163 sharpen knives and chop wood
Luo Yicheng led two hundred knights to attack from behind the Turkic horse thieves, and there was a rain of arrows indiscriminately; Seeing that the comer was not good, both sides of the battle invariably abandoned the enemy in front of them, either turning back to dial the stray arrows, or quickly retreating to avoid the random arrows.
The two sides fought for half an hour, and for a while they were separated by the three rounds of salvos of two hundred warriors commanded by Luo Yi; Just a few breaths later, the two sides who were still wrestling just now had nearly 100 dead and wounded, but because the place where Luo Yi appeared was the back line of the Turks, the vast majority of the people who suffered were Turks.
After the battle with the Li family's caravan guards, and by Luo Yi and others' sudden attack, the Turks have been reduced by more than 100 at this time, and their current strength is probably comparable to the Li family's guards, but Luo Yi's hostility is undoubtedly revealed at this time, and they are likely to face being flanked before and after.
After five volleys, Luo Yi finally made a decision with gestures, and the rain of arrows stopped.
"Crazy! But why did it stop? "The leader of the Li family's caravan, An Dongye, had already withdrawn from the range of bows and arrows with his subordinates, and at this time, watching Luo Yi and the others stop attacking, they actually had the psychology of worrying about the cold weather.
"Maybe talk to this madman." The Turks watched Luo Yi order people to collect bows and arrows, but they were relieved.
"Sons, get ready to charge." Cheng Yanjin looked at Luo Yi's gestures, but he also used his gestures to give orders to the guards who were still shooting arrows just now; Since these soldiers could not gallop and shoot arrows, they simply dismounted in order to make their bows and arrows more powerful.
"Compatriots of the Great Sui, how about fighting foreign enemies with me?" Luo Yi never got off the horse, and shouted loudly at the front of the team at this time. He obviously wanted to use nationalism as a tool to win over the Li family guards who had been shot indiscriminately by him just now, but he didn't seem to take the hesitant compatriots on the other side into account, because after he shouted, he immediately rushed out.
"Sons, follow me!" Cheng Yanjin watched Luo Yi charge, since he was unwilling to him, he also slapped his horse and rushed forward after giving the order, at this time he was holding a wrought iron rod in his hand, and he was still shouting in his mouth.
"And a madman!" An Dongye watched Luo Yicheng bite the gold and kill the enemy, and couldn't help but curse secretly, but he still had some doubts in his heart about whether to cooperate with them. National righteousness is the main theme, and national contradictions can often cover all contradictions, and even the two parties can fight against foreign enemies without stopping.
But what about the end result?
Will they take this fighting camaraderie to heart? Or is it that the fat sheep and the tiger and leopard join forces to drive away the jackals, and in the end they still can't escape the fate of being devoured by the evil beast?
"Brother An, cooperate with them and kill the Turkic horse thieves." Just as An Dongye hesitated, a fast horse galloped from afar, but the person who controlled the horse was Xia Ziteng, who had not yet run in front of An Dongye, and had already shouted urgently.
"Ziteng, why are you back? What about Ziwei? Antonye watched Xia Ziteng approach, and his mood was extremely depressed for a while, and he directly ignored Xia Ziteng's request.
Xia Ziteng really shouldn't have appeared on this battlefield at this time, before the battle began, An Dongye made the decision to let their brothers and sisters stand out from the encirclement as soon as possible, and even sacrificed five or six guards in order to realize his plan.
Antonye let them break through at any cost, although nominally to let them go to find reinforcements, but in fact to save them, hoping that they would run as far as possible.
If the children of the Xia Ziteng brothers and sisters are saved, even if they die in battle, their families will be able to receive generous pensions, but now?
Xia Ziteng actually appeared on the battle formation again at this time, which meant that the brothers who helped them break through died in vain; In fact, this is not the point, the point is that the decision of An Dongye and others to sacrifice themselves will no longer be spread, if Luo Yi and others are killed.
"We met reinforcements, and that's them!" Xia Ziteng answered An Dongye's question in a simple way, and then said in a low voice, "They are the official army, the subordinates of the King of Qi. ”
"Really? It's no wonder. An Dongye exclaimed, and then nodded, if this was King Qi's troops, it would be easy to understand at the beginning without distinguishing between the enemy and me, but the notoriety of King Qi in the capital back then made Luo Yi's chaos reasonable. -- There must be a master and a servant, and Luo Yi and the others do not seem to be hostile.
Xia Ziteng nodded, when his brother and sister broke out of the encirclement, they were a little at a loss like headless flies, fortunately, in the process of escaping, they encountered Su You's scouts Duan Si and Ling Qing, and then they were brought to Su You very undignified.
These experiences are not the point, Xia Ziteng does not intend to tell the details one by one to the sturdy man in front of him, who is also a little at a loss.
"Brothers, follow me to kill the Turkic horse thieves!" An Dongye did not investigate the ins and outs of Xia Ziteng's news, he made a choice at the first time, and immediately pounced like a wolf on the Turkic horse thieves who had fled.
The horse thief had already been defeated, and in just one round, Cheng Cheng bit gold and slapped a wrought iron rod weighing seventy or eighty pounds on the head of the thief.
"Why is there such a big gap between thieves and thieves?" Cheng Yanjin sighed lonely, at this moment his heart was already depressed and planned to continue to be the most promising profession of horse thief.
Capture the thief and capture the king first, this is exactly the tactic formulated by Li Jing at the beginning, and Luo Yi first suppressed the two sides of the battle from the momentum, and then rushed into the group of thieves with Cheng Biting Jin's indomitable courage like a tiger entering a flock.
The fate of the Turks at this time was naturally only a rout, and An Dongye and others, who had been abused by them to death just now, rushed over like a tiger.
For most of the previous hours, it was not that Antoye and the others were not brave enough, they nested in front of the slope and did not move forward just to consume the enemy's vital strength with defense; But now everything is different, when Luo Yi and Cheng Yanjin launched a round of charges, the next thing An Dongye had to do was to beat the water dogs.
Antonye had not heard the essence of the great man's so-called theory that "it is advisable to chase the poor bravely", but he knew that "wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat", and it was the time to encircle and chase the Turks to intercept them.
Seeing that there were still more than a hundred Turks who had lost their armor and fled into the Valley of Refuge, Luo Yi nodded with satisfaction.
"General, is this to let the tiger return to the mountain?" Anton Ye patted his horse and ran close to Luo Yi, and said a word. Although he was still a little resentful of Luo Yi's indiscriminate attacks before, but now for the sake of the common enemy, he still suppressed the boredom in his heart to the bottom of his heart.
At this time, the Turkic horse thieves had completely retreated into the Valley of Refuge, and to Antonye's puzzlement, Luo Yi stopped the pursuit. Antonye also thought about chasing and fighting in the name of revenge regardless of it, but the seventy or eighty people under his command relied on the terrain to defend it, and if the Turks chose to break the net at this time, the final result would be a defeat for both sides; If you add Luo Yi's two hundred people, it will be different, at least in terms of momentum, it far exceeds the Turkic horse thieves who fled in the wilderness.
What's more, although An Dongye called Luo Yi a general at this time, after a period of fighting, the vigilance in his heart was even more surging than when Xia Ziteng ran back just now, - if these people deceived Xia Ziteng, if they were originally horse thieves, wouldn't he give them his back when he went to pursue the Turks? At that time, not only did they take the goods with great effort, but it was not impossible for them to sneak up on themselves from behind.
"They are as anxious as lost dogs at this time, why don't you and I rest?" Luo Yi waved his hand, and blocked Antonye's doubts in one sentence, what he said was actually not unreasonable, Antonye's side had been fighting for most of the hour, and they were also rushing.
"Well, that's what I said, sharpening knives doesn't mean chopping wood." An Dongye just nodded unnaturally at Luo Yi's arrogance, and if he could get into the position of the head of the guard, he naturally had the consciousness under the roof.
"By the way, the captain of your team is okay, shouldn't he come over at this time to thank us for killing the Turkic horse thieves?" Luo Yi listened to him follow him, and got off the horse while teasing him.
"This ......" Although An Dongye didn't know how to talk after smiling awkwardly, his mind finally settled down, since Luo Yi asked them to admit it, the final result was not the imaginary "only to get out of the tiger's den and enter the wolf's den".
"Just kidding you, we have something important to discuss with him." Luo Yi was obviously happy to see his embarrassment, but for the sake of business, he still explained a few sentences, and said that the dignitaries on his side had arrived.
"Xia Ziwei?" An Dongye looked in the direction indicated by Luo Yi, but saw that more than ten horsemen were coming slowly, one of them was not Xia Ziwei, but who was it?
"These people are my friends." Xia Ziwei stopped the horse, nodded and said with a smile. But Su You, Li Jing and the guards all covered their faces with black cloths at this time, although Xia Ziwei had the intention to introduce them, but found that this was really an embarrassing problem.
An Dongye was a little slanderous about Xia Ziwei's vague words, but he didn't know where to start, but he originally had no intention of befriending Su You and others who belonged to the King of Qi, so he just nodded to Su You and the others, but did not speak.
"You just made the right choice, so you're entitled to the loot." Su You saw An Dongye's reaction in his eyes, and his lofty speech was also full of the gentlemanly characteristics of King Qi's guards, looking at An Dongye with a blank face, he added, "You are responsible for cleaning up the battlefield, and we have to hunt down the Turkic horse thieves." ”
Anton Ye listened to Su You's arrangement, and nodded his head in agreement, although he advised Luo Yi to pursue the Turkic horse thieves at the beginning, but after Luo Yi refused, he realized his responsibility, - his current identity is the leader of the caravan guard, what he wants to protect is only the safety of the caravan, as for whether to clean up those horse thieves has nothing to do with him.
What's more, there is always a price to pay for killing the enemy in battle, and although Antonye is not a wise man, he also knows that the blood of his brothers should not be shed in vain.