Chapter 125: Mulberry Banner
The sun rose high, illuminating the neatly arranged battle formations of the Northern Qi infantry army.
The golden sunlight, on the edge of the sharp shield, the tips of the spears and spears, flowed slowly.
Countless five-color flags, bright and bright, with distinct camps, hung quietly in the breeze, only occasionally raising a horn.
Li Sangrou squinted at the battle array in front of her, piece by piece, neat as one, countless colored flags, flowing golden light, like a sports meeting, it's just that what the winner wants to harvest is first life, and then glory.
In the distance, the vibration of countless iron hooves smashing the ground came from afar, like a dull and distant thunder, and like the cloud-dense sound of firecrackers on the first day of the new year.
After the infantry formation, behind the layers of flags, Gu Xi was fully armored, under the dark helmet, his expression was solemn, and behind him, five hundred Yun Mengwei rode quietly on his horse.
Behind the phalanx, on a small hill that was raised, among the guards of the Chinese army, Wen Cheng was lightly armored and lightly armored, riding on a horse, standing under Gu Xi's huge tooth flag.
Next to him, Wen Shunzhi's white armor and long knife stood in front of everyone.
Li Sangrou rode on a horse, stood next to Wen Cheng, stood up on his horse, and looked in the direction of Liang Jun.
She could already feel the shaking of the horse's hooves.
Behind Gu Xi, a yellow flag waved, and Wen Cheng immediately looked at Li Sangrou and nodded.
Li Sangrou jumped off the horse, and Dachang and the black horse followed.
Li Sangrou had a long knife behind her back and walked in the forefront.
Dachang carried a mace on his back, a rolled banner in one hand, a steel crossbow in one hand, a long knife on his back, a quiver on his back, and a steel crossbow on his back.
The three of them were unhurried, and walked fifty or sixty steps in front of the battle formation, Li Sangrou stood firmly and took the steel crossbow from Dachang's hand.
Dachang handed out the steel crossbow, held the big flag with both hands, shook it off a few times, looked up at the flag, waved it twice, and stabbed it on the ground.
The flag is made of fine soft silk, the background color is bright red, like blood, in the middle of a big blue and black mulberry character, one end of the flag, decorated with the same color ribbon rolled with gold edges, extremely beautiful.
Da Chang took a step forward, stood behind Li Sangrou's side, and took another steel crossbow from the black horse's hand.
As soon as the three of them stood up, in the distance, countless light horses with bright armor poured into the field of vision in rows, and soon spread into a sea of blinding armor that seemed to have no end.
Li Sangrou squinted at the magnificent scene in front of her.
Shizi said that they have nearly 100,000 cavalry, I don't know how many there are in front of her, she doesn't have the ability to point soldiers in a mess, she can't count them, these in front of her are already extremely magnificent.
Well, as Shizi said, there are too many, a little crowded.
"Alas, yo mother, alas! So many people! The dark horse exclaimed.
"Leave them alone and look at the boss." Da Chang said in a muffled voice.
"If I had armor, I would think I would be like Erlang God." The dark horse shrugged his shoulders upward.
Da Chang glanced at him speechlessly.
Li Sangrou ignored the two, her eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the staggered but tight cavalry line on the opposite side, from the far left, slowly looking to the far right, and then back to the far left.
Shizi said that when the cavalry charges, the strongest squad is mostly placed on the flanks, but with a charge like today's disparity in strength, it is very likely that the strongest squad will be placed in the middle line, so that with just one charge, they can tear the infantry battle formation from the middle, and then strangle and eat it.
Well, let's start with the middle.
The cavalry ocean on the opposite side, after a short pause and adjustment, suddenly sounded a drum, and the cavalry ocean was facing Li Sangrou, and the men and horses rushed out first.
For the iron hooves of Nanliang, the three lonely and small people in the middle of the battlefield, and the flag, are like ants, no matter what they want to do, they don't have to pay attention.
Under the torrent of tens of thousands of iron horses, one or two people, even if they are the number one master in the world, are insignificant.
Li Sangrou stared at the galloping horses, and at the same time as a sharp whistle behind him, he flattened the steel crossbow, and after the continuous sound of breaking the air, in the middle of the opposite side, close to each other, the ten war horses that had just raised their speed fell to the ground almost at the same time.
The cavalry of Nanliang urged the war horses, and just brought up the horses, but they were not able to run away, and the war horses were very close.
The war horse that followed closely and had already run up couldn't dodge at all, and was tripped by the war horse that died in front, fell out, and tripped over the war horse behind.
The men on the horse were thrown out and trampled by the iron hooves of their comrades, but more light riders, subconsciously tightening the reins and doing their best to avoid their comrades who fell to the ground.
The chaos spread rapidly, the light horsemen on both sides hurriedly pulled the reins, slowed down the horses, and the horses with slightly worse riding skills used too much force, and the horses of the horses came sideways and stopped the horses behind, and the comrades behind had to hurriedly tighten the reins to avoid obstacles.
Countless war horses were hurriedly raised their front hooves, neighed angrily, crossed diagonally, turned around, and rushed forward again, but they no longer had the momentum they had just now.
At the same time, the ten horses that died were like stones in the middle of the water, holding back the flow of water, and holding the water into chaos.
Li Sangrou handed the steel crossbow to the black horse, and at the same time took another steel crossbow from Da Chang's hand, and after a pause, the sound of breaking the air sounded again, and the ten horses rushing to the front row on the right side fell down at the same time.
Behind them, a group of light horsemen fell and stopped, and the horses raised their hooves, neighed, and spun in circles, and there was another mess of chaos.
With the continuous sound of breaking the air, the charging Nanliang light horse, one by one, pounced, tripped, people screamed and neighed, and one after another chaos, the sea tide-like charge, tearing and falling, the momentum was sharply reduced.
From the first sound of breaking the air, the black horse didn't care about anything else, only stared at Li Sangrou, took the steel crossbow, quickly loaded the crossbow arrows, and handed it to Dachang, who opened the steel crossbow and handed it to Li Sangrou.
The black horse took the steel crossbow again, loaded the arrows, and then handed it to Dachang, who pulled the steel crossbow open.
The two of them were engrossed, and they could really only look at their boss.
After loading the last ten crossbow arrows, the black horse took the steel crossbow and shouted, "It's gone! "Put on your crossbow, turn around and run.
Dachang pulled out the steel crossbow and handed it to Li Sangrou, and he also turned around and ran, running as fast as he could.
Li Sangrou shot the last ten crossbow arrows, threw the steel crossbow, turned around, and ran much faster than the big Chang black horse.
Nan Liang's light cavalry was less than two hundred paces away from her, and according to her attempt that day, this time was just enough for her to rush behind the shield before the rain of arrows arrived.
At the same time as Li Sangrou, the originally well-organized Qi army infantry formation, those spears, retreated like a tide.
Rows of archers stood between their shields, their bows and arrows.
The arrows rained down into the middle of the Nanliang cavalry who had just been abused by Li Sangrou's steel crossbow, and the long arrows on the opposite side also smashed on the shield like rain.
After three rounds of arrow rain, the Qi infantry carried their shields, and the archers carried longbows, gathered up, gave way to a few passages, and retreated quickly.
Five hundred Yun Mengwei followed behind Gu Xi, rushed out from the middle of the infantry army, and met the Nanliang light cavalry, like an arrow, rushed straight in, dividing the Nanliang light cavalry into two regiments.
Behind Yun Mengwei, a group of light horsemen also rushed forward and collided with Nanliang's light horse.
At the same time as Gu Xi, Wen Shunzhi took his personal guards, like another sharp arrow, and rushed into the Liang army from the flank, dividing the Liang army that had been in chaos again.
Li Sangrou and the three of them were already running fast in the morning, and they were almost empty-handed, so they quickly broke away from the team of foot soldiers and went straight to the grove not far away.
In the grove, Xiao Luzi was leading four horses, stretching his neck, turning around in a hurry, and when he saw Li Sangrou rushing to the front, the boss cried.
It was the first time he had fought a war, and he didn't expect the formation to be so big.
"You Brother Ma and I just now, I am extremely majestic! Do you see that? The dark horse's excited voice changed tone.
"Let's go!" Li Sangrou's voice was stern.
"This is Brother Chang's horse." Xiao Luzi handed the reins to Da Chang first.
Dachang's horse was picked by Baicheng, picked and picked, and from the prepared horses brought by Yun Mengwei, he picked this horse with a lot of endurance and special strength.
The four of them got on their horses, and Xiao Luzi urged the horses to run in front to lead the way, first ran to the rear of his house, made a big circle, and rushed to a small hill between the two armies from the other side.
The grasshopper poked out from behind a large rock and said, "Hit! Beat! It's time to fight! It's scary! ”
The grasshopper was a little scared, he always felt that he had been through the world, had fought a big fight, and just now he was lying on the mountain and watching the charge, so he knew what the world was.
"Where's the outing?" The black horse reached out and slapped it on the grasshopper's head.
"Xiao Luzi looks at the horse, go!" Li Sangrou pushed the grasshopper and turned around.
"Right under the tree ahead." The grasshopper turned around, used his hands and feet together, and climbed up the hill as fast as he could.
"The boss is here!" Channelling jumped down from a tree.
The big head stuck his head out from behind the stone and pointed ahead, "Boss, that's the tooth flag, right?" I didn't look like it, and said it was a tooth flag. ”
"It's the Tooth Flag." Li Sangrou stood next to the tree, took a deep breath, adjusted her breathing, and slid down to the stone.
Next to the stone, there were two quilts, and on top of the quilt, the big crossbow that was erected as high as a man had been wound and lay quietly.
Otsune also slid down, took the wooden shelf handed over by the big head, and put the crossbow on the shelf.
Li Sangrou squatted down, commanded Da Chang, adjusted the shelf little by little, adjusted it for about half a quarter of an hour, nodded at Da Chang, and signaled that it was okay.
At the foot of the hill, in the emptiness, the neighing of war horses, the roars of people, and the screams of people were mixed together, echoing between heaven and earth.
Li Sangrou's eyes narrowed slightly, carefully distinguishing the flags and people on the battlefield.
Two yellow-bottomed flags representing the two bosses, diagonally facing each other, are erected high on two mounds.
Under the banner of Gu Ziya in Northern Qi, it was Wen Cheng who was standing.
Gu Xi led Yun Mengwei, and Yun Mengwei used a red background and a black-edged flag.
Li Sangrou quickly found the red background and black border flag, the one who carried the flag was Ruyi, and on both sides of the flag was Yun Mengwei, who was like a wolf and a tiger, Yun Mengwei was all in black clothes and black armor, a black stream, very conspicuous.
In front of the flag, the long knife in Gu Xi's hand waved and chopped down, as if he was cutting fruit.
Li Sangrou subconsciously thought of the game of cutting fruits.
He kills, as always chic and refreshing, very good-looking.
Li Sangrou watched Gu Xi rush to the oblique side, and then killed back, rushing towards the martial arts yellow bottom tooth flag in Nanliang.
Li Sangrou turned her gaze and looked at the yellow-bottomed tooth flag with big martial characters written on it.
Under the tooth flag, a black horse that can be glimpsed at a glance is not ordinary, and the person sitting upright is dressed in armor, well, the armor is the same as the horse, and it can be seen that it is not ordinary from such a distance, and the bright red hat tassel on the helmet is conspicuous and dazzling.
The Wu family likes to use red hat tassels, which was told to her by Aunt Su.
Li Sangrou looked at the other people under the tooth flag, and in a circle of people, this red hat tasseled horse was the best, the armor was the best, and the hat tassel was the reddest and most conspicuous.
Whether it's Wu Huaiyi or not, it's him.
Li Sangrou exhaled slowly, aimed at the face under the red hat tassel, and pulled the trigger.
The sound of the dark and heavy arrow breaking through the air made Li Sangrou's ears hurt a little.
Da Chang lay next to him, holding his breath, staring at the tooth flag.
His eyesight was far from that of the boss, but the red hat was too red and conspicuous.
Dachang watched as the cluster of red hats fell back violently and fell off the horse.
"Wind!" Li Sangrou stood up and motioned to Dachang.
Datsune immediately got up, picked up the crossbow, carried the crossbow arm on his shoulder, supported it with both hands, stepped on the crossbow string with his feet, took a deep breath, muffled it, stepped on the crossbow string, leaned back on the big stone, and his arms and legs twitched and trembled together.
The black horse and the big head hurriedly rushed up, lifted the big crossbow from Datsune's body, and put it on the shelf.
Li Sangrou squatted over, aimed at the flagpole of the Wuzi Yaqi that was firmly erected, and pulled the trigger again.
The martial arts tooth flag shook a few times and smashed down.
"Let's go!" Li Sangrou stood up.
The big head and the black horse carried the big crossbow, and the scurrying bar helped Dachang, and the group rolled and slid and went down to the other side of the mountain.
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Gu Xi led Yun Mengwei and rushed straight into the battle.
Yun Mengwei's sharpness made him like an artifact in his hand, and the knife was invincible, like a bamboo.
Gu Xi rushed to the banner of Wu Ziya for the first time, and the elite of the Great Qi light cavalry who followed closely behind Yun Mengwei was like a long rope followed by an arrow, dividing the Nanliang light cavalry and surrounding it to slash and kill.
Gu Xi rushed out to the flank again, and once again divided the Nanliang light cavalry.
Rushing out of the battle group, Gu Xi took his horse around in a circle, turned around and entered again.
The third time he rushed to the Wuzi Tooth Banner not far from Nanliang, the Wuzi Tooth Banner suddenly fell down.
Gu Xi's eyes lit up, and he immediately shouted: "Wu Huaiyi is dead!" ”
Qiao An, the commander of Yun Mengwei who was following Gu Xi's side, had received the order, and immediately shouted: "The commander killed Wu Huaiyi!" Dashuai killed Wu Huaiyi! ”
Yun Mengwei and the surrounding Northern Qi light riders shouted loudly.
This sentence Wu Huaiyi died, which made the light knight spirit of Northern Qi suddenly rise.
The morale of Nanliang's light cavalry was smashed straight down by this shout and the tooth flag that suddenly fell down.
"Infantry marches!" Gu Xi commanded sharply, turned the horse's head, ran towards his Gu Ziya flag, and rushed back.
In this battle, it has reached a turning point, and he has to rush back to command the troops.
The soldiers who followed closely behind Gu Xi raised their flags and waved.
Wen Cheng under Gu Ziya immediately ordered someone to wave the flag to command, and the foot soldiers who had been retreating behind, a team of ten people, rushed into the battle group with the rapid sound of drums.
When Li Sangrou returned to the Gu Ziya banner, the chaotic Liang army began to rout and retreat, and Gu Xi had already returned to his Fang banner, and orders were being passed on frequently.
Li Sangrou changed horses and removed a smaller steel crossbow hanging from the side of the horse.
This is a new crossbow made for the blind man after she arrived at the barracks.
This steel crossbow is delicate and lightweight, and it is very labor-saving to pull up, not a burst, although it does not have a range of more than six hundred steps like the repeating crossbow, but it also has four or five hundred steps, which is enough.
Li Sangrou likes this crossbow very much.
Dachang dismounted, put on a wallet, and then rode on a horse, carrying a mace, holding a shield, and guarding Li Sangrou's left.
The black horse held the shield and guarded Li Sangrou's right.
Li Sangrou urged the horse forward, and Dachang and the black horse hurriedly followed, lifting their shields, and guarding the surroundings.
Li Sangrou buckled the arrow into the steel crossbow, pulled the string, looked at the battlefield, pulled the trigger, and then pulled the arrow in, wound it, and pulled the trigger.
The dark horse looked at the battlefield from Li Sangrou.
This is no different from the past when they fought and grabbed territory, and it was the same in the past, Dachang took him and the golden retriever to rush in front of him, and the boss hid behind and released cold arrows.
Alas, there is still a difference, the golden retriever went first.
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The Wuzi tooth flag of Nanliang was raised again, and then the flag was waved and the order to retreat was issued.
The light cavalry of Nanliang, which was already in the midst of defeat, was like a rabble, and the rout was like a tide.
Gu Xi's eyes were shining brightly, and under the banner of Gu Ziya, the flag was waved frequently, and the war drums sounded.
A team of ten foot soldiers, rushing to chase and kill, Gu Xi rode forward, the Gu Ziya flag, the flag moved with the people, ran up, the big flag fluttered, and it was as loud as a person.
Li Sangrou followed the side of the Chinese army, walked all the way, released cold arrows all the way, looked up and saw the red sun that had fallen on the horizon, and stayed for a moment, the Shura killing field in front of her had been slashed for a whole day, and her feeling was just a trance.
The 30,000 elite light cavalry in Gu Xi's hand, 30,000 foot soldiers, rushed towards the 80,000 light cavalry of Nanliang, they were not exhausted, and the remaining 10,000 foot cavalry were ambushed on the road.
There are 20,000 elite foot soldiers, and nearly 10,000 light cavalry chasing and killing, there is an interception in front, plus the martial arts tooth flag is erected, but it is a chaotic order, the already chaotic Nanliang light cavalry, has been completely disorganized, driven by ambushes and pursuers, running in panic in the night, crowded and trampled to death, the number is very large.
The high-spirited Northern Qi soldiers, at dawn, drove the heavy losses of the Southern Liang light cavalry into Hefei City.