Chapter 63: The People of the Great Sui
"Go to the woods!"
Li Xian shouted loudly, turning around and knocking down the next wolf cavalry who had chased the nearest with an arrow. The distance was within the range of the feathered arrows, and the men on both sides tried to damage the enemy with their bows and arrows. The Blood Cavalry suffered at this point with their backs to the Turks, but they did not appear to be weaker on the scene by virtue of their strong skills.
But even so, several blood cavalry were shot and fell to the ground during the evacuation. Li Xian rushed back and picked up a bloody cavalryman with an arrow in the thigh, and ran forward with difficulty. The feathered arrows of the wolf rider flew by the two people, and the three or four blood cavalry saw that Li Xian was left behind and turned back to meet him.
"Major General, you go quickly."
The wounded blood cavalry shouted loudly on Li Xian's shoulder, and Li Xian scolded as he ran: "Shut up! ”
The blood cavalry was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled strangely. He slowly drew his dagger from his waist and looked up at the south. His eyes were full of nostalgia for his hometown and nostalgia for his life, and he smiled bitterly and almost pleaded: "Young General, let me go quickly, so that neither of us can escape!" He glanced at the blood cavalry beside him who was covering Li Xian, bit his lip and said, "If my brothers die because of saving me, I won't be able to sleep even if I live." ”
Li Xian said angrily: "Fucking light, you want to give up if you are still one step away from home?" ”
The blood cavalry slowly pointed the short knife at his heart, and said in a very soft voice: "My hometown is in Shanggu County, where there are also mountains, and when I was a child, I often went into the mountains with my grandfather to hunt, which is very similar to here. ”
"Young General, go back for me to put incense on my grandfather and burn a handful of paper money."
He smiled and slowly stabbed the short knife into his chest: "Major General, live well..."
Li Xian paused abruptly, because he felt a hot current that could burn his heart flow down the collar and into his neck. His body stiffened, and the Blood Cavalry on his shoulders seemed to suddenly become doubly heavy. With a ding, the short knife in the blood cavalry's hand fell to the ground with a resolute crisp sound. Li Xian's eyes became redder and redder, and tears slowly flowed down the corners of his eyes.
"Idiot!"
He put the lifeless blood cavalry on the ground and cried in a low voice, "You can't fucking go back and burn paper yourself? ”
The corners of the blood cavalry's mouth turned up slightly, as if he was laughing at Li Xian for being so old and still crying. It was as if he was just asleep, and the upturned corners of his mouth were telling Li Xian that he was having a particularly beautiful dream. Perhaps in the dream, his father carried him on a mountain path with a fat hare in his hand. The father's rebuke was harsh, but the boy who twisted his foot smiled so happily and contentedly.
Li Xian put down the corpse and picked up the short knife and pinned it to his waist.
"Major General! Come on! ”
Three or four blood cavalrymen opened their bows and put down a few of the approaching wolf riders, and then shouted anxiously to Li Xian. Li Xian wiped the last tear from the corner of his eyes, and then quickly withdrew in the direction of the woods.
More than 200 wolf cavalry chased after him, and rushed into the woods after meeting up with the Iron Fang Wolf and Li Xian. In dense woods, the advantage in the number of wolf riders is minimized. The Blood Cavalry can take the initiative with their superb archery skills and absolutely strong fighting ability, which is the only way they can win. They were the best cavalry in the world, and after giving up their horses, they were also the best warriors in the world.
After the raid, the Blood Cavalry lost a dozen soldiers, while at least eighty Turkic wolf cavalry were shot. It's just that, perhaps because the people of Tiefutu on the side of the high slope have lost too much, the commander who commanded the wolf rider sent more than half of the wolf riders to chase after Li Xian's side, and he continued to rush up the high slope with more than a hundred wolf riders. The Turkic pursuit of the bloody cavalry was divided into two echelons, and the first of more than 200 people had already approached the mountain forest, and the rear team was separated by 300 meters.
"A team of five, each looking for favorable terrain!"
The Iron Wolf roared loudly as he burst into the woods.
He grabbed Li Xian's arm: "Come with me, don't be separated!" ”
Li Xian nodded, and ran deep into the forest after the iron wolf. Chao Qiuge led more than a dozen blood cavalry to block the edge of the woods for a while, and only after Li Xian and the iron wolf had already entered the forest did they retreat while releasing arrows. Dozens of Blood Riders split into teams of five and began to engage the Turkic Wolf Riders in the dense forest with the help of the terrain.
To be honest, it is very difficult for the Turks to adapt to this kind of mountainous and dense forest warfare. As long as their cavalry reaches a certain size, they are almost invincible on the steppe, and it is almost difficult to find an opponent on the plain when charging in a group. They swept through the enemy's formations like the wind, tearing down the enemy layer by layer with feathered arrows and scimitars. What they hate the most is dismounting, and without their mounts, their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced.
And the blood cavalry, although it is also cavalry, does not resist dismounting and foot combat. Over the years, following Daxi Changru's side, they have experienced all kinds of battles. When he left Honghua that year, there were a total of 268 excellent soldiers who followed Daxi Changru to other places, and over the years, more than half of them had been buried in the battle with the grassland people. But the remaining blood cavalry are all real elite soldiers.
Their skill in killing people is unmatched, and the mountains and forests give them cover.
The gap in numbers was narrowed by the jungle and the elite of the soldiers, and it was difficult for the wolf riders who entered the jungle to capture those nimble figures. More than two hundred wolf horsemen were scattered by more than a dozen squads of blood cavalry, and their strength was once again weakened.
Li Xian and the iron wolf climbed a big tree and hid themselves under the dense foliage. Li Xian took out a feather arrow and put it on his bow, and looked not far away, slowly searching for more than a dozen wolf riders. He squinted slightly, staring at the Turkic centurion who was walking in the middle of the line. There was a grim smile on his lips that made people shudder. He is like a cheetah dormant in the shadows, waiting for its prey to approach his sharp claws step by step.
Sou!
Feathered arrows burst through the air, slashing off a few leaves in mid-air.
Fluttering leaves fluttered in the air, like a butterfly with broken wings making its last struggle.
The feathered arrow pierced the throat of the Turkic wolf riding centurion, and a blood flower that echoed the remnant butterfly bloomed on his neck. When the blood flower withered, the remnant butterfly also landed helplessly next to the little pool of blood. The centurion who had been hit by the arrow made a few hoarse and unpleasant sounds, and he raised his hand with great difficulty to pull out the feathered arrow that blocked the trachea on his neck and prevented him from breathing, but he only raised his hand in vain, and the corpse fell softly.
The feathered arrows fired by the Iron Fangs also knocked down a wolf rider, striking the man in the heart. With a distance of more than 20 meters, it was easy for him and Li Xian to shoot the enemy.
After the death of two companions, the Turks did not find the direction from which the feathered arrows were flying in the first place. So they were destined to pay a more tragic price, Li Xian's series of arrows came one after another, and the three wolf cavalry were shot over in an instant. At the same time, the iron wolf also left the two wolf cavalry on Yanshan forever.
The remaining six or seven wolf cavalry finally found where the enemy was hiding and began to fight back with bows and arrows.
Li Xian and the Iron Wolf slid down the other side of the trunk, and then rolled into the thick grass. After a while, the Turks were not sure if the enemy had been shot. They drew their scimitars and covered each other and walked towards the tree. No one saw that a cold-eyed cheetah had quietly detoured behind them from the grass. Li Xian slowly pulled out the black straight knife behind his back, and his gaze was fixed on the back of the neck of the wolf cavalry at the back.
He himself didn't know how terrifying his originally delicate face was at this time.
The young man who suddenly jumped out of his hand swayed a black lightning bolt. The sword light was so cold that it made people wonder if time was frozen at this moment.
The straight knife easily cut off the neck of the wolf cavalryman, slicing it out from the other side of the neck without a drop of blood. Without a shout, the wolf cavalryman's body suffocated slightly, and a big head slowly fell. Someone sensed something strange behind him, and when he turned to look, he happened to see the blood mist spurting from the neck of the headless companion. In the fountain of blood, he vaguely saw a leopard with sharp fangs baring its fangs staring at him coldly.
It wasn't the fangs that were sharp, but the terrifying black straight knife.
Li Xian rushed out of the blood mist and slashed off half of the skull of a wolf cavalryman with a single sword. The sharp edge of the blade cut through the hard skull as easily as cutting a piece of tofu, and the wolf cavalry, who had lost half of his face, even saw one of his eyes and half of his mouth away from him in a trance. When can a person's left eye look directly into their right eye?
Red blood and white brains flowed all over the ground and fell on half of the skull, and the blood and brains greasy his curls were glued together, and his eyes, which he didn't have time to close, were blocked by a small mass of white paste.
The next second after the second person died, Li Xian's black knife had already removed half of the shoulder of the third wolf cavalryman's arm. The man who was missing half of his body screamed, and he fell to the ground struggling like a flesh-worm that had his leg removed. He cried out, his face distorted with great fear. In his frightened sight, the black lightning streaked across his neck.
Li Xian pushed the black knife forward horizontally, and with the help of his habitual surname of rushing forward, he neatly cut a wolf cavalryman from the top of his lower abdomen. The Turkic man even took a step forward, and then the upper body above the lower abdomen slowly fell. A cascade of blood erupted, smearing the murderous boy's face even more hideously. The unfettered internal organs of the severed body flowed out and fell to the ground with a clatter. Blood was still bubbling in the lobes of the lungs in the pool of blood, bulging and bursting.
The Turks who wanted to sneak attack Li Xian from one side were cut off by the iron fang, and then the blood-spraying corpse was kicked out by the iron fang. The headless corpse spurting blood flew sideways, and the blood spurted out of it blinded the eyes of the other wolf rider. Slightly hot blood flowed from his face, as uncomfortable as thousands of small insects crawling back and forth on his face.
But soon, when the wolf's horizontal knife slit his neck, the pain and fear disappeared. There were a few clicks in his throat, and when the last bit of clarity entered his lungs, he smiled contentedly and fell to the ground.
There was a scuffle everywhere in the woods, and blood was like flowers in the green mountain forest.
The second group of wolf riders who had caught up had already reached the outside of the forest, and they rushed towards them with their screaming and brandishing scimitars.
Not far away, on a large flat rock, a man wearing a dark blue brocade robe with small golden flowers embroidered on the cuffs and collar stood there. His face was as handsome as a demon, and his eyes were as clear as a spring. A man in brocade held out a large umbrella to shield him from the harsh sunlight, while another man in brocade knelt down on a large rock. The enchanting man sat down slowly, the big black umbrella blocking the sunlight but making his face even fairer.
He pointed to the second group of Turkic wolf riders who rushed towards the woods, and said in a soft and flat tone: "First clean up all these things that are in the way, where did so many hairy and blood-drinking beasts come from?" ”
A Jinyi subordinate bent down slightly and said, "Du Lieutenant, it's better to let them fight for a while, let those Turks fight and kill, and save us from doing it again." ”
The bewitching man raised his head and glanced sideways at the subordinate slightly, his gaze was cold and sharp as a knife, as if he could cut his heart.
"Remember ......"
The enchanting man said word by word: "Those horse thieves are criminals, but they are also criminals of my Great Sui, and it is not the turn of outsiders to kill." In the same way, even the prisoner who killed my Great Sui was able to pay for his life. Not to mention...... A group of wolf cubs who dare to use knives and guns on the border of my Great Sui should already die. ”
He waved his hand lightly, as if he was a little tired: "Go, leave a living mouth, let him go back and ask Shibi Khan, is the border of my Great Sui a place where he can send people at will?" ”
After speaking, as if he had remembered something, he suddenly smiled lightly and muttered, "Your Majesty is always thinking about the fact that in a few years, the Turkic royal court will be included in the border of my Great Sui." ”