Chapter Seventy-Two: Annihilation

Knowing that the back road was blocked by a big stone, Alito understood that he still fell into the trap of these Qin people, although he was careful enough, but he didn't expect the terrain in this mountain to be so complicated, and at the same time, Alito also blamed himself for being a little light enemy, in such a land, even if he doubled his number, it was useless, the war horse could not run, the range of bows and arrows was limited, as long as these Qin people stood on the mountain walls on both sides, then they were completely live targets.

His brother was killed, the back road of the clansmen was blocked, Alito knew that the situation was not good, but in order to increase the confidence of the clansmen, he shouted loudly: "Rong Di's warriors, these Qin people have resorted to despicable means to harm us, now our retreat is blocked, now we can only move forward, as long as we rush out, we can win the victory, warriors, follow me to dismount and kill the enemy!"

In this kind of mountain road, it is no longer suitable for fighting on horseback, so Alito decided to dismount and engage the enemy, as long as he kills the main general of the Qin army in front of him first, then the Qin soldiers below will definitely be disrupted, and then he will have the opportunity to lead his clan to rush out.

Seeing that the big leader dismounted and fought with the Qin people, the Rongdi cavalry behind also dismounted, and followed the big leader forward with the weapons in their hands.

Meng Tian saw that the Rongdi people got off their horses and killed him, and thought to himself, if you rush over on horseback, I may not be able to hold you back, and now that you have dismounted, then it is time for you to step into hell step by step. Meng Tian waved his hand and said, "Listen to my orders, everyone will release arrows." ”

The Qin soldiers standing on the stone walls on both sides of the mountain road heard Meng Tian's order, leaned out, and attacked the Rongdi people below with bows and arrows. Seeing that the Qin people began to release arrows, Alito quickened his pace and rushed to Meng Tian, who was not far ahead. Now you can't stop because of the Qin people's bows and arrows, otherwise you can only sit and wait for death, and only by rushing forward will there be a glimmer of life.

Meng Tian saw that Alito had rushed in front of him, and the spear in his hand stabbed Alito like a swimming dragon. Alito ran too fast, he could only dodge to the side, and then slashed at Meng Tian with a scimitar in his hand, but this dodge, a Rongdi cavalryman who followed closely behind him did not dodge, and was stabbed in the chest by Meng Tian with a spear, killing him instantly. Meng Tian saw that Alito had dodged his spear, and then attacked him with his knife, so he took a step forward and raised the spear upwards, blocking Alito's knife. Meng Tian grabbed his knife and kicked Alito in the abdomen, kicking him away, then pulling out his spear before stabbing him to death.

The Rong Di people in the back couldn't see the fight in front of them at all, and just rushed forward, fortunately, the mountain road was too narrow, although Meng Tian faced the attack of thousands of people, but there were only three or four people who attacked him, as long as he fought and retreated, and did not fall into the crowd of the other party, then he could ensure his own safety.

After Zhao Li and Meng Tian separated, he led people to find a boulder on the hill not far from the mountain road, Zhao Li called twenty more powerful soldiers, and twenty-one people worked together to push the boulder and pushed it to the top of the stone wall that entered the mountain road.

After receiving Meng Tian's order, Zhao Li on the hillside and all the Qin soldiers who stayed here shot at the Rongdi people below, and the Rongdi people were killed and injured more than 100 people in an instant. Seeing the Rongdi people below attacking Meng Tian like crazy, Zhao Lisheng was afraid that Meng Tian would make a mistake, so he left two hundred people to continue to fire arrows at the Rongdi people above the mountain road, and then took the rest of the people to hand over all the arrows to the soldiers left above, and then went down to the mountain road to support Meng Tian.

Alito took a kick from Meng Tian, only to feel unbearable pain in his abdomen, he didn't expect this Qin man's strength to be so great, Alito endured the pain, picked up the war knife in his hand and continued to attack Meng Tian. Meng Tian killed a Rongdi man with another spear, and then held the spear across his chest, blocking the three scimitars that attacked him together. Alito found an opportunity and took the opportunity to stab Meng Tian in the abdomen.

Seeing that this knife could not be stopped, just as Alito's knife was about to stab Meng Tian's body, a Qin knife picked it open, and it turned out that Zhao Li arrived in time with someone to block Alito's fatal knife. Meng Tian used his strength to swing away the knife on the spear, then used the spear to the ground, picked up with both legs, kicked out three kicks and kicked the owners of the three knives away, and smashed several Rongdi people behind the three people.

Meng Tian took advantage of the slight slowdown in the Rong Di people's offensive and said to Zhao Li: "Thank you, Brother Zhao, you saved my life. ”

Zhao Li looked at the Rong Di people in front of him who were about to rush over again, and said: "Don't be polite, young general, this is what the last general should do, if you want to thank the last general, it is better to wait for this place to end, and we will go back and invite me to a good drink." ”

Meng Tian laughed when he heard this, "Okay, a word is a certainty." ”

As soon as the words were spoken, the Rong Di people attacked, Zhao Li took the dozens of people he brought down and crowded in the narrow mountain road, but most of the Qin troops used spears, so they had some advantages, the three people in front blocked the weapons of the Rong Di people, and then the Qin soldiers behind them stabbed the spears in their hands on the Rong Di people's bodies, so that the fierce attack of the Rong Di people was temporarily blocked.

Seeing the Qin people's way of fighting, Alito knew that the big thing was not good, and if it went on like this, the Qin people were like meat grinders, and the warriors under his command were simply sending their lives upward, and if it went on like this, his people still couldn't escape the fate of being destroyed. Alito broke away from the battlefield and ran towards the back of the crowd, keeping an eye out for arrows coming overhead as he ran. Alito came to the back of his own people, and out of the back came the people who were crowded behind and could not move forward, leaving a large number of horses riding over.

When Alito saw these war horses, he had an idea in his heart, but it was a little cruel, but now he had to do it in order to save his life. Alito called out to the Rongdi people at the back and said, "Go, kill these horses, and lay them under the stone, and we will use the carcasses of these horses to cross the stone and return to the grassland." ”

Hearing that the commander ordered the killing of horses, for the Rongdi people who lived on horseback since childhood, this was tantamount to killing their own family. Originally, in the steppe tribes of Rongdi and Xiongnu, each herdsman's family raised horses in addition to two of them, more than the war horses had to be contributed, and when there was a war, the men in charge of fighting in the tribe rode them, and then half of the booty plundered when the war returned from victory belonged to the herdsmen who raised the horses. So in the eyes of these herdsmen, their own horses are their own livelihood guarantees, at this time the commander said that he wanted to kill the horses, and the Rongdi people behind you, you look at me, I look at you, are all stuck in place.

Seeing that no one carried out his orders, Alito hurriedly said: "These horses are useless now, and when we die, they will be those Qin people, and then those Qin people can ride our war horses and gallop on our grassland." Now we can only pile up the bodies of these horses so that we can escape from this hellish place, so what are you waiting for to kill the horses? ”

After listening to the words of the great commander, the Rong Di people understood, yes, if they all died, then these horses belonged to those Qin people. So dozens of people followed Alito to the boulder behind the horse, Alito picked up the scimitar in his hand, and cut off the head of a war horse with a knife, and the blood sprayed Alito's body. The Grand Commander killed the first horse, and then the horses were brought over and killed under the stones. As the war horses continued to die, more and more war horse corpses piled up under the stones, gradually approaching the top of the stones.

The Qin soldiers who were shooting arrows on the mountain wall discovered the intentions of the Rong Di people and hurried down to report to Meng Tian. When Meng Tian heard that the Rongdi people planned to use the corpse of the war horse and then cross the boulder blocking the road, he became anxious and said, "What's the matter, why haven't the reinforcements from Fushi City come yet?"

The battle on the mountain road is becoming more and more intense, and the Rongdi people in front don't know the situation in the rear, they only know that their way of life is in front, so they don't want to rush up. Although the Qin army had tactics available, it could not resist the death-like attack of the Rong Di people, and they were constantly retreating.

Zhao Li also heard the news that the Rong Di people wanted to escape, he wiped a handful of blood stains splashed on his face, and said, "Look at the time, the reinforcements should be coming soon, let's hold on a little longer." ”

Meng Tian heard that there was no way, after all, the number of people on his side was too small, after such a long battle, there were still more than five hundred Rong Di people left, and there were less than twenty people on his side plus the people brought down by Zhao Li just now, as long as the Rong Di people kept rushing forward, then if the reinforcements came, he would die under the sword of the Rong Di people first.

Just as the battle was stalemate, Meng Tian heard the sound of a large number of horses' hooves on the ground in the rear, and Meng Tian understood that it was his own reinforcements coming. Sure enough, after a while, Qin soldiers poured into the valley, and the person who took the lead was Du Hui, who escorted King Rongdi and Zalihe. Du Hui had just arrived at Fushi City to hand over the captured King Rongdi to Wang Yi and Mengwu, and the soldiers who came to ask for help on sweaty horses also arrived at Fushi City. Hearing the news that Meng Tian was trapped, Du Hui did not rest, so he applied to bring soldiers to support. Because Du Hui was familiar with the terrain, Wang Ben and Meng Wu did not refuse and gave him 2,000 men to relieve the siege.

Seeing Du Hui bringing people to support, Meng Tian and Zhao Li were very happy. Thinking that the Rong Di people were using the corpse of the war horse to try to escape, Meng Tian said to Du Hui: "Brother Zhao, you take a thousand people to ride horses and quickly bypass the top of the hillside, and the Rong Di people are ready to escape with the corpse of the war horse at the entrance of the mountain road, so you must rush there before they escape and catch them all." ”

"Yes, the last general understands. Du Hui took the order, rode on his horse and led a thousand cavalry to quickly bypass the mountain road and go to the entrance of the mountain road.

After Du Hui left, Meng Tian said to Zhao Li: "Brother Zhao, it's time for these Rongdi people to taste the power of our Great Qin warriors, let's kill!"

"Kill!" Zhao Li roared, brandishing the Qin knife in his hand and launching a counterattack against the Rong Di people. Reinforcements are like the last straw that crushes the camel, with the addition of the new force, the Rongdi people began to retreat, but the front wanted to retreat, and the people behind did not know that the battle in front was still rushing forward, so at this time the Rongdi people were huddled together on the mountain road. On the other hand, the combination of long and short weapons on the Qin army's side has completely become a real military exercise, killing the Rong Di people in front of them with a knife and a gun.

After killing hundreds of horses, the corpses were finally piled up over the boulder blocking the road, and seeing the defeat of the clansmen in front of them, Alito stood on the highest place and shouted loudly for the clansmen to quickly cross the boulder. The retreating Rongdi people saw that they could cross the boulder, so they rushed behind one after another. Because the boulder was too high, the few people who rushed to the front didn't have time to jump, but were pushed down by their own people behind and fell to death on the other side of the stone.

Meng Tian saw Alito standing on the boulder, took the bow and arrow of a Qin soldier beside him, wound the arrow, drew the bow full, and shot the arrow fiercely.

Alito was standing on the boulder and directing his people to cross the boulder, when he suddenly felt a pain in his chest, and looked down at a bow and arrow stuck in his chest, and due to the excessive force, only the tail feathers and part of the body of the arrow were left outside. Alito felt the strength in all of his body disappear, his eyes darkened, and he fell, falling under the boulder.

The remaining surviving Rongdi people saw that their big leader was killed by an arrow, and they were even more confused, just like the one who rushed forward to kill just now, but at this time they were rushing to the boulder without their lives. In addition, there were hundreds of horses crowded in the middle of the mountain road, and the Rong Di people who rushed in front just now could not rush over at all, and could only be killed by the Qin soldiers who caught up. It was also the obstruction of these horses that made it impossible for the Qin soldiers to rush over at the first time, so there were still many Rongdi people who escaped over the boulders and escaped from the mountain road.

When Meng Tian and Zhao Li came to the boulder with people, they saw hundreds of horse corpses piled up together, all the way to the top of the boulder. Meng Tian and Zhao Li stepped on the horse's corpse, came to the top of the boulder, and looked at the Rong Di who fell to death under the boulder and the Rong Di leader who was killed by his own arrow. Meng Tian said: "I wonder if Brother Du can wipe out all those Rongdi people who escaped?"

Zhao Li said beside him: "Don't worry, general." Without a horse, the Rongdi people could not run as fast as a rabbit, let alone on the grasslands that were conducive to cavalry galloping. ”

Meng Tian nodded, "Send the order, collect the troops and return to the camp." ”