Gun Scroll Chapter 11 (1)
Liu Xuyuan commanded 20,000 foot soldiers and advanced in the dark. The rest of the cavalry were all led by Kang Yundao, as the vanguard army, at the front, galloping away in the dark, and Xiao Qi also followed in the cavalry formation.
Kang Yundao ordered the cavalry to advance at full speed, as if they wanted to follow the Yunzhou army closely and not give the other party a chance to breathe. Advancing at full speed, he ordered the scouts to be withdrawn, so the main formation of tens of thousands of people could meet the Yunzhou army at any time. The moonlight at night cast on Kang Yundao's face through the gaps in the branches and leaves between the trees, and the gallop was bright and dark, making his expression look cloudy.
It's not close. He said secretly in his heart.
The cavalry was very fast, and the infantry in the rear was forced to follow quickly, Liu Xuyuan seemed to be very dissatisfied with this way of advancing, but he couldn't pass the order to the front army for a while, so he had to scold and command the army to keep up. He knew that if there was a real disconnect between the front and rear armies, and it happened to be attacked by the enemy, there would definitely be a big mess.
Xiao Qi is in a more relaxed mood, since the last battle with Lin Li, he is no stranger to the battlefield, although these days when the horse is bumpy than when he is down-to-earth, his body is still a little unbearable, but after a few days of riding, he has gradually adapted. And Xiao Mu, who led the army to break through, gave him a lot of confidence, although he didn't know much about the art of war, he always felt that it was better to take the initiative to cut off the opponent's back than to bite the back of his ass like a fart.
Thinking so, he even looked at the moonlight above his head and the surrounding woods with great interest as he advanced. The moonlight was as pure as water, spread like silk among the trees, and the ground not far away was still covered with the shadows of branches and tree trunks, and it looked like countless stout snakes crawling everywhere.
Zeng Han rode the horse near Xiao Qi's left. He also looked a little tired, and shouted to Xiao Qi in the sound of horses' hooves galloping, "Hey, are you nervous?"
Xiao Qi followed the prestige, only to see Zeng Han's face rising and falling with the horse's hips showing a nervous look. He remembered that Zeng Han had never officially been on the battlefield. Before breaking through in Yuanwan, Zeng Han missed the position of the vanguard, and was only classified as a new force for backup, but before he arrived at the battlefield, Yunzhou's team was already defeated. In the next few encounters, Zeng Han didn't encounter any of them. Xiao Qi can understand this tension.
At the same time, Xiao Qi was still a little surprised that he remembered Zeng Han's matter so clearly. In the barracks, there are not many people who can call him by name, and occasionally he hears a few words mentioned by others or hears Zeng Han complain himself, and he actually writes it down unconsciously. He didn't realize that this man who troubled him when he had nothing to do had become a pastime of the tedious life in his army, and this man had long been an existence of friend and foe for him.
Xiao Qi didn't answer, only nodded slightly, and then turned his head away, his eyes still sweeping towards the jungle in the distance. Zeng Han only snorted rarely, and no longer looked for Xiao Qi's stubble.
Xiao Qi, who had been looking at the depths of the jungle intentionally and unintentionally, suddenly found that the "snake" coiled on the ground not far away suddenly moved. He rubbed his eyes, suspecting that he had created an illusion on the back of a bumpy horse, and then looked back into the woods in the distance. The shadow of the "snake" was really moving, as if it had suddenly been cut into several sections, forming several strange broken lines. As the army moved forward, there were more and more of these lines, and some of the "snake" shadows were shrouded in huge black shadows and blended into them. He caught a glimpse of a horse's head, with shadows on it.
Xiao Qi's face was pale, and he roared loudly: "There is an ambush!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zeng Han's face turned pale, and the sound of charging suddenly sounded around him, and the sound of heavy horses' hooves mixed with majestic momentum rolled from both sides, and in the moonlight, their armor reflected a white light.
Someone's voice was frightened: "Yunhai Iron Rider!"
The Yunhai Iron Cavalry was like a sharp blade, swept out, and plunged straight into Kang Yundao's army, dividing one into two. Everyone was unprepared, and the formation collapsed in an instant, and for a moment they were completely disadvantaged.
Xiao Qi was the first to find out, so he quickly calmed down. He was in the back half of the formation, and he knew that the vanguard army was already unlucky, so he decisively turned his horse's head and ran backwards, wanting to meet Liu Xuyuan's troops. He glanced back and found that Zeng Han was a little helpless and stayed where he was. He scolded and shouted, "Follow me!"
Zeng Han reacted at this time, and he didn't care who shouted, and followed Xiao Qi. The two of them went retrograde with the army, and Xiao Qi believed that as long as they returned to Liu Xuyuan's home formation, there would still be hope.
But he underestimated the strength of the other party's ambush. There were ambushes rushing out all the way he retreated, although they were not all Yunhai Iron Cavalry, but they also brought a lot of suffering to Xiao Qi's side. Xiao Qi gritted his teeth and desperately rushed through the crowd. He firmly believes that with Liu Xuyuan's shrewdness, he will definitely be able to discover the strangeness ahead, and as long as he waits for his support, he can stabilize the situation.
Xiao Qi thought so, and just stabbed a person off the horse, a figure suddenly rushed out in front of him, extremely fast, and headed towards Zeng Han. When Xiao Qi heard the sound of breaking wind, he subconsciously shouted: "Be careful!"
Although Zeng Han reacted, he hurriedly put away his sword and returned to defense, and with a "dang" sound, his body shook on the horse, staggering. Looking at Xiao Qi from the side, he was shocked, although this blow was far inferior to Lin Li's knife momentum that day, the strength was not trivial.
He also saw the other party's appearance clearly. is also about twenty years old, the whole face is almost covered by the helmet, only a pair of eyes are exposed, with a sense of arrogance, plus the blood stained on the helmet, it looks particularly hideous. He also holds a spear in his hand, and his armor is also blue and white, which must belong to the Yunhai Iron Horse.
Before Xiao Qice could step forward immediately, suddenly a few people swung their knives at him, and the spear in the young man's hand shot out sharply, pointing at Zeng Han's chest, and Zeng Han swung his sword to meet it. Xiao Qi had no time to pay attention to Zeng Han's situation, and when he stabbed someone with a spear, he suddenly heard Zeng Han's screams behind him.
He turned his head suddenly, only to see the white-armored young man with the spear in his hand raised high, but Zeng Han was pierced through his chest and hung on the gun. Blood gushed out and slowly flowed down the barrel of the gun, and the white-armored man was unaware, staring at Zeng Han who was gradually losing his life on the gun with a cold smile. Zeng Han seemed to want to speak, but blood filled his mouth in the blink of an eye, and he could only spit out bursts of blood blisters. The sword in his hand slipped feebly.
The man threw Zeng Han's body on the ground, turned his head sideways, and looked Xiao Qi up and down.
"Damn!" Xiao Qi only felt anger rising from his chest, rushing straight to his head, and the blood pumped out of his heart flowed through his body with bursts of warmth. His face was cold, he grabbed the belly of the horse, and met him with a gun. Under the anger and blood stirring, he made a sharp killing move. The spears met, and the two rode back and forth a few times. Xiao Qi's expression became more and more solemn, but the anger in his heart became even stronger. Although the other party is not a few years older than him, his first-hand marksmanship is particularly sophisticated, although Xiao Qi attacks fiercely, the other party is always at ease, and unloads his attacks one by one.
The eyes under the other party's helmet glanced at Xiao Qi proudly, he seemed to want to enjoy this prey alone, and several Yunhai Iron Riders who wanted to step forward to help were ordered by him to go away, Xiao Qi's eyes seemed to be burning, and he wanted to burn the enemy in front of him.
At this time, the vanguard army of Benhai City had almost completely collapsed, and only a few groups of men and horses were left gathered together, facing the siege of the Yunhai Iron Cavalry, and it seemed that they could not support it.
Xiao Qi's spear swung faster and faster, his eyes became colder, and there was a sudden "squeaking" sound from behind, which was the friction sound caused by running in armor. Xiao Qi was overjoyed, it was Liu Xuyuan's army that had arrived.
A group of people came out of the darkness from the rear, and the leader was Liu Xuyuan. But he also looked quite embarrassed at the moment, with several wounds on his body. His face was so anxious that he didn't even see Xiao Qi, and he led the army to rush forward.
Xiao Qi's heart sank. Obviously, Liu Xu was also ambushed in the distance, and at this moment, he seemed to be desperate, concentrating his strength to break through with all his strength, and he had no mental strength to care about the vanguard cavalry in front of him that was already shattered under the hooves of the Yunhai Iron Cavalry.
Suddenly there was a sharp pain in his abdomen, Xiao Qi shouted angrily, and waved his gun to force the other party back. The spear that pierced him brought up a puddle of blood. Just now, the white-armored young man took advantage of his momentary distraction and hit him hard in the blink of an eye. At this time, he had a contemptuous smile on his face, and a murderous look in his eyes.
Xiao Qi endured the severe pain, and finally calmed down, and rode his horse to run in the direction of Liu Xuyuan. There was another scream behind him, Xiao Qi gritted his teeth, leaned down, and did not look back, but slapped his palm on the horse's buttocks, and one person and one horse catapulted forward. It's just that the enemy's gun arrived first, Xiao Qi felt a cold on his shoulder, and the severe pain almost made him faint. But his desperate escape bought him time, and the distance between him and the enemy behind him widened slightly.