Chapter Thirty-Three: The Last Battle
The rebels' offensive like a tide seems to be endless, never stopping, the Imperial Forest Army formation is like a stubborn reef, resisting the rebels' attacks again and again, on the bank of the Yangtze River at this moment, the gray tide rolled up the stormy waves, the golden reef is fighting for life, half a step back, the rebel cavalry is not afraid of death to rush to the spear-lined Royal Forest Army formation, the war horse made a tragic scream, and the corpses of the knights are hanging on the tip of the spear, like a spirit banner floating in the air.
On the bloody battlefield, what noble concubines, dignitaries and nobles, but cowards, eunuchs, palace maids, concubines, all of them have suffered countless casualties, because war has never been a game, war is a huge meat grinder, no matter how many lives, it is impossible to fill this meat grinder.
Xiang Qing no longer knows how many people he killed, the injuries in Wengcheng last time have not been completely healed, this time it is already a new injury covering an old injury, but for his strong body, these injuries are harmless, he now has only one thought in his mind, I want to live, this is also the idea of everyone on the battlefield, everyone hopes that they can see the sun tomorrow, but most people have no way to live until tomorrow.
If you don't swing your sword, you will be pierced through the chest by a spear, if I don't kill, others will kill me, even if Xiang Qing has the divine power of the overlord, there is no way to kill the rebels if he is so deep in the enemy formation, there are too many enemies, at a glance, there are enemies around him, he is attacked by all directions without dead ends and indiscriminately, but the sharpness of the Thundering Sword has helped him a lot, and the weapons of these rebels are absolutely impossible to block the sharp Thundering Sword.
Xiang Xu's speed has slowed down, his swordsmanship is originally based on fast, at this moment he is like a robot, repeating his moves, he is different from Xiang Qing, no matter how bad the combat environment is, he is still calm and calm, he only has his own sword in his brain, and the enemy in front of him.
The two of them entered the enemy formation, blocking a considerable number of rebels, originally the rebels who were attacking at the top of Mount Tai, but they were cut off from the middle by Xiang Qing and Xiang Xu, and the rebels attacked the Imperial Forest Army, so they had to bypass the front and attack from the side, but the military formation of the Royal Forest Army was not something that these rebels would be able to break through for a while and a half, so the two sides were deadlocked, and it was difficult to solve the killing.
However, Xiang Qing and Xiang Xu can only stop the rebels for a few minutes, and it is a fool's dream to let them block the 10,000 army, I am afraid that only when the real overlord Xiang Yu comes, there is that possibility.
The two retreated into the military formation, taking a temporary breath and resting, Xiang Qing's swordsmanship is domineering, attacking instead of defending, so Xiang Xu has few injuries on his body, but Xiang Qing's clothes have been cut into strips of rags, and several wounds on his body have been turned out, the enemy's blood and his own blood are mixed together, and there is blood all over his body, and there are even some broken meat.
At this time, I heard a scream behind me, "Brother Xiang! Looking back, it was the queen Song Lan and the personal maid Nanxi, the two did not flee in all directions like other concubines and eunuchs, because they knew that only the military formation of the Imperial Forest Army was temporarily safe, and this group of rebels would definitely not let anyone go in order to kill Emperor Han Ling.
Xiang Qing saw that Liu Hu was protecting Wang Shu and couldn't pull away, he dragged Xiang Xu behind him and shouted: "Xiao Xu, protect the queen mother and your sister-in-law!" I'll take care of the rest! ”
Hearing the words sister-in-law, Ren Nanxi's heart also beat a little, and even the thick ash on the bottom of the pot on her face could not cover the flushing on her face, and she wanted to argue, but saw Xiang Qing turn around and smile at her.
"Don't worry, with me, no one will hurt you."
Liu Hu saw that Xiang Qing was in the front line of the battle, and he was in danger, and he jumped like thunder in a hurry, and he kicked Wang Shu behind Xiang Xu.
"Little Eighth Master, the second master is too dangerous, you protect this goods, I'll help the second master!"
With that, Liu Hu brandished two blood-dripping halberds and rushed to the front.
Xiang Qing had just pierced the three rebels with a single sword when he saw Liu Hu help him cut down the enemy on the flank to the ground.
"Huzi, didn't you want to protect Wang Shu! What the are you rushing up there for! ”
Liu Hu's tiger mouth had already cracked, but he didn't care about the slashing and slashing to reduce the pressure for Xiang Qing.
"They have the protection of the little eighth master, and I will help the second master."
Xiang Qing swung his sword again to help Liu Hu stab to death a rebel who wanted to sneak attack, and he roared angrily: "I'm a martial artist, use you to help!" You hide in the back for me! ”
He didn't want Liu Hu and Xiang Xu to be killed in front, this was a battlefield where his fate hung by a thread, he didn't want his brothers and friends to die in front of him, he would rather die by himself, after all, he didn't belong to this era, he would die, but they followed him to encounter danger here, and he didn't want to let himself burden them.
At this time, a strange man wearing pink concubine clothes, a mantle, and a scruffy beard quietly squeezed into the crowd, and the queen Song Lan next to him recognized it at a glance: "Your ......Majesty" The strange man hurriedly erected a food signal to him not to speak, Song Lan didn't dare to say, Ren Nanxi is also very smart, but Wang Shu is different, he doesn't know what the emperor looks like today.
"Hey! You eunuch, in order to survive, actually wear women's clothes, it is really shameless. ”
Song Lan immediately covered Wang Shu's mouth and said, "This is the battlefield, you can do anything, there is no need to dwell on this." ”
Ren Nanxi also understood, and cooperated with Song Lan to speak, his eyes frantically hinted at Wang Shu, this is Your Majesty, if you talk to Your Majesty like this, isn't that looking for death.
Wang Shu looked at these two people and looked at him crazily, but the smart head became stupid at this time, he complained for a long time, until Ren Nanxi's fingers pinched the flesh under his arm and twisted it twice, he stopped.
"Oops! It hurts to death, young lady, don't, it hurts too much, you let go first. ”
Nanxi immediately let go, and hid far away: "Who is the young lady, you don't scream nonsense." ”
Wang Shu smiled and scratched his head: "My second master, that's a hero of the world, you can't see that he likes you, he said when he was in Luoyang, when the Southern Tour comes, he will ask the queen to give him a marriage." ”
It's really hard to imagine that in such a fierce battlefield, these people can still talk and laugh like this, frolicking, and playing, all these sources of confidence are given to them by Xiang Qing and Xiang Xu, whether it is the battle to kill Bi Lan, or the battle of Wengcheng, the force value of the two brothers Xiang Qing and Xiang Xu, they have never doubted it.
The women's clothing boss asked suspiciously, "Aren't you afraid on the battlefield?" ”
Wang Shu waved his hand aggressively: "The second master and the little eighth master are here, what are we afraid of?" What is there to be afraid of. ”
Just when Wang Shu straightened his waist and was about to brag about it, he was kicked over by Xiang Xu, and saw that there were ten thousand arrows in the sky, covering the entire Imperial Forest Army like rain, even if Xiang Xu wielded the cold sword like a windmill, it was inevitable that there would be a few fish that slipped through the net, and a sharp arrow was directly inserted between Wang Shu's eyebrows, and the trembling arrow tail scared Wang Shu's cross-eyeballs.
While swinging the sword to block, Xiang Xu also picked up a shield on the ground and let the women's clothing boss behind him hold it, Song Lan and Nanxi, two weak women, couldn't hold this heavy shield, but I didn't expect this big shield to reach the hands of the women's clothing boss, it was like an arm and a finger, although when waving the shield, the pink ribbon was also fluttering in the wind, and the gibbon-like hair was exposed, but no arrow could pass through the defense of this big shield.
Wang Yue just shouted to protect His Majesty and rushed to the emperor on the ship, but he couldn't find the trace of Emperor Han Ling when he turned over the cabinets, and the number of assassins on the ship was not much, this was the power that Mei Qian deliberately hid just in case, they saw that the emperor did not get off the boat, so they directly crossed the river and climbed to the boat building, the bottom of the boat has been chiseled by this group of water ghosts, and the purpose is to besiege and kill Emperor Han Ling and these two thousand royal forest troops here.
This group of water ghosts is not Wang Yue and the masters of those guards, they were quickly cleaned up, and some of the concubines of Emperor Han Ling who survived were still holding Wang Yue's thighs and begging him to protect them, but Wang Yue was loyal to Emperor Han Ling, but it didn't mean that he couldn't see that these women were seducing His Majesty, making His Majesty depressed and indulging in alcohol all day long and ignoring the government.
An order, but anyone who dared to stop Wang Yue's footsteps was killed on the spot, this is the privilege given to him by Emperor Han Ling, as long as it can ensure the absolute safety of Emperor Han Ling, Wang Yue has the right to cut first and then play, once there was a big official who wanted to assassinate the court, and was killed by Wang Yue in the main hall with a sword.
Wang Yue rushed down the boat, saw Xiang Qing struggling to support on the front line, and immediately rushed to the front, the Chichuan Sword devoured the blood of the rebels like a bloodthirsty demon, and no one could stop the footsteps of the world's number one swordsman.
Kill to the front, I saw Xiang Qing's eyes red, covered in blood, the corpses of the rebels accumulated under his feet, the rebels climbed up along the corpses of their companions, and people were cut in half by the thundering sword and rolled down the corpse mountain, this is the real corpse mountain blood sea, blood flowed along these corpses to the ground, scattered like spider webs, heavy military boots stepped on the quagmire mixed with blood and water and kept charging, they shouted the slogan of killing the faint king and saving the world, kept charging, no one was afraid of death, The war has entered the most brutal stage of blood for blood and tooth for tooth.
Xiang Qing couldn't support it anymore, and just when Wang Yuefei went up, Xiang Qing's Thundering Sword had already stabbed Wang Yue without thinking, and the Chichuan Sword blocked the Thundering Sword.
Wang Yue looked at Xiang Qing's eyes: "Xiaoqing! I'm a big brother! ”
Xiang Qing was like a world away, looking at the corpse mountain under his feet in a trance, he only felt dizzy, such a scene of Shura hell, even if a person who does not faint blood sees it, he can also understand Xiang Qing's feelings.
Wang Yue took Xiang Qing back to the military formation, at this time the Imperial Forest Army has shrunk a whole circle, although the battle loss ratio between the Royal Forest Army and the rebels has reached an astonishing one to three, but there are seven thousand rebels surrounding more than a thousand Royal Forest Army, at this time the Royal Forest Army has to use the tortoiseshell array to shrink the line, with the smallest force surface to resist more attacks.
Xiang Qing woke up from Wang Yue's arms, he was just dizzy, as if he had stood up suddenly after squatting for a long time, he saw Wang Yue appear in his eyes, opened his chapped lips and said hoarsely: "Senior brother, have you found Your Majesty?" ”
Wang Yue replied: "No, Your Majesty is not on the ship, and now the rebels are strong, what should we do?" ”
Xiang Qing picked up the broken gun next to him and supported his body and slowly got up, but he really couldn't stand up, so he could only kneel on one knee.
"Senior brother, burn the ship!"
Wang Yue didn't ask why he did this, he called a few guards, a few torches were thrown on the wooden boat, there were a lot of silk fabrics on the boat, after they were ignited, the wind borrowed the fire, the fire helped the wind, and the whole ship turned into a big fireball burning in an instant.
The soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army felt the blazing temperature behind them, they still had a way to retreat in their hearts, they didn't know that the bottom of the building boat was rotten, and it was impossible to retreat with the building boat, they showed a confused expression one by one, the enemy in front of them was a sea of people, they only had more than a thousand people, no matter how elite the soldiers, in the situation of death, they would not have much fighting spirit.
Wang Yue and Xiang Xu stood on one side, and forced Xiang Qing on the shoulders of the two of them, Xiang Qing gritted his teeth and shouted as he carried the pain on his body.
"Soldiers of the Imperial Guards! In ancient times, the overlord Xiang Yu could break the cauldron and sink the boat, 8,000 Jiangdong children could compete for hegemony in the world, Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, could fight against the water, and 10,000 Han troops could defeat 200,000 Zhao army rats, today, we have several times our rebels in front of us, and the building ships in the rear have been burned down, there is no way out, and there is only one way for us to survive! That's to charge forward! Soldiers, this battle will be famous in history, and the time has come for us to make meritorious contributions! ”
Liu Hu found three horses, and Wang Yue, Xiang Qing, and Xiang Xu each got on the horse.
Xiang Qing pointed in front of his sword: "All the armies follow me!" Slay the traitor! Kill! ”