Chapter 36: Chen Shui's Defeat
Li Xiao approached Tianshui with three thousand soldiers and horses, and then Lu Yongsheng said: "General, something is wrong."
Li Xiao looked at Lu Yongsheng for a moment and said, "What's wrong?"
Lu Yongsheng said: "I heard a lot of wheezing, are we being ambushed?"
Li Xiao said: "How is this possible, the Three Spirit Army is not an immortal, it can be calculated, how do they know that we attacked them and ambushed us." ”
Lu Yongsheng said: "But I did hear a lot of gasps. ”
Li Xiao glanced at Lu Yongsheng and saw that his expression was firm, so he sent a scout and said, "Observe within a radius of ten miles, report to me." A few scouts ran away, and after a while they came back and said, "No invincibility."
Li Xiao looked at Lu Yongsheng and smiled: "It's good to be cautious." After saying that, he rode away.
The sky was getting dark, Li Xiao finished deploying the strategy, and three thousand soldiers and horses came to Tianshui City silently, just about to launch an attack, only to hear a shout on the city wall, and then the fire rushed to the sky, and even Li Xiao's three thousand soldiers and horses were startled.
I only heard the city wall say: "General Li Xiao, Gulu has been waiting for a long time. ”
Li Xiao looked up and saw that the city wall was full of archers, Li Xiao was shocked and said, "What are you waiting for me to do?"
Gu Lu smiled: "Capturing you alive and offering you to the three kings must be a great achievement." After speaking, he waved his hand, and the arrows of the three spirit armies on the city wall rained down.
Li Xiao said "not good" to the sergeant: "Retreat." Everyone ran backwards, and after a rain of arrows, one out of three was killed or wounded.
Finally ran out of the killing distance of the Lingjun bow and arrow, Li Xiao looked back at the city wall, only to see dozens of beams of fire flying towards the formation, Li Xiao fixed his eyes, it turned out to be a rocket shot by a giant crossbow on the city wall, the "boom" one fell at the foot of Li Xiao's horse, "Xi" sounded, the foot instantly ignited a fire, and then the left and right front and back were full of fire, instantly ignited some infantry, the fire burned from the infantry's pants upwards, the soldiers threw away their weapons and began to beat the flames on their bodies, and the war horses were burned and roared.
Li Xiao shouted: "Run to the fireless" said and galloped towards the fireless, thinking as he ran: "This Gulu evil sect is very good, how can the ground burn"
Li Xiao ran to a place without fire, and looked back at the soldiers around him There were only seven or eight hundred left, Li Xiao was a little annoyed, and scolded: "Grandma's Gulu is very powerful, and before the battle, he broke most of the centaurs, and he had to find a way to kill them back." ”
Lu Yongsheng on the side said: "General, why don't we withdraw first, you see that they are burned, how can they still be human." ”
After listening to this, Li Xiao saw that most of these soldiers were wounded, many of them were not wearing clothes, some of their clothes were burned, and some of their clothes were on fire and taken off.
Li Xiao didn't do anything, and said: "If you go back like this, where is your face, you can't retreat." As soon as the words fell, only one drum sounded, and three teams were killed, one from Tianshui City, one from the road to Chen You, and the other from the road to Dongning, with 1,500 people on each road, surrounding Li Xiao's seven or eight hundred people.
"Except for the one who rode the white horse and caught it alive, all the rest were killed" Gulu said on the horse, Li Xiao looked at Gulu, his teeth itched with hatred, and urged the horse to rush towards Gulu, the human army and the spirit army fought together, Li Xiao and Gulu had a confrontation, and they knew that Gulu was superior in martial arts, and they were still fighting against Gulu, and the two fought for ten rounds, Li Xiao fell behind, Li Xiao said in his heart: "If I fight with him again, I will be captured by him, so it is better to go as a plan." ”
Li Xiao made a false move, turned his horse's head and ran, shouting at the people's army: "Withdraw the army, withdraw the army." When Li Xiao ran for a while and looked back, only Lu Yongsheng and the five cavalry ran out, Li Xiao looked at the soldiers who were surrounded by the spirit army, his heart was sour, and he shouted: "Brothers, I'm sorry, I will avenge you" After speaking, he pulled his horse and left.
"General be careful!" Lu Yongsheng jumped behind Li Xiao, only to hear a "poof", Lu Yongsheng's chest exposed the tip of an arrow, when Li Xiao looked back, he saw that Gulu was still making the action of pulling the bow, Li Xiao looked at Lu Yongsheng and said, "I'll take you away"
Lu Yongsheng said weakly: "General go, don't care about me, I heard the bowstring ring" After speaking, Lu Yongsheng ran out of breath, Li Xiao rode his horse and said to the five people behind him: "Go", Li Xiao's horse was fast, and he kept running in front, and the spirit army behind also caught up, "Ah", a cavalry was killed, followed by a few shouts, Li Xiao did not look back, ran forward, he knew that the five cavalry behind him were also killed.
Li Xiao kept running on his horse and ran for more than an hour, at this time he had lost his way and didn't know where to run, and the pursuers behind him were still in hot pursuit, shouting while chasing: "Capture Li Xiao alive, capture Li Xiao alive" Li Xiao was even more panicked when he heard the roar.
I have never been so flustered, let alone an opponent like Gulu, Li Xiao kept slapping the horse's buttocks, shouting "Hurry up, hurry up" while pumping, and Lingjun shouted behind him: "Capture Li Xiao alive and offer Chen You, cut off the head and put it in fine wine." At this time, Li Xiao had a thought in his heart: "Even if you die, you can't be captured alive." ”
After running for another half an hour, the day was almost dawn, and it gradually became clearer, Li Xiao turned his head and glanced at the pursuers, there were more than a thousand spirit troops behind him, led by still Gulu, "Ah" A neigh, Li Xiao's horse stood up and almost threw Li Xiao down, Li Xiao looked forward, there was no road, there was a cliff ahead,.
Li Xiao's horse stopped and swirled on the edge of the cliff, and when the spirit army saw this scene, he also stopped, and Gulu shouted at Li Xiao: "Surrender, I will protect you from death." ”
Li Xiao sneered: "I, Li Xiao, am also a hero, I didn't expect today's fate to be decided here, but you don't deserve to kill me." As he spoke, he pulled out his sword and was about to kill himself, and then he thought: "Even if I kill myself, they will still cut off my head and go to Chen You to joke about it."
After thinking about it, he said to Gulu: "Even if I, Li Xiao, die, you still can't enter Chen You, as long as there is a Chunzhen sect, you won't succeed." ”
Gu Lu laughed and said: "Chun Zhen, it is difficult to protect yourself, you may be the last disciple of Chun Zhen, surrender" Li Xiao laughed at the sky after hearing this, laughed for a while, glared at Gu Lu again, jumped off the cliff.
Seeing Li Xiao's move, Gulu urged the horse forward, looked at the bottom of the cliff, and saw that the cliff was bottomless, Gulu sighed: "Li Xiao is a hero, if it weren't for the war between the two clans, I would want to have fellowship with you and die a well-deserved death." Gollum dismounted, looked down the cliff, and then said to the Spirit Army's soldiers, "Send some men down to retrieve his body, and bring it back with his horse, and I will bury him, he has a lot of backbone, and he is a worthy opponent." ”