Volume 1 The Fire Mage Who Knows Martial Arts Chapter 38 I am floating like duckweed
"We drink the raw blood of wild beasts, but we never eat human flesh, much less kill unarmed women and children. ”
"Unfortunately, what we wouldn't do and didn't bother to do, you did it all. You are a bunch of wild beasts, and I will be as savage and cruel as you are, and unfortunately I can't do it. ”
"Oh, it's not interesting to talk like that, have you ever thought about your captured son?" said the brute dissatisfied.
Her stubborn eyes darkened, she lowered her head slightly, pondered for a moment, and then her white-haired head was raised, and she said with some sadness and sarcasm: "What is there to say if it falls into your hands, do you want to let him go if I beg so hard? To cut off his head and eat his flesh is to treat him as a dead man from the moment I was captured." ”
The barbarian envoy turned around, and a group of people raised their knives and slashed down, and more than forty human heads fell to the ground.
As soon as the barbarian envoy left, Wang Liangqin brushed away a few strands of messy white hair on his forehead and gathered them behind his head, as if the next thing to be carried out was daily grooming, not iron-blooded killing.
"My husband was cut by a wild dog before, and the day before yesterday he finally couldn't survive and passed away; Clansmen, if you usually take an enemy's head, you can have a reward ranging from a few taels to ten taels, but today it is all twenty taels!" two lines of cloudy tears flowed from her old face.
"Chief, don't mention the matter of rewarding silver, everyone has a son who died at the hands of a brute dog, this is a fight for ourselves. Someone shouted.
"Fight to the death, clansmen, stab the brute dog!"
This is not the ideal terrain for cavalry operations, a large area of knee-deep grass covers the field, and the official road is not wide, so it is not easy for the cavalry to charge in an all-round way, if they don't want to catch such an important figure as the princess, the brute cavalry even wants to withdraw. But the road was originally stepped out, and the children of the immortal heaven were not limited by the terrain, the commander thought to himself.
"Charge," the commander ordered. The brute cavalry began to attack in fifty columns, and they controlled their horses with their feet and shot with bows in both hands. Patches of grass were trampled down by war horses, and swarms of arrows flew.
From time to time, someone was hit by an arrow, and although the black spearmen raised their shields, there were still some places that could not be protected, some were shot in the foot, some were shot in the hand, but as long as they did not completely lose their combat effectiveness, no one would withdraw.
After three waves of arrows, the brute cavalry rushed into a dense array of guns, and the horses rushed towards the hard coral reef stone henge like big fish in the sea, wading through the roads with flesh and blood.
There was a fierce general in the brute cavalry with a sledgehammer, and there was no enemy everywhere he went, and he smashed the hammer in the east and west, and stirred up the formation of five ten-man men with his own strength, even if the horse was stabbed to death by a spear, he still rushed forward on foot and bravely. The brute cavalry was encouraged by it, and their morale was greatly boosted, and the black spearmen resisted with great difficulty.
The fierce general raised his hammer to open the head of a black spearman, and suddenly a man with a knife slashed, and he couldn't retract the hammer, and walked sideways to dodge. The man pressed forward step by step, a knife as fast as a knife, he retreated again and again, and suddenly stepped on a soft corpse under his feet, and his body was crooked. He reacted in time, swung his hammer and counterattacked, the man dodged with a short body, the knife pierced into his chest, and his hammer only knocked off the opponent's helmet, and a white hair was exposed, it was Wang Liangqin.
Countless surprises flashed through the remnants of his consciousness: How could it be that I had died at the hands of an old woman.
Darkness flooded him.
The black spearmen did not fall behind against the cavalry, which surprised the civilians who were about to run away. When the rain of arrows came, they raised their shields to block the arrows, and their movements were neat and fast, which was breathtaking. When the war horse rushed, he took a four-meter-long heavy spear to the front, and the back was like a forest of spears.
They regard death as home, do not take their lives seriously at all, and as long as they do not die, even the seriously wounded who have fallen crawl to give a blow to the nearby enemy.
Shi Keqi carefully observed: The layers of dense gun formations were actually composed of two hundred ten-person teams.
Each team is in a three, three, or four formation when receiving the enemy, and after being broken through or scattered, it will form a small circle nearby, compact and tight. There are so many soldiers, none of them are afraid to flee for their lives, I really don't know how Wang Liangqin did it, this is a mourning army.
The male leader died, and the whole army first marched three hundred miles with a sad breath, and after arriving at the battlefield, the vanguards of the road exploration were destroyed, the young head died again, and the female head sent the black-haired man in white, and this momentum suddenly turned into a tragic atmosphere.
Shi Keqi couldn't help but say in his heart: The mourning soldiers will win.
The brute cavalry could not be attacked for a long time, and the scattered without formation, the commander began to blow the trumpet to gather the cavalry and intend to attack it for the last time.
Suddenly, a group of livestock with their tails on fire was killed in the oblique stab, and they rushed over with all kinds of strange screams, and hundreds of young men beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers in the back.
Among these livestock, there are grumpy buffaloes, vigorous mules, sparsely haired bad horses, and disgruntled donkeys, all of whom rushed forward frantically in the earth-shaking noise, and of course a small number of them scurried or even turned around and recoiled, causing local chaos in the people, but the whistling fireballs soon sent them to the western sky.
The timing is quite good, and whether the livestock is released in advance or delayed, it can be easily avoided by riding horses. The barbarian horsemen, who were gathering one after another, were swept away in formation, the oxen rushed at the horses, the horses kicked the mules, the donkeys crowded the people, the cattle moos and horses neighed into a mess, and the swarming black spearmen took the opportunity to advance rapidly.
The barbarian commander wielded his scimitar and slapped the fleeing soldiers with the back of his sword, shouting and trying to counterattack. After a "whoosh" sound, he clutched his throat and fell to the ground, his mouth open to inhale but he couldn't, blood flowing down his neck into his gray-covered chest.
Zi Dinglin lowered his bow and arrows, and the finger wound of the hand that opened the bow was deep into the bones, and the blood fell little by little.
After reprieving this period of rest, she sent this arrow regardless of her injuries, and she couldn't shoot the bow for at least a month.
The barbarian cavalry was defeated, and more than 600 horsemen were lost, and they fled in disgrace, while the more than 2,000 black spearmen still had 1,070, but unfortunately they had no horses, so they had to leave more enemy troops behind.
Shi Keqi was shocked by this result, and with 2,000 infantry facing 2,000 barbarian cavalry, despite the advantages of geography and people, this was a real head-on confrontation. You must know that under the premise that everyone regards death as home, the average infantry must die several times before they can change a cavalry, and as for the disheartened team, it is rare for dozens of people to change a cavalry.
In addition to the special military branches, the casualties that can fight with the cavalry are one to three, and they are already one of the strongest armies in the world.
In this encounter, the black spearmen perfectly avenged the former army, and the damage of the barbarian cavalry was basically one to one, after this battle, the originally famous black spearmen will go to the next level. In the years that followed, some people gave it the title of "the first army in the world", until it was canonized together with its leader.
Shi Keqi was a little happy in his heart, his grandfather told him the story of the fire bull array to break the enemy, and he actually achieved good results on the spot. But then Yan Yanping brought a bad news that completely buried this joy, so that in the years to come, he still remembered this scene from time to time.
Seeing Yan Yanping coming over, Shi Keqi was still full of joy, she was supposed to protect the unconscious master with her senior brother, but it was normal to look at the situation of her junior brother after the war was over, he thought to himself.
In addition, she prepared a few words to tease her, and she hadn't laughed since the master fell.
Yan Yanping whispered: "The girl you know was hit by a stray arrow in her chest, and the situation is not good, you had better go over." Then he pointed to the location.
"Did I call her a little bit?"
"Yes. ”
Shi Keqi's heart fell to freezing point in an instant, and he shook a little, as if he was about to fall, and immediately rushed over.
Xiao Bu's hair was scattered, and the scattered hair made her head more and more small, and someone helped her to sit on the ground, and the cold arrow pierced her chest, and the triangular sharp arrow exposed her back a few inches. Her eyes were already dilated, and when she heard Shi Keqi's call, she focused for a moment and then condensed.
"You don't stay in the back, why do you want to go into battle. Skech said as slowly as he could.
"I'm worried, so I'm going to see with my own eyes, Brother Shi, I'm not going to be able to do it...... When I was a child, my friends said that I was ugly, and people often threw sand on my freshly washed head, and I didn't lose it if I didn't wash my hair, so that I was beaten and scolded by my aunt, and they were happy. ”
She coughed a few times, took a breath and continued: "When others say joy, I say what joy is, and you say, what do people live for? ”
"Until one day I saw a man who was as bright as the sun and illuminated my night world, and when I saw him, I was inexplicably better, and I wanted to talk and do things with him, and even say nothing, and I was full of joy. I guess that's the joy, even though I know in my heart that he doesn't like me. ”
Shi Keqi took the man's shoulder and said, "Don't talk so much, you should have a good rest." ”
"No, I know I'm dying, and holding back these words will kill me twice. The little one who said this looked stubborn, not the slightest weakness.
"Later, the man saved me and said that I was the purest girl in the world, and at that moment, I thought I was the happiest person in the world, but what was the use of that. Now I understand that the so-called joy is as little as gold, only a little bit, only a moment, not for a lifetime...... No wonder people always seek joy because they are unhappy. ”
"Life and death are not important to me now, Brother Shi, thank you, I don't want to die in the arms of someone who doesn't like me, if you go away, let me die alone...... Like I came to ...... alone. ”
Skech's tears finally flowed, but he didn't let go of her. Xiao Budian's eyes were wide open, and he didn't speak again, and his head hung down heavily, as if he didn't want him to hold his shoulders. He shook her, but there was no response, and tried his mouth and nose again, and the heat gradually dissipated.
"Ahh
After putting the corpses of the dead comrades on the animal cart, for fear of the comeback of the barbarian cavalry, the black spearmen escorted everyone to retreat to Tanfu, and then pulled the corpse to a place where no one was there to incinerate it, and Qin Wangke's body was also treated equally, and the ashes would be equally distributed and brought back to the families of the war dead after burning.
Shi Keqi buried the little girl in the nearby soil, and the fate of this poor girl, who had been floating for a lifetime, dissipated.