Chapter 37: A Battle to the Death

Qin Rufeng is indeed brave, but the other party is not weak, although the difference in numbers is huge, but it does not suffer in the battle, it is not difficult to fight with one enemy three or even one against five, after a few games, the two sides no longer impact each other, they all stop at the bottom, people do not stop, and the horse should rest. Fang Qingze said beside Qu Xiangtian: "The previous raid infantry lost about a hundred people, and the cavalry was about seventy. After a few rounds of mutual attacks just now, the other party suffered fifty or sixty casualties, and Qin Rufeng's side suffered a serious loss of more than three hundred people, should we attack to help him? Qu Xiangtian looked at Fang Qingze in surprise and said, "How did you figure it out?" Fang Qingze smiled and replied: "I counted these heads as copper coins in a while, but by the way, you haven't answered my question yet." Qu Xiangtian patted Fang Qingze on the shoulder and said to Lu Yunzhi: "Look at the third brother, this guy is a money string, and he can't do anything without money." It's not that you don't help me wait for news from the scouts, it's a bit strange that I haven't come back yet. According to the situation, it is now evenly matched, but if it continues like this, although the other party is as tired as Qin Rufeng, its endurance should be better than ours, and it will win in the two rounds of impact. Lu Yunzhi hurriedly said: "Then don't go to the rescue quickly, don't run out of cavalry." Gao Huai also came up to listen and said, "Lao Qu, I'll take a team to copy it from the back, and we can also surround it in case of an emergency." Qu Xiangtian nodded and said: "Although this method is good, but I can't give you too many people, otherwise once it is disconnected, the end and the end cannot be connected, it will be troublesome, once we encounter trouble, you will do your best to rescue, attract the attention of the other party, make a feint and retreat slowly, I will find you to make peace, and it is the king to attack the west." Gao Huai was silent for a while and said: "You say yes, then I'll take your few dogs in the third room, take care, don't die on the battlefield." Fang Qingze scolded with a smile: "If you don't anything, go quickly, you can take care." Gao Huai led more than a hundred people on a detour in order to make a surprise attack to the rear.

"See and hear!" Qu Xiangtian shouted, Zhu saw that he rode his horse and ran over, just now he had been supervising the formation before the battle, but it was very royal and prestigious, and the soldiers saw that the prince of Wu Wang personally supervised the formation, but their morale was also a lot higher. "What's the matter? Old songs. Zhu Jianwen asked after turning over and dismounting. Qu Xiangtian whispered to Zhu Jianwen: "You go to the nearest guard post to move the rescuers, the scout has not come back, this is too strange, I suspect that someone ambushed the scout and was secretly killed, and they made no movement at all, the ears that concealed Yunzhi must not be ordinary people, I am not sure how many people there are, in short, let's go and we can hold on for as long as we can." Zhu was shocked when he heard this, but he didn't have time to ask many questions, but he got on his horse and galloped away.

After a while, the sound of the horn broke the silence, and Qu Xiangtian looked at the senior brothers in the same door with a wry smile and said, "They have finally appeared, and they will fight, come on." ”

Suddenly, the horn sounded, and two or three hundred iron cavalry rushed down from the slopes of each of the two wings of the Ming cavalry, and soon scattered the team led by Qin Rufeng. Qin Rufeng saw that the big thing was not good, and he hurriedly led everyone to run in the direction where Qu Xiangtian was, and finally rushed left and right to kill a bloody road, Du Hai and Qin Rufeng opened the road together, at this time it can be said that it was scarred, Du Hai was stabbed in the back, and Qin Rufeng was no better There was a broken arrow stuck in his chest, which was just broken.

The two of them tore a gap in the cavalry encirclement and rushed out, most of the soldiers behind them were also wounded, and as soon as the team rushed out halfway, the group filled the gap and surrounded the rest of the people, and for a time the bloody rain and bloody screams continued. Fang Qingze counted his eyes and read silently in his mouth, and said to Qu Xiangtian for a moment: "Only more than nine hundred people have returned." Qu Xiangtian nodded and said, "Fortunately, there was no rescue just now, otherwise we would have been wiped out." ”

Qin Rufeng led the team to run to Qu Xiangtian, and the infantry team lined up in front of Qu Xiangtian made way for the cavalry to gallop by, Qu Xiangtian shouted: "Fifth Senior Brother, Old Qin, give me the soldiers to prepare at the rear, we haven't finished this battle yet." The cavalry on the opposite side kept roaring, but there was no intention of pursuing, and out of the middle of the team was a black-faced man, who was not very old, but he could see that the people around him were obedient to him, and he must be the commander of this team.

The man grinned, then picked up a cloth bag from his horse with one arm and threw it to the man next to him, who caught the opening of the cloth bag, and then took out a round thing from it, and threw it into the air with one wave. The black-faced big man pulled his bow and shot arrows in one go, and suddenly shot this thing, and then the person next to the big man threw out more than thirty in turn, and the big man shot more than thirty things one by one and was carried by the arrow and flew to Qu Xiangtian's side, Qu Xiangtian shouted: "Raise the shield!" ”

The soldiers in the front row holding large shields raised their shields one after another, and when the arrows touched the shields, several soldiers with slightly inferior physique were shocked to their knees by this force, and after everyone shot out with more than 30 arrows, they looked at these round things, but they were surprised at a glance, it turned out to be the heads of the more than 30 scouts sent before.

The black-faced man on the opposite side laughed loudly, his voice was full of bloodlust and arrogance, but the Ming army was shocked, it is the nature of most people to bully the soft and fear the hard, and the soldiers are no exception, and everyone is a little frightened when they encounter such a ferocious enemy. Qu Xiangtian also laughed, and the black-faced man on the opposite side couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw Qu Xiangtian laughing wildly, but he didn't make a sound anymore and just looked at Qu Xiangtian and them. Qu Xiangtian's laughter made the opponent puzzled, and also made his people a little suspicious, only to see him pick up a head with a gun and say: "This is the fate of the vanquished, if we are defeated, we will be like these people, we can't retreat now, the price of escape is death, our only way is to fight to the death, fight to the death!" ”

The ranks of the Ming army were instantly rekindled by Qu Xiangtian's words, and for a while all the soldiers shouted in unison: "Fight to the death!" The black-faced man on the opposite side roared angrily, he didn't expect his provocation to ignite the enemy's fighting spirit, he raised the saber in his hand and pointed at the Ming army, and then stretched out his left hand and fingered his neck, this action shows that he thinks he will win the enemy is dead, he whipped the horse from the team to the Ming army galloped, and the group of cavalry behind also shouted and followed the horse gallop.

On the other hand, Qu Xiangtian's side At this moment, the Ming army is also looking at the tiger and wolf division on the opposite side with red eyes, this is a battle of life and death, either you die or I die, Qu Xiangtian roared loudly: "Archers prepare!" More than 700 archers standing behind the spearmen drew their bows and wound them, waiting for Qu Xiangtian's order, and when the cavalry rushed to a distance of one hundred and twenty paces, Qu Xiangtian suddenly shouted: "Release!" "Bows and arrows shot at the enemy one by one like locusts covering the sky and the sun, some of these cavalrymen fell to the ground and were trampled by the hooves of the horses behind them, and some were really brave, and they were still galloping with their sabers after a few arrows. Qu Xiangtian said calmly: "Archers prepare!" Crossbowmen prepare! Spearmen prepare! The spearman behind the shield clutched the spear in his hand and looked through the gap between the shields at the attacking enemy.