Chapter 290: The Elite Show Their Might
Liu Wei led the army to rush into the left flank of the Xiliang army array, if the archers of the Xiliang army on the other three sides fired arrows at this time, they would be shot, and the number of people who were shot must be the Xiliang army that was fighting with Liu Wei and others.
It was precisely because of this that Hu Chi'er gave up the idea of letting the Xiliang army launch arrows and gave the order for the whole army to rush and kill. Except for a small number of Xiliang cavalry clustered around Hu Chi'er and protected the main general, all the infantry of the Xiliang army, including the archers, all howled and pounced on Liu Wei and the dragoons he led.
The Xiliang army that surrounded Liu Wei and the others was not only 2,000 people as Liu Wei had earlier claimed, but three or four thousand people.
The heavy infantry of the Xiliang Army, wielding short spears and shields, while the longbowmen held the long swords they wore with them, rushed towards Liu Wei and the five hundred dragoons he led.
"Your Highness, the Xiliang Army is coming up from behind!" A dragoon guard officer who was following Liu Wei slashed over a soldier of the Xiliang Army who was rushing towards him, glanced back, and shouted to Liu Wei.
"How far is it!" Liu Wei didn't look back, and while slashing at the Xiliang army in front of him, he asked the officer in a loud voice.
When the officer wanted to turn his head to look back, another soldier of the Xiliang Army narrowed his eyes and pounced on him with a short spear.
The officer who turned his head to look behind him didn't even look at the Xiliang Army soldier, and when the soldier rushed in front of him, he twisted his body to avoid the short spear that stabbed him in the chest, and then picked up his shield and smashed it towards the face door of the Xiliang Army soldier.
The soldiers of the Xiliang Army, who rushed towards the officer with a short spear, stabbed in the air, confiscated his feet, and rushed forward two more steps.
Just as he was about to regain his feet, a silver arc flashed in front of his eyes. Immediately afterward, he felt a pain in his neck, and a puddle of blood shot out like a fountain.
After slashing the Xiliang army, the officer first looked down at the corpse that fell at his feet, then turned his head to look behind him, and shouted to Liu Wei: "The Xiliang army is still thirty steps away from us!" ”
"Wait until you're ten steps and tell me!" Hearing the officer's shout, Liu Wei still didn't look back, and a sword pierced the heart of a Xiliang army, and raised his foot and kicked it in the lower abdomen of the Xiliang army.
As the long sword in his hand was pulled out of the heart of the Xiliang Army, warm blood erupted from the chest of the Xiliang Army in an instant, and his face was all over the body.
Raising his hand to wipe the blood on his face, Liu Wei roared, picked up his long sword, and rushed forward again.
Liu Wei's swordsmanship can only be regarded as average, but his bravery made the Xiliang army who was blocking his way feel frightened for a while. Every time Liu Wei pushed forward, the officers and soldiers of Xiliang on the opposite side would take two steps back.
Unlike Liu Wei, it was Deng Zhan who did not shout after entering the Xiliang army array, but silently waved the long sword in his hand, each sword directly hit the key point of the Xiliang officers and soldiers. Every time he swung his sword, a Xiliang army would fall to the ground holding his bloody throat.
The dragoon guards who fought with Liu Wei and Deng Zhan were also brave, and with the action of the dragoon guards chopping the long swords, the golden feathers on their heads trembled slightly, and under the afterglow of the setting sun, there was a thin layer of blood.
The golden feathers on the helmets of many dragoons were stained with red blood, and the feathers trembling slightly in the wind seemed to be writing the tragedy of this battle.
The officers and soldiers of Xiliang, before coming to the Central Plains, were also heroes who had fought with Hulu in the north all the year round, especially the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which was much more elite than Gongsun Zhan's Yanyun Iron Cavalry.
The group of dragon cavalry guards trained by Deng Zhan, although their swordsmanship has not yet been refined, can split, stab, slash, slash and other basic movements, but they are all skilled, and every time they split a sword, they will definitely cause great damage to the Xiliang army fighting against them.
The battle began in a snap of a finger, and the Xiliang army had already fallen, in addition to those who died on the spot, there were many wounded who had their hands and feet cut off and fell to the ground wailing. Correspondingly, the dragoon guards under Liu Wei suffered few casualties, and only a few were wounded.
The wounded Xiliang army crawled on the ground covered in blood and dead bodies, intending to flee the battlefield, but their speed was no match for the soldiers on both sides who were in good health. Many of the wounded were only crawling a few steps before they were trampled under the feet of the officers and men of both sides who rushed to the front, and were soon trampled into corpses like mud.
"Ten more steps!" Following behind Liu Bian, while slashing at the Xiliang Army blocking in front of him, the officer shouted to Liu Bian in a little panic.
"Call me again when you get to five steps!" Liu Wei still didn't look back, he could already see the opening of the array of the Xiliang army in front of him, and many dragoon guards rushed out of the opening, and then turned around and killed back.
"Kill!" was slashing and killing the oncoming Xiliang army, Liu Wei heard a loud shout behind him, and knew that the Xiliang army that was coming up from three other sides had arrived very close.
"Your Highness, it's five steps!" The officer who was following Liu Wei heard the shouting of killing, turned his head to look behind him, and shouted to Liu Wei: "Go back and kill!" ”
Only then did Liu Wei turn his head, glance at the Xiliang army rushing up behind him, raised his long sword high, and shouted: "Soldiers, avenge the dead Tongze, and follow this king to kill!" ”
As soon as Liu Wei's shout fell, hundreds of dragoon guards shouted "kill" in unison, turned around, and counterattacked towards the Xiliang army that rushed up from behind.
Hu Chi'er, who led this group of Xiliang troops, rode on horseback, and the battlefield fell into a stalemate, and pieces of Xiliang troops fell under the dragoon guard sword led by Liu Wei, but he did not have the slightest intention of charging in person.
In this battle, the fierce dragoon guards exerted a strong combat power that Liu Bianjun had never had on the battlefield before. Not only were the Xiliang soldiers who were fighting with them all frightened, but even Hu Chi'er, who was hiding far away, could see cold sweat on his forehead.
"Kill!" I don't remember how many Xiliang soldiers he killed, Liu Wei was covered with blood, he raised his sword and pointed at Hu Chi'er, and shouted to the officers and soldiers of the dragoon guard: "Capture the thief and capture the king, and give the thief to this king!" ”
With Liu Wei's order, the dragoon guards shouted in unison and launched a new round of pounces towards the Xiliang army.
The dragoon guards are tall and big, and their bodies are sturdy and stout, although the officers and soldiers of Xiliang are also tall and strong, they are not as neat as the dragoons after all.
The two sides collided in one place, and there was a sound of weapons and armor colliding on the battlefield, and the Xiliang army was knocked backwards and retreated several steps in a row.
When they stabilized their bodies and wanted to launch a counterattack, the long sword in the dragoon's hand had already slashed at them.
500 dragoons and nearly 4,000 Xiliang troops were killed in one place, not only did not have the slightest defeat, but the Xiliang army was defeated and retreated.
It is no wonder that the combat strength of the Xiliang army is not as good as that of the dragoon guards, and the Xiliang army brought by Hu Chi'er this time, only less than 3,000 people are heavy infantry, and the rest are all lightly armed archers.
The archers may bring a lot of casualties to the dragoons when they fire arrows from a distance, but slashing at close range is tantamount to giving their heads to the dragoons to accumulate battle merits.
The Xiliang Army, which had previously intercepted Liu Wei and others on the left flank, had almost been slaughtered, and the few who had not been killed also took the opportunity to escape from the battle group, and after joining the main force of the Xiliang Army, they pounced on Liu Wei and others again.
"Kill!" Deng Zhan, who had been silently wielding his long sword, finally let out a roar, and with a single sword, he slashed the head of an officer of the Xiliang Army who rushed up to him, his eyes widened, and he rushed towards Hu Chi'er, who was watching the battle from a distance.
The officer of the Xiliang Army, whose head was cut off by Deng Zhan, stood upright, his head had fallen to the ground, and he was trampled by the people who rushed up from behind. Blood gushed out from the headless cavity like a fountain, and it wasn't until Deng Zhan rushed past him that his body fell straight down.
Deng Zhannai is a famous swordsman, his swordsmanship is not comparable to that of ordinary dragoons and Liu Bian, the long sword in his hand flew up, and with dozens of blood soaring, he had already killed a bloody path from the Xiliang army, and rushed straight to Hu Chi'er.
Although Hu Chi'er said that he has been fighting on the battlefield all year round, when has he ever seen such a fierce character! Deng Zhan, who was covered in blood, rushed out of the encirclement and rushed straight to Hu Chi'er, Hu Chi'er was suddenly shocked, and he didn't dare to ride his horse to rush forward to try Deng Zhan's martial arts.
The main general fled, where is the Xiliang army still have the slightest fighting spirit. They all turned around and followed Hu Chi'er all the way to run wildly, exiting the battlefield like a tide.
"Get on the horse! Pursue! After leading the dragoon guards to chase after less than ten paces, Liu Wei raised his sword-wielding arm, shouted, and took the lead in running to the one of the war horses left on the battlefield.
Deng Zhan and the dragoon guards present also ran to the side of the war horse, jumped on the horseback, and followed Liu Wei to chase after Hu Chi'er who fled.
Hu Chi'er led a group of cavalry who had been watching the battle, but did not participate in the battle, ran in front, but suffered from the infantry who had no war horses and could only run on two legs.
Liu Wei and the others rode war horses and quickly caught up with the fleeing infantry, and as the dragoon guards raised and fell, the Xiliang army that was running for their lives was split under the sword.
A Xiliang soldier carried a short spear and a shield, and while following the scattered companions who fled for their lives, he looked back in a panic.
When he saw a dragoon spur rushing towards him with a sword in hand, he hurriedly sprang sideways, trying to avoid the dragoon's sword.
But as soon as his body jumped into the air, another dragoon guard had already rushed up on horseback, and the sturdy warhorse's chest hit him the ribs.
With a muffled sound of "Peng", the Xiliang soldier let out a miserable snort, and his body flew out of the air and fell heavily to the ground.
His back landed on the hard ground, perhaps from the loss of his internal organs, and he spurted out a large mouthful of blood with a "poof".
But the bad luck did not go away from him, and just as he was leaning on his back, spurting out this mouthful of blood, another war horse rushed up from behind.
I don't know whether the dragoon guard on horseback was intentional or unintentional, when the war horse jumped in front of the Xiliang soldier, he raised his front hooves high and stepped heavily on the chest of the Xiliang soldier.
The horse's hooves stepped on the heart of the Xiliang soldiers, making a "click" sound of bone splitting, and when the war horse crossed over the body of the Xiliang soldiers, the chest of the Xiliang soldiers had been stepped out of two deep blood pits, and from the blood pits, some broken internal organs could be faintly seen.
Chopping the fleeing Xiliang army all the way, seeing Hu Chi'er leading a group of small Xiliang cavalry to go away, and the Xiliang soldiers who fled on their legs have been chopped seven-seven-eighty-eight, not many people escaped from the battlefield alive, Liu Wei reined in the war horse, raised his hand to stop Deng Zhan and the dragoon guards who were pursuing the enemy, and shouted to everyone: "This time the ambush for me is the small Xiliang thief army, the enemy army will definitely not be willing to be defeated, and maybe the main force of Niu Fu will come here soon!" The army followed the king to find a high place and defend it to the death! ”