Chapter 47 Desperate Struggle

Li Ling's troops were marching south in front, chasing after him with cavalry, and both sides were fighting and fighting, neither of them were in love with the war.

On this day, when the sun was setting in the west, the soldiers of Li Ling's troops were armed with bows and crossbows, and vigilantly just walked out of the Dongjunji Pass and entered the barren hill area. Suddenly, a small group of cavalry rushed out from the side. Li Ling shouted loudly: "Release the arrow!"

The sergeants fired a thousand arrows, the enemy cavalry in front fell in response to the arrows, and the rear cavalry turned around and fled.

Li Ling shouted, "Catch it alive!" and the soldier switched to shooting the body and legs of the horse. The horses fell to the ground, and the rebels were beheaded, and only one prisoner was captured. After interrogation, he learned about the enemy's situation, which further boosted the morale of Li Ling and the soldiers.

The enemy army has lost more than 30,000 cavalry in many battles, and is afraid that we have reinforcements, so they dare not make a desperate bet, and now their morale is not high.

In addition, Li Ling led his troops to retreat back to the border of the Han Dynasty, and the enemy did not dare to chase after him

Drive. Shan Yu means: chase to a place fifty miles away from the Han border, and if you can't catch up, you will immediately withdraw.

At night, under the starlight, the two sides camped more than a mile apart, and both sent troops to stand guard on high places and be vigilant for defense. After midnight, General Han Yannian of Li Ling's department patrolled the post and found that a soldier standing guard fell asleep with an arrow in his arms.

He woke him up angrily with a whip and reprimanded: "How can you fall asleep standing guard?" The soldier hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord, I am really too tired!" General Han snorted and scolded unrelentingly, and the soldier cried and cried when he was beaten.

In the silence of the night, the sound of General Han's scolding and the cries of the soldiers spread far and wide. When the Hun sentry heard this, he wrote down the location, quietly called two people to change into Han military uniforms, sneaked into the sentry post, saying that he was replacing him to stand sentry, and robbed the soldiers who had been trained and beaten to the Hu camp.

After being coerced and lured, the soldiers surrendered to the Hu army, saying that the Li Ling army had no backup, the soldiers suffered many casualties, there were only more than 800 people with combat ability, and the arrows and crossbows and other weapons were almost exhausted.

This gave the Marquis Da Danyu, who was about to retire, a heart booster. He was overjoyed and immediately gathered his subordinates to discuss it overnight......

They immediately divided into two routes, taking advantage of the darkness to quietly occupy the top of the Kundi Mountain around Li Lingbu, and surrounded them to the death.

At the beginning of the morning of the next day, the enemy's cavalry shouted to the sky: "Li Ling, Han Yannian, surrender quickly! You are surrounded......" Then, the Xiongnu launched a general attack on Li Ling's department.

Arrows cover the sky and the sun, weapons are strong, and men and horses roar through the heavens and the earth. The soldiers on both sides fell one after another, and stepped forward one after another, fighting together......

Li Ling led all the soldiers to brave the rain of arrows from all directions and fought bloody battles all the way, and broke through with difficulty......

Behind this, there were tens of thousands of cavalry attacking, and in front of it there was a dense interception of the Hun cavalry vanguard troops, and if you want to return to the Han land, you have to fight hard.

For a whole day, the only 500,000 arrows and crossbows of Li Ling's department were finished, and the swords were also broken one after another, and the soldiers had to dismantle the baggage parts as weapons.

When night came, the enemy attack was slow, and Li Ling ordered his soldiers to mine stones on the hills to make weapons.

Li Ling sat in the darkness of the night, looking at the remaining more than 500 battle-hardened soldiers and a few captured enemy horses. The soldiers were covered in blood and exhausted. Now that the weapons have been exhausted, the food has been cut off, and there are no reinforcements, our army has fallen into a desperate situation.

Suddenly a southerly wind blew, and it was the wind of my great Han land. Experience has taught him that it is less than a hundred miles from dry land. He looked at the south, thinking of the imperial order, of his family, of his oath......

He took a horse in his hand for his own use, and ordered his men to kill all the remaining horses, so that everyone could have a full meal. Li Ling turned over and got on his horse, and when the soldier saw it, he immediately wanted to go with him, but he stopped him and said: "Take the order from the head, one person is enough!"

After a while, the Hun camp was in chaos, and soon it became calm again. In the middle of the night, Li Ling walked back with difficulty with a broken knife in his hand. Han Yannian stepped forward to support him and asked, "How is it?"

"We must break through tonight! Otherwise, no one will want to go back!"

He looked at the four or five hundred soldiers sitting around him who could fight, smiled bitterly and said, "If each of us has ten arrows and crossbows in our hands now, we can fight with them tomorrow and go home." But now—"

It turned out that he was going to explore the enemy, and the most important thing was to kill Shan Yu and avenge his family and country. He rode around quietly, scouted the place of the breakthrough, came to Shan Yu's station, and wanted to sneak in and kill him.

Who knew that the guy was very well guarded, and as soon as he approached the enemy camp, he was discovered. He fought with the enemy soldiers for a while, abandoned his horse and hid in the shadows. After the enemy army calmed down, he returned in the middle of the night.

"You're right!" General Han agreed, "Your harassment, their departments can't figure out the situation, and they will not dare to boldly besiege us." Let's put the taxi who can fight

The soldiers are divided into two ways and break through separately!"

Someone handed him a piece of raw horse meat. He asked, "Have the soldiers eaten it?"

"I've eaten it all, and now I'm much stronger!" everyone said.

He chewed on the horse meat in his mouth, thinking of a way to break through. He told everyone about the situation and thoughts of his investigation, and everyone agreed with his idea.

They put things that could not be carried around the wounded who could not participate in the battle, and set up camp to confuse the enemy.

Li Ling said to the wounded soldiers who could not leave: "When they find out that we are gone, they will not kill you, and you may still live." As long as you live, you can go home and serve our big man!"

Li Ling divided his subordinates and capable soldiers into multiple squads and let them break through separately. He gave a simple order to all the soldiers who broke through: "Everyone aim south, look for the enemy's weak spots, and creep on the ground to pass quietly......"

In the vast darkness of the second half of the night, Li Ling and Han Yannian quietly left the camp with their soldiers, rushed down the hills, and quickly advanced southward on their prostrates.

Li Ling led the guards to see that several small groups of troops had passed through the enemy's protective area in front of them unknowingly and rushed towards the south. He also went out of the enemy zone and Han

The general converged, and several people broke off and hurried away.

When it was almost dawn, the Xiongnu Shan Yu got the news and immediately organized thousands of cavalry to catch up with them in the south. The enemy's cavalry was much faster than Li Ling's infantry, and after dawn, they shouted and caught up with Li Ling, Han Yannian, and a few followers.

Li Ling and the others heard the shouts behind them getting closer and closer, and Han Yannian said, "General Li, you guys go quickly, I'll cut off the queen!"

He immediately turned around and roared and rushed into the ranks of the enemy army, slashing left and right...... How could Li Ling get away with it! With more than a dozen soldiers, he resisted desperately...... They were armed with short weapons, unable to withstand the fierce and swift archers.

Soon Han Yannian was killed in battle, and Li Ling and the two living soldiers were surrounded by enemy troops. The enemy shouted: "Capture alive! Li Ling surrender quickly!"

"My life is over!" Li Ling saw that he couldn't break through, shouted, and committed suicide with a knife. A soldier stepped forward to grab a knife and shouted: "The general can't!"

"Get out!" Li Ling kicked him away. He took the opportunity to crawl into the enemy bush and escaped