twenty-four

There was a lot of hooves, and the two groups of people in front of and behind repeated the chase not long ago, but the roles have been reversed. The white-clad iron cavalry behind it was densely packed with thousands of people, like a rolling wall of snow rolling forward. Yue Xiang only cared about the fast horse and whipped forward, but immediately in addition to him and Chen Xiaowan, the weight of one more person, the war horse could not run the speed again.

Fortunately, it was not far from the Goatyu Fort, but when he got closer, Yue Xiang saw that there were many people in front of the fort picking up the clothes and armor utensils they had just discarded, and after seeing them, they scattered and fled like headless flies, and some of them turned their heads and ran towards the castle.

The sound of arrows breaking through the air was already sounding overhead, and Yue Xiang estimated that he was afraid that he would be caught up before he reached the castle. He gritted his teeth, picked up Xiao Wan's body, and shouted at Dong Mingchuan beside him: "You keep running!" Take her into the castle! I'll break it off! As he spoke, he handed Xiao Wan's body to him, Dong Mingchuan took it smoothly and shouted: "How can you ...... alone" But before the words were finished, Yue Xiang had already turned the horse's head and shouted: "It's a good man's come with me, and fight with the pigtail soldiers of the dog day!" ”

Most of the more than 300 people were members of the Yue family, and they saw their master turn around and go back to fight hard. These family members also showed amazing courage in the face of a strong enemy, screaming wildly, turning their horses' heads and following Yue Xiang to pounce on the pursuers behind. Most of them didn't think about anything in their minds at the moment, they only knew that they would follow their own masters, even if it was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire.

Yue Xiang pulled the big bow, and at the same time put on four carved arrows, and the bowstring was loosened and shot out. Immediately, four horsemen rolled on their backs and fell to the ground. But the rest showed amazing horsemanship, some jumped directly over them, some skillfully bypassed, and did not cause much of an obstacle.

"Good archery, good courage...... Among the white-armored horse team, there is a small phalanx of strong knights who closely follow. Faintly keeping a distance from the people around him, a heroic knight in white dragon armor in the phalanx praised it. This man was about thirty years old, in the prime of life, and his face was handsome and strange. A white horse in his crotch, with a hundred steps of majesty in front of him and behind him, the most impressive thing is that the pair of eyes, like a thousand years of frost, lingering with a biting cold.

There was another person beside him, who was wearing a set of tight-fitting narrow-waisted cotton silk armor, with a ruddy complexion, extremely handsome, and a bright color that normal men did not have. Under the crotch is also a white horse, riding side by side with the white dragon armor knight.

"I didn't expect that there were such good shooters among the officers and soldiers." A hint of excitement flashed in the eyes of the white-armored knight, he pulled out his waist knife and rushed forward, "Wait for me to meet this bright general for a while." The knights who guarded him were also divided into two parts, one still maintaining their original speed to guard the other, and the other part splitting off to guard the dragon-armored knights.

"Shoot the arrows!" The distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching, and it was already within the range of the bow and arrow.

With an order, the cavalry of the white-armored horse team took off their bows and arrows one after another, and performed the horseman's riding and archery skills with amazing equestrian coordination. When the bowstring sounded, the random arrows rained down on him. Yue Xiang swung his sword and danced a piece of silver light, dialed random arrows left and right, and dodged left and right on the horse, finally dodging this round of strafing; But most of the people around him didn't have his ability, and dozens of people and horses were shot into hedgehogs in the screams, and people turned over on their backs.

Oops! Yue Xiang was so anxious that his eyes were on fire, and he held a big bow and launched it one after another, and the cavalry archers on the opposite side fell one after another. Now there is only a desperate way forward, if you hesitate a little, you are afraid that if you can't rush close, you will all die under the opponent's bow and arrow. He urged his horse wildly, leaning down to reduce air resistance, and sprinting with all his might.

Suddenly, I saw that the speed of the other party increased a lot, so that most of the bows and arrows missed. However, another round of arrow rain still caused dozens of people to fall on the other side. The formation that had been relatively close had now become sparse, but they also rushed to the front. The white-armored cavalry drew their waist swords one after another, roaring and rushing head-on, and the two horse teams collided together in an instant......

Dong Mingchuan and Ma Gong led more than 80 people under their command and rushed towards the gate of Shangoat Yubao. While running, he sent one of his henchmen to hurry back to Qinghe to report the news, and a large number of enemy horsemen suddenly appeared near Goatyu Fort, and it was not clear that Jianyu was about to start a large-scale attack again.

He had seen quite a few people come out to pick up their discarded armor, and now he saw them coming back and running inside. Seeing that their clothes and armor were the appearance of officers and soldiers, Dong Mingchuan shouted his own people. The city didn't seem to hear, but was busy closing the city gate and raising the drawbridge.

Dong Mingchuan was furious, relying on the horse to quickly order his subordinates to hurry up to grab the city gate, his subordinates were not vegetarians, hula rushed out dozens of horses, rushed into the city gate before the drawbridge was raised, and kept the door closed, and waved a knife to disperse the soldiers who closed the gate. One of the guards of the horse palace raised his hand to be two darts, don't look at his bow and arrows, but this kind of close-range dart is called divine accuracy, and directly hit the two Ming soldiers who were winch at the head of the city.

The drawbridge fell heavily, and the horse team of Dong and Ma swarmed in and broke into the city. However, they were taken aback by the sight of entering the city, they thought that there would not be many people in this small castle, but when they saw that the city was crowded with people. Take a closer look at some of them are still wearing the armor of officers and soldiers holding weapons, some of them are torn clothes and armor, and some of them are wearing the clothes of ordinary people, but the vast majority of them are men, and the number can be more than 1,000 people.

Dong Ma and the others sent people to guard the city gate, at first glance, so many people were also a little hairy in their hearts, but after seeing these people look at their expressions, they had some confidence in their hearts; Although there are a lot of people in this gang, looking at these fierce outsiders one by one, it is like a mouse meeting a cat, and none of them dare to come forward. Wherever they go, these people retreat like the waves of the sea.

"I am the commander of the Central Right Division of the Qinghe Central Army, who has the final say here!"

Ma Gong loudly identified himself, but these people did not react, as if they were carved clay sculptures of wood. Ma Gong shouted: "Who is the official here?" We are the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, not the rebels of Jianzhou, so we asked your chief to come out and answer. As he spoke, he showed the general flag in his hand, some of whom recognized the color of the flag, and some of them were in a commotion, shouting in a hurry, and then an old soldier in his fifties came out to give an answer to Ma Gong.

It turned out that there were almost no officials, all of them were soldiers, and the officers above the 100 generals were either killed in battle or fled. There were originally 500 soldiers in this Goatyu Fort, but now there are probably more than 2,000. Most of them were defeated from the Fushun area, that is, Zhang Chengyin's subordinates.

It turned out that part of the Ming army was annihilated after the defeat of Fushun, but there were still thousands of people scattered to various forts in the nearby ten miles and eight townships to wait for reinforcements, but the reinforcements did not wait, waiting for the sweep of the Jianzhou army, and part of it was wiped out, and the rest of the lucky escapes gathered to the last refuge of Goatyu Fort. At this time, the small castle with a circumference of less than a kilometer was already overcrowded.

"What!? When the official was chasing those rebels just now, why didn't you go out of the city to intercept them? Sit back and watch those thieves pass by under the city, and you can wait for a bow and arrow to attack each other!? If the official wants to enter the city, why do you have to close the door? ”

The old soldier looked embarrassed and repeatedly declared that he should die. said that he didn't know what kind of soldiers and horses the adults were just now, so he didn't dare to open the city easily. He also said that the Jianzhou Tartars were powerful, lest he take advantage of it. In short, it is left and right, a typical veteran oil. Dong Mingchuan and Ma Gong knew that these people had already frightened the Jianzhou Jurchens when they saw them like this, and they were powerless to investigate at this time.

"That's right, hurry out of the city to meet the enemy! I and hundreds of others still dare to fight with the Tartars, you have more than 2,000 men here, what are you afraid of? There were only a few hundred bandits outside the city, and they went out of the city to fight. ”

Dong Mingchuan placed Chen Xiaowan and immediately shouted out of the city. But when these officers and soldiers heard this, most of them immediately wilted, and many of them looked at Dong Mingchuan with blank faces, and none of them wanted to go out to fight. Most of them had seen the brave battles of the Jurchen Eight Banners under Fushun City, and that fear of the enemy had been deeply implanted in their minds.

"What's the matter with you!?" Dong Mingchuan was so anxious when he saw the appearance of these people, outside Yue Xiang led people to fight with the Jianzhou soldiers, there were so many people in this city, but none of them dared to move. "Those who retreat from the battle are killed! Don't you know the law of martial arts? You're still a bunch of men! Look at your behavior, you're not even as good as! ”

"My lord Mingjian, it's not that we don't want to fight, it's really that we don't have armor and no horses, the only thing to fight is this city wall, and it's a dead end for us to go out of the city." The old army knelt down and kowtowed, and even the other soldiers knelt down a large piece, indeed many people were dressed like Hanako, with bare hands, how to fight this battle?

"This ......" Ma Gong and Dong Mingchuan couldn't think of a move for a while, and they forced them to drive them out There are more than 2,000 people here, if they don't go out, they will definitely not be able to drive them away, and it will be even more troublesome if they don't have another backlash. In addition, looking at their weak appearance, even if they go out of the city, they don't know how much of a role they can play.

"My lord, our people have been defeated, and the bandits are coming here!" A nervous pitched voice shouted from the top of the city.

"Kick the city and defend the walls!" The whole Goatyu Fort immediately became chaotic, these people don't have the courage to go out of the city to fight, but they still have some morale hiding within the city walls, and they run to the city in a hurry. Dong Ma and the others also went to the city with the flow of people, and looked into the distance with a clairvoyant mirror, and saw Yue Xiang's figure at a glance.

"Great, Ziyi is still alive! Hurry up, hurry up......"

The moment he broke into the enemy formation, Yue Xiang had a feeling that time and space were wrong. He understood that this was not an illusion, but these wild cavalrymen in front of him were indeed the famous Eight Banners Army in history. All of them are wearing white horse coat-style iron buckle cotton armor, which is lined with iron mesh cowhide, which is extremely tough; The saber in his hand flickered with cold light, and the murderous aura was compelling; Yue Xiang roared loudly and swung his knife diagonally, and the best Japanese sword once again showed his power, cutting off another saber and an arm with one sword.

He rushed forward on his horse, brandishing his long knife and slashing left and right, advancing against the tide of impact, and slashed seven or eight people in one breath. In fact, he didn't have time to calculate how many people there were, in short, he killed people when he saw them. It was like a reef standing in the middle of a rapid, no matter how big the wave was, it was smashed in half in front of him.

This is the real battle, and the battle he fought in the Weining Battalion was simply pediatric compared to this. He didn't know how many wounds had been added to his body, but no one could get away with it. He had fallen into a semi-crazy state at the moment, relying on his innate divine power and superb martial arts, he actually opened a bloody path alone, penetrated the ranks of the first group of enemy cavalry troops, and killed the people behind.

Yue Xiang's bravery also aroused the fighting spirit of the enemy. More and more people fell off their horses and chased after the cavalry that had broken the formation. Since Yue Xiang had taken off his armor, he couldn't tell how different he was from the others. At this moment, his body was already splattered with blood, and he rushed towards him like a bloodthirsty god.

Two white shadows crossed left and right, Yue Xiang's sword pulled a gorgeous sword flower in the air, and his body swayed a left and right flower arrangement, and the attack was just right to avoid the opponent's attack. Two lightning flashes flashed in midair, and two human heads flew up with blood and water.

"Good knife technique!" With this angry shout, Yue Xiang felt a cold light flash in front of him as soon as he sat down, and between the lightning and the fire, he immediately fell on his back on the saddle with an iron plate bridge, and the sword-like light slashed over his head. At the same time, Yue Xiang's knife swept the back leg of the comer's backhand, and the man seemed quite surprised that Yue Xiang could avoid his killer knife, and immediately pulled the reins violently, and the war horse jumped to the side like a psychic, and at the same time swung the knife back, which was worthy of this move.

This shock caused Yue Xiang's wrist to be numb, showing the opponent's superior arm strength. At the same time, it also woke him up from his madness, and it was the first time that someone could stand his sword. But he didn't fight, but urged the horse to continue to rush forward, and the bright sword light slashed horizontally and vertically, and after slashing three people in a row, he actually broke up the team again, and went straight to the other team behind.

The knight wearing the white dragon armor didn't expect this Ming general to be so brave, he dared to rush into the crowd single-handedly, and even broke his own two formations, and even the most elite personal guard in his banner did not stop him. Seeing him rushing towards the team behind, he was in a hurry and shouted, "Stop him and release the arrows!" Hurry up and release the arrows! ”

It's a pity that it was too late at this time, Yue Xiang's war horse roared and soared into the air, slamming into the oncoming knight, smashing a gap in the human wall and squeezing in between the two war horses. Then they slashed sideways like a flock of sheep and completely disrupted the formation of the cavalry. Those equally brave bannermen brandished their weapons and desperately tried to drive him out, but unfortunately their sabers and horses were cut and flew as long as they moved forward, and their tough armor could not resist a slash. Not only did the crowd not have the upper hand, but several people were chopped off one after another like chopping melons and vegetables.

"Kill!" Yue Xiang drank violently again and again, and many people rushed there, slashing another person with a backhand. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a shadow flashing in front of him, and when he waved his knife, a woman's exclamation sounded in his ears. As a result, the knife softened and slashed on the opponent's horse's head, the white horse neighed and fell, but the knight in the saddle was grabbed by Yue Xiang and dragged over before falling to the ground.

"Woman!?" After the flag man's hat fell off, the black green silk slipped off, and with the woman's painful breathing, Yue Xiang finally understood that the person who was captured by him turned out to be a beautiful woman with a rich and enchanting appearance. As soon as the woman was captured, the surrounding cavalry let out an exclamation in unison.

There are quirks! Yue Xiang immediately put the knife on the woman's neck, and all the people around him showed a look of horror, Yue Xiang was overjoyed, and he did not hesitate to rush back.

Sure enough, no one dared to stop him, and the knight in the white dragon armor couldn't believe his eyes. Could it be that today is a prisoner who is too old to succeed? I didn't expect that there would be such a brave general in this Goatyu Fort, riding alone into battle as if in a no-man's land, is there really a dragon and a crouching tiger in the incompetent Ming army?

It finally caused a catastrophe for a while, and if he knew that this would happen, he would have been shot with arrows and ended him early, and he couldn't get close. Now he has been careless and captured important people for him, which is terrible......