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For Yue Xiang, the battlefield is not unfamiliar. After a year of guarding the cat's ear hole on the war-torn Laoshan frontline, he has long been accustomed to the smell of steel and gunpowder and blood, but this is the first time he has experienced this kind of pure cold weapon battle.
He found that he was a true decathlon, riding on a horse to maintain a good balance and adjust his posture, even if he was exercising vigorously, he could naturally adjust his center of gravity with the horse's movements. His body's skillful response to equestrianism has boosted his confidence, holding the reins in one hand and smashing the three-pointed knife in the other, and sometimes even controlling the horse with his legs without pulling the reins.
At this moment, the Weining camp has been completely chaotic, and the cavalry galloping back and forth in all directions are fighting and slashing each other, blood and severed limbs are splashing up and down, and arrows are flying in and out of the smoke.
Yue Xiang galloped along the main road in the tunzi with his three-pointed knife, during which some people tried to get close to him several times to stop him, but no one could successfully pass through the fire blockade of his broadsword. There were three people who were smashed by him and his men and horses, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead. Four of them fled, but the horse thieves were also outlaws, and seemed to have decided that he was the leader, and still attacked him regardless of life or death, and even shot arrows at him at close range by mistake.
There were cries of battle everywhere, and in the confusion it was impossible to see how many enemies there were. I only know that there are people rushing out and rushing in the smoke on horses, but fortunately, most of Yue Xiang's family members are wearing the clothes and armor of officers and soldiers, and even if they are injured by mistake, there are not many injuries. And these horse thieves seem to be extraordinary, each of them is superb and fierce, even if the opponent is superior in numbers, he dares to charge and rampage.
More importantly, the team was significantly more organized and disciplined than Yue Xiang's, and after the chaos of the initial surprise attack, it quickly adjusted, and the divided parts were trying to gather together, cooperate with each other to cover each other, and tear apart the already not very tight encirclement of the family.
Seeing the clumsy performance of his subordinates, Yue Xiang was angry and anxious, the opponent's tactical quality was obviously much more sophisticated than his group of rookies. Although the quality of individual soldiers may not be too bad, the other side can generally do one or two. In addition, horse thieves know how to cooperate with each other and know what to do in such a situation, and often three or four of their own people can't handle each other.
On the other hand, his subordinates only know their personal bravery, and they don't know how to cooperate at all. Blindly rushing around, catching who to beat whom, the advantage of numbers was not brought into play at all, but accidental injuries occurred one after another. More than 300 people couldn't put themselves in a formation at all, in fact, they didn't know what the formation was, and they were calmly broken through one by one by the other party and gradually gathered.
Yue Xiang was in a hurry, turned his horse's head and rushed towards the last small group of horse thieves who were surrounded, so many of his own people rushed down violently, if even such a small group of people couldn't be trapped, then what was the use? Let's all go and jump into the Taizi River! There has to be some grades.
The rest of the family is also gathering here, the terrain in this tunzi is complicated, there are fireworks obstacles everywhere, except for a big road in the middle of the tunzi, there is no way for the war horses to spread their hooves and gallop on both sides. Most of the housekeepers' equestrian skills are not as good as horse thieves, and their mobility and flexibility are naturally greatly reduced, coupled with the lack of vision, it is even more chaotic.
Yue Xiang also felt that it was not a way to go on in such a melee, so he decided to annihilate the small group of people in front of him first, and let those horse thieves gather, so that they could distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and then attack head-on to win by numbers.
However, the assembled horse thief brigade reacted quickly, and it seemed that there could be fifty or sixty people, and instead of fleeing outside the village, they urged the horses to rush towards Yue Xiang's large team, seeing that this meant that they wanted to rescue the besieged accomplices. Seeing this, Yue Xiang shouted: "Yue Shan, Yue Ping, give it to me!" Kill them! As he spoke, he moved forward a little bit with the flag in his hand.
The cavalry gathered in a group were like ant colonies attracted by honey, and under the leadership of two hundred flags, more than 100 were scattered out, screaming and urging the horses to raise their swords.
However, after rushing for more than a dozen steps, they saw that the knife riders in front of the other party suddenly flashed left and right like two doors, and the fireworks on both sides of the road disappeared behind the houses, and before they could understand what was going on. The arrows behind the "door" had already shot like locusts.
The riding and archery skills of these horse thieves are really amazing, and the accuracy rate of this arrow rain is as high as 70%, and all of them are shooting war horses. More than a dozen people who rushed in front suddenly turned on their backs, screaming and rolling to the ground with their horses. The people behind couldn't stop the momentum, some were knocked over, and some stepped directly on them, and the formation was chaotic again.
The horse thieves took advantage of the opportunity to speed up, and the second wave of arrows swept across again, as if swept into the crowd by a shuttle of machine gun bullets, and the family members fell again. But then more than a dozen feather arrows that fought back were shot, and the three horse thieves fell off their horses, and Bi Mazi and Chen Wumin scolded the crowd with a combined bow and shot at the horse thieves.
The family members also played with their own powers, darts, sleeve arrows, cross darts, etc. came into the air, and the rest of them roared with red eyes and lowered their heads and rushed forward.
The two strands of centaurs collided violently like two mad bulls, as people kept falling and rolling. Just as the impact caused an explosion, flesh and limbs flew in the smoke and dust, and people and horses fell to the ground and rolled, screams, metal crashes, and stabbing sounds.
The two sides were completely hard-hitting, and the effect was obvious, every second someone fell from the saddle with blood splashing on the horse, and every second there was a war horse neighing and rushing to the ground, splashing countless blood and mud. Almost all the people who rushed in the first row on both sides had fallen, and the largest one had only rushed out a dozen steps before his horse's leg was cut off.
In the end, the combat effectiveness of the horse thieves is still stronger, although they have fallen more than a dozen people, but Yue Xiang's family members have died more than them, they do not stop after putting down a horse, but just rush forward with their heads pierced. As if to join up with their besieged companions, more and more of the besiegers turned to meet the desperate charge from behind.
The more than ten horse thieves who were surrounded saw their accomplices coming to help, and they were more like they had eaten stimulants and did not want their lives to rampage, and even some directly urged the horses to hit others immediately, even if the knife and axe cut into their bodies, they had to drag an enemy to fall off the horse together, intending to use their bodies to open the way for the people behind.
"Plug them!" Yue Xiang yelled, the other party was so fierce and unfathomable to him that he didn't expect it, it was even worse than the little devil's bushido, if it was an officer and soldier, he would be crushed.
However, fortunately, Yue Xiang's family members are not comparable to officers and soldiers, they are also characters who lick blood with knives, and the madness of the other party also stimulates their ruthlessness. One by one, they desperately blocked it, but fortunately, they had an absolute advantage in numbers, and they kept squeezing it like an iron bucket, and they were once swept away from the gap, but in the end they were blocked back.
"Kill them quickly...... Yue Xiang couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw that there were more than 100 people on his side surrounding the other party, and there were only seven or eight people left, and he couldn't help but feel anxious, and those guys who were desperate to charge had already come closer. He turned his horse's head and was just about to meet the enemy, when suddenly the shadow of the horse around him swept over at high speed as if it had come out of the ground, accompanied by a strange scream, a flash of knife light in mid-air, and the three-pointed knife in his hand subconsciously went out.
The saber slashed at the iron rod and sparked, and of course the huge reaction force also caused the knife to fly. Yue Xiang took advantage of the situation and swept backhand with a three-pointed knife that picked melons in the back of his head, and the sneak attacker's head flew out directly. But the rest of the people did not stop, and slammed into the encirclement from the left and right, and broke a corner.
It's them! Only then did Yue Xiang see clearly that these people were actually the sword cavalry squad in front of the horse thieves who had not reached both sides of the road just now, but he didn't expect to sneak up in the house area full of obstacles and fireworks to burst out with such a strong impact, this is not a straight road, and besides, so many people dare to attack the brigade.
This time, he understood that the tactics of these horse thieves were really not simple, and he actually played tricks for him. It turned out that this group of sword cavalry was the real main force of attack, and the large army that charged head-on was just to cover them. Paying such a high price just to rescue the accomplices who were surrounded, is it worth the loss?
Yue Xiang became more and more convinced that there were important people among the besieged people.
Don't let him run! Yue Xiang slapped his horse and danced his knife straight over. At this time, the encirclement had been disturbed, and when the sword cavalry rushed inside, only four people remained, and the people who joined the inside broke out of the gap alive.
Yue Xiang hung up the three-pointed knife on the victory hook and took off the big strong bow, raised his hand is an arrow, a knife rider raised his knife to knock but blocked the air, the pure steel arrow cluster actually pierced his body in one fell swoop, shot into the chest of the second person behind him, and his body was also pierced from the saddle by this huge force.
Yue Xiang's earth-shattering arrow made these horse thieves all stunned, and no one had ever seen an arrow that could shoot through a person's body. I've only heard of two eagles with one stone, and I haven't seen two people with one arrow, so how strong a strong bow can do it.
"Phew! You thieves are gone, let you know how powerful your grandfather is. Yue Xiang scolded and rushed to the front of the three-pointed knife to sweep away the thousands of troops, a horse thief who made a gun raised his gun to seal, but the gun was smashed into two, so that the gunman was smashed out of the horse more than a foot away, and he was angry on the spot. Seeing this, those horse thieves shouted, and they all turned their horses and ran away, and the family members saw that Yue Xiang was so brave, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they chased after them.
As soon as the horse thieves who were charging head-on saw that the person they were trying to save was out of trouble, they immediately forced a turn, only to be overwhelmed by several more by their opponents. The remnants of the two horse thieves converged to less than half of the previous ones, and galloped wildly on the Tunkou Road. All around were pursuers, arrows and various hidden weapons flying over their heads, and from time to time someone was hit and fell from their horse.
However, they were destined to be unable to escape, as soon as they arrived at the mouth of Tunzi, they pressed the crowd from the smoke on the opposite side, Dong Mingchuan and the people of the Ma Palace waited here for a long time, first a flurry of arrows, and then rushed up like a swarm.
These horse thieves are also really fierce, and seeing that their way of life has been cut off, they seem to have turned into a group of crazy beasts, frantically pounced into the crowd, brandished weapons and slashed around. Dong Ma's subordinates did not show weakness, escorted the two to retreat to safety, and the rest rushed up to firmly block the intersection, slashing and poking forward with knives and guns.
Each impact of the horse thief can temporarily break out of a small gap, but the war horse is without exception overturned by the knife and spear, and the inertia of the forward fall and roll knocks down the people who stand in the way, and then the knight is chopped into flesh before he can get up. Soon the corpses of men and horses piled up on the ground, and the charge could no longer take a step, and the two sides fell into a scuffle.
At this moment, Yue Xiang's people behind him also caught up, and when these horse thieves saw that something was wrong, one person shouted something loudly, and the remaining dozen or so people turned around and scattered to both sides, intending to use the terrain to get rid of the pursuers.
It's a pity that Yue Xiang has already prepared, and the outflanking and killing people on both wings have already been arranged. The horse thieves had not gone far when they noticed two groups of cavalry rolling along the hillside like the two huge wings of eagles, and the pursuers were also in hot pursuit. The horse thieves were also in confusion, some moving forward, others changing direction again.
But it was too late, and in such a mess, the encirclement was closed again. Hundreds of pursuers pushed over like a wall, and the horse thieves, who had no way to escape, launched a final decisive counterattack, like a boat in a stormy sea, only to make a small splash and be swallowed up.
"Catch it alive!" Yue Xiang shouted at the top of his voice, but in fact, he didn't need to shout anymore. There were basically no horse thieves still sitting on their horses or standing on the ground at the moment, and they still didn't rush out in the face of a defense line of hundreds of outlaws like them......