Chapter 69: Mouth Cannon

Left flank of the Later Jin Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

It was almost noon, the two armies had been fighting fiercely for a long time, and the soldiers were tired and hungry and thirsty. Leaving only a pile of human and horse corpses in the middle clearing, dozens of vultures hovering and flying over the corpses, suddenly one of the largest black vultures tentatively landed on a headless corpse. The soldiers on both sides were only seizing their time to catch their breath, and none of them tried to drive away the birds of prey that were close at hand. It then grabbed the corpse with its claws and plunged its long neck into the corpse's neck to peck at the tender internal organs. Perhaps motivated by the success of his peers, another vulture landed aside and pecked as well. Soon the rest of the vultures also fell and huddled together. Their claws and beaks struck against their iron armor and helmets, sounding like arrows were being shot at them. From time to time, the vultures raised their heads, revealing their long bloody necks, and a few fragments of internal organs hanging from their long sharp beaks, which looked extremely terrifying. The smoke from the firearms and the smoke and dust from the horses' hooves mixed together, enveloping the sky over the battlefield, obscuring most of the sunlight, as if the heavens could not bear to watch the tragic situation on the battlefield.

Duoduo crouched on the horse's back, and although the horse under his crotch was one of the best horses in a hundred, he was already exhausted after the wild gallop just now, and could only walk slowly and ticking. At this time, Duoduo had not yet recovered from the shock and tension he felt from the pursuit and escape. At that time, the arrow he shot seemed to have touched a huge hornet's nest, and Liu Cheng's personal guards were like a group of enraged hornets, chasing their crazy bites. Many of the Mongolian guards even threw themselves at their neighboring opponents, throwing them off their horses and scuffling, even on horseback at high speed. If it weren't for the fact that Goshha, who was with him, had also given up his life, and with amazing luck, Dordor would have been captured alive.

"Oops!" Suddenly, Duoduo snorted softly, feeling a sharp pain in his right thigh, and when he looked back, he found that he had received an arrow in his thigh, but it was protected by his skirt armor, and he was so nervous on horseback that he didn't feel it at all. Suddenly, he felt an indescribable joy, no matter how he said that he had come back alive, and looking at the crazy performance of the enemy, he had just shot eight or nine times out of ten! He gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow on his injured leg, clasped his hands together and held the arrow and prayed: "Thank you to the gods and Buddhas for their protection, the disciple will never dare to forget the matter of the monk building the floating slaughter, and please protect the disciple to escape the pursuit of the Western Prisoners, survive the formation, and build a temple to repay!" If you break your oath, you will be like an arrow! So he broke the arrow in two.

After making his wish, Dodor looked up at the sky, trying to find his way. He had just been in the midst of the chaos, running around with his head covered, and he had long since lost his way, but the sky was gray, and he couldn't see any sunlight, where could he identify the direction, and Duoduo had to look at the terrain around him, and by feeling found a direction to beat his horse away. He had been running for a while, when he suddenly saw a crack in the sky in front of him, and the brilliant sunlight projected down like a dozen pillars of light. Duoduo was overjoyed when he saw this, thinking that it was the gods and Buddhas who responded to his prayers, and hurriedly dismounted and knelt on the ground: "The things that the gods and Buddhas bless, the disciples remember!" So saying, he went to his horse in the corrected direction.

About half a day later, Duoduo encountered a small group of Houjin Rangers, and they were surprised and delighted to see Duoduo's embarrassed appearance. The leading officer hurriedly jumped off his horse and saluted: "Lord Belle, what's going on, why don't you even have a guard by your side?" ā€

"Hurry up and get me a good horse, this horse is no longer good!" Duoduo jumped on the new horse with great difficulty, and smiled triumphantly at the officer: "Good news for you, we just entered the enemy formation and shot the captive Liu Cheng, presumably his body is already cold at this time!" ā€

"Really?" The officer was overjoyed, and subconsciously asked, completely ignoring that his kind of inquiry itself was disrespectful to the superior, and when he reacted, he hurriedly dismounted and pleaded guilty to Duoduo, but Duoduo was in a good mood at this time, and waved his hand with a smile: "That's it, no wonder you don't believe it, when I was chased by the Xiyu, I didn't believe that I could escape!" Oops, arrows are flying like raindrops, it's really nine deaths! ā€

"This must be the blessing of the Great Bodhisattva!" The officer hurriedly flattered: "If this is not the case, why didn't anyone else escape, only you, Lord Belle?" ā€

"Yes, it must be the Bodhisattva's protection!" Duoduo also nodded thoughtfully: "But it is inseparable from the desperate protection of the soldiers." After this victory, I will definitely build a floating temple here, first, to thank the gods and Buddhas for their protection; Second, the names of the soldiers who died in the war are engraved on it, comforting the souls of the heroes, and also allowing future generations to see the hardships of the ancestors' entrepreneurship! ā€

When the queen golden cavalry heard Duoduo's words, they couldn't help but be silent. Although the warriors of the Eight Banners are fierce and good at fighting, they are also human beings after all, and they also have the heart of life and evil death. Although this battle was only fought for one morning, the fierceness and ferocity were only seen in several years, and Duoduo's side was better, and Houjin was in an advantageous position; On the right wing of Azig and the Chinese army of Huang Taiji, especially on the right wing of Azig, Liu Chengjun has the advantage, which can be described as a mountain of corpses and rivers of blood, and no one knows if any of his friends and relatives have passed away.

"You pick a clever one and tell the Great Khan the good news!" Dodor quickly regained his spirits: "As for the others, spread the word so that the soldiers may be happy!" ā€

"Yes, sir!"

Compared with the enemy on the opposite side, the atmosphere on Liu Chengjun's right flank was much more relaxed. Due to the prior arrangement, Du Guoying knew very well that his task was to delay as long as possible on the basis of maintaining the integrity of the battle line - Gesang on the left flank had concentrated nearly half of his forces, and the heavy task of breaking through the enemy position should naturally be on his shoulders. Therefore, during this short interval, Du Guoying even had time to pour himself a glass of wine to quench his thirst - to be honest, it was really easy to be thirsty on the battlefield!

As soon as Du Guoying took two sips of wine, he saw puffs of dust rising from the enemy formation on the opposite side, as if some behemoth was passing by, and at the same time, there was a muffled sound similar to thunder. The experienced man immediately realized that this was the Houjin army redeploying troops and horses, he paused for a moment, and said to himself: "It's going to attack again so soon?" Dongyu is really resistant to war! He threw the wine glass to the ground and shouted: "Pass the order, all the armies are on alert, the eastern captives are coming!" ā€

Sure enough, as Du Guoying expected, soon the enemy troops on the opposite side pressed up, judging from their ranks and movements, it was clear that the remnants of the morning had been replaced by a fresh army, Du Guoying was about to order the reserve in his hand to be replaced, and suddenly heard the enemy troops on the opposite side shouting in unison, because the distance was a little far, he didn't hear it too really.

"What are these captives called?" Du Guoying asked the soldiers on the side.

"It seems to be 'Liu Cheng is the head, Dajin will be Xing!' The soldier listened attentively and replied in a low voice.

"Haha!" Du Guoying sneered: "These Tartars are playing this kind of indiscriminate tricks again, the Chinese army is doing well, what will happen to the adults?" Even if there is a problem, there is a problem here! ā€

"What the adults said is that it must be Dongyu who can't attack it, so they play these ghost tricks!" The pro-soldier hurriedly said: "Just order the troops to scold back!" ā€

"Yes, sir!"

"Wait!" The pro-soldier answered, and was about to give an order, but was stopped by Du Guoying: "You still go to the Chinese army and ask, I am also at ease!" ā€

Perhaps it was the enemy's fearless attitude, but after Du Guoying sent someone to investigate, his mood became more and more restless. The enemy generals on the opposite side reversed their previous cautious attitude and pressed the whole army without hesitation, and the morale of the soldiers was extremely high. These ferocious Jurchen warriors shouted the slogan "Liu Cheng confers the head, Dajin will prosper" and pounced almost frantically, and under the heavy pressure of the enemy, Liu Chengjun's right flank had to retreat. Du Guoying hurriedly sent all the guards around him, but a thought appeared in his heart: "Shouldn't there really be an accident over there?" ā€

Du Guoying was in a mess in his heart, and suddenly heard the soldiers beside him shouting: "The adult is here, the adult is here!" He didn't react at once, and shouted angrily: "What are you shouting nonsense, which adult is coming?" ā€

"It's Jinong-sama!" The pro-soldier excitedly pointed to the side and rear: "Look, isn't that the Sulu Ingot Da Xuan of Lord Jinong, and the golden armor under the Da Xuan not Lord Jinong?" ā€

Du Guoying looked in the direction of his soldiers' fingers, and sure enough, more than 30 horsemen were running towards him, among them, the gold spire and white horsehair decoration were the Sulu ingots, only the Great Khan of Mongolia, and the descendants of the Jin family could only use it, and now Abunai was still young, and Liu Cheng was temporarily regent as his stepfather and Jinong, and he was able to use it, and the golden armor under the Daxu was also Liu Cheng's. Seeing this, Du Guoying couldn't help but chuckle in her heart, and her face suddenly became gloomy. He followed Liu Cheng for a long time, and knew that this person did not like to pay attention to prestige the most, unless it was on a frugal and important diplomatic occasion, he never wore this golden armor that crushed people, especially on the battlefield. When assigning tasks to each general before the war, Liu Cheng obviously had the new iron armor on his body, so something really happened, right?

Soon, the team of people and horses came over, Du Guoying could clearly see that it was Liu Cheng who was wearing gold armor, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly dismounted and saluted: "The last general will see the lord, the east is shouting over there, the last general just sent someone to visit, I didn't expect to bother the lord to come in person!" ā€

"It's okay!" To Du Guoying's surprise, Liu Cheng's voice was low and hoarse, as if he had just had a serious illness, and it was not at all as loud and powerful as usual. Du Guoying was stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "My lord, are you not cold?" Hurry up and go to the leeward with the end! ā€

Liu Cheng shook his head, reached out and touched his cheek, and wiped it on Du Guoying's arm armor, leaving a red mark on the armor piece immediately.

Chesan lowered his voice and said: "General Du, when the head of the Chinese army was out of touch with the right flank of our army, he led the light cavalry to infiltrate our army's formation and plot to assassinate the lord. In a panic, he shot and wounded the throat of the adult, and when the adult learned of the trick of the Eastern Prisoner, he came in person to boost the morale of our army! In order to prevent the soldiers from discovering that the adults were injured, the adults put rouge on their faces! ā€

After hearing what Qiesan said, Du Guoying found that Liu Cheng's neck was wrapped in a white cloth, but he was wearing clothes of the same color, which was not easy to see; A thin layer of rouge was also applied to the face to cover the pale face after blood loss! He hurriedly bowed down and said, "It's all the last general who is incompetent, let the thieves cross the line, shoot and injure the adult, and ask the adult to punish the crime!" ā€

"You can't be blamed for that!" Liu Cheng's voice was very low, and he spoke very slowly, and it was not difficult to see from his twitching facial muscles that speaking would bring him great pain: "Among the left, center, and right armies, your army has the least troops, and most of them are mercenaries, so it is not easy to hold out until now." The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, advancing and retreating impermanently, and it is inevitable that small groups of soldiers and horses will come and go! ā€

"Thank you for your grace!" Du Guoying breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Liu Cheng say this, he looked into the distance and said in a low voice: "Then what should we do now?" ā€

"Since the Jurchens said that I am dead, Dajin will prosper!" Liu Cheng's face suddenly showed a sneering smile: "Then naturally let the two armies see whether I, Liu Cheng, am dead or alive!" ā€

After Duoduo returned to the battle, he ate and drank casually, asked the doctor to wrap the wound on his thigh, and returned to the front of the battle to supervise the battle. He knew in his heart that the outcome of this battle depended on whether he could break the enemy's right flank before Azig collapsed, and since he had risked his life to shoot Liu Cheng, he had to make the most of this news. If he is a senior general of Liu Chengjun, if he sees Liu Cheng assassinated, he will definitely try his best to block the news, so as not to disturb the morale of the army after his soldiers find out; And what he should do now is to keep repeating the news and let everyone know that maybe the soldiers won't take it seriously at first, but as long as the enemy can't let Liu Ben himself show up to refute the words of the Houjin army, the doubts in the hearts of ordinary soldiers will accumulate more and more with the passage of time, and finally erupt.

"Lord Belle, the Chinese army is also shouting! It looks like the message has been delivered! The adjutant general smiled and pointed to the Chinese army, at this time he was simply impressed by Duoduo, and a person with five hundred cavalry went deep into the enemy formation to kill the biggest enemy of the Dajin Kingdom, and the old Khan raised troops with thirteen pairs of armor to lay a great foundation, but he didn't have such ability! From this point of view, the fifteenth elder brother may be the true son of heaven who can inherit the position of the old khan!

"Hmmm! Shout, shout, let the Xiyu know that their Jinong-sama has been shot to death by me! Duoduo smiled reservedly. Suddenly, the enemy troops on the opposite side suddenly sounded in unison, and the shouts on this side were suppressed all of a sudden, Duoduo was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "These Western captives are really fun, is this kind of thing just loud?" ā€