Chapter 145: Putting to Death
Qiu Shi stood up and pushed Ding Feng away, and said loudly: "Change me, you still have aunts and sisters to take care of, my whole family is just me, and I will die a hundred." ”
Ding Feng laughed and said; "Little stone, since you were a child, you lost to me in everything, and you were forced to recognize me as a big brother. Since I'm the big brother, of course I'll do the big thing, what are you going to do?
Qiu Shi's eyes were red, and he clenched his fists and shouted loudly; "We are brothers, there is no reason for you to die alone, it's a big deal that we go together, if you want to die, it's better to have a companion on the way."
Ding Feng shook his head and said; "Stone, don't be rash, there are not many brothers in Jing Shao's hands who can be used, it is enough for me to die alone. Since you are my brother, then my mother will ask you, and my sister, if you really like her, go and marry her, don't be half-hearted. ”
After speaking, he didn't give Qiu Shi a chance to speak, and immediately turned the horse's head and left.
The horn of the Qin army was sounded, and 10,000 foot soldiers broke away from the brigade and turned northward, forming a phalanx in a valley about 200 zhang wide. Every Qin soldier was silent, just mechanically lined up one defense line after another according to the discipline of the Northern Army.
Ding Feng didn't hide it from them, and they all knew very well in their hearts that it would be difficult to survive this battle.
But they couldn't retreat, because behind them were their parents and wives, and if the Huns' iron cavalry reached the pass, it would definitely be a massacre, and neither civilians nor soldiers would be spared.
Instead of dying in humiliation, it is better to fight hard for your relatives and robes.
The most feared army in the world is not composed of warriors with sharp weapons and elaborate armor, but outcasts who fight with the determination to die. Because they are not afraid of life and death, they are fearless, even if it is a crazy attack of more than 200,000 Hun iron cavalry.
The Qin soldiers looked at the north in silence, clutching the weapons in their hands, quietly waiting for the Hun cavalry that could be killed at any time.
There was a dead silence, no one was willing to speak, for fear that if they spoke, it would affect the solemn atmosphere in the military formation, and every soldier leaned his body against the robe beside him, and relying on each other also made them feel a lot more at ease. On the battlefield, the only thing you can rely on is the robe of life and death.
Finally, the Huns' cavalry appeared at the end of the plain, first in a thin line, and then black clouds suddenly poured out over the field like a tidal wave. The 200,000-strong army of the Huns rolled in like a landslide and tsunami, with this burst of murderous aura.
The earth trembled slightly under the horse's hooves, and every Qin soldier was pale and bit his lip. The momentum of the more than 200,000 troops rushing forward was so terrifying, as if it could move forward and destroy all the obstacles between heaven and earth.
The Qin team not far away saw the Hun army coming, and they rushed desperately towards the pass in a panic, with only one thought in their hearts, that is, to escape the pass and survive. The team was in chaos for a while, and Han Xin had to lead his own soldiers to kill dozens of people who took the lead in snatching, so he barely maintained order.
The Xiongnu army saw that there was a Qin army in front of them to block it, and they did not directly attack, but stopped their horses to watch. Ding Feng pulled out his sword and roared loudly; "Crossbowmen ready."
There was a sound of grinding armor, and more than 1,000 crossbowmen knelt down in unison, holding up the crossbow machine that had been wound. If the Xiongnu army came to kill, the crossbow machine in their hands would become a killing weapon to harvest their lives.
Ding Jian looked coldly at the Huns in the distance, and suddenly opened his mouth and shouted loudly: "How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son. ”
The sad song spread throughout the battlefield, and also infected more than 10,000 Qin soldiers who were ready to fight to the death, they all mustered up their strength, desperately roaring and singing in unison, this war song that had witnessed the 600-year-old Qin resounded on the battlefield again.
Gradually, the Qin people who were crowded in front of the pass also stopped, and everyone looked at the north in unison, one, two, ten, hundred, and thousands of sounds, and almost all the Qin people opened their mouths and sang along. Qin Feng runs through the clouds and resounds through the sky.
How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son.
How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the child.
How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son.
The soldiers who held their weapons tightly were no longer afraid, because they were no longer alone, and all the Qin people and the entire Qin State were behind them.
There was a commotion in the Hun army, and the soldiers in the front stepped out of the way, and a group of gold-armored cavalry walked out with a young Hun in a cluster.
Mao Dun calmly looked at the Qin army deployed in the distance, listening to their roaring war songs, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes. He has been fighting with the Northern Army for many years, and he is naturally familiar with the phalanx of the Qin Army, but he didn't expect that the Northern Army would have the courage to fight against the Xiongnu army outside the city to such a point.
After pondering for a while, Mao Dun decided not to give the Qin people any more time to evacuate, so he shouted; "Ujururuo."
"Yes." A low roar was remembered, and a big man came out of the ranks.
Mao Dun pointed at the phalanx of the Qin army in the distance with his horsewhip, "Take your people to test it, remember not to attack." ”
"Yes, Da Shan Yu!" Uzhuliuruo received the order in a rough voice, and then turned his horse's head back to the army with excitement on his face. Soon, more than 40,000 people broke away from the phalanx of the large army, brandishing sabers and screaming and rushing towards the Qin army.
Ding Feng looked at the Huns who rushed to kill with a face like water, and silently calculated the distance in his heart.
Five hundred steps!
Four hundred steps!
Three hundred steps!
"Put." Ding Feng roared as hard as he could, the sword in his hand swung down heavily, and more than a thousand crossbow arrows glowing with bronze blood hit the Hun cavalry like a storm, splashing a bloody splash. Nearly a thousand people fell off their horses with screams, and were soon trampled into pulp by the cavalry that followed.
"Upper crossbow." Ding Feng yelled with red eyes, "Put it again." ”
A few seconds later, the second round of crossbow arrows from the Qin army arrived, and the Huns' offensive could not help but be delayed, like a huge wave in a tsunami hitting a hard reef, but soon regaining the momentum of the rush.
Two rounds were fired, and the crossbowman had no chance to release the arrows, so he quickly retreated into the phalanx under Ding Feng's order, and the big shield was immediately closed, becoming an airtight shield array. The whole process was like flowing water, without any sense of stagnation, and the well-trained training of the Northern Army was at a glance at this time.
In the distance, Maudun's eyes couldn't help but flash a hint of envy, he did not lack elite cavalry, what he lacked was well-trained infantry. The cavalry is naturally unstoppable in the field, but if you want to conquer the city and enter the Central Plains, it will be powerless. This also strengthened Mao Dun's desire to destroy the Qin State in his heart.
In any case, the terrifying Qin Empire can no longer exist in this world, otherwise the peoples of the steppe will never be at peace.
The Huns' nightmare can only happen once, and it must end in his hands!
Wuzhu Liuruo's cavalry quickly rushed to the front of the Qin army's phalanx, but did not directly charge, the front team transferred their horses and ran to both sides, and the knights took out the bows and arrows on their saddles, and shot their bows up to the sky with their bows in the air.
Ding Feng's face tightened, and he shouted and ordered almost at the same time as the arrow was fired; "Raise your shield!"
The Qin soldiers behind the formation raised their small shields one after another, and the personal soldiers around Ding Feng also raised their shields to cover them. The rain of arrows that fell by the momentum soon fell from the sky with a sharp whistling sound, and the shield smashed on the hands of the Qin soldiers made a burst of soldiers' ping-pong, and from time to time some soldiers screamed and fell, and the people next to them silently took the shield and continued to hold it high.
The entire Qin army array is like a turtle shrunk into a shell, the whole body is extremely hard, and the Huns are like hungry wolves with teeth and claws, but they can't help the indestructible Qin army array.
Mao Dun saw that the Qin army was well prepared, and suffered little loss under the rain of arrows, on the contrary, the Huns were thunderous one by one, and they could only shoot the arrows in their hands in vain.
It would only be a waste of time to continue any longer, so Mao Dun decisively ordered the transfer of Wuzhu Liuruo's army back, turned around and said coldly to a general; "Helian Mountain!"
Helian took a step forward and knelt down, burying his head deeply. "The sinner is here, what does Da Dan Yu command."
"I'll give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, go and completely tear apart and kill all of this Qin army for me, if you can't do it, you can kill yourself and apologize to Changshengtian."
Helian Shan's body shook, lowered his head and knocked his head a few times, and roared loudly; "Da Dan Yu rest assured, I will definitely take down the Qin army."
The Xiongnu's archers retreated like a tide, and before the Qin army could catch its breath, the roaring iron cavalry had already been killed in front of them. The Huns chose the most primitive and fastest way to tear apart the Qin army's defensive line, that is, blood for blood and people for people.
The first wave of the Huns undoubtedly became cannon fodder, they were all killed in front of the Qin army's impregnable shield array, but the cavalry that followed did not hesitate to continue to collide until they died of exhaustion.
When the cavalry rushes and kills, even if you are afraid to turn around and flee, your companions will trample you to a pulp. If you want to survive, you can only rush forward on a road, and only by killing the enemy in front of you can you return alive on the battlefield.
In front of the Qin army's shield halberd array, the Huns wielding war knives launched an attack on the Qin array without hesitation, but one by one they were pierced by the long halberds stretched out from the gap between the shields like poisonous snakes spitting letters, and they fell to the ground, screaming again and again, and their high-speed galloping horses smashed into the shield with a huge momentum, and the Qin soldiers who desperately resisted the shield were shocked and blood overflowed from their mouths and noses.
The follow-up troops of the Huns continued to rush forward desperately, one after another, as if they were intent on committing suicide, crashing into a sword mountain and sword forest at high speed, and they never stopped! The dead warriors smashed a path through the Qin people's impregnable phalanx with their flesh and blood, and the desperate and tragic attacks continued to hit one after another like a raging wave. The Huns were red-eyed, they were not stingy with death and wounding, all they wanted was to break through the phalanx, as long as they broke through, their sabers could harvest the heads of the Qin people at will.
After the Huns paid heavy casualties, the Qin army began to suffer casualties.
There was chaos and noise, the deafening sound of fighting, the screams of the soldiers before they died, the sorrowful screams of the war horses lying on the ground before they died, the war knives held high in the hands of the Huns slammed into the counterfeit cards and sparked a little sparks, and the war horses that lost their masters scurried in the formation, and finally fell to the ground and died. In a short distance of less than 200 meters, the corpses of the Qin army and the Huns were already piled up, so that the Hun cavalry that was killed later had to slow down and jump up to the layers of corpses.
The phalanx of the Qin army retreated step by step under the onslaught of the Huns, although the shield array was still strong and did not fall, but it had reached the end of the crossbow. Mao Dun, who was watching the battle from a distance, showed a blazing heat in his eyes, he didn't care about the dead and wounded, he didn't care how many people would not be able to return to the grassland, he just needed to break through this Qin soldiers who dared to stop him Mao Dun Shan Yu, kill them all, and then go to catch up with their parents, wives and children and kill them.
On the wall of the pass a few miles away, several Qin generals silently looked at the robes who were sacrificing their lives in the distance, and no one spoke, just watched silently without saying a word.
Han Xin suddenly broke the silence and said; "Two quarters of an hour, they can hold up two quarters of an hour at most."
Wang Jing's breathing gradually became short, and he couldn't help but say; "The team has already withdrawn into the pass, can you let Ding Feng and them withdraw?"
Han Xin shook his head slowly, "It's impossible, they are already fighting with the Huns, if they withdraw at this time, it will undoubtedly make them die faster." ”
"Is there no other way?" There was a hint of trembling in Wang Jing's words, and he looked at Han Xin with some pleading, wanting to get what he wanted from his mouth.
It's a pity that Han Xin disappointed him, he just shook his head and was silent.
The fate of this Qin army has long been doomed, they are outcasts.
Those who abandon their children will die but not live.
The heat in Wang Jing's eyes slowly subsided, and he bit his lip tightly and said no more.
Han Xin looked at him, and when he saw that his face was like ashes, he suddenly raised his voice and shouted; "Wang Jing obeys orders."
Wang Jing's body shook, and then he knelt down on one knee and said loudly; "Yes."
"Order you to go to the front army to open the way quickly, and if you are blocked by the Zhao army, you will decide for yourself, and there must be no mistakes."
Wang Jing bowed his head deeply, "The last general will take the order." After saying that, he stood up and strode away, never looking back at the battlefield in the distance.
He is the great general of the Qin army, he needs to let go, and he must let go.
When Wang Jing walked away, Han Xin glanced at the generals behind him and said in a loud voice: "Xi Da." ”
"The end will be."
"You take 5,000 foot soldiers to stay at the pass, I don't need you to fight to the death, you just need to give me half a day to hold on, and after half a day, you can retreat on your own."
Xi Da Zhengzheng replied: "The last general will take the order!" ”
"Yingbu, Mengshi."
"The end will be." Yingbu and Mengshi strode forward and half-knelt down with excitement on their faces.
Meng Shi is a newborn calf, and he is already ready to move. And Yingbu has been ignoring him for the past month, not even giving him a chance to try his skills, and every time he sees others charging into battle, he is always itching. Although he is not a Qin person, he also admires the 10,000 Qin troops who died generously, and he also wants to fight hard to kill these barbarians for the Qin army.
"Each of you will lead 10,000 cavalry and retreat into the mountains with my palace."
"No!"
The remnant sun was like blood, and the Qin army, which had been fighting for nearly an hour and a half, finally disappeared, and it was not until the last warrior fell that the resistance of the Qin army subsided.
More than 10,000 Qin troops were all killed in battle, and none of them survived, Ding Feng was even stabbed dozens of times in his body, and there was no skin on his body, and finally he died in the army with a knife.
Their sacrifice was not in vain, because of their resistance, the Xiongnu army was blocked for an hour and a half, which allowed the Qin troops to calmly withdraw into the pass, and also left ample time for Han Xin's various fortification arrangements.
Mao Dun looked at his subordinates who had suffered heavy casualties, and his face was very ugly. He suddenly thought that if all the Qin troops were so tenacious, how many people would die if he took the Qin State and the entire Central Plains? Isn't it not enough to fill the lives of the entire grassland!
But he could only suppress his anger and uneasiness at the moment, still smiling and rewarding the meritorious people, and then immediately rushed towards the pass.
This pass is only a small pass between Yanmen and Taiyuan, because it is the hinterland of the Qin Empire in the past, this small pass will naturally not be taken seriously, and the city wall is only more than a zhang high, and it is not difficult for an adult man to cross it with his bare hands. Therefore, Han Xin left only Xi Da's 5,000 defenders at this nameless pass, and did not expect him to be able to hold it, but to buy more time for the retreat of the army.
Although it was only a small pass, it was not something that the Huns, who lacked siege weapons, could easily capture. Mao Dun ordered the army to take turns to come forward and pour arrows on the city wall, and a few agile Hun soldiers climbed the city wall with flying claws.
On the top of the city, the Qin soldiers held shields and braved the rain of arrows to cut the ropes, and a small number of Hun soldiers who rushed to the head of the city were directly forced down by the Qin army with a large number of people.
Seeing that he could not attack it for a while, Mao Dun ordered dozens of blazing bonfires to be lit under the city and siege the city overnight.
From sunset to dawn, Mao suddenly saw that the soldiers who had been fighting for a day were exhausted, so he ordered to temporarily retire and rest for a few hours, and wait until dawn to recuperate enough energy to capture it in one fell swoop.
Seeing that the Huns had stopped their offensive, Xi Da breathed a sigh of relief.
He is not Ding Feng, he is old and young, and a large family is waiting for him to go back, so he naturally doesn't want to leave his life in this place where birds don't. Originally, he was worried that the Huns would not have a chance to retreat, but now it seems that it is a godsend, so he ordered the soldiers to quietly retreat from the city and quietly leave the pass.
After dawn, Mao Dun found that there were already people in the pass and the city was empty, so he was furious in his heart, and felt that he had been played by Han Xin again. Thunder was furious and ordered the whole army to immediately pull out the camp and go south, and did not take into account the attitude of Zhao State, but ordered the leaders of all departments to pursue the Qin people with all their might, but everything that was robbed on the road was not asked.
After receiving Shan Yu's promise, the leaders of the Xiongnu screamed excitedly one by one. In the legend of the Xiongnu, the rich Central Plains is a world of flowers, where wealth is piled up, beauties are everywhere, how can this not make them full of blood and blood, willing to fight with their lives!