Chapter Ninety-Seven: Sibling Brothers
Lan Ziyi stretched out his hand on the horse and said:
"There's someone over there."
I saw a rider overtaking the other besieging thieves, speeding down the hillside from the middle of the formation, stopping not far from Lan Ziyi and them, and then shouting at the top of his voice:
"Reincarnate on the right path, enlighten all sentient beings, believe in the true God, and become immortals in the next life!
The king of heaven is good, everyone knows, the heavenly general will lead the order, sweep away the demons, although you are righteous demons, but the sky has the virtue of good life, special grace, Rao Er and so on immortal!
As long as you lay down your arms now, ......"
Before the thief herald finished speaking, Wei Qionglou picked up the spear that the thief had been discarding on the ground and threw it as a spear.
The spear flowed down the air like a fish, and a whirlwind of rain swept through it, and with a muffled sound struck the thief, knocking him off his horse, and the thief didn't even shout.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion shouted and their morale was high.
Wei Qionglou pulled the wound on his neck this time, and said with a wry smile:
"It's nonsense, it's annoying to listen to, and now it's much quieter."
Peach Chase Tiger rode on his horse and scanned the battlefield and said:
"It's not good."
ζ‘ζ΅ιΉΏ says:
"We can't break through from the southwest anymore, just now we have broken many soldiers in the two rounds of repeated charges, and now there are only 300 horses, and the people are sleepy and the horses are tired, and they can't rush. The brethren who fought on foot had also suffered heavy losses just now, and if they really fought the thieves in close combat, they would definitely be defeated. β
ιqiongζ₯Ό says:
"The thieves have no cavalry, they can only chase us on two legs, and there are no traps on the western side of the mountain from here, so in my opinion we can retreat to the mountain."
ζ‘θΏ½ε says:
"The soldiers are exhausted, how long can they climb the mountain again? If you don't do it well in this way, you will be able to break and flee if you walk. β
Lan Ziyi sighed and said:
"If you can't walk, it's even more impossible to fight, since there is a way to live, you can only take one step at a time."
The people had made up their minds, so they quickly turned around and climbed up the mountain.
Wei Qionglou originally planned to let Lan Ziyi lead the rest of the cavalry to go first, but Lan Ziyi insisted on the rear of the palace, so that once the chasing troops approached, the cavalry could deal with it in time, and the most important thing was that if the cavalry went first, the soldiers on foot might think that the cavalry was going to escape, causing the morale of the whole army to collapse.
In the end, the two of them compromised their plan, and Lan Ziyi walked on the left side of the infantry to prevent the attack of the thief phalanx blocked in the southwest and posed a threat.
The soldiers of the Jihu battalion fought repeatedly, and the equipment was seriously damaged, and the soldiers who cut off the knife edge or even cut it off all picked up the waist knife of the thief with their hands, and the soldiers on foot also picked up the thief and the rattan card in their hands.
Seeing that the officers and troops had changed direction and retreated to the mountain, the thieves immediately sent heralds to give orders to the other phalanxes, and also sent a new leader to reorganize the scattered bandits.
The various formations pursued in the direction of Lan Ziyi's retreat,
But two legs chasing two legs, this is a competition for endurance, where can you catch up in a short time.
Therefore, after receiving the order of the herald, all the crossbowmen in the thief phalanx came out of the formation and accelerated to chase Lan Ziyi and them.
The thieves and bandits phalanx blew the conch here again, and the thieves who were defeated just now calmed down after running out for a while, after all, there were few officers and soldiers, and they were only temporarily defeated.
The thieves who fled in other directions were found one by one by the leaders sent by this faction and regrouped.
The thieves who fled in the direction of the hillside were a little overwhelmed when they saw that the officers and soldiers were also marching in this direction, some changed directions and fled, while some of the bold ones turned around and attacked the officers and soldiers after hearing the sound of the conch horn.
Although it is just a straggler, it will not really block the officers and soldiers, but these few who are not afraid of death still bring some trouble to the advance of the officers and troops.
Although these people who were not afraid of death were soon buried under the swords of the officers, they set an example for other thieves, and more and more escaped thieves began to turn around and attack the Jihu camp.
The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion were slowed down by the attack of the Bandit Skirmishers, and the Bandit Crossbowmen behind them accelerated into the attack distance.
Then the crossbowmen began to fire their arrows in round after round.
Dense arrows fell from the sky like rain, and the sky itself was raining heavily, and the southeast wind was blowing, and the arrows were whirring and winding.
The rain of arrows mixed with the heavy rain poured down on the soldiers, and most of them hit the armor pieces of the armor, clanging.
The rest hit the warriors' bodies through the gaps,
The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion on foot mostly put the rattan cards they picked up behind them to protect their necks, but this could not protect their calves.
The retreating warriors had long been in incomplete armor and exhausted, and the east wind was wrapped in strong arrows, and many of them were hit by arrows, and the most injured part was the calf.
The cavalry were also shot enough, but it was not a person who was shot, but a mount, and the back of the horse simply gave way to the thief to shoot, and many horses could not support it and fell to the ground.
Lan Ziyi saw that the momentum was not good, and turned his head to look at the peach chasing tiger,
Tao Zhuhu saw Lan Ziyi's inquiring eyes, and said with a smile:
"Wei Hou made up his mind to just do it."
Lan Ziyi heard Tao Zhuhu say this, nodded, then drew his sword and turned the horse's head violently, shouting:
"Cavalry warriors, follow me to wipe out this group of thieves and archers. Dare to rush up without defense, it's really unmanned! β
When the cavalry soldiers of the Jihu battalion heard the news and shouted, they immediately turned their horses and followed Lan Ziyi to rush down the hillside.
Wei Qionglou was busy directing the soldiers to kill the besieging thieves and stragglers, defending against the rain of arrows, and at the same time maintaining the speed of the march, he did not pay attention to Lan Ziyi's movements, until Lan Ziyi led the team to rush down the hillside, Wei Qionglou heard the movement, and hurriedly shouted:
"Don't go!"
But it was too late to stop Lan Ziyi.
Lan Ziyi led the remaining cavalry to drive the tired horses down and attack again.
When the thieves saw Lan Ziyi rushing towards him, they flattened their bows and arrows and fired a volley at the cavalry.
The knights, who were already sparsely numbered, fell again, and Peach Tiger was fortunate not to be hit by an arrow this time, but Peach Chase Tiger was shot with an arrow in the inner thigh.
Peach Rabbit scolded:
"How do thieves maintain their bows? Why didn't they open the glue? β
Before the others could reply, the knights had already rushed to the archers, and then the tumbling sabers slashed the unguarded crossbowmen, like wolves, and the crossbowmen could stop the cavalry's charge, even if the charging cavalry was exhausted and sparsely manned.
Just now, the knights took advantage of the situation to frighten many thieves, and now in close combat, the thieves have lost their liver and gall, even if the thieves of several phalanxes are combined, they cannot provide safety for the crossbowmen who are impacted, and no matter how many people there are in front of the cavalry, they are lambs to be slaughtered.
So pointing to a round of impact, the thieves and archers lost the courage to fight, turned around and fled, and many soldiers of the Jihu battalion finally had to endure the rain of arrows from the thieves.
But after such a delay, the large army behind the thieves had already followed, and layer after layer of spears pointed at Lan Ziyi and their cavalry, and surrounded them neatly.
Seeing this, Lan Ziyi hurriedly shouted:
"Retreat!"
When the soldiers heard the order, they immediately turned their horses' heads,
But people can still walk around when they are injured, and horses don't listen to orders when they are injured, plus they have been moving for so long, the horses have lost their strength, and the terrain is a hillside, no matter how they whip at this time, the horses are just moving slowly, refusing to speed up and running, and even some horses are directly tired and fall to the ground.
The thieves took the opportunity to rush up and surrounded Lan Ziyi and them, with long spears lined up, and the guns were dense like walls pressing towards the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion.
Even with armor protection, it is impossible for the soldiers to dodge this level of attack.
The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion on the periphery were either stabbed through by random guns or dismounted, and more than half of the soldiers were killed or injured in an instant, and the rest of the soldiers tried to flee with their horses.
The current cavalry of the Jihu battalion has actually collapsed, even if they are still willing to obey the command and there are no useful orders that can save them,
The cavalry soldiers were in a mess, those who could run away ran in the direction of the infantry as much as possible, and those who couldn't run were desperately brandishing their sabers, although they were very brave, but it did not help, the dense thieves and spears were by no means able to deal with the sabers, and the soldiers were stabbed one after another, blood was splashed, and they were picked off their horses screaming.
Lan Ziyi was surrounded in the middle of the cavalry formation, and the first round of attacks did not affect him, but then the thieves swarmed up and stabbed with guns.
The riders who were fighting on all sides blocked the way for Lan Ziyi to retreat, and when they saw the thieves coming up, Tao Zhulu and Tao Zhutu rode their horses and rushed towards the thieves to block the knife for Lan Ziyi.
Although this temporarily rescued Lan Ziyi, the war horses of Peach and Rabbit were shot and killed, kneeling on the ground and dying miserably, and the two brothers on the horse were thrown off the horse.
The thieves on the side swarmed up, and dozens of spears would stab the two of them in the next second.
At this time, Tao Zhuhu shouted and suddenly jumped up from the horse, raised his knife in both hands, crossed his two younger brothers, and jumped into the thief formation.
A circle of spears in front of him was trampled on the ground, and then Tao Zhuhu roared again, chopped over one person with a knife to the right, and slashed off the other person's skull with a swing of the knife head-on.
Tao Zhuhu wanted to take advantage of the situation to attack, but unexpectedly, the thieves withdrew their spears that were stepped on.
The peach chase tiger was pulled to lose its center and stumble backwards,
Then the thief in front of him stabbed with a spear, and the spear shattered the armor and pierced into the skin and flesh of the peach and tiger, although it was not fatal, but if the thief and the thief used his strength again, the peach and tiger would definitely be pierced into a sieve.
At this time, Peach Chase Deer and Peach Chase Rabbit had already risen from the ground, and they were overwhelmed with grief and indignation, and joined the battle array with bursts of shouts, scattering everyone before the thieves could exert their strength.
Lan Ziyi was behind, and when he saw this, he wanted to come back to help.
After a dozen spears were pulled out of his body, Tao Zhuhu could no longer support them, and knelt on the ground with a knife, and without looking back, he shouted:
"Young master, let's go! Don't come here! β
Peach Zhulu slashed in front of Peach Chase Tiger, and reluctantly stopped the spear,
Peach Chase Rabbit squatted beside Peach Chase Tiger and wanted to set up his eldest brother,
Tao Zhuhu shook off his left hand and said to Tao Zhutu:
"Let's go!"
With tears on his face, he grabbed Peach Tiger's hand again, and said incoherently:
"Big brother! I'll help you up, and my second brother and I will protect you out. β
The two-winged thieves had gradually moved up, and they were about to surround the four of them.
Peach Chase Tiger pushed Peach Chase Rabbit away and scolded:
"Ride my horse, protect the young master and leave quickly, if you don't leave, it's too late!"
Lan Ziyi drove his horse over, first knocked over a thief in front of him, and shouted while brandishing his sword on his horse to attack the thief:
"Big brother and second brother, get on the horse, I'll cover you!"
After being pushed away by Peach Tiger, Peach Chase Rabbit pounced on his eldest brother again and shouted:
"Big brother, let's go!"
At this time, Tao Zhulu accidentally missed a shot, although the head of the gun was blocked by the armor, but it still scratched the thigh, he knew that he couldn't last long, and said with all his strength:
"Third brother! Hurry up and ride a horse to protect the young master out! If there is a mistake, young master, I will kill you! β
Tao Zhuhu turned around with all his strength and knocked Tao Zhutu to the ground with a punch, and he also lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, looking at Tao Zhutu and crying:
"Third brother! Let's go~! β
At this time, Lan Ziyi was also targeted by several thieves, one thief stabbed out with a shot, Lan Ziyi subconsciously blocked his face with his left hand, but was scratched by the head of the gun.
Lan Ziyi is not used to battle in the first place, and if he continues like this, he will definitely be killed by thieves.
Peach Chase Rabbit looked at Peach Chase Tiger, and after a moment long enough to separate people from life and death, Peach Chase Rabbit let out a heart-rending scream
"Ah~~~~~~~~~~~~h
Then he quickly got on the horse, turned around and pulled up the reins of Lan Ziyi's horse, and said without looking back:
"Young master, let's go!"
Lan Ziyi was still wielding a sword to kill the thief, and when he heard the words, he said:
"The eldest brother and second brother are still inside!"
Peach Chase Tiger has already cried
"Young Master! If you want to die here, it will be useless for the eldest brother and second brother to die. β
At that moment, there was a rumbling sound from the eastern side of the mountain, like thunder, but it was shorter and louder than thunder.
Then there was a whistling sound in the air from far and near, and something was rapidly approaching, getting closer and closer, and then slamming into the middle of a thief's array.