Chapter 287: Li Hongji's Adventure (2)
No matter how cruel the army's war is, Li Hongji will not be soft-hearted, dying on the battlefield is a soldier's glory and a soldier's destination, but the slaughter of civilians is intolerable in anyone's eyes, even if these killed people have nothing to do with themselves.
Looking at the soldiers around him, Liu Zongmin was already eager to try, the soldiers' eyes became bloodshot, Li Hongji knew that his soldiers were angry, and hoped to rescue these slaughtered weaklings, even if these people had nothing to do with him.
The only one who is more calm is Tian Jianxiu, he calmly looked at the battlefield in front of him, his team is only more than 60 people, and there are more than 20 big carriages, if he rushes over like this, his casualties will definitely not be small, although this team has no purpose to play, but the senseless casualties still have to be avoided, and there is only one life, if the people of the Ming Dynasty are killed, even if this team is wiped out, it is worth it, but now it is the road to see the unevenness and draw the sword to help, both sides do not know whether it is friend or foe, It would not be worth paying such a price.
Li Hongji understood what Tian Jianxiu meant, he was indeed a little impulsive, and there was really no need to put his team on to save those strangers, but it was not Li Hongji's character to care at all. Li Hongji ordered Tian Jianxiu to lead the ordinary soldiers, using more than 20 carriages to form a defensive formation to avoid accidental attacks, and he led Liu Zongmin and 32 guard soldiers to rush to the battlefield in front.
More than two hours ago, Sumer with more than 1,000 hired soldiers surrounded a town here, there were more than 3,000 people in the town, including more than 1,000 young and young women, and now they have become their own goods, and I am very happy to think about it, this business should be profitable, if you sell these people, you will definitely become a good rich man, or even become a nobleman.
For a long time, such a capture and trafficking business was very common, in history not only black slaves were sold, but also countless white slaves were sold to various parts of the Ottoman Empire, for centuries, such arrest or hunting of white slaves has become a shortcut to the Ottoman Empire's sudden wealth, countless imposters are eager to try.
In the telescope, Li Hongji saw very clearly that this group of soldiers was not a real army, because they only had a scimitar in their hands, and there were no army-standard muskets or artillery, they were just a group of horse bandits, and their combat effectiveness should not be very strong, although it seemed that there were more than 1,000 people, but judging from their movements, they were just a group of rabble.
Relying on excellent war horses, sharp sabers, and perfect tactical coordination, his team of more than 30 people has no need to worry at all, even if they can't completely annihilate this horse bandit, there is no doubt about defeating them.
Liu Zongmin rushed to the front of the team, Li Hongji pushed back, and when he was approaching the horse bandits for half a mile in concealment, the team suddenly accelerated, and in a very short time, they cut into the side of the horse bandits who were still sorting out the team. There were no shouts, no bullets, and the soldiers slashed directly at the bandits' necks with sharp sabers.
The rapid assault of Li Hongji's squad made the Sumerian mercenary horse bandits panic, they were still in the excitement just now, they did not expect to change from hunters to prey in an instant, the horse bandits were indeed fierce and bloodthirsty, but they encountered elite soldiers who were more fierce than them, whether it was the sophistication of the weapons, or the skills of killing, what made them even more desperate was the cooperation between their comrades. In the blink of an eye, more than thirty horse bandits had fallen in the first wave of the confrontation, and they couldn't even understand how the other party made a move.
The horse bandits in front of him quickly fell, and the horse bandit leader finally found that there were only more than 30 people in this team, and looking at the bandits who had been killed, he immediately angrily commanded the surrounding bandits to quickly surround Li Hongji's team, trying to surround and kill them.
Liu Zongmin, who was in front of the team, also found the leader of the horse bandits who commanded the battle at this time, and urged the war horse to rush towards him, and the whole team took Liu Zongmin as a sharp knife and quickly broke away from the surrounding slashing, Li Hongji cleaned up the bandits with a saber in his right hand and a pistol in his left hand, and followed the team to rush forward.
Soon a strange circle appeared on the battlefield, when the leader of the horse bandits saw Liu Zongmin rushing towards him, he immediately fled with a few guards, he saw Liu Zongmin's power, no horse bandit was his opponent in one round, the ghost head knife swept the flesh and blood, and the leader of the horse bandits was already cold, so he could only run away, not daring to meet the impact of Liu Zongmin. But he didn't dare to leave his team, with a thousand people as a meat shield, it was much safer than letting Liu Zongmin kill with four or five guards. Liu Zongmin also saw this situation, and just took this opportunity to crush the horse bandits' combat confidence, so this strange circle appeared on the battlefield.
However, Li Hongji's squad and their war horses are much faster than the war horses of these horse bandits, and the guards around the horse bandit leader are getting fewer and fewer, so he has to constantly order other horse bandits to come up and intercept them, which causes a strange scene of Li Hongji's squad of only more than 30 cavalry chasing more than 1,000 horse bandits to fight, but fortunately, it didn't take long for the horse bandit leader to find out about this matter, and in order to turn back the situation, he had to turn back and fight.
The leader of the horse bandits was originally going around in a counterclockwise direction to avoid Liu Zongmin's pursuit, but suddenly he began to turn the horse's head and began to circle back clockwise, and soon came to a hedge with Liu Zongmin. The two of them were less than thirty steps apart, and they rushed to the distance of killing in an instant, and the leader of the horse bandits was already red-eyed, and he angrily raised the scimitar in his hand and slashed at Liu Zongmin fiercely.
Liu Zongmin looked at the scimitar that had been batched, staring at the right arm of the horse bandit leader holding the knife, when he saw his arm swinging the knife to the maximum extent, Liu Zongmin's left arm suddenly raised, and the arm crossbow suddenly shot a short arrow, which was directly inserted into the armpit of the horse bandit leader, instantly making his arm strength disappear, and the scimitar flew out of his hand, and at the same time, Liu Zongmin's ghost head knife was raised, directly cutting off the right arm of the horse bandit leader.
The leader of the bandits, who had lost his right arm, lost his balance, and fell off his horse when he staggered. And Liu Zongmin quickly turned the horse's head, hid in a stirrup, and the golden hook was upside down to scoop the horse bandit leader from the ground, put him in front of the horse, pressed his neck with his left hand, and raised the ghost head knife with his right hand, and continued to fight.
Looking at Liu Zongmin, who was like a vicious person, the horse bandits who lost the command of the horse bandit leader were completely chilled, don't say anything stupid to avenge the leader, the horse bandits don't have this tradition, the only idea is to run away quickly, and saving their lives is the key.
The battle ended at the moment when the leader of the bandits was captured alive, and less than 100 of the more than 1,000 bandits died, but after losing the leader of the bandits, they lost the will to fight, and soon began to scatter and flee.
At this time, Li Hongji's team was very tacitly divided into a three-person team, and began to chase and kill the fleeing horse bandits separately, at this time there was a real miracle on the battlefield, hundreds of piles of horse bandits were chased and killed by three or six Li Hongji soldiers, and they fled in panic one by one, and even the horse bandits who dared to turn back did not have it, only desperately beat their own horses, hoping to run in front of other horse bandits, so as not to be killed by the fierce Ming army.
Seeing Li Hongji's team falling from the sky, they were stunned by the white slaves who were tied in a string like grasshoppers by the horse bandits, is this the combat effectiveness of these horse bandits? Where is the ferocious combat power they had just had? Is all their cruelty fake? Or is this team that just came here a god soldier descending from the sky, and all of them are killing gods?
They do not think that they have been rescued, because this phenomenon of robbery is very common in the steppe, and it is very common for one wave of horse bandits to rob the wealth of another, there is nothing that cannot be done, and here only strength is the basis for everything. In their consciousness, they now fell into the hands of an even more ferocious force of horse bandits.