Chapter 231: Instant Decision
Li Qing raised his knife and slashed down violently, cutting off a brute rider who was blocking in front of him, warm blood splashed on the cold iron armor, and a faint fishy smell penetrated into his nostrils along the gap in the armor, stimulating his sense of taste. "Kill!" He cried out, sword in his right hand, and the bayonet in his left hand stabbed into another rushing horseman, and the barrel of the gun shattered, and the other man fell off his horse with a scream.
He didn't know how to face the tens of thousands of families who had lost their sons and husbands, and these men rushed into the enemies several times their size without hesitation in order to escort him out alive, and used their lives and blood to open a bloody path for themselves. Maybe these tens of thousands of elites are just a cold number in the hearts of other high-level leaders in Dingzhou, but in the hearts of Li Qing, who has experienced this incident, it is a fresh life, and he even remembers the resolute faces of the wounded soldiers who climbed onto the war horses with difficulty and tied their whole people to the horses.
Today, he faced the brute cavalry face on again, and the anger that had been deep in his heart, soaked in his blood, finally broke out completely, and he even forgot that he had said that the Supreme Commander could not go into battle shirtless until the last moment, and every time he swung his sword, every time he cut off the enemy in front of him, it seemed that the pain in his heart was slightly reduced.
There is nothing else in front of you, only the enemy in front of you, kill, rush forward!
Roaring and cutting down another enemy, Li Qing, who was rushing to the front, suddenly found that a hammer popped out from his side, and a brute horse who stopped in front of his horse flew far away, and Wang Yan's shout was also heard in his ears: "Dashuai, it is our responsibility to attack and kill the enemy, not yours, this is what you said personally, Dashuai." Please stand back! ”
Lifting the face armor, Li Qing looked at Wang Yan and said loudly: "General Wang, today I want to be presumptuous, I want to avenge the soldiers on Baishan Mountain, and cut off the enemy's head with my own hands, which can make me feel more comfortable." ”
Wang Yan was stunned for a moment, and then shouted loudly: "Come, come, open the way for the handsome!" With his shouting, groups of Changsheng battalion soldiers rushed up and surrounded Li Qing's sides, while Wang Yan shouted loudly and brandished his chain hammer, knocking the brute cavalry in front of Li Qing all the way and flying away.
Li Qing glared at Wang Yan's back dissatisfiedly, like this, he still killed a hair, the front was killed by him, and the soldiers on both sides were killed by the Changsheng battalion, and he just rushed forward with the team with a knife.
Boyan's right battalion has been completely chaotic, due to the existence of the Shanghai Haibo Division, Boyan's defense focus has shifted to his left flank, the right flank is empty, and the Dingzhou people have been frightened overnight, and the story of repeatedly using wolves has completely made his troops fall into a state of absolute relaxation, when Li Qing's tens of thousands of cavalry rushed into the camp from the right flank, the barbarians on the entire right flank did not even have time to react, nor could they organize any efficient counterattack and interception.
Boyan looked at the blazing right battalion with a calm face, and saw that his troops were cut into small pieces, helplessly cut off their horses, or simply had no horses, and were trampled by the enemy's horses, his eyes were blazing with anger, and in his Chinese army camp, a large group of cavalry was beginning to assemble.
"The left flank must be defended for me no matter what, I don't want them to annihilate many enemies, just block the Dingzhou soldiers on the left flank!" Boyan roared, "I'm going to skin Li Qing alive!" ”
The right battalion had been completely broken and disabled, and the soldiers who followed Li Qing's cavalry broke the camp and immediately rushed into the camp, killing all the enemies in front one by one, and rushed all the way to the city of Dingyuan.
Guan Xinglong in the city trembled with excitement, and saw his subordinates rushing to Dingyuan, brandishing a big knife, and shouting: "Open the city gate, open the city gate, reinforcements are about to enter the city!" ”
The gate of Dingyuan Fortress was opened, and three thousand foot soldiers poured into the city in a neat queue, and Guan Xinglong looked at the chaotic Boyan camp, and an idea suddenly popped up in his mind, and once this idea appeared, it immediately and irrepressibly grew.
"Wang Peng, come here!" Wang Peng strode in front of Guan Xinglong, "General! The excitement on his face was difficult to suppress, three thousand reinforcements entered the city, and Dingyuan would be solid.
"You, quickly command these 3,000 reinforcements to defend the city, and I, take the veterans of Dingyuan out of the city to fight!" Guan Xinglong pointed to the blazing Boyan camp under the city.
Wang Peng was taken aback, "General, the task given to us by the marshal is to defend the city, and he didn't ask us to go out of the city to fight!" Moreover, the marshals are cavalry, and they can get out of battle at any time, if our foot soldiers here go out, they will drag down the marshal! ”
Guan Xinglong said with a smile: "Things are constantly changing, you see, this guy Boyan is ruthless, he will give up his right battalion, and gather troops on his side of the big tent of the Chinese army, after the assembly, he will inevitably impact the marshal, we attack at this time, we can cut in from the side and cut his army in two." Create an opportunity for the marshal to hit Boyan's troops hard, a great opportunity, not to be missed, how can you stick to the old rules because of the military order before the war, if the marshal wants to punish afterwards, I will bear it! ”
"Yes, General!" Wang Peng received the order loudly.
Soon, the remaining 3,000 old soldiers in Dingyuan City were assembled, and their place in the city had been replaced by new recruits who had just entered the city. The gate was opened again, with the chariot as the lead, the spearmen second, the sword and shield soldiers staggered, and the crossbowmen followed, and three thousand soldiers poured out of the city, and at this moment, the Chinese army assembled by Boyan began to attack the right battalion.
Li Qing saw that 3,000 reinforcements entered Dingyuan, the purpose of the operation had been fully achieved, and when he was about to give the order to retreat, he suddenly found that the gate of Dingyuan was wide open, and 3,000 foot soldiers poured out of the city under the leadership of Guan Xinglong, and the one-armed Guan Xinglong rode on a horse, which was very conspicuous, and he was slightly stunned, and no one in the order to Guan Xinglong asked him to go out of the city to fight, but Li Qing immediately found that Boyan was rushing to the cavalry, and suddenly understood Guan Xinglong's intentions, "Guan Xinglong, the talent of the general!" Li Qing suddenly had a thought in his heart, to be able to make a decision on the spot, to flagrantly disobey the order given by the supreme commander in advance, and to seize the fighter plane that was about to pass away, this is a decisive decision that a famous general cannot lack.
Now that Guan Xinglong has made a decision, of course he can't let go of this opportunity, Li Qing glanced at Boyan's left flank, he believed that after Shang Haibo found out about the situation in this area, he would quickly adjust the strategy of the left flank attack.
"Changsheng Battalion, Whirlwind Battalion quickly assembled!" Li Qing immediately gave an order, he wanted to hedge with Boyan's cavalry. Groups of cavalry began to gather under the banner of Li Qing.
"Charge!" Li Qinggang slashed hard with his knife, and took the lead in rushing out, Wang Yan hurriedly followed, and the black torrent leaked out, and the right battalion of Boyan at this time no longer existed.
When the day dawned, the rain stopped, the sun leaped out of the horizon, and the firelight in the sky was dwarfed and dimmed in the golden sunlight. Boyan's cavalry rushed out wildly, Guan Xinglong gave an order, the hundred-round crossbow made a buzzing sound, and the arrows like rain were about to shoot out, and the three thousand foot soldiers rushed into Boyan's cavalry brigade under the cover of the bow and crossbow, and were immediately overwhelmed by the cavalry.
"Circle the formation, defend and defend!" Guan Xinglong brandished his thick-backed knife with one arm, rushed left and right, and made his 3,000 foot soldiers line up in a circle, using the chariot as a cover, spears one after another, constantly stabbing the brute cavalry off their horses, and these foot soldiers were constantly knocked away or knocked down by the cavalry that rushed strongly.
"Hold, hold! Thorn, sting! Guan Xinglong's circle of horses ran around in the circle, and when he saw that it was dangerous, he rushed over to a burst of slashing to stabilize the defense line, and in the chaos of the soldiers, the three thousand foot soldiers gradually stabilized the formation, and in the cavalry torrent like a mainstay, they held the defense line steadily.
The front of the severed Boyan cavalry ran head-on into Li Qing's two battalions of cavalry, and immediately fell into the siege of the whirlwind battalion, the victorious battalion, which had the advantage in numbers. Wang Yan and Jiang Kui were like two angry bulls, roaring and stabbing the enemies in front of them off their horses one by one.
On the left flank, Shang Haibo also discovered this situation that did not match the pre-war plan at the first time, and without thinking, he immediately ordered a battalion of cavalry to bypass the left flank and join the ranks of attacking the Boyan tail army, and the remaining 7,000 people were still attacking Boyan's left flank, and at this time Boyan's left flank was also crumbling.
"Break the camp, break the camp!" Shang Haibo, a scholar who was powerless, jumped on the command platform and shouted hoarsely.
Boyan sadly found that he had an advantage in overall strength, but in every direction of battle when fighting, he always fell into a disadvantage of troops inexplicably, Guan Xinglong's three thousand foot soldiers were like a nail drilled into his stomach, making himself extremely uncomfortable, but he was powerless to pull it out, seeing that although the opponent's circle array was compressed by himself step by step, it was getting smaller and smaller, but the smaller he was, the greater his rebound force, and the more he had to pay a greater price to further compress inward, even if he eliminated this foot soldier, But his front army was bound to be swallowed by Li Qing in one gulp, and looking back at the left flank, the defense line was already crumbling.
Bowing his head in pain, "Retreat, retreat!" His eyes were bloodshot, and he gave the order unwillingly, and when he said this, his teeth actually bit his lip alive.
Boyan blew the horn of retreat, Guan Xinglong, who had been flattened in the circle, finally took a breath, the horse under the crotch had already been shot to death by the other party, looking at the barbarians who retreated like a tide, Guan Xinglong held the knife and gasped heavily, "Turtle son, if he attacks for a while, Lao Tzu will really not be able to withstand it!" ”
Seeing Boyan retreating, Li Qing didn't want to make too much entanglement, and immediately ordered to let go of an opening to let Boyan's front army escape, but let Wang Yan and Jiang Kui lead the army to cover up for a while, and try to kill some of the fallen Boyan cavalry.
Riding a horse and walking in front of Guan Xinglong, Li Qing laughed and jumped off the horse, slammed the opponent's chest, and almost knocked Guan Xinglong, who was exhausted, to the ground. "The horizontal knife is immediate, only I am General Guan, well done, Guan Xinglong!"
(To be continued)