Chapter 18: Li Yan's First Battle

Li Yan sat on horseback and came to a small hillside in front of him staring intently at the village in front of him, it had been a while, and none of the three horsemen sent by Lei Ming had returned.

Suddenly, on the big tree in front of the village, frightened birds flew up, and Li Yan had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"All troops on alert!" Li Yan commanded the sergeant behind him.

Five hundred cavalrymen, one after another, unsheathed their long knives, looked ahead, and waited for Li Yan to give an order and rushed into the village.

"Childe, look! Someone is out! Han Qian, who was beside Li Yan, pointed to the person who was running towards him and said.

"It's He Laosan, he's back!" Lei Ming saw that the person who came and said to Li Yan excitedly.

This He Laosan is a veteran of the Chengbei Battalion, a scout, and when the cavalry was formed before, Lei Ming asked him from the Chengbei Battalion.

As the war horse got closer and closer, there was a sergeant lying on the horse's back, with two arrows stuck in his back, one of which pierced He Laosan's ribs.

He Laosan let the war horse run towards Li Yan and them, there were still seven or eight steps away from Li Yan, and the whole person fell off the horse, unconscious.

Lei Ming walked quickly to He Laosan's side and held He Laosan up his head, but at this moment, blood continued to flow from the corners of He Laosan's mouth.

"General, there are Hun thieves in the village, and there are also in the east of the village! Be careful~" He Laosan finished speaking in his last breath, and his big eyes were open and motionless.

Lei Ming covered He Laosan's eyes and gently put He Laosan down.

"General! Hurry up and give the order! It is estimated that there will not be too many Huns in the village, so we will rush in. Lei Ming looked at He Laosan who was dead in his arms and said angrily.

Li Yan looked at the arrows stuck in He Laosan's body, and then looked at Lei Ming and the sergeant with angry faces behind him, and then ordered: "Brother Han, you lead two hundred people into the village from the east path, and the rest of the people will rush in with me." ”

Han Qian took the lead and rushed towards the village from the other side.

"The army listened to the order and rushed in with the general! Kill! Li Yan rode a shadow and held a horse lance, and more than 200 cavalry behind him rushed into the village.

At this time, in the village, two teams of Huns sat in the village houses, all of them showed their clothes, eating beef, drinking wine, and shouting.

On the ground lay the bodies of seven or eight women, all with blue noses and swollen faces, curled up in a ball bare-chested, apparently defiled before their deaths, and outside the house were the corpses of old and young lying on the ground, disemboweled, covered with entrails, and flies flying everywhere.

"Major General, your archery skills are really amazing, both arrows hit that Xiliang soldier, come! A bowl of wine for you! A young man was sitting in a group of people in the Hun crowd, and someone was toasting him.

The young man was dressed in golden armor, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a light-colored knife mark on his face and a small piece of animal bone hanging from his neck.

"Haha! That's natural, Ben Jiang has been on the expedition with his father since he was ten years old, and over the years, he has experienced more than ten battles, how can you compare? Come! Drink! Frustrated Qu Jiji looked proud and said with a laugh.

"The general broke through the Xiliang Horse Farm the day before yesterday, captured more than 1,000 good horses, and 1,000 stones of grain, and the king will definitely reward him heavily after he goes back, and he may enter the general, and he will be as reused by the king as the general of Fuqu for a hundred years." A Hun man next to him said with a flattering face.

"Good! Feel relieved! Your benefits will be indispensable! Ha ha! Frustrated and laughed wildly.

"My father didn't know why he didn't return, but he had more than a thousand horses. Besides, he also shot Yang Yi, the Taishou of Xihai, who killed Xiliang, maybe the king will give his father a marquis. After two days in this place where birds don't poop, there is not a single Han woman left. Frustrated Qu Jiji looked displeased.

"Come on! I'll wait for a bowl of toasting the little marquis! I'll just find another village tonight, and the little monkey doesn't have to be angry. A Hun man next to him picked up a wine bowl and said to Fuqu Jiji.

At this moment, Li Yan was leading the army to rush into the village, and he saw corpses everywhere along the road, emitting a foul smell.

On the way, Li Yan also saw two scouts sent out by Lei Ming, both of whom were hit by several arrows and fell into the ditch on the side of the road.

"What's going on? Ebony, go check it out! Frustrated, he heard the neighing of the horses outside the house and commanded to a man beside him.

Frustrated Qu Jiji picked up the scimitar placed beside him, and quickly stood up, with many years of experience in battle, Fuqu Jiji didn't dare to be careless, everyone saw Fuqu Jiji stand up, got up one after another, held their breath and looked out of the door.

"Yes! Major General! The Hun named Wulu got up and walked out of the house.

Li Yan and the others had already entered the village, and they split up and rushed forward to kill.

The moment Ebony walked out of the door, a long arrow pierced his throat, and Ebony grabbed his throat with his hand, and landed on the ground with a few "gurgling" sounds.

It was an arrow shot by Lei Ming with hatred, and the three-stone strong bow was two hundred paces away, directly piercing the dark throat.

The sound of black brown falling to the ground disturbed the Huns in the house, and they shouted and rushed out of the house with scimitars.

"Enemy attack! Get on board! Frustrated Qu Jiji rushed out first.

A low horn sounded, and the Huns issued an early warning, and suddenly the Huns in the village picked up the scimitars in their hands and got on their horses.

"Kill! Not a single one to stay! Li Yan stabbed at a Hun man who came out of the house.

"Poof!" The horse lance in Li Yan's hand directly pierced the chest of the Huns.

The cavalry behind Li Yan held a big knife and slashed at the head of the oncoming Huns.

This group of Huns did not feel the slightest panic in the face of Li Yan's surprise attack. Facing the Zhenbei army that rushed towards them, they quickly dodged, and the scimitar in their hands slashed on the horse's leg, and the Zhenbei army sergeant on the horse fell from the horse and was instantly killed by the scimitar of the Huns.

Soon the Huns all got on horseback and turned to kill Li Yan and them.

"Major General, let's go! I can't wait for a hundred horsemen, so I will go to the east end of the village to meet General Tuli first. A Hun beside him said to him.

"What's the panic? There are only more than 200 Xiliang soldiers, how can my Daliang warriors retreat without a fight? General Tuli will lead the army himself, if something happens to this general, his father will pick his skin, and kill him with this general! Frustrated Qu Jiji shouted after cutting down a cavalry of the Zhenbei Army beside him.

"General, there are many soldiers in Xiliang, let's avoid the edge for the time being, and meet General Tuli first!" The Huns beside him persuaded again.

"Shut up! If we mess with our army's heart again, we will never spare it! Frustrated Qu Jiji said angrily.

Although Li Yan and their numbers were large, this group of Huns didn't care at all, they were all the guards who stayed by Fuqu Yihe to protect him, although there were less than two hundred people, but all of them crawled out of the pile of dead people.

"Kill!" Li Yan rode the shadow, and the horse lance in his hand took a life from time to time.

Li Yan took advantage of the rapid speed of the shadow, and the horse lance in his hand made it impossible for the Huns holding scimitars to get close to him.

The sharp horse lance in Li Yan's hand pierced into the leather armor of the Huns, and the three-foot-long lance directly pierced the Huns' body, and the remaining plot on the lance blocked the pierced Huns' body, and with the strong impact of the shadow, the horse lance in Li Yan's hand bent slightly upward.

Li Yan gently pushed forward, and the Huns who were stabbed by the lance bounced off the horse.

The cavalry of the Zhenbei Army around them, some of them struggled to cut out a knife before they died, cutting off the horses and feet of the Huns, and then they were fiercely pressed under the horses.

On the other side, the spear in his hand kept piercing into the body of the Huns, and Lei Ming's face and body were splashed with blood, and he couldn't tell whether it was his own blood or the enemy's blood.

After fighting for nearly an hour, more than half of the Huns in the village had been killed, and only a few dozen horsemen were ready to rush out to protect the Huns.

Frustrated Qu Jiji originally wanted to use the elite cavalry in his hands to wipe out Li Yan and them, but suddenly found that this was not a sheep, but a wolf like them. And his father Fuqu Yi and his cronies Tu Li did not lead troops to support him, at this moment, Fuqu Jiji gritted his teeth with hatred in his heart, and he must avenge today's revenge when he goes back.

When they were about to meet the Hun squad in the east of the village, they found that there were also cavalry of the Zhenbei Army fighting in the east of the village.

At this time, Han Qian in the east of the village had already killed all the Huns there and was about to gather Li Yan and them in the village.

"Childe, Han Qian is here. I just met a reluctant Hun general who wasted some time, and the Huns in the east of the village have solved it! Han Qian said to Li Yan in front of him with an excited face.

Dozens of people in Fuqu and his entourage have been surrounded by Li Yan and them, and after rushing and killing twice, there are only a dozen horsemen left around them.

At this moment, he regretted it in his heart, if Li Yan and the others rushed in, they would directly flee for their lives, and the cavalry of the Zhenbei Army would not be able to catch up at all.

But at this moment, he now has a dozen horsemen trapped outside a collapsed house in the village, waiting for what will happen to him.

After the Zhenbei army behind Li Yan surrounded Fuqu Jiji and others, Li Yan directly ordered all the soldiers to draw bows and arrows, at this time Li Yan didn't want to increase casualties in vain, the trapped beast was still fighting, and the rabbit was in a hurry and bit people.

Frustrated Qu Jiji watched Li Yan directly order to shoot himself with arrows, sweating like rain, and said in stiff Chinese: "The general on the other side is slow, my father is Fuqu Yihe, if the general on the other side can spare my life, my father will definitely repay the general heavily!" ”

Li Yan looked at the frustrated Qu Jiji in golden armor, thinking in his heart about the villagers who were slaughtered, these people had the blood of the people of Liangguo on their hands, would those people who died tragically under the butcher's knives of the Huns agree to let them live?

"Put!" Li Yan gritted his teeth and held back a word.

With Li Yan's order, hundreds of arrows flew towards the crowd, and Fu Qu Jiji was pierced through his throat by a thunderous arrow, and his eyes were wide open before he died.

A black arrow instantly shot more than a dozen Huns into targets.

After shooting them to death, Li Yan heard the thunder and reported that the cavalry of the Zhenbei Army had killed one hundred and fifty-six people in this raid, and more than thirty others were injured to varying degrees, and two were seriously injured.

Li Yan ordered the wounded to treat their wounds, and the rest of the sergeants gathered all the corpses of the Huns after cutting off their ears, and all the valuable belongings on their bodies were scraped. Then all the corpses of the slaughtered villagers in the village were carried to the small hillside at the east end of the village and buried.

The sergeants were killed in this battle, Li Yan ordered people to gather them, most of these people were homeless people from Luoyang, Guanzhong, and they could not find their original hometowns at all, Li Yan could only order someone to bury them on the side of the road when they came, and set up a tombstone.

"General Qiyu, a total of 182 Huns were killed in this battle, and one person claimed to be the son of the pseudo-Liang thief general Fuqu Yihe. We suffered 197 casualties and captured more than 200 horses. Lei Ming came to Li Yan's side and reported.

"Hmmm! Set them on fire! Li Yan pointed to a large pile of Hun corpses in front of him and said.

Lei Ming quickly ordered the sergeant to bring a large amount of firewood, and with an order, the raging fire swallowed up the corpses of the Huns.

After disposing of the corpses of the Huns, Li Yan ordered that the war horses killed in the battle and the war horses whose legs were cut off and could not fight were killed, put in a pot and stewed for the sergeants to eat.

Horse meat is actually really hard to eat, and the horse meat in the pot is bubbling, but the horse meat is relatively nutritious.

"General, should we go straight to Xihai County or to Xihai Ranch?" Lei Ming gathered the sergeant and said to Li Yan.

These cavalry of the Zhenbei Army had only been formed for a short time, and they looked at the companions they had been with day and night in the past, and some were people they had never known before, with sad expressions on their faces.

"Send scouts to the east and north to inquire about the whereabouts of the Huns, and report back in time if there is a situation." Li Yan commanded.

After Lei Ming arranged for scouts to inquire about the news, Li Yan and his party got on the horse and went straight to Xihai County.