At the foot of Mount Tai, Xiao will fight against the strong army.

The right flank of Gao Yanshi and Juan Zhi had a total of six or seven hundred horsemen, scattered for several miles, galloping and galloping, trampling on men and horses. Deputy Qianhu led by Hu Jun would often command one or two teams of cavalry, wanting to bite Gao Jun's tail. However, Gao Yanshi's troops were all skilled soldiers with bows and horses, and when the enemy approached, they scattered and moved back, and when the enemy returned, they clung to it again.

In short, he kept the guerrillas around Juan's right flank, within a stone's throw of the road, but was vigilant not to get too close to it, so as not to become entangled in it.

In two strokes, the arrows were endless. Sharp arrows broke through the wind, and fell like a torrential rain among hundreds of people and horses.

Although there are light cavalry on both sides, the soldiers and horses are also protected by light leather armor, and some of them can't dodge, and they are shot by arrows, as long as they don't hit the vital point, they can grit their teeth and continue to fight. Those who fell off the horse due to injuries were somewhat lucky and were rescued by their comrades. There are also some comrades-in-arms who have no time to go to the rescue, so they can only watch them being trampled by the mounts of both the enemy and us, screaming and screaming, and suddenly the flesh and blood are blurred.

In less than two quarters of an hour of fighting, Gao and Hu suffered twenty or thirty casualties each. The ground was littered with empty arrows, and the horses' hooves were turning up the dirt, and the dirt was stained with blood. Severed limbs and stumps are all over the field.

The intensity of the battle was not high, and the two sides had not yet made in-depth contact. There is only one reason why the casualty toll has risen so quickly: both sides are veterans, well-trained, accurate in archery, and skilled in killing.

In the heart of the Hu army, Gao Yanshi held the armor and drove the horse to conflict, and only a dozen warriors were secondary. Hu Jun's deputy Qianhu, who was in charge of leading the team, was very experienced, and the hundreds of households and brand leaders in the army were also veterans, and after tentatively stopping him twice, they understood that this person was brave and unstoppable, so he simply let it go. Where Van Gogh Yonsei rushed to, both officers and non-commissioned officers turned their horses away. Anyway, it's a cavalry army, and the number of people is not large, and the space is big enough, and some places are flashing around, but they don't deal with Gao Yanshi head-on.

Not only did he not deal with it head-on, but he also looked at the opportunity and took a cold shot, and shot several warriors who rushed with Gao Yunshi one after another.

To use an analogy, if Gao Yanshi is a meteor hammerhead, Hu Jun is cotton. The hammer hit the cotton, it was soft and weak, and there was nowhere to use the strength, which made people feel that they couldn't start. Although Gao Yanshi was brave, he crossed and rushed twice in a row among hundreds of people, and his sharpness inevitably slackened a little. He knew that something was wrong, and thought to himself: "I have met an opponent!" Someone behind him shouted, "General! The Tartars moved their flags and moved the left flank over! ”

This is the moment you have been waiting for! Gao Yanshi yelled: "Come with me." "With a tug of the bridle, the people and horses suddenly changed direction and turned north. He rushed into battle twice, and although he didn't get much, he also saw the reality of the enemy formation clearly.

The mind of the Yuan army on this road, the Tartar deputy Qianhu, is in the north!

The war horse that was originally galloping suddenly changed direction, and no matter how superb the knight's riding skills were, the speed would inevitably decrease. Gao Yanshi's ten percent strength was taken out, making up for the danger caused by the horse's falling speed, and a single shot of the black lance dance did not drip. The arrows that came from far and near, if not hundreds, but also dozens, could not penetrate his cover. In addition to protecting himself, he also has more energy to protect his mount.

There was a Yuan sergeant who couldn't open his eyes to block the road, he didn't say a word, hit it with a lance, and swept under the horse. The warrior behind caught up, bent down, and made up for it. Then the warriors in the back followed, taking charge of cutting off their heads. They don't know how many times they have experienced this on the battlefield, and if they cooperate properly, they will be like flowing water. The three or two personal soldiers of the Hu army, deputy Qianhu, saw him galloping closer, and hurriedly walked to intercept him.

The armor worn by these soldiers was thicker, and Gao Yonsei turned sideways to avoid the spears that stabbed him, and waved his horse lance to pick one of them off the ground. The horses were rushed to catch up, and the horses' hooves trampled them and trampled them to death. At the same time, he withdrew his left hand, grabbed a spear that had been stabbed from the side and back, and pulled forward, and the spear was so tightly clenched that he was pulled up from his horse.

To say that this pro-soldier is also really fierce and not afraid of death. People are in the air, clutching the handle of the spear, refusing to let go, and there is still time to free up his hand to pull the saber at his waist. He was about the length of a spear handle from Gao Yonsei, about one or two meters, and the saber would definitely not be able to cut it, so he was about to draw it out and throw it to smash Gao Yonsei.

Gao Yanshi didn't look at it, and his other hand held the handle of the lance, smashing it diagonally backwards from the left side of the rib, and hit the person's chest, and when there was a loud sound, it broke the heart guard. The man spurted out a mouthful of blood in the air, and before he could scream, Gao Yanshi grabbed his left hand and threw it back again, and the spear handle hit him in the chest again. After two heavy blows, the man couldn't bear it, and he fell to the ground with weakness and weakness. Immediately, the head was cut off by the warriors who galloped to pick it up.

This passage is a long story, but it is actually electric.

The remaining one of the thousands of personal soldiers turned their horses and left. How could Gao Yonsei allow him to come and go as he wished? He put down his lance and took the longbow, for the man was heavily armoured, and his neck and back were well protected, so the first arrow struck his mount, and turned him upside down. Fell to the ground, his face exposed, and a second arrow hit him in the throat.

The man covered his neck and tried to draw the arrow, but he did not dare. The gushing blood instantly stained his armor red, and his hands and face were all over his face, his eyes were terrified, he howled, struggled twice, and died.

Look at these three people, they died lightly and skillfully in the hands of Gao Yanshi, but they are all known as brave in Juan's army. All of a sudden, Hu Jun was shocked. The deputy Qianhu was able to achieve this position, not by bravery, but by governing the army well. Seeing that the situation was not good, he hurriedly rode his horse and fled. The remaining seven or eight pro-soldiers flocked to the guard.

"Where to go?"

More than ten brave scattered left and right, covering the enemy attack for Gao Yonsei. In the rain of guns and arrows, people shouting and neighing, Gao Yanshi was calm, opened a red bow, and used armor-piercing arrows, the arrows were like beads, penetrating through the layers of people, and then even three, shooting down a number of pro-soldiers of the thousand households. Some of the soldiers were armed with firearms, and fired a few shots, but all of them missed. There were also Yuan soldiers who hurried over to rescue the driver, with *, hurriedly setting strings and firing. The crossbow was like lightning, and it followed the horse's head, passing by Gao Yanshi dangerously.

This arrow is about to hit, and the armor can't stop the crossbow at close range. If Gao Yonsei is injured, loses his combat strength, and is in the enemy's formation, the consequences will be unimaginable. The warriors on the left and right do not change their color. Gao Yanshi laughed and said, "Good time!" Almost shot Lao Tzu in the leg. "I didn't take it seriously, but I didn't pay attention to it.

Seeing that the thousand households were about to escape a hundred steps away.

Gao Yanshi still held the longbow and shot down the soldiers behind him one by one, and the last arrow hit his shoulder blade. The pair of thousands of households turned over and fell off the horse. Gao Yonsei dropped his longbow and shouted: "Take its head!" Hearing the sound, the three or five warriors galloped, slashing and killing the pawns like slaughtering sheep, killing a bloody road, and galloping back and forth two hundred steps, and took the head of the thousand households.

In the array of ten thousand armies, take the head of the general, such as probing the bag to take things. A pawn under Gao Yanshi's command, he is as brave as this!

The deputy Qianhu here had just been killed, and the left wing of the Hu army over there rushed back to arrive. Gao Yanshi's time was just right, from his outburst to the successful beheading, it took less than half an hour in total. The chieftain of the enemy's right flank was dead, and the enemy's left flank was finally mobilized. Gao Yonsei's goal had been achieved, and with an order, the warriors behind him opened their bows and cast a Ming Di into the sky.

Where the sound of the hammer sounds, although the sword mountain and the sea of fire, galloping. When the military order is issued, thousands of troops and horses rush to kill!

The right flank of the Hu army was left and right, and the left and right Yidu military horses shouted in unison: "Little General Gao Yanshi!" In the battle of horses and guns, Gao Yanshi picked up the head of a thousand households and raised his lance to echo: "The Great Song Dynasty often wins the army!" More than a dozen people who followed his side bravely struck armor with bows and swords, shouting: "Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Outside the Haidong camp, when Yang You Yin Bow and Su Baiyu faced the hundreds of enemies galloping over before, they didn't blink an eye, but now they drew their knives and looked back, shouting hard: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! Two hundred people roared like thunder, galloping like the wind, and rushed towards the place where the Ming Di was.

More than the five hundred cavalrymen who participated in the battle were shouting. The 500 Gao Yonsei subordinates who did not participate in the battle also looked like they were in a state of madness, and they scattered their swords in the camp, stamped their feet, beat their chests, and shouted: "Kill! Kill! Kill! "Thousands of people shouted together, and the sound moved the mountains.

Gao Yanshi, although he often bullied people and spoke in a high manner, was not liked by the generals, but because of his bravery, he had a very high prestige in the army. Will be a nest of bears, will be fierce, and will also be a nest of fierce. Deng She's new Qi army was drawn from the elite of Shicheng's old department, but only Gao Yanshi and Chen Yutou did not transfer a single soldier. Is it because these two military horses are not elite enough? The two armies of Yidu are the toughest. But it is precisely because it is the toughest, so it is not tuned. Transferred elsewhere, the soldiers may not be convinced.

Looking upstairs, Li Zifan and Pan Xianer glanced at each other. Pan Xian'er said in a low voice: "The Great Song Dynasty often wins the army." The Yuan army was in the rear, and Juan's horse was shocked, and he was shocked: "The little general Gao Yonsei." "What surprised me was not that Gao Yanshi's order was like a mountain, but that Gao Yanshi's order was issued, and thousands of people shouted together. The morale is so high, and the murderous spirit soars into the sky. He said: "This is the strong enemy of our army. ”

Looking up at the sky, half of the sun has sunk below the horizon, and the sun is setting on the mountains, and the remnants of the sun are like blood.

Juan Zhi looked left and right, and the general Zuo Jie's face was shocked, and the soldiers trembled more, and immediately decided: "The right flank is chaotic, the left flank is back to help, and there are 200 people from Su Baiyu's two armies chasing after it." In the Haidong camp, there are still thousands of foot soldiers who have not moved. Our army ran for more than 30 miles and fought fiercely for a long time, and its morale was exhausted. It was a mistake in judgment and carelessness of Gao Yonsei. And Mingjin, collect the army. Retreat ten miles. Fight again tomorrow. ”

Juan is admittedly a veteran of the battlefield.

Anyway, the strength of the Chahan army has the upper hand, and tens of thousands of horses are stationed under the city of Tai'an. Gao Yanshi and Li Zifan only have one or two thousand people, and they can't be compared with them at all. Attacking this stronghold is not a matter of urgency. In that case, why should we continue to attack forcibly at the risk of defeat when the morale of our own army has already been damaged?

There is a lot of time, and there is no hurry. Retreat ten miles, adjust your morale, and then fight.

Juan's left flank followed the right flank and slowly left the battlefield. Gao Yanshi joined up with the headquarters, and had the intention to take advantage of the opportunity of his retreat to rush and kill for a while, but when he saw that although the two wings of Juan Zhi's army and horses were not chaotic, and Juan Zhi's rear army was waiting for him, he had already prepared a posture for contingencies, and couldn't help but praise: "Good means to govern the army." ”

Knowing that Juan Zhi was prepared. Even if you rush to kill for a while, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat much benefit. gave up the plan, and the rear team changed to the front team, and the front team became the rear team, and slowly withdrew to the front of the battalion.

The autumn wind is bleak and the chill is deep. Through the battlefield just now, which was full of arrows, bloodstains, and corpses, Juan waited for the whole army to withdraw, and before he was about to leave, he raised his horsewhip and nodded to Gao Yonsei from afar. Koyonsei pulled the bowstring and responded. This first battle started suddenly and ended quickly.

Juan Zhi underestimated his carelessness, and even if he lost for a while, but through this battle, he learned about Gao Yanshi's bravery and the fierceness of his subordinates. And the number of casualties in his troops is not large, and the strength is not damaged, and when they fight again, the result may be different. And Gao Yanshi in this battle is just a small test. And Li Zifan didn't go into battle either. Tomorrow, when the camp is set up, there will really be another engagement, what will be the result? Perhaps the two of them will still be full of confidence.

"General Li, how about watching this battle?"

"General Fei is nothing more than that."

Gao Yanshi was in high spirits, looked up to the sky and laughed, jumped off the horse, and casually threw the head of the thousand households to Pan Xianer: "Master Pan, this general will behead a member of the enemy's deputy thousand households." Write it down in the credit book. Pan Xian'er looked at the more than ten warriors who were hanging from their horses and waists with him, and asked, "These heads?" ”

Most of the owners of these heads were killed by Gao Yanshi.

Gao Yanshi dismissed: "A little pawn, not enough to worry about." recorded in the book, and it did not tarnish the reputation of the general. and gave it to the fallen brothers, and did their merits. Get some reward money to settle your family. ”

He took eighteen or nineteen men out of battle, and twelve or thirteen returned. Its army is different from the old soldiers of Haidong, many local natives in Shandong and Hebei, and many families have old and young. There was a bereavement pension for the dead. The credit is shared among them, and they can get an extra reward. This is also Gao Yonsei's technique of entrapping soldiers.

It's just that cherishing the soldiers and winning the hearts of the army is a good thing, but the words come out of his mouth, but they are really not very good. It's hard for his subordinate sergeants to listen early, but it's peaceful. Pan Xian'er nodded to himself, indicating that he understood. He was the only literate person in the army, and the merit book had to be kept by him.

Gao Yanshi and Li Zifan went to the side, sent soldiers to clean up the battlefield, bury the dead, collect the wounded, and at the same time summarize the results of the battle, and analyze the enemy situation through the appropriate engagement.

Twilight turned into night, the wind swept the clouds, and Taiyue was silent. Torches were lit and bonfires were lit in the camp. The fire is blazing, dispelling the coolness a little. The soldiers of all departments, in addition to cleaning the battlefield, cooking and guarding, and more began to continue to build camps.

Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles. In the troubled times, for these veterans of a hundred battles, it is similar to a small-scale war, an ordinary thing. It's just commonplace, and it's not worth paying attention to at all. Now that the war is over, then we will continue to do what we have to do. Perhaps some of those who lost their good friends would be sad for a while, but the overall order in the camp was soon restored to normal, and each performed its duties in order.

The night was cloudy, and there seemed to be a dry thunder rolling through, from a great distance. At this point, it's already a bit vague.

The thunder rang for several days, and there was no rain. A few of the cooking soldiers casually glanced at the thunder, and the action of adding fire to their hands suddenly stopped slowly. The soldiers on the side were affected by it, and they couldn't help but raise their heads to look. More soldiers stood up. Almost the entire battalion, nearly 2,000 people, invariably stopped their work one after another. Under the torch, Pan Xian'er, who seriously recorded the merits of Gao Yanshi and others, put down the brush and walked out of the tent. Gao Yonsei, who was summing up the results of the battle, raised his head at the same time as Li Zifan. Thousands of people held their heads in the middle of the moon.

Far north, the flames are blazing. It's not thunder, it's the sound of cannons.

Li Zifan said softly: "Jinan." ”