Chapter 2: The Tiger Chick (Part 7 B)
There are two ways to avoid arrows in a step-down melee taught by the coppersmith master, the first is to roll back when you fall to the ground, and use the potholes on the ground to protect the vital points. The second is to hide behind the nearest person, whether the other person is friend or foe. If it was before the Battle of Liaodong last year, Li Xu would definitely have fallen at this moment. But today, he did not hesitate to grab a Goguryeo rout soldier and block it in front of his chest.
The popping sound of the feather arrow shooting into his body and the screams of the wounded irritated his ears, and at that moment, Asahi even clearly felt that the life in the other party's body was passing little by little. He froze for a moment, not knowing when he had become so cruel. But in the next instant, the blood of his companion burned his eyes red.
Shoot your own defeated soldiers with feathered arrows to prevent the fleeers from storming the formation. This is the way of the soldier that was clearly recorded in Yang Fuzi's notebook. Ci is not in charge of the army, from Yang Fuzi's notes to Xu Dayan's words, to the guidance of Mai Tiezhu, Liu Hongji and others, almost everyone has explained this truth to Xuzi. In the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion controlled by Xuzi himself, there is also a special team of supervisors. But seeing Goguryeo archers shoot both our soldiers under the low wall at the same time still made him feel indignant.
The armor on the Xiaoguo is strong, but it doesn't mean that they can withstand the feathered arrows at such a close distance. In the first round of shooting, more than 70 Xiaoguo, who had rushed to the front, fell. The Goguryeo archers quickly bent their bows and began the second round of indiscriminate shooting. The Xiaoguo were pressed back by the feather arrows, and the remnants of the defeated Goguryeo army recovered from the sudden blow and fled in all directions.
"Bend the bow--" Captain Goguryeo shouted loudly. The blocking effect was good, and General Ulji promised to give him a heavy reward after completing the mission. Just as he was rejoicing in his peerless exploits, he saw a corpse full of feathered arrows rushing towards him.
"Release, release the arrow!" The lieutenant commanded loudly. Countless arrows were shot at the moving corpse. The corpse continued to rush forward, close to the low wall, and suddenly rose into the air and smashed the archers on the head.
Asahiko threw the corpse out, and jumped into the ranks of archers like a leopard. The archers who arrived in a hurry were stunned, they did not expect that someone would be able to rush into their ranks alive under such a dense rain of arrows. In an instant, Li Xu used his long knife to open a bloody hole in the ranks of archers, and the Goguryeo people's shooting immediately stopped.
Li Xu roared angrily and pressed his knee against the lower abdomen of an archer. Using the wounded man as a shield, he blocked the fatal blow from the left. Then, the black knife picked up a black light and cut off the other arm that was holding the knife. There were no routines in the tricks taught by the coppersmith master back then, and they were completely improvised. After the assignment of General Qian Shixiong and the tempering of the battlefield for more than a year, Xuzi has fully understood the essence of the master's teachings.
That's not martial arts at all, it's just a killing skill on the battlefield. No matter whether the opponent's weapons are long or short, light or heavy, the winner must be decided between one or two faces. Exchange light damage for heavy blows, and trade your own non-vital parts for a chance to deal a fatal blow to the enemy. No one in a normal joust would do that. And on the battlefield, this is the difference between life and death.
There was such a killing god falling from the sky, and the archers did not have the courage to continue to block the path of the Sui army's advance. They must first hit the energy to deal with this killing god, and delay until the next moment, I don't know how many arms holding the bow will be cut off by him. The hoplites who were rushing forward against the current also gathered around, and they could not allow a single thorn to stick to their backs. It's just that the terrain is too narrow, the archers can't get out of the way, the heavy infantry wants to squeeze to Xuzi's side but can't get close, time passes slowly in the crowd, and the archers who are close to Xuzi have to use wooden bows as weapons to resist his long knives. The long knife in his hand was so sharp that it often cut the wooden bow and its owner in two pieces at the same time.
Xu Zi swung his knife and splashed round after round of blood waterfalls. He had feathered arrows on his body, but he didn't feel pain. Blood splashed all over his face, but he couldn't smell it. The armor is no longer heavy, his thighs are no longer sore, he has no feelings, no thoughts, no ego. The people around him gradually turned into puppets in his eyes, time stopped all at once, the world froze, and everyone was frozen, only a long black knife danced softly in the crowd, danced, and harvested life to its heart's content.
The two archers fell, and the hoplites, who were standing behind them, finally squeezed in. The man had a knife in one hand and a shield in the other. He used his shield to block the fatal blow of the black knife, and stabbed Asahiko in the waist like a poisonous snake with a sharp blade in his hand. Asahiko's body was crooked before being stabbed by a sharp blade, giving way to the snake's Nobuko. Then, the black knife swirled around like a life, sweeping the head of its blade owner into the air.
"Poof!" Blood gushed out of the headless neck like a fountain of blood, staining the sky red. The people around him avoided it, and Asahiko chased after him with a long knife, cutting down every living creature that stood beside him. He cut off a bow and his master, chopped a spear and his master, snatched a shield and used it to block a horizontal knife, and then smashed the bridge of his opponent's nose with his shield and slit the throat of another with a black knife.
The surrounding weapons suddenly dispersed, and the chaos dispersed into the distance. Xuzi stepped forward to chase, but her leg was clung to by an injured person. He swung his knife at the wounded man, and when he looked up again, there was no opponent around. Several familiar pieces of armor appeared in front of him, and the shouts of his companions made him collect his knife in time. It was the fruit of the Great Sui Dynasty, and the brothers came up to kill it, driving the enemy archers, heavy armor soldiers, and light armor soldiers into the ranks of the rout.
"The Shogun is injured!" A lieutenant let out an exclamation and rushed forward to support Li Xu. But Xu Zi used a bloody scimitar to separate the other party five steps away, "Don't be wordy, take people to stick to it, don't give them time to breathe!" He commanded loudly. The lieutenant looked frightened, and immediately turned around and ran forward, shouting loudly as he ran: "Your Excellency the general has an order, stick to them, stick to them!" ”
Li Xu's personal soldiers also rushed over and surrounded the main general in the middle. Seeing the concern in everyone's eyes, Xuzi smiled and swung his knife to cut off the shaft of the arrow outside the armor. The armor given by Tang Gong is heavier, but the protective effect is very good. Several cold arrows were blocked by the armor and most of their strength was no longer enough to kill.
"Brothers, rush, don't let the general take all the credit alone!" Li Mengwei ran past Xuzi with the second attack echelon shouting. The valley ahead was getting wider and wider, wide enough to accommodate the two echelons of the lower echelons to attack together. The first echelon led by Xu Zi suffered heavy losses in the enemy's accumulation just now, and in the next attack, Li Mengwei and his subordinates became the main force without concession.
Li Xu continued to advance with the remaining more than 300 warriors, and after breaking through the enemy's camp, the two attack echelons formed a pair of parallel arrows on the relatively wide valley. The Goguryeo people also mobilized more soldiers to rush forward, and the two sides began to fight for the battlefield inch by inch. For those who fled to their camp, the Overseers resolutely enforced military law. Those who had lost their courage did not dare to storm their own strongholds again, and turned and fled towards the Black Bone River. The shallow part of the river was a good place to take refuge, and the overseers did not have time to shoot them, and the Sui army could not spare their hands to come to the river to chase down the prisoners.
The poisonous smoke had completely dissipated, and the sunset in the west sent the last rays of light through the valley, staining the river water red, the beaches, and the rocks of all sizes with human blood. Around every rock, there are people fighting to the death. The battle has reached this point, and the Xiaoguo have completely forgotten their fears. And retreating to the current position, the Goguryeo people can no longer retreat.
If you retreat, you have to withdraw from the Valley of the Black Bones. Intercepting the 300,000 single-minded army on the open ground is not enough for the Goguryeo soldiers and horses to cushion the horses' hooves!
"Attack, attack, those who retreat will be killed!" Eulzhi Wenxing shouted hoarsely. There are not many enemy troops rushing through most of the valley, and after pushing them back, it is possible for your own side to take back half of the valley. Time cannot be delayed, and the more you delay, the more the enemy will be killed. Those Great Sui Xiaoguo were all crazy one by one, and they didn't care about the disparity between the two sides, nor did they care about personal life and death. If they all killed the eastern section of the valley, Etozhi Wenxing did not dare to guarantee that he would still be sure of victory.
Li Mengwei cut down a Qu Shuai who didn't know which nationality he came from, didn't cut off the other party's head, and rushed straight to the next opponent. His own soldiers no longer cared about making up for the enemy, carrying shields, and sacrificing their lives to protect his two ribs. One spearman was cut in half by him, and another was cut off in half, and the soldiers of the second echelon used him as the tip of their swords and stabbed him inch by inch into the depths of the enemy's ranks.
He was dragged to the Xiaoguo Camp by Xuzi from the grain protection army, and it was not his original intention to be a captain under Xuzi. At that time, General Liu Hongji personally found him, asked him to protect Li Xu, and expressed the goodwill of Tang Gong at the right time, so he had to come. And after arriving at the Xiaoguo camp, he gradually began to appreciate this Lang general, who was younger than himself. Right now, whether it is a bit of a loss to send his life to this ghost place, Li Mengwei no longer thinks about it. How to complete the task on your shoulders can no longer be a worry. He only remembered the task assigned by Li Xu, rushing forward, rushing forward, not giving the enemy a chance to breathe, rushing them, rushing them, until he captured the entire valley.
The more and more enemies around him were killed, Li Mengwei felt a little tired. In the interval between the battle, he turned his head and glanced at it quickly, and saw that not far from him, Li Xu's handsome banner was still moving forward. "Brothers, kill!" He roared loudly, and he picked up his severed horizontal knife again, sawing open the throat of a Goguryeo brigade leader.
Yizhi Wenxing's wolf pack tactics have achieved some results, and the number of the two Great Sui soldiers and horses rushing to the front has gradually decreased, and the attack strength has become weaker and weaker. The Goguryeo people, the hunters, the Khitan warriors, and countless tribal warriors who lived in Liaodong and fought for money and home alternately surrounded them, tearing off pieces of flesh and blood from the periphery of the Sui army. Each time, countless lives among them fell under the slanting sun and could not afford to live forever. "Tell the Khitan people of the Heishui Department to cut down that banner and I will give him 80,000 stone of grain. Tell the people of the White Rock Department that if you kill that man, I will give him fifty, no, five hundred sheep! Yizhi Wenxing was angry and pointed to Li Xu's battle flag and shouted. He didn't think that the person under the command of the commander must be the commander of the Sui army, this was not in line with the rules of war, the lord of an army would never act as the vanguard himself, and in case of a sudden death, he would be irresponsible to the soldiers and horses of the whole army. But whoever that man was, his head was to be decided, and since he saw the battle flag, this man had taken more than forty steps straight forward with more than a hundred brethren behind him. At each step, they had to step on the lives of a dozen Goguryeo warriors.
Under the red battle flag, the tall man in black armor and holding a black knife suddenly raised his head and glanced at him. A chill surged in Etozhi Wenxing's heart for no reason, and he immediately closed his mouth. The black-armored man was not human, and his eyes clearly came from a wounded beast. The next moment, Yizhi Wenxing touched his dizzy head and raised the order flag again.
He mobilized the last elite force around him, which was his personal soldier, and he would not easily go into battle. But the feeling of the black-armored man in the distance was too terrifying for him, and Yizhi Wenxing had to kill this person on the battlefield as soon as possible.
Two groups of tribal warriors and a group of heavy infantry headed towards Xuzi from three directions. There was not much time left for them, the third attack echelon of the Sui army had already rushed up, and in the depths of the valley, there were more soldiers and horses pouring out. If these people were allowed to gather under the banner of that black-armored warrior, with the combat effectiveness shown by the Sui army tonight, the outcome of this battle would be unpredictable.
Li Xu glanced at the position of Yizhi Wenxing again, and he could already determine that the person standing in the distance and constantly waving the order flag was the commander of the enemy army. Almost all the soldiers and horses on the opposite side were moving around this man's dispatch, and if they could kill him, the Goguryeo defenses would immediately crumble.
Xuzi slashed the Goguryeo warrior in front of him, and touched the bow behind him. Halfway through his hand, he suddenly remembered that he was fighting on foot today, and he didn't bring the magic weapon that his uncle gave him to kill the enemy. He pointed the black knife in the direction of Eji Wenxing, and made an attack action, and the soldiers behind him immediately waved the battle flag and aimed the direction of the tip of the flag at the enemy's commander.
"Kill that guy under the Battle Banner!" Li Mengwei reacted immediately, and rushed to the Chinese army of the Goguryeo people with his subordinates.
Li Xu swung the black knife and once again cut a bloody path through the enemy.
The Khitans, who were hired by the Goguryeo people, rushed up, and were surrounded by the warriors of the Wing Zhi Wenxing, and hundreds of Goguryeo elites wearing heavy armor formed a phalanx and stepped forward to meet Li Xu.
The people on both sides of the enemy were like rice, falling down layer by layer, brandishing black knives, and Li Mengwei wielded a "saw", inch by inch, inch by inch, with difficulty, to the location of Yizhi Wenxing.
Yizhi Wenxing stared at Xuzi, he pulled out his gem-encrusted waist knife, his hand trembled, and slowly pressed the waist knife back again. Then he pulled the knife out again, and then slowly pressed it back again. The Khitans didn't stop the black tiger, neither did the Yatans, and his family was well-trained and well-armed, but he was forced to retreat by the tiger and the Xiaoguo around him who had not received much formal training.
Are they really untrained? Eulzhi Wenxing suspected that his intelligence was problematic. Hu Sizheng won't play a bitter trick, right? He thought in surprise, and cold sweat trickled down his helmet.
Suddenly, he heard a shout in the distance. I had to turn my head and find that thousands of Sui troops had actually rushed over from stepping on the water.
How is this possible? Eulzhi Wenxing wiped his eyes blurred by sweat vigorously, and finally saw the reality of the enemy army clearly. Instead of the water, they stepped on huge rafts. In the afternoon, the poisonous wood valves that caught fire went down the river, destroying most of the wooden stakes and fishing nets in the river. Now, the almost unimpeded river just became a shortcut for the Sui army to attack.
"Brothers, kill, don't let the credit be robbed by General Li!" Cui Qian, a native of Boling, and Xue Wenju, a native of Xianyang, each led a sentry to jump onto the river bank and rushed into the flank of the Goguryeo. Most of the Goguryeo people on guard on the flanks were wounded soldiers who had been poisoned in the afternoon, and their physical strength had not yet fully recovered.
"Coax!" The remnants of the soldiers who had taken refuge by the river and the wounded soldiers who had been poisoned scattered and fled in all directions, scattering their own formations.
"Overseer, Overseer!" E-branch Wenxing was in a hurry. Being beaten by a group of inexperienced rookies in such an embarrassing way greatly hurt his self-esteem. In any case, he also wants to drive the enemy back. He also has the Overseer and the Pro-Guard, even if he takes the Pro-Soldier and the Overseer against the current, he will cut off the arrogant head not far away.
The general in charge of overseeing the battle did not reply, but there was a louder noise behind him. Oji Wenxing had to turn around, he saw smoke and dust billowing from the direction outside the valley, and he didn't know how many soldiers and horses were coming from behind, tearing down the defense line he had built one by one.
"The Great Sui Eastern Crusade is back!" Eulzhi Wenxing's body shook, and he was a little unsteady on his feet. In his blurred gaze, he saw his brothers give up their resistance and flee like sheep. And those Great Sui Xiaoguo unceremoniously caught up with them from behind, and chopped over one when they caught up with one.
"Their army is untidy and the formation is scattered" Yizhi Wenxing was inexplicably sad and indignant, "They have never fought, they are all based on brute bravery!" In a fit of rage, he drew his sword and rushed at the boss with his guards.
The hired Khitans ran away, and the bought Tatars ran away, but Yizhi Wenxing couldn't run, and he carried the dignity of his family. He rushed towards the black knife, at the black-armored general who had killed countless robes. And the black-armored general also rushed towards him, his wet armor dragging his tired body.
The two groups of people finally collided with each other and exploded, and in an instant, countless lives returned to dust
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