Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Fruit Knight
A neighing sound sounded, the entire frozen ground was trembling, the sound of the horseshoe slamming the ground hit the heart, and a scream came from the right side of Chen Jun, and the sound of feathers and arrows entering the body and the sound of slamming the ground was endless.
Wang Xuan's excited shout got into Wang Huaqiang's ears: "Huaqiang, it's General Han's iron horse, we have been saved!" â
Wang Huaqiang opened his eyes, the sky suddenly became brighter, the rebel arrows flying around his head had disappeared, and Xu Zijian's hoarse roar echoed in the air: "Don't panic, line up to meet the enemy, hurry up, turn right, quick!" â
Before his words fell, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves arrived nearby, Wang Huaqiang struggled to prop up his body, only to see that as far as the eye could see, hundreds of war horses wearing thick vests, on which sat a heavily armored knight wrapped like a tin can, holding an iron whip, a copper hammer, a saber, a heavy sword and other things, in the chaotic formation of the Chen army, slashing and smashing, swords and hammers whipped everywhere, human heads and brains flew together, and the river was full of blood.
Chen Jun's array was originally facing Wang Huaqiang and others in the grass on the side of the road, and the rear army, which was originally the rear guard, turned to Wang Huaqiang's flank early, and was killed by the iron cavalry from the south, and directly crashed into the flank of the Chinese army.
The iron cavalry of the Sui army first shot a crossbow at a distance of fifty steps, and then held a four- or five-meter-long riding lance, and killed more than 200 Chen soldiers with one impact, and after the leading iron cavalry rushed into the crowd, they directly threw away the long lance with two or three corpses on the string, and then pulled out the secondary weapons on the saddle, mostly swords, hammers and whips, etc., and smashed them when they saw people, and the wild war horses also kept jumping and trampling in the crowd, and the Chen army who fell to the ground were trampled into blood and mud one by one.
Wang Huaqiang was dumbfounded when he saw this kind of slaughter of the infantry by the ironclad cavalry for the first time, this kind of blood and excitement, this kind of steel crushing the flesh and blood, was incomparable to the kind of melee between the infantry by the river the night before, and those ironclad cavalry who rode on tall horses, as if moving the copper wall and iron wall, exuded a kind of sex appeal and toughness from their bones, making people breathe and heartbeat faster, and their blood was swelling.
There were only more than two hundred cavalry who rushed into the Chen army's array, but the battle was crushed one-sidedly, and a horn sounded again from the mist behind, like the call of death, the iron hooves stepped on the ground, and the sound of the sky cracking sounded again, and there were screams from the rear army of the Chen army who were outflanked on the flank, and it seemed that the second group of assault targets of the Sui army's iron cavalry chose the rear army of the Chen army.
Wang Huaqiang suddenly turned his head to Wang Xuan and asked, "Jing Yan, how do you know that these are General Han's iron horses?" â
Wang Xu's voice was trembling excitedly: "These are Xiaoguo Iron Cavalry, they are the palace guards, this time the emperor specially allocated them to the King of Jin, because General He asked for Wang Shiji's 10,000 cavalry support, and General Han also asked for troops from King Jin, so King Jin allocated these 3,000 Xiaoguo to General Han."
Looking at this style, it must be that after the Chen army warship of Jiangfang left, General Han took advantage of the situation to cross the river, captured the quarry, and then sent Xiaoguo knights to meet us. â
Wang Huaqiang said suspiciously: "Jing Yan, how are you so clear about these things, why haven't you told us before?" â
Wang Xuan laughed: "Hua Qiang, this is a military secret, it must not be passed on at all, the reason why I know this is because my younger brother Wang Gong is now serving in the army under General Han's account, I am afraid of danger when crossing the river this time, and I have secretly communicated with him, asking him to move closer to us as soon as he crosses the river." â
Wang Huaqiang felt more and more that something was wrong, Wang Fei was just a small army under Han Baohu, and his status was not as high as Wang Baohu, how could he say that Han Baohu was used for his own use, and personally led the Xiaoguo cavalry to attack along the riverbank, just to save his own small role?
Suddenly, Wang Huaqiang thought of what his father said to him that day, and then looked at the excitement on Wang Xuan's face, and suddenly understood that what Wang Xuan and Wang Xuan wanted was to personally enter the palace of the Chen Dynasty, kill Chen Shubao, and avenge their father, and Han Baohu wanted this great merit of breaking the country and capturing the king, at this point, the two had the same purpose, so they hit it off.
Judging from the speed at which Han Baohu crossed the river, he may have only brought more than 1,000 Xiaoguo cavalry and was ready to go straight to Jiankang City, which required Wang Xuan to lead people to attract the Chen Dynasty army by the river, and create an opportunity for Han Baohu to create a zĂ o.
In fact, Han Baohu and Wang Xuan had the same mind as Wang Shiji, but Wang Xuan didn't expect Wang Shiji to use this trick on himself first, and he was still counting on Wang Shiji's army to empty Jiankang's defenders, he refused to leave on the riverbank, even if there were only a few hundred people left, he also didn't want to give up this plan, not really worried about Wang Shiji's military orders.
Wang Huaqiang sighed in his heart, sure enough, everyone had their own plans, even Wang Xuan, and even sacrificed his own lives and the lives of more than a thousand of his subordinates, just to give his younger brother and Han Baohu the opportunity to raid Jiankang, the obsession of revenge is so terrible.
Wang Huaqiang looked at Wang Xu, who had already stood up, dancing with his hands, like a madman, and his heart was gloomy, this time he really saw the selfishness and darkness of human nature, even Wang Xu, who had always made himself think he was a nerd, was so scheming, not to mention Wang Shiji, a guy with a heart like a snake and scorpion, he always thought that he had no last resort, and it seemed that compared with these old ghosts who had become elites, it was not a little bit worse.
The battle on the bank of the river has come to an end, Xu Zijian saw that the defeat was decided, and he also learned from Liu Yitong, threw down the troops and fled alone, and Liu Yitong's luck was a little worse, he was knocked off his horse by the fleeing infantrymen and trampled into a pile of blood and mud.
With the sound of a horn, the Xiaoguo knights of the third team also followed, and nearly three hundred ironclad cavalry let the more than 800 people in the Chen army die or surrender, except for one Xu Zijian, who did not run away.
A strong man covered in blood stains and riding a high-iron armored war horse with a foot of more than seven feet rode to Wang Huaqiang, and the survivors came out of the grass one after another, and the wheat iron rod also supported Wang Huaqiang and struggled to get up.
The brawny man's helmet was fully enclosed, and he wore an iron demonic mask, which was splattered with blood, and he looked even more hideous at this time, and he re-hung two chain hammers stained with blood and brains on the saddle frame, and took off the helmet, revealing a face in his twenties, his eyebrows slanted, his eyes were bright, and his chin was covered with some short hair.
The young strong man said to Wang Huaqiang: "You are very heroic, we all saw it just now, but unfortunately it was a little slow, and I didn't have time to save your brother." â
Wang Huaqiang thought of Liu Changshan's heroic sacrifice, and his heart ached, and he gave a military salute to the strong man on the horse: "I am Wang Huaqiang, the governor of the Kaifu Shangyi and Wang Xuan, and I command the palace on behalf of the king, I don't know what to call the general?" â
The young strong man returned a military salute on the horse, and said: "I am the governor of Luzhou, and the general Han Baohu under the command of Han Shige, on the order of my father, led five hundred Xiaoguo to take the lead, may I ask the governor of the king, where is the palace of Wang Kai?" â
Wang Xuan rushed over excitedly and said to Han Shige: "It turns out that you are the eldest son of General Han, sure enough, you are a hero and a young man, I am Wang Xuan, dare to ask where General Han is?" â
Han Shige jumped off his horse and saluted solemnly to Wang Xuan: "See General Wang, my father is commanding the follow-up troops to cross the river, and Wang Senjun has also crossed the river with my father, you should be able to see him soon." â
Wang Xuan nodded, and said to Han Shige urgently: "Now the situation has changed, Wang Shiji also wants to attack Jiankang, he has landed in Xintingli last night, we have to hurry up now, bypass the main road, run from the small road, and rush straight to Jiankang, so as to have a chance to destroy the country in one fell swoop." â
Han Shige sighed: "General Wang doesn't know, Wang Shiji has been discovered by the Chen army, two hours ago, the Chen Dynasty's land and water army has besieged Wang Shiji's troops in the area of Xintinglei, all roads leading to Jiankang from the south have been blocked, and the fighter plane has been lost, I am here to meet you." â