Chapter Seventy-Two: Victory

The cavalry of the Han army has three crowns, one is called Luoyang fine cavalry, the second is the Xiliang iron cavalry, and the third is the Yanyun cavalry, there is no distinction between them, and at this moment, on the battlefield of Yinchuan, there are already two of the three crowns, Luoyang elite cavalry and Xiliang iron cavalry.

Foreign cavalry also has three crowns, one is called the Hun cavalry, the second is the Xianbei cavalry, the third is the Qiang hunting cavalry, and the most elite Qiang hunting cavalry of Qianghu also appeared on the battlefield of Yinchuan.

The three cavalry that had long been ready to attack launched a charge at the same time, like a tiger out of the gate, and like a dragon that turned over the clouds and rain, the sky and the earth changed color, everyone trembled, and the final storm came, and the decisive battle began!

The exhausted soldiers saw their elite enter the battlefield, and their morale rose at the same time, and there was a bloody storm on the battlefield, and the huge bloody gas attracted the beasts here, and they were shocked by the sound of fighting on the battlefield and did not dare to approach, so they could only wait for the war to end, and then come to "clean up the battlefield".

"Loyalty! Brave and soulful! ”

Everyone shouted slogans, like an enemy charge, and every movement was a knee-jerk reaction, and the entire battlefield could not see who had the upper hand.

The elite cavalry of the two armies finally clashed, and the Luoyang elite cavalry and the Xiliang iron cavalry formed a sharp arrow formation, and Liu Hu and the personal guard battalion were the sharpest arrows, which was also their best formation.

The Qiang hunting cavalry did not have a formation, they took off the longbow, bent the bow and set up the arrows, the Qiang self-made arrows, drew a perfect parabola in the air, enveloping the Han army's sharp arrow array.

"Raise your shield!"

The cavalry raised their shields, and those arrows were not sharp, and they could not pierce the sophisticated shields of the Han army at all, which was the gap in weapons and equipment.

Time was pressing, the Qiang Hu army fired a total of two rounds of arrows, and the Han army had already rushed to the front of the Qiang hunting horse, and the Qiang hunting cavalry saw that the arrows were useless, pulled out their scimitars, and slapped their horses and rushed straight to the front arrow formation of the Han cavalry.

The Han army was like a sharp pair of scissors, straight into the pocket array of the Qiang hunting horse, and the Qiang hunting cavalry bypassed the sharpest arrows of the Han army and surrounded the Han army from the side.

This is preparing to encroach step by step, but how can the Han army let him get his wish? Under Liu Hu's order, the Han army immediately changed its formation, changed to a diamond-shaped formation, and prepared to rush out of the encirclement with speed.

Xiang Qing realized that it was time for him to make a move, he touched Xiang Xu's head and said gently: "Xiao Xu, are you afraid?" ”

Xiang Xu shook his head: "Don't be afraid!" ”

"Kill me with me!"

The black horse under the crotch was like a bolt of lightning, heading straight for the king of Qianghu, and the two tall tribal leaders beside the king of Qianghu immediately stepped forward to stop him.

Xiang Xu thought that the horse was too slow, so he stepped on the horse's head and flew up, like an eagle spreading its wings, and the cold sword came out of its sheath to stop the two.

Xiang Qing, who didn't care about it, had already rushed to the front of King Qianghu, and King Qianghu muttered a lot, and Xiang Qing's head hurt when he heard it.

"What's the horn, I don't understand!"

A roar shook the sky and the river was shocked, and the spring thunder rolled over the distant mountains! The thunderous sword roared out, and the king of Qianghu had no time to react, so he could only pull out his sword and fight with Xiang Qing in one place.

Those two tribal leaders, although they were the strongest warriors in the hearts of the Qianghu people, but Xiang Xu's sword was so fast that they couldn't see Xiang Xu's movements clearly.

In a trance, the two of them only felt that they were all the same person in front of them, the sword light flashed, and both of them were already in different places, even if their heads had fallen to the ground, they still opened their eyes in shock, is there such a fast sword in this world?

This King of Qianghu definitely underestimated the strength of the Central Plains people, and their barbaric sword skills could not be compared with the martial arts that the Central Plains people had worked so hard to develop.

When he hit the second move, King Qianghu already knew that he was by no means the opponent of this Central Plains person, so he ran away with a false move, and kept shouting the same sentence in his mouth, probably meaning retreat.

The soldiers around King Qianghu swarmed up, drowning Xiang Qing in the crowd, and King Qianghu stepped on his thousand-mile horse, and disappeared without a trace of smoke.

"King Qianghu has fled! Qianghu is defeated! Kill him! ”

"Kill! They were defeated! ”

The Qianghu people looked back and saw that their king had been defeated, although Xiang Qing was besieged by the guards, but that person's swordsmanship was really powerful, and so many people could only barely stop him.

The Zong Han Sword opened a passage, Xiang Xu had already killed Xiang Qing's side, Liu Hu had already led the cavalry to chase and kill King Qianghu, and promised to kill him with the personal guard battalion.

King Qianghu's personal soldiers and Xiang Qing's personal soldiers are not the same grade, under the training promised by promises, the cooperation between them can be called seamless, the number of Qianghu personal guards obviously exceeds Xiang Qing's personal guards, but they clearly feel that they are fighting with several people at the same time, and they can't parry at all, just like a sickle cutting leeks, falling down one by one.

The remnants of the Qianghu army were also defeated in an instant, leaving only the stubborn Qiang hunters, who considered themselves the most brave warriors of the Qianghu, and their dignity did not allow them to retreat like lost dogs.

The Qiang hunters were surrounded by all the Han troops, three layers inside and three layers outside the encirclement, they no longer had any chance to escape, and today they were destined to die here.

King Qianghu's personal guards fought to the death and did not retreat, successfully stopped Xiang Qing, and let King Qianghu escape smoothly, but they also cost their own lives, in their hearts, it was their supreme glory to die on the battlefield for their king.

Xiang Qing looked at those Qianghu hunters who had no hope of escaping, forcibly suppressed the strong compassion in his heart, and said coldly: "Kill." ”

When the soldiers of the Han army heard the general's order, their hearts were hated by the Qianghu people, and they wanted to give an explanation to the suffering people of Liangzhou, and under such a mentality, they did not have any burden.

When the war ended, only darkness remained, everyone collapsed to the ground exhausted, countless war horses stood quietly by the side of their masters, and some of the owners of war horses could never stand up again, they still stood next to the corpses, and the war horses were always the knight's best companions.

The living are glad that they can see the sun rise tomorrow, and the dead will be buried forever in this deserted battlefield, and after a while, the beasts will clean up this battlefield.

Xiang Qing and the other generals sat on the ground around the fire, everyone's face was covered with blood, and they couldn't recognize their appearance at all, their weapons were all inserted on the ground, full of broken wounds, and the spikes on Dong Zhuo's mace had fallen a lot.

Wang Shu bandaged Shan Fu's wounds, the movements of his hands did not stop, and his mouth kept apologizing.

"Oops, I said it's okay, it's all my own brothers, it's not a big deal." Shan Fu said.

Wang Shu carefully bandaged Shan Fu, looking at the wound on Shan Fu's back, he felt more painful than cutting on himself, and he said stubbornly: "I owe you a life this time, don't say anything else, I will definitely invite you to drink when I go back!" ”

Liu Hu sat down with the injured Yuncheng in his arms and said excitedly: "Drinking? Take me one? ”

"Go, go, you're everywhere!" Wang Shu said disgustedly.

Wang Shu said to Shan Fu: "Brother, will you teach me your swordsmanship another day?" ”

"Why do you suddenly want to learn swords? Didn't you always think that you were a scholar, and dancing with knives and guns was not for you? Shan Fu asked.

Wang Shu scratched his head: "Look, the second master and the little eighth master don't talk about it first, even this tiger, killing the Qianghu people is not ambiguous, I don't know anything, I have learned swordsmanship, so I won't hold back." ”

Shan Fu nodded: "Well, that's true, this is easy to say, but in terms of swordsmanship, the general's swordsmanship is so much better than mine, why do you have to learn from me?" ”

Wang Shu shook his head: "You don't understand this." He glanced at Xiang Qing, then at Xiang Xu, and said embarrassedly: "You just say, these two people, one can overlord the king, and the other is as fast as lightning, can I learn?" Will I learn? ”

Shan Fu glanced at the two of them with Wang Shu's gaze, and said categorically: "Well, you really can't learn, since you want to learn, then I'll teach you." ”

"It's a deal!"

"Stop chatting just yet." Xiang Qing interrupted: "What are the casualties of our army? ”

Shan Fu said: "It's about fifty percent, but Qianghu's casualties are higher than ours, at least 6,000 dead and wounded. ”

Dong Zhuo, Hua Xiong and the others didn't speak, and Xiang Qing asked, "Zhong Ying, what do you want?" ”

Dong Zhuo replied: "General, our family knows the Qianghu people, they are all soldiers, regardless of women and children, they can become a warrior when they get on the horse, so the Qianghu army is definitely more than that." ”

Hua Xiong said approvingly: "Although we have defeated the most elite forces of Qianghu, the king of Qianghu has fled back, as long as he is the king, he can form an army of tens of thousands at any time, so ......"

"So, we're going to withdraw our troops, right?"

Dong Zhuo and Hua Xiong both nodded, the hundred-legged insect died but did not stiffen, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the strength of the Qianghu people was more than these, and their troops could not be replenished, so withdrawing the army was the best choice.

"I agree to withdraw the army, general, this battle has crushed the Qianghu people's intention to take advantage of the fire to rob, losing so many people, those tribal leaders must be in pain, and the king of Qianghu also needs to settle his tribal leaders, so in a short time, it is impossible for them to invade Liangzhou, we can seize this opportunity to annihilate the Liangzhou rebels in one fell swoop, and when Qianghu comes to his senses, Liangzhou has become a monolith, and they have no chance."

Shan Fu said in an orderly manner, and Xiang Qing also nodded: "What Yuan Zhi said is reasonable, the soldiers are too tired, let them rest for one night, and tomorrow morning, immediately set off back to Liangzhou!" ”

"No!" The congregation will obey.

After a simple night rest not far from the battlefield, the soldiers of the Han army set off to return to Liangzhou when the sky was bright.

Everyone had the joy of victory on their faces, although this decisive battle with the Qianghu people came suddenly, but they won and came back alive, living up to the expectations of the people of Liangzhou.

But in addition to joy, they are also very sad, although this battle was won, but it was also a tragic victory, countless Paozawa brothers, unable to share the joy of victory with them, will never come back.

At noon, the soldiers and the infantry led by Li Dao Guo Yan converged, and a long-planned conspiracy surfaced.