Chapter 9: Catching the Tiger on a Snowy Night

In the middle of the night, the Agni Battalion and the Banner Battalion stationed in Feng'an, as well as the Leopard Battalion and the Broken Battalion that secretly entered the city from Feng'an, suddenly stormed the defense embassy. Li Shaoqing, who was enjoying the singing and dancing of shallow water in Huwei Hall, was shocked. His pro-army "captured tigers" numbered 800, and he was good at field warfare but not at street fighting, and suffered a lot of losses when he was in close contact with the Xining army.

The four battalions of the attack were coordinated and commanded by Li Tong, relying on the familiarity of the terrain, and with only a stick of incense, they attacked the defense embassy from the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and west, and Li Shaoqing fled to the east gate with shallow water.

There were 3,200 Guiyi soldiers stationed in Feng'an City, and Li Shaoqing learned the lesson that when he was in Feng'an, because his troops were scattered to the people's homes, he was too late to gather soldiers when there was a sudden chaos and were defeated by the people's army. After arriving in Feng'an, he had the soldiers live in the camp, and the people who provided the soldiers and horses could deliver grain and grass to the camp on time. The Guiyi army set up six large battalions and seven small battalions in the city, and the distance between each battalion was no more than half a mile, and the plan for dealing with the emergency was prepared in advance.

It seems to be foolproof, but in fact it is an empty shelf. In the Guiyi Army, except for Li Shaoqing's personal soldier "Tiger Capture Army" and Li Yangjiu's "Snow Wolf Battalion", the other battalions have almost no military discipline at all. In the army, it is expressly forbidden for non-commissioned officers to go out at will without an order. But no matter day or night, the streets and alleys of Feng'an are always full of Guiyi soldiers who are drunk and wandering, picking quarrels and provoking trouble. After Mo Xiexin was shot by Lin Ying, his soldiers carried Mo Xiexin's body to Zeng Chongyang's Qincha Office and forced Zeng Chongyang to kneel without reporting. When Li Yangjiu heard about this, he was frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly asked Li Shaoqing to discuss countermeasures, and mobilized the "Snow Wolf Battalion" to guard against Zeng Chongyang's ambitions. In the end, the matter was finally resolved due to Zeng Chongyang's compromise and concession, but it can also be seen that the military discipline of the Guiyi Army was slack.

At the same time that Li Tong led the main force of the four battalions to attack Li Shaoqing, Zhuang Yunqing took the Yongfeng Battalion, the First Police Battalion and the remaining soldiers of the Iron Bell Battalion to descend to the thirteen camps of the Guiyi Army in one go, capturing hundreds of enemies.

Zhu Xiangnan and Fu Yi, the county lieutenant, led the Yazhong to arrest the Guiyi soldiers scattered in various taverns, qushes, and casinos all over the streets. The militia of Phongan was also mobilized, numbering more than two thousand. In view of the heavy casualties suffered by the Fengzhou People's Army during the frontal confrontation, Yang Hao did not allow the Feng'an People's Army to directly participate in the military operation. The People's Army is primarily responsible for guarding, patrolling, keeping prisoners safe, and fighting fires.

Li Yangjiu's "Snow Wolf Battalion" was extremely powerful, but unfortunately the number was only 300 people. After Li Shaoqing was expelled from the Defense Embassy, Li Yangjiu escorted him and rushed out of the east gate of Feng'an. Li Shaoqing set up a large embankment on a high ground in the northeast corner of Feng'an, and the soldiers from all walks of life who escaped from Feng'an City came to assemble one after another. By dawn, Li Shaoqing had gathered more than 2,000 soldiers. He set up his tent and pulled out a posture of fighting Yang Hao to the end.

At two o'clock, Suo led the camp out of the city from the north gate and rushed to the camp of the righteous army. The Guiyi army was cooking at this time, and suddenly encountered the enemy, and it turned out to be a mess. Suo led dozens of guards and even once entered Li Shaoqing's tooth tent. Li Yangjiu's "Snow Wolf Battalion" was in danger, and seeing that Suo's Broken Camp was a lone army, he suddenly went around to the back of the Broken Camp and stabbed him fiercely. The soldiers of the snow wolf battalion were dressed in cowhide armor and armed with snowy scimitars, and they were unstoppable when charging on the ground.

The camp was defeated, losing more than half of it, and he was hit by two arrows in his forehead and unconscious. The guards tied him to his horse with a leash and fled with his horse in his hand. Yang Hao didn't expect Suo Er to rush forward alone without asking for instructions, and by the time he dispatched the Agni Battalion, the Banner Battalion, and the Leopard Battalion to respond, the Broken Battalion had already retreated. However, although the camp was defeated, it also opened Li Shaoqing's camp and inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. Yang Hao made a quick decision and immediately waved his troops to attack the camp of the Guiyi army.

The third battalion came out of the east gate of Feng'an, and the northwest wind that had been blowing for several days suddenly stopped, and snowflakes drifted in the sky.

Li Shaoqing still has 1,200 remnants in his hands, and Yang Hao's main force of the third battalion is 1,300 people, and the strength is equal, and the combat strength is almost the same. The trumpets whined, and the horses neighed. As soon as Yang Hao's formation was lined up, the Guiyi army launched an attack. The man brandished his scimitar, "Yo-he, yo-he" and rushed over like a landslide.

Fighting in the countryside and in the wilderness, they had not yet feared anyone, the strong Khitan cavalry, and the luxurious Uighur army had all been defeated at their hands. As for the Tang troops from all walks of life in the border towns, not to mention, when did they lose their armor if they didn't fight? "Mo Daoist is out!" When the two armies were still half a mile apart, a two-hundred-man Modao team suddenly flashed behind the horse team of the Xining army. Mo knife, also known as slap knife, is a long-handled two-edged knife, about one zhang long, is a sharp weapon for infantry equipment to restrain cavalry. However, the cost of the Mo knife is extremely expensive, and the physical requirements for the soldiers holding the knife are extremely high, so among the border towns of the Tang Dynasty, only the big towns with strong financial resources such as Hedong and Shuofang are equipped with the Mo knife team. Tanda people can't understand, how can the little Feng'an have a strange knife team of hundreds of people?

It's like a gambler who bets his entire net worth on the table, only to suddenly find that the dealer has a pair of all-killing kings in his hand. That kind of despair is absolutely incomprehensible to people who have not had the same experience.

The Tiger Capture Army pressed over like a mountain.

"One team, slash!"

"Brush!" The glitter sparkled and blood gushed out...... The first team of Mo knife fighters waved the Mo knife in their hands rhythmically according to the commander's command, the knife was like a swift wind, the blood was like a flying rainbow, and the oncoming tiger army had not seen the face of the Mo knife hand clearly, and they all hated under the extremely sharp blade.

"Second team, slash!" "Three teams, slash!"

……

Under the orders of instructor Gu Chong, the Modao team moved in unison, like a meat grinder with a high start, and in the blink of an eye, there were corpses piled up in front of them.

Yang Hao's Mo knife team was formed less than three months ago, the Mo knife used is made in the heavy military workshop, although it is worth a lot of money, but it is made by his own family, there is still a lot of silver left, the instructor room of the Mo knife team Yang Hao dug from Hedong with a high salary, surnamed Gu Mingchong, the Mo knife hand is selected from the Xining army, raising this two hundred people Mo knife team, the military expenses are worth two battalions.

Yang Hao's original intention in forming the Mo Dao Team was to deal with Xiao Qi Jin's iron-faced machine. The ghost army, which had the strongest combat power among the battalions of the Xining Army, was not the opponent of this kind of heavy cavalry, not to mention the other battalions. After the formation of the Modao team, Yang Hao kept it secret, and except for a few senior generals such as Ling Tong and Li Tong in the Xining army, no one else knew about it. Even if Zeng Chongyang has been here for so long, he doesn't know that there is still a Modao team in the Xining army.

Yang Hao saw the combat power of the "Tiger Capture Army" and the "Snow Wolf Battalion", except for the Modao team, no one under his command was invincible. This forced him to show the weapons in the army that had not yet been fully trained and matured in advance.

The formation of the Modao team is a group of fifty people, with an interval of nearly two meters, and there is always a step between the back team and the front team. And the front team and the back team are all staggered, and behind the two stands another Mo knife player. Although the one-zhang long Mo knife was wielded like a whirlwind, it was a great test of the physical strength of the soldiers. A Mo knife weighs about fifty catties, and the Mo knife hand also has to wear heavy armor, and those who are not physically strong and have amazing arm strength cannot be deserved. Moreover, once the Mo Dao Array is launched, it can only move forward, and even if there is a sword mountain and a sea of fire in front of it, it cannot be stopped. Being able to be a strange knife hand is undoubtedly the greatest affirmation of a soldier's courage and boldness.

"Slash!"

"Ah......h

"Uh......h Ahh

“……”

Eyes were full of red flesh and blood, cold corpses, tumbling and wriggling bodies, gushing blood and extremely distorted faces, except for roars and wails, there was a dead silence between heaven and earth. It's a hymn to bravery and wildness, and only careerists, gamblers, and murderers would love the scene before them. Yang Hao was extremely shocked, his body changed from surging blood to extremely cold, and then extremely cold and boiling again.

On this snowflake night, the "tigers" and "wolves" on the grassland suffered a shame that they had never had in their lives, and batches of soldiers were crushed under the flying and dancing blades of the Mo knives. More people wanted to wash away their shame with their blood and corpses, and although they knew that human flesh and blood could not break through the shining meat grinder, no one flinched, sending their heads and bodies into the knife like a pilgrimage......

"One team, slash!"

"Second team, slash!"

"Three teams, slash!"

Murderous machines run at high speeds, chopping, breaking, fleshing and dying......

Yang Hao didn't want to look any further, he pulled out his long knife and shouted, "Brothers, rush with me!" ”

"Rush! Kill! ”

The battlefield is the fairest place for human beings, where there is no shelter, no hiding and no treachery. Whether you are a royal prince, rich in gold or brocade, the export is a chapter. At this point, you are a body of flesh and blood, with no eyes for knives and guns, and anyone can kill you when you raise your hand. This may be because marshals who have been on the battlefield can easily mingle with the soldiers, because they know that everyone is equal on the battlefield.

"Uhhh

The clarion call for the general attack was a quarter of an hour earlier than scheduled, but this did not dampen the morale of the Xining army, on the contrary, because the main general personally went to battle, the morale of the Xining army was high. A pot of viscous and unstirring sugar water was suddenly swallowed up by the rushing flood......

Li Shaoqing's sad eyes reluctantly closed together, he took one last look at his soldiers, and helplessly turned his horse's head and fled in the northeast direction. What is a lost dog? The current Li Shaoqing is, the world is vast, but he has no place to go?

The 5,000 elites were lost, and as soon as the news of the defeat spread, those pretenders who had already grinded their teeth and licked their claws would immediately rush forward and divide up everything they had.

"Big brother, where are we going?" Li Yangjiu asked calmly. Since he was thirteen years old and fought with his eldest brother in the south and the north, for more than 20 years, he has experienced many ups and downs, and Li Yangjiu can't remember it clearly. This is not my first failure, nor is it the worst one.

Li Yangjiu remembered the fierce battle with the Khitans in the Killing Sheep River seven years ago, both sides tried their best, and after fighting for three days and three nights, seeing that the balance of luck had tilted towards his side, the generals under his command defected at the critical moment. In that battle, Li Shaoqing fled alone, Li Yangjiu was seriously injured and captured, and afterwards Li Shaoqing exchanged an ancestral Dingfeng bead for his brother. At that time, only one tael of silver and two horses were left with the two brothers, and all the belongings of their subordinates, wives and children fell into the hands of the enemy.

However, only two years later, the two brothers made a comeback again, breaking through the tooth tent of the Khitan Khan in one fell swoop, not only regaining his wife and daughter, but also taking the daughter of the Khitan king for himself.

The road of life is like the road on this grassland, with potholes, ups and downs, sometimes you can travel thousands of miles a day, sometimes you can only tremble, and you can only walk three or five miles a day.

"Go and vote for the king of the northern county. In this vast world, only there is a pure land. ”

"As long as there are people, there is nothing to fear." This is what Li Shaoqing once said to himself, and now Li Yangjiu uses this sentence to comfort Li Shaoqing.

Li Shaoqing smiled and didn't answer, he looked back at the shallow water who was biting his lips, and said guiltily: "I'm really sorry for you, as soon as I met you, I asked you to flee with me." ”

Asamizuki shook his head, smiled again, and didn't answer.

Li Yangjiu glanced at Shallow Shui Qing in disgust, he had long believed that Shallow Shui Qing was a scheming woman, and what he hated most in his life was a scheming woman. But there is no way, my brother really likes her, what else can I say as a brother?