Chapter 165: Ambush)
Hundreds of soldiers were well-trained, and immediately turned their horses and followed An Lushan towards the road. On the hillside, the war drums of the march were beating, and the soldiers on the hill rushed down the hillside with shouts.
An Lushan took the cavalry to turn a corner, but found that several big trees had fallen on the avenue, and the way had been blocked. A large number of Jingsai soldiers in the back had already rushed to the main road, shouting and killing the cavalry in front.
"Chengqing, how many pursuers are there?" An Lushan reined in his war horse and looked back, but he couldn't see it clearly.
"General, there are only five or six hundred people chasing after you, and it is not clear what is on the mountain." Ashina Chengqing said continuously.
"Five or six hundred!" An Lushan sneered, "Yan Zhenqing, this dog thief, really looks down on me!" With that, he turned his horse's head again, picked up his heavy mace from the saddle, and rushed towards Sergeant Jingsai.
More than 300 personal soldiers immediately turned around and followed, and one by one they drew their weapons and followed An Lushan to kill the sergeant Jingsai.
Rushing to the Jingsai sergeant, An Lushan saw the enemy's figure clearly, and for a moment he was ferocious, and the mace suddenly slammed out, smashing the two Jingsai sergeants to the ground.
The three hundred Heshuo iron cavalry shouted at the same time, and even the men and horses slammed into the Jingsai sergeant viciously, and the Jingsai sergeant who rushed to the front was directly knocked out and flew out.
More than a dozen spears stabbed fiercely, a dozen war horses fell with a scream, and the knights on the horses fell to the ground. The Heshuo soldiers didn't pay any attention to their partners who had fallen off their horses, and still swung their weapons and rushed forward.
This is not the narrowest section of the valley, but an open area that can accommodate ten horses in parallel, and the Heshuo Iron Cavalry rushed like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and in a few breaths it was hard to cut through the Jingsai army.
The infantry faced the cavalry on flat ground, which was a great loss, and the Jingsai army was far away from the front line as a reserve, and had not fought at all in these years. Although the soldiers were all brave, but where were the opponents of these tiger and wolf divisions, soon the infantry of the Jingsai army had become sparse, and the Heshuo cavalry only lost more than ten people.
On the top of the mountain, the war drums continued to sound violently, and a group of Jingsai sergeants rushed down with shouts, wanting to reinforce the robes that had fought with the Heshuo cavalry in front. An Lushan waved his mace continuously, smashing the soldiers of the Jingsai Army near the war horse to the ground one by one.
The divided Jingsai soldiers were quickly killed by the Heshuo cavalry, and then the follow-up Jingsai soldiers rushed to the front. At this time, the Heshuo cavalry had already risen to the top, and one by one they rushed forward with a shout of their blades, and once again smashed into the foot soldiers of the Jingsai army like a heavy hammer, and the place where they passed was a mess of flesh and blood.
"Who's directing these guys, it's an idiot!" Ashina Chengqing Mo swung out his knife, split a Jingsai military captain in half, and laughed, "This little bit of ability dares to plot against the general, it's just impatient!" ”
"Kill them all! Kill them all! An Lushan suddenly dropped his mace and panted.
The instantaneous anger made him extremely brave, but after all these years of indulging in wine, coupled with his age, his strength was not as good as before, and after such a while, the mace could no longer be held.
However, the ferocity of the Heshuo cavalry has been stimulated, and there is no suspense in this battle.
On the top of the hill, a scribe stiffened his face and beat the war drum vigorously. All the Jingsai sergeants rushed down angrily with red eyes.
They are also seven-foot-tall Angzang men, and they are not lacking in Yan Zhao Erlang's bloodthirsty bravery, seeing the robes fall one by one, where can they still see it.
Nearly 2,000 Jingsai infantry soldiers rushed down from the hillside, rushing towards the Heshuo cavalry with red eyes, although there was no discipline, but there was a terrifying momentum of its own.
"Kill !!"
Ashina Chengqing rushed over with nearly three hundred Heshuo cavalry, and the Jingsai soldiers at the front were knocked out again and vomited blood, but the follow-up soldiers did not stop at all, and stabbed at the cavalry on the horse with spears and horizontal knives.
By this time, both sides had already killed the red eye. The Heshuo cavalry tried to cut through the Jingsai infantry, but this time the advance became much slower, and with each step forward, the knights fell from their horses. And in order to block these most elite Heshuo knights, the Jingsai army is also paying the price of blood.
In the middle of the valley, the scribe stood on top of the hill with a tense face, struggling to beat the huge war drum in front of him. An Lushan rode out of the battlefield, panting and watching the battlefield with blood and flesh splashing.
The ability shown by Jing Saijun was really not worth mentioning, but that bloodthirsty momentum even frightened him.
Relying on the speed of the war horse and personal bravery, Ashina Chengqing and the Heshuo cavalry finally chiseled through the Jingsai soldiers with great difficulty, but lost dozens of people. On the side of the Jingsai army, hundreds of soldiers fell.
Untrained soldiers have a limited role on the battlefield, not to mention that they are facing the Heshuo Iron Cavalry, which has been fighting with the Khitans all year round.
Ashina Chengqing led the Heshuo cavalry to roar out of the crowd, completed a chiseling, and then continued to rush out hundreds of steps, only then turned the horse's head and rushed towards the Jingsai sergeant again. The sergeants of Jingsai shouted in unison, waved their weapons and turned to meet them again, but the dense formation had become sparse.
At this time, in front of the Jingsai sergeant was the Heshuo Iron Cavalry, but behind was An Lushan, who had left the battlefield and was resting on his horse. The scribes on the hill saw this, and beat the war drums harder, and at the same time shouted loudly.
When the Jingsai sergeant heard the shouting, he immediately reacted, there was a shout in the crowd, and the Jingsai sergeant in front waved his weapons even more frantically, wanting to block the charge of the Jingsai cavalry, and the hundreds of people in front turned around again, shouting and rushed towards An Lushan.
An Lushan only found out that he was alone at this time, and was shocked when he saw hundreds of soldiers rushing over with shouts.
He had lost many battles in his life, and it was almost instinctive to flee for his life, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately abandoned his horse, and rushed up the hill with his legs open, and the speed was extremely fast.
The soldiers of the Jingsai Army in the back rushed up the hillside, and those who were good at shooting directly untied their bows and arrows from behind, and shot at An Lushan one after another. Although there was an obstacle from the tree trunk, An Lushan was still hit by a few arrows. Fortunately, the Jingsai army was shooting from the back, and with the fat of his own body, the injury was not fatal.
The power that was originally going to jump in front of the Son of Heaven was all taken out at this moment, An Lushan's fat body was actually leaping like flying on the hillside, and soon he reached the top of the hillside, and when he looked ahead, there were gentle slopes, and it was not easy to escape.
The sergeants of Jingsai were chasing after them with all their might, all of them were tired and panting, but they were all staring at An Lushan. An Lushan was depressed in his heart and continued to run forward on the ridge. After running for a while, An Lushan looked back at the valley, but his subordinates had already killed all the Jingsai soldiers who were blocking, and he only had more than 20 people left, and under the leadership of Ashina Chengqing, he was approaching his position along the road in the valley.
After so many years, it was the first time that An Lushan felt that Ashina Chengqing was so kind. Seeing that more than a dozen of the fastest Jingsai sergeants had chased after him, An Lushan shouted, pulled out a few feather arrows in pain, and rolled directly down the hillside with his head in his arms.
It was blocked by the trunk of a tree a few times, but eventually rolled into the valley. Ashina Chengqing hurriedly jumped off the horse and pulled up An Lushan, but when he saw the bloody face of his general, he looked extremely embarrassed.
"General, get on your horse!" A Sogdian soldier led the horse and said in a loud voice.
At this moment, An Lushan reacted extremely quickly, jumped on the war horse with a jump. Looking at the front and back, you can see that although the road behind you is blocked by large trees, the road in front of Taniguchi is extremely smooth.
Forced to run to the top of the mountain and roll down, he actually found a way to live, An Lushan was overjoyed, and secretly said that his life should not be extinguished, and immediately urged the war horse to run desperately forward.
When the scribe saw An Lushan rushing out with the remnants of the army, he secretly said that it was not good in his heart, and put down the drumstick and struggled to push the boulder next to him. A boulder swayed and moved, and then rolled down the hillside at an accelerated pace, just as it smashed into the cavalry rushing forward at high speed, and suddenly three cavalry companies and horses were smashed to the ground, but the rest rushed out.
The scribe was stunned and smiled bitterly at the pile of boulders in front of him. If a dozen people had been left here just now, or if the mouth of the valley had been sealed from the beginning, this traitor would have been able to escape.
The 3,000 soldiers of the Jingsai army waited for An Lushan here, and the opponent only had more than 300 cavalry, and they even escaped from An Lushan.
"Time, life!"
The scribe sighed and shook his head helplessly.
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"General, why are the Jingsai Army ambushing us here? Are we going to Chang'an? ”
The war horse rushed out of the valley for more than ten miles, and An Lushan's mount screamed sadly, and finally died of force and threw An Lushan off the horse. Ashina Chengqing ordered everyone to stop, dismounted and helped An Lushan to ask.
"Who knows what's going on with the Jingsai Army! Yan Zhenqing's dog thief must be crazy! An Lushan looked angry, "Where else can you go if you don't go to Chang'an now?" All I can rely on now is the trust of the Son of Heaven, if I go back to Fanyang now, any state and county official can take our lives! ”
"I am the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, the dignified Hebei Provincial Interview Envoy, Yan Zhenqing killed me, this is a rebellion! When you arrive in Chang'an, you don't need me to do it, Your Majesty will dispose of him for us! Let's go, don't let that dog thief catch up! ”
Ashina Chengqing nodded, ordered the soldiers to give a war horse to An Lushan, and the group rode their horses and continued to walk forward, but they no longer followed the official road, but took the path.
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Plains City.
The sunset is like blood.
The plains stood on top of the city, standing with their hands in their hands. He had been standing here for more than a day since the Jingsai army set out.
On the avenue in the distance, a group of people walked over, and only a few hundred were scattered. One of the scribes at the head walked to the bottom of the city, looked up at the Taishou at the head of the city, and was silent.
Taishou's face was indifferent, and he said softly: "Defeated? ”
The scribe nodded silently: "Defeated." ”
"Why did you lose?"
The scribe smiled bitterly: "First I accidentally stepped on a small stone when I was relieved, and then I forgot to block the side of the valley mouth...... Either way, we have failed. (To be continued.) )