Chapter 649: A generation of heroes died first

Liyang County is located in the west of the south of the Yangtze River, where the water network is dense, there are many hills, it is the land of rich fish and rice, and Tongjin is also a famous iron production center in the south of the Yangtze River. This has always been Du Fuwei's foundation, more than forty percent of his soldiers are from Liyang, but since Li Mi went south, forced Zizitong to surrender, annihilated Shen Faxing, Du Fuwei has become Li Mi's urgent annihilation of the roadblock, in the last year, Li Mi finally with the help of Du Fuwei's pig teammate Xiao Milling Army, to achieve the goal of occupying Liyang County, but after a short time, Du Fuwei with the help of Yang Tong, recovered Liyang County.

After a few months, a big war broke out in Liyang County again, this time for the Great Sui is a battle related to the belonging of the Jianghuai land, and for Li Mi, it is a battle of future and destiny, so both sides hope to win this war.

On the one hand, the Eleventh Army of the Great Sui led by Du Fuwei, with a total of 60,000 troops, and on the other hand, Shan Xiongxin, who represented the Wei State, his army was also 60,000, but the information Shan Xiongxin got was that Du Fuwei had 30,000 troops sitting in Liyang County, so he was only facing the 30,000 Sui army in Maple Leaf Valley in Wujiang County, and in terms of strength, Shan Xiongxin had an advantage. He divided the army into two routes, the front army was led by Liu Heimin, with 20,000 people, and Shan Xiongxin himself led an army of 30,000 as backup.

The battle took place in Beigukou, Maple Leaf Valley, Wujiang County, close to the Wei army's camp, and the Sui army was on the active attacking side, which met unexpectedly with the Wei army with a preemptive strike in the early morning.

However, this battle was not fierce, and the chief general of the Sui army seemed to realize that he had lost his geographical advantage, so he fought and retreated, and never invested heavy troops in a decisive battle with the Wei army.

Shan Xiongxin, who received the battle report of the former army, did not know what the Sui army was doing, in order to avoid being ambushed by them, Shan Xiongxin handed over the rear army to the deputy general Sheng Yanshi, and he came to watch the battle with a personal guard.

On a hill, Shan Xiongxin was surrounded by 500 guards and watched from his horse, he had reached the age of no confusion, he was Li Mi's most trusted confidant general, and he was also the second person in the Wei army.

As early as the Wagang era, he sat on the fourth position of the Wagang Army, and it was with the full support of him, Xu Shiji, and Wang Bodang that Li Mi was able to obtain the power of the Wagang Army after Zhai Rang's death, and then with their support, he annexed various mountains and successfully transformed the Wagang Army into a regular Wei army.

It was also in Shan Xiongxin's unhesitating support that Li Mi successfully extended his power to the south of the Yangtze River, and Li Mi also reciprocated this loyal general, and named Shan Xiongxin as the king of Yuhang County, the hussar general and the secretary of the military department, saying that he was above 10,000 people alone.

However, Shan Xiongxin has been a senior general for so many years, and he somewhat understands the truth that when the moon is full, the water is overflowing, and he saw Bing Yuan's really miserable appearance, so after about a month, he resigned from the post of secretary of the military department because he was not familiar with military affairs, so that he could not only complete the benevolence and righteousness of the king, but also be able to take a few steps back.

Li Mi understood Shan Xiongxin's heart and gladly accepted Shan Xiongxin's resignation, but his trust in him doubled, and he gave him rare treasures from time to time.

"General!" A cavalryman rushed to the scene and reported with his fists in his fist: "The spies came to report that they had found 3,000 cavalry of the Sui Dynasty ten miles ahead, and that the commander of this army was He Panren, the deputy commander of the 11th Army of the Sui Army. ”

A trace of doubt flashed in Shan Xiongxin's eyes, and he muttered to himself: "According to the information we heard before, it is clear that Du Fuwei has obtained more than 20,000 war horses, how can it be that there are only 3,000 cavalry?" ”

"General, having horses may not be able to form cavalry." Zheng Di next to him said suddenly.

"Zheng Sima is ...... mean?"

Zheng Di said calmly: "Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the south ship and the north horse, the southerners live in the land of the water network, and have always been based on farming, from the day they were born, some people don't even know what the war horse looks like all their lives, unless it is a child of a family who particularly likes to ride a horse, how can ordinary people ride a horse?" ”

"The aliens are different from us, they all grew up on horseback and are very good at riding and shooting. Even if he is born a fool, if you let him ride a horse for twenty or thirty years, he is still a top cavalryman, which is the biggest gap between our farming people and nomads. In the country, the northerners, who have vast grasslands and plains, are better at riding horses than the southerners. Du Fuwei's soldiers were all southerners, and what he lacked now was not war horses, but soldiers who could ride horses. ”

"Makes sense." Shan Xiongxin nodded approvingly, the truth that Zheng Di said was simple and easy to understand, but it was an eternal truth.

"General. Now what? ”

"Are we going to chase or not to chase?"

The generals asked.

Shan Xiongxin looked at the retreating Sui army, found that the other party was about 20,000, thought for a while, and then looked at his own army, Liu Heimin was leading the front army to press forward step by step, and the 30,000 rear army had also arrived, resting on the hills and fields, his soldiers began to march at the beginning of the time, and there were only more than two hours so far, and they could completely exchange battles. The order was: "Order General Liu to speed up and pursue." ”

"General."

Zheng Diden was anxious and said loudly: "This army is obviously luring us, and we must not fall for the enemy's plan to lure the enemy deeper." ”

"Zheng Sima, do you think the Sui army seems to lure the enemy deeper?" Shan Xiongxin Labor raised the horse lance and went straight ahead.

"Ugh!" Zheng Di took a closer look and found that the Sui army was covering each other's retreat, and the groups of soldiers were orderly and not chaotic at all, which was completely opposite to deceiving the enemy and luring the enemy.

"Zheng Sima can also see it, right?"

"Indeed." Zheng nodded.

Shan Xiongxin asked the herald to give Liu Heimin an order to pursue, and then explained: "Liyang County and Wujiang County have been under the surveillance of our army scouts, and yesterday evening the scouts returned to the camp and said that the Liyang County army did not move, which shows that Wujiang's army is always 30,000 people, and there are about 20,000 here, plus 3,000 cavalry, and the remaining thousands of soldiers and horses are estimated to be still in the camp." ”

"The general is saying that the Sui army in Maple Valley has almost poured out?"

"Exactly." Shan Xiongxin nodded and said: "I think the Sui army originally wanted to attack our army and wait for work outside the camp, but since we also sent troops this morning, we collided. Compared with our army, they have taken a longer road, consumed more physical strength, but the number of troops is less than half of ours, and if they really fight, it is the Sui army that suffers, and they plan to retreat to the camp to hold on, which is also a very wise choice. ”

Sheng Yanshi said excitedly: "This is a great opportunity to annihilate the Sui army, if we catch up in the field, our army's losses will be at least twice as small as the attack camp." ”

"That's what I thought too."

Shan Xiongxin laughed and ordered: "The whole army marches in a hurry, and it must be surrounded and annihilated before the Sui army camp." ”

"The last will obey." The generals rode back to the army one after another, commanding the soldiers of the headquarters to pursue bravely.

I chased it for about twenty miles.

A cavalryman rushed quickly, but this was the cavalry of the Qi Gongshun Department who was guarding the camp, he rushed forward and reported very anxiously: "General Qiqi, the camp was attacked by Du Fuwei's army, and there were heavy casualties, please come to the rescue of the general." ”

Shan Xiongxin suddenly realized, but the next moment he was angry.

It turned out that Du Fuwei went to attack the camp guarded by Qi Gongshun, no wonder he never saw Du Fuwei's shadow, but where did Du Fuwei come from's army, and where did he steal the camp from? But this is obviously not the time to pursue this matter, and he immediately ordered: "The rear army turns back to the camp and advances at full speed!" The front army fought and retreated, and never gave He Panren a chance to break the army. ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The drums of the rear army turning back to the division sounded, and the 30,000 soldiers turned around one after another and retreated in line to the large battalion in the northeast direction.

After receiving the order, Liu Heimin also stopped the pursuing army and slowly retreated. But he wanted to withdraw now, but the Sui army refused to let him.

From the sudden retreat of the Wei army, He Panren knew that Du Fuwei had succeeded, and immediately commanded the army to hang the tail of the Wei army. At this time, the 3,000 cavalry that had not yet been put into the war exerted their powerful mobility and threw arrows behind their buttocks, killing the Wei army's formation in chaos.

In an instant, the sword light and arrow shadow, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Liu Heimin knew that he had no cavalry, if he kept retreating, he could only be hunted by the Sui cavalry one by one, although the other party only had 3,000 cavalry, but his own troops were not much, a cavalry only needed to shoot five people, and his army would be annihilated.

Therefore, when the cavalry attacked his front army, he quickly let more than 13,000 Wei troops use the baggage as a cover, and the dense arrows were shot in all directions, and He Panren led 25,000 soldiers to surround the Wei army from all sides, and the foot soldiers held shields and long blades, under the cover of the cavalry, facing the dense arrows, and gradually contracted and encircled.

Liu Heimin is also a strong general, he saw that the enemy army continued to shrink and surround, and suddenly became anxious, now Shan Xiongxin has retreated, responsible for the broken himself was bitten by the Sui cavalry, lost the best opportunity to retreat, if it is delayed for a moment, it will be completely surrounded by the enemy, and the whole army will not be far away.

The arrows flew intensively in the air, and the archers of the Sui army also became powerful, and the arrows rained down on the Wei army, which was in a mess, and the Wei soldiers kept screaming and falling to the ground in the strong bows and crossbows, and they hid behind the baggage, and the position was already in chaos.

At this time, a partial general rushed over and shouted loudly to Liu Heimin: "General Liu, the enemy's strong crossbows are too powerful, and the range is too long, our bows and crossbows can't cause them much damage at all, but they can harvest the lives of our soldiers from a distance." Now that we have rushed to more than 80 paces away, we will soon be completely annihilated if we do not break through. ”

Seeing that the situation was extremely critical, Liu Heimin gritted his teeth and shouted: "Pass my order, and the whole army will break through to the northeast!" ”

The Wei army had no choice but to give up the position to resist and began to break through to the northeast, He Panren rode on a horse, pointed at the enemy who rushed with his sword, and shouted loudly: "Order the cavalry!" Prepare for the throwing gun. ”

"Woooooo

At the sound of the trumpet, the cavalry cruising around the periphery received the order and immediately took action, one by one taking a throwing spear from the back of the horse.

The gun is five feet long, the head of the gun is made of fine iron, and the body of the gun weighs about eight catties, but the range is not far, and it can only shoot sixty or seventy paces at most under full speed, but this distance is enough for a foot soldier.

The three thousand cavalry, that is, the three guards, and the cavalry at the front of the first guard charged the Wei army under the shouts of the main general.

Seeing this, Liu Heimin's heart tightened, and he shouted: "The archer releases the arrow." ”

"Huh~"

Rows of arrows swept through the air, attacking the cavalry that had already rushed into range.

"Puff~"

Several soldiers fell from their horses with arrows, but the other soldiers did not waver in the slightest, until they were close to a distance of about fifty paces, and with the sound of the horn of the main general, the knight behind him threw the spear in his hand at the same time.

"Hum~"

Nearly 1,000 throwing spears fell densely above the slowly approaching shield array.

The Wei saber and shield soldiers hurriedly raised their shields to block.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

The sharp and heavy spear easily pierced the skin wooden shield, and the soldiers below were directly pierced through the body by the spear that broke the shield, and a large piece fell in an instant.

The soldiers of the Sui army of this guard did not care what the results of the battle, they moved forward with their heads bored, slowly controlled the speed of their horses, and when they approached the Wei army, they were like encountering a reef bay, divided into two, quickly passed through the two sides of the Wei army, and used the horse lance in their hands to stab the Wei army that appeared in front of them

When they passed, another cavalry guard followed, and after three rounds, the Wei army was like a bamboo shoot that had been skinned several layers, and the whole formation suddenly shrunk a lot.

The Wei army was hit by three rounds of cavalry, and the action was restricted, but the Great Sui infantry got precious time, and the arrows in their hands were as dense as a rainstorm, shooting from all directions into the Wei army that was slowly falling into the encirclement, and the Wei army fell down with screams, and the Wei army, which was lucky to be alive, under the leadership of Liu Heimin, desperately rushed to a seemingly very weak corner.

But soon, the remnants of the army led by Liu Heimin fell into despair, and outside the seemingly very thin army, there were more dense heavily armored foot soldiers, and it was also where the enemy commander was.

He Panren sneered and shouted loudly: "In the hands of Mo Dao, the archers cover from both sides. ”

"Whoa!"

The Mo swordsman who got the order was the main general Kan Ling with a thousand Mo swordsmen and pressed on step by step.

"Shoot the arrows." Liu Heimin took a deep breath and ordered.

The archers fired volleys of arrows, and a dense barrage of arrows rained down on this terrifying Iron Man force.

"Jingle Bell~"

In Liu Heimin's stunned gaze, those arrows falling from the sky fell on these heavy armored infantry, all of them were bounced off by the thick armor, and at this moment he found that the armor of these people was quite strange, and many places were not armor pieces, but large pieces of them, like heart guards, and the arrows that broke through the air had no way to cause them the slightest damage.

After a few rounds of arrow rain, Kan Ling had already led Mo Dao to kill before the Wei army.

"Kill!"

With Kan Ling's order, the Mo knife hand, who had been acting as a seeming and holding back for a long time, stepped forward, and the Mo knife in his hand fiercely cut down the enemy in front of him.

As the most ferocious Mo knives of cold weapons, they finally revealed their hideous faces at this moment.

The hand rises and the knife falls, and the human shield is shattered!

The invincible Mo knife slashed everyone to death, and the shield was broken. Those who are as brave as Kan Ling directly bring shields and kill people to the ground together.

In the series of swings of the warriors, the Mo knife was like mowing grass, cutting the Wei army, and the blood splashed on the land in large patches, dyeing the land red.

"It's so ruthless!"

Liu Heimin broke out in a cold sweat, and he only felt a chill down his spine. However, Kan Ling, who had been eyeing him for a long time, did not give him a chance to sigh, he broke away from the Mo Dao Army and quickly rushed to the front of Liu Heimin, with a violent roar, the Mo knife in his hand slashed down towards Liu Heimin who was riding on a horse, and directly split Huashan with one force.

only listened to the sound of "whew", and when the Mo knife came into contact with the air, it seemed to tear the air.

Liu Heimin, who was ready to go, changed his expression greatly. When Kan Ling's knife fell, the blade did not hit, but the terrifying domineering aura made him feel irresistible.

But at this time, it was too late for Liu Heimin to dodge, he raised the big knife with both hands and resisted this move.

Only a loud "bang" was heard, and the sound of weapons colliding made a deafening loud noise, stirring up dust in the sky.

The huge force surged, and Liu Heimin's big knife forged from pig iron couldn't withstand the power of the two, and bent up from the middle.

The blade of the Mo knife went down and broke a long hole in Liu Heimin's chest, and before Liu Heimin could react, Kan Ling stabbed hard, and the long blade stabbed Liu Heimin's heart.

He Panren, who was in the distance, was overjoyed and ordered: "The enemy will be dead, those who surrender will not be killed, and those who do not surrender will be killed!" ”

"The enemy will be dead, those who surrender will not be killed, and those who do not surrender will be killed!"

"The enemy will be dead, those who surrender will not be killed, and those who do not surrender will be killed!"

The soldiers responded one after another, shouting at the top of their lungs.

Soon, the phrase gradually spread to the entire battlefield.

The overwhelming Sui army suddenly became like a rainbow, surrounded from all sides, and the shouts shook the sky, surrounding the remaining Wei legions, wailing, crying, and begging for mercy...... Resounding across the battlefield.