Chapter 39: Hedging and Cavalry Fighting
"The Xuanhu Ride is ready!"
"The Harrier is ready!"
Tian Wei and Wang Yishou almost unanimously shouted angrily, making Li Xiao, who was in the wedge-shaped battle formation formed by the Xuanhu Horse and the Flying Harrier, suddenly feel the blood surging all over his body, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and the familiar feeling of anxiety came out of his throat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
It was the desire to kill, burning in Li Xiao's heart!
This small cavalry team that Li Xiao has worked hard to temper has finally come to the time of actual combat testing.
"Kill! Advance! β
The tiger knife in Li Xiao's hand rose sharply, and he let out a hoarse shout.
"Kill! Come on! β
"Rush, γγγγγγ"
There was a roar in the Xuanhu cavalry, and Chen Li, the deputy captain of the Xuanhu cavalry, took the lead, leading the heavy-armored Xuanhu cavalry with a 30-degree sharp angle, and trotted towards the Tartar sentry rider who formed a semicircle formation on the opposite side!
Wang Yishou led the flying harrier to follow the Xuanhu Ride, and also shouted loudly to keep up with the formation.
The roaring wind whistled and swept through the ears, and the snow in the sky struck the faces of each of the heavily armored Xuanhu cavalrymen even more ferociously, but everyone was focused on clamping their spears, controlling the speed and spacing of their mounts under their crotches, staring at the enemy troops on the opposite side and rushing forward, unaware of this.
"Accelerate!"
"Accelerate!"
At a distance of about three hundred paces from the Tartar sentry on the opposite side, who was also preparing to hedge, Tian Wei, the captain of the Xuanhu Cavalry, shouted angrily, and Chen Li, the deputy captain, also let out the same shout when he heard the sound.
"Rush!"
Hearing the shouts of the two captains, the entire Heavy Armor Xuanhu Rider let out a deafening shout at the same time. All the Xuanhu heavy cavalry began to slam the horse's belly, trying their best to increase the speed of the horse, and began to rush forward!
The Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry, all dressed in black iron-scale armor, charged in a group, and although there were only twenty of them, they were extremely powerful, like a multi-legged black iron-armored monster, roaring and rushing towards its prey.
The horse's hooves shook the ground, and the horse's legs were like countless drums beating the earth. Huge clouds of snow and black grass that had not yet froze were thrown backwards.
Every cavalry of Li Xiaojun clearly saw that among the Tartar sentry horses on the opposite side, there was a collective unpleasant strange scream, led by 5 white swing teeth, and they all urged their mounts and roared towards themselves!
"Kill all the dogs!"
"Kill Nikan!"
"Kill the man, the dog, γγγγγγ"
Bashkutulai's face was almost twisted with anger, and he hissed and shouted with all his might, leading his team to charge towards the Ming cavalry formation opposite, and the Tartar cavalry on both sides also shouted angrily.
Looking down from the sky, Li Xiao's cavalry team was like a black spike, slamming towards the Tartar sentry cavalry in the semicircle on the opposite side. The mud and snow on both sides were splashed high as the horse's hooves flew, and the vast earth trembled and groaned under the struggling horses' hooves, and the rumbling of the horses' hooves mingled with the shouts and cheers of both sides, like the roar of a bloodthirsty monster. Everyone is staring at the target opposite, pointing at the knife and gun, with the help of fast horses, fighting with blood and gas, winning or losing is often a matter of microseconds, life and death are only in a moment, this is the hedge of riding and fighting, and it is the highest honor for a hot-blooded man!
The horses' hooves rumbled, the shouts shook the sky, and almost only in an instant, the two armies that were rapidly hedging were less than a hundred paces apart!
"Kill!"
At this distance, all the heavy-armored Xuanhu rode in unison and shouted like thunder, everyone's face was full of solemn tension, and the riding spear in his hand was more flat and tight, from the gun like a forest, the shining riding spear tip flashed with a cold white light, like the grim smile!
The Tartar sentry riders on the opposite side, at the same time, let out a shout that was not like a human voice, and they also tried their best to speed up and rushed towards Li Xiaojun.
Rumble!
Two torrents of steel collided together in the blink of an eye!
The clanging of knives and guns, the dull popping sound of piercing into the human body or the body of a horse, the screams and wails of the wounded or dying people, and the neighing of war horses, all burst out collectively for a while, like a song of death.
Li Xiao, who was following behind, saw that when the 530-kilogram Xuanhu heavy armored cavalry had tried their best to accelerate, the heavy armored Xuanhu cavalry that charged in a wedge-shaped battle formation reached an almost terrifying state. Like a sharp blade, it cut through the top of the Tartar semi-circle array, and immediately tore the Tartar semi-circular sentry array in half from the middle like a knife cutting butter, and quickly rushed through a wide blood path and came out of the formation!
The Tartar sentinels screamed and fell off their horses, a terrifying force that they could barely resist at one point. The tip of the wedge is the scythe of death to harvest life, among the 5 white tooth soldiers, the first 2 white armor, one of the chest was actually broken through the solid white lacquer bright armor by a whistling cavalry spear, blood spurted out wildly, and the tip of the cavalry spear that did not stop drilling out of his back, and the stainless steel and silver lacquer bright armor behind him rose high. Another white-armored horse was pierced through the neck, and his momentum continued unabated, and he pierced through his left arm, and the white-toothed horn screamed, and then fell to the ground with the horse, and the body of the horse was smashed to the chest flat, and he did not move.
The wedges of the cavalry array rushed in fiercely, but all the horse armor soldiers or infantry soldiers and sentry horses that stood in the way of this deadly blood road were almost all killed instantly, or people or horses, and the body was quickly poked out of the terrible blood hole, and for a time people turned over on their backs, and the wails were repeated.
Some of the Tartars fell from their horses after they were killed or wounded, and the uncontrollable Tartar horses scurried around in terror, but in doing so, they trampled to death the wounded soldiers who were rolling and wailing underground, and at the same time rushed the remnants of the Tartars even more chaotically.
Li Xiao, after the Xuanhu horse, saw the opportunity, and the stainless steel tiger knife in his hand struck hard, knocking the tiger gun in the hand of a panicked white armor away, the knife in Li Xiao's hand was still unabated, and the afterburner on his hand slashed down, and a white light slashed, and the thigh of this white armor was cut off alive by Li Xiao!
The white tooth horn at the broken leg was as flat as a mirror, and he screamed in pain, but the man fell from the horse at once, and his head fell heavily on the snow, leaving only a convulsion.
The flying harriers who followed the Xuanhu cavalry immediately showed their skills in this chaos, and when they maintained the formation of following the Xuanhu cavalry to rush forward, all the light cavalry drew their swords one after another, and slashed and killed the panicked Tartar sentry on both sides, and cut out a long and terrible hole in the Tartar sentry riders who had just survived, and several Tartar horsemen were directly cut off their heads by the flying harriers who charged a blow, and flew straight into the sky with a column of blood that soared into the sky.
Soon, the Xuanhu Rider and the Flying Harrier all came out of the formation. Li Xiao estimated in his heart that this ferocious first impact caused at least 10 Tartars to die, and another 6 Tartars were seriously injured.
In Li Xiao's army, only 1 heavy cavalry was killed, 1 heavy cavalry was seriously injured, 3 light cavalry were killed and 2 were slightly injured. This casualty ratio is simply eye-popping.
This is the great power and superiority produced by a well-trained and well-equipped cavalry with proper and powerful tactics.
Bashi Kutulai, who was behind the formation, was also slashed in the left arm by a flying harrier. Although he was skilled in martial arts, he immediately reluctantly slashed the flying harrier who couldn't dodge with a backhand, but looking at his own team almost instantly, he suffered heavy casualties, and Tourai was furious, and his teeth were almost crushed!
Li Xiao, who entered the dog, actually trained such elite cavalry, and this battle formation was so fierce that he almost had no power to fight back.
This is simply the gold of the consecutive battles, the biggest shame in the past few years!
Now, apart from the dead or wounded sentinels, there were only sixteen or seventeen soldiers under his command.
In the distance, Li Xiao's cavalry team had turned around again, and it seemed that they were about to concentrate on themselves again.
Bashi Kutulai inadvertently squinted, but saw the Han man standing at the back of the line, his begging gaze was looking at him, and his eyes were understandable to Tulai.
This guy must be trying to escape. Perhaps at the sound of his own order, this unreliable dog will turn around and run away.
Fight, or escape?
Turai soon discovered that he had no choice but to fight to the death.
Because of such a heavy snowy weather, it is extremely difficult to escape, and those Ming army light horsemen chase and kill along the way, and there are very few people who can escape from this remnant army.
Even though he desperately escaped with his life, he refracted all the elite cavalry in the entire Niu Lu, and after returning to the camp, he would definitely be beheaded by the angry Dar Xiang to correct military law.
That kind of death is even more shameful.
Bashkutulai only thought for a few seconds, then snorted coldly, took off his helmet, revealed his blue scalp and two small, greasy and disgusting braids, and shouted at the remnants of the Tartar sentry horsemen: "Sons, how can we, the warriors from the White Mountains and Black Waters, be greedy for life and fear of death and flee from the battle!" Everyone, spare no effort to kill Ming Gouzi with me! β
Amid the roar of the middle Tartar riders, the Han man suddenly turned his horse's head and fled north.
Thurei caught a glimpse of it, gritted his teeth, drew his head knife from his waist knife, and threw it at the man's back.
I only heard a scream, and the sword pierced the thick fur of the Han people, and the blade was completely submerged in the back and chest. The Han people shook for a moment, then fell from their horses and did not move.
"Kill the Tartar γγγγγγ"
"Killing the Dog γγγγγγ"
The sound of horses' hooves rumbled again, and on the silver-white vast land, two troops like tiny black dots roared one after another, and rushed against each other fiercely!
Rumble!
The sound of swords colliding, the screams and neighing of men and horses, and the palpitational mixture.
Determined to die, Turai charged at the forefront of the Tartar sentry cavalry. He stared at the fierce Han heavy cavalry who rushed to the front on the opposite side, and when the two horses were about to make a mistake, Turai roared, and the tiger knife in his hand was swung out vigorously.
"Poof!"
"Boom!"
Two light sounds sounded almost at the same time, and Chen Li, the deputy captain of the Xuanhu Cavalry, who rushed to the front, instantly pierced Turai's chest with the cold cavalry spear in his hand, and at the same time, the tiger knife that Turai swung out slashed the head of Chen Li, the deputy captain of the Xuanhu Cavalry, and flew straight into the air.
"Deputy Chen!" The Xuanhu cavalry roared in unison. But the entire Xuanhu cavalry formation was not out of order, and it still rode straight out of the Tartar sentry and straight out!
When Turai fell off his horse, he was on the verge of death, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Li Xiaojun's second wedge-shaped assault had killed seven of his own Tartars and wounded five others. He vaguely saw that the ugly head of a white-toothed soldier was being picked on the tip of the cold tiger knife of Li Xiao, who had killed a thousand knives.
By the time the Harriers pursued the four or five remaining Tartar riders who had fled in all directions, Turai had stopped breathing.
Ten minutes later, all four Tartar horsemen were killed by Li Xiao's flying harriers, and so far, including the Han general, a total of 43 Tartar sentry riders were all killed, and none of them escaped.
And Li Xiao's second charge, in addition to the death of Chen Li, the deputy captain of the Xuanhu Cavalry, only two other Xuanhu heavy cavalry were killed and one was injured, and one flying harrier was seriously injured.
Therefore, in this battle, the price paid by Li Xiao's whole army was that in the Xuanhu cavalry, 3 heavy cavalry were killed, and 2 heavy cavalry were seriously injured and slightly injured. The Flying Harrier was killed by one light cavalry, one light cavalry was seriously wounded, and three light cavalry were slightly wounded. In addition, 4 horses were killed in the battle, 3 heavy cavalry horses were killed, 2 horses were seriously injured, and several were slightly injured.
Li Xiao's whole army won a complete victory.
"Long live Lord Lee!" Tian Wei, who was splashed with blood, tore off the iron scale armor that was originally tightly fastened, revealing his chest with thick black hair, and with an excited face, he took the lead in raising his head and shouting.
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
Under the leadership of their own captains, the Xuanhu Rider and the Flying Harrier each had an excited and proud look on their faces, each brandishing their weapons and shouting victory loudly, like a spring thunder rolling across the earth.
When Li Xiao led the army to the almost stunned people, the people suddenly realized, knelt down in the snow, and kowtowed vigorously to thank Li Xiao for his life.
Li Xiao ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up immediately, and then he turned his head and saw that he was tied to a grain cart, and his breath was dying.
At this time, Gao Pu's face was pale and his eyes were scattered, and he tried his best to squeeze out a bleak smile to Li Xiao, who was walking quickly.
"Boss, Li Xiao's rescue is late, please punish the boss!"
Li Xiao knelt on his knees, clasped his fists and saluted, but there were faint tears flashing in his eyes.
The bindings on Gao Pu's body had been quickly untied by two of Li Xiao's sergeants, and the other five sentry riders had also been untied. Gao Pu waved weakly to Li Xiao and motioned for him to come closer and speak.
"Li Xiao, I, I know that you will definitely come to save usγγγγγγ" Gao Pu gasped and said, his mouth moved, but a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"General, you are seriously injured, needless to say, please return to Jinzhou City with our army as soon as possible, and invite the best doctor for you below, and you will be cured quickly." Li Xiao's expression was poignant and solemn, and his words trembled.
"No, no need, I'm too badly injured to die. Li Xiao, come closer, I have something to say to you. Gao Pu waved his hand reluctantly.
Li Xiao stepped forward, and Gao Pu whispered the following words into his ear.
"Li Xiao, after my death, you will be in charge of the entire Sentinel Cavalry. In addition, I have saved some of my savings, which are kept under the floor of my room, and now I am at your disposal. I figured it out, I was ambushed by the Tartars this time, but I was framed by the king Dodge. The traitor who ventilates with him is Na Huaji! You, you have to avenge me, you want to avenge meγγγγγ β
Gao Pu said this intermittently, tilted his head suddenly, and his eyes that refused to close his eyes lost their luster in an instant.
"Mr. Gao!"
Li Xiao let out a loud cry of sorrow, and everyone who was cleaning up the battlefield was stunned for a while. Everyone turned their heads and looked at their own supreme commander Li Xiao holding Gao Pu's corpse in his hands, and wept loudly.
Tian Wei, Wang Yishou, Mo Changrong, Duan Shidi and other old subordinates of the original Gao Pu Sentinel Cavalry knelt down in front of Gao Pu, and everyone was in tears and weeping.
"Wang Daoqi, Hua Ji, one day, Lao Tzu will use your dog's head to pay tribute to this high-ranking boss!" Li Xiao, who had been crying for a long time, was secretly ruthless in his heart. He opened his eyes suddenly, and his face was full of hideous and distorted colors.
In a short time, the battlefield was cleaned up, and together with the results of the original Gao Pu's sentinel cavalry, a total of 43 Tartar heads were captured, 27 intact war horses were captured, 6 pieces of white lacquered silver armor were peeled from the corpses, 10 pieces of ordinary iron armor, 26 pieces of cotton armor, and 15 intact saddle sheaths were peeled from the Tartar horses killed in battle.
Even the thick fur fur worn by the Han people had been stripped off by Tian Wei, and he muttered that this was a good thing that could not be wasted, and said that he would give it to his wife Liu to wear.
Some of the armor and weapons of the original sentry cavalry who died in battle were put on the grain cart by the Tartar sentry cavalry, and several war horses were also escorted back with the team, but now they all fell into the hands of Li Xiao. Now, the armor and saddle sheath of several cavalrymen who have just died in battle have also been stripped off, and with these items, a total of 4 pieces of iron scale armor, 5 pieces of horse armor, 8 pieces of cotton armor, and 10 saddle sheaths have been obtained. Li Xiao's entire army is short of materials, and all the materials that can be used cannot be discarded.
Therefore, Li Xiao has now seized all the following: 43 Tartar heads, 27 war horses, 6 pieces of fine white lacquer silver armor, 10 pieces of ordinary iron armor, 34 pieces of cotton armor, 25 separate saddle sheaths, and a bunch of knives, guns, bows and arrows.
"Brothers, go all the way!"
"Brothers, go all the way!"
"Brothers, go all the way!"
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After the battlefield was cleaned up, Li Xiao led everyone, all kneeling on the ground, everyone looked solemn, and after shouting this sentence three times in unison, Li Xiao led everyone to kowtow to the north three times in a row.
It is said that after death, the soul will go to the netherworld in the north, and Li Xiao hopes that Gao Pu, Chen Li and other brothers who died in battle with him who had been stirring in the same pot can go with peace of mind.
The wind howled, the snow fell, and there was silence between heaven and earth, as if the battle that had just taken place was nothing but a vain.
Li Xiao led the whole army and the grain team, took the corpses of his brothers with the vacant grain carts, turned southwest, and prepared to return to the place where the sentinel cavalry had been wiped out not long ago, and then collect the bodies of the more than ten sentinels left there, and then send the grain team to Damaobao.
Everyone walked in silence for a long time, and at this time, the wind and snow that had been raging for a long time gradually decreased, and the sky began to show a few pale blue patches that had not been seen for many days.
Wang Yishou, who led the flying harriers to explore the way in the front, suddenly pointed ahead and shouted to Li Xiao: "Li Baihu, look, there seems to be a team of people in front!" β