Chapter 621: The Last Hope
"Second Elder Dragon, Elder Xiangyi, you-"
When Yang Jian had just gathered his subordinates and was about to discuss with Ashina Cave how to meet the enemy, he saw Long Er and Xiangyi coming in a hurry, their clothes were ragged, their faces were gloomy and solemn, and they looked a little embarrassed. Yang Jian's heart suddenly sank, and he asked with some hesitation.
"Yang Guogong, it's a pity that we weren't happy to be captured." Ryuuji's voice was a little dry and hoarse, and his expression was slightly embarrassed. After all, several of them had sworn to capture Xingxing, but now not only did they fail to succeed, but they were killed by Xingxing and fled.
"Ran away?"
Although he had already guessed this result in his heart, Yang Jian couldn't help but be stunned for a while. His own masters did their best, surrounded by heavy surrounds, but they fell short, and still let Happy escape, Yang Jian couldn't help but feel a little resentful and confused in his heart.
"Could it be that Happy is destined to be my mortal enemy for life, is he really blessed by God?"
Hearing the rumbling sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, Long Er's face became more and more grim, and he frowned slightly and looked at Yang Jian, who was in a trance, and shouted in a deep voice: "Yang Guogong! β
"What?"
"The Turkic cavalry is not a happy opponent, I'm afraid that the winner will be decided soon, whether we fight or retreat, the prince needs to make a decision early!"
"Thisβ"
Yang Jian couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, his brows furrowed, and he fell into deep thought. How can he be willing to retreat without a fight? Now that the whereabouts of the princess are unknown, if she flees in such a disgraced manner, I am afraid that she will attract the attack and condemnation of the courtiers and the central government. Especially the people of the Yuwen family such as Yuwen Shenju, who have a lot of criticism for themselves, they will definitely not let go of this good opportunity to fall into the ground.
"Second Elder Long, don't we have a chance?" Yang Jian looked at Long Er with some hope: "With peerless masters like you and Elder Xiangyi, as long as we can tear through the enemy's formation and hold on for an hour, when the reinforcements arrive, we should still be able to turn defeat into victory!" β
Long Er and Xiang Yi glanced at each other, then frowned and said: "Yang Guogong, my two brothers are not sure of victory, I only hope that the reinforcements you arranged will be ready to be made as soon as possible, otherwise we will not be able to leave even if we want to!" β
"It's all up to you!" Yang Jian looked grateful and sincerely bowed deeply to the two.
Ryuuji didn't speak, just looked at the void outside the tribe with a solemn face, and said in a low voice: "Xiangyi, when the enemy comes, I will attack from the front to attract happy attention, you are responsible for sneaking up from behind, I hope that our two-sided attack can break the enemy's position in one fell swoop, otherwise we really don't have much chance of winning." β
"Yes!" Xiang Yi did not object, and looked at Yang Jian with a serious promise, the latter understood, and hurriedly said: "Elder Xiang Yi, we don't have many people, I can only give you two hundred." β
"That's enough!" Xiang raised his eyebrows and said proudly. Tonight's repeated battles were unfavorable, and he had already held back his anger, if it weren't for the momentum of the enemy army like a rainbow and unstoppable, he even wanted to rush in single-handedly and kill.
"The high chief of the Qi country dares to break through the 100,000 army alone with 500 warriors, and the enemy today is only 5,000, and there are 200 warriors to help me, and see how I break the formation and kill the enemy!"
Xiangyi said that he was arrogant and murderous, which made Yang Jian and the others excited, and the sluggish morale suddenly rose.
To say that Yang Jian was born in a family of generals, and his courage is far from being comparable to others, how could he ever be afraid of people, but when he was happy, he was always restrained, and he was very jealous, and his reputation was too loud because he was happy, and his brilliant achievements made people have to be careful, Yang Jian was like this, how could ordinary soldiers be easy?
Cowardice before fighting, soldiers are taboo, how can they win, and how can they win?
"Seventh Prince, Lord Rakshen is dead!"
Just when Xiang Yi was about to leave with the two hundred elites selected by Yang Jian, he saw several Turkic cavalry rushing towards him with a panicked face, and shouted in horror in the air.
This news sounded in everyone's hearts like a thunderbolt from the sky, and everyone was shocked, especially Ashina Cave Hezhen's eyes widened, and his eyes were full of incredulity. You must know that Lakshin is the best of the Turkic warriors, and the strength of the enemy can be seen in the fact that he was killed by the enemy so easily.
"You deserter, how dare you talk nonsense and disturb the hearts of our army, damn it!"
Ashina Cave Hezhen was just stunned and woke up, his eyes were fierce and fierce looking at the Turkic cavalry who ran to the front, he shouted angrily, raised his sword in his hand, and split the Turkic cavalry off his horse.
"My Turkic iron rider is unparalleled in the world, why should I be afraid of the enemy?!" Ashina Cave Hezhen turned over his horse, glanced at the stunned and frightened Turkic warriors beside him, suddenly raised the blood-stained scimitar, and said murderously: "Turkic men, raise the scimitar in your hands, for the glory of the Turks, fight!" β
"Fight! War! War! β
The spirit of the thousand Turkic horsemen suddenly lifted, they raised their scimitars one after another, and shouted loudly, all of them with red faces and red ears, their eyes were hot and wild, and their bodies exuded a rich and fierce evil spirit, and their morale gradually rose.
Knowing that Lakshen, who went to block the enemy, was defeated, Yang Jian's heart sank again, and he clenched his fists fiercely, he forced himself to calm down, and quickly began to arrange a defensive formation.
It didn't take long for Yang Jian and the others to arrange the formation based on the cars in the tribe, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves arrived outside the tribe, looking at the enemy that stretched for hundreds of meters, was violent, and rolled like a torrent, everyone couldn't help but be nervous and excited.
Yang Jian's eyes locked on the joy of taking the lead, his left hand tightly grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist, and his right hand slowly raised, and with his movements, the soldiers of the Thousand Zhou Kingdom also clenched their blades one after another, began to accumulate strength, silently waiting for the moment when the hand-to-hand soldiers intersected.
"Stop!"
Just as Xing was about to approach a stone's throw away, Yang Jian's heart was agitated, and his right hand was about to swing down, but Xing Xing suddenly shouted, and the galloping war horse suddenly stood up and stopped.
Behind him, the five thousand iron horsemen also controlled the war horses to stop, their movements were very neat and clean, and there was not the slightest disturbance. From rapid movement to sudden silence, the abrupt change made Yang Jian stunned for a while, and his right hand waved down almost uncontrollably.
Rumors are one thing, really seeing the superb equestrian skills of the cavalry under the command of Xingxing, the Turkic warriors who are often proud of riding horses can't help but look sideways, and they don't dare to have the slightest contempt in their hearts, and the killing intent in Ashina Cave is getting stronger and stronger.
"Ashina Cave Hezhen, are you going to fight me?" Happy looked at Ashina Cave Hezhen proudly, and said with a smile.
"Happy thief, you don't have to be proud, you and I haven't fought yet, and we don't know who will kill the deer!" Ashina Cave Hezhen sneered and said loudly: "The lamb also dares to shout in front of the tiger and wolf, you really don't know whether to live or die!" Today, I will kill you first, and he will set foot in Jinyang again one day, so that all the Qi people will become slaves of my Turkic Khanate!" β
Happy eyes narrowed slightly, cold light flashed, but the tone was light: "The ignorant are fearless!" It's ridiculous that the generals of the defeated army dare to make nonsense! Ashina Cave is true, I let you go back that day just because I didn't want your dirty and despicable blood to stain my sword soldiers, but I didn't want you to be so ignorant of restraint, no matter what, today I will finish you off, and it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people! β
"Dog thief, I will rest with you to death today!" Ashina Cave Hezhen wanted to provoke Happy, but unexpectedly, he was provoked by Happy's suppressed anger, and suddenly roared angrily, picked up the longbow hanging on the saddle and aimed at Happy and shot an arrow.
With a "boom", the black feather arrow went straight to the throat of joy. The longbow in Ashina Cave Hezhen's hand was not of the highest quality, and its range was longer than that of ordinary bows and arrows.
Happy stared at the feather arrow shooting at him, and it was not until he reached three feet in front of him that he grabbed the feather arrow with his probe hand, so that it could not advance a point.
"Ashina Cave is true, your strength is not as good as a child, it's really disappointing!" Happy to throw the feather arrow to the ground casually, looked at Ashina Cave Hezhen from afar, and said impatiently: "Whether it is a battle or a surrender, I will give you ten breaths to think about it!" β
Ashina was really furious, and was about to speak, but he continued happily: "By the way, there is something I forgot to tell you!" Half an hour ago, my brother slew a gang of murderous horse bandits twenty miles away, and they claimed to be the king of the steppe wolves, and there were 2,000 of them, which made my brother work a lot! It's just that what makes me strange is that they are all wearing the clothes of the soldiers of the Zhou State, when did the Zhou people be so poor that even the army went to the grassland to fight the autumn wind? In the latter sentence, the happy tone is full of confusion, as well as intriguing deep meaning.
Ashina Cave Hezhen raised his eyebrows, looked at Yang Jian not far away in surprise, and saw the latter's look of horror, Ashina Cave Hezhen couldn't help but be a little surprised, could it be that this steppe wolf king is really a Zhou person?
However, soon Ashina Cave Hezhen denied this speculation, after all, the two sides are allied, and the Zhou people will not do such a stupid thing, but isn't this horse bandit really happy to pretend?
Ashina Guhe sincerely guessed the origin of the horse bandits, but Yang Jian immediately understood what Xing was referring to, the "horse bandits" who were killed must be the ambush soldiers he arranged outside, and the number of people happened to be two thousand.
Those 2,000 people were ambushes arranged by Yang Jian, just waiting for Xingxing to attack him back and forth after entering, who would have thought that Xingxing was too cunning, difficult to find, and constantly harassed the convoy, and looted everywhere, so that he could not distinguish his true strength, and tonight suddenly came, taking himself by surprise.
Originally, Yang Jian still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, but now this tight hope is completely annihilated, and his heart is sinking again and again, and his face is so gloomy that he can almost drip water.
"It's time!" He smiled happily, looked coldly at the people gathered in the tribe, and said loudly: "Ashina Cave Hezhen, how are you thinking about it?" β
"Rejoice, if you fight, I will fight, I am a dignified Turkic prince, a warrior on the steppe, how can I be afraid of you!" Ashina Cave Hezhen screamed, the scimitar in his hand was raised high, his body fell down suddenly, his eyes were sharp and cold, "Turkic warriors, kill!" β
"Kill!"
With the order of Ashina Cave Hezhen, a thousand Turkic cavalry suddenly rode their horses and swords, roaring and rushing towards Xing.