Chapter 304: Battle of wits and courage
In the easternmost part of the hill, one hundred and fifty Western Xia soldiers have begun to assemble, and the main general Ye Li'an originally planned to raid the mountain again in a short time, but the sound of the horn from the east made him suddenly realize that the Song army on the mountain was about to move, Ye Li'an immediately changed his plan and immediately attacked the mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, during the day, the magic arrows of the Song soldiers left a deep impression on Ye Li'an, which made him feel uneasy, and he did not dare to be careless, so he ordered thirty heavily armored soldiers to hold shields to open the way in front, and ordered fifty soldiers to use longbows to release arrows at the top of the mountain, and suppressed each other with arrows.
This is the experience that Norian summed up during the day to try to attack, the opponent's weakness is that the number is too small, so use superior forces to suppress the opponent, and they will be able to go up the mountain smoothly.
At the sound of the order, fifty crossbowmen took turns firing arrows at the top of the mountain, and thirty heavily armored soldiers climbed towards the top of the hill under the cover of arrows......
Li Yanqing had already gone around the pine forest from the side, the dense pine forest obscured the moonlight and starlight, making the forest pitch black, even if his eyes were accustomed to the darkness, he could only see the vague trunk, and under his feet were thick pine needles, like a soft carpet, so that he only made a faint rustling sound when he ran.
Li Yanqing circled around the pine forest, convinced that there was no one in the pine forest, so he rushed out of the woods, he knew that as soon as the horn sounded, the attack of the Western Xia people would begin, and there was not much time left for him.
Li Yanqing hid behind a big tree, like a layer of silver moonlight, he could see very clearly, a total of twenty soldiers hiding behind a mess of rocks, two of them lying on the ground, with arrows stuck in their bodies, and the other eighteen people all looked nervously at the opposite side of the ravine, holding bows and arrows in their hands, leaving their backs to him.
Li Yanqing weighed for a moment, then inserted the short sword back into the sheath, and pulled out five daggers from his back, the Western Xia army was the same as the Song army, the dagger capital was the standard configuration of the soldiers, but the daggers of the Western Xia soldiers were relatively slender, which was related to their living habits, which was convenient for cutting and piercing meat.
Li Yanqing swept the dagger and found the feeling, he suddenly waved his hand, and continuously projected, five cold lights shot like lightning towards the Xixia soldiers thirty steps away, only to hear a series of screams, five Xixia soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and the Xixia soldiers were so frightened that they pulled their bows and fired arrows into the forest room.
At the same time as Li Yanqing made a move, he dodged behind another big tree a few zhang away, he didn't expect the slender dagger of the Xixia people to be so handy, and the lethality was stronger than his stones, he regretted it a little in his heart, he knew that he should bring all the daggers with him.
Li Yanqing pulled out the last five daggers, and took advantage of the gap when the Western Xia soldiers had just finished releasing the first round of arrows and were drawing arrows to take the bow, he dodged and shot again, and five cold lights shot at the five soldiers on the right one after another, and the five flying knives were all inserted into the face door, killing them with one sword.
The remaining eight soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and ran down the mountain, but Li Yanqing didn't give them a chance, dodged and ran out of the woods, and continued to hit stones in the back, he shot extremely hard, and the target was directly the opponent's head, even if he was wearing a helmet, the eight soldiers were beaten and rolled to the ground, and three soldiers rolled into the ravine.
Li Yanqing drew his sword to catch up, except for the three who fell into the ravine, the remaining five soldiers were killed by him with a sword.
"It's all gone, come here!" Li Yanqing shouted to the other side of the ravine.
"Lao Li, what should I do with the horse? They can't get by. ”
Li Yanqing was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect this question, he really couldn't get over, he just climbed the hillside with his hands and feet, he groaned, and shouted decisively: "Let a brother ride them away and ride them in the direction of Wulong Village." ”
"Lao Li, you can ride away!"
"Nonsense! I'm leaving, I'm leaving a long time ago, let Jiang Ah Si ride away, his riding skills are the best. ”
Jiang Ah Si was a sergeant under Li Yanqing, who was responsible for managing the horses of the cavalry, and his riding skills were the most strong.
"Okay!" Wang Gui agreed, and asked Ah Si to take two horses down the mountain.
Li Yanqing shouted again: "Beware of the outer Western Xia spies!" ”
"Li joins the army, don't worry! I'll be careful. ”
Jiang Asi led two horses down the mountain from the trail, and after a while, Wang Gui and others climbed to the top of the mountain, Wang Gui saw that there were three soldiers in the ravine, so he rolled up his sleeves and went down the ravine himself, killed the three seriously injured Western Xia soldiers, and collected their bows and arrows and weapons up the mountain.
"Lao Li, it's time to send it, I got twenty pairs of bows and arrows, and they still have two pairs of arrows."
Li Yanqing nodded, "The ambush archers are all equipped with double arrows, and their daggers are very practical, so collect them for me." ”
Everyone worked together, collected the armor, weapons, bows and arrows, and the corpses were pushed into the ravine, Wang Gui's confidence was more sufficient, and he killed more than forty people, as long as the strategy was right, they didn't even need reinforcements, they could kill all these Western Xia soldiers.
"What do we do next?"
Li Yanqing said with a smile: "Make full use of our favorable conditions, deal with the enemy, and gradually devour them." ”
"Li joins the army, you give the order!" All the soldiers looked at Li Yanqing, and they were full of confidence in Li Yanqing.
Li Yanqing thought for a while and said to Wang Gui: "You take five brothers to the west of the woods, and I will take four brothers to block the east, if you can't stop it, immediately retreat into the woods." ”
Wang Gui's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "This is a pine forest, we can burn the forest." ”
Li Yanqing smiled and nodded, "This is the favorable condition I said, but don't worry, let's kill some more Western Xia soldiers first." ”
"That's right! Fuck these bitches. ”
Wang Gui led five soldiers into the woods and walked towards the woods to the west.
Li Yanqing divided the four soldiers into two teams, each guarding the slopes on both sides, and he himself took five pots of arrows and hid behind a big rock, like a hunter who had laid a trap, patiently waiting for the arrival of the Western Xia soldiers.
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At the same time that Wang Gui led his soldiers across the ravine, the Western Xia soldiers also occupied the easternmost hill, and Yelian immediately divided his troops into two routes, and ordered a chief to lead fifty soldiers to the west, and from the west to the mountain, he left ten more men to take care of the war horses, and he led ninety soldiers to the west to kill.
Ye Li'an has been active in the Song Dynasty for more than ten years, and has captured countless Han slaves, but he has never been so passive as today, led by the enemy, in fact, he is now full of loopholes, this hill is twenty miles long, with his strength can not take care of it at all, the person he wants to arrest may have already sneaked down the mountain and slipped away, and now Ye Li'an can only bet on it, he bets that the Song Dynasty official will not leave others to flee alone.
An hour later, ninety Western Xia soldiers also arrived at the huge ravine, "General, the ravine is full of corpses, all of them are our people!" "A soldier found a body in a ravine.
No wonder there is no news anymore, it turns out that they were all killed by the other party, Ye Li'an gritted his teeth with hatred, but he was also secretly frightened, he was killed forty people without even seeing the other party's face, the other party is not an ordinary person, why didn't he get the information about this?
"Everyone listen to my orders, don't rush to attack!"
Yelian was not in a hurry to attack, he had to wait for the fifty men in the west to arrive before launching an offensive, and the Song army would be defeated if it was attacked from the east and west.
He hid behind a big rock and stared at the opposite side, under the moonlight, the opposite side was very clear, there were only a dozen big stones, and a hundred steps away was a pine forest, this was a good place for ambush! His intuition told him that Song Jun was hiding among a few large rocks and pine forests.
"General, we found this!"
Two soldiers ran and handed him two volumes of paperwork, "found in a horse bag." ”
Wild Ian took the paperwork, which was sealed and stamped with a seal, which seemed to be an official document, and a strong interest suddenly rose in his heart, and he beckoned to a soldier with a torch in his hand, and the soldier hurriedly brought the torch to him.
Li Yanqing and the others who were hiding behind the big stone were this opportunity, under the firelight, a general was tearing open the official document he left, needless to say, this person must be the main general of the enemy army.
Li Yanqing did not hesitate, suddenly flashed out, pulled the bow like a full moon, and the string loosened, 'Collapse!' A wolf-tooth arrow shot like lightning into the enemy general's forehead.
It was also at this time that Yelian heard the sound of the bowstring, and instinctively raised his head, only to see an arrow suddenly appear in front of him, he was immediately shocked, and before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his eyebrows, and his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.
The power of this arrow was extremely strong, the tip of the arrow entered from between the eyebrows, shot through the head, and most of the bloody arrows penetrated from the back of the head, and the commander of the Western Xia army, Ye Li'an, was killed on the spot.
The Western Xia soldiers were in a big confusion and retreated, and at this time, one of the leaders shouted: "Don't panic, there is only one enemy army, listen to my command!" ”
Although Yelian died, he still had two chief leaders under him, and in fact, the two main leaders were the real leaders, and the two hundred cavalry were all under them.
Li Yanqing saw that the other party was a little chaotic, but immediately restored order, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, his hope that shooting the enemy head would cause chaos had failed, and it seemed that this vicious battle was inevitable.
The leader shouted, "Kill from both sides!" ”
Nearly 100 Western Xia soldiers immediately divided their troops into two routes and rushed to both sides of the ravine.
Li Yanqing picked up three pots of arrows on his back and began to shoot the enemy soldiers, his archery skills were 100 shots, each arrow must shoot one person, and more than ten people were shot in a row, he either squatted or ran, or used the cover of the boulder to dodge the arrows fired from all directions.
The abundant physical strength brought to him from small long-distance running made him give full play to his physical strength advantage at this moment, and he would not stop in every place, constantly moving and dodging.
At this moment, more than 30 Western Xia soldiers on the right had surrounded the two Song soldiers, dozens of spears stabbed at the two Song soldiers together, two screams in a row, and the two Song soldiers on the right finally couldn't resist the crazy attack of the Western Xia soldiers and died under the spears of the Western Xia people.
More than a dozen Western Xia soldiers rushed up the slope and surged towards Li Yanqing, and the situation suddenly became tense.