Chapter Eighty-Three: Desperate Survival
Less than half an hour after Cheng Yanjin's death, Li Xian's team was caught up by the enemy again, not because Li Xian and his soldiers did not work hard, but because they were not familiar with the terrain and came to a dead end.
At the end of the road was a great river that flowed endlessly, Li Xian threw a stone and tried it, and found that the river was so deep that they could not pass at all, and just as they were about to turn back, they suddenly found that the enemy army was following them.
Seeing this scene, even Li Xian couldn't help but gasp, and at the same time, he couldn't help but mourn inexplicably in his heart, he didn't expect the enemy to kill Cheng Yanjin and others so quickly, and quickly chased them up.
However, Li Xian did not despair, he stood high on horseback, looked into the distance, and deduced from the smoke and dust created by the enemy cavalry that the number of enemy troops chasing this time was definitely less than 10,000, at most only 5,000.
"If the person who came is not the hateful enemy commander, this time our army is not without hope of escaping, alas, the success or failure of life and death, it depends on this, I really didn't expect that I, Li Xian, have been in the middle of my life, and today I will have to decide the lives of myself and all the soldiers in the hands of others." Li Xian couldn't help but smile bitterly, but he would not be willing to wait for death, and gathered all the soldiers around him, lined up in formation, and fought against the water.
"Brothers, it seems that today's things must not be good, but as a Tang man, how can I easily give in? What's more, the thieves are cruel, we just want to surrender, and they can't tolerate it, for the sake of today, we are going to die anyway, it's better to fight with the thieves, maybe there will be a glimmer of life, brothers, pick up the spears in our hands, and rush into battle with this king, we will die, and we will die on the battlefield! ”
After Li Xian finished speaking, he took out his bow and arrows, pulled the bowstring, and faced the front with a chain of three arrows, only to hear the sound of breaking through the air, and three screams came from not far away, and three enemy soldiers had already turned over and fallen off their horses.
"Good!" When the surrounding soldiers saw that Li Xian's three arrows were shot beautifully, they immediately roared and cheered, and their previous fears were somewhat eased.
Li Xian smiled faintly, pulled the bow and shot again, after a few arrows, several enemy soldiers were killed by arrows, and at this time the enemy and the army were only fifty paces apart, if Li Xian shot the enemy with a bow and arrow, there would be no chance to stab the horse, and this was quite deadly for the army, so Li Xian decisively threw away the bow and arrow, held up the spear in his hand, and rushed forward first.
Immediately following Li Xian, Zhang Deyu and the remaining more than 170 soldiers also roared loudly and rushed forward.
Although the number of enemy horsemen is large, the momentum is also very strong, but because the Tang army desperately rushed to kill, coupled with the martial arts of Li Xian and Zhang Deyu who took the lead in the killing, the momentum is also extraordinary, in the blink of an eye, more than ten enemy soldiers were picked off the horse, and the previous arrows took the lead, and even made the enemy's offensive suddenly frustrated, although the enemy did not dare to violate the military order, but in front of this group of Tang Dynasty soldiers who did not want to die, they still cowered.
And taking advantage of the momentary cringe of the enemy army, Li Xian and the others rose up and killed nearly thirty enemy soldiers.
But even so, it is still difficult to change the huge gap between the enemy and us, and although their gang of outlaws in the round of fighting just now is extraordinary, five people were killed and three were seriously injured.
If this casualty ratio continues, it is estimated that it will not be long before Li Xian's army will all be killed, and none of them will be spared.
But now, all the people don't think about it so much, and the only thing they think about now is to do their best to kill and injure the enemy, although they will eventually die, but they must make the enemy pay enough price!
As the commander and soul of the whole team, Li Xian is particularly eye-catching in the Tang army, only to see that the spear in his hand is like a swimming dragon, or stab, or pick, or sweep, every time it can cause fatal lethality to the enemy, in the face of the fierce enemy army, Li Xian's moves are becoming more and more ruthless.
I saw a stab of the spear in his hand obliquely, and it pierced into the ribs of a chieftain, and then violently stirred it, bringing out the intestines of the leader, and the leader screamed miserably, and fell off the horse, but Li Xian obviously did not intend to let him go, and before he landed, he picked up the spear, and lifted the man into the air, allowing him to wave his hands and feet and keep struggling, the pain and miserable wails on his face made all the robes near him look at each other. However, Li Xian took the opportunity to throw the man into the middle of several cavalrymen, and at the same time took advantage of the cavalry to rush to pick up the leader, he stabbed the spears in his hands several times, stabbed the cavalry off their horses, and then took the opportunity to step forward, commanding the mount to stomp on the arms and thighs of the enemy's fallen soldiers, and let the terrible wails spread all around......
Li Xian's cruel methods did play a big role, first of all, it had a great deterrent effect on the enemy army, and the enemy cavalry near Li Xian always did not dare to step forward and fight hard, for fear that they would also become the next target to be brutally killed. However, the generals in the army gritted their teeth and hated Li Xian deeply, and all the generals and soldiers who relied on their own courage were all densely gathered around Li Xian, and desperately greeted Li Xian with the weapons in their hands.
Although Li Xian is brave, after all, he is only flesh and blood, his spear skills are already a waste of energy, plus the surrounding enemy troops are warriors who can fight habitually, know how to cooperate with each other, and there is quite a law between offense and defense, which makes it difficult for many enemies to kill at once, and it consumes a lot of his strength in vain, so although his internal strength is long, it is gradually a little unbearable at this time, but Li Xian knows that he can now carry most of the enemy warriors and can relieve the pressure for his own soldiers a little, so he still gritted his teeth and persisted, Fight to slay one enemy after another.
The officers and men of the Tang Army naturally knew what kind of pressure Li Xian was facing, because so far, in less than half an hour of the battle, Li Xian himself had killed more than 100 enemy soldiers, and all of them had killed more than 300 people, and he had also paid a huge price of 20 deaths. It is precisely because of this that they are even more desperate, desperate to fight the enemy, even if it is a life for life, which leads to the fact that although the scale of this battle is not large, but the tragic and bloody is by no means lost to any major war in history.
Everywhere you can see stumps and broken arms, screams are endless, knives and guns are dancing, and flesh and blood are flying, like a hell on earth.
"Hmph, go on, go on, you must capture that Tang general alive, if someone accidentally kills him, this general will kill his whole family, sell his wife and children into slavery, this person killed my brother, how can I let him die so happily?"
Beggar Maijia saw that Li Xian's marksmanship at this time was gradually scattered, and he knew that this person was exhausted, and there were so many people under his command, even if he stood still and let him cut it, he could also tire him to death, he believed that if it dragged on for half an hour at most, the opponent would completely lose his combat effectiveness, and when the time came, he would rush up and capture him in one fell swoop, not only to prove his bravery, but also to establish a huge prestige among the soldiers, and to avenge his brother, it was really a matter of killing multiple birds with one stone.
Beggar Maijia expected it to be good, Li Xian's strength was indeed about to run out, not to mention half an hour, even a stick of incense couldn't hold on, every time he killed an enemy, he needed to condense the internal force in advance, and in the end, the internal force in his body was already exhausted.
Although Li Xian has great strength, but in front of these savage people, he does not have an absolute advantage, the reason why he can rely on his strength and speed to take advantage is completely by relying on the internal force of several years of penance in his body, now the internal force is approaching, and his physical strength is almost consumed, every time he encounters with the enemy, he can feel his arm numb, and his internal organs are shaken by the slightest vibration, if he is not stiff, I am afraid that a mouthful of blood will have been spurted out.
But even so, Li Xian still did not give up at all, his heart was full of strong unwillingness, he came to this world for ten years, originally wanted to use his memories in the future to create a strong Tang Dynasty, so that Huaxia will last forever, so that those ethnic groups that threaten the future generations of Huaxia will never be troubled, but now that his talent has not been displayed, how can he be willing to leave like this?
Moreover, there are his friends, his lovers, his loyal and heroic subordinates, how can he be willing to let them die because of his own inadequacy? How could he live up to the glimmer of life that Cheng Yanjin and Lin Cheng exchanged for their lives and lost it like this?
"I won't give up, even if I can't move my hands, I have to kick with my feet, my feet are broken, I still have teeth, I must fight until the last second, because I Li Xian is too unwilling to die!"
Thinking of this, Li Xian couldn't help but roar, gathered all his strength, held the gun in his hand tightly, and stabbed at an enemy soldier beside him, the enemy soldier didn't realize that Li Xian, who was about to lose his combat effectiveness, suddenly broke out, so he didn't have time to dodge at all, and was killed by the other party in one fell swoop.
If that enemy soldier knew that he had exchanged his death for the great consummation of Li Xian's Tongzi Gong, not only would his internal strength be exhausted, but his understanding of marksmanship would have deepened, I don't know what kind of wonderful expression his face should be?
Although the enemy soldier didn't know all this, his robes deeply realized this, because the Tang army commander was like a god possessed by a god in just an instant, and the whole person immediately became vigorous, the gun in his hand was more flexible and tricky, and the move was deadly, just in the blink of an eye, more than ten warriors became the soul of the other party's gun.
"The king is mighty, the king is mighty, kill, kill, kill!" When the officers and men of the Tang Army saw this scene, they all roared excitedly, and they didn't know where the strength came from, and they immediately became like fierce tigers, showing their sharp claws one after another, and launched a fierce counterattack against the enemy.
"Withdraw, withdraw." Seeing that his side had lost two or three hundred soldiers in the blink of an eye, and the eyes of the enemy general were as sharp as a falcon, he couldn't help but feel weak in his heart, and he lost seven or eight hundred soldiers in this battle, and the gap in the enemy's advantage was getting smaller and smaller, not only could he not win this battle, but he would even lose his life here, so he had to order the army to retreat in an orderly manner.