Chapter 68: Life and Death Struggle
The snow became heavier and heavier, and the first small snow particles turned into heavy snow one by one.
The fierce battle on the West Plains continued.
There are 300,000 Qiang people, while the Huyou army plus the Gu family army has a total of only 150,000, and there are 40,000 Gu family soldiers who have never been on the battlefield.
If you are born, you will glorify your ancestors, and if you die, you will be shrouded in horse leather.
Life is fortunate and blessed;
Death is fate, it is luck.
Huaiyu looked at the rows of neat and solemn soldiers in front of him with a serious expression, they were all carefully trained by themselves, and in terms of emotion, his feelings for this batch of recruits were deeper than those for that group of veterans.
The Qiang people are thirsty for killing, and they are slashed by the Tiger You army who have been tempered on the battlefield, and they can also bite off a piece of the enemy's flesh before they die, not to mention this group of recruits who have not yet killed people on the battlefield.
As a last resort, Huaiyu couldn't easily let them go to death.
Therefore, while the fierce battle was raging in front, they waited in the rear with solemn expressions, ready to wait until the Qiang people were tired before rushing out.
The forty thousand recruits remained motionless, and did not make a sound, and the air could only smell the smell of blood wafting in front of them, and hear the constant sound of slashing.
After a fierce battle for a whole hour, Xue Yao saw that the formation of the Qiang people was still like an iron wall, and the Huyou army and the Gu family army were surrounded on the east and west sides, but because the difference in numbers was too great, they had been fighting outside the Qiang army.
How can this continue?
Xue Yao was cross-hearted, and led five hundred dead soldiers to attack the Qiang people's abdomen from the west side of the Qiang army, cut a hole, and disrupted the Qiang formation, but in an instant, Xue Yao's five hundred dead soldiers fell into the Qiang people's ocean again.
Gu Yinxia, who was fighting on the east side, saw it, and in a hurry, he personally led five thousand elite iron cavalry to rush into the enemy formation to respond, the two armies met, the morale was great, the Qiang people were confused, Xue Yao and Gu Yinxia joined forces and killed a piece of Qiang people.
However, there are many Qiang people, and a group of people fell in front, and a batch of people immediately rushed up in the back, which is really endless and endless!
The wind and snow were flying, the corpses on the ground were piled up like mountains, and the blood was flowing like rivers.
After another two hours, both armies were exhausted, with more than half of their losses lost.
To the horror of the Qiang people, at this time there were bursts of roars and footsteps of the army in the valley in the north, and the tired bodies of the Qiang people were dripping with blood, and when they looked back, they saw a black army, with red cloth scarves tied to their arms, striding from the valley in a mighty way, not to mention forty or fifty thousand people.
The Tiger Army actually has reinforcements?
Who are these people?
Jiang begged with a low roar and ordered 50,000 elite soldiers to the deputy general Jiang Cheng, ordering him to go and block the enemy's reinforcements.
Jiang Cheng got the order and led 50,000 elite soldiers straight towards Huaiyu's recruits, and when he approached, he saw that the other party was actually led by a woman, and smiled contemptuously.
Is Daeyu unmanned?
Let a woman lead the troops to war?
Huaiyu's face was expressionless, and he lifted the Storm Sword to meet Jiang Cheng's long knife.
The long knife was shocked back by the opponent's sword, Jiang Chenghu's mouth was numb, he pulled the war horse under his crotch and retreated a few steps, looked at the woman who had already driven the horse to rush towards him, his heart was shocked, and he hurriedly raised his knife to block it.
Who is this?
Before he could speak, Huaiyu's sword had already avoided his block and stabbed him in the throat.
"You...... You ......"
Before his last question could be asked, he was exhausted.
Huaiyu's sword slashed several Qiang people quickly, riding a war horse and moving forward, looking around with sharp eyes, seeing that her recruits were just as she thought, not afraid of life and death, and moving forward; is different from what she thought, under all these years of training, they can actually fight against the Qiang people who are distracted at this time.
With the addition of these 40,000 recruits, the Qiang people were defeated, and many soldiers fled directly, and no matter how Jiang Qi reiterated the military order, he could not stop it.
Jiang Qi had no choice but to take the remaining 10,000 elite soldiers and flee while fighting, and the Hu You Army and the Gu Family Army pursued them all the way out of the Xiyuan and came to the mountain stream where there was no ambush at the beginning.
Jiang Qi looked up to the sky and sighed: "God, don't you really want to destroy my Qiang country?" ”
When the surrounding soldiers heard this, they couldn't help but feel a relative.
In just half a year, they have changed from the spring breeze of capturing Xinxiang to fleeing in embarrassment at this moment, isn't this providence?
"Xue Yao!!"
Jiang Qi called Xue Yao's name fiercely and sighed: "I am defeated by your hands today, not because I am incompetent, but because the sky does not bless me!" The heavens are not good! ”
"You don't bless, General Jiang Qi still doesn't understand?"
There was a rough sound from behind, followed by the sound of kicking and trampling horses' hooves, it was Xue Yao and Gu Yinxia who were chasing over, Xue Yao said: "Now that the matter is over, Ben will advise you not to resist, just tie your hands and arrest it." ”
Jiang Qi laughed: "Don't think! ”
Before the word "think" fell, he had already raised the knife in his hand, fell off the horse, and there was an extra red mark on his neck......
Xue Yao sighed and ordered the generals behind him: "Escort the remnants of the Qiang people back to the pass, there must be no mistake!" ”
A fierce battle came to an end, Huaiyu took the remaining more than 20,000 recruits to tidy up the battlefield, piled up piles of corpses one after another, and when Xue Yao and the others came back, the corpses on the Xiyuan had been cleaned up and neatly piled in the center.
Xue Yao couldn't bear to let a woman do this, he approached Huaiyu, only to see that she was wearing a tailor-made black armor, he couldn't tell if she was injured, her hair was messy, her face was pale, and she quietly looked at the piles of corpses.
"Huaiyu."
It was the first time Xue Yao called Huaiyu's name like this.
Huaiyu turned his head, his eyes were bright, and Xue Yao said, "Leave the rest to me, you go back first." ”
"Okay."
After counting, Huaiyu's recruits were still 21,234, although it was much better than expected, but Huaiyu still had a tightness in his chest, and after returning to Xiangcheng to explain everything, it was already the middle of the night.
Huaiyu took Gu Youzhao and more than ten other personal soldiers to the Taishou Mansion, the house was brightly lit, Wu Yin, Duan Qinqin and Xiaoliu were anxiously waiting at the door, and when they saw Huaiyu and others arriving, they hurriedly greeted them.
"Girl." Xiaoyanagi's eyes were full of tears.
Huaiyu patted her lightly and said to Wu Yin: "Trouble Taishou to prepare some hot water for my guards to eat." ”
Wu Yin said again and again: "It has been prepared, it has been prepared, you generals, please come with me." ”
Duan Qinqin and Xiao Liu hugged Huaiyu into the house, Huaiyu took a comfortable bath, only to find that his back hurt, he was actually slashed during the war, and at this moment his spirit relaxed, and he soaked in the water again, and the knife wound on his back hurt hotly.
Huaiyu hissed, and Xiao Liu and Duan Qinqin, who were guarding outside, immediately rushed in.
Huaiyu in the water hurriedly covered her chest and looked at the two of them, the three of them had big eyes and small eyes, so interesting.
Duan Qinqin shook the wound medicine in his hand, stepped forward, and said without refusal: "I'll give you medicine!" ”
A war of less against more, Duan Qinqin knew too well what was going on, and she kept praying all day long, wishing that God would bless Huaiyu for a safe return.
Fortunately, she is back.
It's just an injury.
When Duan Qinqin saw the knife wound on Huaiyu's back, her eyes fell down in an uproar, she shook her hand and gave Huaiyu medicine, and said in a trembling voice: "Why don't you know to cherish yourself?" If you are injured and not treated as soon as possible, what are you running around? ”
She has been a doctor since she was a doctor, and she can judge how long she has been injured according to the injury at a glance, the wound on Huaiyu's back, the wound is slightly closed, and the blood stains are dry and congealed, obviously some time.
"I, I didn't know I was hurt."
Huaiyu looked at the two people who were crying and looked at each other, forgot about the embarrassment for the time being, and comforted them.
"After this battle, the vitality of the Qiang people was greatly damaged, and the southwest frontier was no longer harassed by them."