Chapter 571: Ghost Towns Everywhere
An officer of the Luoyang Army, because of the excessive charge, when he reined in the war horse, and his companions were already far away, looking around, beside him, surrounded by all the Huns wearing sheepskins, because of the perennial eating of beef and mutton, exuding a smell of cattle and sheep.
"Come on!" Holding a Pu knife, glaring angrily, the officers of the Luoyang Army who were surrounded clenched their steel teeth, slashed twice in the void, and made a "whirring" sound of the Pu knife, and shouted to the Huns surrounding him: "Hun grandson, come and kill grandpa!" ”
The Huns gathered in front of the Luoyang Army officers, to say the least, there were as many as 100 people, facing the Luoyang Army officers with round eyes wide open, as if they were crazy, hundreds of Huns looked at each other, and no one dared to come forward to fight.
The awkward silence lasted for a moment, and not far away, the shouts of soldiers on both sides kept coming, and more Huns climbed the river bank and rushed over to help.
Finally, a Hun roared, raised the straight knife in his hand, and pounced on the Luoyang Army officers who were surrounded by them.
Seeing that the two war horses were about to stagger, the Huns raised their straight knives high and slashed down on the top of the Luoyang Army officer's head.
When the officer of the Luoyang Army saw the straight knife coming, he turned his head to the side, avoiding the straight knife cut by the Huns, and shouted, and the Pu knife in his hand drew a silver arc of light, cutting towards the throat of the Huns.
The straight knife of the Huns slashed into the air, but the simple knife of the Luoyang Army officer slashed his neck impartially.
The war horse staggered by, and the Hun man's neck gushed blood like a fountain, and his body was riding on the horse, but he did not immediately fall off the war horse, but rushed forward a few steps.
Blood was pouring down, and the sun shone on the splattered blood beads, staining the splattered blood beads with a pale golden sheen that it shouldn't have.
The beads of blood, glowing with golden halos, were like broken rubies, which were messily blown by the wind and fell on the weedy wilderness.
The Huns on horseback did not run a few steps, then turned crooked and fell from the horse.
"Kill!" At the same time that the Huns fell off their horses, the other Huns were about to raise their blades to kill the officers of the Luoyang Army who were surrounded, and there was another shout of killing by the Baishui River.
When this shouting came, the Luoyang army general who was escorting the grain team was withdrawing reined in his horse and turned his head to look at the shore of Baishui.
What appeared in his field of vision was a Luoyang army attacking the Huns on the opposite bank.
Although the distance was very long, the general could still see that it was an army of more than 1,000 people.
In this battle, there may not be a lot of more than 1,000 people, but they suddenly killed, and they killed from behind when most of the Huns had already crossed the river, that is, they killed the Huns by surprise.
"Kill me back!" Looking at the Luoyang army that appeared on the other side of Baishui and slaughtered into the ranks of the Huns, General Pi drew out his long sword, pointed the long sword at the battlefield where Han Xian and others were fighting, and shouted to the hundreds of Luoyang soldiers who were escorting grain and grass.
The hundreds of Luoyang troops who escorted the grain and grass to the lower reaches of the river felt a little heavier every time they took a step downstream of the river.
Thinking that his companions were building a solid barrier for them with their lives in order to get them out of the battlefield as soon as possible, these strong-blooded Luoyang army men would feel as if their whole hearts were being pinched by someone.
Hearing the general shouting to kill him back, where would the Luoyang army present hesitate for a moment, Qi Qi raised the Pu knife in his hand, let out a neat shout, followed the general, and rushed to the Huns who had come to the south side of the riverbank.
The people who were transporting grain and grass saw that the cavalry had rushed out, and one by one they all drew their protective blades from the grain carts and consciously assumed the responsibility of protecting the grain and grass.
Killing, a mutual slaughter between the Luoyang army and the Xiongnu unfolded on the banks of the Baishui River.
Although the number of people on both sides was small, the battle was fierce, even far exceeding the battle in which the Luoyang army crossed the river and broke the Huns.
On the north bank of Baishui, he led more than 1,000 Luoyang troops, and Zhang Liao, who had already laid an ambush, waited until most of the Huns crossed the river before leading the army to kill.
In the face of the Luoyang army that was killed from behind, the Huns, who were caught off guard, did not come back to their senses for a while, and were immediately killed and turned over on their backs.
Gu Abi, who was watching his army cross the river, heard the sound of shouting and killing behind him, and hurriedly took out his double axe and shouted to the Huns who were still on the north bank: "Delay crossing the river, and let me exterminate this group of southern barbarians first!" ”
Although most of them had crossed the river, there were still more than 1,000 Huns on the north bank, and the Luoyang army led by Zhang Liao did not have an advantage in numbers.
But the Luoyang army came prepared, and the Huns rushed to the battle, and when the number was equal, it was obvious that they were already at a disadvantage.
Wielding a halberd and killing among the Huns, Zhang Liao took the lead, picked dozens of Huns who rushed towards him, and rushed straight towards Gu Abi.
Seeing a Han army general rushing straight towards him, Gu Abi twitched the corners of his mouth, snorted very contemptuously, clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, and rushed up towards Zhang Liao.
Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, and Gu Abi have all seen it. He asked himself if he met those two people, he might not be able to fight them.
As for Zhang Liao, Gu Abi had never seen or seen Zhang Liao's martial arts, but he watched him pick dozens of people from a distance, and the war horses rushed towards him like the wind, so he didn't dare to be too careless in his heart.
Rushing towards Zhang Liao, the two war horses were about to stagger past, Gu Abi raised the double axe, and was about to slash at Zhang Liao's head, when a silver light came straight to his heart.
The silver light flashed, and Gu Abi knew that it was Zhang Liao who stabbed the halberd straight into his heart, and he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, so he hurriedly pressed a big axe and slashed towards the halberd's halberd shaft.
At the moment when the big axe was about to split the halberd, the halberd held by Zhang Liao suddenly turned around and slashed towards the wrist of Gu Abi's other hand.
He didn't expect that the other party would give up attacking his vital point and choose to attack his wrist, but Gu Abi couldn't stop it and watched the halberd slash through his wrist.
When the halberd was sharpened, Guabi felt a sharp pain in the wrist that had been sliced, and one of his hands fell to the ground along with the axe he was holding.
Riding a horse past Gu Abi's side, Zhang Liao let out a loud shout, and the halberd handle of the long halberd slammed into Gu Abi's waist.
Knocked heavily on his waist by the hard halberd handle, Gu Abi, who was enduring the severe pain of his severed hand, only felt a sharp pain in his waist and eyes as if he was about to be shattered, and he did not sit firmly on the horse's back, turned over and fell.
fell to the ground, Gu Abi's face was still close to the ground, he didn't even have time to turn over and get up, Zhang Liao, who had just rushed over, had already turned back, lifted the halberd, and stabbed him hard at the back of the waist.
"Kill! Not a single one to stay! A halberd pierced Gu Abi's waist, and Zhang Liao's arms suddenly exerted force, lifting Gu Abi's body high like a dead pig, and shouted to the Luoyang army that was fighting with the Huns.
Gu Abi was beheaded by Zhang Liao, and the Huns who attacked the grain team were quickly defeated, and the Luoyang army finally arrived at the barracks.
Since the battle to protect the grain on the shore of Baishui, for many days to come, there will be several battles between the two sides almost every day, large or small, but neither of them dares to easily launch a full-line attack on the other side.
Qubei and Zhao Yun were in a stalemate on the shore of Baishui, and it was not until a few days later, when Tao Hu led three thousand well-trained tiger guards here, that the balance of the situation was slightly broken.
Not to mention the confrontation on the shore of the water, it is only said that Liu Wei led the army out of Luoyang City, and did not march to the left Feng Yi, but went all the way to the north and smashed the Hetao area.
Out of the Hedong border into Bingzhou, along the way the main force of the Luoyang army led by Liu Wei passed through many villages and small towns that the Huns had visited.
What they saw was that almost every village had become an empty ghost village under the attack of the Huns.
Every time he saw a village that had been trampled by the Huns, Liu Wei's face would be even more ugly.
The Huns marched southward, and Yuan Shao hurriedly mobilized troops and horses to intercept them, but the highly mobile Hun cavalry marched too fast, often without waiting for the Jizhou army to arrive, the Huns had already raided the nearby villages and towns.
The sunset gradually set on the horizon, and under the orange sunset, Liu Wei, who was leading the march, saw another floating shadow of a town in front of him from a distance.
Seeing the floating shadow of the town, Liu Wei couldn't help frowning slightly, and a strong uneasiness arose in his heart!
Along the way, he saw too many uninhabited villages and towns, perhaps the Jizhou army had been to the villages and towns that had been looted, Liu Wei and the soldiers of the Luoyang Army entered those uninhabited villages and towns, and did not see the corpses of civilians.
Although they did not see the civilians killed by the Huns, they could see from the blood splattered on the roads and the houses on both sides of the street that there had been bloody massacres in those places.
"Your Highness!" I don't know if I noticed the strangeness in Liu Bian's expression, Guan Qing raised his hand and pointed to the town in front of him, and said to Liu Bian: "There is another town ahead, can our army take a detour......?" ”
"Why the detour?" Before Guan Qing's words were finished, Liu Wei looked at the floating shadow of the town in the distance under the sunset, and said in a somewhat cold tone: "If you really encounter a town where no one is in the middle of nowhere, this king will lead the soldiers to live in this town, so that the soldiers can listen to the cries of the dead people at night, so that they can know how the Huns slaughtered our civilians in the Central Plains!" ”
After listening to Liu Bian's words, Guan Qing didn't say anything more, she silently followed behind Liu Bian, and slowly walked towards the town that was slightly ethereal in the sunset.
Staring at the town in the distance, Liu Wei's mood was not as relaxed as what he said, and when he rode a horse, the hooves of the war horse under his crotch seemed to suddenly become heavy.