XXVII. Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia (4)

The tall and thin scout's eyes widened, and he turned his head in horror, and heard a thunderous sound of horses' hooves in the woods, and another rain of arrows shot out, and the tall thin man and several scouts took the weapons in their hands to block them, poof, a few muffled sounds, the tall and thin man knew that his companion behind him had been hit by an arrow, and the tall and thin man quickly turned around and fled, his right hand trembled and tried to blow the whistle hanging on his neck, only to hear the sound of the horse's hooves behind him getting louder and louder, and suddenly, his neck hurt, his eyes went black, and he lost consciousness.

Taking advantage of the momentum of the horse, a Mongolian cavalryman with a blue ribbon tied around his waist chopped off the long-haired rebel with long hair with a knife, ignoring the blood dripping from the knife, pointed to the south with the knife, shouted loudly in Mongolian, and pinched the horse's belly, the Mongolian horse rushed out like an arrow, and the Mongolian cavalry behind him surged forward like a flood with a sword, and the tall and thin corpse under the horse's hooves had been trampled into a human body, and the original face of the tall and thin man could not be seen at all.

There were still some scouts who were killed before they made a whistle with an enemy situation, and the leader of the Taiping Army who heard the whistle hurriedly knelt under Li Kaifang's horse: "Master Hou, the cavalry of the Qing Demon came from the north, and it is estimated that there are four or five thousand people!" ”

Li Kaifang was shocked, and then said disapplausively: "Only four or five thousand soldiers and horses, what kind of people does the Qing Demon think he is, and he dares to rush more than 10,000 people who cross the river against us?" Pass my order, tell the veteran battalion to go first, be sure to destroy the enemy according to it, let the recruits see the majesty of the veterans, let's go all the way to Shaanzhou for dinner! There is no need to tell the Jinghu Houye in the back, how can we be as stable as a rock here! ”

"Yes!"

After a meal, Wei Mingfu, the deputy commander of the third battalion of veterans, stumbled to Li Kaifang, who was still waiting for dinner, and gave Pinghu Hou Li Kaifang a cold and heart-cold bad news on a hot day: "Hou, Hou Ye, the Mongolian cavalry who came!" The brothers couldn't resist and were already scattered! ”

Li Kaifang was furious when he heard this, got off the horse and kicked Wei Mingfu away, "Waste! Pulled out the golden knife at his waist, "Lao Tzu chopped you!" Desperately stopped by the relatives on the side, Li Kaifang broke free of the relatives and threw the golden knife on the ground, the shining golden knife was extremely sharp, and the whole knife sank into the river sand on the bank of the Yellow River, leaving only a tiger-like handle on the ground, "This knife was given to me by the King of Heaven, Ben Hou will give it to you now, go up with a few battalions of veterans, and take this knife to chop off the head of the leader of the Qing Demon Army to see me!" If you lose, you don't have to come back," Li Kaifang's voice turned cold, "Just use this knife to kill yourself!" ”

Wei Mingfu stomped his feet, pulled out the golden knife, turned around and mounted his horse, and ran forward without looking back.

Li Kaifang squinted his eyes and looked ahead, and then spoke: "Immediately wave the flag to inform Jing Huhou, postpone crossing the river, and wait for Benhou to kill these Qing demons before crossing the river!" ”

"Yes!"

Lin Fengxiang rode a horse on the bank of the Yellow River and looked at the flag from the Taiping Army on the north bank, and couldn't help but be slightly surprised, he didn't expect the Qing Demon to be so ruthless, and he attacked halfway! If there is an army of Qing demons gathered on the north bank, then I am afraid that the south side is also indispensable!

Lin Fengxiang turned the horse's head and waved the whip fiercely, the horse under the crotch was in pain, the four hooves were in the air, and the arrows were shot to the south.

When he arrived in Bishui Town, Lin Fengxiang looked at the surroundings and did not move, put down his snack slightly, and was about to turn around and cross the river to support Li Kaifang, but he didn't expect the sound of fighting to come from the west, Lin Fengxiang's face changed greatly, and the relatives around him trembled, their faces were a little ugly, and they all turned their heads and ears, Lin Fengxiang shouted: "What are you panicking about!" It's just a few enemy sneak attacks! We don't know the quality of the demon yet! Waiting for the scouts to return! ”

Wei Mingfu didn't come back in the end, only one scout came back, and he trembled and said: "Master Hou, the brothers of the old battalion rushed up and were all scattered by the Mongolian cavalry, General Wei Mingfu has been killed in battle, and the front is no longer able to resist, and now he is about to rush over!" ”

Li Kaifang was dizzy for a while, the sky was dark, and he almost fell off the horse, the left and right guards hurriedly supported the Pinghu Hou of the Heavenly Kingdom, Li Kaifang calmed down, pondered for a while, twisted his eyebrows, made up his mind, and said suddenly: "Order, order Huang Yanduan's headquarters to go to the northeast, Xie Jinsheng's department to the north, Ben Hou to lead the rest to the west, when the time comes, we will meet under the city of Shaanzhou, hehe, I want to see, how to chase the cavalry of the Qing Demon now!" Swift Order! ”

"Yes!"

Monk Lingqin stood on the hill not far from Fenglingdu and watched the battle on the edge of Fenglingdu with clairvoyance, and saw that the Mongolian cavalry had scattered several groups of people and horses of the Taiping army, he couldn't help but nod and said with a smile: "Horqin's cavalry is still very brave," After a while, seeing that the Taiping army on the edge of Fenglingdu faintly gathered into several piles of men and horses, and drove in all directions, Monk Greenqin even trembled with joy, "Haha, the traitor thinks that the cavalry of the king will have nothing to do with them?" It's ridiculous, this king has already laid a net from heaven to earth, just waiting for you shrimp soldiers and crabs to come from the net! The herald ordered the Horqin cavalry to drive the two teams to the north to the encirclement and annihilate them in one fell swoop, and the large army in the west strictly ordered the Jianrui battalion and the Xiaoyong battalion in the west to surround me, and not let go of a single soldier, if they can't resist, tell them to come to see me! ”

"Wow!" A series of fireworks of various colors took off into the air one after another, and after emitting a loud scream, various sparks exploded in the air one after another.

Huang Kaiduan drove a horse and looked at the north gallop away, followed by the Taiping army troops led by himself with weapons, in the charge of the Horqin cavalry just now, Huang Kaiduan's troops lost a lot, and some people behind were still hung with colors, Huang Huanduan saw that the middle of the two hills was the official road, and the official road was empty, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said to the soldiers behind him with a smile: "The Qing demon has no plan, so that there is no military garrison at such a pass, so that we can rush all the way to the city of Shaanzhou!" With a wave of the horsewhip, he took the lead, took the lead, ran to the place where the green mountains were opposite, and suddenly the horse screamed, and jumped, Huang Yanduan only felt that his body swished, and the clouds flew up in the fog, thinking: "It's not good, it's a stumbling horse!" "I didn't have time to react, and I didn't know who fell on the ground.

Countless clusters of arrows were shot out on the two hills, under the attack of the unexpected arrow rain, one-third of the Taiping army led by Huang Yuduan lost their combat effectiveness and fell to the ground in mourning, and the remaining Taiping army did not have time to panic, only to hear a cannon sound, and hundreds of people in iron armor turned out of the Zhaowuda Mongolian Department behind the hill, and those Mongolian cavalry rushed up with a knife in Mongolian language, followed by a team of green battalion soldiers who shouted wow! The Taiping soldiers watched the main general fall to the ground and didn't know who was wrong, and some of their robes were taken away by the rain of arrows, and the army's heart was suddenly lost, and they screamed, and hurriedly scattered in all directions, and this was a one-sided slaughter.

After Huang Kai fell face down on the ground, the soldiers of the Eight Banners Guard Battalion who stumbled over the horse rope rushed up, tied Huang Kaiduan's hands back tightly, and after tying them up, he was not at ease, I am afraid that this rebel broke free and tied a dead knot, which turned Huang Kaiduan over, and saw that the bridge of the traitor's nose had been broken, and the nosebleed was like a spring, the little soldier looked at the clothes on Huang Kaiduan's body, and shouted with joy: "My God, the ancestors blessed, actually let me pick up a big fish!" As he spoke, he wiped the blood off Huang Yanduan's face, tied the legs and feet of the traitor with ropes, and excitedly dragged Huang Yanduan aside, ready to ask the chief for credit.