Chapter 9: Tragedy
"Column!" Yang Yong roared, his voice was very deep and muffled because he was wearing armor. The spears in the hands of the hundred cavalrymen were raised at the same time, and the ten-by-ten horse team suddenly looked like sharp arrows ready to strike.
"Victory!" Yang Yong roared again.
"We will win!" the ninety-nine people agreed in unison.
Although the number of people is small, the momentum is amazing. In order to make peace with this, the army of more than 400,000 Qin Wu leaders on the gentle slope shouted in unison: "We must win, we must win!"
Anima changed color slightly, "Sure enough, the army is strong!" The belief in victory in his heart was slightly shaken.
The drums grew high, and with the drums of war, the knights on both sides shouted in unison, "Kill!" and rushed towards each other with their legs between the horse's belly.
The bayonet is flat, the body is leaned forward, rushes forward, encounters the enemy, stabs the enemy, abandons the gun, draws the sword, and kills into the enemy formation.
Someone on both sides kept falling.
Unlike ordinary warfare, fighting is a matter of life and death, and even if only one person on both sides is still alive, the duel will not stop until one side has completely fallen. Its cruelty is more than the decisive battle of the army, and the army duel, you can still dodge and move, and strive for survival, but this duel is destined to be indomitable, and if the enemy does not die, he will die endlessly.
Ye Qing frowned tightly, whenever he saw his soldiers fall off his horse, the muscles on his face couldn't help jumping, and he was really distressed to death, but this battle had to be fought.
The millions of soldiers on both sides, except for the drumbeat, were all silent at this time, and the cruel duel in the field even these elites were terrified.
The drums stopped suddenly, no one in the dueling arena was still on the horse, they all fell off their horses, fell to the ground, and there was a dead silence on the battlefield, no one on either side thought that it would be this result, it would be a defeat for both sides, this scene, Ye Qing Anima did not expect anyone, the two flags were still flying in the field.
"Fuck, I lost a hundred warriors for nothing!" Ye Qing squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, his face pale.
"Hou Ye, Hou Ye, look!" Wang Feng's voice trembled, and he suddenly pointed to the battlefield, looking extremely excited.
Following the sound, Ye Qing's eyes lit up suddenly, a Qin Wu led the army, the soldier who was lying on the ground squirmed slightly, slowly, little by little, propped up from the ground, one of his arms was gone, under the reflection of the firelight, Bai Sensen's bone stubble was clearly visible, he first knelt on one knee on the ground, took a deep breath, and then stood up little by little with a knife.
"We will win, we will win!" All the soldiers on the slope let out a heaven-shattering cheer, there was still one person alive on their side, but this duel was won by Qin Wuling.
"It's Yang Yong!" Wang Feng said in a trembling voice.
Step by step in front of the barbarian iron cavalry banner, Yang Yong bit the knife horizontally in his mouth, stretched out his hand to pull up the opponent's military flag, turned around, and raised it towards the slope.
"Mighty!" erupted in cheers from the slope again.
The barbarian army was silent, and one of the generals quietly picked up his strong bow and was about to take aim with his arrows, when Anima's stern gaze had already passed, and the general put down his bow and arrows in a daze.
"Let's go!" Anima sighed lonely, turning her horse's head. Hundreds of thousands of barbarian horsemen followed the horses, leaving Abbas with a group of men and horses, walked to the battlefield, picked up the remains of the warriors, and on the gentle slope, several knights rushed down to meet their hero Yang Yong.
In the early hours of the morning, Li Xin's troops arrived at the hillside, saw the remains of ninety-nine heroes, and heard about the extremely tragic battle to capture the flag, even Li Xin, a general who is accustomed to life and death, still couldn't help but be moved, walked to Yang Yong on the stretcher, solemnly gave him a military salute, patted his chest, "Good job, brother!"
Yang Yong's face was pale, although the bleeding from the broken arm had long stopped, but the severe pain still made his face a little distorted, lying on the stretcher where a few spears were temporarily rooted, seeing Li Xin saluting him, he couldn't help but be full of excitement, "Thank you, Captain Li!"
Ye Qing looked at this man with a smile and said: "It's a good man, I have grown up with the majesty of my Qin Wu leading the army, Yang Yong, first recuperate from your injuries with peace of mind, and then come to my personal guard camp after your injuries are healed, don't think that you can't be a soldier if you are missing an arm, you will still be a great soldier in the future." β
"Thank you, Master Hou!" Yang Yong was overjoyed, struggling to get up and salute Ye Qing, Ye Qing stretched out his hand and gently pressed his chest, and said softly: "Don't move, the most important thing now is to recuperate." β
"The wind knows the strength of the grass, and the board swings out of the heroes, my Qin Wuling has these good sons, how can I be invincible!" Ye Qing looked at several of his generals, and said arrogantly: "Today we have severely damaged the morale of the barbarians, and we will annihilate them all on this vast grassland, so that this vast land will become the land of our Qin Wuling's horse grazing, and become the backyard of our Qin Wuling! At that time, Fang will be our Qin Wuling's take-off, where my war horses are going, where the military flag is flying, who can stop my sharpness." β
Li Xin, Qin Fei, Wang Feng and others looked excited, and said in unison: "Master Hou is mighty!"
This is the first time that Ye Qing has confided his heart in front of the heavy generals in the army, Qin Wuling is just a place for him to accumulate strength, after stepping on the grassland, he is the one who takes off, where the war horse goes, where the military flag flies, can it be there, of course, it is the land of the Central Plains. As a military general under Ye Qing's command, Ye Qing's ambition is their brilliant future, how not to make people yearn for it.
The team returned to the new city, the outpost that returned in advance had already transmitted the news of the victory back, when the army returned to the new city, the joy was thunderous, over the years, Qin Wuling really rarely achieved such a big victory, and since Ye Qing unified Qin Wuling, a series of big victories, so that his prestige rose to the highest point for a while, when he saw Ye Qing's handsome banner appear, the earth-shaking Hou Ye's mighty voice resounded in the sky above the new city.
Ye Qing smiled, rode on a horse, and slowly walked into the gate of the new city, while Li Xin and the others deliberately lagged behind by more than ten steps, making Ye Qing in front of him more prominent and conspicuous.
Although the battle was a great victory, in order to prevent the retaliation of the Hajining Department Haningqi, Xincheng still did not lift the alert, Ye Qing also took the personal guard battalion to stay in Xincheng, until three days later, the spies and Jinyi Wei intelligence personnel determined at the same time that the Haqining Department had retreated, and the Abbas Department was obviously afraid that Qin Wuling would attack again, and at the same time retreated, and the battle line of the grassland barbarians against Qin Wuling once again shrank into the grassland. And Anima also led the army to turn around, the Hachining Department suffered a major blow, his mission here is completely meaningless, the current Haqining Department is no longer able to compete with the Blood Eagle at all, and in the next integration and annexation, it is no longer able to pose a threat to the Blood Eagle, in one aspect, it is a good thing, but this matter is done by Ye Qing, and it is completely different from doing it with himself.
Anima was very tired in his heart, but he raised twelve points of vigilance, and saw the combat effectiveness of Ye Qing's soldiers, so that he had a clear understanding of Ye Qing's strength, his standing army was not fully sure of the current Qin Wu army, the strength of the two sides was five or five, it is difficult to say who wins and who loses, but fortunately, the barbarians must still have an advantage in terms of elite soldiers, after all, the blood eagle tribe has been inherited for decades, and it has annexed many barbarian tribes, and a large number of barbarian warriors have been gathered in the armyγ
Anima didn't believe that Li Xinbu also had such combat effectiveness, which can be proved from Ye Qing's reluctance to fight by himself, which shows that even if Ye Qing has the upper hand, he is not sure of annihilating himself, otherwise with Ye Qing's surname, such a good opportunity, it would be strange not to seize it.
Ye Qing was avoiding fighting with Bai Bu in the field too early, but wanted to let the barbarians shed blood under the fortified city, and the patriarch was also taking back his scattered fingers one by one and clenching them into a powerful fist, or the year after tomorrow, the land under his feet would definitely be stained with blood, Anima thought.
"Winter wheat has been sown, but this year, Xincheng is still not self-sufficient, and it still needs Qin Wuling's support!" Li Xin pointed to the newly turned land under his feet and said to Ye Qing.
Ye Qing squatted down, grabbed a ball of soil under his feet, twisted it into fine powder in his hand, and watched the black fertile fine soil slide out of his hand, a smile appeared on his face, " Very good, with the growth of the population, the food reserves of my Qin Wuling are already insufficient, but now that so much has been reclaimed, soon, this problem will be solved, oh, Li Duwei, I will ask Wen Lao to send a group of administrative officials to Xincheng to help you manage the administration here, and you, just focus on the military, there are more and more people in Xincheng, it is no longer just a military fortress, I think, soon, I will re-establish a city here and set up a city lord. β
"Yes, Master Hou!" Li Xin's face was unshocked, as if Ye Qing had divided his power without moving, and he didn't care at all. "I'm also struggling with this matter, Qin Wuling has arranged more and more displaced people to Xincheng, and there are more and more people who have reclaimed the land and established more and more cantonment points, so that the last general is really lacking in skills, and with professional civil officials to take care of these things, the last general can train the army and fight the barbarians with one mind. β
Ye Qing glanced at Li Xin appreciatively, now he felt more and more that Li Xin was not only a fierce general on the battlefield, but also a qualified and mature politician, in some respects, much more experienced than himself, Xincheng's position in Qin Wuling has become more and more important because of the existence of barbarians, Qin Wuling's current policy is to tilt here as much as possible, so it is impossible for him to grasp the military administration here, there needs to be someone to check and balance, it seems that Li Xin has already thought of this problem, and it is only after he suddenly raised it that he can be so calmγ
"Although the administrative officials sent are subordinate to the Lord's Palace, the situation in Xincheng is special, and you still have temporary control over them when the war breaks out, and these officials are responsible to you and Lu Yiming at the same time. Ye Qingdao, he didn't want the two sides to fight at a critical moment, which was not good for his plans.
"Yes, thank you. Li Xin hugged his fists.