The carriage and horses traveled slowly for five days before arriving in Puyang, and the road was calm and calm, and there were no bandits.

In the early morning of the sixth day, the chariots and horses crossed the Yellow River and traveled fifty miles, and it was already the middle of the day.

The sentinel sent by Li Xian to explore the road rode a flying horse and reported that in the village more than ten miles away from here, there were small groups of black mountain bandits, about five or six hundred people.

He has 300 cavalry, and five or six hundred bandits should not dare to rob.

He ordered the people to be vigilant and ready to fight.

He continued to send sentry to investigate the situation of the bandits in front.

He said to Cao Ang, who was riding beside him: "Gongzi Ang, there are often bandit activities here, if you encounter a bandit, you must not fight the enemy in vain, you must stay by the car to protect yourself and the master's mother and sisters." ”

He was afraid that Cao Ang would be young and vigorous, and he saw the bandits rushing up to fight.

If he has any damage here, he won't be able to eat and walk away.

After walking about ten miles, suddenly a flying horse came running.

When I saw it closely, it turned out to be a sentry sent by Li Xian.

Pegasus galloped to Lee's horse, and the sentry rolled off his horse.

Li Xian saw three arrows stuck in his back.

Not good, the bandits are coming.

Li Xian's heart sank.

The sentry said in a faint voice: "There are bandits in front, thousands of people, they are about to chase here, Sima is ...... quickly"

Before he could finish speaking, he lost his breath.

At this time, Li Xian had already heard the earth-shattering shout.

It's too late to run back now.

He urgently ordered the ten horsemen to return to Puyang as soon as possible and asked Xiahoudun for help.

He also ordered a hundred horsemen to lie down by the side of the road to stop the bandits, so that the people could retreat.

He remembered that there was a mountain wall beside the road he had just passed, and he could hold off the enemy by the mountain.

Mrs. Ding leaned out of the carriage and asked, "General Li, what's the situation?" ”

"There are thieves in front, Mrs. and Son-in-law and others retreat to the mountain wall where they pass by, there is Li Xian, don't be surprised, Madame."

He led the people back to the mountain wall, behind which was a high mountain, and although it was a place of death, at least there was no defense behind it.

If you are surrounded by bandits on all sides, it will be difficult to protect everyone with your own strength.

He led more than 100 horsemen to set up a formation in front of the convoy a hundred paces as the first line of defense.

Fifty horsemen were ten paces ahead of the convoy, as the second line of defense, and if anyone rushed through the first line of defense and ran towards the convoy, they were to shoot them.

Twenty guards of the Cao family stood by the car as the last line of defense.

If the first two lines of defense are breached, then there is no need to think about the consequences.

Cao Ang said that he wanted to kill the enemy with him, and he said to Cao Ang: "Is it more important to kill the enemy or to protect your mother and younger siblings?" ”

Cao Ang said: "It is important to protect my mother and younger siblings. ”

"Then you will stay by the car and protect them."

Cao Ang said no more, and stood by the car with his knife and the twenty guards.

The shouting of killing in front shook the sky, and the hundred horsemen who left him in ambush exchanged hands with the bandits.

He instructed the 100 horsemen that the task was to slow down the advance of the bandits and give them time to retreat to the mountain wall, and not to fight to the death.

If there are many bandits, they should hurry back.

About a pillar of incense passed, and more than sixty rode Pegasus back.

It seems that the thirty or so horsemen were killed in battle.

Li Xian's heart ached, those were all brothers who usually trained together and drank and laughed together.

His eyes were a little red, he was angry, he held the halberd in his hand, and stared fiercely at the way he came.

Here it is, here comes the bandits.

These bandits are all foot soldiers, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, so that there are everything, so that most of them are knives.

Li Xian saw that one of the people running in front looked like a leader.

He raised his bow, mounted his feathered arrow, and aimed at the leader.

Five hundred steps, three hundred steps, one hundred steps......

Shoot......

Hit!

The leader fell, and the bandit next to him paused and rushed again like crazy.

Li Xian hung up his bow, waved his halberd, and shouted: "Brothers, kill the thief with me." ”

Be the first to shoot the horse and rush out.

He wanted to take advantage of the thief's unstable situation to attack, because he was a cavalryman and had an advantage.

Two hundred horsemen followed and rushed towards the bandits.

The group of bandits seemed to be at least a thousand people, and there was a steady stream of people coming later.

Probably because of the shooting of the leader, this group of bandits has no one to lead.

But it's so chaotic that someone in command can't command it.

Li Xian rushed into the group of thieves, swept away with a halberd, and five or six people fell to the ground.

He wielded his halberd and slashed with his stabbing hook.

This group of unarmored bandits was killed by more than 20 people in the blink of an eye, and no one could stop them.

These cavalrymen under his command were also well-trained and very brave, and in a single burst of attack, they killed more than 500 bandits.

Everyone is afraid of death, and neither are the bandits, who now have no leader to lead and are scurrying around like a swarm of headless flies.

Some of those who crossed the line and rushed to the convoy were also shot by the cavalry guarding the car.

They began to flee back, and Li Xian and his subordinates chased them out of Erli before stopping.

In this battle, at least more than 800 thieves were killed, and he lost 26 and wounded more than 50.

Looking at the corpse lying on the ground, Li Xian sighed very emotionally in his heart: Jun Ben is a farmer, why should he be a thief. It's not that I want to kill you, but I really want to do my own thing, I just hope that the world will be peaceful in the future, and you don't need to be thieves.

He sent out scouts to see where the bandits had retreated.

The horses returned, and the bandits retreated to a gathering of five or six thousand people, and it seemed that they were going to come back to attack.

After so many deaths, they will definitely come back to take revenge, which Li Xian also thought of.

He ordered the corpses to be piled up as a barrier, and the wounded soldiers were kept in front of the convoy, holding bows against the enemy, and replacing them with the fifty cavalrymen from before.

Li Xian expected that there would definitely be an even more tragic battle.

He had the arrows shot at the bandits pulled out and reused.

The arrows were hooked with flesh and stained with blood, and the soldiers simply disposed of them and put them in the quiver.

When the sun was about to set, the horses returned, and the thieves poured in.

Li Xian cheered everyone up, and he said to the soldiers: "Everyone hold on a little longer, General Xiahou's rescue will arrive soon." ”

This time, the bandits did not come with a clamour, but marched in an organized manner and in batches.

Moreover, they also had cavalry, numbering about five hundred horsemen.

That's not going to be easy.

Although Li Xian's cavalry combat strength is stronger than that of the bandits, the opponent is outnumbered and outnumbered.

The sun hung on the top of the mountain, and the red glow shone on the pile of corpses, and it was impossible to tell whether it was the red of the sun or the red of blood.

The enemy cavalry is coming.

Their footmen followed, a large group of people pressed by black.

This time he had the fifty cavalrymen with bows in the first line of defense, and when the bandits attacked, they would first block the enemy with arrows, and when the bandits approached, they would retreat to the second line of defense.

So when the enemy cavalry came into range, he ordered his men to launch a few rounds of arrow attacks, and then quickly retreated to the second line of defense.

The effect is still there, shoot more than a hundred horsemen.

But by this time the enemy cavalry had rushed to the front of the formation.

I had no choice but to rush hard.

Li Xian now has only 200 cavalry in his hand, and he can't use any strategy, and Li Xian can't think of any strategy now, so just kill it.

However, he told the soldiers that if they had the opportunity, they would kill the leader of the enemy army, and that it would be useful to capture the thief and the king first, whenever and wherever they wanted.

As a general, Li Xian always took the lead, and was the first to shoot his horse and rush to the thief enemy.

This is also the reason why these soldiers in his hands are willing to fight to the death for him.

He spotted the position of the leader of the enemy cavalry and fought hard.

Where the halberd is waved, there are always enemy horses that fall off their horses.

By the time he reached the leader of the enemy cavalry, he had already killed more than a dozen horsemen.

When the leader saw that Li Xian had arrived, he raised his sword to fight.

Li Xian roared loudly: "Kill, kill, kill." ”

He's gone mad.

The halberd was only swung twice, and the enemy cavalry leader was reimbursed.

It's not that he's too weak, it's that Li Xian is too fierce.

This is the second time he has crossed over to kill so fiercely, the first time was in the Battle of Xingyang, and he was also red-eyed at that time.

The enemy rider was already frightened by his appearance.

His cavalry also slaughtered the enemy cavalry to only a few dozen horsemen.

The dozens of horsemen hurriedly slapped their horses and fled, disrupting all the bandit foot soldiers who rushed quickly.

It was already dark, but people could still be seen.

Li Xian took advantage of the ruthlessness and led everyone into the group of bandits.

This time, the bandits have a big boss and a few small bosses in charge, so it's not so messy.

But regardless of whether it is chaotic or not, Li Xian has already led his subordinates to kill it.

I don't know how long he killed, he felt that he hadn't killed a hundred, but he was seventy or eighty.

At this time, he found that his men only had a dozen horsemen left, and the convoy had been attacked by bandits, and Cao Ang was fighting with a knife with a bandit.

His wounded cavalry were also killed.

Li Xian felt that his life might be over like this, and the journey to the ancient times was about to end.

He went back to the convoy, but he didn't have much strength now, and he had already suffered more than a dozen wounds.

Fortunately, he was wearing armor and his injuries were not so serious.

He returned to the convoy and saw that Cao Ang was also wounded, and asked urgently, "Gongzi Ang, how are your injuries?" ”

Cao Ang replied, "It's okay, what about you?" ”

Li Xian did not answer, and resisted the bandits who attacked the front of the car.

There were more than 5,000 people in this group of bandits, and Li Xian killed more than 2,000 people, and nearly 3,000 people.

However, they were also very frightened by Li Xian's killing, and most of them didn't dare to come closer.

At this moment, there was a commotion behind the thieves.

Because it was dark, Li Xian couldn't see what the situation was, but he guessed that Xiahoudun's rescuers had arrived.

He regained his energy and shouted: "The rescuers are coming, kill!" ”

However, his men were already dead and wounded.

He saw a little bandit leader in front of him, and he galloped forward, and stabbed the little leader in the stomach with a halberd.

The halberd hadn't been pulled out yet, and Xiahoudun had already slapped his horse to kill, and when he saw Li Xian shouting, "It's not straight, are you okay?" ”

Li Xian pulled out his halberd and replied: "It's okay, if you come late, we will be buried here." ”

After receiving the news, Xiahoudun immediately ordered 500 cavalry to come first, followed by 2,000 infantry.

The bandits had already been killed by Li Xian, and when they saw Xiahoudun's cavalry helping, they fled in all directions.

After killing the bandits, Li Xian and Xiahoudun hurriedly went to the car to check the casualties.

Fortunately, except for Cao Ang, who suffered two knife wounds, the two ladies and Cao Min and Cao Pi are fine.

The twenty guards of the Cao family have all been killed, and there are only a dozen of Li Xie's cavalry left, all of whom are scarred.

Cao Ang was not seriously injured because he was wearing armor.