Chapter 099: Eliminate Evil
At noon, 2,000 reinforcements from the Guangxin Army finally arrived.
The Guangxin Army and the Ansu Army were close to each other, and the distance between the two places was less than 50 miles, but it took six hours from the chaos to the arrival of reinforcements, which shows how lax and slow the border army's combat preparations were.
Of course, not only the Song army, but also the Liao army of Chengping for a hundred years is not much better, according to Xie Dongsheng's reprimand, the Liao army is also slowly assembling, and it is estimated that it will take tomorrow to send troops south at the earliest.
After learning the news, Yang Yi couldn't sit still any longer, he asked Zhao Jin, the commander of the Guangxin Army who came to help, to sit in Ansu and strengthen the city defense, and he also asked for 400 cavalry from him and chased south.
Most of the rebels are infantry, half a day, can not escape forty or fifty miles south, Yang Yi with four hundred cavalry, plus Li Yizhong and others, a total of five hundred men and horses pursued at full speed, Hebei is mostly plains, the speed of the cavalry has been fully utilized, it only took more than an hour, on the Cao River to catch up with Ruan Tianxing and his gang.
Turtle Back Mountain, as the name suggests, it is not high, a radius of several miles, shaped like a turtle's back, the pine and cypress on the mountain are evergreen all year round, the Cao River slowly flows east from the foot, Ruan Tianxing saw a large force of cavalry chasing, and had no choice but to take people to retreat to Turtle Back Mountain.
At this moment, Ruan Tianxing is almost going crazy, thousands of calculations, people are not as good as heaven, and they can take Ansu City!
If successful, he will soon be able to gather thousands of men and horses in the city, plus Ansu is developed in commerce and trade, and a large number of military funds can be collected in the city, as long as two days, when the Liao army will attack in a big way, the Song army will be overwhelmed, he will be able to retreat to the west calmly with thousands of men and horses and a large amount of property, and he can attack the side, and occupy it, and retreat into the Taihang Mountain to develop if the situation is unfavorable.
What a game of chess, it's about to come to life!
I didn't want to, but I was suddenly killed back by Yang Yi, and when I was most vulnerable, I cut my own big dragon into two pieces!
That's not all, almost all the elites of the Maitreya Sect folded in Ansu City with Huang Dan, looking at the seven or eight hundred panicked deserters around him, where is there any morale and combat power to speak of, Ruan Tianxing is trapped in a kind of desperate madness and can't extricate himself.
Seeing that Yang Yi led the army to gallop under the mountain, like a group of steppe wolves, surrounding the Turtle Back Mountain, Ruan Tianxing was completely open, and this time he had to let Yang Yi back himself to be willing.
Li Yizhong's arrow was too ruthless, stuck between his shoulder and collarbone, and he hadn't been able to take it out so far, after leaving the city, he just cut off the arrow shaft and bandaged it roughly, and when he moved slightly, the blood stained the entire shoulder, and his entire right arm had long been unconscious, even if he could take out the arrow, this right arm would probably be useless.
Failure, difficult situation, bleak future, Ruan Tianxing has never hated a person so much for a moment! He really wanted to skin Yang Yi, drink his blood, and remove his bones.
At the foot of the Turtle Back Mountain, Li Yizhong followed Yang Yi along the foot of the mountain and asked a little anxiously, "Master Yang, what should I do?" ”
They are all cavalry, if they abandon their horses and attack the mountain, it is to abandon the long and take the short, if the rebels really fight hard, it is difficult to predict who will die.
Ma Hanqing said: "There are many pines and cypresses on the mountain, and in this late autumn season, the ground is full of pine leaves, in my opinion, we only need to set fire on all sides to burn all the rebels on the mountain!" ”
"No way!"
Yang Yi categorically denied it, Li Qingzhao's whereabouts are unknown, no one knows whether she is coerced by the rebels, and Yang Yi will never agree to attack with fire.
Ma Hanqing immediately realized that he had a bad idea, and retreated to the side in embarrassment and stopped talking.
Yang Yi saw his expression and slowly comforted: "Ci is not in charge of the soldiers!" Han Qing doesn't have to be like this, in fact, your strategy is the best strategy at the moment, but it's just your own ...... Alas! ”
Thinking of Li Qingzhao's uncertain life and death, Yang Yi couldn't help but sigh!
"Your Excellency's subordinates understand, it's better to do this, one of the subordinates will go up and investigate first, if you are lucky enough to find Lord Li's daughter, your subordinates will definitely save him!" …,
Yang Yi shook his head and said: "There is no time, the ghosts of the Maitreya Sect are difficult to find, this is the best opportunity to gather them and annihilate them, if they wait until it gets dark, they are likely to scatter and escape, and start another stove elsewhere, this opportunity will not be missed, and this official will not allow anyone to escape." In fact, Han Qing, your strategy is not unusable. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Li Yizhong, you let people go to the west to light a few fires, and then shout to the rebels on the mountain, limit them to a pillar of incense to go down the mountain and surrender, otherwise we will immediately set fire to the mountain!"
"Whoa!"
Ma Hanqing asked hesitantly: "If the rebels don't surrender, do you really want to order arson?" ”
"Put! However, it must be released from the downwind of the southeast direction, so that the fire does not spread quickly, and no matter how weak the body is, people should be able to escape, we don't need to burn the rebels, we just need to force them down the mountain, Han Qing remember, wait for you to do anything else, the Maitreya Sect Master will be handed over to you, don't let this thief escape! ”
"Subordinates take orders!"
Li Yizhong soon lit a few fires at the west outlet, and the billowing smoke shrouded the mountain, although it was not enough to smoke people to death, but the intention of the warning was achieved, and the officers and soldiers began to shout at the foot of the turtle back mountain.
This autumn is high and dry, and the mountain is covered with layers of pine needles, once the fire is set on fire, there is absolutely no physiology, not to mention, there are really some rebels who blindly follow the thieves are frightened, and they begin to sneak down the mountain to surrender.
In fact, as soon as Ruan Tianxing retreated up the mountain, he found this fatal problem, he didn't dare to say it, for fear of messing up the morale of the army, and he also had a trace of luck, hoping to drag it out until dark, and now seeing that he couldn't stay on the mountain, he had to order a breakthrough from the south.
Seven or eight hundred people rushed down the mountain from the southwest, don't ask Ruan Tianxing why he didn't play some tricks to attack the east and the west, it's not that he doesn't know how to play, it's just that the current military heart, I'm afraid that as soon as the 'sound of the east' has not yet 'hit the west', the east and west sides will be completely closed!
Twisted into a rope, more people are more courageous to each other, and there is probably the strength to fight when they go down the mountain, after all, Yang Yi's ninety-eight horses, the image of killing gods is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Yang Yi had been waiting for this moment, except for dozens of scouts and horses scattered in other directions to prevent fish from slipping through the net, all the horses and horses had gathered, and the rebels had just come down the mountain, and they were greeted by a deafening sound of iron hooves!
"Li Yizhong, follow the side of this official and shoot the rebel general! Brothers, rush! ”
Hundreds of cavalry, with smoke and dust in the sky, rolled over like a hurricane, Ruan Tianxing's eyelids jumped, he also had two hundred cavalry under him, and now he could only fight!
He asked the protector Wang Jingxian to lead two hundred cavalry to the rear, and let the infantry block Yang Yi's first round of attack first, and then the cavalry would kill again.
This is the usual tactics of the Song army, the Song army cavalry is limited, rarely has independent combat ability, so can only use the infantry to block the cavalry offensive first, once the opponent can not rush the infantry formation, the horse speed will slow down, the Song army at this time thought that a few cavalry counterattack, in order to obtain the greatest results.
Otherwise, to hedge against a large force of cavalry with a small number of cavalry is tantamount to taking off your pants and sitting on the top of a mountain - hitting a stone with an egg.
However, Ruan Tianxing seems to be dizzy today, the reason why the Song army can block the cavalry impact with infantry is that it has all kinds of horse guns, large shields, and heavy armor, and at the same time, there are a large number of archers in the array, and they can only give a lot of casualties on the way to the cavalry charge; His hundreds of men and horses, to put it mildly, they fled from Ansu City in a panic, where did they get any rejection of horse guns, big shields, and heavy armor, and some of them had already been lost, too heavy!
The terrifying sound of hooves was getting closer and closer, the ground was trembling gently, and the infantry of the rebels were trembling with it, and with their current incomplete appearance, they were carrying the same number of cavalry shocks, and everyone felt their necks swish!
"Hold on! Resist! Fuck it all for me! ”…,
Ruan Tianxing shouted furiously, but everything was in vain, no one was a fool, watching Yang Yi's giant cone-like cavalry rushing at a rapid pace, everyone hurriedly retreated, Ruan Tianxing slashed two people with a knife in his left hand, and the bloody heads were rolling, still unable to stop the retreat of the infantry.
"Wang Jingxian, rush! Rush up and block! Obstruct! Ruan Tianxing, who was helpless, had to order Wang Jingxian to fight.
Half a mile! Wang Jingxian's two hundred cavalry was not even enough to speed up, Yang Yi saw that the other cavalry rushed out like this, he was immediately overjoyed, and shouted wildly: "Slaughter the cavalry first, no one can be missing!" Kill! ”
Buzz!
A round of arrows that opened the way first rose into the air, because it was a hedge between the two sides, the speed was too fast, and it was not time to see the results of the battle, so they immediately had to collect their bows and guns, and in the smoke and dust in the sky, everyone gritted their teeth and fell on the back of their horses.
Rumble!
The two sides finally inevitably collided together, and the dust rolled up like a wave, and under the wave was a tragic scene of swords and guns colliding, piercing armor into flesh, and blood and rain.
As soon as Yang Yi entered the battle, the spear stabbed at the oncoming rebels, and one of the keys to sprinting immediately was to collect the gun quickly, otherwise if the gun head was too deep into the flesh and was stuck, there was often only one way to abandon the gun; Only a few people can pick up the corpse of the other party, but that requires incredible arm strength; The two horses hedged each other, and the momentum was so great that the arms of ordinary people could not withstand this momentum at all.
One, two, after Yang Yi stabbed over the two rebels, he bumped into Wang Jingxian head-on, and the pupils of both sides were wide open, staring at each other!
"Kill!"
At the moment when the two horses were staggered, Wang Jingxian took the first step out of the gun, and the cold and shining tip of the spear came straight to Yang Yi's chest, closer, closer, Wang Jingxian's face floated a sinister smile, as if he had seen Yang Yi being pierced and fell off the horse.
Boom!
At the moment when the head of the gun touched the breastplate, Yang Yi suddenly turned sideways, and the head of the gun drew a dazzling spark on the breastplate, sliding into his left armpit, he took advantage of the situation to clamp the opponent's spear, taking advantage of Wang Jingxian's stunned moment, his right hand twisted, and the tail of his gun swept fiercely on Wang Jingxian's nose bone.
Yang Yi risked being pierced, in exchange for Wang Jingxian's miserable howl, he then quickly twisted his waist and turned around, without letting go of Wang Jingxian's intention at all, the spear in his right hand flew out with a bang, and the head of the spear penetrated Wang Jingxian's thigh, nailing him to the ground and howling miserably.
"Master Yang is mighty!"
"Master Yang is mighty!"
……
This wonderful scene of snatching a gun and killing the enemy made the soldiers behind him enthusiastic, and shouted unwillingly, it will be the courage of the soldiers, and there is nothing more to inspire morale than picking off the opponent's main general.
"Born to the descendant! Diehards, kill! Yang Yi roared, and rushed out of the formation after picking down the two rebels again, as if he had not seen Ruan Tianxing's infantry formation, he immediately led the army to maneuver, and strangled the remnants of the cavalry, where did the rebels still have the courage to turn around and fight, and the remaining hundred and ten cavalry fled.
As soon as Yang Yi saw this scene, he immediately asked Xie Dongsheng to turn back with two hundred horsemen, looking at Ruan Tianxing's infantry, and he took two hundred horsemen to chase and kill to his heart's content.
Such a one-sided battle situation is not how strong the Guangxin army brought by Yang Yi is, the key is that the morale of the two sides is too different, the rebels fled from Ansu in panic, Ruan Tianxing can keep hundreds of his subordinates from collapse, and he is already very talented as a leader.
After hunting the enemy's cavalry, Yang Yi led the army to turn around, this kind of plain terrain was too favorable for the cavalry, they galloped around Ruan Tianxing's infantry formation, shouting loudly: "Surrender or not!" Drop or not! ”
"Drop or not! Drop or not! ”
Bang dang!
As the first knife landed, more and more rebels threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, this sense of fear was like a plague, so that all the rebels no longer had the slightest courage to resist, Ruan Tianxing finally despaired, and took more than 20 core personnel of the Maitreya Sect to try to break through and escape. …,
Ma Hanqing had already stared at him, how could he allow this injured sick tiger to escape again, Li Yizhong and his guards also chased after him, with a long bow and a long bow, and powerful arrows like rain, or shooting people, or shooting horses, the two sides were together, and Ruan Tianxing was blocked, and all of them were slaughtered.
Among the rebels who surrendered, the family members of He Sizong and other rebel officials, as well as some women robbed by the rebel leaders, totaled dozens of people, Yang Yi examined them one by one, and still did not see the shadow of Li Qingzhao.
"Look, my lord!"
Just when Yang Yi was full of despair, Ma Hanqing suddenly raised his hand and pointed, Yang Yi looked around, only to see a girl in a green dress standing by the Cao River, the west wind blowing her skirt, although she couldn't see her face clearly, but Yang Yi was sure that it was the figure who was looking for her how many degrees.
Yang Yi galloped away, and the girl by the water remained motionless until he jumped off the horse, and his eyes as clear as stars gradually filled with mist!
"Qing Niang!"
Yang Yi called softly, the girl's eyes blinked, and suddenly tears fell like beads, wow, she threw herself into his arms, and cried bitterly, the cry was sad and sad, the mountains and forests were lonely, the flowing water whimpered, and the west wind could not disperse her endless sorrow.
"Brother Yang, why are you here! My dad and mother...... Woo...... Woo......"
Yang Yi could feel her slender body trembling, he hugged the girl tighter, and soothed softly: "It's the big brother who is not good!" Big brother is late! Don't be afraid, with the eldest brother here, no one will dare to bully you in the future! ”
Yang Yi didn't know what to say, he tried not to mention Li Gefei and his wife, he didn't want to touch her bleeding wound, but this did not alleviate her grief in the slightest, and the girl cried so much that her stomach broke and she fainted.
After returning to Ansu, under Yang Yi's repeated comfort, Qing Niang finally got better, but the whole person became silent, staying in front of her parents' spirits without moving.
learned from Li Qingzhao's mouth that it was indeed Li Xiangxian who saved her, just like Yang Yi's premonition, Li Xiangxian left quietly, without leaving a word, Yang Yi originally had a premonition from her contradictory and sad eyes, she might choose to leave.
For the sake of Li Xiangxian, Yang Yi took the form of killing Ruan Tianxing and other Maitreya disciples on the spot, just hoping to protect her as much as possible.
In this rebellion, Li Xiangxian was right or wrong Yang Yi didn't want to care, he only knew that if it wasn't for her, he would have died in Zhuozhou City nine times out of ten.
But she still left, perhaps, she just didn't want to bother herself.