Section 4: Enter the Red Mountain
Killing all the people who climbed up the arrows in front of him, the man in black rushed to the gap in the arrow stack, danced a piece of knife flowers with a ring knife, and the arrows shot fell to the ground one after another, and the archers behind had already begun to follow, but the formation of the blue horse man was suddenly chaotic.
The blue language, crying, shouting, and screaming ,γγγγγγ were chaotic, and some of the blue horse archers began to flee, some were stunned in place, and some looked left and rightγγγγ and the man in black saw the fallen Ulan Sea in the distance.
The squad of the Martial Qi Realm was really difficult, and after the death of the Ulanhai, the Blue Horse archers began to flee, and the garrison gradually controlled the rhythm of the war.
But these black-clothed people just didn't give an inch, after Huo Wuxiang and Yu Wenhua participated in the war, plus the bow and arrow team of nearly 200 people was organized by Mao Mao to fight cold arrows, and the rest of the garrison stood under the arrow stack and threw guns, a one-meter-long short gun. After paying Yu Wenhua an arm, Tie Yulan withdrew early, and Huo Wuxiang cut down the last man in black.
Brushing the blood off the saber, Huo Wuxiang felt the Yuan Force in his body that was about to bottom out, and he collapsed for a while.
Most of the people in black died from the sneak attack of arrows and throwing guns, looking at the black-clothed people who were shot into hedgehogs by arrows not far away, the fire was not like a while to be afraid, if it weren't for the blue horse archers who were afraid of fleeing in a hurry, this arrow chopping was a flesh grinding plate, and then grinding a thousand people without blinking.
At the same time, I was happy for no reason, is this still the garrison I remember? So I can fight.
Liu Qingshan woke up shortly after the end of the war, and when he woke up, he ran to the north bank of the Luo River, and the casualties are not too clear now, and it is estimated that he will not be able to get down to 2000.
Before the bonfire, all the school officers of the garrison were there, Huo Wuxiang, Feng Zhanyun, Tie Yulan, Su Ping, and Mao Maoγγγγγγγγ
"Those old men in Luoshui! Let's not count on it, don't say anything else, just say that this Luohe estuary fortifications, it is clear that you don't want to fight with other people's blue dogs, look at it, 80 meters of the river, can block the blue dog's magic cannon, gas car, hard crossbow? β
After a pause, Liu Qingshan continued
"Let's just say that it is to deepen the depth of dismounting, Huang Biao's army of 20,000 is enough for 60 miles? I think they are ironclad that the Blue Horse people will not cross the Luohe, in their words, they are hungry and come to beg for food, give two dollars and leave! β
"I'm afraid of death! It's Huang Biaojun who came this time, okay! Huang Biaojun can fight very well! Temagnolia interjected.
"Who do you say is afraid of death?" Liu Qingshan asked Tie Yulan rhetorically.
"That one faints when he sees blood?! That one? That one? β
"γγγγγγγγ you! You! Go and goγγγ don't tell you! β
Everyone laughed.
"How many gas cars did you see Huang Biaojun bringing? Giant crossbows? γγγγγγγ the Tiger Guards of Yahai are closest to us, right? Now the blue people are all coming in? Zhang Baoguo also entered Beijing to be promoted to a second-class officer, and he was idle in the military departmentγγγγγγ "Liu Qingshan still looks disdainful.
"Don't talk about useless things! Say it! Huo Wuxiang said a little angrily.
"It's uncle!"
Liu Qingshan paused for a while, and then said: "The Luohe River is not wide, let alone defending it with danger!" It is 60 miles away from the dismount, and sticking here is originally a lot of ingredients for the Blue Horse people to see. It can be seen from today's group of diggers that we can pay some price to take it, and the Blue Horse people really don't take it here, if I expect it to be good, now most of the main outposts of the Blue Horse are in the lower horse pass, and the Chinese army of Nusi is advancing rapidly, maybe it has passed Luoqing, the reason why we are blocked in the Luohe River is to want to strangle our net after the Chinese army of Nusi reaches the Luohe, control it within a range of 60 miles, 30,000 blue dogs, just walk over, we have no crossbow arrows, gas cars, horse bows in our 8000,γγγγγ How many people survived in this gap of only 60 miles? β
"But what if most of the blue horses don't dismount?" Feng Zhanyun interjected.
"That's better, I've released the news bird back, the dismount pass is to prevent the blue dog to guard the wall, there is no danger to defend the south side of the dismount, there is no official wall, if we can break the dismount pass from the north, then there is no official wall in the south, do you think we can stop our Huang Biaojun from sneezing? γγγβ
After a pause, Liu Qingshan continued: "If it's just a small group of blue dogs, tomorrow Huang Biaojun's fingers will be wiped out, and the front army will definitely go to Luohe to join us in the evening." But if the blue dog has a heavy soldier dismounting, we will be sent to death if we hit the horse, time! Not only could he not break the horse, but even the time to escape was wasted. β
Everyone was stunned.
"So what now?" Huo Wuxiang asked worriedly.
"Enter the Red Mountain," Liu Qingshan said without thinking.
"Into the Red Mountain?"
"What about the horses?"
"In case Huang Biaojun comes, we won't be there?"
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"These will not kill 8,000 people, and the death will only be Xiao San, but if it is really as Xiao San said, we will not enter the Red Mountainγγγγ and let the blue horse dog bite it when the time comes, it will be annihilated."
Huo Wuxiang looked at everyone and said nothing, and continued, "Little San, you are the chief general in the army, the male husband should have a choice, and if there is a conclusion, he should be decisive, you decide!" β
Liu Qingshan, with his head down and his hand touching his chin, a touch of determination flashed through his eyes, and asked Su Ping to take the order.
"General! You take 50 cavalry along the road to the north for 30 miles to explore, if there is a blue dog main force to return quickly, remember to kill it when you abandon the horse! β
Then Liu Qingshan looked at Su Ping beside him, "Su Ping, you take 10 people to guard here, there is a movement and rapid transmission, and the rest of the troops enter the Red Mountain, kill horses and take meat, bury heavy equipment on the spot, and those who can't bury and can't go up the mountain will be demolished on the spot, and those who don't enter the mountain tonight will be punished according to the order."
"Yesβyes"
The generals were ordered to retreat and go about their business. Yu Wenhua came out of the ambulance, one arm was gone, wrapped in a thick white cloth, and Wu Xishou was followed by him.
Wu Xishou came to report to Yu Wenhua that after the military land, the brothers buried what should be buried, and demolished what should be demolished, but it was the turn to kill horses and take meat, but most people did not do it.
These horses had been marching with them for many years, but now they were killed alive, and their flesh was eaten, and some of them did not do anything at all.
Seeing that the brigade was about to enter the Red Mountain, the horses of the rear army made the soldiers quarrel, and some even pushed and fought with the members of the garrison to enforce the law.
Originally, Yu Wenhua was also extremely reluctant in his heart, but this was Liu Qingshan's general order, so the order must be forbidden, and it will be implemented to the letter.
Not to mention that Liu Qingshan is Huo Wuxiang's nephew, he has followed Huo Wuxiang for many years and is his personal follower. As for Liu Qingshan, a high-achieving student who graduated from the Imperial Military Academy, he also admires it very much.
What was the previous garrison! It is the watchdog of the Nine Palaces in the capital of Luoshui, and he has nothing to do with fishing for three days and two days of drying nets, and he also aims his sword at the people to force some taxes, and he doesn't do a few things at all.
The military salary has been delayed until now, and some of the team members' salaries for 375 years of the imperial calendar are still hanging on the account, and they are now 379 years old. In the event of a war, the garrison is a rabble, and it will be a real battle like today? I can't even think about it.
Liu Qingshan has not been here for too long, less than two years, and this general not only does not deduct the soldiers' salaries, but also takes care of the soldiers.
Usually training is even more clear-eyed, repairing water conservancy, helping farming, rave reviews in Luoshui, even his little army member, walking on the street is no longer the same as before, he can feel that people see him with admiration and love, not fear. It feels so good.
In a blink of an eye, in front of the horse team of the rear army, Yu Wenhua saw the old horse 'Scorching Sun', who had followed him for many years.
The old horse seemed to know what was going to happen, standing quietly in the front row of the horse team, with layers of mist in his eyes, Yu Wenhua stroked the 'scorching sun', his movements became lighter and lighter, and he slowly pulled out the knife with his only arm, and slammed it into the horse's neck.
'Scorching Sun' jumped and screamed in pain, and then fell to the ground with a big gasp, blood flowing down the horse's neck like a stream.
The convulsions of the 'scorching sun' grew weaker and weaker, until finally he stopped breathing. There was a low whimper in the rear army. Yu Wenhua was lying on the belly of the scorching sun's horse, still holding the steel knife inserted into the scorching sun's body in his hand, closing his eyes and letting his eyes wet with tears.
The garrison has begun to clean up the battlefield, and has captured some bows and arrows, long-handled stabbing robbers, short knivesγγγγγγ most of which have been damaged, but there are quite a few arrows, and there are more than 20,000 arrows.
The casualty figures are also basically counted, more than 2,400 soldiers died, more than 800 were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, plus 500 of the losses of the Houjun army after the attack of Huowuxiang, and the battle of Luohe, excluding logistics and medical care, there were less than 4,000 capable fighters.
On the south bank of the Lok River, in addition to the soldiers of the garrison, there were also a few refugees who fled from the army, and the number of refugees was increasing, now there were no less than 3,000.
The garrison on the north bank of the Luo River had already begun to advance towards the Red Mountain, and the long procession was like a fire dragon with torches in the night, gradually disappearing into the low trees of the Red Mountain. On the south bank, Huo Wuxiang and Feng Zhanyun stood at the back of the line, and 3,000 refugees were also wrapped in it, slowly moving towards the pontoon.
Because the pontoon bridge is too narrow, even if Su Ping has done a closer repair and reinforcement of the pontoon bridge before the brigade is opened, it is a matter of time to pass through the nearly 5,000 people and horses.
At the same time as receiving the general's order, he ordered all the men and horses, and probed down the Red Mountain and the Luo River, and from time to time encountered some scattered blue archers along the way, and the three or five ones were immediately cut down, and thirty or fifty or more were shot with bows and arrows to disperseγγγ
Xie Yuanhui joined the garrison together with Zhan Mao, the two grew up together, they are from Huaiting in the south of Luoshui, their ancestors all made a living by hunting, and they are also well-known at the west end of Hongshan.
He lost his parents when he was nine years old, and was brought up by his grandfather, and once Liu Qingshan came to Huaiting to collect the endowment, and when he arrived in their village, he wanted to accept the hair because of his fancy for the archery skills of the hair.
Grandpa Mao and Xie Yuanhui's grandfather saw that Liu Qingshan was sincere, and asked Xie Yuanhui to follow, in order to follow Liu Qingshan for a future.
Xie Yuanhui and Zhan Mao killed a lot of blue archers in one night, and at this time, there were already a lot of blue archers' wrenches and coins in their backpacks, and they were very happy.
Less than 30 miles away from the Luohe Red Mountain Pass, they met the outpost of the Blue Horse people, and the two sides did not start a war, but just opened a distance and you shot an arrow, and I let you shoot an arrow for a while.
When the sky was bright and bright, he ordered to retreat, and there were a few blue people hanging from a distance not far away, which was very troublesome.
Back at the Red Mountain Pass, the sky had already brightened, most of the men and horses had entered the Red Mountain, and a few soldiers were burying the corpses, which was nearing the end. Yesterday's trenches have also been filled, and it is estimated that the corpses are buried there, whether they are blue people or Huang Yao people, whether they are monks or soldiers, they will eventually become a pile of fertile loess here, and they will be dyed with a pool of river grass when spring comes.
The water of the Luo River is no longer the blood river of yesterday, it looks dark in the distance, and when you look closer, through the turbulent stream, there are occasionally one or two stumps and broken legs. Sanzhu'er straightened his waist, his legs were already a little numb after soaking in the cold Luohe River for a long time, and he looked around and found no more corpses of his comrades, breathed a sigh of relief, and walked towards them.
Xie Yuanhui smelled the smell in the air vigorously, and then looked at the hair with a solemn gaze.
"How?" Slightly puzzled
"The army, the army, you smell it? You look at the fog! β
He sniffed through his nose and didn't smell anything, and then asked the three stews who had come closer, "Did you smell anything?" β
"Didn't get it?"
"No?"
"What?" Hair is a little impatient!
"The smell of sweat! The smell of sweat on people's bodies, the kind that just got up in the morning, you see this fog, is it flowing faster than just now? β
"I didn't see it! Have it? "I'm not sure.
"What's wrong?" A lot of people say at the same time.
"Look, look at your battle sense of smell, have you ever seen a direction in the morning fog flowing? Do you see if this fog is going south? Does this mean that there are people coming from the north, a large number of people? You know? Xie Yuanhui said matter-of-factly.
Seeing that everyone didn't answer, Xie Yuanhui continued, "There is also this smell of sweat, this is the kind of unique to the Blue Horse people." You know? You know? β
Looking at the slowly flowing fog in front of him to the south, he really couldn't smell the smell of sweat, and he knew that what Xie Yuanhui said made sense. His eyes were blurred into a slit, and he said very seriously, "Seriously, how much do you estimate?" How far no? βγ
Xie Yuanhui crawled to the ground, leaned over and listened for a while, and stood up.
"There must be a lot, you can't hear the sound of the ground to smell this smell, it's definitely not close, it can make the fog in the river push south, how can this valley mouth be 200 meters wide, the number of people is estimated to be more than 10,000, maybe more, but γγγ it's not less anyway!"
"All of them! Kill the horse! The advanced mountain is saying, "Hair is ordered."
"Mao! Can you not kill? The Blue Horse people are still far away! A soldier asked tentatively
"You grid the hammer! Take the horse to walk the mountain road, do you think the horse is the master! Then why don't you throw away the torch at night? Do you see if your grandfather is giving you away? Kill! βγ
They killed the horses and went up the mountain, and soon the blue horse Tanma also arrived at the junction of the Luo River and the Red Mountain. The pontoon bridge has been destroyed, the bridge rope has been somewhere by the garrison, and the mouth of the Luohe River is the same as ever, with rushing streams, mist and green hills.