of an eye, fifty or sixty horsemen were lost.
The more than two hundred and fifty horsemen who had rushed out before immediately turned their horses and killed them again, but this time they didn't dare to rush quickly, because once they were avoided by Qingshuiqi's men again, they would rush to their own horsemen. They chose to approach at a faster speed, surround the five Qingshui Banner formations from the outside, and then encircle and annihilate them with the cavalry inside.
But things weren't as rosy as they thought they would.
Because Qin Shuhuai appeared.
Qin Shuhuai used all his strength to tread the snow without a trace, and dodged the attack of the outer cavalry with dazzling methods, and in an instant, he arrived less than ten meters away from Yue Tuo. After that, the long sword flew and the sword qi roared, showing his determination to assassinate Yue Tuo in a devastating manner.
One general is worth a thousand troops, and his existence alone, although it is not worth a thousand troops, but at least a hundred armies have it. Yue Tuo's surroundings were in chaos all of a sudden. Except for the remaining thirty or so Bayala soldiers who were tightly blocking in front of Yue Tuo, the rest of the Jiannu horsemen could only quickly surround him.
Around him, countless Jiannu cavalry rushed up and fell in his crimson sword aura. The next batch is down, and another batch is rushed up, and the stream is endless. The sabers were intertwined into a forest, the war horses neighed into pieces, and there were all kinds of sudden hidden weapons and cold arrows, and Jiannu desperately tried to prevent Qin Shuhuai from approaching Yue Tuo.
Qin Shuhuai rushed left and right in the chaotic army, and he had already tried his best, and everywhere the long sword passed, there were people on their backs, flesh and blood flying, and he attracted more than 100 Jiannu troops with his own strength.
As a result, Jiannu's plan to encircle and annihilate the Qingshui Banner completely failed. Most of the Jiannu soldiers inside went to deal with Qin Shuhuai, so Qingshui Qi only needed to deal with the two hundred and fifty cavalry outside.
Half a moment later, Qin Shuhuai had already killed seventy or eighty Jiannu cavalry with one person and one sword, but he also suffered a knife wound. If he had tried his best before, there would have been at least half a chance of killing Yue Tuo. But he was not in a hurry to kill Yue Tuo, because in this case, killing Yue Tuo would not make the Jiannu cavalry collapse.
He wanted to use Yue Tuo to contain the army of Jiannu.
At this time, Qing Shui Qi killed more than 100 Jiannu cavalry through step-by-step operations. The five hundred guards on Yue Tuo's side have already lost more than half. And Qingshuiqi suffered only sixty or seventy casualties.
With the infantry against the strongest cavalry on the Asian continent today, the Qingshui Banner still played a battle loss ratio of about 1 to 4, once again showing the strength of the Demon Sect's Five Elements Banner! Qin Shuhuai sighed secretly in his heart: I don't know how many people there are in the Demon Sect's Five Elements Banner? If there were 20,000 or 30,000 such an army, the Demon Sect would be able to raise troops now, not to mention destroying the Ming Dynasty, even destroying the Tartars would be a matter of incident.
Yue Tuo was a little panicked. Seeing his cavalry fall one by one, he could no longer care about the battle ahead, and immediately asked a Baya soldier beside him to blow the horn.
"Tut~~~Tut~~~"
A deep and penetrating horn sounded. During the war, there were a total of more than a dozen horn sounds, each of which represented a different meaning, so it was common to see several people with various horns pinned to their waists standing next to the Houjin coach. Now this kind of horn means that the manager is under attack and needs reinforcements. Each short tone represents one hundred reinforcements, while one long tone represents five hundred reinforcements. Yue Tuo made people blow two long notes at once, which meant that he needed to send a thousand reinforcements back!
In the southwest direction, a mile away from the battlefield, Dolgon also heard the sound of this horn, and immediately frowned, and said in his heart: Could it be that the reinforcements of the Ming Kingdom are coming?
"Baylor, do you want the last general to take a look?" said one of the next Ezhen to Dolgon in Manchu.
Dorgon nodded, "Go ahead, get back quickly." ā
"Yes!"
At this time, another person next to him said, "Baylor, shall we also retreat?"
There was a hint of contempt on Dolgon's heroic face, and he said, "No need, just a Ming soldier, what is there to be afraid of?"
In the main battlefield, He Kegang led the army to fight bloodily, and through continuous changes in formation, he broke the attempt of outflanking and encircling Jiannu several times. However, the difference in strength between the two armies became more and more wide, and as the Ming army suffered more and more casualties, the situation became more and more unfavorable.
On the canal, a touching scene took place. Because He Kegang was afraid that after blocking the canal, the stranded ships would block the river channel and affect the passage of reinforcements from the waterway, so he did not block the canal, but only set up checkpoints to check. Therefore, at this time, there are still a large number of ships passing on the canal.
When the people on the ship passed by, they were all stunned when they saw that the officers and soldiers were engaged in a bloody battle with Jiannu. When they saw the officers and soldiers fall in hoarseness, and their bodies were trampled by Jiannu's horses' hooves, their eyes were moist.
Many people cried on the spot.
In the midst of grief, with endless anger!
The captain of the boat took the initiative to stop the boat, and then everyone on the boat, young and old, rich and poor, stood on the bow of the boat.
"Brothers in the officers and soldiers, you are all good!"
"The officers and troops will win! The officers and the army will win!"
"His grandmother, kill these brutes!
Some of them were close to the shore, and even picked up things and smashed the slave soldiers. There was a child who was about to hit the shore with a slingshot, but his mother covered his eyes. The scene was so bloody that even she couldn't bear to watch it herself......
There were even some men who saw the blood surging and scolded the boat boss, asking him to dock immediately, so that they could go up to reinforce the officers and soldiers!
Fortunately, the boss of the ship is still rational, and they all carry the scolding silently with tears in their eyes, saying that they will not dock at all. Not to mention that there is no dock here, and it is easy for the ship to run aground when it comes up, so what if it does? These men on the ship are empty of blood, have no weapons and no equipment, and if they go up, they will not be sent to death?
The overwhelming solidarity on the canal could not change the outcome, but it greatly boosted the morale of the officers and soldiers on the shore.
"Brothers, fathers and fellow villagers are all watching from the boat, let's fight!" one soldier shouted.
"Fight! Our Guan Ning army is not a bad seed!"
"Kill!"
He Kegang saw that the army's heart was drummed, and he was about to take this opportunity to lead the troops to break through, when he suddenly heard two horns in the distance.
Then, a large group of Jiannu cavalry suddenly turned around and ran in the direction of due north!
He Kegang was shocked in his heart and immediately dispelled his thoughts!
Don't withdraw! Fight to the death!