Chapter 36: Let the Flames Burn Everything
Medical Officer Xiao Liu rushed at the forefront of the cavalry, and Li Deyi followed closely behind his senior brother. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoSince the "Humvee" still refuses to bring a halter, Li Deyi naturally has no reins, so every time the "Humvee" accelerates its speed to charge, Li Deyi can only lie on his back and wrap his arms around the neck of the "Humvee". This posture is extremely ugly, and it is naturally not worthy of the cavalry team that is charging bravely at this moment. Li Deyi could only lie on the back of the "Hummer" and whispered: "You have to behave well later, otherwise I will be a big loser." ”
"Hummer" understood and suddenly began to speed forward. Li Deyi had time to shout: "Senior brother, I'm on!" Cover me! "The "Humvee" has already slipped up the smoke. As soon as Medical Officer Xiao Liu raised his hand, he signaled the cavalry behind him to get ready, but instead of closely following Li Deyi, he deliberately distanced himself from the "Humvee" by fifty paces.
The "Humvee" took the lead and was the first to rush to the Tuliao cavalry, which was attacking the infantry array of the Weibei battalion. The Tuliao people were accustomed to fighting on horseback, and when they heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, they knew that there was a reinforcement cavalry, and immediately some of the Tuliao people turned their horses' heads, automatically separated from the large army, and lined up a relatively neat defensive line in the direction from which the sound of horses' hooves came. Li Deyi was also quite surprised when he saw that the Tuliao people reacted so quickly, but at this time, there was no way to advance or retreat, so he could only rush forward. He whispered to the "Humvee" under him: "Hurry up!" Don't give them a chance to shoot their arrows! ”
After hearing this request, the "Hummer" actually doubled its speed, and before the Tuliao people reacted and fired arrows at themselves, they rushed straight into the formation of the Tuliao people like lightning. "Hummer" knew that this was a desperate time, and at this moment he no longer retained his strength, and his whole body was running with original energy. Li Deyi, who was on his back, felt that the size of the "Humvee" under him suddenly increased, and the neck of the "Humvee" that he was holding tightly with his hands suddenly became bruised, and the tentacles no longer had the elasticity of muscles, and became as hard as steel. The Humvee's body was covered with a layer of stiff hairs like dragon scales, and at this moment it also became erect, stiff, and piercing, as if wearing a layer of dragon scale armor. A violent crash sounded like the sound of striking iron.
The "Humvee" directly crashed headlong into the Tuliao formation, and knocked the Tuliao cavalry who blocked the road head-on with men and horses, and then the speed did not decrease and increased, and then collided with seven or eight Tuliao cavalry in a row, and in the cavalry formation of the Tuliao people, it was a rain of blood. After crashing into the formation of the Tuliao people, the "Humvee" suddenly stood up, let out a long roar, and the coercion of the whole body came out directly without reservation, and the Tuliao war horses within dozens of steps around could not stand the supreme coercion, and in an instant, they foamed at the mouth, and fell directly to the ground one by one. After working for a while, a large area was vacant around Li Deyi. As soon as Li De stretched out his hand, he pulled out his saber and threw it at a Tuliao soldier who was bending his bow and arrow, and the man was directly hit in the face by the knife and fell off his horse.
The little Liu medical officer in the back saw that his junior brother had rushed into the formation of the Tuliao people on the heterogeneous mule, and caused a lot of damage, and the originally tight formation of the Tuliao cavalry was caused a mess by him. Seize the moment and shout: "Smash! These 200 cavalry also took out a "gold brick" and smashed it at the Tuliao cavalry in front of them.
Although these Tuliao people have grown up on horseback since childhood, where have they ever seen such a strong mule, don't say they have seen it, and they haven't heard of it. When some Tuliao people saw the fierce combat method of the "Humvee", they couldn't help but murmur: "Tulu Hu, Tulu Hu." ”
The "Humvee" turned his head to look around, and found that there was no longer a standing 'opponent' around him, turned the mule's head, found a direction where the Tuliao cavalry was dense, raised his hooves and rushed over again. The nearby Tuliao people were dumbfounded by the bloody fighting style of the demon god of the "Humvee" at this time, they were not elite cavalry, but just some old and weak left-behind cavalry, seeing the fierceness of the "Humvee", how dare they stop him head-on, and fled to both sides. The slightly braver Tuliao tried to bend their bows and shoot arrows, but the arrows hit the "Humvee" with a clanging sound like iron, and they were all bounced off directly, and even the hard bristles outside the "Humvee" could not be shot. There was an arrow shot by the more powerful Tuliao man, and the arrow broke at that time, but it still couldn't shoot through the "Hummer's" body-protective hard-haired dragon scale armor. As soon as Li De heard the movement of the arrow hitting the "Humvee", his heart was sudden, and he secretly said fiercely: "When I go back this time, I will definitely put on a pair of mule armor for you, and I will have to put on the armor myself." ”
Of course, Medical Officer Xiao Liu couldn't sit idly by and watch his junior brother being besieged in the Tuliao cavalry formation, so he quickly led the team to kill the big mouth that came out of the "Humvee", and saw that the "Humvee" was carrying his junior brother and launched a charge again, and Medical Officer Liu shouted: "Keep up!" He chased after his junior brother and rushed over. With the sharp blade of the "Humvee" as the vanguard, the cavalry of the Weibei battalion easily tore apart the cavalry array of the Tuliao people. With the "Humvee" leading the way, the cavalry of the Weibei battalion unstoppably rushed back and forth seven or eight times in the Tuliao cavalry, and finally completely killed this Tuliao cavalry. The infantry formation of the Weibei battalion dealt with the Tuliao cavalry that had been killed and scattered, and began to exert its terrifying killing ability. The infantry cooperated with the skillful division of labor, there were pikemen who specially made the spears to stab the Tuliao cavalry running in front of them, and the soldiers with short knives behind followed the Tuliao cavalry who fell off their horses with fatal swords, and the infantry with shields were specially responsible for covering, covering them from sporadic sachets and arrows.
At this point, the defeat of the Tuliao people is decided, and the rest is only a matter of time. At this moment, the Tuliao people have been completely dispersed by the cavalry of the Weibei battalion, and they can no longer organize a formed charge. In front of the tight and efficient infantry array of the Weibei battalion, the scattered Tuliao cavalry was nothing more than lambs to be slaughtered, and those who were killed had no ability to fight back.
Li Deyi is riding on the back of a "Humvee" at this moment, which is called a triumphant and a majestic one. Wielding a saber in one hand, slashing left and right, and rampage in all directions with the "Humvee" under his crotch. There were Tuliao people who didn't know him before, and when they saw the unique-looking mule under his crotch at this moment, they were also frightened and didn't dare to besiege him. Where the "Hummer" rushed to, the Tuliao people who had just assembled shouted: "Tulu Huh!" Sudden Rhythm! "Just scattered.
The battle was almost over, and Li Deyi triumphantly rode a "Humvee" to join with Dr. Xiao Liu. Doctor Xiao Liu looked at his junior brother's sassy appearance, and was just about to say a few words to him, when he raised his eyes, he saw that the Tuliao cavalry not far away was trying to gather together, so he could only whip the war horse under his crotch and lead the team to disperse the Tuliao cavalry again.
"Humvee" is used to being alone on the battlefield, and does not like to act with the brigade, so he continues to rampage with Li Deyi on his body. Li Deyi also knew that he didn't have any ability, but he was relying on the majesty of the "Hummer", but at this moment, he couldn't hold back the smugness in his heart. Li Deyi was scattered in all directions by the "Humvee", wielding a steel knife in his hand, and from time to time he could also knock down a few Tuliao soldiers. Li Deyi was slashing and slashing, and the corner of his eye suddenly swept under the belly of the "Humvee", and suddenly a black shadow jumped up, rushing up from the left abdomen of the "Hummer" and rushing straight up to him. Li Deyi was about to draw the knife back to defend himself, but it was too late, the man had already reached out and grabbed Li Deyi's arm, and with a single effort, he pulled Li Deyi off the back of the "Humvee". The two fell to the ground at the same time and rolled into a ball. The "Hummer" felt a sudden lightness on his back, and turned his head to find that Li Deyi had been attacked by the Tuliao people and fell to the ground. The "Hummer" opened its big mouth and was about to bite the Tuliao man, but at this time the two were already scuffling and rolling on the ground, and the "Hummer" couldn't get off the mouth, so don't bite the wrong person again.
Li De was caught off guard and was pulled off the mule, and was pressed under his body by the man, and was stunned for a while, forgetting to fight back, and letting the man punch the head several times in a row. The Tuliao man looked at the stunned young man, and began to choke Li Deyi's neck with both hands, and at the same time tried to hit Li Deyi's head on the ground. Li Deyi was awakened a lot by the sharp pain in the back of his head, and as soon as he used his strength, he turned over violently and pressed the Tuliao man under him, groping with both hands and trying to pinch the Tuliao man. Unfortunately, his little family has not fully grown up, and his arms are not long enough to reach. After working hard for a long time, he had to give up the intention of pinching the other party's neck, and withdrew a hand and snapped the fingers of the Tuliao people, hoping to release the choked neck so that he could breathe a sigh of relief. The Tuliao people didn't care about anything else at this time, screaming in their mouths, and kept exerting force in their hands, desperately trying to strangle Li Deyi. Li Deyi couldn't breathe as soon as he was pinched, his eyes were black for a while, and he groped around with one hand, and suddenly touched the two-pound small hammer used to strike iron in his arms. Li Deyi took out a small hammer from his arms, aimed at the head of the Tuliao man by feeling, gritted his teeth, used the head of the Tuliao man as an anvil, picked up the small hammer and smashed it hard.
One hammer, two hammers, three hammers. Li Deyi's neck was choked to death, and he gradually lost his breath, his eyes became darker and darker, and the strength in his body slowly passed. Li De used all the remaining strength to wield the hammer in his hand, and his mind gradually became blurry.
"Senior brother, junior brother! Wake up! ”
Suddenly, Li Deyi felt that he had inhaled another breath of fresh air, and the whole person gradually regained his strength. When he opened his eyes, he found that Dr. Xiao Liu was forcefully breaking the fingers of the Tuliao man and rescuing his bruised neck. Looking down at the Tuliao man again, his head had already been smashed by himself, and his brain was flowing all over the ground, only his hands still retained the posture of strangling him before his death.
Li De gasped desperately for breath, and it took a long time to recover, and when he opened his mouth, he said, "My mother, I was almost strangled to death." Doctor Xiao Liu handed over a water bag and said: "You deserve it, the battlefield is a desperate place, and it is difficult to survive at all times. The Tuliao had only fallen off their horses and had not been injured. He lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, and when you passed by unsuspectingly, he jumped up and attacked you, intending to snatch your mule and escape, but he did not expect to fight you to the death, and in the end he was beaten to death by you with a small hammer. These words seemed to remind Li Deyi that he couldn't care about drinking water anymore, Li Deyi stretched out his hand to grope and shouted: "My little hammer!" That's my life-saving possessions, but I have to keep them. Doctor Liu laughed out loud angrily, and reached out to hand the small hammer to Li Deyi, "It's here, you can't lose it." As soon as Li De took the small hammer, he wiped the blood and brain on the body of the dead Tuliao man beside him. Hummer" also walked over at this time, rubbing his head against Li Deyi to express comfort.
Li Deyi stretched out his hand and touched the big face of the "Hummer", suddenly smelled a smell, opened his mouth and asked, "What are you eating in your mouth?" Open your mouth and take a look! You are not allowed to eat indiscriminately, and it will be troublesome to eat badly on this grassland. As soon as Li De jumped up, he turned around and opened the mouth of the "Hummer", and Dr. Liu said beside him: "Don't worry, he is eating dried meat found from the Tuliao people." Just now, he rushed to the formation like that, and the consumption was also very great, and after defeating the Tuliao people, he couldn't wait to start rummaging through the food. Besides, how did he know that the Tuliao people still had dried meat on them? Li Deyi touched his head embarrassedly and said, "We have done this together, and eighty percent of them learned from me." Doctor Xiao Liu glanced at his junior brother, "I know why no one follows this mule, I just like to follow you, and you two have the same smell." ”
Doctor Liu still has a lot of things to do, and he doesn't have time to take care of Li Deyi, so he saw that his junior brother was fine, so he turned around and went to work. Li Deyi snuggled up to the "Hummer" and sat down, took out a piece of jerky from the leather bag brought by the "Hummer", and chewed it heavily. After that life-and-death struggle, Li Deyi exhausted all his strength, and at this time he also felt unbearable hunger in his stomach. As he was eating, he heard Dr. Xiao Liu shouting: "Search the bodies of these dead Tuliao people, they all carry dried meat with them." The jerky of the Tuliao people is the most authentic, and it is very delicious, don't lose it. Li Deyi almost choked when he heard this, and muttered: "Senior brother's level is higher than mine." ”
The Weibei battalion has always cleaned up the battlefield cleanly, and never left a little bit of what can be taken away, and the clean clothes of the Tuliao people have been stripped off and draped on the war horses as blankets for the war horses, and the better ones have been carried into the arms of the soldiers themselves. The wounded Tuliao horses were slaughtered on the spot to eat meat, and the wounded horses of their own side tried their best to treat them, but there was really no way to do it, so they could only be killed and buried. After this battle, there were a lot more horses on his side, and they were all captured Tuliao horses. As for the corpses of the Tuliao people, no one cared about them, and they were thrown on the grassland, and they would be eaten up by vultures and wild wolves in a short time.
After a fierce battle, the soldiers were also extremely tired, and they had no strength to hurry for the time being, so they could only camp and rest. In a short time, the aroma of roasted horse meat wafted from the camp, and the victorious soldiers gathered together to eat happily. The two generals made an exception and allowed the soldiers to drink some of the captured mare's milk.
Li Deyi took the "Hummer" to the senior brother and the two generals. Medical Officer Xiao Liu was talking to the two generals about today's battle, "This group of Tuliao soldiers are all old and weak, but they dare to fight so much, they are nearly half killed and wounded before they are willing to retreat." General Han took over and said: "We killed more than 800 Tuliao cavalry, I found a living mouth and asked, sure enough, they were left to guard the house, and there was only one of them nearby." Not long after we entered the grassland, the Tuliao people knew that their main general was a man named Wuliman, the younger brother of the Tuliao Great Khan. This Uriman is used to being arrogant on weekdays, he doesn't take us seriously at all, he doesn't listen to the strategy left by the national teacher in advance, and wants to kill us directly. Qian General said with a smile: "No wonder this cavalry is so desperate, it turns out that the nobles of the Ashina family are personally leading the team." This shattered his big teeth. By the way, shall we catch this Uriman? Han Jiang always stretched out his fingers and removed the horse meat stuffed in his teeth, and said: "That Wuli is a dumbfounder, relying on his strong body, riding a thousand miles of good horses given by his brother under his crotch, he actually wanted to intercept the mule, but it was directly crushed, and now the corpse is not complete." Qian nodded and said: "No wonder this group of Tuliao people played with us for their lives, it turned out that the leader was killed, according to the customs on the grassland, they all had to die their masters alive after they went back." With such a stunned person, this group of Tuliao cavalry is also unlucky. Li Deyi couldn't help but interject and asked, "What about our casualties?" ”
As soon as they said this, the two of them became mouthless gourds and refused to speak again. Medical Officer Xiao Liu pulled his junior brother and said, "Follow me." He took Li Deyi to a secluded place and said, "It's all here, and we have a total of eighty-three dead brothers." Li Deyi looked at them one by one with red eyes and said, "What should they do?" We can't just leave them on the prairie. Doctor Liu sighed and said, "I'm also worried about this." We're going to continue east, and we really can't take them with us. But if you don't take them, you're afraid of chilling the hearts of the soldiers. Li Deyi touched his little brain and said, "Yes, this thing is really difficult." Frowning, he began to help his brother figure out a way.
Doctor Liu didn't expect Li Deyi to come up with any way, so he just stood quietly next to him. Li Deyi thought for a long time and said, "Senior brother, let's cremate the dead brothers and take everyone's ashes back separately." When we go back, we will set up a special tablet in our wounded barracks, do you think this is okay? After hearing this, Medical Officer Xiao Liu nodded and said, "This is a compromise solution, I will discuss it with the soldiers." ”
The soldiers refused to abandon the corpse of the robe, because they were afraid that they would be abandoned on the vast grassland after they died in battle one day, but they also knew that it was indeed a trouble to carry the corpse, and it was inevitable that the corpse would be damaged during the march, and after a long time, the corpse would rot and stink. I heard that Dr. Xiao Liu said that he would cremate the body, bring the ashes back to Weibei Camp, and build an ancestral hall after returning home, and every brother who died in battle would have a tablet to support. The soldiers exchanged their heads and ears, and they all thought that this idea was good, and the key was that there would be a tablet to receive incense offerings after death, so they nodded their heads in agreement. This is also due to the fact that Dr. Xiao Liu has a high prestige among the soldiers, and everyone is convinced that he will not break his promise after he returns.
Li Deyi led people to clean up some hay, and the most important thing in the autumn of the grassland is hay, which is everywhere. Each corpse had a special soldier holding an empty leather bag with the names of the war dead written on it, so that the ashes of each person could be divided after cremation to avoid confusion. Seeing that the preparations were almost complete, Medical Officer Xiao Liu nodded and motioned for Li to get a little fire.
The fire was blazing, reflecting half of the sky of the prairie. The autumn days on the grassland are particularly windy, and the fire spreads after a while. The fire grew bigger and bigger, and with the help of the wind, it began to spread eastward. Li Deyi frowned and asked Doctor Xiao Liu: "Senior brother, this fire is getting bigger and bigger, doesn't it matter?" ”
Doctor Xiao Liu looked at the fire that had spread out for several miles at this moment, and the withered yellow hay on the grassland in autumn was endless, and suddenly said: "When Dashuai Di is here, our Weibei camp will go to the grassland every autumn to set fire to prevent the Liao people from going south. Our torch is just right, the bigger the better, it is best to burn to the east to Tongwan City, even the city will be burned to him. ”
This fire will soon become the climate, and it can no longer be extinguished by man. Medical Officer Xiao Liu instructed all the soldiers to take care of their things, cut all the grass around them to avoid being affected by the fire, and led everyone to dig a circle of trenches to completely isolate the fire.
Seeing that this monstrous flame was boiling in all directions with the help of the wind, Dr. Liu ordered someone to go over and pack the ashes of the robe. Li Deyi looked at the charred earth after the fire and said, "It's really clean." Doctor Xiao Liu shook his head, "I can't burn it, Di Dashuai used to burn it every year, and the people of Tuliao came every year." When the spring breeze blows next year, green shoots will emerge from this charred black land. Li Deyi said dejectedly: "I thought I could burn this grassland, so that the Tuliao people would have no horses to eat in the coming year." It turned out that it didn't work. ”
Doctor Xiao Liu said: "This fire can at least help us cover our whereabouts, and if the Tuliao people want to intercept us in front, they must first extinguish this fire." Li Deyi asked, "Then senior brother, should we continue to go east?" ”
"Go, why don't you go, the Tuliao people are attacking our Zhongshen City, how can we get him to take a walk under the Ten Thousand Cities. also let them know that there is no one in our Ping Zhou Dynasty! ”