Chapter 241: The Decisive Battle
Zuo Yi frowned slightly, looked at Qu Shang and said: "Your method is good, but the execution is too lethal, you are going to die with them, pave an oil fire tunnel around the city wall of Bayi and in the city, when the oil fire is ignited, the Empress Dowager and the crown prince and the soldiers of Da Yin have no escape, even our soldiers and people have no escape, and we ourselves probably have no escape." ”
Qu Shang asked him, "Are you afraid of death?" ”
The left said: "Don't be afraid. ”
Qu Shang said: "I am not afraid of death, and I don't care if the lethality is great, as for the people and soldiers of Bayi you said, since they have chosen to take this road with us, then they must be like you and me, have the courage to be afraid of death, even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will eventually die under the knife and fork of Da Yin, of course, they can also survive, but my people, how can they live in the territory of Da Yin!" It is better to die a heroic death than to live. ”
- It is better to die a heroic death than to live.
Yes, everyone has this awareness, which is why they spare no effort to resist Da Yin.
After the left wing heard Qu Shang's words, he didn't say anything anymore, he was not afraid of death, and the question just now was a bit redundant, as if he was afraid of death.
The left wing said, "Then I'll go down and help too." ”
Qu Shang said: "Well, complete this project as soon as possible and rest assured as soon as possible, this queen mother doesn't know if there will be a surprise, don't give up halfway." ”
The left wing understood Qu Shang's concerns, so he hurried down to help.
Nie Qingwan was not surprised, but she did not reach the south at the time that Qu Shang had expected, Qu Shang originally calculated the strength of these small countries and the itinerary of Nie Qingwan's march, speculating that in early May, the soldiers of Da Yin would capture Qu and Shang, and both Qu and Shang would have ambushes, and they would be caught in a bitter battle there.
On this march, the soldiers of Da Yin are almost invincible, they have never encountered a strong enemy, so all the way, they will be a little lax, of course, with the strength of the soldiers of Da Yin, even if they are lax, they can completely defeat the ambush of Qu and Shang, what Qu Shang wants is not victory, but their laxity after this battle.
After the Empress Dowager Dayin broke through the Qu State and the Shang State with her soldiers, they would not pay attention to the remaining small countries at all, and when the time came, they would easily step into the oil and fire urn of Bayi when they lost their defense.
And as soon as they go in, they don't want to come out again.
At first, Qu Shang didn't plan to return to Qu or Shang, but then he thought about it, if he didn't die in Qu or Shang, how could the queen mother and the crown prince take it lightly?
As long as he doesn't die, they will always be on their toes.
Therefore, in order to let their guard down and lose all their defenses, Qu Shang finally decided to return to Shang with the left wing.
Bayi is the last line of defense, and it is also the last position, and it is a position that does not need to do any resistance, so there is no need to have too many generals.
As long as there are Hongkun and Zuojie, it's fine.
Therefore, when he went back, he brought the right wing, as well as He Zhen and Yao Zhao.
When parting, Hongkun and Zuo Jie looked at him, looked at Zuo Yi, Right Wing, He Zhen and Yao Zhao, and stopped talking for a while.
They know that this parting may be goodbye, and they want to say something to them, but they feel that everything is pale.
Fortunately, if Qu Shang and the left wing died in the Shang or Qu Kingdom, they would also bury their bodies in Bayi, and they would also accompany them on the Huangquan Road at that time.
Thinking about it like this, they didn't say anything sour, raised their fists to each other, and watched Qu Shang and his party leave.
At the end of April, around the 26th, the soldiers of Da Yin arrived at the border of the Shang Kingdom, but they did not rush into the border, and when they were on the border line, Nie Qingwan stopped.
Nie Qingwan went south all the way, she didn't take a carriage, she shared a horse with Nie Yin, and now too, their horses are in the middle, with Yin Xuan, Feng Chang and Nie Xifeng in front of her, and Nie Buwei and Chen Wenqi and Yin Tianye escorting in the back, and then there is an army of millions.
After Nie Qingwan shouted to stop, Yin Xuan, Feng Chang and Nie Xifeng fell off their horses, and Nie Buwei, Chen Wenqi and Yin Tianye also drove forward.
After surrounding her horse, all six people looked at her.
They have been through so many battles with her, and they have been by her side for so many years, and they have already developed all kinds of tacit understandings, and as soon as she shouted to stop, several people guessed what she probably meant.
Chen Wenchu was the first to exit and said, "I'll take a small team of soldiers to the front to explore the way." ”
Nie Qingwan said: "Well, be careful, you may encounter an ambush." ”
She looked at Nie Xifeng again: "Fifth brother, let's also bring some soldiers with you, if there is really an ambush, you can also have a response, bring signal arrows, and if you encounter danger, send signal arrows." ”
Nie Xifeng nodded, tightened the reins of his horse, and turned around to order his troops.
Chen Wen also turned around and ordered troops.
After ordering the soldiers, the two of them each took signal arrows and set off for the border line of the Shang Kingdom.
When he broke out of the border line and stepped into the Shang Kingdom, he was startled by the soldiers who were pressed by the black.
Chen Wen snorted, hurriedly reined in his horse, and then raised his hand to stop the soldiers behind him.
Nie Xifeng also stopped the soldiers behind him.
Chen Wen took his bow, took three arrows, and shot at the soldiers in the distance.
Three arrows struck the hearts of the three men, and the man stood there, unmoving, struck by the arrow, and fell to the ground.
After falling like this, Chen Wenqi and Nie Xifeng saw that the three of them were not people, but haystacks.
It's just that this haystack is too vivid, much more realistic than what I saw three years ago.
There are heads, feet, and faces.
He wears a military hat on his head, a mask on his face, military shoes on his feet, his body is all wrapped in armor, and his hands are made of five fingers from haystacks, and he wears gloves, exactly like a real person.
The armor was probably only used to confuse the public, it was extremely cheap, but it looked extremely hard, but Chen Wen's arrow pierced through the past as soon as it was shot.
They had this trick three years ago, and three years later.
Chen Wen was stunned for a moment when he saw that it was a haystack that was shot, and then cursed: "Turtle grandson, cause me to lose three arrows." ”
He put away his bow, locked it in his sack, and rushed forward with his belly in his hand, retrieving the three wasted arrows.
Nie Xifeng followed him and reminded: "Be careful of deception. ”
Chen Wenqi said: "It's just right that there is fraud, I'm afraid that he didn't cheat." ”
He took the lead, rushed into the haystack, raised his broadsword, and slashed at the heads of the men one by one.
About ten rows were chopped, and a large pile of haystacks and a mess of scalps, wigs, hats, armor, and some inferior weapons were fell.
Chen Wenqi looked at the things on the ground, frowned disgustingly, and when Nie Xifeng followed, he said to Nie Xifeng: "Qu Shang, this thief is really indiscriminate, and he can use any crooked tricks, which is also thanks to him to think of it, this haystack is tied up, and the clothes are worn, it took him a lot of effort, right?" ”
Nie Xifeng's gaze also swept over those messy things, and he whispered: "Soldiers are not tired of deceit, if he is not so hostile to Da Yin, hates Da Yin, and does not hesitate to fight everything to be the enemy of Da Yin, he will become a generation of famous generals, this person is like a god, and he is very flexible, we should be careful." ”
Chen Wen snorted, tucked the big knife to his waist, and looked up.
Nie Xifeng also looked up.
The soldiers behind followed, gathered around them, and looked up as well.
After passing the ten rows of haystack dummies of soldiers, there was no one at a distance of 100 meters.
But a hundred meters away, there were rows of soldiers standing there.
Chen Wenqi sneered: "You say, is the one in front still a haystack?" ”
Nie Xifeng squinted: "Don't you know if you shoot again?" ”
Chen Wenqi immediately drew his bow again and mounted the arrow.
Nie Xifeng also drew his bow and arrows.
The two of them fired in unison, two bows and four arrows, and shot into four shadows a hundred meters away.
The shadow fell to the ground in response, and fell straight backwards, and the shadows in the three rows behind him also fell to the ground in unison.
Looking at it this way, it's really a haystack again.
Chen Wen held the bow in his hand, and his men pulled the reins of the horse, and said loudly: "This road will not be all planted with haystacks, right?" ”
Nie Xifeng said: "It may be. ”
Chen Wenqi said: "Idle? What good can be of tying so many haystacks other than being scary? ”
Nie Xifeng said: "It's useful or not, just go and see it." ”
As he spoke, he took the lead in retracting his bow, clamped the horse's belly, and ran forward.
The accident happened between the lightning and flint, Nie Xifeng was rushing halfway, and before he got close to the straw stack soldiers, Chen Wenqi followed behind him, and was also struggling forward, and the soldiers behind him were all running forward.
Just when everyone was defenseless, a lot of arrows were shot from the haystack in front, menacing, up and down, and the hit rate was extremely high.
Nie Xifeng was at the front, and when he found an arrow in front of him, he shouted loudly: "Be careful! There are arrows! ”
As soon as this voice fell, a few arrows rushed over, he raised his sword and swept it, Chen Wen Chop behind him also swung his knife and swept the arrows, and the soldiers behind also took their weapons to block the arrows.
But they can keep arrows at bay, but their horses cannot.
One by one, the horses fell, and one by one they rolled over and dismounted.
There were too many arrows, like dense rain, and there were already many soldiers falling one after another behind them, and Chen Wen was furious.
In particular, his horse was carefully selected by him, and he had been fighting with him for so many years, and now he died so inexplicably, he was even more angry.
He shouted at the moment, lifted the internal force, poured it into the knife, and slashed down, splitting the dense rain of arrows.
Nie Xifeng seized this gap and smashed into the haystack behind him with his sword.
That's not actually a haystack, it's a real soldier.
As soon as he rushed up, the soldiers followed suit, and the regiments surrounded him.
But Nie Xifeng's swordsmanship is very strong, these people are just the vanguard, they are here to send them to death, and the force value is not strong.
Although they are also warriors carefully cultivated by Qu Shang, such warriors are also divided into three, six, and nine ranks, and they are the weakest one.
Nie Xifeng also occupied the top peak with one enemy, and after a while, he left no piece of armor left behind them.
The dead are dead, the wounded are wounded, and the battle is due, and no one shoots arrows anymore.
As soon as the arrow stopped, Chen Wen also rushed up, and in the blink of an eye, these real soldiers mixed with the haystack people also died.
This time, there were not only the scalps, wigs, hats, armor, and some inferior weapons of those disgusting people, but also blood.
When they kill all the people, there will be no shadow ahead.
Chen Wen slashed the bloody sword, Nie Xifeng held the bloody sword, and the soldiers who followed behind also held their own bloody weapons.
Visually saw that there was no shadow a hundred meters ahead, but Chen Wenqi and Nie Xifeng were not at ease, so they sent soldiers to investigate.
When he came back from the investigation and made sure that there were indeed no such sneaky things ahead, Chen Wen sent a signal arrow.
Nie Qingwan, Yin Xuan and the others waited in place, and after the signal arrow was sent out, everyone saw it.
Nie Qingwan let Yin Xuan and Feng Chang lead the troops in front, let Nie Buwei and Yin Tianye lead the troops behind, and the group approached towards the territory of the Shang Kingdom.
Crossing the border, everyone saw the haystack man halfway down the road.
It's just that when they see it, their eyes don't stop at all on those haystackers.
I've seen this trick before, and it's not surprising this time.
The group moved forward one after another, and met Nie Xifeng and Chen Wen beheading them, only then did they see the blood around them, as well as the corpses.
The corpses were those of the enemy and the soldiers of Da Yin.
Nie Qingwan's gaze swept over the corpses of the Great Yin soldiers, and then looked at Nie Xifeng and Chen Wenqi.
Nie Qingwan saw the corpses of the soldiers of Dayin, and naturally also saw those arrows, as well as the war horses that were killed by the arrows.
Nie Xifeng and Chen Wenqi walked over and explained the situation to Nie Qingwan just now.
After Nie Qingwan heard this, she didn't say anything, and asked the soldiers behind to temporarily vacate two war horses for them.
There were still wounded soldiers left, and let Nie Zong take them to the back to bandage and treat.
Then the uninjured soldiers followed the generals to attack the walls of the Shang Kingdom.
There are watchtowers on the walls of the Shang Kingdom, and as soon as Nie Xifeng and Chen Wenchu led the troops into the territory of the Shang Kingdom, Qu Shang knew about it.
After Nie Qingwan and his party also stepped in, Qu Shang asked the left wing, the right wing, He Zhen and Yao Zhao to lead the troops to meet the battle.
He himself led his troops to the city gates and lured the enemy deeper.
Not only Bayi has oil and fire tunnels, but also Shang and Qu.
It's just that the number of oil fires is limited, and a large part of the oil rockets are used, so there are not many that are really buried in the ground.
But even if it's less, it can make a difference.
At least, what Qu Shang thought was that if Yin Xuan wanted to stab him, he would definitely find him to fight alone.
Empress Dowager Dayin has two masters Nie Yin and Ren Ji by her side, and after the battle of Fengqiu, these two people will not leave her no matter what.
So, it's not easy to lure her in.
can tempt Yin Xuan, then it will be easy.
When Yin Xuan was lured in, he led him to the side of the oil and fire tunnel to fight him to the death.
If he can't get the Son of Heaven Sword, then he will destroy the Son of Heaven Sword.
Ruined the young prince again.
The left flank led the troops to meet the battle, ascended to the city gate, and asked the soldiers to shoot the Da Yin soldiers with oil rockets.
It's just that Nie Qingwan knew that Qu Shang could make oil rockets, so she naturally took precautions early.
Each of the soldiers of Da Yin has a shield in his hand, which is specially protected against oil rockets.
The arrow came down, but it didn't do much.
Seeing this, the left flank asked the soldiers to collect the oil rockets and turn the shield arrows.
This arrow is so powerful that it can break through all defenses.
But there are few arrows, because the materials are too difficult to get, and there are countless soldiers in Dayin, so it is difficult to defeat for a while.
While they were shooting arrows from above, the soldiers of Da Yin were also bravely attacking the city.
Although the city gate was impregnable, there was a great deal of strength in the end, and after the death of one group of soldiers, another group of soldiers was replenished, until the city gate was broken and the soldiers rushed in.
The left flank immediately led his troops down to meet the battle.
The other generals in the city also went down to meet them.
Qu Shang also personally led the troops to meet the battle.
Yin Xuan led Feng Chang, Nie Xifeng, Chen Wenqi, Nie Buwei, and Yin Tianye to also rush into the city gate.
After seeing Qu Shang, Yin Xuan slashed everyone and hit the center of Qu Shang's head with a sword.
Qu Shang avoided it in a thrill and dodged back.
He looked at Yin Xuan, hooked his lips and sneered: "It's just right." ”
After speaking, he turned his head, cut down a Da Yin soldier on horseback, turned over on his horse, turned around and ran in a certain direction.
Yin Xuan clamped the horse's belly between his legs, shouted, and followed.
Feng Chang, Nie Xifeng, Chen Wenqi, Nie Buwei, and Yin Tianye all saw Yin Xuan chasing Qu Shang away.
Several people were a little uneasy.
It would not be necessary to attack such a merchant country, so many of them would not be needed, so Feng Chang and Chen Wen chased after him.
It's not that they are uneasy about Yin Xuan, they think that Qu Shang is too tricky.
And Yin Xuan is the prince of Great Yin, the future emperor, and there can be no mistakes.
If something happened to Yin Xuan, how would they explain it to the Queen Mother?
Feng Chang and Chen Wenqi quickly turned their horses' heads and chased in the direction Yin Xuan had left.
Nie Xifeng, Nie Buwei and Yin Tianye saw that Feng Chang and Chen Wen had gone to chase Yin Xuan, and the three of them were very relieved to lead their troops to meet the enemy.
Dealing with such a small country, even though the strength of the Shang State is much higher than that of other small countries, with the ability of the three of them, plus so many soldiers of Da Yin, it is not a problem to take him.
Qu Shang led Yin Xuan to a city wall where the oil and fire tunnels were buried, where there was no one and it was suitable for a decisive battle.
After arriving at the destination, Qu Shang stopped his horse and turned to look at Yin Xuan, who was following him.
Without waiting for Yin Xuan to come over, Qu Shang had already reached into the horse's pocket with one hand, took a bow, and took an oil rocket, and shot at Yin Xuan.
This arrow triggered Yin Xuan's greatest anger, and he remembered very well that three years ago in Fengqiu, the Queen Mother almost died under this oil rocket.
Although that arrow was not shot by Qu Shang, the culprit was not him!
Yin Xuansheng was furious, and when the oil rocket came to the mask, he ignored the fact that the war horse was still rushing forward, reached out and took the bow, and quickly released the reins, took the arrow and shot the arrow.
This sequence of actions is almost all in one go.
An arrow was furious, reaching the heart of the oil rocket.
With a loud bang, Yin Xuan's arrow destroyed the oil rocket halfway, and the sparks and broken arrows smashed into the ground and turned into charred ash.
Yin Xuan withdrew his bow, tightened the reins, stabilized his body, and rode his horse towards Qu Shang, almost without saying a word, before the person was close, the sword of the Son of Heaven had already come out, and stabbed towards Qu Shang's face door.
Qu Shang dodged while also tightening the reins and fighting with his sword.
The two swords collided, and there was a piercing thud of weapons, and the two horses collided together.
As the two approached, Yin Xuan sneered and said, "Today is your death." ”
Qu Shang sneered indifferently: "You think you can live? ”
The internal force shook, Yin Xuan retreated, and Qu Shang also retreated.
But in the blink of an eye, the two fought together again.
When the battle was 100 rounds, Feng Chang and Chen Wen came.