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"Zhang Xin!" Zhang Xuan's face changed and he shouted.
Zhang Xin had already driven the war horse to pounce on the next breath! He is very strong in archery, and there is already a carved arrow hanging on the iron bow.
At this time, Dong Zhuo and He Jin separated, and he had a chance. During the gallop, Zhang Xin stretched the iron bow and firmly locked He Jin's vest, the range of his iron bow was as far as two hundred and fifty steps, and it was not difficult to hit at this distance.
"Zhang Xin! Shoot the guy on the other side first! Zhang Xuan yelled behind him.
Zhang Xin was shocked, turned his head to look, and suddenly twisted the arrow. In the army under He Jin's command, the black-armored knight under the banner also rode out of the battle alone, holding a hard crossbow, undoubtedly aiming at Dong Zhuo.
The eagle arrow shot at the black-armored knight first. Zhang Xin knew that the lethality of the crossbow was even greater than the iron bow in his hand, and it could easily penetrate Dong Zhuo's back armor.
In his haste he had no time to aim, and with a terrible screech, the arrow grazed against the neck of the black-armored knight, and the black-armored knight's crossbow escaped his hand, and the iron arrow on the crossbow shot into the grass, and he himself lost his balance and fell from his horse. The entire Thunder Cavalry shook suddenly, and the three armies advanced like a tide. Countless iron hooves stepped on the smoke and dust, and a gray wave rose on the grassland. Columns of mounted archers flew like bird's wings on either side, while lancers occupied the center of the battlefield, and the horses that had accelerated finally left behind their dust.
The sergeants of Qingzhou under Dong Zhuo watched as the cavalry of the Lei Army under the command of He Jin, who was in red light armor, rushed out of the billowing ashes and gathered into a choreographic-red wave that undulated along the grassland. Like the charge of a tidal thunder cavalry, like a red tide coming from the grassland, the land that this tide overflows is only a pile of bones. The first time the princes saw this tide was in the Balu Plain in Suohe Mountain, when the ministers, generals, and soldiers were all shocked, and they seemed to be out of their souls in the face of this tide.
This should not be a tactic that humans can use, they are so fearless of life and death, they rush over the rain of arrows, over the obstacles, over the bones of their comrades, desperately trying to cut their sabers on the heads of their enemies, like wild beasts that have gone berserk, and like those red ant colonies in the mountains of Yunzhou with fierce jaws that can bite an entire cow into dry bones.
They were not afraid, and the princes were afraid. In that battle, the charge of 5,000 thunder cavalry under He Jin broke the formation of the army of 70,000 princes.
In addition to courage, the Thunder Cavalry is superior in light cavalry maneuverability. Their horses were not dressed in horse armor, and the cavalry wore only ochre-red hard-leather armor, and the captains of the hundred-man and thousand-man captains of the leading troops wore ochre-red flags on their backs as symbols. When the enemy has not yet organized an effective formation, the forward lancers of this army have already torn apart the enemy's front army and plunged straight to the center, and when the enemy has not yet made up the gap to form an encirclement, the cavalry archers who assist the charge suppress the opponent's actions with a rain of arrows, and after a few rounds of volleys, the elite sword-mounted warriors of the thunder cavalry army wield their narrow sabers to quickly slash the chaotic enemy army. By the time the spearmen, archers, and samurai finally converged behind the enemy's formation, there was often only a cloud of smoke and dust behind them.
Even as the commander-in-chief, Dong Zhuo and He Jin did not have the courage to meet the red tide. As soon as the thunder horse moved, the two could no longer fight, but retreated to the edge of the battlefield with lightning whips.
The surging tide of cavalry was like a giant chariot, no one could stop its advance, and if it stood still, it would undoubtedly become a reef shattered by the evil waves. The first-line cavalry of Qingzhou's armor was completely stunned, and they didn't think of charging up to meet it. The incident happened suddenly, and Jia Xu was completely confused.
None of the armies would have launched a cavalry charge in the face of a duel, and the injuries of the black-armored samurai on the opposing side had clearly triggered a seismic outcome. Jia Xu quickly calmed down, he knew that no matter the training or actual combat experience, although the Qingzhou cavalry was elite, but now the tiger and leopard cavalry is no longer on the battlefield, and the other Qingzhou cavalry cannot be compared with the thunder cavalry, even if the three thousand cavalry are sent up, they are only slaughtered by the thunder cavalry. So he threw the command flag, the cavalry retreated first, and the crossbowmen threw a large array of arrows into the air.
The strength of the Thunder Rider was visible as the arrows fell. Ordinary light cavalry has no heavy armor protection, and it is inevitable to control the speed of their horses to avoid when facing the rain of arrows, but the samurai of the thunder cavalry have raised the leather shields on their horses to cover their heads, and continue to advance at high speed against the arrow array. Qingzhou's crossbowmen were not recruited from military families, most of them were just idle splashes in the market, and the crossbows used were not strong, far from being compared with the hard crossbows held by the black-armored knight of the army under He Jin.
There was still a momentum when the arrow was out of the string, but it was not only difficult to cause damage when it fell, but it could not even pierce the leather shield. Ochre-red arrows protrude from the red tide, and the most experienced veterans gather on the leading edge of the arrows. The Thunder Cavalry has approached the banner gate of the Qingzhou army.
Zhang Xuan pressed the handle of the long knife at his waist, took a deep breath of dusty air, and a shudder passed through his body. He looked left and right, and the crossbowmen had already retreated to the Chinese army in a panic.
"General Zhang...... Come on! Let's go! This is a thunder ride! Li Li, the commander of Jin Wuwei and a general sent by Yuan Taiqi to follow Dong Zhuo all the way, his voice trembled.
Zhang Xuan pressed the knife immediately, looked directly at the red tide rushing in front of him, and said in a calm voice: "You hold the crossbowmen, retreat layer by layer, and I will be the last to go." "That'...... That's all up to General Zhang's might! Up to now, Li Li didn't care about Yuan Taiqi's order, turned his war horse like a pardon, and fled to his own camp desperately.
Zhang Xuan glanced at his back and shook his head slightly, a sneer appeared on his face.
He also knew Yuan Taiqi's intention of sending this waste to the Qingzhou Army, Li Li said that it was to escort Dong Zhuo to follow him, but his other task was to guard against Dong Zhuo's recklessness.
If there is any abnormality, he has the right to report all Dong Zhuo's actions to Yuan Taiqi, who is far away in Tianyuan, and can also refuse Dong Zhuo's order to rebel on the spot.
However, at this time, Li Li was desperate to flee for his life, and he only hated the appearance of the horse's legs being too short.
Zhang Xuan thought of the samurai in his hometown again, those Qingzhou men had spirits flowing in their veins, and watching them charge was like drinking spirits.
He narrowed his brown eyes, stared at the Thunder Cavalry Brigade approaching against the wind, and gently stroked the hilt of his sword: "This is the real ...... Charge".
The commander of the thousand commanders under He Jin, the commander of the right army, Wang Chong, brandished two sabers and rushed to the front. He planted six flags on his back, roaring like a hungry tiger.
However, by the time he approached the formation of the Qingzhou army, the crossbowmen had already dispersed, leaving only a young man wearing the leopard fur of the Qingzhou barbarian style and the moon-white heavy armor of the Eastern Continent immediately in front, pressing the long knife at his waist, and facing his wind-like momentum. "Kill!" Wang Chongze's horse jumped up, and the saber slashed diagonally. Zhang Xuan pressed the hilt of the knife on his waist, he took a deep breath, this was the first time he had pulled out this knife on the battlefield in Middle-earth, as if there were ghosts and gods hidden in the scabbard.
He slammed his might! The knife slid out against the inner wall of the sheath, and there was a "buzzing" sound! Wang Chong suddenly felt a murderous aura from the bottom up, and years of battlefield experience told him that his opponent had not fled under his long sword. In the blink of an eye, he gave up the attack, his left knife dangling, and his right knife was sealed between the two of them. Zhang Xuan stretched his waist and held the knife in both hands, and the long knife cut a cold fan, straight at Wang Chong's horse's belly. Under the momentum of Qianjun, Zhang Xuan slashed the horse.
With a "ding" sound, the two knives swung apart.
Wang Chong withdrew his attacking knife and swung away Zhang Xuan's attack, and Zhang Xuan also turned sideways and dodged Wang Chong's left-handed knife to force the enemy. The first round of offense and defense between the two did not distinguish between victory and defeat, and Wang Chong's war horse fell to the ground, almost spraining his hooves and wrists.
"Dare to fight against Wang Chong, the mighty general, what's your name?" Wang Chong shook his double knives and shouted loudly. "Qingzhou Commander Envoy, Zhang Xuan!" ”
The two only had a chance to get along, and the thunder riders behind them had already slaughtered them. Zhang Xuan struck the horse's buttocks with the back of his knife and retreated at full speed, Wang Chong's war horse and double knives clenched tightly behind him. Chi Chao was right behind him, as if pushing the two of them to point to the fifteen thousand light soldiers of the Qingzhou Chinese army. Li Ligang rushed into the phalanx of light pawns all the time, and was surrounded by his own sergeants, so he was a little relieved and rolled off his horse.
"You shit! Why did you throw Zhang Xuan down and run back by yourself? Jia Xu rushed down the mountain, furious, ignoring the difference in the identities of the two, and yelled loudly.
Li Li was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back, he found that Lei was riding thousands of elites, chasing Zhang Xuan and riding a fast horse towards the Qingzhou Chinese army. "Zhang Xuan...... General Zhang himself was unwilling to retreat. Li Li stammered.
Jia Xu couldn't care about him, Zhang Xuan was a brother of himself and others for many years, and he must not sell him so easily, Jia Xu gritted his teeth and threw out a small red flag. A low horn sounded, and the sergeants on the earth mountain also waved a big red flag vigorously, and the entire 5,000-strong Qingzhou Central Army slowly retreated. "Strategist, do you want to save General Zhang?" A commander of the pro-barracks said.
"It's late!" Jia Xu's eyes locked on Lu Guichen in the distance, "I know what he wants to do, you act according to my order, don't delay for a moment, if there is a slight deviation, we don't want to go to Tianyuan!" ”
As the Chinese army's phalanx retreated, the phalanx of the left and right flanks immediately protruded, and a huge open space formed in the center, and the pockets surrounding the thunder cavalry had taken shape. Jia Xu turned his head, ran hard, panted back to the dirt mountain like a mountain leopard, pushed away the sergeant in front of him, stared at the distance with his eyes, his fingers clasped on the small black flag in the order box, and his fingers were full of cold sweat.
"How far is it?" He asked the visual sergeant. "Two hundred...... No, one hundred and eighty zhang, one hundred and forty zhang...... He Jin's cavalry advanced too fast! The sergeant shouted.
Jia Xu's whole body stiffened, and his blood vessels couldn't stop jumping under his eyelids. It was the first time that he commanded a large array of thousands of troops and horses, and on his shoulders was the life and death of the 20,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty. The usual self-confidence was lost at this time, and my chest seemed to be pressed by a stone. "Zhang Xuan is dangerous, let Lei Cai advance again, and he will be in the Chinese army!" One of the commanders clearly saw that the distance between Wang Chong and Zhang Xuan was only a few horses.
"Stand down! Tell you to stand down! Jia Xu clasped the Lingqi tightly and did not move. A row of screeching arrows swept through the sky, and Wang Chongmeng looked up and saw that the arrows were burning with bright purple fire, which was particularly eye-catching even in the daytime.
"Ambush?" Wang Zhongzhong was slightly startled.
Zhang Xuan suddenly turned around on horseback, and threw all the iron mangs he held in his hand at Wang Chong. This is a technique he learned from the Oyanagi camp, and he hid it in his boots before this expedition in case of emergency. The iron mantra he used was no more than half a foot long, cast with three iron edges, enough to penetrate light armor, and did not require a bow to shoot arrows, making it an excellent weapon when close to quarters.
"Good!" Wang Dazhong roared and swirled the dancing knife, and the double knife brought up two clouds of iron light, swept all ten iron rays into it, and all of them scattered in all directions. In the short moment when Wang Chong blocked, Zhang Xuan spurred the war horse to strengthen, extending the distance between the two to more than ten zhang. When Wang Zhong was about to chase after him again, he suddenly saw billowing smoke and dust. The retreating Qingzhou army turned around and pushed towards the Lei Cavalry, and the left and right flanks of the Qingzhou armor were also outflanked in the rear, and the huge formation of 15,000 people surrounded the iron barrel, and the cavalry archers and lancers led by the Lei Cavalry were all encircled.
Wang Chong took the war horse and looked around hesitantly, Zhang Xuan had already rushed into the formation of the Qingzhou armor soldiers. He turned around and immediately looked at Wang Chong from afar, and then the line of sight between the two was cut off by the huge shield erected by the Qingzhou armor.
"Qingzhou is under the command of the commander, General Zhang Xuan." Wang Zhong read the man's name softly.
He remembered the name. This young man, who seemed to be in his twenties, had a calmness far beyond his peers, and he might be a formidable opponent in the future, and he was actually from Ilha Verde, a wild continent in the far north.
"Lancers! Get out of the way! The king raised his sword again. He was not worried, with the combat effectiveness of the Lei cavalry, there was hardly any army in the Eastern Continent that could compete. Just leaning on the shield wall erected in a hurry to block the iron hooves of the thunder rider, then the Qingzhou armor warrior is too naïve. His order was given, and the slightly confused Lei Qi suddenly calmed down. The lancers stepped back slightly, formed a neat line of spears, and with a loud roar, a column of two hundred spears rushed to the barrier of the wooden shield. Hundreds of spears pierced into the shield, and the shield wall, which was nearly one person high, retreated slightly, withstanding this round of impact.
"How?" Wang Chong's face was shocked.
He was familiar with the warhorses of his subordinates, each of which had the blood of a barbarian horse, and they struck as fiercely as a wild beast. However, with the strength of these war horses, they could not break through the shield wall maintained by manpower. Thousands of sharp spears peeked through the cracks in the shield walls. The temporary patchwork defense of the huge square wooden shield was adjusting extremely quickly, and Wang Chong couldn't see the changes behind the wooden shield clearly, but from the fluctuations coming from the shield wall, it seemed that the Tang army was constantly reinforcing the shield wall.
Then the second layer of wooden shields was erected on top of the first layer, raising the shield wall to the height of two people. Among the wooden shields, the Qingzhou armor crossbowmen threw scattered arrows to deter the thunder riders from destroying the shield wall. Wang Chong
Before he could gather his own team, the thunder cavalry he was leading was already buried in a huge wooden city. He could not imagine how strong the shield wall was, but it was impossible for him to break through with light horsemen.
He began to regret that his contempt for the Ilha Verde and the temptation of the young samurai had prevented his men from using the Red Tide Charge. At this time, the shield wall shook slightly, and with the friction sound of the movement, Wang Zhong watched as the solid giant wall with thousands of spears slowly pressed over. There was a frightened neighing of horses in the wooden city. At this time, Wang Chong suddenly heard the sound of drums! Riding a black horse galloping to the foot of the dirt mountain, Dong Zhuo's battle clothes were tied around his waist, his armor was full of dust, and he hurriedly climbed the dirt mountain.
"Lord." Jia Xu's heart was relaxed for a while. Dong Zhuo didn't have time to explain, so he pulled out a white flag and threw it down the dirt mountain. The sergeant who held the big flag immediately began to wave the huge white flag, and dozens of white flags as high as more than a zhang were unfurled on the dirt mountain, and they could be seen for ten miles from afar. "Lord, are you ......" Jia Xu was shocked. Originally, they had already sealed all the pioneers' thunder horses in the wooden city, and they could all be annihilated. Dong Zhuo's order was to stop moving, that is, to release mines and ride a way out.
"Do you hear the drums?" Xi Yan looked ahead and shouted in a low voice. Only then did Jia Xu notice the heavy war drums in the distance. The sound of the drum was still far away at this time, not loud, but it was slowly beaten, and it had a shocking power. Jia Xu followed Dong Zhuo's gaze, a slight smoke and dust rose in the distance, and the crimson cavalry phalanx slowly engulfed the yellow-green of the grassland, and the drums followed. And the thunder cavalry in Mucheng was still panicked, but at this time, he suddenly quietly grabbed the war horse, formed a circle to protect himself, and pointed his gun around.
"Bring the drums!" Dong Zhuo shouted. As soon as the war drum was placed in front of Dong Zhuo, he played the drum and beat a string of drums lightly and heavily. The cavalry under He Jin, who had already approached a mile away, slowly froze, and the other party's drum beat paused slightly, and then struck a few times in a very slow manner.
Dong Zhuo was silent for a moment, then violently picked up the drum, and struck it with all his strength, and the drum sound was deafening. Dong Zhuo threw down the green flag. The shield wall of the Qingzhou armor shook slightly, and a gap opened in the hole facing the north. Only then did Wang Chong see clearly, the back of the shield was fixed by a cart with a heavy load, so it was impregnable, and neither the war horse nor the manpower could shake the shield wall pushed by the cart and the power of the machine.
Wang Chong was silent for a moment, then turned around and bowed slightly to the dirt mountain in the distance. He couldn't see Dong Zhuo under the inky flag, just thanked the person who gave the order. And Dong Zhuo could see him from a high place, Dong Zhuo smiled slightly, and also bowed. As soon as Wang Chong's saber stood up, the vanguard thunder cavalry formed a formation and slowly retreated from the gap. Then let go of the horse's hooves and headed north, Wang Zhong was the last horseman, he carried a knife in both hands, rode his horse backwards and slowly left.
It was not until the two sides were twenty zhang away that Wang Chong turned his horse's head and went after his own deployment. There was no longer the sound of drums in the north, and it turned to mingjin. Dong Zhuo was silent.
"General!" Zhang Xuan, who rushed over from the side, asked, he had already rushed to the dirt mountain. "I know what you're asking. The charge of the Lei cavalry of the army under He Jin is a well-known two-stage rush, which has always been divided into two layers, charging continuously, even if the two thousand people of the vanguard are surrounded, the thousands of people behind them will follow, it is enough to destroy our army," Dong Zhuo said in a low voice, "But since He Jin has no intention of losing the two thousand people of the vanguard, they will be at peace with each other." ”
"If He Jin's army goes and returns...... "The fighting spirit is exhausted, and if he is not persecuted, the army under his command will not come back." The Chinese army still erected a shield wall to be on guard," Dong Zhuo said, "The meaning of leaving the public drum should be to follow my agreement with him and return to the Sanfu Plain of the imperial capital." This chance encounter, a small battle, the soldiers were bloodless and each was able to retreat safely, which is already a not bad ending. Dong Zhuo was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Zhang Xin?" Where is Zhang Xin? Zhang Xuan and Jia Xu were both startled and woke up suddenly, since the war, neither of them had seen Zhang Xin.
Under the grassy slope ahead, this is already behind the formation of He Jin's army, more than five miles away from the place where the two armies meet, and the sound of fighting on the battlefield in the distance is just a faint hustle and bustle here. The grassland is open, the autumn wind is long and the grass is long, and there are only a few dozen horses around a white horse.
On the dazzling white horse, sitting a black-armored warrior who had just followed the mighty general He Jin, with a silk handkerchief wrapped around his wrist injured by his fall, was standing side by side with a thunder horse in command, looking out at the smoke and dust in the distance. He Jin's army focuses on courage, kills with one blow, and never leaves the enemy a chance to breathe. Therefore, once the thunder cavalry charges, it is often a nest out, and there are only these dozens of thunder cavalry left behind the formation, but these elite cavalry are covered with black armor covering the whole body, a color of fiery red war horses, and the system of war knives and curved bows is different from that of ordinary cavalry.
The surroundings were quiet, but the grim eyes of the thunder riders still roamed around, as sharp as hunting eagles.
"Liu Jing, is there any movement?" The commander turned to his lieutenant. The lieutenant was listening intently to the movements around him, his face full of alarm. However, as far as the eye can see, there is a flat river, and you can see ten miles away, except for the handover of the two armies in the distance, there is no other sign of the enemy approaching. The Commander slowly rolled his gaze and looked back sharply, noticing the grassy slope where he was sheltered.
Lined with a pale canopy, there seemed to be a little dark gold that flickered there. "Enemy!" The Commander drank. As if in response to his call, a strong black horse dragon rose up behind the grassy slope and died in the air! The neighing of the horse tore the prelude to the battle, the black horse fell to the ground on all fours, dozens of horsemen followed it, and a condescending charge was launched in an instant! These soldiers of Qingzhou raised their spears and roared, the terrain intensified the speed of their horses, giving them great confidence, and the momentum of dozens of people rushing down was like a thunder cavalry charge, carrying the overwhelming force, even the thunder cavalry who had been on the battlefield for a long time were shocked.
Being attacked from behind while the front army was charging was unique in the history of the Thunder Cavalry, who had become accustomed to the enemy gathering in front of the formation in terror and raising their guns and shields to resist their red tide, rather than having the courage to open the battlefield behind the formation.
"Calm down!" Unsheath the sword, "Bow and arrow!" "The Tang Army's light cavalry is only a few dozen steps away from these thunder horses. With the commander's order, dozens of thunder horsemen neatly drew their horned bows and wound their arrows. Dozens of feathered arrows pointed at the Tang army that rushed down the hillside, the thunder horsemen were expressionless, and the commander slowly raised his horsewhip.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! The sergeants of Ilha Verde roared. There was no one to retreat back into, even in the face of bows and arrows, even the Middle-earthers with the sharpness and cowardice of a merchant had the courage to die at this time. Moreover, their leader rushed to the front, the black golden spear, and the man who overturned almost all the young generals in the Daliu camp, giving confidence to these young pawns who fought with real swords for the first time.
Fifty zhang, forty zhang, thirty zhang! He could already smell the fishy smell of the opponent's horse, and the commander waved his whip violently. The arrows rained down, and the leading several Qingzhou armor warrior horses were pierced into the heart by several feathered arrows at the same time, and they jumped up with a miserable howl, throwing the cavalry off their horses. More arrows passed through the mouth and eyes of the Ilha Verde Warriors, piercing the back of their heads.
Lei Qi immediately retracted his bow after sending his arrow, and neatly drew the long knife at his waist, without the slightest sign of chaos, but immediately put it in place like a cast of pig iron, waiting for the Qingzhou cavalry to rush to the edge of the knife by itself.
Wanting to seize this opportunity, this team of small Qingzhou armor soldiers is too naïve. This thunder cavalry of dozens of people is the elite "thunder gall battalion" carried by the mighty general He Jin. can become a thunder gall, these people are all good hands who have been in battle for a long time and have killed countless people. He Jin took the lead and repeatedly charged into battle, but he returned safely, all because the guards of this battalion dared to provoke them, almost killing themselves.
The first thunder galloped the war horse, which was comparable to the war horse of the Qingzhou armor. The cavalry of the Qingzhou armor soldier grazed the daceous armor of the thunder galls and went into the air, and the moment he crossed the horse, the sword flashed, and several heads were washed into the air by the blood spring, and the Qingzhou armor soldier sitting in the saddle was only left with a headless corpse. The Qingzhou armor warriors who survived the rain of arrows were now left with only one dark horse, rushing straight at the blood curtain of their comrades, desperately killing dozens of elite thunder galls.
A ruthless sneer erupted in the thunder gall, and the commander did not suppress it, these murderous warriors were already more arrogant than ordinary cavalry, and this Qingzhou armor dared to provoke the saber in their palms, and it was only to blame for this fate.
Liu Jing screamed sharply, rode out, and threw the long knife in his hand violently. The saber of the thunder galls is chained to the belt around the waist, and after being thrown, it can be retracted. Liu Jing was about to take the last enemy's head with a knife throwing technique, and the long knife slashed through the air, and violently spun and attacked the opponent's neck. The sword light swirled in a sad space. The Commander turned his head away and stopped looking, he had seen too much of the kind of thing like a human head falling to the ground. And he suddenly felt a heat in the back of his neck.
He reached out and touched it, and there was a sticky patch of blood. Could it be that the adjutant general's head was cut off with a knife, and the blood could be splashed so far? The commander's whole body shook violently, if it weren't for the blood of that Qingzhou armor soldier splashed ten zhang away, then there was only one possibility! The commander suddenly turned around, and saw the lieutenant's head suddenly crooked around his neck, and then fell straight down. A blood-red figure spurred the horse to leap into the air, it was the only remaining Ilha Verde armorer, his armor covered in the blood of his companions, and in his hand was a heavy war spear.
As he swept past the body of the lieutenant, his spear swept the battle-hardened warrior off his horse. The black horse stepped down mercilessly on the corpse, and thick blood gushed out of the headless neck again. All the thunder blitons couldn't believe their eyes. When the lieutenant threw his saber, the Ilha Verde warrior blocked the saber offensive with his spear. Then he snatched the long knife and threw it back, and the lieutenant watched the same trick return to him, until the saber flew out with his head, and blood splattered all the way to the commander's neck.
"Protect ......," the Commander shouted, his spear no more than two feet from his throat. The bloody Ilhade warrior approached him, and he was surprised to find that it was only a young man of twenty-seven or eight-year-old, with a thrillingly black pupil that seemed to be burning.
He was horrified in his heart, and took a step back with his horse, and he remembered that a certain man had such a pair of burning pupils, brown like red coal!
The two thunder galls rushed to the commander side by side, and the sabers were pressed down to form a cross to block the war spears, but the strong pressure caused the two swords to be disarmed. The barrel of the gun pressed against the shoulders of the commander, and before he could draw his sword, he had already fallen from his horse. The black horse was stabbed in the hip and neighed past the Commander.
The Ilha Verde samurai, with a spear in one hand, lifted the black-armored knight on the back of a white horse to his saddle bridge. The young man grabbed his horse and stood in the middle of a group of thunder galls, several of which opened their horns and bows and pointed directly at his head, and four or five sabers were already swinging at his back.
"Slow!" The fallen commander endured the pain and roared loudly. He had seen the young man hold his spear upside down, the tip pointed at the back of the black-armored knight's neck. The two sides confronted each other quietly, and the horses neighed uneasily, but none of the thunder dares to step forward, and the other party has no way to retreat.
"In Xia Qi Yue," the commander said, "the mighty general He Jin commanded the right general, leading the thunder battalion." ”
"My name is Zhang Xin," the Qingzhou warrior shook his blood-soaked spear, "you let them all get out of the way!" Zhang Xin's target was the black armor he pressed on the saddle bridge. He was in front of the battle at that time, and clearly saw the thunder cavalry rushing out, and the first few cavalrymen did not rush forward, but one of them bent down on the back of the horse to lift the black armor that had fallen off the horse, and one person led his white horse.
Escorted by a few elite cavalrymen, the squad moved away from the brigade to the north. Lei Qi rushed to charge because this person was injured and fell off his horse. Although it was impossible to guess what the identity of that black armor was, Zhang Xin also understood that this person was worth an extraordinary amount.
And what he wants to capture is an extraordinary character. "I'm afraid I can't." Qi Yue shook his head. The blood dripping from the spear in his hand flowed down Zhang Xin's hand. Although it was not the first time he had killed someone, the strong shock still made him tremble. He had come back from hell, and he had just watched his comrades fall off their horses from their heads with arrows piercing their heads, and then being trampled into a blur of flesh by the horses behind him. At this time, if you look back, the corpses of those comrades seem to be still moving slightly, and he is the only one left alive.
His mind was filled with blood, and he roared at himself in his heart. "Hold on to the gun! Hold on to the gun! The voice in his chest shouted, "They rushed and killed this man!" "Your companions are dead, and you can't escape, so if you value your own life, you'd better do what I say." Qi Yue said. Zhang Xin grabbed the black armor: "Don't you want his life?" ”
"Kill me!" , The black-armored young man roared and said to Qi Yue.
A smile appeared at the corner of Qi Yue's mouth, and a trace of coldness suddenly appeared in his expression: "He is dead, do you really think that the general will blame me?" Naive boy. Zhang Xin was shocked and looked at Qi Yue who was sneering in a daze. The gentle and elegant general suddenly became as poisonous as a snake, and his eyes fell on Zhang Xin's body, and there was a chill that was even worse than the battle knife. Xie Xuan slowly pulled out the longbow from the bow bag, and then took a feather arrow from the quiver and stroked it gently.
He sneered and looked at Zhang Xin: "Then let him die once and see!" ”
In an instant, he opened his bow and shot directly at Yu Ye in Zhang Xin's arms. The two were only a few feet apart, and the feather arrows came extremely fast and mercilessly.
"Hahaha, kill me, let's die together!" Before Yu Ye's shouting was over, Zhang Xin suddenly reached out and grabbed the feather arrow out of thin air. The shaft of the arrow made his palm hot, and he looked at the feather arrow in his hand, and the back exploded with hemp skin. Feathered arrows don't have arrows! When Qi Yue stroked the feather arrow, he quietly broke the arrow, that arrow was just a false momentum, and at the moment when he opened his bow, the two thunder galls behind Himeno had already dismounted from the stirrup, holding the long knife with both hands, and quietly pressed on.
Zhang Xin turned his head suddenly, only to see a figure rising in the air, a long knife slashing down, and a short body slashing the horse's hoof. At the moment when the life and death judgment was made, Zhang Xin did not block, he slammed the reins of the horse. The war horse jumped into the air, flashing the blade under his feet in an instant, and the thunder gall who was in mid-air suddenly heard Shen Xiong's tiger roar, and there was a dark gold in front of him. The moment Zhang Xin took out the gun, time seemed to be interrupted, and the spear in his hand hit Lei Gu's saber, and half of the saber flew straight into the sky. The thunder gall that attacked the upper plate fell and smashed the body of his companion.
Zhang Xin raised a shot in his hand, and it went straight through like a poisonous dragon. Blood gushed down the barrel of the gun, and the spear in his hand pierced through the chests of the two thunder galls at once. Zhang Xin gripped the barrel of the gun, withdrew the tiger teeth, and looked directly at Qi Yue.
"Don't play tricks again, next time, I'll kill him!" Zhang Xin's cruel hand made all Lei Gall feel numb in their hearts, and they were now convinced of what this man said, which was the consciousness of an outlaw.
"Slow! You coerce him back to camp for a bounty. I have a jewel in my pocket, worth no less than 5,000 gold baht, you let him go, take it and run for your life. I, Qi Yue, will never send someone to chase and kill. Qi Yue threw out the small leather bag on his waist. The belt at the mouth of the sac spreads out, and all the gorgeous pearls flow out, and the thumb-sized pearls roll among the grass, and the golden hairpins and jade are dazzling.
"General Qi Yue, you look back," Zhang Xin didn't lower his eyes, and looked straight at Xie Xuan. Qi Yue turned his head to look, and he was shocked by the war horses of the Qingzhou armor soldiers who had just been killed by the thunder guts, dozens of war horses and the corpses of dozens of people were lying on the ground, and the blood was dyed bright red on the grass. A retreating female who had been shot by a feathered arrow dragged her short legs and struggled up to get close to the carcass of a warhorse, whining low.
"Those people are my subordinates, I have known most of them for many years, I am going to attack you from behind, I said I want to share the credit with them, but they are all dead now. But I'm still alive. I don't have the face to take your money back, I rushed down, there is no way out, even if I die, I have to do this, do you understand? ”
Zhang Xin slowly retreated with his war horse, "I don't know what his identity is, but if you don't care about his life, just come up!" Qi Yue stared at the young man's strangely black eyes, and his heart sank.
"I understand the same people who went into battle." Qi Yue nodded, "If I were you, I wouldn't take the money away." This is the honor and disgrace of a samurai's life! I'll let you take a step and kill you again! He waved at the Thunder Darts. The blockade helplessly vacated a gap, Zhang Xin held the spear in his hand with one arm, and pinched Yu Ye's neck with the other. Suddenly, he turned his war horse and slammed the horse's belly, and the two thunder gall sabers just flashed, and Zhang Xin's war spear shook them back. A bloodied rider escaped like an eagle. "Chase!" Qi Yue yelled. The thunder galls drove their horses and brought up billowing smoke and dust.
Two thousand light horsemen surrounded Dong Zhuo and Zhang Xuan and rushed to a high ground, overlooking the plain, and there was an open space in front of them. Zhang Xuan pointed to the distance: "General!" That's him! On the yellow-green mottled grassland, black horses galloped through billowing smoke and dust, followed by dozens of black-armored cavalry.
The man on the black horse was dressed in the standard mrigal armor of the Ilha Verde armor, and a prisoner was held with a heavy gun in the saddle. Although the thunder galls are still a hundred paces away, the feather arrows have already caught up, if it were not for the fact that it is not easy to get accurate in the wild galloping of the horses, the black horses would have been hit by the arrows.
"It's Zhang Xin." Dong Zhuo's eyes were sharp, and he had already seen it clearly. Dong Zhuo didn't answer, and frowned.
Zhang Xin had already seen an ink flag moving on the high ground in the distance, and he knew that the rescuers were only two miles away, so his heart relaxed slightly, and he almost went limp. He carried two people on a war horse, and he had to dodge feathered arrows and walk out of a huge arc, and his black horse was also selected from the stable, but he was also exhausted. He struck the horse's rump with the barrel of his gun, forcing the nearly crumbling steed to continue galloping. If there is no rescue, he and the war horse will just run towards the dead end.
The black horse neighed wildly and stepped onto the grassy slope. At this time, Himeno and Xi Yan's brigade stood on two high ground facing each other from afar, separated by only a low-lying area hundreds of steps wide, and Zhang Xin could already see Zhang Xuan's face clearly. But he suddenly grabbed the war horse! The black horse slid out on its knees, wailed, foamed at the foam, and lay on the ground dying.
Zhang Xin was silent for a moment, pursed his lips, pushed Yu Ye to the ground, and pointed a spear at the back of his neck.
"Qi Yue, archery, shoot arrows quickly, shoot me and this person to death, don't be coerced by him anymore."
Yu Ye struggled and yelled behind him.
The chasing thunder galls stood on their horses and stood guard dozens of paces away, and Zhang Xin looked down at the low-lying place below.
Hao Haoran's thousands of crimson cavalry lined up on a huge battle line for several miles, and with the commotion of the war horses and the movements of the cavalry, it was as if a red tide was bound in this depression and surging in the depression. Thousands of horsemen bent their bows and pointed at the grassy slope where he was, and a large crimson flag was raised in the wind, and the light of the banner loomed. Zhang Xin understood, and he rushed into the lion's den.