Chapter 2: Out of the Ranks (15)
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"Why did you leave me?" Gan Luo asked earnestly with his big golden eyes. Its gaze is clear and deep, like the surface of the crescent moon lake in winter. The wind rolls over the snowy fields, and in the pink world, there are pastoral songs singing low.
"I, I want to go back to the Central Plains. Well, the people over there won't accept you! Li Xu heard his dream-like voice. I saw big tears in Ganro's eyes. The wind blew, the silver wolf broke like snow, and in the pink world, Tao Kuo danced. Smoke floated in, with a smile between his eyebrows, and he whispered: "Dew couple, this word is so beautiful." You Han people just can talk! ”
The whimpering horn sounded, and Ganluo and Tao Kuo were gone. The Turkic knights in scarlet cloaks roared, wielding bright scimitars in their hands, slashing through all hope. Ashina rushed to the front of the line, with his characteristic kindness on his face.
"Woo-woo-woo" The horn sounded continuously, and Li Xu reached out to grab the knife, but only grabbed a handle. The black knife that accompanied him day and night was gone, and turned into Tao Kuo's resentful eyes in mid-air.
"Detachment, don't leave me!" Tao Kuo Tuosi cried and shouted, "Attach and leave, don't leave me ----"
"Woo-woo-woo" The horn sounded like thunder, and the Turkic iron cavalry rushed closer and closer, closer and closer.
"Ahh Dizzy, he fell limply again, and the moment he fell, he held his hands on the desk.
He tried his best to stand still and see his surroundings clearly. This is the residence specially vacated by Wang Yuantong for him, there are still flames beating in the charcoal basin, everything just now is just a dream of Nan Ke.
"Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo" The mournful sound of the horn chased from the dream to the outside of the dream. Li Xu grabbed the black knife and rushed out of the door, and saw several fires rising in the direction of the center of the city. The shouts of people and the neighing of horses were incessant, and the entire military camp became a pot of porridge.
Someone took advantage of the chaos to try to rush into the barracks, but was blocked by the old soldiers of the Li Mansion who were ambushed in the dark with bows and arrows. The soldiers on duty, led by junior officers, rushed to help, but were defeated by a backlash from the enemy. The defeated soldiers pushed and shoved, and their archers were scattered. The attackers outside saw the bargain and shouted to press it.
"Which regiment is on duty, line up at the door. Retreater, slash! Liu Hongji carried a lance against the flow of people, and pushed sideways twice in succession, forcing the defeated soldiers outside the door. Qin Ziying and Zhang Deyu each carried a whip and whipped at the rout without a head.
"What to flee and where can you flee? Lost the military rations, everyone asked and beheaded together! Qin Ziying, who had always been timid and stuttering, suddenly stopped stammering, and her words became more and more coherent one sentence at a time. The soldiers who retreated in a panic were stunned and turned around stiffly.
"Captain on duty, follow me. The rest of the captains, gather their own team! Liu Hongji shouted, and rushed forward. Qin Ziying and Zhang Deyu threw down their whips, drew their waist knives, and followed closely behind Liu Hongji.
Yang Fang, the captain on duty, saw that the general would fight in person, so he didn't dare to flee again, and followed with his weapon. The brigade leaders under his command saw that the main general was taking the lead, and they also stopped fleeing for their lives.
"Don't panic, go back to your team. Each team is restraining the team! Li Xu shouted at the chaotic crowd on the school grounds. At this moment, the most important thing for Liu Hongji to do is to gather troops and horses instead of leading the team to attack, but if he doesn't attack, the entire military camp will collapse completely!
"It's okay, fight one and count one!" Li Xu thought with a wry smile. He stooped down and picked up a bow and a pot of arrows from the ground, and hurried to the main entrance.
"Each team is upright and restricts its own team. Each brigade rate, collect the soldiers of the brigade. Captains, gather your brothers to listen to orders!" The voices of Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning and others sounded behind Li Xu. Everyone is a good brother, and they don't have the ability to step forward to help friends and enemies desperately, and before they run away, they will at least help to do a little bit of the work of calming the hearts of the army.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Hongji had already led the soldiers to kill the invading enemy. The number of opponents is not large, I didn't expect the rumored fragile boy buddy to be able to kill back so quickly, and he was caught off guard and was stabbed to death by Liu Hongji on the spot. The third wanted to pounce on Liu Hongji's back from the flank, but was stopped by Qin Ziying and Zhang Deyu.
Qin Ziying is a child of a family who aspires to gain fame, and has never studied martial arts at all. Zhang Deyu's knife skills are better than Qin Ziying's, and he has only reached the point of dancing all routines. In the blink of an eye, the two were disrupted by the opponent, and the danger was everywhere. Just as the sneak attacker grinned and was about to strike the fatal blow. The lance in Liu Hongji's hand swept back like a dragon.
"Bell!" The short knife was knocked away by the lance, and before the owner of the knife could react correctly, the blade of the lance found his throat like a snake.
"Ahh Liu Hongji shouted angrily, grabbed his opponent's neck and threw the body into the air. The sneak attacker, who had been stabbed through the throat by the lance, was not dead, and his hands and feet twitched in midair, circling, and flying towards his companion.
The attacking enemy was obviously stunned by Liu Hongji's hand, and the speed of the attack was unconsciously stagnant. At this moment, a meteor flashed in mid-air, and a torch was shot by Li Xu as a feather arrow.
The butter-stained torches exploded with a bang, sending sparks flying everywhere. The flash of the fire illuminated the fact that there were not many sneak attackers at the main entrance. The morale of the officers and soldiers of the Great Sui, who had Liu Hongji as the backbone, was immediately boosted, and they launched a counterattack against the other side with shouts.
Liu Hongji stabbed straight with a long lance and knocked over a sneak attacker. Oblique shot, swept half of the face of another sneak attacker, who had been a horse thief, didn't know what mercy was, as long as he was against someone, he would immediately share life and death. In the blink of an eye, the sixth attacker was killed, and just as he was about to chase the seventh enemy, a feathered arrow grazed his body and pierced the back of the enemy's neck.
"Who robs people with Lao Tzu!" Liu Hongji shouted impatiently, turned his head sharply, but saw Li Xu desperately waving to himself at the camp gate.
Thoughtful, he immediately understood what Li Xu meant. As soon as he stood still, more than 200 soldiers immediately retreated backwards to his side like waves crashing into the rocks.
"Collect the troops and return to the camp. If you are within a hundred steps of the camp wall, shoot! Liu Hongji shouted violently, and strode back with the brothers who had won the battle. When he passed by Li Xu's side, his footsteps stopped, and his arm gently rested on his good friend's shoulder.
Order in the barracks had slowly begun to restore, and the soldiers who had been awakened in their sleep instinctively tried to flee for their lives, but were stopped by the team leader, brigade leader and cronies. When a certain number of people are gathered, the courage of the people begins to grow. Especially judging from the shouts at the door, when their side had the upper hand, the heart that had already jumped out of their throat was swallowed back into their stomachs by them.
Li Ji, Liu Zhen, and Zhou Wenyuan, the three unworthy captains, took this opportunity to give orders, and finally stabilized the soldiers with great effort. They looked up, wanting to ask Liu Hongji for instructions on their next move, but they saw that Don't pull the horse led by the Tiger Wing Brigade, as if they were arguing about something.
"Tang Gongfu and granary, there must be a place that is their real goal!" Liu Hongji said in a low voice. This is the reason for his previous chaos, Tang Gong has the grace of knowing the two of them, if someone succeeds in assassinating Tang Gong while sneaking into the granary, he will live in guilt for the rest of his life.
"Big brother, don't you remember how we burned down Ashina Choyu's camp? If the granary is lost, will the Tang Guild be safe? Li Xu asked in a low voice while sorting out his bow and arrows and armor. He didn't need Liu Hongji to answer this question, if it wasn't for Xu Dayan and him creating chaos in Ashina's camp, Liu Hongji and the others would not have had a chance to do it at all.
The situation at this moment is exactly similar to that night when everyone made a big fuss in the Ashina camp. It's just that the person who set the fire became the attacker, and the source of the attacker was unknown.
Liu Hongji nodded, speechless. Li Xu is reasonable, if the granary is burned, according to the laws of the Great Sui and the habits of the current emperor, Li Yuan's whole family will not escape the fate of being martyred for the granary. Thinking of this, he looked at the entire team of cavalry ready to go, and sideways to open the camp gate for Li Xu and his Tiger Wing Brigade.
"Tang Gong's archery is not below you and me!" Li Xu turned around and shouted loudly. With his legs in the belly of the black wind, he rushed into the street like a hundred cavalry winds.
On the streets, small groups of men in black kept setting fires. The 500 reinforcements sent by Lord Yuwenshu and the arsonist fought separately in the dark, and the sound of swords and guns clashing and shouting for killing rang out. Innocent people fought against the flying disaster with buckets, and at the same time endured open guns and arrows, cries, and cries for help.
Li Xu didn't have time to pay attention to these interferences, and took the brothers he had personally trained to the Tang Mansion directly. This was the only solution that he and Liu Hongji came up with in the shortest possible time, since the enemy army was sneaking into the city to attack, the number would not be too large. If you mess up, you will be in the hands of the other party.