Chapter 402 likes the feeling

Liu Kuo's men rushed forward, forced the rebels out for a while, and then then retreated, and when the two sides converged, there were less than seventy men, but they were obviously much better than when they were fighting separately. The rebels behind were rushing up in waves like the waves of the rising tide crashing against the riverbank. After Fang Jie, they killed the rebel array, and had no choice but to return to their side to fight and retreat.

After all, Liu Kuo is already old, his physical strength is gradually exhausted, and the wounds on his body have not been treated, and the blood keeps flowing out, which accelerates the loss of strength. Fang Xie saw that his dancing movements were getting slower and slower, so he grabbed his armor and threw him backwards with one arm.

"Escort General Liu to the ship first!"

Fang Xie shouted, and the big Mo knife in his hand danced out a curtain of light, overturning four or five of the rebels who came up. Liu Kuo's own soldiers supported him to retreat, and he struggled and wanted to rush forward. This general who does not accept the old does not want to show weakness in front of the future life.

"General Liu!"

Fang Xie shouted while killing people: "Take a break, and when I'm tired, you can change me!" ”

Liu Kuo's heart warmed, knowing that Fang Xie was taking care of his face. He looked back and saw that most of the boat had been swept away by the water, so he immediately strode over, jumped into the water and dragged back a boat that had just drifted away. The moment he entered the water, the river was immediately stained red.

There is his own blood, and there is the blood of the enemy.

After Fang Xie and the people in the camp were cut off, eleven people stood in a row to protect their comrades behind them. The dense spear poked over, clanging on the Mingguang armor, and Chun Gu changed the Chaolu knife of the solution with a bad hand, and one was poked by the spear without paying attention and staggered to the ground. The armor on her body was too heavy, and her strength was almost exhausted, and she tried to stand up twice, but she couldn't get up.

When the rebels saw that someone had fallen, they immediately pounced on them like crazy, and smashed their spears and knives at Chun Gu like a rainstorm. When the butcher saw that his wife was in danger of falling to the ground, he immediately strode over, blocked the rebels' attack with his back, and stretched out his hands to pick up Chun Gu. On his back, there was a clanging sound of enemy weapons.

Chun Gu looked at the burly and ugly man in front of her, and her eyes were full of tenderness.

Fang Xie took a step aside, swept the blade and brought down the rebels who were attacking the butcher one layer down, and then urged Chun Gu to retreat. Seeing that Fang Xie and the others had retreated to the river, where would the rebels who had suffered a big loss easily let go, and rushed forward like countless beasts. Fortunately, because there were few people and a small battle group, no matter how many rebels there were, it was impossible for them to rush up at the same time.

Every time Fang Xie took a step back, several corpses fell in front of him. Four or five steps behind was the river, and the ground under his feet was slippery, and his steps became unsteady.

The pontoon bridge is still more than fifty meters from the north bank, and many archers from the left front have been silted on the pontoon bridge and are constantly firing arrows to support.

But the pontoon bridge is only that wide after all, so this support will not help. Many people were shot by the rebel archers, fell into the ox river and were swept away.

Liu Kuo struggled to drag back a small boat, but all the fishermen who drove the boat were killed by feather arrows, and the other boats had gradually drifted away. At this time, there were still fifty or sixty people left, and it was obviously impossible to go back by this small boat.

"Left avant-garde soldiers!"

Liu Kuo stuffed the rope on the boat into Chungu's hand, and then danced the lance and killed it back: "When we need to break it, we can't give it to others!" Under the command of the general, there is no one who is afraid of death! Those who wore the uniforms of the left avant-garde all followed Lao Tzu to kill back! ”

Dozens of soldiers from the left vanguard Jingbu battalion shouted and rushed forward after him. Relying on a force of blood and the combat effectiveness of the Jingbu battalion, dozens of people counter-charged and suppressed the rebels back four or five paces away.

"General Fang, cross the river quickly!"

Liu Kuo shouted while killing people: "If you can't go back, our people will all die in vain!" ”

Fang Jie's heart was sour when he heard this, he gritted his teeth and shook his head: "If I go back, don't think about sleeping peacefully from now on!" Since we are destined to die here, let's just let it go! ”

Liu Kuo's heart was hot, and he couldn't take care of anything else: "Okay, then let's let it go!" ”

At this moment, suddenly the rebels on the high slope of the shore let out an exclamation. Immediately after, the rebels' formation began to be chaotic. The rebel overseers could be heard shouting, but soon the rebel ranks around the river continued to retreat. From their shouts, Fang Xie could hear a sense of fear.

As soon as the pressure in front of him was relaxed, he couldn't help but glance back.

On the lower reaches of the Yellow Cow River, more than a dozen huge black shadows on the wide river quickly floated over. His face was covered with blood, and Fang Xie wiped it vigorously before he could see that the huge black shadow was clearly a dozen huge warships. Behind these behemoths, countless masts gradually became clear.

Great Sui Water Division!

The rebels did not have such a powerful naval division, and the increasingly clear red battle flag on the warship was like a shining sun at this time, which immediately warmed the hearts of all the Sui soldiers who were still alive on the north shore.

Dozens of Yellow Dragon clippers rode the waves from behind the ship, and the archers on board began to strike at the rebels on the northern shore. And on the big ship parked in the center of the river, the ballista on the side of the ship began to exert its power collectively. Hundreds of ballistae, nearly 10,000 archers poured out feathered arrows, and immediately spread a layer of white feathers on the north bank. It looks as if the banks of the river are covered with white grass.

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The Yellow Dragon Clippers were lined up near the northern shore, each carrying at least 200 soldiers. And the sailor soldiers are all excellent archers. Standing on the boat and condescendingly shooting at the rebels on the riverbank, the sailors of the Great Sui were simply slaughtering.

The rebel array finally shattered, and the soldiers fled backwards with wails. The overseer team killed dozens of people one after another, but it couldn't stop the rebel soldiers' desire to survive, and once their courage was broken, they couldn't pinch a piece in a short period of time. Like frightened swarms of ants, the riverbank was full of rebels fleeing into the distance.

The archers on the Yellow Dragon Clipper shot at least five arrows each, and there was almost no place to stay on this section of the river. Densely packed, the white feathers inserted in the ground made people's hearts shocked beyond measure.

Seeing the rebels retreating, several centipede clippers were lowered on the Huanglong boat, which could transport dozens of soldiers at an incomparable speed, and dozens of soldiers slid their oars at the same time, as if several huge centipedes were stepping on the water and rushing towards the north shore.

After the sailors went ashore, they began to set up defenses, using phalanxes to protect them behind them.

A sailor general wearing armor got off the centipede clipper, glanced at the stump and severed arm in front of them, and couldn't help but change his face. At first, the fleet of the sailors was thinking that it was a large-scale clash between the left front guard and the rebels, and the left front guard was forcibly crossing the Yellow Cow River. Because the rebels on the north shore are densely packed, it seems that at least tens of thousands of people have gathered. Therefore, Duan Zheng, the general who commanded the water division, immediately ordered the water division to assist, and was still complaining in his heart why Zuo Qianwei Qiangdu did not send someone to contact the water division to coordinate.

But when it came closer, the sailors found that there were only dozens of Sui soldiers trapped on the north bank.

The sailor general has been in the army for many years, but he has never seen such a tragic battlefield. Dozens of Sui soldiers, everyone who is still alive now is like a bloody person. Their armor is red, their hair is red, and their faces are red. At the feet of these living people are dead people.

The sailor couldn't count how many corpses there were, there were so many that his heart twitched.

He could not imagine how this team, with a total strength of less than three hundred and fifty men, could hold out in the midst of tens of thousands of enemy troops. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it no matter who mentioned it to him. The disparity in strength is so great that it can be called a myth at all.

The blood flowed through his feet and into the great river.

He straightened up, and then gave the most standard Great Sui military salute!

Fang Xie sat down on the bloody muddy ground and thrust the Da Mo knife to his side.

"General, do me a favor...... Brothers who have left their lives here, the corpses cannot be left behind. Please call someone, identify it, and transport our corpses back to the Ox River. I have to wash their bodies, sew up their wounds, change into clean clothes, and bury them......"

The sailor nodded vigorously, and personally led the people to look for the people of the left avant-garde Jingbu battalion in the pile of corpses.

Liu Kuo sat down next to him, glanced at Fang Xie and suddenly laughed: "I have always looked down on the little white face, I used to think that the little white face was useless except for the face and ass. ”

Fang Xie knew that Liu Kuo must have other meanings in his words, but he didn't know much about the left forward, so he couldn't guess, and besides, he was so tired that he couldn't wait to lie down, where would he have the strength to guess any more mysteries.

"It doesn't really look like a compliment to me."

Fang Xie smiled, and groped his pipe out of the deerskin pouch with trembling hands, but when he took out the tobacco, he found that the tobacco was soaked, and the red blood flowed down his fingers. As if he had made a fool of himself, he shoved the blood-dripping tobacco into his pipe and took out the fire breaker.

The tobacco was so wet that he lit it for a long time before taking a puff.

There was a strong smell of blood in the mouth.

Squirting the spicy smell of blood out of his mouth, Fang Xie finally breathed a sigh of relief. The tense muscles relaxed and the trembling fingers finally regained their composure.

"First killing?"

Liu Kuo looked at him and asked in surprise: "The first time you killed someone?" ”

Fang Xie shook his head and took a mouthful of bloody smear: "It's the first time to kill so many people." ”

He glanced at the wound on Liu Kuo's shoulder, took off the chain armor for him, and then found the wound medicine that was also soaked in blood and applied it, Liu Kuo didn't feel the pain now, and let Fang untie his shirt and wrap the wound.

"I'll get used to it later."

Liu Kuo took off the wine sac, poured a sip and handed it to Fang Jie: "You are very good, people of your age, I have seen too many people who are scared of feces and urine incontinence for the first time on the battlefield." The first time I killed someone, I was so scared that I didn't sleep for days and nights. As soon as I closed my eyes, I could see the man I had killed dangling in front of me. Carrying his head, he staggered ......"

Fang Xie snorted, only then did he realize that he was really not a little afraid.

Among the hosts, in the desperate situation.

He thought of death, but he had no fear.

He took a sip of his wine and looked back at the corpses scattered all over the ground.

He felt an urge to count the number of corpses on the ground.

Under the control of the sailors, the men and horses of the left avant-garde began to cross the river. Luo Yao, who didn't want to have any direct conflict with the rebels, had to do it now, and the general of the water division, Duan Zheng, watched with his eyes, if such a good opportunity didn't take advantage of the situation to cross the river, it would be impossible to say anything anyway.

Fang Xie himself did not expect that this action of coming to investigate the news would actually prompt the left avant-garde to attack, and the army of the Great Sui set foot on the land occupied by the rebels for the first time. I don't know, he disrupted the steps that Luo Yao had already set.

When he, Liu Kuo and others were transported back to the south bank of the Yellow River by the warship and stepped on the shore with both feet.

The soldiers of the left vanguard gathered on the bank of the river involuntarily erupted in cheers. They spontaneously moved out of the way, and everyone looked at Fang Xie with sincere respect in their eyes. I don't know who took the lead in putting his right arm across his chest, and gradually everyone raised their right arm to express their reverence with the most standard Great Sui military salute.

Soldiers, respect is never cowardice.

The hero returns.

Fang Xie looked at the soldiers, and suddenly found that he was enjoying the scene. In front of him were countless pairs of respectful eyes, and behind him were the sailors of the Great Sui who carried the soldiers across the Yellow Cow River. He stood in the middle of the soldiers, and suddenly he had the illusion that he was holding the whole world.

It's great

Fascinating.