Chapter II. 141
In fact, what Shen Gui said is not complete. The reason why he hoped that the Second Army of the Golden Armor Flying Tiger would be able to fight back was mainly to dispel Guo Xiao's worries. After all, Beiyan and Youbei have been at war for nearly a hundred years, and it can be said that they have fought three hundred and six major battles, and they have seen Sainiumao in small battles; The two sides already have an extremely deep understanding of each other's combat capabilities.
But now Guo Xing and Feng Lian also only led 8,000 cavalry to go deep alone, and they broke the three armies of Flying Bear, Flying Tiger, and Jinjia. The war is developing so smoothly, how can Guo Xiao, who has been cautious all his life, not be suspicious? Once he comes to his senses and escapes from the deception he has carefully concocted, then this well-prepared pot of good rice is destined to be 'sandwiched'.
But he never expected that the newly reorganized Golden Armor Army would be so incompetent; And Zhang Huangling, the 'son of the family' of the Dongyou Li family, would be so timid as a mouse, he didn't even see the face of the enemy, so he fled first.
Poor 30,000 Jin Jia Erlang were all turned into char under a fire in Guo Xing. But Shen Gui didn't have a trace of pity in his heart. This is not that he is insensitive, but in the entire Huayu Continent, no one can know better than Shen Gui: if you give up resistance in the face of the enemy's butcher's knife, whether you are a general or a soldier, a common person or an old and young woman or child, there is only one fate waiting for them.
And the 'such fate' that Shen Gui has heard of is much more tragic than these 30,000 wastes who can only 'eat for nothing'.
Yan Chongwu had already galloped away with two thousand cavalry, Shen Gui looked at the three thousand cavalry standing behind him, and said in a calm tone:
"Brothers of the Flying Bear Army! This battle is the first battle of my Youbei Third Road to blow the horn of counterattack! We just need to wait for General Yan to lead the army to arrive, and at the same time attack from two sides, we can defeat the other party in one fell swoop! Please keep in mind that this battle must not be nostalgic for the materials. For the enemy army, from the Pingbei Hou Lao'er Guo Xiao, down to the ordinary people's auxiliaries, we don't need any live under the sword! ”
After saying a word, Shen Gui turned over and jumped on the thief horse, put on the helmet given to him by Yan Chongwu properly, and after tightening the belt, he quietly waited for the shouting and killing sound from the other side.
At this time, Guo Xiao, the Marquis of Pingbei, who was directing the army to cross the river, looked at both sides of the river bank with an unobstructed view in front and back, but somehow there was a sense of irritability for no reason in his heart. At the beginning of his army, under the deliberate arrangement of his father, he became a pawn in the pioneer battalion of the Pingbei Army; To this day, whether it is the title of Marquis of Pingbei or the position of the commander of the Pingbei Army, it has climbed up step by step by relying on real military merits. Guo Xiao, who has been rolling in the sea of corpses and blood for many years, has never believed in ghosts and gods; But for this ominous premonition, I am very convinced.
He looked at the soldiers of the personal guard battalion who were on guard, opened his mouth and still didn't say anything, and finally could only pull his neck, as if urging the people and auxiliaries who were carrying supplies to cross the river.
Just when this inexplicable irritability reached its peak, an extremely dense sound of galloping horses came from the direction behind the fight. Just as the rumbling horses' hooves came, Guo Xiao thought that some of his scout troops had come to deliver the news; Only after the sound of the horses' hooves had grown from far to near and the sound became more and more dense did he hear it clearly—according to his experience, there would never be less than two thousand enemies!
"Enemy attack! The people and auxiliaries who were still crossing the river quickly went ashore, and the people on the shore immediately lined up to defend with their backs to the river, and everyone sped up to prevent the enemy from encircling on both sides! The guard battalion got on the horse and went with the commander to stop the incoming enemy! ”
Guo Xiao used all his strength and shouted this sentence; Then he pulled the long knife and turned over on the horse, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and gently slapped the horse's buttocks with the end of the knife shaft with his right hand, and even the men and horses were like a lightning bolt, leading the soldiers of the personal guard battalion to the rear.
Before the horse had run a few steps, there were shouts and noises from the other side of the river behind Guo Xiao. Guo Xiao, who was riding on the horse, turned around when he heard the sound, only glanced at it, and almost rolled off the horse straight and straight!
I saw that the people and auxiliaries on the other side of the river were just like the wind blowing wheat waves, and they had just been killed by a small group of cavalry! As soon as the cavalry had penetrated the defensive formation formed in their own haste, they pulled the reins, turned their horses' heads in unison, and slaughtered back at their own remnants again. With just this hand, Guo Xiao saw it clearly: the small group of cavalry on the other side is all a battle-hardened tiger and wolf army!
Before Guo Xiao, who stopped in place, came up with an accurate idea, his own five hundred personal guard knights had already connected with these invading enemies! Guo Xiao turned his head again, only to find that the incoming enemy was like the cavalry on the other side, and they were all tiger and wolf divisions! Only one round after the two armies and two horses were wrong, and half of their own five hundred guards had already gone. Now the two armies have turned their horses around and are preparing for a second charge!
Guo Xiao looked at the closest personal guards on weekdays, and he was already in tears: although there was a huge disparity in strength at this time, each of them had a strong fighting spirit of disdain on their faces. Guo Xiao turned his head again to look at the auxiliaries on the other bank, like lambs to be slaughtered, and finally turned the horse's head sideways and galloped away in the direction of the Pu River.
In fact, he doesn't need to look at himself to understand that in the face of the elite cavalry with a huge difference in numbers, the 500 personal guard battalions that he has carefully trained for many years can be regarded as completely finished.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand Guo Xiao's decision, after all, there are nearly 100,000 Pingbei soldiers on the bank of the Pu River; Although the attacking enemy is now menacing and killing, after all, there are only 5,000 people, and if they are under his own command, these 5,000 cavalry will not be able to turn up much storm.
And Shen Gui, who was on the other side of the Pu River, leading the cavalry to harvest the lives of the Pingbei soldiers, saw that Guo Xiao's handsome helmet had gone from far to near, and suddenly put down a big stone in his heart, and even the speed of wielding the blade in his hand gradually slowed down.
Yes, when Shen Gui saw Guo Xiao's decision to abandon the personal guard camp and turn around to rescue the sergeants, he was completely relieved in his heart: In this battle of Puhe, Guo Xiao was defeated!
It is strange to say that Guo Xiao has joined the army when he was young, and over the years he has been able to go from a small pioneer soldier to today, step by step, relying on the advantages and disadvantages of each soldier; But in this big defeat, he is also knowing the soldiers, and the defeat is also knowing the soldiers!
In Guo Xiao's heart, although his 500 personal guard battalion is brave and good at fighting, after all, the number is insufficient and cannot be used as one as ten, so he will give up the personal guard and turn the horse's head, in a vain attempt to command 100,000 people's auxiliary soldiers with his own strength, and form a defensive formation to resist the invading enemy; But his Guo family is full of brave men from the pioneer camp, and these people and auxiliary soldiers can't grab anything more than ordinary people. After all, in the face of the enemy's horses' hooves and snow-bright blades, there are only a few people who can be fearless in the face of danger, let alone stand firm and fight for their lives?
As Shen Gui said, if 100,000 people and the 5,000 cavalry of the Flying Bear Army confronted each other, relying on Guo Xiao's on-the-spot command and the courage brought by the numerical superiority, there would definitely be no possibility of victory for his side!
However, the 100,000 people in front of him have been attacked day and night by the killers of the 14th with the winter solstice in recent days, and now they have become tired; In addition, it is now in a half-crossing trend, and the head and tail cannot be cared for, and they have to suffer from two elite cavalry at the same time; The shouts and begs for mercy of those colleagues under the butcher's knife seemed to carry an infectious disease, and the little courage in everyone's chests was instantly wiped out.
As a result, no matter how Guo Xiao waved the military flag and shouted the general's orders hoarsely, it was covered by the friction sound of the blade cutting through the flesh and bones, and there was no wave; And those 'lambs to the slaughter' who cry for their fathers and mothers, can no longer remember any orders and military law, and in the face of the shining butcher's knife in the hands of the enemy, they just rely on animal instinct, spread their thighs and run away.
After Yan Chongwu slaughtered the 500 Pingbei Army's personal guards, and then rushed to the shore, these 100,000 'Pingbei Army' directly bombed the camp in an instant! All the militia auxiliaries held their heads, and they didn't have time to discern the direction, so they just kept running in the direction of the few people. But it's a pity that with only two meat legs, how can you outrun the galloping war horse?
These soldiers are all Beiyan people, most of them are not accustomed to water, at this time, once they fall into the river, they don't even have to suffer a knife, and they are directly planted in the water with a heel. When the remaining breath in his chest is exhausted, he can only be with shrimp and crabs, and he will sleep in the Pu River forever.
This Puhe station can really be said to be a one-touch collapse, except for the five hundred personal guard cavalry, at the cost of their own lives, showing the bravery and heroism of the Northern Yan people, the rest is just a one-sided unilateral slaughter!
The old handsome Guo Xiao stood on the shore with his hair scattered at this time, and his hoarse voice could no longer make a sound. He could only stare blankly at one of his soldiers, constantly being chased by the opposing horses, or cutting off their heads with a knife, or stabbing them in the back of the heart, and finally sending out a few meaningless scales, and then being trampled into a puddle of flesh by the horses' hooves; In these three days, I got to know a lot of people from the rear army: some of them helped me push the cart; Some people have shared the same water bladder with themselves; There was also a young man in his early twenties, who once begged himself with a simple face, hoping to give his newborn child a nice name......
But now, they have all fallen in the dense corpses, they have all drowned in the blood-stained Puhe water, and no one can stand up again.
Guo Xiao, the Marquis of Pingbei, held the long knife in his hand and watched the massacre continue from the afternoon to the evening. The other party obviously had no intention of letting anyone go, even if the war horses under their crotches were tired and dead, they were still carrying weapons excitedly, and they only relied on their legs to chase and kill those Pingbei troops who could not resist at all; Although many sergeants were already kneeling on the ground and raising their hands high, there were still butcher knives waiting for them!
This Pingbei Marquis couldn't figure it out: he was cautious in his life, and he only took the initiative to attack this time! But I didn't expect that this time, my own heroic name, together with the 100,000 Beiyan army, would all turn into a puddle of minced meat!
Guo Xiao closed his eyes tightly, pulled out a sword from his waist and put it on his neck, and just when he was about to kill himself, a somewhat hoarse voice came from his ears:
"This ...... It's Pingbei Hou Guo Xiao, right? Are you in a hurry to die? If you're not in a hurry, let's talk about it? ”