Chapter 361: The Unexpected Duel of the Treacherous Storm (Part II)

Although Xue Yantuo's demeanor was hidden, he could not hide the careful observation of Gao Hengzhi, who led the army, Chen Wu did not understand what was going on in the duel in the middle of the river, but Gao Heng knew that it was just an accident, and it was not in the plan of the commanders of both sides at all, so as soon as he returned to the shore, he immediately paid attention to the movement on the other side of the river, and what he was afraid of was that Bazhuo was secretly blackmailed - although Gao Heng saw Bazhuo himself for the first time, he didn't read the investigation report on Bazhuo in the "Rising Sun" on weekdays, and generally knew what kind of person Bazhuo wasAlthough the time of today's meeting was short, Gao Heng was keenly aware that this person had a strong sense of revenge, and it was very likely that he would secretly make trouble, under this observation, he immediately discovered that something was wrong in Xue Yantuo's army, and when Xue Yantuo was busy preparing the bow and crossbow, Gao Heng had already put forward a warning to Chen Wu, and the Tang army naturally began relevant preparations in secret. Instead, a dense rain of arrows was shot at the Xue Yantuo cavalry formation on the other side of the river.

The two sides shot at the same time, and saw more than 10,000 feather arrows shuttling back and forth on the river, and the whistling sound became one, and the unprepared Xue Yantuo Jingqi immediately fell into bad luck - was greeted by such a dense rain of arrows by the Tang army, and hundreds of people fell in an instant, and the injured horses rushed wildly, and the whole team immediately became a mess, not to mention the counterattack against the Tang army, even if they wanted to escape from the scene, they were all crammed together, and the Tang army seized the fighter plane, and ransacked it with several waves of arrow rain in a row, and suffered heavy casualties, the remnants of more than 4,000 horsemen hurriedly retreated backwards, and paid the price of more than 100 lives, which can be regarded as stabilizing the position, and the Tang army launched a confrontation across the river.

Xue Yantuo's elite cavalry suffered a big loss, but the first wave of arrow rain shooting to the center of the river made Li Zhen fall into an embarrassment - Li Zhen is the brave champion of the three armies, but after all, it is a human being, not a god, when facing the enemy of life and death, all the attention is on Liu Suifeng's body, how can he notice the small movements of Xue Yantuo's elite cavalry behind him, that is, he didn't even notice the preparations that were secretly being made in his own army formation, and when he noticed that something was wrong, the arrow rain was already whistling from behind, Rao is Li Zhen is conceited about his own swordsmanship, and he is not arrogant enough to think that he can block all the feather arrows with the long sword in his hand, of course, he is not stupid enough to use his body to block sharp arrows, at this time of life and death, he really can't allow Li Zhen to think more, but seeing Li Zhen shouted violently, the human sword was one, and he rushed forward with two big steps, and then slammed his foot, and his right foot accurately stepped on the front end of the raft, and the front end of the raft under the difficulty suddenly sank, and the back end brought a large splash, and suddenly warped, Standing up like a wall, at the same time, Li Zhen's empty left palm was copied, and a protrusion on the raft was tightly clasped in his hand, and the standing raft was firmly held, and the person fell into the river, standing straight in the middle of the river, and the long sword in his hand pointed directly at Liu Suifeng.

Li Zhen's reaction was extremely fast, Liu Suifeng was not slow, he had seen Li Zhen rushing over with a sword, and he was just thinking about making a move, but he suddenly found that a piece of feather arrows from the black crow in front of him was about to shoot over, and there was also a sound of feather arrows breaking through the air behind him, and he was taken aback, how could he still care about playing with Li Zhen, in a panic, he also took the same approach as Li Zhen, and also used the raft under his feet as a huge shield and stood up, the long sword in his hand danced wildly, and the scattered feather arrows that leaked from Li Zhen were swept away, annoyed, scolded as much as he could, and greeted all the old and young members of the Bazhuo family.

The two rafts were originally next to each other, but when the two masters fought, the rafts were not small, and they each rippled away, opening up a distance of nearly one zhang, at this time, after the two sides erected the raft almost at the same time, there was only about six feet left between each other, but at this time, both sides were busy dealing with the flying feather arrows, and each had no intention of attacking the opponent, but after a long time, Liu Suifeng felt that something was wrong - the feather arrows shot from Xue Yantuo's army were obviously about to shoot him and Li Zhen on the spot, but the Tang cavalry behind him deliberately avoided the center of the river here, all the feather arrows were greeted to the Xue Yantuo cavalry on the other side of the river, the most obvious evidence is that the raft he held in his hand had never been hit by an arrow, obviously, the Tang army was concerned about the safety of Li Zhen, the main general, to do this, thinking of this, Liu Suifeng immediately put away the raft in his hand, and did not care whether there would be feather arrows behind him, the long sword in his hand swung and blocked the last few scattered feather arrows that were shooting at the head, Then he stepped on the water and killed Li Zhen, and with a move "willow leaves flying", Li Zhen's chest and abdomen were all covered, and he planned to take advantage of the chaos to kill Li Zhen on the spot.

Damn dog thing! Li Zhen had long known that Liu Suifeng would kill sooner or later, but unfortunately he couldn't put down the raft in his hand, although at this time Xue Yantuo's elite cavalry had been basically suppressed by the Tang army, but there were still a lot of feather arrows beckoning to the center of the river, once the raft was put down, it would be completely exposed to the attack of Xue Yantuo's cavalry's feather arrows, in case Xue Yantuo's cavalry disregarded their own casualties and launched a rain of arrows attack, then Li Zhen was bound to be in a catastrophe, this risk Li Zhen really didn't dare to take it, but in the face of Liu Suifeng's crazy offensive, Li Zhen, who couldn't move his body, immediately fell into a bitter battle, and was forced to only parry, but no backhand, after connecting a few moves, he was already in a hurry, and he was nervous, fortunately, Li Zhen's strength was not something that Liu Suifeng could block, which could be regarded as barely holding his position, but the situation was already precarious for Li Zhen!

"Lu Guha, kill it, chop Li Zhen'er for this governor, go quickly!" Ba Zhuo never expected that he took the lead in the black hand, not only failed to shoot Li Zhen to death, but was taken advantage of the opportunity by the Tang army to kill nearly a thousand people and horses, immediately angry, regardless of hiding behind the formation, loudly ordered the whole army to rush into the river, intending to rely on the impact of the cavalry to kill Li Zhen in front of the battle, as for whether his more than 4,000 cavalry can escape the pursuit of the Tang army, he didn't care at all, in his opinion, as long as Li Zhen can be killed, no matter how many people and horses die is worth it.

"Yes." Lu Guha, as the captain of Bazhuo's personal army, knew that his master was purely half-baked in military affairs, and knew that Bazhuo's order was to send him and the remnants of his personal guards to death, but he didn't dare not go, so he had no choice but to answer loudly, and reluctantly turned his horse back to the military column that was shooting at the Tang army, and summoned the trumpeter to his side with a face full of unhappiness, and was just about to give the order to blow the trumpet, but he didn't expect the trumpet on the other side of the river to sound first, and he forgot to give the order for a while. The Tang officers and soldiers who rushed into the Qingshui River stupidly stared, their mouths open enough to fit a duck egg.

Gao Heng is a very careful person, even when he commanded his cavalry to shoot at Xue Yantuo's cavalry on the opposite bank, he did not forget to observe the two masters who were fighting in the middle of the river, although he couldn't really see the changes in the moves of the two masters, but when he saw that Li Zhen never put down the raft, he immediately woke up to what Li Zhen was worried about, seeing that although his side had the upper hand in the shooting, it was not possible to defeat Xue Yantuo's elite cavalry by shooting at the counterpoint, although it was not clear who had the upper hand in the battle between Li Zhen and Liu Suifeng, I vaguely felt that Li Zhen should have suffered a big loss because of the fierce battle between the two masters, Gao Hengsheng was afraid that Li Zhen would be injured by mistake, and he did not dare to order his subordinates to attack with arrows, and in a hurry, he didn't have time to ask Chen Wu at the other end of the queue, grabbed the trumpeter next to him, and ordered him to blow the trumpet, and he rushed into the Qingshui River first, leading his soldiers to rush to the opposite bank to kill him, and Chen Wu, who was busy directing the battle at the other end, heard the horn sound, although he was surprised, but he did not hesitate, He also took some steel spears from the victory hook and led his troops to attack, and for a while, thousands of Tang army iron cavalry rushed into the Qingshui River, roaring like a dragon going out to sea towards the Xue Yantuo cavalry array that had not yet been sorted out.

"Attack, attack, attack with the whole army!" Lu Guha, who was dumbfounded, did not wake up until the Tang army had rushed through the center of the river, pulled out the scimitar at his waist, and shouted at the top of his voice, and the trumpeter standing beside him hurriedly blew the horn, and the Xue Yantuo cavalry in the chaos also began to beat their horses and accelerate, and rushed towards the Qingshui River, trying to block the surging Tang army iron cavalry in the river, and at the same time, a group of cavalry in the camp of the two armies who were alarmed by the sound of fighting and horns also rushed out of the barracks, but did not continue to march towards the Qingshui River, Instead, they prepared for battle near the riverbank, and the smoke and clouds of the war began to condense on the Qingshui River, becoming thicker and thicker, and there was a great momentum of imminent eruption.

Attaboy! When Li Zhen was desperately defending, he suddenly saw Gao Heng leading his troops to attack, and he was overjoyed, and quickly made a few moves, temporarily forcing back the fierce Liu Suifeng, and when his cavalry rushed through the heart of the river, he laughed, and casually threw aside the raft that was already full of feather arrows, and coldly looked at Liu Suifeng, whose face was a little shocked, and with a shake of his wrist, the long sword was immediately raised, and he roared: "Take your life." He glared at the riverbed with his feet, broke through the water, and killed Liu Suifeng towards him.

Liu Suifeng attacked desperately before, taking advantage of Li Zhen's inability to move his body, pressed Li Zhen and beat wildly, it can be said that he even took out the strength to eat, but unfortunately he never won Li Zhen, except for a few holes in Li Zhen's sleeves, there was no harvest, and before his breath calmed down, he saw Li Zhen killed, and his heart suddenly panicked, and he wanted to escape, but behind the partial life was the direction of the Tang army's base camp, and there was nowhere to escape, and besides, even if he could rush through Li Zhen's interception, I'm afraid that if I return to Xue Yantuo's camp, I may not be able to escape Bazhuo's pursuit - for the personality of Bazhuo's small belly and chicken intestines, Liu Suifeng knows it well, and he has not seen the behavior of Bazhuo's retribution, so he can't go back to Bazhuo's side to send him to death, until this time Liu Suifeng suddenly found that he was already in a mortal situation, and the ruthlessness in his heart skyrocketed, seeing Li Zhen swinging his sword to attack, not only did he not dodge, but his body rushed forward, and he didn't care about the tip of the sword that Li Zhen stabbed in the chest. The long sword in his hand suddenly rose up and slammed into Li Zhen's throat, intending to die with Li Zhen.

Liu Suifeng wants to play with his life, Li Zhen doesn't plan to accompany him - after such a long time of fighting, Li Zhen has already figured out the changes in Liu Suifeng's swordsmanship, and has already been confident, how can he end up with his whole thing, at this time, seeing Liu Suifeng's desperate sword is extremely fierce, but he is not afraid at all, hehe smiled, twisted his wrist, and the long sword that was originally straight stabbed out suddenly changed direction, and one sank rapidly, and Liu Suifeng's long sword was one-third from the tip of the sword, which happened to be the weakness of Liu Suifeng's move. Once he was hit by Li Zhenge, Liu Suifeng was afraid that he would inevitably be injured by the sword.

Li Zhen's strength and the strength of the internal force are much higher than Liu Suifeng, this Liu Suifeng knows in his heart, how dare he let Li Zhen's grid block the truth, he hurriedly roared, his arm sank, trying to let Li Zhen this fierce grid, but Li Zhen's block looked fierce and abnormal, but in fact it was a false move, Liu Suifeng just changed his move, Li Zhen immediately changed to change, "hey" and exhaled, the sword sank, from the block to the paste, the speed suddenly became a few points faster, Without waiting for Liu Suifeng to change his moves again, Li Zhen's long sword had already attached to Liu Suifeng's sword body.

Not good! Liu Suifeng suddenly felt a strong force along the sword body, the arm holding the sword was immediately a burst of soreness, the tiger's mouth was shocked, the long sword almost flew out of his hand, secretly screamed that it was not good, roared wildly, struggled to retract, tried to collect the sword to protect himself, but never thought that Li Zhen's hand moved, the long sword with the momentum of Liu Suifeng's retreat, suddenly slashed obliquely to Liu Suifeng's hand holding the sword, and actually planned to take advantage of the situation to break through Liu Suifeng's guard circle, cut off Liu Suifeng's right arm, and Liu Suifeng was frightened into a cold sweat, and he didn't care about putting away the sword, and suddenly let go of the sword and leaned back, and kicked it violently under his feet, then plan to take advantage of the momentum to jump backwards, the reaction can not be said to be unpleasant, how can Liu with the wind forget that this is in the river water, although the water is not deep, but the resistance is not small, this retreat, the splash is not small, but unfortunately it was not able to exit far.

Beating the water dog is undoubtedly a refreshing thing, Li Zhen saw that Liu Suifeng was at a loss, how could he let go of such a great opportunity, but seeing Li Zhen's wrist shake, he had already flown the long sword that Liu Suifeng had given up into the air, and with a touch of the momentum, the sword swept through the air, and slashed towards Liu Suifeng's waist fiercely, and actually used the sword as a knife.

Liu Suifeng miscalculated with one move, and he was already bare-handed, and at this time, seeing that he could no longer dodge Li Zhen's sudden split, he panicked, and actually raised his hand to try to block this fatal blow with his arm.

The bones of people who practice martial arts all the year round are very hard, at least much harder than ordinary people, but if you really want to compare the hardness with steel, it is naturally incomparable, not to mention that the sword in Li Zhen's hand is a work of stainless steel, although it is not a peerless sword such as the cadre Mo Ye, but it is also from the hands of famous masters in the current dynasty, which is not comparable to ordinary iron, and with Li Zhen's innate divine power, under this split, Liu Suifeng's arm was cut off at the wrist, and Liu Suifeng's arm roared in pain, and the whole body trembled suddenly, and the momentum that had already jumped up suddenly slowed down, Without waiting for him to make the final dying struggle, he saw Li Zhen's hand raised, the sword in his hand crossed the air, gently wiped between Liu Suifeng's neck, opened an inch-long opening, and blood immediately spurted out of the wound, Liu Suifeng hissed a few times, covered the wound with his intact left hand, stared at Li Zhen with a round eye, looked at Li Zhen resentfully, his body was crooked, the person was lying in the river, between the ups and downs, the blood flowing out instantly dyed a large piece of the river red, and the body was carried by the river to slowly float downstream.

At the moment when Li Zhen and Liu Suifeng started a life-and-death battle, the Tang Army's iron cavalry that launched the charge also had a fierce collision with the hastily launched Xue Yantuo's elite cavalry, however, the Tang Army was prepared, and it occupied an overwhelming advantage in momentum, secondly, the two cavalry of the original strength were in the previous shooting, because Xue Yantuo was unprepared, the losses were far heavier than the Tang Army, and when the two sides had a hedging battle, the Tang Army's strength had been hundreds more than Xue Yantuo's cavalry, and moreover, the Tang Army had Chen Wu in the formation, Gao Heng's two brave generals in the world, the two sides were just under one mutual charge, Xue Yantuo's elite cavalry had already announced that it was not supported, and was beaten back by the Tang army, not to mention holding each other, that is, even the river bank could not be held, and the surging Tang army took advantage of the situation to kill the north bank, but this Xue Yantuo cavalry was the elite cavalry of the Khan's court, although the defeat had been achieved, but it was supported by hard work, and refused to get out of the way, and the impact momentum of the Tang army was slowed down.

Bazhuo's own force is limited, and his martial strategy is also mediocre, he is brutal and murderous, but his courage is really not big, as soon as he saw the fight in front of him, he didn't care about the situation of his cavalry, and led a few guards to gallop towards his own own formation, and when he saw the left army governor Arutai who was busy arranging the troops, he immediately shouted: "Uncle Wang, hurry, hurry, quickly order the whole army to attack, Li Zhen's house is in the river, don't let him run, hurry, what are you waiting for?" Didn't you hear Bendo? ”

Arutai had already received the relevant notice, and generally knew what was going on, of course he also wanted to kill Li Zhen, the commander of the Tang Army, in a battle, but he knew better that when the mobilization of his own army was not in place, and the formation of the various units was not stable, if he really attacked blindly, once the Tang Army took advantage of the weakness to hit him, he had to defeat the whole army, and he naturally would not do such a small and big thing. I had no choice but to frown and said: "Your Highness, the battle has been arranged by the end of the future, Your Highness, please watch the enemy formation for the last general after you arrive at the battle." ”

"Presumptuous, you dare to disobey!" Bazhuo didn't expect Arutai to contradict him, and he was so angry that he burst into smoke, and after a snort, he planned to draw a knife and chop Arutai, but he never thought that Arutai just glanced at Bazhuo and said coldly: "Your Highness, haven't you forgotten the previous appointment?" ”

"Ahh When Bazhuo heard Arutai say this, his mouth opened, as if he wanted to say something, but at the end he still didn't say anything, he put his knife into the sheath boringly, lowered his head with a black face and rode backwards.

Seeing that Bazhuo had finally left honestly, Arutai sighed secretly, shook his head with a wry smile, no longer paid attention to Bazhuo, who was far away from the front army, and looked at the cavalry melee at the more than 100 battles in front of him, and then looked at the Tang army array that had already lined up on the south bank of the Qingshui River, his eyes flashed, but he did not give any battle orders for a long time, and he looked like he was looking forward to it......

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