Chapter 68: Ambush
It was already afternoon when Xiao Yi and his party arrived at Xiaowutai Mountain, and at this time the group was stopping outside Xiaowutai Village. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Tartars these days." Shi Gang clenched his fists and glared angrily.
This is just the entrance of the village, and there are more than a dozen corpses of ordinary people, these corpses are scattered everywhere, most of them are some middle-aged men, these people are more powerful than the elderly, women and children, and they run farther away. But the horses' hooves of the Houjin people, who still did not escape, fell outside the village one by one.
Shi Gang and the others were all indignant, even those military households were whispering, and the defense officer Liu Yiming sighed, "What kind of evil is this?" ”
Xiao Yi walked up to a man's corpse and flipped the face-down corpse over, revealing the man's frightened and angry expression before he died. Shi Gang and Shi Lu gathered around Xiao Yi, all silent.
Xiao Yi stretched out his hand and slowly closed the man's round eyes, "Lao Shi, Shi Lu, Liu Tong, you also go and see the corpses of these people, let them look at them." With that, he slowly closed his eyes.
Shi Gang and the others all sighed, and went to see if there were any corpses of the people like this man, and closed their eyes one by one.
Li You looked at the movements of Xiao Yi and his party, and said disdainfully, "Big brother, look at this guy, he looks like he has done a lot." Li Zhen said, "This tartar is really hateful, let's go in and take a look." Li You glanced at his eldest brother in surprise, when did it become like this, nodded, and followed everyone into the village.
All the way into the village, there are corpses everywhere, the doors of each place are violently broken, Shi Gang Liu Sheng and a few recruits walked into a house, the door is lying the body of a man covered with wounds, and the house is even more messy, and the corpses of women, children and the elderly are mixed together.
The woman, in particular, was lying there unsightly, covered in blood, and so on.
And the baby in swaddling clothes was thrown aside like this, Liu Sheng took a look, the child still maintained the posture of opening his mouth and crying, but there was no sound, this scene was miserable.
Even a man like Shi Gang couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and the big fist slammed on the door again, making a bang, "Alas! These dog Tartars, I'm going to kill all the Tartars! ”
Liu Sheng and a few recruits were even more indignant after seeing it, the original nervous mood was gone, the only thing was anger towards the Tartars, if they didn't kill these Tartars today, what if they arrived at their own house a day later, would their own family members have to repeat the same mistakes.
Xiao Yi was in the middle of the village watching the recruits walk into the houses, and when they walked in, they still didn't show anything, and when they came out, most of them were holding the spears and waist knives in their hands, and their faces were flushed with anger.
Liu Yiming couldn't bear to look at this scene, these are all living people, these Tartars are really good.
"Come on, come on, hurry up the mountain, what's there to see, go up the mountain and kill the tartars." Li You's cold voice came, shouting for the soldiers to go up the mountain, and Li Zhen and Yang Liang also led their own people up the mountain first, wanting to get some benefits.
Xiao Yigang was about to let everyone gather, when suddenly his ears moved, and he looked at the mountain, and there was actually billowing smoke and dust on the mountain!
"Oh no, the Tartars are coming!" Shi Gang also looked over and was suddenly startled. These hours of combat had already allowed him to develop an awareness of the smoke and dust of horses' hooves, and Wang Dayong had also taught him, and now he could slightly recognize some of the sound of horses' hooves.
The normal number of people in this small village is only more than 200 people, but now it is nearly 400 people crowded here, and the officers and soldiers who were already slowly assembling did not expect that the Tartars would actually rush down.
Only twenty or so horsemen dared to rush towards their hundreds of people, which was unimaginable on weekdays, everyone was so frightened that they ran around in shock, and there was a lot of noise in this small village, and even some of the first captains joined the ranks of fleeing.
Xiao Yi couldn't help shaking his head, this was already messed up before he made contact.
The Tartars rushed down, and suddenly Li Zhen, who had just climbed half of the mountain, and more than 30 people led by Yang Liang, a total of more than 60 people, became the vanguard in the face of the Tartars.
"This, this, this is the Tartar?" Li You's eyes widened in shock, he couldn't imagine that the Tartar was actually one person and two horses, everyone had armor, he had no doubt at all, if the scimitar in the Tartar's hand slashed at him, what would happen, if he didn't die, he would be seriously injured.
Suddenly, the horse ran back in shock.
The Tartar had two horses for one man, a total of more than fifty strong horses, and they rushed down from the mountain to roll up puffs of smoke and dust, but they were also quite powerful.
The recruits on Xiao Yi's side are not very different from other military households, and the veterans are okay and have not yet shown panic.
The recruits were suddenly full of panic, but due to the leadership of the veteran squad leaders, they quickly formed a skillful formation that they usually practiced, although they were a little scared, but they did not mess up.
Xiao Yi glanced around, and there were low houses all around, but fortunately it was not in the open and flat land.
Xiao Yi sighed, and then his eyes kept looking around anxiously, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he saw a row of houses there, there were three houses in the middle of this row of houses, which were built in a good position, in a concave shape, and there were many houses around it, so there was no need to be afraid of the flanks and back Tartars, just one direction could maximize the power of this formation.
Xiao Yi glanced at Liu Yiming in front of him, but in this way, he handed over all the front to Liu Yiming and those people, and hesitated.
Xiao Yi still gave an order, and the soldiers of Yong'an Fort rushed to the recess of the three houses, and under the leadership of Shi Gang and the team leaders, they quickly lined up the formation they practiced on weekdays, and waited for the battle.
At this time, Xiao Yicai looked at Li You, I don't know when, Li Zhen and Yang Liang's sixty people have been scattered, and as soon as they came into contact with them, they realized that the gap was too big.
The weapons on his side can rarely hurt the Tartars, and the steel scimitar of the Tartars is a big hole when it is cut on his body, and as soon as he makes contact, it is almost a complete rout, and the officers and soldiers who have no formation at all can not resist the Tartars' charge from the mountain, and Li You and Li Zhen have disappeared.
Liu Yiming's first reaction when he saw the Tartars coming was to gather people to fight, and the roaring sound even somewhat overshadowed the sound of the riots in the field. But these military households were useless, especially Yang Liang and Li Zhen's people, who were killed and defeated as soon as they came into contact, and they were almost powerless to resist.
Only a dozen people fled back to Zhuangzi crying for their fathers and mothers, and more than 20 Tatar cavalry were like chopping melons and vegetables, and most of the defeated soldiers fled everywhere on the hillside. And this scene was fatal to the morale of more than 100 people on Liu Yiming's side, who were already terrified.
After chasing and killing the rout, the Tatar cavalry slowly set their eyes on the more than 100 people here. But this time they didn't rush down directly, but held blood-stained scimitars and rode back and forth in front of them, not knowing what was waiting for.
Liu Yiming also wondered, what are these Tartars waiting for if they don't rush down, after seeing the power of the Tartars, Liu Yiming is not stupid, this time he will not go to the mountain again, only to hold the village There is still a trace of life.
Xiao Yi was also puzzled, and when he looked there, he saw that the Tartars wandering there were all Mongolian cavalry wearing light leather armor, and there was no Houjin cavalry. Could it be that it was only the Mongol cavalry that fled this time?
Xiao Yi roughly counted, but was surprised to find that these Mongolian cavalry companies did not arrive with twenty people, only eighteen horsemen, and Liu Yiming gave himself more than twenty people, right?
"It's not good, they're waiting for the Houjin soldiers!" Xiao Yihu reminded Liu Yiming loudly.
After Liu Yiming heard this, he looked back and found that there were actually ten more cavalrymen in the rear!
These ten horsemen are different from the Mongolian cavalry in front, everyone is wearing yellow full-body armor, with a steel tiger spear shining with cold light behind them, and a sharp waist knife in their hands.
The military households, who were already frightened, were all shocked this time, and when they saw the Tartars, which were obviously more powerful than those on the mountain, there was already a tendency to unstoppable riots.
Liu Yiming had no choice but to pull out his waist knife and shouted, "The spearman stepped forward!" Archers back on! Don't be afraid, he is only more than 20 Tartars, and he will avenge the people. ”
Liu Yiming's shouting still had a certain effect, and with the pressure of some elite families, the riot was somewhat stopped.
Some of the military households with spears were trembling and lined up on the periphery, forming a two-sided phalanx, but Xiao also doubted that the spears in their hands would be able to pierce the heavy armor of the Houjin cavalry, and they would tremble and drop their spears on the ground.