Chapter 21: South of the Battle City
"Kill!"
Ji Qian roared, held an iron shovel in her hand, took the lead, and directly entered the rogue who ransacked Zhao Zhuang from the periphery. The iron shovel in his hand is round, and he can smash a rogue every time.
Facing Ji Qian's iron mace, the rogue, who didn't have time to dodge, showed panic on his face, and saw the knife and gun blocking the iron mace breaking like lamp grass under the blow of the iron mace, and the Liukou's eyes revealed a kind of despair before death.
Ji Qian didn't hesitate at all. What flashed in front of his eyes was not the faces of these rogues, but the burning Zhao Village, the houses that were burned to ruins, the corpses of villagers lying in their homes or on the streets, men, women, old and young, none of them escaped from the village.
In the face of this gang of rogues who are as vicious as the Jin people, only by killing them can the dead Zhaozhuang villagers be blinded. Only by killing them all can the other rogues who are still staying in Ying Tianfu have scruples, and they will not be robbed and killed when they ransack other villages.
"Kill!"
The five hundred cavalry took Ji Qian as the arrow, and followed closely into the Liukou brigade. The rogue was caught off guard, and the Protectors were quick and quick, and the gap between the two sides was almost like a duel between a large piece of tofu and a kitchen knife. With just one charge, the 500 cavalry swept thousands of fierce rogues to pieces.
This stream of rogues is indeed very fierce. Unlike other outcasts, out of 10,000 horses, there will be 9,000 people who are old, weak, sick and disabled who are coerced. Although there were only four or five thousand of them, there were at least three thousand young and strong men. At least half of the 3,000 young men were wearing simple armor and holding the standard weapons of the Song soldiers. With these alone, the combat effectiveness of this branch of the Gang is no longer to be underestimated. It is enough to compete with the regular army of the Song Dynasty below the size of the command. What's more, they also have an army of 300 horses, and the rogues who ride horses are all skilled in horsemanship, and they often ride horses at a glance.
Against them, the ordinary regular army of the Song Dynasty may not have the upper hand.
This is the reason why this rogue dares to ransack Zhao Zhuang under the noses of the Protectors. In the past few days, most of the displaced people close to Yingtian have settled down, because the prefect Huang Zong is ready to open a warehouse to release grain and help the displaced people. This makes many homeless people who toss and turn in the scorching sun just for a bite to eat. And some of the displaced people who had been transformed into rogues were unwilling to accept Yingtian's relief, but they also began to stay away from Yingtianfu City. Because the 2,000 Protector Army out of the city was so fierce that they wiped out more than a dozen bandits with more than 1,000 numbers in two days. They can't afford to provoke, but they can still hide.
Only this stream of rogues was a little far away from Ying Tianfu, and the Protector Army did not attack here for a while, and they did not taste the power of the Protector Army, so they disdained the Protector Army. When they attacked Zhao Zhuang, the people of Zhao Zhuang set fire to the wet haystack in time and notified the Protectors to come to the rescue. However, the attack of this rogue was really sharp, and only one attack wave broke through Zhaozhuang, which had a population of thousands of people. When Ji Qian arrived, only smoking houses and the corpses of villagers remained.
So this stream of rogues is tragic. They have been so arrogant for a while, that they have hardly met opponents, and since they crossed the river to the south, they have looted dozens of villages, and they have never met any opponents, nor have they met the officers and soldiers who have cleared them. So their queues were scattered.
When Ji Qian led the 500 cavalry to kill, the four rogue leaders only had time to gather the 300 horse army together, and watched as thousands of subordinates collapsed under the impact of the Protector Army, scattering and fleeing.
The leader of the Rogue is a one-eyed man, in his thirties, with a fierce face and a long knife.
The second leader was armed with a long meteor hammer, a man in his fifties, but his face was wrinkled, and he didn't even have a helmet, revealing his white hair. But his eyes did not have the dullness and numbness of the elderly, but he looked like a thief, and he looked like a veteran of the rivers and lakes.
The three and four leaders look very similar and are twin brothers. The two brothers were armed with the same weapons, all of which were thick-backed knives. It's just that one of them holds a knife in his left hand and a knife in his right.
The one-eyed dragon pointed at Ji Qian, who was like no one, and said to the three leaders, "Second, third, fourth, this man is extremely brave." Wait a minute, I'll pester him. Take three hundred brethren and scatter his five hundred horsemen first. Then we work together to get him. ”
The three leaders nodded yes in unison.
As she spoke, Ji Qian had already killed thousands of rogues. However, before the hundreds of Protectors could come to their senses, the three hundred rogue thieves and horses had already been killed.
Ji Qian's face changed, and he immediately understood that these three hundred thieves were veterans of horse warfare. The timing of the counterattack was just right, at this time, the five hundred Protector Army had just killed thousands of rogues, although the righteousness was at its peak, but the people were exhausted. What's more, in the process of pursuing the Liukou, the five hundred cavalry army unknowingly dispersed.
The three hundred thieves on the opposite side, led by the four leaders, formed a more powerful arrow formation and directly killed Ji Qian's side. At this time, Ji Qian only had more than 200 cavalry behind him.
Facing the ferocious thieves, Ji Qian didn't even have the idea of retreating in her mind. Ji Qian is like this, she is fierce and violent, and she would rather bend than bend. I heard him yell, "Brethren of the Protectorate, follow me and kill all these bandits." ”
Directly holding an iron shovel and rushing towards the thief. The two hundred cavalry also did not hesitate, and followed Ji Qian to rush over. With Ji Qian as the arrow, he rushed directly towards the three hundred thieves.
The one-eyed dragon smiled evilly, and the long knife in his hand was raised high, as if he had already eaten Ji Qian. He had already seen just now that although Ji Qian was brave, he was only a little stronger than himself, but his four brothers were together, and they could definitely get Ji Qian in one shot.
The one-eyed dragon is pretty good. If everything can be carried out according to his plan, it is estimated that the one-eyed dragon will not escape to the Central Plains to become a rogue. This time was the same, he saw the depth of Ji Qian's martial arts, but he didn't see the depth of the red-faced cavalry who was only one horse's head behind Ji Qian. I didn't even see the longbow on the back of the red-faced cavalry being surprisingly large, and the arrows in the quiver were only longer than ordinary arrows.
The red-faced cavalry is named Zhao Hong. He was the deputy commander of the five hundred cavalry.
Zhao Hong, Tang Yin shooter also. Although his martial arts are not high, he is not his opponent with arrows. After seeing Zhao Hong's archery skills, Yue Fei praised, "This is my great Song Dynasty's Yang Youji." ”
Although Zhao Hong was now only the deputy commander of the five hundred cavalry, Yue Fei had cultivated him as the commander of the cavalry. Ji Qian is brave and unparalleled, but she can only be a general who breaks the formation, and she is by no means a talent for commanding troops. If you let Ji Qian be alone, she will lead tens of thousands of cavalry troops to fight the enemy to the death. It was definitely a head-to-head duel, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred. Zhao Hong is calm, but he is brave, and he is suitable for commanding a large cavalry army.
Yue Fei had already calculated that once Ying Tianfu calmed down, he would keep Ji Qian by his side. He felt that Ji Qian was more suitable to be the captain of his own soldiers. It's just that there have been many events in the city in the past few days, and Yue Fei and Zhang Xian can't get away for the time being, so they can only let Ji Qian lead Yue to turn Xu Qing, Zhao Hong, and Zhao Wan out of the city to expel the rogues and collect the homeless people.
Yue Fei thought that the homeless people were weak in combat, so he used Ji Qian's bravery to deter the homeless.
Yue Fei didn't expect that the one-eyed dragon was born as a horse bandit and fought an old horse war. Not only was he not shocked by Ji Qian's bravery, but he was ready to kill Ji Qian in one fell swoop before the battle.
In the blink of an eye, Ji Qian and the One-Eyed Dragon were already less than two feet apart. The one-eyed dragon suddenly roared, "Slash! ”
Ji Qian hurriedly took the sword in her hand, ready to open the long knife of the one-eyed dragon. But to Ji Qian's surprise, the one-eyed dragon long knife was not cut down, but the second leader stretched his long arms, and a meteor hammer with a garlic bowl smashed over with a fierce wind.
Ji Qian was taken aback, and with an oops, a wedge was swung out, and it was smashing on the hammer head of the meteor hammer. Immediately shook the meteor hammer away. But at this time, the one-eyed dragon's horse had also arrived in front of him, and under the scorching June sun, the long knife held high was shining, and the blade was aimed at Ji Qian's good head.
The one-eyed dragon smiled fiercely, he seemed to have seen Ji Qian being slashed by himself. Suddenly, his eyes went dark, he felt a sharp pain in his brain, and then he lost consciousness.
A long arrow stuck to Ji Qian's lofty iron mace and shot into the good eye of the one-eyed dragon. The one-eyed dragon didn't even scream before he fell off his horse and died.
Zhao Hong's face was as cold as ice, and in the ups and downs of the horse's back, he had already taken off his longbow and killed the one-eyed dragon with an arrow, saving Ji Qian's life. This was followed by three swishing arrows, and the second arrow shot to death the twin thieves who were holding the Pu knife and preparing to attack Ji Qian. The third arrow missed, because the white-haired thief who made the meteor hammer suddenly lost his footing and fell off his horse at the moment when Zhao Hong's arrow was shot.
These thieves are old horses, and they don't fall off even if they sleep on them. The reason why the white-haired thief fell from his horse was because Ji Qian had already rushed forward and smashed it on the horse's head. The horse fell headlong, and no matter how exquisite the white-haired thief's riding skills were, it naturally did not help.
After all, the thieves are thieves, and the four leaders died in front of them at a lightning speed, and the three hundred thieves suddenly lost their fighting spirit. It's just that the two armies are close to each other, and it's too late to turn around and escape. I can only rush to kill it.
And Ji Qian's 200 cavalry troops are indeed full of morale, as if they have eaten a strong pill. Such a duel is obviously not suspenseful, just one hedge passes, and in more than ten seconds, at least more than 100 of the three hundred thieves have fallen. The thieves who had finally rushed out were just about to escape, but they saw that the other three hundred Protector cavalry had already blocked their way and were staring at them coldly.
The white-haired thief's riding skills are indeed exquisite, and the moment he fell off his horse just now, he had already begun to roll forward, not only avoiding Ji Qian's smash, but also allowing him to jump onto the horse of the one-eyed dragon, blending in with the thieves to stand out in the middle of the thief.
Faced with a dead end, the white-haired thief naturally made the act of surrender. He jumped off his horse and shouted, "Surrender." We surrendered. Please spare the general's life. Under his leadership, the other thieves jumped off their horses, threw their weapons on the ground, and raised their hands in surrender.
This gang of thieves came from Hebei Road. They were originally active in the vicinity of Yanshan Mansion, but after the Jin soldiers passed, they couldn't stand there, and they didn't want to be the slave soldiers of the Jin soldiers, so they went all the way south, sometimes returning to a strong force, and sometimes they were wandering by themselves, a few months ago they had occupied the mountain in Taihang Mountain as the king, but they didn't expect to be robbed by dozens of big men to rob the village. The one-eyed dragon thought about it and simply crossed the river and headed south. In the eyes of this gang of horse thieves, now that the world is in chaos, there is no general who does not want to expand his strength. The Protector Army in front of him only had 500 cavalry, and he would definitely not refuse the submission of their nearly 200 horse thieves.
But what this gang of thieves didn't expect was that Ji Qian didn't accept their surrender at all. directly ordered, "Cut down all these beasts for me to sacrifice to the people of Zhaozhuang." ”
The white-haired thief shouted, "General, I am the fourth ...... of Yanshan. ”
Without waiting for the white-haired thief to say his name, Ji Qian directly killed him. Then he said to the corpse of the thief who had fallen to the ground, "I'm sorry. I'm not interested in what the beast is called. ”