Chapter 244: The Battle of the Tuoxun Valley (Part II)

The small city in the desert has a common feature - generally there are only two city gates: the east gate and the west gate, the buildings in the city are basically earthen embryo houses except for part of the stone, only the doors and windows, the house has a small amount of wood, in addition to the scarcity of desert forests, it is the need for fire prevention, after all, the desert climate is dry, once the fire starts, it is difficult to extinguish quickly, it has to be, Tuoxun City was not affected by the military disaster before, the wood products in the city are pitiful, it is difficult to form a big fire, but the problem is that Tuoxun City has long been destroyedAlthough it is only in early spring, the grass is green and non-flammable, but the dead grass of two or three years has accumulated a lot of young and old, and because no one cleans it, the combustible things in the city are countless, and the tent where the Qiuzi people live is also flammable, once the fire starts, it is difficult to extinguish it, therefore, Liu Qi's department set fire, the entire Tuoxun city immediately fell into a sea of fire, although the Qiuzi army has more than 9,000 people, but because of the panic, and was unable to resist the attack of the sand thieves, and was immediately killed in all directions, almost without the power to backhand.

Any army is not an ordinary warrior who dares to fight, even if it is a weak army, not to mention that the country of Qiuci is located in the Western Regions such a place of frequent wars, its army is also a division of a hundred battles, there are a lot of brave, although they were caught off guard by the surprise attack of the sand thieves, but not everyone lost their fighting spirit, many brave soldiers rose up to resist in a sea of fire, among which the one who rushed to the forefront was the general of the left army of Qiuci country, Bai Sigrad.

Bai Sigrad, although also surnamed Bai, but is not born in a prominent family, on the contrary, Bai Sigrad was born in a slight cold, the reason why he can sit in the high position of the general of the left army, is completely by virtue of his military exploits, step by step from the small soldiers climbed up, the age is not too big, but in his early forties, tall and strong, known as the first fierce general of the Qiuzi country, his department is stationed in the east of the city, not far from the Chinese army tent where Bai Suxin is located, before the fire in the city, Bai Sigrad and the army are generally asleep, but once the fire starts, Bai Sigrad's reaction was completely different from that of the generals, although he was also frightened, but he was not panicked by the fire and shouting of killing, hurriedly put on his battle armor, led a group of personal guards and killed him at the gate of Dongcheng, where the shouting of killing was the loudest, and constantly integrated the scattered soldiers into the team along the way, regardless of whether these soldiers were his own subordinates or not, so he gathered more than 400 soldiers in disheveled armor and met Liu Qi's department who was covering the killing.

"Kill, block, don't mess around! Kill the thief! As soon as Bai Sigrad reached the vicinity of the East City Gate, he heard the sound of horses' hooves, and immediately knew that he had encountered the enemy's brigade, and immediately shouted violently, and gathered together his men who seemed to be panicked, and bravely met the surging Liu Qisuo.

There is a case! Liu Qi heard the sound of horses' hooves not far away, although it looked messy, but there were obviously a lot of people, and he couldn't help frowning secretly, without him, according to the original battle plan, in order to make the attack louder, more than 800 people from Liu Qi's department did not gather together, but the troops divided into routes, and acted separately, at this time, there were only less than 300 people who followed Liu Qi's side, although everyone shouted hoarsely, it seemed to be extremely powerful, but it was not enough to compete with the powerful enemy army head-on, but unfortunately the distance between the two sides was close, Even if Liu Qi wants to make a detour, it is too late, once the opponent discovers the weakness of his own strength, the whole plan is bound to collapse, at this critical juncture, Liu Qi's ruthlessness completely broke out, waved the scimitar in his hand, and shouted: "Follow me, the whole army will assault!" As soon as the words fell, the horses rushed forward, and rushed towards the Baisgrad who was at the forefront of the incoming enemy, and the three hundred sand thieves saw that the main general had been launched, and they did not dare to slack off, and roared and followed, and the two armies launched a life-and-death battle against Maimang on the street full of debris at the gate of the east city.

"Kill!" Through the fire in the city, Bai Sigrad also saw Liu Qi who was coming, seeing Liu Qi menacing, Bai Sigrad was not timid, he also roared, and the horse met the past, the scimitar in his hand was slashed fiercely, the sharp blade turned into a flying Hong, and he slashed down at Liu Qi's head, Bai Sigrad's knife was extremely fierce, the momentum was extremely strong, the knife was as fast as lightning, and the strong knife wind stirred Liu Qi's eyebrows were raised because of this.

Dodging has never been Liu Qi's style, and in the face of Baisgrad's extremely fierce knife, Liu Qi did not hesitate at all, and also shouted: "Look at the knife!" With a flick of the horse's wrist, the scimitar roared out, making a sharp curve in the air, heading straight for Besgrad's head and neck.

The knife momentum of both sides is almost to the extreme, if they do not change, then both sides will only end up together, but if anyone changes the move first, it will inevitably fall behind, and it will be difficult to get it back, and it will be difficult to get it back, and the bet is the courage of both sides to die! Liu Qi dared to bet, since the revenge of his mother, Liu Qi has nothing to worry about, the only thing he thinks about is to repay the great grace of His Royal Highness King Yue, so he is not afraid of death, therefore, he has not changed the idea of changing his tricks at all, but Bai Sigrad does not have that courage, although he is also a general who crawled out of the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses, and his bravery is not a lie, but the glory and wealth of his high position over the years have more or less eroded his confidence in fighting to the death. He didn't want to die, he could only forcibly change his moves, his wrist flicked, he roared, slightly retracted the knife momentum that was slashing downward, changed direction, and slammed into the blade that Liu Qi slashed over, trying to block Liu Qi's fatal knife before making a calculation.

Golden opportunity! Seeing Bai Sigrad's forcible change of moves, Liu Qi was suddenly overjoyed, couldn't care about much, roared, an afterburner in his hand, the blade suddenly trembled, and the knife momentum that was already almost to the extreme suddenly became three points faster, which is exactly what Li Zhen is good at "Dragon Slaying Seven Killing Guns" A change of trick - Liu Qi himself is a brave man, but his martial arts were originally just ordinary, as early as the battle of Shenwu, he only rushed to kill on the battlefield with the madness of daring to die, and then, by chance, he saved Li Zhen's life and entered the Yue Wangfu personal guard, even won Li Zhen's appreciation, passed on his "true yang trick" and pointed out his knife secrets, and this quick and accelerated killing move is Li Zhen's transformation of the essence of the "Dragon Slaying Seven Killing Guns", which is also the basis for Liu Qi to dare to gamble with Bai Sigrad.

panicked, Bai Sigrad was really panicked, as soon as Liu Qi's miraculous killing move came out, Bai Sigrad was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, how could he still care about the knife in his hand, roared, the whole person slammed down, trying to dodge Liu Qi's killer knife, as for the scimitar that he slashed out at this time, he didn't know where to cut it at this time, Rao is Bai Sigrad dodged quickly, but he couldn't completely dodge this knife, but when he heard a crisp sound of "click", Bai Sigrad's helmet had been flattened, and even a large piece of his scalp was slashed off, The blood poured out in an instant, and Besgrad's head was covered all over his face.

"Ouch!" Bai Sigrad only felt a cold scalp, and immediately frightened the soul, and couldn't care about fighting with Liu Qi anymore, and kicked the horse's belly hard, and the horse was in pain, and rushed to the side, dodging Liu Qi's knife from the roundabout, and rushed into the swarming sand thieves in a heezing breath. Don't look at Bai Sigrad suffered a big loss under Liu Qi's hands, and his mind was undecided, but his martial arts were indeed not given for nothing, and before those sand thieves could react, he saw Bai Sigrad's knife coming out like the wind, slashing and killing several people in an instant, and he killed the sand thieves who rushed forward one after another.

"Bastard!" Liu Qi has entered the Qiuzi army formation at this time, is rushing left and right to kill non-stop, suddenly heard the sound behind the sound is not right, slightly turned around, saw his own subordinate defeated general is killing the sand thieves, suddenly his heart is on fire, "swish" several knives around the body of several Qiuzi cavalry cut under the horse, is about to turn around to chase Bai Sigrad, but saw a thin cavalry in the sand thief group rushed out, a knife running like a fly and Bai Sigrad is inseparable, through the sky-high fire to see, it turned out to be Qu Feiyan, Liu Qi's heart couldn't help but heat, Seeing that Qu Feiyan's knife skills were not under Bai Sigrad, he was even more relieved, and he was not in a hurry to help Qu Feiyan, and the horse slaughtered wildly in the Guizi ** formation.

The Qiuzi people were attacked by the enemy in the dark, and their morale was already low, and their composition was complicated, they were not a soldier, but they were forcibly held by Baisgrad, how could they withstand the strong attack of the sand bandits, and they were so stirred by Liu Qi that they almost collapsed, and they were beaten and retreated, but fortunately, the streets were narrow, and there was little room for maneuver, and Liu Qi's department could not penetrate the queue of the Qiuzi people for a while, and the two sides were stirred up on the street.

Bai Sigrad didn't expect that there were so many masters in the attacking enemy, and he was almost cut under the knife by Liu Qi before, but at this time he couldn't take the opponent who looked thin on the opposite side, the more he fought, the more he was cold, seeing that his troops were shocked to pieces, how could he dare to entangle with Qu Feiyan one move at a time, taking advantage of Qu Feiyan's knife to go away, he roared, and the scimitar in his hand slashed with all his might, forcing Qu Feiyan to retreat and dodge, Bai Sigrad took the opportunity to twist the horse's head and rushed back to the formation, Just thought about commanding his subordinates to continue to resist, but saw Liu Qi, who was covered in blood, rushed to the front again like a killing god, and no longer had the courage to fight with Liu Qi, shouted, returned to the horse and left, regardless of the horse rushed to the west of the city.

"Blow the trumpet and kill to the west of the city!" After defeating the resistance of the Baisgrad Division, Liu Qi saw the fire in the city growing, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered to blow the assembly horn, and the whole army followed the rout army to the west of the city to kill, along the way there were constantly heard horns to come to the round of the sand thieves to join, but in a moment it has already gathered a team of more than 600 people, in the chaos of the rush to the west of the city to kill the past, all the sand thieves in front of the chaos have been killed.

Half a mile outside Tuoxun City, Bai Suxin stood behind the queue on horseback with a sinking face, looking at his generals in a panic and restraining the panicked subordinates, but the anger in his heart was burning violently, not only did he not plan to retreat, but planned to wait for the whole army to complete the rectification, immediately launch a counterattack, without him, Bai Suxin is an old man, he knows that the fire in Tuoxun City seems to be soaring, but in fact, there are not too many combustible things, just the current fire is so big, In his opinion, the Tang army that came to attack could only be a small sneak attack team, and it was very likely that it was those few defenders in Jiaohe City, if they withdrew their troops, there was a possibility that they would be driven apart, and only by fighting back was the only way out, only to eliminate the attacking Tang army, and the unguarded Jiaohe would definitely be able to go down overnight.

Gathering the rebellious soldiers has never been an easy task, Rao is Bai Suxin ordered the execution of dozens of officers and soldiers who did not obey the order, but the rectification of the entire team is still progressing slowly, a full quarter of an hour has passed, thousands of people and horses still have not been able to come up with a clue, can only barely discharge a loose formation, although a group of generals shouted hoarsely, how can the soldiers panic, plus the city continues to rout troops, it is even more chaotic, which makes Bai Suxin angry and helpless, The generals can only be ordered to speed up the whole team, and be sure to complete this work before the fire is extinguished, and those who violate the order will be killed!

At six o'clock, since the start of the war, more than half an hour has passed, although the fire in the city is still soaring to the sky, but it has gradually weakened the momentum, and at this time the assembly of the army of the country of Qiuzi is not completely ready, but it is nearing the end, the loss of the soldiers and horses is not small, but in total there will be nearly 7,000 men and horses, looking at the troops who gradually calmed down, Bai Suxin was a little relieved, just thinking about sending someone back to the city to inquire about the situation, but saw a cavalry of dozens of people in the broken city gate frantically riding out, everyone lost their armor, Embarrassed, the first general with a bloodstained face rushed straight to Bai Suxin before reining in the war horse, panting and saying: "Marshal, the last general Bai Sigrad, the enemy army is catching up." ”

Seeing that Bai Sigrad, who had always been known for his bravery, ended up in such an embarrassing end, Bai Suxin's heart suddenly pinched, and he hurriedly asked: "Where is the enemy army, and how many are they?" ”

Bai Sigrad took a few breaths and said: "I can't see the banner clearly, but it is definitely not the Tang Army, the number is not large, it should not exceed a thousand horses." ”

"Not Tang Jun?" Bai Suxin was stunned when he heard this, he couldn't think of any other force in the land of Anxi besides the Tang Army that would sneak attack his department at this time, and he was just about to ask in detail, when he suddenly saw a loud shout in the west gate of the city, and another Biao army and horse drove his own rout out of the city gate hole, and he didn't care about asking more, so he hurriedly ordered the whole army to form a formation and prepare for battle.

Oops! Liu Qi just drove the defeated soldiers out of the west gate of the city, and saw that the army of Qiuzi not far away had already discharged the formation of the battle in the open space outside the city, and immediately gasped, and then admired the old way of the other coach, but also couldn't help but feel annoyed that he had underestimated the opponent, but at this time, since he had already killed out of the city, Liu Qi could not turn back, not to mention the raging fire in the city, it was really not a good place to go, besides, even if he wanted to withdraw to the city at this time, it was too late, just such a big city gate hole, more than 700 horsemen on his own side were surging out, How can I turn around smoothly for a while and a half, one is not good, I was covered up and killed by the Qiuzi army from behind, and immediately the whole army was defeated, and more than 700 horses could be used to impact the enemy's array of more than 7,000 horses, which was almost no different from sending them to death, and at this dilemma, Liu Qi calmed down.

Bet! Although it is dangerous to kill, there is still a glimmer of life, once you retreat, under the pursuit of the enemy army, it is difficult to have a chance! Liu Qi thought about it, waved the scimitar in his hand, and shouted: "The whole army is assaulting, the Tang army is mighty!" Kill! "Regardless of the galloping horses, they will kill the army of the Guizi Kingdom not far away.

"The Tang Army is mighty!"

"The Tang Army is mighty!"

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Although the sand thieves were not regular Tang troops, and they did not have the habit of calling for battle, they were still fearlessly shouted and rushed towards the army of Qiuzi under the leadership of Liu Qi.

"Look for death!" Bai Suxin just folded under Gaochang City for a while, and was attacked again at this time, and was angry in his heart, seeing that such a small team of people and horses did not even have their clothes and armor, he dared to come to attack his own military formation, his nose was almost crooked, he pulled out the scimitar on his waist, and slashed one by one: "The whole army attack!" Kill it, don't let one go! At this order, a terrible horn sounded when the Qiuzi ** formation was neutral, and thousands of people and horses launched in unison, unceremoniously besieging and killing Liu Qi's troops, intending to annihilate Liu Qi's troops under Tuoxun City.

Seven hundred to seven thousand, such a disparity in proportion, even if the elite of the Tang army is here, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape the end of the entire army, not to mention the sand thieves who have not received formal cavalry training, seeing that Liu Qi's department is already in the midst of the catastrophe, a strange change has occurred - just when the army of Qiuzi is about to move, the dense forest on both sides of the river not far behind him suddenly sounded a earth-shattering cry, and the two cavalry rushed out of the dense forest, but in a moment they had already rushed through the river beach less than three hundred steps, In an instant, he defeated the futile obstruction of hundreds of wandering qi in the Qiuzi country, and crashed straight into the back of the Qiuzi ** formation, killing the Qiuzi soldiers like two dragons, and screaming again and again - Dong Qianli's department was launched!

According to the original plan, Dong Qianli's office was divided into two roads, ambushed in the dense forest three miles outside the west of the city, responsible for ambushing the logistics of the Qiuzi army, but after waiting for a long time, except for a small number of routs hurriedly fleeing by, but never saw the shadow of the Qiuci army, let alone the logistics baggage troops, Dong Qianli, who noticed that something was wrong, sent someone to take advantage of the dark night to inspect it, only then did he know that Bai Suxin actually gathered the chaotic army outside the city and planned to counterattack, and hurriedly led his troops to the back of the Qiuzi army in the dense forest, planning to give Bai Suxin a stuffy stick, But after arriving, I found that the Qiuzi army not only had rangers in the rear, but also left heavy troops - these soldiers were not used to prevent someone from attacking from behind, but Bai Suxin's supervising team, which was used to cut down the chaotic soldiers who did not obey the command and retreated without authorization, and they did not dare to act rashly for a while, so they could only lie down in the dense forest patiently, waiting for the best time to strike, and when Liu Qiyi launched a charging action, all the attention of the Qiuzi army was attracted by the impact of Liu Qi's department, Dong Qianli unceremoniously killed the general, Gave the Guizi army two heavy blows.

Crash, complete collapse! The sand thieves killed in three directions shot through the already not very solid body of the Qiuzi army like three sharp arrows, and the Qiuzi army, which was originally demoralized and had no fighting spirit, still had the slightest backhand power, no matter how the generals shouted, the Qiuzi soldiers scattered with a bang, and scurried around, becoming the best footnote to the idiom "defeated like a mountain".

It's over, it's completely over! At the same time as Dong Qianli's department attacked, Bai Suxin knew that he had lost, and there was no chance of even a chance to equalize, and when all thoughts were lost, the scimitar in Bai Suxin's hand was about to wipe off his neck, but fortunately, Bai Sigrad, who was standing next to him, shot down the knife in Bai Suxin's hand, and waved his hand: "Come on, hurry, cover the handsome breakthrough!" It was only at this time that a group of guards who came back to their senses rushed forward, surrounded the disheartened Bai Suxin and killed them in a place with few people, and ran away along the river in the direction of Gaochang City in the chaos of the army......

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