Chapter Ninety-Seven: Under Siege
"Draw close to me, array! Hurry up! ”
Li Qi shouted loudly, and the forty Flying Dragon Forbidden Army and the twenty-three Anxi Army under his command quickly gathered together and formed a tight military formation in three rows.
Seeing that he was still close to capturing Kang Shennu alive, Li Qi and the sixty-four Tang soldiers were also angry, and their eyes were about to erupt with fire.
"General Li, do you want to fight or not? To fight or not to fight? ”
"General Li, rush or not, they are less than four hundred ......"
Li Qi stared at the more than 300 cavalry Xiang Qiang cavalry in front of him viciously, raised his left hand and made a gesture of standing still, the sixty-three cavalry immediately fell silent, and the sixty-three strong crossbows were raised at the same time, pointing to a large area of the Dang Xiang Qiang cavalry in front of him.
Li Qi saw that at this time, Kang Shennu had fled to the rear of the Dangxiang Qiang cavalry and joined with it.
And he kept talking to the people behind him, which seemed very familiar. Obviously, they are in a group, and when they saw Kang Shennu being chased, they came to answer.
Li Qi guessed correctly. More than a day ago, the Snake Tooth Commander took a lot of gold and jewelry shells to the party Baqiang in the northwest of Yan'en to spread money, bribe, and lobby.
Naturally, the chiefs of the tribes were not easily moved, but the semi-professional robbers and horse bandits were at once instigated eagerly.
After getting the money and goods, I heard that there were five million hanging red, and immediately red-eyed, and soon gathered a group of people to rush to the direction of Yan'en County.
At the same time, those chieftains of the party and the eight qiangs, the assassin history, and the governor, had a good life, although they refused to send troops easily, and turned their faces against the Tang Dynasty for the sake of five million, but they were also suspicious of Zhang Xiancheng, and sent henchmen to the sentinel near Yan'en County to spy and peep.
Soon, the tragic situation of the Hu tribes in the six prefectures around Yan'en County spread through these sentinels and spread throughout the entire party at a rapid speed, setting off a storm of panic.
They naturally didn't think about who was right and who was wrong for the first time, whether Liuzhou Hu was plotting to rebel, but the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and when they thought of themselves, they began to be nervous and worried.
Didn't Zhang Xiancheng and others tell them before, this Tang Dynasty Liang Guogong Xiao went to hate all the Hu people and wanted to kill all the Hu people? Who can guarantee that he won't do anything to us after he has plundered and slaughtered Liuzhou Hu?
As a result, the entire party was mobilized and put on full alert. The governors of all tribes, the assassins, immediately summoned the troops under their command that could be urgently summoned.
And now they are facing the vanguard of the Dangxiang Baqiang gang composed of robbers and bandits and sentinels of various ministries.
Li Qi knocked lightly on the horse's belly, came out of the crowd, and said loudly: "I am the general of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, Li Qi, the king of Jianning of the Tang Dynasty, and I have been ordered by His Majesty to quell the rebellion in Liuhu Prefecture. Arrest the chief of Liuzhou Hu who plotted to rebel and send people to assassinate King Wuwei, and assassinate Shi Kang Shennu in Youzhou, regardless of the rest.
Who are you? Why do you accept and shield the thieves who commit rebellion? Do you want to rebel too? Quickly hand over Kang Shennu, and he is not to blame for the past.
Otherwise, my counterinsurgency army is behind me, more than 300 miles away, and there are 60,000 troops in Shuofang Town. Please think twice about where to go. ”
Among the cavalry of more than 300 people on the opposite side, most of them were robbers, bloodthirsty and brutal robbers and horse bandits who were prone to robbery on weekdays. If it had been in the past, according to their temperament, they would have jumped like thunder and rushed over regardless of it.
But this time, somehow, in the face of the opposing army standing like a wall and standing as immovable as a mountain, I couldn't help but feel a kind of fear from the inside out, and I felt chills on my body.
How to say it, although the military formation on the opposite side was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, it had a momentum that was so strong that it suffocated them. There was a pride in the eyes of each knight who looked at the world and despised all opponents.
It felt as if they were the one with the advantage in numbers and absolute superiority, as if their more than 300 riders were not worth mentioning in their eyes.
These robbers, who are conceited and brave on weekdays and kill people without blinking, were originally shocked at once, but at this time, they heard Li Qi say that they were just arresting Kang Shennu, and the rest did not ask, and at the same time, as long as they handed over Kang Shennu, they would not be blamed in the past, so they were a little hesitant at that time.
Several of the leading bandit leaders and the confidants of the chieftains of the various tribes couldn't help but look at each other at this time, wondering what the others had decided, but they didn't expect that the others also looked at them with inquiring eyes.
At this time, I heard the masked snaketooth commander shouting loudly: "This person is Xiao Quai's apprentice, kill him, and offer a reward of one million!" ”
The situation that was already tense and could go off at any time, because this sentence was completely out of control, the only remaining sanity of these party and Qiang bandits was instantly overwhelmed by greed.
The knights of more than three hundred party Xiang Qiang suddenly had red eyes, kept kicking their war horses, and rushed towards Li Qi in front of them like crazy.
Li Qi's face was excited, and as soon as the big gun was raised to the gun, he took the lead and rushed forward, and the sixty-three horsemen under his command seemed to have been unable to wait, and vigorously kicked the horse's belly, and lined up in three neat rows to crash head-on with the enemy who was six times as large as his own.
Shout! Shout! Shout!
When there were still eighty steps away, Li Qi's side detained the teeth of the strong crossbow at the same time, and he heard a sound of puff puff feathers and arrows entering the flesh, and suddenly more than 30 robber sentries who rode Dang Xiang Qiang rolled to the ground, adding dozens of blood-red plum blossoms to the originally white snowfield.
Dang Xiang Qiang's cavalry froze slightly, but their will to fight was completely different from that of Liuzhou Hu, who had surrendered.
The killing and blood light only aroused their ferocity even more, and everyone let out a beast-like roar, holding their spears and brandishing scimitars, and rushed straight towards Li Qi without dodging or dodging.
There was a loud bang, and the two cavalry teams, which were disproportionate in number and size, collided with each other like this. A series of bones that made people's scalps tingle and teeth ached, gold and iron intersected, and the sound of people neighing on their backs gradually sounded.
The sixty-four knights of the Tang Army were like a chisel, and they chiseled into the loose array of party members at once. The first four rows were facing the Dang Xiang Qiang knights facing the Tang Army's military formation, and they were almost swept away.
Thanks to the rigorous training in the past month, the 2,000 Tang troops participating in the battle this time were able to maintain a dense formation even when charging at full speed.
In this way, when charging and colliding, their enemies in front of them will face two or three spears or horse lances at the same time, plus their horses are faster than the enemy, and the knights will react faster than the enemy, and in the face of the frontal enemy, it is almost a one-sided slaughter.
But these sixty-four horses are not completely undamaged, especially the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, it can be said that it can really be called the opponent's actual combat, this is the first time.
Their enemy this time, although the war horses are not as fast as them, and the reaction speed is not as fast as theirs, but the combat experience is far superior to theirs. is even more brutal, and is stimulated by ferocity, which is completely a deadly style of play.
More than half of the Dangxiang Qiang robbers who were stabbed to death by spears and horse lances did not hesitate at all when facing two or three long soldiers, and they had to hand over the weapons in their hands at the cost of being pierced by two or three spears.
Coupled with the casualties on both flanks of the cavalry, this hedge only broke through the fourth layer of the enemy formation, and on the side of the Tang army, five people had already fallen from their horses, three were seriously injured, and half were slightly injured.
Especially Li Qi, because he ran at the front, was the most conspicuously dressed, and he also had a reward of one million, and he was attacked by himself by almost half of the other more than sixty people combined. At this time, he had already suffered two wounds, and there were four or five arrows hanging on his body.
But that wasn't the end of it, they had only cut through half of the enemy formation, and there were four layers of enemies in front of them, and there were many more enemies on both flanks.
The situation is very unpromising!
Li Qi's eyes were so red that they seemed to be about to burst into flames, and the ash pole gun in his hand danced into a grinding plate, and after picking down two enemies in front of him with one shot, he shouted without looking back: "Rush forward, turn right!" ”
The fifty Tang soldiers behind him also knew that the enemy they faced this time was far better than the Liuzhou Hu who had surrendered to the wind before, and their side had been a little light before.
But at the same time, it also stimulated the blood courage and resentment in their hearts even more, and they followed closely behind Li Qi, and one by one they burst out with a loud roar: "Endless Hu Gou!" ”
These party Qiang dog thieves, when the Tang Dynasty was weak, betrayed the Tang Dynasty to help Tubo attack the Tang Dynasty; Later, the Tibetans were at a disadvantage, and they could not bear the enslavement of the Tibetans, so they surrendered to the Tang Dynasty again.
Instead of caring about your previous mistakes, Datang once again gave you the best Hetao grassland, how did you repay Datang?
Today's account, when we rush out, will have to be repaid a thousand times by you dogs!
Almost ten breaths later, after paying the price of the lives of ten Tang soldiers, the remaining Tang troops finally completely chiseled through the array of Dang Xiangqiang.
At this time, almost all of the forty-nine surviving Tang soldiers were wounded, and the leader Li Qi was even more killed, with at least ten arrows hanging on his body, if it weren't for the armor being strong enough, and he had been practicing hard day and night with Xiao Qu's illness during this time, I was afraid that he would be here this time.
Forty-nine people came out through the formation, rushing forward more than ten steps at once, and a trace of pride appeared in the hearts of all of them. Even if this group of party Xiangqiang dogs are not afraid of death, it is not that more than 60 people were killed at once under our charge, and it is not that they cannot keep us.
However, this proud thought did not last for a moment, and just as Li Qi and the others were about to turn back to the right, they suddenly found that in front of their right, thunderous horses' hooves sounded, and a team of Dangxiang Qiang cavalry, which far outnumbered just now, was rushing towards them overwhelmingly!
Kang Shennu, Zhang Xiancheng and others, who were behind Li Qi and their left rear, saw from a distance that the cavalry of more than 500 people on the opposite side had opened a big front, blocking the way of Li Qi and more than 40 others from the front and right.
And his own cavalry, which was already less than 300 men, had already begun to turn around and outflank them from the other two directions, seeing that a small encirclement was about to be closed.
"Look where else you can run this time!"
I don't believe you'll be able to turn your horse's head around and break through us again! Even if you can break through again, charge the battle twice, and chase more than 20 miles before, I don't believe that your war horse still has the horsepower to run back!
Xiao Qu is sick, Xiao Qu is sick, even if he can't kill you temporarily, it is not bad to be able to kill you, an apprentice who is regarded as a treasure! I really want to see your expression of regret when the time comes!
"Turn right and turn around, let's get out!" Li Qi roared angrily, the first to turn the horse's head, his eyes swept away, and he was facing Zhang Xiancheng and Kang Shennu and others who were smiling proudly, and glared at them fiercely with a pair of eyes that seemed to be on fire.
"If you want grandpa's life, you have to have this ability!"
ps: Today is also a chapter, for two reasons, this chapter has been revised several times and I am not satisfied, so it took a little longer. Two one, when the code word began at night, the station was short, and it was going to be on the shelves tomorrow, and the mood was a little excited and a little chaotic...... It's not easy. I chatted with an author (Tian Yuanjun) today, and I also knew some of my problems and shortcomings, but my original intention has not been lost, and I have been persevering. I want to tell this story for everyone.
In short, I will work hard to code words, work hard to improve, and strive to tell this story well. In the past, there were some stories and discussions that were not very interesting, etc., but in the future, these things will become less and less, and the plot of the novel will be slightly accelerated, and the story will become better and better. Finally, thank you all for your support!