Chapter 139: Capture the Flag
After Li Xian took more than 500 Great Sui Zuotun Wei Jing cavalry to kill the Goguryeo men and horses, he turned around and took a look, about sixty or seventy cavalry were killed, although this loss was not worth mentioning compared to the number of Goguryeo people killed, but Li Xian still couldn't help but feel distressed and wanted to scold his mother.
However, the soldiers of the Zuotun Guard, who followed him and killed the Goguryeo team in one fell swoop, were extremely excited, and the blood of the enemy completely aroused their fighting spirit. It has been a long time since crossing the Mazishui that they have not killed people so heartily, and the Goguryeo people along the way have cowered in relatively large cities and dare not come out to fight, and the generals of the various armies have repeatedly asked not to "kill innocents indiscriminately", so since the Mazishui has passed, in fact, Zuotunwei has not fought a few decent battles at all, and basically the Goguryeo people have been defeated at the beginning of the battle.
Xin Shixiong is also a general who likes to lead by example, but he prefers to use infantry to organize large-scale attacks in arrays. The cavalry under Xin Shixiong was generally arranged to respond to the rescue or outflank in a roundabout way, and it was rare for Li Xian to lead them to rush left and right from tens of thousands of enemy troops. The thrill of killing an enemy from beginning to end is something that no one who has experienced it has ever experienced can appreciate the wonders of it.
After rushing to the Goguryeo formation, Li Xian restrained the big black horse and turned around.
Fu Hunu pushed the visor up, wiped a handful of blood that flowed through the gap in the visor and stuck to his face, and asked loudly, "General, where are you going to kill?" ”
His voice was so loud that the cavalrymen who followed Li Xian and threw a very beautiful big arc back heard it. For a while, all the soldiers shouted in unison: "General, where are you going to kill?!" ”
Scrappy!
Li Xian pushed the armor up, looked at the Goguryeo team, and was immediately attracted by the Goguryeo handsome flag in the center. He raised the black knife and pointed in the direction of the Goguryeo Shuai Banner, and asked loudly, "Do you dare to cut down that flag with me?" ”
Hundreds of horsemen laughed loudly, and one shouted: "Why don't you dare? Wherever the general's sword is pointed, we will kill! ”
Li Xian laughed and said, "Okay, let those Goguryeo barbarians see how our cavalry of the Great Sui kills people!" ”
"Yes!"
Luo Fu said loudly: "Let them see, who the hell is the ancestor of murder!" ”
"Zuo Tunwei!"
Li Xian stretched the black knife forward and made a charging gesture.
"Onward!"
Hundreds of cavalry shouted in unison, and then followed Li Xian and slowly started, and as the pace of the war horse became faster and faster, the rumbling sound of stepping on the ground came out again. The Goguryeo people who had just been killed through the team were shocked to find that those Great Sui cavalry who had killed people without blinking were actually not happy, and they actually killed them again! In the face of the light cavalry rushing at high speed, the Goguryeo infantry, which lacked long weapons and protective gear, had few effective means of resistance!
"Run! That black-armored devil is back in the woods! ”
A Goguryeo soldier with white sideburns let out a wail, then turned and ran. It's just that no matter how fast he runs, he can't outrun the four legs of the big black horse. Li Xian took the lead and caught up with the Goguryeo man from behind, and the black knife splashed out, and a snowy knife light slashed at the back of the man's head. The sharp black straight knife sliced open the head of the Goguryeo veteran as easily as splitting a large piece of tofu.
As the black knife slashed in and out, the corpse, which was still running forward, staggered and fell to the ground. Yes, his life had come to an end before he fell. The split head shook with his usual pace, and the white paste fell to the ground one by one, and was trampled on by his own unconscious footsteps.
The black-armored devil on the big black horse led hundreds of demons under his command to kill the Goguryeo handsome flag.
The light rider was like the wind and the clouds, and the stumps and broken arms flew everywhere they passed.
Standing under the banner of the commander of the Goguryeo general, the third brother of Ulzhi Wende, Ulzhi Wenli, although this person is young but ruthless, and his kung fu is also extremely outstanding, decisive, killing people like hemp, his prestige in the Goguryeo army, is still above the Ulzhi Wenqing who is firmly guarding Liaodong City, and is the right-hand man of Ulzhi Wende.
This time, he was ordered by Eulji Wende to gather the troops and horses of the city lords of Goguryeo to form a coalition army, trying to intercept and kill the Great Sui Expeditionary Force on the way back to the division, and the other men and horses were still on the way, and the 20,000 people led by Eulji Wenli hurried to the front and arrived to the north of Sashui tonight. After exploring the road, the scout reported to him that this section of Sashui had been occupied by Sui soldiers and horses, and it seemed that there were quite a few people, and Yizhi Wenli personally led people to observe closely, and was hesitating whether to make a detour to meet Yizhi Wende, but he found that there was a fire in the Sui army's camp, and there was a sound of shouting and killing. Yizhi Wenli was overjoyed, he expected that the eldest brother Yizhi Wende must have sent troops to attack the Sui people at night, so he immediately sent his horse and rushed over.
In fact, Ulji Wenli was really surprised when he led his men and horses into the camp of the Zuo Imperial Guard, because when his men and horses entered the camp of the Sui army, he found that there were no Goguryeo men and horses to attack the Sui army. Although he didn't know what tricks the Sui people were playing, he keenly smelled the taste of victory.
This is a tempting smell that he has not smelled for a long time, and the defeat of being beaten by the Sui army since this period of time made him want to roar loudly in his heart.
Tonight, he was finally able to get his revenge.
When he saw the panicked rout of those Sui people, Yizhi Wenli laughed loudly. The boredom that had been accumulated in his heart was swept away, and the excitement and excitement in his heart were indescribable when he looked at those Sui people who ran away like rabbits being chased by wolves.
However, just when the victory was already close at hand, a group of Great Sui cavalry suddenly killed from the flank like a god, and actually split his men and horses in half from the middle!
Another group of Sui infantry waded over from the south bank of Sashui, and the defeated soldiers were blocked by shooting with feather arrows!
Yizhi Wenli was furious, and was about to mobilize men and horses to kill the small group of Great Sui cavalry, but he was surprised to find that the cavalry of several hundred people actually came back after going around in a circle, and judging from the momentum of their charge, they actually set their target on themselves.
A sense of shame suddenly arose in Eji Wenli's heart, as if he had been stripped naked and tied up and thrown into a pig pen to humiliation. Hundreds of cavalry dared to charge themselves under heavy protection among the ten thousand armies!
This sense of shame made his face turn pale in an instant.
"Let the spearmen line up to meet it, I don't believe that a few hundred people can make any waves!"
The heralds whined their horns, and thousands of Goguryeo armed with crude spears poured up from behind, and then began to line up under the command of the junior generals.
The dense spears were like a jungle suddenly appearing on the flat ground, and the Goguryeo spearmen who rushed quickly formed a dense array of six columns. Under the command of a tribal leader, the gun array began to move slowly forward, facing the Sui cavalry.
When there were still more than a hundred meters away from the Goguryeo gun array, the routed Goguryeo people had already scattered and ran away, leaving a vacant space in front of the cavalry, and the spearmen in formation were ready to meet the cavalry attack.
When there were still one hundred and twenty steps away, Li Xian didn't mean to slow down at all, but he hung the black knife on his side and took the hard bow from behind his back. A hundred paces, an armor-piercing cone swished through the air and shot out, with a slight arc, the armor-piercing cone accurately drilled into the heart of the tribal leader.
"Crossbow!"
Li Xian shouted, and after shooting an arrow again, he hung up the hard bow and picked up the standard repeater issued by the Great Sui Light Cavalry from his waist. Behind him, the Great Sui cavalry hung up their weapons one after another and leveled their crossbows. As the distance got closer and closer, when there were only about forty steps between the two sides, Li Xian suddenly turned his horse to the side, and the light cavalry following closely behind drew an arc and still followed Li Xian, the superb horse control skills were breathtaking, and the hundreds of elite light cavalry of the Great Sui actually twisted the direction of the impact to one side less than twenty steps away from the gun array, and the team changed from directly rushing to the Goguryeo people to grab the formation to parallel to the gun array!
"Shoot!"
After shouting, Li Xian took the lead in pulling the crossbow.
The cavalry who swept past the formation used the repeating crossbows refined by the craftsmen of the Great Sui to baptize the Goguryeo gun array with crossbow arrows. Hundreds of cavalrymen rushed sideways from a distance of twenty paces in front of the gun array, and the crossbow arrows of the crossbows poured out like a rain of crossbow arrows as the horses galloped.
No one thought that the horse control skills of the Great Sui cavalry would be so exquisite, and no one would have thought that the cavalry of the hundreds of people had no intention of crashing into the gun array!
In the sudden sound, countless crossbow arrows shot out like locusts, and as the Great Sui cavalry swept by, the Goguryeo spearmen in the first and second rows fell down one by one. They shouted in panic and immediately turned around to flee back to avoid the bolts. But the companions in the back were too dense to retreat. The bolts whizzed in, easily piercing through their bodies that lacked armor defenses.
The rainstorm of crossbow arrows shot the Goguryeo people mercilessly, and the Goguryeo people in front fell down in rows like wheat straw.
After the cavalry swept through like a wind, it fiercely tore off Goguryeo's spear array!
After rushing over, Li Xian reined in his horse and turned around, and the cavalry slowly gathered behind him again.
"Kill again!"
Li Xian shouted loudly, and then rushed out first. This time, there was still no direct impact on the Goguryeo spearmen, and they still used crossbows and feathered arrows to shoot the Goguryeo spearmen in the array. After the second time they swept in front of the gun array, the courage of the Goguryeo people was completely crushed. No one dared to stand there stupidly and let the Sui people greet them with crossbows and feather arrows, and as long as the Sui cavalry did not rush over, they had no way to fight back.
"Archer!"
Ulzhi Wenli shouted angrily, "Go up and shoot them!" ”
With his orders, hundreds of archers began to rush forward, and the spearmen began to retreat like crazy, no one willing to stay in front for even a minute longer.
But just when the Goguryeo people changed their formation, those devilish cavalry also changed their tactics!
"Change the knife!"
Li Xian ordered loudly.
Immediately, whether it was the cavalry of the Zuotun Guard with a lance or a bow, he threw the weapon in his hand towards the Goguryeo people without hesitation, and he did not feel sorry for the expensive horse lance and the riding bow made by Seiko. The next moment, everyone drew their horizontal knives and followed the big black horse into the Goguryeo array.
In an instant, the Goguryeo people were in chaos, the archers were still squeezing forward, and the spearmen were retreating again, and it was the time of confusion, and hundreds of horsemen of the Great Sui were swept into their array like a wind. Hundreds of horizontal knives splashed a bloody path, and killed straight towards the handsome banner standing tall!
Shocked and began to retreat under the protection of his own soldiers.
But at this time, the Zuo Imperial Guard and the Zuo Tun Guard's infantry, which had been reorganized, came back like a sea of mountains!
Yizhi Wenli let out a sad cry, knowing that the general trend had gone, and the great victory that should have been won today was shattered because of the hundreds of cavalry going back and forth. The Goguryeo people had already begun to rout, and the soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty, who had regained their courage and confidence, were simply not something they could resist. He glanced back at the black-armoured general with a resentful look in his eyes.
"Withdraw your troops!"
Eji Wenli gritted his teeth and gave the order. Hundreds of soldiers escorted him onto his horse and fled north.
Li Xian has been staring at the handsome flag, seeing the handsome flag moving, knowing that the enemy is about to run, he stretched out his hand from the ground to copy a long lance inserted in the enemy's corpse in the gallop, and then lifted the reins of the big black horse, felt the master's heart of the big black horse chirped twice, and then the two hind legs kicked the ground and jumped high!
In mid-air, Li Xianqing held the lance in his hand, stared at the Goguryeo general who climbed on horseback, and then poured all the strength of his body into his right arm and threw the lance violently.
Fifty steps!
This lance threw out the power of the sky, and it flew straight over, and with a pop, it pierced through the chest! Lance cut through Ezhi Wenli's back, stabbed it through the front chest, and then nailed it into the neck of the war horse!
A lance kill.
In the panicked and surprised eyes of the Goguryeo soldiers, the general of the black horse and black armor flew up in the air and threw a lance to kill, and rushed forward after landing on the ground...... Poured!
Everyone, dumbfounded.