Chapter 52: Breaking the City (9)
When one of the generals in front of the Qi army was only less than ten meters away from Yin Bo, under the galloping of the war horse at full speed, this distance could be reached in the blink of an eye!
Suddenly, Yin Bo suddenly pulled the reins with his left hand, turned the war horse in place, and retreated backwards with a kick of his legs, but while retreating, the silver spear in Yin Bo's right hand inadvertently flicked behind him.
At the same time, the woods on both sides of the road had already been ambushed, and they all got up and began to fire the crossbow arrows in their hands.
"Whoosh." The sound keeps ringing.
The first to be shot and fell from the horse was the Qi general who rushed to the front, his body was full of short crossbow arrows, the blood in his mouth kept spilling out, and he fell in the middle of the road with his eyes wide open, becoming another victim of this ambush battle.
And his war horse has also become an important target for attack because of his master, so he is full of crossbow arrows, and falls beside his master, his eyes are fixed on the already dead master beside him, and occasionally he will blink, and his strong horse legs will tremble as if he didn't exist.
In fact, in this instant, it was not just such a person and a horse who died. Of the twenty or thirty people who followed behind this general, none of them were spared, including their war horses!
There may be a slight difference in time between these dead generals, but the way each of them died is basically the same! Everyone was stuck in various parts of their bodies by countless crossbow arrows, and the armor on their bodies was simply unable to effectively defend against crossbow arrow attacks at such close range. The overall description of their death is only four words, ten thousand arrows piercing the body.
All of this was just because of the impulsiveness and carelessness of Xue Gang, the commander of the Qi army, which caused all the high-ranking generals of this army to die in an instant!
And the 4,000 cavalry they brought with them were treated even more harshly in the rear.
Because they were 4,000 cavalrymen, the formation was naturally very wide, but on both sides of the road, the ground was sprinkled with thistles, and the road was paved with thistles for thirty or forty meters. Just now, because Xue Gang and the others were focused on chasing after Meng Hong, no one noticed the iron thistle ambush on the ground on both sides of the road at all.
The moment the front row of horses on both sides of the 4,000 cavalry stepped on the thistle terrestris, they were already doomed to the fate of the next tragedy.
People turn on their backs, not only that, because not only the hooves of the war horses are injured and people are overturned to the ground, but those people will also be stabbed by thistles when they hit the ground, due to gravity and momentum.
The next thing is very simple, the fall in the front row, the back row catches up and steps over, then continues to fall, and the back continues to step over, falls...
However, this was closely the situation of the cavalry on both sides of the line, and the cavalry in the center of the line was still not harmed by thistle. Perhaps many of them already knew that they had been ambushed and were now in an ambush, but they had long since lost the command of their commander, and all they could do at this time was to continue to run forward.
"Whew."
"Whew."
After a burst of sound, the cavalry in the front row of the Qi army began to look up at the sky, only to see unknown objects the size of a basketball falling from the sky, and the target was this cavalry team.
"Smack!" After a bang, the first unidentified object finally landed on the ground, and the truth was finally revealed. It's a jar, the kind of jar that is used to hold wine! However, after the jar was smashed on the ground and shattered, it did not emit the smell of wine, but a strong smell of fire oil!
Just as Qi Jun had just reacted, and before he even had time to panic, a fire suddenly flashed in the woods on both sides.
"Ahh See! One of the horsemen exclaimed, pointing to the woods on the side, with his mouth wide open.
Even with a reminder from a companion, it still can't stop the plan that has been set a long time ago!
A flash of fire flashed, and the first arrow with fire was inserted into the ground, and the ground, which had already been covered with fire oil, immediately made a muffled "boom", and burned frantically in the near future.
In the distance, Yin Bo stood on his horse, holding a silver spear in his right hand, the tip of the spear hanging lightly to the ground, and Yin Bo's eyes were full of fire.
At this time, the camp of the Qi army had already been disrupted, and within the burning fire, the neighing of the war horses, the loud shouts of the cavalry, and the painful wails of most of the wounded soldiers, the scene was extremely tragic.
However, after all, the Qi army dispatched 4,000 cavalry, and the attack within this range only caused less than half of the casualties of the Qi army.
And the remaining half of the cavalry in the rear, although they watched their comrades cry for help in the fire, they were also helpless, and their faces showed painful looks, and even the expressions of more than some people were mixed with fear and fear, which could be seen from their eyes.
I don't know who led the way, and shouted "We are in ambush!" Hurry up! After that, the already panicked Qi cavalry no longer cared about it, and began to turn the horse's head and flee from the direction it had come.
At this time, these Qi troops, not to mention their companions and comrades-in-arms, were ambushed or even died, even if their own brothers were in the fire in front of them, they would not hesitate to turn around and flee, and some of them even began to abandon their horses and run into the woods on both sides.
However, those Qi troops who fled into the woods were quickly killed by the ** who were ambushed in the woods by various means, or crossbow arrows, or knives and guns. Only those cavalrymen who fled back on horseback were still whipping their horses with their whips in panic, and it seemed that they wished that their horses had grown sixteen legs and could escape from this place in an instant.
There is the first one who escapes into the woods, and there is the second and the third.
If there is the first one to turn around and urge the horse to flee, of course there will be more people.
There is the first one to disarm and surrender, and naturally there will be those who learn to imitate, after all, in wartime, disarming and surrendering is also a trend, and surrendering guns does not kill!
In this way, in the blink of an eye, more than half of the remaining Qi troops began to flee in two ways, and a small number threw away their weapons and waited for ** to capture them.
However, no matter where they flee to, or disarm and surrender on the spot, what awaits them will be death, but it is only a time gap. Because before the war, Yin Bo had already given a death order, whether he surrendered or not, he would be killed!
Although Yin Bo's decision is somewhat cruel and even brutal, Yin Bo's decision is undoubtedly right. Because in such an extraordinary period, especially when he has more important tasks in his body, any one of them will have an impact on his own tasks, or on his future prospects.
"One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither. Is that really the case? Yin Bo, who was watching the battle from a distance, sat on horseback, staring at the battle in front of him and muttered to himself.
At this time, Yin Bo really felt the horror of war, of course, mixed with another mood, but he himself didn't know what it was like.
Maybe it's the excitement of commanding a battle for the first time, or the sense of accomplishment of commanding a war of this magnitude and succeeding, or the thrill of the enemy's brutal killing, or maybe it's a new perspective on war...