Chapter 17: Surviving in Peril?
On the battlefield, comrades-in-arms are the greatest reliance in your life. No matter how brave an individual is, he will not be able to save his life in the siege of thousands of troops.
Before the crossing, the brothers were Qin Cheng's biggest reliance in the street fight. And now, it's these comrades who are fighting with him!
Qin Cheng, Dong Chu, and Wu Daliang, the three soldiers of the same Shi were firmly tied together by the battlefield situation at this moment, and the three soldiers of the eighteen Shi gradually gathered from the surroundings, and the six of them faintly formed a trend of taking care of each other, so that it was much more convenient to kill the enemy on this battlefield to protect themselves.
"Look, Yellow Flag!" Wu Daliang is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield, and when Qin Cheng and others were fighting hard, they saw life with sharp eyes.
Qin Cheng and Dong Chu came back, looked in the direction guided by Wu Daliang, and saw a scene that made their hearts tighten.
Not far from them, next to a scrapped chariot, a Han cavalry holding a yellow flag had been faintly surrounded by several Hun cavalry, and at this moment, under the cover of two Han cavalry, he was desperately protecting the yellow flag in his hand. However, it seems that the two Han cavalry can't hold out for long, and those Hun cavalry seem to have seen this yellow flag and are fighting hard, wanting to capture it!
The Yellow Flag, also known as the Yellow Tooth Flag, is the spiritual sustenance of all soldiers on the battlefield by setting up the flag for the commander in the army. Once the Yellow Flag falls or is captured, it means that the army is facing collapse!
At this time, the yellow flag is already in crisis.
"Dong Chu, Da Liang, open the way for me!" Qin Cheng let out a loud shout, and his body had already rushed towards the scrapped chariot quickly!
"No!" Dong Chu and the others agreed, and waved the halberd or long knife in their hands like crazy, protecting them around Qincheng without their lives.
The military flag, the soul of the army. There is no soldier who does not pay attention!
As soon as Qin Cheng rushed out, he was blocked in front by a Hun cavalry centurion, obviously, this Hun cavalry also saw that Qin Cheng was running for the military flag.
It is precisely because of this that those soldiers of the Han army who want to get close to the military flag and protect the military flag cannot achieve their goal.
Qin Cheng only saw an unusually tall war horse appear in front of him, and then a cold air came down from above his head!
didn't have time to think about it, Qin Cheng didn't slow down, but knelt down with his legs, leaned back, and with the help of a huge momentum, he almost slid down from the belly of the Hun war horse close to the ground!
After sliding over the horse's belly, Qin Cheng's left hand slapped the ground hard, his body straightened, and at the same time, the long knife in his right hand slammed into the horse's belly, bringing out a deep blood groove!
The horse's back Qin Cheng slashed open his stomach, and his intestines and blood immediately flowed to the ground, and his body fell weakly!
Ignoring this Hun centurion, Qin Cheng continued to run towards the chariot!
The Hun centurion jumped up from his horse, scolded angrily, and was about to chase after Qin Cheng. I never thought that as soon as I turned around, my head would fly! It turned out to be Dong Chu, who came after Qin Cheng, and while he was not paying attention, a knife slid through his neck from behind!
The two Han cavalry guarding the military flag have been cut off the horse by the Hun cavalry who were surrounded, and the flag bearer who was already covered in wounds was already covered in wounds, and after poking a Hun cavalry with the tip in front of the military flag at the end, the back was grooved by a Hun commander, and blood sprayed into the air at once!
The flag bearer used his last bit of strength to sweep the military flag in his hand horizontally, but was unexpectedly grabbed by the Hun commander. At this time, a flying Hun cavalryman cut off the head of the flag-bearer with a knife!
When the flag-carrying soldier's head flew into the air, he saw a sturdy figure!
Qin Cheng rushed onto the chariot, stepped heavily on the chariot with both feet, and his body flew out from the top of the chariot!
Like Qin Cheng who spread his wings, the long knife in his hand crossed a cruel arc, and slashed hard, and the Hun commander who finally won the military flag felt abnormal, and looked up, but could only see a black shadow passing above his head under the dazzling sunlight, and a bright light flashed towards him!
The commander, whose vision was a little blurred for a while, subconsciously raised his knife to block it.
In Qincheng in mid-air, the long knife slid from the long knife of the Hun thousand, and with a flash of the blade, the head of the Hun thousand-commander was cut off in half, and ** and blood spurted out at once!
Qin Cheng, whose body trajectory did not stop there, kicked off his horse with his right foot, kicked off the horse of a Hun cavalryman beside the Hun commander, and his body fell to the horse. With a slap of his feet on the horse's belly, the horse galloped out with a neigh.
Qin Cheng snatched the military flag from the hands of the Hun commander who was already dead and about to fall off the horse with his left hand, and broke through!
What Qin Cheng, who was rushing away, did not see was that in the place where the Hun commander fell, a corpseless head of a Han soldier wearing a Han military hat quietly closed his eyes after seeing Qin Cheng seize the military flag. A tear flowed from the eye that had just been closed, blending with the blood-covered face.
"General, the flag is safe!" Li Guang, who took the lead, had just killed a Hun cavalry when he heard the pro-soldiers beside him shouting. When I turned my head, I saw that the military flag was tightly held in the hands of a young soldier covered in blood, and this young man, under the protection of several Han cavalry around him, had already highlighted the encirclement of the Hun cavalry!
"Good! This son is brave, and he should make a great contribution to this battle! Li Guang couldn't help but feel hot in his heart and said loudly.
Unable to see what this brave soldier looked like, Li Guang threw himself into the battle again.
Nearly 5,000 soldiers of the Han army fought to the death with more than 4,000 Hun cavalry on this vast battlefield. Due to Li Guang's proper use of tactics, this war did not have the normal situation of the Han army being defeated. However, that's all, this battle also did not appear in the situation that the Han soldiers surrounded the Hun cavalry and suffered heavy losses or total annihilation. Although the Hun cavalry of the Han army formed an encirclement trend, but soon, the fierce Hun cavalry facilitated the Han army soldiers to fight together.
By now, it has been a complete melee. In this battle, I am afraid that it can only be a lose-lose situation.
Even so, with the same strength, the Hun cavalry fought a fierce battle, which was already a very proud record for the Han army officers and soldiers with only nearly 2,000 cavalry.
It's just that the soldiers of the Han Army, who were sacrificing their lives to fight, didn't realize that this kind of good situation should not have happened.
Because, the performance of the Hun cavalry in this battle was too abnormal.
The battle had lasted for about two quarters of an hour from the beginning to the present, and the armies of both sides, except for the light infantry in the Han army, had completely melee with each other.
Is this destined to be a lose-lose battle?
The answer was soon revealed.
Because, in the rear of the Han army, the dull sound of the horn sounded abruptly again.
Li Guang, who was leading the Han cavalry to fight hard in the Hun cavalry camp, heard the sound of the horn, and his face turned pale all of a sudden!
"General, it's an enemy attack! How can there be an enemy attack? The pro-soldier team who followed Li Guang's side to take on the task of defending was also pale. As a veteran, he understands very well what kind of situation it is to be attacked in the rear of the army in this situation!
"Order, collect the troops! The cavalry is broken! The whole army retreats to the mouth of the eagle! Li Guang's vision was blocked, and naturally he couldn't see what was happening in the rear of the military formation, but just hearing the sound of the horn, he also knew the severity of the situation in the rear of the military formation.
"No!" The pro-soldier team is immediately carrying out the order, without a word.
In the terrain of the gourd belly as a battlefield, on the branch of the post road that runs almost perpendicular to the post road running through the middle line of the gourd belly, there were dense Hun cavalry lined up in a thick line at this time, and they were rushing to the rear of the Han army with a "roar", with no less than four or five thousand people!
The direction they came was exactly Doka!
That was the direction of the Hun cavalry led by Li Xi, the deputy general of Shanggu!
These Hun cavalry should have been fighting with the Han army led by Li Xi, but now, they unexpectedly appeared on this battlefield!
In the middle of the queue at the front of this group of cavalry, a middle-aged man wearing leather armor and stubble was very eye-catching. This man has some dark skin, his whole body reveals a fierce aura, and his eyes are bright. What is rare is that in the ranks of the Huns, this man actually has an aristocratic atmosphere in the five elements.
Needless to say, this person is the leader of this group of Hun cavalry.
"Left Guduhou, you lead people to break into the rear of the Han army, hold the mountain pass, and don't let a single Han army pass by!" The leader ordered to a Hun cavalry general beside him, who was full of martial spirits.
"Command!" The Marquis of Zuo Gudu received the order and went with a group of Hun cavalry.
After the left bone Marquis left, the leader pulled out his long knife and shouted at the Han army in front of him:
"Warriors, kill me! Kill Li Guang! Break into the dry mulberry! The women, money, and livestock of the Han people are all ours! ”
"Whew~~"
The remaining Hun cavalry received the order, and all the wolves screamed and rushed to the Han soldiers not far ahead!
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The officers and men of the Han army scattered all over the battlefield, whether they were personal soldiers or infantry, began to shrink and retreat!
But it's easy to attack, but it's hard to retreat, especially when the two sides are fighting together without a winner.
However, fortunately, Li Guang took all the cavalry after the break, which made the situation slightly better. However, when the Hun cavalry on the branch of the post road broke through, Li Guang had to divide the remaining nearly 1,000 cavalry into two parts again, one was broken, and the other was to block those Hun cavalry, only in this way could the infantry win the opportunity to retreat, otherwise, once the formation was chaotic, the infantry could only be the object of slaughter against the cavalry!
However, now, can these thousands of Han soldiers still break through?