Chapter 9: A Great Victory

“…… If you're not convinced, hit me! There's a kind of going on together, I'm going to pick you up alone! ”

Hearing Xiao Quai's ridicule again, the horse bandits were completely furious.

is so arrogant that he even threatened to single-handedly fight more than 400 people at the same time.

"Fuck, I killed you alive......"

I really thought I was a god! The horse bandits suddenly changed from the stunned state just now to a violent state, all with red eyes, urging the war horses wildly, holding weapons, and rushing towards Xiao Quai's illness regardless of it.

And then they were provoked again. Na Xiao didn't wait for them to rush to get sick, and with his right hand, he pulled out a feather arrow from Hu Lu (the quiver of the Tang Dynasty) on the horse, and threw it forward. With a whoosh, the arrow was like a bow shot, bringing out the sound of breaking through the air, and flew straight towards Cao Alanyan, the leader of the horse bandits.

This arrow came so suddenly, and the distance was so close, Cao Alanyan subconsciously used his hand to dial the horse lance, but it fell short. Although it was thrown casually, this feather arrow actually pierced through the iron armor and plunged deep into Cao Alanyan's right shoulder. Blood gushed out, and screams rang out.

The bandits seemed to pause, watching the scene in disbelief. The next moment a noisy and angry voice sounded, and the horse bandits were all stunned, and they were about to rush over and tear the goods alive.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of horse bandits rushed to a distance of less than 20 zhang away from Xiao Quai, and those who were good at archery had already taken off their bows and arrows, aiming at Xiao Quai, and they were about to shoot him into a hedgehog.

However, in the next moment, Xiao Quai, who threatened to take on four hundred people alone, turned his horse's head and ran away without looking back.

There are such cheap and shameless people in the world!

What about one person who said that he would take on 400 people alone?

Now, it's gone!

At this time, all the tempers of the horse bandits had already provoked Xiao Quai, and each of them was so angry that he almost vomited blood. I can't wait to pierce him through the heart with thousands of arrows, peel his skin and cramp, and cut him with a thousand knives. Where will the other party humiliate themselves like this, and then run away calmly.

So, be sure to catch him. Then, kill him!

The horse bandits who had already set up their bows and arrows shot feather arrows one after another, and the buzzing bowstring vibrated non-stop, and dozens of feather arrows broke through the air and shot quickly towards Xiao Quai.

At this time, Gao Xianzhi, who was watching the battle from behind, saw this change and was about to order twenty knights of the Anxi Army to come over to pick up Xiao Quai's return, when he saw dozens of feather arrows shooting at Xiao Quai's back, which frightened Gao Xianzhi into fear.

Before Gao Xianzhi could shout a reminder, he saw Xiao Quzhi quickly turn around, and the ash pole and big gun shook violently behind the horse's buttocks. Behind him was a white shadow of gunfire, and the sound of servants and servants was heard repeatedly, and dozens of feathered arrows were all knocked out.

"What a fierce general." Gao Xianzhi praised loudly, no longer doubting Xiao Quai's illness, and turned to the Anxi guards beside him and calmly ordered: "The Mo sword soldiers take five steps forward, aim with their bows and crossbows, and wait for a certain order, and the cavalry will prepare." ”

Xiao Quai's war horse was not running fast, his riding skills were not good, and at this time, he had to turn around to deal with the bows and arrows and horse bandits behind, and he ran more and more slowly. After the big gun knocked out the second round of feather arrows, some horse bandits caught up with Xiao Quai, and all kinds of spears, big knives, and maces beckoned to him.

Xiao Quzhi turned his body, his thin waist was simply bent 180 degrees, and a big gun danced like a living dragon. Flying left and right, up and down, front and back, covering himself and his war horse from the wind and rain, all weapons within fifteen feet of him were knocked away; The horse bandits were all poked into holes by big guns.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen horse bandits were picked off their horses while holding their throats. There were also a few horse bandits who were far away from Xiao Quai, quickly overtook Xiao Quai, ran to the front, but when they saw this posture, they didn't dare to come forward and greet them with spears, so they only turned around in front and shot with their bows, and for a while Xiao Qubing was surrounded by enemies on all sides.

The situation is critical.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, three arrows fired in succession, but it was Gao Xianzhi who swept the formation to relieve Xiao Quai's illness in the back. He saw the opportunity and shouted: "Aim at the horse bandits behind you, release!" ”

Twenty short bolts of crossbows shot out in an instant, and by this time the horse bandit brigade was less than sixty paces away from the Anthy archers. These twenty crossbowmen are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and in such a short distance, there is no reason to shoot a strong crossbow that can shoot a hundred and fifty paces at an effective distance. Twenty short arrows roared into the bandit's chest, instantly breaking through the armor and coming out of the body. More than half of his strength continued to fly backwards at high speed, shooting into the body of the horse bandit behind him again.

Blood splattered, and screams came and went. After the first round of shooting, more than 30 horse bandits fell to the ground. The Anxi archers calmly wound up, and then Gao Xianzhi ordered the cavalry to fire a second salvo, and nearly thirty horse bandits landed.

Two rounds of salvos, casualties of nearly 60 horse bandits, the entire Gobi battlefield, a plopping dull sound of corpses falling to the ground, some people did not die thoroughly, were dragged on the ground by the war horses and screamed, and then were trampled by the startled horses and the war horses behind. For a while, the front row of the horse bandits was almost instantly swept away, and the horse bandits in the back row were also stuck, and the momentum and the corpses on the ground were stagnant, and their speed slowed down.

With these two rounds of salvos and Gao Xianzhi's continuous shots, Xiao Quzhi had already bypassed the heavily armored Mo sword soldiers in front of him at this time, and galloped to Gao Xianzhi's side.

"Zhongcheng, I brought them here." Xiao Quzhi raised his voice.

Gao Xianzhi nodded at him, then turned his gaze to the horse bandit in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Mo Daoist attack, crossbow man fires!" Cheng Gong, you take the cavalry and prepare for the pursuit. ”

Duan Xiushi nodded in agreement. The second salvo of the crossbowmen began to fire, and the horse bandits finally began to counterattack with their bows on their horses, and for a time they exchanged fires. At this time, whether the armor of the two sides is good or not is shown, the Anxi soldiers are wearing helmets and armor, and they are all Mingguang armor and Shanwen armor, and the whole body is tightly wrapped, and the Modao soldiers in the front row are wearing double armor, and the iron cans are also similar. Only a small half of the horse bandits were equipped with iron armor, and most of them were dressed in leather robes.

Feathered arrows whizzed back and forth, and more than twenty horse bandits fell off their horses, but the damage caused by the other party's volley was negligible. Only seven hapless Anthy crossbowmen were shot by flying feathered arrows through the gaps between the armor leaves, but they were not fatal and could be fought again. Some of the other Anxi guards had ten feathered arrows hanging on their chests, but they were not affected in the slightest, just like no one.

I have to say that the strong crossbow and the hard crossbow do represent the highest level of weapons in this era. It was precisely on this that the Tang Army relied on to gain an advantage in the struggles against foreign enemies again and again. Of course, sometimes the Tang Dynasty was infighting, and the front line was chaotic. Not to mention the Tang Dynasty, the same is true of the entire history of the Han family.

The son of the Han family, holding a bow and a crossbow. Generation after generation shot the people on horseback on horseback on the steppe and turned people on their backs. As long as they are given the opportunity to swing with all their strength, it will be a massacre to greet Hu Lu! From the Qin Dynasty, to the Han Dynasty, to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and then to the Two Song Dynasty, the bow and crossbow technology, the Han family Erlang has always been far ahead of the Hulu, and used it to fight against these horseback horseback cavalry peoples.

After the second round of salvos of Anxi crossbowmen, ten Mo swordsmen wearing double armor of the Anxi Army finally met them, they were closely lined up in a not long row, and all the Mo swords were raised diagonally, and they took neat steps to meet the horse bandits' war horses and pressed up.

"Cut!"

With the order of the young Mo knife general on the left, ten Mo knives about one zhang long and weighing fifteen or sixteen catties were slashed down. Only once in unison, but all the horse bandit knights who rushed in front of them were shattered at once.

Mo Dao stepped on the broken corpse on the ground, like a wall to advance, Mo Dao was raised high again, and slashed again, one after another enemies in front of him were smashed. Although there are only ten Mo knife players, they still play the highest level of Mo knife tactics, like a moving knife wall, crushing everything and blocking invincible.

Although the horse bandits were madly furious by Xiao Quai's taunts, they swore with red eyes that they would kill them as soon as possible. But their blood soon collided with the two most powerful weapons of the Anxi army, the strong bow and crossbow salvo and the Mo knife advancing like a wall. If the salvo of the crossbow only knocked down their companions, it did not have any shock to the red-eyed, unstruck horse bandit for a while. So of course, the Mo knife is advancing like a wall, blocking invincibility, and everyone is shattered, but the shock to them is extremely strong.

With a knife, no matter the people and horses are split in half, the blood is flowing everywhere, the internal organs are flying, and the stumps and limbs in one place are broken, and the powerful visual impact makes people feel as if they have seen hell.

All the bandits were pulled back to reality from their furious state at once, replaced by deep fear. Where is this a battle between the two sides, this is simply a one-sided slaughter; Where is this going to find that kid to vent his anger, this is simply to crash into it and send him to death. Why is this happening?

Many horse bandits were blinded at once, and more panicked, at a loss. They subconsciously went to look for their leader Cao Alanyan but did not find it, they no longer kept rushing forward but scattered in all directions, and for a while the horse bandit brigade was in chaos.

Mo Daoist continued to move forward, and at this time, Duan Xiushi also began to charge with the cavalry. Twenty horsemen began to accelerate, charge, and then quickly brushed the edge of the bandit brigade, reaping life with their lances and swords.

After two rounds of harvesting, the horse bandits finally collapsed, and this battle they really fought and fought inexplicably. According to Cao Alanyan's plan, he was originally going to follow, harass, drag it out until afternoon or sunset, and wait for the opponent's morale to be exhausted, and then besiege it from all sides, breaking through the defense of the Anxi army in one fell swoop, and killing Gao Xianzhi.

Unexpectedly, a thin young man who suddenly appeared dared to laugh at their martial arts and threatened to single-handedly challenge the whole team of horse bandits. I thought that teaching this stinky boy who didn't know the height of the sky would add some extra joy to this mission. didn't expect the final state of affairs to develop like this, which simply fell into someone's calculations step by step.

Cao Alanyan, who rushed to the rear, gritted his teeth, covered the wound on his shoulder with his left hand, and looked at the scattered subordinates, his eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire. Soon, he made a judgment that the defeat was like a mountain, and the situation was irretrievable. He shouted a few times at the top of his voice: "The wind is tight,!" Then he turned his horse's head and ran away without looking back.

Hearing the shouts of the boss to flee, coupled with the fact that the psychological defense line had already collapsed, the horse bandits immediately scattered and fled, and the wolves rushed to the pigs, completely ignoring it, desperately trying to escape from this hellish battlefield. There were more than a dozen horse bandits, who fled in a hurry, and did not know the direction, but ran in the direction of the crossbowmen of the Anxi Army in the rear, and were shot into hedgehogs in a blink of an eye.

Feathers and arrows flew one after another, and the Anxi archers calmly shot the horse bandits who fled in the wrong direction or ran slowly, Duan Xiushi led twenty Anxi knights to pursue at the end of the ranks, and fifty Anxi soldiers were still alive, and the battle was a great victory.

Waves of cheers resounded on the Gobi battlefield, and Gao Xianzhi, who had been frowning for a day, finally relaxed completely. He smiled and punched Xiao Quzhi's shoulder beside him, and said, "It's really yours." ”

Xiao Quzhi immediately made a painful appearance: "Zhongcheng has so much strength, I'm going to get hurt." Turning his head, he saw Gao Xianzhi crying and laughing, probably no one had ever joked with him like this. So Zhengse said: "Zhongcheng is still well-planned, well-trained, and the Anxi Army is really elite in a hundred battles." ”

Soon after, Duan Xiushi came back to resume his life, chased the enemy for five miles, killed dozens of enemies, and none of them were killed, three were injured, and one was seriously injured. It was not that they were injured by horse bandits, but all three of them were riding their horses too fast, and their hooves were injured by gravel, and they were caught off the horse by falling off the horse, and one fell relatively hard, breaking two legs and one arm.

Xiao Quzhi volunteered to take on the task of bandaging the seriously wounded, cleaned the wound with water and wine, applied Yunnan Baiyao, and bandaged it with cotton yarn. Then he made several sets of splints from the spear shafts discarded by the horse bandits to fix the fractures, and in the surprised eyes of everyone, he did all this meticulously and methodically.

Then, Xiao Quzhi made a simple stretcher out of horse lance, rope, and strips of cloth, and pulled by two horses in the middle. The seriously wounded man, who was worried that he could not ride a horse, was now lying comfortably on the stretcher, which was smooth and did not delay the march of the brigade.

After all this, Xiao Quzhi found that the eyes of the entire Anxi Army cavalry team were completely different from him. He knew that from now on, Anxijun could be regarded as truly accepting himself, and it seemed that there was one more thing, called respect.